Originally Posted by Jake81499

I see this all the time in ISE Pugs.

The nodes blow and three rainbows take off to kill spheres without shooting the generator.

If everyone focuses on the generator right away and forgets the spheres until the gen is dead things work much better,

But that almost never happens in a PuG.

Originally Posted by Jake81499

There I was.....

Cure Normal space again, my favorite for noobe activity.

I flew in, said HI as always and head to the right.

I killed a node and looked back at the Kang as I always do.

I saw that all four rainbow technicolor ships (including a klink) had followed me.

Nobody was protecting the Kang.

So I head back, kill all the incoming Borg and low and behold, all 4 of the other ships show up.

Now there's nothing here to kill so what is their plan?

I say, 'Anybody going to kill the cubes?'

No responce.

So I head back to the cube and start on the nodes again.

Low and behold once again, all 4 ships followed me.

So I head back to the Kang where a couple Borg are already shooting.

I kill all the incoming ships and guess what....

All 4 of the other ships followed me.

I say, 'What is this, follow the leader?'

No responce.

So I heal the Kang (which I was sure none of the other 4 had ever seen done before) and wait for the next group of Borg while setting next to the Kang.

I figured I'd shake them if I left them there to fight the Borg.

So the Borg arrive, I take a couple shots and head back to the first cube.

I finish a couple nodes real quick and what do I see? ALL 4 SHIPS FOLLOWED ME BACK WHILE THERE'S BORG SHOOTING THE KANG!

Optional goes bye bye.

I fly back, kill the Borg, heal the Kang, and there they are again! 4 ships, doing nothing.

So now the timers at about 8 minutes, first cube is still alive. I'd changed my setup for tanking a few hours earlier so I wasn't quite as powerful as I once was and didn't have what it takes to finish everything plus protect the Kang by myself in 8 minutes. (I need to fix the setup by the way, thanks for reminding me.)

So I typed, 'ALL 4 OF YOU STAY HERE AND PROTECT THE KANG!'

No responce.

I fly back to the first cube, kill three Borg that had spawned on the way, and the cube finally goes bang

I look back real quck and what do I see? NO SHIPS AT THE KANG!

They had all 4 gone to the third cube and they had bypassed all the incoming Borg ships from both the second and third cubes!.

Now I'm hot.

I type, 'I SAID PROTECT THE KANG!'

No responce.

The Kang is getting clobered and goes boom before I can get back.

So I say, 'Will you noobes please go read the forums about how to do STF's before you try one again?'

Too late, they'd all 4 already left.

Originally Posted by kazapsky

Cure Ground and Infected Ground have become my two most prominent examples that the Greater Internet F---wad Theory also applies to game developers.

The final boss of I.G. is razzed by players for being OP, but she's not the problem. It's the freaking tactical drones respawning left and right who make that fight effectively unwinnable. And then when you wipe, the ENTIRE ROOM resets and you have to go through the whole shield-gimmick song and dance again ... seriously, Cryptic? ONCE was too many times.

C.G. is even worse, with those turrets that require the combined firepower of the group plus a gimmick action to destroy once, and then they respawn while you're fanned out trying to protect the nodes from drones so the shield blocking the next area will go down. Yeah, THAT's going to end well.

I will not touch either of those two missions again until the respawns go the way of the dodo. Random inept players is bad enough, but when the mission mechanics themselves are rigged against you? "Free" is paying too much for that tripe.

Originally Posted by Warpcoreinjection

Worst experience I've had was today, I've only been back to the game a little while and managed to learn the strats for all the stf's fairly quickly, I have geared up two of my characters with veteran Maco and omega ground gear quickly and I was working on my Third one today:

On infected ground it looked like was the worst geared person in the group, i only had 1 mk x omega gun and a full assault riffle, plus some purple armor and shields, so i was expecting to be dying a lot. I know about the trigger lines so I've never run into the room expecting to go Rambo and save the ensign in the first room, but who should two idiots wearing mk xii gear, get themselves killed instantly and when I ask them not to run past the trigger lines call me a noob, and that the group isn't fast enough result = bonus objective failed. Their excuse "They have mkxii gear so should be able to do it."

They continue their run in approach dying all the way through the map, we get to the final area before the server down time and they again run in die instantly, and we run out of time and I run out of patience before the second try, which they repeated the same moronic mistake of just running in.

I wish some people would understand that being lucky at getting drops doesn't make them skilled

End Death Result:

Joe MKXII guy = 8 Deaths
Purrrfect barely geared guy = 1 Death (and that was because i had to suicide, to reset the boss area)

Originally Posted by cwmatt

some of these stf's that are nightmares for others sound like normal ones for me...at least the ones that didnt fail completely lols....lately ive lost it on a few noobs for obvious reasons like

• people pulling cubes to where im guarding probes in khitomer, then dying, leaving me to die, then chase after probes that i could have easily killed had someone not pulled a cube to me
• some seeming troll killing a gate way too early causing 5 probes minimum to go through
• more obvious trolls blatantly ignoring the 10% rule, esp when told to wait, almost seeming like childish defiance, then leaving, leaving us to die 1000 times and then struggle to kill the transformer in between hordes of nanite spheres....
• people aggro-ing then attacking the tactical cube in infected like they could one shot it at all, let alone BEFORE the gateway is even ATTACKED....
• people posting their prototype borg salvage in the team chat after doing the above then saying f*** u to people who say the obvious abt their performance...

...

Originally Posted by carmenara

I'm quite adept at destroying probes and stray cubes simultaneously. Infact, I can use BFAW to destroy both cubes and probes at once on KASE with some creative tactical maneuvering.

As for 10% screwing up, **** happens.

I just do a high speed repulsor run on the nanites, push them 20km away, swing back with an engine battery and nail the transformer as I loop back.

The Omega set is wonderful for a fast battlecruiser doctrine. Borg shoot at me, it gives me a free afterburner boost.

With the new Federation carrier there are also quite a number of competent 'space control ship' pilots out there that can make Elite STFs a child's play.

Adaptability is key. I don't even bother if the 10% cocks up these days because I'm equipped, prepared and familiar with crisis management strategies.

I don't even do 10%s when I run my own Redneck Task Force missions and yet we nail the optionals each time, all the time. New tactics, new possibilities.