Do BSNers really pug (on PC)? For real?
Since I can't pug I haven't come across anyone.Well, I just gotta say that if you guys are keen to stop pugging and start playing with friends, my Origin's List is always open. ID same as here.
I try to pug too when I happen to have time during day, but it´s quite hard to land in lobby through all the errors, crashes and region lock, so I get annoyed very quickly 
I finally decided to test Drasca'a arcane warrior build (fade step + PotA + combo of chain lightning and stone fist). At first, it was scary to drop the spirit blade crutch but after a few very good runs on silver, I tried it on gold. Works very well even in my sloppy hands. I even carried one game but could not carry another as whole team wiped almost instantly due to a bad spike of lag. Probably somebody disconnected/connected. The build is very efficient although I still have some timing issues and I'm running out of mana occasionally if I'm not careful.
For some reason, whenever I looked for a silver game today, I always join GiP on boogymanone' host. And boogymanone could not finish the game, at least not today. Don't know what is going on but it were four or five games with him playing reaver still level 15. Host migration sometimes happened on wave 5 or wave 3 and once even on wave 1 iirc. I then finish the game with new host and go looking for another silver game and here I am in another game in progress hosted by boogymanone with his same level 15 reaver. And same thing happens again. Eventually, I think, one time ended normally with full extraction. I felt like I'm an actor in Edge of Tomorrow or some other time travel movie.
Gored.
Had a decent PUG Threatening lobby going last night. Except two of us went to do a treasure room and the other two decided to go off and tackle the rest of the map.
That's fine. That's normally not a problem.
Except we got a Revenant guardian in the treasure room.
Annoying, but still fine. That's still not normally a problem.
What became a problem was when the other two retreated to the treasure room with an angry Druffalo in tow, who then proceeded to charge and gore to death each of us, one by one, until we get the Operation Failed screen.
I went to bed after that because I just couldn't. Could. Not. It had already been a long day of playing and I took that as my cue to go to bed before I felt the urge to sling my controller through the TV.
Druffalo way too OP, BioWare, pls nerf.
Druffalo are RELENTLESS. Tactics don't work on them, stealth don't work on them, the only thing that works on them is a good whupping. A couple of days ago my Alchemist was hunted by a Druffalo on Threatening. "No problem," I thought and popped into stealth. The Druffalo was not impressed and continued to headbutt me against the wall over and over again. I was 100% pinned and couldn't move anywhere, I could just proceed to watch my health bar getting obliterated.
Today I promoted my Alchemist and jumped into a Routine PuG. It was me, a Reaver, an Archer and an AW against the Venatori. Things were going recently well, the Reaver and Archer went down a couple of times but we made it to zone 5. I ran over to plant the flag (because I had stealth) and the rest of the group followed me. "Alright, so they don't want to stay in The Room™. Good with some variety, this'll be fun," I thought.
Things were going well; then, within a span of 10 seconds or so, the Reaver and AW where knocked out. The Reaver perma-faded and the AW was swamped, while I ran around wondering what the heck I'd do the Archer went down too. I started to run towards him, but he also went into the fade. I tried to run back to the AW, but he was still surrounded by enemies and bled out before I had the chance to resurrect him.
By now I was out of potions, sweating and swearing loudly while leading the remaining Venatori swordsmen, archers, a brute and the Venatori commander on a merry chase through the rooms in the Orlesian Chateau. I threw a confusion grenade on some swordsmen, they kept the rest of the mooks busy while I stealthed and killed the archers (who was the biggest threat.) The remaining minutes was a haze of kiting, throwing Elemental Mines in doorways behind me, stealthing, backstabbing and running. I'd like to imagine it looked like I knew what I was doing but truth to be told I was stressed out and shivering like a Chihuahua left out in the cold.
I saved the Commander for last; her attacks are easy to avoid as long as you keep an eye on the ground and don't step on her fire mines. Finally killed her and felt pretty good about myself. This was the first time I finished the 5th wave alone as a lvl 1. Glad it was Venatori though, my poor dwarf lady would have had a harder time against the DC or RTC.
