Mass Effect 3

[Reg]

It's funny how people have gone from being enthusiastic about the multiplayer to being absolutely miserable because they're forcing themselves to grind until it's not fun anymore.

[Ironwood]

Yes.  Yes, it is.

I'm laughing anyway.

[Jeff Kelly]

Vanguards are annoying as hell. A kill happy Vanguard in your party and nobody else get's a clean shot anymore.

I've literally experienced all of the other players dropping 10,000 points each in their scores when you have one in your party.

I wondered why Vanguards seem to get kicked more often than others, now I know

[Surlyboi]

That's probably why my Disco Infiltrator gets kicked a lot. One-shot kills and I'm beating everyone else on the team by at least 10k points on average.

[Jeff Kelly]

I gave up on the infiltrator. Every other class has some power that shakes up the whole level or they run into my line of sight which messes up my shots.

I cannot count the shots I missed because someone used shockwave, biotic charged and + nova'd the enemy I tried to kill or messed my shot up in other ways.

Since you can't use the stability mod for rifles, I mess up about half of my shots when I have to play with Vanguards or Adepts.

Add to that that a vanguard manages to kill five enemies by the time you kill one and it's not much fun anymore.

Also sniper rifle aim is broken since ME 2. Half of the time the direction your rifle points at dramatically changes when you switch to scope view. So you have to line the shot up again once you switch to scope view even if you already had the general direction before that.

Maybe if I had the PC version but it's gottten annoying on the xbox.

[Surlyboi]

The black widow is like the 88 magnum from Johnny Dangerously. it shoots through schools. You can no-scope a lot of shit with power like that, especially against the cannon fodder mobs that like to bunch up. One shot, sometimes two or three kills.

[Jeff Kelly]

If I had drawn one from a spectre pack yet I might use it. Right now the best rifle I own is a Mantis X.

Somehow multiplayer thinks I need character upgrades more than guns.

With all the shaking from shockwave/nova/concussive shot and vaguards zipping around like squirrels on adderall I've sometimes gone whole waves without a single clean kill.

So I'll probably use my engineers or soldiers more.

[rk47]

Ditch the sniper and use a scoped Mattock until you get the Raptor. With the latency issues and screenshakes, I like mine semi-auto. Or just run around pistoling from cloak at point blank range.
You're not limited to bolt action rifle, you know.

I finally got my asari adept. Finally.

[Jeff Kelly]

So there is a a mattock iin MP?

Seriously I have shitty luck of the draw. I have lots of shotguns though.

[tgr]

Be careful purchasing MP items in ME 3 is flaky right now.

Purchasing what now?

[Velorath]

Just had to pretty much carry a team through Silver.  I did almost all of Wave 8 by myself which I'm sure must have been dull for the others to watch.  I'm not sure what it is about the "hold the area around this terminal" thing, but there seem to be two kinds of players.  You either get the guys who are on the opposite side of the map doing god knows what (usually on Bronze or in early waves) and never get anywhere near the terminal making it take that much longer, or you get the guys that absolutely will not leave the circle even when there's 2 Banshees and 2 Brutes in a small-ass area.  In very special circumstances like this one, you get the latter group who also will not fire a single missile when this happens in Wave 10 (and if you don't have any missiles you shouldn't be playing Silver).  Despite firing all 3 of my missiles two of the other guys bled out for the round (I did manage to get a gold medal for 15 revives, and I'm sure if there was a platinum medal or something I would have gotten that as well), but eventually was able to finish the round up, and surprisingly these guys managed to stay upright for the extraction.  Ended with a little over 115,000 points compared to the next highest of 67,000.

[Trippy]

Be careful purchasing MP items in ME 3 is flaky right now.

Purchasing what now?

Any of the MP store items. People have been losing credits/points for a while now.

[caladein]

At least in my case since I started tracking my unlocks with the spreadsheet, I don't believe I've lost anything from purchases that fail but that I still lost the credits on logging back into the game as the discrepancies match up with what I was buying.

[Jeff Kelly]

The problem with the defend that spot objective is that you can't ride it out. Enemies keep on spawning until the objective is done or the countdown runs out.

It's straightforward to move when the spot is crowded with enemies but if you take too long you'll get swarmed by all the stuff that keeps on spawning. You have to focus fire the hard enemies and clear the initial onslaught as fast as possible. If they occupy you for too long (banshees tend to do that) you'll end up with several ravagers and brutes.

It's easy if people stick together and use a missile for the initial push though.

Well I once lost a silver matchup because nobody wanted to deactivate the devices except me and after i died somewhere on the map without fire support nobody else did and the countdown ran out...

[Jeff Kelly]

Also collision detection is flaky and sometimes a missile goes right through the big ass target.

