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BigPaddy posted:
More rounded than what? More rounded than they would have been or more rounded than ME1? Because ME1 had loyalty missions that weren't thrust in your face like a  and felt far more natural because you actually had to converse with your squad mates to discover them, rather than having them dropped in your email at a set point in game time, and the characters are much more well rounded.
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Drifter posted:Really? You thought the EDI chase sequence was sweet? Well it was pretty rough on a technical level, but it felt so refreshing to chase after an opponent to capture them, rather than always shooting to kill. I wanted more of that, and it reminded me of the beginning of HL2 where the player is being chased without a weapon except in reverse. I loved how the cyborg rounds the dig site and your squadmates yell out while Shepard's back is turned, then you turn around to see her sprinting past. That was really cool I thought.
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Nov 9, 2014 03:06
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My Q-Face posted:More rounded than what? More rounded than they would have been or more rounded than ME1? Because ME1 had loyalty missions that weren't thrust in your face like a All of those missions were incredibly boring because of the awful side-mission quest design in Mass Effect 1.
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Nov 9, 2014 03:14
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In ME2 i remember squad mates working better with some weapons that weren't optimal for Shepard (carnifex, tempest vs phalanx and locust for example). Does the same hold true for ME3? I mean i'm still figuring out the best weapons for my infiltrator Shepard, i'd probably have a much harder time figuring out best weapons for squad mates. A lot of people seem to recommend the particle rifle as assault rifle of choice on squad members for example, is this true?
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Nov 9, 2014 09:37
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uaciaut posted:In ME2 i remember squad mates working better with some weapons that weren't optimal for Shepard (carnifex, tempest vs phalanx and locust for example). This is true. My all Soldiers run got really boring after giving both Ashley and James the Particle Rifle- it burns through enemies fast after it's spun up (you hear a change in pitch from humming coming from the beam).
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Nov 9, 2014 15:58
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uaciaut posted:I mean i'm still figuring out the best weapons for my infiltrator Shepard What is so hard about giving him a sniper rifle? The default one (mantis?) or the Black Widow. Seems pretty simple. That's it. No other weapons...well, maybe a pistol. But really, you just want a sniper rifle and fast recharge on his skills. You should be invisible and headshotting people most of the time.
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Nov 9, 2014 18:51
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uaciaut posted:I mean i'm still figuring out the best weapons for my infiltrator Shepard, i'd probably have a much harder time figuring out best weapons for squad mates. e: if you get Leviathan DLC the Raider is also tits
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Nov 9, 2014 19:01
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If you want to see minibosses go down in seriously five seconds flat, give Vega the N7 Typhoon and use squad firing orders.
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Nov 9, 2014 19:03
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So I was trying to start a run where Ashley was still alive, and I'm just to the tail end of Mars. Unfortunately, I've brought the Blood Pack Executioner pistol. When the cyborg woman is charging at you, she survives a single head shot, and then the reload animation is longer than the time it takes for her to kill you. I'm going to have to go back to the last time a bench was available.
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Nov 10, 2014 00:29
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You might try reload-canceling, if that works in single-player. Basically, as soon as the ammo counter ticks upward, hit medi-gel or duck into cover or use some other power that's on cooldown, and it will cancel the "steam hissing out" animation and be ready to fire again. Executioner is still pretty slow to reload, though, so maybe a better weapon is a good idea.
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Nov 10, 2014 00:34
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Lotish posted:So I was trying to start a run where Ashley was still alive, and I'm just to the tail end of Mars. Unfortunately, I've brought the Blood Pack Executioner pistol. When the cyborg woman is charging at you, she survives a single head shot, and then the reload animation is longer than the time it takes for her to kill you. I'm going to have to go back to the last time a bench was available. I believe you are correct. I think that is the one gun that you can't finish the encounter with. Enjoy starting the game over, because that is pretty much what you have to do.
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Nov 10, 2014 00:37
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"Do you think we should patch our game so that DLC guns don't unlock until the first visit to the Citadel?" " Pfft, nah, of course not, we're EA."
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Nov 10, 2014 00:55
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Lotish posted:So I was trying to start a run where Ashley was still alive, and I'm just to the tail end of Mars. Unfortunately, I've brought the Blood Pack Executioner pistol. When the cyborg woman is charging at you, she survives a single head shot, and then the reload animation is longer than the time it takes for her to kill you. I'm going to have to go back to the last time a bench was available.
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Waltzing Along posted:I believe you are correct. I think that is the one gun that you can't finish the encounter with. Enjoy starting the game over, because that is pretty much what you have to do. The Scorpion pistol that fires sticky mines can't really finish the encounter either. I remember because that was my absolute favorite pistol until on a NG+ run, I was using that and it ended poorly. It's so good against Banshees, though...
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Nov 11, 2014 01:43
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Waltzing Along posted:You're doing it wrong. So does Kaidan.
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Nov 11, 2014 11:14
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sassassin posted:So does Kaidan. Who? The dead guy? What is his magic power?
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Nov 11, 2014 18:19
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Waltzing Along posted:Who? The dead guy? Being chosen to die instead of the space racist apparently.
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Nov 11, 2014 18:20
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MA-Horus posted:Being chosen to die instead of the space racist apparently. What Space Racist?
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Nov 11, 2014 18:23
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Kaidan's magic power is being a better character than Ashley in ME3 despite usually being dead.
