Themed Challenges and Hall of Fame

This one gave us a bit of trouble (, as in I died in stupid places with my Novaguard too often where fraggle didn't really had a chance to revive me). A few attempts ended at the wave 8 mark, and today, with only time for one match, we gave it another go:

Hamletic's Tales from the Trenches

Week 3: Grissom Academy

II. Exchange Program (Hardcore)
26:55 - fraggle | Balbock

Hack / Delivery / Delivery

The Hack was brutal and needed some more missles, OpsPack and Medigels than we would have liked , including a missile'd Abomb, that got me (Nice One ), but we made it through and we started to play a lot more carefull from that point on. Wave 6 Pizza was very nice. 2 short ways with no enemies what so ever on it. And then wave 8 rolled around and went without any major problems. Wave 9 aswell and for wave 10 the Pizzas were in nearly the same spots like in wave 6 which made those somewhat easy and quick aswell.
In the extraction wave I lost track over a Pretorian till it reminded me about its presence with 40s to go. fraggle managed to stagger it, but sadly it was a fraction of a second to late (still well done ). From there she went for the long way around the map to a succsessfull (Lone Surviver) extraction.

(I guess the Abomb made the difference )

doh and I redid stuff from Themed Duo Challenges Series 2 Insanity, here's video evidence of us playing video games

3.2 - Space Whaling

24:23 - ex-Clusum | TheTechnoTurian [v]

6.1 - Void

15:05 - ex-Clusum | TheTechnoTurian [v]

besthostclientconnection.wmv

6.2 - Shadow of a Kabalim

24:04 - ex-Clusum | TheTechnoTurian [v]

turians

8.1 - Bosh'Tet

18:40 - ex-Clusum | TheTechnoTurian [v]

9.2 - Eclipse

19:01 - ex-Clusum | TheTechnoTurian [v]

10.2 - Nepmos

27:43 - ex-Clusum | TheTechnoTurian [v]

10.3 - Grosalgen

22:10 - ex-Clusum | TheTechnoTurian [v]

Congrats to Pfefferi for completing the Weekly Themed Solos 1 on Hardcore difficulty with the second best cumulative time ever!

You're less than 5 minutes away from the first place, and getting there is doable in so many ways! One redo for 5 min gain, or two redos for 2-3 min gain each, or five redos for only 1 min gain each. Or redo all challenges while making sure you gain at least 14 sec in each.

In any case, well done. Will you tackle Epic/Legendary next, or take on some other series?

To think that I could dethrone TheTechnoTurian. That would be a case of the student surpassing the master.

I'm not sure what I'll do next, if anything. Perhaps a few redos are in order, though I could risk waking a sleeping giant, if Techno wishes to defend her record. 

That should do it. Now quick! Hide that post before Turian sees it.

Not stuck yet:


N7 Challenge Series (Gold)

N2 - Nature Versus Nurture


I. Resolve of the Shadowbroker

35:55 - Balbock (317586)

Hack / Hack / Targets

For now my favourite of these Solos. Head shoting stasis'd Phantoms, never gets old.


II. Lay Down The Lawson

47:19 - Balbock (237409)

Hack / Hack / Targets

Cyconic IV and Tech Armor and it still feels like tissue paper at times vs. Collectors. Still wonder how I made it through the first hack in the big open area inside with just 2 OpsPacks and kite away the Pretorian 4 times. That Position is mean if a few Captains shoot into it from above.
The first few attempts were a struggle but after switching to a different wave starting spot it became easier for me to kite effectively through the waves. Not quite sure about the cyro ammo's influence on the succsess


III. 183 Pull-ups

55:29 - Balbock (261995)

Targets / Hack / Escort

Shield Power Cells > Cyclonics. (At least for me, Vs Reaper. On Rio. at this time)
Failed a few times with Cyclonics IV but succeeded in the first attempt with Shield Power Cells III. Well, having the Hack at the one place with decent cover may help aswell.

The Halls of Fame are up to date with runs submitted up to July 30. 

Let us welcome Balbock to the N7 Challenges Hall of Fame on Gold, where he earned the title of N1 Operative! Keep up the good work!

Let us also cheer on our dream-team, doh and @thetechnoturian, as they work on improving their times in Themed Duo Challenges on Platinum. Right now they're at 6h 48m total for TDC1 and at 7h 44m total for TDC2, holding firmly the speed records for every single challenge in both series. Can they bring the cumulative times under 6 and 7 hours? Stay tuned!

N7 challenges,the cool guys and gals always start here.They are my favorite series.Keep posting.

And here is some more to be inspired

N7 Challenge Series - Hardcore

N1.I Enhanced Defense Intelligence

38:09 - SenorZanahoria (272 230 pts) [v]

Targets/Objects/Hack

N2.III 183 Pull-ups

41:31 - SenorZanahoria (245 512 pts) [v]

Escort/Objects/Hack

Since I started this series, I might as well start posting my progress I'm not sure how far I'll get though, but maybe it'll motivate me a bit.
Did the first challenge a couple of months ago after talking a bit to Sonashii, so there's not much I remember. But I do remember being very thankful for Repair Matrix, a scrub like me needs that I wanted to continue with the series, but for some reason, I haven't managed N1.II yet, and since I wanted to do them in order, I left it aside for some time.

Then I saw Sonashii's and Balbock's submissions (also docsteely's from a couple of weeks ago) for Pull-ups and thought, give it a try.
I didn't expect it, but I really enjoyed that one. Well, except maybe for waves 8 and 9, I kept running from the banshees, because I was scared of getting sync killed. It took me four five tries to do it, and I got closer with every single one of them (except the fourth which ended on wave 3), here are the first three fails:

The second one hurt a bit, as I had survived for 5 waves, then got objects and completely messed those up.
When I saw the central hack in wave 10 in the successful attempt, my only thoughts were 'Thank god I'm allowed to glitch it'

I'll see when I'll continue, but if I keep this pace, I should be done within the next ten years!