Old ME3 MP Strategies

Ach it is all dreary here - our ice cream shops won't open before February and I crave some chocolate ice. Or banana split! Yes, that'd be great!

Changes in the game were made to discourage camping e.g. fast moving Cerberus Dragoons, Geth Bombers and Pyros can no longer be over cover grabbed. You're better off running to the next spawn after wiping out the group in the current area, or getting the hell out to avoid being overrun. Either way, the game is more dynamic now.

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Idk, I feel like, ya know, sticking together... regardless of whether it's in a box or not is going to be a definitively better strategy than people just running around and shooting stuff on their own. Which is basically what happened once again every game I was in last night.

This brings about problems. (The only way of which I can think to solve is... follow whoever the best person of the other 3 is around and watch their back.)

You don't have people watching your back, you don't know where your teammates are during a battle, if you go down... good luck getting revived.

Not to mention, staying in the middle of the map is possibly one of the dumbest things I've seen. Yeah, let's have enemies come from multiple directions rather than just one.


Welp, time to make friends on PC, I suppose. lmao

To be honest, if you'd like the folks to do something, why not just speak up? I know it's hard to overcome the shyness, but well, I pugged mostly, and stuff I pick up from someone good I play with, well, it gets me killed when I expect other folks play just like someone else. I mean, I don't know how many times 3 players head into the land zone, while I scamper around to the other end of the map looking like a complete a-hole. Just because I know in my heart it's the right thing to do.... well, I am still abandoning the team. I can never telepathically divulge if they think they are pretty cool, so it's no biggie to do the land zone on silver, and maybe some maps you are smart to do it.... gods only know.

Also, well, I know I stick to silver precisely because I do not know a lot, and assume everyone else is the same way.

So, yep, if someone has a plan, I will be happy to hear it and will try to follow it to the best of mine. But I will not always manage to stick to it, hence... silver.

Anyway, the point I am trying to get across is just say something, don't stew in it. Well, politely would be sweet.

Well, think about where this game is right now: 4 or 5 years after release, and a new game is just about to hit the shelves. So, what you have left in the player pool are basically very few old guard that are solo'ing or playing uber-difficulties, and the folks like me, who started just now with other folks that started just now or learned on their own, and to add to that more often than not, there are folks that do the heavy lifting around, so you get very uneven groups, which makes it very hard to judge what's up. One pug you run the same kit and feel like an immortal goddess, and the next pug you die ingloriously, cause, OMG, now you are the one that gets all the agro.

Anyways, have fun regardless and well, would be nice if folks do talk :)

Thank you, I will. :) But I play at really odd times & my game version is at odds with a lot of folks', so I end up not really hanging out with the nice folks I meet on the boards a lot. Which is sad....

EDIT: Duh, there is also the LFG thread pinned, you can hook up with folks there too. Trust me, they know to stay out of the LZ....

So, your advice is... play solo? 

That sounds rather... bleh. And sort of defeats the point of multiplayer. If you mean just play solo in a room with other people... that's reeeeally annoying. Multiple people were doing that last night and it just ruined the games and forced failed extractions and/or partial extractions. 

This.

Clyde's the kind of person who, if he's running an optimal setup, can easily carry the whole game to extraction.  Plus it would be faster than grouping up with pubbies and attempting to work together.

Disagree. Camping is still viable. It's a cover based shooter with synergistic powers and ammo types. It makes sense to camp to minimize consumable loss. All of that said camping is boring and slow and for the most part pugs can't do it right. Idk do it BC I got to get mah kills but I recognize the value of the strategy. Anyone camping should also be able to recognize when it's time to move and be able to do that as well.

Well, some things are more obvious, like if the guy is carrying thing, and it says "defend" over his head, it's fairily easy to surmise that you stick around whether he wants it or not, and shoot stuff that shoots at him. So, tbh, as long as the folks try to do these, I am happy.

But the other thing you've mentioned, like holding choke-points and funnelling, this sounds like something I'd like a voice prompt to do.

Also, well, again, I would plead stupidity before conspiracy numerous times each night I play, tbh, because the game does let you get carried away, or carry out unplanned actions. Such as jumping over cover instead of dropping in cover, taking cover instead of reviving, and, my personal favorite (particulary cloaked) dropping numerous times into cover instead of starting to disarm the device.

Finally, carrying the object in that awesome way the guides tell you to... it's just not happening for me, so I die of embaracement while crab-walking, so I would rather anybody else carry the darn device. I hope we can toss it to one another in Andromeda, because that's gotta be the single turn off I have discovered in the objective based play so far.

On the contrary, it answers the question fine.  It's more efficient and faster to simply run around killing everything rather than hole up and draw the waves in to the team.

Despite what you think this is not a team game.  It's not SMITE where if one team member sucks the whole team suffers substantially.  In ME3, one person can overcompensate for everyone else sucking combined, and can carry the whole group if they're good enough.