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Yeah, I'm one of those players where my best score on Gold has been ~74k as a Turian Sentinel. I try to stick with the team and do my best to kill and revive but I get isolated a lot and dropped due to lag, my own player stupidity, or whatever. Which is why I said I was pretty sure I could do it if I put the right music on and zoned out just right.  btw to those who've played with me: I really am sorry I die all the time, I'm like a death magnet.
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doomfunk posted:btw to those who've played with me: I really am sorry I die all the time, I'm like a death magnet. Just think of yourself as earning them revive medals! 
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jpmeyer posted:So I take it that the key to soloing gold/platinum is that each non-objective wave is about killing a bunch of spawns of trash mobs and then waiting until the very end to finish off the bosses? Yeah wave budget is definitely a factor but soloing is less about budget calculus and more about knowing when it's safe to engage. I don't consciously think "if i kill 3 dragoons it's better than killing 1 atlas" - it's just that engaging safely (ie relocating regularly) means that you fight more fast dragoons than slow lumbering atlases. The question you should ask yourself is "can i kill this before i need to run away?" If I have a prime, 2 ravagers, and 2 atlases, I'm going to kill the ravagers first because I know I can definitely kill them in 2 seconds whereas I might need to retreat after dedicating 6 seconds to taking down a prime's shields (which then regenerate). If I have 15 seconds alone with a banshee i'll kill it, even if it's early in the wave.
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Oct 26, 2012 19:27
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Can anyone give me some tips for soloing Gold? Someone mentioned hit and run attacks, which I'm going to try. I'm rolling a Kroguard with a Reegar and Inc. ammo. Should I maybe try a Talon or something instead?
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Oct 26, 2012 19:54
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Felinoid posted:Just think of yourself as earning them revive medals! Are these earned by being revived or reviving people? I'm like 7 away from completing a challenge and I'd like to know.
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Oct 26, 2012 19:56
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Vietnamwees posted:It still baffles me that Bioware still cannot get rid of this bug, even after multiple attempts through balance changes and even a patch. Is the glitch/coding that makes it possible just so ingrained into the game that it is basically impossible to remove or what? I don't think in my years of playing games online that any game has had such difficultly removing one of their glitches, it just boggles the mind.
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Alter Ego posted:Are these earned by being revived or reviving people? Reviving people- so terrible pubbies are your achievement fodder!
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Oct 26, 2012 20:06
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Alter Ego posted:Are these earned by being revived or reviving people? If this is a serious question, it's for reviving other people. Relatedly, I got a death message just now: "Monstrodoom committed suicide." I must've gotten caught in my own prox mine's detonation radius or something, I guess? This has never happened to me before. 
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Oct 26, 2012 20:06
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Okay, someone explain something to me. As a TGI, why would you ever take Stim Pack to 6 over the racial passive assuming you were looking to maximize AR damage? At r6, you can get +10% to AR damage whenever a pack is active, or you could take Armiger to r6 and get +10% to AR dmg and stability all the time. I keep seeing people recommending 6/6/6/4/4 and I don't get it at all. Wouldn't the absolute maximum killing power be 6/6/6/6/0? And a decent blend of surviveability be 6/6/4/6/4? Basically, tell me why I should take stimpack to 6 instead of 4, unless I was planning on not taking overload at all? (and why were you planning on that, the ability to fully strip a phantom's shields instantly is really damned handy)
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Oct 26, 2012 20:12
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doomfunk posted:Relatedly, I got a death message just now: "Monstrodoom committed suicide." I must've gotten caught in my own prox mine's detonation radius or something, I guess? This has never happened to me before. Ravager acid (and maybe the swarmers). I get that message way too often. Unrelated, but I finally got a hurricane! 
