Red name means they didn't make the extraction.
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Red name means they didn't make the extraction.
MotionBlue
Member
Don't play like a Human Vanguard. The lack of Nova means you can't faceroll Silver Challenges.
Yeah, its weight and lack of punch is disappointing. I might as well bring a real shotgun with me.
Empty Space
Member
did the vanguard d/c? his name is red
Names are turned red if you don't make it to the extraction point.
did the vanguard d/c? his name is red
being a vanguard, i'm guessing he was chasing for kills n didn't make it to the extraction point.
happens all the time.
There's a way to dictate where enemies spawn, hard to coordinate with randoms to do it though
Enemy wont' spawn where u stand, so it's easy to abuse it in Firebase White without any coordination.
Drell Adept=top tier
I haven't placed any lower than first in score ever since I started using the Drell, and I'm capable of carrying teams when need be. As long as you play the class right ( don't underestimate cluster grenades!) you'll do great.
Don't you have a PVR? Record some matches.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Man, got all the aliens and my first "Black" weapon today. I can't believe the RNG is being friendly today.
computers putin'
Member
Ahhh, I did not know that, thanks. Yeah, my team decided to bunch up at the extraction point, so I had no choice but to head over their and dig in the trenches with them, and he was just charging everywhere, made it even harder to keep everyone alive.
I do, and I can't believe the thought of recording matches never crossed my mind -_- I'll try to record a couple of successful gold runs tommorrow.
Major Williams
Member
Anyone know the brute count for the weekend so far? I've killed at least 75 today! Asari adept yeah!
I mainly play my Tur Sent and I'm usually tops.
Psychoward
Banned
The frog-fu?
I concurr - especially for the final extraction. You can atnleastrun around the central pillar, avoiding all foes, screaming like a wee lass (until shields reign, at least!
)Well thats the part about RNG some people don't want to admit.
Occasionally it's your best friend.
....then its back to 10 straight packs of garbage.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Funny enough, I have like 4 respec tokens now. I don't know whether to be happy or sad.
Stasis (with the Bubble upgrade) is incredibly useful. I think that you can also get a biotic explosion to go off when you Biotic Charge into a group stuck in the bubble. I have a ton of fun with mine, tossing out Stasis constantly, going for headshots with a pistol, and sometimes charging in. I also bought the first three upgrades for Lift Grenades, as they're nice to have around. It's also worth noting that the Asari Vanguard's charged melee move has an AoE component, which works as a sort of ghetto Nova when you need one.
I'm pretty surprised by how addicted I am to this multiplayer, considering that I wasn't planning on touching it originally. Whoever decided to tie in multiplayer matches to the war readiness bar in single player is an evil genius, because it pushed me (and surely many others) to at least try it out.
Woo-Fu
Banned
Works the same way as the basic items, maxing items in the pool makes whatever is left in the pool come up that much more often. Expect to get a lot more respecs as time goes by. I'm getting them frequently now.
Could be they tweaked the drop rate as well.
walbertsmith
Member
Drell Adept=top tier
I haven't placed any lower than first in score ever since I started using the Drell, and I'm capable of carrying teams when need be. As long as you play the class right ( don't underestimate cluster grenades!) you'll do great.
Well done! Glad my tips helped out
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Yeah, I noticed that after I spent 200k credits on the common pack, I'm finally getting more than one gold in the Spectre packs. I guess I should have just bit the bullet and done that earlier... and I probably should be grinding Veteran packs now, but I really don't want any of the silver weapons.
If you don't care about it being "too easy" and you have a Salarian Engineer, Asari Adept, or Quarian Infiltrator, do Firebase White with Geth. It's a relatively easy win on Gold, even with the Geth buff/Quarian debuff.I wanna win on Gold
MotionBlue
Member
Cerberus on the Reactor level(I forgot the name) is also quite easy, Easy to pick away at Atlas' and open enough to see the Phantoms coming.
walbertsmith
Member
Forgot to reply to this...
