Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer: Themed Duo Challenges

Part 2 of Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Revisited

It was almost exactly a year ago when I asked a friend if he’d be willing to play some duos with me. I had nothing very particular in mind, just the added challenge of completing a match with only two players, which I’d only done a couple times before on purpose (it happens every now and then that a public game begins or becomes a duo by chance, though few will end that way).

The friend wasn’t up for it: obviously solos and duos are much harder and slower than regular, full-team games, and require both more focus and patience to complete. However, he suggested I contact another player, who I didn’t know at the time, and who allegedly liked to play duos. And indeed, later that week the mentioned player made a post on BSN, looking for a duo partner. So I volunteered.

Little did I know what I was getting into.

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Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Revisited

It’s been more than two years since I wrote about ME3 MP for the first time. And I played it almost every day since, for an astonishing total of over 2000 hours and over 7000 games. One might reasonably assume that there cannot possibly be anything left to keep me interested and challenged. Not so!

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Warhammer 40k Space Marine

The Imperial Forge World of Graia is being invaded by the Orcs. Instead of an all-out retribution that would put the production of invaluable Titans at risk, the Ultramarines are deployed to resolve the situation before it escalates. But of course it does escalate when the forces of Chaos unexpectedly appear on the scene with an interest in a powerful artifact.

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