Mass Effect Thread: Leviathan is out, buy it, it's great

[lestatdark]

yo_john117 said:

lestatdark said:

yo_john117 said:

Reload cancelling? That sounds very useful.

 

Man I finally tried and completed some missions on Gold and it was actually easy. One the guys had a Salarian Engineer and put him out and distracted EVERYTHING. We played Firebase White against the Geth and hid behind the ship at the extraction point. Hardly anyone went down and we did it in 27 minutes.

It is indeed, you can do it in two ways: 

- If you're standing outside cover but near one, after the heat sink goes inside the rifle but before the next motion, press the cover key. You'll get the rifle fully reloaded and skip on the next 2 seconds of animation. If you're not near cover, you can simply roll in the same moment, this is a very good way to avoid incoming gunfire if you're caught in mid-reloading and still be able to fire back with a full gun.

- If you're in cover, simply press the cover key at the aformentioned moment while pressing whichever direction key puts you out of cover. With this, you won't compromisse your position at all, as you can get back to cover pronto.

This is for classes that don't have grenades, because with those, it's much easier to do reload cancelling, even if your grenade stock is 0. Just press the grenade hotkey/button at the same moment as I said before. You'll notice the grenade icon flashing and your gun will be reloaded. This is an amazing way to do continuous fire even with the super slow reloading snipers like the Mantis or Widow or Assault Rifles like the Geth Pulse Rifle, which also has a very slow reloading time.

Firebase White and Firebase Glacier are both pretty easy to do in Gold with a proper team and by standing in the proper locations for crowd control.

On Firebase White usually I stand on the left side cover of the bottom of the only ladder and the rest of the team position themselves on cover at the top of the ladder and near the top entrance to the building. That forces the enemies to spawn on the opposite side of the building and you can control them easily from there, occasionally taking out the random straggler that drops into the landing zone (usually it's nothing worse than a Rocket Trooper with Geth enemies, but with Cerberus even Phantoms drop there).
As for Firebase Glacier, you don't have to move from the starting position at all. Just position two guys in cover at the right entrance of the landing zone, and two other in cover at the left entrance at the top of the stairs.

Actually, I've done almost all maps on gold, the only one I haven't tried is Reactor, mostly because that one is shitty for any kind of crowd control.

Man thanks for the tip, that'll be extremely helpful.

I do have 1 more question though...how the hell did you get 144k points in one match? Because for me I always get between 50-90k no matter what difficulty it is. I just can't imagine how it's possible to get 144k points in a single match.

I've gotten near 90K on Bronze once with the Salarian Infiltrator. You just need to constantly be on the thick of the action. With a low ED recharge time (mine's sitting at 2.45 seconds), you can basically just spam it anytime and with it's huge area (3 meters, if you go for that upgrade), you can constantly hit a very large mob and get a huge constant influx of points, either from assists or kills. 

On that 144K point run, we basically stayed at the center of the main building, that gave us a good control over the incoming enemies, but since my team sucked big time (heck, one of them was a N7 ranking 54 or so), they only stayed defending the corridor where the majority of the enemies was coming from, not giving a damn about the other two exits, so it was up to me to defend them both. I managed to stay alive during the entire match, so that was a big bonus that allowed me to defend the team properly. 
Our biggest difficulty was on Wave 10, when it was the Upload connection at the bottom of the right corner of the map, where there's little to no protection. I stayed on the low cover corner, always switching between flanks to get the Hunters that came from the building path and open area, while the rest of the team took potshots at the Primes. 

On that game alone, I must have killed at least over 100 enemies and assisted in the kill of another few as well, because I did a shitload of Tech kills and so did my team. I was constantly getting points in the screen in the final waves, even when there was no action going on (heck, during the pause period of Wave 9 to 10, I was still getting points from wave 9).