i just had two really great gold games on pubs, everyone gelled. it was glorious, we did our thing but still somehow worked as a team, we were taking out brutes and banshees left and right.
only problem i have is that goddamn palaven map, it must be bugged or something because everytime im on it, i get teleporting enemies and im unable to stay in cover for some reason.
I need help playing this class properly. My human vanguard I just throw a light shotgun on there, and nova->charge until everything is dead (i know its lame but damnit, it works). i mostly play on bronze, but have been getting into more and more silver games recently. dont have a lot of gear, or weapons, or characters. i tried doing the same shotgun build as my human vanguard but i felt like the slayer was more fragile in close combat (which is crazy cause the melee is fantastical)
anyways, i need help playing this class.
About only way I can do good with it is treating it as a AOE sniper from cover. Acolite to strip and root then a couple PD's to finish off non-bosses. Slash spam if I can find a wall to stand behind.
These thread titles have been rather negative lately
I've been feeling extra cynical lately.
This one isn't meant to be negative really; just that I don't believe we actually got those extractions. If anything it's positive because they're having pity on us and giving us free victory packs.
The previous one was cynical because I'm sick of weekend events with the goal being extractions. extractionextractionextractionextractionextractionextractionextractionextractionextraction
Nothing else to aim for at all. Booooooooring. But I doubt they have the infrastructure to do anything more interesting anymore without a major DLC pushing it out there for new gamemodes.
Personally I would love to see something like 1 million biotic detonation kills.
Or for more challenge, 100 frost explosions, think i've seen maybe 5 kills from that since release.
Does anyone have a good build for the Batarian Sentinel? It's a fun little support/crowd control class, but I feel like it needs to be statted juuuuust right.
Also, call me nooby but a)does submission net set up a tech burst, and b) does shockwave trigger it?
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Does anyone have a good build for the Batarian Sentinel? It's a fun little support/crowd control class, but I feel like it needs to be statted juuuuust right.
Also, call me nooby but a)does submission net set up a tech burst, and b) does shockwave trigger it?
yes to both questions
I really enjoy the Batarian Sentinel, but I honestly haven't found a super effective build for him yet. My most recent attempt has been building Blade Armor and fitness solely for DR, health, and shield regen, and it makes for a pretty tanky character, but I can't say I feel I've settled him into a groove. My first build was a low-cooldown, eviscerator-toting build that had a mix of melee, health, and power capability, and I think that was closer to what he needs to be.
Either way, I still play him just as a fun class whenever I want to get the full Batarian slaver experience. Just throw a harpoon gun on the guy and have a blast netting dudes for the Hegemony.
I would like to try platinum, I could use the credits, but I have enough problems with the lag on gold.
"Oh, hey, that prime is firing at me, I'll duck."
Shot - hits behind wall, shot - hits behind wall, shot - hits behind wall and down.
WTF...
Guy runs over, stands me up, I try to run since I don't have shields, get behind a corner, take another 5 steps, die from something around the corner.
don't forget when you're the guy and it takes you 10 seconds of clicking before you're actually able to revive the person
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I would like to try platinum, I could use the credits, but I have enough problems with the lag on gold.
"Oh, hey, that prime is firing at me, I'll duck."
Shot - hits behind wall, shot - hits behind wall, shot - hits behind wall and down.
WTF...
Guy runs over, stands me up, I try to run since I don't have shields, get behind a corner, take another 5 steps, die from something around the corner.
Try sticking to biotics so you can stay in cover, dont pop up to shoot just use powers to minimize risk. Justicar is dandy for this. GWP works since people stick to consoles. Missle instead of gun to kill when moble, reave non-crit targets for DR. Bubble when team stops running at skirmish/hold points.
Worked well when I was in hotels with silly lag spikes. Honestly it plays about the same with that class, assuming not offensive bubble.
I would like to try platinum, I could use the credits, but I have enough problems with the lag on gold.
"Oh, hey, that prime is firing at me, I'll duck."
Shot - hits behind wall, shot - hits behind wall, shot - hits behind wall and down.
WTF...
Guy runs over, stands me up, I try to run since I don't have shields, get behind a corner, take another 5 steps, die from something around the corner.
Try sticking to biotics so you can stay in cover, dont pop up to shoot just use powers to minimize risk. Justicar is dandy for this. GWP works since people stick to consoles. Missle instead of gun to kill when moble, reave non-crit targets for DR. Bubble when team stops running at skirmish/hold points.
Worked well when I was in hotels with silly lag spikes. Honestly it plays about the same with that class, assuming not offensive bubble.
okay here comes the prime, warp
...wait how did that not him him? OK, warp again
...Warp?
Oh shit, okay it finally him him, time to detonate with throw
...throw
...throw
...throw?!?
