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[Black Phantom]

In response to the question asked in the thread title:

I wouldn't count on it.

[KentGoldings]

Maybe a lot of casual players have moved on. I've noticed that the matches are going faster. I credit new weapons, classes and mods. The Grenade Capacity IV upgrade has turned my Asari Vanguard into the Bronze Goddess.

[Major Durza]

I came back for the DLC, and I can hold my own well enough to **** about pubbers, so that might be part of your answer.

I want my Raider, Argus and Collector Rifle before the DLC comes out.

[Blennus]

Actually I assumed that since the operation requires a less than 20 min clear time and full extraction people were playing closer to there ability level. I found that both bronze, silver and gold matches were easier and better than usual. In fact the first 3 games I played during the operation were less than 20 minutes, all with full extraction.

[Waffelmeister]

Hey, a PS3 player! Add me? Playing with at least one familiar player will help your odds a lot, I rarely lose on silver. On gold, well it can get pretty nasty. Can't carry those yet, with how my manifest looks.

Modifié par Waffelmeister, 08 octobre 2012 - 02:25 .

[Computron2000]

Doubt it. I had a turian run and do a the 4th in 1234 even though 2 already bled out in wave 10, die and medigel repeatedly when i already did 123 without probs. Then i had 2 justicars cluster near me on 1 and 4 of another 1234 in another wave 10 which sucked in atlas missiles knocking progress back to 0. Those are pretty basic mistakes

[mjb203]

Jiovanie- wrote...

I don't know if maybe it's because of the weekend challenge or the new DLC, but I swear the recent random matches, I've found some great players. I have only failed two matches today. It's usually like 4 or 5 a day on Silver. I'm no great player, but I have to say today was probably some of the most successful matches I've ever played.

Don't know what system you're on (PC for me), but I've noticed the same thing, at least with gold.  However, silver seems to be populated with people that should still probably be on bronze (at least the past three or four silvers I've been in). 

It was a pleasant surprise with gold however, since I'm normally a silver player.  Great teamwork, and no one was using microphones.  To top it off, at the end of the matches, I was either at the top of the leaderboard or second, and I really don't consider myself all that great.  But maybe I'm a bit better than I thought initially

[SilentCO1]

All the bad players are in Platinum now. I can't even camp on FBW, they're terrible. There's the occasional good team though, that won't actually camp and we finish the game with full extraction in less than 20 minutes. But the chances of those seem to also be controlled by the RNG Gods.

[Javo2357]

KentGoldings wrote...

Maybe a lot of casual players have moved on. I've noticed that the matches are going faster. I credit new weapons, classes and mods. The Grenade Capacity IV upgrade has turned my Asari Vanguard into the Bronze Goddess.

This. The game is somewhat easier than before and a lot of the players that still play are those that have been playing since launch.

But I'm fairly certain most of the casual players will be back on Tuesday and all the "I hate PUG" threads will flood the forum lol.

Modifié par Javo2357, 08 octobre 2012 - 02:33 .

[P51Mus7ang]

I would guess 99% of my games are posters at BSN and I honestly do not recall a bad game, some are tough for a host of reasons, the group I run with are gold players, some were in silver but they are solid and rock gold also, my advise is play with people from here, the quality in my experience is they understand the game/characters better.

Once in the while everyone is in a game and we need a 4th, happened a couple of times this weekend and the players we got were excellent, we did have to ask one to leave the lobby as they just didn't have the gear to run gold.

[Lynx7725]

Who are you kidding? I play Bronze primarily and still have serious issues with some teams. Some have idiot loadouts (too heavy for power users, no ability to handle cover/ armour), some has poor concentration on Objectives, many have overweening need to get kills, bad understanding of spawn capping, poor understanding of map play...

Yes, it's easier for players to kill things with the addition of "power" kits and new gears. But that just goes to highlight really poor tactical play. For example, a close-combat class camping on the big pad in front of Array Control on Dagger is just capping the big spawn points there and forcing the system to spawn and flank the snipers in Array Control. This just undercuts the whole team because some idiot wants to get stuck in quickly -- which he inevitably doesn't, since the spawn won't happen there! And I see at least 2 to 3 instances of this over the weekend (which accounts for almost all the games I had on Dagger).

I'm also seeing a number of players with no weapon mods, no gear, low weapons.. that's expected in Bronze, but the numbers I run into is a bit surprising considering the age of this game.

[KentGoldings]

You haven't met Bronze Goddess and her 48 recently buffed lift grenades.

[EvoSigma]

Oh hell no...

[Chala]

They are better because I made my glorious return to this game (¿?)

[SierraGHOSTN7]

Oh man. Yesterday was an amazing day. So many games done, all decent or good players.
Today has been horrible.

[AC4HeavyWeapon]

Now that is just nonsense, I mean if anything they have gotten worse and to add on to the pain. They have become illogical and downright selfish with their consumables, I mean really how often do you ever see randoms use anything above level 2 amps or not just use gear only.

[Waffelmeister]

Jiovanie- wrote...

Waffelmeister wrote...

Hey, a PS3 player! Add me? Playing with at least one familiar player will help your odds a lot, I rarely lose on silver. On gold, well it can get pretty nasty. Can't carry those yet, with how my manifest looks.

Is your BSN name the same as your PSN name? I'm like always on. Always up for familiar players. I hardly ever leaves rooms unless I'm hungry.

Yup! Same name. Be careful to watch the el, tripped up a person or two. 

I'm normally on late at night (EST) on weekends because I share a TV. Will definitely be playing most of this week though. 

[Mash3d]

Recently, I've had some pretty worthless teammates, but IM definately getting better

[Lynx7725]

Jiovanie- wrote...

Well are consumables really necessary on Silver? On Gold I could understand, but not on Silver. I might have just been lucky today. It was string and string of good teammates.

It depends. Consumables generally makes the game go faster in lower difficulties, which is important enough if your objective is to ensure a quick run.

I had a few games on Bronze where trigger-happy teammates just yank out the Cobra at the first sign of the big boys. Frankly, with Cobras flying Bronze is a bit boring, part of the trill is to kill the Atlas/ Brute/ Banshee without using a Cobra. And I certainly hope that "idiot" fighting upstairs in White while the three of us hacking down below would use his Medigel... no reason for me to go up there when my objective is down here and getting hacked. I do appreciate his effort, but not that much to go up there while I can help the team complete the hack faster.

Ammo and armour expendables in low levels raise weapons and power damage to the point where you can rapidly get rounds over and done with. Again, if your objective is to cramp as many games into a fixed time period, then it makes sense to equip.

[Ieyfura]

Mash3d wrote...

Recently, I've had some pretty worthless teammates, but IM definately getting better

I'm sort of in the same boat, minus worthless teams. But I am getting progressively better myself.

[vonSlash]

There are less terrible players, but that doesn't mean that they're gone entirely.

[N1GHTHeR0]

Feel free to add me to. I mostly play PUGs but would rather prefer playing with some decent players. I can play Gold/Plat just fine and am willing to play Silver and Bronze. My PSN is the same as my forum name.