Matches will add a new in-mission objective where players must keep a target alive and escort them to an extraction zone.

The human race faces extinction as the war rages on in our backyard! Fight for humanity’s survival in the latest installment of downloadable content for Mass Effect™ 3 multiplayer! Available to download at no additional charge*, Mass Effect 3: Earth adds three new maps based on three key cities in the galactic war – London, Vancouver and Rio De Janeiro. Players will be introduced to a whole new team of elite N7 forces who will be dispatched to protect civilization, along with an arsenal of lethal new weapons, unique upgrades, the all-new Platinum difficulty level and a brand new in-mission objective.

Mass Effect 3: Earth will be available for download on July 17 on Xbox LIVE® and the Origin™ client software and on PlayStation® Network in North America on July 17 and in Europe on July 18. The entire pack will include:

· Three New Maps – With the fate of the galaxy at stake, Earth’s military efforts have concentrated on three strategic locations. Defend Firebase Rio, home to the N7 training facility, along with Firebase Vancouver and Firebase London in the last stand for mankind.

· New Array of Playable N7 Characters – Step into the boots of the Alliance’s most elite military units with the N7 Demolisher Engineer, N7 Destroyer Soldier, N7 Fury Adept, N7 Sentinel Paladin, N7 Shadow Infiltrator and N7 Slayer Vanguard.

· New Powerful and Unique Weapons – Lay waste to the enemy by unlocking the N7 Piranha Shotgun, N7 Typhoon Assault Rifle and Acolyte Pistol.

· New Powerful Upgrades – Outfit your weapons with 12 new modifications and fortify your gear with 11 unique upgrades to defeat even the toughest foes.

· New “Platinum” Difficulty – Conquer bronze in your sleep? Take down Silver with one hand? Beat Gold without breaking a sweat? Then grab your friends and test your skills on the brand-new Platinum difficulty.

· New In-Mission Objective – Randomly occurring during waves 3, 6 and 10, this new objective will challenge teams to keep a targeted agent alive by protecting and escorting them to a designated extraction zone on each map.

TS, maybe u can update the 1st post regarding Earth DLC.

Done, I initially not to exited to play as human again but damn looks like these new classes has ability that significantly changes the way the game plays.

So who want to do Platinum run?

FBWGP ? 

FBWGP ? 

Lets do that~ 

I'm not too proud to admit I've not managed to beat Platinum in ME3 MP here at work, with maxed gear, and a good team. It is hard as nails.

Why not?

Some Bioware staff tweet:
Looking forward for Platinum in mp!

Lets do that~ 

Yep, and I've farmed 400k+ credits this morning 

^^
urgh, you guys..guess i need to farm more credits...

Yeah u go girl! Farm moar!! lol

I took a look in the new Extended Cut DLC files hoping to find info about the new ammo consumables. Instead, I see that they seem to have added UI information, but not actual stats, for several new multiplayer weapon mods. They all have a rarity of Rare. They consist of:

Assault Rifle Omni-Blade - Increase melee damage

Assault Rifle High-Velocity Barrel - Allow bullets to pierce objects but at reduced damage. Ignores[X]% of an armored target's defenses. Increase weapon weight.

Assault Rifle Thermal Scope - Increase accuracy, increase weapon weight

Sniper Rifle High-Velocity Barrel - Allow bullets to pierce objects but at reduced damage. Ignores[X]% of an armored target's defenses. Increase weapon weight.

Sniper Rifle Thermal Scope - Increase accuracy, increase weapon weight

Shotgun Omni Blade - Increase melee damage, increase weight

Shotgun High-Velocity Barrel - Allow bullets to pierce objects but at reduced damage. Ignores[X]% of an armored target's defenses. Increase weapon weight.

Pistol Cranial Trauma System - Increase headshot damage

Pistol Heavy Barrel - Increase damage, increase weight

Ultralight Pistol Materials - Reduce weight

SMG High-Velocity Barrel - Allow bullets to pierce objects but at reduced damage. Ignores[X]% of an armored target's defenses.

