PugSmaaaaaash
Was in a couple of Silver games yesterday evening with a Phoenix Adept who was going absolutely nuts with Smash. Bosses, mid-tier, mooks... no target was too large or too small for the mighty biotic lashes of doom.
There wasn't a great deal to do besides stand around and watch...
Had a few OK matches. Need to kill more Nemesis for Cerberus Mastery!
bummed.
2 person, london gold. I'm Cabal Vanguard and everything is so smooth get 5 head shots with my eviscerator wave 1. 2 people quickly join in an all is well. Then, on wave 6, the game starts chugging. Guy on the mike says his ping just went crazy and everything is a mess. Dead enemies stay standing, my dash works about 50% of the time, and atlas missiles ignore any concept of physics (and tracks through poison strikes). Went from fun to chore quickly.
bummed.
2 person, london gold. I'm Cabal Vanguard and everything is so smooth get 5 head shots with my eviscerator wave 1. 2 people quickly join in an all is well. Then, on wave 6, the game starts chugging. Guy on the mike says his ping just went crazy and everything is a mess. Dead enemies stay standing, my dash works about 50% of the time, and atlas missiles ignore any concept of physics (and tracks through poison strikes). Went from fun to chore quickly.
Atlas missiles ignore any concept of physics on host just the same.
Hmmm, you're the third person to tell me that the leap from Silver to Gold is smaller than one might expect.
I don't know that I'm necessarily "comfortable/proficient" at Silver, though I can pug it with a fair degree of confidence now, even Collectors (though that depends on the map and my frame of mind). In a team of players at around the same level as me, I can make an equal contribution to the game; but in a team with less-experienced players who need more help, I still struggle to keep on top of things at times. I can make a decent attempt at helping to carry such a game (see the "war story" I posted yesterday), but it's hard work and I can't guarantee success.
And I still make newbie mistakes: getting pinned by bosses, forgetting to look behind me for Dragoons and Pyros, rage-gelling in early waves rather than saving it for when it's truly needed. Such mistakes don't happen every game, but they do happen more often than they should. I still need bailing out of trouble from time to time.
(The BSNers who have played alongside me are all rolling their eyes at this point! I'm much more critical of my play than they are. But hey, I'm a perfectionist. I can't help but see the mistakes and room for improvement).
I'll make fewer mistakes and play more confidently as I work at putting the lessons that Silver has taught me into practice. But marksmad and the others are right, there are no new lessons to learn at this level.
And heck, it's only a game! I should remember that and put my hesitation to one side. There's nothing to lose from having a go. As long as the squad is having fun, we're doing it right :-)
Given that I'm not especially talented at playing action games (I got into Mass Effect more for the story and character interactions), I'm amazed I've made it this far. I suppose it's a skill that can be learned like any other.
Due to timezone differences, you and I might never be on at the same time. But hey, if our paths do happen to cross and you don't mind carrying a Gold neophyte...
Well, I can tell you a story: once open a time, when I first made my jump into Gold, the host uncereminously upped the difficulty to Platinum. I was *THIS* close to exiting the lobby but then, **** IT, YOLOOOOOOO, hahaha. I used one of my most preferred kits, Asari Huntress, and jumped headfirst into my 1st platinum ever. I told this story once on this board in this thread, I think, though I forgot on which page since it's been a long while.
The result? Thanks to me crazily shooting Dark Channel at every Phantom I can see, hahaha, I got first place. It was a pretty smooth experience, actually (of course not all platinum matches I had afterwards can be called smooth, lol).
What I meant to say is, just YOLO and make the jump already! Sink or swim, it doesn't matter. It can be really fun to test your limit sometimes; and really, once you get the hang of it, Gold is not that bad--it surely is my most preferred difficulty; Platinum can be very stressful sometimes, hahaha.
