** Note: You not longer get the reward if you fail, this has been patched out.
@geminijustgemini77848 ай бұрын
CURSES!!!😂
@itsamadworld27118 ай бұрын
That makes sense. People could join, then go AFK and still get the reward. Wouldn't make the TFO very fun for those who actually wanted to beat it.
@Daggoth658 ай бұрын
Has any testing been done on the Pet boosting consoles for carriers?
@outlawedTV888 ай бұрын
@@geminijustgemini7784 youtube just loves do delete ppl's comments
@CowboyTechTV8 ай бұрын
Dang it but make sense.
@CNC2958 ай бұрын
Yeah the look Spencer gave when he realized that his precious eye so Meg market had collapsed was truly delicious.
@SEVEN-nz1wb8 ай бұрын
lol
@scotthopkins22358 ай бұрын
The topic of fails.....I was in ESD surfing the Exchange and watching zone chat. People were talking about how some people don't belong in Elite content. It was sad and toxic, and I've seen it in nearly every game I have ever played. I have been an "Elite" player in other games, and I understand both sides of the topic. There is the I don't have time to babysit "Noob" players. The other side is IF you don't teach them, they won't learn, and you lose a player that could have been a great addition to any group in the future. It's easy to forget you were that NOOB at one point. I have avoided the Elite stuff because I don't have the gear to even try to learn. When I do have the gear, I will try a random and I hope I get teachers and not the impatient players. I was that rude big headed elite player at one point, and I had a guild member with years of experience take me aside and talk to me. REMIND me that I was a NOOB and how he and others took the time to show me how to do the content and that is how I got where I was. He also told me it's not about just doing YOUR PART it's about being ABLE to do more and pick up the slack form other players that are struggling so they can learn. That player you CARRY today might be the one that saves YOU next month!
@gameburn1783 ай бұрын
It's a game killer. Was part of the problem for a few pvp games that never worked out, and it's a disaster now in mmorpgs. Wildstar catered to Raiders... game is gone now. Wow put what little creativity they had in their game into crap like Raids, and that hurt the game... STO needs some new ideas, but catering to "elite" players (more often whales in that game, maybe) and they are going to die even faster.
@KalijahAnderson8 ай бұрын
Honestly, considering how easy the Tac consoles (locators / exploiters) are to get, this is how the 'advanced' consoles should have been from the beginning.
@keith40478 ай бұрын
I picked up the components to make the device's for around 500k each (some cheaper) making it a cost of 2.5m per (pet) console pretty cheap (plus the garbage components). I don't have to do elite random TFO now, that's such a relief, my equipment barely does advanced, (solo) let alone elite.
@wolfjarlgrbane57718 ай бұрын
Okay so I am a diehard Fleet Norway. It is just my style. Vary Rare to Full Upgrade, mostly a shield piercer. Any advice or do you have a build for it to do Elite TFOs?
@lamster70Ай бұрын
I play on console and random elite has been ok except for the Turei map in Battle of Korfez. That map is ridiculous. I have zero success rate when that map pops up in Korfez.
@lawsonic8 ай бұрын
Looking at the exchange, the first 120 isomags (which are pretty much everything available) are at 1 million or less, only the Phaser is holding its price at over 22million
@epochcatharsis1298 ай бұрын
With forty plus modifyers that can roll on those.... Including torpedo damage? Which is ironic since they don't benefit from plus weapon power.. Huge pass on that nonsense. Just another malicious time and soul attack by the devs.
@kenalbus4 ай бұрын
Ten minutes after watching this I was crafting my very first isomag. Without this vid it would have taken me ages to find this out, as the tooltip for the random queue reward does NOT list the components as an option.
@VolkXue8 ай бұрын
the bridges with the terrain symbol on the floor.. Whats that from? It show on the mirror ships?
@MCStu8 ай бұрын
I think it comes from a few ship, I got it with the styx
@Jay-ql4gp8 ай бұрын
Yes they did get easier to accquire, but getting the mods you want is still like getting a ship from a lockbox.
@radeadcool8 ай бұрын
I think that they should just lose and forget about the 5 parts. I have like 120 in 3 days.
@j_00768 ай бұрын
Omg thank you MC stu, i think this is a whole new game plan to farm the advanced consoles. Maybe thinking to get a group together just to farm them
@CJDJCanada8 ай бұрын
Very informative video MCStu. Makes it very clear for those unfamiliar with the new changes. I'm glad they fixed they fail where you still get it. It just encourages people to AFK it, and get rewarded for it. Shots fired Spencer!
