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[RayD3MSoC]

Since people love posting about factions they hate, I am curious what factions people enjoy playing against.

 

So, here is my list:

 

1) Cerberus:  I find their units to be the most diverse, interesting and fair.  The only boring units are troopers and centurians. Everything else has a unique gimmick and requires different strategies to deal with.

 

2) Geth:  Apparantly I am the only one who thinks the stagger mechanic is interesting.  I also find Geth Primes to be the most interesting boss unit to fight (not counting phantoms as bosses) since they test your ability to pay attention.  I would call it a tie with Cerberus if bombers didn't exist.

 

3) Collectors:  They are interesting, but I find the endless swarmers biased against power spammy classes, and space crabs are way too quite for a unit that can sneak up behind you and instantly stagger you into a sync kill or block exits.  The bubble of denial is also biased towards power based classes (without reave at least), and but lazors=cheating.

 

4) Reapers: I really, really, really despise Banshees.  Constant noise pollution and being chased around the map until I back into her twin sister is effing irritating.  I also don't always have the best connection and being pulled half a screen back to spectator mode generally makes me want to punch my laptop in the face.  I hated every second of my Platinum solo against them.  It was a half hour of boredom until I made a mistake and got grabbed over, and over, and over, and...

 

 

 

I would also like to know if your preferences are based on what type of kits you generally enjoy playing.  For example, I imagine I would like the collectors a lot more if I enjoyed playing weapon platforms.

[Dalakaar]

I hate them all equally.

 

Although my Paladin is secretly addicted to juicing off synthetics.

[Salarian Master Race]

I spec well-balanced kits so I don't love or hate any of them more or less than any other

[RayD3MSoC]

I spec well-balanced kits so I don't love or hate any of them more or less than any other

 

You sound like a parent saying they don't have a favorite kid.  I call bs.

[Salarian Master Race]

You sound like a parent saying they don't have a favorite kid.  I call bs.

 

Wrong, I sound like someone who doesn't whine moan and complain when they have Kit X vs Faction Y

 

What do YOU sound like?

[smeckie]

Reaper - easiest faction by far.
Collectors - the strafing Captians and the swarms are the worst part of this faction.
Geth - all of them are cheating douchebags
Cerberus - Phantoms, Turrets, Phantoms, Altas phase disruptor, Phantoms, Atlas rockets, Phantoms, Atlas smoke, Phantoms, Centurion smoke, Phantoms, also the Phantoms.

[Quarian Master Race]

1) Collectors: Giant heads that are easy to shoot, slow ranged units that are easy to trivialize and a ubiquitious, easily kitable melee enemy that seems like it was designed specifically for trolling teammates. The only things to dislike are the wallbanging buttlazor of laggy bullshit and the stupidly inconsistent hitboxes on swarms. Oh, and the fact that I can't play them very often without bricking my lolpeastree.

2) Cerberus: Gobs of humanoid heads that are wonderful to make melon chunks of, funny sounding dialouge and good unit variety on most waves. Brought down by irritating godmode atlas rockets, smoke and on host Phantom immunity bullshit as well as late wave gold and plat's tendency to spam the everloving crap out of them at the expense of better designed units.

3) Reapers: Pretty good variety, though both a little too easy and tedious for some builds because of all the armor spam. Banshee screams and sync mechanics are just annoying, as are swarmers and Ravager goo.


















4) Geth: SERIOUSLY, SCREW THESE THINGS. EVERYTHING ABOUT THESE REBELLIOUS ROOMBA FUCKERS IS THE EPITOME OF IRRITATING. STUNLOCK ON TOP OF MORE STUNLOCK WITH A SIDE OF STAGGERSHIT. ROCKET CHEATERS THAT TRIPLE TAP, SCUMBAG HUNTERS THAT FIRE WHILE STUNNED/FROZEN/ RAGDOLLED/ DEAD, BOMBERS THAT ZAP THROUGH WALLS, PYROS WITH A FLAMETHROWER THAT MUST BE HALF FILLED WITH METHANOL BECAUSE IT FIRES INVISIBLE FLAMES 400 M PAST THE ACTUAL RANGE OF THE FLAMES. LETS NOT FORGET THE MOTHERFUCKING PRIME AND ALL ITS STUNLOCK, SPAWNING TURRETS THROUGH WALLS, FUCKDRONE STAGGER AND OTHER MEANS OF MAKING YOU HELPLESSLY DIE A SLOW AND AGONIZING DEATH. NOT ENOUGH COBRA MISSILES IN THE UNIVERSE. EVEN THE TROOPER IS ANNOYING WITH ITS STAGGERING LAGGY PEOPLE'S ELBOW OF 10M RANGE. NUKE THEM FROM ORBIT, NUKE THEM ALL FROM ORBIT AND THEN P!SS ON THE ASHES, AND NUKE THEM AGAIN.

