Ex-Borg Faction Quick & Dirty | Understanding Research & Faction store | Crews vs Freebooter Hostile

Welcome back @everyone to the channel that's going to show you how to take advantage of the Ex-Borg faction now in Star Trek Fleet Command! Less grind and more loot all from one convenient faction? yes please! In this video we'll go over the quick and dirty basics of how the Ex-Borg faction works as well as the basic strategies to take advantage of them. Also, how to crew vs the Freebooter hostile!
Topics covered:
1. how to unlock the Ex Borg faction for levels 38+ and basic setups
2. Why research should be your focus for this new faction's currency (yay new currency!)
3. Crewing to fight the freebooters even if you don't have tal!
4. If you have any game mechanic questions, feel free to drop those questions in the comments!
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[@claytonparris432]

Attention Scopely We need the grind reduction ability at lower levels. It makes no sense to restrict this to level 38.

[@BengalOscar]

In 4.5 years of playing this game, this is without a doubt the best thing they have ever done!

[@vicmal2112]

Has it really been that long? Wow.

[@JimRienheart]

I just hit level 38 and it feels like PMC is becoming more obsolete as a hostile grind crew, I'm actually glad for this because having only 1-2 hostile crews seriously slows down the grind. With these freebooters I'm looking at saving well over an hour of screen time grinding and can focus on other aspects of the game.

[@MadmanLink]

PMC is more effective for certain hostiles. Scopely doesn't like us having one crew for everything! lol

[@scottstout7595]

Again, this feature of a reduction in grind time would have been great, if it was available to more than just G4 players.

[@arcaderetr0gamer]

From the moment Red started to work with Scopely, he seems to miss a lot of things. I play on server 112 and 90-95%of players are under 35 so these updates brings nothing for us except the battlepass where we can get some crystals. Thats what these updates brings to us: uc crystals.

[@dewara4479]

@@arcaderetr0gamer I don't think he is missing anything (well not too much). He can not make Scoply change their lvl design at soon as it's released. He needs to wait for it to come out and get feedback to take to the overloads to get them to make changes. He, DJ and others have been able to get changes pushed through once there is enough comments and data for them to push for it. He does not, from what I have heard, agree with their decisions to focus on 39+ and not giving access to these sort of tools to the lower level players. He has called out their behavior of ignoring lower level players but he does not work for Scopley (meaning as far as its been stated he does not get a paycheck from them). He is a content creator that advises them on what his community says about the state of the game and their enjoyment (or lack thereof) with it. There is a video which he calls out this as well (kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKKuY6mios6Vg9k) "Where's the content? | The need for STFC to provide more for Level 1-Level 34 Players" no more then a month ago when this was called out.

[@nutznchocolates56]

I'm not a G4 player

[@nutznchocolates56]

​@@arcaderetr0gamer on this video there is a link to the channel. Use it. What is wrong with your brain?

[@nutznchocolates56]

You need the grind time.

[@jimcoatsworth5441]

Hey Rev, I am now at ops 40 but never got the relevant missions offered to open the exborg store. I hope your info will get me the exborg store to open. Thanks for this and other videos loaded with the helpful info we all need for Star Trek Fleet Command! Live long and Prosper!

[@justQthx]

The crew suggestion is just what I needed.

[@searchingforanswers3961]

Thank you. This video greatly improved my Freebooter grind.

[@jhodges405]

Thanks Rev just hit 38 this morning and had no clue what to do with these

[@dennislaur2515]

Perfect timing on this video, as my alliance was just discussing how to fight the Freeloaders. Was excited about the research, but it's going to be another grind to get it done unless you pay.

[@RevDeuce]

Glad I could help!

[@krm199]

The freebooter firing pattern means that if you have Hugh below deck then own ship crits are almost guaranteed for the duration of the battle. This allows you to run SNW pike as captain, ship type snw crew alongside and Gorkon alongside....stack below deck for stat to support snw side officer and hit freebooter hostiles iaw battle triangle....ops 44 with 10 kills per hull from max ent v 45s with this set up.

