[quote name='io']Strange stuff going on late last night (or really early this morning).
So I'm in a game with Dualedge and he's the leader. He gets booted and it restarts the wave. He told me in a message that it was because the game wanted to install a patch. That was weird because it didn't happen to me. So the wave (a hacking/data upload one) restarts and I'm the only one in there! I have never had that happen. I hunkered down in the upload area and got it done, but then was swarmed by too many Geth Pyros and Hunters to survive the entire wave. That was pretty intense though.
So then I try to rejoin Dualedge and it won't let me because our patches are out of sync. I quit and restarted the game 2 or 3 times and it didn't patch. OK, so I decide to buy a Premium Spectre pack: got both Geth, so that was pretty awesome. I went in to some random matches with the Geth Engineer. I'm not really into the sniper thing so I passed on the Infiltrator for now. But I love playing as the Geth Engineer. I maxed out my turret and and working on the Hunter Mode now. Combine that with a little overload and he's pretty damn good, especially against other Geth. I love being able to see the enemies behind cover - makes it much easier for me not to get trapped in an area by myself with too many enemies which is usually how I ended up dying before. I can even sneak up behind them and throw a flamethrower turret out on them and pound them with overload and my assault rifle. My kill percentage has gone way up since I switched to this guy. The only thing I don't like about Hunter mode are the white lines all over the screen. It makes it hard to see objective markers (hacking nodes, critical personnel, etc), especially when on the move. I usually have to sit still and scan the screen for them which isn't always practical.
Finally, about 3 or 4 games later I get kicked out so that the game can patch. This was like an hour later - how strange... Anyway, then I was freaked out a bit because when I started up the game it froze (such that I had to turn the system off) at exactly the same point 3 times in a row. It was when starting up and connecting to the EA servers. I thought for sure the patch had nerfed my game. But then just as I was about to remove it and try reinstalling it worked.
Anyway, glad to get the 2 Geth from one Premium pack especially as I had wasted 120,000 on two Spectre packs after the DLC was out but before they added the new classes.
I just really need weapon upgrades. I'm still stuck with the initial assault rifle/pistol both at level 3. It has been a long time since I got an upgrade or new weapon in those catagories. And I have yet to get a single modification for the pistol.
I also see people talking about "respec" cards or something? I guess this is something you pull at random? I have yet to see one of those either. I'm guessing these let you redistribute your skill points? For the most part I'm happy with the paths I've chosen for my chars. I usually leave the "general" ones (the two at the bottom - fitness and whatever) pretty low and go for the powers upgrades.
Once I get this Geth Engineer a bit higher-level I'd like to try some Silver maps. I'd really like to pull a few better weapons first though.[/QUOTE]
I would recommend buying recruit packs until all your basic loadouts for each slot are maxed out, then move on to veterans and then spectre packs. I was able to max out everything 2 weeks after launch by doing this. The skill resets are "rare" and usually come from the spectre packs.
Leaving fitness low is good prep for when you start playing gold since your shields go down so fast a maxed fitness doesn't really make much of a difference.