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TehRedWheelbarrow
Mar 16, 2011



Fan of Britches
ladys all like "lets fool around, no strings"




you lied lady. you lied.

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Kimsemus
Dec 4, 2013

by Reene
Toilet Rascal

sneakyfrog posted:

ladys all like "lets fool around, no strings"




you lied lady. you lied.

you got to plunder some vaults to plunder my vault :shlick:

Big Mean Jerk
Jan 27, 2009

Well, of course I know him.
He's me.
After putting 50 hours into this game, I can safely say that I could not give less of a poo poo about the Angarans and their dumb avatar snake-people culture. I would gladly trade their entire race for a single Elcor or Hanar.

TehRedWheelbarrow
Mar 16, 2011



Fan of Britches
or just blasto.

Serf
May 5, 2011


There's too much to do in ME:A. I think I'm gonna shelve it in favor of Persona 5 or Breath of the Wild for now. I'll come back in the summer when there's not much coming out.

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule
man it is really difficult in this game to find specific crafting items. I need four remnant cores for a heleus champion chest and I've already killed all the architects so I guess I just have to wander to different merchants to find three more!

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

Belated Bear Witness
Soiled Meat

Apraxin posted:

Nothing to do with Andromeda, but while we're on review chat I looked at this guy's Horizon Zero Dawn review and oh man this is an opinion:

The world of HZD is sterile and less 'alive' than GTA III and the Far Cry series. :psyduck:

Nah, that reads like it's loving good, but the entirety of the game still isn't as good as these cherry-picked best parts of these other games.

It seems like a back-handed compliment. It's a little out of place, but the guy sounds like he wanted the best parts of a game (from his listed examples) to be expanded out to cover an entire playthrough's experience - but zero dawn doesn't quite have the random escalating snowballing fights of the Farcry series, doesn't quite have the nostalgic environmental/enemy interplay and reactivity like what GTA 3 had in that one little area, doesn't quite have blah blah blah..


:shrug:

Professor Beetus
Apr 12, 2007

They can fight us
But they'll never Beetus

Magil Zeal posted:

It''s funny because in my female Ryder playthrough I almost got the impression that Gil was blowing the whole thing out of proportion, as he kept talking about how she was pressuring him and when we went to meet her he warned me she was going to do the same to Ryder, but literally all Jill said was "thanks for watching out for Gil he's become a better guy since he got to know you" and left without saying anything related to breeding. I'm guessing this is not the case in other scenarios.

lol yeah I got this too. It was hilarious that he was all like "oh gosh you gotta meet my friend Jill!" And then we go to meet her and... "Hi, I'm Jill. You seem nice. Bye!" *floats away*

SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

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

Pattonesque posted:

man it is really difficult in this game to find specific crafting items. I need four remnant cores for a heleus champion chest and I've already killed all the architects so I guess I just have to wander to different merchants to find three more!
I have like 50 of the things and never bought a one. Trying to remember where I got them all. Treasure chests in vaults, definitely. I know some enemies other than Architects drop them; maybe a really rare drop but still possible.

Bobulus
Jan 28, 2007

Pattonesque posted:

man it is really difficult in this game to find specific crafting items. I need four remnant cores for a heleus champion chest and I've already killed all the architects so I guess I just have to wander to different merchants to find three more!

I've gotten a bunch from going to 'Point of Interest' remnant sites on the map and defeating all enemies, which makes a chest appear with a bunch of loot and often those cores. (The game never tells you this, but the clue that the chest has spawned is the PoI on the map turns from white to blue)

Pattonesque
Jul 15, 2004
johnny jesus and the infield fly rule

Bobulus posted:

I've gotten a bunch from going to 'Point of Interest' remnant sites on the map and defeating all enemies, which makes a chest appear with a bunch of loot and often those cores. (The game never tells you this, but the clue that the chest has spawned is the PoI on the map turns from white to blue)

I will give this a shot. Those seemed so uninteresting that I just tooled past them in the Nomad

Bobulus
Jan 28, 2007

Err, wait, now I'm doubting myself. Maybe looting the spawned chest is what turns it from white to blue. But it's usually on a raised platform near the center of the structure, so it's easy to spot.

