Many congrats Doc a job awesomely done, bud! Although it was a safe bet that your perseverance and skills will get you there yet it kinda turned to be quite a ride still. Thanks for taking us along and ima gonna miss this thread
Ahem, there's a couple of us that can keep this thread going. Looks at you, then in mirror
that's true bud, we do have a few things we need to take care of eh. just wasn't sure of Doc's take on us hijacking his thread would be until this:
Many congrats Doc a job awesomely done, bud! Although it was a safe bet that your perseverance and skills will get you there yet it kinda turned to be quite a ride still. Thanks for taking us along and ima gonna miss this thread
Here's my progress report: there's no reportable challenge progress to report Yep, that's right ima still stuck with Ash. Some of the crowning moments of my recent endeavours included a wave 1 wipe (as mentioned to DistigousForest in the solos thread), some guardian induced deaths during wave 2, and also this little gem (from a few days back)...
Wave 10 Devices, 3/4 done. Other than that, i'm once again all but out of the decent level cyclonics and targetting ais. and while i'm reasonable comfortable committing full to Mattock gameplay to allow me tapping into AR amps, switching to the shield regen makes meeting the 5WS requirement slightly more... problematic. i really do hope though that i get this challenge done before i run out of explosive ammo III.......
A couple things. First, let's go back to the front page shall we. Second, the fact i'm posting here and not in the TC thread is the tell tale sign i'm still not done banging Ash. Wait. That did not come out exactly right. Ah well so be it. Third, whils screenies below are of my latest forays, they are from the last weekened so are a tad stale... Anyways,
Exhibit 1:
Post Mortem
Cause of Death
Notes: Got the fooking Targets each and every objective wave that match spiced up with the little things like Atlas surviving target switch nuking
Exhibit 2:
Post Mortem
Cause of Death
Additional Notes: Moar rage on closer examination of the last moments, presented here for your enjoyment see if you can spot the reason for yourself
Not pictured as part of the exhibits: multiple Wave 1 and 2 ragequits farming those 5 grabs. Thsoe were mostly attributed to own stupidity, the omnibutton's workign as intended, carebears overcrowding in the "queue here" zone, and shield strip rage Nemeses chases
Wont' have much time this weekend but gonna farm a little for some cyclonics and intend to give Ash another thrashing
Oh and another thing, larsdt you remmebr that chat about themed challenges and all? Why not give this one a go It's quite fun, mostly fun, and not nerve breaking or rage inducing, not at all. and with your skills that allow you to casually solo Platinum with various kits i say you'd get good odds on wrapping the whole series before i get past the damned Ash
A couple things. First, let's go back to the front page shall we. Second, the fact i'm posting here and not in the TC thread is the tell tale sign i'm still not done banging Ash. Wait. That did not come out exactly right. Ah well so be it. Third, whils screenies below are of my latest forays, they are from the last weekened so are a tad stale... Anyways,
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Wont' have much time this weekend but gonna farm a little for some cyclonics and intend to give Ash another thrashing
Oh and another thing, larsdt you remmebr that chat about themed challenges and all? Why not give this one a go It's quite fun, mostly fun, and not nerve breaking or rage inducing, not at all. and with your skills that allow you to casually solo Platinum with various kits i say you'd get good odds on wrapping the whole series before i get past the damned Ash
"I find the best advanced battlefield strategy is to have more bullets than the other guy" Krogan plural is Krogan
^ Okay larsdt , that pic made me laugh And the most possible scenario would be - you loosing your balls in the park. speaking from a personal experience with that series But you can give it a try. If you won't like it, you can always abandon it.
Notes: Got the fooking Targets each and every objective wave that match spiced up with the little things like Atlas surviving target switch nuking
Okay, I don't know if that's the case in this situation, but I'd like to remind you, that freshly spawned enemies are protected by damage reduction for a short period of time. So if you ever wonder why your nuke didn't kill whole spawn - that's why.
Distigious,where are the runs?MPApr2012 prove at least he tried.
