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Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
Is there something I don't know about glacier farming that would cause this group to instantly kick me, or is it just pubbies being pubbies? Their characters were level 4, 8 and 16... :psyduck:

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Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
Right, right, not like I would have stayed a justicar. Do people just not give others the chance to change characters once they see the makeup of the group they joined?

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!

SciFiDownBeat posted:

Just look at your filthy three-digit N7 rating! No wonder those four-digit players kicked your inexperienced pubbie rear end out.

Welcome to Mass Effect 3, where the game's made up and the points don't matter.*

I know someone already made this joke in the last thread but I thought I'd carry it over to the new one and get it out of the way...

:smith: I'll never measure up. :flaccid: At what N7 rank does bioware send you a mass effect branded bedpan to further enable your constant play?

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
It's pretty annoying that the allied goal is split across difficulties, with no way to track if any of those portions have been completed.

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!

@masseffect posted:

Operation: OLYMPUS update - Allied Goals: Bronze (36%), Silver (32%), Gold (31%). There's still time. To arms, soldiers!

There's still time! (Despite the fact we're on the last day and only 1/3rd finished)

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
Just pulled a Typhoon I. :toot: How does it compare post nerf to a Harrier II for a Destoyer?

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
The numbers posted were noted as "through Saturday", whatever that means.

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
Tonight my slayer became a floating sword for a wave before the game locked up.

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
Apparantly missile glitching is still a thing. I'm in a platinum game with a guy doing it now. They're using a striker if that means anything.

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
I'm on 360. They're playing as a destroyer, which I wonder if the reason is cosmetic or if they think they're hiding anything.

edit: He sent me this message which I don't fully understand.

quote:

What you do is you get the striker out, and you take the missile launcher, you hold down rt shooting the missile up your round and count to two, and you hold down x, and then you shoot the striker and push up on the dpad.

Tremors fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Aug 19, 2012

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!

SciFiDownBeat posted:

Operation Alloy?

No official announcements yet...

What did it say? I'm guessing they took it down.

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
Operation Alloy
Individual Goal: Promote 2 characters

Allied Goal: Promote 50,000 characters

Special Circumstance: None

Individual Goal Success: All players awarded a Commendation Pack
Allied Goal Success: All players awarded a Victory Pack and an increase to medi-gel capacity

Edit: vvvv :smug:

Tremors fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Aug 22, 2012

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
If anything, it helps keep idiot pubs from kicking you for superficial reasons.

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!

Felinoid posted:

Not unless they bring back the Naginata. Polearms are cool. :colbert:

Bioware's interpretation:


edit: vvvv I know :ssh:

Tremors fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Aug 22, 2012

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!

waah posted:

Is there like a preferred load out? Or is there something blatant I am missing to make me a bit more deadly?

My playstyle is probably far from ideal, but I like to Always Be Snap freezing through walls if there aren't any enemies by me. Keeping a light loadout helps with this, and I've grown fond of the Hurricane on caster classes.

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!

TacticalGranny posted:

I put together a short video for the Huskocalypse mod. It was mainly to test out my new editing software, but I think it came out pretty well.

What song is that? It sounds like the Walking Dead theme.

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
Ah, found it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qu7qvRFWWM

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!

Elotana posted:

Wait, what the gently caress? This is a thing?

I've never heard of it either. Anyone spergy enough to go through the thought process "I know this number isn't indicative of skill level, but it does show you aren't playing with every class maxed out, so you must be an idiot" is probably someone who wouldn't be fun to play with anyway.

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
I hated soldier and infiltrator until the Destroyer and Shadow came along. Now I think they're some of the most fun classes to level.

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!

Rape Jake. posted:

Destroyer: http://narida.pytalhost.com/me3/classes/#16PALLR@0@0@A@@@0@0@0@0

Demolisher: http://narida.pytalhost.com/me3/classes/#25MNMEF@0@0@A@@@0@0@0@0

A few of those points are discretionary, but that's what works for me.

Btw, I've heard Typhoon is the go to gun for Destroyer, you could probably throw it on the Demolisher too, neither of these classes need worry about cooldowns.

Skipping out on the rate of fire for devastator mode 5 seems kind of silly when there is gear you could use to have more bullets if you really need them.

