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  1. You don't really need coordination, but as the Rock says, you do have to know your role. If you're the team's only cloaker, you damn well better be ready to lay it all out there on objectives waves. I've failed them before, but it wasn't for lack of trying. It's no time to try to be saving revives, and if you're out already, best be spending time working on the basics. I gotta work on my Salarian, because I've been given the chance to be shield booster a few times now and the character's just a Level 7. I wanna see how that plays, because it cheeses me when a Salarian is out front shooting shit and not shield boosting. That's his role in the Nova games. Any other kills are appreciated, but shouldn't get in the way of goal 1 - shield boosting. Everybody has a role, and anyone playing should know their role or know what the team lacks and adjust.
  2. Just played Platinum with two other guys - didn't have a fourth, so I was doubting our long-term success anyway. I was the Krogan, but the Salarian was too busy shooting shit to give me shield boosts, so I sat there with my dick out, dying, most of the time. Then get this. This nearly made me start throwing controllers: Wave 4 is devices. Avenger takes off after the first one and dies. I've got problems of my own, so I don't notice that fhe Avenger is staying down, waiting for one of us to come revive him on a devices wave. Needless to say, timer ran out, game over, and I couldn't leave fast enough.
  3. Just had a great series of platinum games with the No. 2 guy on XBox. We were playing the Nova deal on Magma, and y'all may not believe this, but dude is really good. He was the Salarian who can give shield boosts, and I never hurt for shields. He had it down to a science. I could hang back and shotgun the living crap out of everything that got near me. I could stand with them toe to toe because I never had to worry about losing shields. I think all four of us may have died a combined two times in our last game. Also found out something new - you can get variants of Ultra-Rare guns without having all of them up to 10 (or even having all of them, for that matter). I''ve got several UR guns at 1 and 2, a couple at 5 or 6 and I'm missing three completely. So I got the Naladen sniper rifle up to 10. I figure that's the last I'll see of it for a while, because I won't get variants on it until I get the rest of the ultra-rares up to 10 (kinda like how the characters work). But I got the Bulwark variant of it in my last pack. So there's several ultra-rare guns I'd like to have and several I''d like to level up, and the game just introduced 29 new ultra-rares into my pool by allowing me to get the Naladen's variants.
  4. More fun today with platinum: 1. People try to play in this camping spot on the second level of Sandstorm, and it's pretty skeery. One guy was on the game chat talking about how him and a buddy did the on platinum with just the two of them. "We'll see," I thought to myself, and sure enough, he got the shit beat out of him in our game. 2. Getting ready to play with three folks, and one guy gets two kick votes. He didn't have the highest APEX ever, but he was fine, had a decent-level character. Saw no reason to kick him. So we start, and one of the two guys sends me a message to kick the other "because he doesn't know how to play platinum." Guy did fine, did some stupid shit, but so does everybody. He gets killed late and misses extraction, but hell, that's common, extraction is tough. So of course I got the "told you we should've kicked him" message. Calm down, Skippy, it ain't that important.
  5. I've played Platinums I didn't think were as hard as that Silver. That stip is death. Someone dies, then the person trying to revive that person dies, then another person coming over to help dies. I went into it cocky thinking that as long as it wasn't One Life to Live and I got a shot at reviving, I'd be fine, so I played my usual melee style and didn't fare all that well. We ran into two distinct patches where things just got really, really stupid. Both times, I thought "we could very easily fail this." Then Robert, Melraz and I played some Platinums and were blessed with a visit from the good-teammates fairy. Both our fourth players were just rock-solid, which is a rarity. Second random was a 25K APEX rating dude playing a human soldier, and everything that got near him had a nasty habit of dying. I'd be like "oh shit, this is gonna suck ... it's dead."
