|
ilikelettuce posted: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. It's not a good weapon, it's a great weapon. I did exactly the same thing but with a Salarian infiltrator.
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 19:17
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 19, 2024 22:55 |
|
|
Psion posted:
The delay is what makes it terrible... We're going to have to disagree on that point. Pre delay nerf, that thing was amazing. Post nerf, it stays in the weapons trashcan.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 19:19
|
|
|
Gasoline posted:Commendation packs are supposed to be awarded immediately now. However it seems this is currently broken. Nope, my pastel pink-blue-yellow krosent sleep-headbutted his way through a bronze game, and I got my Eagle III right away.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 19:21
|
|
|
EvanSchenck posted:Nope, my pastel pink-blue-yellow krosent sleep-headbutted his way through a bronze game, and I got my Eagle III right away. My Kroguard meleed his way through a bronze game (ridiculously easymode; as a side note, the new Ghost hazard map is pretty cool-looking) and didn't get it.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 19:27
|
|
|
Didn't get mine yet either 
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 19:32
|
|
|
Yay I'm a Biotic God  I have to say, Krogaurds are indeed super fun. Getting a handle of purposely staying close to your enemies has been enlightening.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 19:32
|
|
|
From this thread on BSN:Bryan Johnson posted:Hello all,
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 19:34
|
|
|
Thundercloud posted: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. So were the latest refire delay tweaks successful in fixing glitching? I haven't played any platinum post-patch.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 19:36
|
|
|
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. There was a minor fuckup with the packs: http://social.bioware.com/forums/fo...14576411-1.html Bioware Guy posted:Hello all,
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 19:51
|
|
|
precision posted:They used to, pretty sure they still do. Two melee weapon mods don't stack. Shotgun omni blade is the highest damage you can get now (+50% at rank 5)
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 20:12
|
|
|
I am completely unsurprised that the new commendation pack system didn't work cleanly. In other news, to anyone who has played with me in the last two months: I finally moved to a new ISP. 
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 20:16
|
|
|
I just did the challenge and got my pack, seems that they're working now (on PC at least).Zoran posted:In other news, to anyone who has played with me in the last two months: I finally moved to a new ISP. Thank loving Christ.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 20:19
|
|
|
So for someone who's good but not great and has a bunch of low level weapons, whats the best way to make money? I've been just trying to speed run bronzes but only getting 15,000 is kinda lovely when premiums cost 99. I got lucky with the last few I've bought and got some cool characters but having all lovely guns sucks.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 20:25
|
|
|
Run bronzes and drop all your money on the lovely recruit packs until you get a Katana X. It's not fantastic but it's just good enough to hold you in higher difficulties even with a low level character. Getting the crummy guns to X also takes them out of the rotation of showing up so the premium packs you buy later will have a a ever so slightly higher chance for better stuff.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 20:27
|
|
|
It's not too hard to tag along in a silver match with a high-endurance character like a sentinel or maybe soldier, and you get twice the payout of a bronze match with the same playtime. Or you can equip a sniper rifle and find a good place to hide. Also, a lot of the silver weapons are totally worth maxing out, so if you buy a bunch of veteran packs you can do that and rack up consumables at the same time.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 20:42
|
|
|
I apologize to any goons who have invited me to games--every time one comes in, I'm either playing with friends or I'm terrified to accept because then SA could see how bad I am at this game. Even when I play high damage classes and have what I feel are really good rounds (few deaths, not much use of consumables), I get crappy scores.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 20:42
|
|
|
Alter Ego posted:I apologize to any goons who have invited me to games--every time one comes in, I'm either playing with friends or I'm terrified to accept because then SA could see how bad I am at this game. Even when I play high damage classes and have what I feel are really good rounds (few deaths, not much use of consumables), I get crappy scores. Are you on Xbox Live?
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 20:43
|
|
|
Did a solo run for the first time on Bronze, headbutted my way to glory with my Krogan sentinel. Got my commendation pack right away, which is a nice new thing they've decided to do. I am now the proud owner of a Hurricane III, which is great because I've been using that on my Turian Ghost and it's quickly becoming one of my favorite guns (and the only SMG I will probably ever use).