SMG Recoil System - Increase weapon stability

Now, who knows if they will ever be activated, but it is interesting that there are a lot and they are all listed in this new single-player DLC.

Guess I'll start to farm a bit tonight...

Some interesting reply from BSN forumer,
And pics of the mods too: HERE 

I'll bet Omni-blade attachment for AR and Shotty will looks really cool when equip.

Owh ya i add u ady. Weekend we play la if got time..
Hm mods that increase weapon weight.. interesting? Now pistol gol uml, i recalled bsn people saying uml for smg not working other than on the gpsmg. Hope not true for pistol tho..

Last two days ago, bought one psp, got ppr in it lol. Not sure lucky or not huhu

Some interesting reply from BSN forumer,
And pics of the mods too: HERE 

I'll bet Omni-blade attachment for AR and Shotty will looks really cool when equip.

Owh ya i add u ady. Weekend we play la if got time..Hm mods that increase weapon weight.. interesting? Now pistol gol uml, i recalled bsn people saying uml for smg not working other than on the gpsmg. Hope not true for pistol tho..

Last two days ago, bought one psp, got ppr in it lol. Not sure lucky or not huhu

Just finished Reaper's Gold game at Firebase Condor! the most hated map due to bug and bad ammo crates location, and its a full extraction plus its a PUGs team (no infiltrators. GE, TSen, TSol, PV)! Everyone ended up with 100k points, its really an even game. Done it before but with a kroguard and infiltrator so its not too much of a challenge.

I'm using GE just now. Trying a new builds actually lol.

Here is the build, (6,0,6,6,5 or 6)

Geth Turret > 6 (damage and shield, restore range, flamethrower)
Hunter Mode > 0 (no kidding lol)
Overload > 6 (chain, recharge, shield damage)
Network AI > 6 (power and weight bonus, power, weapon damage)
Advance Hardware > 5 or 6 (all health and shield), 5 because its a level 19.

Weapon: Geth Plasma Shotgun (Barrel+Choke)
Equipment: SHield Power Cell III, Disruptor Ammo II, Shotgun Amp III
Gear: Structural Ergonomics V

wah you guys so pro 

Do you remember what weapons that Turian Sentinel is using? I like to use TSen too but my points ussually just around 40-70k only 

Your geth plasma shotgun is at what lvl?

Platinum is ridiculous. Primes on the first wave. By wave four, all enemies are fighting, cerberus, geth AND reapers. Holy shit.

Played vanguard and adept with new shotgun and pistol.

Vanguard new abilities are both long range. First is a phantom like canon shot from the palm that uses barrier. The other one is like Shockwave with a sword swipe animation. Seems to take a bunch of frames to execute.

Adept annihilation wave is close combat ability, had range of similar to tech burst. First activation primes, second detonates. Quick cool down, able to spec to increase movement speed. Dark channel is good, like single player. Think you have to recast for multiple explosions.

Apostle pistol is kinda shit, but didn't have time to use it enough so who knowa how good it could be. No quick fire, charge weapon. Once charged, projectiles bounce off walls like falcon, but no aoe.

Shot gun is automatic, decent fire rate. Got good kills with vanguard charge and unload in platinum. Spread is super wide though, wider than Claymore. Didn't try it with choke.

Also, TON of new gear and all the mods that were leaked a while back.

Excuse any grammar errors, posting from phone.

For Shadow Strike, you disappear and reappear behind your target and do a sword slash.

Never got to use Devastator Mode, as someone prior to me had inverted the y-axis. I wasn't used to it and kept on dying.

Multi-frag grenades are wrist-mounted like Ballistic Blades but with a cap like regular grenades.

Missile Launcher is a shoulder-mounted launcher. I didn't like it too much.

Firebase London looks like the area in single-player where you have to defend the missile launcher trucks.

Firebase Vancouver is pretty big. Lots of ladders and ramps.

Ah yes, the wave 8 platinum wipe. It was all girls playing. One had a vorcha, I believe two were asari and I believe the last was a geth.

It was pretty nail-biting just watching.

^Ooooh! I want the FemShepard figura...