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a picture of words is worth a thousand and two words
Y U NO GEL?
Ghost/Trollector/Gold
Devices, w6. All are still up, and my teammates go down one after another. And let themselves get stomped. So there I was, clutching w6 like a baws. If they had done the same thing on w10, I would had let the timer run out.
Good.
Had some pretty good pug matches on X-Box 360 every now and then. The highlight match yesterday was on Goddess, which was made even better when I heard the sweet sound of bee's. Pugging Collectors can be so chaotic with pugs. I love it. Easily the best faction by a longshot. Anyway, not sure if we would of made it had one pug not rage quit and in his place someone more skilled (TSent Saber) taken his place near the end. I was a high speed Vorcha Hunter with Carnifex.
DelayedBoom
I love using cryo ammo on Possessed Abombs. Plus, with the Falcon, once they're frozen they can be thrown around the map very easily before they die.
Rio/Geth/Gold trio - Slayer (me), SI/Valiant and MQE with Mantis. The quarian camped on a stairwell the whole match. Still, got his 70k points.
I find it hard to imagine you being anything less than cordial, man, apart from those rare times when you lose your temper and amuse us with a rant, obviously.
Seriously though, I've been imagining you saying the bit I put in italics, and after thinking about what you said about Tennessee, I just want to say a man can't have a record collection like mine and not hold your State in strong affection. Sun Studios is well and truly on my bucket list, and John Hiatt's 'Memphis in the Meantime' is one of my favourite songs when I'm feeling just a little bit Country. I feel just a little bit Country quite regularly, as it happens. Never Nashville Country though, more Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two, and alt-Country like Steve Earle and Todd Snider, neither of whom are actually from Tennessee but I imagine a State that has nurtured Billy Ray and Miley would welcome them.
Also, PurpGuy has unretired! FR sent next time I can actually play.
Idiot PUGs deserve it. You shouldn't hold back, they wont learn otherwise.
Gimps
Did a few gold games while promoting and landed in a lobby with 3 gimps that had obviously hacked their manifests.
We got Collectors on Gigant and they were terrible.
This is the problem with credit hacking, these simpeltons gets way to confident with their BW, Hurricane and Harrier X:s, even the most OP guns in the game won't help if you don't know how to handle it.
Yeah, for real.
That said I've ran into the occasional credit hackers who are not entirely terrible. They weren't as good as they would've been with 1000+ hours of gameplay, of course, but they were fun, worked together, played the objective and so on. I was playing with a good bunch a while back, teaching them some hints and tips about the game, stair cheese, warp-incendiary, switching targets etc as well as introducing them to the glories of the Claymore. After I oneshot a Collector Captain at range with one, they were all like "yeah, I'm using that next match".
Sadly, for the most part, credit hackers do just suck though ![]()
Gimps
Did a few gold games while promoting and landed in a lobby with 3 gimps that had obviously hacked their manifests.
We got Collectors on Gigant and they were terrible.
This is the problem with credit hacking, these simpeltons gets way to confident with their BW, Hurricane and Harrier X:s, even the most OP guns in the game won't help if you don't know how to handle it.
Funny enough I got a fiend request on origin from one such gimp yesterday. Looked at his/her/it's N7HQ manifest and it showed 50 hours game play with 555M credits. Fiend

Bleeding out... i made the mistake of searching for plat games instead of gold with my novaguard, ended up in Vancouver playing Geth was not until wave 9 that i realized it was Plat and not a very shitty gold performance, first few waves were okay until around 7 when i ran out of medpacks.
Yeah, for real.
That said I've ran into the occasional credit hackers who are not entirely terrible. They weren't as good as they would've been with 1000+ hours of gameplay, of course, but they were fun, worked together, played the objective and so on. I was playing with a good bunch a while back, teaching them some hints and tips about the game, stair cheese, warp-incendiary, switching targets etc as well as introducing them to the glories of the Claymore. After I oneshot a Collector Captain at range with one, they were all like "yeah, I'm using that next match".
Sadly, for the most part, credit hackers do just suck though
If they just took the time to learn the game first before jumping into things they can't handle I'm sure they would enjoy it a lot more as well, never really understood the need for cheating instead of working for what you want.
Of course they'd enjoy it a lot more. But don't worry, they'll get bored soon enough.
Buggy. And maybe hacked?
For the sake of nostalgia (it was my favorite setup in bronze way back during the demo) I gave the FQE a try with the GPS. And proceeded to unload entire clips into hunters, bombers, and rocket troopers from 10 feet away with absolutely no effect. Worked fine on troopers, pyros, and primes though... There were enemies who died waves ago standing around all over the place. Thanks for the carry guys.
As for the hacked part, there were also a large number of what appeared to be Ballistic Blades hanging in the air all around the map. But the only Batarian was a Sentinel.
If they just took the time to learn the game first before jumping into things they can't handle I'm sure they would enjoy it a lot more as well, never really understood the need for cheating instead of working for what you want.
Cheating for me is something done once I've finished the game and am looking to either try something new, or just quality-of-life stuff. For instance, in ME3MP. I'm on PC. I maxed my manifest legitimately in (iirc) 761 hrs. Then probably put in a bunch more just messing around. Now though, I'm sick of wasting my time on the time wasters. I play the game to get into a game, not the trollstore. So I console myself consumables/etc.
