LMAO! But yea I confirm this too.

Hilarious dude.
You guys talk about insta-kills (or invisa-crits or invisa torps, take your pick) as though ita a bug. It isnt. Its Gozers bruised ego manifesting itself. He wants to make scenarios that are unbeatable. When people suceed, he gets mad and makes it harder.

Yep. I left game for a month and a half while I was overseas..come back...

my Voquv gets dropped from 100% shield/armor to 5% armor and no front shield by a single plasma torpedo from a borg raptor in an elite stf. Combat log shows the plasma torpedo (not 'heavy') doing 100k+ or so damage.

The fact that a TAC escort is widely considered the most powerful PVE ship is going to play against you here. They are going to make PVE harder. Your success warping the class balance is going to make the DEVs change the games difficulty level. Stuff like this makes me wonder if you might want that power drain carrier to shut stuff down for you now? Doesn?t a nice dedicated healer ship seem useful to keep your shields full? I played STF elites literally nonstop all weekend. I played them for a few hours every day last week. I flew cruisers with my engy, tacs and cruisers on my tac, and a carrier on a sci. I got one shoted exactly 1 time that I wasn?t sure about. I figure there is a borg bug affecting their critical hits based on that one hit I took that reduced a buffed fresh oddy to dead in a single hit. I also suspect that season 6 and the coming npc buffs are going to have an impact on PVE play that is going to make people want something besides raw DPS.

I have a very very strong suspicion that, intended or not, one of the patches reverted a lot of the system changes. Perhaps when they started updating the much older redshirt build, they forgot that it didn't have all the updates that were installed on the holodeck build.

Certainly the borg are now draining shields in seconds again, even though I'm fully specced into it's resists.

Also FBP seems to have reverted to being buffed by tactical captain buffs like it was prior to it's fix.

A very strong suspicion indeed.

Actually no, I don't suspect, I'm sure of it.

I do know the Borg are critting like Mad again on their heavy torps. Probablyt at a 9/10 ratio with crits to non crits. I also know the Invisi Torps are still about and one shotting people.


I had just respawned in an infected space elite and as I'm flying back into the battle I take the time to toss Science Team and Hazard emitters onto a friend backing out of combat for a moment to heal. He got up to about 73% hull with shields above the halfway point when he exploded. No torpedoes (that we could see) no DoT, he just exploded and I was close enough to suddenly get plasma fire. We were both outside the Tac Cubes range.

So yeah. Borg are critting like mad and the non-existent Invisa-Torps are still annoying.

I tried an STF and got one hitted five times in a row, while having full shields and full hull... WTF only saw three torps, normal ones not heavy plasmas

do the Borg have a viral matrix variant that can make you explode? I kep wondering about that. They have a variety of debuffs they use on you.

[7/3 6:03] [Combat (Self)] Gateway deals 43139 (54514) Kinetic Damage to you with Plasma Torpedo. They broke it