Not to mention, this Realta PVP event is perfect. An actual pvp even where most everyone is on a lvl playing field and it's cheap to participate. Scopley needs more events like it.
Hi Rev! I will try to keep this concise (efficient!) All beginners should be watching all your vids. You say things that are so important, example "if you don't have 2 stellas you are hurting your game" so I got 2 stellas and FOUND OUT WHY! I wanted to skip the mantis (ops 39 is my level now) but a mentor in my alliance said it was a must have ship (I listed all the ships he said are must have). So I got the mantis this month in the event store and have been using it for a week. This video has been CRITICAL (ha ha) to answering questions I didn't know I needed to ask. Specifically STINGING EVERY OTHER DAY to get both of those dailies. THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO! (sorry for when I gripe about the launch artwork, I try to bite my tongue, hoping they give us a beauty this christmas like the purple cloud borg cube last year, but I think they have someone on staff taking us in another direction)
Good video Rev. I just unlocked my Mantis today thanks to the Event Store. I hope Scopely continues the giving spirit (of bug fixes) all thru December 👍
I agree with you Rev. kudos to the scopley team for fixing this issue! Now, a new issues just appeared, some of us cant hit hostiles, the window when you click at the hostile doesnt appear. lol
I finally got a Mantis last night. First thing I did was refine parts (collected from who knows where) for an SNW Pike before I even took the ship out. Spent a lot of stored venom today at out Territory Control Defense. Great feature.
It's nice to see the positive changes. Yes there will always be things that need fixed, but hey, its digital. On a separate note, I just finally got the Mantis only to see this video shortly and afterwards! I do like how they're improving things here and there, do thanks to them and thank you for the vid sir!
Glad the Mantis is fixed and I should have no problem as F2P to get it this month. The update on the help button really just made so much sense and should have been done a long time ago but glad that it got done. The change that I do hate right now is needing to be in system to start an armada of any variety. It is a huge time waste in my opinion because part of the armada timer can be baked into that travel time to the system. Now I can find an armada, send my ship and by the time it arrives someone else who is closer or faster warp times will scoop in and start it before I can start the armada. Then I have to start my search for another armada again wasting time in my game.
Happy with everything given, only thing i was disappointed with was that we weren't given another chance at the Feesha refit. I saved all of my Iso data chips since the beginning of DS9 Pt.2. If no return i guess i am getting billions of steel in its place. Thanks for always given us great info and reviews of everything STFC. 🖖
Thank you for explainin this Rev - for a while I've not really got how this worked but wasn't too worried till I finally got the Mantis today, so your timing on this video much appreciated.
Unlocked the Mantis yesterday (had previously bought the Battle Pass that gave 50 bps). Enjoyable experience overall. Took a while to review old videos about operation and also get some advice from the alliance. At Ops 42 was able to level up to T2 immediately and able to use a Cargo Crew out of the gate. I think the main thing for me is game-life balance is best served by pulling single chests, otherwise this new grind will just be too consuming (unless Scopely reduces older grinds, like Eclipse or Swarm even further). Got a 44x pull of Ortega. Nice! Only complain now about the Event Store is that I'd like to see the ability to catch up with other officer shards. I'm not a PvP player so the special strike crew have no interest for me. Sure, can concentrate of Sisko et al, but some extra choice would be good. Overall, this arc is turning out great for the features it is adding. The content for DS9 for a finale still seems underwhelming. Oh, and the 22 hour timers on the claims for Kira, Miles, Sisko intel is going to bite some players for sure. DON'T wait for an Officer Heroic daily or you might miss out!!!
I do appreciate that they fix this part of the Mantis I will have to try it myself to see if it is really fixed but also how come they can't do the same thing with the Ferengi Trader Ships wouldn't it make sense it now only happens maybe once or twice a month that I see one of those very little
I was pretty frustrated with the mantis sourcing. Really pleased it's finally here and in terms of event currency it's really reasonable. It's currently building so thanks for the info on using it. 👍 (also really pleased to finish my Ent salvaged skin, is there any more of that currency coming so I could finish weapon skin?)
