The Daily Fail: Novice Solo-ers Support Thread (Now with less fail!)

Attempt one:

Raider Valkyrie versus Cerberus on Firebase White, Platinum. Fail on wave eight, due to phantom sword to the gut, though I'm pretty sure the damn bitch didn't even melee before. Magneted to her. Lost two gels on freaking wave one, of course, due to phantoms, the next three during next six waves, lost my last one to the last pyro on wave seven, because I obviously don't know how to use RHA Missiled waves two and five, with two Atlases and two banshees respectively. Objectives were escort wave three, pizza delivery wave six, with two pizzas spawning very close.

Mission time, 27:37. Lots of scrubbery was present, but me thinks halfway decent first attempt. Warp and incendiary glitch did all the heavy lifting and I'm not proud of it, but it's platinum, so I'm not gonna stress about it too much either.

Probably my last attempt this week, but I'm certainly gonna retry it again and hope the RNG gods bestow their favour on me.

Yay~! Go! We are all rooting for you!

Nice getting to W8 on your first attempt! And speedily, too! I know you can do it!

Since soloing Plat is the new thing to do I gave it a try. And I got this:



here



No problem right? Didn't waste much time, just retry it! Well...



(in case it's not clear - fission mailed)

Just meh.
I took Drell Infiltrator und spammed some Recon Mine. That worked.

Good to see a new batch of soloers taking their shot. Congrats on completing your first Plat solo

Congratulations! Third time is the charm! There is so much win in this thread right now!

I sort of maybe possibly disagree with that- I never go into a plat solo intending to use missiles on waves 1 or 2 (typically my missile strategy is one missile cleanup on each objective wave, two missiles on both waves 5 and 9, and one missile on both 4 and 8), but if a really perfect opportunity presents itself I definitely will nuke on those waves. You can go a whole game without many great nuke opportunities, so I tend to think the whole bird-in-hand thing is a pretty reasonable approach here.

It was kinda cathartic to blow two Atlases and a goon with a missile Plus, I admit I was a little under the influence of guys like you and gals like Techno, who sometimes missile wave two in their speedruns. That was before I remembered that I'm not aiming for speedrun, but it was still fun

No panic was present, no siree!

Thanks, I was quite surprised at the time myself But lets be fair, I used one of the highest DPS builds possible and I had pretty much god like objectives. I know from my gold and silver solos that, as soon as I get devices, I'm pretty much toast. I know the principle of kiting, but I can't seem to pull a decent kiting for the life of me.

Plus, I watched Techno solo Cerberus/White so many times, it feels like she did half the work

But I had fun and despite all the derpiness(let me tell you, those two gels on wave one almost made me rage quit), I will try it again. I just hope I don't run out of shotgun amps before I manage to do it.

Nope, it was like that from the beginning. Where's the logic in giving the greater title for the lesser achievement?!

yeah i know, but i mocked Aw at the time, must have read it backwards.


I started my journey with drell solos, PPR Dreldept and 2 nice fails on white uknown, one vs reapa, one vs collectors. Dont remember how long the PPR needs to charge up, but FoV bug sucks. I ll have to pick another weapon.

That's what you get for using Incendiary Reegar:

Congratulations! This game just seems to keep offering new, fun challenges even after all these years. I can only hope Andromeda gives us more of the same!