Themed Challenges and Hall of Fame

It's Balbock with an "l", but Origin refused to let me use the name with the right spelling. Therefore, as a workaround, I replaced the "l" with a capital "i". It looks the same and works for me. Bai is a nickname that came years later.

Thanks btw


Anyway some more redos:


Hamletic's Tales from the Trenches

Week 2: The Battle for Palaven

I. You won't see your backs until we are dead (Hardcore - Redo)
26:53 - fraggle | Balbock [v]

Delivery / Escort / Escort

Another challenge in which 5 Waves Survived are required... Obviously we failed to get by the end of Wave 5 but at the end of Wave 8 we got the medal. Other than that we had a good time on Condor and many Reapers died and the extraction wasn't as tense as it was in our first game.


Week 8: Rannoch

I. This Planet is ours (Hardcore - Redo)
24:58 - fraggle | Balbock [v]

Devices / Devices / Hack

When we did this one the first time fraggle didn't want to use the Javelin. This time she did and considering all the decapitated Phantoms her aim is very good. But when I got stabbed at the beginning of a wave, fraggle chose to restart instead of clutching. And the next attempt was like the first without stabbing but with Devices in Wave 3. Anyway we made it.

wanted to chill with a novaguard solo, and i kinda recall griding Blitzkrieg (claymore on giant vs Reapa) to get a good time, so "vulgar display of power" was left : ghost cerb with 10 WS (LOL) and no geth scanner nor level IV consumables.
Proceeded to die on w1 or 2 for 3 to 5 games, still got 3 WS on the last one. Went on, got 5 WS but failed to survive W10 at all.
Last one was great but for once i eated trhough my ops and had only one left on w7 start. (yeah, your never think u ll get drop with the nova cancel or charge or claymore HS, then 2 nemesis shot in the same .1 sec and u dead, or u stick to cover during a nova cancel)
Died once on w8, too bad !

Fight for the lost solo, week 12: vulgar display of power
Hardcore implanted route (5 WS)
Insanity indoctrinated route (5WS)
31:59 - Alfonsedode (258268 pts)

at least i m 5-6 minutes faster than in 2016. It s really fun, and mostly pain less, but 10 WS ... still no

it did a few times when i was working on it

and here we did the first half of TDC 1 on gold with Biala :
Themed Duo Challenges 1
Hardcore difficulty:
- Mission Successful on Gold required
- Armored compartments not permitted
- Missiles only permitted on objective waves. Not on extraction.

Set 1 - Bloodlines
I. The Measure of an Individual
Conditions: Combat Collectors on Firebase Ghost
- Hardcore (Gold): 20 headshots medal (each), 5 waves survived
- Insanity (Plat): 20 headshots medal (each), 3 waves survived
-Drell Assassin Infiltrator (Kolyat): M11-Suppressor and N7-Valiant (both)
-Drell Adept (Thane): M9-Tempest and N7-Valiant (Both)
22:12 - Alfonsedode | bialakawa

II. Power in Creation
Conditions: Combat Geth on Firebase White
- Hardcore (Gold): 50 biotic kills (each), 4 personal gold medals (each)
- Insanity (Platinum): 50 Biotic kills (each), 3 personal gold medals (each)
- Asari Vanguard (Benezia): Disciple Shotgun and Acolyte (Both)
- Asari Adept - Not Justicar (Liara): M6- Carnifex
19:20 - Alfonsedode | bialakawa

Set 2 - United, We Stand
I. Surviving Haestrom
Conditions: Combat Geth on Firebase Giant Hazard
-Hardcore (Gold): Must earn 3 waves survived medal, 50 assists medal (each)
-Insanity (Platinum): Must earn 50 assists medal (each)
- Female Quarian Engineer (Tali): Arc Pistol and M27-Scimitar (both)
- Male Quarian Soldier (Kal): Adas Anti-Synthetic Assault Rifle and Reegar Combine (both)
20:48 - Alfonsedode | bialakawa

II. Still, We Hold the Line!
Conditions: Combat Geth on Firebase Hydra
- Hardcore (Gold): 4 personal gold medals (each) - must include 50 assists medal
- Insanity (Platinum): 3 personal gold medals (each) - must include 50 assists medal
- Salarian Infiltrator (Captain Kirrahe) with M7-Lancer and Scorpion (optional 2nd weapon)
- Salarian Engineer (Commander Rentola) with M7-Lancer and Scorpion (optional 2nd weapon)
24:31 - Alfonsedode | bialakawa

Set 3 - Annual Armax Arena Arsenal Assessment
I. Gangs of the Terminus
Conditions: Combat Reapers on Firebase Condor
- Hardcore (Gold): Must earn 3 Waves Survived and Personal gold medals in Shotgun kills and Headshots (each).
- Insanity (Platinum): Must earn 50 Shotgun kills (each)
- Batarian Brawler (Tarak) with Wraith
- Krogan Vanguard (Garm) with Claymore
20:40 - Alfonsedode | bialakawa
that was as fun as it can be

II. GI Armature
Conditions: Combat Cerberus on Firebase Reactor/ Reactor Hazard
- Hardcore (Gold): Earn 5 Waves survived medal and Headshots personal gold medal (each)
- Insanity (Platinum): Earn 3 Waves survived medal and Headshot personal Gold medal (each)
- Geth Infiltrator with Javelin
- Geth Infiltrator with Black Widow
16:56 - Alfonsedode | bialakawa
swithcing from vanguard gameplay to 5 WS Gi ...

