Mass Effect 3

[rk47]

eh i think its that most effective playstyle since krogs get buff from killing stuff in melee, but man, that feat is nearly impossible to achieve in silver/gold. They'd get swarmed n die most of the time.

[Segoris]

The only race I've unlocked (aside from the turian soldier, which I think everyone gets in their noob pack?) is krogan ... something. Vanguard?

Speaking of krogans, I can't help but notice whenever I get in a match with one, all that krogan does is punch people. It's pretty funny. <3

It's the Krogan Sentinel, and it's awesome once you build up its melee skills. It's oddly better than the Krogan Soldier at melee since the Sent gets melee bonuses with armor up while the soldier needs to purge their armor to get their melee bonus from their armor/shields. Though, as rk4 states, it's not the same outside of bronze. In bronze I'll go toe to toe in melee vs brutes, atlas, and primes (not banshees though) or a pack of 3-6 weaker mobs. In silver+ I'm not even bothering with the Krogan sent.


Also - new event is a good idea. Silver isn't too tough and it's a free N7 weapon come Tuesday if you win vs the reapers one time.

[Sjofn]

I now have a RANK TWO geth shotgun I will never use. I also got a Carnifex pistol I will never use. 

[Velorath]

Hate that there's no in-game confirmation that you've completed the weekend event.  Since this is the first one of these they've done I don't exactly have faith that they won't have issues tracking it, or that it won't glitch somehow.  Theoretically though I just completed it.

Was a little bit frustrating at times though.  Whereas before if I was trying to join a Silver match I'd usually get a group of all high level people fairly consistently, and who generally knew more or less what they were doing.  With everyone trying to get in on the event though, it seems like there's a ton of lv. 9's and 10's and such hoping to find some group that will carry them through.  And even among the higher level people, I seemed to get stuck with a lot of people who must usually just stick to bronze.  Lot of lone wolves, guys getting knocked down partway into the first round, and people who either don't have or just choose not to use any rockets, even on the final couple waves.  Prior to completing it, I think my best run was actually with a 3 man group (the 4th disconnected or something).

[kildorn]

I now have a RANK TWO geth shotgun I will never use. I also got a Carnifex pistol I will never use. 

Geth Shotgun is awesome though! Like, crazy good (the projectiles slightly track, and it's dead accurate out to about half the freaking map) Why do you hate useful guns!

As for which packs: I've taken to running two silvers for a Spectre pack. I get a depressing number of class unlocks from it (and still no asari adept, everything else 80 times), and the N7 sniper rifle that I hate.

[Surlyboi]

I got an Asari adept and a Geth pulse rifle on my first spectre pack.

Still no useful sniper rifles or a carnifex yet though.

[Special J]

Hate that there's no in-game confirmation that you've completed the weekend event.  Since this is the first one of these they've done I don't exactly have faith that they won't have issues tracking it, or that it won't glitch somehow.  Theoretically though I just completed it.

Was a little bit frustrating at times though.  Whereas before if I was trying to join a Silver match I'd usually get a group of all high level people fairly consistently, and who generally knew more or less what they were doing.  With everyone trying to get in on the event though, it seems like there's a ton of lv. 9's and 10's and such hoping to find some group that will carry them through.  And even among the higher level people, I seemed to get stuck with a lot of people who must usually just stick to bronze.  Lot of lone wolves, guys getting knocked down partway into the first round, and people who either don't have or just choose not to use any rockets, even on the final couple waves.  Prior to completing it, I think my best run was actually with a 3 man group (the 4th disconnected or something).

Took me a while to get through this (six tries I think) and a couple times there was a decent group but I managed to fall through the world twice.  That shit still happens in these games? FUUUUUU-!!!!

I finally hit on a good group and got to the extraction.  Well, not quite.  Since I'm the worst player ever I Biotic Charged with a few seconds left right out of the extraction zone. 

Though the FAQ says you still get credit as long as one person extracts.

[kildorn]

You get credit as long as the mission succeeds. And yeah, the prize has a lot of people running around who don't seem to be used to Silver+. And they picked the meanest of the enemy types to get people into it.

The basic idea is that wave 10 is rocket-time. Wave 11 is rockets if you have them, but only to clear banshees out of the extraction point. The real secret to wave 11 is don't run to the extraction point, defend well ahead of it and fall back as time goes on. Otherwise you just wind up with four banshees in your extraction with shit for cover from the rest of the horde.

The secret to silver reapers is either biotic bomb classes (adepts, human sents) or engineers. Shitloads of engineers. Everything mean is armor based, and biotic bombers and engineers can murder ravagers and brutes before they can cause much of a fuss. Even banshees are really an armor based hostile. They have shit for barriers, and mostly just stand there and eat armor damage for days while firing that annoying as shit DoT.

Drop me a PM if anyone on the PC still needs silver completion, I'm usually on in the evenings and willing to run a few.

