Noob questions - MP beginners guide for dummies

Nov 23, 2016 2:52:23 GMT Cirvante said:

Nov 22, 2016 15:05:23 GMT frankiscrank said:

I don't want to confuse @domi more than necessary and I'm sure you're fully aware of this but you don't confuse reload canceling with reload hiding, do you?
Because Tempest reloads in 1,5 seconds, which is possible but not that much rewarding to cancel (to 0,8 sec).
Unlike Mantis with a reload duration of nearly 3 seconds canceled to 1,4 sec.

Anyway, play the Turian, he is good!

I think he meant RC. Of course, characters with grenades and long animation powers are great for hiding reloads as well (For domi: empty the heatsink, then immediately use power; gun will reload during the power animation). Certain guns like Acolyte and Arc Pistol can be shot while using powers as well.

Once you really learn the timing of a weapon's reload (i.e. Claymore GI), you can hide the reload with a power like Proximity Mine and then cancel the rest with medi-gel. That's the advanced stuff though.

And lastly, any heatsink weapon is worth reload-canceling. That 0.7s could mean the difference between life and death for a drell for example.

Well, now that you have mentioned Drell, I am properly motivated, because playing a Drell in ME3MP is the ultimate gamegasm, beating dark chocolate by a factor of approximately 1,000,000 to a photon's fart. I've tried RC on T!Sent yesterday, and I think I will need to start with solo on an Infiltrator with Mantis because I feel it's too subtle in the middle of the fray for me to do consistently & see if I am successful. Well, I have a veritable training program all set up for tomorrow, with a few videos to check out and then try both the scope and the cancel.

My T!Sentinel build at the moment is more conservative with 5/3 in Armor-fitness respectively, but once I re-level my beloved Vanguard, I will re-build the T!Sent-xtreme. I am a bit reluctant, because the sample build uses the IV-level gear that is custom tailored for it, notably in terms of cool-downs, if memory serves.

Nov 28, 2016 14:59:46 GMT Cirvante said:

Nov 28, 2016 14:31:26 GMT @domi said:

Pounce de León : I don't understand how the Hammers work on Krogan. The one I have is the Sentinel (Warlord). I assume that once you switch him in one of the Hammer stances, it turns your every F-attack into that hammer, rather than pressing Hammer 1 or Hammer 2 to execute a specific hammer attack as an actual "power". But it says something about "charging" as well, so I am wondering if the longer you stay in the stance, the more powerful it becomes or something. Anyway, I am just not sure how to play it, and it is really, really large character, which makes it very hard to see anything. So, I am reluctant to take the character out in public, b/c I don't know how it plays exactly.

I was also wondering if anyone knows... I was trying to group up with annisa , but it won't let her join the lobby, quoting different DLCs? Is it just some odd temporary glitch?

The krogan warlord sentinel is the only character with a hammer. His normal melee is a headbutt and his heavy melee is a hammer strike. You can also run and heavy melee to perform the normal krogan heavy melee charge.

The electric hammer/biotic hammer powers imbue his hammer strikes with additional power, each of them providing a certain number of charges. Once these charges are used up with hammer strikes, you have to imbue the hammer with new charges. You can use normal hammer strikes, without biotic or electric charges, but they are weaker. And you can only have one kind of charges active at a time.

The krogan warlord is one of the few characters with health regeneration, but due to his size he can't take cover.

And regarding the joining issue, do you have all multiplayer DLC installed? She was able to join my lobby just fine.

So, in terms of actions, it's holding down the spacebar and F to charge? And holding F down will result in using the charged Hammer? Is there a feedback that tells you the charges are expired? To re-charge, do you simply press the corresponding Hammer again once, or do you spam-press it all the time to keep the max number of charges & is there a counter anywhere for # of charges?

My understanding is that I have the DLCs that are available for free download, not sure if any of them are MP specific. I will take a look.

Nov 28, 2016 16:57:27 GMT Pounce de León said:

Tap F for headbutt

Tap F repeatedly for melee combo

Sprint and Hold F for running backhand slap (earns rage mode on kill)

Hold F for powerful hammer strike, if it's charged with one of the hammer powers, the effects of that power apply (the charges are visible on the holstered hammer)

Press corresponding power button to charge the hammer with that power, tap F to end animation prematurely.

Thank you for the detailed response! I really dislike guessing at these things. I'll slot the Krogan trial run after the Valkyrie to check the hammer action. At least it gives the clear feedback. I wish my Destroyer's missile landed with a pyrotechnic show like Zaeed's!

And, heh, I am still working on my unparalleled sharpshooting. Darn, the sniper rifles look so smooth in the vids, it's incredible. Gotta get 'me skills before Andromeda is out! It's nice though, because I can pick up the leftover Bronze Waves points for the maps by training in the solo set-up, 2 waves at a time....

 
i am such a noob though, that after playing a few interesting classes, I still love vanilla M!vanguard the most. I am still hoping to get my hands on the Ex-Cerb version!

EDIT: apologies! Found the answer via the google-foo.

Not so much grinding, just playing on. It feels like a lot of RNG "luck" is being used up on the Kits and Kits customizations in the 60K packs, and neither atm is really appealing to me compared to the weapons and weapons mods. And, unlike SWTOR, you cannot craft or buy medpacks separately, so it is another snag.

TBH, it never even occurred to me to scroll down the list of the packs, I just looked at the 4 which came into view, heh.