Your first ever Gold/Plat solo!

I still remember my first ever solo. Asari Vanguard vs Cerberus, White, Bronze. One of the weekend challenges was to extract without using consumables. It was when I didn't have a good crew and I didn't trust Pugs, so I thought I'd do a solo. This was back before Biovar invented Goons, and stasis took care of almost everything.

I tried to do my first Gold solos with the Kroguard against Geth, but I used to always wipe on wave 7 (damn pyros). I realised I was going about it the wrong way, so I used my trusty BatSol, Cerberus Harrier Combo against Rippers on Ghost. I think I was grabbed a couple of times before I finally succeeded in about 70 mins. My heart was pounding the whole time.

Plat I always thought was a step too far, even taking my time. A couple of months ago, I thought 'nope, I can do this. Used my favourite asari sentinel, cheesy CSMG/acolyte combo against Rippers on White. Wiped four times on wave 7, but eventually managed it in something like 84 minutes. It was brilliant to finally get it done. I whooped really loudly and my wife was like WTF is so exciting? She wasn't impressed.

My first succussful gold solo I did with Krogan B.- what else - on Giant/Geth but (little lousy excuse) as a result of any other alternatives at that moment I equipped a Piranha III. Unfortunately I was impressed by having about 3000 (!) shields with one of my rare Cyclonic III I owned at that time so I didn't care a second about meleeing any stupid Geth and it took me ages to wave 11 But the moment I extracted sucessfully after hours of charging, shooting, running was really worth it.

Years and many frustrating attempts later (most of them beeing synct by phantrolls or killed by dragoons nanoseconds before extraction ) I decided to go the one and only way for me to handle it: Reeeegar-Sexbot White

My first bronze and silver solos I've forgotten.

First Gold Solo for me was with the Cheesy Krogan Vanguard against Geth. I think on White. I shamefully used Reeger too. I was going for the achievement, and wanted to avoid sync kills. That krogran is the only character where you can beat a Geth Prime to death and live, so that was fun.

First Plat Solo was Geth Trooper with flame and acolyte, against Cerberus. Took over an hour. Was on Giant. I remember putting on the gear that gives extra medigel. I used 6 of them so it was worth it.

My proudest Plat Solo was my third one, Krogan Warlord against the Collectors on Giant with Reeger.
It was actually really easy, because you spec for melee and just kill the mooks, like abominations, the whole time and run away from the big stuff till the wave budget runs out. Takes a long time though.

I have the worst time Soloing Plat/Reapers. Always was a wave 9/10 sync-kill from Banshee or Phantom. Often I wiped when they popped through a wall and decided on a random path I'd not seen before. Took me a dozen attempts to solo Plat/Reapers. Almost did it with AIU before a server disconnect on Wave 10 cleanup. Then I did two solos of Plat Reapers with the Juggy on Giant. Once sync kills were removed, it was quite easy. I found using the ladders prevented getting surrounded by too many enemies.

No you don't.   

I've had about 30 goes against them on White or White Hazard and haven't made it out yet. To be honest I haven't even managed to bag the w10 credits yet, with 3 mid-objective wipes - Targets with not enough missiles left, naturally. I can routinely manage 5WS and find the wave budget on w6 suits me fine, but then w7 arrives and it generally all goes to hell. I'm usually the guts of an hour in at that stage and my concentration starts to fail. If I do make it through that wave my next most frequent cause of a wipe will be one of those bastard humping Husks on w9. 

Madness. I'm too old for this shit.

MrsFlyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyingKebab is right - Platinum can just fuck right off!

And yet I know I'll be back at it again later....

My first solo were unintended on Gold. I really wanted the Nomad banner for completing all the maps and I were only missing 7 or 8 Gold/Silver/Bronze games on Vancouver. So I decided to start up a Gold game vs Geth and back then it was usually a very quick process to get more players into your lobby or ongoing games. I did it with a Reegar/Kroguard but was only using low level consumables (disruptor II I think).
None else joined and I managed to complete it. The following game were maximum cheese though with Incendiary and Cyclonics IV on Gigant.

First Platinum solo was with a PPR/TGI vs Reapers on Gigant, back then I had a quite low understanding of the game, I used Warfighter package as I had no idea how valuable GS or AC V were. Phantrolls took forever to kill with only the PPR (yeah back then I considered guns like Venom, Scorpion and Acolyte etc to be crap), I think it took me 74 minutes to complete it.

Screw Reapers, there's too many Banshees. I'd go White vs. Cerby or Trolls; Cerby will be faster, Trolls easier. I'd use this lovely blue beauty she loves to kill things and kill them quickly. Especially Banshees and those pesky Phantoms.

I feel ya. It's taking me a while to trust the corner of win for plat solos, still have yet to break 40 min because I eventually have to kite. Also killing stuff so damn quickly idk how Doc and TTT do it, but it looks so easy.

Once,long ago i was just like you.When i watched one of the clusum's videos,i was like that-wtf,how the heck is even possible.At that point i had 15-20 completed platinum solos.I found i am a scrub,so i started to watch clusum's,TTT's and TNS's videos.I wanted to be a better player.Tried to do the same things like them and in the beggining i couldn't.The things got better over time.The main thing is to be confident in your skills.You should say yourself-i can do it.The turning point for me was when i compmeted N7 challenges on Plat.My confidence was much bigger after that and my times got better and better.I still watch TTT's videos for fun.I love her turians.You always can learn something new.

I think "Corner of Win" deserves a place in the Official BSN Response List.

In my case it's more often the "Corner of AH FFS!!!"

I did get as far as w7 again with my first attempt as a Valkyrie (against Cerberus this time) as advocated by DistigousForest, but with only level II consumables at my disposal it was a little tougher than I would have liked (it took quite a while to rid those double Atlases of their Shields) and kiting was definitely necessary. Real life interrupted me and I had to bleed out - a fairly common problem. Obvious potential for success though, undoubtedly.

I had AC5 but I'm not convinced that I wouldn't be better off with a Geth Scanner, just rolling the dice when it comes to objectives. Most of my wipes have come as sync-kills when I usually still have 8 or 9 missiles left, so it's possible that the crutch of situational awareness is more beneficial to me than primarily having missiles just in case I get Targets. It seems likely to me that missiles are more useful for keeping the time respectable than they are for actually succeeding. Assuming I'm not literally cursed, I'm also well overdue a few glitchable Hacks at this stage!

Hey now I've seen lots of your videos; don't forget cleanup on 3   GruntKitterhand you should be using Incendiary IV to melt all things health, barrier, and armor.

"Should" and "can" are sadly two different things. I had 17 IA IVs when I began this Odyssey. I now have one. Similar tale with my Cyclonic IVs

I had another go there as a TGI with Disrupter Harrier. Flawless until Targets on w6 when I didn't want to waste a missile on the cleanup. Then very suddenly not flawless at all. One tiny slip and BAAAM!!! I should feel sore after what's just been done to me!

In seriousness though, thanks for the comment about believing in yourself muahmuah - the state of mind does seem to make a difference. I know I can do it, but I feel like I could be doing with a little bit of luck just to get me over the line. And then my inner Krogan reminds me, in the words of my namesake, "I don't need luck. I have ammo."

Aslo, docsteely, I feel like I should whisper this very quietly, but my only serious attempt at this as a Krogan most certainly didn't end with the question, "Anybody got something to eat?" It wasn't pretty. Same with my Fat Turian. I doubt if I could ever manage this without the ability to dodge.