Gored.
Had a decent PUG Threatening lobby going last night. Except two of us went to do a treasure room and the other two decided to go off and tackle the rest of the map.
That's fine. That's normally not a problem.
Except we got a Revenant guardian in the treasure room.
Annoying, but still fine. That's still not normally a problem.
What became a problem was when the other two retreated to the treasure room with an angry Druffalo in tow, who then proceeded to charge and gore to death each of us, one by one, until we get the Operation Failed screen.
I went to bed after that because I just couldn't. Could. Not. It had already been a long day of playing and I took that as my cue to go to bed before I felt the urge to sling my controller through the TV.
Druffalo way too OP, BioWare, pls nerf.
Nothing can decompose teams so completely like Druffalo. It´s almost like ballet 
I did discover that there's something that works pretty well against the Druffalo, although it is slow going...
Flank Attack with the upgrade. Because of an exploit/bug, you can use it to get behind the Druffalo instantly, to avoid getting gored, and then... run around and wait (until they fix it, you will not come out of Stealth without an external effect or stealth-breaking action on your part.)
The Druffalo can still target you (dirty cheaters) but not nearly as effectively. You keep circling, which will keep forcing the Druffalo to retarget you. It doesn't always work, but it will keep it from doing its "constant charge while turning on a dime" trick (usually.) When Flank Attack has refreshed, you repeat the process.
Obviously, this doesn't help your teammates, and if there are several other enemies in the room, it can be a problem... but it can also be a boon, as being in Stealth will sometimes encourage the Druffalo to go back to targeting the other enemies in the room.
Kicked - I had 3 morons spamming 'Over here' constantly because they wanted me to open a rogue door for them. I was fighting at the time and when I finally got to the door I realized it was one of the non treasure doors so I refused to open it and whent about killing the enemies that were still attacking us. 2 of the pugs continued to spam 'Over here' instead of helping the 3rd pug who got taken down, leaving me to clutch the wave. I then had to clutch almost every wave because the pugs were quite frankly awful. They then waited until the end of round 4 to kick me...The funny thing is I doubt they would be able to succefully complete round 5 and by kicking me they lost pretty much all the XP they would have got from the game. Oh well pugs will be pugs
I've had that, but have opened it for them, let them run in and then go 'well done!'
That's the short cut in the Elven Ruins I presume... (?)
Yeah it was Elven Ruins, one of the pugs started spamming it even more once I got on the mic and told him to stop...So I purposley skipped the recovery objective and took us to the next roundI've had that, but have opened it for them, let them run in and then go 'well done!'
That's the short cut in the Elven Ruins I presume... (?)
Kicked - I had 3 morons spamming 'Over here' constantly because they wanted me to open a rogue door for them. I was fighting at the time and when I finally got to the door I realized it was one of the non treasure doors so I refused to open it and whent about killing the enemies that were still attacking us. 2 of the pugs continued to spam 'Over here' instead of helping the 3rd pug who got taken down, leaving me to clutch the wave. I then had to clutch almost every wave because the pugs were quite frankly awful. They then waited until the end of round 4 to kick me...The funny thing is I doubt they would be able to succefully complete round 5 and by kicking me they lost pretty much all the XP they would have got from the game. Oh well pugs will be pugs
That's what you get for ignoring treasure rooms.
Gored.
Druffalo way too OP, BioWare, pls nerf.
And Gurn. Is that right? The one horned rhinoceros looking tanks? I hate Druffalo and Gurn. I want a nuke 'em from orbit option.
And Gurn. Is that right? The one horned rhinoceros looking tanks? I hate Druffalo and Gurn. I want a nuke 'em from orbit option.
Run around pillars or something. Druffalo suck as turning and you can get some distance between them and you.
So cute, so placid, so dangerous. They will get theirs, oh indeed they will. When they invent the rilfe and a railway their days are numbered.
