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[Rebel_Raven]

Operation broadside? Tough call. I've got a few.

1: Finding out that the Talon I, the GPSG V were both worthwhile gold level weapons. I had sorely underestimated them. Natrally I added mods/amps/etc. I appreciate having viable weapons that aren't single shot.

2: Finding out that I can hang on gold most of the time.

3: Actually making a full extraction on Gold.

4: Spending a glut of Gold level credit winnings on PSPs, and getting the particle rifle and krysae.

Those readily spring to mind.

Do keep in mind that I played almost exclusively on bronze before this weekend when not dragged into silver somehow. I managed to get decent in Gold Matches quickly, I think.

[Aelius24]

Last weekend's Operation Broadside had my first Gold extraction that wasn't a FBWGG farming attempt. My buddies and I had been making Silver runs and Gold attempts all weekend. Friday was spent building levels and credits, Saturday our first attempts, which failed, unfortunately... and we lost most of our good equipment packs. However, we did build team tactics and learn some on-the-fly strategies for the objective rounds. Sunday, we hunkered down and made our last attempts. After a warm up in Silver, we loaded the last of our best equipment and began the match. It went well... too well. We were actually surprised at how good we were doing! Then when it came time to extract we realized the party leader (not me) forgot to change the difficulty to Gold. We had been doing Silver again, and now would be going into Gold with no equipment save for Gear mods. We geared up and went back into battle, but it wasn't as impressive as our Silver runs. We lost two games due to Reapers spawning INSIDE the rooms we were holding. The rounds begin and Banshees appear right in front of us, within grabbing range. After some deliberation, we decided to give it one more try on a new map. Forgot to change the map and ended up back in Giant, but at least we knew what to expect. The game was rough... During the later waves, one or two teammates had to finish up, usually after rushing around drawing the Banshees away so lesser enemies can be dealt with. Next thing we know, it's Wave 11 and we actually have a shot at extraction! Personally, I have no Medi-gel, no Ops Survival packs, and only one rocket left. It was absolute chaos... Reapers were spawning left and right, and the best we could manage was to rush around the map like maniacs trying not to get cornered. Thirty seconds to go... we began to converge on the extraction zone, and the Reapers were hot on our tails. twenty seconds, holding out so far. Fifteen seconds, it was getting a bit too crowded. Ten seconds and counting, our only option left was to dodge and weave around the extraction zone and hope to stay alive long enough. One of my teammates got grabbed right at the last second, but we achieved a partial extraction with three characters. We did it... Countless attempts and tons of credits raked in, and now, finally, we pulled it off.

In other news, I also liked the themed teams for Operation Savage. I happened to get my first Batarian character during that weekend and it was neat to work with a new character.

[Sevrun]

My personal favorite dates back to Operation Goliath and a Brute charge.  I started unloading when he was at the end of the hallway on FB Dagger with a Rev (spare heatsink, didn't have the AP yet) and hit AR just as he charged.

Brute screaming, the Reverend preaching, and me about to get crushed because I got NO shields.

Apparently the Rev had an AWESOME sermon of death and devastation, cause the big guy drops dead maybe two meters short, his hand flopping down right in front of me.  I was so buzzed I forgot to get outta the middle of the doorway...

And caught a Ravager round in the face...

True story, celebrate AFTER the match

[MrsFlyingKebab]

Operation Broadside. The look of mild amusement on my husbands face as I bounced off the walls when I finished my first ever gold, despite team mates leaving in the early waves (were replaced thank goodness), and having to finish one of the waves by myself.
The feeling of achievement you get when made to leave your comfort zone, and actually, it was all ok in the end. Still, didn't hang around to do another one...I needed a stiff drink!

[Alisira]

stephen316 wrote...

All Krogan team laughing and yelling together in the event before last

This. Running in circles with your Krogan teammates between waves. Absolutely hilarious! 

