Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Tips and tactics discussion.

[Sleepless Gamer]

So Yeah... ANOTHER Mass effect 3 thread..

I'd like to avoid some of the bile that has been tossed at this game if at all possible, and have a sort of swap meet of little tricks for taking down the hoards of enemies the game throws at you, also tales of uphill battles that went your way and how you achieved them are also welcome.

One last thing, if we can all share XBL/Origin/PSN accounts then maybe, just maybe, we can avoid the sort of people that think its fun to try and play a level 1 soldier on a silver reaper run ..

Captcha = Mother earth, sort of fitting with the take earth back spiel of the game.

*edit* My Xbl account is Xdarknessfalls if anyone wants to team up some time, i'll usually be on either my Asari adept or Turian Vanguard, railing things with my trusty phalanx :3

 

[The Wykydtron]

PROTIP: Get decent level Vanguards. Lots of them. Possibly Krogan as well.

Just don't forget to carry the level 14 Infiltrator with the very basic gear to victory as well! Stupid drops. You give me my Quarian from the word go yet no sniper gear at all? You dick!

Oh and people will not fuck off when i'm trying to use Sabotage on the Geth, y'know the only faction that lets Sabotage be used to its maximum potential?

There were even people shooting at the Pyro who was obviously shooting at everything that wasn't our team. Every single time. Prioritise targets people! I can only pull off the invisible medic trick so many times!

I wonder if having a mixed faction mode would be good? Banshees, Phantoms and Primes all at once. Funtimes abound!

 

[AD-Stu]

OK - a question as much as anything: what's the best strategy for evacuation on the reactor map?

I'm yet to find a team that's done it well, and the actual evac zone is all but indefensible (as opposed to, say, the Noveria or Benning maps from the demo). Is it better to pick another spot to defend from, then sprint for the evac zone at the last second?

 

[Uszi]

You need at least one engineer. Honestly, the engineer is broken. Drone/Decoy drawing a Banshee's or Brute's aggro is invaluable, as is incinerate/overload/shield drain/etc.

 

[Sleepless Gamer]

Yeah no kidding, My turian vanguard seems to be more armoured than an atlas. As for the drops, i have had some mixed bags, my only gold weapons are the plasma shotgun, and the hornet. The former i love in a way i'm sure there are laws against. The latter, meh. Trying to keep that thing on target even in cover is a pain in the ass.

I have to say my fave weapon i have access to right now is the phalanx with a mark 5 scope and the mark 2 barrel. A stalwart companion that i had all through the demo and gleefully unlocked the other day.

Best tips i can offer as an asari adept 9/10 times is to Really pick the targets with your stasis, Centurions, Marauders, and Geth rocket troopers are the first I go after due to the fact that power laughs at thier shields. Then all you need to do is head shot them till they run home and cry.

Oh and for anything like a banshee or a Rachni ( cant recall the proper term, ravager maybe ?)
Just spam warp and heavy pistol bullets and keep out of sight.

As for the sabotage thing, yeah i am green with envy, i have no class that can pull that off, is one of the most fun powers in single player.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

Load up on Asari Adepts and Infiltrators, preferably Salarian. Asari Adept makes a mockery of basically everything with Warp/Throw combos and Stasis bubbles for mass CC. Infiltrators can do massive damage with Cloaked Widow shots and are super clutch for capturing objectives and cloak revives.

Oh, and make sure you don't play Soldier. They're basically useless.

 

[StriderShinryu]

I'm looking for some tips for my Quarian Engineer.

What would be a good accompaniment to my Mattock assault rifle? I love it's range and precision, especially scoped (though the forced tunnel vision is a pain for someone who isn't used to sniping) and it's potential high rate of fire. I love it so much I tend to use it all the time unless I have to swap. I'd like to have something that works well with it and may actually make me want to swap based on situation and not just ammo levels. Or should I just go with one of the lighter weight faster firing sniper rifles so that I end up with essentially two Mattocks?

What is a good recommended power set up level wise? I've got a few levels left until cap and I haven't yet maxed any of my three specials. Incinerate is pretty much a no brainer. I love Cryo even if it's more situational in use, but the end upgrade tiers for it don't sound all that impressive in writing. I want to really like the sentry drone, but I'm just not finding it that useful. It's end tier powers sound excellent but I don't know which the better choice would be between them or if it's even worth it at all based on what I'm seeing now.

OK - a question as much as anything: what's the best strategy for evacuation on the reactor map?

I'm yet to find a team that's done it well, and the actual evac zone is all but indefensible (as opposed to, say, the Noveria or Benning maps from the demo). Is it better to pick another spot to defend from, then sprint for the evac zone at the last second?

