The real reason why Hack missions are 99.9% impossible to complete on platinum

On the Icebreaker hack yesterday while I was cloaked and alone, all the bzerkers came over and just stood like a bunch of unemployed hoodlums milling around the soup kitchen. One of them even climbed on top of a crate like he wanted a better view.

That's a little bit of an exaggeration, we killed on with exactly 5 lol

It should be f***ing 1, but you know Bioware logic for you...

Love how they increased the radius of the Cobra blast like it matter though, f***ing things still can't even kill full health targets that have shields. Might as well get rid of Cobra's entirely and just introduce some kind of damage amp that gives +100% damage that lasts for like 2 thermal clips or 20 seconds for Remnent weapons.

I agree that cobras shouldn't be the I-win button like in ME3. But Bioware does have the mechanic to calculate cobra damage for each enemy per difficulty, and yet they can't come up with reasonable results. Something like all mooks getting killed in one hit, semi boss units in two hits and all main bosses in three hits, all difficulties. This is just an example, but it feels more balanced to me than the joke (two cobras for one gold raider, hahahahaha) we do have now. Still very useful, but not OP.

Also having reasonable players that don't think using a revive pack is optional increases success rates, not only during hacks. Last game was essentielly a trio run, that apex 8k avenger bleeded out every wave and of course ruined the full extraction. Got kicked after the match, we should've done that ingame and hoped for better replacement. Oh well...

IIRC, this is the only thing that's made me fail platinum. It's usually ascendants and their impressive AI.

I think so. You can still use them for emergency, just that now you need your teammates to use them too to take down that one crazy HP boss target. So basically your teammates have to play ball, which they usually do from what I've seen so far. And rockets really have to be saved for true emergencies like boss target.

But that's just my opinion. Never been a big fan of missiles in ME3mp. I even sometimes mod ME3mp to make missiles do 1 dmg. Meanwhile other players mod their missiles to kill everything on the map in one shot.

That's just it though, Cobras are so weak now people only use them if the assassination target is a Progenitor or Hydra and even then I feel like unless I'm playing with friends I'm the only person spamming these weaksauce rockets at stuff when sh** comes down to the wire.

Removing weak spot damage was a stupid ass idea, and while the increased radius is nice, again they still can't OHK anything so what is the point. Observers on Platinum don't even lose half there shields if they get caught in the epicenter of the blast so how is a cobra in anyway useful for anything other than killing bosses.

Cobras need to do like 4 or 5 times the damage they do to some targets so we can at least clear hacks now, I've only successfully extracted Platinum 3 times out of like 9 games, and its always a Wave 4 or 6 wipe and its a Hack, like even a Wave 4 upload is easier than a Hack now. The games I've extracted on, no Hack waves and it went smooth like butter, extracting in sub 18 minutes, and this is with devices, retrievals, and uploads.

Cobras are even more useless now than they've ever been, its either waste them on Boss wave assassinations(often taking 5+ Cobra's for one target) if needed or they never get used the entire match.

I have been thinking exactly the same thing. We are all aware the the people at Biower have a big hatred against cobras but as it stands right now, Cobras have been made almost completely useless.

If they don't want people to clear spawns with Cobras to complete faster matches (something that has been quite inefficient to do here in Andromeda since the start apart from Destroyers), they can just give everyone 1 or 2 Cobras but ME3-style Cobras. A *true* panic mode button. I mean, I am even fine with 1 Cobra per person as long as it functions as it's supposed to and doesn't leave a Platinum dog with half health.

Right now, I just want the Cobras out of the loot pool as they only take away my precious rage gel slots.

Instead of constantly trying to convince the great unwashed masses of barely bronze qualified players of their obvious inadequacies, perhaps you could show us a demo of true excellence by posting a video of one of your matches?

He's even said that he's not that great a player. He's purely carrying water for the game and trying to shit on any criticism of Platinum.