  6. I have never gotten fussed at for stealing kills, and the Avenger does it fairly frequently because I'm running around all over the map like a chicken with my head cut off. This is a team thing, I don't care if somebody steals all my kills as long as the enemies die. Never been a score guy. I just wanna finish the mission and get paid. I don't give a wet damn for guns anymore because the odds are basically really against me now. What I mean is that no matter which $100,000 pack you buy, you have the same chance of getting an ultra-rare. Problem with the guns is that I don't see any of the ultra-rares really being super-effective until I get them into high Bulwark and Siphon territory, and that means I'm gonna have to get every ultra-rare gun up to X before I start getting variants. My high UR gun right now is a V, but most are Is and IIs. I still don't have two or three ultra-rare guns. Getting all those guns up to X is gonna define "challenge," much less getting variants up to X, because the chances of getting ultra-rares doesn't increase as you finish up rares. You just get rare consumables instead. Always best to run anything you can on power cells, because it's crazy to be waiting on the recharge timer if you need to do something immediately. If you're big on power cell use, try running the Grenade Capacity (I think it's called) vest. Gives you three more power cell capacity on everything you use them for. It's an absolute must on the Avenger since sticky bombs and cloaks run on power cells. The extra power cell consumables are still my favorite, because I burn just a ton of stickies playing Platinum. I played some with the No. 2 guy recently, but I don't think we talked. I had a huge four- or five-game Platinum run late last night with a couple of guys who were around 45,000 and a guy who was at 31,000. The high-level guys were playing tanky shooters and me and the other guy were Avengers playing freestyle on Firebase Zero. I wouldn't say it was easy, but it was the easiest time I've had so far playing Platinum. It took a game, but me and the other Avenger was meshing perfectly on the objective waves - I was where he wasn't, he was where I wasn't. I screwed up first game trying to help him with a hack, and even though I was cloaked, I was still somehow drawing heat. I abandoned the hack and it went super smoothly from there. Lesson learned. I had a bad run in the afternoon playing Platinums with Melraz because somebody else wanted to be the cloaker and they couldn't get the objectives done. We came to the conclusion that even though there are other characters who can cloak, the Avenger's the one for Platinum because you can throw stickies at stuff without breaking cloak. That's huge in a Hack or Upload when someone wanders in. I think I enjoy playing "freestyle" more than the Nova method, because you're not as dependent on randoms. Doing the Nova thing, you need someone who can really cloak well and do objectives and someone who can always remember to spam that damn shield boost constantly so the Krogan can Nova. I think the shield boost guys get carried away with shooting shit and forget to do the shield boost, but that character is basically there to support the Krogan first and do whatever afterward. I swear, I think I had my first guy bail on a Platinum match because he thought we were gonna fail (so did I) and bailed out to protect his APEX rating. He could've dropped, but I definitely think him quitting on purpose like that is what happened. We wound up finishing it, barely. I was a Krogan, but my shield guy abandoned me in the room we were in when things got too hot while I stood around and tried to take out 800 Ascendants with no one to boost my shields. That didn't exactly go well.
  7. Double post, sorry, but this blows my mind: I have every rare gun and its three variants all up to X. I'm not getting guns in my disappointment packs, I'm getting more rare (level III?) consumables. I still don't have the variants of all of the uncommon guns, but I don't care. I'll continue to get those every once in a while in Reserves packs while I press for more characters. I could finish them off by buying lots of advanced packs, but since I don't really care anyway, I'll stick with Reserves. I've been playing like mad most of the day, usually Platinum, and I can recall getting only one ultra-rare character all day. Just played a bit of a difficult Platinum where I was the Krogan Gladiator doing the Nova method, right? Problem is, the guy who was the Salarian wasn't giving me any shield boosts. He was too busy shooting and getting killed. I nearly had to fuss at him about it, but I just cursed my luck and left the group after the game. The other two guys on the team were pretty good, but I was pretty much pointless without shield boosts.
  8. As I type this, there's two guys playing a Platinum One Life to Live strike team mission against the Kett. One has an Apex of 62, playing a I-1 Human Vanguard. The other has an Apex of 125, playing a I-1 Human Sentinel. I wish them good luck. Starting to think Outlaw is a safer bet in Platinum than Kett. Strangely enough, it seems like the Ascendants hang back more when playing Kett, and probably due to game limitations, there's only about one Fiend per game. With the Ascendants, teams usually find themselves finishing off two of them as the last two enemies, which makes things easier. Ascendants are more aggressive with Outlaw, not afraid to get in your face. The big thing that makes Kett tough are those gigantic Krogan that are the third boss on a typical Gold Boss Wave. Behemoths, I think, but I can't remember their name. That damage bubble they put out is super-dangerous, they can heal themselves, and they take a ton of punishment. They're no fun. And they're a ton more present in Platinum.
  9. I played some Platinums this afternoon with two high-level guys and two different guys who had no business being there (less than 1,000 APEX). The 50,000-plus APEX was our undoing. He was an Avenger, who decided there was no reason to fool with the last device and caused us to fail. Second time, he nearly failed a hack (no prob, I've done it before), but I ran up there just in time to clear the area with about 14 sticky bombs. Then played a Platinum game with new folk that was one of the most laggy games I have ever played. That was fun.
  10. The forecast calls for a 100 percent chance of mediocrity and fuck-uppery.
  11. I think I must have had better-than-average teammates, because I breezed right through it. Had to pop once and had to use a couple of ammo packs, but no big deal. I treated the Progenitors as must-kill-immediately targets due to their propensity for shitting out Observers. Weird to use RPGs in silver, but totally worth it. Got to play Platinum with Idiots last night. It started as me, a guy who does the shield boosts and an Avenger, so I switched to the Krogan Gladiator so I could do some Nova spamming, right? We started with three of us and got through the first wave before being joined by a fourth, someone who was just there to shoot and didn't fit into the plan at all. Whatever. Problems started on activity waves - the Avenger would stay in the pack for a while before realizing "oh yeah, this is my job" and taking off for the objective. This turned into a disaster on Wave 6 when my shield-boosting buddy went to "help" the Avenger do an upload, leaving me with no one to boost my shields, making the Nova useless and pretty much killing my whole reason for being there. 250 deaths later, and what do you know, we didn't finish the upload. There was also a guy trying to do Platinum last night with an I-shit-you-not APEX rating of 25 playing a I-1 Human Soldier. We booted him, but I was pretty tempted to let him do it just so he could see what he got into.
