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Felinoid posted:I'm a little stunned that Collectors are apparently easier to extract against on bronze and silver than Reapers. Reapers are the easiest enemy faction now. Are pubbies just immediately throwing their missiles at any Scions and Praetorians they see? I wonder if part of that is that Collectors were added around the same time as when they added the extraction bonus?
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jpmeyer posted:I wonder if part of that is that Collectors were added around the same time as when they added the extraction bonus? The other stats posted were all post last expansion pack, I'm guessing these are too. I think the low rate for silver reaper extractions might be because people are grinding out the husk challenge. And the collectors are on top because people soloing a game to grind out challenges (and let themselves die after they're done) would choose one of the other 3 to play against, because gently caress collectors.
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| # ? May 23, 2013 17:17 |
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The original post on BSN states at all gameplay stats from the last three months. Edit: The numbers are pretty surprising though. Success rate has been much higher in the games I've played. Smol fucked around with this message at May 23, 2013 around 17:21 |
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Ligur posted:Thanks for the tip! I just read this before the forementioned Vancouver session. I might have scared my squad once or twice when seeing a Banshee scream down a long ramp, aura on and very scary, instead of running away I ran at them emptying a Hurricane and shooting warps. Sure enough, they couldn't do anything about it and my squad was free to empty their guns from a safe distance while I ran around their feet, making short work of those screeching bitches. 
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SubponticatePoster posted:What is also awesome about this is that a lot of people don't know about the level thing, so you'll happily tank a banshee and then the next time someone spawns they'll run right up in their face on level ground and...welp And what's doubly awesome is that those people probably report you for hacking. 
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Smol posted:The original post on BSN states at all gameplay stats from the last three months. Me too. I was only getting into this ME3 MP thing but Bronze excrations in the games I'm in are like 95%+, Silver 80%+ and Gold at least 50% - and I'm a poo poo player who mostly hinders the team instead of the opposite, so something else is afoot. It has to be people soloing and messing around or something.
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| # ? May 23, 2013 19:56 |
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I picked up ME3 while it was on sale on Amazon. I played a lot of ME on the 360 but I never had Live so I never got to try the multiplayer. Tried it out for the first time last night. It's actually pretty fun! Tried out a Sentinel for a while but I wasn't overly fond of it. Opened up free packs that were in my inventory and I got an EDI Infiltrator and an Asari Vanguard. Tried out the Asari for a while and I definitely did a lot better-- came in first a couple of times. As a new player, what kind of packs should I be buying? I've got close to no weapons to work with but I'm not sure if I should just get a bunch of cheap packs to round out my armory or go for the really pricey ones in hopes I get better gear/characters. Also I figure the ship has sailed a long time ago on this but is there like a goon group to organize games together or anything? I always prefer to play with cool people than with randoms. Public games never seem to have microphones. Does Origin even have a group system like Steam? I literally don't use Origin for anything. All I have on there is ME2, 3, and Syndicate.
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| # ? May 23, 2013 19:59 |
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Take a look at the multiplayer list in the OP and add anyone who you see has posted in the past few pages and you're bound to get some people to play with. Add me if you're on Origin. And don't be put off if you invite a pile of people to games and not many show up. Origin sucks for organizing anything, so you're pretty much going with the shotgun method most of the time and not all of them will actually be paying attention to their computer. We do actually play, I promise! As for packs, recruit until you've mostly maxed your blue cards (commons), then move up to silver and start getting veteran packs until most of your silver cards (uncommons) are maxed. That'll take a little while depending on how much you play, but once you've maxed the uncommon stuff we can give more advice on what to do from there. Hell, I even made a post a page or two back detailing how those of us with nearly maxed manifests deal with pack purchases.
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| # ? May 23, 2013 20:05 |
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zxqv8 posted:Take a look at the multiplayer list in the OP Thanks for the advice!
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Much of what you'd end up asking about is actually in the OP, but few of us really mind answering the same old questions because the number of players is rapidly declining and we want more people who don't suck at video games to join us. We do really need a pack purchasing strategy added to it though.
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| # ? May 23, 2013 20:07 |
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Surprised collectors on gold is so low. Collectors on hazard glacier is the most fun in my opinion. It's always frenetic and makes you work for it.
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| # ? May 23, 2013 20:08 |
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I tried a bunch of other classes but I miss my hammer Krogan so much, melee is just so dam good especially since all the guns I have fire some form of non-lethal confetti. Got an N7 Shadow last night that I really wanna try out, looks like another melee murder machine for me.
