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Semisponge
Mar 9, 2006

I FUCKING LOVE BUTTS
I have only ever detonated barrier on accident. Am I missing out on something?

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zxqv8
Oct 21, 2010

Did somebody call about a Ravager problem?
It's situational at best. It's not exceptionally powerful, but it's a tool in the arsenal you shouldn't forget.

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





EvanSchenck posted:

I've been grinding SMGs for the weapon challenge, because why not. I finished the Hornet, which was pretty meh, and then I decided to do the Locust. Plopped it on the N7 Destroyer with heat sink, heavy barrel, SMG amp III, and AP ammo III. It's hilarious. Zero recoil, accurate enough to headshot from across London, and nearly instant reload so you never stop firing--it chewed everything up, phantoms, Atlases, Dragoons. I got the challenge to 42% from the one game alone.

I actually kind of like the Hornet, I've been grinding it recently.
Doesn't punch especially hard but aside from the recoil it's fairly accurate even at range. Good weapon for casters.

rio
Mar 20, 2008

Can anyone give me the lowdown on how to make an overpower Kroguard? I haven't been playing multiplayer too long but have gotten a fair amount of guns; I've been using a Pirahna I as I'm not sure what weapon to use, specced for weapon damage rather than melee for surviveability. I want to melt some faces though so any build tips or whatever would be nice as I haven't even played Vanguard on Single Player before so I'm kind of clueless.

E: literally just got the Graal a minute ago. Not sure if the weight difference is worth it though, even specced for shotgun weight reduction. I am at 160% with the piranha an would be at 110 with the Graal...

rio fucked around with this message at 08:42 on Oct 19, 2012

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





rio posted:

Can anyone give me the lowdown on how to make an overpower Kroguard? I haven't been playing multiplayer too long but have gotten a fair amount of guns; I've been using a Pirahna I as I'm not sure what weapon to use, specced for weapon damage rather than melee for surviveability. I want to melt some faces though so any build tips or whatever would be nice as I haven't even played Vanguard on Single Player before so I'm kind of clueless.

E: literally just got the Graal a minute ago. Not sure if the weight difference is worth it though, even specced for shotgun weight reduction. I am at 160% with the piranha an would be at 110 with the Graal...

You spec Biotic Charge for shield recovery and max out Barrier and the two passives, taking damage reduction for barrier, and then you just punch and shoot everything. Take a Talon if you have one.


On another note, anyone got a missile-centric build for N7 Destroyer? I am hearing good things about it.

I am also now a Mathemagician Biotic God.

SurreptitiousMuffin
Mar 21, 2010
Ok, so I need to fill out one more skill for Mathemagician and I've got these left:

-Sentry Turret
-Geth Turret
-Tech Armour
-Combat Drone

but none of the pets have flamethrower and I've got no respec cards left. What's a good way to do this?

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

Ok, so I need to fill out one more skill for Mathemagician and I've got these left:

-Sentry Turret
-Geth Turret
-Tech Armour
-Combat Drone

but none of the pets have flamethrower and I've got no respec cards left. What's a good way to do this?

I did it with Human Engineer and Combat Drone. Play a solo Bronze on Hazard Ghost, the rain tends to lock people in place and your drone finishes them. Takes a little while, but it's not hard.

GulMadred
Oct 20, 2005

I don't understand how you can be so mistaken.

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

Ok, so I need to fill out one more skill for Mathemagician
I'd recommend Tech Armor. The point-accounting is surprisingly generous (and/or the threshold is relatively low); I managed to complete the challenge over the course of four Gold games, using the Krogan Sentinel armed with a Wraith (whose shot/reload delay synchronizes nicely with ability usage). It works well on FB Glacier due to the ease with which you can put yourself into the middle of a tight cluster of infantry (by sprinting into spawn areas at the beginning of a wave, or simply by running around blind corners with your finger poised on the detonate button). You can also burn through a few Power Amplifier consumables if you'd like to complete the challenge more quickly.

Sentry Turret and Geth Turret took me at least nine full Gold matches plus a few partial ones (to be fair, I had specialized the turret for healing rather than damage). I can't comment on Combat Drone; I gave up on it after my level 20 Human Engineer was kicked from two successive Gold lobbies.

