Your first ever Gold/Plat solo!

Being inspired by GruntKitterhand 's success (Congrats! ), I decided it was time for another attempt on that Plat solo on friday.
I chose White and Cerberus and picked my Fury with her Venom IX. Never thought I'd try that for a Plat solo, until DistigousForest mentioned it in another thread. Once I tried Reapers, but they annoyed me to hell by wave 1 or 2 (too many Ravagers, Brutes and enemies in general) so I quit and went back to Cerberus. I had several attempts with this combination before, quite some ending in wave 1 after being sync killed, or already loosing all my gels Then there were a couple of mid-game failures that just happened thanks to my scrubbiness. I had two attempts when I got all the way to wave 10, once failing thanks to targets and once failing post-objective thanks to a Banshee warp ball following me around corners and half the map.

The post-objective fail hurt a 'bit' as I still had a rocket and it looked like a pretty decent time, I guess. I just wanted to play it safely and then got hit by that warp ball.

Anyways, on Friday I read GruntKitterhand's post and thought I'd give it another shot.
Loaded my usual setup and while I listened to some music first, I already noticed something was off. When the song was over, it turned out that my game sound were completely off. Nonetheless, I continued playing trying to get as far as possible. Then wave 3 arrived and I got devices. I really wanted to continue first, but without sounds and then enemies appearing out of nothing, my motivation was rapidly gone and I quit again.
I didn't feel like continuing first, but since there weren't many people on my FL around anyway, I did give it another shot. Good thing I did.

Picking my gear, I noticed I only had 2 or 3 shotgun amps and cyclonics left and thought, well you better succeed at this before you're out of them. Following muahmuah ' and DistigousForest's suggestions, I took Warp ammo but I didn't take AC5, but Geth Scanner as I feel safer with the scanner.

Objectives were Escort, Escort and Targets, so until wave 10 I was pretty lucky.
The escorts weren't much of a big problem, as they didn't go through spawns. I had to run a circle on wave 3 and might've lost a gel I think, but apart from that, really lucky. I had 3 nukes on wave 10 and originally wanted to keep one for cleanup, but since I was out of gels and ops by the time the third target was marked, I nuked it and then had nothing left except 4 TCPs. An Atlas is slow to kill (at least for me) with all his shields but I got it done and the objective was done, what a relief, though still not relaxing, my heart was now thumping. I just didn't want to fail again on wave 10. I had to take a quick pause in a corner so I could breath calmly Maybe exaggerating a bit here. Anyways, I had to continue as there were still some enemies left, Banshees and Phantoms (I think) weren't a big problem, as the Venom Fury kills them easily. But there were two Atlases left and it took some time to kill them. But, at some point I got the message 'Only one enemy unit left' (or something like that). And then I managed to destroy this one as well

As for the non-objective waves, I can' remember much, but I started to love wave 7 and dragoons. I was happy for every dragoon I saw as they were dead in a second and the next one won't take too long to come to you. That might sound stupid, but I can't change that Atlases on the other hand were really annoying and Primes, for once, didn't make me rage. Also I was pretty lucky at times, because I wasn't killed by a surprising turret or phantom when I pulled back a couple of times with less than a full bar of health. I don't mind though, as I also have been unlucky from time to time.

Anyways, for extraction I took position in the corner of win, hoping I could soort of hold it with my 0 gels, ops and rockets. I mean, I still had 4 TCPs!! It worked fine for about half a minute, maybe a bit more. Then the Atlas arrived and since I can't take it down quick enough, I pulled back. I now took position on the very end of the map. Luckily no enemy was coming close to me, so I could stay there for another 45 seconds. With about 30 seconds to go, I went to the LZ, as enemies were slowly closing in. There were only two or three dragoons to take care of and then I finally saw the Mission Successful screen after 38:46 minutes.

And now some people I'd like to say thank you to:
DistigousForest , for giving me the idea of Venom Fury on White Cerberus, a couple of suggestions and wishing me luck
muahmuah , for helpful advice, like not taking headshot bonus for the Venom
GruntKitterhand , for motivating to give it a shot, even if not intended
and also fraggle and Sonashii for being kind enough to believe in me

Some sort of impressions:


I'm very happy, I managed to do this with the Fury and actually enjoyed the game a lot! While I'm certain that I won't do one plat solo after another (or rather one attempt after another), maybe I'll try to do some more with different classes in the future. For now though, I think I want to get my first flawless gold solo, and I feel like it should involve Turians.

Being inspired by GruntKitterhand 's success (Congrats! ), I decided it was time for another attempt on that Plat solo on friday.
I chose White and Cerberus and picked my Fury with her Venom IX. Never thought I'd try that for a Plat solo, until DistigousForest mentioned it in another thread. Once I tried Reapers, but they annoyed me to hell by wave 1 or 2 (too many Ravagers, Brutes and enemies in general) so I quit and went back to Cerberus. I had several attempts with this combination before, quite some ending in wave 1 after being sync killed, or already loosing all my gels Then there were a couple of mid-game failures that just happened thanks to my scrubbiness. I had two attempts when I got all the way to wave 10, once failing thanks to targets and once failing post-objective thanks to a Banshee warp ball following me around corners and half the map.