Androc
Dec 26, 2008

Taear posted:

Getting rid of Liam would be fine but not Peebee since she's the only Asari. I guess I feel like there should at least be ONE of each race in your squad. I wish we had an actual Salarian.

Good point, better delete the rest of the asari, too.

Gadzuko
Feb 14, 2005
Yeah, it's looting the chest that does it. I haven't been able to find a chest on some of them, though.

Kurieg
Jul 19, 2012

RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20
:blizz::gamefreak:

Bobulus posted:

Err, wait, now I'm doubting myself. Maybe looting the spawned chest is what turns it from white to blue. But it's usually on a raised platform near the center of the structure, so it's easy to spot.

It turns blue when you've looted everything it considers a remnant chest from the POI.

Ages
Feb 20, 2005

Its just half the puffin juice and the puffin lives and doesnt mind. I promise!
Fun Shoe
In terms of remnant cores, I think I got a bunch of mine from the hidden caches that show up on the open world maps when you open the reconnaissance cryo pod from the military AVP tab.

Otherwise, I have drat near 70 of them and don't remember how I got that many

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?

lovely Wizard posted:

After you transfer the save in and get past the tutorial, use gibbed's save editor for ME2. I think you just have to go to the plot tab, go to henchmen, then flags, then scroll to the Legion related flags and check "Legion is acquired" and "Legion is selectable". I THINK the only thing you have to do is not use him on the recruitment mission, but if you want to play it safe you can remove him from your party by unchecking the acquired/selectable boxes and just do his loyalty mission last as usual.

Does this mean that I can still have dialogue with Legion and do his loyalty quest before the Derelict Reaper?

Troposphere
Jul 11, 2005


psycho killer
qu'est-ce que c'est?
Reyes is very good and I'm mad he doesn't have a sex scene or really do much of anything after you finish his romance

Hackan Slash
May 31, 2007
Hit it until it's not a problem anymore

Pattonesque posted:

man it is really difficult in this game to find specific crafting items. I need four remnant cores for a heleus champion chest and I've already killed all the architects so I guess I just have to wander to different merchants to find three more!

What counts as encounter xp? Since I learned there's no max level I've left the deep space set on. I figure the levels from +25% xp is better than any sets I can craft, especially since I'm running a charge/annihilation/backlash vanguard with the kett health restoring melee weapon and never get close to dying anyway.

Lollerich
Mar 25, 2004

The little doctors are back,
they want to play with you!
Max level is 123, then your exp turns negative. Why you ask? Because gently caress you.

Wiseblood
Dec 31, 2000

Lollerich posted:

Max level is 123, then your exp turns negative. Why you ask? Because gently caress you.

Do you get enough points to upgrade everything at that level?

Number Ten Cocks
Feb 25, 2016

by zen death robot

Lt. Danger posted:

The krogan are the sword that cuts the Gordian Knot of the Council races' isolationism - all four power blocs are paralysed by the Reaper invasion, hoping that if they sacrifice one of the others that'll buy them enough time to survive the war intact. Krogan boots on Palaven is what allows the turian Primarch to commit to Hackett's unified galactic response, and curing the genophage is how Shepard gets krogans to fight for the turians. (Or, alternatively, faking the cure, which gets salarian support instead. Either way, the genophage is the pressure point that gets the galactic defence moving.)

The Crucible as a weapon doesn't work without being docked with the Citadel, which it can't do unless someone opens it from the inside. Not only does the Crucible need to be escorted through Reaper fleet lines to the Citadel, but a ground team has to punch through heavy resistance to get to the sole access point to the Citadel on Earth. Sounds like both the quarians and the krogan (and their opposite numbers) would be useful here!

