Fastest leveling & EGO'ing way nowdays?

Doing Dam Defence a million time aint my thing
Running San Quentin ruins is slow and boring (HUGE loads of geart tho)
Mine 99 has been nerfed to oblivion

Arkfalls, i dont know how many ive done, too many. Sieges are once per hour and while atm i'd do em till the end of time, they get just as boring as arkfalls soon anyways.

Pursuits are mostly annoying, i dont wanna do things i dont care or dislike, its like chasing some stupid achievements, i dont even want achievements, i'd turn all of them off in consoles if i could.

I have to agree on many of the Pursuits that involve time trials, and rampages etc...I don't have the reactions to get the times or scores needed. I think just finihsing them should trigger something, very fustrating to run a time trial finish it and get squat because some guy finsihed so much faster that you did.

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Originally Posted by Yenkin

very fustrating to run a time trial finish it and get squat because some guy finsihed so much faster that you did.

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other peoples scores have no effect on your own personal reward other than the possible self gratification to show off their name in the top 3.

Do the little road sides (emergencies) they give decent xp and scrip. The Mutant and Raider ones are fairly short and pretty easy.

major arkfall hoping is the best way IMO. And more fun and entertaining but slightly slower is doing coop maps.

Both give nice XP, Keys and Loot.

roadsides don't drop keys or colored loot so you're not maximizing your play time. Roadsides are however all over the place though so they are very convenient for quick but smaller XP bursts.

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Originally Posted by swatti

Doing Dam Defence a million time aint my thing
Running San Quentin ruins is slow and boring (HUGE loads of geart tho)
Mine 99 has been nerfed to oblivion

Arkfalls, i dont know how many ive done, too many. Sieges are once per hour and while atm i'd do em till the end of time, they get just as boring as arkfalls soon anyways.

Pursuits are mostly annoying, i dont wanna do things i dont care or dislike, its like chasing some stupid achievements, i dont even want achievements, i'd turn all of them off in consoles if i could.

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Hmmm problem is grinding is what all games devolve into. I'd suggest mixing it up. My best example of what I mean is I finally finished out the Freightyard pursuits-I freaking hate PvP so I forced myself to do it. I tried my best to NOT wait to get the turret because that sucks not helping the team. I even accepted the fact I had to re-gain some of my turret kills that the game took away. But I did it and I went on to do the Echelon Contracts (for a big whopping 10 points per) because I now want to go from Reliable to Trusted and be done with Echelon. Except, no I won't be-I need to be able to buy stuff at Echelon to finish out the pursuit-10 to be exact.

Well, what do you know the next daily is FY turret kills. Suck my nose.

I don't care about the achievements but I do like to finish out things in the game-Echelon is the last I need for trusted status and I hate it.

As far as your particular problem, prior to doing this I would try different things-running around doing some emergencies, then arkfalls, then coop, then sieges that popped up, and so on. I also try swapping out and using different weapons. At arkfalls I might use a maxed out weapon because it won't get xp but often I focus on one weapon that needs something to finish out a pursuit. ARs need 5000 kills, so it's not about xp, so I use them sometimes exclusively for arkfalls, sieges, and places with mobs.

You can get greens and possibly blues from road sides, and you could always still tag arkfalls while doing so, if desired. True no keys from road side emergencies, but they just wanted xp I thought. I have enough weapons now and over a mil salvage I don't care about keys that much anymore.

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Originally Posted by Ferah

other peoples scores have no effect on your own personal reward other than the possible self gratification to show off their name in the top 3.

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Yeah and from what I've been told there was a major glitch when the game first came out and some of those at the top of the list benefitted from it and the list has never been changed.

Also, in most cases in the game don't take the leaderboards at all seriously. The game cannot count. I've had it over and under-credit me all along the way. I can revive 5 players and end up with it saying 0 or revive no one and it might say 12. I got 4 rescue kills in TDM and got credit for 1 (for a contract). I have killed many many afflicted at times at sieges and gotten credit for 5 and yet I've come in late to some arkfalls (gotten there for the boss leg) and gotten second place. I don't think anyone should really believe the leaderboards matter at all.