And hey, if I can play with Mordokai and Quarian Master Race, I am sure we can make the time to play together some day 
Anyways,
Last night I played with a bunch of very very beginner guys in gold that didn't have equipment at all: I mean N7/CP in the 100 range here. Now, usually I just bolted out but I suddenly realized that the two of them that were there when I joined the lobby were actually Japanese! I never played with folks from Japan before and they used mic too so it's interesting to hear all their conversations, so I stayed, hahaha. They immediately privated the lobby once I joined and invited another friend of theirs (also 100-ish N7/CP) who also used a mic.
We got White/Geth/Gold.
In the end it was an amusing and entertaining experience. We got full extraction and my score tripled all their score combined, hahaha, but hearing they're saying numerous "Oh ****" in Japanese was really fun, and they're seem to be having fun too with laughs and stuff like that, so it's fun.
PugSmaaaaaash
Was in a couple of Silver games yesterday evening with a Phoenix Adept who was going absolutely nuts with Smash. Bosses, mid-tier, mooks... no target was too large or too small for the mighty biotic lashes of doom.
There wasn't a great deal to do besides stand around and watch...
This one understands. Keep doing what you're doing, we need more smashbro players out there.
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Condor/Reapers/Gold. Banshees where teleporting hundreds of feet, I would randomly get killed/sheildgated for no apparent reason (even in between waves), the escort drone on wave 10 completely changed routes 3 times, and I would see the "Wave X" notice show up early. In fact, once it even popped up while I was still being chased around by a banshee... There were also multiple times where I would see the other players all firing at the same open space and moving around looking like they were evading a banshee, which was completely invisible to me.
Condor 
Fortunately the Javelin HFI held her own and pulled the rest of us through it.
Funniest solo ever.
U/U/P adventure turned out to be jade/RipaZ. My GI/Hurricane, Destroyer, Havoc, and a Juggy. On some of the latter waves only Havoc and I remain alive. While he got killed himself all over the place, I was running around trying to figure out how to revive him (because, why not get my revive medals?). I proceed to nuke enemies when I got my revive medals, mainly because damn phantoms refused to go in bubble and stability mod on my Hurricane didn't seem to work at all. Not to forget, while alive during that instance, Havoc didn't shoot at the enemy, just run away from them (although, he made them easy targets)
Condor/Reapers/Gold. Banshees where teleporting hundreds of feet, I would randomly get killed/sheildgated for no apparent reason (even in between waves), the escort drone on wave 10 completely changed routes 3 times, and I would see the "Wave X" notice show up early. In fact, once it even popped up while I was still being chased around by a banshee... There were also multiple times where I would see the other players all firing at the same open space and moving around looking like they were evading a banshee, which was completely invisible to me.
So you had an absolutely normal game on Condor? Cool 
Good
Had an excellent run using the SmashDept in a Gold game versus Collectors on Hazard White.
I was really surprised when the scores came up.
Dominant Juggs
I am intrigued by this possibility and wish to subscribe to your magazine.
Wait, this isn't the fetish board, is it?
Damn.
Dumbf*ck Phantoms.
So, I was playing an Asari Adept with the Valiant, and fell into a Cerberus game, on Hydra. Which was pretty lucky. The team I was playing with seemed more...defensively minded, which meant the game was a little slow, but they held their ground quite well, considering. Come the extraction, the fun began.
The Phantoms were jumping up, one by one, onto the walkway ledge. Of course, I had bubble stasis on my Asari, so this meant they were leaping, one by one, into a stasis bubble where it would take two headshots to kill them. Over and over and over again. Sometimes a dragoon came along, but of course stasis meant I had time to spare, and warp-throw gets rid of them no problem.
Easiest Cerberus extraction ever, IMO.
MOARSPLOSION.
Grabbed Kroguard + Graal and found 2 teamplayer for Plat: asari huntress + flamer geth ( who switched to valkyrie for the second round).
Reaper Rio and Geth Reactor.
Between biotic and fire explosion, we rocked many waves: I was tanking and aggroing most of the time.
Sadly I didnt' have a mic, or I would have thanked them for the gg.
