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[Terminator Force]

I don't know. I'm not feeling pugging today. Just had two games and the magic wasn't there. Got a host migration lobby I've quicky set to private so I can take a small break and check BSN. Might have one more game today for the free consumables glitch of host migration.

[ABetterNameWasTaken]

A quick google search will reveal any mechanic (probably in a BSN thread) or answer to almost any question you could ask about the game at this point. There is no excuse for playing on Gold/Plat and NOT knowing.

You would think that wouldn't you? But I had a lobby the other day where the host had a shredder on the graal. So I mention that that's useless on the graal. Another guy in the lobby asks what I was saying when the game starts up, so I explain how piercing is basically useless on the non-hitscan weapons.

He says thats good to know..

 

I really wish information like this was available in game, because some people just won't look elsewhere for this kind of stuff.

 

Then again, there are a lot of things I didn't really learn about until I started playing with this one group of people that actually used voice and would give me tips and the like.

[Terminator Force]

^ HVB and Armour/Drill Ammo is still fine on the Graal. As weight glitch works on it up until someone joins GIP (so start with full lobby to keep it going) and you at least still get the extra dmg bonus of HVB and Armour/Drill Ammo. Though of course it's still better to save Armour/Drill Ammo for hit-scan weapons and use priming Ammo on stuff like the Graal.

[ABetterNameWasTaken]

True, but why use the heavy barrel when you can just use the normal damage barrel and not worry about if the weight glitch is going to work?

Fair point with the ammo types, but like you said, save that ammo for things that can pierce, and just use another ammo type that adds damage.

 

Also, I realized after posting, what I mentioned (the piercing) is a non obvious thing, so there'd be no reason to think it wouldn't work. No real indication in game that it wouldn't work.

 

The preatorian bubble though?... Its pretty obvious when that thing goes up, and then if you didn't notice what the bubble itself was doing aside from appearing? Then its a quick google away.

 

And now I feel like freaking Columbo.

One more thing, I wish the game would be more specific that the added damage on ammo is only added to certain types of defence, and that there are inherent bonuses to some ammo against some defenses.

 

Anyone reading the in game information would be like "why bother with phasic ammo, its less damage added than disruptor.... not realizing that on shields and barriers its actually more

 

Grumble grumble, complain complain, get off my lawn

[Terminator Force]

The Praetorian bubble being put up by pugs can be annoying. Why I try to rush them to drop before pugs use power on them.

 

Also, Explosive Ammo brings the bubble up too.

[Silvershroud]

Also, Explosive Ammo brings the bubble up too.

Really?  Because it wasn't bad enough anyways?

 

 

Ragequit.

 

Not me, the host.  I join on wave 3, and a Juggernaut and I start the escort.  Host joins us in the escort a bit later.  And promply starts screaming at the Juggernaut about putting hex shields in the way.  Now, while I do understand the irritation they can cause (I was a FE spamming FQE myself), this was Rio, walking across the upper area.  The Jug has no other means of protecting himself up there.  I forget what exactly the host was, but it was a weapons platform of some sort with a BW.  Just ignore the shield, you can shoot right through it...  The host kept raging, decided to join the fourth player in completely ignoring the escort.  Or so I thought.  About 2 seconds before the Jug and I had finally finished duo-escorting across the entire map of Rio, he suddenly screams "F*** you guys!" and quits, restarting the wave.

[LoonySpectre]

No-fitness GI + Ghost Hazard + Collectors + Lag. This couldn't end well.

I mean we did full extract, but I died so much that it wasn't even funny.

[Fuenf789]

True, but why use the heavy barrel when you can just use the normal damage barrel and not worry about if the weight glitch is going to work?

Fair point with the ammo types, but like you said, save that ammo for things that can pierce, and just use another ammo type that adds damage.

 

Also, I realized after posting, what I mentioned (the piercing) is a non obvious thing, so there'd be no reason to think it wouldn't work. No real indication in game that it wouldn't work.

 

The preatorian bubble though?... Its pretty obvious when that thing goes up, and then if you didn't notice what the bubble itself was doing aside from appearing? Then its a quick google away.

 

And now I feel like freaking Columbo.

One more thing, I wish the game would be more specific that the added damage on ammo is only added to certain types of defence, and that there are inherent bonuses to some ammo against some defenses.

 

Anyone reading the in game information would be like "why bother with phasic ammo, its less damage added than disruptor.... not realizing that on shields and barriers its actually more

 

Grumble grumble, complain complain, get off my lawn

Thx Columbo. Mis-information mixed with genuine information is probably the biggest stumbling block that any new member in this forum has to ovecome:

 

A probable day in the life of a new comer :

• Somebody makes a statement.
• And then another one answers it.
• So you read with with valour and say "Why, I get this",

 

• ....
• then 10 minutes later someon else say, "but..." and you drag along, partially correct posts rolling in or confused veterans that bring in unrelated stuff with from Krogan Armor just to win another argument from a week ago, mb a venom or a Claymore

 

• mix in some veterans that are trolling, +some veterans that are falling, still, for others troll's,
• mixed with rage posts, and old jokes just insider's understands

 

and even google can't help you out on the amount of misinformation hanging around, everywhere.

 

Sure, the resource library is there,  but who in their right mind start to read the first post in any forum?

[yrael]

Fantastic.

 

I don't know why I didn't start using the Striker sooner. It's the most hilarious gun in the game. Even more so with Marksman.

[Urizen]

leecher³

 

Reactor Hazard/Geth/Gold

 

As if the staggerbs of the geth weren´t enough, I was punished by 3 (!) leechers in one lobby. Fortunately one of them was impatient and didn´t want me watch clutch yet another wave. After w7 I´ve had enough of it and decided that they now either pull their own weight or I just bleed out. Which I did in w8. Final score: me sitting at 180k, 2nd one at 33k and the last one at 3k.