[DragonRacer]

Honestly, Derek, the operation moments that stick out most to me are a) the ones that pushed me out of my comfort zone and the ones that gave me awesome war stories and the opportunity to feel like a hero. That is the short version. The long version…

Some examples of the former:

1. Operation Exorcist. At the time, I was still a Baby Bronze player and it was the first operation PS3 players could participate in. A Gold extraction was required to meet the squad goal. Considering I had only tried Silver a few times and received beatings of epic proportions, I was afraid of Gold. But the operation drove me to try anyway, and I was encouraged by the unofficial Operation Carry that sprang from it. I actually found a Gold room hosted by a nice, laid-back Geth Engineer who was participating in Operation Carry, and he held my hand through Cerberus/White/Gold to a full extraction, giving me invaluable advice and confidence. While I knew I was not yet ready to do more Gold, I felt better about my own skills. After the operation, I proceeded to go back to Bronze and outgrew that swimming pool. I then moved to Silver and started really cutting my teeth. And I owe a lot of thanks to that Gold veteran Geth Engineer. Someone on here once said that the newbies carry a piece of the veterans with them as they grow and learn, and that is correct… at least, for me it is. I have carried a piece of that helpful Geth Engineer mentor with me ever since, and I owe a lot of my knowledge and confidence to him for taking a chance on a rookie. I can only hope I may do the same for each new crop of rookies we get in the future.

2. I forget the name of the operation where a Rebellion character had to be in the squad to meet the squad goal. But that one pushed me to try a class I had not played around with much before. At the time, the only Rebellion character I had unlocked was the Ex-Cerberus Adept. I never played adepts because they felt so squishy. But I wanted to help the community and the best way to do that was to play the one Rebellion character I had in Silver all weekend to help as many people as possible get commendation packs. That operation forced me out of my comfort zone and into a class and character I might not have ever tried otherwise. By the end of the weekend, I had actually grown to love him.

3. Finally, Operation Broadside. Once again, squad goal was a Gold extraction. By now, I’d been a Silver veteran who occasionally dabbled in Cerberus Gold or Geth Gold. Had never played Reapers Gold. So, again, I was encouraged by Bioware to leave my comfortable, small pond and try to tough it out in the big pond. By doing so, I discovered that my skill had grown enough that Gold was an acceptable challenge, rather than a frightening prospect… even at its toughest level – Reapers. So, now I find myself a Silver veteran who is playing far more Gold games than I ever had before… and actually doing very well in them and enjoying them. Oh, if my Geth Engineer teacher could only see me now; how his young, frightened Bronze grasshopper has grown…

Now, as to the latter, giving me war stories…

1. Operation Exorcist. After surviving my first Gold game thanks to Operation Carry, I grew confident enough to try Cerberus/White/Gold one more time before the weekend ended. I hosted a room and gained two competent-looking Gold veterans and one Salarian Engineer who was wetter behind the ears than I was, based on an N7 rank of in the 20’s. Pumped up from my success the day before with the Geth Engineer’s room, I made myself the team leader as far as calling out enemy positions and offering my new-found knowledge to the Salarian. Also seemed appropriate since I was the only one in the room with a mic. We made it a long way in before wiping, but the team composition seemed good. I asked everyone to stay and try again… and I was especially determined to help the Salarian rookie get his commendation pack, to pay back the ME3 MP spirits for the fellow who’d helped me get mine the day before. It was not easy, especially when I started lagging/framerates dropped to zilch on Wave 8. But we somehow made it all the way to a full extraction. I think I may have been more excited about that than the rookie! I was pumped to have been a Bronze Baby that had successfully helped lead a team to a Gold victory.

