What's the most recent build/set up that you've discovered?

Speccing out of Hunter Mode on any Geth is a crime against huma...ehh...toasteranity. The wallhax and speed are too amazing to skip. Speed alone is too good.

Merry X-Mas everyone...

All this talk of not using Hunter Mode, using Flamethrower Turrets and utilizing inferior weapons like the GPSMG made my Geth Engineer cry tears of grease yesterday because it thinks some of YOUR Geth might have caught a virus

So I played some games yesterday with the Geth Engineer and have uploaded two games. The first one was hosted by me (obbie1984 take notice because of Phantoms) and only 1 random player joined for most of the match. I miss a few shots here and there and don't bother getting up at the end but it shows the capabilities of this unit very well I guess. Not much trouble with Phantoms unless I fail to aim and hit them right. My Geth unit apologizes, apparently Garrus wasn't done with the calibrations. The second game is a bit better in that regard  

The second match was with fellow uBSN members docsteely and Sonashii plus a random PUG. That game was hosted by docsteely (obbie1984 take notice again, this match was played offhost opposed to the first one). Unfortunately it's Firebase Giant again. I recorded both games vs. Cerberus because in my option they are the hardest enemy faction for this build because of Phantoms and Dragoons. Versus Geth it's pretty easy with this excact build and versus Reapers and Collectors also. You might try using AP IV Ammo instead vs. the latter two factions to take down the heavy armored units faster (but you lose out on one-shotting Collector Captains and Marauders and take down Banshee Barriers slower so Phasic Rounds are good vs. them as well). Versus Cerberus or Geth using Phasic Rounds is always best in my personal experience.

Also: I've seen many players being afraid of equipping heavy weapons because of longer cooldowns. It's all a matter of playstyle. You can see I even have the High Velocity Barrel equipped that puts +50% additional weight on the already heavy Javelin and I can still use Overload fairly often and it helps out in sticky situations. The build in the videos looks like this: GETH ENGINEER

One more thing about the videos again: keep in mind that I play in front of a 34" ultrawide 21:9 monitor with a native resolution of 3440x1440px - depending on what device you watch the video (for example something like a 16:9 tv, monitor or even mobile device) it will probably all look super small and the FOV seems super crazy. Sonashii said to me I must be crazy playing like this. But right in front of the monitor it is perfect, it only might look strange on other devices. I watched one of these videos at a friend's place on his 16:9 FullHD TV and I was like "I could never play like this". But I did because it looks perfect ony my screen. regack will probably understand and be able to watch these videos in full resolution and without borders

Anyways... have fun and a merry X-Mas. And check your Geth Units for viruses 

Oh yeah? then tell these bunnies about it:


Harrumph!

As Christmas approaches, so worry encroaches
on Santa: he'll normally stay
upbeat and rejoicing, but this year is voicing
concern for what's coming his way.

Disheartened by clamour, the kids' constant yammer,
for prezzies has gotten Claus gruff,
most reindeer and elves keep their thoughts to themselves,
deducing when Nick's had enough.

But Rudolph, Oh dear! is determined this year
to booze Chrimbo straight up the wall,
he couldn't care less for the kiddies' distress
and holds all that's horrid in thrall;

He plagues and bedevils and secretly revels
in scheming that Yuletide should flop,
he's decidedly mean and obsessively keen
on seeing festivity stop.


Merry Christmas

Best of all worlds

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While that's by no means a bad build, HVSC, I think he'll suffer in the higher difficulties (i.e. Plat' and when soloing Gold and upward) for having lost 10% DR and over 600 in health/shields.

 

Nope, because he's faster and kills faster. Shields don't matter if you can't strafe into cover quickly. Most of the things 3 shot you anyway, so a smidgen of shields is not as useful as a wall between you and the baddies.

I suppose you're making the mistake of generalising when what I gave was a specific example. And in the example that I gave, the Acolyte strips any mook or mid-level boss of their shields in a single shot and then the flamer has them writhing and unable to return fire: so what you say about cover in that instance is erroneous. As to strafing, he cannot strafe effectively with flamer on the go as his movement is reduced to a crawl. Yes, when taking a boss on it's good to nip in and out of cover whilst stripping their shields with a few Acolyte shots, and using cover's wise too while melting a boss's armour with flamer; it makes sense to abuse LH advantage like there's no tomorrow with any character that I can think of. Anyway, horses for courses and all that, an Acolyte-only Geth Trooper IMO and in my experience functions better without HM.

I personally don't understand the urge to turn any kit into a heavy weapon platform... But then again I don't usually enjoy shooters. I run close to 200% cooldown on power kits so that I can spam them.

I try not to skip a power unless it feels completely useless or looks like shit like hunter mode.

Even if a power combo is not ideal on some kits I like working with what I have, not turn it into yet another weapon build.

But each to their own!
That's the beauty of this game. It allows people to play how they want.

I get the efficiency angle. To me that's mostly irrelevant however. I want to have fun. And as long as the mission is successful I don't care if it takes me a bit longer to kill stuff. No point building a crazy damage output character when it's zero fun to play.

This time around I'm playing with friends. So we usually try to complement each other's powers. We are fairly slow, gold matches take about 25-28min. But that's fine. We're having a blast.
We often do themed matches too. All vorcha, all krogan, all asari etc.
All Valkyrie is especially fun!

But even when I was pugging it on Xbox I did as well as everyone else. Some of the skilled infiltrators outclass everyone else of course. But I never felt like power builds were inferior. In fact the fastest games were usually an all biotics team.

Looks fine watching the videos as full-screen on the UW monitor

It's not weird, a badarse woman will ALWAYS be more attractive than a whiny, puny, wimp

That's why my femsheps ALWAYS headbutt that pyjak, Uvenk, on Tuchunka in ME2.