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 Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:
the fight with the Shadowbroker and the corrupt Spectre sends shivers of horror down my spine.

God damn spoilers XD Yes I havn't played the SB DLC. Even then its a minor add on. Gotta get back into ME1, got 2 characters ready to go. Male Infiltrator and a female soldier. Any idea who is gonna be the paragon and the renegade? lol

So whos getting Leviathan when it comes out?

Personally I'am really looking forward to it and hope it delivers on the awesomeness factor. Some cool armour would be nice as well.

Sorry johnscott, I foolishly assumed as its been out a while.

As to Leviathan, yeah, probably be getting the day it comes out.

 Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:
Sorry johnscott, I foolishly assumed as its been out a while.

Its cool I don't blame you for assuming it cause I would have done the same lol.

I'll be doing Leviathan right when it comes out. It looks pretty awesome, thought whether or not it comes out tomorrow or next week I'm not sure. It should be out by the end of this month either way.

 Aldarionn wrote:
I'll be doing Leviathan right when it comes out. It looks pretty awesome, thought whether or not it comes out tomorrow or next week I'm not sure. It should be out by the end of this month either way.

August 28th. We have a "solid" release date.

Ah good, I'm off that week.. and... arsh.. GW2. *Bangs head repeatedly on keyboard*

Not sure which is my favorite Mass Effect. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. I guess we should treat them as one giant game anyway.

 KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Not sure which is my favorite Mass Effect. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. I guess we should treat them as one giant game anyway .

Wait...so does that mean that Bioware just pulled an Activision/Blizzard?

2 was the best....

Garvy wrote:
2 was the best....

As those who understand the series will agree.

 Karon wrote:

Garvy wrote:
2 was the best....

As those who understand the series will agree.

Because, of course, people who disagree with you are stupid and don't understand the game.

New Operation incoming!

Operation ALLOY (August 24th 11AM MDT – August 26th 5AM MDT)

A training center will only take a recruit so far. Our recruits need field experience, so it’s time to integrate them with seasoned squads during our next series of sweeps.

Individual Goal: Promote 2 characters

Allied Goal: Promote 50,000 characters

Special Circumstance: None

Individual Goal Success: All players awarded a Commendation Pack
Allied Goal Success: All players awarded a Victory Pack and an increase to medi-gel capacity

Really.. well I can do that in two minutes, with the changes to the single player, I haven't felt the need to promote anyone else, was just building them all up to twenty.

Just got to make sure I promote two classes I enjoy playing.

Iv already got a Sentinel(I think) ready to promote.

Think my second may be a Soldier. If I can be bothered playing this weekend.

And this means that the September 4th MP DLC is a given now.

 Goliath wrote:

 Karon wrote:

Garvy wrote:
2 was the best....

As those who understand the series will agree.

Because, of course, people who disagree with you are stupid and don't understand the game.

You said it, not me.

 Karon wrote:

 Goliath wrote:

 Karon wrote:

Garvy wrote:
2 was the best....

As those who understand the series will agree.

Because, of course, people who disagree with you are stupid and don't understand the game.

You said it, not me.

So I'm the one who said that people who think 3 is better don't understand the series? Because that's the implication of your comment.

 johnscott10 wrote:
New Operation incoming!

Operation ALLOY (August 24th 11AM MDT – August 26th 5AM MDT)

A training center will only take a recruit so far. Our recruits need field experience, so it’s time to integrate them with seasoned squads during our next series of sweeps.

Individual Goal: Promote 2 characters

Allied Goal: Promote 50,000 characters

Special Circumstance: None

Individual Goal Success: All players awarded a Commendation Pack
Allied Goal Success: All players awarded a Victory Pack and an increase to medi-gel capacity

Whelp, all my classes are 20 so I think I'll just promote everything this weekend and do my part to help with the 50k overall. If I promote another 4 classes after that I'll be at N7 1,500 even. That's a good number.

I'll be right there with ya, Ald.

I foresee a number of bronze games this weekend lol.

Edit - Either that, or we try the level 1 Gold challenge. We would need a 4th other than Eddie though.

Unfortunately I am working straight through the weekend so my play time will be limited strictly to evenings 6:30-11:00ish on Saturday and Sunday, and perhaps a few hours on Friday evening.

Promoted everything last night. Now I need to get it all back up to 20. I never thought I would be buying so many recruit packs!

So Um yea played a few games just now and ME3 matchmaking decided to troll me. After a few silver I decide to do a bronze just because. It put me into a Platinum match.

So here I am a level 16 with rather pathetic guns (M-8 Avanger and the Carnifex heavy pistol) and no gear added. Safe to say I got killed alot. Sadly we only made it to wave 10(I joined at wave 8 I think).

