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yo_john117 on 28 March 2012

Friday, March 30 – Sunday, April 1

The Reaper horde is growing, so we must as well. Effective military strength needs to increase, and veterans must train conscripts so that they, in turn, can train others.

Allied Goal: Promote 150,000 characters. Victory Packs awarded to all players upon successful completion.
Individual Goal: Promote 2 characters. Commendation Pack awarded to individual players upon successful completion.

 

Welcome to the next N7 Multiplayer Weekend!

Last weekend our community operatives united to train a record number of new recruits. The time has come to turn these new recruits into battle-hardened veterans.

Join the war against the Reapers online between 5PM PST Friday, March 30th to 5AM PST Monday, April 2nd and promote at least 2 characters to your single player campaign.

This operation includes PC and Xbox 360; we are continuing to work with Sony to enable these types of Operations on the PlayStation 3 platform. We appreciate your patience, and we expect an update later this week regarding Operation Raptor and the PlayStation 3.

Commendation Packs will be awarded to individual soldiers who complete their training, and a Victory Pack will be awarded to everyone if the Allied Goal is achieved. Packs will be available to download the following week. Please note that participants need to set “Upload Gameplay Feedback” to “on” in the online options to be able to participate in Operation RAPTOR.



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yo_john117 on 28 March 2012

Maybe I'll get a second chance to get something decent out of those packs...not two worthless shotguns like last time >_>



lestatdark on 28 March 2012

So I can still get myself an N7 Valiant....*fingers crossed*

Meh, two character promoted is easy peasy. I've got most classes almost reaching 20s again (for the 5th time), so it'll just be a matter of some Silver matches. Might as well get me to ranking 600s.



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Khuutra on 28 March 2012
Kantor said:
Khuutra said:

More seriously, effective use of the Vanguard is more about practice and situational awareness than it is larger tactics about power spreads.

As a Vanguard, you have one job: clean up trash mobs (and mid-range mobs when you are stronger) so your teammates can fulfill their own roles more effectively. Some will support you, some will do more damage than you, but it doesn't matter. You are the Vanguard. On Silver or Bronze you can hold one flank by yourself, and if you play intelligently and carefully then you should not be going down. You should never go down at all on Bronze once you get in some practice.

Whenever you roll Vanguard, take a Katana, Scimitar, or Disciple levelled up to X (if possible) and your recharge rate will be +191%, or thereabouts, if you take the weapon lightness path (you should). You need to be a close-range headshot machine, which will do more damageo ver time than either Charge or Nova. Close range headshots with any of those guns will stagger most enemies, including Pyros, allowing you to get past the cooldown time necessary to start really tearing ass.

There are people who see Vanguards as "CHARGE NOVA CHARGE NOVA CHARGE NOVA CHAAAARGE", but these people are not good at their jobs. Crowd control is necessary, and Nova's stagger needs to be timed carefully, and should not be your primary source of damage.

Also don't screw with Geth Primes, they don't give a shit about your Nova and Charge stuns them less often than it does Atlases.

Never charge a Banshee if she's facing you, they have frames where they'll automatically grab you if they see you.

Just a shotgun? I was worried about the lack of long-range weapons and also the fact that my (only) shotgun only has enough heat capacity for 20 shots.

Thanks for the advice. I was one of those annoying all-caps people for the most part, and I suppose with all of the fun I was having I forgot that dying is bad

When you say trash mobs, do you mean in general those without armour or shielding?

Yes. Trash mobs include Husks, Cannibals, Assault Troopers, and Geth Troopers. Some people include Centurions in that ranking but let's be honest, Centurions can be a pain in the ass. Once you're stronger you become capable of handling anything in a group except for the most dangerous big enemies, like Atlases and Geth Primes, and enemies that you really need to focus fire on, like Phantoms. One of your prime jobs as a Vanguard: murder enemies that everyone else is afraid of, stay away from enemies that your teammates use as walking Biotic Explosion factories.

THe Charge/Nova spam is very workable in Bronze, but you'll need to break that habit for Silver and Gold.

And don't worry about your ammo capacity, that increases over time and you'll rarely run out of ammo in situations where you can't safely get more.



yo_john117 on 28 March 2012
lestatdark said:

So I can still get myself an N7 Valiant....*fingers crossed*

Meh, two character promoted is easy peasy. I've got most classes almost reaching 20s again (for the 5th time), so it'll just be a matter of some Silver matches. Might as well get me to ranking 600s.

My god that is insane o_0

I thought I was doing beastly just crossing the 100 mark yesterday.



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noname2200 on 29 March 2012
AndrewWK said:
Hey guys what do you think how many additional squadmembers will be aded in future DLC´s?

Zero.

To the best of my understanding, all the DLC squadmates in II and III were already on the disc. I don't think there are any other than Javik in this one.



lestatdark on 29 March 2012
yo_john117 said:
lestatdark said:

So I can still get myself an N7 Valiant....*fingers crossed*

Meh, two character promoted is easy peasy. I've got most classes almost reaching 20s again (for the 5th time), so it'll just be a matter of some Silver matches. Might as well get me to ranking 600s.

My god that is insane o_0

I thought I was doing beastly just crossing the 100 mark yesterday.

Well, I climbed up the rankings a lot last weekend thanks to the 25% exp boost. Since most Silver matches gave me almost 300K exp, it was pretty quick to get those final 500K levels for each class. Also, that's why I've got every weapon except the gold ones to X



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AndrewWK on 29 March 2012
noname2200 said:
AndrewWK said:
Hey guys what do you think how many additional squadmembers will be aded in future DLC´s?

Zero.

To the best of my understanding, all the DLC squadmates in II and III were already on the disc. I don't think there are any other than Javik in this one.

Maybe they´ll do it different this time. They should at least add a Krogan, and the Life Support room is empty.



Khuutra on 29 March 2012
noname2200 said:
AndrewWK said:
Hey guys what do you think how many additional squadmembers will be aded in future DLC´s?

Zero.

To the best of my understanding, all the DLC squadmates in II and III were already on the disc. I don't think there are any other than Javik in this one.

Nah, the squadmates in 2 weren't - Kasumi: Stolen Memory was like a gig and a half in terms of download, though you're right in that there were gaps in the data where she was supposed to be slotted in. I think.



noname2200 on 29 March 2012
Khuutra said:
noname2200 said:
AndrewWK said:
Hey guys what do you think how many additional squadmembers will be aded in future DLC´s?

Zero.

To the best of my understanding, all the DLC squadmates in II and III were already on the disc. I don't think there are any other than Javik in this one.

Nah, the squadmates in 2 weren't - Kasumi: Stolen Memory was like a gig and a half in terms of download, though you're right in that there were gaps in the data where she was supposed to be slotted in. I think.

Ah. Well then, make that five percent instead.