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Lollerich
Mar 25, 2004

The little doctors are back,
they want to play with you!

evilmiera posted:

Why is Element Zero in Andromeda if it was something the Reapers created? Or did they just discover it like everyone else lying around and stuff?
They didn't, it's byproduct of supernovae. This was explained in ME by the glorious journal narrator.

evilmiera posted:

Also in the Contagion quest how did a shuttle fly between several star systems I thought you needed a big drive core for that and shuttles were just for planetary drops?
This is canon, your shuttle in the beginning of ME3 was also capable of interstellar flight.

evilmiera posted:

How is the refinery in Dracks mission really old when humans have only been around for a few years?
Angarans.

evilmiera posted:

Why didn't Ryder just blow up the facility after they evacuated the angarans what was stopping him or even the other saboteurs? Why is Addison never fired for massive incompetence?
Bad writing.

evilmiera posted:

The loyalty missions are fun though.
Confirmed.

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Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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The sheer number of people saying "gosh x looks like a huge plot hole!" only to have that explained in the game is making me take any new declarations of bad writing with a grain of salt

Lollerich
Mar 25, 2004

The little doctors are back,
they want to play with you!

graventy posted:

Should I be saving up research to spend on anything specific?

No, you should download and use Cheat Engine because that entire mechanic is stupid.
Each of the research types has three values that need to be changed.
If you get 4 results in cheat engine, you need to keep trying until you narrowed it down to three.
I'd make a cheat table for it, but I have no idea how or energy to do that.

Hulk Krogan
Mar 25, 2005



Kurieg posted:

Yeah they do sort of address that, the Angara aren't really affected by the Cold, those sun lamps you have to hug to stay alive aren't there for heat, they're there for light, the Angara are photosynthetic. You turning on the terraformer didn't make things appreciably warmer for you, but it did clear up the skies for the Angara.

Well, poo poo. I guess I missed that.

evilmiera
Dec 14, 2009

Status: Ravenously Rambunctious

Lollerich posted:

They didn't, it's byproduct of supernovae. This was explained in ME by the glorious journal narrator.

This is canon, your shuttle in the beginning of ME3 was also capable of interstellar flight.

Angarans.

Bad writing.

Confirmed.

In all sincerity, thank you. Some of these mostly had me confused as I was playing and with everything else going on in the game I'm prone to missing stuff.

Verviticus
Mar 13, 2006

I'm just a total piece of shit and I'm not sure why I keep posting on this site. Christ, I have spent years with idiots giving me bad advice about online dating and haven't noticed that the thread I'm in selects for people that can't talk to people worth a damn.
h-047c is really cool

Ages
Feb 20, 2005

Its just half the puffin juice and the puffin lives and doesnt mind. I promise!
Fun Shoe

Verviticus posted:

h-047c is really cool

it gets slightly cooler after completing the Turian Ark quest

SgtSteel91
Oct 21, 2010

Lollerich posted:

They didn't, it's byproduct of supernovae. This was explained in ME by the glorious journal narrator.

I miss that guy :(

Verviticus
Mar 13, 2006

I'm just a total piece of shit and I'm not sure why I keep posting on this site. Christ, I have spent years with idiots giving me bad advice about online dating and haven't noticed that the thread I'm in selects for people that can't talk to people worth a damn.

Ages posted:

it gets slightly cooler after completing the Turian Ark quest

should i do that first

Lollerich
Mar 25, 2004

The little doctors are back,
they want to play with you!
Sara does have her moments though:

evilmiera
Dec 14, 2009

Status: Ravenously Rambunctious
Just tried my 4th crafting attempt for weaponry. They all come out doing significantly less damage than my current weapon or none at all.

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

did characters throw out fucks in the DA:I? i remember all of the language being pg-13 at most in ME3, so it threw me for a loop when they started throwing around poo poo and gently caress all over the place

much like a game series from a certain development studio in eastern europe...

homullus
Mar 27, 2009

evilmiera posted:

Just tried my 4th crafting attempt for weaponry. They all come out doing significantly less damage than my current weapon or none at all.

Are you holding the gun backwards?

Verviticus
Mar 13, 2006

I'm just a total piece of shit and I'm not sure why I keep posting on this site. Christ, I have spent years with idiots giving me bad advice about online dating and haven't noticed that the thread I'm in selects for people that can't talk to people worth a damn.

Zikan posted:

did characters throw out fucks in the DA:I? i remember all of the language being pg-13 at most in ME3, so it threw me for a loop when they started throwing around poo poo and gently caress all over the place

much like a game series from a certain development studio in eastern europe...

i feel like jack and joker swore but i cant really remember anyone else doing it

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

Zikan posted:

did characters throw out fucks in the DA:I? i remember all of the language being pg-13 at most in ME3, so it threw me for a loop when they started throwing around poo poo and gently caress all over the place

much like a game series from a certain development studio in eastern europe...

