Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer Catch-All – Shepards with Jobs

So I'm trying to resolve the completely bulls*** "Cannot connect to friend's game" messages when I'm trying to join people's matches, and I've found these instructions on the BW forums:

Chris Priestly wrote...
PC:

Make sure your personal firewall is configured to allow Mass Effect 3 (Demo or Full game) to communicate to the internet.
Enable UPNP on your router.
Manually open UDP port 3659 and 6000 on your router to allow inbound and outbound traffic. [/list]Please consult your router or personal firewall documentation for information on how to allow game related traffic on these ports. If you are attempting to play on a corporate internet connection, contact your network administrator.

UPNP is already enabled, I'm having trouble working out how I open ports.

I've found a tab called port forwarding in my router, but there are more fields for each line than I know what to do with. Is that the tab I want?

*edit* I clicked some buttons on the firewall, I created and launched a game ok. Haven't tried joining a friend yet.

schedule today changed very weirdly, but it allows a huge chunk of time, so I'm diving into this, PC, if anyone's still interested or needs to complete some challenges still. I know I do, and a bunch of them.

I did finally extract 2 times solo gold finally a couple nights ago. Went Reaper on Giant, as it's big and easy to kite enemies. I know the Fury isn't the best idea for soloing, but man, I can't switch to anything else. I do for challenges, but I haven't found a similar groove that I enjoy as much.

Seeing this thread has me needing a fix. I'll be tonight (360) if anyone wants in.

Bioware has posted a job listing for a produce for the online multiplayer portion of the next Mass Effect game.

CptGlanton wrote:

Seeing this thread has me needing a fix. I'll be tonight (360) if anyone wants in.

Would love to but tonight is no good for me

Rykin wrote:

Bioware has posted a job listing for a produce for the online multiplayer portion of the next Mass Effect game.

So many grammar mistakes ...

Maybe if I offer to correct their public postings, they'll let me playtest the new MP.

CptGlanton wrote:
Rykin wrote:

Bioware has posted a job listing for a produce for the online multiplayer portion of the next Mass Effect game.

So many grammar mistakes ...

Maybe if I offer to correct their public postings, they'll let me playtest the new MP.

Lol and I thought you meant mine at first

Bet they just ran the french version through Google Translate or something similar.

Anyone down for a few round tonight or over the weekend?

I've been thinking about it. My gold subscription lapsed though and I'm curious about Helldivers.

After playing dragon age inquisitions multiplayer for a few months I am comfortable stating definitively that ME3 is a better multiplayer game. I think Bioware caught lightning in a bottle with ME3mp. The weapon variety and ability to put any fun or any combo of guns on any character (eg biotic with claymore and black widow if you want) gives ME3 so much replayability. And the weapons themselves are more fun to use than dragon age's weapons because they actually behave differently.

So maybe not this weekend but I will definitely be in on more ME3mp in the future.

TL:DR I just can't quit you.

Rykin, you on Xbox or PC? I'm on PC, jumping in in a few minutes.

Xbox

Also ended up getting too deep into playing around with Unity (!= AssassinsCreedUnity) and forgot to check if anyone was on.

I jumped back into this over the weekend as a friend of mine just bought the trilogy on pc for $15.

Lots of fun again messing around with all the different characters and builds. Got my Infiltrator back to 20 and then ran a few gold matches. Then blew 600K on Premium Spectre Packs and got pretty much crap. Ah, just like old times

Overall, pretty fun though. I just wish I could choose which weapons and gear I wanted to upgrade. I'd love to finally get something beyond my Black Widow II.

I hear you. I've spent about 10million and still have a Hurricane 4.

kexx wrote:

I hear you. I've spent about 10million and still have a Hurricane 4.

Yep, that Hurricane X of mine is puh-retty sweet.

If only they'd have specific packs, like a sniper pack, or SMG pack etc. A gear pack too. Also, I can't believe they're still the same price after all this time. Would be nice if they discounted them or something.

Yeah - they should be handing out candy now. It's been years. Or change the seedings in the RNG to give more high end stuff on the high end packs.

Still though, I'm glad they've kept the servers running for this long. The game is fantastic and addictive fun. I do miss the weekend challenges they used to have, but I understand the team probably has moved on to working on MEnot4.

While I wait for XCOM2, Batman, Last Guardian and FF7 Remake, I've started playing this again. And it still holds!! It's fantastic fun!!

Anyone on PC looking to dive back for nostalgia's sake, I'll be online!

I just started playing again too. My first time on PC, kinda sucks having to start from scratch after I had almost everything unlocked on the 360. But it's SO much easier to snipe with a mouse. That alone makes it worth it.

I'll try to add you Kexx. Anyone else playing, add me on Origin, I'm Wardog1-502 on there.

I still play on occasion, though BF4 gets a lot more of my time these days.

Unknown Soldier wrote:

I just started playing again too. My first time on PC, kinda sucks having to start from scratch after I had almost everything unlocked on the 360. But it's SO much easier to snipe with a mouse. That alone makes it worth it.

I'll try to add you Kexx. Anyone else playing, add me on Origin, I'm Wardog1-502 on there.

Found you I think, and sent a request. Hit me up, and we'll punish some reapers.

Request sent.

The periods between me coming back to ME3 are getting longer each time, but I still do in the end. Lightning in a bottle really does describe it.

Oh man, let's get back together and punish some freaks!!

Unknown and I played last night, and got our asses handed to us, 3 out of 4 times. (Might've been 4 out 5). Our first round we did good, getting our bearings, opened up to pubs, and extracted. The following matches were just riddled with phonecall interruptions, crazy banshee sync-killing, amped up marauders. Just crazy, we couldn't extract!

Fun times. Let's do this again!

Sounds fun. But my parents are in town this weekend, dad and I will be working on my new house. Maybe Sun night when they leave or something. I miss it.

I'm almost ready to sell my xbox 360 but this is the one game holding me back. It made its way into my top games of all time and I didn't even look at the multiplayer for the first few months I had the game. The sad part is that I don't even have an active gold subscription anymore.

I am pretty much down at anytime to jump back in to this on 360 with a crew, but I have little desire to play with randoms anymore. Hopefully it will come to the Xbox One through Backward Compatibility (and it will work better than ME1 does via BC right now).

Another N7 Day is coming up and this time it is on a Saturday. We should try to get the bands back together for some MP that day/night.

Anyone else down?

Oh you sexy beast.

I'd be up for it, on PC.

We'll be 360 though.