From my experience, quite laggy.
That's an understatement.
From my experience, quite laggy.
That's an understatement.
First outing with BotB banner. Back to my favourite Volus Sentinel kit ![]()
"Reegars"
Hydra/Geth/Gold
There was an AIU, Kroguard, & a N7 demo with Reegars. AIU, was a new player with a reegar I. She didn't how geth stunlock works, & didn't care to learn bout her mistakes, so she was killed bout 30 times by everything geth has. (although that AIU was one of the best decoys of all time by just running into a full 7/8/9 wave spawns, & dying a lot)
Kroguard with Reegar III fared a bit better until the later round, by then it was a res train between him, & the AIU.
N7 Demo with Reegar X, & an Executioner X. He set up in the bunker next to spawn, died bout every other wave to a Hunter, or a Pyro sneaking up on him
Two lawlSilver PUGs.
The second one, Jade/Rippahs/Silver, was interesting because I tried using the Raptor, a gun I used a lot back when I first started playing, with headshot buffs, and got a decent number of headshots (granted Energy Drain makes this easy). I used the Phalanx as my CQC weapon because I wanted to keep my cooldown at +195%.
Both of these were good "80%" guns; they do most of what you want them to but leave just a little to be desired. The Raptor does crap damage when not landing headshots and the Phalanx just isn't the best thing to use when dodging Brute charges and waiting for Proxy Mine cooldown.
The funniest thing was the lag in this match was incredibly bad. I found myself surviving Banshee grabs for unknown reasons and once staggered away from what I thought was a kill shot by a Marauder in the lower lab, only to see "Being Revived" appear as I was running up the stairs into the upper lab. This was our Volus vanguard teammate who pwned us all, but was generous with the revives (I managed to revive him a few times too). He finished first by a lot, I climbed from 4th to 2nd mostly by killing Banshees (Energy Drain + incendiary ammo get the job done on Silver) and Marauders.
Not Gold, and accomplished no challenges, but at least it was fun.
Tl; Dr version: Anybody want to comment on whether the SI is a good match with the Arc Pistol only?
Plenty of modded matches.
Various/Various/Plat
HALP! That was my first impression when I loaded in on Giant. Rapidfiring primes, Scions carpetbombing like a B-52, Atlases running in packs of 6 at a time.
But we made it. Great times!
The Fourth Klingon
Firebase giant gold with Collectors. There was a GI, a Jug and a vorchar soldier when I dropped in. The last two pretty much stuck together, doing what they could. The GI was armed with the saber and taking mobs down fast so I went to the other side of the map for business. After wave 3, I noticed the jug and vorchar sort of stayed on my side of the 'fortress'. Wave 6. Then in wave 7, the GI rattled off in Klingon. Not understanding what he was saying, I focused on my game and then I noticed he had dropped. In rage?
What was he mad about? He wasn't dying like a trampled weed, so what's his beef? Unless he's upset that people are catching up to him or that he didn't have supporting fire. Whatever. We finished the match victorious and in fine fettle.
Lead scorer had around 60k CP and N7 lvl really high as well. Neigh-something, maybe a BSNer?
Neightrix. Had a Cerby match with him as well, his QMI/Krysae and my GE/GPR. Very vocal over the mic, complaining about the horrible host. Which was partly true, but then again, arc nades don't really give a fk.
Outscored me by <1k points after trying his best to turn FBWhite into a smoking crater on 11.
Had a personal volus for my Slayer on Reactor. High: always enough shields for Phase Disruptor. Low: Volus Glitch became nasty, I suffered from it a couple of times and couldn't even melee.
ante_fl
need I say more
I've run into him and I can't say I lag in every game he hosted. But yes, sometimes, it's not good.
I had to drop in wave 7 or was it 8 in a match, not hosted by him. I couldn't run circles around the mobs (I like to do this to a heavy like a scion, etc, with any asari class. Them trying to pinpoint you but you're behind them whichever way they turn. Poor sods) because every time I did that, the lag cut in; the screen jumped, everything shook and I couldn't tell where I was. Died a few times, got fed up and left. Took note of who was the host and left if I see the same nick.
I've run into him and I can't say I lag in every game he hosted. But yes, sometimes, it's not good.
I had to drop in wave 7 or was it 8 in a match, not hosted by him. I couldn't run circles around the mobs (I like to do this to a heavy like a scion, etc, with any asari class. Them trying to pinpoint you but you're behind them whichever way they turn. Poor sods) because every time I did that, the lag cut in; the screen jumped, everything shook and I couldn't tell where I was. Died a few times, got fed up and left. Took note of who was the host and left if I see the same nick.
I just had a terribly boring match on PS3. London, Cerberus. Nuff said.
London Cerberus as well. Decent match, though had a Drell Assassin that specced out of Recon Mine.
Every time I play with the guy the lag is otherworldly and pugs constantly join and drop, I usually stick it out because I hate losing consumables but I always tell him how much his host sucks. Wish pc had an avoid list like console.
I quite frequently, on a daily basis, drop into his GiP and always quit right away as ping is usually over 200. Consumables do tend to stay in most cases. He is usually alone even on later waves like 5 or 6. Somebody should tell the guy seriously that he needs to stop hosting. At least at this time of day.
Every time I play with the guy the lag is otherworldly and pugs constantly join and drop, I usually stick it out because I hate losing consumables but I always tell him how much his host sucks. Wish pc had an avoid list like console.
Ive landed in his GiP 4-5x in past week, and agree with the lag, a few times Ive had to quit the lag was so bad, the rest Ive either helped to extract or wiped against cerb with laggy phantoms in late rds
Ugly
^ by day he is IAI20120312, mild mannered shy jokester who refuses to host pugs; by night, he turns into Ante_fl, his laggy alternate persona, cacking madly as other players drop into his lobby and suffer from extreme lag! ![]()
Is he still playing Vorcha Soldier with armoured compartments, dropping a missile at the beginning of each wave past 2 to get bloodlust going?
On topic:
Debuff
Volus Adept, QFE, DAI. Praetorians going down so fast, you almost felt sorry for them. An awesome match, and it would have been the highlight of the evening if not for...
BioticDeath
same three player, this time as Huntress, Justicar, Fury... and a jugg who had the easiest, most boring match of his life I guess
Giant hazard collectors. 16 minutes and change, and almost no missiles to speed things up. We took wave 3 targets down so fast, the marker glitched for me, and I had two markers out at some point
One of the fastest, smoothest matches I have ever had.
Eng59land, if you are reading this, many thanks for the awesome matches!
I just had a terribly boring match on PS3. London, Cerberus. Nuff said.
Sorry i couldn't join you to make it more interesting.
I'm going to have a few more matches on PS3 again today. On PC having my button inputs eaten (not registering) every now and then is really getting to me.
London Cerberus as well. Decent match, though had a Drell Assassin that specced out of Recon Mine.
Wait a sec, I think that was me. Obviously I'm not specced out of it, though. I spec it for radius and invasive, usually just throw one at a spawn and leave it. Guess I was so busy popping Phantom domes with my Suppressor that I just... forgot?

Tried my Slayer on Platinum. Began with a Smashguard, then a Geth Soldier joined in around wave 2. Did well, until the Smashguard suddenly disconnected after Wave 8. Still, managed to do objective on Wave 10 (pizza) before wiping.
Biotic Slash produces nice chains of Fire Explosions when paired with a Flamer ![]()