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Originally Posted by Orbital

You can get greens and possibly blues from road sides, and you could always still tag arkfalls while doing so, if desired. True no keys from road side emergencies, but they just wanted xp I thought. I have enough weapons now and over a mil salvage I don't care about keys that much anymore.

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Yeah, it really depends on what you want. I like to go and do that rampage at overpass because I'm getting close to 50k kills. So, I will do that. I am also working on gold for the time trials so I'll try those. Great for ranking up your vehicles. For the Cerberus, I do Explosions 101 to drive it. The great thing is that for many of the things I'm doing I am racking up xp along the way.

Roadsides are boring, arkfalls WAY boring and slow. Considoring how well roadsides USED to pay, some even gave keys to what they do now... Seriously why anyone would bother. Trion killed roadsides for me.

Im mostly looking to "power-level" my charter, if loot involved, nice, if not, no problem.

May need to think me a build to speed-run San Quentin... If only the inventory wasnt complete disaster among every other part of this game. Try to salvage 100+ slots worth of loot fast, jeah, not gonna happen.

I have level'd like crazy (xp, weapons, etc) with the infected roadside stuff. All have crit areas and take damage nicely. Yeah you don't get keys, but you get AS and loot you can turn in to AS, which is basically a key per 1k.

The best ones are the raider one, scan the patients one and the dark matter outpost ones. The Dark Matter ones are nice because not a lot of people cruise SF.

The raider area ones will also pick up a wandering hulker occasionally, so that is yet more xp.

I just drive around hitting those and keeping an eye open for sieges. Sieges are insane xp.

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Originally Posted by Orbital

Do the little road sides (emergencies) they give decent xp and scrip. The Mutant and Raider ones are fairly short and pretty easy.

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This is what I do too. I try to stop at every little thing I come across.

Yes sieges give weapon xp as well, they really need to make it so all enemies at arkfalls reward weapon xp besides the matron and progenitor and some of the minor arkfall enemies. They don't want you to power level the way you are wanting I think swatti, roadsides were so easy to finish and reward so much xp and scrip that they were just giving keys away like that. Why would anyone queue up for a co-op or pvp besides doing contracts or pursuits. The nerf to Mine 99 highlights the fact they don't want that kind of power leveling.

The Scrapper ones in SF are a little harder if you're lower or using weaker weapon skills (unleveled), but they can tend to pop a forge which are great for leveling weapons. If you're using a main weapon you should be able to blow through any scrapper one very easy and they are often up.

I have been playing this game since its release in April. I first met Nim when I was at ego 848 and he just tore me apart. I finally moved away after about 30 trys and decided to just increase my ego level. I've done that by doing all the boring stuff - replay replay replay along with cleaning up my Pursuits and Contracts. I'm presently at level 2225. I have to agree there is a need for more new content or a DLC in a hurry! I'm holding out for the one that is supposed to come by the end of July!!
My biggest beef is the inclusion of successfully achieveing silver or gold levels in Rampages and Speed Trials. There should be other options to complete these pursuits as I did not buy this game to play "racer" or test my skill in senseless shotouts!

First the trials and rampages have to go. Making optional stuff mandatory for pursuits is insane and not well thought out. Side quests I rarely do my map is still full of them (even though I am slowly clearing it out) I to have been here since release for the first week I didn't even bother with pursuits. Choice would be better for the time trials and rampage, hell I'd rather have to kill 50k+ more mobs then do them.

As for levleing Minor arkfalls are pretty quick and easy to do. Waves make it even easier and at 4-5k per minor and about 5-10minutes (depending on how many people show up) make them a very quick and easy way to gain xp. As of the patch today (assuming it isn't too borked) we will get weapon xp from Major arkfalls as well. Now if they would just bring in Afflicted seiges until the DLC gets here things would be a little more exciting.. again.

