How to GOLD with only Two people

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#1 Tue, 04/03/2012 - 10:48
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How to GOLD with only Two people

Some two person tactics on gold vs Geth using Solarians on Firebase White

This video has 3 parts ifyou want to sit thru it all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK0r7cFFhwA

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9TcY21Ip_w

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKycoeK9gpw

 

Key point one: Firebase White.  This map has the absolute best cover spot in the game that I have found yet.  If someone has a better one please let me know. (See the video for the location, easier than trying to describe it). 
 
Key point two: Salarians.  With the exception of Stealth, Energy Drain is the single most tactically advantageous skill I've seen in the game since the sabotage nerf.  The Engineer class skill Decoy is a runner up (also salarian only) but not a must as losing stealth to get mostly cancels any gains you might otherwise see from it.  If you use energy drain in tandem with stealth the damage bonuses added can drop shields off most anything under a prime in one shot in addition to topping off your own. 
 
Key point three: Geth.  This allows energy drain to function on everything even if your target is unshielded.  Any enemy on the field is a free shield waiting to be tapped.  Geth also provide a nice slow moving enemy and only the prime's can't be grapple killed from behind cover.  Hunter's can get annoying but are manageable. 
 
Key point four: Shotguns.  The Geth Shotgun is particularly easy to use as it provides some aim tracking allowing snap-fire from cover without stopping to aim first.  Though personally I find it less effective than the Graal Spike Thrower; though you do need to aim for the head with that particular option.  Both shotguns are devastating when used while breaking stealth (for the damage bonus) against an unshielded target (which will be nearly any target you fire at save a Prime thanks to energy drain).
 
The video below is provided in part to show the cover spot, part to demonstrate how to use it, part to show that it can be used to 2-man gold, and part because it felt simply too badass to two-man gold so easily without bragging about it on youtube. 
 
If you watch the video you should be able to tell that there really were just two of us and that we weren't cheating.  All weapons were doing the intended damage and we took damage as we were supposed to even going down at times.  We 2-man this map with a 100% success rate on repeat all day long.  The best configuration we've seen so far is with 2 salarian infiltrators packing Graal Spike Throwers.  Enjoy.
 
The video is split into three parts as Youtube has a 15 minute video limit.  I was toying with the engineer this particular run.  It worked but I found the engineer far less effective than the infiltrator as the score might depict.  With 2 infiltrators we typically have a ~26 minute run.  If you bring more than two people the cover spot I used (and died at) on the corner of the wall at the end of the third video and the L shaped cover next to it provide great spots for players 3 and 4 as do the counters in the room just to the left of the main cover spot shown in the vid.
 
The difficult points in this strategy are:

  • When prime's get a bit close and you have to fall back.  

  • When you fail to melee grapple a hunter and it gets behind you.  

  • When the prime spawns a turret behind your cover near the ammo pile.  

  • And the most difficult, phases with hacking objectives.  Stealth comes in handy for just about every one of these difficulties and decoy can also help a bit.
Tue, 04/03/2012 - 11:53
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Decoy FTW!

Tue, 04/03/2012 - 12:13
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Ya Geth are especially enamoured with the Decoy.   Phantoms are too which is good, they just stand there and stare at it which gives you an oppority to energy drain and pop her head off with a Widow.

Tue, 04/03/2012 - 13:01
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Umm ...when did you do this Tank? And why wasn't I there?

Tue, 04/03/2012 - 13:03
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I didn't do this, just posting the info.  But i'm game to try.

Wed, 04/04/2012 - 02:52
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Decoy is badass.  

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