Rev - Took two years off due to too many griefers on my server. But im back and trying to catch up from 35 :( if i stuck around I would easily have been in my 40's. Thanks for the continued content. Slowly getting through all the videos. I didnt see the mantis on my event store though. :( unless i missed it somehow.
Just got finished getting mantis yesterday through event store. After this bud I’m excited since SNW is one of my favorite hostile grind crews right now
Now they can fix the rest of the game! I can't even purchase the arc this month, keeps saying nothing available check back later. Even after doing everything they said I needed to do.
Cpt. 5of11 (Rank3) + 4of11 (Rank 1) + Kuron (Rank 2) + Lower Deck La'an (Rank 3) I am OPS39 i maxed out my Mantis research and i have more Venom that i can spend => the Speed BUFF is AMAZING , every Mantis run only takes me about 9 minutes
what i like about this fix is auto exos and extra apex. but what i don like is the incistencies of actian crysalis with buff tokens reappearing. before the fix, they appear more frequently then the apex. maybe the tradeoff giving more apex is less crysalis
Talking about QoL enhancements to speed up the grind ask the developers for an Autogrind button next to the attack button. I enter a system and target an Explorer hostile (red). I push Autogrind instead of the Attack button. After a confirmation window my ship will autogrind that type of target until it is destroyed without anymore intervention from me. Or I can recall it to stop the autogrind.
Thanks for the reminder of what the Mantis can do. I have had the Mantis since the release date and have it at T4 with enough parts to go T6 and have the research up for my ops level 41. It has helped greatly for syndication progression(21) and sourcing of SNW officers. I have the rares at T3 and should be able to take them to T4 later this month. Is there a reason to take the ship past T4 besides increased warp range, seems like it would just make the grind longer for same amount I get now? I get double syndicate pulls every day and officers every other day.
Mantis the thing nightmares are made of... I watched the video and decided its time to mantis up and went to event store and only opinion is to pull 1 BP at a time well the game crashed and reloaded after every single pull I spent would pull a few get frustrated and come back later. It took 6 hrs of intestinal fortitude at a lvl I had had to muster since basic training not to just wash out and say I don't want it that bad. I got the ship and let the mayhem begin.
I have been bringing up the lack of Actian hostiles since the launch of the Mantis and wonder if the idea to multiply them was part of their plan for when players started getting it F2P. I can't imagine that they thought the way the systems were designed was a good idea for when we had a dozen or so ships trying to grind there. Now the question is what are they going to do to make this up to those of us like me who bought the Mantis when it first launched and have been struggling for 4 months?
hahaha... yesterday when I went for my daily actian grind, I was amazed at having so many Apex, I thought it was a bug and I finished the grind in a third of the time it usually takes... The only problem I found was that I could not find enough ExoComp carrying ships anymore when the time came to reset them... :(
I’ve been going to the 40 system. 5 kang stonn below Laan tendi mariner below. Filling cargo before warping back just hitting the apex no actien exos cargo is 128k
Well this is perfect timing for me as my free to play mantis will finish its construction later today. What basics do I need to know and what systems do I find the mantis hostiles
I'm surprised how relatively generous the officer pulls are to be honest (most unScopely!). It's another grind but you should have really strong crew way before ops 50+
about blankety blank time!!!!!!!! We spent cold hard cash for it, well most of us, and we aren't getting value for our money. now that they're opening it to everyone they fix it, so i spent $140 to get a jump on others, and Scopely cut me of at the knees. I believe those of us that bought it should be credited some of the money we spent. on the positive side, they fixed the help button, yay no more multi button presses where 1 could do, like did they think we'd want to exclude someone in our alliance? everyone gets my helps, except Rev, no helps for you Rev. LOL
We should get something. It has been ridiculous. Systems will soon be packed and make it that much worse so for the next week or 2 yes it will be nice but after that the extra apex won't mean anything when half the server is piled up in the same Systems
Took Scopely long enough. I've been continuing to grind and it was a pain. But, I went for speed. Klaa with Kuron and 5. I have still been using this crew to be done faster. This improvement is great time saver.
