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It's really stupid to say you have to hunker down in multiplayer because if you do that on any difficulty passed bronze you will die.
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I used to do that as the N7 Engineer with the Krysae before they nerfed it. Find a good defensible corner, set up your ammo dispenser and go to town.
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Tezcatlipoca posted:It's really stupid to say you have to hunker down in multiplayer because if you do that on any difficulty passed bronze you will die. That was the accepted tactic on the highest difficulty available around launch. Bronze you could run around doing whatever and still win.
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Jun 30, 2016 18:16
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Tezcatlipoca posted:It's really stupid to say you have to hunker down in multiplayer because if you do that on any difficulty passed bronze you will die. It was true before they patched it specifically to force you to be more mobile, which happened in October 2012.
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Jun 30, 2016 18:17
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Pook Good Mook posted:I never had a problem with the Mako. I'm convinced half of the hate for it is because it was "cool" to hate it. underrated post. the first thing I did in ME after becoming a spectre was to go straight to a random rear end world in the middle of nowhere (Edolus). 10 minutes later a thresher maw pushed my poo poo in Dan Didio posted:Sherlock Holmes pulls himself from the raging waters of the Reichenbach Falls to address a frustrated looking John Watson, very underrated post
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Jun 30, 2016 20:26
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SciFiDownBeat posted:underrated post. the first thing I did in ME after becoming a spectre was to go straight to a random rear end world in the middle of nowhere (Edolus). 10 minutes later a thresher maw pushed my poo poo in Here lies Shepard, first human spectre, who brought great honor by immediately going off-course from saving the galaxy and died on some random-rear end world to a thresher maw.
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Jun 30, 2016 20:34
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FronzelNeekburm posted:It was true before they patched it specifically to force you to be more mobile, which happened in October 2012. Though it was still always about getting them together in chokepoints for sick combos. The funniest thing about ME3 multiplayer is if you were ever foolish enough to click on single player again all the combat encounters were a complete joke. Oh no, a banshee? poo poo, thats nothing, call me when 3 more show up.
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FronzelNeekburm posted:October 2012. I feel old N7 teleporting sword guy with a laser hand. Those were the days
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Jun 30, 2016 22:15
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hobbesmaster posted:Though it was still always about getting them together in chokepoints for sick combos. You didn't need to play any multiplayer to have that reaction to ME3's combat.
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Jun 30, 2016 22:59
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sassassin posted:Bronze you could run around doing whatever and still win.  if you can't do this on platinum.
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Jun 30, 2016 23:06
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I don't know if it counts if you spent thousands of xbox points upgrading your numbers. Or spent hundreds of hours grinding the same 3 levels.
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Jun 30, 2016 23:11
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exquisite tea posted:Here lies Shepard, first human spectre, who brought great honor by immediately going off-course from saving the galaxy and died on some random-rear end world to a thresher maw. now you made me sad because I realized I can't romp around the galaxy and get eaten by giant worm aliens in real life ;( thanks you DICK
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Jun 30, 2016 23:11
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played more MP still cool and good
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sassassin posted:I don't know if it counts if you spent thousands of xbox points upgrading your numbers. Or spent hundreds of hours grinding the same 3 levels. keep doubling down something awful goon
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SciFiDownBeat posted:now you made me sad because I realized I can't romp around the galaxy and get eaten by giant worm aliens in real life ;( thanks you DICK You can get eaten by *my* giant worm alien any time.  That's how it's supposed to go, right? Boy I sure hope that was right.
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Geniasis posted:You can get eaten by *my* giant worm alien any time. 
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Geniasis posted:You can get eaten by *my* giant worm alien any time. I am so confident that thresher maw erotic fanfic exists somewhere on BSN that I'm not even going to bother looking for it.
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Watching Star Trek Beyond gave me some Mass Effect flashbacks, specifically the space station city that looks like a spherical Citadel, the admiral played by Shoreh Agdashloo and the villain being a corrupted crazy ex-soldier. There's even a party at the end before the cast set off on a new mission. How they defeat the villain's minions in the end should be how Mass Effect 3 handled the Reapers: literal sabotage by Beastie Boys. The MSJ fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Jul 25, 2016 |
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Pook Good Mook posted:I never had a problem with the Mako. I'm convinced half of the hate for it is because it was "cool" to hate it. I hated the Mako for a very specific reason that no one else seemed to encounter (even asked about it in an old thread and no one else was having the issue). I had this problem where there drat thing would drive forward on its own. You'd think that means the left stick is stuck slightly forward, but nope. If you remember the way the Mako drives, up on the left stick would make it drive in the direction the camera was facing. I could have the camera facing 90 degrees to either side, or even directly backwards, and the Mako would drive forward relative to itself. That made it a real drat pain in the rear end to shoot things from a stand-off distance with the scope like every time I was softening up defenses for barging in.
