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

Well shave my legs and call me Grandma........



I am impressed!

Wipes

Well, I've been spoiled yesterday, today it's another day and my look on the ME3MP race is turning again to bleak. I mean two gold games that turned to nightmare for me, the kind of nightmare where as a Jug you collect platinum medals for revivals (yup, at least 20 revivals per game) and you're left almost by yourself to do the objectives...

Decided it's time to finish Nomad again so I'm back on Jade with Fluffy (yes, that's my Jug ) for some gold public games. First one was a derperus mess, I got my gold revival medal by wave 4 (!), was left by myself to do devices on wave 6, got my 75 kill medal (as a Jug!) on w7 and wiped on w10 (again devices). This one was partly my fault, because except me there was no char upwards of lvl 16. The closest one to being decent was a level 8 QME who probably given time will get there. But the others...

Second one was Geth. From the other game only the QME (now lvl 14) remained and we were joined by a lvl 20 Infiltrator BotB (!) and a lvl 16 Human Vanilla Vanguard in the low N7s - the kind that believes that they're invincible. This time it took me 5 waves to get my gold revival medal and though we had twice escort somehow we were never 4 in the circle... Had to finish w7 with just the QME and w8 by myself... Unfortunately by the time we got to w10 I had been left with only 2 nukes, no gel and of course we've got targets. I somehow managed to kill the targets but we wiped after that. I was again first, followed by the QME, with the BotB coming in 3rd... Frankly I cannot remember the last time I wiped against toasters.

All in all, pugs will be pugs, so if you meet a competent one pity him he's an endangered species...   

Plus it's silver. If you wipe because of a lvl9 on your team, chances are they're not the (only) problem and certainly don't deserve being kicked. Try to improve together. 

At first I was like 'Those could be PC alt accounts, how do you assume they are ex console players?' and then I read about using mics, yup, must be console players

It's always a good day getting Condor Collectors in UUP. Not a good day when during wave 10 cleanup the game crashes. I did manage to get back in time to help the new fresh to arrive pug on wave 10 cleanup, even if it was just one lone Banshee. Only 3 of us extracted.

Also, the fourth pug slot was always changing to the point that when I returned some audio cues went missing. Why, do people not enjoy Condor Platinum Collectors?

Wait, what?

I'm surprised of this post. AIU's are a classic shotgun wielder favourite, and so OP that even when I wasn't playing seriously I still used to end up in 1st place.

Are you sure that you know how to use them?

Invigorating...

Dropped into a gold/ghost/collector game...there was two female quarians and a krogan something....so we get a wave 3 device hack. We get all 3 except the last one. I think the enemies did a good job keeping EVERYBODY occupied because by the time i looked around, there was pink skulls everywhere and the last device was placed in that bottom open area near that ladder that leads up to the upper platform near the extraction area. (really bad spot)...

So now i have to somehow get down there and finish the hack (no time to kite enemies)...I had to use most of my rockets and ops packs to stay alive and luckily I was using cyclonic 4 shields, because i had to stop hacking twice due to me getting lit from multiple enemies. finally i cleared the last device with like 8 seconds left, ran around like a maniac trying to finish off praetorians and collector soldiers. I was left with only 2 medi-gels and 2 ops packs after wave 3 and 2 rockets.

fast-forward to wave 8...we are REALLY struggling to survive, and we all know how wave 8 seems to be pretty intense no matter what faction it is, and everybody wiped, so it's up to yours truly to clutch. I kinda surprised myself, because there was no way i thought i was going to clear that wave being how we was getting our asses handed to us,...5-7 min later after some heavy kiting, i cleared the wave.

I don't want to write a book...so wave 9, i ended up using my two rockets on praetorians and scions that was just relentless in their attacks..wave 11 comes thru and i have no rockets, medi-gels,ammo-packs or ops packs....we all stayed together and basically crashed and burned to extraction, but we made it....one of thee toughest collector matches i've ever had....strangely enough, i luv these types of games where the team struggles, but we avoid a total collapse....just a good hard fought grind to the end.... ....i can see us probably with our bodies wracked with pain, armor cracked with blood stains on it and sitting in the shuttle looking back and laughing on it...the match was that good...(oh i forgot to mention...i was a destroyer)

Irregular

Dropped into rregular's GiP on Condor Reapers, somewhere around Wave 8 or 9 I noticed that 2 pugs had dropped out of the game. This became known to me when every enemy on the entire planet turned to focus fire me as rregular hit his Tactical Cloak. He revived me into a Banshee hug, so I made like a pug and abandoned him.

On PC I've never seen the black screen or invisible enemies glitch on any map. And only once do I recall some players seeming to have trouble joining one particular Condor map about a month ago (but in that case the 4th player kept changing and there was a host migration too, both things that glitch the game anyway). But on PC there's less lag too (with or without the less lag mod that I've also started using), because as I've said before, connection issues is what causes these glitches from my experience.

In that game I talked above, the 4th pug kept changing because they rage quit after things clearly not going their way.


Also, SMR, what's up. I seen you online playing ME3mp once recently and never again. Wanted to get a game or two in, but that one time was a bad time for me.

BioWare gives us really mixed signals. On one hand they really want to help new scrub players with stuff like AIU, and on the other hand... the default for new arrivals is Collectors Platinum.

Gooey


I just learned how much goop i could produce by melting enemies with the PPR Devastator build. It is pretty flipping amazing. I never even liked the thing in Singleplayer so i was very skeptical but it was much better than i had anticipated.