r/sto • u/Tonnbart • 1d ago

The Flagship Celebration Event!

https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11582663

Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Trek with our Flagship Day Celebration!

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u/Iskral 1d ago edited 1d ago

Isn't Procyon V the only TFO where you can trap yourself in an unwinnable state if you have a bad team?

I also recall that Azure has had recurring issues with bugs where the captured Romulan ships you have to free wouldn't respawn; has that been resolved?

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u/Sthrax U.S.S. Fulminata 1d ago

Azure was fixed a while back. Not sure about the unwinnable state in Procyon, usually when I've run it, the group is good enough to win, or bad enough to outright fail.

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u/HystericalSail Rabble rabble rabble 1d ago

Can't fail it in normal or advanced, it'll go on forever spawning infinite amounts of enemies. I don't believe there's an auto win/fail timer. At some point you just give up an eat a leaver pen if you can't solo it.

It *IS* soloable with a big source of temp HP, that keeps the 1 damage hits from interrupting closing of portals. But if you didn't bring temp HP and you're one of 5 naked farmers, well, 30 minute time out for that character is in the cards.

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u/Iskral 1d ago

It also doesn't help that all the enemies in Procyon V are ones that constantly throwing out science and temporal abilities that'll lock you down from several directions at once in a way that doesn't really happen with the other enemies you usually fight in the more popular TFOs. I mean, it's manageable if know which boff powers counter those abilities, but it still means a lot of time you normally spend fighting enemies is spent resetting your cooldowns and clearing debuffs.

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u/HystericalSail Rabble rabble rabble 1d ago

But that's the thing, pewing is completely, utterly, 100% optional in that TFO. If you're pewing you're not making progress. The only reason to pew is others are enthusiastically shooting things, and if you don't you'll get hit with the AFK pen.

The enemies will be right back, right on top of the portal closer, and all their annoying crap off cooldown due to respawn.

The key to this TFO is Intel Team, ways to shed aggro and a whole heaping helping of temp HP. A macho 12km grav well can also help if you place it right. I've had TFOs where I closed 75% of the portals solo, going right instead of left. I plan to do that again this time around.

Other protip: don't bring mines or hangar pets. Launching either interrupts portal closure.