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Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer |OT| Rich, deep online role playing
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Boombloxer
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My N7 level isn't high, and it doesn't matter so long as you have the right equips and know your class. The 3k+ people who clown you are simply ignorant.
That's it. He couldn't fucking use it properly, either. God I'm mad.
lol...
I think Xevren and a friend of his were complaining about the same thing a short while back. An N7/Lv17, I think it was?
Drawin' aggro, solo'n crowds of enemies with combinations of Snap Freeze and it's heavy melee for Tech Explosions.
... Which only work properly if you're host.
Also: Please keep your distance from Banshees, Phantoms, Brutes, and Atlus. Despite the Paladin's Omni-Shield, they can still kill you instantly with their grabs. I remember playing with a couple of new Paladin players who thought they could hold the extraction point on Hydra/Reapers/Silver, and got decimated in a hurry by Banshees despite my warnings—it's like some folks have to experience it to believe it.
Orochinagis
Member
Its a support unit, use your ice beam anytime then your hard melee, then light melee and another light melee, thats your own combo. after wave 3 when enemies have shields and armor just stay close to destroyers or engies and help them using your ice beam.
Dont try laying with your shield, its useless against most of the special mobs and phantoms so use Drain shields or incinerate.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Had a round with four N7 Destroyers.
That class is gud.
That class is gud.
I want to try a game with 4 Demolishers someday, it must be a glorious thing to see with all the grenade spamming and 4 supply towers.
I think 2 Demolishers and 2 Destroyers would be amazing. Unlimited ammo for the Destroyers to mow down anything they see, plus plenty of Crowd Control from all the grenades being thrown.
Objectives might get tough though. Maybe 1 Destroyer and 1 Geth Infiltrator would be even better.
Phat Michael
Banned
why do u have to host? is there a glitch im not aware of?
Energy drain armor boost only works when you're the host for some reason.
Yep that was me, some random joined my lobby who was N7 17 or some crap and had a harrier, and I still don't have one.
I've done well as an off-host Paladin, but it's much easier to be even more aggressive as host. I hope that bug gets fixed in the next patch.
Had my dumbest ME3 MP moment yet. I joined a Platinum White lobby (braindead credits) and saw a pretty good team. Switched to my Piranha Geth for more DPS and even equipped one of my rare Shotgun III amps. Game starts and I immediately recognize my mistake. I'm using my Gold loadout (Scorpion X, Hurricane III.) Still top the scoreboard by over 50k points @_@
As punishment the store's relentless dickery continues.
RNG:
At least I got a Bingo out of it.
Had my dumbest ME3 MP moment yet. I joined a Platinum White lobby (braindead credits) and saw a pretty good team. Switched to my Piranha Geth for more DPS and even equipped one of my rare Shotgun III amps. Game starts and I immediately recognize my mistake. I'm using my Gold loadout (Scorpion X, Hurricane III.) Still top the scoreboard by over 50k points @_@
As punishment the store's relentless dickery continues.
RNG:
I just don't even know anymore. I mean... Fuckit.
At least I got a Bingo out of it.
Most of them are kind of crappy
Ranked by usage.
Platinum
1. Cerberus Harrier
2. Talon
3. Scorpion
For a Laugh
4. Black Widow
4. Indra
4. Particle Rifle
7. Wraith
Sure, Why Not
8. Saber
9. Paladin
Not
*DNQ*. Javelin
Phat Michael
Banned
psp got me.....a geth plasma rifle 7. fantastic...
Phat Michael
Banned
just jump in and keep buying veteran packs and playing on bronze till u get better I guess
Yeah just keep playing and learn how things are spawning. XP is pooled so even if you don't get many kills it doesn't matter since everyone gets the same amount.
Yeah, GI has a faster rate of fire that with hunter and proxy mine make it easy to take down any mob. Fire 3 shots, cloak, mine, fire more shots. If you rush spawns the kill streaks come real easy.
IMO: The key to jumping difficulties quickly is learning the spawn points. This is an older, but still useful guide.
If you get kicked from a lobby (it will likely happen) don't take it personally. Some players are stupid. I still get kicked occasionally.
I suck as a Demo and just to give you an idea of how ridiculous it is, me and 3 of my friends completed a game of platinum in 24 minutes.
How's the N7 Slayer? Still the only class I've yet to unlock. Just wondering if they finally made a Vanguard worth playing off-host.
Nope.
Human Sentinel or Engineer are the two easiest classes to start out with because they can do really well with just their powers on bronze and silver. Get a bunch of recruit packs until you have the either Avenger or Predator at a high enough level that you have 200% cooldown bonus in the weapon select screen and you'll be good. Don't worry about saving up for spectre packs if you're just playing bronze, focus on getting common and uncommon mods from recruit and veteran packs respectively and the guns mentioned above (mantis is a pretty good sniper on bronze and silver too).
Boombloxer
Member
Ran a GI, my Destroyer (now fully leveled), 1 Shadow and 1 Fury on Gold earlier.
Shit was unfair. I thought it was loleasy mode before, but the Harrier and GPS/Piranha is almost like cheating.
And then I had a Demolisher and 2 Shadows on Platinum. Got to Wave 8 before eating it.
I only really have one complaint, the Harrier needs more bullets.
Shadow is still my favorite, but I can at least enjoy all of my assault rifles now.
I'm playing some Silver matches to mess around, having some fun again, and get my readiness rating up for SP.
I tried the Krogan Soldier and wow is he worthless against the Geth. He gets stun locked moving an inch in any direction. Primes, Hunters, and Rocket Troopers make him the worst character to use against Geth.
