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The only thing is the clip only holds like 8 rounds. I've gotten use to laying down a reasonably fast hail of medium damage rounds with the Mattock when needed, but you really can't do that with the Sabre, as the reload is quite a bit. Need to really aim and make those shots count.

I seem to have lost all love for the MP aspect. It's good an all but I have rarely played it for a while, only played it a few mins ago due to reading this (and wanting the box bonus thing).

Currently using a Drell Adept, I think, I love just throwing grenades around, but I need something that can take a few hits, guess thats just coz I'm lvl 7 atm.

Kanluwen wrote: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.

This.

I got that stupid scorpion on my first spectre pack - I hate it.

Still haven't scored what I really want; a Black Widow.

Ouze wrote:Still haven't scored what I really want; a Black Widow.

I love my Black Widow. Best sniper rifle in the game for Gold difficulty since the Shield Gate feature makes the 1 shot rifles less useful. I got my first upgrade to it last night, so I now have a Black Widow II. I have a Widow VIII at this point and I would gladly trade it, along with every other Sniper Rifle I have for a Black Widow V or better.

As a side note, I FINALLY unlocked my Geth Infiltrator last night! That class is insane. Hunter Mode makes the damage output higher than any other sniper class, and gives them superior mobility. I was cleaning house with a Black Widow, Disruptor Ammo and Cyclonic Modulator on Silver and Gold. When I promote though, I think I'll spec him to use a GPS and see how that build looks.

That is what I've been doing. The Shotgun is beast.

I've been trying to figure out if the Geth Weapon Bonus you get is applied to the Javelin sniper rifle. The Javelin doesn't have 'Geth' in the title, but it IS the Geth Sniper Rifle.

Hm.

I got myself the Geth infiltrator last night .. and my infiltrator was maxed before, so now i have a maxed geth too I like the hunter mode a lot.. just wish I could get some better guns :( I have a level 6 raptor which I like a lot .. but I also have a level 1 non-black Widow .. damage is nice, but I hate reloading after every shot :( I did just get the Geth SMG though, it's fun but I think I need a few more levels for it to get good.. right now it's too inaccurate for me

On my Geth Infiltrator, I've become quite fond of the Harpoon Gun and Geth SMG.

The Harpoon Gun gives you a good way to deal with big guys, and the SMG lets you deal with everything else.

Plus?
It goes PEWPEWPEWPEWPEW!

Ugh, the Harpoon Gun is useless from what I've seen. I just got one and haven't tried it yet, but a friend of mine used one on a few matches and said it was pretty terrible. He's better than I am at this game so I'll take his word for it.

I pretty much just use the Mattock on all my characters.

dogma wrote:I pretty much just use the Mattock on all my characters.

If you get a Sabre, try it. Similar to use, similar in purpose, but a better bang.

I also got the harpoon and didn't like it much; seemed very similar to the Widow but not as pretty or loud.

I spent a lot of hours this weekend (and even won a bunch of silver ranked matches, proof that chaos begins to grow!) and still no Black Widow, but I did get a Geth shotgun. Unfortunately I now have to go to work so I didn't get to try it but I heard it's pretty solid, is this true? I usually roll with Sabre & Eviscerator on my Soldier or Infiltrator, so this is relevant to my interests.

Got the Striker today, and the Batarian soldier. Striker is funky.

Ouze wrote:

dogma wrote:I pretty much just use the Mattock on all my characters.

If you get a Sabre, try it. Similar to use, similar in purpose, but a better bang.

I also got the harpoon and didn't like it much; seemed very similar to the Widow but not as pretty or loud.

I spent a lot of hours this weekend (and even won a bunch of silver ranked matches, proof that chaos begins to grow!) and still no Black Widow, but I did get a Geth shotgun. Unfortunately I now have to go to work so I didn't get to try it but I heard it's pretty solid, is this true? I usually roll with Sabre & Eviscerator on my Soldier or Infiltrator, so this is relevant to my interests.

The Geth Plasma Shotgun is deliciously powerful. Charged up it wrecks things, is accurate at long range, and has slight homing capabilities. The 'triangle' of the burst is nice for catching headshots by accident, and it generally ruins people's day. But even if you don't charge it up, a few rapid blasts will stagger and kill a Marauder or Centurion rather fast.

Fully charged bursts will drop the big-nasties pretty quick too. And you can even stagger them with lucky hits. Give it a try, I think you'll enjoy it.

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:
The Geth Plasma Shotgun is deliciously powerful. Charged up it wrecks things, is accurate at long range, and has slight homing capabilities. The 'triangle' of the burst is nice for catching headshots by accident, and it generally ruins people's day. But even if you don't charge it up, a few rapid blasts will stagger and kill a Marauder or Centurion rather fast.

