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  1. Cuphead is gorgeous (as anticipated) and fun, but challenging. I'm still nowhere near halfway finished with the first wave. Hell, I struggled with the tutorial. This may get on my nerves later on, but for now it's fine.
  2. It's a Rockstar game. It won't be fairly bug-free a year after it comes out.
  3. I played one more game after you left last night, Robert, to get one more disappointment pack. Don't know why I bother - 2 useless guns, two useless consumables and an ammo pack.
  4. ME: A is $25 in the XBox Store. It'll be a Games with Gold by March.
  5. New weekend APEX is a hoot. Kett, silver, magma, 11 waves, ammo boxes don't refill, dampened powers, shields and health. Very doable first try, even with crappy teammates.
  6. In my opinion, that was one of the best ones in years and deserves to be up there with the great Randy episodes. This has been a really good season so far.
  7. Hey, just got a disappointment pack with TWO N7s! That calls for an unveiling liveblog~! A character respec (yay!); Inferno V sniper rifle (N7) - yawn; Human Kineticist XIII (N7 - don't care for her); a Cobra RPG; and a Sniper Rifle Rail Amp 2 (don't use sniper rifles). So I paid 100,000, got two N7s and still wound up spending 100K on a RPG. And as before, could've had 50 of those, along with 50 of three other useful supplies and 50 low-level consumables, for the same price. Had to bust my ass to make the last 50 grand too, as I refereed a dying contest between two of my teammates. EDIT: And just 'cause I can, let's Liveblog another one: No N7s. That means lots of gun variants I don't want. Case in point - Lanat concussive 8; Disruptor Ammo 3 (may come in handy at some point); Equalizer siphon 3 (yawn); First Aid Pack; Biotic Power Amp 3 (don't play biotic characters much at all). So that's a first aid pack and one consumable I can see me maybe using at some point or another. Better than last time. People on Reddit have suggested to Bioware (developers read the forums) that they at least remove supplies like first aid packs from non-supply packs to increase the chances of getting something useful that can't be gotten cheaply somewhere else. I say they make N7s at least twice as easy to get - game's dead anyway - so people can get the higher-ranked stuff. But I suppose they still have the fantasy of selling Andromeda points to their gamer base of 15 at this point.
  8. That's wild. A carnifax is an uncommon gun, by all rights you should have one. I've played a lot more than you guys, but I've got the regular carnifax at X, bulwark at 3, concussive at 7 and siphon at 2. And I mainly get rare weapon variants because I buy reserves packs and have all my rare characters up to 20. Now the Rozerad is an ultra-rare, so that's much tougher. I have it at 2. Played a match with a guy yesterday who had a 44,000 APEX and had a siphon Hurricane (ultra-rare). I'm still on 3. I still lack two ultra-rare guns.
  9. Last disappointment pack I bought: Three assault rifle variations I'll never use, a first aid pack and a biotic powers enhancer that I'll never use. So, I paid 100,000 credits for a first aid pack, something I could've gotten 50 of by buying 100,000 worth of jumbo supply packs. Along with 50 RPGs, revives and ammo packs. Single-player was dead on arrival, unfortunately, but they outright killed multiplayer.
  10. I failed it 5 times before me and Melraz put our heads together and I changed tactics to back off the melee and do more shooting. I put on a huge disruptor (?) ammo boost and a huge shotgun amp, fired the shotgun once, then changed over to a pistol. I waited out extraction without firing a shot.
  11. Going to work, but thanks anyway. Breachers don't damage you 1/4th as much as nullifiers. I was trying to duel with the first one and didn't think it'd be so deadly. The second snuck up behind me, never saw him coming. I gave up until tonight. I kept trying to get games going and the guys who joined were not ready for any silver, much less this one.
  12. Why are they doing server maintenance in the middle of the day Eastern? GTA's maintenance was always at 3-4 in the morning.
  13. No revives. I've failed it three straight times. Died twice by a one-shot Nullifier melee kill, including my last try, when I was using a shield boost IV consumable (40 percent more shields).
  14. Hush. I don't know why I'm getting it on a Monday, too. I cruised through it first time, now that I recall, but I had some very good teammates. Pretty much not the case today.
  15. The big weekend strike team mission is no joke: silver, remnant, dwindling supplies, glass jaw, one life to live. Both the breacher and the nullifier can melee. Nullifier took me from perfect health and shields to dead in one blow.
  16. He probably wants to put Butch Jones in witness protection first.
  17. It amazes me how last night I was kicking ass and taking names and this afternoon, I'm struggling with the same shit I did fine on the night before. Teammates have something to do with this, certainly, but it just strikes me as funny. EDIT: Two reserves packs so far today. Five sniper rifle variants. I need a new game.
  18. I played a game with the No. 3 guy on Xbox - for one minute. Joined in progress on Wave 7 with a minute left. Revived a teammate, killed one enemy, extracted and made 50,000. I then spent that money on two bulwark gun variations that I will never use.
  19. I pay no attention to who can combo what. I just run around shanking people with a knife, and if I get a combo with someone, yay! Got the ultra-rare Batarian up to XII last night. Yawn. I love how they have killed this game dead yet have held on to selling them Andromeda points throughout. Make the ultra-rares less rare, game's dead anyway.
  20. A few minutes ago, there was a guy trying to solo a Gold strike team (kett), so I jumped in to try to help. I got the host dropped thing before I made it in. I knew I'd be alone. I managed to hold them off through most of the first wave until someone joined. We made it through 2, then someone else joined. A fourth joined at the end of 3. The way the whole thing went down made me feel like I was the leader of this ragtag army, like George Peppard on the A-Team, and by God, we were coming out of this one alive come hell or high water. At one point, my role was basically to run around reviving my three teammates while they would kill a couple of things and then die again, but hell, we got the waves done. I was just happy to have the help. We made it, twas awesome.
  21. Robert, I think you had left by this point, but we kicked a guy out of the room who had a K/D of 18. He was a level 300-something. I don't think that's even remotely possible, to kill 18 times for every time you get killed. Too high. EDIT: I forgot about K/D nurses, but that still seems high. Maybe not, if he's the best K/D nurse ever.
  22. Watching just a little Heenan on YouTube (with plans to watch a lot more), it amazed me what a great physical comedian he was. The thing with the phone not working is pure Laurel and Hardy.
  23. It was completely overwhelmed when I got there. I kept wondering how I got through two uploads, even with cloaking, without one interruption. It's 'cause every opponent was in that last upload. I keep forgetting RPGs as a means of dealing with an Ascendant, and that's dumb. RPG the orb down and then knife shit out of him. That would've helped there so much.
  24. Joined a game in progress this afternoon. Gold Kett on Aqua. Came in on Wave 6, spawned in the middle of an upload. Finished it and another one, then headed to the third to see why it wasn't moving. I found out. The upload zone was basically a Kett convention. I used three revives and a first aid just trying to clear the zone. As soon as we finished the upload, I took off like my ass was on fire for destination: anywhere else, waving goodbye to my teammates with the immortal quote from "Blazing Saddles.": "Son, you're on your own."
  25. It was impossible this afternoon to find people to play Gold. I think quite a few of the already dwindling player base migrated to Uranus a couple of weeks ago. So I had to play Silvers with randoms just to finish my dailies, and I nearly got my face kicked in. It didn't help that several of my teammates were having a dying contest. Me and another guy carried the hell out of the other two in one match, including one guy who, I shit you not, died at least four times a wave. i had to write the other good teammate and say "that was something" after the match.
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