Task Force Operation: Royal Flush
- Battle alongside unusual allies, the Undine, to defend the Planet Killers from a massive Borg invasion.
- Use the Planet Killers against the Borg.
- Survive the onslaught from a Borg Fusion Cube.
Patrol: Out of Control
- Defend an Iconian vessel stranded in an unstable gateway.
- Avoid annihilation from a devastating Borg Cube weapon.
Patrol: Unwanted Guests
- Work with Thaseen-Fei to defeat the Borg and close reality vortices in the Kinjer system.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Patrol: "Out of Control"

It's a pretty standard "defeat 5 groups of enemies" patrol, with the added wrinkle of the timed AoE attacks from the Borg. I actually enjoy this mechanic, especially when I'm in a slow-as-shit cruiser like I was when I ran the patrol today.

The story is nothing to write home about, as is usually the case with patrols. Alt-universe Iconians need our protection, blah blah blah.

For a brief moment, I thought maybe the other shoe was going to drop re: the Aetherians, but it was not to be (it also would have been very strange for that to happen in a patrol).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hmmm... Good for speed-running like "Wanted"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm no DPS chaser, and the character I used is weirdly weak against Borg for reasons I've never bothered trying to uncover, but I think you could probably complete it more quickly than "Wanted." I'm sure the XP rewards are far smaller, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'll give it a shot and see how it goes.

I wouldn't consider myself a DPS chaser either, since I haven't even parsed my ship builds in at least a year or two. However, I definitely follow the meta and know I have (or at least) had some high DPS when I did parse.

TLDR: Maybe not a DPSer, more like a fast-damage hobbyist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This one was a variation on "Ninth Rule". Same system too. Like the other patrol, this one took about 3 minutes in a DPS ship while learning the mechanics of the patrol. It feels "slower" than the other patrol, probably because there's more hopping around the map (just like Ninth Rule). The waves at the end are super easy compared to even a Normal Ninth Rule.