Mantis is in there now, but they took us the free shards from the Incursion so that we cant spend as much on other things in the event shop. This is scopely, absolutely on purpose.
Like that the Mantis is in the event store. Now we don't need to bother with grinding it for months in Incursions. Interesting to see how Scopely plan on getting people to participate in incursions now that the only real lure is gone.
I've been playing over 2 years, I'm a lvl 47 and it seems there are 2 things that ALWAYS happen whenever there is a major update with additional content: 1) There are more bugs added than they have fixed and, 2) We are constantly complaining to Scopely to give us our money's worth. For a game that makes over $10m/month, you'd think they would forgo minimum effort.
Cool might get the Mantis then. But can they please make a free to play path to the now 2 extra docks you can buy.. 5 docks at lvl 41 is getting cramped specially if you going to do solomadas..
Even with 3 working Apex spawns per system our server is still full of complete bell ends that run Klaa, Kuron so they can sit in the middle of the map and wait for the apex to spawn.
Hi Rev another bug in field trng do Orion Corvette it's done built a new one and tiered up max. Also game becoming work with to many things to do. Plus rewards not worth most events
Hopefully this doesn't turn the Mantis grind into a feeding frenzy. I really like it right now. If you're the only one in system, it takes me between 10-15 minutes per load where it was 25 -30 each load. I actually feel like I can play catch up on a day off of work and make this easier.
As one who spent on the mantis to get the good officer sourcing... I think Scopely should compensate everyone who purchased it. We should be way farther ahead of everyone else in developing our mantis and in SNW officers had this feature we paid for actually worked like it should have. I should be up in the lv39 actian systems by now had these systems being broken not brought progress to a grinding halt. People who buy ships are essentially buying a head start on everyone who didn't spend. We didn't really get that here (at least not as much as what we should have gotten).
I have a baby Mantis now, thanks to the Event Store, and I was able to get it to tier 2 and about 1.4M power. I did my first run before seeing this video, and I tried hitting level 36 hostiles in Ra'kond, using PMC as crew. I killed one hostile, and my hull was down to about 5% remaining. So that didn't last long. I scanned another player and saw that they were using 5/7/Chen, so I tried that on my next run, but died on the first hostile. Someone recommended 5/Gorkon/Marcus, so I'm going to try that, but I'll have to wait until tonight when I get more tokens.
"You can use it for PVP". Meh, my server is farmville, we don't pvp. "You can use it for free SNW officer shards". Meh, I have them unlocked so more tiers aren't that exciting. "You can use it to get a lot of syndicate XP ever..." YOU SON OF A BISCUIT I'M IN!
Since the apex fix I'm working sys35 instead of 33 but I find that the exo don't activate as quickly as when working 33. And that's when I can even find them. Sometimes it's all one type or none at all.
In the video, you mention the Mantis bps can be obtained in the Ship Blueprints in the month of December (2022). I Just reached level 33 in May 2023 and I'm trying to find the bps but it's not in my Ship Blueprints. Any idea where I can find it? Do they continue to show up every month in Ship Blueprints?
got it today. It's like all of the lacking fun grinding borg with extra complications based on getting the exos and monitoring to keep the 5 minutes exos active. i can't imagine how much more annoying it used to be. Who at scopely play tested this thing and went "oh people will like this with all their other grinds."
Now how too keep it consistently good on the updates, why dont they rebuild the entire client to be more modular? While the game is running they could rebuild the whole thing so we dont have these problems anymore. After the several disasters they have had they should think about it. Love bek as a CM! Congrats!
I don't think the auto help works completely. I had to open the help list through the Alliance page to get it to read that I sent a help for the new on-boarding style goals for newbies before it read that I actually sent a help. Double check to see if it counts for dailies 👀
Mantis proliferation has the capability to run off a lot of players. Could be good. Would love to see a new version. Preferably, would like to see Paramount license another company altogether for a similar themed game. Something with stable software, a good combat system, and not pay to win. Also, something more suited to the Trek universe.
