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Played ten games. Won all of them in a row. Got five spectre packs. Not one of them had any of the new stuff in.

I don't want my claymore to get upgraded or get N7 weapons.

ps Geth Engineer is over-powered. Had three of them on one team (to add insult to injury ) and we just tore through the Geth on silver.

If any of you want to play on the 360 my GT is Sacred Flea. I won't disappoint you!

I had saved up almost a million Credits from gold over the weekend, so I dumped them all into Spectre packs yesterday. I ended up with...

Batarian Sentinel
Krogan Battlemaster
Asari Justicar
Geth SMG
Striker Assault Rifle

Then played a few games and got the Geth Infiltrator.

I take back all my Batarian hate. They do so much Melee damage that it makes the Krogans look like sissies sometimes. And that Net is fun. I can't wait to unlock the Soldier and see what that Blade thing does.

I played a couple of silver games yesterday, and we tore through all of them.. Made me wonder if they adjusted things to make them a little easier? I don't think I saw any new characters yet though

I've been playing with the Geth Infiltrator and their "Hunter Vision" is just obscenely fun. Cloaked Geth Hunters coming for your team?

BAM! Nope, they're not doing it anymore!
Phantom cloaked after you've got her almost dead?
BAM! Nope, dies invisible and everything!

The Striker AR is pretty disappointing.
The Harpoon Rifle is freaking nasty when you charge the shot up. One-shotted a Brute with it from Tactical Cloak.
The Geth Plasma SMG has a feature which is not really mentioned...the longer it's being fired, the more damage it does. Spin that baby up and it will shred.

Oh man, I put the extended clip on the Geth SMG, it holds 180 Rounds. It just goes on and on and on and on... it just drains health bars.

Sometimes I just hold it down and sweep it around like a fire hose.

Do'h totally forgot about this with my sickness bug, will have to get it tonight.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Do'h totally forgot about this with my sickness bug, will have to get it tonight.

I have yet to play with you on ME3.

I think that might have to happen.

Yeah, I meant to hit up Totalwar and Adarionn last night but I got distracted by shiny things.

At least I got some painting done before succumbing to ME3.

I know Iam surprised how much of a melee tank the batarian is. I got Batarian soldier and Krogan Vanguard. One is a fist smashing, engine of death that shoots blasts of fire from its gauntlets and the other is a biotic god Krogan.


The blade armour hurts anyone who attacks the batarian in melee as well as offering damage protection like the sentinal armour. If you meant the thing that la8nches from your arm its basically a shotgun like carnage that can hit mulitple people at short range and does bleeding damage.

Totalwar1402 wrote:I know Iam surprised how much of a melee tank the batarian is. I got Batarian soldier and Krogan Vanguard. One is a fist smashing, engine of death that shoots blasts of fire from its gauntlets and the other is a biotic god Krogan.


The blade armour hurts anyone who attacks the batarian in melee as well as offering damage protection like the sentinal armour. If you meant the thing that la8nches from your arm its basically a shotgun like carnage that can hit mulitple people at short range and does bleeding damage.

I know right! And yeah, the Blade Assault or whatever it's called is what I meant. It looks awesome. I do more Melee with my Batarian Sentinel than I do with my Krogan. It's bonkers. It's better still that I can net people, and then walk over at my leisure and FAAAAALLCON PAWNCH! things into oblivion.

Its a ton of fun.

Now back to my Geth Infiltrator... who needs a sniper rifle when you have a Plasma Shotgun.

I've been playing with the Batarian Soldier and OH. DEAR. GOD!

Ballistic Blades is absurd. Combine it with the Striker Assault Rifle and approach groups of enemies, and if the damage alone doesn't kill them, the stun lets you get off a volley of grenade rounds from the Striker which kills anything left over. It's the most ridiculous thing I've seen so far.

I still have not unlocked either of the Geth, which makes me sad, but I do quite like the Asari Justicar. Her bubble is great for farming on Gold difficulty, and between Reave and Throw, she does reasonable damage. I'm not so big on the Batarian Sentinel though. The net has too long of a cooldown and that's about the only decent feature of the class unless you specifically want to melee. Admittedly, their heavy melee is the most broken in the game so yeah, you could do that.

Chemical Cutthroat, next time I see you online I'll send you an invite and we can do a few matches together.

The net's cooldown isn't actually bad, but you can't have Ballistic Armor on if you plan on using it a lot.

I upgraded my net to have the area effect bonus, and it's fantastic combined with the Striker.

Also worth noting?
The net DOES affect Banshees, Primes, Brutes, and Atlas.

It hurts them, but it doesn't 'net' them.

I like punching Atlus Mechs, Brutes and Banshees to death.

Kanluwen wrote:The net's cooldown isn't actually bad, but you can't have Ballistic Armor on if you plan on using it a lot.

I upgraded my net to have the area effect bonus, and it's fantastic combined with the Striker.

Also worth noting?
The net DOES affect Banshees, Primes, Brutes, and Atlas.

So you like the Striker + Net with no Blade Armor? I'll have to give that one a try. I just promoted my sentinel so I'm looking to try something different this time around anyway.

Striker with Stabilizer and Extended Magazine.

