Last week BioWare said that they were no longer going to host weekly N7 event weekends for Mass Effect 3 multiplayer and would instead move to launching them every second week so they could focus on more creative, meaningful challenges. This was fine considering the alternating weekends weren’t really events and instead only consisted of bonus XP weekends, but upon that announcement they teased the upcoming event for this weekend: Operation Exorcist.
Operation Exorcist is officially a go, and this time, the challenge is to take out those pesky Phantoms.
Operation Goliath had players battling it out against the reapers on Silver difficulty and attempting to take down a million brutes, where the community instead managed to take out 3 million. Operation Raptor shared a similar success but had the much easier goal of simply leveling up and recruiting a pair of multiplayer character classes into the single-player campaign. Operation Exorcist offers the greatest challenge yet for players.
When it comes to retrieving classified data, Cerberus has been beating the allied forces to the punch. New intelligence has tipped us off to one of their offensives, and it is time to give the N7 teams the payback they want.
Objectives:
- Allied Goal: Kill 1,000,000 Cerberus Phantoms
- Squad Goal: Survive until extraction on any map and any enemy on Gold difficulty.
Rewards:
- Successful completion of the Allied Goal will grant all players a Victory Pack.
- Successful completion of the squad goal awards a Commendation Pack to all squadmates.
The event begins 6:00PM PST, Friday April 27th and runs until 5:00AM PST. Like previous Operations involving reward packs, Exorcist is only available to PC and Xbox 360 players. Thank Sony for the lack of PS3 reward events. They will not allow BioWare to run them on PS3.
[Update: BioWare and Sony worked it out and Operation Exorcist is available on PS3 as well!]
Playing on gold is extremely difficult but it’s the commendation packs that come with an N7 weapon and therefore is the pack, players strive for. BioWare wasn’t kidding in telling players to boost up their characters to prepare. Our advise to to bring along an Asari adept or two with you – they can hold Phantoms in stasis which is critical in close-quarters situations or when outnumbered.
BioWare also said previously to pay attention to their official blog and the Mass Effect website for “cool upcoming features” and “an update from the Alliance News Network,” but we still don’t know what that is for. With the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut DLC coming this summer, we suspect it may have to do with more multiplayer DLC or added features.
More the merrier because without these events and in-game rewards, none of us at Game Rant would be playing.
Mass Effect 3 is now available for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
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How to beat Cerberus on Gold difficulty:
1. At least 2 Asari Adepts.
2. 2 Human Sentinels. Asari Adepts will work but you’ll lose about 20% of damage output.
3. Specialize the Adepts for Stasis bubble and maximum power damage and biotic combo damage.
4. Specialize Human Sentinels for maximum power damage bonus from Tech Armor and maximum passive damage and biotic combos.
5. Adepts spam Warp or Stasis.
6. Sentinels spam throw.
Enjoy ripping through everything like butter.
And once again there is no PS3 support for this.
No Operation Exorcist for the PlayStation 3 Mass Effect 3 players.
I wish you guys would at least mention that, I had to go to another website to find that bit out. I mean why shouldn’t I just go to that other site in the first place?
If you can’t cover the story completely then don’t cover it.
Oh and I love how you say “…without these events and in-game rewards, none of us at Game Rant would be playing.”
Do you even know that the PS3 players haven’t had any of these operations?
Well looks like ALL of you at GameRant are XBox players and as such I, as a PS3 player, probably should go elsewhere for my gaming news.
Mass Effect did start out for Xbox and PC so its understandable why they don’t play ME for the PS3. I’m sure a videogame news / review site would have a PS3 for the PS3 exclusives. =]
Dante, go through our articles on every Operation. In every one, we’ve complained and explained why it’s not available on PS3.
BioWare wants it there, but Sony hasn’t let it happen yet.
Also, several Game Rant staff play it on PC and PS3, as well as Xbox 360.
I added a line in there for that.
It’s depressing, but yes, none of the Operations involving reward packs are available on PS3 because Sony won’t allow it.
Hope you saw the update but BioWare managed to get it on PS3 too. The next Operation (Silencer) is also available on PS3.
These operations are getting boring SUPER fast. Can’t we just get the NEW DLC ahead of time already? :-/
Judging from ME’s current ending, I’d prefer Bioware to take all the time they need
well yea, didn’t have a problem with the ending, just like to see something new. Wither be a DLC ending or a NEW mission like a trip back to Omega with Aria or something.
Yea, there’s not going to be an Omega with Aria DLC till after the DLC ending. Which doesn’t even add new endings, just extends the current ones.