Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Here is a (long) guide discussing the mechanics and mindset that will improve your chances of succeeding in random TFO's. Now that you'll be thrown into various TFO's, and you won't know your team composition or enemy in advance, you'll have to take some steps to make sure you don't waste your time and fail the runs. I go over a few different runs and mechanics, and discuss build ideology.

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0:00 How Random TFO's are going to work now that you can fail them
2:49 Preparing for Elite Random TFO's
8:22 Build Commandments
Link to Eph's post as discussed: reddit.com/r/sto/comments/1608dar/comment/jxl9e02/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

9:00 Ship and Captain Injuries, and fixing them while in a TFO
13:01 Builds that benefit your teammates, not just you
22:52 Elite Enemies Are Not That Different
24:21 Be A Team Player, Communicate
25:06 Control Settings for Elite

29:19 Types of TFO Mechanics
29:48 #1 Damage/Kills
30:15 #2 Time Gated
31:13 #3 Interactive Objective

32:51 Sample ISE - Phase 1 (Damage)
34:11 Sample ISE - PHase 2 (Damage more)

35:15 Defense of Starbase One - Phase 1 (Time Gate)
39:04 Defense of Starbase One - Phase 2 (Time Gate again)
39:58 Defense of Starbase One - Phase 3 (Time Gate....)

40:59 Counterpoint - Phase 1 (Damage)
42:38 Counterpoint - Phase 2 (Interact)
44:27 Counterpoint - Phase 3 (Interact)
48:12 Counterpoint - Phase 4 (Doesn't matter)