[Comstar]

I like being a infiltrator, but on Gold and most silver i don't shoot or get nearly as many kills as everyone else. +50 Assists though! Either I'm freezing the target or taking over the Geth using sabotage. I have a Widow, but I still use the Mantis X for the weight bonus - I spend all my time doing off hand tech attacks.

I played a gold Geth game with a Asari Bioitic who took on half the map herself, and me and a Turian Soldier doing the other half. The 4th player spent up to the 9th wave AFK. Getting Geth Primes to fight each other is hilarious, even if they do spent all their time in melee.

[Maledict]

Also collision detection is flaky and sometimes a missile goes right through the big ass target.

Always aim for the ground at their feet rather than the mob - they have a large radius and will still get the target.

[Trippy]

Vanguards are annoying as hell. A kill happy Vanguard in your party and nobody else get's a clean shot anymore.

I've literally experienced all of the other players dropping 10,000 points each in their scores when you have one in your party.

I wondered why Vanguards seem to get kicked more often than others, now I know

[Jeff Kelly]

I liked the Bioware blog entry about Vanguards ;)

http://blog.bioware.com/2012/01/27/special-forces/

I don't really talk about kill stealing though.

They are simply always in my Infiltrator's LOS messing up my shots and biotic charge + nova makes the whole level shake and throws off my aim.

Also they complain when you accidentally kill their charge target and they die (because you need a few seconds to aim and they charge your target in the mean time).

[Trippy]

"So just keep shooting at your friend. It will work out for the best."

On a somewhat related note I've taken to shooting teammates who are slow to get their asses into the extraction zone. One of these days I'll hook my mic back up so I can yell at them properly.

[Rasix]

Broke down and bought this for the PC since my 360 is dead.   Seems buggier but the game does look a bit better and the aiming is definitely a lot easier. 

BTW, thanks for the save file Trippy.  Worked just fine.

[Trippy]

Except for her fugly face

[Rasix]

I tried to recreate the face for my ME2 Shep.  In some light, she's got the worst case of space acne you've ever seen.  Then she turns her head one way and her chin disappears. 

Might restart and just choose the default fem-shep head. At least that one has some QA testing behind it. 

[tmp]

I don't know what QA went into default lady Shep appearance, but i doubt it involved having working eyes.

[Trippy]

And those eyebrows!

[Sjofn]

Maybe I should be happier than I originally was with my NewSally Shepard. 

[caladein]

Might restart and just choose the default fem-shep head. At least that one has some QA testing behind it. 

If you want to use the default head, just open up your save in the save editor:

- "Raw" Tab
- Open up "Player" under "3. Squad".
- Open up "Appearance".
- Find "Has Morph Head" and change it to False.

Your customized head will still be in the files if you want to change it down the line or export it into another save, but you'll show the default appearance.

[rk47]

Farmed geth gold - Salarian Engineer + Salarian Infil makes up like half the team's strength. Anyone else can come - since the whole fight boils down to : Enemy Shoots Decoy, We Shoot Enemies.

[Trippy]

Well I'd hope two out of four players make up half the team's strength

[rk47]

XD yeah but you know pubbies sometimes if we let the weakest link die often enough, he'll rage quit. Making things go faster. 

[Surlyboi]

Meh, I've been playing it wrong. I always rush out and save the shitty vanguards and solo dicks when I should probably let them die.

[rk47]

Actually, there are good vanguards out there but one screw up in silver and that's one corpse in the middle of mobs. And that happens in almost every match with vanguards. I wouldn't risk a random Vanguard on Gold. A Salarian Engineer is the safest bet IMO. Decoys FTW.

Also, seeing people rocketing enemies in final wave made me laugh. I was semi-AFK on finale since it doesn't matter at level 20 whether everyone survive or not. The credits are still the same.

[Sky]

I was playing the human engineer, but it is true that when there was an Inf around we'd just beat the hell out of maps.

[Minvaren]

New ending coming soon!

BioWare, a Label of Electronic Arts Inc. announced Mass Effect™ 3: Extended Cut, a downloadable content pack that will expand upon the events at the end of the critically acclaimed Action RPG. Through additional cinematic sequences and epilogue scenes, the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut will give fans seeking further clarity to the ending of Mass Effect 3 deeper insights into how their personal journey concludes. Coming this summer, the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut will be available for download on the Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and PC for no extra charge*.

Haven't played it yet, but if the spoiler I heard about the ending is true, that'd cheese me off to no end.

[caladein]

Ugh.  I'm on the other end of the spectrum when it comes to the ending.  I think the whole ending sequence (specifically explained in spoiler) needed less epilogue card-like stuff, not more of it.