I'd say quickly doing every Arkfall you see. Side benefit is gaining your Arkfall count for the Season 2 contest along with good XP, keys, loot, and now weapon XP.

I agree with Silt - bring back the Sieges as they were fun. Speaking of which I have tried Shadow Wars a few times and don't think I have been on for longer than 10 secs. before getting destroyed! I don't find that very motivating and it's a big reason I have stayed away from pvp.

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Originally Posted by Silt

First the trials and rampages have to go. Making optional stuff mandatory for pursuits is insane and not well thought out. Side quests I rarely do my map is still full of them (even though I am slowly clearing it out) I to have been here since release for the first week I didn't even bother with pursuits. Choice would be better for the time trials and rampage, hell I'd rather have to kill 50k+ more mobs then do them.

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You're like the first person I've seen complain about time trials and hotshots in Pursuits. Pursuits are there to give incentive to do them and they vary the gameplay a little bit. I had a blast playing and getting Gold on them all my first time. I hope they introduce a lot more in DLC.

Side missions not so much since they are kinda boring and repetitive.

I have gone for lvl 500 to 3650 just doing emergencies and arkfalls, and weapon skill pursuits. I wish I had completed all my time trials before they added the volge, they must make some races impossible. I just started ignoring story and have never gone back, I did enough side missions to figure out i don't need so many white mods. The infected were a great way to get exp, they still are for the limited time the emergencies are around. Shame sieges weren't part of the replay...

I don't do pvp so I am ignoring some pursuits. I still have all the rampages on my map, once i have all 4 titles from the combat pursuits I guess I will return and try them again. I mainly concentrate on weapon skills now, I have all the perks already so I don't get experience for anything. Killing things just for a kill count on snipers at moment. When I get bored I go do arkfalls.

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Originally Posted by Indra Echo

I don't care about the achievements but I do like to finish out things in the game-Echelon is the last I need for trusted status and I hate it.

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Well you say you don't care about achievements, but the fact it bugs you so much having one thing left tells me you are indeed a bit of a completionist, which is exactly what an achievement hunter is :p Don't deny your love to hate it!

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Originally Posted by Remag Div

You're like the first person I've seen complain about time trials and hotshots in Pursuits. Pursuits are there to give incentive to do them and they vary the gameplay a little bit. I had a blast playing and getting Gold on them all my first time. I hope they introduce a lot more in DLC.

Side missions not so much since they are kinda boring and repetitive.

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I dislike strongly having to get silver in the races for the series of area pursuits. I HATE the thought of having to get gold in all of them for the other pursuit. I play this game to shoot things, can't stand racing games, and I don't understand why I have to be good at racing a barely controllable vehicle to get full completion...

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Originally Posted by Maitreakow

I dislike strongly having to get silver in the races for the series of area pursuits. I HATE the thought of having to get gold in all of them for the other pursuit. I play this game to shoot things, can't stand racing games, and I don't understand why I have to be good at racing a barely controllable vehicle to get full completion...

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Because it's a challenge and not everything should be easily fed to you?

Remag- actually I am not the first but it is a very small minority. Not everyone likes 'race' type content, I am one of them. As I said it is optional stuff made mandatory. This is a shooter not a racer and it is definently not Twisted Metal. If scrip wasn't so useless I wouldn't even have bought the two vehicles I have bought. As you said about side missions being repetitive and boring that is how I feel about the time trials. At least with side missions you can choose your loadout you have no choice but to do the trials on a runner. I'll take 50k+ kills as a choice any day over doing the time trials.

I have no issue with a challenge related to shooting, I enjoy them and look forward to it.

I DO have an issue with challenge related to driving influencing my ability to close out my pursuits.

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Originally Posted by Silt

Remag- actually I am not the first but it is a very small minority. Not everyone likes 'race' type content, I am one of them. As I said it is optional stuff made mandatory. This is a shooter not a racer and it is definently not Twisted Metal. If scrip wasn't so useless I wouldn't even have bought the two vehicles I have bought. As you said about side missions being repetitive and boring that is how I feel about the time trials. At least with side missions you can choose your loadout you have no choice but to do the trials on a runner. I'll take 50k+ kills as a choice any day over doing the time trials.