And then 5 hunters kill you with bugs
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I should make it a policy to leave a pubbing lobby right away whenever I hear 2 people talking as I'm going in. They're always the last people to ready up, or worse I'll hear an inane conversation for a few minutes then "anyway I gotta go man peace bro" and disconnect while me and the other guy actually wanting to play are waiting all ready. The other guy will of course leave as well. Fuck those guys.
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So I haven't played since like, the second chance for N7 MP weapons. Is there any easy source of changes since then available?
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okay here comes the prime, warp
...wait how did that not him him? OK, warp again
...Warp?
Oh shit, okay it finally him him, time to detonate with throw
...throw
...throw
...throw?!?
And then 5 hunters kill you with bugs
For me the trouble with lag is that you need to live long enough for your attack to register on host. Lock on stuff for me did hit, just 500-1k ms slower then you want. If you are in cover you generally dont depend on that <200ms response time. Thus missle when moble, if it needs killed on the move then a missle gets around that +-2 meters area that the target is in when you pull the trigger. Assuming you live long enough for it to register on host.
Re: This game's terrible netcode — I'm pretty sure the game has just been trolling the shit out of me by only pairing me with Germans and/or Brazilians for the past two weeks. Obviously these people could simply be in America and enjoying their native language, but going by the atrocious amounts of unplayable lag, I'm going to guess that that's not the case.
Also, fuck Rio. I'm not even sure that it freezes from melee (or whatever reasoning people though), that map just freezes because it likes to.
Great, so I'm trying to experiment on my paladin. I join a silver match, but me not paying attention, the guy sets it to GWG. Now I don't mind gold farming, cause I never do it on purpose, but this group is horrible! One guy has yet to break 500 points on round six and the latency is so bad, I get killed by pyros that were already dead!
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Re: This game's terrible netcode — I'm pretty sure the game has just been trolling the shit out of me by only pairing me with Germans and/or Brazilians for the past two weeks. Obviously these people could simply be in America and enjoying their native language, but going by the atrocious amounts of unplayable lag, I'm going to guess that that's not the .
If all else fire up some black ops or cod. After thirty or so minutes of that, me3 net code looks pretty good. Need to reset the baseline for "bad" from time to time to keep perspective.
Re: This game's terrible netcode — I'm pretty sure the game has just been trolling the shit out of me by only pairing me with Germans and/or Brazilians for the past two weeks. Obviously these people could simply be in America and enjoying their native language, but going by the atrocious amounts of unplayable lag, I'm going to guess that that's not the case.
Also, fuck Rio. I'm not even sure that it freezes from melee (or whatever reasoning people though), that map just freezes because it likes to.
I'm constantly playing with russians.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
The first time through was with my cannon infiltrator. I played on hardcore to start and swapped up to insanity midstream. Didn't have too much trouble really.
Then the ending sucked so I said 'fuck this' and went and played MP for a while. When I finally sacked up to play the SP again I had a better handle on how explosions worked and picked adept, and oh my god. It's like being an asari adept in multiplayer, only you can carry an assault rifle and a shotgun and maintain 200%ish cooldowns, you have two squadmates' cooldowns to use to set up explosions, and mobs don't dodge every other thrown power. Ridiculous.
Wait. People use their squadmates to set up explosions? I mean, I did it when I was a Vanguard, but as an Adept I was too busy using them to strip shields so I could double area pull to set up double throw explosions everywhere. Unless they were armored. Then I was too busy warp cluster grenading everything. Also I carried a valiant just in case nothing is in power range.
just managed my first pug platinum, gwp tho so it disnae really count
ill be honest with you its no much more interesting than gwg, a bit more frantic maybe but still pretty much the same thing
i have no idea what made the developer say that platinum wouldnae be farmed, i mean did they even try the gwg farming strategy to see if it works? because it becomes clear once the banshees start tripping over the counter that its going to work just fine
just managed my first pug platinum, gwp tho so it disnae really count
ill be honest with you its no much more interesting than gwg, a bit more frantic maybe but still pretty much the same thing
i have no idea what made the developer say that platinum wouldnae be farmed, i mean did they even try the gwg farming strategy to see if it works? because it becomes clear once the banshees start tripping over the counter that its going to work just fine
Yeah. Being flanked by Phantoms is the only issue I've really run into.
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it seems to be really hard to find one that isn't either a firebase white farm or people piling into that little room on glacier, though
I got immediately kicked from one where the three other players were all geth infiltrators
I dunno if they were just waiting for another geth inf to come along or what
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
only problem i have is that goddamn palaven map, it must be bugged or something because everytime im on it, i get teleporting enemies and im unable to stay in cover for some reason.
only farms
I've gotten a lot of actual Gold games though
really the difference is small
other than, you know
fuckin' banshees all day err'y day
:winky:
Next month. I'm gonna l try and be on tonight. I'm just glad I'll be able to download Leviathan.