[RayD3MSoC]

Wrong, I sound like someone who doesn't whine moan and complain when they have Kit X vs Faction Y

 

What do YOU sound like?

 

I will admit, I QQ'ed a bit about Banshees, but overall, this is meant to be a discussion of which factions people like more than others and why.  So forgive me for supplying reasons?

 

Saying "I like/hate them all equally" is extremely unlikely to be 100% true.

[Salarian Master Race]

I will admit, I QQ'ed a lot about Banshees, but overall, this is meant to be a discussion of which factions people like more than others. 

 

Saying "I like/hate them all equally" is extremely unlikely to be 100% true.

 

Extremely unlikely != impossible

 

 

4) Geth: SERIOUSLY, SCREW THESE THINGS. EVERYTHING ABOUT THESE REBELLIOUS ROOMBA FUCKERS IS THE EPITOME OF IRRITATING. STUNLOCK ON TOP OF MORE STUNLOCK WITH A SIDE OF STAGGERSHIT. ROCKET CHEATERS THAT TRIPLE TAP, SCUMBAG HUNTERS THAT FIRE WHILE STUNNED/FROZEN/ RAGDOLLED/ DEAD, BOMBERS THAT ZAP THROUGH WALLS, PYROS WITH A FLAMETHROWER THAT MUST BE HALF FILLED WITH METHANOL BECAUSE IT FIRES INVISIBLE FLAMES 400 M PAST THE ACTUAL RANGE OF THE FLAMES. LETS NOT FORGET THE MOTHERFUCKING PRIME AND ALL ITS STUNLOCK, SPAWNING TURRETS THROUGH WALLS, FUCKDRONE STAGGER AND OTHER MEANS OF MAKING YOU HELPLESSLY DIE A SLOW AND AGONIZING DEATH. NOT ENOUGH COBRA MISSILES IN THE UNIVERSE. EVEN THE TROOPER IS ANNOYING WITH ITS STAGGERING LAGGY PEOPLE'S ELBOW OF 10M RANGE. NUKE THEM FROM ORBIT, NUKE THEM ALL FROM ORBIT AND THEN P!SS ON THE ASHES, AND NUKE THEM AGAIN.

 

This should go in the wiki

[Dalakaar]

Saying "I like/hate them all equally" is extremely unlikely to be 100% true.

I disagree with this.

 

If I did I wouldn't U/U/P so often.

 

I do have preferred maps over others, but enemies? I don't care what's on the ground when I get there, it's going to die.

[Salarian Master Race]

Geth?  Energy Drain.

 

Everything else?  Proximity Mine/Incinerate.

 

Top it off with one of my favourite Tech Ammos and the enemy faction type becomes irrelevant.  Even my weapons loadout becomes inconsequential at that point.

[Caineghis2500]

Collectors
Reapers
Cerberus
Geth (duh)

[BeardyMcGoo]

1) Cerberus:  I find their units to be the most diverse, interesting and fair.

I have a sneaking suspicion that you never host.

[RayD3MSoC]

I have a sneaking suspicion that you never host.

 

I have done 2 platinum solos (Slayer and Paladin) and many gold solos against them in which I obviously hosted, but no, I don't host regular games since I don't trust my internet.

 

Phantoms may be a pain, but in an interesting way.  They demand a good way to deal with them, but luckily there are a lot of ways of doing so.  You can bring a good stagger weapon, go for headshots through walls, dark channel and just wait for the kill feed, get them to bubble for easy headshots, snap freeze->energy drain and then smack em around with your shield, proxy mine, be a vanguard, etc.

[Salarian Master Race]

smack em around

 

Scorpion Pistol + Proximity Mine vs Phantom Doom Squad is like

 

[NuclearTech76]

Reapers

Collectors

Cerberus

Telemarketers 

People who cough without covering their mouth

Geth

[Kenny Bania]

Collectors

Reapers

Cerberus

Geth

[Loufi]

Cerberus

Geth and Reapers. Depends on my mood, the map, the character and the weapon I'm using. 

Collectors

[The NightMan Cometh]

I only will say Cerberus is my favorite to fight just because I love to chase down Nemesis and melee them to death...If I don't then I nuke em. People always send me messeges saying Why did you use a Cobra on one Lone Nemesis?..my reply is always  the same.  Because she is the most dangerous unit in the faction.

