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This entire thread makes me sad. I miss ME3 multiplayer :(

Is there a chance for you to switch to PC and play with us? Let me guess, you have a laptop which is only capable to check email and watch videos?

No, I have a bespoked rig with an i7 2600k and a GTX 680. I do not want to spend $20 buying the game again, and losing all of my progress and unlocks. My MP level was somewhere around 1600 when I last played, so I had unlocked quite a bit. I don't think I could start over from scratch without my beloved Black Widow, Geth Infiltrator, Asari Justicar, etc.

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I've never tried the mp. Is it any good? Or maybe I'll just try it at some point, now that I have slightly more free time.

It's 4 player co-op wave based horde mode with the occasional objective. There's tons of unlocks. Characters, weapons, weapon attachments, other junk. I think it's fun. I know some people think the combat in Mass Effect sucks compared to every other third person shooter, but I enjoy it.

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Hot Multiplayer Tips:

 

Some enemies have melee animations that will kill you in one hit. When I say kill I mean kill, not being incapacitated. I believe these are limited too the Phantom, Banshee, Praetorian, Brute, Scion, and Atlas. Be careful when resurrecting people near these enemies, you or them may be killed, especially near Phantoms. The Geth Juggernaut class is immune to this bologna.

 

You can shoot the armor plates off the shoulders of the Brutes, this exposes their flesh and increases the damage you do to that area. Praetorians have similar armor you can shoot off on their bellies. The Brutes death animation of his arm swinging out CAN hit you and kill you, watch out for that.

 

The Atlases have plates on their knees and shoulders that can be destroyed. When you destroy them it makes the Atlas take a burst of damage and causes them to stagger.

 

The Banshee weak spot is her head. When the banshee has a wavy orb around her she'll absorb any Biotic or technical abilities, you can shoot her to drop this barrier.

 

The Geth Prime weak spot is its glowing cyclops looking eyeball. Geth Primes spawn Geth Turrets and robotic orb things.

 

Enemy engineers set up turrets, the turrets are one of the devious enemies in the game. If you're exposed to one for more than a few seconds you'll go down. Turrets also don't count towards the enemies in a wave. So even if the wave is over enemy turrets can still be on the map.

 

Your gun's recoil is reduced when you're taking cover.

 

Multiple people activating the same objective doesn't make it go any faster UNLESS it's an area objective, such as an escort or hacking.

 

You can activate objectives while invisible. The time it takes to activate an objective is almost the same length of time that a full upgraded stealth lasts. Hit the stealth key and then begin doing the objective, you'll be safe the whole time. On higher difficulties it's not unusual for a single stealth player to go out and do all the objectives and run back to the "home base". You can no longer resurrect people while staying invisible.

 

Objective waves have infinite enemy respawns until the objective is complete. If you're far from an objective don't try to clear the area you're in and then head to the objective, make a run for the objective right away, running passed any enemies near you unless you really have to kill them. When the objective is complete enemies stop respawning and you can kill them all to complete the wave.

 

Cobra missiles will kill anything in one hit. Try not to freak out and waste them. Use them when you have 2-3 large enemies together that you can take out all at once or to clear the extraction/objective zone in a dire situation. Aim at the ground near your target if you can, it's easier to hit the ground than a moving enemy.

 

You get more points for the team the more people that are in the final extraction area when the countdown timer ends. If everyone is alive in the extraction area you get a "Full Extraction", which is worth 15,000 XP. You now get bonus credits for extracting as well.

 

You can cancel reload animations to reload weapons faster. If you look at your ammo count while reloading you will see that the number of rounds goes up before the animation is finished. If you hit a button to use an item, such as medigel, it will cancel the rest of the animation. This is extremely useful on weapons that have one shot per clip, like the Widow Sniper RIfle or the Claymore Shotgun.

 

Biotic explosions are a huge damage dealer and very popular on higher skill levels. To set them up use a biotic ability that has an effect that last an amount of time, such as Pull, Reave, Stasis or Warp. After using one of those on an enemy hit them with another biotic power and it will cause a biotic explosion. You can also use special ammo types, like Warp ammo for the same effect. There are also Tech Bursts, Cryo Blasts and Fire Explosions, all work the same way as biotic explosions but use different abilities. Just think of it as a primer and trigger.

