Noob Q2: APEX Missions?

There are daily apex missions on all difficulties. They are shown on the same menu as your strike teams. They are strike missions with an extra chevron design on the logo. A note that there is no platinum mission shown, it can be accessed through the custom game menu, as can all of them, go to where it says "custom mission" and you get a menu showing the ones available, and which ones you have completed.

The first time you beat them they provide extra credits, xp, and mission funds for the item store. They have special modifiers, and these are what defines the amount of the bonus. Ones that buff the player give 10%, detrimental ones give 15%, and the "one life to live" modifier gives 20%

Most modifiers make the game harder, or force you to play a certain way to maximize your effectiveness.
For example there are various "X skirmishes", a shotgun skirmish increases shotgun damage by 50%, but reduces all other gun damage by 50%. This is considered a beneficial one, because if you use a shotgun it is just 50% more damage.

Others include "dampened X", for example dampened weapons reduces you magazine size and damage with all guns by 25%. Others in the bad category are enemy buffs, like glass jaw, where enemy melee deals 10x damage.

The one life to live modifier mentioned means you can't be revived, you drop, you die for the wave. This one really forces you to think before you jump in.

Oh, zut, I usually just clear everything with sending strike teams, so I am missing out on the MP credits/XP then getting the SP rewards instead. Okay, ty, I will try to leave them out and do them via MP.

I've actually liked it b/c new maps showed up. I've never seen Vertigo before. I think there was also one that might have been Aqua, but I am not sure. Actually, between the Daily Chalkenges & APEX, Andromeda is getting more interesting to me than ME3MP, b/c I was not here for the Events/Challenges they used to have in that one. Anyways, looking forward to trying APEX purposefully, obviously not platinum, lol.