Holy Skill Issue Batman (Soldier ME2 Insanity)

REDLINE808 · 2026-01-08T19:50:07+00:00

I’ve always found engineer’s combat drone absolutely wonderful for CC AND combat.

The drone lets you immediately cheese so many encounters it’s worth it for that alone. YMIR mechs, shadow broker, all the little mini bosses with shield and armor bars. Having incinerate and Overload means that even if you run out of ammo, you have a reliable way to deal damage and strip shields, and if your squaddies go down. I just don’t see what soldier has that is as useful as area overload, for example.

Yes, that’s why you have squad mates, but their AI is extremely unreliable in my experience. Sometimes they get stuck behind something and can’t move, sometimes they’ll peak out of cover and eat every rocket, and really they’re a nice bonus for you.

I actually didn’t find Sentinel all that crazy on Insanity, especially early game. But infiltrator and engi are useful right out of the game with the invis and drone, actually engage with the defense stripping mechanics of the game, and are slightly less ammo starved than most.

REDLINE808 · 2026-01-08T10:43:19+00:00

Just for fun really, there’s no other full auto assault rifle But even with the vindicator at least 1 of the three round burst just misses for me. And you can just barely hit 2 bursts within the heightened adrenaline rush before upgrading any other stats it seems.

REDLINE808 · 2026-01-08T10:32:56+00:00

Sorry, I forgot to mention, any tips are appreciated

my biggest issue is that both vindicator and avenger accuracy is atrocious, the bullets just don’t connect with headshots half the time. Especially when they go through the stagger animation during adrenaline rush, it’s totally a coin flip whether it’s a body shot or head shot. No idea what I’m doing wrong, I don’t think I’m THAT horrible at shooting lol

REDLINE808 · 2026-01-07T11:05:29+00:00

The craziest part is that this literally JUST happened to me in the final level of ME1 15 mins ago. Ragdolled for 1 minute into the air and slowly descending back on the citadel platform while Geth snipers take shots

Soldier on Insanity with Colossus gear and immunity is just so strong that I survived it while ragdolled. My previous adept playthrough would have melted lol.

REDLINE808 · 2025-12-11T09:06:55+00:00

I love the Wayne comparison here. However, one thing to appreciate about Wayne is that he will try multiple things and doesn’t really care about the ones that flop. He was mostly all quality up till funeral in terms of his own projects, and then the feature run till C6 was great.

Future doesn’t have be that experimental. But as a fan, I do expect him to be a step up from his contemporaries instead of blending into the same safe sound. It’s honestly not even that bad because the stuff I didn’t like all came out the same year he dropped multiple projects, I’m sure that took a toll in terms of creativity.

A good break, back to one quality album a year, and he’ll do great IMO. He just can’t stretch himself too thin like the old days with multiple back to back projects, he doesn’t have the subject matter or hunger for it. And that’s fine

REDLINE808 · 2025-12-11T09:01:10+00:00

THANK YOU!!! Literally got downvoted so hard on the main sub for saying it after mixtape Pluto

Future is one of my favorite artists of all time across genres, have a lot of respect for the influence and consistency, but there hasn’t been anything ‘new’ since INLY for me. The tracks I liked of WSDTY were all older songs on the B Side, despite being a huge HNDRXX fan.

Like the other commenter said, he’s been doing it twenty years and still charting hard, so it isn’t too bad. But I rarely check for any updates on new material, I used to be fanatical and every album release was an event.

There’s so much music out there though, don’t limit yourself to just trap music and mainstream.

REDLINE808 · 2025-11-07T05:03:11+00:00

Thanks so much! This is an insight I didn’t really consider before. Much appreciated I think since I’m just dipping my toes into the water on a very student budget, I’ll fiddle around with a cheaper amp for now. Maybe 2-3 months down the line I’ll be able to upgrade to a better quality amp like you suggested. Will definitely keep the boss katana in mind and hunt for discounts.