 

When buying crates you have to think about if you want to unlock everything or just unlock whatever. When you buy a crate you get random items and a chance for higher rarer items. Each weapon and weapon upgrade has a level. Weapons go up to level 10, so you can unlock each weapon 10 times. If you want to unlock everything and do your crates as efficient as possible start with Recruit crates until you have all common weapons at level 10. When you get a weapon at level 10 you will no longer receive it in crates, this prevents you from buying a higher level crate and getting a crummy common weapon. Once you get all common weapons to level 10 you move on to veteran crates to get uncommon weapons. If you don't really care about getting everything just buy whatever crates you want. Keep in mind there's a crate that only has supplies, like medigels and missiles, it contains no characters or weapons. Also, when playing online, it's polite to buy your crates when someone went AFK and you know you have the time or when you're done playing for the night, not between rounds. People don't want to sit around and wait while you look through the 10+ items you just got from a crate.

 

My final tip is try to stick together and pay attention to what the objective is. If it's a hacking mission stick together and stay in the zone. If it's an assassin objective, stick together and work your way to the targets. If it's an escort, stay in the area around the escort. Running off by yourself will get yourself killed and then someone else has to risk their life to try and go resurrect you. On Bronze it's not that big of a deal, but on higher difficulties if you die by yourself you're not worth the risk and are going to bleed out.

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Phantom, Banshee, and Praetorian

 

Also brutes, scions and atlas. They are rarer but very fast, so stay on your guard.

 

When the banshee has a wavy orb around her she'll absorb any Biotic or technical abilities

 

Shoot her with bullets to take the shield down. It doesn't take a lot of them.

 

The Banshee has no weak spots

 

They updated this: she now takes more damage from headshots. Brutes, atlas (not the head, but the rotor on his back) and geth primes do as well now.

 

When the Banshee has barriers (the purple bar) it can teleport

 

She can always teleport now, even when stripped down to armor.

 

resurrect people while invisible

 

Be careful, as performing the resurrection will end your cloak and make you visible.

 

Cobra missiles will kill anything in one hit

 

They have a large AoE, so make sure you ALWAYS aim them at the ground.

 

If everyone is alive in the extraction area you get a "Full Extraction", which is worth 15,000 XP.

 

You also get extra credits for extracting now.

 

You can cancel reload animations to reload weapons faster

 

This. Learn it. It'll make you way more deadly.

 

 

Other than that: what Voodoo said. He pretty much nailed it.

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Some enemies have melee animations that will kill you in one hit. When I say kill I mean kill, not being incapacitated. I believe these are limited too the Phantom, Banshee, and Praetorian. Be careful when resurrecting people near these enemies, you or them may be killed, especially near Phantoms.

 

 

The instakill (sync kill) doesn't work on the player if they are using the Geth Juggernaut character. Juggernaut can be slightly staggered by enemies like the Praetorian, but no instant kill animation.

 

Also, the character is hilarious to play.

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Some enemies have melee animations that will kill you in one hit. When I say kill I mean kill, not being incapacitated. I believe these are limited too the Phantom, Banshee, and Praetorian. Be careful when resurrecting people near these enemies, you or them may be killed, especially near Phantoms.

 

 

The instakill (sync kill) doesn't work on the player if they are using the Geth Juggernaut character. Juggernaut can be slightly staggered by enemies like the Praetorian, but no instant kill animation.

 

Also, the character is hilarious to play.

 

Unlocked him yesterday. He's pretty awesome.

 

Did you go hex shield or turret?

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Thanks TheDude. I knew they probably changed some stuff since I played but didn't know what. I'll edit my post and fix that stuff.

 

I like the Geth Juggernaut, I was using it last night when playing with WalkingCat and Avenger. On Bronze the cannon ability can take out fodder enemies in one shot and take out brutes, atlases, and geth primes in one three shoot barrage. I don't know how well it works on higher difficulties. I respeced and switch from damage to 10% damage reduction per cannon shot ready to fire and got the skill that lets you have four. So 40% damage reduction isn't bad.

 

I used the shield wall some it seems okay but I haven't tried it fully upgraded yet. I also didn't put any points into the geth turret since I have that on my geth engineer. The heavy melee is also awesome. Has some range on it, looks cool, recharges your shields.