Hey Rev, here's a quality of life fix they need to make happen... Try to type in the name of a system that you want to travel to... 8 clicks to make it happen.... WHY?
If they could on fix the problem with locking onto hostiles. Had to restart the game 6 times in the past hour. Others are having this problem too. Seems like every time Scopely takes a step forward they fall two steps back
The good: yes the Apex hostiles have been fixed - at least until these three get stuck. The bad: the exocomp host crysalis hostiles are less common, making it harder to farm the exocomps needed to really punch up on the Apex hostiles. And nothing has been done about the problem of cloak-hitting in Actian space. While I LOVE the Apex update, I'm still not sure Actian space is ready for the entire F2P player base.
I've no interest in the mantis I just want the iss jelly in the event store as I'm ops 39 and refuse to get any other ships till I have it, and what's happening with the isolinear rods we was told last month we had to use them all or lose them.
It’s fantastic that their doing quality of life upgrades one I wish they would add is an indicator for systems with unclaimed missions
Not to mention, this Realta PVP event is perfect. An actual pvp even where most everyone is on a lvl playing field and it's cheap to participate. Scopley needs more events like it.
Its not perfect. TOS Crew wins. If TOS meets TOS, Attacker wins as long as Kirks morale doesnt fail.
Doesnt have TOS Crew? Get screwed.
20 times better than the Franklin PVP
Except it was a win only event which sucks. It's more even yes but officers and research really matter. It was easier to just grind the reds.
2* ships only would be a good event!
On the other hand i love the 1 click "help all" without the extra screen
Hi Rev! I will try to keep this concise (efficient!) All beginners should be watching all your vids. You say things that are so important, example "if you don't have 2 stellas you are hurting your game" so I got 2 stellas and FOUND OUT WHY! I wanted to skip the mantis (ops 39 is my level now) but a mentor in my alliance said it was a must have ship (I listed all the ships he said are must have). So I got the mantis this month in the event store and have been using it for a week. This video has been CRITICAL (ha ha) to answering questions I didn't know I needed to ask. Specifically STINGING EVERY OTHER DAY to get both of those dailies. THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO! (sorry for when I gripe about the launch artwork, I try to bite my tongue, hoping they give us a beauty this christmas like the purple cloud borg cube last year, but I think they have someone on staff taking us in another direction)
Got the Mantis. Had 55/100, was a very satisfying sensation to unlock it with "minimum" effort. Very nice, Scopely!
Good video Rev. I just unlocked my Mantis today thanks to the Event Store. I hope Scopely continues the giving spirit (of bug fixes) all thru December 👍
You ROCK REV! You are 100% responsible for me still playing STFC 🖖
Makes me happy to hear it!
Nice that this was included. Unfortunate that they removed the ISS Jellyfish from the event store for the level 39 players.
I agree with you Rev. kudos to the scopley team for fixing this issue!
Now, a new issues just appeared, some of us cant hit hostiles, the window when you click at the hostile doesnt appear. lol
I finally got a Mantis last night. First thing I did was refine parts (collected from who knows where) for an SNW Pike before I even took the ship out.
Spent a lot of stored venom today at out Territory Control Defense. Great feature.
It's nice to see the positive changes. Yes there will always be things that need fixed, but hey, its digital. On a separate note, I just finally got the Mantis only to see this video shortly and afterwards! I do like how they're improving things here and there, do thanks to them and thank you for the vid sir!
Glad the Mantis is fixed and I should have no problem as F2P to get it this month. The update on the help button really just made so much sense and should have been done a long time ago but glad that it got done. The change that I do hate right now is needing to be in system to start an armada of any variety. It is a huge time waste in my opinion because part of the armada timer can be baked into that travel time to the system. Now I can find an armada, send my ship and by the time it arrives someone else who is closer or faster warp times will scoop in and start it before I can start the armada. Then I have to start my search for another armada again wasting time in my game.