First off, IMO it's a bit rare if the *entire* group rolls with a grenade class, but even on Gold you can hit those boxes quicker (since the Drell has such high mobility).
And if you're still losing out on those grenades... hey, it just means it's a good time to rely on those seldom-used thermal packs you've been hoarding.
Photolysis
Banned
On the other hand, the reactor level has some bugged spawns that can cause problems. I've had several games vs Cerberus where the game has had to be abandoned because a mob glitched and got stuck halfway down, where they were completely invincible.
It's a very nasty bug that needs to be fixed actually. Similarly they need to fix some issues with mobs not being synced properly between the host & client so they appear to be in the wrong place.
SerArthurDayne
Member
Adept does seem to be the power class based on my experience. I obviously just suck with it, but I might play around some more so I can get the hang.
I really love my Quarian Inflitrator. I just love the playstyle of the cloak, pop out. I just wish I could find a Widow (of either kind, but preferably Black for the firing rate).
I also wish sabotage wasn't pretty much useless against anybody but Geth. Maybe I just leveled up wrong on 4-6?
What does Sabotage actually do on an Atlas, by the way? It seems to have some effect, but I can't tell exactly what.
I had a game where one got stuck in a rafter. Good thing one of my squaddies found it, because I was about to peace out.
I really love my Quarian Inflitrator. I just love the playstyle of the cloak, pop out. I just wish I could find a Widow (of either kind, but preferably Black for the firing rate).
I also wish sabotage wasn't pretty much useless against anybody but Geth. Maybe I just leveled up wrong on 4-6?
What does Sabotage actually do on an Atlas, by the way? It seems to have some effect, but I can't tell exactly what.
I had a game where one got stuck in a rafter. Good thing one of my squaddies found it, because I was about to peace out.
Photolysis
Banned
Enemies have more health/shields/armour, there are more enemies in each wave, enemies are of higher classes, and the higher class enemies appear in earlier waves.
I think there are a few gameplay differences as well such as damage not bleeding through shields on Gold, as well as stuff like mob speed, chances of being staggered, and so on.
Oh and you get more of those sweet credits too.
Thanks for the tip. Might not save the games where they become invincible but it might allow a few games to be salvaged.
I think there are a few gameplay differences as well such as damage not bleeding through shields on Gold, as well as stuff like mob speed, chances of being staggered, and so on.
Oh and you get more of those sweet credits too.
Thanks for the tip. Might not save the games where they become invincible but it might allow a few games to be salvaged.
You get much more enemies, the more dangerous enemies come earlier and more frequently, and they have more health/shields/whatever and deal more damage. Ammo crates restock on Grenades slower too. That mostly covers it I think.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Hrm, I've got to try that sometime. What's the match-up against Cerberus? It's probably more an emphasis on being able to do high damage to armor at that point?
I like hoarding those thermal packs though. lol
milkham
Member
seriously, i just finished a round of silver reapers and I thought all four of us were doing our best to finish two brutes and random cannibals inside a room, i duck out to recharge shields and see two of my team were outside fighting two other brutes
firehawk12
Subete no aware
You need to be able to take out one of those groups fast. I like playing with an engi with incinerate and a carniflex with the armor piercing mod. You can wreck a brute pretty quickly while other people are hopefully taking out the barriers on the banshies that always follow them around.
On Tuesday at 5 PM PST.
SerArthurDayne
Member
Bwahahaha. I can pretty much solo Bronze with my Inflitrator. I'm still too scurred to try Gold. I played it once, and the bitches who were my teammates quit after they got killed in Wave 1. Pussies.
So is Vanguard viable in Gold? I'm running double Nova which allows me to solo Bronze easily. Can I do well on Gold too?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
You'll probably want to be more conservative. With the lag and the higher damage, you won't be able to get the second nova out some times... which means you basically need to play the class as intended. It's also why Shockwave becomes a useful skill for crowd control I suppose.