Silvain
May 19, 2006

I'm kinda awesome.
Sentry Turret and Geth Turret we're both getting leveled up when I was using Geth Engineer so do that unless it was a bug on my part?

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Two Finger posted:

I did it with Human Engineer and Combat Drone. Play a solo Bronze on Hazard Ghost, the rain tends to lock people in place and your drone finishes them. Takes a little while, but it's not hard.

Combat Drone if you have the detonate evolution is the way to go, you'll get it surprisingly quickly.

Thundercloud
Mar 28, 2010

To boldly be eaten where no grot has been eaten before!

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

Ok, so I need to fill out one more skill for Mathemagician and I've got these left:

-Sentry Turret
-Geth Turret
-Tech Armour
-Combat Drone

but none of the pets have flamethrower and I've got no respec cards left. What's a good way to do this?

I did Tech armour by soloing Bronze with a Krentinel (not even specced for tech armour damage) and did it in two runs. Having Atlas [Tech Armour] come up in the bottom is both hilarious and slightly depressing.

Combat drone took me 4 random games with me leaving it near enemy spawns where it chocked up assists and occasionally finished off damaged enemies.

I'm almost at Mathemagician now, and I've got 200 tech bursts from playing the Vorcha Sentinel (flame explosions count)

Lord Frankenstyle
Dec 3, 2005

Mmmm,
You smell like Lysol Wipes.
There must be a challenge point cheat. I keep running into people with 4000 plus points that can't play worth poo poo. I just randomed into a game with three other guys all between 4100 and 4800, and did more than double all their scores added together. In spite of the fact that I spent a large percentage of my time running around reviving them. I'm not bad, but I'm not all that good.

Also, I'm really impressed with the Indra. I tried it out on a Destroyer for the first time today, after a PSP took it up to level VIII. I didn't think I'd like anything better than the Harrier, but I may have been wrong.

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


I've been on pretty frequently since the DLC hit and only have 1300ish challenge points, although I could see getting 4000+ if you were doing nothing but grinding factions and weapons on Bronze or Silver. Incidentally the people I've seen with lots of CP all have names like KBOSEC_RU and are,utterly useless in all situations.

Pumpking
Oct 27, 2007

Who is number 1?

rio posted:

Can anyone give me the lowdown on how to make an overpower Kroguard? I haven't been playing multiplayer too long but have gotten a fair amount of guns; I've been using a Pirahna I as I'm not sure what weapon to use, specced for weapon damage rather than melee for surviveability. I want to melt some faces though so any build tips or whatever would be nice as I haven't even played Vanguard on Single Player before so I'm kind of clueless.

E: literally just got the Graal a minute ago. Not sure if the weight difference is worth it though, even specced for shotgun weight reduction. I am at 160% with the piranha an would be at 110 with the Graal...

Dont take carnage, max everything else. I prefer a mix of weapon and melee damage but you can specialise either way if you want. I'd say definitely take the last 2 melee options in fitness though as shield recharge is useless to a vanguard and you want rage up and running as much as possible. Theres a lot of options you can take but heres an example which works well for me: http://narida.pytalhost.com/me3/classes/#53PAQLOq9%400%40A%40%40O4L4%400%400


You shouldnt have any trouble with survivability as a kroguard. Remember your ABC's: Always Be Charging. Constant shield refills from charge plus a lot of damage reduction from barrier and rage make you very hard to kill. Get in close with charge and draw fire away from your more delicate team mates. Fire your piranha between charges and melees. The piranha is a good choice because you want to keep your cooldowns above 150% or so.

Also this is a bit of a "One Wierd Tip" for the kroguard which not many people seem to know about. If you hold the melee button during a charge you will melee straight after you hit something, which is a great 1-2 combo and very useful for finishing off shielded enemies and doing extra damage to bosses.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

Frankenstyle posted:

There must be a challenge point cheat. I keep running into people with 4000 plus points that can't play worth poo poo. I just randomed into a game with three other guys all between 4100 and 4800, and did more than double all their scores added together. In spite of the fact that I spent a large percentage of my time running around reviving them. I'm not bad, but I'm not all that good.

