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Waltzing Along posted:I think it is weirder that they had the resources to send 4 ships away when: Nobody knew or believed in Reapers at the time they sent the ships out. And if they did, they certain;ly didn't think it would be as massive a threat as it turned out to be. It would be like the Geth attacking, or something, at worst - I'm sure most people thought it was space bandits like angry vorcha or wahtever. Why the worlds didn't send out a pulse emergency update message to the arks at the moment of attack, who the gently caress knows? Or afterwards. I REALLY hope Cerberus is kept at a minimum. They're just the loving dumbest.
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Jan 28, 2017 03:42
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Cerberus was Mac Walters' baby, so with him gone who knows. Sadly they would be one of the few ways to explain the Arks being funded and launched before ME3.
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Jan 28, 2017 03:51
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Admiral Ray posted:The Andromeda Initiative can't even relay success or failure on a meaningful time scale. Wasn't there a quantum radio in Mass Effect? That would work.
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spacetoaster posted:Wasn't there a quantum radio in Mass Effect? That would work. It takes 600 years (with the poo poo rear end drive speed humans/turians/milky wayians have) to get to Andromeda so no matter how it is sliced it'll take 600 years to get a "mission success" signal.
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Admiral Ray posted:It takes 600 years (with the poo poo rear end drive speed humans/turians/milky wayians have) to get to Andromeda so no matter how it is sliced it'll take 600 years to get a "mission success" signal. Not with a quantum comunicator. That poo poo's instantaneous. And if they communicated via text than a loving 360 hologram I'm sure they'd be able to write tons of information in their reports. Kavak posted:Cerberus was Mac Walters' baby, so with him gone who knows. Sadly they would be one of the few ways to explain the Arks being funded and launched before ME3. Isn't Mac Walters the project lead developer now? I thought he had been promoted after ME3 or ME2?
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Jan 28, 2017 04:13
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Drifter posted:Isn't Mac Walters the project lead developer now? I thought he had been promoted after ME3 or ME2? Huh, thought he left at some point. Oh well, Cerberus and poo poo writing guaranteed! (Not that it wasn't before)
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Jan 28, 2017 04:15
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Drifter posted:Not with a quantum comunicator. That poo poo's instantaneous. And if they communicated via text than a loving 360 hologram I'm sure they'd be able to write tons of information in their reports. No, it takes 600 years for the Andromeda Initiative to reach Andromeda. Which means even with instantaneous comms you have to wait at least 600 years for the mission to succeed.
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Jan 28, 2017 04:19
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spacetoaster posted:Wasn't there a quantum radio in Mass Effect? That would work. And who would be using it in the Milky Way? Everyone's dead and the galaxy is kaput.
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Admiral Ray posted:No, it takes 600 years for the Andromeda Initiative to reach Andromeda. Which means even with instantaneous comms you have to wait at least 600 years for the mission to succeed. Are you saying Milky Way people would just fire and forget about the Andromeda Initiative? Pretty sure they would set a reminder at Alliance NASA that they have a intergalactic mission to check in on when the time comes. They could write around the ability to communicate, some bullshit about half-life of entangled particles making such a comms system not sustainable for 600 years. Or a Reaper attack on Alliance science centres have destroyed their half of the pair.
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LOL if the reapers were hanging in dark space between MW and Andromeda. Fly right into them. That would be the best. And for the best.
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Even if galactic civilisation wasn't completely destroyed you can bet that 600 years later the quantum entangled bit of the space radio wouldn't be working. 600 years of dust, smoker's cigarettes, uncleaned dust filters and bottom space dollar outsourced maintenance during hamfisted budget cutbacks by incompetent managers. Then you get fun things like sprinkler systems going off, power surges, clumsy removalists during a change of location, Bobby dropping a pallet on his space forklift, etc It wouldn't last 60 years, let alone 600. Space phone's broke sorry.
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Klaus, congratulations on passing the course! Here is your forklift license. Your first job will be to move this unique one of a kind quantum entanglement machine from warehouse 21 to warehouse 82. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oB6DN5dYWo
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jfood posted:Gonna be so happy when Kai Leng pops out of an air vent and stabs Ryder's dad, setting our hero off on a voyage of both internal and intergalactic discovery. It'll be in the opening scene: Dad Ryder pissed off TIM by saying Cara won't be the next pathfinder. Kai Leng appears and sabotages his cryo pod and upon reaching Andromeda, Dad Ryder is decrepit and useless.
