How in the hell can PUGs STILL be this bad?

People probably just trying this out or picking it up again after a long break before Andromeda comes out. When someone is dead, the first instinct is of course to revive; it takes discipline to look around first to see if there are Banshees or Ravagers somewhere where you cannot see them shooting. It's just a nice thing to do, to try to revive someone, no?

I ran out of medigels all the time when playing ME3MP, and simply did not use them on Bronze, because the idea is to build up those 33K credits to get a stack of medi gels for the Silver games. Very often, I found that I fall into spending all the earned credits getting medigels endlessly, and never having enough to get the weapon upgrade packs, because medi gels/shields boosts go faster than credits accumulate. I seriously, was starting to "heal with Missiles", because I had tons of missiles, but greeted my every medi-gel by name. Oh, look, Sandra's gone now... Barb, you are next, then we are screwed. It is actually quite hard to keep unlocking weapons (not to mention mods) past your second tier if you play Bronze and Silver. Unless you advance, you stagnate on spending all your earnings on supplies. And if you are not ready for Gold/don't like its difficulty level, you just get stuck on Manifest progression.

Sometimes folks get errors in judgment and just want to go kill things when others seem to have the rest under control, or, maybe, you know, feel a little bit useful when everyone else is geared to the teeth, and you can't seem to get a single damage number in, so you, like... just watching.

And, well, I said it before, I will say it again, BioWARE's prompt to EVAC is a terrible one. If I did not watch the guide before starting to play, I'd have never-ever guessed that when the game tells me to "go EVAC!" what it means is 'spread out, and avoid going to the EVAC" zone. I would have assumed that holding the EVAC zone is normal and expected last high difficulty stand, because of the game's prompt. They COMMAND me to do that. They should have used a different way to express it, as right now it is completely unintuitive and only from other players you learn that it is NOT what you are supposed to do.

if you CAn, by all means, advance, but bitching at the folks who obviously play at the appropriate difficulty level for them... because let's face it, Bronze is absolutely the place where you gotta be if you do the obvious goofs, is not exactly fair.

And all this time I thought I was playing with dogs, Bateman.

I thought the pace to max manifest was fine enough as it was.

TBH Your MO sounds boring, i prefer the Rambo thing.

Pugs are generally not good team players, you need to play with friends in order to get back into it correctly. I'm a scrub too, I'll always be one but I can still feel a lot of difference between when I play with friends or with pugs. Pugs are usually score whores, while friends are willing to be there with you, having your back and having patience with you at the same time.

No, they're not. They play like score whores and fail at it. Not to say there aren't any successful score-whoring pugs, but they usually have a Reegar, warp+incendiary or grenade spam in tow.

There are a number of factors you can check for in the lobby before the game starts, and make a determination on who is/isn't worth reviving. Things like:

-Do they have Equipment? No = No revive.
-Do they have a Piercing Adas? Yes = No revive.
-Do they have a Best of the Best banner? Yes = No revive.
-Do they have an N7 Fury with a PPR and a Black Widow? Yes = No revive.
-Do they have an absurdedly high amount of Challenge Points? Yes = No revive.
-Do they have an absurdedly low amount of Challenge Points in relation to their N7 Rank? Yes = No revive.
-Do they never shut up? Yes = No revive.
-Are they playing music from their smartphone over the ingame voice chat? Yes = No revive.
-Did they tell you to go play a lower difficulty? Yes = No revive.
-Are they a GI? Yes = No revive.
-Are they an Incendiary Reegar AIU? Yes = No revive.
-Are they a Harrier TGI? Yes = No revive.
-Are they a melee-spec Juggernaut?  Yes = No revive.

You can add to this list as you see fit.

Anyone in the lobby who doesn't meet any of the list criteria, stay close to them and revive if possible. Even if they are running all over the map, it's pretty certain they know what they are doing, will make the match go much more quickly/smoothly, and if they do happen to go down you will be there to help them help you.

I love playing bronze because when there are new inexperienced pugs I can look after them like a mama bird with all her chicks.

Lol I was supposed to be on that day we last talked about it but then it got too late here and I fell asleep. You have to be on at an earlier hour, I'm on Danish time!!

My latest favorite kits: SI/Venom, DAI/BW, QFI/Jav. Does that mean you are not going to revive me?  

Meanie!



BTW I do play SE/Venom...

I promise next time we'll play I am going to bring my Venom...
I totally agree it depends on the play style and map. But I usually find Infiltrators more useful than not.