User blog comment:Legionwrex/Problems with Multiplayer./@comment-737801-20121215195640/@comment-1388547-20121216060158

For Vanguards: If you're not in trouble you should be judicious when you charge, but when I play a Vanguard and I'm about to die, I just try to charge whatever's in front of me, regardless of what it is, because I need my barrier back right now. I accept the consequences of my actions -- if I get grabbed and perma-killed, so be it, and if I'm not perma-killed but die in an awkward spot and can't be easily revived, I'll wait as long as I can then use a medi-gel.

For people who spend consumables quickly: I don't encounter that very often myself. I actually encounter the opposite much more -- people who won't use medi-gel and allow themselves to bleed out when we still need their help, or who won't use a rocket to get out of a bad situation. (Also, when I'm playing on Gold and get a target objective, I always volunteer to rocket the first target. It helps speed things along.  If it's wave 10, I might rocket later targets too.)  I'm somewhat reluctant to spend ops packs or medi-gel if I don't have to, because those are my most-used consumables, but I don't really mind using a missile because I usually have plenty, and I have no qualms at all about using a thermal clip pack.

I haven't seen any of these Talimancer quarians. Perhaps I haven't been looking for them? Anyway, if I encounter any, I'll tell them that if they want to be effective, they should play shotgun Infiltrators. The female quarian Infiltrator is a good character, and while I don't personally care for that style of play, shotgun Infiltrators can be quite effective while still looking a lot like Tali.

As for teammates who won't revive, I'm generally with Legionwrex on this -- it's a team game, and even if a player isn't very good, reviving them is still one of the most useful things I can do in terms of dealing damage to the enemy. At worst, they'll act as a decoy and draw some fire away from me! There are some circumstance where I won't revive, though -- in particular, if a downed player isn't near me and is in a dangerous situation, I won't get myself killed trying to get them. Legionwrex, if you're playing off on your own a lot, perhaps you're running into this?

In general, I'd say that if you really want to get into MP, you should keep your mic on and talk a lot; try to make friends with people (both socially and in the "friends list" sense), and be able to assemble a good team of people who know and trust each other. Pubbies (random people in public slots) are in my experience not very good at the game, generally out of their depth, and, as Lancer suggests, lacking in intelligence; this is what makes it important to make friends with good players when you find them! If you don't want to get heavily into MP but instead just play occasionally, you should probably resign yourself to having to deal with pubbie issues.