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Paracelsus posted:For some reason Bioware seem to code their games in the most obtuse, rear end-backwards ways possible. How else do you explain the SMG ULM only working on one SMG, but working on any if you also have the HP ULM equipped? As far as I can tell, there must be someone in their coding department that deliberately obfuscates things to make sure that he's the only person who understands how they work. But he's also not very good at coding to begin with, which is how you get so many problems with updating variables (the infinite-morality trick on Noveria, overlays that don't go away when they're supposed to, players stuck off of the grid they can actually move on, the Vorcha invincibility glitch, the Mission-invisibility glitch back in KOTOR, etc.). My theory is sometime after the ME2 DLC LotSB, Bioware was moved to a new office over an old Indian burial ground, and the moving trucks ran to a full bus on its way to the "creative curses and you" convention, all the while investing heavily in monkey paw futures. That certainly would explain The Arrival ME2 DLC, the ME3 SP ending disaster, the belly flop of the Extended Cut with special new F.U. version, and two lackluster SP DLC's in a row. May even explain the deeply flawed Origin service, and the never ending stream of MP bugs and exploits. And instead of being the massive home run it should have been (remember how much people loved the MP Demo), even MP ended up somewhat under-performing what it could have been. Reminds me of- Shopkeeper: [Homer has agreed to purchase a Krusty doll for Bart's birthday] Take this object, but beware it carries a terrible curse! Homer: Ooh, that's bad. Shopkeeper: But it comes with a free frogurt! Homer: That's good. Shopkeeper: The frogurt is also cursed. Homer: That's bad. Shopkeeper: But you get your choice of toppings. Homer: That's good! Shopkeeper: The toppings contain potassium benzoate. [Homer looks puzzled] Shopkeeper: ...That's bad. Homer: Can I go now? tl/dnr: Bioware's cursed at this point
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Two Finger posted:Can anyone give me some tips for soloing Gold? Yeah I had trouble with gold until I stopped using the Reeger. It just takes to many melee kills away from you. Use a Talon or Piranha with a melee bonus and AP ammo use it to soften up pyros and large groups before you charge in. Here's the spec I used for Geth Gold White solo: http://narida.pytalhost.com/me3/classes/#53RARPKq9%400BERLN4M4%400%400 I actually used a Cyclonic IV but it's not in the builder. Edit: Oh yeah I got an Eagle V 
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Well, that was easy. Is everyone getting the Valkyrie assault rifle in this week's Commendation Pack, or is it random?
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It's random. I sure as poo poo didn't get no Valkyrie. See the post above your for further details.
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The operation's already started? The countdown on the website says there's 5 hours til it starts.
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Eagle 6. Guess it had to happen sooner or later. I actually got some use out of it the other day on a valkyrie sentinel.
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Oct 26, 2012 20:44
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I wonder if they named the Asari Sentinel the Valkyrie just so that they could have this promotional tie-in weekend. It's weird that there are now TWO pairs of seemingly unrelated guns/classes that share a name.
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Semisponge posted:The operation's already started? The countdown on the website says there's 5 hours til it starts. Just got my Valkyrie here. About to take it for a spin with the Destroyer. Probably going to feel great until I try it with a less gun-awesome class.
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The point counting for achievements doesn't make sense. I just did a silver match using nothing but an eagle III for the weekend operation/pistol title, earned about 65k points, and the challenge says I only earned 35k points. I've noticed this before while trying to get other gun achievements.
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Ravenfood posted:Okay, someone explain something to me. As a TGI, why would you ever take Stim Pack to 6 over the racial passive assuming you were looking to maximize AR damage? At r6, you can get +10% to AR damage whenever a pack is active, or you could take Armiger to r6 and get +10% to AR dmg and stability all the time. I keep seeing people recommending 6/6/6/4/4 and I don't get it at all. Overload is almost always worth 6, but in my opinion the TGI is a class where it explicitly is not because you're giving up weapon damage in other categories - either stim or Armiger. So don't. so I'd say people suggesting it just see Overload, say "overload owns I gotta max that poo poo" and that's the extent of their thinking on it. cloak into OL 4 still ruins shields for almost everything, even on Gold, so I can get right down to the shoot gun part of the class. In fairness, it's not wrong, I just think it's not The Most Right.
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Fingers McLongDong posted:The point counting for achievements doesn't make sense. I just did a silver match using nothing but an eagle III for the weekend operation/pistol title, earned about 65k points, and the challenge says I only earned 35k points. I've noticed this before while trying to get other gun achievements. You probably got points from powers, objective waves, revives, extraction or wave completion bonuses, etc. So you got 35k points with the gun and 30k from other sources.
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So got the krysae sniper rifle, its kinda weird, seems to shot missiles and cause tech effects? Does that mean I could pair with overload on my ghost?
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Ravenfood posted:Okay, someone explain something to me. As a TGI, why would you ever take Stim Pack to 6 over the racial passive assuming you were looking to maximize AR damage? At r6, you can get +10% to AR damage whenever a pack is active, or you could take Armiger to r6 and get +10% to AR dmg and stability all the time. I keep seeing people recommending 6/6/6/4/4 and I don't get it at all. The thread has a weird obssession with 66644 for some reason (it used to be 66653), i think because a lot of people play on lower difficulties where damage output and shields aren't paramount. A lot of guides in the OP recommend 66644, so it's "standard" and players use it as a default when they don't know how to spec something. yes definitely take weapons classes including the ghost to racial 6. to your second question, on higher difficulties you need the extra shields that 6 ranks of stim pack will give you, it grants more survivability and thus allows you to play more aggressively than any application of overload 6.
