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[neocodex]

Just returned to the game recently and I have to say it's been a while since any game caught my attention as much as me3mp did again - I am literally having a blast! But in dire need of new friends.. !!

 

Even tough the lack of player activity is noticeable it's still not as bad as I initially expected. Games are still played, but it seems that gold is the new silver these days. And I really, really want a few more active players on my friend list because right now nobody from my old buddies is not even logged in anymore and I'm longing to play together and chat about the game with someone. I'm not really after fast credit farm as I had maxed out the meta URs a while ago, it's just to have fun together, and less searching for matches. Also, as I describe below, I started developing my own mod that follows the vanilla game but I only add tweaks that are reasonable and refresh the vanilla experience and it's nothing too crazy.

 

My Origin ID: neocodex (EU) (link to my manifest)

 

So as I mentioned, what really caught my attention is the ability to mod the game now, which turns around things completely. I spent a few days tweaking a few things that I thought need a change (and bsn generally agreed upon and pleaded to bioware but updates stopped coming) and that feels extremely satisfying - within reason, I am strongly against making the game too easy; I want more challenge but not in a frustrating way that this game sometimes can be in its vanilla state. 

I have to give credit and my eternal gratitude to FemShep first for making this possible; her work is absolutely amazing, so thank you FemShep! I am enjoying your work immensely. It's pretty much a dream come true. 

 

With that, I am seeking new friends to play together on plat and gold with the tweaks I applied to the game, which makes it slightly more challenging, fresh and fun. It's nothing too crazy, but it is refreshing and new enough that makes it a lot of fun to experience a new dynamic while changing a few frustrating and annoying things that probably made you stop playing the game a while ago. The point of this is to make it interesting again. Gold is a little more harder now, while for platinum I made a few "nightmare mode" challenges that will take good skill and teamwork to beat. But overall, the game has not changed from vanilla a lot. I've been mostly staying close to it, it's just a few spices here and there, but we can go further from here.

 

If you are looking just for a fast credit farming runs on plat, than this might not be for you. I am doing this for fun and challenge, and don't mind longer games that bring something completely new to the me3mp experience. So if this is something you might want to try or you're already used to playing modded games, than please feel welcome and add me on Origin to hit up a few games.

 

The fun part of this is the surprise of the new enemy compositions and their slight changes on how they act. If you're still reading this and you see this as a turn off, let me just mention a few basic changes that I play with, because I've seen some really crazy mods that change the game too much, so here's a short summary on my reasonable additions to the me3mp - I still want the game to remain close to vanilla as much as possible, but just building upon what was not viable till now and actually make it decent while refreshing the spawning compositions to make battles feel different:

 

Spoiler

• Increased max enemies on field from 8 to 9 - this actually makes things harder more than expected, but total wave budget remains the same, it's just more packed with action now
• Updated gold wavelists for more variety including a few unique combinations not seen before 
• In vanilla, you always get the same compositions trough the whole wave, but now sometimes there might be certain type of enemy prevalent at start, than when you kill them, different ones will start coming
• Sometimes there might be enemies from a different faction present to shake things up, but it's nothing like plat
• In platinum, there's 3 nightmare modes (atm) that make things harder just by combining together very nasty combos of enemy types and their composition is completely different every wave so your team has to be prepared for anything
• Some enemies have changed attacks, shoot faster, differently or more often, and have their behaviors slightly changed
• Changed health/armor/shield distribution into values that make sense. Geth for example have very little hp and less armor but a lot more shields now, however the shields recharge extremely fast when not fired at so if you can't focus something quick it will heal back up to full in seconds, same for Nemesis; she has plenty of fast recharging shields but even lower hp. In this scenario, ammunition like Phasic rounds might become a reliable choice here instead focusing mostly on AP or warp ammo in all of your games.
• Buffed many nonviable weapons to put them closer in line with the top contenders, tough most are still not suitable for platinum, an improvement was made were possible. Because damage on most weapons cannot be changed, most of them got buffs to accuracy, stability, weight, spare ammo, reload and increased beam range on prothean and collector rifles. Oh, and Venom shoots more grenades now too.
• Buffed underperforming classes, abilities and made an overall buff to melee. For example, it made no sense that N7 Fury did more damage with her light melee than Shadow, so Fury was left as she was because it felt right, but Shadow certainly did not make up for what you would expect, so that got fixed. Not just the damage, but the radius on your heavy cleave is bigger now too, so it's more possible to decapitate multiple enemies at once.
• Did not do any other game breaking changes, tough there were a few slight ones mostly to make the game less frustrating, for example Phantom's op palm blaster fires a little slower and less often to shift her more towards here melee role, insane Geth stunlock spam got toned done a little bit but it can still wipe your party if not careful, and to reward reviving DR and duration on revive was increased for a tiny bit on both gold and plat.
• Do note: most enemies hit harder now and there's more of them, so any buffs the players got are justified because the challenges are harder now. However, I do additional tweaks every day based on my observations and input I get from others that played it.

