http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_3_Multiplayer/Character_Customization/Adept#Volus_Adept
Th - thanks for the awesome after action report. Sweeeeeet!
Gratz on the N7 Valiant BTW!
Edit: Defaulted to the infamous KroGuard as well and knocked off a quick one, albeit on Bronze. First PUG was full of level 6-8 characters (Fail) and second PUG breezed through. Finally grabbed an N7 Eagle in the commendation pack 
Only after a massive amount of grinding with any biotic character and then you only get this to show in the lobby. :oops:
The real fun starts tonight. Some of the irregulars will attempt to do it on Gold. Limiting it to six attempts. Fail -> Jumbo Pack -> Fail -> Jumbo Pack. That can go on all night if no one says the party is over.
Awesome Holiday News from Bioware for ME3 Multiplayer. No weekend achievements but some goodies unlocked:
Winter Break http://blog.bioware.com/2012/12/18/winter-break/
This I gotta see, a Volus doing a biotic charge. They gave the Drell assassin the super imba extra exploding Volus recon mine! What little balance the recon mine had was due to a Volus having to waddle somewhere to place it. Now speed + devastation. Also, these should curb the rage when dropping 99K on a PSP only to find the gold card unlocks “additional customization options” for one of your rare characters.
Arsenal Pack - 99000 Credits
It’s easy to smile when you’re armed to the teeth! Includes five random items with at least two Rares or better, as well as a higher chance for weapons.
Reserves Pack - 99000 Credits
Need backup? Bring in fighters from all corners of the galaxy to diversify your team. Includes five random items with at least two Rares or better, as well as a higher chance for characters.
Great stocking stuffers for a price.
ADD: My shopping experience. Your results may vary but the rule, or average, seems to be two gold cards in each box.
First opened Reserves Pack: +1 Operatives Pack, +1 Grenade Capacity. No characters but two invaluable permanent upgrades. I’m happy.
Opened the second… Color me blue and stick tentacles on my head:
This game has changed so much since the last time I played. Like when Ex-Cerberus dudes were added. Holy crap
Happy New Baktun! Now go out there and give them hell!
Take Back Earth from the Reapers, or at least the London, Rio and Vancouver parts of it. We’re getting slaughtered out there. I don’t get it. I finished the silver challenges and everything and ouch, ow, wiped out when I try this. I kid you not, we just lost an entire high level pub team to Banshee strangling. When does that ever happen? Bioware? What did you do? They’re snickering from home right now is what they’re doing. They were so eager to unleash this on us, it started a full day early, or maybe they just wanted to go home. 33% success rate so far. Those 100,000 points will come well before three extractions.
Calling all N7. Bring Medi-Gel. 
Your reward - just another commendation pack and the most epic noob banner yet offered.
50% off Origin Sale If you have a few bucks left over from the other massive sales afoot today, I believe this is the lowest non-bundled single title price to date. Standard was briefly $20 a few months ago.
$19.99 PC Digital Deluxe Edition
$14.99 PC Standard Edition
For its New Year’s Sale, Amazon has now matched Origin’s sale price.
PC GAMER: The Game of the Year 2012: Mass Effect 3
Yet no wins in any individual categories. Speaking of no wins in any category, GameSpot’s editors snubbed ME3 across their categories but in the final voting bracket, ME3 is in a dead heat against Far Cry 3 at 50%/50% for People’s Choice Game of the Year.
and, uh, ME3 won at lesser venues like Joystiq. So that’s good for kick starting a fresh round of Hate-The-Ending to usher in the new year.
Bioware is back from vacation and it’s time for OPERATION GENESIS Get out one girl. Get out one boy. Save a base human today.
Contents of Commendation Pack: N7 Crusader +1. Spectre Pack bought just afterward in testy discomfited disappointment: M-300 Claymore +1. Q.E.D. Spectre Packs must be better than Commendation Packs.
Genesis was pretty quick and resulted in an N7 Valiant +1. I was totally screwed on a reserves pack after as well - no characters, all gear and a shotgun 
My next spectre pack resulted in a Cerberus Harrier +1, which was exactly what I was looking for though.