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Really liking hawk missles since the buff. It's great having a Dragoon try to get up in your face only to be staggered so you canblow his head off. Great for getting Phantoms to hold still as well. Definitely worth the 10% shield hit.Psion posted:Overload is almost always worth 6, but in my opinion the TGI is a class where it explicitly is not because you're giving up weapon damage in other categories - either stim or Armiger. So don't. Alright I'll try it your way once they release an infiltrator and I can get a free promotion respec.
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Fight Club Sandwich posted:The thread has a weird obssession with 66644 for some reason (it used to be 66653), i think because a lot of people play on lower difficulties where damage output and shields aren't paramount. A lot of guides in the OP recommend 66644, so it's "standard" and players use it as a default when they don't know how to spec something. yes definitely take weapons classes including the ghost to racial 6. It's actually due to a widespread belief that extra shields don't matter on gold since you die as soon as you leave cover regardless. I tend do tend to go with the 66653 and stronghold gear for casters but for soldiers and infiltrators it's certainly not my default.
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Used a Hurricane to cap off the weekend challenge. Got a Hurricane III out of it.
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I'm pretty sure the "obsession" with 6/6/6 is because a lot of classes have three powers that are awesome and their final evolution is usually more interesting/fun/useful than extra weapon damage or health because numbers are dumb and also boring.
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Lagomorphic posted:It's actually due to a widespread belief that extra shields don't matter on gold since you die as soon as you leave cover regardless. I tend do tend to go with the 66653 and stronghold gear for casters but for soldiers and infiltrators it's certainly not my default. I'd consider maybe revisiting this assumption - even on platinum fitness is great for reviving teammates, disabling objectives, and playing aggressively. Every class has a power that's marginally less effective than the others whereas damage and health are always useful.
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Two Silver Matches down and got a Valiant II. That means I've got Eagle I, Valiant II, Crusader III, and Hurricane VIII. One of these is not like the others....
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Man, using my bat sent with the harrier is definitely not the way to go it seems. Two gold matches(one wiped at wave 7, one went to extraction) and I'm only halfway there. Any class/gun tips to knock it out in my next game? Do I have to do it all with the same gun?
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Lagomorphic posted:Yeah I had trouble with gold until I stopped using the Reeger. It just takes to many melee kills away from you. Use a Talon or Piranha with a melee bonus and AP ammo use it to soften up pyros and large groups before you charge in. Here's the spec I used for Geth Gold White solo: http://narida.pytalhost.com/me3/classes/#53RARPKq9%400BERLN4M4%400%400 Cheers dude. Changing to the Talon made all the difference, even though I don't think I got more than 5 kills a game with it.
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So, what are the impressions of the Valkyrie rifle in multiplayer?
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nwin posted:Man, using my bat sent with the harrier is definitely not the way to go it seems. Two gold matches(one wiped at wave 7, one went to extraction) and I'm only halfway there. Any class/gun tips to knock it out in my next game? Do I have to do it all with the same gun? Do you mean the weekend event? If so do you mean hurricane? For the weekend event you can just use a soldier or infiltrator since the power boosts to weapon damage are credited to the weapon used. Hurricane is probably the quickest to use.
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exquisite tea posted:I wonder if they named the Asari Sentinel the Valkyrie just so that they could have this promotional tie-in weekend. It's weird that there are now TWO pairs of seemingly unrelated guns/classes that share a name. That's exactly what I said! Two Finger posted:Valiant V. So Operation Valkyrie gaVe you a Valiant V and not a Valkyrie? Very good idea to Veer that Valiant V to your Asari Valkyrie for added Versatility, or eVen the Vorcha or the Volus. My Video game Verbosity may Very well Villify your eVening, despite the Verisimilitude of this Very situation.
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Schubalts posted:So, what are the impressions of the Valkyrie rifle in multiplayer?
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Lagomorphic posted:Do you mean the weekend event? If so do you mean hurricane? For the weekend event you can just use a soldier or infiltrator since the power boosts to weapon damage are credited to the weapon used. Hurricane is probably the quickest to use. Holy poo poo that was the lease descriptive I've ever been...sorry about that. Yes I meant the weekend event and yes I meant the Hurricane. My mind's always on the Harrier since I fell in love with the TGI.
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SirViver posted:Didn't unlock it, but knowing Bioware it'll be hilariously underpowered till they slowly buff its damage to double of what it is in SP. Then, finally, it will rival the Eagle. Some Bioware employee already confirmed they changed its characteristics from SP to MP.
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