Mass Effect 3

[Velorath]

Finally got a Black Widow in a Spectre pack.  Also, only missing two more character unlocks (Drell Vanguard and Turian Soldier).

[rk47]

No black widow, no asari adept.
All other classes unlocked.

Raptor X , Mantis X, Incisor X, Viper X.
Zzzzz

[Velorath]

No black widow, no asari adept.
All other classes unlocked.

Raptor X , Mantis X, Incisor X, Viper X.
Zzzzz

I've gotten Asari Adept like 3 or 4 times now.  At one point I got them in back to back Spectre packs.

[rk47]

Makes me even more pissed is that the game kept giving me Arc Pistols and shotguns I don't need.
-ARC PISTOL IS HORRID AS FUCK.
-N7 Pack gave me Crusader, a shotgun that can headshot. Impressive. But not what I need.

Also Hornet SMG is a joke. Tempest is the only viable one, even then Silver / Gold demands Snipers or Hard damage. Sustained fire will get you killed due to the damage.

Salarian infil is my choice atm. The rest sucks ass in Silver and above.

[Velorath]

Makes me even more pissed is that the game kept giving me Arc Pistols and shotguns I don't need.
-ARC PISTOL IS HORRID AS FUCK.
-N7 Pack gave me Crusader, a shotgun that can headshot. Impressive. But not what I need.

Also Hornet SMG is a joke. Tempest is the only viable one, even then Silver / Gold demands Snipers or Hard damage. Sustained fire will get you killed due to the damage.

Salarian infil is my choice atm. The rest sucks ass in Silver and above.

Just completed Gold for the first time (think I'd only tried it once before a while back) using a Salarian Infiltrator.  Came a close second in the rankings (think I had 82,000 compared to the 88,000 the top guy had).  Have a Carnifex as a backup to my Black Widow, but I never use it, so I might just drop it.  I have so many spare clip consumables (plus I've got +2 capacity on them now), that I could use them pretty easily if I find myself without ammo and unable to reach any for some reason.

[Jeff Kelly]

Gold is just ridiculous, by wave 4 only infiltrators or extremely capable players of other classes stand any chance because even sprinting from cover to cover is a bet due to the ridiculous amount of damage the NPCs deal.

If you get pushed out of cover or flanked or you have to cover anything other than a really short distance you are dead if you don't have the "I'm invisible" panic button of the infiltrator.

When you face two Banshees, four brutes and a shitload of Marauders and Cannibals you either hit hard with every single shot or you get killed because you have to pop out of cover for too long or you get swarmed by the massive amount of enemies because you take too long to kill them. Even with a level three shield upgrade and a level three ammo upgrade you are either dead or you've run out of ammo

The amount of time I've spent just watching infiltrators kill enemies (they are usually the only ones left mid-wave) in spectator mode should get me an achievement somehow.

[Sjofn]

Makes me even more pissed is that the game kept giving me Arc Pistols and shotguns I don't need.
-ARC PISTOL IS HORRID AS FUCK.
-N7 Pack gave me Crusader, a shotgun that can headshot. Impressive. But not what I need.

Also Hornet SMG is a joke. Tempest is the only viable one, even then Silver / Gold demands Snipers or Hard damage. Sustained fire will get you killed due to the damage.

Salarian infil is my choice atm. The rest sucks ass in Silver and above.

I'm still using the starter SMG on my engineer, I just hit much more reliably with it (I should spam recruit packs to get it leveled up, I suppose). I haven't tried gold yet, though.

I keep trying to branch out to the other classes, but I just like the engineer bestest. <3

[rk47]

Salarian Engineer is pretty comfort class IMO.
I have the Widow but still preferred my Raptor X - the amount of shots I could pull off, the quick reloads. It's nice looking at 105% Recharge rate when I run with a phalanx as backup when Brutes arrive.

Carnifex is just too damn heavy IMO.
Also, Spectre pack today after 2 Silvers = Salarian Infiltrator Skin Tone & +1 Survival Pack Limit. Sigh...not a complete loss but BORING.

[Surlyboi]

Turian soldier was the last one I unlocked. I had everything before that. I've managed to get two soldiers to level 20 and still have only been able to unlock one customization option on the male soldier. 

[rk47]

Bundling together cosmetics with weapons pack is sheer marketing genius on EA's part. People lap that shit up in Facebook. Now they're giving it for free through in game credits. Truly world class innovation. Who wants a sniper rifle when you can look pretty?

[Velorath]

Salarian Engineer is pretty comfort class IMO.
I have the Widow but still preferred my Raptor X - the amount of shots I could pull off, the quick reloads. It's nice looking at 105% Recharge rate when I run with a phalanx as backup when Brutes arrive.

Carnifex is just too damn heavy IMO.
Also, Spectre pack today after 2 Silvers = Salarian Infiltrator Skin Tone & +1 Survival Pack Limit. Sigh...not a complete loss but BORING.

Carnifex with a lv. V scope was my weapon of choice for a long time, and was typically the only weapon I used.  It's pretty nice for headshots although outside of bronze it's typically no longer a one shot kill a lot of the time.  Now I'm mostly using the Black Widow despite the weight.  I typically find that a good headshot beats most powers so I'm not as worried about cooldowns.

[rk47]

I need backup arm only for infiltrator...since cloak gives 40% dmg to sniper on rank 6 evolve. Not too shabby.
But still. Arc Pistol V is complete utter shit. And GETH PULSE RIFLE. FFS.

