Fleet Operations 3.1.0

[Nuukov]

posted on January 10th, 2010, 1:06 pm

Last edited by Nuukov on January 10th, 2010, 1:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Collective connection costs for assim's reduction changed to 20% instead of 50%!? Great, I'll never win any games now. Borg assim is the only thing in the game I know how to play that well. And now your making it harder. I wont even win in an unfair to the enemy 3v2, Dominus on my team game now. Assim's arent that powerful. And if I dont dl the new patch, I will not be able to have a game with anyone, cos they will have the new patch, and our games wont be compatible. So to play I have to dl the patch (Which I now call the "Kiss your chances goodbye nukey" patch). Also not to mention the other Borg depowering changes. And before you snap at me and say "READ THE GUIDE!!!" I have been. I have read all the Borg section (And I still keep on losing). And I am reading the other sections. (Still losing). And I have been doing practice. And I still fail in online matches. And now this is going to make it harder. I would not have minded if you lowered it only by 5, or 10. But made the Assim more powerful. atleast more long lasting. Now I'm gonna try the new patch, lose. Then never play again. Thanks.

BTW. I also fail horribly at optimize.

posted on January 10th, 2010, 1:08 pm

tried it, its fantastic, the game loads faster it appears. just played ia as klingons, the new cloaking system is good. the ion storm on the bortas is much more powerful, 3 of them killed most of an AI base. one thing i noted is that the klingon sensor station has special abilities for cloak detection, but not enough special energy to fire them.

posted on January 10th, 2010, 1:10 pm

Have the borg explosion performance problems also been fixed in this new version?

[KL0K]

posted on January 10th, 2010, 1:14 pm

Last edited by KL0K on January 10th, 2010, 1:15 pm, edited 1 time in total.

somehow the game doesnt start on my comp now.

i doubleclick it, screen goes black and it minimized itselt to the taskbar, no chance to alt+tab back into it, cause it just minimize to the taskbar again.
the other versions worked fine, so i dont have a clue. compability mode doesnt work, then it gives me a popup with a processing error.

specs_
win7 x64, desktop res: 1680*1050.
a64 x2 5400+
gf 8800GT 1gb
audigy2
4gig ram

posted on January 10th, 2010, 1:17 pm

got some gui postitioning errors but that cud b due 2 window mode

posted on January 10th, 2010, 1:29 pm

okay, seems i fixed it for myself.. i just had to reinstall the multimedia packs.. lol.

posted on January 10th, 2010, 1:31 pm

The Borg explosions were improved a bit, but a real replacement for them is on todo. sadly thats a more tricky part of Armada but we are working on it

Whoops, sorry about the Scout Station, will be fixed with the next small patch 

posted on January 10th, 2010, 1:51 pm

Great!

[DarkDragon452]

posted on January 10th, 2010, 2:26 pm

Last edited by DarkDragon452 on January 10th, 2010, 2:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Excellent to see this released.

Correct me if I'm wrong here though:

From my perspective it seems as if borg got a bunch of nerfs and absolutely no improvements to counteract this. I'm worried they may be a bit underpowered considering every other race got massive buffs, especially to their smaller ships which are always a pain to fight as the borg until you get to the larger chassis.

In any case, that's my only concern, everything else looks great, can't wait to play.

EDIT - Let me clarify. The borg seem to have gone up in costs massively, and thus are more vulnerable to rush tactics, when they were already the most vulnerable race to being rushed already.

posted on January 10th, 2010, 2:27 pm

YAY!The patch is out! It's awesome! GG ya'll! Now,all i want is the 3rd Avatar Add-On to be ready!

posted on January 10th, 2010, 2:36 pm

Many Borg modules got passie abilities, that reduce damage receive, making them much more durable even against torpedoes!

in addition, many Borg vessels, like the Scout Cube, are much faster now

posted on January 10th, 2010, 2:41 pm

Yay, thx for the update, earlier someone mentioned something about a single player, are you still planing on making one, cause I really enjoyed the single players on both armada games and Im sure you could come up with a good plot for the new one.

posted on January 10th, 2010, 2:44 pm

there are no plans for a singleplayer campaign in the near future. it has been requested by modders to bring the menu back

posted on January 10th, 2010, 3:09 pm

Your timing is actually impeccable...I've just got home from my last day of work for 10 days! 

Looking forward to playing the new version 

posted on January 10th, 2010, 3:19 pm

Just played a quick game, me as Borg (optimize) with Fed Hard AI ally vs Dominion Hard AI and Klingon Hard AI.

Got bum-rushed and stomped completely. Going to have to re-think tactics. Spheres were too expensive to mass produce early and died utterly to the onslaught of klingon torpedoes, damage reduction or no.

But, it looks like the buff to klingons is working at least.

Combat is a lot faster paced, or at least appears so, ships move FAST now, especially small stuff. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the speed of my first scoutcube.

I like it, I just need to figure out how to play the borg, again. Seems I need to do that after every major patch.