A list of characters, maps you can expect in the upcoming weeks

Just was telling SpaceV3gan:

They'll probably start slowly giving us the new characters too. there's 15 new gear pieces and 5 new kits yet to be releases. spread that out, you're looking at 3 week apart releases for that character kits.

Anything on weapons? I think every character's been accompanied by one so far.

I imagine a Typhoon is on the list.

I can't wait for the new batguard... sounds like a blast. Going under the assumption that he has the same fitness and passive tree as the Scrapper... at rank I I'm thinking:

Batarian Vanguard Gold Melee build (rank I):
Charge 4a 5a 6b
Annihilation 4b 5a 6b (vortex biotic combos can be detonated by Batarian Gauntlet)
Flak Cannon 1
Munitions Training 1
Combat Fitness 4b 5b 6b

Batarian Vanguard Platinum Flak Cannon Build (rank X):
Charge 4a 5a 6b
Annihilation 4b 5a 6a
Flak Cannon 4a 5a 6a
Munitions Training 4b
Combat Fitness 4a

Oh yeah. Probably rank II to III then. Maybe skip the last melee perk in combat fitness until you have enough points.

Human Commando looks very straight forwards. If Warp is essentially unchanged from before there is only really 1 build that makes sense:

Singularity 1
Turbocharge 4b 5a 6a
Warp 6
Offensive Biotics 4b 5a 6b
Barrier 4a 5a 6b

if warp doesn't still debuff enemies i am going to be mad

That Human Juggernaut is gonna be interesting. Can he cause Multi Cryo Explosion with Snap Freeze and Shockwave?

great to have new characters and maps
too bad the powers are not new

this info was already posted
bsn.boards.net/thread/11919/new-characters-datamine

it seems these 5 characters are the last ones, there are only 5 blank spaces in th characters list

It does seem (in my experience so far) that character cards have a better droprate (with Premium packs), than alternate weapons. I nearly maxed all the gold characters to XX, but I don't nearly have as much alternate gold weapons by far. I only got 2 alternate UR weapons (out of 6 lvl X UR weapons), but a steady amount of both UR characters (all except Exemplar are now at XII) and non-maxed out UR weapons. But the latter doesn't prove anything ofcourse.

That wasn't exactly what I was trying to say.
When I was initially trying to max my Golds, I didn't receive them in a specific order (I know many people made that claim).

Now I'm placing the hypothesis that 'regular' weapons and characters (all 20 levels of them) have a better chance to drop than 'alternate' weapons, at least until they're maxed out.

I've now nearly maxed out the Gold characters, including the Batarian, while I've yet to unlock over half of the 'new' gold weapons, or increase those that I do have beyond lvl I.

I've currently 6 UR weapons at X, but the RNG decided to give me additional levels to either the characters or the non-X guns, but only 2 UR weapon variants (from about 25 UR drops).

EDIT: As to your question: Yes the mods can only be obtained with MF unfortunately... Including the useful scopeless accuracy mods...

I hope "tower" map does not mean increase in verticality.... the first screen looks a little like Asari ark battle area in SP.

Yes, the silver pool of both weapons and chars is very small. At a guess the idea is to more actively push population into Gold/Pt tiers, b/c the majority coasted in Br/Si. Not on this board, obv. But at any rate, there is really very little you could unlock in this game as a Silver scrub.