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 20:43
|
|
|
Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Are you on Xbox Live? Nope. Origin.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 20:46
|
|
|
Gordon Shumway posted:Did a solo run for the first time on Bronze, headbutted my way to glory with my Krogan sentinel. Got my commendation pack right away, which is a nice new thing they've decided to do. I am now the proud owner of a Hurricane III, which is great because I've been using that on my Turian Ghost and it's quickly becoming one of my favorite guns (and the only SMG I will probably ever use). This exactly, except I used my kroguard and also capped out my biotic charge challenge. Solo bronze as a kroguard is laughably easy. Think I'll do a practice run with silver and then see if I can tackle two gold extractions for Lone Wolf. e: Also for anyone who hasn't used it, the Hurricane is completely badass.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 20:47
|
|
|
Alter Ego posted:I apologize to any goons who have invited me to games--every time one comes in, I'm either playing with friends or I'm terrified to accept because then SA could see how bad I am at this game. Even when I play high damage classes and have what I feel are really good rounds (few deaths, not much use of consumables), I get crappy scores. Yeah I don't think any goons are going to complain about low scores as long as you stay alive and contribute what you can. Also it's really hard to get into your niche with certain classes, I didn't start grabbing the top spot with kroguard or gethfiltrator until I got a Talon pistol for instance.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 20:47
|
|
|
Gethfiltrator is especially a weird animal. I like handling mine as a melee area melter but with the low health the geth have that's tougher to do on Gold.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 20:49
|
|
|
ChaosReaper posted:So for someone who's good but not great and has a bunch of low level weapons, whats the best way to make money? I've been just trying to speed run bronzes but only getting 15,000 is kinda lovely when premiums cost 99. I got lucky with the last few I've bought and got some cool characters but having all lovely guns sucks. I followed this pattern when I started. Play Bronze game - buy recruit pack, leaving 10k in the bank Play Bronze game - buy veteran pack, leaving 5k in the bank Play Bronze game - buy veteran pack, start again Once you've got a decent level and some decent gear and guns, move to Silver. If you haven't got all the common mods and guns, either buy 3 recruit packs a game or follow the cycle above until you do. Doing the above plan will soon get you some decent uncommon guns and unlock the uncommon characters. As you're starting from scratch it should also unlock some uncommon gear, most of which is reasonably useful. Uncommon weapons like the Mattock, Raptor, Locust, Eviscerator and Phaeston are pretty good, and if you are running shotguns you definitely want the blade attachment and smart choke at level 5, both of which are common mods. If you get a mattock the assault rifle precision scope makes it a sniper rifle. The problem with buying PSPs is the scattershot effect. There is so much rare stuff that you aren't likely to level it up particularly quickly, whereas maxing the common and uncommon stuff isn't as hard, and because you're shelling out 5k or 20k a pack then you get through it quicker.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 20:52
|
|
|
I woke up this morning with a killer hangover and a Mathemagician and SMG mastery.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 20:59
|
|
|
Two Finger posted:I woke up this morning with a killer hangover and a Mathemagician and SMG mastery. Musta been some night. 
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 21:00
|
|
|
Dr. Abysmal posted: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. I just got it today!  everybody know i'm a muthafuckin monster etc. I actually finished all the weapon ones bar Sniper by switching my guns up while playing only Blood Pack characters. I think I might go for Sniper but it would be cool if there was one for getting all 5 weapon mastery challenges. Something like Arms Master or whatever I don't know. What's interesting is that after playing only as crazy tough Blood Pack characters for ages I only just found out how fragile everything else is since the health gate change or whatever it was. If your shields go down while you're out in the open now you're basically dead.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 21:02
|
|
|
What exactly is the yellow ranking number that shows up in the lobbies anyway? I know N7 is levels of characters + promotions, and the blue thing is number of promotions on that class.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 21:05
|
|
|
Cowcaster posted:What exactly is the yellow ranking number that shows up in the lobbies anyway? I know N7 is levels of characters + promotions, and the blue thing is number of promotions on that class. Challenge points, I believe.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 21:05
|
|
|
Thundercloud posted:I followed this pattern when I started. I'm not starting from scratch exactly but I'm still gonna follow this advice cause it seems a whole lot smarter than what I was doing. I've actually gotten a lot of classes through the PSPs but I don't have the guns to feel as useful as I should on silver. I wanna move up to gold eventually but pubbies and my kinda spazness keeps me out. I was playing with people in the xbox meta when the game first came out and that was awesome but I got kinda burnt out on it.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 21:06
