Apex mission with +100% combo detonation damage

They took the fun out because they're mean and they don't want us to enjoy the game. And they're completely incompetent and don't know how to create a good game.

To be honest though, I thought the +100% detonation damage was somewhat decent. But it also highlighted the fact that even a +100% buff is nowhere near enough to make the detonations powerful enough so as to become fun to use, like in me3mp. And that is cause for some major concern. They didn't just drop the ball on this one, they really went beyond that. To miss the target by more than a factor of 2...that's extraordinary. I still enjoyed the mission though, it was nice to see my biotic combos taking off more than a third of enemies' health bars. If they were to buff the combos permanently in this way, it might actually change the way we play the game and the way we look at power combos.

It's a huge kick in the teeth to see just how easy for them to modify the game in such a major way, in any way they like...yet they're still doing nothing to provide permanent fixes for the many problems that plague the multiplayer. Giving us one-off apex mission that make combos decent or that make assault rifles decent (one of the recent missions gave +50% AR damage which definitely provided a significant amount of damage and made the game more fun) is some extreme trolling, they're just plain taunting us at this point. "Here's a flavour of how we can make the game much more fun for you. And now we're going to snatch it away. It's very easy for us to improve the game, but we're going to troll you and only make these buffs a one time thing so you have to suffer the rest of the time with weapons and combos that do no damage." That's some grade A trolling.

Fake news

Did I hallucinate this or at one point pre-launch did they say that players would be able to adjust stuff like this in the missions, at the cost of reduced (or increased!) XP and credits?

Because that would be fun. I would make all my lobbies have +1,000% combo damage and even if I only got 10% XP/credits I wouldn't care.

I want a biotic combo so powerful it will blow up a cement truck.

I loved this mission so much I made it my "ME:A Confession":

bsn.boards.net/post/512408

No, the one I played had nothing to do with "combo detonations" just detonations. Grenades where much stronger than normal.

Yeah that's "power damage" detonations is power combos. So yeah you tricked yourself and then bragged about how swag your imaginary extra damage was.