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Found a couple old videos I did a long time ago where I experienced some weird glitches. Enjoy.

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Oops..this was me3mp..sorry

Sounds like a LearnToStealth problem.

Only stealth right before an attack, or when doing an objective.

Opened the proper ports, found a match for the Daily Prestige bonuses, ended up being a duo.

Level 1, Rank 1 in Platinum

To close off my evening, I started up a Platinum Kett on Firebase Sandstorm match by myself. Soloed the first wave, and a new player (Human Vanguard) joined on Wave 2 Retrieval. He immediately started dying over and over. He wasn’t reviving himself, so I let him die and finished the wave myself. Wave 3. Same thing. I had already gone down trying to save him once, and I wasn’t going to do that again. Wave 4 was Retrieval again, and once again, I pretty much did the objective and wave completion myself. Wave 5 and we got another random (Asari Huntress). This was a tough wave with the Blaze Hydra and Anointed downing me a couple of times (I gelled myself).

Wave 6 rolls along and it’s Devices. I figured the Huntress would do this, but no. It’s up to me to get it done. At least the Huntress cloaked me a couple of times. After the last device, I let them know on mic that it was their turn to finish the wave, since I had done much of the work up till now. I waited and waited. There was lots of running around from my two teammates, but nothing was dying. After 5 minutes of watching this, I started getting rid of everything left on the battlefield: Destined, Anointed, Sharpshooters, one Berserker, and the Ascendant.

Now there were two Berserkers and the lone Behemoth left. They can do this right? The Vanguard kept dying after charging into the Berserker twins. To her credit, the Huntress did go in and revive the Vanguard several times (I launched Flak Cannon to stun the Berserkers so she could do her reviving in peace). The Huntress tried in vain to Lance the Berserkers to no avail. I finished one Berserker and the Behemoth, and whittled the armor on the last Berserker to the point where the Vanguard could finally dispatch it with his Katana.

At extraction, I was like, “You’re on your own.” I had no gels left and one first aid kit. A fourth person joined a minute into extraction. With 20 seconds to go, I made my way to the LZ. My teammates were there, along with two Ascendants, and Anointed, and the Behemoth! I dodged my way to the shuttle, but two of us didn’t make it.

In the lobby, I saw that the Huntress was around APEX 2800 and was armed with a Black Widow I and a Charger pistol (I think). The Vanguard was now a Level 5, APEX ~500, which meant that this must have been his first match! I sent him a message that, with respect, he really shouldn’t be playing Platinum. He replied that he played a lot of ME3 and wanted to rank up fast in MEA. I told him that’s fine, but not with a Level 1, Rank 1 Human Vanguard armed with a Katana!

He then asked me to teach him how to play, to which I told him to watch my YouTube videos.

Been in a few runs last couple of days in similar situation regarding new players, but had better outcomes.

1. In one run, Gold difficulty mission, a <300 APEX player joined in, and the host wanted to boot them. I pretended to not see that vote to kick, as I felt that kicking on Gold was unnecessary, especially since the host was 20k themselves, so not exactly lacking in gear or skill by then. Heck, I'd solo it if I had to, but I'd want those newer players to have something to work with after a run. Subsequently the host left and the hosting position came to me. Started it, completed it no issues. The players tagged along my Duelist and contributed as well as anyone could with a new account and were able to get an Expert pack at the very least from that run to progress into the MP game. A good upcoming player that one.

2. Platinum mission, weakpoint bonus, another <500 APEX player, this time was hosting. Normally I'd drop as I too feel that certain players shouldn't be in something where they are likely to contribute very little if anything at all, or get carried so much in a run that they'd feel like that was normal. But because I had scoured the lobbies prior to getting that one, I knew that there was no lobbies open on any other difficulty. So I switched to my Huntress to let this new player have this one run on me (assuming objectives weren't too harsh). Had another low APEX player join in mid way wave 3, and thankfully another high APEX player joined in a bit after that on an Avenger. Thanks to the help of that other player, we were able to get wave 6 hack, the whole team succesfully extracted, and the two new players were able to witness how to Stealth hack the run well (we were cloaking outside the circle then dashing back in, so the players got that info quickly enough). Two new players were able to get a few more packs that time and some experience with stealth too. Liked this one (outcome) a lot; should be two new quality PC players who should be joining the player list soon.

Still unconvinced normally that carrying is a good idea (especially on Platinum), but really glad these turned out well. The Gold or less difficulty doesn't make a difference in completion times really to me, so I don't mind giving those away, especially if the players learn the ropes from the run. But unfortunately I do recognise that this appears to be more the exception than the rule.

This is to be expected from newbies, but few days ago I stumbled across over 100k apex player who was playing HFA and dying constantly; I died twice because of him.

One from few days ago,,,

Smooth Gold runs for Magma/Tech Challenges, I think @grinch joined for one game.
Evening ended with successful Platinum APEX run.

Grinch

Yeah, that's my one word (@grinch ), because no PUGs joined the match, and so it was just Grinch