Lol funny you should ask. I have no proof that I attempted, but I don't like taking pics of failure so you'll have to take my word for it. I failed my 3 attempts all in painful manners. First two were late on wave 4 where I got rushed by some very aggressive Centurians and didn't Ops or AR in time. And my last attempt, so far my best attempt. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Cerby queued up nicely for grabs, headshots done by wave 2, sniper and overall kill medals done, 5ws check. Great objectives, Pizza wave 3 and Escort wave 6 where I managed to work some magic dodging Dragoons and Phantoms. Then comes wave 8, I have 5 Ops Packs, 6 Gels, 6 Rockets.............................................................................................................................................................the baby wakes up from her nap :sob: . I'm not meant to complete this. I think I was at 30 mins wave 8 too.
We used to be in love, but now we're just in like And we broke all our promises, and baby, that ain't right
...So dis been that bloody Hanzo all along. At least now we know. The rest of my weekend attempts were my usual ragequits getting downed chasing those 5 grabs part at wave 1 wrap up rush. at least in such cases it's kinda quick and i don't end up sitting thinking that was another hour of my life i'm not geting back. Anyways, on a lighter note
larsdt welcome to the fray, and, congrats on the N1 tier completion already!! Glad to see you've decided to give the series a shot despite your inttial doubts hehehe. looking forward to more successes and while i'm sure you won't have much in the way of frustrations but you're welcome to share them, and your progress, here as well. yeah we did turn Doc's progress thread into a bit of a place to vent it seems
DistigousForest my commiserations on your attempt bud but hey the important things are the improtant things in the end. plus something something resolve something something harder, right??!
Sonashii i told ya never been Chief Williams's fan myself. think only had her survive a few playthroughs for a tick in the box back in the day. and now, after all these attempts her chances of her getting past Virmire? welll they're nonexistent. Hm. i should check out if there's a friendly fire ME1 mod
As far as the spawn nuking goes thanks bud yep well aware of the DR. doesn't prevent me from going off all prematurely in my impatience in way more cases i'd like to admit thouh. Yet in this particular cae it wasn't a fresh spawn i actually kited most of the spawn for a bit around the lower part of the map for that fucking cogbucket to lumber down and then nuked it while it was nicely bunched up with a goon and some nemeses. So the mooks went down sweet as and the Atlas? Well not so much, just down to your usual last sliver of armour
DistigousForest my commiserations on your attempt bud but hey the important things are the improtant things in the end. plus something something resolve something something harder, right??!
Tbh I feel pretty good after that run. I have the strategy down so I should get it in the next couple tries, that all depends on the RNG though If grabs are causing issues why not wait until there's only like 2 or 3 enemies left in wave 1 or 2? Or even wave 5 you can get an Engineer to charge you If it's Troopers and Centurians they'll just chase you so they tend to queue up nicely at times, plus the i-frames from the grab itself can make a funny situation at times. You can usually sneak a grab in here and there as well.
We used to be in love, but now we're just in like And we broke all our promises, and baby, that ain't right
DistigousForest my commiserations on your attempt bud but hey the important things are the improtant things in the end. plus something something resolve something something harder, right??!
Tbh I feel pretty good after that run. I have the strategy down so I should get it in the next couple tries, that all depends on the RNG though If grabs are causing issues why not wait until there's only like 2 or 3 enemies left in wave 1 or 2? Or even wave 5 you can get an Engineer to charge you If it's Troopers and Centurians they'll just chase you so they tend to queue up nicely at times, plus the i-frames from the grab itself can make a funny situation at times. You can usually sneak a grab in here and there as well.
The last 2 enemies left in any wave will rush your position regardless of where you are. It's the best way to go about the grabs medal.
“There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.” Morpheus - The Matrix *RETIRED BIRTHDAY WIZARD*
well... according to the empiric evidence it's actually the last 6, during wave 1 at least, that rush you and where i get myself in a trouble for instance is while whittling it down to those 6 before heading down to the grab area down below or when they instead queuing up properly they crowd up and you can't get a grab without shifting around
EDIT: mulled over docsteely 's remark a little more, hm... i am not sure about the rest of the waves admittedly. thought it was all the same but... gappy to stand corrected
EDIT: fuck, can't type today. well can't type as a rule, but toda's monday and fuck mondays i says. i also may need to change them keyboard batteries come to think of it
i am not sure about the rest of the waves admittedly. thought it was all the same but... gappy to stand corrected
I'm pretty sure all enemies on all waves start charging you when it's down to the last 6. The other waves just have Nemesis or Atlas that don't exactly bum rush. If there's Engineers, Centurians, or Troopers they'll definitely bum rush.