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Conquistador posted:Can you elaborate on what you're saying here? I don't follow
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Knuc If U Buck posted:Don't listen. The Valiant is still really good and certainly worthy of being Ultra Rare. Try a Valiant on a Batsol. You have Inferno grenades and a Valiant for midrange, a Valiant for long range, and Blades, Armour, and Fists for close range. Incredibly fun.
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ZombyDog posted:Sure, cheating credits is only more marginally difficult than buying Bioware points, in the case of the PC version at least. It's relatively easy to change your amount of credits with a memory editor such as Artmoney, as pretty much everything is handled by the client. Single player trainers partially work as well, specifically the invulnerability & ammo cheats, and coalesced.ini editing isn't overly difficult but can be easy to spot when your Avenger is doing obscene amounts of damage, but there were also more subtle edits that modified your award multiplyers, that didn't require you to be host and effected only you ( although from what I gather that one has been effectively patched out ). If they investigate you'll just plain get banned, though. Spending too much money (at least all at once) will usually trigger an investigation, too. Then you'd have to drop more money on repurchasing the game and start all over with them watching you like an owl. I suppose I might be a little biased since I've been playing since launch and with that amount of playtime just haven't had to cheat, but doing it legit seems like less risk and less work.
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So another pack buying strat question. I want to top up my ops survival packs as high as possible while getting as much benefit as possible from the remaining slots... PSP's just load me up with Lvl4 ammo mainly, though I still have a fair bit of UR space to fill. Stay with the PSP's, or blitz on with a shitload of vet packs? edit: Manifest in case it's relevant http://social.bioware.com/n7hq/home...uba&platform=pc Azzip fucked around with this message at May 24, 2013 around 09:01 |
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Azzip posted:So another pack buying strat question. I want to top up my ops survival packs as high as possible while getting as much benefit as possible from the remaining slots... PSP's just load me up with Lvl4 ammo mainly, though I still have a fair bit of UR space to fill. Stay with the PSP's, or blitz on with a shitload of vet packs? Jumbo Equipment Packs all the way until you top out two out of four types of consumables, then Recruit Packs. You'll get at least 20 consumables for 33000, or ~1600 credits apiece. If one type's maxed out (usually thermal clip packs) that's still 15 for 33000 at a cost of ~2000 per consumable. Once you get to where you're at 255 in 2 categories, it's then more economical to just buy a ton of Recruit packs (5000 for 2, so 2500 apiece compared to 10 for 33000, or 3300 apiece). Veteran Packs aren't too bad while you're leveling up Uncommons at 6 consumables for 20k credits (Another 3300 apiece), but once you're maxed out there it's better to wait until you're at 255 in all four categories of consumable since the two consumable slots get replaced with level II ammo / equipment, making it easy to stock up on a bunch of level 2 stuff. Capping out all 4 can seem like a lofty goal, but considering 1 Platinum game gives enough credits for 4.5 Jumbo Packs (90 consumables alone) or about 30 Recruit packs (60 of a given consumable type) it's not too daunting to stock up quickly. Extracting twice on Gold gives about the same payout, if Platinum's not something you want to play at the moment.
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40 Proof Listerine posted:Cool info Thanks much appreciated, that's exactly the sort of info I'm looking for (and the logic well described too). My missiles are also actually quite a bit lower than I realised (I've been spamming them like confetti since they peaked over 200 a while ago) so I'll just go ahead and do it exactly as you suggest there. I roll in plat a fair bit now so should work out nicely, though mainly with PUGs cos I've been way too slack to do anything vaguely organised and I'm UK so I suspect most of the people in the list are Yankees.
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Smol posted:Man, that was interesting. Was playing an Asari Valkyrie versus Collectors on Reactor Gold, when my weapons stopped working on wave 5. I couldn't shoot, reload, switch weapons, use missiles or revive team-mates, and the usual fixes (heavy melee or dying) weren't helping. Still could use my powers though. Some of the later waves were pretty interesting. For example, now I know what it feels like to solo two praetorians and a possessed scion with just annihilation field and warp. (And then everyone else died on wave 10, so I had the sloooowest wrap-up ever.)
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FronzelNeekburm posted:That happened to me last week as a Justicar. Luckily, it was only Silver, but good grief. Heavy Melee usually fixes it. I'm also in the UK, my Origin ID is TauDX if you want me along for a pug match.