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Nov 11, 2014 18:25
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Waltzing Along posted:What Space Racist? Ashley is literally a country space redneck, with all that implies.
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Nov 11, 2014 19:23
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She's not racist, though. She actually has an arc and her views change a bit over time. So, who is the space racist again?
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Nov 11, 2014 19:34
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Waltzing Along posted:She's not racist, though. She actually has an arc and her views change a bit over time. So, who is the space racist again? Ashley.
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Nov 11, 2014 19:39
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Does she come around during ME3? Because I don't remember anything in particular. She's still a racist in her ME2 scene.
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Nov 11, 2014 19:39
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Waltzing Along posted:She's not racist, though. She actually has an arc and her views change a bit over time. So, who is the space racist again? Her views change from Aliens = bad to Aliens = maybe like dogs or cats.
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Nov 11, 2014 19:46
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Lycus posted:Does she come around during ME3? Because I don't remember anything in particular. She's still a racist in her ME2 scene. By the end of ME1 she isn't "racist" any more. Not that she ever really was so much as sheltered.
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Nov 11, 2014 20:01
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Waltzing Along posted:By the end of ME1 she isn't "racist" any more. Not that she ever really was so much as sheltered. They give her one line that they don't give Kaiden in ME2 and its racist, so she's still racist. She didn't learn to not be racist in ME1, she learned to shut up about racist stuff around her boss and co-workers. Which is a lot like how racists operate in the modern world in real life. Don't know if I'd call it much of a character arc though.
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Nov 11, 2014 20:09
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Lycus posted:They give her one line that they don't give Kaiden in ME2 and its racist, so she's still racist. She didn't learn to not be racist in ME1, she learned to shut up about racist stuff around her boss and co-workers. Which is a lot like how racists operate in the modern world in real life. Don't know if I'd call it much of a character arc though. What line is that, because I don't remember it.
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Nov 11, 2014 20:11
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Lotish posted:What line is that, because I don't remember it. "gently caress me Qunari-style, Shepard. No, I meant doggy-style. They're all animals to me."
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Nov 11, 2014 20:16
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Drifter posted:"gently caress me Qunari-style, Shepard. No, I meant doggy-style. They're all animals to me." This was the best part of ME2, btw.
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Nov 11, 2014 20:21
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Drifter posted:"gently caress me Qunari-style, Shepard. No, I meant doggy-style. They're all animals to me." 
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Nov 11, 2014 23:18
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Ashley was right not to trust aliens. She said they'd just look after their own interests if poo poo hit the fan and that's exactly what they tried to do. Earth First.
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Nov 11, 2014 23:25
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Ashley's character didn't have an arc. It's more that she was written rather inconsistently in ME1. When Ashley talked about not trusting aliens, she was expressing distrust of other nations. Which isn't racist... speciest whatever. But then all of a sudden she compared aliens to animals. And well... 
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Nov 11, 2014 23:36
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Ashley thought that when push came to shove each species would put itself first, and in ME3 that exact thing happened.
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Nov 11, 2014 23:42
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Of course, racists using rationalizations is a real thing too.
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Nov 11, 2014 23:44
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Raygereio posted:Ashley's character didn't have an arc. It's more that she was written rather inconsistently in ME1. When Ashley talked about not trusting aliens, she was expressing distrust of other nations. Which isn't racist... speciest whatever. It's not too inconsistent, it's that it's a situation where nations and species are divided strictly into species. And even in RL, there are a lot of places that put more value on your ethnicity, religion, etc. than whatever nation you're a citizen of. Just take the Balkans as an example, or Russia's current justification for its aggression towards Ukraine. It's also rather easy, unfortunately, to hate an entire ethnic group because of the actions of a few, or because their nation acted in its own best interests rather than in yours. See: America's petty slap-fight with France where we renamed French Fries to Freedom Fries  because France didn't really want to go to war with us.
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Nov 11, 2014 23:54
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Lotish posted:What line is that, because I don't remember it. What they did with Kaiden/Ashley in 3 sucked because I had all of these saves where Kaiden was a greasy spot on the floor and then it turned out Ash was a boring drunk lamppost and Kaiden turned into a pretty chill (and useful) dude.
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Nov 12, 2014 00:43
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Ashley is awesome in ME3. After all, she has a space army hairdo that is oh so helpful in battle.
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Nov 12, 2014 00:46
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Raygereio posted:Ashley's character didn't have an arc. It's more that she was written rather inconsistently in ME1. When Ashley talked about not trusting aliens, she was expressing distrust of other nations. Which isn't racist... speciest whatever. That's perfectly consistent. It's like having a UKIP member as a squad mate.
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Nov 12, 2014 01:00
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Ashley was pretty annoying as all hell in ME 3, but yeah the character arc really doesn't flesh out for me, only kinda get forgotten.
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Species are meant to be the analogue of race in mass effect and it never really works since humans never have to justify the mistreatment of lesser Earth species. Is everyone in the future vegetarian, or is there some threshold for intelligence or awareness that we have to cross to not be discriminated against? Is that threshold to be reached by the collective of the species or do individuals with disabilities get less rights? Even aside from all that, every species has basically one culture - they're either all space elves or noble space warriors or space pirates or whatever. The humans are all identical too in a nebulous American way.
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