biggest threat to Mission Success? huge imbalance

I can't remember failing on any objective other than upload. Except one time in an apex mission where we had multiple ascendents as assassination targets and PUGs didnt nuke anything. Conversely, I struggle to recall a gold kett upload where I thought, "well that went smoothly".

the biggest threat? the drunks that play this game drunk.

I am not sure if you are serious.

First of all,   I don't think that "using my damned consumables" would save us in those uploads I mentioned.

Second, I said that it's possible with a perfectly organized team but even then there remains a considerable risk to the mission success, whereas
1.) everything else in this game has become a mere farming routine with 100% success rate.  Can you imagine anyone failing on (the patched) devices??
2.) when having the ability to cloak even the dreaded uploads are just a routine work


"Imbalance is a set thing"?
So you think it's good game design that you play 5 waves like walking in your sleep - but always knowing that if wave 6 will be upload you are probably done for?

So what do I do?  I bring a character that can cloak. Which turns wave 6 into a sleepwalk, too.  great ...

"You do need people that have their heads on right"
maybe you'll have the kindness and read what I wrote about that in my opening post

Uploads are fine the way they are. You are not doing a "perfectly organized team" if you think there is a considerable risk to mission success just for getting the upload objective in the first place. Said organized team sounds like it's need a hefty doze of L2P powder to snort.

But even PUGs are be able to do fine if they understand that you do not huddle onto one upload point like with the Hack objective.

Can cloak help? Sure, it can - is it required for a smooth run? Not by a long shot.

how you even take down the ascendant with rockets? You will just destroy his stupid orb. In ME3 the rockets were I win buttons instantly killing everything now if you shoot a destroyer with rocket it will just take down his shields.

Ok so I'm just gonna throw in my two cents. IF upload wasn't so bad nobody would be complaining about it not that that logic isn't 100% true cause I will admit people like to complain but this imo is an exception and it definitely is noticed by a majority of the player base that unless your team is either.

1) Coordinated to where you can have 1 or 2 players do the capturing while the other two or three distract and pull the agro away from the upload points along with maybe the Cloak ability as a bonus get-the-f***-away from me strategy. or...
2) Your all capturing all the points at the same time because each of you has enough individual firepower to hold them off AND as an optional plan B with the combined understanding that if something bigger than a mook so much as breaths in your circles direction you nuke the f**ker.

OTHERWISE you have maybe one or two people with the understanding that your firepower is definitely not enough so you resort to strategy 1) but the other two obviously don't get it and are doing strategy 2) minus plan B... and they are only trying strategy 2) because its all they know... attempt the objective, and shoot stuff is the extent of their knowledge. Not that I blame them entirely... unless they are ignoring me entirely when I'm on the mic trying to inform them... as a side opinion we shouldn't have to have a cloak in gold to be able to complete it or to make it a cakewalk. Every class should be just as viable but not broken like the cloak ability. Until then, im sticking with my infiltrators if i get the impression my teams lacking :\

QFT

1. Technical bullshit

2. Lack of balance touted as 'asymmetrical balance'

3. Balance model on actual monetization incentivization

4. coordination issues, lack of player attention.

Here is another example. Lets move away from the Kett for now. Assassination Wave 6. Target is a Hydra. Now if your kit is anti mooks like Kineticist, to certain extent KroGlad, Asari Adept what do you?

Just rocket it once and clean up? More often than not you'll find some jokers trying to shoot it down with tickle sticks. Come on, certain kits can do it e.g. the weapons platform + turbo charged ones. So its more valuable to save that one cobra and waste time trying to take down a boss unit whilst increasingly becoming risky as more and more mobs swarm in?

I wonder if their cobra missiles are made of solid gold

Then you transpose this to fighting the Kett. Whether its Assassination or upload. If upload and you see boss units approaching (assuming you aren't solo uploading) just nuke it? profit???? so what if you have to use three rockets for ascendant orb + health. Isn't it better to remove that huge threat ASAP? (applies to fiends as well)

Hence why I responded like I did. No need to take the bait.

He obviously has his opinion and experiences, and thats fine - it's just not something we should be up in arms about because it spreads the wrong idea across the community at large.

The biggest threat to mission success is how many ascendants you get in a row as kill targets.

Character imbalance isn't that bad in MEA, there are duds (remember the turian saboteur? female quarian engineer? - clearly not powerhouse plat characters in ME3), but there are many gold ready kits. It's always been good to have one cloaker whose will to revive and hit devices.

In terms of weapon balance, that just needs to be fixed. So tired of vanquishing! Having rare weapons at X and the damage barrels also at X will help make more weapons capable of single clipping the weaker targets on gold.

Great. We solved uploads. Now someone just needs to inform every PUG. 


Buuuhhhhh.....wat? Do you even? I can't even...