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Promoted characters appear in single player? I always thought they were promoted just so you could start the powers over and buff your online rank...

Kanluwen wrote:We are getting an Operation this weekend.

Community Goal: 400,000 squads extracted against the Reapers on Gold.
Squad Goal: At least one person extracts against the Reapers on Gold.

So Aldarionn, we gonna try to get Shiv and Gold Reaper it up this weekend?

Absolutely. Reapers aren't new Geth, so getting an extraction shouldn't be problematic. We've done that often enough already

Public Service Announcement:

The Community Goal for this weekend is for a full extraction on any difficulty against the Reapers.

Do your part in getting me a sixth Medi-Gel I can bring into combat with me.
Extract a full squad!

That means:
Rocket Banshees and Brutes ASAP on Wave 11 and get in the circle before the end of the match.

on any level?

Nice need to lvl up my Krogan Sentinel, so two birds with one stone.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:on any level?

Nice need to lvl up my Krogan Sentinel, so two birds with one stone.

On any level.

I'm gonna be doing some Bronze/Silvers to ensure a number of full Extractions I think.

Last night I played with Aldarionn and we got some pretty hectic games in. 2/3 Gold games completed was not bad at all I think!

Yeah our Gold runs weren't bad, though fighting Reapers is never a sure thing. We could have done ANY other objective with no trouble on Glacier, but they HAD to give us the 1234 objective. That one is exceedingly difficult on that map, especially on wave 10.

Yeah my net connection has been awful the past 24hrs, so notta chance at the mo. Aura might get on this afternoon and play if she can, just to get an extraction checkout.

If you see someone on before 10:30pm UK time (5:30pm eastern) it isn't me, and she'll not respond to invites etc.

At worst I am hoping to get on tonight after work and just get in a couple of games before the weekend ends.

Well well well! What do we have here!

I'm itching to get home and download it. Unfortunately though I haven't had a lot of time to farm credits so I won't have anything new right away, but a friend of mine says the Acolyte (Heavy Pistol I believe) has a description that says it does heavy damage to shields/barriers, and in game it can 1-shot a Banshee's shields on Gold difficulty with Adrenaline Rush. That's pretty sweet!

Well, I thought I would be putting down ME3 for good after the EC....

Aldarionn wrote:I'm itching to get home and download it. Unfortunately though I haven't had a lot of time to farm credits so I won't have anything new right away, but a friend of mine says the Acolyte (Heavy Pistol I believe) has a description that says it does heavy damage to shields/barriers, and in game it can 1-shot a Banshee's shields on Gold difficulty with Adrenaline Rush. That's pretty sweet!

Not only that Ald, it can detonate biotic abilities like Warp and Dark Channel.

I got the Piranha/Acolyte up to X already. I dig 'em.

I'll be game for playing some Golds this weekend if you want.

kenshin620 wrote:Well well well! What do we have here!

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that is an awesome trailer, I wish Anderson voiced my life

I really need to play more ME:3 but i'm constantly being sucked onto what my other friends want to do.

Holy crap! Just saw the vid... may need to get into ME3 multiplayer again.

I'm glad that it's free, I guess they just make the money off of the bought packs.

Looks pretty good TBH, I downloaded it when it appeared on the dashboard bu haven't played it yet. I kind of lost touch with ME3 a long time ago.

I think the new N7 stuff is OP....

Saw the N7 Engineer. He just kept throwing down a device that recharges shields and gives out ammo. His grenade launcher ability wrecked most geth that popped out.

Though it was my first time on one of the earth maps so I had no idea what I was doing for the first few rounds!

Also got the N7 Shotgun. Dear lord it is awesome. Only gun I need now!

What level where you on Kenshin?

Might be a case they are OP on the lower levels, but stack well on Gold and/or Platinum.

As someone still playing catch up, I shan't say no to 'easy' mode while playing Bronze thanks to a OP class.

kenshin620 wrote:I think the new N7 stuff is OP....

Saw the N7 Engineer. He just kept throwing down a device that recharges shields and gives out ammo. His grenade launcher ability wrecked most geth that popped out.

Though it was my first time on one of the earth maps so I had no idea what I was doing for the first few rounds!

Also got the N7 Shotgun. Dear lord it is awesome. Only gun I need now!

The Demolisher's Supply Pylon is fantastic.

It doesn't really "recharge" shields, it adds a hefty chunk(25% or so) to your maximum shields.

Outside of that Pylon, her Arc Grenades and Homing Grenades share the same grenade pool--meaning they go by quick on a lot of stuff.

