Good things about patch 1.09

In addition, people complain when gearing path is too long, but they also complain the moment they are done with it. And they are more likely to stop playing when there are no new toys. It's not like it's the first ever time the gear was reset and gearing path significantly lengthened. (Shrug) 

Yes, many of us have been grabbed by Fiends through walls, floors, ceilings, and from 30 meters away.  Also by ascendants who are apparently capable of teleporting right next to you in the same frame that they grab you for a sync-kill.  BioWare has spoken of pathing issues with these particular enemies, and the notion (or at least my understanding of it) is that their location in the game's logic is not always accurately reflected by what the player sees on-screen, especially when you take lag into account (what is happening on the host's machine governs the game's reality, but the guest players' machines might not have the current status).  They couldn't fix it, so they changed the sync-kill to allow players to be revived from it.

The worst thing that can happen in a gold (or any other difficulty) game is a total party wipe - which rarely happens.  The second worst thing is that you'll fail to extract, for whatever reason.   I can't speak for other platforms, but IME on PC, most of the players I've pugged with seem very willing to help with revives and carrying other players.  Even the very best players have been sync-killed by teleporting enemies and needed to be carried through that wave.  Shrug.

I will say that gold games have felt a bit more challenging lately.  It's probably some combination of people feeling pushed to earn more credits to buy this massive amount of new gear and are thus playing higher levels than they usually play, and the fact that really good players have moved to platinum so we're not seeing them in gold games anymore.

PS: Some of the nerds are already here - heh.

Seems to be.

If you get synced by an ascendant or fiend, you can be revived from it now.

I see. This is a nice change.

I`ve been hosting some games lately.. and I also noticed that Fiend`s weak point is actually his soft underbelly. 

....Some people here said go for his head and gills... but neither seem to be his real weakspot.. lol
Still not sure though

Go for his underbelly.

Now he cannot sync kill we can be bit more daring and do it. I noticed during 200% go for the eye Apex mission.

I am 100% sure one of his weak spot is his soft underbelly part where he has no thick armored skin.

What you enjoy, how you feel about things is entirely up to you, I guess. I certainly enjoy playing some kits more than others, but looks (and even race) doesn't have much to do with it. Shrug.

As far as finding "fault" - meh. I don't care. Sometimes I carry, sometimes I'm carried, sometimes I top score, sometimes I'm dead last, sometimes I'm brilliant, sometimes I do dopey things. It's a team game and everyone is supposed to work together to make the team successful. I do pug and play mic-free, so maybe that's why I don't know or care what anyone else thinks.  Shrug.

I actually like that I have Level 1 UR characters. It's the only way to truly Level 1 Gold.

I ended up getting multiple rare characters cards before I even touched them. 

Agree that for the completionists out there, you may need to let this one go.

Yesterday I fought Two berserkers with Human Vanguards.. and it was just as easy as it was pre patch 1.06.

The combo damage buff + biotic damage + melee damage bonus made H.Vanguard vs Outlaws gold easier than prepatch 1.06.. and it`s laughable.

BW tried so hard to nerf H.Vanguard and Buff Outlaws... and the final result is this. I don`t know what they are doing.

I have the opposite opinion, I think the gameplay in ME3 was far superior, and that made the grind not so bad. It took me about 500 hours to unlock everything in ME3 and I think that is far too long. Given that Andromeda has a much bigger grind and isn't as fun it makes me want to just not even bother.

1.09 has freed me from worrying about collecting everything. There's just way too much to even contemplate it now. I'm not a great player, so I need high-rank kits to play on Gold (don't know that I will ever even try Platinum). I've just accepted now that some really cool Rare and UR characters will forever be Silver for me.

Perhaps counter to Bioware's goals, the huge list of new items has really killed my enthusiasm for buying Andromeda points. I have money but little time. So when I thought buying packs could get leveled characters and guns I might want, the temptation to buy was omnipresent. But now... there's just too much to ever hope. So I'll just run what I get without obsessing over it. Rather liberating, actually...

The patch united the community!



Oh, sure, united in rage, but we're focusing on the positive. >8)

I lost interest frankly, then when 1.09 hits and I find out there are 4x more cards to unlock



Introducing Plat was OK as it is challenging but 4x cards = bad. So whats next? Avenger S Mk II? then after that Avenger Ultra S Mk III? This is bad longevity introduction of a game. It would be fine if they just introduced Plat + new chars.