We used to be in love, but now we're just in like And we broke all our promises, and baby, that ain't right
well... according to the empiric evidence it's actually the last 6, during wave 1 at least, that rush you and where i get myself in a trouble for instance is while whittling it down to those 6 before heading down to the grab area down below or when they instead queuing up properly they crowd up and you can't get a grab without shifting around
EDIT: mulled over docsteely 's remark a little more, hm... i am not sure about the rest of the waves admittedly. thought it was all the same but... gappy to stand corrected
EDIT: fuck, can't type today. well can't type as a rule, but toda's monday and fuck mondays i says. i also may need to change them keyboard batteries come to think of it
Not entirely sure but I think they start rushing you once the wave budget is depleted, regardless of number.
I might have heard that from one of guys who used to post tutorials on You Tube (could have been caineghis or invaderone) back in the day...
"I find the best advanced battlefield strategy is to have more bullets than the other guy" Krogan plural is Krogan
so that you know larsdt you've broke my brain thank you very much bud... for the more than a day now i've been mulling over and over a mental exercise of figuring out what's the maximum, and minimum, number of units we can have in the field to trigger the rush mode. i refuse to put it on paper and clealry my tired brain refuses to cooperate. And i also came to realise that i actually don't know, what a scrub, when the budget is re/calculated whether it's on a death event or a spawn event, or both... i'll have to read through the library i suppose
EDIT: started reading, i now want to see a whole wave's budget worth spawn of swarmers don't ask
so that you know larsdt you've broke my brain thank you very much bud... for the more than a day now i've been mulling over and over a mental exercise of figuring out what's the maximum, and minimum, number of units we can have in the field to trigger the rush mode. i refuse to put it on paper and clealry my tired brain refuses to cooperate. And i also came to realise that i actually don't know, what a scrub, when the budget is re/calculated whether it's on a death event or a spawn event, or both... i'll have to read through the library i suppose
EDIT: started reading, i now want to see a whole wave's budget worth spawn of swarmers don't ask
Try using the console command profile mpgame
The image below shows a bronze solo vs. Cerb in real time, wave 1 and 2 respectively. The budget on wave 1 is 240 i.e. I had to take out 12 troopers worth 20 points each (0-11) to finish the wave. Wave 2 begins with 7 troopers and one Centurion.
I feel like Steve Young after his first superbowl win lol, "Somebody please get this monkey off my back!" It could've been faster too if I could actually glitch a hack, but such is life.
Yeah i'm still not posting in the main thread 'cause i still have some gripes to settle with that Ash bitch... but i just need to say this
As for the N7.I - Spectre status recognized - it can go and love itself. Hated every moment of it..
PAIV is proving not to be the best choice, but I've only attempted twice. It's great for stripping Phantom's barriers in one case, but I gotta play safer than I like to. And 5 medals, what the hell?!
PAIV is proving not to be the best choice, but I've only attempted twice. It's great for stripping Phantom's barriers in one case, but I gotta play safer than I like to. And 5 medals, what the hell?!
Kills, weapon kills, HS, Tech kills and grabs, so what's the problem? Just joking. Told you before it is the most difficult on the 7th tier.
“There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.” Morpheus - The Matrix *RETIRED BIRTHDAY WIZARD*
It's your turn and if you don't try it, I'll unleash muahmuah on you. Just ask Clyde how that works... 
and yep i can see the other Doc still keeping his eye on the thread as well 
113 UR to go
Yep, that's right ima still stuck with Ash. Some of the crowning moments of my recent endeavours included a wave 1 wipe (as mentioned to 
And the most possible scenario would be - you loosing your balls in the park. speaking from a personal experience with that series 
But you can give it a try. If you won't like it, you can always abandon it. 
:sob: . I'm not meant to complete this. I think I was at 30 mins wave 8 too. 
If grabs are causing issues why not wait until there's only like 2 or 3 enemies left in wave 1 or 2? Or even wave 5 you can get an Engineer to charge you If it's Troopers and Centurians they'll just chase you so they tend to queue up nicely at times, plus the i-frames from the grab itself can make a funny situation at times. You can usually sneak a grab in here and there as well. 
and where i get myself in a trouble for instance is while whittling it down to those 6 before heading down to the grab area down below or when they instead queuing up properly they crowd up and you can't get a grab without shifting around
don't ask 
On the bright side... while may not be much consolation right now, having to have at least another go, you are pretty much there bud!
