ME3 Multiplayer Thread

**StealthFox** · August 10, 2012, 10:59 AM

In case you didn't know:

Operation OLYMPUS (August 10th-12th)

Increased Reaper activity has been reported around London. Operation OLYMPUS will focus large-scale strikes on the Reapers to buy the Resistance time to investigate.

Squad Goal: Full extraction from Firebase London using any Kit on any difficulty

Allied Goal: Using any Kit/ Map combination against any enemy, complete wave 10 on a combined community total of 200,000 Bronze missions, 175,000 Silver missions and 70,000 Gold missions.

Special Circumstance: None

Squad Goal Success: All squad members awarded a Commendation Pack

Allied Goal Success: All players awarded a Victory Pack

Requirement: Mass Effect: Earth must be installed

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**KnightsTemplar** · August 11, 2012, 02:59 AM

Just joined in time for the Operation.

Though the reward is meh, it's better than nothing.

I play on PC, and my Origin ID is SirLancelotR.

**Okuto** · August 11, 2012, 10:20 PM

easy cake......

I'll get my geth engineer online

**Blaze86420** · August 18, 2012, 02:23 PM

Blaze86420 is my username, if anyone is ever up for some games. I get tired of being trolled on Gold and wasting my gear in the process.

**Legio** · August 23, 2012, 04:52 PM

Boo, still no Typhoon. I like the Indra, though.

**HunterKYA** · August 30, 2012, 08:21 PM

Anyone else having connectivity issues with multiplayer.

I'm tired of EA and their crap-*** servers, because if it isn't the lag, it's all the lost connections. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't experience some type of problem, whereas The Old Republic, another Bioware/EA title, has a relatively rock solid connection from my time playing it. I'm either on the verge of leaving the game in protest, or writing a petition to Bioware and EA that they improve the reliability of their hardware supporting ME3 multiplayer. If it were only a few people here and there having issues, it just might be them, but when tens of thousands of players are having connectivity issues on an almost daily occurrence, something needs to be done to address the problem.

**Okuto** · August 30, 2012, 10:33 PM

I am too........I actually would like to buy the new dlc but EA seems to keep kicking me out....guess my money isn't good enough? lol

I couldn't even play the last operation cause I kept getting disconnected.....

Origin is really a pile of poop or their server is......I don't have these issues with Steam

Oh and their update erased all my single player ME3 files for some reason........

**Blaze86420** · September 08, 2012, 02:31 PM

I stopped playing because of their crappy servers, lost count of the times I've launched the game only for it to tell me that the servers are unavailable.

**Legio** · September 23, 2012, 06:55 PM

Has anyone done Operation Patriot? It's a bugger to do it on PUG matches, but two Turian sentinels and I (Turian soldier) did a Cerberus Gold on Saturday.

**StealthFox** · September 23, 2012, 08:09 PM

I was able to do it in a public match with all asari. Biotic explosion squad was great!

**Beregond** · September 24, 2012, 02:35 AM

yeah, I played a couple of matches yesterday after a long gaming break. What can I say, Quarian Marine squad was invulnerable

**StealthFox** · October 06, 2012, 11:59 AM

OMG! It looks like we may be getting Volus in the new DLC! Biotic god here I come!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Here are the classes rumored to be coming:

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Geth soldier too. That should be a lot of fun.

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**Tankfriend** · October 06, 2012, 12:18 PM

Yes, it will be funny to see Volus characters immediately inflate and explode whenever they take health damage. Because unlike Quarians, they can't survive in atmospheres normal to other species. If you thought Quarians have it hard when their suit gets damaged, better ask the Volus first. Before they explode, that is...

Anyway, I hope that's just a joke. I can maybe (and that's a very large maybe) see an engineer Volus that is extremely vulnerable with powerful tech abilities, but that's about it. Especially playing on the biotic god joke is plain silly.

**StealthFox** · October 06, 2012, 12:23 PM

I definitely want to be a biotic god!

So, adept and engineer Volus I'm okay with, but I'm not sure about the other Volus classes.... Vanguard and Sentinel go too far I think.

**Beregond** · October 09, 2012, 09:36 AM

ok, so this is true: Volus in MP. And I'm not amused. I think this is ridiculous and cheap

**StealthFox** · October 09, 2012, 09:46 AM

Hmm, I was half expecting Bioware to be trolling us with the Volus. Are they added in today's DLC or are they coming later, do you know? Like I said, I'm fine with the Volus adept and engineer. It will make the game interesting, but the other classes go too far.

**Beregond** · October 09, 2012, 09:49 AM

it seems we are getting 2 Turians and 2 Voluses from start. Volus card is UR. And it's frigging taking the UR spot I need to get my Typhoon!

Thus said, I'm half-certain I'll be kicking any Voluses on sight. I thought this was a serious sci-fi game, not a cheap prank fest

**StealthFox** · October 09, 2012, 11:21 AM

I've been reading a bit about the new volus characters (haven't played the new DLC myself yet) and it seems Bioware did actually think this through.

Originally Posted by Bioware Dev Chris Schanche

We wanted to expand on the available races to something less conventional to represent the continuing state of the war. We also wanted to build a pure support class, it's something we've seen requested more then a few times, and the Volus were an interesting opportunity to build a very non-traditional character with a power suite built around staying out of front line combat and an emphasis about boosting team score over personal score.

The Volus have the lowest carry rate of any class or character, while they can hold any weapon, our goal was to ensure that players would want to avoid playing front line fighter and play true support roles.

The Volus get a shield boost power that instantly restores it's own shields as well as all nearby teammate shields and can be recast every 2-3 seconds. Also, they only get 150 health.

So, it seems like it is balanced into being a support role. I don't think it's so hard to believe that some Volus, when faced with the Reaper threat would join the front line battle, and this new shielding technology helps them do this.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Edit: Also found this:

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**Teutonic Warlord** · October 09, 2012, 02:09 PM

I really don't want a volus, but with my luck, I will get one. Maybe I could form a party with 3 Batarian soldiers with Claymores/Cerberus Harriers and explosive Ballistic Blades.

Think of the close range carnage, and with a volus restoring their shields, the Reapers would probably flee back into darkspace. Then I won't have to build the Crucible and go through the endings.

**Captain Jin** · October 09, 2012, 02:42 PM

I like the multiplayer so far, probably because I'm an ME fanboy. But I only have one character and had to level him up to level 15 soldier right. But I have no good gear so every time I play people around me slay everything and I only kill a few things and get tons of a assists. The only reason I stay alive to begin with is because I'm a salty Mass Effect insanity vet.