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[GracefulChicken]

Recently, I've just been messing around trying to Solo bronze with all the classes. So far it seems the human vanguards and the Krogan soldier have little problems with it (I can do it pretty consistently with those), and I hear infiltrators can do it reletively easily. Anyone done it/tried with an Engineer or Adept or any kind? It seems the strategy is alot different for those classes.

With a vanguard (I do my solo runs on Noveria almost exclusively, so thats what I'll be talking about), I usually hang out in the room down the stairs, towards the back of the map where theres a frequent hacking spot and I dont have many problems watching the landing pad and the back way for flanks. With my soldier, it's usually just run and gun with some cover around the landing pad, I just wait for everything to come to me. Still, I havent found a decent solo strategy for any of the other classes. Tips/bragging rights, anyone?

[UK Wildcat]

Eng -turret or drone to redirect fire. Travel light with high recharge on powers. Position near places with ammo, choke, no or minimal crossfire.

Adept, stasis bubble a door, throw the other door if people come in. Never be in the open.

Bronze can be soloed easily by any class.

[vGriMz]

Adept Asari, Firebase White. Make sure you have Stasis Bubble and possibly a Carnifex.
Just camp around the middle area of the map. Using Stasis on an enemy increases damage bonus..and with a Carnifex, it's usually two-four shots to the head to kill an enemy.
That, provided they don't move, well..it's incredibly simple. Phantoms are no trouble. Guardians aren't either..because it removes shields. Nemesis' can be trouble, although killing them is also simple. Atlas' should be the only enemy which gets in your way.

[GracefulChicken]

UK Wildcat wrote...

Eng -turret or drone to redirect fire. Travel light with high recharge on powers. Position near places with ammo, choke, no or minimal crossfire.

Adept, stasis bubble a door, throw the other door if people come in. Never be in the open.

Bronze can be soloed easily by any class.

My biggest problem seems to be my reliance on an "oh ****" button like Charge or the Krogans heavy melee (or the infils cloak, though I havent used it much). With the engineer, the second I forget I'm squishy, I'm dead after wave 7-8 (5-6 on Silver). There just doesnt seem to be much use out of their turrent in solo runs because it gets taken out so quickly. Even the flamethrower upgrade seems to not even distract troops enough for me to do anything on an Engineer aside from hug cover solo and toss out turrets to single out a couple strays.

[SuperADJ]

Anyone got any thoughts for the Human Adept? So far it's Guardians, Centurions and Phantoms that are causing me trouble. I can take them all down but just take too long doing it which gets me surrounded. With Guardians I use Shockwave to open them up, then unload as many shots as I can while they're vulnerable. But it takes 2-3 cycles of this per Guardian. Centurions are a pain due to their shield (same for the Nemesis), and Phantoms are a real nightmare.

I should mention that I've got virtually no new guns, and run with the Shruiken at present. Can't wait to unlock a decent pistol.

The mission that undid me was the one that requires you to stay in one location until the upload is finished. Unprotected enemies are easy pickings but anything with a shield (physical or otherwise!) slows me down.

[D.Kain]

I got Asari Adept:

1) Maxed out everything except fitness.
Gott Heavy stasis, Heavy throw, and Heavy warp. 
2) Got a Carnifex.
3) Got ( this is freaking important ) Armor piercing rounds, they fly through guardian shields. 

I don't always complete silver solo, but when I do, it's when I don't have to secure anything. When I only have to take out targets, and Hack I ge tthrough in one piece.

Modifié par D.Kain, 24 février 2012 - 09:30 .

[Tangster]

Engineer, use drone or flamethrower to distract, then blast their heads off with a heavy pistol or a sniper. Setup tech and cryo explosions, a cryo explosion can lock down a good crowd of enemies allowing you valuable time to blast their heads off.
Other than that, no other advice.

Asari Adept=stasis bubble + heavy pistol FTW.

Modifié par Tangster, 24 février 2012 - 09:25 .

[Sabbatine]

D.Kain wrote...

I got Asari Adept:

1) Maxed out everything except fitness.
Gott Heavy stasis, Heavy throw, and Heavy warp. 
2) Got a Carnifex.
3) Got ( this is freaking important ) Armor piercing rounds, they fly through guardian shields. 

I don't always complete silver solo, but when I do, it's when I don't have to secure anything. When I only have to take out targets, and Hack I ge tthrough in one piece.

Stasis bubble causes guardians to drop their shields.

[D.Kain]

Sabbatine wrote...

D.Kain wrote...