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Kavak posted:Huh, thought he left at some point. Oh well, Cerberus and poo poo writing guaranteed! (Not that it wasn't before) The guy who's gone is the Halo 4 writer.
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Waltzing Along posted:The problem is that the milky way galaxy, in the games, is barely explored. There are a bunch of mass relays they don't even use for fear of what might be on the other end. And that's a tiny percentage of the ares that actually have a relay. Whatever happened to "because it's there"? Humans explored all over the Earth to find out if they could even when we haven't packed our local region to capacity, and after joining a galactic society that's made moving around and colonizing the galaxy commonplace the Next Big Thing is to find out what's happening on the next galaxy over. If anything the most believable part of the story is humanity immediately trying to one-up the galactic community they've just joined by trying a massive prestige mission to expand further than any of their new neighbours have ever tried, and it's even sort of in keeping with humanity's history in-universe since the Systems Alliance gets in trouble for trying to claim more territory than it needs or can even defend.
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Admiral Ray posted:It'll be in the opening scene: Dad Ryder pissed off TIM by saying Cara won't be the next pathfinder. Kai Leng appears and sabotages his cryo pod and upon reaching Andromeda, Dad Ryder is decrepit and useless. Your sibling will be captured by Cerberus and transformed into Kai Ryder in time for Andromeda 2: Cerberus Rising.
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Dolash posted:Whatever happened to "because it's there"? Humans explored all over the Earth to find out if they could even when we haven't packed our local region to capacity, and after joining a galactic society that's made moving around and colonizing the galaxy commonplace the Next Big Thing is to find out what's happening on the next galaxy over. Because it doesn't make sense to send people 600 years away when you have 99% of a galaxy left to explore. That's why.
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Who wants to explore a galaxy you're already living in? Losers and weiners and suburban moms, that's who.
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Waltzing Along posted:Because it doesn't make sense to send people 600 years away when you have 99% of a galaxy left to explore. That's why. Actually...it does.
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AriadneThread posted:turns out everyone just forgot, when the andromeda team calls home it shows up as unidentified caller and everyone lets it go to voicemail new ansible who dis?
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Waltzing Along posted:Because it doesn't make sense to send people 600 years away when you have 99% of a galaxy left to explore. That's why. Its less that people are being sent and more that people want to go
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marshmallow creep posted:The guy who's gone is the Halo 4 writer. At least he left his fingerprints all over with a bad guy named THE ARCHON in the classic Halo style of every loving enemy being called by a title instead of a goddamn name. The Didact, The Prophet, The Arbiter, The Clerk, The IT Guy.
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AriadneThread posted:turns out everyone just forgot, when the andromeda team calls home it shows up as unidentified caller and everyone lets it go to voicemail If you try to call the Milky Way, Grunt picks up the comm line on the other end and says "No."
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chiasaur11 posted:If you try to call the Milky Way, Grunt picks up the comm line on the other end and says "No." In the Citadel dlc the Arks try calling, but due to some weird antenna problems Grunt ends up answering and tells them they can't come in; the ark people think they've been banned from the Milky Way. Grunt wakes up in a shower stall the next morning.
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AngryBooch posted:At least he left his fingerprints all over with a bad guy named THE ARCHON in the classic Halo style of every loving enemy being called by a title instead of a goddamn name. The Didact, The Prophet, The Arbiter, The Clerk, The IT Guy. That was the only part that almost made me groan about the latest trailer, honestly. Can we at least have the main bad guy show up more times and we interact with him this time, maybe even fight him a little once in awhile to show us he's still a threat?
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While we've been arguing about "but why?" Bioware has been sharing more on twitter:quote:Michael Gamble @gamblemike Note he doesn't confirm you can kiss that one in particular, but you can romance an Angaran. quote:Ian S. Frazier @tibermoon So while the twins were stationed at different sites, you get to pick what they did leading up to and possibly during those assignments. quote:Ian S. Frazier @tibermoon It's Sara, not Sarah. quote:@tibermoon will we get to see the other leaders of their respective pathfinder teams ? quote:Recovering Globetard @freddyloveskarl Thank. God. quote:Vaaron Hunter @savetheking96 quote:Admiral Anderson @ieat_JEDi quote:Jos "JLEV" Hendriks @sjosz quote:Ellis Williams @ellis_FWH So you'll need to figure out if people like what you do by context clues. Brush up on your reading comprehension, goons. quote:floomiloo @floomiloo Oh, and dated today: quote:Billy Buskell @ehlien Rumor has it they'll show some multiplayer footage at PAX. And a dev has supposedly said they are finalizing the dates for the MP beta they invited everyone to sign up for. Oh, and according to Game Informer when you NG+ you can swap genders.
