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Posted May 24, 2012 - By Adam Rosenberg





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Mass Effect 3 Bounty Weekend Includes Penalty For Previous Failed Objective

BioWare continues to make good on its promise of delivering fresh challenges for fans of Mass Effect 3's multiplayer mode, with the latest N7 Bounty Weekend -- Operation Shieldwall -- encouraging players to promote their characters. Once you've maxed out one of your multiplayer classes in the Galaxy at War mode, you're able to "promote" it and, in doing so, boost your war assets on the single player side of Mass Effect 3.

The core goal of this week's Bounty Weekend -- which runs from May 25 at 6pm PST to May 27 at 5pm PST -- is to have the community as a whole promote 50,000 characters or more. As always, there's also an individual squad goal that requires palyers to promote three characters. Successful completion of the Allied goal nets you a Victory Pack (which contains a rare weapon) while completion of the Squad goal gets you a Commendation pack (which contains an assortment of consumables).

In an amusing twist, BioWare is including a "Special Circumstance" to the upcoming Bounty Weekend which amounts to a penalty for the community's failure to complete the previous Bounty Weekend objective. Since Operation Silencer called for players to kill as many of the Reaper faction's Banshees as they could, Operation Shieldwall will be marked by an increased spawn rate for Banshees, so much so that you might even see them when fighting against other factions. Yay?

The Bounty Weekend now covers all platforms that Mass Effect 3 is playable on, so this challenge applies to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC users. PS3 users should be aware, however, that a known issue prevents the pop-up window alerting you to the start of the Bounty Weekend from appearing on the console. Don't be alarmed. If you're playing within the Bounty Weekend window, you're participating. As always, you'll need to have "Upload Gameplay Feedback" set to ON in the options menu if you want to receive your reward packs.

I'm curious: are a lot of you still playing Mass Effect 3's Galaxy at War mode? Why or why not?

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  • Quixotic_Noble

    I missed both operations. I think making special operations based on the stats of the previous gives the mp a more expansive experience. Simply put, we are still fighting a war, not just regurgitated campaigns maps in al a carte horde mode.

    Posted: May 28, 2012 12:54 PM
    Quixotic_Noble
  • IntelliMoo

    I love and will always enjoy the multiplayer, because I just love the Mass Effect universe too much. Can't wait for new maps and hopefully enemies and more characters!

    Posted: May 24, 2012 12:16 PM
    IntelliMoo
  • SonyNmbrOneGuy

    Sweet,,,now how about giving us the ability to kick botters and punish leaver bums. Ohh...and fix the broken host migration....and balance the classes so that playing as an Adept doesn't automatically mean having the lowest score on the boards....thanks, underpowered biotic explosions...

    Posted: May 24, 2012 12:16 PM
    SonyNmbrOneGuy
  • gregp91

    It's all about the loot.

    Posted: May 24, 2012 12:12 PM
    gregp91
  • BONERJAM

    I would still be playing the mp if I had time to play, when I do have time I'll be back for sure.

    Posted: May 24, 2012 10:16 AM
    BONERJAM
  • joryn282

    I still play the MP. This is actually the first time I've gotten into playing MP like this. I'm not much for games like BF and COD, but I do enjoy the MP on this one.

    Posted: May 24, 2012 9:37 AM
    joryn282
  • Masseffect28541

    I play multiplayer on weekends mostly and on thursdays. My Drell vanguard, my Quarian engineer, and my Salarian infiltrator are my best guys

    Posted: May 24, 2012 9:13 AM
    Masseffect28541
  • Melange

    i stopped playing mass effect 3 online as soon as the 2 day pass ran out,

    but even before that, i think i got to level 18 and i was just bored and asking myself why i'm playing this, and why the hell do people praise the multiplayer for relating to the single player, it doesn't relate, you're not given any sort of explanation to them relating, you're just suppose to make it up in your head that you're a ground soldier, fighting for the universe, the only way i know that is by other people on the internet repeating it like some sort of cult

    Posted: May 24, 2012 9:09 AM
    Melange
  • Geth156

    The descriptions of commendation and victory pack contents are incorrect.

    Victory packs contain consumables. Commendation packs contain promotional only weapons.

    Posted: May 24, 2012 8:39 AM
    Geth156
  • AllTeam

    Yes, I still play (mostly on these weekends becuase I am currently playing a few other games) but I play Mass effect 3 still. I love the experience in multiplayer in this game because it is fun. I don't have to worry about getting killed by another player because I don't play the game 24/7. I hate playing Modern Warfare and games like that because if you play more often you get more gear and I just don't have the time or drive to play games all the time.

    Posted: May 24, 2012 8:39 AM
    AllTeam
  • godzillaisyourdaddy

    G4, your profanity filter is stupid. I post things that have no profanity in it, what did retard become a bad word here? Childish.

    Posted: May 24, 2012 8:27 AM
    godzillaisyourdaddy
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  • cyjoker187

    I am still enjoying the multiplayer. I have never been much of a competitive multiplayer person. I do enjoy a good online co-op. Gears of War series, Halo, Resistance 2 etc.

    Posted: May 24, 2012 8:17 AM
    cyjoker187

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