I try to pug too when I happen to have time during day, but it´s quite hard to land in lobby through all the errors, crashes and region lock, so I get annoyed very quickly
Wait noob question is this MP actually region locked? If so that kinda blows :/
Wait noob question is this MP actually region locked? If so that kinda blows :/
Officially, it's not. But there is definitely an issue with being able to PuG with people in other regions. I know that I consistently run into the same PuGs, far more so than with ME 3, and I almost never run into anyone outside the U.S. and Canada. It seems that you're more likely to get "could not find a game" message than you are to land in a PuG with someone from another continent.
They have said that ping plays a significant role in matchmaking, but I've certainly had decent enough connections to people in Europe and Asia in the past that I should be able to PuG with them (not yours, obviously, miss "my router is on the ISS.")
I believe that invites still work normally, though.
(not yours, obviously, miss "my router is on the ISS.")
But seriously, from what I've heard, this is how it works:
If Crimson and I are PUGing the same difficulty, we are likely to never run into each other because of the regional search thingie.
If she or I create a lobby and send the other an invite, the other should have no problem joining.
So, you aren't necessarily locked away from each other. But in PUGing, you're likely not to run into each other the further distance there is.
Officially, it's not. But there is definitely an issue with being able to PuG with people in other regions. I know that I consistently run into the same PuGs, far more so than with ME 3, and I almost never run into anyone outside the U.S. and Canada. It seems that you're more likely to get "could not find a game" message than you are to land in a PuG with someone from another continent.
They have said that ping plays a significant role in matchmaking, but I've certainly had decent enough connections to people in Europe and Asia in the past that I should be able to PuG with them (not yours, obviously, miss "my router is on the ISS.")
I believe that invites still work normally, though.
Thanks Jer.
As for my hosting ability
I certainly don't meet up with as many people from great britain or other parts of the world as i did with me3mp.
Thanks Jer.
As for my hosting ability
Got me there. I wondered why the pic hadn't finished loading before actually reading it.
Wait noob question is this MP actually region locked? If so that kinda blows :/
It does:(
As Jeremiah said, you can still play with people from different parts of world through invites, but for pugging, not so much. Seriously, I feel like I am pugging with ten other people and no one else is playing. I am meeting the same names over and over again.
Had my first trip to Narnia tonight. Odd place that, a shame, the group was doing alright 
Speaking of the non-existent region lock (ahem, right), I had to play a bunch of games by myself last night. I was trying to level my archer. Finally got him to level 4 and the oh-so-important long shot. Got red templars on my next match.
I made it through the elven ruins all right until level (wave, round) 4. I somehow managed to aggro the entire group by standing next to a wall. Took care of them and noticed one last red blip on the map. I go up the stairs and it's a Bog Fisher. Oy. 
I kited him around the map, trying to stay the hell away from his charges until I finally nailed him with long shot. Like a boss. 
Wave 5 was not survived. Too many archers.
tl;dr BOGFISHER
Do BSNers really pug (on PC)? For real?
Since I can't pug I haven't come across anyone.Well, I just gotta say that if you guys are keen to stop pugging and start playing with friends, my Origin's List is always open. ID same as here.
I cleaned my Origin FL when I moved onto DAMP and you were one of the casualties ('cos I'd not seen you for ages) feel free to add me again. Then we can play if Fuffy isn't on, though most of the time I'm playing it's with Aeti (goes without say'n) and either Smehur and Clusium or Fuffy and EcVo.
Last night I got dropped into a pug with a duo, the Keeper was brand new and didn't know their mic was set to Voice Activated (while having a Skype conversation with their buddy). Usually listening to some random pug mumble a running commentary of the entire game would be a complete nightmare/insta-mute, but this one was weirdly charming and convinced me to use my mic for only the 2nd or 3rd time ever. Only got to run one game with them before I got a CtD, but it was one of the most enjoyable games I've played so far
Now back to quietly lurking games and hoping my mic doesn't go off in some embarrassing way even though it's set to push-to-talk.
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