Fully charged bursts will drop the big-nasties pretty quick too. And you can even stagger them with lucky hits. Give it a try, I think you'll enjoy it.

Unfortunately the Geth Plasma Shotgun does not get headshots. I don't know if it's a bug, or if it's a property of the weapon, but it's been confirmed at this point that it is impossible to get headshots with the weapon. Also, the Shredder mod on shotguns doesn't allow the pellets to punch cover, so it only increases effectiveness against armored targets, which makes an extended barrel a much better mod for the damage increase against all targets. Finally, certain ammo types only affect one of the three balls the GPS fires. As far as I know, Warp Ammo is the best of the ammo types to use. It provides the most possible damage against the widest variety of targets.

And even with all of that, it's by far the best shotgun in the game. If you have the Geth Infiltrator unlocked, I HIGHLY recommend giving this build a try:

Geth Hunter
Weapon: Geth Plasma Shotgun X
Mods: High Calibur Barrel, Extended Magazine
Equipment: Warp Ammo, Cyclonic Modulator, Shotgun Rail Amp

Tactics: Charge a shot on the GPS, then activate Tactical Cloak. You cannot charge a weapon with Tactical Cloak active, but you CAN activate Tactical Cloak while holding a charge, and it will not cancel the Cloak. This lets you walk up to something like a Brute, fire a Proxy Mine at it (Which, due to the 6th rank of Tactical Cloak, won't cancel the Cloak), and the Brute will then take 20% more damage from all sources by 8 second. Fire your charged shot, and Tactical Cloak remains active because of the shot was charged BEFORE you cloaked. Then, fire the rest of your magazine as normal. If you do this right, you can kill Brutes on Silver in 3 seconds or less. You can kill Atlases in less than 8 seconds, and Banshees in less than 10, because of reload time. The Charged shot will also 1-shot Phantoms on Silver, and possibly on Gold as well considering Shotguns get around Shield Gate by firing multiple projectiles.

Pros - The damage output is insane. You slaughter literally everything with no difficulty. The extended range on Hunter Mode gives you superior situational awareness, especially against Cerberus with their smoke grenades, and the ability to fire a mine from Tactical Cloak gives you a damage option for clearing Swarmers and Husks without breaking cloak. The charged shot will also stagger large enemies preventing charges from Brutes, missiles from Atlases, and stopping Banshees in their tracks.

Cons - The damn thing is FRAGILE! Hunter Mode cuts your shield in half, and since much of your damage and situational awareness comes from Hunter Mode, you really need to have it active most of the time, unless you are retreating or something. Also, if you activate or de-activate Hunter Mode, you have to wait for the cooldown before you can cloak, so always activate Cloak first before doing anything else. Unless you attack, it won't break the cloak.

I have not played this combo on Gold yet, but on Silver, I did 4 matches with it last night. 2 of those 4 matches I scored higher than the rest of the team combined. Three of them I scored over 75,000 points (one was 83,000), and two of them I solo-capped all 4 of the 4 point objectives and never had an issue getting caught. As I said though, the class is bloody fragile. Geth Hunters seem to be the biggest problem because they have the same tricks you do. They get through Shield Gate in the same way you do, so they 1-shot you when you have Hunter Mode active. You learn to give them a wide berth whenever they show up on your Hunter Mode vision. This build is the ultimate glass cannon, and it offers a high-risk-high-reward style of play that I find incredibly entertaining.

That... yeah that pretty much covers that.

I would add that I dump points in Fitness on all my classes to increase survivability as much as possible. Stops the dreaded 1-shot usually.

Geth have NO health. At Max I think I have 450 Health. And I have 1200 or something Shields. So Hunter mode effectively cuts that down to 600 Shields. Expect to die if you get into trouble.

Ahh right. I just got my Geth hunter and was shocked at how weak they were. Guess I'll take plasma shotgun then.

BTW, Firebase Hydra is in the Attican traverse. Isn't a little far south for a Quarian colony? I thought they were all in the Perseus Veil on the other side of the galaxy with the Geth.

Any advice on using the Asari Justicar BTW? I tend to use her with Reave and a Mattock to weaken the opponent and then blast them. TBH the loss of stasis is really bad for this class next to base asari.

The Geth Infiltrator is far from "weak".

It is important to realize that Hunter Mode gives you a 50% shield effectiveness reduction. With HM active, you will take far, far more damage than usual.
You need to take the Increased Cloak Duration to be a real nasty piece of Geth killing technology.

Totalwar1402 wrote:Ahh right. I just got my Geth hunter and was shocked at how weak they were. Guess I'll take plasma shotgun then.

BTW, Firebase Hydra is in the Attican traverse. Isn't a little far south for a Quarian colony? I thought they were all in the Perseus Veil on the other side of the galaxy with the Geth.