I got Asari Adept:

1) Maxed out everything except fitness.
Gott Heavy stasis, Heavy throw, and Heavy warp. 
2) Got a Carnifex.
3) Got ( this is freaking important ) Armor piercing rounds, they fly through guardian shields. 

I don't always complete silver solo, but when I do, it's when I don't have to secure anything. When I only have to take out targets, and Hack I ge tthrough in one piece.

Stasis bubble causes guardians to drop their shields.

Stasis bubble is less effective against Phantoms when you are alone, and this is solo. Armor piercing rounds completely make stasis bubble redunant.

[Jenetic]

I came just short of soloing silver with my salarian infiltrator. I have damage bonuses for cloak and energy drain. Maxed passives and largely ignored proximity mine.

I cloaked, energy drained, and picked my shots with my Widow. If things got hairy, I would cloak and bug out to a fall back position on the map to flank and confuse my enemies. Eventually, even phantoms would just stand still for me to pick off with a head shot. Mobility was the key really. Of course you also have to be patient.

I agree with D.Kain. I got killed because I became overrun when trying to secure a location because you have to stay in that area. If I'm just taking out targets and hacking then I get through the waves just fine.

Edit:  That's for silver.  For bronze, I'm able to get through alright for the most part.

Modifié par Dagasi, 24 février 2012 - 10:37 .

[GracefulChicken]

So far I've only managed to solo silver once, with my vanguard. It was actually incredibly difficult for me, wave 9 was securing crap, and it's really difficult staying in a small defined area on a vanguard. I always kind of think "mission first, blah blah" and make sure that's my number one priority, so I force myself to sit there and finish it asap. That was miserable, it was just me camping there Charging Guardians to keep my barriers up, but not using Nova. Extraction is easy alone, for a vanguard, though. You don't have to stay anywhere near the EZ until the last few seconds, then charge over there lol I really dont know if I could do Silver solo again on any other class, tbh. Kudos to those of you who have, I'll have to give it a serious go sometime.

[D Amiri]

Solo'd Bronze with my DrellGuard, no death's used two ops survival health packs, warp ammo I, mattock VI, shield recharge mod on FB:White.

1. Never charge the Landing Pad, EVER! Don't even go near the Landing Pad except when you spawn, and when you extract.
2. LOS'ing is a must. You are squishy. You should be constantly keeping walls and geometry between you and enemy fire.
3. Pull+charge AOE kills mooks. Charge+nade kills elites, Pull+charge+nade kills packs of mobs
4. Top off nades. Don't let your nades run out. Ammo crates will sometimes only give you 0-1 nades. You need nades to kill strong enemies. Run to every ammo crate to keep nades full.
5. Work the inside of buildings. Inside the mobs group up. This makes multi-kill nades easy.
6. Luck. On my run round 3 was deactivate devices (must difficult), round 6 and 10 were eliminations with only one being a Atlus. The round 10 targets were all Assault troops (lucky, lucky, lucky me)
7. Never Charge the Landing Pad, you are not a Nova guard.

[SpiffsGhost]

Using Human Infiltrator (Level 8, Bronze only so far):

- Put most points into cloak duration first, then evolve to add weapon damage, get the extra sticky mine, one point in cryo freeze, and the rest in passives (mostly melee damage). I only carry the Mantis, and a heavy pistol to provide better power recharge.

- I start every wave by lobbing my sticky mines into the cloud of dumb arses that come barging at you at first. This usually takes out two or three (four if I'm lucky) immediately. Start picking off the rest until they start lobbing grenades back. At this point it becomes a game of cat and (killer)mouse. Once I've cloaked and found my hiding spot on the other side, start lobbing sticky mines again, and picking soldiers off until they hurl a grenade. Rinse and repeat.

- Cloaking and darting to either end of the map makes for easy pickings as the enemies come at you (this is where cloak duration becomes important). Noveria has the sweetest spot at the back end by the ammo crate, where soldiers regularly walk up to your cover, allowing you rack up the "grabs" for extra XP.

- There are usually two or three ideal sniper positions on either map, and it really just becomes a game of patience, as you run circles around the map. It might take 3 hours to run 10 waves. Keeping your cool ensures you don't run into any bad situations. Having increased melee damage comes in handy if someone somehow sneaks up on you (damn phantoms!), allowing for an easy one-hit kill in most cases. This is also why I carry a pistol, as the omni-blade doesnt always kill outright, but it does stun, and if you're in close quarters combat, a sniper rifle isn't going to do you much good.

- Having cryo freeze is incredibly useful for troopers with no shields, as it immediately gives you the perfect headshot line-up, which helps provide more XP.