|
|
|
The yellow number is challenge points.Alter Ego posted:I apologize to any goons who have invited me to games--every time one comes in, I'm either playing with friends or I'm terrified to accept because then SA could see how bad I am at this game. Even when I play high damage classes and have what I feel are really good rounds (few deaths, not much use of consumables), I get crappy scores. Hey, next time I'm on, I'll add you and invite you to a game so you come off better by comparison.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 21:06
|
|
|
Alter Ego posted:I apologize to any goons who have invited me to games--every time one comes in, I'm either playing with friends or I'm terrified to accept because then SA could see how bad I am at this game. Even when I play high damage classes and have what I feel are really good rounds (few deaths, not much use of consumables), I get crappy scores. You're welcome to play with me any time. I'm in the process of trying to exhibit to all of SA just how bad I am. And just as a side  , SilverAlicorn understands not to shoot the Geth that I've just sabotaged. Pubbies, alas, do not. So on my last round last night, I just slid around to little-used corners of the map and sabotaged random Geth stragglers.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 21:11
|
|
|
Add goons and just play gold. Nobody cares how bad you are, really. If you revive the players who are carrying you and use consumables when poo poo gets real then you're a better teammate than 75% of pubbies already.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 21:14
|
|
|
Gordon Shumway posted:Did a solo run for the first time on Bronze, headbutted my way to glory with my Krogan sentinel. Got my commendation pack right away, which is a nice new thing they've decided to do. I am now the proud owner of a Hurricane III, which is great because I've been using that on my Turian Ghost and it's quickly becoming one of my favorite guns (and the only SMG I will probably ever use). Why are you using an SMG on a class specifically geared towards assault rifle damage?  The Hurricane, of course, is the only SMG you should ever use, it's true. But Ghost is the one class where ARs truly shine. Collector Rifle, Harrier, Phaeston even, you put it on a Ghost and it'll be great.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 21:21
|
|
|
Best weekend challenge. Best commendation pack. Best new system for delivering them. This is the first pack I've redeemed without having to contact support to have it triggered. 
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 21:22
|
|
|
Reverend Jake posted:You're welcome to play with me any time. I'm in the process of trying to exhibit to all of SA just how bad I am. Cool. I'm IsThatATitleist on Origin.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 21:33
|
|
|
Psion posted:Why are you using an SMG on a class specifically geared towards assault rifle damage? The only benefit AR has over SMG on Ghost is evolution 6 of cloak... and a strong argument can be made that being able to pop a free chain overload from cloak is worthwhile too. All the straight damage and stability bonuses are great on SMGs too!
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 21:33
|
|
|
Just snagged my Commendation Pack by playing a Kroguard for the first time on the new Giant Map. Meleeing Cerberus as a sole Krogan, on a map wracked by storms, was oddly fitting.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 21:43
|
|
|
I'd like to thank Zoran501, LynxEyedZombie, and I Don't Remember The Other Guy (Sorry I'm An rear end in a top hat) for showing me a good time today.  First goon game, of many I hope. Goon teams best teams.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 22:09
|
|
|
ChaosReaper posted:So for someone who's good but not great and has a bunch of low level weapons, whats the best way to make money? I've been just trying to speed run bronzes but only getting 15,000 is kinda lovely when premiums cost 99. I got lucky with the last few I've bought and got some cool characters but having all lovely guns sucks. Just spam recruit packs until your starter guns are at X then start playing gold with goons whenever you can or at least silver with pubbies. I get pubbies playing gold with Avenger IV's and poo poo all the time so get that poo poo to X and Alter Ego posted:I apologize to any goons who have invited me to games--every time one comes in, I'm either playing with friends or I'm terrified to accept because then SA could see how bad I am at this game. Even when I play high damage classes and have what I feel are really good rounds (few deaths, not much use of consumables), I get crappy scores. I totally agree with this: Elotana posted:Add goons and just play gold. Nobody cares how bad you are, really. If you revive the players who are carrying you and use consumables when poo poo gets real then you're a better teammate than 75% of pubbies already. Ride some coat-tails on gold, don't play like an rear end in a top hat and no one will care about your score. Get the good guns faster, most of us are just happy to not have to play the pubbie lotto just to fill out the team.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 22:17
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 19, 2024 22:55 |
|
|
doomfunk posted:I'd like to thank Zoran501, LynxEyedZombie, and I Don't Remember The Other Guy (Sorry I'm An rear end in a top hat) for showing me a good time today. You're welcome! For anyone who's semi-new to the game and wants to get their feet wet with higher difficulties, I'd be glad to help. Add me on Origin (Zoran501)! I just cleared out some space on my friends list.
|
|
#
?
Oct 19, 2012 22:18
|
|