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

I noticed today that Mr 'Whippy' Whiplash, aka Batarian Vanguard, sounds remarkably human like when Biotic Charging.

I'm observant

Wiped.

Nobody would come so I set it to Gold/Glacier/Reapers and grabbed my new lover, Valkyrie/Talon a.k.a. "O"--as I named her because lazy--and some level 1 consumables as I knew this was a fight I couldn't possibly win. Long story short, a Destroyer with a Harrier/Black Widow combo dropped in on wave 2 and they were pretty good.

Still not good enough to help a n00b like me. I can't even duo gold (DistigousForest can bear witness to this)

So when wave 3 came, RNG couldn't have had it any other way so it gave us targets, for some reason 3 of them banshees. So down to only 2 missiles, which were quickly spent along with most of my ops packs and remaining gels on wave 6, again, targets. We really tried but it wasn't meant to be. Both got downed on wave 7 and after the mandatory prayer for a new mate arrival as we were lying helpless next to each other, smashing the A button, Narrator said to O: Miss, you're a scrub, I'm getting out of here.

Lonely.

Had a couple of well-attended pugs this morning but no one was joining my gold lobby come the afternoon. I decided to drop down to silver and take it easy. Surely just one pug would come along.

Nope. Ended up solo-ing, first with my vorcha engineer then with my Mantis SI. I like a good solo game as much as the next person, but I felt like playing in a team today *cue violins.* I'l try again later tonight!

pugs

Hydra/Gethsnoch/Gold

Wave 11. One bleeds out camping the LZ. Forgot to tap the spacebarthingy. One other followed suit. The last one and me didn´t make exfil either. I don´t know what he was doing, but I waited a tad to long to make my way to exfil.

I had to give up on Gold after finding no takers for a bit, but after a Silver I found another solid Gold player (tee hee) and was able to put together a nice run of PuGs.

First time I played in a while, but I think I'll be playing regularly for a bit.

THEYREDEAD!

Sorry I know that's not one word, but they are.

The Sugarhill Headbutt gang made sure of it.



I bumped into some very nice folks last night who were down for all sorts of weird stuff, mixes, and shenanigans. First game featured 2 Valkyries breaking hell loose on G/Reactor/Collectors. Those ugly cheaters didn't know what hit them.

Later last night a Kroguard with no equipment joined my lobby and readied up for UUG. We got Condor/Geth so I figured it would be a scrub fest but we actually made it. He made sure to headbutt at my Asari buttocks everytime he passed near me and that was the start of a great relationship that only got better as we both went Kroguards for the next game. Third Guy joined midgame and for a couple of games he resisted the call of Tuchanka, but on the third one he gave in a little bit and went Batguard. During that game Fourth Guy dropped in and after seeing us smack the motherboards out of Prime after Prime like they were simple peasants, promptly switched to the Warlord (he didn't have a Kroguard yet. Sad.).

Third Guy finally conceded and also picked the Kroguard , but since Fourth Guy didn't have it, I switched to the Warlord for the sake of homogeneity

After some 3 or 4 games it started to get old and we tried going Crotch-Punch-Hate-Surfing but sadly one of the PUGs didn't have a Volus yet. That caused us to try an all-Talon Mercs run and though we managed to extract it was a helluva tough game.

After that game Third Guy left (guess he wasn't really part of the gang) and Fifth Guy came along. PUG level 40ish, wielding proudly a level 10 Jugg/Katana no equipment. The rest followed suit and mimicked it but then they changed to a vanilla kit

We started the game like that and surprisingly wiped on wave 5 or 6 iirc.

After that the gang was so ashamed of themselves they promptly dismantled and went each their own way.

Still, last night my faith in PUGs was restored.

Edit: if anybody here knows how to embed YT videos please let me know. 

Edit: thanks to MPApr2012 for walking me through the basics of video posting haha.

Bok-bok-bok host

That's what I think. Dropped into a Rio with Reapers in wave 2. Noticed there were two turians and one krogan. Wave 3, deliver pizza. I was the nearest so I picked it up and began to run to drop off point. Imagine my surprise when I see two PAs among the cannibals and husks. Modded game. I was forced to drop the pizza because there's a horde in my way. The only one who was actively escorting me was the player krogan.