@MDS:
I'll take you through some Bronzes with the new characters if y'want.

Yeah sounds good. I need to start thinking about upgrading to Silver or Gold at some point, but need to get all my potential playing characters back up to twenty first.

Thinking my best bet is with the Krogan Sentinel, love the class, allows me to use a Geth Shotgun which I am doing damage with, plus the Shield power grants me that extra level of survivability.

Although I did very well with the Quarian Engineer a week or so back as well.

Will try and get on over the next couple of days, Friday might be good, can stay up well past midnight if need be.

Oh so Aura's playing now, tell her my bad for the Party Invite.

Hehe, yeah she's probably playing ME1.

I'm sadly trapped at the store for three more hours, plus travelling time yet. It makes things a little confusing that we share, but it saves hassle with downloads, and of course achievements.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Hehe, yeah she's probably playing ME1.

I'm sadly trapped at the store for three more hours, plus travelling time yet. It makes things a little confusing that we share, but it saves hassle with downloads, and of course achievements.

She's playing ME3 and just went from 20 to 21 on an Engineer.

In case you want to befuddle her with a texted "Grats!"

Ah cool, shes playing Alex. She was thinking about just playing through from ME1 again, but she got Alex from ME1 and ME2, would be a shame not to finish him off.

Oh and yeah, love stuff like that, gave her a grats.

kenshin620 wrote:I think the new N7 stuff is OP....

Saw the N7 Engineer. He just kept throwing down a device that recharges shields and gives out ammo. His grenade launcher ability wrecked most geth that popped out.

Though it was my first time on one of the earth maps so I had no idea what I was doing for the first few rounds!

Also got the N7 Shotgun. Dear lord it is awesome. Only gun I need now!

I hink it's more for platinum, I somehow ended up in platnum with my Lvl 7 infiltrator and if she didn't have PTSD already, she did now. The primes, so many primes.

Platinum is just obnoxious.

And honestly, Homing Grenades are faaaaaaaar less effective than Arc Grenades on Platinum.

Arc Grenades can be sidearmed, Homing Grenades have a "cast" animation.

I played my first game just now. I was playing with one of the guys with the new shields, teaming with him the whole game. Suddenly we were confronted with a turret, he instinctively dropped his shield and blocked the bullets while I blew up the turret. This was without any sort of communication, felt so Pro.

Kanluwen wrote:Platinum is just obnoxious.

And honestly, Homing Grenades are faaaaaaaar less effective than Arc Grenades on Platinum.

Arc Grenades can be sidearmed, Homing Grenades have a "cast" animation.

It might be obnoxious but a successful platinum awards nearly double the credits of a successful gold. 135k+ easy. It's certainly not for everyone, but it's not as bad as everyone says as long as you play a reasonable class with good weapons. Some people are actually saying they find it easier than Gold in some places, because the way enemies spawn, they upgraded 2nd tier enemies to bosses, so there are drastically fewer centurions/engineers/hunters/pyros/marauders/ravagers to get in the way, and all you end up with are primes/banshees/brutes/atlases. In some cases, that provides a more predictable game, especially in the case of Atlases/Brutes.

Aldarionn wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:Platinum is just obnoxious.

And honestly, Homing Grenades are faaaaaaaar less effective than Arc Grenades on Platinum.

Arc Grenades can be sidearmed, Homing Grenades have a "cast" animation.

It might be obnoxious but a successful platinum awards nearly double the credits of a successful gold. 135k+ easy. It's certainly not for everyone, but it's not as bad as everyone says as long as you play a reasonable class with good weapons. Some people are actually saying they find it easier than Gold in some places, because the way enemies spawn, they upgraded 2nd tier enemies to bosses, so there are drastically fewer centurions/engineers/hunters/pyros/marauders/ravagers to get in the way, and all you end up with are primes/banshees/brutes/atlases. In some cases, that provides a more predictable game, especially in the case of Atlases/Brutes.

True, I always find Atlas very easy to dispatch, compared to say x3 or so engineers running around popping turrets

Especially after the buffed turrets HP. That was totally unnecessary.

Aldarionn wrote:Especially after the buffed turrets HP. That was totally unnecessary.

Have they?
I was wondering why it was suddenly so difficult to kill them.

Yeah the balance changes either last week or the week before included a buff to all Cerberus units, including an HP buff for Turrets, which was not necessary. They are already the most insane units Cerberus has besides Phantoms. They didn't need to be twice as hard to kill.