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Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer |OT| Rich, deep online role playing

Xevren

Member
I played a little of this back at launch, but I've been wanting to get back into it. I need some people to play with though. Does anyone on the 360 wanna add me? I'd love to play with some fellow Gaffers.

Gamertag: BlastoTheHanar

Man, I just gotta add someone with a gamertag like that!

Also, if anyone else would like to add me go ahead. (gt is Xevren11) I tend to just play silver unless I'm with friends and always open to play anything. Just not that dumb GGW shit. I tend to play different games a lot, but if you see me on feel free to ask if I'd like to join.
 
And because I suck at moving on, I unlocked the Javelin. Great googly-moogly, that thing can wreck some faces. Slapped it on my geth Engineer, the world will tremble in fear.

My salarian Infiltrator's like a divine reckoning making heads explode with the Widow IV, it's glorious.

Also, this game really likes to give me Revenant upgrades, I hit IX today and I hardly ever use the thing anymore. I'm dangerously low on consumables, but I just don't care anymore and keep buying spectre packs to unlock some new shit.
 

Gui_PT

Member
This Krysae sniper or whatever it's called needs some serious fixing

Playing with someone on gold and he's one shotting everyone. I'm not doing anything he's just getting all the kills :lol
 
This Krysae sniper or whatever it's called needs some serious fixing

Playing with someone on gold and he's one shotting everyone. I'm not doing anything he's just getting all the kills :lol

There has been enough talk about it, some want to nerd that down while some think it is just fine. Personal preference I suppose.
 

DY_nasty

NeoGAF's official "was this shooting justified" consultant
No, the weapon is just stupidly strong

Pretty much this.

Its easily the best weapon in the game. Its fun to be OP, yeah, but some semblance of balance was fun for a while.

The fact that you can throw it on just about any type of build makes it even more ridiculous.
 

Replicant

Member
This Krysae sniper or whatever it's called needs some serious fixing

Playing with someone on gold and he's one shotting everyone. I'm not doing anything he's just getting all the kills :lol

This is overreaction. It's never one shot with Krysae. With low-level Geth, it'd take at least two precise shots or one energy drain + one precise shots while cloaked. With Hunters, it'd take at least 3 shots from Krysae to kill them. With Pyros, it'd take at least 4 shots. And so on.

Some players, however, are very effective at maximizing their tech powers so they'd cloak then warp/incinerate/energy drain then Krysae'd the enemies. Then if the tech powers are back, they add another one. The damage stacks up quickly as a result.

Or likely you see it as one shot because someone else has already shot the target once before the person with Krysae finished it off with his shot.
 

DY_nasty

NeoGAF's official "was this shooting justified" consultant
This is overreaction. It's never one shot with Krysae. With low-level Geth, it'd take at least two precise shots or one energy drain + one precise shots while cloaked. With Hunters, it'd take at least 3 shots from Krysae to kill them. With Pyros, it'd take at least 4 shots. And so on. Some players, however, are very effective at maximizing their tech powers so they'd cloak then warp/incinerate/energy draine then Krysae'd the enemies. Then if the tech powers are back, they add another one.

Or likely you see it as one shot because someone else has already shot the target once before the person with Krysae finished it off with his shot.

Its incredibly disingenuous to say it isn't the best weapon in the game though.

By a pretty wide margin at that.
 

Melchiah

Member
Just got kicked from a bronze lobby just because I was fully equipped in my equipment slots.
Most of the equipment was at a level 1 too...

One Krogan Soldier just left a Bronze lobby, when I entered it with the same character, and it's not the first time something like that happens. What's with people, who can't approve that some other in the team has the same character as they do?


Yeah =\

Oh hey, look! Enemies! .. Nope

Look some more enem..nope

H..nope.

After that I just ran around looking at the level

That made me laugh. I definitely need to try the Krysae, as I got it just yesterday.
 

Recarpo

Member
Got one a few hours last night and got the krysae in my first spectre pack and then proceeded to get the krysase in 3 of the next 4 packs up to level 4. Holy hell is that gun ridiculous on my infiltrator. Second game with it I got up to 197k and that was with a full team of buddies who are good players. Glad I got to try it out before the inevitable nerfing.
 