I started using an Engineer build merely to get the Overload trophy (as I don't use an Overload-using class in the single player mode) and ended up 3 to 4 hours later loving the shit out of this class.
It's so addicting and I'm starting to rinse every match now. Overload is top fucking class. I'm invincible during most one-on-ones by simply doing Overload (enemy is stunned), then one hit melee, rinse and repeat. Overload stuns the enemy long enough for me to kill them, unless they're of the Brute/Ravager/Banshee and beyond variety.
It's so addicting and I'm starting to rinse every match now. Overload is top fucking class. I'm invincible during most one-on-ones by simply doing Overload (enemy is stunned), then one hit melee, rinse and repeat. Overload stuns the enemy long enough for me to kill them, unless they're of the Brute/Ravager/Banshee and beyond variety.
Thanks to razgriz417's suggestion, spamming recruit packs (currently, they're giving my so many character cards when I only want weapon mods) to get rid of the common items really helped my odds in getting better stuff in the veteran and spectre pack! And the maxed out starter weapons are pretty good. The checklist posted a few pages back is also helpful, but it makes me kind of sad that the uncommon/rare half is pretty empty after marking off the stuff I have :<
My squad and I completed gold twice tonight! Cerebus on Firebase White (Asari Adept, Drell Adept, Salarian Engineer, Quarian Infiltrator) and Geth on Firebase Dagger (Human Engineer, 2 Salarian Engineer, Drell Adept). The former was pretty easy; we completed it consistently on the demo. The latter wasn't as hard as I thought it would be after the buff, but damn those GHs. We already knew how to work the spawns, more or less; but before the extraction wave on Firebase Dagger started, I told one person to go to extraction point, and rest to spread out in the central pillar place. This caused the Geth to spawn in this one corner and the extraction went smoothly Good tip Woo-Fu.
Still amusing to watch my cousin's Drell Adept kung-fu kick enemies lol.
My squad and I completed gold twice tonight! Cerebus on Firebase White (Asari Adept, Drell Adept, Salarian Engineer, Quarian Infiltrator) and Geth on Firebase Dagger (Human Engineer, 2 Salarian Engineer, Drell Adept). The former was pretty easy; we completed it consistently on the demo. The latter wasn't as hard as I thought it would be after the buff, but damn those GHs. We already knew how to work the spawns, more or less; but before the extraction wave on Firebase Dagger started, I told one person to go to extraction point, and rest to spread out in the central pillar place. This caused the Geth to spawn in this one corner and the extraction went smoothly
Good tip Woo-Fu.Still amusing to watch my cousin's Drell Adept kung-fu kick enemies lol.
SerArthurDayne
Member
Thanks to razgriz417's suggestion, spamming recruit packs (currently, they're giving my so many character cards when I only want weapon mods) to get rid of the common items really helped my odds in getting better stuff in the veteran and spectre pack! And the maxed out starter weapons are pretty good. The checklist posted a few pages back is also helpful, but it makes me kind of sad that the uncommon/rare half is pretty empty after marking off the stuff I have :<
My squad and I completed gold twice tonight! Cerebus on Firebase White (Asari Adept, Drell Adept, Salarian Engineer, Quarian Infiltrator) and Geth on Firebase Dagger (Human Engineer, 2 Salarian Engineer, Drell Adept). The former was pretty easy; we completed it consistently on the demo. The latter wasn't as hard as I thought it would be after the buff, but damn those GHs. We already knew how to work the spawns, more or less; but before the extraction wave on Firebase Dagger started, I told one person to go to extraction point, and rest to spread out in the central pillar place. This caused the Geth to spawn in this one corner and the extraction went smoothly
Still amusing to watch my cousin's Drell Adept kung-fu kick enemies lol.
Does this actually work? As in, you won't just get more missiles and stuff. The substantive cards have the same chance to appear as the bullshit ones?
razgriz417
Member
This works for maxing out weapons and mods, missiles and such will still drop regardless (you'll get a better chance of getting usuable items after this actually)