The problem with "defend this spot" meaning "run away and 1 person hides" isn't just difficult

^ Only one Infiltrator? Good enough for me.

You are brave attempting a platinum solo with the krogan mercenary.

What ridiculous point exactly were you trying to make as you cycled through platinum pug lobbies to find the data to fit your pro paradigm?  Because, you know, that's how science works: Cherry picking data to support your claim.

Thank you scathane, when I come back from work I'll gladly overload the forums with pictures of "non cherry picd" platinum lobbies on PC, (if there are any...) to prove my point. Platinum is "difficult", wave 6 hacks are "difficult". They are even more difficult though when you don't go in with a solid plan for taking down the highest HP highest DR enemies in the game. Loading up platinum with characters that choose to "hide" from the enemies is NOT how you win. The enemies aren't just going to go away

YOU HAVE TO KILL THEM.....

I'm not being elitist, i'm being realistic, you are not going to win platinum if you plan involves an avenger S... or a equalizer, or crap like the pic above. It was made to give players who wanted the best challenge bioware could toss out without being impossible. Maxed out URs, maxed out UR characters. Not people trying to make a big payout... Like I said earlier, show me ANY situation where the fault is on bioware... its ALWAYS the players who lose platinum.

It's not just Platinum - it pretty much sucks in the other difficulties as well.

^It's all relative. I tend to do a fair amount of Bronze and Silver solos since I will knock out those Apex missions instead of sending strike teams from time to time.

The biggest advantage on the lower difficulties is that the giant bullet sponge enemies do not respawn, sort of like the issue raised earlier (forgot to mention that when I made my post). So you can kill the Destroyer or Fiend and Ascendent or whatever and it isn't too horrible depending on setup.

IIRC they don't respawn on Silver either, but it is still very painful. The one I did today I failed the Wave 6 hack twice since I was not interested in burning Cobras. This was with a Human Vanguard using the Disciple. I remember doing a Deeper into the Ruins silver that had hacks on 3 and 6 and for Wave 6 I just resorted to using all my Cobras.

Honestly I am not sure what about the current hack bothers me the most, the bullet sponge enemies just hanging out, or the fact that pets and annoyance units are able to contest it. Perhaps neither would bother me if the hack rate was better, especially solo.