New Aqua Gold Mission is Up

Wish the payout had been higher, but I enjoyed it.

Ran it once with PUGs, then 3-manned it again later when friends were on. The PUG run was rough; lotta solo waves. Fun though.

Loved 1-clipping those Ascendants with the Shadow.

Huh? So it's just me, then? Are the rest of you guys getting paid or something?

The mission, even this one, is not really hard. I'm a bad scrubby player yet still somehow we managed to beat this in the dark on a new poorly designed map. I played a level 16 human infiltrator with dhan III and shotgun amp I and 3/4 of my shots missed at point blank since the host was laggy and I used up all my thermal clips by wave 7 iirc. Other pugs were of similar poor quality except the host just because he was the host. He still went down a lot on later waves even playing Avenger, probably also finished his thermal clips on earlier waves. Yet we extracted in something around 20 or 22 minutes, three of us, 4th got synced by a fiend. IDK what you mean, this game is easy. Just go try collectors on thunderdome platinum, which is probably similar in difficulty to this map, with very average group of pugs and this would make it quite obvious. I'm not talking about some games with friends or some exceptionally good or experienced players. I think I am still well under 100 hours and have unlocked only about 70% of the manifest. Judging by the apex of other players, they were on a similar level. At this level, I was barely comfortable playing silver in ME3 and was heavily carried through my first UUG games by Frudix and Katanawielder in a nice company with charmful Ignatia. Good times!

BTW, Frudix was in Eastern Europe and Katana was from Chile yet regardless of whoever hosted, I don't remember any shots actually missed the enemies. Just saying. And we tried some platinum back when it showed up and constantly failed on London, also against collectors. But had been able to do the wave 10 objectives maybe half the time.

I'm going to assume you're not intentionally being dense.

The posters that have stated it isn't worth it, clearly consider the credit ratio important, and have stated as much. You questioned one such poster after he'd made his motivation clear. Your question was pointless because most players would risk platinum if the reward ratio was good, as they would with this mission. It isn't however, therefore not worth it.

I never made any generalisations. You on the other hand did.

The Hornet makes this mission easy. I'd like to try it with no modifiers and more credits at the end.

It should be up for the remainder of the weekend.

After saying I wouldn't play it a second time I accidentally did. Had a good PUG team and it went way easier and quicker knowing what to expect.

That's fine if you enjoy it. That isn't what the conversation is about. Others care about the payout, so they won't bother.

That, though, is exactly what I'm addressing. Measuring the worthiness of the mission based on the credit pay out. It seems a tad...ridiculous.

Remember when we had the ME3MP weekend challenge where you had to score X amount of points using the Avenger on London? The Avenger, for pity's sake. On, fuck me sideways, London where everyone and their damn brother seemed to insist on a Gold/Collector. It was extraordinarily tedious, yet the community did it, had fun, kibitzed about it on the forum and never once complained about the credits involved.

That's why the complaints about credits just seems so damned incongruous to me.

People do care. Your opinion is irrelevant. It's not your place to tell others how to enjoy themselves. You enjoy it. Cool. Others do not.

How the hell is this even a conversation?

That's what she said... 





(Sorry, really couldn't resist... also, thread needed some levity...)

Exactly.