[kildorn]

For those of you playing multi, there's another bonus weekend coming up:

http://social.bioware.com/forum/Mass-Effect-3/Mass-Effect-3-Multiplayer-Discussion-/Operation-Raptor-Weekend-10731425-1.html

Promote 2 characters this weekend for your personal goal. A bit more work than last time if you don't have higher level characters just hanging around. Same rewards as last time it looks like.

[Sjofn]

I like their little weekend event dealios thus far.

[rk47]

Sounds easy enough.

also: yay

[Surlyboi]

For those of you playing multi, there's another bonus weekend coming up:

http://social.bioware.com/forum/Mass-Effect-3/Mass-Effect-3-Multiplayer-Discussion-/Operation-Raptor-Weekend-10731425-1.html

Promote 2 characters this weekend for your personal goal. A bit more work than last time if you don't have higher level characters just hanging around. Same rewards as last time it looks like.

Bleh, I promoted my last two 20s last night =P

Then again, I took a soldier from 1 to 12 in two matches last night too, so I could probably swing that this weekend.

[rk47]

Played Drell Adept, paired with Asari Adept - wow. Explosions everywhere.

[kildorn]

Yeah, got into a random group with two adepts and two sents. They paired off and the entire map was a rolling biotic explosion.

[kaid]

Yeah, got into a random group with two adepts and two sents. They paired off and the entire map was a rolling biotic explosion.

Drell adepts are somewhat unimpressive on their own but paired with another biotic user it can get real very quickly. Its hilarious playing a drell adept with an agressive vanguard biotic explosions EVERYWHERE>

[Surlyboi]

Played about five matches the other night, pretty much carrying the rest of the team, we then switch to gold and get our asses handed to us while I'm playing infiltrator and doing my damndest to rez everyone after they go headfirst into a sea of guardians. After the round ends, everyone votes to kick me.

Nice. 

[kildorn]

Strange. PC or Console? I only see vote kicks when people take 10 minutes to ready up.

[Surlyboi]

360. Most of them are mouth breathers.

[Jeff Kelly]

Kicking gets worse as people play more. Just got out of a team where two guys just switched from ready to not ready to ready because I simply wouldn't provide the third vote for a kick.

I don't even know why they wanted to kick the third guy because he was a level 18 character with a > 200 N7 score and we were just playing on silver.

The player left on his own and they then proceeded to kick me :(.

It gets more common in my experience. People understand multiplayer and now every expert thinks that they need a strong team.

BTW. how should I play soldier so that I don't die all the time? Krogan is nice because of health and shields but somehow I've still got problems.

and last question what exactly do I get with the special equipment pack?

[Trippy]

BTW. how should I play soldier so that I don't die all the time? Krogan is nice because of health and shields but somehow I've still got problems.

Run away a lot? What weapons are you using?

and last question what exactly do I get with the special equipment pack?

Lots of consumables.

[rk47]

If you don't want to die a lot, play a salarian i guess.
I usually pair off with my friend's asari adept as drell and carry the rest of the team on silvers. Why bother going gold, wasting like 25-30 minutes only to fail cause this fucking vanguard just wander elsewhere and begged for a rez.

Biotic pairs own Silver Reapers so bad.

[Surlyboi]

BTW. how should I play soldier so that I don't die all the time? Krogan is nice because of health and shields but somehow I've still got problems.

Human soldier? Know where all the ammo replen spots are and throw shitloads of grenades. Stick to the Mattock and and nothing else and spam concussive shot before putting two rounds in the shithead you just dropped with the power.

Using that combo, I've been a bag of hurt.

[Velorath]

Finally got the last character unlock I needed, and a +1 missile capacity in the same pack.

[rk47]

ur so lucky :( I got Arc Pistol 6 FUuuuuU~~

Still yet to unlock Asari Adept. Anyways, done with the weekend event.

[Surlyboi]

i now have six missile capacity. I pop one or two off on bronzes just for shits and giggles.

"Holy shit, you wasted that missile on a trooper?", "Yeah, I got five more"

[Sky]

The player left on his own and they then proceeded to kick me :(.

It gets more common in my experience. People understand multiplayer and now every expert thinks that they need a strong team.

BTW. how should I play soldier so that I don't die all the time? Krogan is nice because of health and shields but somehow I've still got problems.

[Jeff Kelly]

...on gold I should have added

Kicking level 20 engineers in bronze or silver is a bit excessive in my opinion

[Nonentity]

Someone made a spreadsheet to keep track of all your unlocks.

http://narida.pytalhost.com/me3/mpchecklist/

There's a Google doc you can copy there, that's how I've been keeping track of mine:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Apreujdn-BStdGYzc085aTA2UTlaV2stOXRva2oxV0E#gid=3

Still no Widow or Black Widow. Locust 8 -_-

[caladein]

Will Trade Black Widow I for Geth Plasma Shotgun II and SMG Ultralight Materials I OBO, PST.

[Trippy]

Be careful purchasing MP items in ME 3 is flaky right now. This is what I got back from EA Live Support:

I apologize for the inconvenience caused to you. This is a temporary issue and our engineers are already aware of this. They are working to resolve this as soon as possible as such we do not have any ETA (update) on this that when this issue gets resolved. If the issue persists, you can contact us again. We will be happy to assist you.

Edit: actually this has been a problem for weeks now. Fucking EA.

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/344/index/10047618/1

[Special J]

I get a Widow on my first Spectre pack and it's been all downhill from there.  I've unlocked the Salarian Infiltrator for the third time.  And lucky me I bought it when I had just levelled my Quarian Infiltrator to 20.  So the 100k XP was wasted.

So keep that in mind.  If you plan to promote do it before you buy any packs.