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I've been having this weird glitch of sorts happen to me. It's only happened twice and only on Firebase Rio so I dunno what's causing it or if it can happen anywhere else. I'll be fighting as normal as my Asari Vanguard. Suddenly my biotics stop working and the enemies COMPLETELY ignore me. Also if I try escorting a drone it acts as if I'm not there. If I try shooting the enemies it does no damage and if I try throwing a lift grenade nothing comes out. I try using heavy melee like I've read people suggest in the thread but, while it does damage, the enemies only notice me for a second before completely ignoring me again. I run around meleeing people for a while until this problem spontaneously fixes itself or until for some reason I'm randomly warped back to the starting point and everything works fine again. Maybe it's just lag? It's strange though that it only happened on that stage with two completely different groups. Either way I'm having a blast playing as an Asari Vanguard. Lift Grenades are nuts. Just promoted her so I could reset her skills and once I get her back up to level 20 I'll try moving on to Silver matches. I probably need better equipment though. At least a better shotgun. I've got a shock trooper mod though. Love that extra grenade.
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Rio seems to be buggy w.r.t Vanguards. Sometimes you'll fall through the map while everything seems normal on your screen. I'm not sure if this is just a coincidence, but it might be related to charging on the three bridges near the central area. Heavy meleeing an enemy seems to fix it somewhat reliably - you'll be teleported to the center of the map when everything is back to normal. Edit: 30 gold cards remaining and I've maxed out my rares. 
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Kaubocks posted:I've been having this weird glitch of sorts happen to me. It's only happened twice and only on Firebase Rio so I dunno what's causing it or if it can happen anywhere else. This is absolutely a bug that is related to Rio. At least Vanguard charging on that map no longer causes the game to crash though.
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Welp, I tried to solo gold and burned out my medigel by wave 8  . Is it really something that some people just can't pull off? I can somehow get 100k+ games with other goons but solo even with my best mods I just fall way short.
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I don't really gently caress with going solo, but right-hand advantage and a reegar carbine with incendiary 4 on a class with a way to restore shields/barriers on demand against Geth is the easiest path to lone wolf. If you have one with a potent fire-based skill too, you can abuse the insane extra damage you get for stacking incendiary ammo on top of it.
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Well then I guess I'll just have to hate Rio as a Vanguard which is sad because it's so easy to hit people with Lift Grenades on that stage.  Asari Vanguard really wrecks poo poo, I find-- at least on Bronze. I feel like I'm being a bit cheap honestly. I guess it's time to move up to Silver but I'm having too much fun just zipping around and throwing grenades everywhere. I'm sure nobody else is, though. A lot of times my Charge target across the map is something another player is in the middle of fighting. Hope nobody minds I'm stealing kills for the sake of quick transportation.
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zxqv8 posted:I don't really gently caress with going solo, but right-hand advantage and a reegar carbine with incendiary 4 on a class with a way to restore shields/barriers on demand against Geth is the easiest path to lone wolf. I was thinking doing a geth solider/hurricane with incendiary 4/shield booster. My last attempt was with a juggernaut with a shield booster, reegar with I think incendiary III, and a shield booster, but I was playing cerberus on glaciar. Honestly that was easy mode in silver, didn't even need to us a single consumable for those  .
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Kaubocks posted:Asari Vanguard really wrecks poo poo, I find-- at least on Bronze. I feel like I'm being a bit cheap honestly. I guess it's time to move up to Silver but I'm having too much fun just zipping around and throwing grenades everywhere. I'm sure nobody else is, though. A lot of times my Charge target across the map is something another player is in the middle of fighting. Hope nobody minds I'm stealing kills for the sake of quick transportation. Some people do mind, but as long as you're not doing it on purpose, you shouldn't really care that you're messing up someone's sniper shot. If anyone bitches at you, ignore them. By the way, you did take the "increase power damage for X seconds after charging" evolution on Biotic Charge, right? Because that applies to grenades too.
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The Asari Vanguard wrecks poo poo on every difficulty. You just gotta be a bit more careful with charges on Platinum. On the higher difficulties there are enough enemies to go around where charge "kill-stealing" is not a big deal at all (and only idiots care about that in this game).
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Blindeye posted:I was thinking doing a geth solider/hurricane with incendiary 4/shield booster. My last attempt was with a juggernaut with a shield booster, reegar with I think incendiary III, and a shield booster, but I was playing cerberus on glaciar. Honestly that was easy mode in silver, didn't even need to us a single consumable for those I did Kroguard/Reegar/Incendiary vs. Geth on Giant. That wasn't too hard to solo. Cyclonic modulators will help a lot though.
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Felinoid posted:By the way, you did take the "increase power damage for X seconds after charging" evolution on Biotic Charge, right? Because that applies to grenades too. UnknownMercenary posted:The Asari Vanguard wrecks poo poo on every difficulty. You just gotta be a bit more careful with charges on Platinum.
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