I don't have to be in a system to start an Armada?
Thank you Rev for speaking slow and Clearly .😃
Happy with everything given, only thing i was disappointed with was that we weren't given another chance at the Feesha refit. I saved all of my Iso data chips since the beginning of DS9 Pt.2. If no return i guess i am getting billions of steel in its place. Thanks for always given us great info and reviews of everything STFC. 🖖
Take it you got the cardassian weapon refit?
Thanks Rev for this video, it helped me make up my mind to use my event store loot to get the Mantis as I wasn't going to before this. Many thanks!
Thank you for explainin this Rev - for a while I've not really got how this worked but wasn't too worried till I finally got the Mantis today, so your timing on this video much appreciated.
Glad it helped!
Thank you Scopely! Purchased the final 50 BP's with Ketracel 2 days ago and building.
Unlocked the Mantis yesterday (had previously bought the Battle Pass that gave 50 bps). Enjoyable experience overall. Took a while to review old videos about operation and also get some advice from the alliance. At Ops 42 was able to level up to T2 immediately and able to use a Cargo Crew out of the gate. I think the main thing for me is game-life balance is best served by pulling single chests, otherwise this new grind will just be too consuming (unless Scopely reduces older grinds, like Eclipse or Swarm even further). Got a 44x pull of Ortega. Nice!
Only complain now about the Event Store is that I'd like to see the ability to catch up with other officer shards. I'm not a PvP player so the special strike crew have no interest for me. Sure, can concentrate of Sisko et al, but some extra choice would be good.
Overall, this arc is turning out great for the features it is adding. The content for DS9 for a finale still seems underwhelming. Oh, and the 22 hour timers on the claims for Kira, Miles, Sisko intel is going to bite some players for sure. DON'T wait for an Officer Heroic daily or you might miss out!!!
could have waited for recruit event tonight:-)
Thanks Rev just started building the Mantis and had no clue what it was for. Must have missed that story arc
I do appreciate that they fix this part of the Mantis I will have to try it myself to see if it is really fixed but also how come they can't do the same thing with the Ferengi Trader Ships wouldn't it make sense it now only happens maybe once or twice a month that I see one of those very little
I was pretty frustrated with the mantis sourcing. Really pleased it's finally here and in terms of event currency it's really reasonable. It's currently building so thanks for the info on using it. 👍 (also really pleased to finish my Ent salvaged skin, is there any more of that currency coming so I could finish weapon skin?)
Thanks for the crewing of the Mantis it really makes a difference.
Excellent video. Thanks for the crewing tips and impetus on grinding the Mantis daily 🙂
I just started building mine, I was tempted to purchase it but I know scopely too well🤣 can't wait till I'm reaping the benefits of it.
BEST officer sourcing EVER !
my officer Progress:
> SNW Pike _ Lv15 (124 / 330)
> SNW Hemmer _ Lv10 (4 / 220)
> SNW Spock _ Lv20 (65 / 225)
> SNW Uhura _ Lv20 ( 4 / 225)
> SNW Ortega _ Lv15 ( 36 / 115)
Rev - Took two years off due to too many griefers on my server. But im back and trying to catch up from 35 :( if i stuck around I would easily have been in my 40's. Thanks for the continued content. Slowly getting through all the videos. I didnt see the mantis on my event store though. :( unless i missed it somehow.
Promising start. Has anyone else had problems with The Craving mission, part 4 mission 2 with the the 5 million jem hadar yellow hostile ?
Just got finished getting mantis yesterday through event store. After this bud I’m excited since SNW is one of my favorite hostile grind crews right now
Hope you enjoy it!
Nice to see this is working , 1 fix out of so many still broken . Worst being on iOS the game still crashes constantly
Now they can fix the rest of the game! I can't even purchase the arc this month, keeps saying nothing available check back later. Even after doing everything they said I needed to do.
