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THE PWNER posted:I'm surprised with how much I ended up liking James despite the fact he looks like a loving jersey shore character. They really did a good job with him apart from the random out of place spanishisms. I still think he totally should've had a ridiculous conversation with Cortez where they're looming over the console watching a telenovela while James gets all misty-eyed.
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isk posted:Bingo. There are many flaws with Kai Leng, and this is only one of them. The White Dragon posted:I still think he totally should've had a ridiculous conversation with Cortez where they're looming over the console watching a telenovela while James gets all misty-eyed.
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 08:08 |
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Started a femshep run--will my other romance back off if I tap Traynor?
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 08:56 |
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CapnAndy posted:I'm willing to write his out-of-nowhere-ness as "well, TIM learned a lot of cybernetic upgrade poo poo on Shepard, he turned around and did it again on somebody a bit more loyal". It's easy to forget just how loving inhuman you are by the end of ME2. I'm not sure if this was mentioned before (avoiding thread for spoilers) but Kai Leng is actually from one of the Mass Effect books. He was after Anderson and Sanders. He does come from out of no where in the game, since he's never explained too much, but not completely.
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 09:05 |
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Ryan-RB posted:Started a femshep run--will my other romance back off if I tap Traynor? An opportunity will eventually come up to allow you to tell them that you're not interested in them anymore. EDIT: At least it should, I didn't romance Traynor, to clarify.
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 09:13 |
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Davincie posted:Are there any good rapid fire sniper rifles (as in, not 1 shot before reloading) besides the Raptor (I think its called that? It seems that the AlienWare giveaway is still ongoing (or was renewed) so if you're on PC then go check it out (warning: they're harvesting email addresses).
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 09:15 |
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Has anyone lost all the bonus powers that you've unlocked? When I open the Reassign Power Bonuses machine in Medbay, all of the bonuses I unlocked by having conversations with the crew are all gone. WTF?!
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 09:52 |
What is a good bonus power for an Infiltrator?
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 10:06 |
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I like Slam but that's mostly just for rounding out my Infiltrator's skillset so I have something for Armor, something for Synthetics, and something Biotic. If only Warp or Reave were options.
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 10:12 |
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I take armor piercing ammo on my infiltrator but it's because I never really liked cryo.
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 10:26 |
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Warning to PS3 users. Apparently, if your game crashes during multiplayer, there's a good chance that your setting file has been corrupted. It looks like it affects the achievements data. I was in the middle of an Insanity run and I lost all my trophy progress (it's been reset to 0/27). Edit: I think it also wipes out the Bonus Powers that you have accumulated. I wouldn't be surprised if it also hosed up your relationship stuff as well. mA fucked around with this message at 10:38 on Mar 16, 2012 |
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After watching my roommate play through some of Mass Effect 3, I've decided to finish what I started and play through Mass Effect 1 again. That said, I made a Vanguard character when I really should have made a Soldier. Is there any way to copy the physical features directly so I don't have to eyeball what I just made in creating another character? [EDIT]: Mass Effect 1 for PC/through Steam, by the way. Teriyaki Koinku fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Mar 16, 2012 |
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OrangeGuy posted:After watching my roommate play through some of Mass Effect 3, I've decided to finish what I started and play through Mass Effect 1 again.
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 11:09 |
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I've got about 3400 assets, give or take a few dozen, and the only mission I have left right now is TIM's station. Misgivings about the ending aside, how much MP will I have to do to get the best one? (I should mention that I haven't done any MP whatsoever yet so my galactic readiness is still sitting at around 50%)
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 11:33 |
It's like a totally different game, playing as an Infiltrator. Vanguards are completely loving broken, wow.
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:I've got about 3400 assets, give or take a few dozen, and the only mission I have left right now is TIM's station. Misgivings about the ending aside, how much MP will I have to do to get the best one? You're fine. Honestly, I'm not trolling or being funny here, all the endings are pretty identical so don't stress too much over it at the end.
