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[Chivers7]

Got a Gold extraction on Glacier with a biotic squad after bumping into EDOG, Kingvenom & co on a public game then spent the weekend focusing on full extractions for community goal by dropping to silver. Suprisingly most Silver players i played with were'nt as focused and kept breaking off and getting downed despite everyone else's best efforts.

Anyone know when we'll hear on the community goal?

[NoOnionsUK]

mechalynx wrote...

heavyplay wrote...

mechalynx wrote...

Found an excellent group on first try. First time I played Gold too and we got UUG with full extraction on that mother****ing Thessia map with Phantoms EVERYWHERE!

To my awesome teammates - thank you!

Uhh... the challenge was for Reapers.

I do not posess a high enough balls quota to try a Banshee on Gold. Farmed reapers on Bronze/Silver to get my muppets to lvl 20. I only wanted to try Gold once, since I never played it before. 

But yea, sucks that I didn't try a Reaper run.

Ah (see my post above about your Gold Run*)  - good to see that you farmed Bronze and Silver.  I've done the same - got the pesky Gold out of the way - the strange thing is that I've been crap on silver all day :-(

* Gold Run, Blockbusters - UK TV viewers from the '80 will know what I'm waffling about!

[donnyrides]

Kushan101 wrote...

donnyrides wrote...

This mission was a lot of fun for me. Grouped up all weekend with randoms and found myself as equal parts teacher and student. My AJA was a dominating force when paired with AAs and PAs. out of 10 Gold runs vs Reapers I only came up short 2 or 3 times.

I had to show a few new players the ropes about biotics and the power of the AJA warp-bubble and the amazing phoenix spam-able lash.

I learned from some N7 1000+ players some great weapon combos and how to use the FQI for Gold. (It changed my life.) Never would have thought the sabotage could be so devastating. (I won't bore with details unless asked.)

All in all, I love gold challenge weekends. It forces bronze and silver players to leave their comfort zone and really challenge themselves. A lot of players are way better then they give themselves credit for. AND a lot of players find that their set up they have been using to crush bronze is worthless on Gold. (you know who you are nova-guards/Krogan sentinels).

Great weekend and look forward to DLC. 2 mil ready to pull in all kinds of Ammo IV ..LOL

Im intrigued by this devastating use of sabotage - please do tell.

I'm sure to a lot of players it is common knowlege but for me It opened my eyes to a new playstyle that really resurrected my lost love for the Inf.
Sab is actually a great tool vs reapers. Cannibals and Marauders are nonstop gunfire enemies that normally spawn together and stay close to each other for a good period of time. Sab set for backfire can put these troops down fast and in bulk. I have been using Sab mostly vs Geth to take over a pyro or rocket trooper. I was also having great success with tech groups since they can benefit from the +50% tech damage that Sab gives at level 6. I set my cloak for "use one power while cloaked", I  can sab a Brute, while being cloaked, throw a sticky while cloaked and drop about 3500 damage per sticky. If you skip the sniper idea and go with a hurricane or reegar, you become a close quarters domination machine. This does come at the price of being a bit squishy though. 

There is the boring, "I'm sure everybody except me knew this already", game changing FQI setup I learned about.  

Modifié par donnyrides, 16 juillet 2012 - 02:40 .

[DiebytheSword]

Pulled the Squad goal about six times over the weekend with different groups(PUGs and Friend List), ground the hell out of silver and bronze for allied too.

I hope we did it!

[Beerfish]

So the guy bleating into my mic the other day that "You do realize that sabotage does absolutely nothing to reapers!" was giving me erroneous information?

[doc_prime]

Great Weekend!
First Gold random squad was all asari adepts and no issues. later with a mixed squad i tried krogaurd and barely squeeked by. I did get to melee a banshee to death after she grabbed me!

big fun, thanks to everyone

[Chivers7]

Beerfish wrote...

So the guy bleating into my mic the other day that "You do realize that sabotage does absolutely nothing to reapers!" was giving me erroneous information?

Yes he was wrong. QFI sabotage can cause weapon backfire damage if that power evolution is chosen. And as previously mentioned can buff tech damage powers by 50% if associated Evolution is taken.

[donnyrides]

Beerfish wrote...

So the guy bleating into my mic the other day that "You do realize that sabotage does absolutely nothing to reapers!" was giving me erroneous information?

Yes. He is a spreding lies.
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Sorry, dup. Mods please feel free to delete. Thanks

Modifié par donnyrides, 16 juillet 2012 - 02:44 .

[RGFrog]

Elobart wrote...

Maybe because they don't want to draw every single enemy to the same spot on the map, and have the whole group overrun, and die in the same heap.

Gold doesn't work that way. Unless the intention is to draw agro away from the team. But to do that you have to be doing a good ammount of killing.

Gold tends to work smoothly when everyone works as a team. Concentrating fire, quickly reviving team mates, staggering banshees to disrupt sync kills, etc.

That doesn't mean you have to stay in one place the entire match. Gold is just infinitely easier if you stay together, even if roaming the map is your thing. Just stay together.

