Drawrof wrote...
I think the #1 reason is having too many teammates like the op. it is clear from his ignorance of the tech/biotic burst triggers that he is still new and inexperienced at me3 let alone gold. The inability to quickly eliminate threats, unable to use soft cover, scared of non immediate threats (banshees ), rookie revival techniques and shoddy objective techniques all add to doomed missions.
as ascerbic as your post sounds....looking at the manifest you are probably right....
the main reason ic failures on gold,
hands down, is the rush to revive. One person goes down (from idiotic moves or not), someone rushes in to revive without thinking/looking, and that person goes down. Third goes over - down. 4th is usally hosed . Hell even if the 3rd doesn't go down, if the two remaining are poorly positioned and/or are support (i.e.not infiltrtors or other survive class) then it is pretty easy to fail at this point.
Take care of business first, then revive, from cover if possible.