  12. l'm of limited coordination. Trying to push those buttons while worrying about the throttle was too much to bear. I'd knock the guys off the bikes, get off, shoot 'em, then lose the cops on that one resupply mission.
  13. Dunno about PS4, but trying to run the melee controls on motorcycles on XBox One was a pain in the ass.
  14. That sounds like fun. Played several platinums today with solid teammates. I did a metric ton of reviving - the doctor was in the house - but it wasn't so bad. Kept repeating the platinum strike team, and I'm pretty convinced Kett is easier on platinum than Outlaw. Also convinced that no matter what you might think, if you aren't running the Nova method and you clump up, you're gonna die. Repeatedly. The trick is to remain loose, but still close enough to each other to revive each other when necessary. Enemies clump up too hard on clumps of players, and you can't fight the numbers. The trick is to try to isolate foes without putting yourself on the other end of the map if you're needed or need help. I also do not see how anyone can use a class that doesn't cloak. The Avenger, God bless her, is made for Platinum. I would like to change the spec a touch, but that would ruin her for Gold, so, no thanks.
  15. Why Road Rash hasn't made a comeback is beyond me. Would seem to be a natural to play online.
  16. Is there a bicycle section? We used to have some pretty epic bicycle races on crew nights.
  17. I gotta try those. I haven't been on a while, but I get the sense that the lobbies are getting smaller and everyone wants to just mind their own business and do their weapons/cars/drugs/crates crap. So when someone comes along and busts up the fun, people get a little pissy about it.
  18. The Bulwark thing would've helped a little, but not enough to make a difference. All the guns are either powerful, but don't shoot/reload fast enough, or shoots and reloads fast but aren't powerful enough. My problem is that I have to go to an ammo box every 3.5 seconds for more grenades and cloaks, so I can't stay in one place long. If I hadn't gotten kicked, I would've asked the guy running the show if he knew how to do the Krogan method. I just think he hadn't put enough thought into what he was trying to do and how he was trying to do it.
  19. I think the weekend Remnant base Silver APEX mission was doing something funky to the servers, 'cause we kept having server problems all night long. I dropped in the middle of a Platinum match where the poor bastards I was playing with seemed to be good people, but had no idea how it worked. We were standing in the spot on Magma that you stand in if you're doing the Nova method, but we were all playing free-form style. So basically, we were trying to pool up and take on all the enemies at once without having any sort of tricks up our sleeve. The "leader" was counting on our gun damage seeing us through, but the numbers were gonna roll over that in time. We were doing fairly well through about Wave 3 (I think I dropped at 4), but I knew there was no way we were getting past Wave 5. I tried to use the Artificer for some Tech challenge work, but I don't have her powers built up enough yet (I think she's now a Level 2), so the cryo beam and the infection thing didn't pack much punch. Her Remnant 6 totally kicks ass, though. I wound up switching to the usual Salarian (isn't it? Too lazy to look it up). His VI is decent and his inferno attack is a one-shot kill on lower-level stuff. Gotta go pick up "The Fractured But Whole." If I'm playing it and anyone else is on wanting to play multiplayer, shoot me a message. I'll be glad to switch over.
  20. Just read they tweaked some of the weapons - really juiced up the piranha. Also, ME:A is coming to EA Access sometime this year (October-December)
  21. I'd decided that dude was on his own a bit before that. Was he the one who jumped into the hack late and nearly screwed us, or was that catnip?
  22. We had three people who could cloak, so we could run around individually instead of trying to coordinate movements. The other guy can kiss my ass. I've done the coordinated movement thing, it works equally as well. We used the ammo boxes as meet-up points for the next cloak. Straight-up Platinum last night was a bear unless I stayed cloaked. As soon as I became visible, I was dead. It causes the game to be kinda long - throw some grenades, run out of grenades, go get more grenades, throw some more grenades, etc. - but it works. It's odd to me that there's all this chaos breaking out around you and the best thing to do is just relax and pick your spots and not be afraid to bail if where you're at's getting too crazy. A re-spec on the Avenger for Platinum would be a good idea, but I can do without it. A re-spec to make her more Platinum-friendly would ruin her melee style for Gold and below, and I don't feel like changing her around every time I wanna slide from Platinum to Gold. There's a way she can be redone to give her two more power cell capacities for cloak and sticky grenades, bringing the total (with the grenade vest) to 9. Making that switch would be hard on meleeing, though. That'd be huge. I gotta play around with it some more.
  23. I didn't pay any attention to what character the guy was playing - maybe the new one. It was up to XX, so he got all the veteran bonuses. We were playing Zero (the spaceship map), so he sat in the back and shot the whole time the way everyone does on that map. Whatever works. We were all on the game chat - very handy for Platinum - and he was this annoying little Yankee shit. I got paid, though, so Merry Christmas.
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