Replicant

Member
Its incredibly disingenuous to say it isn't the best weapon in the game though.

By a pretty wide margin at that.

It is along with Valiant and Indra are some of the best weapons in the game. But just throwing the grenades all over hoping it'll hit something may work once in a while but it's ineffective and will send you back to the supply stash for more bullets. So you do still need to aim it properly. It's not the rocket launcher that everyone thinks it is.

Melchiah said:
One Krogan Soldier just left a Bronze lobby, when I entered it with the same character, and it's not the first time something like that happens. What's with people, who can't approve that some other in the team has the same character as they do?

Some people are petty that way. I'd just leave the lobby if I encounter people like that. Because it's likely they'd be selfish too when playing the game (not bothering with hacking/retrieval missions, not resurrecting dead comrades, etc).
 

Melchiah

Member
Some people are petty that way. I'd just leave the lobby if I encounter people like that. Because it's likely they'd be selfish too when playing the game (not bothering with hacking/retrieval missions, not resurrecting dead comrades, etc).

Encountered a person with over 1400 N7 rating today, who was just like that. During the retrieval mission he just concentrated on getting points by shooting the enemy on the other side of the map.
 

Bisnic

Really Really Exciting Member!
One Krogan Soldier just left a Bronze lobby, when I entered it with the same character, and it's not the first time something like that happens. What's with people, who can't approve that some other in the team has the same character as they do?

How do you know he's leaving because of that? Sometimes i leave a lobby because i gotta go, because i see a lvl 4 character in a Gold game, because i end up in lobby that is not Random/Random or because i see an Adept with the heaviest shotgun and rifle available. There's plenty of reasons why people leave.

Well, unless you actually hear people say "Fuck you, i'm the only one who should be KROGAN! *leaves*", then forget what i said.
 

Melchiah

Member
How do you know he's leaving because of that? Sometimes i leave a lobby because i gotta go, because i see a lvl 4 character in a Gold game, because i end up in lobby that is not Random/Random or because i see an Adept with the heaviest shotgun and rifle available. There's plenty of reasons why people leave.

Well, unless you actually hear peoplesay "Fuck you, i'm the only one who should be KROGAN! *leaves*", then forget what i said.

Well, I just presumed as it was not the first time it happened. It seems it's a bit more common with Krogans and Vanguards.

BTW, the game's been giving a lot of other kind of matches than I've searched recently; Silver, when I've searched for Bronze; certain enemy/location, when I've searched for random; something other than White/Geth, when I've searched for it.
 

rozay

Banned
This is overreaction. It's never one shot with Krysae. With low-level Geth, it'd take at least two precise shots or one energy drain + one precise shots while cloaked. With Hunters, it'd take at least 3 shots from Krysae to kill them. With Pyros, it'd take at least 4 shots. And so on.

Some players, however, are very effective at maximizing their tech powers so they'd cloak then warp/incinerate/energy drain then Krysae'd the enemies. Then if the tech powers are back, they add another one. The damage stacks up quickly as a result.

Or likely you see it as one shot because someone else has already shot the target once before the person with Krysae finished it off with his shot.
not everyone plays white geth gold exclusively though ;)

you absolutely can oneshot cerberus units, it's less effective against reapers than the other 2 factions though. The slow attack speed doesn't do much against banshees, especially when you're working with two of them at once
 

DY_nasty

NeoGAF's official "was this shooting justified" consultant
It is along with Valiant and Indra are some of the best weapons in the game. But just throwing the grenades all over hoping it'll hit something may work once in a while but it's ineffective and will send you back to the supply stash for more bullets. So you do still need to aim it properly. It's not the rocket launcher that everyone thinks it is.
Dude, you can unload a clip on nothing but the floor and kill an entire wave.

You can kill an entire wave without ever actually hitting a single enemy.

And ammo grows on trees. Between the clip size still being better and more practical than the Scorpion, its weight makes it adaptable to almost any build.

