Mass Effect 3 - N7 Challenge Weekend for May 11th

Mass Effect 3 - N7 Challenge Weekend for May 11th

Operation Silencer is going to put a sock in it

Written by osubluejacket on 10 May 12 at 01:47 | Credit to LGS I Hitman

Banshees, aren't they the worst? Fortunately the Allied Forces at BioWare agree and have made them the focal point of this weekend's N7 Operation for Mass Effect 3.

Operation


Operation Silencer is (once again) setting two goals:

Allied Goal: Kill 3,000,000 banshees
Squad Goal: Survive until a full extraction on any map against any enemy on gold difficulty.

Successful completion of the allied goal will grant all players a Victory Pack.
Successful completion of the squad goal will grant all squadmates a Commendation Pack.

There is one additional piece of interesting info in this piece, however:

This task is an onerous one, and many of you are right to dread contact with these particular foes, but rest assured that we are prepared to reinforce your battalion with reserves. The vorcha want in, and as soon as they complete combined-arms training with our technically-skilled personnel, we will let them loose.The vorcha want in... very interesting especially given the whispers (i.e. unverified rumors) that more Mass Effect 3 multiplayer DLC is on the way and set to introduce Vorcha (and "Phoenix") as playable species.

In more "fact-based" news, BioWare has also released some updated community stats on the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer.

Stats


Operation Silencer is set to begin this Friday, May 11 at 6:00PM PST and run until Monday, May 14 at 5:00PM PST. As always, remember to set the “Upload Gameplay Feedback” setting to “On” in the online options to be able to participate in this N7 Operation.
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MugenKairo
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Posted on 10 May 12 at 01:53, Edited on 10 May 12 at 01:57 by MugenKairo
Banshees! (*shudders*). Might jump back into MP, need to pick up the Veteran achievement anyways. Does anyone else think that 3 million banshees is a bit excessive?
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SilentRich69
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Posted on 10 May 12 at 01:54
3......million..........BANSHEE'S. God damn it bioware.
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Posted on 10 May 12 at 01:57
Ugh, banshees. And full extraction on gold, for that matter.
VegaDark541
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Posted on 10 May 12 at 02:09
Full extraction on gold is fairly easy on Firebase white against Geth opponents if you have a team that knows what it's doing. I'm brand new at the game and only have an N7 rank of 60 with crap weapons, but I've beaten it 2 or 3 times now. with a team of experienced players. You just hide behind cover and melee grab the geth as they walk by for an instant kill - this works against all units except Geth Prime (which is why you choose Geth as the opponent)
LaloXXV
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Posted on 10 May 12 at 02:18
Last challenge was killing 1,000,000 cerberus phantoms, now we go for 3,000,000 banshees. Damn! What's next? 5,000,000 Geth Primes :S
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Posted on 10 May 12 at 02:35, Edited on 10 May 12 at 02:35 by LurkingWriter
... except Geth Primes are easy if you've got a team of Salarians (Engineers and/or Infiltrators) at level 20 with maxed out Decoy and/or Energy Drain, even with crappy weapons and playing on Gold. Did that for the last N7-Op and lost count of the number of Primes killed (there were at least two per wave for the first few and then no less than 15 for the final wave, not including the extraction part where they just kept coming...).

Banshees, on the other hand, are an absolute nightmare, even on Bronze (when your team's not quite so good). Actually, saying that, I find Ravagers and Phantoms to be more annoying overall.....

Wonder if I'll actually get either the Victory or the Commendation pack this time (never received either for the last Op, despite meeting all requirements).
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Posted on 10 May 12 at 02:38
Yea, I have had issues getting into a GOLD lobby with people. All they want to do is run and gun, and they get killed right away, then rage quit.
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Posted on 10 May 12 at 03:52
Sweet
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Posted on 10 May 12 at 04:33
gold this weekend on firebase im a lvl 20 engineer whose with me
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Posted on 10 May 12 at 04:48
Darth Fritter said:Yea, I have had issues getting into a GOLD lobby with people. All they want to do is run and gun, and they get killed right away, then rage quit.I've found that those who play on Bronze are more likely to have a strategy and utilise teamwork (exception: the host is BF3 character players, for some reason I have no idea why, but I always get garbled trash coming out of their headset).
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Posted on 10 May 12 at 05:03
If you know the mechanis its actually very easy to kill banshees on gold. I personally will find this easy with my asari justicar. I just hope I get good teammates again on random lobbies. Its still all about the teamwork. But it looks like I'm going to have to kick a lot of low levels again :(
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Posted on 10 May 12 at 05:31
This is going to be a bitch!!
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Posted on 10 May 12 at 06:53
MugenKairo said:Banshees! (*shudders*). Might jump back into MP, need to pick up the Veteran achievement anyways. Does anyone else think that 3 million banshees is a bit excessive?one of the first ops (if not the actual first) was to kill 1 million brutes, and we killed over 3 million. maybe they figure, since its so doable, they will just make that the requirement. though by now, there are less players, so it might be difficult. but then again, when i play on silver (still not brave enough to try gold) i face way more Banshees then Brutes, so maybe 3 millions isnt so bad?
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Posted on 10 May 12 at 07:59
wasn't there something about ps3 players getting the weekend challenges now, too? it would be just logical then to increase the kill numbers.
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Posted on 10 May 12 at 08:23
s3bb86 said:wasn't there something about ps3 players getting the weekend challenges now, too? it would be just logical then to increase the kill numbers.but do the numbers count for both consoles? thats a good point...i would assume they do
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Posted on 10 May 12 at 08:41
God damn Banshees.... alright, let's go to work, gentlemen!
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Posted on 10 May 12 at 09:14
Banshees go down in seconds when you have a Justicar and a Asari Adept working together.
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Meh.
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Posted on 10 May 12 at 10:07
So, still absolutely nothing different at all for multiplayer then?