[@dragonshadowknights]

Thank you so much for your help Rev, have a Tier 2 voyager with khan,gorkon, and snw la’an all low tier and was able to take on 4 freebooters

[@RevDeuce]

Great job dragon!

[@n23tv50]

With PMC on my level 44 Kelvin, I could clear out between 7 and 8 level 43 battleships per run. With Rev's META of SNW Uhura/Khan/Gorkon, I finally died on my 19th(!) 43 battleship. Clearly, this man knows what he's talking about. Great job, as always. NOW, what do we do to get more Ex-Borg rep, faster than 250 a day?

[@caneyebus]

The SNW captain crew with gorkon Kahn is 🔥

[@Trumpkin777]

Looks good, pleasantly surprised, they actually came up with a way to make the grind easier, unlike borg arc...

[@Yiktin]

Just opened this yesterday. THANK YOU!!

[@RevDeuce]

Glad I could help!

[@Larry-jf5le]

I don't have georgio so I had to use Nero but that ortegas crew REALLY worked!!! THANKS!!

[@hellwolfz6456]

I have bought the Ex-borg pack and done the research, all I can say this has been the best £89.99 purchase on the game. I was able to kill 3 looters ships and 5 of dailys done. The reduction in grinding hostiles and warp time is great. People can focus more on events and other aspects of the game.

[@1s2dl3]

This now makes it where people don't need to worry about grinding the Franklin.

[@gp8231]

You still need to build the Franklin-A to open up the Franklin-A refinery

[@harryharrison4749]

Great video, very helpful, thanks Rev 👍

[@GodelFishbreath]

The prelude to enjoying this is to get a minimum of ExBorg rep. We really need to learn how to do this, as that chart of what to get is (at the start and not giving Scopley $100), only going for the first two on the very left of the research screen

[@andrewdixon9886]

Thanks for the help Rev

[@timrex8517]

Thank you Rev! This helps a lot.

[@RevDeuce]

Glad it helped!

[@bluedoggraphics1743]

Tested SNW Uhura, Gorkon, Khan on my Kelvin. Was able to take out (2) lvl 52 hostile battleships without much trouble.

[@williamsmith7640]

This was so helpful. I've been having questions and not figuring some things out. Thank you so much. I do have a question, in the Ex-Borg research, what does Federation Attrition do? I'm clueless on it.

[@RevDeuce]

Short answer: lowers the amount of rep you lose when hitting hostiles. Not a super valuable research. Do the other things in the tree first.

[@EgyptianWarrior]

Been having good luck with SNW Pike, SNW Officer based on the ship, and Kahn.

[@davidbrown9458]

I’m ops 38, with PMC on Enterprise can almost do the new meta on single hull, 5/6 but will try your recommended load out 😊

[@markmundl1420]

I’m having great success with my 6M Auger using Spike, Ortega and La’an. I’m ops 38. Need to using combat triangle so hitting explorers. I am able to kill 6 for daily event and only have 35 minutes of repair time.

[@SimonPitt]

I love the fact it saves time. Will we miss out on the ship bp and speed up drops from actually killing the faction hostiles though? I see the freebooter ships drop broken ship parts for refining but nothing else.

[@seanhasling5430]

Thank you for this!

[@razorrw7060]

Rev, if you can, please help me with this. If I’ve added this up correctly, with all 3 faction sweeps researched, the net reputation gain per faction will be zero if a player completes the daily faction objectives. Yes, you grind less but get no benefit from reputation toward faction lock or the faction store. For example at my level, if I complete the Klingon hostile daily, I get 2.8 mil rep FOR the Klingons but LOSE 1.4 mil rep for Romulan and Feds. The same is for Romulan daily (+2.8 mil Rom & -1.4 mil Klingon & Feds) and Fed daily (+2.8 mil Feds & -1.4 mil Klingon & Roms). That equals a net gain of zero rep for all 3 factions. Therefore I would not get any increase in faction rep for either of the factions. I would not be able to lock the factions or get any other benefits being unlocked in the factions stores. There doesn’t seem to be any benefit in these sweeps unless the player doesn’t care about the rewards from the factions stores that become available as faction rep increases. IF we research these sweeps, is there a way to negate reputation losses from the daily faction objectives?