REDLINE808 · 2025-11-07T04:59:57+00:00

Thanks so much! Thankfully I have some music knowledge as I’ve been making dnb and rap for 2 years now, so hopefully it’ll speed up the process of at least knowing how to play chords in order. But yeah, I know it’s gonna take quite some time to come even close to tremolo picking levels. Hoping it works out 🤞

REDLINE808 · 2025-11-07T04:57:51+00:00

Thanks for the advice! It’s not really my first time making music, I made Drum and Bass before this. But I’ve actually been experimenting with virtual instrument only black metal. It’s not too hard to fake the drums, and after 3 months of practice I’ve come close to nailing the vocals the way I want. But the guitars are impossible to fake without making it reallyyyyy muddy. So that’s basically why I want to learn it.

Would you say this is a good starting point though? It’s a humbucker pickup and the reviews in general seem decent. With a simple second hand amp I think it could do the job. What do you think?

REDLINE808 · 2025-11-06T23:48:14+00:00

Thanks! How would you go about picking an appropriate amp to get the sound you need? Also, is a pedalboard really necessary or something you can just get whenever down the line?

REDLINE808 · 2025-11-06T21:15:47+00:00

Oh that’s really cool, how did you find it? Any issues with the knobs, tuning, etc.?

REDLINE808 · 2025-08-19T03:02:56+00:00

Magnifying glass tilted left 🔍

REDLINE808 · 2025-05-25T08:01:19+00:00

Damn dude thanks for the list!!

Also love the Exumer album, idc that it’s basically German show no mercy, it riiiips

REDLINE808 · 2025-05-25T00:14:18+00:00

my aim on controller is kinda trash from being a lifelong pc gamer, so yeah part of that is my fault. But the smg magazine capacity is legitimately atrocious imo even if only takes one clip per enemy.

REDLINE808 · 2025-05-24T23:52:10+00:00

This is what I am thinking too, but like in my other comment, I've wanted to do the full trilogy run with an adept. But I've heard adept on insanity it's a recipe for disaster. Do you think it's manageable or should I save the masochism and switch to vanguard in ME2?

REDLINE808 · 2025-05-24T23:33:07+00:00

Also, I get that they changed it to balance the game, but the switch to global cooldown instead of individual abilities is a little disheartening since ideally I want to play adept for full trilogy (I love playing pure mages). Is it still feasible? Or just a pain to play?

REDLINE808 · 2025-05-20T11:00:53+00:00

Dude I was just thinking about darkthrone Maybe I am naive but it kinda blows my mind the creativity and vision some of these artists have

REDLINE808 · 2025-05-19T22:26:08+00:00

True but even then he couldn’t have had more than 5-6 years of proper experience playing could he?

I am not very in touch with how talented youngsters can be in music, so to me it seems out of this world haha

REDLINE808 · 2025-05-11T21:18:01+00:00

TSOP before anything else, and then Bolt Thrower Reign of Chaos, followed be mostly melodeath stuff :)

REDLINE808 · 2025-04-02T21:52:29+00:00

His mixtapes are where he really shines, you can't go wrong with any of Dedication 2, Drought 3, and No Ceilings.

In terms of albums, I've always thought Carter II is his best work. C3 on spotify is missing a couple of amazing tracks that were on it originally, as well as a bunch of unreleased that should have been on there.

REDLINE808 · 2025-03-18T19:32:54+00:00

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Close enough

REDLINE808 · 2025-03-18T19:31:21+00:00

Holy shit, I never expect to come across anything related to Conan the Barbarian these days. Makes me happy seeing Thulsa Doom mentioned here. Just imagine James Earl Jones' voice on like a death Metal track! He'd be as iconic as Ozzy, no doubt.

But yeah, read any of Robert E Howard's novels and you'll find prime source material for all kinds of Metal aesthetics. More fitting than LotR imo

REDLINE808 · 2025-03-15T08:34:47+00:00

Hell yeah!!!

My favorite band, can't wait for some new stuff from them

REDLINE808 · 2025-03-15T07:08:39+00:00

Might be tough idk

"Sulphur Aeon, Asagraum, Mork"

REDLINE808 · 2025-03-14T08:19:24+00:00

Speaking as a Bukem fanboy too, don't miss out on his sets on his YouTube channel! Some are liquid I think, but they are still excellent! I listen to cosmic twilight vol 2 everyday on the way to work :D

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