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Two Finger posted:It's like a totally different game, playing as an Infiltrator. Vanguards are completely loving broken, wow. Why is that? [EDIT]: I just keep second guessing myself since I still enjoy using guns in Mass Effect 1 but also really enjoyed using a sniper rifle when landing on a planet to pick off enemy sentries at the entrance to a base before moving in. Then again, I wanted to try giving a biotic-enabled character a shot since I never toyed around with it when I first rented the game several years ago. Granted, I am still at the very beginning of the game and it has been a few years since I played last. I can take sniper rifles as a bonus talent as a Vanguard, right? Even for now, Pistol + Marksman makes for good medium-ranged sniping whereas shotguns are always great. Teriyaki Koinku fucked around with this message at 12:22 on Mar 16, 2012 |
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My biggest problem with the writing is not the ending, which, while disappointing, was honestly pretty predictable. My biggest problem is that not one motherfucker in the galaxy other than you and maybe a couple of humans take the threat of the reapers fully seriously. My favorite example of this is the salarian dalatrass that tries to stop you from curing the genophage because "It would have repercussions on galactic peace for decades". Really, lady? Are you loving serious? Are you not aware of the fact that there is a ancient race of cosmic horrors from beyond space out to murder literally every single sentient being that there is? Also, they have succeeded in doing this a unknown number of times, but at least once, against species more advanced than ourselves? You are more worried about a bunch of krogan causing some poo poo down the road? Lady, if we live long enough to worry about krogan causing poo poo, that's a luxury problem. Also, most people seemed pretty nonchalant about the whole "reapers are on Earth/Your homeworld murdering your friends and family and/or turning them into robot space zombies". They seemed annoyed at best - Like when Garrus points to the big god drat fireball on Palaven and goes "Yeah that's where I'm from, my dad and sisters are down there." - He then proceeds to not give a poo poo and no mention it at all the rest of the game. Hell, the only time I remember seeing anyone display any emotion or distress over the whole thing is when you walk in on the pilot crying about his dead husband. All in all, I really enjoyed the game - Wasn't quite as good as ME2, and the writing was pretty derpy at times, but still a really drat good game. Geisladisk fucked around with this message at 12:42 on Mar 16, 2012 |
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Geisladisk posted:My favorite example of this is the salarian dalatrass that tries to stop you from curing the genophage because "It would have repercussions on galactic peace for decades". quote:[Garrus] then proceeds to not give a poo poo and no mention it at all the rest of the game. quote:really drat good game
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 13:08 |
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Holy poo poo tali just threw herself of a cliff and the illusive man is on the citidel! Does that mean I'm near the end?
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 13:21 |
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lemonadesweetheart posted:I finished the game last night and have been thinking a lot about what they could've done instead. Geisladisk posted:My biggest problem with the writing is not the ending, which, while disappointing, was honestly pretty predictable.
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NihilCredo posted:The best thing about Sabotage is that it's so frontloaded, you really only need to put 1 point into it to turn turrets from "oh god why" to "hahahah you bastards are hosed". The second pip (recharge time) is also nice to have, but you can safely skip 3-6 and you'll still have a very useful power. I think you can go at any time, but there are some systems that won't unlock unless you activate the related quests. I locked myself out of the Ismar Frontier this way despite a nearly perfect run.
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 13:36 |
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Finished the game, got the ending I wanted and left reasonably satisfied, and I'm not about to start with the I don't know why people are so upset blah blah posting, because I'm not an rear end in a top hat. I went with the destroy Reapers ending. Maybe I misheard the Catalyst when he was giving his spiel about how I could destroy all synthetics ( as opposed to would - I didn't have subtitles on so eh ), but I figured since the Crucible had been designed over countless cycles with the singular purpose to kill the Reapers, and the Geth while having the Reaper code uploaded, weren't Reapers, they would come out ok. Lets face it, I was there with the duty of finishing off the Reapers, and with everyone was counting on me to do so, it seemed the only solution. Control? That totally looked like a mug's game, and Synthesize?. Get out, I wasn't buying that poo poo for a second - new evolution of life? I'm no loving Pokemon, and in a game with spaceships travelling at FTL speeds and synthetic beings it still seemed like the macic mumbo jumbo solution. The Mass Effect gates blowing up? that was going to hurt, but it just implied that given ships still had FTL drives, there'd still be interstellar travel. Just localised within the stellar clusters up until the point some one figures how to rebuild Mass Effect gates. So I destroyed the Reapers, the guys on Earth all cheer ( because I had over 7k in War Assets, and my galactic readiness has been steadily floating between 97-100% within a couple of days of the game coming out ), the Normandy was travelling between Mass Effect gates for some inexplicable reason while the Crucible went off, and it crash landed and Javik got out ( although the last time I saw him was when we charged the beam to the Citadel together ), so I guess the rest of the team made it ok, and hey Shep was still alive after the Citadel blew up. Now I don't know that I can be bothered to rush into a NG+ replay at Insanity, but I'm reasonably happy with how everything turned out. Although perhaps the furor over the ending had lowered my expectations enough for me to let the niggling inconsistencies slide.
