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[XAN]

There are many great players on BSN but everyone started somewhere.

 

I'd like to hear your stories about your first platinum game.

 

My story:

One day I was searching for a U/U/Silver game and then found myself in a lobby with 2 BotB Puggernauts, and a third guy who was a Talon Merc. The game was set to U/U/P.

 

I was only a lolsilver player back then, and I got really excited. Seeing that they didn't kick me I equipped my best consumables and prepared for my first Platinum game. I was using the Asari Justicar.

 

We got Goddess Reapers. I got synced in one of the early waves along with the Talon merc, and I was forced to watch 2 Puggernauts camping in the same corner and meleeing Banshees. Then I thought "Man I wish I was as good as those guys, they can handle Platinum!".

 

After 10 hours, they finally finished the wave and I started playing very defensively, following one of the juggs and reaving everything. I didn't get synced again that game. In the end the 2 juggys and I managed to extract. The game was around 40-45 minutes long.

 

I didn't touch Platinum again for some time after that, but at least I knew what will await me there when I get better at the game.

 

It's your turn now, fellow BSNers, tell me about your first platinum game!

[RayD3MSoC]

Mine was a solo... I did not want to pull others down with me If I couldn't handle a game with no lag, my best consumables, a map/faction/kit I was comfortable with and complete control over the game.  Anyone else do this?

[Darth Volus]

On day 1 Earth realease. Typhoon 1 or 2 Destroyer. 

[krjn09]

The day it released, in Europe. Was pretty annoyed as I was playing with NA players a lot at the time and had to wait an extra day. 

 

It was on Vancouver and went fine, I think, after I found the ammo boxes.  And I've basically played nothing but since.

[Kenny Bania]

I was a bronze player then. Dropped into what was a bronze lobby at some point, but the host decided to switch it up to plat. I assumed they knew what they were doing so readied up expecting to be carried. It ended up being FBW/Cerberus. We didn't last a minute.

[Olivia Wilde]

First Platinum I was playing a Demolisher, host selected FBW/Geth, things went fairly well, but I started getting the "Vanguard glitch" around wave 5

Wave 6 I died in the Jesus door and respawned floating above the LZ I spent the rest of the mission throwing grenades at anything close enough

2 out of the other three extracted (third got body slammed by a Brute)

 

That experience kinda soured me on Platinum for a while (only have 16 Platinum extractions to this day)

 

edit according to my challenges I only have 5 Platinum extractions (plus any before that started)

[Jeremiah12LGeek]

My story is a tad embarrassing, but it's out there in the form of a couple of threads about what was happening while I played.

[ZoliCs]

FBW/Geth preset with Talon GI. We camped all the way through, it was before the map change. Back then I was like "**** yeah we extracted on platinum!!!!", now I'd throw up if someone played like that.

[PsychoticBiotic]

It was Giant/reapers, and it was a few days after it was released. I was a Justicar. We decided to camp the control room and have someone spam shockwave as the enemies entered the Bubble. It didn't work... we burned through most of our gels on wave 1. We wiped on wave 2.

 

I didn't attempt platinum again until months later before Retaliation was released with my Hurricane/scorpion GI. I landed in a lobby with Cain and a few of his friends and we camped the room of shame on Glacier.

[TheTechnoTurian]

It was Goddess/Cerberus GIP that I dropped into on W2, with a puggernaut, a fury,  I think an AIU, and I was a fat no-dodge turian with a Phaeston. I actually don't remember which of the boys I was playing, but probably the Sentinel. I do remember getting a lot of revives and assists, but with a Phaeston IV I wasn't exactly making a huge dent in a lot of the enemies. I thought plat was pretty boring. I never shook that impression either, two years later I still pretty much hate playing platinum games with teams. 

[Indoctornated]

I just remember that Platninum weekend challenge. Don't remember if it was my first Platinum or not. But was getting worried there for a bit that I might not get that challenge done and left out of the epeen loop with that banner. Then of course it turns out you didn't even have to play Platinum to get that banner. What a scam.

[Salarian Master Race]

I'd just unlocked the TGI on Xbox and was searching for some Gold games.  Host thought I was typical TGI scrub and upped it to Platinum.  Don't remember the enemy but it was on Goddess.  To everyone's surprise (including mine) it went pretty well.

 

Then I L2GitGud and started playing Plat with other kits

[Ashevajak]

With friends.

 

We'd been playing some Gold and they were all like "hey, shall we do some Plat?"  Everyone else was up for it, so I played along and equipped my most powerful kit/weapon combination: GI Talon.

 

I did surprisingly well, I think, though my friends did most of the heavy lifting.  I'd seen Youtube vids of people playing Platinum before, so I had something of an idea of what to expect.   Came third overall, I think, but I didn't make a complete arse of myself (I saved those for my solo attempts).

[Jelena Jankovic]

My first Platinum was surprisingly unmemorable aside from that I know it was on Goddess and I recall playing a Justicar

 

Those remain my only Goddess platinum waves (10 of them)

[Swan Killer]

The day Platinum difficulty with the Earth DLC was released... I was serching for a lolSilver game, got dropped into a Reaper/London/Platinum match on a later wave, maybe 6-7. 3 skulls on the screen already. I had a low level Geth Engineer with me with no equipment. Lasted for about 7 seconds, then bled out.

