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2012-09-04, 01:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-04, 01:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mass Effect 3.7: "That was for Thane"
Yeah, I've found it to be the hardest ammo to acquire.
Irritatingly, it's the one I use most, because I usually play random enemy.
What if Guardians show up? I'll be helpless without it!
Yes, I know I could use the shredder mod, but that means sacrificing either the ton of damage from the barrel, or the added accuracy of the smart choke, neither of which I want to give up.
My life would be easier if there were 3 mod slots for guns, even if the third was unlockable.Homebrew
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2012-09-04, 02:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-04, 05:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mass Effect 3.7: "That was for Thane"
Balance changes are out.
Originally Posted by ME3 MP Balance Changes, September 4th, 2012Last edited by Edge; 2012-09-04 at 05:36 PM.
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2012-09-04, 05:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mass Effect 3.7: "That was for Thane"
Holy guacamole that's a lot of Submission Net buffs. Methinks my Batarian Sentinel is going to look a bit more effective next time I play. And I am quite alright with that.
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2012-09-04, 05:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mass Effect 3.7: "That was for Thane"
The initial BSN post neglected to mention equal buffs to Batarian Fitness. My above post edited to match.
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2012-09-04, 07:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -C.S. Lewis
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2012-09-04, 10:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mass Effect 3.7: "That was for Thane"
We weren't farming. The location and enemy had been chosen at random. The "stronghold" is on the other side of the reactor/killbox from the players' spawn point. In my experience, it's the most defensible area on that map. Everywhere else is either too open, too cluttered, or doesn't have proper shooting lanes.
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2012-09-04, 10:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-05, 02:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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I play on the PS3 occasionally.
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2012-09-05, 04:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mass Effect 3.7: "That was for Thane"
The destroyer, turian soldier and both geth have an advantage other guns don't; accuracy an rate of fire. These mean that, instea of fast accurate guns getting faster and more accurate, stronger, but slower and less accurate guns become competitive. A case I. Point wing the piranha. The piranha is pretty solid, normally. Put it on a destroyer, you get two extra shots in the same amount of time, a much tighter spread and some damage boosts. Same with hunter mode. I have been clicking on hunter mode, and sniping at long AR range better than most shotguns do just out of melee range.
Of corse, if you've got a decent gun and a sturdy target, rate of fire is nice too.
I find the damage boost outshines the accuracy if I have to make a choice. Usually. With proximity mine and Tac cloak, I can sacrifice my choice of AP or extended barrel with no loss. I tend to drop the shredder mod though, because so many ammo types make up for it.
Incendiary ammo inflicts panic, DoT and if times right, huge explosions.
Cryo ammo weakens enemy armor, sufficiently to make up for it.
AP ammo does the same thing, really, akin with a damage boost.
Disruptor ammo sets up tech bursts like no one's business.
Warp ammo weakens armor and fees rates phantoms and banshees.
Stack the deck enough and everything drops. I went into platinum with Callos and a friend, white geth gold. They were both level 1. Level 20 geth infiltrator with the above specs (and my AP IV AMMO for the special occasion) and we wiped on wave four the first time, six the second. Their only jobs were decoy, and cloak-medic. The piranha is insane.
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Fun withslayerBiotic Wuxia!
Back to my usual segment.
Slayer is working out pretty passably. Radius, efficiency, and shield damage. I took armor and it was much less useful than I'd like. Precision sword work is a fabulous skill, and I did some math and decide to take it over to the Fury. On silver for low level larking.
The fury is only level 14 at this point, so I max out fitness for melee damage. I Max out Anihilation field for damage as well; this ends up Wong somewhere in the neighborhood of 225/s from bein within three meters of me. A token point in N7 so I canc arty a phalanx, a token point in dark channel for utility, and three in throw. I am a terrible biotic detonator, but quite the guerilla Kung Fu master. The time between portations is slightly longer, and cleaner. Light melee flurrying was sufficient to keep me alive under all but the best time enemy fire. Phantoms also fell to my ninja skillz, with a much higher win ratio: 100% over six phantoms versus the 75% of four phantoms for the slayer.
Anihilation field tends to strike a heavy melee target a split second before you hit them. The biotic field in tandem with punching staggers them every time, and another two strikes will kill them dead. And at least one of those missed, often both. I have not tried gold yet, but boy do I want to. A melee expendable woul be quite impressive, theoretically netting a total of 1,000 or so damage from the light melee stroke, in tandem with a panic inducing 225/s biotic field. I'm enjoying the heck out of this.
