Your Guilty Pleasures

Isn't that just how the game is usually played (pug matches most of the time excluded, obviously), also known as teamwork?

Oh, and further on-topic funsies, we also have an amusing Confessions thread somewhere here

Well, when it's a team of players who know exactly what they're doing, it hardly can get any better - so I totally agree with this. But there are quite a few players out there (a lot of Furies, for instance, as far as I know) who are not happy when someone's detonating their explosions. Got scolded over the mic more than once. And... there is also the fact that the damage and force of any explosion depend on the level of skills used, so a Lvl1 TSent detonating Lvl20 Justicar's primed targets doesn't sound like a really good idea to me.
In spite of all that, I still do it sometimes. I need to lvl up after all, and that's about as useful as I can get in that game.

And now I see that I've screwed up creating a thread that already exists. Ugh. Really sorry for this.

One of the simple pleasures in life is playing the GI with the Black Widow. It's so hard not to take that shot when someone is lining up for that Batarian melee or a Shadow Strike. The only way a Geth Infiltrator could be any more cool is if it wore a US Navy Seals Boonie Hat.

Pft, you worry too much . No need to be sorry. Even that other thread is a re-creation of a thread on the old BSN, so we'd have a similar one here in the New forum.  (Worth reading though, fun stuff).
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As for anyone whinging over the mic about you detonating their explosions, they do not know how the game works. The whiners, I'd assume, would be PUGs and/or scorewhores. Of which the latter should especially know, due to their chosen path - but still might not (return to: them being PUGs), that the kill points will go to the person who primes. So the whiner should basically be doubly happy about it instead! More booms per minute in the end (even if the lower rank does have lesser effect, true, but also the detonator characters won't stay lvl1 or 2 indefinitely).
This seems to be also why some people don't want to detonate enemies primed by someone else, because they will --gaspOMG-- score less in the end. (Have heard even this during some games.. :srs: )


TL/DR: Always ignore the over-the-mic whining morons, special snowflakes. Play the game properly as a teammate and for your own fun.
I wish I was tech-savvy enough myself and have an automatic response recording of the Krogan reviving, and just playback every time: Stop whining!, at them.

...and that's exactly why I play my BatGuard solo - because people will troll, no way around that Too bad I can't snipe reliably to add this one to the Guilty Pleasures list myself. And yeah, the fact that I like the idea doesn't mean I won't hate you if you do so to me - humans are self-centered bags of dicks (c) Matriarch Aethyta

But I solemnly promised not to sh... er, contaminate here - yet failed to keep that promise. Pugs will be pugs, it's in their nature to contaminate.

Good lord. Haven't yet heard about the second type, though, at least over the mic - but these seem to be much worse that the first ones, actually. And it really surprises me sometimes how many people, despite obviously having played the game way more than me (and I'm 4 months into the whole ME3MP thing) know so little about how the game works. I mean, were those thousands of hours not enough for them to at least start suspecting that they're doing something wrong?

Thanks for the brilliant idea though! All it takes is a sampler, the rest is simple - record it, program it to one of sampler keys, press it every time you hear BS over your mic - PAYDAY!

Could you please share this list of your most preferred kits and weapons? I've read here and there that you enjoy playing Drell a lot, so the Claymoar Drellgod comes to mind first, but I'd love to know if there are others (as well as whether my assumption is true to begin with).

Phaeston on Turians

Turian soldier with Spitfire---> walking turret that never needs to stop firing. Totally legit setup, even on Gold.

Slap Adrenaline on him him instead. It will help him more

I prefer Drell the most because of their increased movement speed in combination with Adrenaline Modules. I usually play the Drell Adept with a Wraith, the Vanguard with a Claymore and the Infiltrator with a Black Widow. Overall they all are my favourite kits.

I also like to play a turretless Geth Engineer with the Javelin and the Quarian Female Infiltrator with a Javelin and a Geth Scanner equipped. Human Soldier, particularly the BF3 Soldier with a Claymore is also fun. Asari Vanguard and Asari Huntress are also on that list, Vanguard usually with the Wraith and Huntress with a Crusader. In the past I also enjoyed the Asari Adept and Valkyrie but I haven't played them in a while now. Fury is fun as well although I'm not that good with it I guess. I can enjoy playing both Quarian Engineers as well.

I don't enjoy characters that can't dodge like Krogans, Batarians and Turians or are otherwise slow. I'd probably play Turians more often if they could dodge-roll like the Marauders. The Batarian soldier is pretty nice as well but the fact that he can't dodge is usually ruining it for me. I also have to say that I played quite a few other kits and used other weapons in the past, especially when the game came out and every time a new DLC was released I played every new kit and weapon we got. But nowadays I usually stick to my favourites most of the time.

Thanks for such a detailed answer! I really like it when people share their favourite kits AND tell why exactly those are the best for them. Looks like all of the characters that you've mentioned require lots of skill and finesse - probably that being the reason for them being in such a minority compared to things like TGI, AIU, GI, GTS and other popular ones.
Unfortunately, I'm not good enough yet to take a Drell character to Gold, let alone Platinum, and play at least a decent game, but those well-played Drell I've seen were doing some insane damage. And - it's impossible to deny that - they are one of the most stylish classes in the whole game. One more reason to git gud for me.
GE and QFI (especially QFI) are the characters I rarely see now - feels like people find the former too squishy and the latter not as much of a heavy damage dealer like GI or an easy-to-use and somewhat sturdy like SI (lots of them out there, well-played and not really so). BF3s are also rare, because a lot of people consider them underpowered (and this is the case with all vanilla human characters as well). Same with QFE, although there are quite a lot QME around - probably because of their insane Arc Grenades. There are quite a lot of Asari though (my favourite of them being the Justicar).
But what about Armiger Turians? They can use their rocket boots to dodge (although this is probably one of the slowest dodges in the game, and the distance they travel can be a little too long). Batarians are fun because of their falcon punch, and Krogan... Well, they're good for some craziness and feeling of invincibility, but I'm not a big fan of these either.

I'm not gud enough yet to fully understand and make use of the benefits of increased movement speed (probably because I just stand there in the open like and idiot until I get all those Scion, Ravager or Prime shots in the face). But that's a matter of more experience and skill, which I both lack. I've been playing with TSol recently (HurrDurr, Revenant, Claymoar, Crusader - so far everything worked), so Spitfire will be the next thing to try on him