III. Spinzone Bonus!
Conditions: Combat Collectors on Firebase Glacier Hazard
- Hardcore (Gold): 3 personal gold medals each
- Insanity (Platinum): Mission Successful
- Volus Adept (Bjorn - the one and only) with M27-Scimitar and M4-Shuriken (both)
- Volus Mercenary Sentinel (Mr. Barla Von - current Armax high-score holder) with M8-Avenger and M4-Shuriken (both)
32:34 - Alfonsedode | bialakawa
not so painfull, even fun !


Set 4 - New Beginnings
I. Eden Prime
Conditions: Combat Geth on Firebase Dagger
- Hardcore (Gold): Earn 3 waves survived and 50 tech kills and/or 20 headshots (each)
- Insanity (Platinum): Earn 50 tech kills and/or 20 headshots each
- Vanilla Human Male or Female Engineer (Shepard) with M99-Saber and/or M6-Carnifex
- Turian Soldier (Nihlus Kryik) with Krysae Sniper Rifle and/or M6-Carnifex
23:15 - Alfonsedode | bialakawa

II. The Nightmare Becomes Reality
Conditions: Combat Collectors on Firebase Hydra
- Hardcore (Gold): Earn 3 waves survived medal, 50 biotic kills and 10 melee kills each
- Insanity (Platinum): Earn 50 biotic kills each
- Awakened Collector Adept with Prothean Particle Rifle and Collector SMG (both)
- Awakened Collector Adept with Collector Assault Rifle and/or Collector SMG
26:25 - Alfonsedode | bialakawa
this was a pain, i didn't notice i had a no fitness build and sucked a lot, made us redo a lot , biala had to take
the PPR too

III. Bonus Challenge: Reach the Normandy
Conditions: Battle Reapers on Firebase Vancouver
- Hardcore (Gold): Pistols only until the start of wave 4, earn 6 personal medals each (bronze, silver, or gold;
waves survived and killstreak medals each count as 1 medal for both players; having 2 waves survived medals still
only counts as 1)
- Insanity (Platinum): Pistols only until the start of wave 3
- Human Vanilla male or female Soldier (Shepard) with N7-Valkyrie and M3-Predator (both)
- Battlefield 3 Soldier (Anderson) with M55-Argus and M3-Predator (both)
28:03 - Alfonsedode | bialakawa
A fun one !

Set 5 - Invaluable Synergy
I. N7's Finest, Part I
Conditions: Combat Collectors on Firebase Glacier Hazard
- Hardcore (Gold): Earn 20 headshots, 50 assists and 10 melee kills(each)
- Insanity (Platinum): Earn 20 Headshots
- N7 Paladin Sentinel with N7 Eagle Pistol
- N7 Slayer Vanguard with N7 Eagle Pistol
21:03 - Alfonsedode | bialakawa
my slayer couldn't get HS without ap rounds ... had to redo couple times

II. Ardat-Yakshi
Conditions: Combat Reapers on Firebase Goddess
- Hardcore (Gold): Earn 5 waves survived medal, earn 50 biotic kills and 50 assists (each)
- Insanity (Platinum): Earn 50 biotic kills and 50 assists (each)
- Asari Justicar Adept (Falere) with the Disciple shotgun and/or Acolyte pistol
- Asari Vanguard (Rila) with the Disciple Shotgun (only)
20:40 - Alfonsedode | bialakawa

we did a better 10 WS run, but too much nades killed too much and i
didnt got the assists

Thanks again!

Yeah, I think I'll respec, and go radius (and 4B on SB as I usually go radius there for teammates).

Warp rds, yeah probably not worth it. Stasis won't prime heavies, and just trying to prime/BE nearby mooks is not reliable. I thought it worth it for the Banshee barriers and all the heavies' armor dmg. But ineffective vs. Brute plates (I'm not savvy enough to know where to shoot, nor good enough to execute on it). Do Inc rds have same plate issue, or does it ignore?

Hey@fuckit, wont u have that stuff somewhere stashed ?























i just had fun reading all ariake posts here, but couldnt find much build discussions !

First attempt ... preempted.

Started out fine, then a slight delay ... wait ... that usually means ... someone joined my game! DAMN, I forgot to set it to PRIVATE, LOL!
And 2 others joined in short order. All damn day I created public games and NOT a single person joined. And people rarely can join Condor! Oh well, Cyclonic/Inc Rds 4 wasted. It was a fun game anyway (and yes, never went down, and topped scoreboard, but just barely).