Mass Effect 1 was mostly PG-13 but Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2 on have been R rated in the language department. Mass Effect 2 had more swearing in it than 3 iirc but it was there.

Personally it's super weird to me when M rated games don't have copious swearing, y'all motherfuckers know that's not how people actually talk. :colbert:

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Zikan posted:

did characters throw out fucks in the DA:I? i remember all of the language being pg-13 at most in ME3, so it threw me for a loop when they started throwing around poo poo and gently caress all over the place

I think Iron Bull had a couple lines with "gently caress" in them but it was used sparingly and never by the PC. The most controversial thing I remember Shepard saying from the original trilogy was about hauling Joker's crippled rear end off the Normandy.

Kylra
Dec 1, 2006

Not a cute boy, just a boring girl.

evilmiera posted:

Just tried my 4th crafting attempt for weaponry. They all come out doing significantly less damage than my current weapon or none at all.
I've read this can happen with the augments that change bullet types like electric or laser. Apparently electric falls off with range pretty rapidly as well or something.

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer
You can absolutely swear a shitload in Mass Effect 2, you just have to pick more Renegade options or interrupts.

I'm also like 90% sure your character can swear in Inquisition, I'm less sure about Dragon Age 1 and 2 though.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Zikan posted:

did characters throw out fucks in the DA:I? i remember all of the language being pg-13 at most in ME3, so it threw me for a loop when they started throwing around poo poo and gently caress all over the place

much like a game series from a certain development studio in eastern europe...

There was swearing in Mass Effect before. Mostly shits though, I only remember one or two fucks.

The abundance of shits and fucks was one of the things that turned me off The Witcher actually

Turbl
Nov 8, 2007


Zikan posted:

did characters throw out fucks in the DA:I? i remember all of the language being pg-13 at most in ME3, so it threw me for a loop when they started throwing around poo poo and gently caress all over the place

much like a game series from a certain development studio in eastern europe...

I think there were shits in DA:I and ME2/3 definitely had shits and some fucks. I remember Aria saying "no one FUCKS with Omega" or something like that.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Also (Kadara spoilers) gently caress you Sloane. You do nothing but declare yourself Queen and try to order me around and you think I owe you a drat thing while Reyes has been helping me since I first set foot on the planet. My only regret is that the sniper didn't get a headshot.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



I haven't seen any fucks yet, not even from a Krogan. :(

doingitwrong
Jul 27, 2013
Here is my new favorite bug: The 3rd Dadryder memory is of a family gathering. And for whatever reason Sara wouldn't load into the scene. No matter how many times I tried quitting, reloading, going elsewhere and coming back, she doesn't appear. No model, no voice. But the rest of the characters act like she's there, pausing to listen, respond to what she says etc. At one point Momryder's arms loop around empty space, where a shoulder should be. In my head, Sara's mind just can't wrap around seeing herself so SAM blocked it out to prevent her going mad.

Here is my new favorite task: At one point on Aya you are asked to collect messages from the Angarans and send it on to the Nexus. You are given a choice to send as-is or edit it. If you decide to edit any of them, Director Tann send you an irate email about how the messages seem suspiciously one-sided. Nothing further comes of this, it's just a nice character moment.

Here is my new favorite gun: A Hurricane SMG with seeking augment. You point it just to the side of guys behind cover, pull the trigger and they are assaulted by SWARMS OF ANGRY BEES.

Random Asshole
Nov 8, 2010

evilmiera posted:

Just tried my 4th crafting attempt for weaponry. They all come out doing significantly less damage than my current weapon or none at all.

Are you adding mods like Vintage Heatsink or Beam? Those two in particular seem broke as gently caress when added to weapons not intended for them (Beam Weapons are worthless REGARDLESS, Heatsink just causes some weird problems esp. with sniper rifles). If you want recommendations the Hurricane and Piranha are the best all around pistol and shotgun respectively, and the Sweeper is a pretty decent AR which has heat-based built in so it actually uses the mechanic correctly.

The weird thing is that crafting seems entirely broken for some people, weirdly off but still manageable for other (me, for ex.) and working perfectly fine for some. Like I'm having a problem where the listed damage numbers don't seem accurate at all, but the guns I make in crafting actually WORK at least, whereas I've heard from three or four people now saying the guns they craft literally do no damage. Just another thing that didn't get tested at all, I guess.