[@krm199]

It might complete the daily but you then have the option to collect it or not....if you don't press the green tick then it times out and resets next day.

[@razorrw7060]

@@krm199 That's a good point and I didn't think of it.

[@steveo6760]

good crew info...wish I would have seen it earlier

[@druebutler2013]

Good Video thanks Rev! This new feature has got me playing a bit more than I have all year. I'm hopeful game will get better to play. That said. A couple things that came to mind while watching this video that may be useful as well. Away Teams research has some great researches to help with these hostiles. The crew I have found most effective for me at this time (SNW pike is busy) Is SNW Una, pairing mit SNW officer, and Khan or Trinity officer, or Data, Beckett Mariner underneath if you have her. I also like SNW mit officer, khan and Lorca. Lastly has anyone tried the forgotten Gowron or simililar officer? interested to see if they end up having some relivence finally

[@jeremydalton9534]

Reducing the grind for high end players, but not lower level players is just going to make it even harder to catch up. They need to accelerate lower levels so more players are at the content level scopely wants to work on. Then half their player base won’t be as frustrated.

[@alcyone-rising]

Why would they reduce your grind- it’s a money maker. At higher levels they have other ways to get the cash out of us.

[@24Redneck48]

Good ol JulesVern. I enjoy the opc from that player.

[@AstroForgeStudio]

What does the new prime do when it says a 50% bonus. It’s not a 50% reduction to base cost of G4 parts so what is it doing and how can I calculate it’s impact. The player base should get an explanation that sets real expectations before dropping a bill on a prime.

[@gts5365]

Great Video Rev! Unfortunatelly I can't find the graphic in your discord. Can anyone tell me where to find it?

[@jglovf]

Not sure if I'm missing something, but I still had to grind my 25 hostiles based on my Ops level. Also, the Freebooters didn't count for me towards my Faction Allegiance Keys daily. The did count towards my swarm and faction hostile dailies, but not the other two mentioned above.

[@Admrialerikpressman7583]

Did you complete the research to unlock the sweeps? Those need to be done before they count. LLAP

[@flozano2004]

Rev I was just exploring the itens on the new faction store, and didn't notice one of the buttons wasn't "view" but "buy". Spent credits I didn't want to. Feels like Scopely includes those evident usability issues to trick us to buy packs to compensate for mistakes. >😞

[@dupre7416]

that got me too.

[@rrtraxx13]

Scoply just wants your money....

[@Zhor7962]

Yes I've been doing this daily for a while (when I remember)

[@eddiecharles8170]

Lol the grind reduction won’t take away from the components of each section that you will still need to grind they should either increase the attack value or slow down on the new grind mechanics so we can adjust to the grind we are given

[@Adam_9th_Legions_Son]

Love the content, but I am struggling at an even earlier stage than that lol. I have hit level 38 and am on the mission to unlock the store, but am being undone by the Freebooter guard. I can see it's different from normal Freebooters, being a pathfinder, and I've tried multiple ways to beat it, but am barely doing 15% damage overall. I don't have a lot of the epic officers and the combos I have no character is maxed yet. I do have Pike/Moreau Chen (also swapping Chen for Decius) and have tried that on the two most powerful ships I have, Voyager 2.2mil and the Defiant 1.8-9mil, against the 3.2mil guard, even trying a double tap between them on one occasion, but no luck. Perhaps I have misplayed something? I've only stuck with Federation faction ships along the way, but I have done research etc. to boost stats of ships/crews whenever I can so not been skipping ahead or anything? Any help would be grateful for as I'm properly stuck lol

[@toddbennett858]

Thanks buddy,

[@alphanerd2305]

When I used PMC on my Valdore (at Ops 45 with level 30 Valdore), I get about 9 kills per hull against level 45 Freebooters. Or a single 48. Picard/Beverly ought to be interesting since I haven't tried that combo yet.

