Gold Solo Speedrun Hall of Fame (Under New Ownership)

quoted for truth

Male Quarian Engineer

32:15 | GPS | Firebase Rio | Geth | PC| MilkyQuarian

My first gold solo, could be do faster by saving time in better nukes and faster devices.

Warp rounds are the shit against Collectors too since they only have Barriers and Armor.

After watching the solo I'd say hacking the objectives for triple pizza might be the most efficient since you got devices and had to kite.
Btw. videojims , if this is really your first account I have to say your playstyle and progress especially in solo department is most impressive for someone with only little over 60 hrs in game.
Keep your pace and you'll solo plat in no time.

Drell Adept

15:22 | Crusader | Glacier | Collector | PC | TheTechnoTurian

here's me dying a ton and using the tryhard timer

I'll get around to updating eventually

Thread updated, names added to lists, probably. A few entries just barely missed the top 10 this time so were left out, but I also tend to leave out about half the submissions by sheer incompetence so let me know if I goofed on anything.

Also, here's things that I did:

Collector Adept

17:15 | Crusader | Glacier | Collector | PC | TheTechnoTurian

Quarian Female Engineer

16:30 | Arc Pistol | Glacier | Cerberus | PC | TheTechnoTurian

Turian Saboteur

16:40 | Arc Pistol | Glacier | Cerberus | PC | TheTechnoTurian (screenshot)


I chose these three specific kits because upon review I realized that the fastest time for almost every kit but those three was sub18. Back in ancient times when Hendrix137 was in charge of this thread on the old black and orange BSN, I remember there was a push for every character to have a sub20 time. I think it's interesting that in the three or four years since then, every kit's fastest time is now sub18.

Also because I was bored and like trivia I added a list of the kits ranked by fastest time to the miscellaneous page, at the bottom. 

And I accidentally nuked the 10WS survived screenshot section. Uh. I probably have a backup somewhere. But tbh once I find it, I am just going to combine 10WS and 10WS screenshots because by this late era of ME3 MP I no longer see a need to separate the two. I will still require a video for flawless submissions, however.

N7-Fury

18:55 | Acolyte & Wraith | Glacier | Cerberus | PC | anarchoturianist

Pug games were unplayably laggy garbage tonight so I did this instead.

Reasons why my 93-minute monstrosity should be considered:

- I used a Carnifex. A CARNIFEX.

- It was against Cerberus. Supporting evidence:


- I pull off This Moment at the end of Wave 10, which is a baller move, don't deny it!

- Shouldn't the Hall of Fame™ have a low-bar record, so that athletes like Eddie The Eagle can count?

I doubt this is anything amazing but I've only ever done one solo run.

N7 Fury
Glacier
Hurricane 1/Acolyte 10
Cerberus
Xbox 360
31 minutes

Its my first and only solo I ever did. No idea if that's a good time for a first time or not. But I have only been playing MP for about 3 months (got into it very late) Going to try to solo with Cerberus Defector Adept, or Drell Adept next.

Thanks. I kind of want to do one with the Shadow as well as she is one of my favorites as well. But I find her really tedious to use on solo. I don't have her outfitted as a standard infiltrator (rifle with rifle damage bonus). So she can sometimes be a bit slow in killing enemies in general. Solo with certain characters just feels tedious.

On a side note, I think it might actually be fairly easy to solo with the Batarian soldier. I got on pretty late last night so no one was joining so I decided to do a random/random with the Batarian soldier alone. I got Cerberus on Rio (annoying stage solo to me). I made it all the way to wave 9 with only one medigel used. But I made one mistake and it failed the run. I tried to run back to get more grenade from an ammo box. Somehow as soon as I turned the corner an Atlas had me locked on and hit me with a missile. As soon as I got out of the stun lock I noticed a phantom coming at me. I tried to run away, but I teleported back into the Phantom and got instantly killed.

Now that I know how to deal with Phantoms, I actually find them really easy. But I cannot stand unfair and nonsense Phantom cheese. I've been insta killed by them a few times only as certain characters, and I don't understand how. The most rage inducing was when I was the Shadow and was cloaked and undetected for a good 5 seconds. I went to Shadow Strike a Phantom who was shooting my friend but she instantly killed me instead. This has happened to me at least a few times. What's more annoying is I will be slaying Phantoms in droves the whole run with no issues. Yet they will somehow get me on Wave 11 when I use the same strategy I was using the last several wave. Something similar happened when I was the Krogan Warlord Sentinel. So annoying. 

Yeah, he definitely is. I was being lame by using Reegar Carbine with AP ammo and Acolyte. He tears through everything. I have worked out that enemies will tend to shoot at your last known position and if you get close enough they will still be able to detect you. And I have had several instances where I'm in the middle of a Shadow Strike and a Marauder or Centurion will melee me. But this doesn't happen that often and even if they do this, I have the skill that refills shields upon a successful SS. 

And one of my friends did tell me that a Phantom has to melee you first to do a sync kill. Unless I'm remembering wrong, I think I have been instantly killed even if they never even melee'd me before. I could be wrong though. Is it also possible if you're fighting two Phantoms that one can melee you, but then another one can sync kill you? I could have sworn as the Krogan Warlord Sentinel, I had two Phantoms come at me. The first one melee'd me, but I did Acolyte and then heavy melee to kill her. As soon as I got out of the melee the second one instantly killed me. That would certainly explain it.

And I never cloak right in front of a Phantom and then attack them as the Shadow. In my run I cloaked at the start of the round (before enemies even spawned). You saying that he melee'd my friend and he got away is probably likely. I might have done something wrong, but I thought I was safe to SS. Either way, I have like a 98% success rate fighting Phantoms as the Shadow. Its one or two instances where this happens. With other characters like the Fury, Drell Adept, or Cerberus Adept, I have a 100 percent success rate against them. I carry the Acolyte on all these characters so Phantoms don't stand a chance. I also realized how much I like the Geth Engineer for dealing with Phantoms. Overload and a charged Geth Shotgun charge takes them out super quick.

I sometimes get killed with the bigger, slower characters that need to get close like the Krogan Warlord and Batarian Vanguard. On a side note, can I just say how stupid it is that Phantoms can instant kill the Krogan Warlord with their sword? I can understand Atlus, Praetorian, Scions, and Banshee's being able to kill him. But that tiny girl with a sword? That sword should be like a toothpick for him.  

Are rejects faster to solo at this point ?
i ll try, once the balance change are more or less done