Very first time I did Cure normal, we lost the optional almost immediately as well.

Not even close....believe me.

To be honest, this is pretty difficult to believe. Not saying it's impossible - but a few problems spring to mind.

Firstly: The only ships that appear that early into the mission are the Borg BOP's

Secondly: It takes at least 10 (?) seconds for the initial BOP's to get within weapons range of the Kang. Assuming that no-one intercepted them en-route, the worst case senario is that, within that time frame, the Kang would have four BOP's attacking it.

Now, if you were protecting the Kang that's at least one BOP occupied - but that makes this senario worse. Because factoring in the time it takes for the BOP's to get within firing range, and the fact that you were fighting one, the end result is that the Kang was taken out by three BOP's in somewhere around 15 seconds. Not impossible as I've said, but either Captain Ja'rod killed and ate his shield repair officers, or Borg ships spammed the invisible torpedo of insta-doom.

I've seen STF's fail quickly, heck - my aforementioned 59 second one qualifies - but most of those were a by-product of ships (enemy and allies), exploding too close to the Kang, weakening it's shields thus allowing the BOP's to shoot directly at it's hull.

Every Elite Cure..... Get's one shotted .. people leaves .. tried about 25 times... Every time fail... not even close.

Cure Normal .... Sooooo easy... Elite... Impossible... I have given up.

Depends on the PuG you find yourself in. Example from earlier today - played Infected Space Elite earlier - infected isn't really one that you can fail, but it CAN take one heck of a long time to do if you find yourself in a PuG with players who are clueless and/or have poor DPS.

However, played one before work this morning with a great PuG - we blitzed everything within somewhere around ten minutes, and even then someone commented, on the chat screen, that our DPS could have been a little better!


Cure Elite is a pain though, since it's wholly dependant on keeping the Kang in one piece; something that too many PuG's ignore.

Infected is no problem .. 8 out of 10 completed with Opional and rarly dies, and im in Advanced Escort, But cure? I know it supposed to be hard ....not impossible, do I have to join a fleet to be able to do it on elite? (no more PUGS)
There is so much in STO that almost require a fleet to be joyable. With the knowledge and experience about Elite STF:s it should be a requirement to be in a fleet to do Elite STF:s
Would make it so much easier for mee ... I'm not in a fleet.

Well, wouldn't go so far to say that Cure (Elite) is impossible, but it really does help to be with a PuG who know what they're doing.

I'd probably guess that 7/10 of the CSE's I play fail, and it's usually because of:

• Rainbow boats with pathetic DPS (probably the biggest problem)

• Wannabe heros who think that they can solo the Borg cubes

• Ignorant fools with no idea, who pay no attention to the generator spheres and shoot at the cubes

• Anyone who ignores the Kang - in fact, I've seen players who showed absolutely no sign of knowing that the Kang was even there

And speaking of which....

Just come away from a failed CSE. A really annoying one nonetheless.

Spent the vast majority of my time killing BOP's whilst some bigmouth in an Odyssey (running pretty low DPS phasers) kept mouthing off with rubblish like "lol you escorts should be killing BOP's in five seconds" and "lol, you escorts have crap DPS". The only one with poor DPS was bigmouth himself; the escorts present (including myself) WERE generally taking the BOP's down in around ten seconds.

Sadly, despite his drivel, Captain Bigmouth was hopelessly ineffective and countless BOP's wound up shooting at the Kang. By the time the Raptors showed up there was no hope and we were treated to the red text of fail and Captain bigmouth ranting on about how crap the escorts all were.

As i stated "may have lost in less than 25 seconds". I don't keep a stop watch handy. :smile: I seem to recall it seemed like 10 seconds. But anyway losing in under a minute is ridiculous.

Yeah - agreed - and furthermore, my apologies; didn't mean for my previous post to sound as condescending as it did! Sorry about that! :redface:

Anyway - as I said, completely agree - it really does take an especially bad breed of player(s) to cause an STF to fail in under a minute!