Themed Challenges and Hall of Fame

Project Blackwatch

solos on gold
(pizza running, hack glithcing and Armored Comp forbidden)

I. Blackwatch Original
Conditions: Mission Successful on Firebase White Hazard vs Geth
- Turian Sentinel (Saren) with Arc Pistol
- Hardcore (Gold): Earn 3 personal gold medals
- Insanity (Platinum): Mission Successful
27:10 - Alfonsedode (322 593 pts)

That s supposed to be the easy one, i guess, but geth ...

II. Ghost
Conditions: Mission Successful on Firebase Ghost Hazard vs Collectors
- Turian Ghost Infiltrator with M99-Saber
- Hardcore (Gold): Earn 20 headshots
- Insanity (Platinum): Earn 20 Headshots
32:06 - Alfonsedode (226 860 pts)

That s a pretty fun combo even if low RoF saber is annoying TGI makes for it. Quite hard again though

III. Mordus’ Calibrations
Conditions: Mission Successful on Firebase Jade vs Reapers
- Turian Saboteur with Venom Shotgun
- Hardcore (Gold): Earn 5 waves survived medal
- Insanity (Platinum): Mission Successful
39:06 - Alfonsedode (249 274 pts)

This was a pita, after failing once or twice with a melee build, i barely extracted but had forgotten the 5WS req i just had read. . Took me a handfull of tries cause 6 gels and 6 ops arent enough for me

It was refreshing to solo without cheese, but, disapointing to struggle. In the end, it seems Plat would be overreaching ...

Edited with burningcherry point of view

(What would nt i do to keep trusting the posting on here )

It has been a while since the last Post. Learning how to Duo plat might take a while, if the only other experience before was getting curried by muahmuah.
Anyway a while... 35 fails with some longer breaks in between... Rio Collectors maybe isn't the best setup for the first Plat Duo, but well, we wanted to do it. We knew we could do it. Just when was the question:


Hamletic's Tales from the Trenches

Week 15: Epilogue

I. The Pale Blue Dot (Hardcore)

45:03 - Balbock | fraggle [v]

(Edit: Added the Link to fraggle's video)

Hack / Delivery / Delivery


Some stubbornness kicked in today after failing within 3 min in Wave 1. Can't become worse. And well it didn't. It actually became rather awesome... Well at least for some inexperienced plat duo'ers .
First 2 waves went quite uneventful. I guess, we kinda had the basics down at this point. The Hack in Wave 3 was again the one with cover (unlike nearly half of the failed attempts before... Extraction Zone Wave 3 Hack is mean...) and we kept the Brutes at range.
But in Wave 5 I had an error of judgment at saving an Ops-Pack while having a DoT on me and let fraggle revive me. A Crab had something else to say about that and therefore Fraggle had to clutch the wave. Fail denied. Next few waves went good again. Just some Ops Packs, Medigels and Rockets here and there when necessary.
Wave 6 as well as Wave 10 Delivery each were done with a kiting break in between. The wave 10 was as tense as running a Pizza over an open field while Primes shoot and OpsPacks are long gone usually gets. But considering that I got an instant hug before being able to use my last Rocket, leaving fraggle behind again with no OpsPacks and no Gels in front of an angry Bossmob... She still had 3 Rockets, though. And those soon to be nuked enemies were the last ones on the field.
Extraction Wave... fraggle's Paladin had nothing left... My Asari still had 1 Rocket and somehow 3 Gels... Doable. With 45s left, while being pressured by Crabs, we made the move to the Shuttle. I made it behind cover at the midpoint just as Fraggle went down. Revive from cover was possible. And on we went while the leading Crab ate the last Rocket. Into the LZ behind cover and hope... The respawned Crab joined the LZ and started to laser... 3s to go and despite Hardcover I get shieldgate'd by it... 1s to go, next Laser and healthgate'd... And the Timer reached Zero.
We made it.
Both




II. Coda (Hardcore)

23:26 - Balbock | fraggle [v]

Hack / Delivery / Devices

Speedrun this... Ok why not... Some speed up Rockets Cheese to the max 23:38... That wasn't so good... How about another one with switched kits just for fun? Now Speedup Rockets but still cheese... 1 Wave to clutch for each of us... That was even worse but somehow a bit more fun and probably... 12s faster??? I never understood Speedruns anyway... Playing for fun is... well, more fun




Ps.: As mentioned in the Post for W14.II fraggle's game crashed and she had to restart her PC. Therefore we restarted said Challenge and would like to let someone with a better understanding about the rules decide, which of the W15s times counts towards our complete time.

Also while looking through the Hall of Fame for this Series I noticed two of our submissions are marked with [v] while only having Screenshots for them. W4.II and W5.II would be the ones. Additionally our W5.II (Hardcore) submission is currently listed below W5.I (Insanity).

Yeah... I nearly didn't post because of that But somehow the urge to post anyway was too strong, sorry

Those Crabs don't respect anything. Not even sitting in Hardcover without exposing anything. Still that thing was able to hit me then and there, but I guess the time, in which I took the hits, was too short to or the amount of damageticks were too low to ignore the gates... Pure Luck or something like that...

