So like, can you guys imagine this scenario:
You, equipping the best stuff that you have for the kit you're playing, and you're thrown mid-match into a wave 1 gold match with a couple of guys who clearly weren't ready for Gold. Reaper/Gold/Hydra.
Okay, so far so good? Then the people you're playing started to drop like flies, and you are often left alone against a horde of enemies. Let's say, you have to clutch three waves all on your own. Just to add insult to injury, you are playing a squishy character--say, a Salarian Infiltrator--that gets downed faster than ice cream melting in the desert when bullets and cannons starts flying your way. Okay? Good.
Three ****** waves you're running around killing stuff, leaving those two Banshees alone as the last enemy, dancing through Brute Swipes, Ravagers Cannons, Marauders Elbows, etc etc, while carefully maintaining your sanity having to hear the screams of ultra-ugly naked witches dying to hug you with their oh-so-lovely claws.
But you persevere. You use missiles, you use gels, you use ops--since apparently everyone in your team forgot to carry theirs and thus they never used it. But it's fine, you can handle it. "It's for the sake of the mission" you say, "And I love challenge!" your mind is telling you, although maybe it is just some attempt of justification your mind creates to protect yourself for being so insanely annoyed by the sheer incompetence of your alleged teammates. (also the Krogan guy just stood around and do nothing on wave 8. Probably away ordering some pizza or something)
Anyways, you continue to fight on, shooting your trusted Black Widow, Shield Draining Marauders and Banshees before shooting them on their ugly faces. You persevere, you continue, you win, even after on Wave 10 Targets when you only have 1 missile left after clutching three waves (and all of them are waves with the highest amount of enemy budgets too! 7, 8, and 9, how lovely!) all by your lonesome and you plead to your team-mates through your mic to use, use, use, use, GODDAMN USE YOUR MISSILES and THEY DID use it, BUT NOT ON THE TARGETS, THEY'RE USING THEIR MISSILES NOT ON THE BLOODY TARGETS ON WAVE 10 TARGET MISSION (your mind start teetering on the brink of insanity at this point), but alright: you're shooting at the targets (all of them are bloody Banshees, btw, which is of course, since it's wave 10, and it's bloody nice trying to snipe Banshees while they're teleporting around like hippies on crack) with your Black Widow.
FINALLY YOU DID IT! FINALLY YOU CLEARED THE MISSION ALL BY YOURSELF! WAVE 1 - 10 FINISHED! NOW ALL YOU HAVE TO IS JUST RUNNING AROUND, EVADING BASTARDS FOR TWO MINUTES AND YOU'RE GOLDEN!
And so you're running around. Proud of your accomplishments. Proud of being able to clutch so many waves, killed so many enemies, that when you push START your score reached more than 200.000 while the second guy was only 50.000. Despite all the misgivings and doubts, now you're feeling great! You're dancing as the clock ticks down, 20 seconds, 15 seconds... 10 seconds away from your hard-earned reward and prestige......
and then..
YOUR CONNECTION TO THE GAME HAS BEEN LOST.
THE END