I'm renaming that the Cleansing Force.
Seriously.
So, I just had a great game on the Limited NEP with a random partner. Despite getting walloped by 24 Elites as our Round 1 boss wave, we live with five lives going into the second Round. We're rocking some good team work, cover each other and setting crossfires for tougher enemies. This is Limited play at its finest, intense, challenging and fun. Then the Heretic snipers roll in.
We survive two waves in the spawn room, on a cross fire trap, before both getting insta-domed by a sniper as the door opens. The next wave takes out all of our lives, and we're left with a room with a full squad inside. As I'm respawning, I become last man standing.
I toggle my spawn to the far left side walkway, despite knowing there are another eight of these guys roaming around the map, on top of the squad that's hunting me down. I take down one random DMR Elite as I get flushed off the walkway and into the dead-end entrance below (where you enter ONI in Campaign). I huddle behind the lone beam and recharge, the bolt back up onto the walkway using the middle ramp, leaving the squad hunting me on the far side. I loop into the spawn room, grab a Plasma Rifle for shield stripping, then head down the lower exit as the sniper enters and take shots at my backside.
I sprint across the narrow open courtyard span - gunfire galore breaks out all around me - and get up the relative safety of the landing on the far side of the map, across from the spawn room. I set up camp and am able to take down the three DMR Heretics that followed me from the room, with a combination of plasma and grenades. Shields gone, I head back down the hallway and into the spawn room. No sign of the sniper that is part of the squad.
I set up to the right of the inner doorway, and wait for him. I see the red dot on my radar, and ready the Plasma Rifle. If I've got my position correct, when he enters he'll go for the melee rather than the sniper rifle, and I can strip the shields to send him into his rage, lining up the headshot. Then I might have a chance to survive the wave.
About then my shields blow out. I turn around and see the sniper Elite has come through the rear tunnel. I don't even have time to fire back before he headshots me for the finish.
Just not fair, man.
Especially with E3 comin' up. Good times.