Any advice on using the Asari Justicar BTW? I tend to use her with Reave and a Mattock to weaken the opponent and then blast them. TBH the loss of stasis is really bad for this class next to base asari.

I was wondering that too! A friend and I were trying to figure out where Firebase Hydra was exactly.

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:

Totalwar1402 wrote:Ahh right. I just got my Geth hunter and was shocked at how weak they were. Guess I'll take plasma shotgun then.

BTW, Firebase Hydra is in the Attican traverse. Isn't a little far south for a Quarian colony? I thought they were all in the Perseus Veil on the other side of the galaxy with the Geth.

Any advice on using the Asari Justicar BTW? I tend to use her with Reave and a Mattock to weaken the opponent and then blast them. TBH the loss of stasis is really bad for this class next to base asari.

I was wondering that too! A friend and I were trying to figure out where Firebase Hydra was exactly.

If you go on custom match and change the map to Hydra the galaxy map shows where the selected world is. Hydra is on Averna, I think, and is closer to Earth than Rannoch.


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Kanluwen wrote:The Geth Infiltrator is far from "weak".

It is important to realize that Hunter Mode gives you a 50% shield effectiveness reduction. With HM active, you will take far, far more damage than usual.
You need to take the Increased Cloak Duration to be a real nasty piece of Geth killing technology.

I was also playing other Geth, aren't their weapons better vs synthetics (you ) anyway. I only had two quick games that ended pretty badly and quickly at any rate.

Geth weapons are no better or worse against Synthetics than anything else. They are better in the hands of a Geth due to the Networked AI skill, but they don't do any more or less damage to other Synthetics.

That said, the Geth Hunter (Infiltrator with a GPS X) I posted above is better against Cerberus and Reapers than against other Geth. Cerberus rely so much on their smoke to block Line of Sight and cover their advance that when someone can see clear through (Hunter Mode) they have a field day killing the dudes on the other side. Reapers are also primarily armor or health, so almost all of the damage transfers through. Only Banshees and Marauders have Shields/Barriers and the GPS staggers both of them, making them very easy to pick off at range with incredibly high damage shots. Geth on the other hand have many different targets with Shields, and they rush like a boss. Other Hunters can kill you in one shot because of your low armor/hit points, and Pyros are nasty for the same reason. Rocket Troopers and Primes also team up to pick you off while you are hiding or trying to get away.

I had more trouble against Geth than I did against the other two when I was playing.

I got my Victory Pack today. Had a bunch of low end supplies (cobra launchers, medi-gel), and a Batarian Sentinel.

Yeah, mine had 5 of everything, some of the new Equipment, a Widow Upgrade, and the Batarian Sentinel.

Which miffs me a little, I thought we were supposed to unlock a new class in our victory pack, not get one we already had.

Oh well.

I've been buying the Resurgance packs, hoping for my Geth Engineer, but no dice. I do like how they have a pack focused around unlocking the new stuff though, so I'm not going to complain.

I don't have a Black Widow either. You aren't missing much. The Widow, Javelin, and Valiant are all awesome. Or you can use my favorite sniper rifle ever, the Crusader.

I got the krogan vanguard last night .. seems fun to play but just not my style.. I usually just end up dead. seems like infiltrator or engineer are the only 2 I really like...

I was going to get a resurgance pack last night, played a game to get my final credits to do it, and when I went back it wasn't in the store anymore :(

Just opened up my Victory pack, got the Geth Engineer. I'm happy. Shame I still have crud weapons, may go into SP to test out various weapons at the firing range.

Alienware is giving away keys for a free sniper rifle. You can see the promotion here. All you need to do is sign up for the newsletter, sign in, and you get a key; I got mine in less than 2 minutes. It looks like they're going pretty fast.

Neeever mind.

What?

Also, I think there may not be finite keys after all. It went from 5k to 2k fairly quickly last night, but this morning there are 9.5k keys again.

I had asked if it was for PC only, then saw the fine print on the page saying it was.

Oh, my bad. I would have posted that had I seen it.

I got an Asari Justicar in my Resurgence Pack. Sucks cause she was the first character I unlocked. I have Geth Infiltrator maxed, Asari Justicar maxed, and several Batarian Sentinel upgrades (though I don't know how many because I never play it) and only one Batarian Soldier upgrade (Which sucks because I play him all the time). I still have yet to get a Geth Engineer or a Krogan Vanguard, both of which I really want.

I now have a Striker X, a Kishock II, and my Geth SMG is at something like a IV. I wish I had gotten a Valient in my first Commendation Pack rather than a Crusader. I only use the GPS X in the Shotgun slot, but I would use a Valient on something other than an infiltrator that might want lower weight, but similar mechanics to a Black Widow.

Oh well.

Back to farming credits this weekend to hopefully unlock the other two classes I need. Wonder what the event will be this weekend.