- Sticky mines are great for handling guardians if you dont have the opportunity to line up the perfect shot through the peep-hole. Stick the mine to their shield and they'll get thrown back, exposing them entirely for an easy kill. You can also throw the mine directly behind them and it will take them down (great for taking them down two at a time, as they often come in pairs). 

- Cloak duration and reduced recharge is essential for performing the various tasks, and makes most of them incredibly easy, even the data transfers as long as the spot isn't too open (the data transfer in the middle of the landing pad on Noveria, for example, is ridiculous, and not intended for solo survival). The task where you're deactivating four different data streams is perfect for infiltrators because you're helpless while hacking, but as long as you're cloaked your in the clear (if you have the first evolution for increased duration 30%, the cloak lasts exactly the amount of time it takes to hack).The best task is taking out the marked targets, which is definitely intended for the infiltrators. The Nemesis targets often hide behind cover, creating perfect opportunities for cloak and grab.

It's not easy going solo, but I've found that the Infiltrator is the easiest for me.

Modifié par SpiffsGhost, 25 février 2012 - 03:45 .

[Jenetic]

SpiffsGhost wrote...

Using Human Infiltrator (Level 8, Bronze only so far):

- Put most points into cloak duration first, then evolve to add weapon damage, get the extra sticky mine, one point in cryo freeze, and the rest in passives (mostly melee damage). I only carry the Viper, and a heavy pistol to provide better power recharge.

- I start every wave by lobbing my sticky mines into the cloud of dumb arses that come barging at you at first. This usually takes out two or three (four if I'm lucky) immediately. Start picking off the rest until they start lobbing grenades back. At this point it becomes a game of cat and (killer)mouse. Once I've cloaked and found my hiding spot on the other side, start lobbing sticky mines again, and picking soldiers off until they hurl a grenade. Rinse and repeat.

- Cloaking and darting to either end of the map makes for easy pickings as the enemies come at you (this is where cloak duration becomes important). Noveria has the sweetest spot at the back end by the ammo crate, where soldiers regularly walk up to your cover, allowing you rack up the "grabs" for extra XP.

- There are usually two or three ideal sniper positions on either map, and it really just becomes a game of patience, as you run circles around the map. It might take 3 hours to run 10 waves. Keeping your cool ensures you don't run into any bad situations. Having increased melee damage comes in handy if someone somehow sneaks up on you (damn phantoms!), allowing for an easy one-hit kill in most cases. This is also why I carry a pistol, as the omni-blade doesnt always kill outright, but it does stun, and if you're in close quarters combat, a sniper rifle isn't going to do you much good.

- Having cryo freeze is incredibly useful for troopers with no shields, as it immediately gives you the perfect headshot line-up, which helps provide more XP.

- Sticky mines are great for handling guardians if you dont have the opportunity to line up the perfect shot through the peep-hole. Stick the mine to their shield and they'll get thrown back, exposing them entirely for an easy kill. You can also throw the mine directly behind them and it will take them down (great for taking them down two at a time, as they often come in pairs). 

- Cloak duration and reduced recharge is essential for performing the various tasks, and makes most of them incredibly easy, even the data transfers as long as the spot isn't too open (the data transfer in the middle of the landing pad on Noveria, for example, is ridiculous, and not intended for solo survival). The task where you're deactivating four different data streams is perfect for infiltrators because you're helpless while hacking, but as long as you're cloaked your in the clear (if you have the first evolution for increased duration 30%, the cloak lasts exactly the amount of time it takes to hack).The best task is taking out the marked targets, which is definitely intended for the infiltrators. The Nemesis targets often hide behind cover, creating perfect opportunities for cloak and grab.

It's not easy going solo, but I've found that the Infiltrator is the easiest for me.

Although my salarian (which I find the easiest to solo with) is a much different build than this, this is very good advice.   I have a CQC human female build with a shotty, but I will use your build for my male I think. A lot of what  you said is good advice for any infiltrator going solo, no matter the build.

[SpiffsGhost]

Dagasi wrote...



Although my salarian (which I find the easiest to solo with) is a much different build than this, this is very good advice.   I have a CQC human female build with a shotty, but I will use your build for my male I think. A lot of what  you said is good advice for any infiltrator going solo, no matter the build.

I want the Salarian Infiltrator so bad, just haven't been lucky enough to get it on the random chance. I've gotten the
human infiltrator several times from the randomized packs, which does me no good [smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/pinched.png[/smilie] I'm so comfortable with the Human Infiltrator now though that I don't know if I'll have an easier time with the Salarian, but the energy drain seems like a nice power to have. Does the Salarian come with sticky mines? I don't know if I can give those up.