I suppose I haven't used him in so long I forgot how bad it is. The Krogan really got shafted in MP. No health regeneration, and then that obvious bug.
I tried the Krogan Soldier and wow is he worthless against the Geth. He gets stun locked moving an inch in any direction. Primes, Hunters, and Rocket Troopers make him the worst character to use against Geth.
I suppose I haven't used him in so long I forgot how bad it is. The Krogan really got shafted in MP. No health regeneration, and then that obvious bug.
The Particle Rifle? What changed?
The Krogan really should have some kind of health regeneration... Maybe not quite as fast as what the Vorcha presently have, but yeah.
Major Williams
Member
Its not too bad. Make sure when you try searching for a lobby everyone has mics. The room of doom strategy on Glacier is easy, but monotonous. Speed runs are the most fun for me.
Edit: Never, EVER play with someone named SlytOhandTwstF8. He was a control freak and just mean to people who would join the lobby. I felt tension with him when I joined the lobby because he was being a bit too forward and aggressive with his words, and didn't even care that I was a regular speed runner who runs faster times than he ever did (he was gloating about his 'fastest 12 minute gold speed run' lols). Then as others began joining the lobby, he was elitist, cursing, and just a general DB to a lot of the folks who joined the lobby. I honestly think in my 6+ years of XBL, I haven't met a more dick-ish human being above the age of 18. /rant.
I've seen some very good performances from players using Indra/PR X. Granted only my Indra is X, but I like using new weapons from time to time.
I almost hate room of doom. There are too many players doing it so it's hard to find a lobby that will play Glacier aggressively. Like it should be.
Major Williams
Member
I've made a google docs spreadsheet to possible help with the awareness of the UR drop rate as well as the "Rare" gear that drops more infrequent than UR weapons.
Please add your statistics here in the blue rows!!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At3sgKpkVLeDdGs1NjAyMmNvN0hIR2lSVmRBeEp5dlE
Please add your statistics here in the blue rows!!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At3sgKpkVLeDdGs1NjAyMmNvN0hIR2lSVmRBeEp5dlE
Melchiah
Member
I've made a google docs spreadsheet to possible help with the awareness of the UR drop rate as well as the "Rare" gear that drops more infrequent than UR weapons.
Please add your statistics here in the blue rows!!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At3sgKpkVLeDdGs1NjAyMmNvN0hIR2lSVmRBeEp5dlE
Weird. I haven't received a single lvl IV consumable, and I've bought several premium and non-premium packs.
You don't start getting level IV consumables until you start filling up your rare weapons, characters, and gear. I have only three rare weapons up to X, so I've never received a level 4 consumable. People with tons of maxed out weapons, gear, and characters are getting them all the time (even though they haven't maxed everything out).
Don't even have to have much in terms of gear, I have complete shit for gear but have all weapons/characters/mods capped to gold and pretty much only get lvl 4 consumables.
Yeah, it seems that way.
Oblivionmancer
Member
My understanding is that they specifically replace maxed rare character cards, so they can drop any time after you've maxed out at least one rare character.
Melchiah
Member
Ah, I didn't know that.
So the drop rate for Gear hasn't really changed then?
... Why does it feel like like it then? :|
To add on what I said earlier: I am really starting to dislike Biotic Slash and Electric Slash. It seems like every Glacier game (Platinum certainly, but even Gold) has at least one person sitting in that room the whole game spamming Slash. They rarely bother to do anything else.
Also.
Wraith VIII -_-
If they ever buff the Ultra-Rares I'm going to be a pig in shit.
*Looking at my count:
I am missing 23 Ultra Rares (10 Typhoon.)
Earth DLC I am missing 3 Uncommon Gears and 14 Rare Gears.
My UR drops are definitely outpacing my Gear drops.
Nice idea. I'll try to save up a bunch of credits and get a decent sample size. Today I got my first pack with 2 pieces of gear! It had Engineering Kit and Barrage.
Also.
Wraith VIII -_-
If they ever buff the Ultra-Rares I'm going to be a pig in shit.
*Looking at my count:
I am missing 23 Ultra Rares (10 Typhoon.)
Earth DLC I am missing 3 Uncommon Gears and 14 Rare Gears.
My UR drops are definitely outpacing my Gear drops.
I dont think common characters(blue cards, original human classes) are affected by this. But you can't get more uncommon or rare character cards once they're maxed. I sure havent seen a Turian Soldier for a long time.
MotionBlue
Member
Did they nerf the Paladin omni-shield? I tried guarding someone while they deactivated an indoctrination device, and Prime blasts just outright ignored it.
In light of the impending Piranha nerf I squeezed out two Platinum White runs. Did you know a lone Geth Infiltrator can hold the stairwell on Platinum until at least Wave 7? Beats counter cowering.
I added my 4 Spectre Packs to the list. The first Spectre Pack had 5 Medi Gel, Strength Amp III, Human Adept, Pistol Amp III, and Incendiary Ammo 4. The other 3 were basically the same so +4 Packs and +4 lvl 4 consumables.
I added my 4 Spectre Packs to the list. The first Spectre Pack had 5 Medi Gel, Strength Amp III, Human Adept, Pistol Amp III, and Incendiary Ammo 4. The other 3 were basically the same so +4 Packs and +4 lvl 4 consumables.
Phat Michael
Banned
Why would they nerf it? Its a good gun but so its the GPS and the Typhoon - i dont get it, do they just nerf guns people enjoy using? If they get rid of the piranha i wont have any weapons i like to use anymore besides my carnifex and that isnt suitable for a destroyer build.