 

off hand =  Scumbag Primes arent that bad if you can get them to chase you around the same pillar..just keep circling it and make the Prime look stupid.

[RayD3MSoC]

Reaper - easiest faction by far.
Collectors - the strafing Captians and the swarms are the worst part of this faction.
Geth - all of them are cheating douchebags
Cerberus - Phantoms, Turrets, Phantoms, Altas phase disruptor, Phantoms, Atlas rockets, Phantoms, Atlas smoke, Phantoms, Centurion smoke, Phantoms, also the Phantoms.

 

I have to say, I enjoy the fact that the first person to give a list turned mine upside down.

[Indoctornated]

My fave is Collectors.

 

Second fave Geth.

 

Third fave Reapers (used to be my most hated).

 

And Cerberus is the one I really hate for some time now. 

 

 

 

I might explain the science behind it later if the mood hits me and this topic holds my interest. ie. It's in BSN's hands now.

[Silvair]

Collectors are least favorite to me, and hardest. Power canceling, lasers, cluster grenades, nuking husks.

Cerberus is most fun because unit variety. Plus Revastator makes phantoms dance and then hawk is all


Geth and reapers are both boring, only get has stun and focused fire while reapers have almost no offensive capability.

[DaemionMoadrin]

I have no favourite faction and I don't hate any either. Some kits do better against certain factions (biotics vs. Reapers, QFI vs. Geth) but overall it's all the same to me. Sure, it sucks if you have a headshot kit and go up against Reapers... but that's not the faction's fault.

[EnemySpinach]

1) Reapers

They have the fewest shielded units - which means they die easiest. Seriously, only Marauders and Banshees have any additional protection layers. Ironically, these are the only two real threats. The beauty of this is far and wide the synergy. Yes, there's two units that are by far the deadliest, but you can't ignore the small fry, because they work together. A husk will pin you as a marauder or ravager shoots you up. A brute will smack you into a Banshee. While Reapers can be problematic for a few specific kits (Shadow vs Ravager = Brb suiciding in acid if I get close) overall, if you have a decent sense of awareness, they're the easiest to deal with. And I didn't even mention their relative lack of firepower, yet! Sure, Marauders are point for point the second deadliest unit in the game, but Husks and Brutes don't shoot at all, Cannibal fire capabilities are limited, Ravagers take time to fire, etc....

 

 

 

2) Geth

They tend to group up and act as a cohesive unit. For the inexperienced, this can be bad. A death wish, even. However, once you know what you're doing, you can exploit this quite mercilessly, grouping them all together and going to town with AOE effects like grenades, powers, or explosive weapons. As well, since every single unit they have counts as Synthetic, they may resist organic bleed damage, but are all vulnerable to things like Sabotage. (You know, if you're not going Unknown or Platinum, and are picking a kit for them.) Their lack of Sync Kill makes dealing with them far less stressful, even if you do need to worry about stunlock.

 

 

3) Cerberus

This is where I start to roll my eyes a bit. Phantoms? Okay. Turrets? Okay. Atlases? Okay. Engineers that can deploy/repair turrets and also repair Atlases? Now you're pushing it. All of the above at the same time? Aye, caramba! I just think Cerberus is a little too all over the place sometimes, and if we added just one or two new units, we'd be able to split them into two seperate factions. Then you factor in that the Phantoms can cloak AND sync kill while two dragoons are rushing you from the left and you can't escape without running into a turet that will basically shred you apart instantly. Cerberus is easily the most stressful faction to play against, but they are far from the worst.

 

 

4) Collectors

Bioware, get your fecal matter together! Test these things on PS3 before just porting them and calling it a day! I have never had a Gold Collectors game go without a hitch. Platinum, sure, but that's a mix of other enemies too, so less collectors at once. Against collectors, freezing that forces system restarts are rampant, framerate can drop to the single digits, or worse if unlucky (I once had it like a slideshow going 10 seconds per frame. I was HOSTING.) Seeker swarms not wearing off is less common but beyond crippling. And of course, who could forget trying to throw all your grenades, having them all USED UP, and NONE actually WORKING? With normal lag, sometimes a grenade won't work, but it often doesn't actually use the grenade! Collectors on PS3 are simply inexcuseable trash. I would uninstall them completely if they were just a faction on their own and it would just not let me join collector games, but sadly, it doesn't work like that.

[ClydeInTheShell]

Collectors - big heads and abombs

Reapers - Banshees don't bother me as much as everyone else it seems. I stop them and go about my business.

Geth - Bombers just need hit boxes that work, they're not that bad

Cerberus - they can eat a d***