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ApathyGifted posted:I hated the Mako for a very specific reason that no one else seemed to encounter (even asked about it in an old thread and no one else was having the issue). I had this problem where there drat thing would drive forward on its own. You'd think that means the left stick is stuck slightly forward, but nope. If you remember the way the Mako drives, up on the left stick would make it drive in the direction the camera was facing. I could have the camera facing 90 degrees to either side, or even directly backwards, and the Mako would drive forward relative to itself. That made it a real drat pain in the rear end to shoot things from a stand-off distance with the scope like every time I was softening up defenses for barging in. Garrus was just messing with you by putting his foot on the accelerator, take the joke maaan.
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ApathyGifted posted:I hated the Mako for a very specific reason that no one else seemed to encounter (even asked about it in an old thread and no one else was having the issue). I had this problem where there drat thing would drive forward on its own. You'd think that means the left stick is stuck slightly forward, but nope. If you remember the way the Mako drives, up on the left stick would make it drive in the direction the camera was facing. I could have the camera facing 90 degrees to either side, or even directly backwards, and the Mako would drive forward relative to itself. That made it a real drat pain in the rear end to shoot things from a stand-off distance with the scope like every time I was softening up defenses for barging in. So your controller was broken. Don't hate the mako for that.
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So I haven't written in a while, but recently I've had a lot of dead time at work so I actually started up a story. I'm kinda going out on a limb here, this being the internet and all, but I thought I'd post the link here to see if anyone was interested in taking a look at it. Thanks guys. Have a nice day, or night depending on when you read this. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12026578/1/We-Are-Krogan
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ApathyGifted posted:I hated the Mako for a very specific reason that no one else seemed to encounter (even asked about it in an old thread and no one else was having the issue). I had this problem where there drat thing would drive forward on its own. You'd think that means the left stick is stuck slightly forward, but nope. If you remember the way the Mako drives, up on the left stick would make it drive in the direction the camera was facing. I could have the camera facing 90 degrees to either side, or even directly backwards, and the Mako would drive forward relative to itself. That made it a real drat pain in the rear end to shoot things from a stand-off distance with the scope like every time I was softening up defenses for barging in. Now you know why Garrus is so fixated on "calibrations."
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If there's one character I want to see return in the new game, it's the guy who wants a refund.
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Ice To Meet You posted:If there's one character I want to see return in the new game, it's the guy who wants a refund. "Hey, I bought this copy of the Reaper Wars volume 3, and I want to return it. The ending makes no sense!" "Sir, it's a documentary."
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I know I'm super late to the party, but I bought the trilogy on PS3 last weekend and it's been fun so far. I don't really know anything about the game except that everyone seems to hate the ending and that femShep is the best Shep. This is looking a ways into the future, but I know that you can carry your Shepard over into ME2&3 and get bonuses based on levels and such. What's the best way to go about all this if I want to get the most out of the trilogy and the time it takes to get there isn't an object? I'm trying to do my first run of each game blind since in the past I've tended to look at guides for specific things and came out knowing more than I wanted to about other things. To that end, I want to use NG+ to explore the charm/intimidate stuff and whatever secret stuff I may have missed. Is there anything that's too good to pass up, but also missable, that might be good to know about beforehand? Also, should I be trying to use cover? It's pretty janky so far in ME1 and I feel like it's better to just strafe behind a wall and use a medi-gel. I guess once I unlock the immunity ability I'll be functionally invulnerable anyhow so I'm wondering how useful it is. Shoren fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Jul 27, 2016 |
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Shoren posted:I know I'm super late to the party, but I bought the trilogy on PS3 last weekend and it's been fun so far. I don't really know anything about the game except that everyone seems to hate the ending and that femShep is the best Shep. I found the only really tedious part of the series, besides planet scanning for resources in ME2, are in ME1 . First is the planetside collection quests where you drive the Mako around and stare at your minimap until you see an icon and second is that finding all the quests on the Citadel can take a bit of time. Most of the Citadel quests are worth doing anyways they can just take a while. I think one of those planet collection quests comes back later on in the series but I'm not sure which one. Asari writings I think? Also check all the shops for and then buy all the weapon licenses you see.