And its not even an ultra rare. Plenty of people had it at X just from saving up and being forced into maxing it out when the new pack dropped.
not everyone plays white geth gold exclusively though ;)

you absolutely can oneshot cerberus units, it's less effective against reapers than the other 2 factions though. The slow attack speed doesn't do much against banshees, especially when you're working with two of them at once

Cerberus and Reapers get shredded by it.

It stun locks phantoms on splash and Reapers got destroyed by the AP.
 

Mindlog

Member
Well I didn't get to do anything that game because the dude just 1 shot everything =\
Sorry about that~

When using my QMI and Krysae I stop attacking near the end of a round for two reasons. One to make the other players feel useful and the other is to stock up on arc grenades.

I joined a r/r/g/ and naturally it was w/g/g. However, I see 3 Geth Infiltrators so I am intrigued. Two of them have Krysae X and the other a GPS. I switch to Salarian Engineer (with Krysae X) and we head in. Couches were soiled. The Geth Infiltrator with a GPS was nearly useless. Seventeen minute clear with pubs on that map from the safe but slow camp office blew my mind.

Also on that same map: For my QMI it takes 3 grenades to kill a spawn. I can carry five and pick up one more from the ammo crate. So kill the first two spawns then move back stocking up on grenades and spamming Krysae. It turns what already felt like Bronze into Story Mode. Max killstreaks are pretty much a guarantee and Cobras aren't necessary. I use them anyway to speed things up.
 

Rad Agast

Member
Maybe he was hacking. I remember I had one guy in my party who headshot everything with a Black Widow.

No need for a hack. I get top spot on Gold runs with my Salarian Infiltrator using a Krysae II + mods. My friend who's a much better infiltrator than I am ends up in second place if he's using any other weapon.

The gun is so silly that I don't even bother aiming: Cloak, P Mines, Shoot every 3 seconds. Ammo is no issue since I move around a lot and just run by ammo boxes and replenish.
 
Wow, crazy. I got full extraction in 12 minutes. Awesome. easy credits.

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rozay

Banned
If you have a decent team or heavy biotics, glacier is the fastest map to clear. That's still really fucking fast though, nice job
 

massoluk

Banned
WTFOMGBBQAEFGAGFLJKAS[LKRTGNWQEKPAOLRJHTGKASGDB

What a load of bullshitery. I spent 20+ minutes with one other person carrying the whole team in Gold Mission up to the point of extraction. Then BAM, disconnected from Mass Effect 3 Server in 2-5 seconds to go. GAAAAAAHHHHH, RAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
 

Sai

Member
Really? Huh.
Yep. But I notice that a lot of people tend to prefer slow-firing weapons with a lot of punch, to most of the available ARs. That may have something to do with it.

Personally haven't used it yet. How's the damage?

WTFOMGBBQAEFGAGFLJKAS[LKRTGNWQEKPAOLRJHTGKASGDB

What a load of bullshitery. I spent 20+ minutes with one other person carrying the whole team in Gold Mission up to the point of extraction. Then BAM, disconnected from Mass Effect 3 Server in 2-5 seconds to go. GAAAAAAHHHHH, RAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
It's happened to me a few times too, man. :/
 
This Krysae sniper or whatever it's called needs some serious fixing

Playing with someone on gold and he's one shotting everyone. I'm not doing anything he's just getting all the kills :lol

Well, that's not true. On silver/Gold it takes a few hits to kill even some of the regular people.

The weapon is great but it isnt "unfair" by any means. Its slower to shoot than a black widow and the zoom is also delayed.
 

EatChildren

Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Question for pros: have the non-human races, both default and added in content updates, effectively made the default human classes obsolete? I rarely see the standard classes any more.
 

Rad Agast

Member
WTFOMGBBQAEFGAGFLJKAS[LKRTGNWQEKPAOLRJHTGKASGDB

What a load of bullshitery. I spent 20+ minutes with one other person carrying the whole team in Gold Mission up to the point of extraction. Then BAM, disconnected from Mass Effect 3 Server in 2-5 seconds to go. GAAAAAAHHHHH, RAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Welcome to ME3 MP post 1.03 patch. It used to happen before but now it occurs more often.

Well, that's not true. On silver/Gold it takes a few hits to kill even some of the regular people.