I think I've had that view towards cheating since I was, I dunno, 14? (33 currently) Me and a friend played through Civ2 endless times, he modded in a bunch of armies and I made unit icons in mspaint. Eventually I think we got the USS Defiant and the Dragon Princes of Caledor in the game. (Yes, we were picked on in elementary. Looking back, we deserved it
) Fun, but I don't think we would've enjoyed the game as much if we'd gone gung-ho at it with his mods from the start. Would've felt too ridiculous.
Lets call this chapter... " Awkward Vengeance "
I dropped into a game of 3 people talking...<----which on xbox is highly unusual...I would have joined..but me feeling lazy, didnt want to hook up my turtle beach....1st game....London / Collectors ....which was relatively smooth....<---I know, right? ....till wave 10 came around..it was pizza...I rush over to the 1st one which was right next to the ammo box in the middle / left of the map...I get there....pick it up...one guy jumps on the mic,..." Hey, this kaiju guy totally cut me off so he could pick this thing up, screw you kaiju, you are on your own, if you die..none of us will revive you".....delivered....game ends.. I decided to hang out for a 2nd...rolled cerberus / vancouver....as soon as the game starts...they start talking about my gamertag...guy #1 " Hey man, you know what a kaiju is right?" ...guy #2 "Of course I do, exactly how many pictures of gypsy danger have you e-mailed me?" <---was just weird no matter how I frame it .......They then deduce from my gamertag......that my ethnicity was asian...As a full blooded irish-american........i took their insult as a compliment.......then they proceeded to call me all the asian racial slurs you can think of...and some I never heard of......I was / still am disgusted.....then a miracle presented it-self...wave 6 ..pizza....1st one spawns to the very back left of the upstairs control room...someone picks it up then died right away......no one noticed.......he didn't gel........I race over there and pick it up.......You don't even need to guess what I did with it next cuz you already know......I went right over to the cubby hole and just kept it....they started cussing me out...saying they would just lead the enemies to me and let them kill me as they backed off...( good luck with that, I was a havoc with a pirahna) ..also, what was said during that wave: guy #1 " kick him out the game, man" .....guy #2... " How do I kick someone out when we are already playing?" ...guy #3 then proceeded to read my xbox live profile..word for word...and then said, " Guys, I think he likes ninja turtles, I dont want to kick somebody who likes ninja turtles."..... ...but come on now people, you know me.....I can't be all about doom and gloom..............of course I delivered the 1st package..............................
with 1 second left on the clock.

Lets call this chapter... " Awkward Vengeance "
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Glad I'm not the only person that can be extremely petty....
So this one match.. from way back. The other three players all bled out/got synced multiple times. On the the second or third time where it was me alone to to finish the wave (keep in mind, not a single gel was used this entire match by people other than me) I decided to kite the last remaining scion.
For twenty minutes.
I know because I loaded up a 20 minutes song I liked on youtube, and let things go.
Finally someone leaves and rejoins to finish the wave. Next wave the same exact thing happens.
Now at this point i realize I could have tried harder to revive these morons... but me wasting multiple gel and rockets to get into the trouble spot they were in to revive? The math didn't add up, at all. Not when they refused to use their own gel and rockets. Now I did do some reviving I recall, but I couldn't get to them every freaking time they dropped.
So I had another kiting session. Until someone I knew saw me online and jumped into the game and proceeded to kill everything.
it was incredibly petty, I know.
And yes, I was being a thing that rhymes with grass hole.
I don't care.
I admit that I am a grass hole, and I sometimes enjoy (too much) making other people suffer in inconsequential ways. But seriously, not ONE freaking gel for an entire match? gah.
I also enjoy leeching from people who coalesced hack in "husk mode" and the like in public games with no warning to the other players. Don't run into those guys too often though.
Reading along enjoying the story.
" Guys, I think he likes ninja turtles, I dont want to kick somebody who likes ninja turtles."...
Wait. ![]()
Wut. ![]()
Glad I'm not the only person that can be extremely petty....
You misconstrued my story, I am not about being petty. I am all about balance. Balance in the fact, you cannot get so racist on the mic to somebody, that you cannot expect consequences to happen,, in-game, should they arise.........I only troll the people who truly deserve it. If they had shut their damn mouths and never said 1 racist remark,..they would have gotten a full extraction out of that game and all the credits with it.
Reading along enjoying the story.
Wait.
Wut.
I know, that was the weird part about that wave...they were discussing how to kick me out of that current game...when one of them went to my xbox live profile..and read it..word-for-word..and he decided since I liked the ninja turtles..that he felt conflicted about kicking me out of the game... ![]()
"I know, that was the weird part about that wave...they were discussing how to kick me out of that current game...when one of them went to my xbox live profile..and read it..word-for-word..and he decided since I liked the ninja turtles..that he felt conflicted about kicking me out of the game... :wacko:"
that´s hilarious! =D
Yeah it think i get ya. Them being racist... words that would get hit with filters... is a thing that's worthy of ire.
So you're definitely the better person than me in this regard.
I'm just kind of petty.
Still, your actions reminded me of that instance, and I felt like sharing. Similar actions, different motivations.
Camping? On Condor? Man, how did they manage to get their points?! Camping is basically the worst strategy for Condor, I don't care where you want to camp, it is a bad map for it.
I've managed to survive with a Demolisher at the top of that hill. Had to leave for objectives and sometimes reviving, but with a good weapon and a steady supply of grenades one can usually kill lots of enemies before they can reach the top.