Using the Piercing Mod on the Striker is a smidge...well, it's silly. It can't pierce cover, period, like the Falcon cannot either. What you want to do is have as many shots and you want those shots as stabilized as possible. Aiming for headshots is completely possible, but very rare because the thing just...explodes people.

Hmmmmm, I've been using it on my Batarian Soldier with the Piercing mod and Stabalizer. Gonna switch Piercing to Extended Mag tonight and see how I like it.

Still haven't found to play this week. Should get going this week again.

On a side note, do the new characters replace folks in the list, or did new slots appear on the end of the corrosponding class types?


@Kan, and aye, will have to try and get a game in at some point. What level are you playing at the moment? As I've been languishing in Bronze while I'm unlocking stuff, if you are on Silver or Gold, will need to up my game.

I played this weekend enough to buy 2 of those premium spectre boxes. I got a Geth Infiltrator, the M-98 Widow, a black N7 pistol (Scorpion), and a Striker.

I didn't like the Striker much, although I could see how other people could like it. I prefer precision, so I usually roll with the Mattock.

That being said, I was all sadface when I got by first N7 ultra-rare; the Scorpion. I never use pistols. So I decided to give the Widow and the pistol to my Geth Infiltrator. Turns out, the pistol is goddamn hilarious, and fun as hell. It fires these little blue death balls, which if they hit a surface, become proximity mines. If they hit a victim, they stick and explode in a few seconds. I'm having so much fun with it. On the last mission, we had to extract at the end of a hallway, kind of, so all I had to do was keep covering the walls with those little blue death balls. When the explode, so does the victim; it was raining gibs for 2 minutes until we extracted. Hilarious.

I'm with the other guy that's never won a gold. I've only won silver a few times. Unfortunately I'm really not invested in the game enough to make friends which appear to be required for actually beating the harder levels; so it's bronze for me. Still had a blast with it this weekend though.

Scorpion is the main pistol I use in single player, I so want that gun. I am guessing in multiplayer it is just as hilarious to use as single player.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Still haven't found to play this week. Should get going this week again.

On a side note, do the new characters replace folks in the list, or did new slots appear on the end of the corrosponding class types?

New slots appear on the end of the corresponding class types.

@Kan, and aye, will have to try and get a game in at some point. What level are you playing at the moment? As I've been languishing in Bronze while I'm unlocking stuff, if you are on Silver or Gold, will need to up my game.

When I play by myself, I just play Bronze. It's too much of a hassle to do Silver/Gold with randoms--and I find it easiest for me to just go for the "path of least annoyance".

Aye I can dig that, Although folks are saying Gold is quicker, I'd rather get something, than nothing at all.

Will try and find you later in the week.

So the Scorpion is an ultra-rare?? Dammit.... I got me some work to do, easily my fave pistol and all I use is a pistol and Assault Rifle. Easy kills

I really wish they'd incorporate a "Trade" feature.

I have a Scorpion. I do not want said Scorpion.
I want a N99 Sabre or a Valiant.

Kanluwen wrote:
When I play by myself, I just play Bronze. It's too much of a hassle to do Silver/Gold with randoms--and I find it easiest for me to just go for the "path of least annoyance".

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Aye I can dig that, Although folks are saying Gold is quicker, I'd rather get something, than nothing at all.

Will try and find you later in the week.

If you complete wave 6 on Silver, the payout is the exact same as an entire Bronze, so even if you can't finish a Silver, it's usually better if you can just get to wave 6. On Gold, the wave 3 payout is almost as much as a full bronze, and the wave 6 payout is the same as a full Silver, so if you do Gold and can complete the objectives on wave 3, it takes like 1/3 the time of doing a complete Bronze.

The only reason to do Bronze is if you promote and have a level 1 character. It's more XP than if you get killed early in the other two, and most people will kick you on Gold if you aren't at least level 15, or have a particularly good build or high N7 number. I run a Bronze when I promote which usually gets me level 6, then I jump into Silver for the rest. I don't usually do Gold unless A) I'm playing with friends, B) I'm playing an Infiltrator to give me a better chance of completing objectives, or C) I'm playing against Geth on Fire Base White, at which point it's a credit farm. Of course, I've been doing that a lot more since the release of the DLC because I want credits to unlock my Geth characters.

I just got another box, and got a N7 Black Sabre in it. I like it, good rifle. I think I like the Mattock more but this one seems to have nice stopping power.

Hate you so much right now Ouze...

How heavy is the Sabre?

OK, I played a few more rounds with the Sabre and yeah, now it's my favorite. Like a middle ground between a sniper rifle and a main battle rifle. It's also got the most satisfying bang, which is important to me. I had less luck the last few games with the Scorpion - it looks like the little blue death balls kept passing though targets instead of sticking to them.

I don't know how to see weight like numerically? But it's about 85% of the bar, the same weight as the Striker. The only heavier weapon I have is the Widow.

I also got a Krogan Warrior and a Batarian warrior last round. Was hoping for a Black Widow but no luck.

I haven't got a Saber yet, but I do have a high level Raptor. After perusing the BioWare forums I've been told it's reasonably effective on a Turian with their stability, and the free scope means you can put a pen mod and extended barrel on it and it functions like a Mattock but hits harder and is more accurate. I think I'll be trying this tonight.

I'll probably switch to a Saber when I get one.....eventually.