Mass Effect 3

Would love to know Sony's reasoning for this.

Is anyone elses multiplayer broken?
I can't get on to a match for love nor money and it keeps crashing.

maximoose wrote: »

I find my human engineer pretty awesome against geth and cerberus, not so good against the ol' reapers.

Rocket combat drone FTW

Here are the classes that are good for winning gold:
- Salarian Infiltrator (overload + headshot)
- Asari Adept (warp + throw for explosions)
- Salarian Engineer (decoy)
- Justicar (bubble, also explosions)
- Geth Engineer (turret)

Not saying other classes can't win gold but these tend to be the most effective.

FutureGuy wrote: »

Salarian Engineers and Quarian Infiltrators own Geth but are poor against other enemies. You need to level up other Characters against other enemies, particularly Reapers.

Doesn't the Salarian Engineer have Energy drain? I've found it great against Banshees, Phantoms and Atli? and kinda like Biotic charge in the sense that when you're about to die you quickly look for someone to steal shields from.

I think it restores some shields even if you don't hit an enemy that has any.

Oh and an update on my Turian Soldier - christ on a bike they're good at shooting things. I've got Marksman and Turian Rebel at lvl 6 and even with the worst recoiling gun in the game - the revenant - you can get a serious number of shots down range (marksman increases rate of fire too!) accurately and they all do pretty high damage for an assault rifle.

Was just finishing up a particularly enjoyable and fruitful Silver run - had AP ammo 2 enabled - when on Wave 11 the stupid thing disconnected - furious.:mad:

GorySnake wrote: »

Anyone know what the story is with these Resurgence packs? Do we get them after the weekend?

Yep, that is normally how it works

Meesared wrote: »

Yep, that is normally how it works

Except when it doesn't

I'm still waiting on the operation Raptor reward packs. Been in touch with support and they say there are problems and we're trying to fix them.

God, I thought my standard (non-shotgun, non-sniper weapons) were only weak because of my Quarian infiltrator but I have unlocked three new classes

- Female Soldier
- Asari Vanguard
- Drell Adept

And all the machine guns are still crap!

Having great crack with the Drell Adept at the moment.

I couldn't figure out how ot use Reave effectively for a while but its great. Can use it on a Marauder or Centurion and then am able to double melee them without any fear of death.

Completed a fair few silvers now - might try and step up to gold.

Varik wrote: »

Just to make sure, all i had to do was play with the DLC installed this weekend?

Bloody non-PS3 owners!

Anyone else get their hands on the harpoon launcher?

It's been a bit frustrating to use so far - seems to lack the accuracy of a true sniper rifle, it isn't instant hit like most of them but I really do like the animation of the glowing red harpoon sticking out of people's faces when you shoot them.

Started this recently and I haven't gone too far in it but is anyone having freezing issues with the Citadel elevator?

I used the elevator, the loading screen came on and that was followed by a black screen but it still had sound. It's happened 3 or 4 times already, very frustrating.

degrassinoel wrote: »

Oh and i got the striker assault rifle IV - it's just a crowd killing monster! great for knocking the crap out of phantoms! requires no accuracy at all lol

Haven't gotten past Stage 7 on gold yet (I actually keep getting kicked when I join Gold matches) even with a level 20 character - I am not sure what it making them do it.

Anyway I have the Striker I and it is class (if a little weak) and am dieing for an upgrade.

Kiith wrote: »

Some people will check your build/class and kick you if they don't like the look of it. Pretty damn annoying at times.

Yeah, I have only ranked up three characters to Level 20 so far:

- Human Male (bit meh)
- Quarian Infiltrator (which I loved)
- Drell Adept (which I named Zell - also growing to love this although sometimes its hard to know when Reave does and does not work)

I unlocked a Turian soldier last night so I think I am going to give that a go next - bit more traditional.

noodler wrote: »

Haven't gotten past Stage 7 on gold yet (I actually keep getting kicked when I join Gold matches) even with a level 20 character - I am not sure what it making them do it.

Anyway I have the Striker I and it is class (if a little weak) and am dieing for an upgrade.

I've been asked to change a low grade weapon to a rank 10 (X) and threatened to be removed if i didnt.
Normally i'd have arank 10 anyway, but some classes, especially biotics or force/power reliant classes dont use weapons as frequently and therefore dont need a max ranked weapon to get through a gold.