Then when it comes time to do the 4 part hack objective or the pizza delivery run, the team can keep fire off the player completing the objective. That can mean soaking up agro at the spot or keeping agro in another part of the map away from the objective.

Bronze and silver can work the same way. But, it's easy to go lone wolf on those levels so teamplay isn't something learned there very often.

[TheWout]

I really doubt we made it.
Every game i finished other then my Gold run ended with at least 1 player getting hugged by a banshee in round 11

[Chivers7]

TheWout wrote...

I really doubt we made it.
Every game i finished other then my Gold run ended with at least 1 player getting hugged by a banshee in round 11

This is a valid point, magnet hands game ruining mechanic needs to be adjusted so that this frustrating situation dissapears! Personally if i see more than one banshee i reach for the cobra....

[xEagleOne]

Awesome

[TheOneMavado]

TheWout wrote...

I really doubt we made it.
Every game i finished other then my Gold run ended with at least 1 player getting hugged by a banshee in round 11

Didn't happen to me once. Sure, a few people got grabbed, but not one during extraction (only got 3 partials due to various player errors).

[NickHardJaw]

I think we made it! Of the 25 matches I played this weekend, bronze, silver and gold, I and the squads I was with were all extracted.

[DragonRacer]

Hey, folks!

Well, I know it is after the fact, but I finally got a Bioware dev to confirm what the official end time of this event was... Derek Hollan PM'd me back saying:

Hi DR,

The official time is the blog time. 10AM PST, Friday to 4AM PST Monday.

Cheers

So, Chris mis-typed on the first post of this thread -- the Bioware blog time was the correct time, so everything we did after 10am PST yesterday DID count towards the weekend operation.

So glad my friends and I kept at the community goal yesterday afternoon/evening (just in case the blog was the right time).

EDIT: Also, for those asking in this thread -- we will probably hear if we succeeded in the community goal or not either today or tomorrow. Commendation packs (and if community goal was met, victory packs) usually start going out Tuesday night, so be patient. If you don't have yours by Thursday, then is the time to contact EA support.

Modifié par DragonRacer, 16 juillet 2012 - 03:48 .

[Damion_ST]

I think we made it. Saw a lot of poeple playing, and I got through about 10 or 11 Full extractions before i went to bed lastnight (Thanks DragonRacer for the clarification)... Did 5 gold runs, only 1 to Full extractions though. I am not a Gold player usually, but I survived all the way to extraction, The Banshee Grab killed someone on the other side of the map with about 10 seconds to go which kind of upset the group of 3 of us in the LZ... Thanks to all those PS3 players who helped me survive, it was much apptreciated!

[Germanteddybear]

i think we did too alot of my friends were complaining about reapers all weekend aw fun weekend for sure hope we got it and i hope everyone enjoys new classes tomorrow

[SAV-L]

Got the gold out of the way first then did 14 extracts vs reapers, 13 of them being full

[SMheatstroke23]

I think we'll get it.. But the most frustrating thing is when one of your squad is literally one foot away from the extraction zone, and they refuse to step inside of it.. Sigh oh well. I mostly trucked through Bronze and Silver matches, tried a few Gold but no success .
I do think we'll get the Allied Goal though.

[ManBearPigIets]

Chivers7 wrote...

TheWout wrote...

I really doubt we made it.
Every game i finished other then my Gold run ended with at least 1 player getting hugged by a banshee in round 11

This is a valid point, magnet hands game ruining mechanic needs to be adjusted so that this frustrating situation dissapears! Personally if i see more than one banshee i reach for the cobra....

It's weird, on a good host I can be about 5 feet away and feel safe (relatively), and then I get some foreign host and I get sucked in from like 15 feet away, it's rediculous.

But yeah, got at least the squad goal, can't wait to see if we pulled off the allied (not that I need another med gel particularly).

[caldo15]

nothing but terrible selfish players online today, players running around like maniacs, not reviving players when they're down, can't stand playing when it gets this bad

[DNC Protoman]

caldo15 wrote...

nothing but terrible selfish players online today, players running around like maniacs, not reviving players when they're down, can't stand playing when it gets this bad

yes, I'm sure your the only good player running around.

[JohnDoe]

ManBearPigIets wrote...

Chivers7 wrote...

TheWout wrote...

I really doubt we made it.
Every game i finished other then my Gold run ended with at least 1 player getting hugged by a banshee in round 11

This is a valid point, magnet hands game ruining mechanic needs to be adjusted so that this frustrating situation dissapears! Personally if i see more than one banshee i reach for the cobra....

It's weird, on a good host I can be about 5 feet away and feel safe (relatively), and then I get some foreign host and I get sucked in from like 15 feet away, it's rediculous.

But yeah, got at least the squad goal, can't wait to see if we pulled off the allied (not that I need another med gel particularly).

agree. thats one of my main gripes of this game.. getting clowned by the banshee magically retractable hands from faaaaaaaaaar faaaaaaaaar away.

[JohnDoe]

caldo15 wrote...

nothing but terrible selfish players online today, players running around like maniacs, not reviving players when they're down, can't stand playing when it gets this bad

its monday, what do you expect?