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

Incoming!

Based on what I saw on the BSN main page...

I bugged in, so it counts.

We ran a little too strong, imo. Then again, I had to leave so fast games were welcome.

Hydra. Striker Volus Merc. Geth. SO MUCH FUN AND DESTRUCTION!

Amusing

And I mean it. Yesterday I bumped into a lobby full of Geth Troopers, with flamers, reegar and such. So yeah, this time, I was the one who changed kit to match everyone It was just gold, so it wasn't about whether we survive it or not, but it was about how fast we could go. I think sub 16 on Reactor is acceptable.

But despite everything, I enjoyed this game quite a bit. Not because it was super interesting to play 4 flamers, but I think those guys were friends, who came back to the game after some time (or some alt accounts). Melee shenanigans between the waves, reviving, participating in objectives. All was good. So shoutouts to my random teammates, if you're reading this - GG!





Surprising

After that flamer game, I teamed up with Doc. Our duo went pugging. Immediately some Volus and this chap joined our lobby.



RNG gave us Reapers on Glacier, so everything went super fast. Our guest was silent throughout the whole match, participated in objectives, didn't nuke spawns and didn't even nuke targets on wave 10! I was going to give him some credit for surprisingly nice game, but then he started to nuke spawns on extraction. So yeah, business as usual. After the game we left him alone, coz we joined Senor and Fraggle for one more game

Yawn

After watching history repeat itself I decided to try an lighten my mood with a couple quick matches. I played as silly kits on gold only to be met by quitters, OP setups, Warp/Inc cheese and spawn nuking.

Game 1 - FQE Arc Pistol w/ low level consumables. Had a pug that is overall a good player, but will spawn nuke on earlier waves and use reegar/power kits, In this case, Wraith AIU. Nuked a spawn on wave 7 when falling behind my score which was unnecessary and made the game less fun. Still, there are worse players out there.

Game 2 - Off Host Crusader BatGuard (the Jimmer). This is a light melee kit where I try to "baseball bat" everything - it's not ideal, but it works and is a riot. Had a Lancer HSent using Warp Inc/Cheese spawn nuke W11 to topscore. I could have responded in kind, but decided to take care of the Prime he dropped between the LZ and the team's position to ensure full extraction. I can't stand selfish acts that put the team under undue stress.

Game 3 - Scimitar TSol. Joined a match where there was a lone player using a really neat Avenger/Executioner Pistol Shadow. He ended up quitting or D/Cing, but only after some audible "disagreement" over the mic. I was dispatching the Collectors rather quickly with the uncommon weapon, but ultimately I don't know why they left. I was joined by a pug I've seen before using a Black Widow BatSent. They were the closest thing to a breath of fresh air. Odd that a BW-touting pug is the highlight of the night.

Out of curiosity has anyone on Xbox run into that Lorbas guy lately?? I almost forgot about him until I ran into some new douchy player in MEAMP who apparently hates me and it just made me think of ol' Lorbas 

I'm going to play some ME3 tomorrow. I promise 

I wasn't really familiar with him, actually lol.
It's just that Biala has come up in a few discusions recently.

Also, he sounds very Terminator-ish to me 

We had a thread on how to solve missile spammers. The general idea was that missiles should be limited (say to 3), would provide no score for damage dealt and would not reduce the wave budget. Obviously reducing the wave budget is kind of the point, especially for soloers so that may not be the best fix. After playing a few more pugs and seeing the same faces using the same OP kits nuking spawns over and over, I'd like to propose the following change:

Missiles reduce your score by the damage dealt. It'd be funny to mod a lobby to reflect this change and go out into the pug world. 

For example, mentle777 is a fantastic player. In that recent game, his Concussive HSol/Wraith wrecked ten waves admirably. This was until he ran off and spent all six missiles on spawns during the last minute of wave 11. This was on White, so I parked my butt in the spawn at the "top of the stairs" to ensure that the enemies spawned as far from the LZ as I could possibly control. 

It would have been hilarious to see his score drop from 100k to 50k due to that stunt.




Run into him a lot. He's definitely capable and actually pretty decent compared to most, but expect nukes and "skipped" objectives from time to time.

Holy shit, I just dreamed of having an invisible Reegar on me.
I think it's time for me to see a psychiatrist.

Before that invisible Prime thing, there was a Collector/Glacier game. The PUGs were so overpowered that we completed Gold in under 20 minutes.

Not exactly a pug game as I joined Apry's GIP, but yeah...
I think I ran into burnroute twice prior to that. Didn't see anything unusual, but I might just have not paid enough attention. It was kinda funny the first time though. 3 of us got synced by Phantrolls, and burnroute had to curry with their Vorcha. They started to kill enemies, then going mental at the walls and melee the crap out of them. Took much longer until the wave ended because they did this in between killing enemies. It was quite amusing though

Clueless ? Glitch ? Malicious?

Dagger Gold Cerberus. At wave 3, pizza delivery. Host (someone I'm familiar with, very good player) was on AIU, did the first pizza. Second pizza was picked up by another player on AIU and then the inexplicable happened. He sat there. He SAT there.

He did not attempt to go to the drop off point, he camped down there while the other two were clearing the path for him. I was on top, making sure the other side was relatively clear. The minutes ticked down. wtf is he doing? I was wondering. Did he not know he has the package? But I saw him heading for it and picked it up. He knew what's going on. So what's up with him? Since I've no mic, I couldn't say anything. The host doesn't have mic either.

So near the last few seconds, host came up and we just sort of looked at each other. There's no way we could kick this guy off so we had to wait for the timer to go to zero. Match over. I was all for kicking if he stayed for the next match but he left. He dropped in again in the middle of a wave of the next match but left as soon as he came in.

If it's a glitch, he should have left when he realised somethings's wrong; frankly, I doubt it's a glitch. If he's really that clueless which I doubt, then he's a dimwit. If it's neither of the two, then it's malicious. He wanted to screw everyone over.