I've found the best way to do it is to not be in the evac zone until you have to be on that map. Find a nearby area that is more defensible and make your stand there, then run to evac when the time gets low.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

You need at least one engineer. Honestly, the engineer is broken. Drone/Decoy drawing a Banshee's or Brute's aggro is invaluable, as is incinerate/overload/shield drain/etc.

curious (as i have started to use engineer alot more) does the combat drone become more invaluable in silver/gold? everything gets taken down quick enough that most of the time if i do summon my combat drone it just kinda floats there...being an annoying orange blip in the way.

 

[DustyDrB]

You need at least one engineer. Honestly, the engineer is broken. Drone/Decoy drawing a Banshee's or Brute's aggro is invaluable, as is incinerate/overload/shield drain/etc.

curious (as i have started to use engineer alot more) does the combat drone become more invaluable in silver/gold? everything gets taken down quick enough that most of the time if i do summon my combat drone it just kinda floats there...being an annoying orange blip in the way.

How have you leveled it? The one on my human engineer is pretty good at dealing damage. It's not the equivalent of another squad member, but it's still good. I just wish it drew more aggro. That's why I prefer the Salarian Engineer for the Decoy, which does draw a good deal of aggro. Plus, Energy Drain turns enemy Geth and mechs into walking health packs.

 

[number2301]

Load up on Asari Adepts and Infiltrators, preferably Salarian. Asari Adept makes a mockery of basically everything with Warp/Throw combos and Stasis bubbles for mass CC. Infiltrators can do massive damage with Cloaked Widow shots and are super clutch for capturing objectives and cloak revives.

Oh, and make sure you don't play Soldier. They're basically useless.

Don't play as a soldier eh? I just posted the following in another thread, maybe it isn't just me -

Also is it just me or does the soldier class suck? I don't seem to have anything to deal with armor, shields or barriers. I mean I know I'm not very good but I didn't think I was that bad.

 

[thelonewolf266]

OK - a question as much as anything: what's the best strategy for evacuation on the reactor map?

I'm yet to find a team that's done it well, and the actual evac zone is all but indefensible (as opposed to, say, the Noveria or Benning maps from the demo). Is it better to pick another spot to defend from, then sprint for the evac zone at the last second?

Blind panic and the application of copious amounts of medi-gel and screaming secured me and my friends a full extraction on silver that was with three of us though so if you had four you might be able to do it with slightly quieter screaming.

Asari Adepts/Vanguards with Stasis bubble and the 30% chance to not have a recharge time for second power use are ridiculously over powered so its always good to have one of them.

 

[StriderShinryu]

Load up on Asari Adepts and Infiltrators, preferably Salarian. Asari Adept makes a mockery of basically everything with Warp/Throw combos and Stasis bubbles for mass CC. Infiltrators can do massive damage with Cloaked Widow shots and are super clutch for capturing objectives and cloak revives.

Oh, and make sure you don't play Soldier. They're basically useless.

Don't play as a soldier eh? I just posted the following in another thread, maybe it isn't just me -

Also is it just me or does the soldier class suck? I don't seem to have anything to deal with armor, shields or barriers. I mean I know I'm not very good but I didn't think I was that bad.

Soldier was the first class I took to 20, and I can't really argue with you two. I picked it because my Shep was a soldier but I never really felt I was adding to the team at all. Outside of well placed grenades, which are so limited compared to everyone else's skills anyway, everyone else was doing what I was doing but they were better at it.

 

[im-white]

if u play gold use infiltrator or engie. get to last round run around in circles until shuttle arrives.

 

[thelonewolf266]

Load up on Asari Adepts and Infiltrators, preferably Salarian. Asari Adept makes a mockery of basically everything with Warp/Throw combos and Stasis bubbles for mass CC. Infiltrators can do massive damage with Cloaked Widow shots and are super clutch for capturing objectives and cloak revives.

Oh, and make sure you don't play Soldier. They're basically useless.

Don't play as a soldier eh? I just posted the following in another thread, maybe it isn't just me -

Also is it just me or does the soldier class suck? I don't seem to have anything to deal with armor, shields or barriers. I mean I know I'm not very good but I didn't think I was that bad.

Soldier was the first class I took to 20, and I can't really argue with you two. I picked it because my Shep was a soldier but I never really felt I was adding to the team at all. Outside of well placed grenades, which are so limited compared to everyone else's skills anyway, everyone else was doing what I was doing but they were better at it.

I don't know I think soldiers are the best class for chewing through standard enemies like cannibals, assault troopers that sort of thing.

 

[Uszi]

curious (as i have started to use engineer alot more) does the combat drone become more invaluable in silver/gold? everything gets taken down quick enough that most of the time if i do summon my combat drone it just kinda floats there...being an annoying orange blip in the way.