Speaking of such things. Can ME3 be played single player offline? I haven't tried it yet and can't test for myself at the moment.
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Though that may just be me being a lot better player now, and having a lot more high level rare weapons than I did before.
About only way I can do good with it is treating it as a AOE sniper from cover. Acolite to strip and root then a couple PD's to finish off non-bosses. Slash spam if I can find a wall to stand behind.
Personally I would love to see something like 1 million biotic detonation kills.
Or for more challenge, 100 frost explosions, think i've seen maybe 5 kills from that since release.
Also, call me nooby but a)does submission net set up a tech burst, and b) does shockwave trigger it?
hAmmONd IsnT A mAin TAnk
yes to both questions
I really enjoy the Batarian Sentinel, but I honestly haven't found a super effective build for him yet. My most recent attempt has been building Blade Armor and fitness solely for DR, health, and shield regen, and it makes for a pretty tanky character, but I can't say I feel I've settled him into a groove. My first build was a low-cooldown, eviscerator-toting build that had a mix of melee, health, and power capability, and I think that was closer to what he needs to be.
Either way, I still play him just as a fun class whenever I want to get the full Batarian slaver experience. Just throw a harpoon gun on the guy and have a blast netting dudes for the Hegemony.
basically unplug your internet and try it out
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"Oh, hey, that prime is firing at me, I'll duck."
Shot - hits behind wall, shot - hits behind wall, shot - hits behind wall and down.
WTF...
Guy runs over, stands me up, I try to run since I don't have shields, get behind a corner, take another 5 steps, die from something around the corner.
Thanks much.
I finally got an Eagle in a commendation pack! I feel like I'm in the big boy club finally
Still no Hurricane though :?
Battlenet ID: MildC#11186 - If I'm in the game, send me an invite at anytime and I'll play.
don't forget when you're the guy and it takes you 10 seconds of clicking before you're actually able to revive the person
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Try sticking to biotics so you can stay in cover, dont pop up to shoot just use powers to minimize risk. Justicar is dandy for this. GWP works since people stick to consoles. Missle instead of gun to kill when moble, reave non-crit targets for DR. Bubble when team stops running at skirmish/hold points.
Worked well when I was in hotels with silly lag spikes. Honestly it plays about the same with that class, assuming not offensive bubble.
okay here comes the prime, warp
...wait how did that not him him? OK, warp again
...Warp?
Oh shit, okay it finally him him, time to detonate with throw
...throw
...throw
...throw?!?
And then 5 hunters kill you with bugs
Slice like a god damn hammer. LoL: Rafflesia / BNet: Talonflame#11979
For me the trouble with lag is that you need to live long enough for your attack to register on host. Lock on stuff for me did hit, just 500-1k ms slower then you want. If you are in cover you generally dont depend on that <200ms response time. Thus missle when moble, if it needs killed on the move then a missle gets around that +-2 meters area that the target is in when you pull the trigger. Assuming you live long enough for it to register on host.
Also, fuck Rio. I'm not even sure that it freezes from melee (or whatever reasoning people though), that map just freezes because it likes to.
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/343/index/9544143
This here's got all the balance changes.
Battlenet ID: MildC#11186 - If I'm in the game, send me an invite at anytime and I'll play.
If all else fire up some black ops or cod. After thirty or so minutes of that, me3 net code looks pretty good. Need to reset the baseline for "bad" from time to time to keep perspective.
now thats fucking team work.
I'm constantly playing with russians.
its a pretty sweet camping spot, not even banshees can get there.
Only lamers glitch the terrain.
edit: clarification, no enemy can get there because it's not supposed to be an actual gameplay area.
It most certainly is.
Wait. People use their squadmates to set up explosions? I mean, I did it when I was a Vanguard, but as an Adept I was too busy using them to strip shields so I could double area pull to set up double throw explosions everywhere. Unless they were armored. Then I was too busy warp cluster grenading everything. Also I carried a valiant just in case nothing is in power range.
ill be honest with you its no much more interesting than gwg, a bit more frantic maybe but still pretty much the same thing
i have no idea what made the developer say that platinum wouldnae be farmed, i mean did they even try the gwg farming strategy to see if it works? because it becomes clear once the banshees start tripping over the counter that its going to work just fine
Yeah. Being flanked by Phantoms is the only issue I've really run into.
Next time I think I'll take my Destroyer just to deal with the damn Phantoms
I really do appreciate that a single Cloak/Prox Mine/Claymore blast can kill a Platinum Ravager from a good distance
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