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
Normally I only play platinum farming if the group is set up for biotic explosions, but since the pickings were slim tonight, I played as a Justicar with three Destroyers for the hell of it. I'm now a full believer in the N7 Piranha.

I do have to wonder, did my area reave really give me the 33k more points via assists than the third place guy, or were they just not very good?

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
There seems to be a lot of missile glitchers on platinum now. I guess the word spread about how to do it again. Any N7 Destroyer with a Striker is most likely doing it.

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
And if you spec like this: http://narida.pytalhost.com/me3/classes/#45MDKIL@0@0QA@@@0@0@0@0
You get a much stronger shadow strike, whether cloaked or uncloaked, and you get to easily use it twice during one cloak.

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!

FronzelNeekburm posted:

I'm going to have to respec after seeing how handy the passive bonuses are, but I'm not sure an extra 180 damage per Shadow Strike is worth giving up +40% DR over, especially for those "teleport next to a turret/pyro/hunter" moments.

That's where the tactical cloak duration and bonus power comes in handy. You can either run to cover still invisible after shadow strike, or use a second shadow strike to finish your target off if they didn't die from the first. No need for DR if the enemies are dead or can't see you. To each their own, though. :shobon:

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!

Felinoid posted:

It might be more the matter that they haven't had any dedicated maintenance time in the six months the game has been out. Now, they might be running circular maintenance, only taking one or a few offline at any one time but doing it constantly. Making the rounds, so to speak. Or they might be so stupid as to think they don't need maintenance. It's Bioware, so I'd believe either.

Huh? They have downtime every now and then for maintenance, the most recent being on the 28th.

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!

Felinoid posted:

They do? When? I keep really odd hours and I've never seen it. I would think over a six month period...maybe I've just been really lucky.

The time varies widely and it's usually only a couple of hours. They post about them on their facebook and twitter. ex: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=356703984404991&set=a.259483477460376.58244.256213217787402&type=1

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
Finally! :toot:

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
I like to imagine they keep buffing charge because people aren't using it as much as they want (to avoid vanguard glitching), and Bioware thinks the reason is because people feel it is underpowered. :allears:

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
The mythical double ultra rare pack exists!

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
The Hurricane shoots two bullets at once.

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!

SciFiDownBeat posted:

I guess my issue is that "Female Krogan Vanguard" by itself doesn't sound very different from the regular ol' Kroguard;

And excuse me for enjoying my immersion.

Of course it is! Bioware showed us just how unique and different the female krogan are in me3. :v: Immersion saved!

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!

Lagomorphic posted:

I'm working on a video for farming with pubbies

You poor soul.

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
Operation: PATRIOT (Sept. 21st – 23rd)

Cerberus continues to put pressure on our troops, hindering our fight against the Reapers. Our allies have committed their top military units to target Cerberus’ most valuable assets: their Atlas Mechs.

Squad Goal: Extraction on any difficulty with all squad members as the same non-human race. Requires 2 or more players in squad.

Allied Goal: Kill 600,000 Atlas Mechs on any map at any difficulty.

Special Circumstances: Escort Drones travel speed reduced.

Squad Goal Success: All squad members awarded a Commendation Pack.
Allied Goal Success: All players awarded a Victory Pack.

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!

Two Finger posted:

I'm down for this.


Countdown to 'welp, we both got stabbed.'

I'm down too!

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
Eagle II, gently caress. :argh:

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
I have to wonder with a patch fix list that big, how many new bugs will they introduce?

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
Well, time to farm some credits before that dlc drops. It's a good thing I managed to max everything in the manifest except for silver gear and ultra rares.

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!

Lagomorphic posted:

Yeah fortunately I was already planning on speedrunning a lot of Cerberus this weekend for the event.

Hit me up if you see me on. :allears:

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!

subroc posted:

I haven't heard any clarification, but I suspect that there will be something popping up behind the counters in FB-White and in that room in FB-Glacier.

You could always just not install the dlc, right? If that's the case, then they'll probably just have them be additional maps.

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Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

What happened to the legendary Chris Redfield, huh? What happened to you?!
What are some good class combinations for doing cerberus/glacier/gold speed runs, and is anyone on xbox interested in doing some today?

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