@D2SProductions8 ай бұрын
Elite ground TFO are a heck of a lot easier than Elite space TFOs. I was able to do many different Elite ground TFOs with just the Adapted MACO ground set.
@RELOADEDFI8 ай бұрын
Tried elite TFO on random and on fail there was no drop except for 10 marks. Not sure if there are fail conditions that don't give out the box but seems on certain fail it does not seem available
@christophermosier37545 күн бұрын
Yeah...I keep looking for phaser damage ISO MAGS ..as rare as honest politicians 😶
@GenjiShimada.8 ай бұрын
I love running new Elite TFO Finder I'm not parse chaser but I can finally push my build little more and get loads of marks/mark boxes/random ore per tfo/dil ore inside mark box. All cool! :)
@sora67488 ай бұрын
Even if you fail the TFO you still get the random mark box with the epic box with the dil and marks you just dont get the elite one for finishing the TFO being successful, which is great becasue it will make more want to play elite and with that consoles on the exchange are getting cheaper now compared to six months ago, I even got Korfex failed it still get the extra marks and dill and epic box as part of random TFO where you get to choose one of the 4
@L1B4NN1NHO8 ай бұрын
No you dont.
@KyoyaTategamiLEO8 ай бұрын
It was a bug and it got removed
@sora67488 ай бұрын
@@KyoyaTategamiLEO I see that now.
@wilddog13686 ай бұрын
Thank you for the great info.. I am using this to work up my toons little by little. I was wondering have you ever tried to do a gas build.. with all the different gas release attacks? If not would love to see your take on one.
@ch1mera3022 ай бұрын
Want more stuff like this ingame. Actually rewarding gameplay instead of just daily checklists.
@timfogelson70768 ай бұрын
Since the last patch failing an elite no longer rewards the coil....so that's changed since you did the vid. Obviously i can not read what you have as a pinned post, so sorry about that....Good work on the vid.
@DeadFilmsINC8 ай бұрын
I'll be doing those on all my Gamma recruits.
@tednugent13518 ай бұрын
There's bugs in elite random rewards. I just failed one and did not get ANYTHING... I mean nothing. everyone just left without any rewards because the 'leave the area' button came up. So far I haven't received any consolation prize for failing.
@SciFiMetalGirl8 ай бұрын
Well, that's disappointing... I feel like they bait and switched us... Now I have no real incentive to do random elites.
@tarron32378 ай бұрын
It's nice that those consoles are easier to get now. That is the positive. What I don't understand is why one type of console is so ridiculously harder to obtain than anything else. If all powerful items were like this - ok. I could deal with it. But compare them to tactical fleet consoles and it's silly AF. It seems like they try to milk that piece of new content as much as possible. Not a big fan of it. Apart from that I begin to question the merit if three different types of consoles. That concept has become absolutely pointless, as most slots are being filled with universal consoles anyway. So yeah, easier to get iso mags is nice. Even if it's just for more monotonous power creep.
@danielgrafton936 ай бұрын
Only thing I’m struggling with in crafting isomags is that I don’t have a duty officer who can craft one. I’m a noob with R an D you see 😅
@jarifauti45868 ай бұрын
thanks it's fixed, so you don't get the reward after failing. I hope ppl learn how to play the elite tfo and don't let others do the work. that's what i am sick of. i hate to play for 5 and them getting rewarded. I am a friendly dude. So please get better so i can have fun too...
@docroberts19887 ай бұрын
Looks pretty good , but for what I can do in game is beyond my level . Been coming and going in the game for years and getting frustrated and floundering fast and dropping the game for long periods of time in between .
@benderfoulder8 ай бұрын
coool but i lost 100k in one isomag and still didnt get plasma next time haha
@MCStu8 ай бұрын
I feel like it’s worth just crafting more is trying to re-roll it a couple times but hoping that you’ll get a good role on the craft if you don’t just run another elite and craft another one….
@benderfoulder8 ай бұрын
@@MCStu tbh i get 3 isomag (plasma) in the first run so i think i waste all my luck there :B
@raknarok83258 ай бұрын
Not sure if just me, could end up being as tin foil hat theory but I am finding that the reroll is taking longer to get a weapon type affix now that these are easier to obtain.
