M-44 Hammerhead sucks

[Terran Ghost]

Hello!

The M-44 Hammerhead is garbage. The Mako is my best friend, all day everyday. It has my back. The M-44 is one modded texture replacement away from literally being a glass canon.

The Mako can take artillery shots to the face and still be in good enough condition to gun down the bastard who dared fire it at me. I get shot with small arms fire a few times in the M-44 and...*WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP*

I'd like to keep bashing this thing - but I'm piloting the M-44 right now and it will explode if I hurt its feelings.

[barzai]

...Tell us something we don't know !!!

[Terran Ghost]

Forgot to bring up you can't save in the missions...

[barzai]

Originally posted by UED Ghost:

Forgot to bring up you can't save in the missions...

Yeah...that's the biggest drag IMHO. But--technically--not a fault of the Hammerhead! :-)

Edit: FWIW I never do that (those?) mission(s) any more because they're "Too. Much. Like. Work!"

[Crypto Gamer]

The problem is that most enemy turrets in the DLC are hitscan and not projectiles.

On insanity, you need to abuse to fire from beyond their aggro range or use ramps to jump up and down and slowly kill them.
And even then sometimes you need to wait like 20 seconds so you recover armor.

So, combat is very boring, as Hammerhead can die in about 2 seconds if it is close, even while it is moving, as hitscan turrets demolish it.

Mako on insanity is much more fun and ironically, ME1 has much more projectiles you can dodge......

They could have made enemy DLC turrets shoot projectiles you can dodge, which would have been so much better and make combat more fluid.

[Terran Ghost]

Originally posted by barzai:

Originally posted by UED Ghost:

Forgot to bring up you can't save in the missions...

Yeah...that's the biggest drag IMHO. But--technically--not a fault of the Hammerhead! :-)

Edit: FWIW I never do that (those?) mission(s) any more because they're "Too. Much. Like. Work!"

I wish I could skip that quest, but when I start a Mass Effect play through my OCD tells me I need to finish everything XD

Originally posted by Crypto Gamer:

The problem is that most enemy turrets in the DLC are hitscan and not projectiles.

On insanity, you need to abuse to fire from beyond their aggro range or use ramps to jump up and down and slowly kill them.
And even then sometimes you need to wait like 20 seconds so you recover armor.

So, combat is very boring, as Hammerhead can die in about 2 seconds if it is close, even while it is moving, as hitscan turrets demolish it.

Mako on insanity is much more fun and ironically, ME1 has much more projectiles you can dodge......

They could have made enemy DLC turrets shoot projectiles you can dodge, which would have been so much better and make combat more fluid.

So far I've been abusing range mechanics and have been firing at the geth past their bullet drop off range. There is nothing engaging about the M-44 quest line. Going through it always feels like a chore to me.

[barzai]

Originally posted by UED Ghost:

I wish I could skip that quest, but when I start a Mass Effect play through my OCD tells me I need to finish everything XD

So far I've been abusing range mechanics and have been firing at the geth past their bullet drop off range. There is nothing engaging about the M-44 quest line. Going through it always feels like a chore to me.

Dude...just walk away. I mean...if the quest were in any useful way connected to the main story, that would be something else. But we both know it isn't!

We're playing these games to have fun. To be a distraction from the mundane, humdrum lives we otherwise live <eyeroll> Once they become a chore...well, you can fill in the blanks yourself.

(Insert your own joke about "Paychecks & Papers" or "Companies & Computers" here...) ;-)

[globo]

It's a DLC, so it's additional XP, since you get enough without it, you are wasting your time. Don't get me wrong, I did the same thing as you, and regretted it.

[valium]

The Cerberus network Hammerhead missions take like 30 minutes to do, is a nice chunk of exp, and get you an interactable object for your cabin. It isnt good content, but it could be worse.