Do you use Bulwark and Concussive ?

To stay on topic, I did (at one point) carry a Bulwark weapon for the extraction wave, and utilised a Siphon weapon as the primary. I stopped this practice due to the priming numbers needed on the variants being bugged (as we know for certain now). Most likely I will head back to such a configuration in the future when I get some suitable weapons to carry with me. But for now, ignoring it largely as I normally stay on Gold difficulties and it's not as necessary for those runs.

To which I now refer to Platinum aspect which diverted off: I agree that PuG's are not suitable for the Platinum farm to Wave 5 (4 completed Waves), and indeed Gold difficulty IS much better and more reliable. I know I've obtained my manifest from Gold farming only. I will also slightly dispute the lack of groups in Gold. I'm in the Euro area, and Gold appears to be quite prevailent here. I'm certainly finding groups to join every time I'm looking for one (bar during the nights, when it's evening or night for the US region). In fact, Silver is where it seems to fall off (difficult to find a group unless it's on the Daily Challenges). Bronze is where everyone starts and gets their new low levels up the xp and level ladder, and once past levels 4-5, move straight into Gold. Is anyone else seeing this over here in the Euro region on the PC?

Tried cyclone siphon today with tsoldier. it was extremely useful except for low ammo reserve lol.

i am surprised to know that finishing wave 4 platinum gives credit as much as 75000,

i still would stick to gold.. because i simply don't like fighting mixed enemy faction personally,

earning credit is important but keeping myself amused during gameplay is even more important for now

Bulwark is amazing when your pug team decides to camp those small map corners on Magma / Paradox. I've seen a lot of pugs do it now. Sort of like Rio box of shame... but the match finishes really fast.

IMO, you should STOP buying the lower tier crates and start buying the 100k crates. I never bought the lower tier crates at all.

I wish I could tell PuG players to purposefully wipe at wave 4 haha

Platinum games have some crazy enemy spawn budget during wave 5. This wave usually take twice longer than other waves if not longer...... :DD:

Yeah.

Attractive thing about Siphon weapon is it always works when you need its effect to kick in... lol


Who cares if Siphon weapon does nothing when our health is full...  :dumb:

Bulwark is very helpful in speedrunning, esp on tankier kits like the Insurgent. Since most of you need to stick together to manipulate spawns, that extra DR is very helpful.

I sometimes wish there was a text-chat function in the game, and the option to name the lobby's title myself.

In Asia, most people don't speak English. They just use Chinese, Japanese, and occasionally Thai without considering the others which makes me automatically turn off the mic.

If you utilize Turbo Charge, a really good choice is the Ruzad. Hits like a f***ing truck and I think it can fire up to 7 shots when Turbo Charged, basically allows you to insta kill Destroyers that are shieldless and will melt just about anything else with an armor bar, as I believe all shotguns possess a 40% or 50% damage modifier to armor.

Got my buddy running a Ruzad on his Human Soldier and he runs it over his Piranha now lol, that is when he's not running duel Cyclones xD

Thing looks cool, sounds like its got a pair of balls when it goes off, and hits harder than like 95% of the weapons in the game. I think only the Widow, Isharay and Dahn deal more per shot damage but those are also single projectile weapons and 2 of them are Rare or Ultra Rare.

Sounds interesting! Though I prefer my Human Soldiers to stay back and use full-auto Sniper Rifles, due to their somewhat low durability compared to Krogan Mercenary and Turian Soldier.

What's your power investment choice, 66166?

The play style still allows for that, hang back mowing down everything with your Cyclone or whatever other weapon of choice you have. Save Ruzad for when tankier stuff gets close while spamming nades if needed. Recommend emptying your weapon and popping Turbo Charge to keep your damage going, instead of straight up popping Turbo Charge unless you need the extra damage immediately.

Frags = Damage/Either there both good choices/Armor Damage

Turbocharge = Recharge/Damage+Force/Either depends on the weapons, if your primarily relying on the Ruzad for example for damage go Heat Dump, using mainly full autos go Supercharge

Concussive = nothing

Munitions Training = Either, depends on if you like relying on grenades more than your guns/ Weapon Efficiency/Sustained Fire, however I'm uncertain if Sustained fire is proc'd for every pellet or every shot, again this one is kind of situational because I can see the value of Precision but Sustained Fire is the safer pick

Combat Fitness = Health+Shields/Defensive Positioning(25% Damage mitigaion)/Hold the Line when combo'd with Defensive positioning gives you 84.375% damage mitigation anytime you fall below 30% health, making you one of the tankiest sumbitches in the game at least when near death

Alternatively you can spec out of Frags and instead go with maxing Concussive shot and running an ammo booster every game with a high RoF weapon for constant self detonations

in that case go

Concussive Shot = Repeat Concussion/Damage+Force/Anti-Armor ( I'm not sure how power damage bonuses are calculated, but concussive shot can deal quite a bit of damage to armor by its self)

Basically Nades = Massive burst damage

Concussive + Ammo Booster = combo spammy McSpamSpam

Lastly you could spec out of Turbocharge but good luck doing laps around the map trying to keep yourself supplied lol

Hope this helps, Human Soldiers one of a few classes that actually has a lot of variety in how you can build them