Cpt. 5of11 (Rank3) + 4of11 (Rank 1) + Kuron (Rank 2) + Lower Deck La'an (Rank 3)
I am OPS39 i maxed out my Mantis research and i have more Venom that i can spend
=> the Speed BUFF is AMAZING , every Mantis run only takes me about 9 minutes
Must pick up for players who don’t have it yet. Glad they didn’t make it too expensive in the Event Store.
I’ve had mantis since the start. I figured the low level areas would be a shitshow once it was available to ftp. It’s a timely improvement.
what i like about this fix is auto exos and extra apex. but what i don like is the incistencies of actian crysalis with buff tokens reappearing. before the fix, they appear more frequently then the apex. maybe the tradeoff giving more apex is less crysalis
I do love the increase of the apex, but seems there are less of the exo hostiles now. I certainly prefer the auto application of them. Hope it stays.
Talking about QoL enhancements to speed up the grind ask the developers for an Autogrind button next to the attack button. I enter a system and target an Explorer hostile (red). I push Autogrind instead of the Attack button. After a confirmation window my ship will autogrind that type of target until it is destroyed without anymore intervention from me. Or I can recall it to stop the autogrind.
Thanks for the reminder of what the Mantis can do. I have had the Mantis since the release date and have it at T4 with enough parts to go T6 and have the research up for my ops level 41. It has helped greatly for syndication progression(21) and sourcing of SNW officers. I have the rares at T3 and should be able to take them to T4 later this month. Is there a reason to take the ship past T4 besides increased warp range, seems like it would just make the grind longer for same amount I get now? I get double syndicate pulls every day and officers every other day.
It was working perfectly last night and they added a 2nd Apex. I was able to get my Actian run much faster last night.
Mantis the thing nightmares are made of...
I watched the video and decided its time to mantis up and went to event store and only opinion is to pull 1 BP at a time well the game crashed and reloaded after every single pull I spent would pull a few get frustrated and come back later. It took 6 hrs of intestinal fortitude at a lvl I had had to muster since basic training not to just wash out and say I don't want it that bad. I got the ship and let the mayhem begin.
I have been bringing up the lack of Actian hostiles since the launch of the Mantis and wonder if the idea to multiply them was part of their plan for when players started getting it F2P.
I can't imagine that they thought the way the systems were designed was a good idea for when we had a dozen or so ships trying to grind there.
Now the question is what are they going to do to make this up to those of us like me who bought the Mantis when it first launched and have been struggling for 4 months?
hahaha... yesterday when I went for my daily actian grind, I was amazed at having so many Apex, I thought it was a bug and I finished the grind in a third of the time it usually takes...
The only problem I found was that I could not find enough ExoComp carrying ships anymore when the time came to reset them... :(
Good stuff
I’ve been going to the 40 system. 5 kang stonn below Laan tendi mariner below. Filling cargo before warping back just hitting the apex no actien exos cargo is 128k
Big info. Thank you Rev D. 😊
Any time!
for crew I use 5, 4, Kuron to maximise the number of ships I can kill within an ExoComp reset cycle...
Well this is perfect timing for me as my free to play mantis will finish its construction later today. What basics do I need to know and what systems do I find the mantis hostiles
I'm surprised how relatively generous the officer pulls are to be honest (most unScopely!). It's another grind but you should have really strong crew way before ops 50+
Yes they done great job this month
Feliz navidad Rev
Thanks for the update
You bet
I noticed the change last night. Great fix!
Good to hear!
about blankety blank time!!!!!!!! We spent cold hard cash for it, well most of us, and we aren't getting value for our money. now that they're opening it to everyone they fix it, so i spent $140 to get a jump on others, and Scopely cut me of at the knees. I believe those of us that bought it should be credited some of the money we spent. on the positive side, they fixed the help button, yay no more multi button presses where 1 could do, like did they think we'd want to exclude someone in our alliance? everyone gets my helps, except Rev, no helps for you Rev. LOL
I'm thinking a couple of free tier ups for the mantis would work. Then we can get out ofthe lower systems
We should get something. It has been ridiculous. Systems will soon be packed and make it that much worse so for the next week or 2 yes it will be nice but after that the extra apex won't mean anything when half the server is piled up in the same Systems
Thanks Rev Happy Christmas
Took Scopely long enough. I've been continuing to grind and it was a pain. But, I went for speed. Klaa with Kuron and 5. I have still been using this crew to be done faster. This improvement is great time saver.
