Borg Invasion Updates

[Morgan Shackelford]

http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=222758

Posted by DStahl

The Borg Invasion (which has multiple maps and missions) is coming in stages.

Stage 1 - Borg (random) Deepspace incursions
These deepspace encounters will randomly appear in sectors and alert nearby players that they have a short amount of time to join the event. These events will be leveled by sector and all players that join will be temporarily be set to that level (so if you do an event in a higher level sector, you'll be temp leveled up). This map will be similar to previous Deepspace encounters in that there is an open mission objective that must be completed, including a boss encounter. Once the open mission is complete, it will boot players out and that event is done. There will be other objectives and accolades associated with this.

Status: We needed some new tech to do the Borg leveling properly. Software is working on this now. We also needed more time on the content side to make these challenging encounters vs. what was already in Omega Leonis, so one of our new content designers JB is working on this. Once these are done and tested, we plan to release them.

Stage 2 - Borg Ground Invasion
A species in the game is going to be at risk of being assimilated and both Feds and Kdf must attempt to defend the planet from being overrun with Borg. This event will most likely be a big weekly occurance. It will have multiple missions, allow anywhere between 25 and 50 players per zone and be one of the coolest repeatable ground events we have in the game. It will scale with level and have both easy and hard mission objectives that teams can attempt during the assimilation event.

Status: Our content lead and new content designer JV are in the process of building this zone now. The map is also being created by Kurt. Systems and costume are also working on new props for the various missions on this map.

Stage 3 - STFs revised
The STFs will be re-released with many of the updates that Gozer has been working on. These will also be coupled with a new Find a Group feature and broken up into smaller chunks so you say - could queue for a 5-man Infected Ground and just do that portion.

Status: Gozer has been churning through these missions, working on each one individually.

Stage 4 - Into the Hive
We plan to add the final encounter with the Borg Queen which we've been hinting at for over a year. This will be an end game task force and have special rewards.

Status: The Borg Queen boss encounter is complete. We are now working on the rest of the mission. Gozer will be jumping on to this once the other Borg STFs are ready to go.

[Jason32]

This makes me want to wait on doing STF's with the new ground combat. If they add new rewards ect, I'd end up having to do The Cure all over again again, and I'd rather stick a fork in my eye!

[Anton Mercer]

These look pretty good, and I'm glad its not endgame content its for everyone

[Morgan Shackelford]

I don't mind re-running the STF's. I will do any of them, anytime, for any reason, barring prior commitments... Marks of Valor are a good thing to have layin around.

[Christian M. Hanson]

Any thoughts on the7th creating a Borg Special Task force?

[CAPT Huckabee]

I don't mind doin STF's as long as its an experienced group. speaking of which, I am REALLY happy to be part of 7th, my old fleet couldn't beat cure. I had to beat all the Borg stuff with experienced PuGs.

I'll be good if I never have to play terradome again

[Cleo Mavendorf]

Huckabee14 wrote:

I don't mind doin STF's as long as its an experienced group. speaking of which, I am REALLY happy to be part of 7th, my old fleet couldn't beat cure. I had to beat all the Borg stuff with experienced PuGs. I'll be good if I never have to play terradome again

The Cure is personally one of the most despised things in STO for me...I am feverently hoping they make it more enjoyable and less a frustrating, bug ridden grind...still I am always willing to run an STF if the fleet gets one going

[CAPT Huckabee]

The Cure was a headache with my old fleet, we could never beat it. I ran it with 2 ppl on friends list from Laffamilla(sp?) and no problem at all. Terradome is the thing I HATE the most in STO so I feel ya

[Christian M. Hanson]

I've lost track of how many times myself, General Augurson, Colonel kelley, Admiral Lang, and Captain Mavendorf ran all the STF's... I still have nightmares about Borg...

[Bilarius Atlanteus Kaiser]

I think there should be random events that encompass all of the sectors, like randomly in the day we all get a message from star fleet command stating that a large borg cube has been detected heading to sector 001 (or any system) 45 mins till it reaches pluto (or what ever) defense range all ships converge on our location, it would have to be challengeing and if we lost we loose that system that would start another event retaking the system.

[CDR Hunter]

Something like this is coming. Not as painful as what you are describing, but I think it will start as you described.

[Bilarius Atlanteus Kaiser]

painful, my god man, were star fleet officers not klingons! bring on the pain, it makes you feel alive hahaha and makes the game more dynamic, STO needs dynamics where players actions have real consequnces or it will eventually decline like all the other MMOs