The weapon is great but it isnt "unfair" by any means. Its slower to shoot than a black widow and the zoom is also delayed.

You still kill most stuff with one clip and if you need to zoom in with your scope then you're doing it wrong. Use tactical cloak to run close to your targets, use debuffing/damage modifier ability, shoot shoot shoot. Move on to next target.

'kay, just got my Phalanx X, that wraps up all my Uncommon Weapons.

Now I just have to get the Gear~

I still need to figure out how to max out the new gear. I barely get any from PSPs and Veteran packs don't seem to give any?

Question for pros: have the non-human races, both default and added in content updates, effectively made the default human classes obsolete? I rarely see the standard classes any more.

I don't consider my self a "pro" since I still need to unlock some stuff and only been playing this since end of April but I still enjoy the Human Soldier, Human Engineer and Human Adept. The last one is probably harder to play with on gold without the correct gear. Original Human Vanguard is still easy mode if you're host.

The new Vorcha Sentinel is quite fun to play as long as you keep killing stuff. Maybe Bioware would improve Blood Lust so it would trigger on assists or amount of damage done to a recently killed target. That way Vorcha players can stop crying about "Kill stealing" in a co-op game.
 

Sai

Member
I still prefer the Human Vanguard. Though I've yet to try the new Cerberus Vanguard.

I still need to figure out how to max out the new gear. I barely get any from PSPs and Veteran packs don't seem to give any?
I've been unlocking them quite frequently with Veteran Packs—I've been grinding for credits and buying nothing but Veteran Packs for the sake of maxin' out my Uncommon Weapons 'n Gear.

Maybe I've just been really fortunate thus far.
 

Rad Agast

Member
I still prefer the Human Vanguard. Though I've yet to try the new Cerberus Vanguard.


I've been unlocking them quite frequently with Veteran Packs—I've been grinding for credits and buying nothing but Veteran Packs for the sake of maxin' out my Uncommon Weapons 'n Gear.

Maybe I've just been really fortunate thus far.

I still need to spend some time with the Ex-Cerberus classes but reports of the fitness tree being broken on them have made me ignore them when it comes to gold for now.

As to the gear comment, are you talking about the new permanent gear cards (ones added through the Rebellion DLC)? I don't really remember getting any of them through veteran packs. Maybe I'm not lucky.
 

exYle

Member
Question for pros: have the non-human races, both default and added in content updates, effectively made the default human classes obsolete? I rarely see the standard classes any more.

The regular Human Adept is effectively useless. However, the Human Sentinel severely outclasses the Adept at its own job, being about on par with an Asari Adept.
Human Vanguard is arguably still the best Vanguard, as Charge + Nova are a godly combo.
Human Soldier is eh. Frag grenades are the only thing that make them less than useless.
Human Infiltrator is better than the Female Quarian, but that doesn't say much because that makes them the second worst Infiltrator.
I've never touched a Human Engineer.
 

Rad Agast

Member
The regular Human Adept is effectively useless. However, the Human Sentinel severely outclasses the Adept at its own job, being about on par with an Asari Adept.
Human Vanguard is arguably still the best Vanguard, as Charge + Nova are a godly combo.
Human Soldier is eh. Frag grenades are the only thing that make them less than useless.
Human Infiltrator is better than the Female Quarian, but that doesn't say much because that makes them the second worst Infiltrator.
I've never touched a Human Engineer.

Are you basing all this on trial and error with different classes and load-outs or just restating what most think of them?

I personally have a soft spot for the human adept (being my first and all) http://youtu.be/cFKeflVA5bc Two man Gold run. Not me.

Does he require more work? yeah. Is he fun to play as on gold? for me, yep.

As to Human Soldiers and Engineers, I think you should give them another shot.
 

exYle

Member
Are you basing all this on trial and error with different classes and load-outs or just restating what most think of them?

I personally have a soft spot for the human adept (being my first and all) http://youtu.be/cFKeflVA5bc Two man Gold run. Not me.