If it keeps happening, i'd say make your own gold run and be very selective about who you let join too. I usually set one up with a mate and we refuse to take 2 of one class, especially infiltrators. But then again, we just play firebase white/geth/gold and camp the sh1t out of it with salarian engineers

Another thing that's quite common is people joining and starting up - disagreeing to the tactic/s and going rambo, get themselves killed and quit.

Completely ruins a good setup.

Something i've asked for more recently is for people to use equipment on golds. At least if they do rambo and ragequit out, it will have cost them some ammo, weapon and armour equipment.

Bit petty isnt it? ..But ye know what? it seems to be working lol

Infiltrators are definitely the best class for killing Geth, with a Black Widow, you can take down a Geth Prime in about 6 well placed shots (if Salarian with Energy Drain).

That is provided the infiltrators are focusing on the prime rather than racking up onehit headshot on rocket troopers/hunters/pyros/soldiers. Which in my experiance they do all the time when it's a pair of randomers. Sal infiltrators are the buisness though!

Have ye tried geth infiltrator yet? i've not gotten one so far, just the engineer. Huntermode is a bit... blinding.

How do so many people have X level weapons?

I'm finding it hard to get anything that advanced....i keep getting new shotguns, which I dont use

Q: What is the importance of the N7 Rating? I've paid very little attention to it really, what is it calculated on? And does it affect anything?

Gbear wrote: »

Anyone else get their hands on the harpoon launcher?

It's been a bit frustrating to use so far - seems to lack the accuracy of a true sniper rifle, it isn't instant hit like most of them but I really do like the animation of the glowing red harpoon sticking out of people's faces when you shoot them.

Dunno has anyone else been using this, i've got mostly terrible sniper rifles but this gun has been a game changer for me.

The shot is a projectile rather than instant hit so it "falls" after about 50 meters.

I didn't realise initially that you can charge it to do more damage and fire more accurately.

Using it with infiltrator and if you're cloaked you get the bonus damage for sniper rifles. Thing is, once you start charging the shot you decloak. To get around that, you can charge the weapon up, then cloak, then release the shot with the bonus damage (i think) and you're still cloaked afterwards.

I can 2 shot brutes in silver with this method. Very handy. I can also 1 shot a phantom if I get a head-shot.

Just finished this last night. I imposed a complete blackout on this thread since I last posted here around a month ago so sorry if some these points have been done to death.

I didn't even know you could get X level weapons! I was using a Vindicator 1 for the entire game FFS! I never saw any shop selling it. Sickened!

Overall, the game was epic. As expected. I won't discuss the ending, just to say it disappointed me, but didn't ruin the game for me.

Banshees... Jesus I hate them. I remember on Earth as you're defending the Thanix Missile Battery, two of the hoors show up with a load of Marauders. I ended up taking out one, and then sprinting to the control panel to initiate the cutscene. :pac: :pac: They were the only enemy that I genuinely HATED to hear approaching because it took bloody aaages to kill them.

Brutes were fun! I remember the four on Tuchanka I just ran past, but the ones on Horizon and on Earth were so satisfying. When the last one fell and you just looked around at the carnage it was brilliant!

Some story elements disappointed me. Particularly Also I felt they could have expanded a lot more on characters like Wrex as leader, or at least include him more in the game, but I guess this isn't a major issue.

The only major drawbacks for me in the game were:

a) The Journal: What the hell! Why did they change it? It made so much more sense in the previous games, but in this one you don't even know whether you have the item you need or not. No lie, I actually spent a week looking for a particular artifact, and only realised I had it because when I was walking past the guy that wanted it I had the option to interact!

b) The Dialogue Trees: Felt like they dumbed it down a lot compared to the previous two games. Felt to me as though there was no middle ground between renegade and paragon like before. And as well, a lot of the times when I chose the paragon option Shepard would still act like a dickhead and vice-versa.

That said, I got a good 70 hours gameplay out of my first playthrough, and that was without being connected to the internet at all (long story) so between now knowing I can get level X weapons somewhere and possible multiplayer my next few playthroughs should be fun.

Gbear wrote: »

How do people get 70 hours out of this game? I've played through twice and having done everything (don't have from ashes) they've both taken about 32 hours.

I've been wondering this myself. My game took just over 31hrs IIRC and I did EVERYTHING I could, from ashes included.