Themed Challenges and Hall of Fame

If no one has done it under current conditions, perhaps. But if there are people who did it without AC, it wouldn't be fair to them to ease up the requirements retroactively.

What if it was specifically noted that the solo was done with AC5? Or even kept under a separate category? Speaking as a ps3 player who did some of the challenges that would be affected (the Goddess/Collectors one for the N7 series, for instance), I wouldn't have any problem with future players being allowed some mitigating option for memleak-heavy challenges, such as using AC5 or switching out a different map, especially if its explicitly noted that they did so (and/or separated into new category from entries under the original rules). 

There is a one more solution for the PS3 plyers-buy a PC . Jokes aside,as loufi mentioned,the trollectors can be replaced with reapers.If AC5 can solve the problems for PS3 players,then why not.Where is Presta when you need him.

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Hamletic's Tales from the Trenches

Week 9: Leviathan

II. Snap Inspection, part 2 (HardCore)

28:58 - HamleticTortoise | DocSteely (v)

Devices - Escort - Targets


Trollectors on Giant vs. Turian Cabal/Wraith and KroSol/Striker (Striker? Striker? Striiike her!)...
Another really fun challenge that my partner-in-crime came up with. The fact that you need to play on separate halves of the map till you get 5WS is simplified by the two characters being very strong in their different way. Please note that to keep the roleplaying to the max we did no melee salutes till W6. As for the game play, I think the 10WS speak for themselves. Ofc I took the Cabal ... Nothing more fun than dangling some sweet turian arse in front of the crabs, with them having no chance to get you.

P.S. Sorry, could not resist ninja-editing to link the Striker reference...

P.P.S. And sorry again I misnamed the challenge... Corrected.

Was missing a video from the N7 series that I've been wanting to redo for a while...well...



N4.1 Servant of the People



35:42 - ClydeInTheShell (298 170 pts) 10 WS

Escort, Hack, Escort, I think. Was only 2 min faster but the 10 WS makes it look a little better. My scrubbery still reigns supreme.

And holy smokes, how did I never do this series before?

Mordus' Path of Destruction

Protecting The Tower



44:40 - ClydeInTheShell (276 767 pts)

I think the objectives were Hack, Pizza, Targets

A New Home



33:21 - ClydeInTheShell (333 208 pts) 10 WS

Targets, Pizza, Escort

Wasn't it though? Too bad the wall ate most of it. 

Did I mention how I hate the PPR?

...a screenshot pending right, 'cause you did take the screenshot right 

np  congrats on the completion and welcome to the series *one of us, one of us* !!!

there's a bunch of us working through with the mat/patriarchs laughing at our pain (seriously they're not, they're great bunch and their encouragement and advice is priceless) docsteely has a thread going for venting/advice/giggles to preempt much derailing around here as well

EDIT: don't stress about time this is not a formal speedrunning series. and get ready, CDEM ain't the longest mission either ehhe... anyways i say so long as there's a challenge, some fun with it to be had and peeps and peepettes to share that's all good. i for one am more of the crawlrunners yet enjoy the series immensely. 

EDIT2: my biggest peeve with CDEM was not cooldown as such as the unfixed crusader and the double banshees teleporing non stop

Phasic rounds were great in that aspect, dropped Barriers very quickly and stopped the teleport.

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Hamletic's Tales from the Trenches

Week 10: Thessia

I. Strange Bedfellows (HardCore)

35:19 - HamleticTortoise | DocSteely (v)

Escort - Retrieval - Retrieval

Reapers on Goddess vs. AJA/Acolyte and Protector/Scorpion, 75 biotic/tech kills combined, 100 assists...
This was our third attempt, the first two attempts both failing because of the inept way I played the AJA. The second one was particularly painful, because, though I got grabbed 3(!) times, HT's heroics pulled us through to the end, only to realize we did not have the required number of biotic kills. I felt I owed him one.
So I did my homework and the result was definitely better, go check it out. I had forgotten how fun this character is to play (as all blue girls are).

Nice one HT! Congrats! Did u use Inc or Disruptor Ammo?

Thanks for your pointing out some solutions to the PS3 problems and for specifying you don't mind if future players on PS3 would be beneficiary from some mitigating factors in doing the challenges.  

Thanks loufi! We have here a player who completed 168 platinum solos, who's never finished the N7 challenges and he tells you exactly why he did not: because he was afraid he'd break his console again.
I know what he's talking about 'cuz my first fat PS3 was burned following my trying repeatedly to finish a Gold Collector Solo. I wonder how many of the PC mustard-race players (of which I happen to be also a part) would risk breaking their computers in a similar situation. TBH I would not.  

IMO, option 1 should be a given, especially for Giant and Ghost Hazard.
Option 2 will not work: Jade is as bad as Goddess, so if you have a Collector challenge that's on any of these maps, option 4 ( as loufi suggested) is definitely the better choice.
Option 3 mitigates the problem on a team challenge (as you specified), but not on a solo, hence my AC suggestion.

If you want to know exactly what PS3 players go through Supremocognito's guide.

So Smehur , doh , Prestacious may I ask as keepers of the challenges what is your opinion?