[Sky]

I figured with the positive comments, I'd give it a go. Rolled a human engineer and had a blast. We had two snipers and a punchy krogan; they probably weren't thrilled having a lvl 1 on the team but we still did well. Wish there was a better way to level up between rounds, I just grabbed a few skills quick without much thought, since I hit level 5 on the first mission. Then someone bailed and the krogan who was hosting bailed. Oh well, a really good match and a half. I like the level layouts.

Normally play a soldier in SP, engineer was fun with the drone.

[Trippy]

You get credit as long as the mission succeeds. And yeah, the prize has a lot of people running around who don't seem to be used to Silver+. And they picked the meanest of the enemy types to get people into it.

The basic idea is that wave 10 is rocket-time. Wave 11 is rockets if you have them, but only to clear banshees out of the extraction point. The real secret to wave 11 is don't run to the extraction point, defend well ahead of it and fall back as time goes on. Otherwise you just wind up with four banshees in your extraction with shit for cover from the rest of the horde.

The secret to silver reapers is either biotic bomb classes (adepts, human sents) or engineers. Shitloads of engineers. Everything mean is armor based, and biotic bombers and engineers can murder ravagers and brutes before they can cause much of a fuss. Even banshees are really an armor based hostile. They have shit for barriers, and mostly just stand there and eat armor damage for days while firing that annoying as shit DoT.

Drop me a PM if anyone on the PC still needs silver completion, I'm usually on in the evenings and willing to run a few.

Yeah good advice. It took me a bunch of tries but I got it on my human engineer last night. I got into a game with a pair of Krogan Sentinels who were friends and a random Asari Adept. The match was set to Firebase Glacier (the tech lab looking one). The first match we died on wave 10, as usual. Second match we finished it. One of the Krogan Sentinels was really good which obviously helped a lot, though the two of them had apparently been trying it for a while and consistently dying on wave 10 so it's not like me and the Adept were just along for the ride.

If you can get into a group that can consistently get to level 10 I would stick with that group if you can as I was on plenty of other teams that couldn't even make it that far. If you haven't been using the Cobra Missile Launchers you might want to practice with them first on a less difficult wave as there's a delay before they fire so it's hard to hit moving things (i.e. Banshees) and they have a decent AoE radius so you can take out multiple bosses if you can plan and time it right.

[Nonentity]

Best advice I can think of for the Cobra Missile Launchers is think Quake-style rocket launchers - aim for the feet. The range on the explosion is fairly generous.

Just blew through Silver Reapers with a mostly biotic group - I played my Asari Adept, we had a Human Adept, a Human Vanguard, and a Salarian Engineer. Triple biotics is just full biotic combo all the time. Things tend to explode.

[Jeff Kelly]

I get that they want the readiness score to decay over time but I've lost 4% in less than 24 hours already.

Granted it's only one or two games to get that back but it seems a bit excessive to go down that fast

[Arinon]

I get that they want the readiness score to decay over time but I've lost 4% in less than 24 hours already.

Granted it's only one or two games to get that back but it seems a bit excessive to go down that fast

I think it decays faster the closer you are to 100%.  My score was sitting around 65 last week and it was dropping one a day.  Pushed it to 96ish last night and today it dropped by three if I remember right.

Been playing Vanguard exclusively in the MP and my god it's fun.  It's a bit rough early on but once you get your charge maxed out and your cooldown cut down you never seem to run out of shields.  The Silver level matches seem pretty hectic, not sure how the other classes deal with it!  They clearly work just fine but I can't get shit rolling with another class.  They either have no stopping power or are too fragile to take a few hits in a row.

Took about 4-5 tries to pug the Silver Reaper thing.  I can echo the advice from above.  Missile the fuck out of late wave banshees and use biotic combos. 

[Sjofn]

Normally play a soldier in SP, engineer was fun with the drone.

I fucking love the drone, it turns the enemies into complete morons. "Oh God, a drone! I better stand up and face it, surely nothing can go wrong with this plan!"

[kildorn]

Normally play a soldier in SP, engineer was fun with the drone.

I fucking love the drone, it turns the enemies into complete morons. "Oh God, a drone! I better stand up and face it, surely nothing can go wrong with this plan!"

Quickly, let's turn our shields at the little glowing ball, and away from all the people with assault weapons!

[Sjofn]

Yesssssss, they are my favorite of the stupids, although sometimes the brutes act completely fascinated by the little glowing ball. They're a little buggy, I guess, because sometimes they seriously just stand there and stare at it.

[tmp]

Geth Primes love the little buddy, too.

[Trippy]

/em hugs her* combat drone

* Yes I play a female engineer

[Special J]

So I opened only my second Spectre pack and out pops a M-98 Widow.  

Vanguard was fun, but Quarian Infiltrator is my new love.  That rifle is an absolute beast.