Given that the main Biotic Detonator for armoured targets, (i.e, dangerous targets to walk up to) is Shockwave, and that Adepts are glass cannons by nature, I cannot possibly endorse the Human Adept. If others choose to play as them on Gold prove a point, by all means go ahead but that does not validate the HA as a good class; rather, I would argue that it highlights the player's skill over the class's benefits.

As to Human Soldiers and Engineers, I think you should give them another shot.

I dislike most of the Engineers. I find Combat Drones and Turrets too weak and Decoys too situational. I also prefer Biotic Detonations over Tech Bursts for their staggering ability, which make Adepts my preferred caster class. Overload/Energy Drain are the only Engineer powers that I truly admire.
As for Soldiers, I like mine to have a certain flair, or style about them. Turians have their walking bullet-hail qualities with Marksman, and Krogans, Batarians, and Vorcha are very fun, melee heavy close-quarters specialists. In comparison, Human Soldiers are plain boring.
 

rozay

Banned
Given that the main Biotic Detonator for armoured targets, (i.e, dangerous targets to walk up to) is Shockwave, and that Adepts are glass cannons by nature, I cannot possibly endorse the Human Adept. If others choose to play as them on Gold prove a point, by all means go ahead but that does not validate the HA as a good class; rather, I would argue that it highlights the player's skill over the class's benefits.



I dislike most of the Engineers. I find Combat Drones and Turrets too weak and Decoys too situational. I also prefer Biotic Detonations over Tech Bursts for their staggering ability, which make Adepts my preferred caster class. Overload/Energy Drain are the only Engineer powers that I truly admire.
As for Soldiers, I like mine to have a certain flair, or style about them. Turians have their walking bullet-hail qualities with Marksman, and Krogans, Batarians, and Vorcha are very fun, melee heavy close-quarters specialists. In comparison, Human Soldiers are plain boring.
You should try playing the male quarian engineer specced with arc grenades that do electric damage for 10 seconds. Hit any enemy affected by this with incinerate for a tech burst. He's basically the tech version of a drell adept.
 

Rad Agast

Member
I dislike most of the Engineers. I find Combat Drones and Turrets too weak and Decoys too situational. I also prefer Biotic Detonations over Tech Bursts for their staggering ability, which make Adepts my preferred caster class. Overload/Energy Drain are the only Engineer powers that I truly admire.

Try the combat drone with shock in the 5th evolution. Cast it on a target and watch it stun stuff close to it. It also can preoccupy enemies while you take care of the bigger threats or you can use it to get aggro off the Krogan rushing a Banshee (doesn't always work if the Krogan keeps trying to melee it though).
 
Given that the main Biotic Detonator for armoured targets, (i.e, dangerous targets to walk up to) is Shockwave, and that Adepts are glass cannons by nature, I cannot possibly endorse the Human Adept. If others choose to play as them on Gold prove a point, by all means go ahead but that does not validate the HA as a good class; rather, I would argue that it highlights the player's skill over the class's benefits.

Human adept can combine singularity and warp, no need to get close.

WHABAMMO

My adept can destroy my sentinel, that's for sure.
 

Rad Agast

Member
Human adept can combine singularity and warp, no need to get close.

WHABAMMO

My adept can destroy my sentinel, that's for sure.

I think he means that singularity doesn't prime armored targets for detonations. Singularity as a skill is pretty useful if specced right since it can provide a nice cc effect even on almost all targets (even ones with barriers/armor).
 
I think he means that singularity doesn't prime armored targets for detonations. Singularity as a skill is pretty useful if specced right since it can provide a nice cc effect even on almost all targets (even ones with barriers/armor).

Aye, that's true. Important to have a good team, in that case.
 

Gui_PT

Member
This is overreaction.

Nope. At one point, everyone was dead but him so I saw him getting kills.

He'd run away, take cover, one shot a geth pyro. Take cover again, one shot a rocket trooper. Take cover, one shot a Hunter and a few regular geth.

This is literally how it happened.

Well, that's not true. On silver/Gold it takes a few hits to kill even some of the regular people.

The weapon is great but it isnt "unfair" by any means. Its slower to shoot than a black widow and the zoom is also delayed.

What am I? A drunko? It happened I tells ya!

And Gazzawa, we can play whenever
 
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