[LoonySpectre]

leecher³

 

Reactor Hazard/Geth/Gold

 

As if the staggerbs of the geth weren´t enough, I was punished by 3 (!) leechers in one lobby. Fortunately one of them was impatient and didn´t want me watch clutch yet another wave. After w7 I´ve had enough of it and decided that they now either pull their own weight or I just bleed out. Which I did in w8. Final score: me sitting at 180k, 2nd one at 33k and the last one at 3k.

3k at gold? This is some kind of special talent.

[Urizen]

Inorite!

[Urizen]

Quantumphysics!

 

London/Derperus/Gold

 

It is wave 7. I engage a fantum in front of me. The next thing I know, that little [FEMALEDAWG] is behind me, pulling me in from atleast 3 meters away and stabbing me. Onhost! WTF³!!!

[LoonySpectre]

Eyes hurt.

Hunter mode and two Valkyries with Annihilation Fields.

[Bowlcuts]

Full-auto

 

Heh, me and QMR decided to both use M-8 Avengers, we still managed to curry and hit over 100k. Can't believe I managed to kill a Possessed Crab using up the entire ammo supply with that garbage pea shooter. That's Geth infiltrating for ya. 7/10 would probably use it again to make the PUGs feel bad. 

[Ashevajak]

3k at gold? This is some kind of special talent.

 

Without actually literally killing one trooper and hiding for the rest of the wave, I'm not even sure how I could score that low.

I mean, I know from my early days of pugging gold I could get 50k purely as an overload spam bot.

[yrael]

I think the lowest I ever scored on gold was somewhere around 8k, which I accomplished by not really knowing how to use my character (Volus Adept) and just giving up and running laps around FBW. Threw off the enemies AND annoyed my team, which is a win-win if you ask me.

[Obsidian Gryphon]

Pack it up soldier!

 

Player with grade 1 weapons and kit, trying out for Cerberus Gold. He's the ragbag for every round and kept going down. Wave 6, pizza delivery, he grabbed the second pizza before me and then proceeded to dawdle about like an old man while the three of us were providing protection and covering fire. He tried to hide when the mobs came in. I got knifed by a phantom and then watched him snail about, dying twice in the process while dancing around in one spot. I didn't bother very much reviving him for the rest of the match.

[yrael]

This wasn't my last pug, just one earlier today. But in a word: ugh.

 

The host was a Puggernaut who missiled on every objective and sometimes just when a boss showed up. Didn't even bother trying to take them down manually. He ended up with top score every time because of course he did.

 

I kept getting thrown into his lobby even though I exited multiple times, so I sat through three matches of this bull before just hosting my own lobby.

[dafyddr]

Back playing occasionally

 

High: ~16 min Collectors - glacier - gold,  courtesy of Caldari Ghost who was very effectively Drelldepting I believe that's my fastest PUG ever.

 

Low: (more funny than a low) Condor Reapers gold - fast smooth game until wave 9, when the Banshees decided to act. I was grabbed about mid-wave (on a ramp, grumble grumble), and another guy/gal was almost simultaneously. Then those two Banshees hunted down the two remaining players and got them both!

 

Hope to see some more of you out there in the trenches

[Ashevajak]

Duo

My Salarian sniping buddy and I, against Collectors on Dagger.  Made extra fun by a full second of lag, and rubberbanding which meant I would suddenly teleport 2 meters to the side while trying to do headshots with my Valiant.  Also a squishy Drell, so by the time I realized I was taking fire, I was already dead.

The one upside was there was an amusing graphical glitch later on in the game which caused the Salarian's Cobra missile and Black Widow models to swap.  So I watched on with no small amusement as he headshot things using a missile launcher.

[LoonySpectre]

Two Concussive Shot-specced Human Soldiers with Disruptor Ammo and Avengers in one game. Hilarious.

[BaaBaaBlacksheep]

Chances are you'll get a futanari smurf instead.

Make that Ardat-Yakshi futanari instead!

[Obsidian Gryphon]

This wasn't my last pug, just one earlier today. But in a word: ugh.

 

The host was a Puggernaut who missiled on every objective and sometimes just when a boss showed up. Didn't even bother trying to take them down manually. He ended up with top score every time because of course he did.

 

I kept getting thrown into his lobby even though I exited multiple times, so I sat through three matches of this bull before just hosting my own lobby.

 

There is one thing you can do. Sometimes I'll run into such players, I always take note. I ran into a 'porsche' jug in one match earlier, obviously modded, and dropped even though I lost the kit I used because I stayed a bit too long and killed a few mobs.

 

The trick is to exit quickly before firing a shot. If you get killed, it's fine. You just need to exit fast enough not to lose the kit you used. Yes, the kit boxes showed up empty but those kits simply went back to your arsenal. I always take note of the numbers before I equipped.

 

To avoid dropping into that player's hosted match, just choose a mob different from that match. If the host's match is cerberus, just pick reapers, geth or collectors and find another match.

[Mikael_Sebastia]

Lag marathon.

 

The match was either hosted with an airport wifi or possibly from Northern Korea. Geth in Hydra and I am using Havoc with Scimitar. Baad times all around, and I run out of gels and shields before the sixth wave.The rest is pretty much cowering in the room, franticly injecting Stim Packs every time I start to take any dmg. Also found out that Scimitar doesn't do that well as a long distance sniper (who'd knew?)

 

Everyone is doing pretty bad, so I don't even single out from the crowd. No one is leaving and I'll be damned if I am the first one to do so.  After thirty minutes I feel like I have to take thirty days break from pugging.

 

 Following picture says it all.