How often do you kick in MP?

So you would kick me for using a widow? Or for using only a charger? Did you know that I had a lot of fun with my Mattock FemInf on gold? And did infact hold my own damn well enough to come in second. Again with only level 1 boosters equipped. Sure there are weapons far stronger than any of the ones listed in this post, but boy, given that the widow and raptor start to trivialize gold for me, two weapons that aren´t even maxed yet, I wonder what any of your other suggestions would do to gold.

Why would you only use a charger if the weight limit permits you to bring a sniper? I just said widow is good.

Brilliant. It's just that APEX means as good as nothing. APEX just means someone opened a lot of boxes from the store. Doesn't tell anything about what boxes were opened, nor how the boxes were financed. There are already some people who sank a thousand dollars into the store, and got an amazing APEX score with it. But, whether they're actually proficient at using any of those toys is debatable.

Kicking other players for using equipment you don't like also sends an odd message when you think about it. Sounds a bit like: "Hey guys, I suck, so I need 3 squadmembers with totally OP equipment to survive even the first wave!" The game's supposed to be a challenge. Overpowered equipment is counter productive to creating a challenge. Taking non-optimal equipment and making it work out well anyway is a challenge, and some people like that challenge.
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Apex increases as you level up and when you open boxes. Doesn't matter how you bought them since the higher your apex the more likely you are to have good guns. I played a lot and bought some packs as well. All high lvl apex player I played with were good.

All the talk about kicks really bothers me. I am still playing the SP campaign, and I am tempted to do SP only till tempers cool down and folks are overall happier. And also maybe not risk too many MP matches per night to avoid aggravating someone.

Yep. If you want to change up your characters colors do it before joining a lobby. Using your points and setting up boosters, no prob.

Also, I will vote kick if I see low level char and weps in gold-they're probably not ready for and will be a detriment to the team.

Don't worry, most people don't kick.  Start from Bronze, no one is gonna kick you out of there unless they are the biggest asshole in the universe.

Back in ME3MP, I don't remember kicking anyone out of Gold, especially if I was doing a tryhard character (still, might have done it 1 or 2 times). I happen to find carrying to be fun occasionally (introduces challenge? ). Being carried can also be fun so I don't blame others trying to get carried. And I can easily slip out from the lobby to another if I really don't want to play with someone.

I only kick my friends. But I only do it with love. 

I was kicked out of Bronze lobby on day one, before even playing, and had not forgotten that. I also read about people being kicked before extraction, and I never want to see that. I like to play overlevelled, because I am undergeared and under skilled, so if kick when irate is a thing, I want no part of it.

That's horrible! Come to think of it I got kicked out of ME3 last week. N7 55k+. I was playing Krogan Vanguard. Go figure. If you play on PC please add me as a friend I will play with you and help level you up. kukki_kaiju on Origin. I play nights after 7 EST & Weekends anytime.

May as well get your feet wet, the manifest grind will only be growing from here on out, and all the Vanquisher "heroes" in this thread need to remember that ;

a; It was a glitched gun (did 3x headshot multiplyer instead of x2 that it does now as per 1.05)
b;It's only a rare weapon, so somewhat easily gotten.

Start with Bronze and just mess about, thats what Bronze is for. Don't let these internet warriors get you down.

Ok, I get that people think they're special snowflakes. But, just answer me this. How do you take out a hydra/destroyer/ascendant without a sniper rifle on gold(no cobra)? You can't even melee a destroyer nor the ascendent. So, how do you help the team in that situation?