JaimasOfRaxis wrote...
What do you mean? Mass hysteria, perceived buffs of Geth I didn't notice? "Onyxia deep breaths more".
1.03 had a number of "upgrades" that went under the radar:
* Hunters became staggerproof and can reliably shoot whilst stasis'd/netted/knocked into the air
* Rocket troopers became capable of firing in salvos
* Primes began to place 2 geth turrets at a time
* Synckills take much shorter (so no chance you're going to be saved from an Atlas/Banshee now)
* Bleed-out now automatically happens if you're within a certain threshhold of dying (presumably done to help host connectivity issues).
I would add to that the fact that Cerberus troopers and geth troopers seem waaaaaaaaaay faster in executing. I remember a time when it felt like I almost had full bleed out time to book it to rez a teammate. Now, I start running and about 2 seconds later a trooper is already stomping their head. And I'm not talking about someone who died on the complete opposite side of the map. I'm talking some poor sap who went down just around the corner from me.
This is partly why I will sometimes spend my time doing a "Bronze Day". Now that I'm pretty reliable to almost always extract in silver unless things have really gone to poop, I'll take a break and go host a bronze room. I'll then help the rookies if they have questions or seem confused. And you know what? For all the stories I hear about people who offer advice getting met with defensive snark, I seem to experience way more people expressing appreciation.
A great example was last Sunday. My husband is in that spot of bronze being easy, but silver being a little too difficult still. He wanted to play with me, so I hosted a bronze room and invited him in, then filled the other two spots with public randoms. We had an N17 with a Level 17 human female infiltrator come in. The last spot rotated a lot from game to game. That poor N17 was... not very good. Not terribly great with the sniper rifle, but she was trying, bless her heart (I say she because the name certainly pointed in that direction, though she had no mic). And I really can't say much because I'm a terrible sniper, too... one reason I don't do infiltrators much, outside of a shotgun one occasionally.
But that N17 hung around for HOURS. She was the first to immediately ready up and she tried hard every wave. She even learned the hard way that you can't run while holding the pizza, and I nicely let her know the other things that would and wouldn't cause it to drop from you. After my husband left the room to play a different game, I didn't have the heart to leave because that little N17 kept readying up so quickly to go again. I can only assume she liked my advice and didn't find it annoying/condescending because she readied so fast every time.
And dangit if I didn't start feeling a bit motherly about her. I rezzed her when needed, she stuck by my side quite a bit and yet did go venture out on her own at times. And she struggled so hard with the sniping but seemed determine to improve, so I started doing a little trick to help her. I ran my Turian Sentinel the whole time, so I would overload an enemy I could see she had her eye on. That got them to stop running and just stand there and writhe with electricity... long enough for her to draw a bead and fire. Did that a LOT with the geth, especially. Figured once she gets good at sniping non-running enemies, she'll eventually get better at hitting them on the run. Seemed to work, too, although I get the impression someone must have yelled at her for kill-stealing before she joined my room. At first, she would avoid the things I overloaded, like I had "claimed" them as mine to kill. Once I told her to shoot the things I overloaded, we were off. Got her up to N7 20 and she was starting to get more points each match by the time I finally left (like, 3 hours later LOL).
And you know what? It was fun, helping the new kids like that. There was one match where they would have failed on Jade/Geth because they all three went down and I had to burn a rocket to clear it out and revive them (yeah, I could have let them die and finished the round solo, but that's not my personality; I would rather revive teammates at all costs... especially those that died via circumstance and not because they were being morons).
I call it "rookie farming". Not farming in the sense of FBW/G/G. But farming in that I am taking time to help cultivate a new crop of MP players, trying to ensure I will always have someone to play with in the future.
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