@roli12278 ай бұрын
If you buy a Duty Officer for that check that it is from the right fraction. I could not use a klingon one with my fed char and it took me to long to figure it out.
@focusonrevenues8 ай бұрын
Thank you for the great video and wonderful content. I have two full sets of disruptor and polaron isomags consoles that I grinded out for two different account characters, aka 32 isomags for two different characters that I ran daily elite TFOs for months. Two months after I complete both sets they come out with this and crash the market. At least I do not need to run hundreds of elite queues to get these consoles for my characters and now I am looking the EPG consoles for science builds. This should go a lot faster than the isomags did.
@MCStu8 ай бұрын
I hear you, I bought my first set a few weeks ago for well over 200 million EC.
@galewosten20108 ай бұрын
Is the epic reward box just for the anniversary event or does it appear to be permanent?
@MCStu8 ай бұрын
It is permanent, it is apart of the new Random Elite systeim.
@FactsDataTruth7 ай бұрын
Dude you could have made this video much shorter. Good info but too long.
@loki_5x5108 ай бұрын
Haven't seen anyone mention it so far, so maybe it's another component of patching out getting the cores on failures, but I just made my choice and got 2 cores from one box after a successful Hive Onslaught via the random elite queue. Here's hoping this doesn't get patched out, too.
@loki_5x5108 ай бұрын
Okay, just got another pair of cores (coils?) after a random Defend Rh'Ihho Station run, so that's happened twice over the course of around ten randoms. Also, I'll just back up what was said in the video: just give it a shot. I hadn't done an elite TFO until two days ago and I'm not running with a single recommended DOFF or meta build, but I have been mostly successful on my runs with only a handful of failures (Korfez).
@JWPappas8 ай бұрын
Are these better than Locators for phaser builds?
@davesmith98448 ай бұрын
...5 mins in and we still haven't got to the 'new' bit!
@radeadcool8 ай бұрын
Poor sci. No one wants sci advanced.
@pacom65497 ай бұрын
Thanks. Back after 3 years
@JahHess6 ай бұрын
Question: instead of a particular weapon type isomag i went with all Beans or Cannons..so i could change weapon types without getting and upgrading so many other isomags ..was this a good move ?
@MCStu6 ай бұрын
You can do that and it does give you more flexibility and will work fine, but those type do give less of a boost then one they is for a specific type...
@AugmentedDictatorGames8 ай бұрын
I need to grind me some MCStumags.
@MCStu8 ай бұрын
🫂
@williamcox95248 ай бұрын
Hello MC, wow thank you for this video. It is really appreciated. I've been collecting them without realizing it till now. I have 7 already. Been chasing the fragments lol. Thanks Alot CRYPTIC.
@covingtonhalltown37304 ай бұрын
Wow, Incredible! I stopped doing elites due to constant team failures. Now that i know you still get the reward, ill start making elite tfos a priority. Thanks man!
@ForeverDegenerate8 ай бұрын
@MC Stu Any idea when this is coming to Console?
@MCStu8 ай бұрын
Probabley some time next month
@nolgroth8 ай бұрын
Hey MCStu. Just wandered in because this video popped up in my feed. I know nothing about ISOMags, but it seems like Cryptic listened and provided a reason to run Elite content. Just how good are these ISOMags? Do they abrogate the Crit meta or is it just a different avenue, maybe to give cruisers their due?
@MCStu8 ай бұрын
They can be better then crit sepecially on eng heavy ships.
@nolgroth8 ай бұрын
@@MCStuGood to know. I've been poking at the Anniversary event and trying to decide if I used enough aloe vera to get past my previous burnout. Going to sub again. See how it goes.
@williamwalker46008 ай бұрын
I am wishing the reward was the piece in the gold box instead of the coil so the market could recover. That said I am hoping they bring the entire stat pool to the re roll option table of the tac advanced consoles and more types of advanced consoles soon!!
@TheRealGraylocke8 ай бұрын
Don't have any isomags, and don't normally do elites. But with this change, might be worth a shot.
@diminios8 ай бұрын
I just bought a bunch of ultra rare isomags for 2 mil each (random bonuses), and rerolled them. Didn't even need to run an elite.
