So That Monthly Celebratory

Hadn't played in a while, went in for the Celebratory. Started a few silver matches for the daily challenges (Zero, biotic kills) and was surprised to see a bunch of >500 Apex [new] players. Finally had a higher level player join for the Celeb. Fun!

Yes, it's a free elite pack. Some people have gotten 2 or more N7 items (not me, not this time -- but got one!)

I played the Silver mission with 3 PUGs. I was the Salarian Operator with Shadow Siphon and Scorpion Siphon. One of the PUGs was an Asari Adept, and I don’t remember the other two.

Wave 2 Hack me and the Asari did the hack. The others weren’t very good at drawing aggro so I had to use a couple of Cobras.

Wave 4 Boss was a Progenitor maybe? Scorpion shots to destroy its Turrets and then Shadow when it opened.

Wave 6 Targets got crazy. I was the only one going after them while the PUGs tried to hold the back part of the map. By the time I killed the 3rd Target they had all bled out. So I had to solo vs. 2 KroBros, 1 Blaze Hydra, and 2 Remnant spewers. I had a couple of stupid deaths but eventually got it done. Siphon weapons are good.

TLDR Haven’t lost my touch; still a pro on lolsilver.

Siphon OP Biovar pls nerf?

So... about that monthly?

Gold/Remnant Dungeon!
Heading into there...

Remnant mini dungeon … just the LZ and the immediate surrounding area. Combo-tastic … which only yields 75% of the credits for the mission.

I did not note any "hidden" modifiers, just a regular 7 wave match. Hack and Upload … on a map that small, folks in one upload can provide support fire for the others.

I was in a lag-fest … maybe because all the action was confined to one area? But we all survived, all extracted.

Normal celebratory rewards. 'Twas fun, nice to have a gold celebratory mission.

For the record I have every Rare character/base weapon maxed, every Rare variant unlocked (save a couple exceptions), almost every Ultra Rare character to grade ten (only short three more cards), and almost every Ultra Rare weapon available at grade one with again only a few exceptions.  I’m not even going to mention Mods because those are Super Secret Mega Ultra Rare.
I only have 250 hours in multiplayer and it’s from playing Gold 95% of the time.
That’s a far better manifest than what I had after 250 hours in Mass Effect 3, as I still hadn’t unlocked a few Rare weapons by then even though I was playing exclusively Gold.
This is of course ignoring the fact that Andromeda matches are twice as fast, as I’m looking at it strictly from a time-spent view.
I spent 1800 hours total in ME3, I wager my manifest was only maxed for about 1000 to 1200 of them.  And in all honesty I did play much more religiously when I did max my manifest (which happened three times).
In Andromeda I calculate that I could have everything except perhaps maxed Ultra Rare weapon variants by 500 hours most like.
Sure, the gear pool is gigantic in Andromeda compared to ME3, but the shorter matches and ability to buy stuff straight up from the Item Store made it so that you could get a really good fleshed-out manifest in less time spent playing.
... I’ll shut up now.

The technical mods packs are cheap and it doesn't take long to max them. At first, you get mostly two mods per pack, but once the uncommons are maxed, it slows to about one per pack. Toward the end, it seems to get a bit more infrequent.  The PAW with long barrel and heavy magazine mods is pretty awesome.  A Dahn with a short barrel and heavy melee is some kind of nice for the melee characters.  Same  with the Crusader.

Once you have those … I did the expert packs to complete the rares … got a lot of URs by the time the rares were maxed and I had enough consumables to just buy premium packs after that, for the URs.

Once the baseline URs are complete, the focus shifts to completion of your UR characters. I got almost no UR weapon variants until the UR characters were maxed at XX.

As far as I can tell, a siphon I UR weapon is not noticeably different than a siphon X UR weapon. I really don't see a big difference in health restoral. On the other hand, I see a real difference between a concussive I and X UR weapon.

Bulwark weapons … I don't use.

On several characters I double up (when they have the carriage capacity).  Gives me enough ammo, primary is the concussive, backup is the siphon.  Works pretty darn well.

I enjoyed the mission got my hurricane siphon upgrade cannot remember to what level but a happy chappy nonetheless.

Very true about the mods pack, I haven’t bought any as I want to get all my characters to grade ten and unlock all the weapons.
Plus the base mods that came out at launch I already have at grade ten.  For the time being they do the trick.  

It was stupid easy. Everyone pretty much hung in the balcony and killed everything. It was kind of fun the first 2 waves before everyone joined in, I was moving around a lot and trying to survive with 1 other person. Once enough guns were on the field it was the balcony. I had multiple celebratory boxes to unpack apparently, i forgot to the last 2 ones i did. Pretty decent packs.