Tricks and tips

Generic tips:
- Hovering over the ground will make you immune to staggering, good with Aegis Shield (Backlash).
- Press jump couple of times if first jump fails (in a laggy game)
- Asari Sentinel Specific: Throw & Energy Drain can be comboed both ways around and by timing properly you'll get tech->biotic->tech combos. Throwing and waiting for levitation/flying of the enemy and then draining makes a good area bomb if done properly.
- Evade ski'ing is not a good way to move on higher difficulties I've noticed, better to either run or walk, I usually walk*. You'll probably evade into a bit wrong directions and you lose the advantage of long range if the kit enables it (Asari Sentinel bombardment again )
- Jump backwards(&evade if necessary) while shooting at the "dogs"/Breachers, do this before they go backwards and start to jump at you



* I usually walk when I get into the target area/targets in my sight/am in crossroads area/near cover. Generic moving is running and jumping over obstacles to get the shortest route to targets. Evade is used more when in air/ending hover/to cover.

Which kits can outrun?

Basically that you'll lose direction easily or run into the enemies with careless evade spamming in panic.

I've found that if you jump in the air when you first hear the hum of the Observer's laser powering up, it doesn't lock onto you unless you evade. I think a kit with Biotic Wind can briefly outrun the Observer's laser too, but eventually, it will lock onto you. The fraction of a second can give you enough time to get into cover.

I can test this the next time I play. Obviously, if there are multiple Observers on the field, you're out of luck.

Almost the only thing Nova is really good for, LOL. I do have fun with Seismic Nova on Human Vanguard, but otherwise the damage really needs a buff.

Nova is a monster in the single player. I wish we had that Nova (well, it can be buffed into a monster).

Nova could have been improved in MP, but it’s not entirely bad if you go all in in its evolution tree. The Krogan Gladiator can strip the shields of most Platinum enemies with one Nova blast. Provided, of course, you can get close enough to the enemies! It can also stun enemies, allowing you to headbutt them or finish them off with your weapon.

I’m almost done with my Health Bonus stat, which means Health and Shield Regeneration Delay Reduction will be the remaining bonus stat to work on. I’d like to play a lot more Kroguard, but I’m low on Power Efficiency Boosters, which I think is a prerequisite for a Nova-centric kit on Gold/Platinum.

You need to time it right. Don't tap to fast.
The trick is to activate it again before animation ends, but you have to wait animation to start.

Cool tricks and observations - one thing important though, if you got latency in game (high ping time), many of the handy tricks are harder to do. If you are new player and have problems, host a game - also train your self in a private game trying the different things.

A good trick with Blacklash (remember to setup for reflection 5B as vanelsa said): Before using Blacklash on a boss enemy, just spray some rounds on enemies left/right of the attacking boss - the reflected shoots from the aegis barrier will kill those on side line with luck or at least stagger them.

What about scorewhoring?

I was referring to pugs. As you said, they all go guns blazing like crazy on extraction wave. I usually do my own thing, running around map and avoiding crowds, while pugs stay together most of the times.

^This!

I still see too many Stealth Grid characters refreshing their stealth while remaining in the circle and then wondering: "Where the f*** are those two Berserkers coming from who are camping my circle even though I'm perma-invisible?"

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Bekqifyre 5 points 6 days ago*

- Nova is a Universal primer. This means it will prime everything. Except for Shields you need to do jumping Nova. Jumping Nova feels like it has no I-frames. Standing Nova is i-frame.

- Cryo Beam Level 6 - Snap Freeze/Frozen Shatter. If you don't know how this thing works, you might want to play with it some more. Hint: It can One-Hit KO Progenitors on Platinum and regularly clear a whole room.

- Turbocharge will magically refill your ammo. And if you're completely out of ammo, still magically give you ammo.

- Barricade will re-route enemy pathfinding completely. Block a doorway and they will simply no longer want to come in through that door.

- Some powers like Backlash, Tactical Cloak and Flamethrower has recharge proportional to how long you were using the skill. This means for Tactical Combat Cloak variation, as long as you minimize time in Cloak, you can end up almost constantly using cloak.

- Overload is a Primer at Lv 1. If you follow up quick enough.

- The Biotic Passive Biotic Warrior does a bad job of describing what it does. It should say "A jumping melee attack will floor whole groups of unshielded." Try doing this at the end of charging enemies with Backlash out for best effect.

- The Salarian Infiltrator has the longest Cloak duration of all Stealth users. Not quite hidden technique, but maybe not obvious.

- The Cryo Gauntlet has a slight Frozen Shatter effect that will slightly hurt a close by enemy when the target is killed, but nowhere near the actual Cryo Beam/ Frozen Shatter skill.

- The Cryo Gauntlet in the hands of the Artificer, however, is basically a nuke in the palm of your hands, since Artificer actually has the Cryo Beam skill. Three punches is all she needs to nuke an entire room.

- The Turian Agent's Visor ability lets him hit through cover. This also means the shield on the Nullifiers. It also means the shield around the Ascendent. The only reason you can't kill the Ascendent this way is because he technically doesn't have a health bar when the shield is up. You can, however, track the orb 100% of the time through the shield.

- At full power, the Visor's through-the-wall range is impressive. You can often times kill stuff on the next level up from the room below. This means unrivalled 100% safety on platinum.

- The Turian Havok Trooper with a Siphon automatic weapon on Turbocharge/Supercharge while in the air is basically un-killable. Unless you were suicidal. Still might not kill you.

- The Kett Carfelon sword restores HP with every hit. It was a Siphon weapon before there were siphon weapons.

- The Angara Avenger can knife everything to death after Avenger Strike. 5 seconds stun was it? This should be obvious, but quite a lot of people don't realize you can literally knife a Behemoth to death.

- The Kineticist can land a combo anywhere on the map of her choosing. She does this by icing something and hurling it at said spot. This technique can be said to be her bread and butter, but don't see too many doing it. Don't kill the dog. Prime it and use it as a bomb.

- The Krogan Gladiator can inflict massive AoE damage if he has enemy held by pull when he drops the hammer.

- The Asari Sword has massive range. Like, it's basically a mini charge. Stop trying to catch up to them, just hit it.

- The Progenitor on Wave 5 of Platinum will regularly get stuck if no one pokes the bear.

- Enemy bodies count as cover for avoiding gunfire and rockets. The safest way to fight a Blaze Hydra is right in its face..

Yep, I have a lot to test also. Have been so enamored with my new studio equipment I've been playing short bursts (with a lot of new players also and 'not so new' who seem to be playing a lot what I've seen from their APEX ratings.. I get new PUG randos every day when any gameing ) and actually playing the game through them also to learn how they sound. The same I did with AKG K712Pro headphones too. Mixing is ace on Mass Effect Andromeda, really professional stuff in a game engine and the changing enviroments the different effects play and sound different. Just wow... ok enough rambling (If you want to check out what its Slate Digital VSX).

I dont think I've ever even tried that Biotic Warrior