***Your Last Pug in One Word- v2 Andropugs!***

My goto Plat character (as long as there is no more than 2 stealth characters, I refuse to take ALL the aggro) is the Artificer because of her extreme debuff potential. I don't think any of our plats (even bad ones) were 19minutes? Most seem to be around the 16 minute mark. It would definitely help if I had better guns (My only Siphons are Ghost and Katana, most of the guns I use are level 1 non-variants), but this is also why I play as a debuffer, not a dps, it's the best I can provide to the equation (and even when trapped alone, Artificer has enough debuff that my guns can generally drop anything short of Behemoth/Progenitor/Blaze Hydra).

As to Hosts, it seems our main two are in Sweden and Finland, so if you're from the greater European area, you shouldn't have any/much lag, questionable if American, MEAMP seems pretty picky about latency.

I always have one rule, even when I happen to play on a stealth character, (which I've actually started doing cause I love Tagent Flamethrower with cloak,) and that rule is to KILL EVERYTHING that I see that isn't on my team. I notice a lot, especially in pugs that red health and shield health enemies run around with a sliver of red bar left. Having a enemy still with 10% health is just as dangerous as an enemy with 100%.

Only class I've survived those types of encounters with is the juggernaut and human vanguard. Both due to "invincible" frames. But it is possible. Take out the "lazer" mobs (anointed,observer) 1st That will give you frames if jug and take out the main damage as vanguard. Always prioritize the lighter weight target 1st, it gives you one less enemy shooting death your way.

I live on eastern side of America, I've had a few games with European friends and it was a 30/70 of good games, to I'd be embarrassed if anyone seen me playing this game. Usually it was fine if it was certain players, I guess if more than 1 person joined to far from the host though, it would go to shyt.

Hosted with 56k Fax Modem...

One thing I have noticed that no one seems to be able to grasp, (on PC of course) is that origin windows put a large strain on your PC and connection. Many people are online playing ME3MP with origin windows and chat windows open in the background. Even on my PC while hosting, game turns to complete shyt and looks like Beerfish example with a origin window open.

Oh, I think it depends on time, place and platform. In Europe on PC its quite rare to only solo I've noticed, but sometimes the matchmaking fails hard. Bronze is becoming a bit like, the new low level players go straight to silver (and die on first wave )

I've had to solo Apexes on Bronze and Silver relatively often. It's not rare at all for me, but then, I play different hours to you.

Okay!

After testing Arkhne 's new 4G hosting which worked really good, I hosted random gold lobby. The PUGs were okay, even in chaotic blaze hydra & hydra combo situation, revived and so on. Of course they werent really low level ones, and the Kineticist could play properly with my Human Adept.

Oh, yeah, I know the drill. Thing is, I have three bars when I host myself, despite my pretty good rig and decent IP, so... who the heck knows what it wants.

Got some folks to join my bronze attempt, or maybe I was added to someone’s game b/c it was Glacier, not Derelict, and it got disconnected so I got annoyed and tried my lowbies solo. I actually did better on the Insurgent that was level 2/III than on scrapper 16/VI and architect 5/II? Anyway, I really liked the remnant pet, so I pugged a couple of uneventful silver games, then thought to try gold, but was too early for me. I got descimated by remnant on my VG on the Apex mission, and quit to not burden the good folks with revivals. So, there is some life in the module, which is nice.

Yepp, this has also been reported to me, I see 3 bars, others see 4. Sooo...