Original Stikman wrote...
tyhw wrote...
Original Stikman wrote...
tyhw wrote...
But let's be honest, pretty much any wave without an objective is a cakewalk. In that case:
Wave 3: plat
Wave 6: gold
Wave 10: gold
(by your own ratings)
I don't exactly think gold is harder than plat, but plat really isn't all that difficult compared to gold. You just need more DPS, less control.
i was being forgiving on wave 6 and gave gold a bone. I can take it back.
At the end of the day, if you are going to fail on wave 7-10 gold, you probably won't make it past wave 3, as waves 1 and 2 are pretty much gold 9-10 waves
I don't care about waves 7-9 Gold, or waves 1-2 Plat. Like I said, I only care about the objective waves. If there is no objective to do, it is very easy to complete, regardless of the enemy composition.
Also, there is no way that wave 6 Platinum is more difficult to complete objectives on than Wave 6 Gold. Other than the hunter, they are all fairly slow, low pressure units.
Now, Wave 3 Plat is a LOT harder than wave 3 Gold, which is a joke. You could conceivably argue that this additional difficulty more than makes up for the smaller difficulty increases for Wave 6 and 10 Gold. (See how nice I am? I made a coherent argument for you).
But comparing all the waves is useless in determining which is harder. You have to simply look at which waves are the most difficult, as these are the only ones which could cause you to fail.
Wave 10 Reapers Platinum vs. Gold
2 Primes enter. That is enough to make it more difficult than gold
Wave 10 Collectors Platinum vs. Gold
2 Primes Enter. That is enough to make it more difficult than gold
Wave 10 Geth vs. Gold
2 phantoms and 2 banshees, enough to make it harder than gold
Banshees + Primes are probably the worst combination when it comes to bosses.
Cerberus is the easiest out of the four factions during wave 10, the most difficult wave in the game excluding extraction.
I won't finish my argument with a condescending remark, but i will note that I am aware that you are making condescending tones which are wholly unnecessary
See, these are better arguments. I will admit, I was a bit snippy, but the combination of:
a) a faux scientific title with
very elementary analysis (Comparing waves, then adding up the totals? Come on, that's very simplistic and not very well thought out)
irritated me. So did your second post, which
a) ignored the crux of my argument, and
made a nonsensical comment about switching wave 6, just to prove yourself right, even though those are units which are relatively non-threatening for objectives.
This argument is much better evidence in favor of platinum being harder, and I can see your point here.
I'm still of the opinion that platinum isn't much harder, so long as you stick to a DPS class. In fact, I've never failed a platinum game (though that is a clear case of selection bias, as I don't voluntarily play platinum).
Modifié par tyhw, 12 avril 2013 - 01:20 .
Retour en haut