Also, I'm really impressed with the Indra. I tried it out on a Destroyer for the first time today, after a PSP took it up to level VIII. I didn't think I'd like anything better than the Harrier, but I may have been wrong.

Were they using lovely guns for the challenges? Alternatively you can get a lot of challenge points just by playing wacky poo poo on bronze and silver.

Dr. Abysmal
Feb 17, 2010

We're all doomed
I've got the Graal and power related challenges done for Blood Pack but it's beginning to hit me how severe the character waves completed challenges are. It's the equivalent of 20 complete games each with five characters to get the banner which is probably going to take me forever and burn me out on all of those guys. My closest one right now is batarian sentinel at 77/200. I might go for one of the gun ones instead.

TheDK
Jun 5, 2009
Managed a couple gold/collector extractions last night with completely random pick-up groups! I was able to help the team significantly with a fire-bursting krogan sentinel wielding a hurricane II.

I should be on a significant amount tonight if anyone wants to try a full krogan slap-squad.

e:
I haven't really done poo poo-all with challenges, though I like the idea. I hope people aren't judging my skill level on my measly 100+ challenge points.

TheDK fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Oct 19, 2012

Fight Club Sandwich
Apr 29, 2006

you want a piece of me???
I like the concept of challenge points, they're intended to add variety to the game and encourage you to play with new classes/weapons/maps/factions. Unfortunately the skill threshold for racking up challenge points is very very low, and as with most point systems you have people grinding at it so those at the top are basically those people who have found a way to exploit the system rather than those who are "good" at the game

If I look at people's challenges for screening purposes, I look for
-has the person solod platinum
-squad/map mastery (what difficulty does this person generally play on)
-does this person seem to have a relatively small number of first aid medals

For everything else the fastest method is soloing bronze repeatedly

highmodulus
Feb 16, 2011

Let's go crazy Broadway style!

Frankenstyle posted:

There must be a challenge point cheat. I keep running into people with 4000 plus points that can't play worth poo poo. I just randomed into a game with three other guys all between 4100 and 4800, and did more than double all their scores added together. In spite of the fact that I spent a large percentage of my time running around reviving them. I'm not bad, but I'm not all that good.



Lots of free time?

highmodulus
Feb 16, 2011

Let's go crazy Broadway style!
Quick question- for the weekend challenge, can we set the game to private so we can solo it? My KroGuard doesn't like anyone shooting his punching targets.

Also suggested maps/opponents? Any equipment tips? Also, I am assuming bronze has enough enemies if you solo it and punch them all you get the Gold. Is that correct?

Elotana
Dec 12, 2003

and i'm putting it all on the goddamn expense account
How the gently caress do you look at people's challenges for screening purposes? That sounds like a huge pain in the rear end compared to just making sure they're level 15+ with a decent gun.

If you solo a game on PC set origin to invisible so your stupid friends don't join and negate the solo credit (sorry UM :saddowns:)

highmodulus
Feb 16, 2011

Let's go crazy Broadway style!
Just noticed that my Assault Rifle Omni-Blade is level 5, while my shotgun Omni-Blade is level 3 (but my Shotgun Blade Attachment is level 5). Hmm what to use for extra punchy goodness?

Tremors
Aug 16, 2006

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

highmodulus posted:

Just noticed that my Assault Rifle Omni-Blade is level 5, while my shotgun Omni-Blade is level 3 (but my Shotgun Blade Attachment is level 5). Hmm what to use for extra punchy goodness?

They tell you the damage bonus %, so...whichever has the highest?

Psion
Dec 13, 2002

eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS
equip them both on a Drell Adept :getin:


also I wish I'd read the weekend operation post a little more closely before promoting a couple classes last night. Oops.

highmodulus
Feb 16, 2011

Let's go crazy Broadway style!

Tremors posted:

They tell you the damage bonus %, so...whichever has the highest?

Just making sure I wasn't missing something (like one of them being bugged) this is Bioware we are talking about.

TheDK
Jun 5, 2009

Psion posted:

equip them both on a Drell Adept :getin:
Do they stack like that? If you have two weapons with melee mods?

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

TheDK posted:

Do they stack like that? If you have two weapons with melee mods?

They used to, pretty sure they still do.