Tiers of neuchatel, duo with archon (!!) on plat
Tier 7
34:55 - Alfonsedode | archon_shepard

We finished that almost by mistake and it was fun, well maybe clutching waves wasnt so fun for archon
I wonder if archon is archon on here
and now if her tag is linked to the Overlord DLC (the one with archon)?

After a very short break from challenges (because we finally finished up Hamletic's Tales recently), we went back in because it was way too much fun for both Balbock and me. We decided to do a short Challenge series for some quick fun, and yay, we only needed this weekend to complete it

AW_FC_1986's Servant of The People
Duo Challenges

I. Monster Mash Challenge – Blood Rage! - part 2 (Hardcore)
30:19 - fraggle | Balbock [v]

Devices | Devices | Targets

Juggy or Krolord? Hm...
There was a time when I disliked the Warlord, but perhaps thanks to one challenge in the Hamletic duos it's now quite fun for me to hammer away. What wasn't so much fun is a Collector Trooper stomping Bai when I was ALMOST done with reviving him... this §%("§%$!
Also, not sure if Baibai had lots of fun with needing to go for melee kills with Juggy But once that was done, much pew everywhere. And also a rocket flew for a Target switch in W10


II. Kill It With Fire (Hardcore)
29:50 - fraggle | Balbock [v]

Targets | Escort | Devices

Geth Trooper for me, so Bai wouldn't need to respec his flamerless Toaster. Sadly I find this kit pretty boring, and I hate the Acolyte too, so that was a promising combination Well, it was supposed to be a hot match, so we needed to bring some Cryo ammo to cool us down a bit, tehehe. At first Bai and I did our usual thing - going in reckless, wasting most ops packs and all gel except 1 or 2 by W7, then starting to play more carefully and getting away with it And Cerberus? They just died.


III. Deadly Precision (Hardcore)
26:14 - fraggle | Balbock [v]

Targets | Targets | Escort

The first Prime took ages to come over to us and time was running out, so in the end Bai kinda sorta maybe nuked him, making a switch to a Bomber
In W6 he was able to get a target switch as well, so we had to hunt down some Rocket Troopers. The Escort went uneventful, and the only exciting (?) thing was that the drone was invisible. So... pretty relaxing match for Rio and Geth, even with 5WS


IV. Mines, Mines everywhere (Hardcore)
28:23 - fraggle | Balbock [v] (edit: now with video)

Escort | Targets | Targets

I felt so OP and dirty in this one, I think I need a shower GI with Saber, allrighty! Well, Reapers deserve it, especially that one damn Banshee that thought she could pick up Baibai
After I avenged him we carried on and enjoyed our OP duo time some more, heh. The extraction wave got a bit heated towards the end, so we almost didn't make it in time. But thanks to being able to nuke in this wave, we did. Hooray!

Hey, a have a question. There are many challenges set on MP maps intended to imitate SP locations, like Glacier substituting the Grissom Academy or Condor substituting Armax: Blasteroid. But, for a while now, some of those imitated locations are actually accessible in MP. My question is: do you anticipate accomodating the rules of some challenges to incorporate this new content?
If so, here's the first submission of this type:


Themed Duo Challenges
3.I – Gangs of the Terminus (Hardcore)

Conditions: Combat Reapers on Firebase Condor (but we did it on Blasteroid as in the image on the site, below)
Must earn 3 Waves Survived and Personal gold medals in Shotgun kills and Headshots (each).

Characters & Weapons:
– Batarian Brawler with Wraith
– Krogan Vanguard with Claymore

25:10 – burningcherry97 [v] | frank_is_crank [v]

There is an Anarchy HoF,which means that you can do every challenge versus faction by your choice.Why not on different maps.

i would myself just put it in the regular HoF, with maybe a "*" or "- blasteroid map version" at the end or even nothing, as cherry proposed.
Good idea !

Pretty much. We won't be modifying the rules for old challenges. New challenges/series are welcome, as long as the authors will organize literally everything (text, images, any special requirements for the leaderboards and so on) so all we have to do is put it on the site. This goes for adding challenge variations to the Anarchy HoF too. But I think such effort would be largely wasted given how few people still play this game (or at least these challenges).

pff, i should have done one post per challenges ... I was owning this page not so long ago

Mission 6 - Angel of Death
Location: Noveria (White Hazard)
Enemy: Cerberus
Parameters: Human Infiltrator with Avenger and Suppressor. 75 Pistol Kills and 20 Headshots Required.
41:31 - Alfonsedode (293648 pts)

Mission 7 – Call Down the Thunder
Location: Benning (Ghost Hazard)
Enemy: Collectors
Parameters: Human Infiltrator with Crusader. Four Personal Gold Medals Required.
34:35 - Alfonsedode (253652 pts)

Mission 8 – Malicious Scripts
Location: Cyone (Reactor)
Enemy: Geth
Parameters: Human Engineer with Saber OR Viper. 50 Tech Kills and 20 Headshots Required.
31:54 - Alfonsedode (288661 pts)

Mission 9 – No Kassa For Alarm
Location: Arvuna (Hydra)
Enemy: Geth
Parameters: Human Sentinel with Locust. 50 Biotic Kills and 20 Headshots Required.
41:00 - Alfonsedode (254943 pts)