That happens from time to time, and it's amusing, especially if you get thrown into an existing game. If you didn't equip consumables there is no reason not to at least try and finish. At worst you waste 5 of each of your equipment, but if you get ANY wave completed you make it back with a single Jumbo Equipment Pack purchase.

I got thrown into a Gold match once when I was looking for a Silver.

Managed to finish off two rounds (7 and 8) single-handedly after my team-mates got themselves killed (it seems their survival plan when one person was taken down was to just charge up to the body and try to revive it despite it being surrounded by Reapers, end result is they're all dead and I can't get to them without also dying).

I ended up running around in circles round the map (the Palaven moon one) being chased by a Banshee whilst blasting it and Cannibals in the face with a shotgun. Gotta love Krogan soldiers.

We all died on round 9 though so all that hard work was for nothing

Gutted, got to lvl 10 of a Gold game and it borked... about 20 secs away from the end of a download signal. Would have been my first Gold as well.

Sadly leader had no option to log us out, and we lost all the goodies. Happened on a Bronze later on as well, net was playing up something rotten last night.

On a side note, is that the standard fare for a Gold match, all hide in a dead end, and blitz stuff when it gets close?


Oh and I think I got the goal, will find out this week. on a side note, came into a game with my Lvl 1 Quarian Engineer (trying to start raising it again as its my fave class) and helped through to the end to discover I'd joined a silver. Did pretty well, so I think when I get her back lvl 20, might start trying gold.

 Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:
Gutted, got to lvl 10 of a Gold game and it borked... about 20 secs away from the end of a download signal. Would have been my first Gold as well.

Sadly leader had no option to log us out, and we lost all the goodies. Happened on a Bronze later on as well, net was playing up something rotten last night.

Well that sucks. It's never fun getting kicked out of a Gold game by internet problems. Likely the host lost his connection, and you were kicked as a result. That happens from time to time, and on wave 10 it's especially painful.

 Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:
On a side note, is that the standard fare for a Gold match, all hide in a dead end, and blitz stuff when it gets close?

It depends. What map were you playing on?

Many people farm Fire Base White, Fire Base Rio, Fire Base Glacier, and probably a few others, because they have solid, defensible positions where you can hang out as a group the whole time and kill anything that gets close. I would not say it's the "norm" for a Gold game, but it's definitely a sound strategy because it's efficient and low risk. Most people that dislike that type of game dislike it because it gets boring after a while, but you cannot blame people for picking an efficient strategy and sticking with it. I always tell people to play with friends if they don't want to farm. When I play with Lord Shiv and Kanluwen, we rarely farm matches that way, but when I'm playing alone more than half my matches end up being farms because that's what random players do.

 Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:
Oh and I think I got the goal, will find out this week.

As long as you promoted two characters you got the goal completed.

 Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:
on a side note, came into a game with my Lvl 1 Quarian Engineer (trying to start raising it again as its my fave class) and helped through to the end to discover I'd joined a silver. Did pretty well, so I think when I get her back lvl 20, might start trying gold.

Yeah, give Gold a shot more often. If you happen to be on 360, I'll be more than happy to run some games with you to get your feet wet. I'm busy as hell this week, but next week I should have an easier schedule for play. Let me know.

The lvl was the labs one, can't remember its name. We holed up in the little control room that looks down over a sub room and has a corridor running down from it, and a room opposite it. Our leader picked that lvl and the geth as opponents.

I was playing the Asari Justicar adapt, so was bubbling all the time, while the whip adapt kept casting the whips through the walls, and two Vorcha with flamethrower things minced anything that came in close. Had one escort we had to do, and that final upload, got lucky and had no kill target missions.

JUst a shame as I did that one from round 1, where as the silver I joined at round 4.

Leviathan is out right now on the Xbox 360.

It's 1.65GB, 800 Microsoft Points.

 Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:
The lvl was the labs one, can't remember its name. We holed up in the little control room that looks down over a sub room and has a corridor running down from it, and a room opposite it. Our leader picked that lvl and the geth as opponents.

I was playing the Asari Justicar adapt, so was bubbling all the time, while the whip adapt kept casting the whips through the walls, and two Vorcha with flamethrower things minced anything that came in close. Had one escort we had to do, and that final upload, got lucky and had no kill target missions.

JUst a shame as I did that one from round 1, where as the silver I joined at round 4.

That's Fire Base Glacier. It's one of the easier maps to farm, especially the way you did it. The Phoenix characters are excellent on that map because they can smash through the walls and still hit whats on the other side without taking any fire.

It might be better to try a few Gold games on Unknown/Unknown to really get a feeling for what Gold is all about. Playing on farm games is a good way to get your feet wet and see how the waves progress, but it won't really improve your skill.