some scrubby Plat gameplay for your amusement

I wish that the party chat was recorded!

Party Chat summary:

• 50% off color jokes and raunchy humor
• 40% random discussion of what we read on BSN and reddit
• 10% "Oh fuck oh fuck what is that oh god we're dying help!"

The "god-tier" Human adept looks pretty powerless in platinum. Two of the skills (pull and singularity) are almost useless since most of the enemies are armored and shielded, has no significant weapon damage boost from passives and he/she's squishy as hell.

I was only half drunk for that game but I'm not sure if that helped or hurt.

I'm actually a Human Sentinel fanboy too but my Human Adept was rank XLVMCDVIIeπ and my Sentinel wasn't.

I'm not going to derail JR's thread.

Bump. 10 days ago I wrote "other than bullshit objectives I don't see anything that would prevent people from farming Plat for all it's worth." Mission accomplished.

Last night's (19 July 2017) Platinum Apex mission was -25% weapon damage / -25% weapon capacity in return for +10% XP / +10% Cr. vs. Outlaws on Magma.

The penalty to weapon capacity is irrelevant and the penalty to weapon damage is not that big a deal so this is a tremendously good value for the player.

I farmed this a bunch using the following characters:

Krogan Mercenary with Shadow (and Hurricane sidearm, only used at end of wave on bosses) + Incendiary Ammo + Power Capacity booster (13 Flak Cannons). Flak Cannon is really, really good against Platinum armor and so is Flamer as long as you don't get killed while flaming. Rage regen keeps you topped off.

Salarian Operator with Shadow. Power Efficiency booster + Tactical VI booster. Shield Boost is pretty good. Everything not dead will be infected with Invasion (one benefit of all the Platinum bosses running around is plenty of time to spread Invasion).

Asari Sentinel with Rozerad (only because small Hurricane clip size was annoying me) + Cryo Ammo + Cyclonic Mod. Characters with Tech Armor or other DR actually get good benefit from higher shields hence the Cyclonics.

Every game I was the only non-stealth class. I dropped a lot which I am not sure is because I am a scrub, or because of drawing all the aggro. Probably both (I'm a scrubby aggro-draw-er).

Stuff I learned:

Platinum Outlaws Wave 1 is a little like ME3 Platinum Geth Waves 1 or 2 in that it features a lot of annoying enemies that you will want to use resources on early. Plat Outlaws Wave 1 has Berserkers and is also the only wave with Pariahs. Playing Krogan Mercenary I would not hesitate to spam Flak at them; playing other characters I would not hesitate to use a Cobra or two.

Hydras are the easiest Platinum bosses by far, similar to Atlases in ME3. Take out their central eye and they are basically helpless.

Anointed suck. They start showing up on Wave... 3? 4? and are ridiculously tanky and accurate which is a weird game design combination when you think about it. (Typically tanky = less accurate close range guy vs. accurate = less tanky long range guy. But Anointed are both tanky and accurate!) I actually considered re-spec'ing Flak to Stun just to deal with these guys.

Ascendants are much, much less threatening with synch kills removed. You can play very aggressively against them because you know that even if you screw up you (mostly) won't be permanently killed. Remember that while they focus their orb on you they cannot do their teleport move and vice versa. A little like Banshees in that regard.

Firebase Magma. Got plenty of Uploads and Hacks, fortunately none of the really bad spots (like the one to the left of the LZ that is out in the open). Of course with 3 other stealth characters in every game, I personally didn't do anything other than run around drawing aggro. But the Uploads seemed pretty straightforward and even the Hacks were more tedious than anything. Outlaws don't seem to camp the Hack as much as Kett do.

We were getting 130,000+ Cr per game and I made about 2 million Cr farming this. Not bad.

BTW this was with PUGs on XBL and no mic communication. The host had Equalizer (Siphon) IV, nobody else used any special weapons.

I actually find them more annoying than before. One hit with Ascendant orb takes all my shield and leaves me with ~10% life, which is almost a one-shot kill. And because its size, sometimes can be difficult to dodge.

The progenitors have different weak points than the destroyers?

Oh for fucks sake.

I still don't even understand assembler's weak points either. And nullifiers don't seem to register as crits half the time.

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No, but it does more damage.

I don't use Backlash.