 

Hope to see you in the game!

 

Edit: just noticed I missed the put your origin ID here thread. Well. Now this thread feels a bit pointless. I just hope someone will read this and maybe like my ideas and add me so we can play around with the mod.

[DarkOrgasm]

You should get your Best of the Best banner first so everyone thinks you're cool, then people will flock to your greatness

[DaemionMoadrin]

Your mods sound quite interesting.

[PatrickBateman]

Gimme a buffed Reegar in nerfed bronze games and I'm in!

[neocodex]

You should get your Best of the Best banner first so everyone thinks you're cool, then people will flock to your greatness

 

After so much time spent it's still something that almost haunts me when I go to sleep. It's like 95% done. Too lazy to finish last few challenges - whenever I go to play I get distracted with other things, like being more efficient to help my team and not grind my **** weapon for the banner. If there's anything that i hate more is being a drawback for my friends with putting on them "sorry guys I'm grinding this weapon for botb banner you'll have to live trough it". Well **** that, honestly. Not that it proves anything but I have to agree the banner is cool and yes eventually I want it too. And I don't think I've ever seen a bad or even average player with BotB banner, so the credit is is due. I just didn't pay much attention to the challenges but it's still a goal.

 

Your mods sound quite interesting.

 

Thank you! I would love to play them together. At this point I'm really happy to play with anyone that doesn't leave after one game because the waves were tougher or different . Just so many people are quitting my games without saying a thing lol. But I made a few friends that stayed and liked it at least. But I can't blame the people that leave tough, they probably just want to make some fast credits, while I made quite a challenge that's not something you would normaly expect and honestly I immensely enjoy the trolling this creates - but I give my absolute best to help and finish the game as long as they don't disconnect - that's very dissapointing. It's just the surprise factor that I love being part of. 

 

Gimme a buffed Reegar in nerfed bronze games and I'm in!

 

The thing about buffs is they are global. But what we could do is add another difficulty that is above or different than platinum, and we could use bronze and silver as a placeholder since nobody ever plays that (mods locked on host), and if we make a private game - sure we can do a special game using bronze settings for some insane (or just fun) changes. Everything in bronze or silver can be adjusted to be different or harder than gold or platinum.

[DaemionMoadrin]

Well, I often leave even if the game was really fun... because I might not have time for another one or because I want to switch kits and don't like to make people wait (some ready up immediately after a game ends and I will not be rushed) or maybe the game was laggy for me.

[Ghost Of N7_SP3CTR3]

You should shoot for about 25 enemies on the field at once,if you really want to spice it up.

[Saikyo_McRyu]

Just played in several gold matches with neocodex and they were extremely fast for me with zero lag. The buffs to the Scummytar and melee damage were very helpful to my Kroldier and Asari Vanguard. Lots of fun and highly recommended.

 

Break

 

Was the Revenant buffed? Because reasons

[DarkOrgasm]

After so much time spent it's still something that almost haunts me when I go to sleep. It's like 95% done. Too lazy to finish last few challenges - whenever I go to play I get distracted with other things, like being more efficient to help my team and not grind my **** weapon for the banner. If there's anything that i hate more is being a drawback for my friends with putting on them "sorry guys I'm grinding this weapon for botb banner you'll have to live trough it". Well **** that, honestly. Not that it proves anything but I have to agree the banner is cool and yes eventually I want it too. And I don't think I've ever seen a bad or even average player with BotB banner, so the credit is is due. I just didn't pay much attention to the challenges but it's still a goal.

 

There are plenty of bad to average players/pugs who wear that BotB banner, if you start puggin now you will see so many you might think Zuckerman sent them to you instead of $4.5m

[Mgamerz]

For mob mods about 24-25 is the sweet spot as long as you mix ranged and melee enemies. More incurrs a significant perofrmance penalty and enemies cant aim.

For difficult mods I'd say about 12 or 13 with faster units and more gunfire.

Here's your mod synopsis
http://me3tweaks.com...maker/mods/1776

I've been watching you work for hours on Google analytics, heh.

Make sure you use the banshee mixins as they make her terrifying.

I don't know if adding a difficulty is doable since they have in-code classes defined which we can't do. (Difficulty dolevel4)

Your ragdoll mixins will make bosses pathetically easy to kill and drivable atlas will pretty much force clients to quit if they get in.

I'd you are going to run this on public you should always notify players beforehand. Some people simply don't want to play modded games.