Random Asshole fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Mar 28, 2017

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

forgot about that aria line, although it's so hammy and scenery chewing that it might as well have "THIS ISN'T YOU DADDY'S MASS EFFECT 1 ANYMORE" flashing on the screen

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

Zikan posted:

forgot about that aria line, although it's so hammy and scenery chewing that it might as well have "THIS ISN'T YOU DADDY'S MASS EFFECT 1 ANYMORE" flashing on the screen

The best use of swearing in all of Mass Effect is when you're doing Garrus' loyalty mission and you opt to tell Sidonis that Garrus is gonna snipe him and he's just like "ah gently caress."

Dr. Abysmal
Feb 17, 2010

We're all doomed
Jack says gently caress a whole bunch in ME2. The only one I remember in dragon age was in the Trespasser DLC where you can have the character go on an insane rant about how everything is always going wrong, but that's probably not it and I just don't remember.

Wiseblood
Dec 31, 2000

The whole section where you control Joker in ME2 is basically him saying "gently caress" and "poo poo" the entire time.

Kurieg
Jul 19, 2012

RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20
:blizz::gamefreak:
DA:I's DLC had some pretty good swearing depending on which voicepack you picked.

Zikan
Feb 29, 2004

:shobon: since i mostly played paragon nice guy shepard i guess i missed out on all the fucks shepard had to give

Haledjian
May 29, 2008

YOU CAN'T MOVE WITH ME IN THIS DIGITAL SPACE

Lollerich posted:

Sara does have her moments though:


Look at that, Drack's so proud of his human granddaughter

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

Wiseblood posted:

The whole section where you control Joker in ME2 is basically him saying "gently caress" and "poo poo" the entire time.

God Mass Effect 2 really is one of the greatest games of the previous console generation. :allears:

I can remember like every scene in that game it's so loving good.

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?
For that one person that cares, the Andromeda costumes for LittleBigPlanet are free.

Wiseblood
Dec 31, 2000

That Drack needs to be a physical thing you can buy.

Haledjian
May 29, 2008

YOU CAN'T MOVE WITH ME IN THIS DIGITAL SPACE
There was this weird moment in games (I think between ME1 and ME2) where saying "gently caress" was something that was just Not Done in the vast majority of titles. I think it wasn't until GTA/Max Payne and maybe one or two others that blatantly violated that taboo, the sky didn't fall, and everyone else started doing it. The same thing happened with explicit nudity more recently.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



Haledjian posted:

There was this weird moment in games (I think between ME1 and ME2) where saying "gently caress" was something that was just Not Done in the vast majority of titles. I think it wasn't until GTA/Max Payne and maybe one or two others that blatantly violated that taboo, the sky didn't fall, and everyone else started doing it. The same thing happened with explicit nudity more recently.

I remember hearing gently caress in the first Bloodrayne in the early 2000s and it being a really weird moment. Despite series like GTA doing it for ages before that...

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer
Does Adults Only still exist as a possible rating?

I think there was a long time after the Hot Coffee scandal where games were afraid of getting pulled from shelves for being too adult, and that we're starting to see that shift along with the culture in general.

Wiseblood
Dec 31, 2000

I played Kingpin back in the day. Swearing in games never fazed me after that.

SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.
Slippery Tilde

Verviticus posted:

i feel like jack and joker swore but i cant really remember anyone else doing it
Jack said gently caress, Aria said gently caress (quite a bit in Omega DLC). Mostly everyone else stuck with PG rated cussing.

Dr. Abysmal posted:

Jack says gently caress a whole bunch in ME2. The only one I remember in dragon age was in the Trespasser DLC where you can have the character go on an insane rant about how everything is always going wrong, but that's probably not it and I just don't remember.
That is it and it's awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJbKzod8BDo&t=1618s

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evilmiera
Dec 14, 2009

Status: Ravenously Rambunctious

Random rear end in a top hat posted:

Are you adding mods like Vintage Heatsink or Beam? Those two in particular seem broke as gently caress when added to weapons not intended for them (Beam Weapons are worthless REGARDLESS, Heatsink just causes some weird problems esp. with sniper rifles). If you want recommendations the Hurricane and Piranha are the best all around pistol and shotgun respectively, and the Sweeper is a pretty decent AR which has heat-based built in so it actually uses the mechanic correctly.

The weird thing is that crafting seems entirely broken for some people, weirdly off but still manageable for other (me, for ex.) and working perfectly fine for some. Like I'm having a problem where the listed damage numbers don't seem accurate at all, but the guns I make in crafting actually WORK at least, whereas I've heard from three or four people now saying the guns they craft literally do no damage. Just another thing that didn't get tested at all, I guess.

Yeah, most of my weapons go for either the vintage or switches the type in some way. I tried without it though and still got issues.

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