Level up really fast, Creepter, and join the madness! Mwa-hahaha!!!
I will bump this most awesome of threads with a new tale of wonder and glory. I am riding a successful Reapers Gold high and nothing's gonna stop me now! Hey-oooooooooo!!!!
So, great day overall anyway due to the boss taking me out for a free sushi lunch and then letting me start my weekend two hours early (w00t!). I come home, change, grab a beer, and figure I'll try to knock the squad challenge out early so I can spend the majority of the weekend pulling Bronze Reaper games to full extraction to meet the community goal. I had a friend (with other good Gold friends) who'd be on soon to help me with the challenge. I wanted this safety net because I am a regular Silver player who has occasionally dabbled in Cerberus and Geth Gold, but never Reaper Gold. And usually find Gold more stressful than it's worth, for my liking.
Knowing he'd be on shortly, I went ahead and searched Reaper Gold games just to see what I'd find. Honestly figured I'd end up lobby hopping until he signed online. Ended up in my first room and was greeted by lots of German. Then, I heard my name addressed in amongst the German tongue and I apologized and said I only understood English. They switched to English and we started talking about the weekend operation and debating what ammo type might be best to use, etc. And I discovered another fellow female gamer with a mic, which is always a pleasant surprise for me. Their characters, equipment, and loadouts looked great, so I figured I'd give it a shot. Had my Ol' Faithful Turian Sentinel, slapped on a Stronghold II gear, some Assault Rifle III Amp, some Ammo-Piercing III, and Adrenaline III equipment. Readied up. With me was an Asari Adept, a Vorcha Sentinel, and a Human Male Sentinel.
Ended up at Jade. It was managable, but felt like a small nightmare with all the freakin' banshees running around. Everywhere. Just every corner you turn. Banshee. I went in mentally thinking I'd be leaning on these teammates because they looked very experienced on paper. And then on Wave 4 or 5 I hear the Asari say this was her first Gold game ever. And I checked the scoreboard and saw I was in the lead. And my heart dropped, because in my mind I felt if I was leading a Gold game, something was horribly wrong. Because I don't feel like that great a player... on Silver, maybe, but not Gold.
But honestly, for that being her first introduction to Gold (poor thing!), and Reapers no less, she did outstanding. When the group started to get overwhelmed and split up, I glued myself to her and said, "Let's do this: I cast Warp, then you cast Throw, and let's just explode everything as quickly as possible." Which we proceeded to do, and it worked very well. But the team just kept letting ourselves get separated too much by the banshees, which literally herded us around the map. Wave 10. The last of all our remaining missiles are used. Asari and Vorcha go down for the count. Me and fellow sentinel are left, both with no missiles or medigel. We manage to whittle the enemy down to just two banshees. And we screw it up. He went down after a banshee reave ball. I stupidly thought I had enough time to revive him. Got myself insta-killed. And he eventually couldn't finish off the two banshees and died. Right there. Two banshees away from the extraction round.
I could have cried, really.
Agreed we should go again. After the revelation that at least two of us weren't very Gold-experienced, yet made it past the Wave 10 objective, we figured we could do this. Just needed to conserve supplies better. Instead of adrenaline, I slapped on a Cyclonic Modulator III on top of the Stronghold II and my Tech Armor. Let's just get ridiculous with the walking tank stuff. LOL Also switched to cryo rounds to try and freeze the smaller guys. The other sentinel left and was replaced by an Ex-Cerberus Adept. I could have cried again, but with tears of joy. There is not much I love more in life than casting Warp on a brute or banshee just before a Smash. About the only thing just as good is doing the same on a target a Justicar has reaved or set a warp bubble on. Our Asari switched to her Geth Engineer, which she felt more comfortable with.
Next map we got was White. We largely camped the upstairs just across from the landing pad. And it was glorious. The adept was really, really great at getting in close to Smash/Biotic Explode my Warped enemies without getting insta-killed. The Geth's healing turret was enormously helpful. The Vorcha was a perfect flank-watcher, getting his needed bloodlust-feeding kills while we didn't have to worry about our backs. None of us had to use any rockets until Wave 9. And we made it to partial extraction, me and the Geth. Man, was my blood pumping. We both cheered and hooted over the mic. Then switched to a quick Bronze Reaper match to get our blood pressure back down. LOL
By that time, my friend shot me an invite... the irony being I'd just gotten my commendation pack secured right before he invited me in so he could help me get one. LOL But that was a great bunch, and awesome to find on my first Gold PUG for the weekend. And the two Germans commented so nicely on how well I played and thanked me for helping them get a commendation pack... and I was like, "Uh, no, thank YOU. You guys were freakin' fantastic!" It was a big Mutual Admiration Society in the lobby before I departed, and friend requests all around. Good times, good times.
Then went on to join my friend, the Australian Asari Justicar, and proceeded to utterly destroy Reapers at Hydra for a few more Gold games, helping one of his buddies secure a commendation pack. Full extractions on all of those, so helped the community goal, too!
And now I am left a bit surprised at myself. In the PUG room, I led the points in the failed game and came in second in the successful game. Then, placed second pretty consistently with my Australian friend's group... and they'e all guys who play Gold all the time. Just very pleasantly surprised that I apparently don't suck at Gold nearly as much as I thought I did. And also shocked to find myself actually
enjoying Reapers Gold and looking forward to playing it some more.
But only after I Bronze Reaper the weekend out to get the community its 400,000 full extractions (unless someone needs me to help them meet the squad goal in between).
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