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^^ this for me as well

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Originally Posted by Silt

I'll take 50k+ kills as a choice any day over doing the time trials.

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As if a ton of pursuits don't already have that type of goal already. lol

And the time trials aren't THAT hard. How bad are you people?

Why would you want to level your ego?
All you get is higher Ark Salvage costs.

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Originally Posted by Remag Div

As if a ton of pursuits don't already have that type of goal already. lol

And the time trials aren't THAT hard. How bad are you people?

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Pretty bad I guess, took me at least 3 tries on the majority of the races to even get Silver. Yes, my runners are at 20.

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Originally Posted by Sdric

Why would you want to level your ego?
All you get is higher Ark Salvage costs.

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I am at ~3800 right now, trying to level to get that 4th mod slot open so I DON'T have the higher Ark Salvage cost.

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Originally Posted by Maitreakow

Pretty bad I guess, took me at least 3 tries on the majority of the races to even get Silver. Yes, my runners are at 20.

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I will give you a break and say that after the vehicle HP nerf and the inclusion of lots of Volge emergencies they probably are harder nowadays.

Also, if you use kb/m, it's best to remap some of the vehicle controls. I have it where spacebar is boost and Alt is powerslide. If it's still uncomfortable you could always plug in a controller for vehicles.

Grab 3 friends.
Everbody takes decoy.

Go to mine 99.

Take the boxes, don't bother about the enmies, let' em shoot the decoys.
The last guy pulls the final switch.

Rinse and repeat.
(Assign each player to either a box or the final console)

I like how you editted that just to add in the second line. 1st line- in a shooter isn't it more relevant to add (hold on this may shock you) shooting type pursuits? 2nd line- when you don't play race games with lousy control of the stock vehicle you are forced to use then yes, they are hard. Last race game I played was Demolition Racer back on the PS1. Last TM I played was Black on the PS2. Get the idea now?

As for your previous post about a 'challenge' How much help have you recieved? I bet you are so damn 'skilled' you managed to get the mil scrip in under 2 days no 'help' (help in trades/friends) None of the pursuits are hard but some people have an aversion to race or PVP pursuits. Just because you are so 'unique' and managed to do it with no problems doesn't mean others will

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Originally Posted by Remag Div

I will give you a break and say that after the vehicle HP nerf and the inclusion of lots of Volge emergencies they probably are harder nowadays.

Also, if you use kb/m, it's best to remap some of the vehicle controls. I have it where spacebar is boost and Alt is powerslide. If it's still uncomfortable you could always plug in a controller for vehicles.

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Hehe, I am on PS3. Yeah..I know, I really THAT bad at driving games...

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Originally Posted by Silt

I like how you editted that just to add in the second line. 1st line- in a shooter isn't it more relevant to add (hold on this may shock you) shooting type pursuits?

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Dude, 90% of the Pursuits are shooting things and killing thousands of enemies.

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2nd line- when you don't play race games with lousy control of the stock vehicle you are forced to use then yes, they are hard. Last race game I played was Demolition Racer back on the PS1. Last TM I played was Black on the PS2. Get the idea now?

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Right, so basically you want the Devs to form the game around your playstyle.

Sledge: "Hold up guys, Silt is terrible at racing, let's get rid of all the time trial Pursuits!"

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As for your previous post about a 'challenge' How much help have you recieved? I bet you are so damn 'skilled' you managed to get the mil scrip in under 2 days no 'help' (help in trades/friends) None of the pursuits are hard but some people have an aversion to race or PVP pursuits. Just because you are so 'unique' and managed to do it with no problems doesn't mean others will

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Thanks, I am pretty awesome.

Wow I like how you put words on the screen I never said. 1- It's a shooter did you miss that part of the game? 2- I never said take it out I get the need for different things to do but as a pursuit? Really? In a shooter? Gotcha! 3- Considering you have absolutely missed the point responding back is useless