[Trippy]

I moved the discussion about how military effectiveness affects the endings to here:

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=21986.0

[kildorn]

Instead, we can discuss how the Sentry Drone is so much cuter and more adorable than the Human Engineer Hamster Ball.

[Ingmar]

So I opened only my second Spectre pack and out pops a M-98 Widow.  

Vanguard was fun, but Quarian Infiltrator is my new love.  That rifle is an absolute beast.

Yeah, I do love the Widow. Apparently the Black Widow can come out of the Spectre packs as a Very Rare - so far the only Very Rare I've gotten is a shotgun.

EDIT: Also I read that if you just buy recruit packs forever they'll eventually start having rare/VRs in them as you run out of commons and uncommons, apparently you can't get 'wasted' weapon unlocks. One wonders if just buying the 5k packs is more efficient or not in the long run because of that.

[kaid]

I now have a RANK TWO geth shotgun I will never use. I also got a Carnifex pistol I will never use. 

Geth Shotgun is awesome though! Like, crazy good (the projectiles slightly track, and it's dead accurate out to about half the freaking map) Why do you hate useful guns!

As for which packs: I've taken to running two silvers for a Spectre pack. I get a depressing number of class unlocks from it (and still no asari adept, everything else 80 times), and the N7 sniper rifle that I hate.

I don't own a geth shotgun but I have seen tons of people using them to great effect it seems like a really solid weapon.

[kildorn]

The unlock system likes to get into ruts for me. Right now it's chain unlocking Raptor upgrades (which is a funny rifle, but I tend to rock pistols 90% of the time), and my tier 6 Geth Plasma Shotgun. I want a Paladin (here's hoping for today's weekend N7 pack to give me one) and a Scorpion (because I played single player as an Adept with a Scorpion and it was hilariously easy)

I both love and hate the Falcon. It's crazy good against Brutes and the like. But it's also bugged to shit in multi and loses shots if you don't give it a mental one second cooldown period between shots.

[Thrawn]

So I opened only my second Spectre pack and out pops a M-98 Widow.  

Saving up for this in single player, how bad is the low ammo capacity though?  Are we talking 15 shots? 10? 5?  If I can only fire it a few times and then have to switch the the AR I might just stick with what I have.  Can one shot most things so far with a head shot and carry 22 ammo.

[Ingmar]

1+12 for me in multiplayer. Can't remember if I have a magazine mod on it or not.

[kildorn]

Just hang out near the ammo boxes, or rotate around the map and hit them up. It's a bit meaner since Infiltrators don't have much they can do without ammo, but you can cloak and ammo run in a pinch. Engineers without ammo just turn into incinerate bots on their way to a box.

The Falcon is 34 shots total, and I tend to need ammo around 2-3 times a wave. Claymore is 9 shots total.

[Sky]

Have you guys set up friends lists for multiplayer?

I'm only level 10 and doing bronze pugs.

[Simond]

http://www.analoghype.com/video-games/playstation-3-news/amazon-offering-a-full-refund-on-already-opened-copies-of-mass-effect-3/

Online retailer, Amazon is offering a full refund for customers that were left unsatisfied with Mass Effect 3. What makes this especially interesting is the fact that this offer even extends to opened N7 editions of the popular sci-fi RPG. As seen on Bioware forums, the you can receive up to $87.95 for the N7 edition. So if you’ve already beaten the game and hated it, I’d recommend taking Amazon up on this generous offer.

[Sjofn]

Instead, we can discuss how the Sentry Drone is so much cuter and more adorable than the Human Engineer Hamster Ball.

Can the sentry drone get bored and wander off to find new things to zap on its own? No it cannot!


EDIT: And if people are multi-ing on the PC, my Origin ID is sjofn77.

[Ingmar]

ingmar-f13

[pants]

http://www.analoghype.com/video-games/playstation-3-news/amazon-offering-a-full-refund-on-already-opened-copies-of-mass-effect-3/

Online retailer, Amazon is offering a full refund for customers that were left unsatisfied with Mass Effect 3. What makes this especially interesting is the fact that this offer even extends to opened N7 editions of the popular sci-fi RPG. As seen on Bioware forums, the you can receive up to $87.95 for the N7 edition. So if you’ve already beaten the game and hated it, I’d recommend taking Amazon up on this generous offer.

Without being spoiled (if that is at all possible), what is the big deal with the ME3 ending?  Is it broken, is it a crappy 'And they lived happily ever after', is it clearly rushed?   I haven't picked up ME3, and I'm hearing all this rage, and I'm trying to work out if it is legitimately a bad ending, or just standard internet srs  bsn.

[Ingmar]

Legitimately a bad ending. It takes an entire sideways turn in tone from the rest of the games and also manages to fail to give you much closure on anything.

[Sky]

HerrSky

[Abelian75]

Abelian75 is my Origin ID... been playing fairly often.