3. No Armored Compartments, Geth Scanner or Reegar Cheesethrower for me.
5. lolwave10devices.
8. Omni-button dice roll. Will I a) Sprint b.) Stick to cover? The fun is in never knowing until it happens.
13. I keep hearing that Cerberus is the easiest faction but how do you kite when Engineers run around the map setting up turret farms 20 yards ahead of you?
EDIT: lol. I only just realized the forum will automatically turn a "b" and a ")" into a 
13. I keep hearing that Cerberus is the easiest faction but how do you kite when Engineers run around the map setting up turret farms 20 yards ahead of you?
Who said so? They are one of the toughest factions imo.
Who said so? They are one of the toughest factions imo.
"They" said so. But "They" always wee a little bit whenever they see two Banshees. Plus, I think the consensus was they have the easiest extraction wave composition.
Who said so? They are one of the toughest factions imo.
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- Boredom. I'll rage quit, bleed out because of it.
- Targets or Devices on wave three.
... I still don't know how I even manage to get one done.
The one big redeeming factor of cerberus is the fewer geth units. Only one wave with a prime, only 1 with hunter (not counting extraction) etc. Their extraction wave is way easier than the rest IMO. Hell, it's even a easier than certain gold extraction waves.
Unless you have an acolyte or some staggering gun, phantom + goon rush is far from easy. One mistake and you'll be owned pretty bad. Phantoms palm blasts. dragoon whips, nemeses, turrets, atlas rockets can all shield gate you and destroy you in moments. No other faction has such hitscan DPS.
Collectors are pretty easy - lots of abombs to farm, slow moving armored units that are easy to kite, only one wave with phantoms
Reapers are annoying in the first few waves because of double banshees. But some of their later waves are quite easy (w9 is a joke)
Geth are a PITA because they are cheap. But honestly, apart from waves 1,2 and 9 (1 and 2 have low budget anyway), I find them alright.
I know opinions may vary but cerberus has to be up there as one of the toughest factions on platinum, because of their sheer ability to gang up on you in no time.
"They" said so. But "They" always wee a little bit whenever they see two Banshees. Plus, I think the consensus was they have the easiest extraction wave composition.
The easiest extraction wave for sure. About Cerberus being overall the easiest, it's true IMO for the vanguard class (except maybe for the krogan and batarian, with whom I prefer figthing Geth). For all the others classes, it really depends on the kit.
The one big redeeming factor of cerberus is the fewer geth units. Only one wave with a prime, only 1 with hunter (not counting extraction) etc. Their extraction wave is way easier than the rest IMO. Hell, it's even a easier than certain gold extraction waves.
Unless you have an acolyte or some staggering gun, phantom + goon rush is far from easy. One mistake and you'll be owned pretty bad. Phantoms palm blasts. dragoon whips, nemeses, turrets, atlas rockets can all shield gate you and destroy you in moments. No other faction has such hitscan DPS.
Collectors are pretty easy - lots of abombs to farm, slow moving armored units that are easy to kite, only one wave with phantoms
Reapers are annoying in the first few waves because of double banshees. But some of their later waves are quite easy (w9 is a joke)
Geth are a PITA because they are cheap. But honestly, apart from waves 1,2 and 9 (1 and 2 have low budget anyway), I find them alright.
I know opinions may vary but cerberus has to be up there as one of the toughest factions on platinum, because of their sheer ability to gang up on you in no time.
Pretty good breakdown. My favorite kits deal with Banshees pretty easily, and I find Collector Bees as annoying as Geth stunlock, so I tend to pick Reapers for Plat solos.
Pretty good breakdown. My favorite kits deal with Banshees pretty easily, and I find Collector Bees as annoying as Geth stunlock, so I tend to pick Reapers for Plat solos.
I hate them too, but collector platinum has only 3 waves with captains (2,4, and 9). 
My first attempt failed because of a Marauder trollspawn, some stupid mistakes and impatience, second one because of a Phantom sync-kill and the third (once again) because of impatience followed by rage missiling everything in range- that felt somewhat satisfying though. 
What can I say? I'm probably gonna try again.... And fail, because of impatience.
I hate them too, but collector platinum has only 3 waves with captains (2,4, and 9).
Yeah, I should broaden my horizons and start doing Collectors. For about my first ten Gold solos I did Reapers on Giant with the TGI/Particle Rifle. Step into my web... and then melt.
The one big redeeming factor of cerberus is the fewer geth units. Only one wave with a prime, only 1 with hunter (not counting extraction) etc. Their extraction wave is way easier than the rest IMO. Hell, it's even a easier than certain gold extraction waves.
Unless you have an acolyte or some staggering gun, phantom + goon rush is far from easy. One mistake and you'll be owned pretty bad. Phantoms palm blasts. dragoon whips, nemeses, turrets, atlas rockets can all shield gate you and destroy you in moments. No other faction has such hitscan DPS.
Collectors are pretty easy - lots of abombs to farm, slow moving armored units that are easy to kite, only one wave with phantoms
Reapers are annoying in the first few waves because of double banshees. But some of their later waves are quite easy (w9 is a joke)
Geth are a PITA because they are cheap. But honestly, apart from waves 1,2 and 9 (1 and 2 have low budget anyway), I find them alright.
I know opinions may vary but cerberus has to be up there as one of the toughest factions on platinum, because of their sheer ability to gang up on you in no time.
... Until you take the BS Phantom on-host DR away, that is. Then they become the easiest and most farmable
It really depends on which setup I was using and which map.
For example, when I was doing Valkyrie vs Reapers I ended up getting sync killed by Banshees too often because of how I was trying to play it initially (bunch of BE's and AF debuff).
When I was doing Rio Collectors one of two things would happen. Either I would get hit by a Praetorian laser that would instakill me early and I would rage-quit, or I kept getting devices on Wave 3 or 6 that were a pain to complete within the time due to the wave composition and the map layout, as well as device locations. So what would end up happening usually was I wouldn't get them all enabled in time, although I did have some where I was lasered at the device from 10 miles away and rage-quit.
When I decided to do the Juggernaut, I had issues with getting swarmed on a couple waves and wasting equipment. Plus in this particular set of runs I kept getting Devices and Targets, and I couldn't complete some of them on time because I didn't have enough missiles or Ops. Incidentally, on the successful run, I got Targets on Wave 3 and 10, but only had 1 rocket left for 10 and 0 Ops. I got it but ended up using four gels on that one wave along with my remaining 3 or 4 TC packs and still nearly didn't have enough time to kill the last 3 targets.
Then there are a lot of them I "fail" because I don't get to the LZ in time for extraction.
As an aside, the other day I was looking at the objective data for my completed ones, at least since I started keeping a record of the objectives. I figured devices would have been the least common in my successful runs, but it turns out actually Packages had come up the least. Escort had come up the most. Targets and Hack were identical, and Devices were only slightly less common than those.
Reasons 1,2,3,4,6 & 8. I wanted to do a specific platinum solo so that once it was done, nobody could say I took the easy route.
I've had runs that went great up until one mistake, then it all came crashing down.
I've gotten sync killed in stupid situations I never should've put myself in.
I've gotten impatient and used all my rockets on waves that didn't need them.
I also rage quit if I use too many consumables in the first waves due to bad objectives or on my own fault.
This.
i'd like to blame my solo failures on any/all of the above, but deep down i know it's because i suck
I've had 9 Wave 10 target fails. Sometimes with 5 gels left. That's why I stopped soloing platinum...
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