[@derpizzadieb]

Gorkon, Chank, Khan Chang, Gorkon/Lorca, Khan Give those a try, they work very good

[@alphanerd2305]

@@derpizzadieb I'll give those a shot. Just tested with my Picard Beverly Chen and only got 8 kills. Of course, Picard/Beverly are nowhere near maxed.

[@derpizzadieb]

@@alphanerd2305 other alternatives are SNW Pike, SNW that fits your ship, Khan Or SNW That fits your ship, Khan and Gorkon

[@WouterVerbruggen]

How did you get enough ex-borg rep to do all those researches? Can only do the first two and there doesn't seem to be any other way to get rep apart from the dailies which is not enough to cover it yet. My winner crew is PBC btw, but I have enough stats to get minitagtion to max with it.

[@derpizzadieb]

We found out that Chang works also well, for example Gorkon, Chank, Khan Chang, Gorkon/Lorca, Khan They performed very similar to all other Crews we tested.

[@NateDecker1982]

Chang's officer ability only works on players. So unless he is captain, he would only be providing some synergy.

[@derpizzadieb]

@@NateDecker1982 you are very wrong

[@Bleachguy2023]

im ops35 and done 5 lv38 freebooters with PMC so im ready for EX-Borg

[@atxemtp]

Other than killing the dailies how do you boost the board points reputation

[@romelpradhan806]

This event is strictly for 38 and up which isn't fair to lower players. We don't get anything at all. I did notice that we get the new stupid currency which we can't use at all unless we are level 38 which is not fair at all

[@jayspeed2068]

Any idea if they'll offer a Tal pack again soon?

[@paul60736]

just got 100% fed atrition in ex borg research but seems im still loosing rep when i grind feds, is it broken or do i not read it correct??

[@lmb5826]

Hey, what do you do if your ex-borg mission doesn't show up in your holodeck?

[@sternfan75]

Why do the ex-borg research take so long? Is there anything to do to shorter the length of time?

[@lynnwoodworth7196]

Need to swap out Gorkon for PICBeverly. Here ability triggers every weapon hit like Khan and adds up crit damage.

[@michaelhonsberger1404]

Does it make sense to soft camp at 38, completing the 35 Camping goals in the process?

[@craigalien0304]

How do get Ex-Borg Reputation? which crew with Enterprise T6? do not have Picard have Beverly

[@RevDeuce]

Completing the dailies. SNW Spock-Khan-Gorkon. Both questions were answered in the video Craig lol.

[@jasonrigaud4737]

Hi 🎉rev another nice vid , ? A lvl 39 player what type ship to get to battle 43 freebooters . Thanks again rev

[@Jaehend]

where on your discord do you "link" things you shown in your videos? I always have difficulties finding things you reference.

[@thomascharlestonjr.4319]

I only have The Enterprise, Augur and D4 tiered 3 only. How can I take out hidden?

[@andhanni]

What is the name of the mission as I am level 38 and cannot seem to either find it or unlock the faction

[@atxemtp]

Other than doing your daily's how do you increase the borg points/reputation?

[@RevDeuce]

that's how.

[@Lowska1]

you always say the excel sheets, etc are posted in discord.. I can't find them.. sorry.. :( at least they're associated with the new video links. Where do you post them?

[@bravetime1]

I am trying to finish we are people too. I am at the point that I have to be the freebooter. My best ship is my Voyager. I don't have Beverly, I do have Gorkon, I don't have Picard. Need some help with this one.

[@MohamedAhmed-bl7sq]

How did you do so much high score and have such amount ? Did you buy or there are some sort of missions ?

[@gp8231]

As he said in the video he purchased the $100 pack

[@davidgray5186]

Does it make sense to research all faction sweeps or pick the 1-2 you are working on for the next lock?

[@bradchalk1011]

Trying to kill the mission hostile and keep coming up short. It’s a battleship and I’m having to use my gladius. Need a strong crew. Any suggestions?