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Huragok posted:Holy poo poo tali just threw herself of a cliff and the illusive man is on the citidel! Does that mean I'm near the end? E: Wait, have you done Thessia?
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Geisladisk posted:My biggest problem with the writing is not the ending, which, while disappointing, was honestly pretty predictable. The whole game is full of this nonchalant stuff. I mean when you come back to life in ME2 nobody is even that surprised by it. I guess in the future everyone is jaded as hell.
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I have a question. I have Mass Effect 2, and completed all the DLC as well. However, when I did the last mission, Garrus died. I have a save not too far from the ending(maybe an hour or two away). My options are this: 1. Go back and re-do the ME2 ending and have everyone live 2. Continue on without Garrus (not doing this) 3. Starting a new ME3 game that doesn't import my last guy. How much cool poo poo am I going to miss if I don't import my old guy?
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Doctor Spaceman posted:There's actually still a fair bit to go. Yep. Compared to other missions with less gravitas, that one seemed a bit short.
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natetimm posted:I have a question. Go back and redo the ME2 ending. You miss a lot of callbacks to 1 and 2 without an import, and a universe without Garrus isn't worth it.
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natetimm posted:I have a question. Well Garrus won't be around for a start...
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 14:44 |
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UnknownMercenary posted:Go back and redo the ME2 ending. You miss a lot of callbacks to 1 and 2 without an import, and a universe without Garrus isn't worth it. The new ending will automatically replace the old one, right?
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natetimm posted:The new ending will automatically replace the old one, right? You import the save file, so if you don't save over it you'll have both
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sassassin posted:You import the save file, so if you don't save over it you'll have both Sweet, thanks.
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 14:46 |
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Yeah. Losing Mordin and Thane made me misty eyed, and Tali killing herself was harsh, but I think I would just start bawling if I lost Garrus. He is the best squadmate.
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Huragok posted:Yep. Compared to other missions with less gravitas, that one seemed a bit short. Ah, there's probably not that much left then.
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 14:49 |
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Did the game ever explain why Udina is now the councilor and Anderson was a general when Anderson was a councilor in my ME2 playthrough? Just a simple "after the poo poo with the batarians, I decided to step down and get reinstated and give udina the position" sentence would have worked. Was this ever brought up in-game? Viridiant posted:Yeah. Stop lying, everyone knows Wrex is the best party member ever, ecspecially when he does what the krogan do best: kill giant monsters so the rest of the galaxy doesn't have to.
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 15:01 |
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Geisladisk posted:My biggest problem with the writing is not the ending, which, while disappointing, was honestly pretty predictable. MrJacobs posted:Did the game ever explain why Udina is now the councilor and Anderson was a general when Anderson was a councilor in my ME2 playthrough? Just a simple "after the poo poo with the batarians, I decided to step down and get reinstated and give udina the position" sentence would have worked.
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 15:02 |
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Charlie Mopps posted:LIara is really crushed about Palaven though. But you're right, she seems to be the exception.
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# ? Mar 16, 2012 15:28 |
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natetimm posted:I have a question. Alternatively, just download Gibbed Save Editor and click the little box that says "Garrus Lives". Seriously, you don't want to play ME3 without Garrus. It's just not good.
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Crows Turn Off posted:I just want to verify, I should do all of the side missions as soon as I can, right? None of the Priority: XXXXX missions (the story line stuff) expire or cause me to lose if I take too long getting to them, correct?
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Crows Turn Off posted:So, am I right - the Priority missions never expire/fail if I do all of the side missions first instead? I remember reading about some mission regarding Wrex expiring, and you getting an e-mail about it saying it was lost, but I can't remember if it was a Priority mission. The ones explicitly labeled "priority" do not expire. Anything else is fair game.
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