This one understands. Keep doing what you're doing, we need more smashbro players out there.
To clarify, I wasn't the one playing the Phoenix. I was playing my QFE, wandering around the map on the offchance I'd find something that Smashy McSmasherson hadn't pulverized.
I've never played either smashbro, the up-close-and-personal playstyle doesn't appeal. The guy in the games on Sunday certainly seemed to be having fun, though!
The Phantoms were jumping up, one by one, onto the walkway ledge. Of course, I had bubble stasis on my Asari, so this meant they were leaping, one by one, into a stasis bubble where it would take two headshots to kill them.
I love when stuff like that happens.
You can also get massive kill chains on White when enemies come up the ladder.
Cerberus Centurion: Well the first 17 guys who climbed up this ladder fell back down missing their skulls, but that's not going to stop ME. Leeeeeroy Jenkins!
Well, last night can be summed up with one sentence: WHAT-THE-ACTUAL-BLOODY-HELL?
Played with a same host on successive amount of times since apparently no one but that person is hosting Gold last night. 4 times, here is the summary:
1st match against Reaper in Glacier: I got insta-grabbed by Banshees on wave 10 -___- AND wave 11 -_________________________-
2nd match: against Geth in Glacier *again*, and for some reason the the game decided that I should not be able to see ANY PRIMES, although of course they see me just fine along with their siege pulses. Wiped out on wave 10 (urgh embarassing) because I was the only one left alive AND the objective was TARGET which of course set up those INVISIBLE PRIMES THAT I CANNOT SEE as the targets. I got downed, but I didn't bother to revive because for what? I couldn't see the targets!
3rd match: against Collectors on Rio. THIS TIME the game decided that I should NOT be able to see the fourth guy that joined our lobby, so he/she could not revive me and I him/her. Admittedly not too bad, although on wave 11 a bunch of Praetorian, Scion, and various Collector grunts decided to appear out of thin air all of a sudden on top of my head. This was literally the 1st time ever something like that ever happen to me in my 580-is hours ME3MP career. Oh and for some reason the pick-up ship was floating near the center room too, that was weird.
4th match: against Cerberus on Glacier Hazard AGAIN (urgh): YET AGAIN the game decided that I should not be able to see something, I **** you not. This time, I couldn't see Turrets!............... AND PHANTOMS! WHAT - THE - ACTUAL - BLOODY - ****? The fact that I wasn't being insta-killed at all and managed to extract with a full extraction was a small miracle in itself.
AND Just to CAP IT OFF, I got a Waiting for Other Players screen as well afterwards.
FuCooldowns
Bosh'tet was playing an Asari Adept with a BW AND a Reegar, but with otherwise competent sniper equipment.( Phasics, proper amp and piercing mod). I guess they wanted to stasis snipe a single mook every 45 seconds. (Their score indicated about as much contribution)
After being outshot by a 6-1 margin by my fearsome Incisor QFI they must have been intimidated, and decided to pull out the big guns. Kept the same Reegar/BW combo but changed kit.......to a Krogan Shaman
So you had an absolutely normal game on Condor? Cool
Not quite. We didn't have the guy who couldn't load in.
........I still make newbie mistakes........... rage-gelling in early waves rather than saving it for when it's truly needed.......
.....The BSNers who have played alongside me are all rolling their eyes at this point! ........
You have 6 med-gels.......therefore there is no such thing as rage gelling to early .
IfOnlyIHadMoreTime
Had time for one game before dinner, so hosted a quick Glacier/Geth/Silver as QFI. The pugs were an N7 Demolisher and one of the DLC turians both packing Harriers, and a melee krogan who kept dropping.
With the two guys with Harriers melting through everything and the fact that it often takes me a few waves to remember how to shoot straight, it started off as a bit of a disappointing game. Didn't even manage the twenty headshot medal; took nearly half the waves to even get five :-/ I'd got into the rhythm by the end of the game; but then it was time to stop :-(
Still using too many ops packs, too.
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