The other two turians were hanging right at the back, in the area of crates. Knowing I had to retreat and the pizza was dropped, you'd expect them to provide support. Nope, only the krogan and I were trying to clear. This lead me to suspect the krogan player is probably not the host. The host is probably one of the turian bok-boks. I think they were infils; saw one of them de-cloak. I left the game at that point.

I'm not fond of modded games. While I sympathise with the desire to add variety, I don't trust modders because they could purposely spawn s*** on top of other players for the laughs while they hide themselves and pick off the mobs.

I will chime in to say that I often missile spawns myself, but only if the collection of pugs I get at the moment are particulary horrible at killing things and very good at dying. I don't mind carrying, but sooner or later it gets to the point where I get annoyed at the slow progression. At that point, if I spot a good spawn, I will missile it, no regrets whatsoever and no fucks given. If I'm with good players, I will use missiles as intended, or not at all.

Point is, by the time missiling spawns comes into play, score doesn't play any role anymore. Never did in the first place, but at that point, you just say to yourself, fuck it, might as well enjoy myself. So you go to town and missile the everloving fuck out of some phantrolls, goonbags and scumbag engineers. If you happen to catch a nemesis or two as well, all the sweeter.

I'm not sure I would agree with your definition of clueless. I do completely understand your preference for teamwork but at the same time they're his missiles and he can do what he wants with them. 

In a co-op game where score is absolutely totally and completely irrelevant, I have a different reaction - I usually tend to think "Oh look, we have someone who cares about coming top of the scoreboard", but it doesn't annoy me in the slightest. Wanting to be top dog isn't a crime, even if it seems a little silly or even inconsiderate. I honestly dgaf about score but I'm aware when some people do. I managed to troll a host with a fragile ego the other day and it made the game tremendous fun. My ickle Volus Merc / Falcon was destroying Geth pretty much on his own and it was clear that the Jugg host's nose was out of joint. My reaction to his missiles was "Let's get paid!" and as we did I fired all my missiles in the air on extraction. Back in the lobby he switched to an AIU/Reegar and I quit. 

There may be other factors to consider, like simply wanting the game to be over quickly.  Or maybe he read things differently and was frustrated by you guys hanging out together on the wrong side of Rio, or something. Who knows? I agree with mordokai and will occasionally missile spawns myself, but it never has anything to do with score - sometimes it's pure revenge and sometimes it's to make sure we make it to wave 10 or whatever. Anyone who plays on PS3 also should know how essential nuking double Praetorian spawns is, so it's understandable if some of that mentality bleeds through into other circumstances.

If I'm playing with BSNers I will generally restrict myself to Targets objectives or saving teammates (though burning a TCP seems to work better for me), but sometimes there's a Killstreak right in front of me and the temptation is just too strong. Fuck 'em, especially those double Prime spawns!

BOOM!
Asari Huntress with Claymore. Gloryass. 

That's my approach every time. I've been lucky enough to have like-minded teammates quite a lot recently, leading to what I think of as perfect team extractions on Ghost, Reactor, London and Condor in particular - maps where camping around the EZ is just plain stupid (if admittedly entertaining the way you describe). Anything else will mildly irritate me in the same way as the spawn-nuking gets to you. Each to their own I guess, which was kinda my original point. 

As for the AA, using the Suppressor and Locust means I can use one of my many many Targeting VI boosters rather than a weapon amp. She gets me 20 headshots by the start of wave 2 just about every time I use her, and she destroys Cerberus in particular, struggling only slightly with Atlases. Some people (hey Clyde) skip Stasis but I'm way too much of a scrub for that!

Bored Time

That's me btw. Tried a plat, two French guys talking away. I enabled voice chat to hear what they're saying. It's 'super fun' when the game started. At every wave, the host spawn kill the first group. Then banshees when he didn't want to handle them. Ok, he wants a fast game, after all, it's his missiles. His game. Right? I got a nothing game. I left at wave 4. Thanks for wasting my time.