The post-objective fail hurt a 'bit' as I still had a rocket and it looked like a pretty decent time, I guess. I just wanted to play it safely and then got hit by that warp ball.

Anyways, on Friday I read GruntKitterhand's post and thought I'd give it another shot.
Loaded my usual setup and while I listened to some music first, I already noticed something was off. When the song was over, it turned out that my game sound were completely off. Nonetheless, I continued playing trying to get as far as possible. Then wave 3 arrived and I got devices. I really wanted to continue first, but without sounds and then enemies appearing out of nothing, my motivation was rapidly gone and I quit again.
I didn't feel like continuing first, but since there weren't many people on my FL around anyway, I did give it another shot. Good thing I did.

Picking my gear, I noticed I only had 2 or 3 shotgun amps and cyclonics left and thought, well you better succeed at this before you're out of them. Following muahmuah ' and DistigousForest's suggestions, I took Warp ammo but I didn't take AC5, but Geth Scanner as I feel safer with the scanner.

Objectives were Escort, Escort and Targets, so until wave 10 I was pretty lucky.
The escorts weren't much of a big problem, as they didn't go through spawns. I had to run a circle on wave 3 and might've lost a gel I think, but apart from that, really lucky. I had 3 nukes on wave 10 and originally wanted to keep one for cleanup, but since I was out of gels and ops by the time the third target was marked, I nuked it and then had nothing left except 4 TCPs. An Atlas is slow to kill (at least for me) with all his shields but I got it done and the objective was done, what a relief, though still not relaxing, my heart was now thumping. I just didn't want to fail again on wave 10. I had to take a quick pause in a corner so I could breath calmly Maybe exaggerating a bit here. Anyways, I had to continue as there were still some enemies left, Banshees and Phantoms (I think) weren't a big problem, as the Venom Fury kills them easily. But there were two Atlases left and it took some time to kill them. But, at some point I got the message 'Only one enemy unit left' (or something like that). And then I managed to destroy this one as well

As for the non-objective waves, I can' remember much, but I started to love wave 7 and dragoons. I was happy for every dragoon I saw as they were dead in a second and the next one won't take too long to come to you. That might sound stupid, but I can't change that Atlases on the other hand were really annoying and Primes, for once, didn't make me rage. Also I was pretty lucky at times, because I wasn't killed by a surprising turret or phantom when I pulled back a couple of times with less than a full bar of health. I don't mind though, as I also have been unlucky from time to time.

Anyways, for extraction I took position in the corner of win, hoping I could soort of hold it with my 0 gels, ops and rockets. I mean, I still had 4 TCPs!! It worked fine for about half a minute, maybe a bit more. Then the Atlas arrived and since I can't take it down quick enough, I pulled back. I now took position on the very end of the map. Luckily no enemy was coming close to me, so I could stay there for another 45 seconds. With about 30 seconds to go, I went to the LZ, as enemies were slowly closing in. There were only two or three dragoons to take care of and then I finally saw the Mission Successful screen after 38:46 minutes.

And now some people I'd like to say thank you to:
DistigousForest , for giving me the idea of Venom Fury on White Cerberus, a couple of suggestions and wishing me luck
muahmuah , for helpful advice, like not taking headshot bonus for the Venom
GruntKitterhand , for motivating to give it a shot, even if not intended
and also fraggle and Sonashii for being kind enough to believe in me

Some sort of impressions:


I'm very happy, I managed to do this with the Fury and actually enjoyed the game a lot! While I'm certain that I won't do one plat solo after another (or rather one attempt after another), maybe I'll try to do some more with different classes in the future. For now though, I think I want to get my first flawless gold solo, and I feel like it should involve Turians.

I'm very happy, I managed to do this with the Fury and actually enjoyed the game a lot! While I'm certain that I won't do one plat solo after another (or rather one attempt after another), maybe I'll try to do some more with different classes in the future. For now though, I think I want to get my first flawless gold solo, and I feel like it should involve Turians

I still have yet to attempt a Plat solo, maybe when I have a few more successful characters on Gold (I can solo Silver easily with any character, even at low levels, and with reasonable times, but I guess I'm just not patient enough for Gold, and definitely can't maintain focus for an hour to do a Plat solo).

I'm actually REALLY bad with most of the "OP" things, and stay far away. Reegar/AIU? I do better with a Scimitar. Harrier TGI? Pfft, even Striker is better for me on him. I enjoy Mantis GE more than Hurricane GE, I wont deny the potential of a Hurricane GE, but I will do better with the Mantis GE.

EDIT: Granted, the last isn't really an OP thing, more an example or description of how it is for me.