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Shoren posted:I know I'm super late to the party, but I bought the trilogy on PS3 last weekend and it's been fun so far. I don't really know anything about the game except that everyone seems to hate the ending and that femShep is the best Shep. If you are playing as femshep, start over. That's the first thing. Then, make sure you get these DLC for each game and have them installed: 1 - Bring Down the Sky 2 - Shadow Broker, Overlord, Kasumi, Zaeed and Arrival. Do not start Arrival until you finish ME2 completely as it is the lead-in to ME3. 3 - From Ashes and Leviathan. Do not get Omega. Do not get Citadel until you have 100% finished the series and had a month or so to get over the disappointment. Then play Citadel and it will have maximum impact. And really, play as shepard, not femshep. There are a few scenes that are unique to each of them and one is really cool as femshep but only if you take that path. Otherwise it's obvious many of the scenes were written for a male shepard and come off a little weird w/ femshep. Basically, I am recommending you play through the entire canon story first. You will also see people strongly disagreeing with this for various reasons. Oh, and play as a Spacer. That has a couple nice payoffs that the other 2 paths do not have. E: and play as an Adept in ME1 for maximum fun. Infiltrator in ME2 for ease. And either Vanguard or Infiltrator in ME3.
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Shoren posted:This is looking a ways into the future, but I know that you can carry your Shepard over into ME2&3 and get bonuses based on levels and such. What's the best way to go about all this if I want to get the most out of the trilogy and the time it takes to get there isn't an object? I recommend not grinding out all the collection quests like the other guy said, because it's really easy to get burnt out that way. You get a handful of small bonuses in the later games if you do them, so it's not entirely pointless, but I don't personally think it's worth the payoff. Also invest in at least one of charm or intimidate, if not both, and do it as early as possible. All it does is unlock dialog choices for better quest rewards/solutions, while giving you paragon/renegade points which let you increase your charm/intimidate scores further. If there's anything I wouldn't pass up, it's the conversation skills. Waltzing Along posted:And really, play as shepard, not femshep. There are a few scenes that are unique to each of them and one is really cool as femshep but only if you take that path. Otherwise it's obvious many of the scenes were written for a male shepard and come off a little weird w/ femshep. Don't actually do this. That's a really weird thing to say. The only weird scenes are a couple in ME2 that were explicitly written for female Shepard.
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Omega is fine, not great, but fine. Femshep is as good as maleshep, better in some ways. Play what you want. Except play a Nemesis Adept or Shock Trooper vanguard in ME1, the physics system in that game needs to be experienced.
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I still can't beleive that anyone actually did the planet collection quests. I mean they obviously had no story attached; they were just like assassin's creed flag hunts or w/e E: 
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If you play as Femshep, always make your own character, because Bioware's default face is awful for her in 1 and 2, and downright bizarre looking in 3 after their design by voting fiasco.
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I can't tell you how many of my Shepards were killed in the womb after spending an hour trying to get everything just right in the face editor, then after that heroic reveal shot at the start of ME1, it turns out my creations actually resembled a hideously malformed invalid in-game.
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Or they look completely fine until they start talking and their mouth opens up wider than their lips should allow.
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Honestly making a good-looking Shepard for cutscenes and screenshots is 95% of what helps me push through replaying the first Mass Effect.
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In ME1 the side quests that involve driving the Mako up mountains are what cause people to hate the Mako. Avoid trying to drive up mountains. If that means you miss some boring collection thing, fine. But the rest of the side quests are fun. I also really like Shepard better than Femshep. Especially in 2 & 3. I think the voice acting is better for a 1/3 renegade 2/3 paragon that I always end up with. As far as the face goes, it always turns out ugly in the first one, so use default and you can customize it in the beginning of the next one. Or import a face code.
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exquisite tea posted:I can't tell you how many of my Shepards were killed in the womb after spending an hour trying to get everything just right in the face editor, then after that heroic reveal shot at the start of ME1, it turns out my creations actually resembled a hideously malformed invalid in-game. 
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exquisite tea posted:I can't tell you how many of my Shepards were killed in the womb after spending an hour trying to get everything just right in the face editor, then after that heroic reveal shot at the start of ME1, it turns out my creations actually resembled a hideously malformed invalid in-game. The same, I eventually gave up and used premade heads
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Axe-man posted:The same, I eventually gave up and used premade heads The best heads.
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