It is but Giant does have some shitty objectives as well.
True. Especially the central hack. But overall it's much better than let's say Rio or London or Condor. Most objective caps on Giant have some cover you can hide behind. You can break LOS easily and not get sniped by long range units and you can kite short range units into "sectors" and deal with them in relative peace, without getting railed from all sides.
Usually see U/U more than anything at least for me 
getting railed from all sides
pixpls kthxbye
It's not just that Giant has some areas that are easy to hold and easy to escape when necessary. Giant also works with every class and setup. You don't have to worry about picking a sniper and getting stuck on Glacier, or picking a CC class and getting Hydra or Condor. White is really good for that too.
Giant does get a little boring after a while. Still, I get more bored with the fact that it always seems to be Reapers/Giant. I'd be less bored with it if the enemy was mixed up a little more.
I normally play Gold but did a couple of Plat games today. While I got extraction in all of them, I found Plat rather boring. Can't really do fun stuff like killing a Brute with Tech Armor.
Because scrubs who are afraid of losing but still want those Plat $$$.
I get that it's one of the easier maps, you can just hide near the spawn point most of the game, but it's so boring not playing any of the other maps.
Whenever I quick join a game it's Giant and maybe sometimes White or Glacier. Very rarely I'll see any other maps chosen. And people usually quit if I'm leader and choose, horrors of horrors, Firebase Reactor.
Because...
I dont mind it on Gold as long as I dont get it in consecutive matches..Once I played 5 straight Unknowns and got it every time.....On Topic... Cause they are horrible people that like torturing others and inflicting pain on small animals.
Not everyone plays Giant. I've got an enthusiastic fella here willing to try unknown map and against Collector.
Two N7 1s in a day. Today must be my lucky day!
^^^^^^^^ +1 ...also, the 1.5 Billion credits made me laugh.
From the LZ you can control the nearby spawn points. From the control room, you can't.
So how is controlling spawn points supposed to equal more fun anyway? Equals more mindless boring to me.
So how is controlling spawn points supposed to equal more fun anyway? Equals more mindless boring to me.
Exactly how to **** do you want us to play the game then, spin in circles shooting things would be better?
Camping is fun to some, attacking the spawns are fun to some. Either one is a perfectly fine way to play the game.
So how is controlling spawn points supposed to equal more fun anyway? Equals more mindless boring to me.
You asked why people camp the Giant LZ as opposed to the Control Room. And the reason is because of spawn point control. (Plus I do think it's easier to fall back from the LZ than it is from the Control Room.)
If people were only playing for fun they'd be on U/U/P Randomizer.
I don't preset to Glacier because lamers who compete for points have an affinity for that map.
Glacier isn't any fun when it just gets spawn nuked incessantly.
Can I play with your spawn nukers please? I've played at least 5 Plat. games in the last 2 days, 0 extractions. I get that I'm not a great Platinum player and I can't solo, but come on, this is getting ridiculous (and I've never been at the bottom of the scoreboard yet).
I've tried pre-setting to London / Collectors because it's the easiest of the combinations I've tested to date, but people seem to not like it. They drop in and bail out 
Am I the only one whose mouse twitched over the "Exit Lobby" button?
Not everyone plays Giant. I've got an enthusiastic fella here willing to try unknown map and against Collector.
I've tried pre-setting to London / Collectors because it's the easiest of the combinations I've tested to date, but people seem to not like it. They drop in and bail out
I had to give this a like because that is some quality trolling right there, especially in the Giant/Reapers/Platinum thread.
Giant/Reapers/Platinum thread.
Sorry, I thought by page 2 it's OK to mention other combinations that people distinctly like or dislike. I admit that's an off-topic remark.
Also, London is one of my favorite maps because it has great high ground to hold, and Collectors are my favorite Platinum enemies because all their boss units are big, slow and easy to hit. Unlike Banshees that sneak up on you from unexpected angles and are pain to hit (esp. with a single-shot weapon).
I've tried pre-setting to London / Collectors because it's the easiest of the combinations I've tested to date, but people seem to not like it. They drop in and bail out
Try setting Condor Colectors or Condor Geth instead. That might help.
Sorry, I thought by page 2 it's OK to mention other combinations that people distinctly like or dislike. I admit that's an off-topic remark.
Also, London is one of my favorite maps because it has great high ground to hold, and Collectors are my favorite Platinum enemies because all their boss units are big, slow and easy to hit. Unlike Banshees that sneak up on you from unexpected angles and are pain to hit (esp. with a single-shot weapon).
Can I play with your spawn nukers please? I've played at least 5 Plat. games in the last 2 days, 0 extractions. I get that I'm not a great Platinum player and I can't solo, but come on, this is getting ridiculous (and I've never been at the bottom of the scoreboard yet).
I've tried pre-setting to London / Collectors because it's the easiest of the combinations I've tested to date, but people seem to not like it. They drop in and bail out
I think you'll sing a different tune when you have games that they actively cost you or almost cost you. Spawn nukers can screw you over big time by wasting missiles that would be better spent on emergencies. I've had that before where teammates ran out of missiles which meant they couldn't cover someone on devices, break up sync kills, protect hacks, etc. This also happens big time when you get 3 assassination objective waves in the same round. People race to spawns to hit them with missiles; by wave 10 when it matters most, they have none left (And then who saves their asses? I do! 
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Using missiles on spawns is something you should only do when you're trying a speedrun/solo and are absolutely certain that they wouldn't be better used for critical points.
Most spawn nukers are ****** scorewhores. That's why I've not played a lot of rounds the past couple of weeks. I got a few consecutive rounds with people like that, and it's just too much of a headache for me.
the objectives on platinum are some of the most difficult of any map. It's a nice challenge, but not a good choice if you're after an easy ride.
Good point, I didn't consider that. Think I've only gotten escort and targets.
Spawn nuking on objective waves is one thing I hate when people do, but other than that meaningful use of missiles on spawns does make games go faster, what's bad about it as long as you reserve ~2 missiles for the late game? If I happen to catch a spawn on wave 4 and upwards, I won't hesitate to nuke it as long as it's not my last missile.
Good point, I didn't consider that. Think I've only gotten escort and targets.
Spawn nuking on objective waves is one thing I hate when people do, but other than that meaningful use of missiles on spawns does make games go faster, what's bad about it as long as you reserve ~2 missiles for the late game? If I happen to catch a spawn on wave 4 and upwards, I won't hesitate to nuke it as long as it's not my last missile.
The issue is that when you get especially competitive spawn nukers or multiple spawn nukers (or worse, multiple competitive spawn nukers) they'll end up whiffing with half of their missiles. Sometimes several people will each shoot at a random thing. Alternately, a lone person will race over to shoot at an Atlas and miss, doing no damage and wasting a missile. And they panic to try to kill that Atlas. Suddenly they've spent 3 missiles on a lone Atlas because they didn't have the patience to shoot it for 10 seconds. This can happen a few times in a single game. Then when there's two geth primes and a phantom screwing the team over on devices, nobody has a solution. 
Glacier/Geth/Platinum with all Biotic team is amazingly fun.
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