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The Upcoming Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Bounty Weekend Detailed

Operation Shieldwall begins this Friday at 6 PM PT. Can we agree that a shield and a wall are pretty close to being the same thing? They both serve similar purposes, but maybe that's completely irrelevant.

The event ends Monday morning at 5 AM PT and will be accessible through the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC versions of the game. Here are the challenges and rewards, and the story conceit as to why there are suddenly more banshees everywhere:

  • Allied Goal: Promote 50,000 characters. Successful completion of the allied goal will grant all players a Victory Pack.
  • Squad Goal: Promote 3 characters. Successful completion of the squad goal will grant all squadmates a Commendation Pack.
  • Special Circumstance: Due to the failure of Operation Silencer, more banshees will spawn with Reaper enemies and might also spawn with other enemies.

Make sure to set “Upload Gameplay Feedback” to ON in the online options to be able to participate.

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  • sounds sweet!

    ME3 FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • the last few levels should take about 10 matches to rank up your character unless your terrible but like i always say challenge accepted

  • "...and might also spawn with other enemies." That will be weird...
  • While I was able to participate in the last event (PS3), I didn't.  Maybe I'll try my hand at this one.

  • So silencer failed... that is unfortunate.
  • i asked GI why they didnt announce operation silencer,maybe if everyone would have known things would have turned out better.now we have to face banshees on the field with any enemy type...bring it.

  • Shieldwall. Think of the Spartan Phalanx. So no, calling a shieldwall irrelevant, is not necessary. Also, does anyone know what Operation Silencer was?
  • When is the Platinum level of difficulty going to come out?  We need a difficulty where there is no final wave, no extraction and you are eventually fighting 20 - 30 "bosses" each round.  Gold gets boring after a while...Give us a new challenge!

  • Haven't touched Mass Effect 3 for almost a month. Might be time to play through the story again as a Renegade this time.
  • i have 2 ready to promote.

  • Me: Hey who wants to play an easy gold against Geth?
    Friends: Yeah, lets do a quick game.
    -wave 5-
    Me: This is way to easy.....
    -SCREEEECH-
    All: O_O was that a banshee???!!!
    -Hiding in usual camping spot comes a warping banshee-
    ALL: RUNNNNNN!!!
    HAHAHAHA this is gonna be the best weekend ever :D no sarcasm
  • Man I knew I shouldn't have promoted my engineer last weekend
  • Banshees with other..enemies? BEcause we didnt no-life a weekend? Come one Bioware.

  • when is the extended DLC arriving ?
  • WHOA WHOA WHOA! banshees with other enemeis. so i could be fighting phantoms, AND banshees. or hunters and banshees WTF!!

  • I've only recently started getting into the multiplayer, and have only played about 2 games. I spent the passed I don't know how many months playing through every little thing in the campaigns of the trilogy. Explain to me how this bounty weekend works (promoting 50K characters nationally?) and how the promote system works, would you kindly? I don't expect it is anything like MW3's promotion system.
  • lol I was wondering what happened to Silencer...didn't realize it failed xD
    EDIT:
    I think it's pretty cool that there is a kind of "punishment" for the failure too. But I'm glad it's banshees and not Hunters or Phantoms. Those guys are a real pain in that proverbial buttocks.
  • What they don't mention here is that the Allied Prize of the victory pack has been improved to now have a chance for a rare drop. Before the victory packs just had equipment.

  • Sweet. Now if only I had the time this weekend to play.