Operation FORTRESS weekend challenge (25x XP event)
Operation FORTRESS weekend challenge (25x XP event)
peration: FORTRESS
With Reaper forces beaten back, relief efforts are under way in the newly-taken territory.
During this period, Reaper enemies will be severely depleted and there will be far fewer brutes than usual.
All players will get +25% experience over the weekend as Citadel Allied Command reviews the lessons of Operation Goliath and uses them to train new forces.
Looking ahead: Admiral Hackett has put out the call for advanced combatants among the N7 squads. These troops are being marshaled for an upcoming elite operation. Experience under fire leads to promotions….
Welcome to the next N7 multiplayer weekend!
Last weekend the community joined together to push back the reapers in Operation Goliath. With over 3 million brutes killed, their numbers have been decimated. Expect to encounter far fewer this weekend.
As a reward for that outstanding performance, join your friends online between 5 PM PST Friday, March 23 and 5 AM PST Monday, March 26, to reap the rewards of last weekend’s successful offensive with a 25% XP bonus.
- All enemies.
- All maps.
- All challenge levels.
- All platforms (PS3 included).
- All weekend.
To participate, you will need to play Mass Effect 3 multiplayer during the listed time period. That’s it. The bonus applies to all XP earned. Gather your squad and take advantage! You’ll want to be leveled up for next weekend’s event…
+25% experience. Now’s the time to shoot for level 20 with your favorite character, or build up your N7 rating!
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Um....don't we have that anyway with 15% XP for unknown map and 10% XP for unknown enemy? Could be backwards but you get my drift. Is this in addition to that? I guess the only benefit for 25% XP in this case would be that you could pick your enemy and the map and play it over and over and over and.........
HAHA! It's only been 2 weeks from release and they're already giving us extra XP. They must really be desperate for us to keep playing. I guess the MP is the last saving grace for the game.
I don't see it as them being desperate, I hope they run events every weekend. It's about time a mp game was supported like this, shows they are actually trying.
I like the "weekly event" thing too. I hope they come out with some other MP modes or game types or something....
Well iw ould assume it'll be an overall extra 25% XP so if you do unknown/unknown you'll essentially get a 50% xp bonus.
Now that I know i need a lvl 20 Infil and lvl 20 Adept, i'll flip a couple of my other characters this weekend. Didn't really see a point in grinding N7 levels since you don't get anything for it but with 25+25 % extra XP it'll take half as long to level them up so i'll go ahead, why not. I can flip my soldier, vanguard, sentry and engineers .
I'm just saying that by word of mouth alone, they have to be losing sales. So it's a good thing they have MP, which has been getting a lot of positive press.
Well after there crappy ending think that's there only saving grace
I flipped my Battlefield3 soldier 4 times over the weekend, played him different ways each time. I wasn't going to go farther than N7 120 because there's not really an incentive to grind N7 levels but figured what the hell with a total of 50% extra XP for doing random/random, it was pretty quick to go from 1-20.
Ended up getting some pretty decent stuff out of the Specter packs. Got two Black Widows to up that to level 3, got two sniper rifle extended barrels upping that to lvl 5 (25% extra damage). Got a couple Mattock ups, that's at level 8 now and a few PHanalx pistol ups which is my preferred pistol and I got upgrades to take 3 ammo reloads and 3 rockets onto the battlefield and a level 2 N7 Talon the shotgun/pistol hybrid, ti sucks but i think it's an ultra rare or something.
Don't get me wrong, i got a lot of worthless shit too but those were the gems.
I'm really ready to stop playing bronze though after the number of hours i put in over the weekend, it's pretty boring. The skill gap between bronze and silver is pretty big and bronze to gold is a chasm so its' a problem finding a good stream of people to play with who can handle Silver. Hopefully the 25x XP event weekend got people leveled up so they can setup up to the bigger money difficulties.
new challenge this weekend , Operation : Raptor , no details yet but did mention you'll want lvl 20 characters .
Probably you'll have to clear Gold. makes sense, get people extra XP to level up their characters to 20. Way more people than they expected cleared Silver during the Goliath event. So my guess is it'll be to clear gold since 1% of Gold matchees actually end with an extraction.
If that's the case you'll want to roll Firebase White or Firebase Giant. Two solarian infils with Widows or other heavy hitting sniper rifles, two guys with stasis (asari adept preferred) and take on Cerberus. Those in my opinion are the two easiest maps to Gold on.
I'm ready for any challenge. I should be soloing gold by the weekend