[GruntKitterhand]

I've basically played nothing but since.

 

Mine was with you for the Platinum component of Lodestar.  I joined your Asari (can't remember now if it was a Valkyrie or Huntress) as a Jugg with GPS for Giant / Collectors.  I'd only played around 4 Gold games at that stage, so it was a bit of a jump.  I went walkabout on Wave 1, as I was under the misconception that only scrubs camped the LZ (because you know how BSN can skew reality, right?! - the conversation between you and Maverick was something like, "What's the Jugg doing over there?" "I dunno.  He's an idiot, I guess.") but apart from that and being confused by the absence of ammo the game was really smooth.  Same with the next one against Geth on White, apart from me getting stomped by a ninja Pyro.  My favourite recollection of the second game was making extraction with my super slow Jugg with less than a second to spare - I didn't know for sure if you needed to personally extract to ensure completion of the challenge, so it seemed like a big deal at the time.  

 

I pugged the next two games successfully but have only played Plat with friends since then.  I'm not really a fan, but my Xbox manifest needs some serious attention so I may give it a whirl there.

[Dalakaar]

I don't remember my first plat game. I didn't know anything about the new difficulty, just assumed it was Gold but harder. Had just come back from playing another game and decided to give it a whirl.

 

Took a significant amount of swords in my gut to realize that just because there was a banshee in my face didn't mean there wasn't a Phantom behind me too.

[Sluggy_]

 

We got Goddess Reapers. I got synced in one of the early waves along with the Talon merc, and I was forced to watch 2 Puggernauts camping in the same corner and meleeing Banshees. Then I thought "Man I wish I was as good as those guys, they can handle Platinum!".

 

 

I lol'd so hard   My first plat match was back when I felt gold was challenging. I dropped into a lobby that got changed to gold, and I was so excited that I wasn't kicked out of the lobby 5 seconds in. It turned out to be an ordinary 'box of shame' and I ended up taking first place in the next match as human adept  Guess the map and the kit I used for the next few weeks

[Caineghis2500]

It was Giant/reapers, and it was a few days after it was released. I was a Justicar. We decided to camp the control room and have someone spam shockwave as the enemies entered the Bubble. It didn't work... we burned through most of our gels on wave 1. We wiped on wave 2.
 
I didn't attempt platinum again until months later before Retaliation was released with my Hurricane/scorpion GI. I landed in a lobby with Cain and a few of his friends and we camped the room of shame on Glacier.

The good ol scrubby days hehehe

[ClydeInTheShell]

My first platinum game was with FlashAK, IxMerc04 and another Spectre (Stikman? Hoochie? I can't remember for the life of me)

 

They carried me throughout, however the first game I got left with Flash to clutch wave 2 after the other 2 guys got synced. Gave me some confidence but also let me know even though I'd come a long way, how far I had to go. Those guys helped me a ton in those games though. 

[Antsu39]

Mine was a solo... I did not want to pull others down with me If I couldn't handle a game with no lag, my best consumables, a map/faction/kit I was comfortable with and complete control over the game.  Anyone else do this?

This. At that time I was playing mainly silver and had played only a few gold games. First plat game was TGI solo with PPR Giant/Reapers. Made it till wave 8 or 9. Good times? Hell no, close to heart attack.

[krjn09]

Mine was with you for the Platinum component of Lodestar.  I joined your Asari (can't remember now if it was a Valkyrie or Huntress) as a Jugg with GPS for Giant / Collectors.  I'd only played around 4 Gold games at that stage, so it was a bit of a jump.  I went walkabout on Wave 1, as I was under the misconception that only scrubs camped the LZ (because you know how BSN can skew reality, right?! - the conversation between you and Maverick was something like, "What's the Jugg doing over there?" "I dunno.  He's an idiot, I guess.") but apart from that and being confused by the absence of ammo the game was really smooth.  Same with the next one against Geth on White, apart from me getting stomped by a ninja Pyro.  My favourite recollection of the second game was making extraction with my super slow Jugg with less than a second to spare - I didn't know for sure if you needed to personally extract to ensure completion of the challenge, so it seemed like a big deal at the time.  

 

I pugged the next two games successfully but have only played Plat with friends since then.  I'm not really a fan, but my Xbox manifest needs some serious attention so I may give it a whirl there.

 

Lol are you calling me a scrub?! Sir!

 

Anyway, don't remember what the circumstance were but I do think camping the LZ is for scrubs and getting out there is where the fun is. So lemme apologize for us both. Idk, probably needed to extract or weak team or some other excuse.

[ark]

uup pug. Game me glacier/reapers. we wiped on w7, i was last man standing, and got the elbow of doom over and over and again.

 

After that it was back to gold, where i stayed until Kittenpuncher started dragging my scurby a$$ throught plat games.

[StoxRegalia]

Attempted platinum duo. We didn't know you couldn't be cloaked during the escorts. :/