[@michaeldougherty2807]

Crew varies greatly depending on the ship,

[@williamwashington3208]

I can't figure out a good combo for the epic NCC-1701

[@oddlogic138]

Rev.. I looked at the new research and it showed iv already did them ... I'm not complaining but ... do I get credit for it or ... idk what's going onin..

[@chrisjones4571]

My valdore (t5) crushes the 45's using snw crew. Much much better than the others

[@dade1985a]

Snw pike snw spock and khan seen to be best on a korrinar against interceptors just need the research now

[@gp8231]

Did you try SNW Spock (c), Khan, Gorkon?

[@matthewsonefeld7958]

Rev - It would be nice if you’d do a video on STFC tech support and how they tend to deny problems actually occurred and not actually try to resolve player issues.

[@mikem3395]

I’m building Fed rep and normally hit Kling for my daily Rep Grind. The sweep description is confusing. Should I pick the Fed Sweep or the Kling Sweep to reduce my daily hostile grind as a Fed player?

[@RevDeuce]

Fed Sweep will make it to where hitting freebooters completes your federation dailies

[@mikem3395]

@@RevDeuce Thank you. Much appreciated Sir

[@Trasp31]

But I can only do Level 38 freebooters and need level 42 faction ships - do they still count?

[@str0g]

At what exborg enemy level wiill you finish Warrior dailies from your faction?

[@RevDeuce]

Whenever you do the sweeps research! Then simply hit whatever level hostile that daily asks for. Level 40 klingon = level 40 freebooter

[@alabama2654]

Rev - Help! Need crew suggestions for Enterprise T3 LV 15. Yea I'm a little slow. I decided not to get it then changed my mind. Just got Ent last month and working hard trying to play catch up. I can kill 1 Freebooter with a boost from Cerritos with PMC. But the repairs are killing me. Thanks Rev

[@gp8231]

Try SNW Spock (c), Gorkon, Khan, or if your shields are getting dropped try SNW spock (c), Khan, Kirk

[@gp8231]

But only hit interceptors with the above

[@evh3811]

Replacing Chen with Decius save me. It is a night and day difference between getting your butt handed to you and killing a few of them at a time

[@jeffreywilliams8018]

I had success with Bev, Khan & Decius for a crew for people with less-developed epic officers. SNW Pike or 5/11 may be better, depending on levels, but just about everyone at Ops 38 should have Tier 3+ for Bev, Khan and Decius and be able to do decently well against at least the Lv 38-40’s

[@evh3811]

@@jeffreywilliams8018 yeah but the SNW crew got my butt handed to me twice and third time was 1 win and then the spanking. Decius works great especially against the interceptors since they hit the most. Bev with khan and gorkon works awesome

[@Heidebrot]

Is it really that good? I mean if you want to do the faction dailys, ok. But if you wanna do the normal red grind, I mean the 25 hostiles, you still need to kill 25 reds. I mean it's nice for swarm but not for normal reds or the daily where you get the faction allegiance token. For that you still need to kill 21 faction hostiles. If you don't do these dailys, then it's probably fine

[@gp8231]

Personally I think it's amazing. With the higher priorities I have in my life it means that on the days where I can only log in 20-30 minutes I can get the bulk of my dailies done including earning the relevant faction credits

[@omegachronosblitz]

How about snw officer as captain pic Beverly khan

[@h00ded0ne4]

I was spam selecting the "view" to see what the exchanges were and accidentally hit the latinum assuming it also had a "view"............rip my ex-Borg currency.

[@billpacheco7673]

Is Lorca a better option to Gorkon? I assume since his ability is not tied to a crit to proc, this would be the case.

[@RevDeuce]

Can be!