Good stuff
Mantis is in there now, but they took us the free shards from the Incursion so that we cant spend as much on other things in the event shop. This is scopely, absolutely on purpose.
Thanks for everything
I just got my Mantis! It works great!
Like that the Mantis is in the event store. Now we don't need to bother with grinding it for months in Incursions. Interesting to see how Scopely plan on getting people to participate in incursions now that the only real lure is gone.
I've been playing over 2 years, I'm a lvl 47 and it seems there are 2 things that ALWAYS happen whenever there is a major update with additional content: 1) There are more bugs added than they have fixed and, 2) We are constantly complaining to Scopely to give us our money's worth. For a game that makes over $10m/month, you'd think they would forgo minimum effort.
I agree removing a click is helpful
Cool might get the Mantis then. But can they please make a free to play path to the now 2 extra docks you can buy.. 5 docks at lvl 41 is getting cramped specially if you going to do solomadas..
Even with 3 working Apex spawns per system our server is still full of complete bell ends that run Klaa, Kuron so they can sit in the middle of the map and wait for the apex to spawn.
I’m not a big fan of Scopely. Although when they do something right, I’m very appreciative. Nice one Scopely 👍🏻. Thanks for the vid Rev 😘🖖🏻
Same here
Only just got the mantis so need to find a video on how to work out it for a newbie
Hi Rev another bug in field trng do Orion Corvette it's done built a new one and tiered up max. Also game becoming work with to many things to do. Plus rewards not worth most events
Any chance they might add the Strike Team officers to the Mantis refinery?
I'm hoping they will, but I've have a bad feeling that they'll gate it behind a refit, much like the Discovery/Lorca deal
Mantis was worth every penny
Hopefully this doesn't turn the Mantis grind into a feeding frenzy. I really like it right now. If you're the only one in system, it takes me between 10-15 minutes per load where it was 25 -30 each load. I actually feel like I can play catch up on a day off of work and make this easier.
@Rev. Any word yet on when they may have a FIX for the Realta issun in the "Ships" section of Field Training
TBD
As one who spent on the mantis to get the good officer sourcing... I think Scopely should compensate everyone who purchased it. We should be way farther ahead of everyone else in developing our mantis and in SNW officers had this feature we paid for actually worked like it should have. I should be up in the lv39 actian systems by now had these systems being broken not brought progress to a grinding halt. People who buy ships are essentially buying a head start on everyone who didn't spend. We didn't really get that here (at least not as much as what we should have gotten).
Im trying to find out what t hey're going to do about that, JS
I have a baby Mantis now, thanks to the Event Store, and I was able to get it to tier 2 and about 1.4M power. I did my first run before seeing this video, and I tried hitting level 36 hostiles in Ra'kond, using PMC as crew. I killed one hostile, and my hull was down to about 5% remaining. So that didn't last long. I scanned another player and saw that they were using 5/7/Chen, so I tried that on my next run, but died on the first hostile. Someone recommended 5/Gorkon/Marcus, so I'm going to try that, but I'll have to wait until tonight when I get more tokens.
I could not find the Ra'kond system...where is it at? tried looking for it using the search button but nothing comes...is it spelled differently?
🤣
I didn't know that it was broken. I just figured that an apex appeared after every three kills 😳
"You can use it for PVP". Meh, my server is farmville, we don't pvp.
"You can use it for free SNW officer shards". Meh, I have them unlocked so more tiers aren't that exciting.
"You can use it to get a lot of syndicate XP ever..." YOU SON OF A BISCUIT I'M IN!
that's the thing I love, there's something for everyone! That's rare in STFC!