Yeah the drone's AI is a little weak. It basically needs to be on screen with another enemy. It can/will move around the field if there's something close enough for it to decide to attack, otherwise you just need to re-summon it every time it falls behind.

The nice thing is that it's pretty persistent at going after whatever you're targeting when you summon it, so you can take an Atlas/Brute etc out of the fight if your squad mates don't keep laying into it.

How have you leveled it? The one on my human engineer is pretty good at dealing damage. It's not the equivalent of another squad member, but it's still good. I just wish it drew more aggro. That's why I prefer the Salarian Engineer for the Decoy, which does draw a good deal of aggro. Plus, Energy Drain turns enemy Geth and mechs into walking health packs.

I went damage, so it's attacks do more damage and it shoots rockets. I took the one big HP upgrade over explode on death because I found that it wasn't actually getting killed a lot.

Yeah, its not hard to break the drone's aggro control if you have people focus firing the target. I have heard that the decoy does a better job but I haven't had a chance to mess with it myself.

 

[skywolfblue]

So far my experience has been, Human Engineers are downright godlike.

I have a Salarian Engineer, but IMO decoy is inferior to drone since you can only place decoy a few paces from yourself whereas you can put a drone on the other side of the map. It does pretty big damage if any enemy ever steps close enough to it, but bad guys rarely walk where I place it.

The energy drain is a poor copy of overload. I had overload specced to shock organics as well so overload pretty much hurts EVERYTHING except brutes and ravagers, energy drain, no such luck.

With the Adept I keep having singularity getting caught/stuck on cover, and I have no clue what to do vs. enemies with shields since nothing seems to work on them. Manually shooting their shields off or running away screaming like a girl until someone else on the team handles it seem to be pretty much my only options.

With the Infiltrator, it's peachy if I have the time to line up my shots, but it's slow. I always end up having problems being exposed post sniper-shot, and getting killed in the long cooldown before cloak comes back up.

With Soldier... I was always bad at this class anyway.

With Vangaurd... I was bad at this one too. I never have mastered how to avoid fire for those few critical seconds when you've just nova'd and your barrier is down. Suicide class indeed

OK - a question as much as anything: what's the best strategy for evacuation on the reactor map?

I'm yet to find a team that's done it well, and the actual evac zone is all but indefensible (as opposed to, say, the Noveria or Benning maps from the demo). Is it better to pick another spot to defend from, then sprint for the evac zone at the last second?

Yep. It's pretty much a good idea for any map, especially when there are banshees on the field. Find a semi-defensible position close to, but far enough away to give the landing zone some space, and then make a dash for it at the last few seconds and hope nobody dies.

 

[DustyDrB]

Apparently tonight, the thing to do is to go into Bronze matches as a level 16+ character. Move up already, people. I just unlocked a Krogan soldier, which actually gives me a reason to play as a soldier finally. But what the hell are all these level 19s and 20s doing on Bronze?

 

[Limecake]

I used to feel slightly underpowered as an infiltrator, I would get the clutch revives and captures but I was always middle of the pack. That was until I unlocked the Black Widow, I can take out 3 cannibals in under 5 seconds and I can take out a brute with around 6 shots (with good aim)

being able to take 3 powerful sniper shots really makes a huge difference, you can take out the 'cannon fodder' guys with one hit and the big guys go down quick enough.

now I just wish the thing didn't weigh as much as a truck.

 

[Abedeus]

Load up on Asari Adepts and Infiltrators, preferably Salarian. Asari Adept makes a mockery of basically everything with Warp/Throw combos and Stasis bubbles for mass CC. Infiltrators can do massive damage with Cloaked Widow shots and are super clutch for capturing objectives and cloak revives.

Oh, and make sure you don't play Soldier. They're basically useless.

Don't play as a soldier eh? I just posted the following in another thread, maybe it isn't just me -

Also is it just me or does the soldier class suck? I don't seem to have anything to deal with armor, shields or barriers. I mean I know I'm not very good but I didn't think I was that bad.

No, the class is simply underwhelming.

 

[scorptatious]

Apparently tonight, the thing to do is to go into Bronze matches as a level 16+ character. Move up already, people. I just unlocked a Krogan soldier, which actually gives me a reason to play as a soldier finally. But what the hell are all these level 19s and 20s doing on Bronze?

Grinding for easy credits maybe? I don't know, I'm a lv. 18 soldier and I have yet to get through a silver challenge. Getting closer and closer to beating it though.

For me, as a soldier, I find the shotguns to be awesome. Especially when they are modded. If I can just get a claymore or the graal spike thrower, I think I'm golden.