[@derpizzadieb]

Lorca has the chance to work from round 1, but can be more inconsistent than Gorkon in the long run. Since Freebooters fire 12 Shots each turn, Khan ramps the Crit Chance really quickly to trigger Gorkon. In 16 Rounds Gorkon triggered 28 Times, you wont run out of Hull Breach basically, while Lorca will always depend on your luck. 2 bad turns and you lost HB

[@harrisonberlin3969]

On my auger in round 1 starting base of 9.7%. Crit ortegas + 15 so I start with 25% basically kahn firs round procked 5 times so for me another 20% with 1 proc so start round 2 so all shots round 2 already have at least a 50% chance

[@vassagood]

Of course, best crew is the pay only one.

[@CDRNFreeRunner]

Besides the dailies (and paying), are there currently other ways to increase your exBorg reputation? I did the dailies but I'm not at 1250 rep (required for the research) yet

[@RevDeuce]

Those are the ways!

[@Celrinevan]

Might have been mentioned already, but you need 1250 rep to do those fkr xB research

[@SecretAgentE]

Who else thinks that the Ex-Borg logo looks exactly like the Separatist Logo from Star Wars

[@WolfWood375]

what is the crew for the enterprise then for hitting freeloaders?

[@gp8231]

Try SNW Spock (c), Khan, Gorkon?

[@jmartin015]

I noticed your ship is 12 mil strong. I am lvl 38, my strongest ship is just over 3 mil. So this may be good advice for those with deep pockets who buy ships but really isn’t helpful for those of us that refuse to buy our way through the game. There is a reason stfc allows lvl 38 ships to partake of freebooter dailies. They know most can’t complete the event without spending money.

[@vurna]

Anyone know where "FKR Hostiles" are found? I'm lvl 30 and got the even to kill these, event is called "Assimilate Choice (FKR) - SMS". It seems connected to the topic of this video as the dude in the picture is the same. Can mention that I just returned to the game after 3 year break last week so a lot is still new to me. Cheers :)

[@RevDeuce]

FKR = Federation, Klingon, Romulan

[@vurna]

@@RevDeuce omg!! It was that easy. haha thanks, I in there killing fed hostiles now. I didnt think of that. I flew to serveral other systems like trade, borg etc and could understand it. Thanks again :)

[@doodemog]

I’m ops 38, but the mission isn’t in the holo deck 😡

[@doramiles4270]

did you get it? having the same problem

[@majorsam1400]

Hmmm, how quickly can I slog up to 38...

[@Ven183]

Same crews for an Interceptor? My main ship is a D4

[@gp8231]

Try SNW Uhura (c), Khan, Gorkon and hit Battleships only

[@Ven183]

@@gp8231 Works great. Thanks

[@JoeMoore1]

What about Pike/Chen/T’Lann as the crew? Anyone try that?

[@RichardChanning]

I'm level 39...and Never got the option

[@shanedavison7473]

This is just another mission I can't complete. I have been playing a couple of years and I haven't been able to unlock any of the new content in the past 6 months because my ships are not strong enough. I guess new players are not wanted in this game.

[@peterclegg4786]

This will not help when pursuing Faction Rep and is no good for replacing Swarm grind, Borg grind etc as you need to be able to get the relevant components to upgrade the speciality ships, they only become useful when you max the ship in question. The efficiency research is great, the faction/speciality grind research, not a winner.

[@BlackMamba-up7ib]

I use SNW Pike SNW Spock and Khan

[@gp8231]

Did you try SNW Spock (c), Khan, Gorkon?

[@BlackMamba-up7ib]

@@gp8231 no I haven’t. But I will try them out

[@gp8231]

@@BlackMamba-up7ib Let me know the results, how many kills you get with either crew

[@jasonalexander5789]

as a ops 33 player, again nothing for me but more assimilate missions i cant complete!

[@beng7845]

Im struggling to even kill one level 43 freebooter with PMC.

[@gp8231]

What ship are you using?

[@marklussier1215]

I kill way more with pike Moreau Chen on my kelvin than Picard bev Chen

[@rrtraxx13]

So basically a lvl 45+ game now. Or for whales. This sucks .... I'm lvl 40 and the daily reqrs lvl 40 booters. Can't even do half damage. Plus you better be ready to spend to get these crews. $$$$$

[@jerodajo7494]

Yo