2. The Rebellion squadmate operation. Made me feel like a true community helper in two ways. One way was the thread I created for those with Rebellion characters to post their info so that those without one could contact them for help meeting the squad goal. The other was rolling my Ex-Cerberus Adept all weekend to help… it always gave me the warm fuzzies to be the last one to enter a random Silver lobby and find out I’m the only Rebellion squadmate. Can’t tell you how many people I helped get commendation packs by doing that, but it made me feel awesome. Even more awesome was a moment on Cerberus/Reactor/Silver when three rookies (all looooow N7 levels that had left bronze to try and get a commendation pack) all went down at the beginning of Wave 10 and I was left to solo it with a character that would NOT have been my first choice to carry with at the time. It was long and, I’m sure, torturously boring for them to watch, but I clutched it and then dragged them to extraction (I was Lone Survivor). Felt like a Biotic God, I did.

3. Operation Savage. We made a PS3 thread because we knew, without a splash screen, it would be hard to find Savage rooms to meet the squad goal. I volunteered my services because I had just recently completed my first Bronze solo ever, so I was feeling confident that I could carry someone if they had trouble finding a Savage squad and weren’t able to solo Bronze by themselves. I actually had two people contact me from that post and ask for a hand. So, I set up Bronze private rooms, gave my Krogan Vanguard a Reegar (making sure my chance at wiping was basically at zero probability), and proceeded to two-man one room and three-man another.

Good times, good times.

Talkin’ to myself again
Wonderin’ if this travelin’ is good
Is there somethin’ else a’ doin’
We’d be doin’ if we could

But ah, the stories we could tell
And if it all blows up and goes to hell
I wish that we could sit upon a bed in some motel
And just listen to the stories we could tell…
~ “Stories We Could Tell”, Jimmy Buffett

[ImBanginUrGirlFriend]

I loved that we had to play Reapers this past event. Reapers create so much more mayhem and therefore fun. I also loved the previous event where we had to use Krogan, Vorcha or Batarian - for me those are the most entertaining races. Vorcha cracks me up to no end... "Big Machines".

Modifié par ImBanginUrGirlFriend, 17 juillet 2012 - 03:31 .

[GGW KillerTiger]

My favorite event? I guess it's all the ones you don't purposfully stage for us to fail.

[Sun Tzglyph]

This : http://social.biowar...7152/1#13127246 (When i got the last operation's squad goal completed).

[Rolenka]

I don't know about an exact moment, but playing with all Krogan/Batarian/Vorcha was pretty cool. So lots of moments of that, you could say.

It was like we were in a special club and didn't need any of those snootier races. We took pride in our species.

I could see similar events being equally enjoyable. All Asari, all Alliance, etc.

[Feirefiz1972]

I am going to be honest with ya, participating in a event is completely the same as any other match to me. You guys should get more creative and change things up for us, the only thing that stands out for me is recieving a promotional weapon. Change things up during an event so we actually experience a differance when participating, mix up factions or spam more of a certain enemie type, any noticeble difference really otherwise it all feels the same.

[SipuliJaska80]

My favorite moment is that when I give final buttshot for brute which kills it

It's also fun moment when krogan revives somebody and says "stop whining" ^^

[xZBx]

Chopping phantoms with my own phantom.

[Catastrophy]

There was this phantom event and I figured out how to use my batarian soldier. I took a disciple and ate phantoms. Up close and personal.
Renamed the character to 'Phantom Menace'. Since then, I don't fear or loathe Phantoms any more.
I think it was also the times of 360 degree Ballistic Blades? I felt nearly invincible.

During that Rebellion event (play a savage class?) I entered an all Vorcha team - as Vorcha. That was the most hilarious ever. Incredibly fast paced, hunting - no: competing - for the kill, fast revivals and all the vorcha comments.

Modifié par dr_random, 18 juillet 2012 - 08:49 .

[.458]

I have to add that my favorite moment I mentioned was later wiped out. When I went into the shop a few days after the weekend, my packs were there...but I got disconnected and when I came back, my existence in the weekend was gone. There was no longer a record that I ever participated. My favorite moment is now a moment of just why it is hard to care.

[kevchy]

Some dude was about to get executed by a Cerberus trooper, I used Shadow Strike across the map in FB Vancouver, killed the trooper *just* before the poor guy got curbstomped, then I rezzed him.

