168 réponses à ce sujet

[Doctor Trick]

I still have to max my manifest / need credits, but I don't really play it much at all unless I am doing some Glacier runs. Boss spam and I feel it limits what classes I can play.

[Mojenator12345]

I really hadn't played platinum before this challenge (just a few rounds when it first came out), and it was pretty brutal. I completed the challenge, but I think my mission success rate was around 20-25%. Of course, I was pugging, and there were a lot of other folks in lobbies who didn't look like platinum regulars. I found I could score at or near the top of the board with a drell assassin, but struggled with most other kits (haven't unlocked TGI, sexbot, or jugg, so those weren't options). Demolisher was decent. Didn't try other infiltrators, but they probably would have been fine. But some of my favorite gold kits (brotarian, slayer, turian sentinel) did not hold up well. I'll probably do some platinum runs from time to time, but would generally rather play silver and gold.

[Das Rouse]

Like Mega said, with a good team. I tried helping 3 people with collectors last night. Wasn't fun, and I don't want to sound elitist or douchy, but they were all silver players. They admitted this, I think I should have replaced one if them with a friend and just did it twice to help them out. I clutched a few waves, when I was grabbed on wave ten, they all died almost instantly. Sorry to say, but I failed at helping them.

[Windfall27]

I pug'd everything except Reapers and dear god it could get frustrating. Geth and Cerb got done in one great lobby, then the host left and I spent two hours failing to find a lobby decent enough for Collectors. In the end the Juggernaut/GI combo is just pretty unstoppable.

Having said that, I did enjoy it. I've played Plat a couple of times before, even extracted (on pre-change White, though...), but never this relentlessly. The thing is you need a decent team. If you can actually get some form of teamwork going then that's even better, but unless you can solo the whole thing you are going to have to rely on them at some point. In the end I just ran infiltrators for the whole thing so that I could do objectives and minimise how much I needed teammates. Trooper for Reapers, GI for Cerb, QMI for Geth and Asari for Collectors. All strong DPS classes, but fun

Oh, except RioFarming. The one time I got dumped in a match I left out of boredom.

[Felis Menari]

kipac wrote...

It's a bit boring. Just a boss spam.

Yep. The fun for me is mostly in silver, when not using consumables anyways. When packing a full set of equipment gold can be pretty fun too.

[Bob Garbage]

I like plat with a good team. The creds are too good to ignore as well. I enjoy gold the most though. Silver and bronze kind of annoy me cause everyone seems to just run around and die even more often than the harder difficulties.

Modifié par Bob Garbage, 11 mars 2013 - 02:10 .

[P51Mus7ang]

Das Rouse wrote...

Sorry to say, but I failed at helping them.

Not at all, I have spent far too many hours on the field at all levels with you.

I did this helping a different way, I am a good platinum player but I can`t carry a team, gold is no problem, so I took one of three friends into every game and two that I didn`t know, you Merc and Sensium were my go to`s, this was security in that even if the other two had a desperate hard struggle, we would still get out.

See Rouse, when we are playing the hardest level in the game with people we have never run with,  there is an unknown.

Some exceptions, I joined teams from here that were people I have seen posting for some time and believed they were solid and they were, last night was a classic, three I never played with before, all regular posters who hadn`t finished, we were fulling off games in 20 to 26 min, run and gun, no nuking....that was a lot of fun a not everyone is able to pull that off and every game was full extraction except one when a player lost connection in wave 9, we still finished to extraction.

[owenbeast]

Fun with a team but I prefer having lot's of mooks to kill on gold and getting kill streaks.

[sandboxgod]

I enjoy running platnium with friends on occasion. But overall I enjoy Gold much, much more. Many builds are much more balanced there (aka more powerful). For example, much easier to melee things on Gold. Platnium is usually just full of DPS spam and nukes.

Still Platnium can be pretty fun and challenging.

[JuicyGoo]

No. This challenge was not fun for me. But I'm thankful for the guys who were willing to stick with Platinum Collectors to get my pack.

[cronshaw]

nic ventura77 wrote...

Does anyone else agree that we should of got the Banner for completing the Insanity challenge and not for the weakling normal mode? All that hard work and nothing to show for it.

i do not agree

[NucularPikinic]

No.