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2012-09-05, 10:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Haven't played MP since the next to last bounty weekend. I participated in the most recent one, but promoting characters doesn't count as playing for me.
Decided to level my Geth Infiltrator and got him up to either 16 or 18 (can't remember which) before jumping into platinum. Decided to do a White basement run. Got in with a good team and we successfully extracted the first time.
Second game we startedhaving some connection issues where people would drop out of our Xbox Live party. Then on wave 7 the host got kicked. Wave restarted but I was all alone. Managed to stay alive for a few minutes alone- the rest of my party was trying to join back in, but the game wouldn't connect.
I run my Geth Infil without any points in prox mine- I know a lot of people seem to like it, but I prefer to be full up on all the other skills. The boost to shields and health makes me more durable. Plus I grab the first weapon damage upgrade for Hunter mode, but I've found that extended vision is much deadlier from a tactical perspective.
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2012-09-05, 12:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Operation: VIGILANCE announced.
Operation: VIGILANCE (September 7th-9th)
Unexpected attacks have taken out several squads and damaged vital Alliance equipment. We will deploy drones to repair damage and investigate the nature of these attacks.
Squad Goal: Complete up to and including wave 10 on any difficulty without using a consumable (medi-gel, ammo, Ops pack or Cobra missile launcher).
Allied Goal: Complete 250,000 escort missions on any difficulty.
Special Circumstance: None
Individual Goal Success: All individual players awarded a Commendation Pack
Allied Goal Success: All players awarded a Victory PackHomebrew
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2012-09-05, 12:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mass Effect 3.7: "That was for Thane"
I was a little disappointed about the lack of Collectors in ME3, though I do not miss their heavy units. Give me a Ravager and a Harvester any day instead of a Scion and a Pratorean.
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2012-09-05, 12:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-05, 12:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mass Effect 3.7: "That was for Thane"
Also, a BioWare post on the BSN has confirmed that to get the Commendation pack, your entire squad has to go the match without using consumables.
So yeah, I'll probably solo or duo Bronze for the Commendation pack.Homebrew
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2012-09-05, 12:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mass Effect 3.7: "That was for Thane"
I think it's a nice touch that, more and more, "Up to wave 10" is the cutoff for the rewards. I think they're realizing that, as designed, there's no point to extraction beyond XP.
EDIT Aw crap my Vorcha Sentinel would have been perfect for this!
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2012-09-05, 01:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mass Effect 3.7: "That was for Thane"
Scion shockwaves with ME3 upgrades...
For that matter, bouncy-Harby and Praetorian Barrier-healing. Hell, all they have to do now is give the Collectors grenades.
Was thinking the same thing. My Cerberus Vanguard should do the trick nicely, ripping through Bronze.Last edited by Psyren; 2012-09-05 at 01:29 PM.
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2012-09-05, 01:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-05, 02:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-05, 03:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-05, 03:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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So I have a few of you on my friends list for Xbox, but, as some of you may have noticed, we have never actually played together. So if anyone needs help to do the squad goal, I'll do it. Though I'll not be playing ME3 all the time, I will probably be online most of the day Friday AND Saturday. Just send me a message/party/game invite and I'll come and help (though you may have to wait a minute or five while I finish up what I'm doing).
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2012-09-05, 07:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-05, 09:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ooh, Playground no-items run? I am SO in!
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2012-09-05, 09:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-06, 07:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Grr. Two consecutive consumables-only PSPs.
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2012-09-06, 09:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-06, 09:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-06, 10:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Just the medigel, survival packs, missiles, and spare clips are out. Equipment consumables are okay.
Edit: And in case anyone was curious, here's a link to my manifest (you need to sign in to BSN/Origin to see it):
http://social.bioware.com/3816312/&v...ay=multiplayer
Perhaps we can put these in the list under our names?Last edited by Krade; 2012-09-06 at 11:19 PM.
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2012-09-07, 01:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mass Effect 3.7: "That was for Thane"
I have everything except for lights on the fury, pattern and lifts on the destroyer, and only have the base slayer chassis. I think I'm missing a Quarian male engineer appearance option as well. I also have a rank 2 particle rifle, rank 2 harrier, and everything else is at 1. Oh, wait no. Also both Balck widow and Indra at 2.
Those are all preferable to more ammo.