Update: Operation Raptor was a success!
Last week’s Operation Fortress weekend event for Mass Effect 3 granted all players a 25% bonus on all experience points earned. While unlike Operation Goliath the week prior, there were no Victory Packs or Commendation Packs rewarded, Operation Fortress was meant to help players level up their character classes for the following event that BioWare only hinted at briefly on their blog.
Today, that event becomes official: Operation Raptor kicks off Friday, giving players a new Mass Effect 3 multiplayer challenge. Max out your characters, recruit them as war assets in the single-player campaign, and earn more in-game items.
Much like Operation Goliath, there are two separate awards that can be won, one earned individually and one as a community if the entire “Alliance” succeeds. Goliath involved players having to defeat the Reapers and survive extraction on Silver difficulty with the Allied goal of the entire community taking down a million brutes over the weekend. We took down over 3 million and all Mass Effect 3 players earned a Victory pack, with those who also beat the Silver challenge earning a Commendation pack which includes one exclusive N7 weapon, not otherwise available in the multiplayer.
This weekend works much the same and here are the individual and Allied challenges:
- Allied Goal: Promote 150,000 characters. Victory Packs awarded to all players upon successful completion.
- Individual Goal: Promote 2 characters. Commendation Pack awarded to individual players upon successful completion
Similar to Operation Fortress, there will also be an experience bonus in effect, adding a 10% XP bonus to all accomplishments during the weekend.
The official timeframe has Operation Raptor beginning 5 PM PST Friday, March 30 and running until 5 AM PST Monday, April 2. Hop online, and help Commander Shepard (and all of the players wanted a Victory pack) out, that is if you’re a non-PS3 player…
At the moment, the operations are only available on PC and Xbox 360, but BioWare/EA are working with Sony to try and get them enabled there as well. If not getting Mass Effect 1 wasn’t bad enough…
If you participated in Operation Goliath, let us know what N7 weapon you unlocked and which one you want this time? For me, I was able to get the N7 Valiant sniper rifle (my new Infiltrator weapon of choice) from the Commendation pack and conveniently, a Widow sniper rifle from the Victory pack.
Mass Effect 3 is now available for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
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I don’t get to participate in the other challenge but I unlocked the Saber last week so I’m very happy with that. Will definitely be having fun this weekend also.
Sweet man already have two guys to promote. Hope i get a diffrent weapon this time around I got the Valiant rifle last time ( and I dont use sniper rifles). Good luck fellow N7 ers!!
I got the Eagle pistol as my N7 weapon, But I wanted either the N7 Sniper though.
How Antonio Banderas from Desparado would say, ” Let’s Play >;-).”
Woot! I got the N7 Crusader last time. It is a good gun, but my Geth Plasma shotgun is just superior. I’m hoping for the Saber or the Valiant, or even the Huricane (actually, that one the most. My classes always have SMGs). Happy hunting
or, power leveling, I guess.
i got the N7 crusader, not a good fit seeing i dont use shotguns, hoping for the N7 valiant or even the N7 hurricane, i’ve used them in the singleplayer, so here’s to the multi
I picked up the Valiant and the Paladin pistol, which is very useful for my biotic/tech oriented characters. Gives them that heavy firepower for armoured units without draining recharge time. I’m hoping for the hurricane next.
i had the shotgun last time can i have the eagle pistol please
I was able to get the Valiant during operation Goliath for completing the silver level. I’m hoping to get an upgraded M99 Saber tis time because I love this gun. I only have the level 1 Saber so hopefully I can get an upgrade for this amazing weapon
Uh, I promoted 5 characters on the multiplayer with My status update to Bioware on. It’s April the third. Wheres my Packs?
5:00 PST is when they said they would finish tallying up and release the packs
promoted 2 chars ..don’t have an option for any packs to download yet. Did I get conned?