Praetorian, Banshee, Phantom, Prime, Atlases spam is not fun.

[Rancor Peen]

trying to max out my manifest so its always plats for me.

[Bob Garbage]

Just finally getting over that hump and playing/succeeding at platinum was award enough for me. I don't know why I put it off so long. Now killing **** on gold happens even faster hah. I actually like this past op, it seems like it has propelled a lot of long time players who just didn't make the leap to platinum to finally do it.

[Bzilla]

HELLZ TO THE YEAH they are fun if you have a great team. While this is by no means a super fast plat time, we were knocking out Plats with an average of just under 30 minutes which is faster than some Gold PUGs i've been in.

I'm glad BW did this op because I never really planned on getting into Platinum but now I actually find it fun.

[UnknownMercenary]

With a team that moves around, yes.

[N7Dropout1]

Carrying a team on platinum isn't that hard, it just takes a lot of patience if you want to do it safely farming the mooks until the end of the wave.

I think if you want to safely break into platinum start with a geth juggernaut, spec him and use him for max survivability/tanking and hope your teammates bring the DPS. I helped a buddy yesterday who wasn't very used to platinum and he tanked on his juggernaut while myself as GI and 2 teammates blew up the bosses as they came.

Modifié par N7Dropout1, 11 mars 2013 - 02:22 .

[SteveBH1977]

This weekend was my first venture into the platnum realm, and it was a chore. Satisfying when you extract, but otherwise not much fun.

It took me about 10+ pug attempts to get through Collectors. Reapers and Cerberus I did with friends and we completed them first try. Geth I did in 2 tries and then helped others do it.

The money was great, but there are sooooooo many useless classes at that level. I'd say of all the classes less than 10 are platinum viable to anyone save the most elite players.

I used my juggernaut for Cerberus and my Huntress for everything else. Using friends with mic's is very helpful. Though for collectors, the PUG group I had, no one but me had a mic.....or if they did, they didn't use it.

The issue for me with platinum, I feel like I am just spamming 2-3 buttons. With the huntress it was TC, DC, shoot....repeat.....while dodging left and right.....and it really sucks when you get staggered....and then mobbed, die, then gel...only to get staggered again and sync-killed....

[kelly ripas bicep]

No, it isn't fun and the second I get 200 waves on every map I'm done

[unclemonster]

I love platinum...it is my fave difficulty (as long as I have a friend or 2)
we have been running alot of 3-man plats lately and that is even better than 4-man plat

Modifié par unclemonster, 11 mars 2013 - 02:52 .

[DrunkenGamerTrae]

With my regular group gold is stupid easy, if I have two or more friends with me platinum is much more enjoyable.

[MrLyramion]

Everything on gold just trips and dies when looking at it cant be have fun on anything below plat for me

[Jeremiah12LGeek]

Das Rouse wrote...

Like Mega said, with a good team. I tried helping 3 people with collectors last night. Wasn't fun, and I don't want to sound elitist or douchy, but they were all silver players. They admitted this, I think I should have replaced one if them with a friend and just did it twice to help them out. I clutched a few waves, when I was grabbed on wave ten, they all died almost instantly. Sorry to say, but I failed at helping them.

The U.S.S. Rouse needed a P.T. boat to pick up the occasional man overboard.

That's right, I liked the metaphor, so I went ahead and used it twice! 

[Kinom001]

While I can do it, it isn't all that much fun to me. I did every game this weekend as PuGs and, overall, they went really well. Still, it was just a crap ton of bosses and annoying enemy types that was only manageable by using the Harrier.

[Sojiro888]

I played Plat for the first time for Lodestar and it was loads of fun. I was with a competent team, and we finished about as fast as I do when playing silver PUGs I need to carry. Things usually died pretty fast since we had a couple of debuffs and usually 3~4 players focusing fire.
I often faced enemies I couldn't deal with effectively ($@# Phantoms) but there was almost always a buddy nearby that would help me out ; and occasionally I'd help by taking on things I could deal with better than them.

Since we had all 4 factions, there was almost always something to use the various abilities on, which is always nice. But the few times I had to deal with a couple of Banshees by myself ... blech.