Like a boss.

[Bluebeam2012]

Getting the Valiant IV. While my friend gets an Eagle IV

[dvjm]

Learning thanks to last week's event that I _can_ play gold. Well, against Reapers anyway.

[KyreneZA]

Second best: leaving the PUG 1 minute into Wave 11 so that my Asari Adept doesn't screw up the chances of the rest of the awesome team getting their Operation: Savage commendation packs. Was sad to leave, but felt good even if I couldn't play another match with them.

Best: being "Last Man Standing" with one bar of health left on my now even squishier AA during Operation: Broadside. I was shaking too much to play for a good 10 minutes after seeing my name in white in the post-game credits.

Funniest: Dying on Wave 1 Bronze while 'babysitting' a buddy who's first ever ME3 MP game it was. So much for me being the 'experienced player'...

[Meatiershower]

MikkOwl wrote...

Operation Savage. Four Krogan cornering & bullying a poor Nemesis to death with headbutting.

Overall that event was the most fun. All Krogan, Batarian and Vorcha team did very well. Surprising and amusing character types.

This!

Plus any event where we are given accurate, non-conflicting start/end times, clear, specific goals, and not penalized because we weren't given the proper info by the people who give the info. (I'm looking at you, Broadside).

Modifié par Meatiershower, 20 juillet 2012 - 12:36 .

[Drummernate]

The part when you say we won and I am confirmed to get my commendation and victory packs.

The events themselves are not very special honestly.

"Get full extraction.... which I already do...."

"Play as a Krogan..... which I already do...."

"Promote.... which I already do...."

We need something new, like complete a match with nobody going down. (10 Waves survived)

That would be a nice one!

[UJN]

Completing the squad objective during operation broadside.

I play mostly silver and only try gold occasionally, but the matches usually end around wave 5-8.
This was one of the first times I used the drell adept on gold, but the rest of the group consisted of an asari adept, a human sentinel and a krogan vanguard so it seemed like a good choice.
The krogan mostly charged around and killed as much as he could, but ended up dead quite a few times (but ended of with the score so he usually killed a lot before being killed himself). I tried to stay close to the asari adept and reave everything. The sentinel ran around on his own and ended up with very low score so I'm not really sure what he did.

The whole match was really entertaining and more than one time we were close to being wiped out, but somehow we got to wave 11. On wave 11 the krogan vanguard got killed from behind by a banshee almost immediately and the sentinel sat in the landing zone the whole time. I never liked hydra, but that changed this match. There seemed to be banshees everywhere so I just ran back and forth across the map trying to stay alive. With less than 30 seconds left I headed up towards the landing zone, passing 2 banshees while running through the "bunker". On the other side I see sentinel being grabbed by a banshee and the asari adept being shot down running towards the landing zone from the other direction. With a ravager and a few cannibals shooting at me from far away, banshees coming at me from all sides and another ravager coming up the ramp next to the landing zone I just got into cover and held my breath the last 10-15 seconds. It felt amazing to be alive when the time ran out.

[the slynx]

I guess I have a few, but they mostly boil down to hitting that sweet spot between dumb luck and impressive application of skill where I'm able to cover significant ground and revive a teammate who's fallen on an extraction round, despite grave opposition from a mob of enemies. Hitting one of those highlight reel revives always makes me feel good when that 'full extraction' medal pops. I got a few of those this past operation.

Conversely, the worst moments are generally going for a highlight reel revive and failing spectacularly, then watching the rest of the match as a spectator.

...

No, actually, I take it back: failing at a spectacular revive because lag or latency suddenly rears its head. That hurts. Lag is by far the most overpowered enemy in the game.

[SWFanatic]

I liked getting groups of only batarians, krogan, vorcha.
That was the most enjoyable gimmick to me.
But it was still awkward asking people to change character to get credit.

[KiraTsukasa]

My favorite moments were the ones where the goals weren't vague and it was easy to tell what we were needed to do.