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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Mass Effect 3 hosts a five-day multiplayer event this week]]></title><link>http://www.joystiq.com/2013/03/06/mass-effect-3-hosts-a-five-day-multiplayer-event-this-week/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joystiq.com/2013/03/06/mass-effect-3-hosts-a-five-day-multiplayer-event-this-week/</guid><comments>http://www.joystiq.com/2013/03/06/mass-effect-3-hosts-a-five-day-multiplayer-event-this-week/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2013/03/05/mass-effect-3-hosts-a-five-day-multiplayer-event-this-week/"><img alt="Mass Effect 3 hosts a fiveday multiplayer event this week" data-src-height="327" data-src-width="530" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2013/03/masseffect3extractionzone.jpg" /></a></div>BioWare has announced another <a href="http://joystiq.com/game/mass-effect-3"><em>Mass Effect 3</em></a> multiplayer event, but this is no standard combat skirmish: Admiral Hackett says this is "the largest-scale attack in the brief history of this war."<br /><br />Instead of just a weekend special, <a href="http://blog.bioware.com/2013/03/05/operation-lodestar/">Operation Lodestar will last</a> from today through March 10, which means you'll have five days to complete all three tiers, and earn three Commendation packs and a special banner.<br /><br />To pick up all three rewards, players will need to finish and extract from missions against all four enemy factions on Platinum difficulty. Extracting on any difficulty wins you the first award, and beating Silver difficulty wins the second. It'll be good practice for taking on <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2013/03/04/mass-effect-3-citadel-dlc-trailer-features-kodak-moment/">the Citadel DLC</a>, which you can also find in <em>Mass Effect 3</em> starting this week.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.joystiq.com"><img src="http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Joystiq" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2013/03/06/mass-effect-3-hosts-a-five-day-multiplayer-event-this-week/">Mass Effect 3 hosts a five-day multiplayer event this week</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.joystiq.com">Joystiq</a> on Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2013/03/06/mass-effect-3-hosts-a-five-day-multiplayer-event-this-week/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/20490213/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2013/03/06/mass-effect-3-hosts-a-five-day-multiplayer-event-this-week/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>commander-shepard</category><category>event</category><category>five-day</category><category>mass-effect</category><category>mass-effect-3</category><category>microsoft</category><category>multiplayer</category><category>n7</category><category>operation-lodestar</category><category>pc</category><category>playstation</category><category>ps3</category><category>xbox</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Schramm]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:00:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>