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Taht cat twi'lek alien is pretty cute you guys. More like a lion alien. I hope it has an English accent. DO you think it has a cloaca? Maybe its carpet matches its drapes and it's got like a handful of tiny little tentacles down there. tee hee. tralala tra tralala hee hee. Drifter fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Jan 28, 2017 |
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Drifter posted:Taht cat twi'lek alien is pretty cute you guys. More like a lion alien. I hope it has an English accent. I cant wait to gently caress Catflaps McGee!
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Waltzing Along posted:Because it doesn't make sense to send people 600 years away when you have 99% of a galaxy left to explore. That's why. If that 99% is like the Attican Traverse planets in ME1, there's gently caress all there. Andromeda has what's truly important in the future: new aliens to bone.
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I'm sure this is a bad thing to bring up but I gotta vent. I'm looking forward to this, but I'm majorly disgusted by how a majority of people seem to be into these games solely to gently caress aliens. I hate bioware for catering to them so much. It creeps me way the gently caress out. The Witcher 3 is maybe my favorite game, has sex and romance in spades, but it handles it like an adult? Witcher fans seem to be more interested in literally everything else, and not the technicals behind jamming body parts into robots or cloaca or whatever. I'm really good at detaching something from the fanbase, but gently caress me this is starting to put me off this franchise completely.
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basic hitler posted:I'm sure this is a bad thing to bring up but I gotta vent. I'm looking forward to this, but I'm majorly disgusted by how a majority of people seem to be into these games solely to gently caress aliens. I hate bioware for catering to them so much. It creeps me way the gently caress out. The Witcher 3 is maybe my favorite game, has sex and romance in spades, but it handles it like an adult? Witcher fans seem to be more interested in literally everything else, and not the technicals behind jamming body parts into robots or cloaca or whatever. So, basically you're against all these people mixing the races. Do I have that right, hitler?
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He's only basic hitler, he hasn't worked up all the way to full hitler.basic hitler posted:I'm sure this is a bad thing to bring up but I gotta vent. I'm looking forward to this, but I'm majorly disgusted by how a majority of people seem to be into these games solely to gently caress aliens. I hate bioware for catering to them so much. It creeps me way the gently caress out. The Witcher 3 is maybe my favorite game, has sex and romance in spades, but it handles it like an adult? Witcher fans seem to be more interested in literally everything else, and not the technicals behind jamming body parts into robots or cloaca or whatever. I don't think you're wrong at all, and yeah, you'll see a lot of people rightfully rag on Bioware for spending time writing crap romances rather than spending a little more effort on realistic friendships/relationships. I don't know why it happens that there are fans who NEED to know there are fade to black sex scenes and a very underdeveloped 'romance' scenario, but for some reason in spite of Bioware's leanings, The Mass Effect series has been a little more restrained than the Dragon Age series. Witcher (3) focused on developing organic relationships for the most part and it really pays off. Bioware likes the quips. Sadly, Witcher 3 writers seem to be infinitely better at writing and planning out a narrative than Bioware's writers. But Bioware fills a Sci-Fi Shooter niche and is at least passable, so as long as they're selling this poo poo they're pretty much the only place in town to get it. Biowre treats relationships (the build up to the fade to black loving) as immediate gameplay, whereas CDPr treats it as a natural byproduct of story and narrative. I do think they've - Bioware, at least in Mass Effect - has gotten better at incorporating this, but it's not good yet. I do believe it's the fans that poison the well, and I do believe a couple of Bioware writers have come up from the fandom. It's really an echo chamber over there. Drifter fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Jan 28, 2017 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Who here has the ugliest custom Shepard? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5B7yhw6534
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Lycus posted:If that 99% is like the Attican Traverse planets in ME1, there's gently caress all there. Andromeda has what's truly important in the future: new aliens to bone. poo poo. Forgot about that. That's after the sibling sex, right?
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