*****Your last Pug in one word*****

Lol

Dropped into an ongoing game on wave 1 with a scorewhore I remember from back in the day who was apparently still upset he didn't get his way. He had been executed on wave one, and was kind enough to leave me a nice welcome message as I joined the game.

I did what any self respecting BSNer would do, and shot up his corpse before leaving.

Pardon the video quality...

Confident.

Slowly getting my vanguard mojo back. Tuchanka by night on silver, solid team and a lot of fun. And one hell of a connection - it literally felt like playing Vanguard on-host with this lobby.

Overall a very solid match, except for that one part where the Krogan decided to race me to the carry objective on Wave 10 and insisted on being the one to pick it up. He then proceeded to climb up a ladder and hang out in the room next to the spawn for no apparent reason for two minutes. At first I thought he was in trouble and double-backed to help him out but it turned out he was completely alone in there and had a free path to the drop zone.
Needless to say I made sure I was the one picking up the second container...^^

Next up - first gold PUG in years.^^

Mixed bag

Hosted a U/U/P. Had to kick Tecdet, didn't want to hear him mouth off as per usual. Knew the carry was going to be big, but went for it anyway.

One pug left and Tecdet dropped in wave 3. He played like a coward, but only spoke once, so not bad. I ended with 200k+, pugs had about 80k apeice. The lowest level pug with the least hours was a godsend, nuking banshees during the wave 10 hack. I used up my missiles preventing syncs earlier.

Also had 14 revives, just couldn't quite get 15.

Sticky.

Got into a laggy game vs Cerberus with the HI, and I was down to one ops pack and no gels by wave 9. Stick nades saved the day. I spammed the shit out of them during extraction.

Recklessness

As in, an excess of courage. Or, in my case, not too bright.

Two PuGs thought to heed the advice of that charming fellow who tells us what to do with our last two minutes. The third player goes to rescue them from their lack of experience and I thought to rescue the three of them.

Attempting to hold the extraction zone on Ghost is almost invariably a bad idea. The good news was that three of us survived long enough to still be bleeding out as the shuttle did its fly-by.

An additional bit of good news? It's nice to see new(ish) players still in the game.

Fuck Ghost! Fuck regular Ghost, fuck Ghost Hazard, fuck whole Benning!

I hate it when the game does this to me. Every damn time I try U/U I am bound to get this damn map. I used to like it, but right now it is just boring my brains out. 

Starting to hate this map with passion, at this point I would gladly trade this map for a shockwave spammer or even a KroLord who gets himself synced on the start of every game.

Like that's not enough, I got a host who bailed out on me during the match.


Other than that, 2 nice PUG Plat games, not smoothest ones ever, but fun nevertheless. First one was on White against Geth where my Cabal properly ashamed herself, with constants refusals to dodge or Poison Strike. The second one was against Collectors on Giant Hazard. I think it lasted around 35 minutes, got my 15 revives medal before 50 kills medal. It got messy, but it's ok, I like messy

That's me with Hydra, except I never liked Hydra. I think my record is four unknowns -- with different groups, mind you -- in a row being Hydra, although I'm not sure some of those weren't preset, as I didn't stick around long enough in all cases to find out. It would have been more, if you count rejoining the same game more than once.

I've had more fun with invisible enemies on Condor, or vanguarding on a laggy Rio host, than I've had on just about any Hydra game.

Difference

It's amazing the difference one competent pug can make... Whenever I run into a need for creds and am out of shield mods, I take my Fluffy for a walk (yep, that's my Jug ). Now I don't know if he's a BSNer (or was) but I ran into someone called YellowR0se who played a competent Valkyrie.

We played two gold games on Goddess, first against derperus then against toasters and both times we managed to extract without too much trouble (except the unavoidable n00b who got caught on LZ at the beginning of the extraction -I think Yr got a gold medal for reviving him- and who got himself executed).

Anyhow, well played!      

Hope

This time I got myself two decent pugs: one playing an Asari Adept and the other a Krogan Soldier. Two gold games that went smoothly, full extraction and all, against trollectors and derperus. Must be my lucky day.
Maybe there is still hope for the ME3MP race?

I'm not surprised by the lag.  I always play with a lot of lag, that is why I do not host.  For that game, I was searching for U/U/G and somehow ended up as host.  Usually, I would leave the lobby but recognized you guys there.    For that game, I count Shinobu211 as a PUG/scrub because he was using QMI+Carrier.

May I just add to my list the combo Reactor/Cerberus. 3/6 games last night were Reactor/Cerberous. Ofc, with one obligatory Ghost.


Hydra gets real fun with PUGs because it get's properly messy. Unless they try to camp on the wall by waterfall, in which case fuck them. Maybe people want to exploit that positioning so they preset it... I agree, every map repeating itself more than it's healthy can certainly get on your nerves.

Juggpocalypse

Dropped into a gold lobby with three randos, all of whom were playing Juggernauts. Much fun was had, and many a credits were made. Unfortunately, I haven't managed to snag any decent weapons besides the Valkyrie.