PVP Arenas is back and while @everyone might not like them (understandably), if you do have the ability to participate the rewards can be quite lucrative! The purpose of this video is to try and help as many people in Star Trek Fleet Command as I can pick up some wins and show how strategy plays a key role in matchups that so many think are determined by power alone. Let’s discuss!
0:15 – Intro
1:07 – Tip 1 – Crewing
4:51 – Tip 2 – Zone Control
9:28 – Tip 3 – Structuring your team
12:04 – Tip 4 – Matchmaking & Manipulating the MMR
15:18 – Tip 5 – Ships to use the most in arenas
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thx you for making this video, a lot of people need it, they only looked at the player lvl and gave up when they where higher. But Arena is way more about armadas and fuck with the enemy armadas.
I'm done with arenas for now. Too many players are doing exactly what you said and manipulating the match making, couple with bad match making what started out as fun has just turned in to seal clubbing for high levels AND ITS JUST NOT FUN ANYMORE.
Until it gets back to being fun for everyone and not just teams that manage to put together a 57/64/69 team then I'm out.
Arena is still just to limited (in availability), and matchmaking and the level brackets are still WAY off. Scopely not learning at all from everything(90%) that is being stated on the discord arena feedback…
I want to have a good time with arena but scopely makes it just real hard…
having it on mining monday make it impossible to do
Nice editing job Rev. The dog was great. Good information for those that haven't understood that winning is not all about big ships bashing everyone.
What about the lagging.i hard bad at Arina today.
Voicechat is great. As the normal big guy we use voicechat when the opponent is trying to attack another member and they run them straight to my PvP ship to intercept and kill them.
I still haven't participated in Arenas, it doesn't interest me at all. Hearing about the lagfest from others in my Alliance doesn't help either.
I get in the match, I'm completely outsped by all three on the other team who are zoomed out and just keep taking my ships out. There is no point in competing once you know you've lost, you get nothing for it.
PvP arenas are horrendous and just favour players who have spent or have been here longer. Fair dues to them but it's not a fun experience, I'd rather we have the ability to just quit out and give them the win. Sat there for 10 mins being able to do nothing is not fun.
Matchmaking needs to be WAY closer, matches need to give out more rewards for 10 mins of effort and there should be bonus for what you as an individual score to encourage you to keep trying even when your massively out gunned. Until that point the whole thing is dead to me and my alliance
Honestly I wanted to like this feature but reducing the participants to 3 was a major issue. The other huge problem for me anyway, was that your rank can be lost/lowered. If you get a handful of bad match-ups, you lose your rank. And it's pretty significant. There's also a time demand issue, I'm at work the entire event most of the time. But mainly because of rank loss, I have abandoned doing these completely. It sucks but if I get to silver and then revert backwards after some uneven match-ups, then I'm done with it, not even trying anymore.
My strategy is to get face stomped by everyone lower level then me to the point I had all my docks repairing and sitting there staring at my screen. Played 5 matches, lost all 5, was totally worth the time put into it.
The only winning strategy is to not play
LOL that first Arena ss involved players that were AFK
😮 I'm almost lost, I'm going to have to watch this couple times.
Also the NSEA while nice if you have had it long enough to tier up is way over powered for Arenas. Yeah yeah I know power lvls are not everything but having a 900 mil ship at ops 50 is strictly pay to win especially when the power rankings for matching still only show them at 120-180 mil. Has this been addressed? because if not matching will always be messed up.
I wish waves had a more specific time. Ie twice a month for 6 hour like arena. I look for a wave and no one home and cant get team
I do not like arenas. I will not engage. Need a way to bypass this feature.
They need to get rid of the short 8 hour timed event and make it a full day so players have more time and chance to try and do them.
I finally hot talked inyp trying this mess todsy lag so bad u can't do anything, one ship stayed stuck in warp between systems, if they can't do any better than this then that's pathetic .
I definetly need to be in at the 10 seconds mark no matter what, i messes that up more than once.
Also you dont need a full loot crew, ent-e picard and ent-e data are enough to have a 2-1-1. You are better off putting in Kuron as the third.
Sorry, just can't get interested in it. Bad mechanics, lag, bad matches just make it not worth the time.
I dont even know why anyone cares about this joke of an event. they just keep making it worse and worse. everything they say about it is a lie. now it feels like its full of hackers
Rev doesn't understand that the level range brings in players that can speed crew through everything you have in seconds leaving you with no ships to bring back
nope, still not doing it i'm in a arena N/A level club
Forbidden tech helps a ton also
I can say this the changes they did to the arena I used to win half my battles now I lost every match and now every time I transfer to the arena my game shuts off so how did everyone else do today
I liked it when it was 5v5. For some reason I just can’t be bothered with 3v3. Probably an issue of balance. I think it’s going to die a death unless they can implement a full on regional solo queue and chat/talk functionality. Having to use a separate application is not good design.
It has potential though 🙂
I liked it when it was 5v5. For some reason I just can’t be bothered with 3v3. Probably an issue of balance. I think it’s going to die a death unless they can implement a full on regional solo queue and chat/talk functionality. Having to use a separate application is not good design.
It has potential though 🙂
Some day I might get to engage in this mechanic without giving up sleep. Maybe.
For me, it will be a great feature, once the lag issues are sorted out. Great video on tactics, most of which we use. Yesterday won 4 out of 4, but the lag made it impossible to continue. Remove the rank from the match making and it will get so much better for all.
The level 50 player beating a 57 is using one of the forbidden artifacts like Tantalus Field, Red Matter, Thalaron Radiation or Boreth Time Crystal…..i have noticed a lot of arena players using these to give their ships a 1000%-3500% boost to damage to players
There's nothing like a game where you can learn from mistakes, grow and evolve into a winning player.. Way to go Arenas!!! Thanks Rev for your brilliant insights!!!
The issue I have is I cannot defeat G6 or high G5 PvP whales, at opens 57 I'm stuff. Never won any, so, just don't bother. Rewards are good, but, lack of alliance interest (because we always loose) means it's dead. I have no intention of passing 59 as G6 seems like a death sentence due to feature/reward/engagement and just a whale pool (broadly).