I'm gonna solo Bronze and kickbox everything to death.

Lagomorphic
Apr 21, 2008

AKA: Orthonormal

precision posted:

They used to, pretty sure they still do.

I'm gonna solo Bronze and kickbox everything to death.

Just make sure you do a round of headbutting with a Krogan to complete the challenge while you're at it. Drell don't count, only Krogan.

KnoxZone
Jan 27, 2007

If I die before I Wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.
4 Krogans on Geth Gold is a thing of beauty.

Mr. Tetsuo
Jun 6, 2011

And just once, before I die, I'd like to be Supreme Overlord of Earth. So rebel, my little ones, and conquer the planet!
I don't know if the Scorpion is generally considered a good weapon, but drat that thing is way to fun to be ignored. I got it yesterday and ended up playing 3-4 matches just to see things blowing up left and right. Atlas was specially fun, as it is very easy to glue 4 mines onto it from pretty much any distance. Playing with a Salarian Eng, stagering mobs with Energy Drain, glueing them with those grenades and staring in contemplation as they were blow to bits.

ChaosReaper
Feb 19, 2005
When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home?

This is my first weekend bonus participation thing so I have a question. Do we get the commendation pack after we do it or at a later date? I just solo'd bronze and a krogan and got the 50 kill medal but I didn't get pack. Also I just Shadow and that is some of the most fun I've ever had.

doomfunk
Feb 29, 2008

oh come on was that really necessary
all over my fine carpet!!
Tuesday. The magic presents happen on Tuesday.

Fritz Coldcockin
Nov 7, 2005

ChaosReaper posted:

This is my first weekend bonus participation thing so I have a question. Do we get the commendation pack after we do it or at a later date? I just solo'd bronze and a krogan and got the 50 kill medal but I didn't get pack. Also I just Shadow and that is some of the most fun I've ever had.

Actually, I was under the impression they'd fixed it so the Comm Packs unlocked instantly now rather than us having to wait till Tuesday/Wednesday.

I think they're supposed to do that, at any rate.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Dec 28, 2007

Kiss this and hang

Boo, people are killing things before I can smash it with my head. Don't they want a trophy! Let the krogan kill people! :mad:

Gasoline
Jul 31, 2008
Commendation packs are supposed to be awarded immediately now. However it seems this is currently broken.

Gordon Shumway
Jan 21, 2008

So I now have an easier time beating Reapers on Gold than Geth on Silver. Reapers are now my favorite enemies to play against, narrowly edging out Cerberus because Dragoons are bullshit.

Psion
Dec 13, 2002

eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS

ilikelettuce posted:

I don't know if the Scorpion is generally considered a good weapon,

It is a good weapon. Anyone who tells you otherwise is wrong. :colbert:


also the Krysae is almost great again. If the N7 Destroyer takes it to a capacity of 4 (I don't know, I just promoted my soldier) or if they tweak the refire delay down just a tiny bit, it'll be worth it again for sure.

zxqv8
Oct 21, 2010

Did somebody call about a Ravager problem?

Gordon Shumway posted:

So I now have an easier time beating Reapers on Gold than Geth on Silver. Reapers are now my favorite enemies to play against, narrowly edging out Cerberus because Dragoons are bullshit.

The best bets for an enjoyable and reasonable round are Reapers and Cerberus.

I say reasonable, because you can have fun fighting Geth and Collectors, but they have a lot of unreasonable bullshit.

Thundercloud
Mar 28, 2010

To boldly be eaten where no grot has been eaten before!

highmodulus posted:

Lots of free time?

Ding ding ding.

Lots of free time and soloing Bronze can get you the weapons.

However missile glitching each map on platinum ten times would get you 70 points per map and 1.4+ million credits. So it could be that some people are doing that.

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Thundercloud
Mar 28, 2010

To boldly be eaten where no grot has been eaten before!

ChaosReaper posted:

This is my first weekend bonus participation thing so I have a question. Do we get the commendation pack after we do it or at a later date? I just solo'd bronze and a krogan and got the 50 kill medal but I didn't get pack. Also I just Shadow and that is some of the most fun I've ever had.

It should drop immediately, but it's Bioware, so doubtless they didn't test it.

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