Recent progress has been grinding away on the Commando Mastery Challenge - lots of quick runs on Bronze (seriously, one PUG completed a full extraction in 11:004 min) with Turians right now. Those “complete 200 waves” goals just mean putting in the time.
For god and country and N7. Geronimo. You’ll have to watch Kathryn Bigelow’s five oscar nominated film Zero Dark Thirty to truly appreciate the badness of this pun. Although I’m still plugging for Jennifer Lawrence to win best actress. Go, Tiffany, go. Sorry, Maya.
“Earn any first aid medal on any map at any difficulty.”
Ah, crap. Pop out the adrenaline packs. With the understanding that the PUG or prearranged team not cheat, this challenge challenges everyone to put the co-op back into co-op, and is no small part of why ME3 multiplayer remains something special among many recent co-op capable games. The last half dozen challenges have all been about “I easily soloed this” on the BSN forums. This week, you can’t. Nah, nah, nah. Can I has Harrier in my commendation box?
Bah! PUGing silver and a couple golds all weekend resulted in no first-aid medals… which is not surprising since I’ve never been awarded any first-aid medals.
For some reason, this was also the weekend of the Vorcha Sentinel in most of the packs I purchased: I went from base colour options to pretty much clearing out the appearance options. It would have been frackin nice to unlock some other character options instead /sigh
This was a hard one to do with randoms, I wasn’t able to do it until I managed to get a game going with my normal MP group. We decided to die on purpose so we could each complete the operation.
Yeah, I found the Geronimo mission hilarious. Basically, my Xbox friend and I did a bronze and each died 5 times in wave one. Still I got another Eagle, which is good, cause I like that pistol. Can’t believe how 8 months after starting multiplayer how addicted I have become to this.
It’s always Mass Effect at EA, all the time: “In honor of the release of the Dead Space 3 demo, we’re announcing a very cool in-game bonus for fans of Mass Effect and Dead Space…”
Break out the support pylons and get ready to visit some ammo crates troops!
Individual Goal: Earn any gold weapon medal (Assault Rifle/Heavy Pistol/Shotgun/Sniper Rifle/Submachine Gun).
Event Description: Recon has new estimates on the number of Reaper creatures, and the news is dire. Each of you must inflict as many casualties as possible, and we must destroy husk-creation mechanisms like Dragon’s Teeth. If we fail to accomplish this, we will be even more outnumbered in the coming days.
Working on the Blood Pack Challenge award lately so I’ve been having some serious fun with the vorcha, so I’ll probably either break out the Harrier and flip over to a soldier, or maybe a Kroguard with a trusty Reegar Carbine. Man I love that shotgun.
These were posted on Twitter by Michael Gamble (@GambleMike - ME3 Producer), Casey Hudson (@CaseyDHudson - ME3 Exec. Producer) the Mass Effect Twitter Account (@MassEffect) this morning. No explanations except some pithy comments and “enjoy your teasers”:
Sweet!
Lots of speculation on the interwebs, but it seems like consensus is forming that the Krogan may be an engineer for Multiplayer (hammer as the heavy melee) and the crowded map is likely a citadel Single Player DLC. One of the dev’s tweeted “Two for the price of one”, and since MP DLC is free and SP costs, that seems to make sense to me. Basically:
That second pic is revealing. Only one Krogan wears that red Battlemaster armor, or rather, someone of the family Urdnot. That was a story point and mission objective in the first Mass Effect - that quid pro quo whiny lizard just had to have it back and you had to help him. So is this DLC a flashback to times past or a tricksty plot twist?
I busted my ten weekend challenge streak. Several practical alternatives exist to achieve a gold weapon medal; solo it yourself so the only weapon fire is yours, go in with a bud and divide target pool in half, or, for PUGS, cooperatively and purposefully stall a mission objective from completing in order to clean up on the endless waves. I didn’t get time until Sunday night and managed to fumble all three. Pretty frustrating to get a 75 kill medal but fall a few shy of those being 75 weapon kills. But I completed Reaper Mastery in the process. Yay. It also encouraged me to tackle Bronze and Silver Solo completion achievements in the future… probably not Gold anytime soon and probably never on Platinum.
Sigh. Just gonna have to keep gambling on packs until I roll Harrier.