Since the apex fix I'm working sys35 instead of 33 but I find that the exo don't activate as quickly as when working 33. And that's when I can even find them. Sometimes it's all one type or none at all.
In the video, you mention the Mantis bps can be obtained in the Ship Blueprints in the month of December (2022). I Just reached level 33 in May 2023 and I'm trying to find the bps but it's not in my Ship Blueprints. Any idea where I can find it? Do they continue to show up every month in Ship Blueprints?
Fab toon scout loot would be nice. Also kdf scouts aren’t working in mempa
Just got mantis from event. Started my officer pulls and got a full pull on Hemmer. Um, it's OK I guess. Don't see much use for him but yea I guess.
Rev did you notice the Research for mantis beeing increased (Mantis Hull Plating) it was 600% now its 1560% at LVL 20
got it today. It's like all of the lacking fun grinding borg with extra complications based on getting the exos and monitoring to keep the 5 minutes exos active. i can't imagine how much more annoying it used to be. Who at scopely play tested this thing and went "oh people will like this with all their other grinds."
The help button is fine as long as when we have event that need you to use the help button that it counts all the helps not just the 1
If you want you can use the help button in the alliance tab and it will work like the old way
It's great they have fixed the bugs but what's happened to the compensation for those players who paid for the Mantis when it came out??
I'm 19 syndicate due to grinding the mantis since it released :)
Rev, Why do you not get credit in your dailies for using these EXoComps?
Beautiful video and thanks stfc for the mantis fix
Thanks for watching!
what level do you have to be to grind for the Mantis? i'm lvl 25 and not seeing it in the Dec. Event store...
It's lvl 33+
@@RevDeuce 😓
When stung the opponent can't warp away. HOWEVER, the player can summon their ship away with a Discovery.
Correct!
I used to stop help at night if the build was more than 1 day, so there was sufficient for the next days daily. Now it’s more of a pain
Now how too keep it consistently good on the updates, why dont they rebuild the entire client to be more modular? While the game is running they could rebuild the whole thing so we dont have these problems anymore. After the several disasters they have had they should think about it. Love bek as a CM! Congrats!
They are doing this, stepby step.
I don't think the auto help works completely. I had to open the help list through the Alliance page to get it to read that I sent a help for the new on-boarding style goals for newbies before it read that I actually sent a help. Double check to see if it counts for dailies 👀
Mantis proliferation has the capability to run off a lot of players. Could be good. Would love to see a new version. Preferably, would like to see Paramount license another company altogether for a similar themed game. Something with stable software, a good combat system, and not pay to win. Also, something more suited to the Trek universe.
Now did they actually fix the frozen apex issue or was just adding the extra apexs a band aid fix
Think they will fix the Realta bug in the Field Training?
I love my Mantis, but I'm currently stuck at level 10 because I can't get another Majalan Power Core...how do you get these??
Hey Rev, here's a quality of life fix they need to make happen... Try to type in the name of a system that you want to travel to... 8 clicks to make it happen.... WHY?
If they could on fix the problem with locking onto hostiles. Had to restart the game 6 times in the past hour. Others are having this problem too. Seems like every time Scopely takes a step forward they fall two steps back
@revduece full unlock on mantis or get up to 74/100 on an amalgam, what would you do
How do we get it going forward? I'm about the level now for it.
The good: yes the Apex hostiles have been fixed - at least until these three get stuck. The bad: the exocomp host crysalis hostiles are less common, making it harder to farm the exocomps needed to really punch up on the Apex hostiles. And nothing has been done about the problem of cloak-hitting in Actian space. While I LOVE the Apex update, I'm still not sure Actian space is ready for the entire F2P player base.
I'm not getting any Exo from my grind, it says that payment is not available.
I've no interest in the mantis I just want the iss jelly in the event store as I'm ops 39 and refuse to get any other ships till I have it, and what's happening with the isolinear rods we was told last month we had to use them all or lose them.
more things I have to worry about