@naomy17018 ай бұрын
defo what i waited for, great for anyone wanting the consoles for themselfs and not to sell ^^ love carriers and engi ships vut always felt weaker on ships with not enough tac slots, glad thats in the past soon now ^^
@scipher998 ай бұрын
Thank you MCStu for clearing up the confusion with these. Great video.
@MrRCRG8 ай бұрын
I currently have over 40 coils for isomags
@Capomendez8 ай бұрын
the command bridge of which ship? for me it is always nice to see them from every ship
@devilhell698 ай бұрын
but you get epic box which you can chose 1 from 4
@MistiMoan8 ай бұрын
What's the electric drone ball things, anyone know?
@MCStu8 ай бұрын
For ground, Ball Lighning, comes from Summer event store
@MistiMoan8 ай бұрын
@@MCStu ok thanks man. I've seen it in a couple peoples videos but couldn't find it
@garypalmer9977 ай бұрын
17:14 caught yourself nice 😂
@tarasznak76948 ай бұрын
Thanks for your advice
@MotoAviator8 ай бұрын
Which are better: Engineering OR Tactical Isomags?
@CJDJCanada8 ай бұрын
Isomags are only Engineering. You might be thinking of the fleet tactical consoles (locators/exploiters) which affect your Critical Hit (Chance/Severity).
@markwilson1858 ай бұрын
Thanks for info Mc Stu !
@X1Alpha6667 ай бұрын
Does Phaser stack with Beam ?
@MCStu7 ай бұрын
Only for the Phaser beams,
@MCStu7 ай бұрын
If you are running phaser weapons and had 3 phaser ISO mags and 2 beam ISO Mags, they both would be stacking to boost you phaser beams.
@RFA_The-DuDe8 ай бұрын
Would be a lot easier, if you could just choose what energy type you want when crafting isomag's, like with crafted weapons.. I'd like to hear the reasoning behind not doing that from Cyptic, or whomever owns this game now. Because it sounds like pestering to me... Next to a lot of agony and work to get 1 isomag.. I don't respond well to that, so i just buy them... game is Pay to win... right ?...
@jamie5148 ай бұрын
the massive dilithium cost of re-engineering them was intended as a dilithium sink to help address the dilithium backlog on the zen exchange.
@RFA_The-DuDe8 ай бұрын
@@jamie514 Okay, i understand, that would be a good explanation, but why make it even more difficult by adding salvage to the requirements ?. There is only so much salvage one can get...
@MD710618 ай бұрын
Thanks Stu
@r0guestorm9648 ай бұрын
great news!
@irraka52228 ай бұрын
Excellent.
@matthewmckinney53878 ай бұрын
You can most definitely use them with fleet consoles, the protomatter matrix infusers from the colony are tac consoles that will work with the isomags
@MCStu8 ай бұрын
You can not use them with the spire tac console is what I meant to say.
@matthewmckinney53878 ай бұрын
@@MCStu all good stu! I figured, love ur vids man!
@Dwood7208 ай бұрын
Thanks for the Info
@Dwood7208 ай бұрын
I got the ISO for 1mil ec for 4 of them and 3 are fully up graded working on the 4 and trying to get the 5th thanks again
@seans8788 ай бұрын
I keep queuing for random elites, doing as little activity/damage as possible as not to get an AFK penalty, but keep failing the TFOs and not getting rewards that give us the isomag coil. What is everyone doing wrong? Why can't they carry me? Another good video for summing up the change. As always, much appreciated!
@PedroReiis8 ай бұрын
pls dont do this...
@99Cheops998 ай бұрын
@@PedroReiis I'm pretty sure that's sarcasm
@mr.menagerie82328 ай бұрын
@@99Cheops99 It probably is, but based at the same time. You'll probably have folks who will jump in, may not be prepared or will just afk to get the reward provided the group wins. The "easier" part STU was referring to is probably for those who have a premade. As I don't think they would waste time sitting in a random queue with a pretty good chance of failure.
@99Cheops998 ай бұрын
@@mr.menagerie8232 I'm aware that premades are easier for successful completion since you don't have to carry.. however what got me was that Cryptic either made a mistake or didnt actually realize that giving people coils on fail would just make people try and fail faster to more efficiently grind them.
@mr.menagerie82328 ай бұрын
@@99Cheops99 You make a good point. Its sad that there are some who would actually use that method instead of trying to learn the TFO. *shrug* it is what it is I guess.