 

I was messing around with it last night and got to wave 9 solo without going down. I think I'll try a solo bronze run with it today.

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You cant...you can simply do the following actions when it asks to reload

 

1: starting to sprint

2: going into cover

3: getting out of cover

4: rolling

5: Using any of the Powers (Cloak, etc)

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I only play gold and platinum. Haven't tested Geth Juggernaut for platinum yet, but for gold you just go full shield spec. its a crazy amount of shields + the pulse siege or whatever adds damage protection per shot not fired yet.

 

just pick them off from a distance or get in close (but dont close in out in the open or you'll go down). Stick to corners. When close use the heavy melee alternating with a power or firing ur gun. Repeat till it stops moving.

 

Also tip: ALWAYS equip a gear item. Unlike the other items they aren't consummables which disappear after one game.

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You cant...you can simply do the following actions when it asks to reload

 

1: starting to sprint

2: going into cover

3: getting out of cover

4: rolling

5: Using any of the Powers (Cloak, etc)

I have my mouse thumb button bound to medigel. It doesn't do anything while you're alive except let you cancel the rest of a reload animation.

I only play gold and platinum. Haven't tested Geth Juggernaut for platinum yet, but for gold you just go full shield spec. its a crazy amount of shields + the pulse siege or whatever adds damage protection per shot not fired yet.

 

just pick them off from a distance or get in close (but dont close in out in the open or you'll go down). Stick to corners. When close use the heavy melee alternating with a power or firing ur gun. Repeat till it stops moving.

 

Also tip: ALWAYS equip a gear item. Unlike the other items they aren't consummables which disappear after one game.

I specced out my Juggernaut for shields and HP. He has 2,300 HP and 4,600 shields. I also have Power Transfer, so when I heavy melee is makes my shields go back up pretty fast. On Bronze nothing does more damage than the shields can regenerate. I want to try it on Gold but I'm afraid of getting ridiculed. :D

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Don't be :D

 

I play juggernaut on gold all the time. Use a cyclonic modulator if you're not at ease. You can stay alive against a prime and a pyro attacking at the same time (even without the modulator). Just spam his heavy melee on the prime (but take out the pyro first). Any more than that gets difficult though, but it'll still take you a while to go down, by that time ur buddies should be coming in.

 

favourite classes are:

 

geth trooper (flamethrower on him is beast, couple with acolyte for shields)

turian ghost (with cerberus harrier at V, AP ammo and warfighter package V - need i say more?)

Juggernaut Geth (because you feel like a badass)

Asari biotic (forgot the name - the one with stasis, warp and throw)

 

I'm forgetting some, but those are my go-to classes. I rarely score under 120K with those (cept for Geth Juggernaut)

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Some enemies have melee animations that will kill you in one hit. When I say kill I mean kill, not being incapacitated. I believe these are limited too the Phantom, Banshee, and Praetorian. Be careful when resurrecting people near these enemies, you or them may be killed, especially near Phantoms.

 

 

The instakill (sync kill) doesn't work on the player if they are using the Geth Juggernaut character. Juggernaut can be slightly staggered by enemies like the Praetorian, but no instant kill animation.

 

Also, the character is hilarious to play.

 

Unlocked him yesterday. He's pretty awesome.

 

Did you go hex shield or turret?

 

My current build: http://narida.pytalhost.com/me3/classes/#Soldier/GethJuggernaut/PPANP//////

 

I use Juggernaut Shield IV for gear, so it's 17% shields and 10% melee.

 

I generally play Silver, so I went with hex shield. (Funny story: I dropped down a large hex shield before disarming the last of the four points. Turned around after I was done and saw 5 Guardians bouncing backwards, unable to pass through; now they know what it feels like.) I've heard players use geth turret on Gold or Platinum though for the shield restore function.

 

I'd spec him differently if I was playing on higher (I've played Gold a few times in the past but not with this kit; don't feel like trying Platinum at all), like change the sixth evolution of Siege Pulse to number of shots like everybody else, abandon hex shield for geth turret, etc.

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I think everyone is upto silver now. Our newbies are making some real progress!

 

Silver's wave 10 is giving me a heart attack. My poor stressed heart. I should play more Bronze level for my health. haha!

 

 

 

 

This post sounded more exciting in my head.

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