It's also worth remembering that the Crucible doesn't actually do anything - it's a big dark energy reactor. Hackett's best guess for what it is is 'some kind of bomb'. In truth it's just a big power module for the Catalyst, and the reason the Catalyst surrenders to Shepard is because someone bringing it to the Citadel and getting inside its core is proof that the Reaper cycle is failing - that one cycle has its poo poo together enough to challenge the Reapers on their own terms. That gathering of poo poo, of course, is Shepard finally resolving the long-standing galactic crises of "the krogan genophage" and "the quarian diaspora", using plot developments and with assistance from characters introduced in Mass Effect 2.

It sounds like you're looking for some literal plot device, technology or event that proves key to defeating the Reapers. But the threat of the Reapers has always been one of self-annihilation, and the solution was always going to be an internal spiritual transformation rather than some physical weapon. It turns out Mass Effect 3 really was about the power of friendship all along.

THIS IS WHAT LT. DANGER ACTUALLY BELIEVES

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."


There's nothing wrong in that post. It's literally just what happens in Mass Effect 3, the video game.

Tei
Feb 19, 2011

Multiplayer chat:

So you are telling me that with these apex points I can buy "equipment" and is not a consumable thing, but stay with you forever, and is a fat upgrade, like 10% regen shields, 75% more mele damage. And theres like 3 versions: ammo, mele damage and biotic power.

Nice

Hackan Slash
May 31, 2007
Hit it until it's not a problem anymore

Tei posted:

Multiplayer chat:

So you are telling me that with these apex points I can buy "equipment" and is not a consumable thing, but stay with you forever, and is a fat upgrade, like 10% regen shields, 75% more mele damage. And theres like 3 versions: ammo, mele damage and biotic power.

Nice

Yeah, but they're probably all garbage but the melee one. The melee one gives +75% while the biotic one gives +15%. I bet the other one turn out to be more like the biotic.

There's a multi thread.

Ambaire
Sep 4, 2009

by Shine
Oven Wrangler
After so many goons talking about in this thread, I bought Inquisition and started playing it and after about 7 hours, all I can say is oh my god why didn't ME:A have even half this level of voice acting. It feels like a real world somewhere, not just a bunch of disjointed heads talking. And the facial animations are amazing.

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

Ambaire posted:

And the facial animations are amazing.

Let's not overstate things.

Serf
May 5, 2011


Drifter posted:

Nah, that reads like it's loving good, but the entirety of the game still isn't as good as these cherry-picked best parts of these other games.

It seems like a back-handed compliment. It's a little out of place, but the guy sounds like he wanted the best parts of a game (from his listed examples) to be expanded out to cover an entire playthrough's experience - but zero dawn doesn't quite have the random escalating snowballing fights of the Farcry series, doesn't quite have the nostalgic environmental/enemy interplay and reactivity like what GTA 3 had in that one little area, doesn't quite have blah blah blah..


:shrug:

If you're bad at games like me, you'll start off fighting two corrupted rockbreakers and end up fighting five snapmaws, three longlegs and a behemoth all while still trying not to be murdered by the rockbreakers. So HZD has that potential.

JFC
Oct 16, 2003

Jesus F Christ
Finger Lickin' God
I still can't find one particular starship model. Which one is the one on the left side, top row middle? The one just to the left of the Destiny.

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'

Arcsquad12 posted:

He's saying that the geth/quarian and genophage plots are only important to the resolution of the reaper war because the writers demand that they are.

but isn't that how stories work

evilmiera
Dec 14, 2009

Status: Ravenously Rambunctious

Wiseblood posted:

Do you get enough points to upgrade everything at that level?

I think I am at like level 62 at the moment, never having done a newgame+, and I've got pretty much the entire tech tree maxed out, with a couple of points into almost every gun skill under the soldier tree as well as Combat Fitness and a few points into Fitness. I'd say unless the point gain per level starts decreasing after 60 or something you should be able to max it all out at that level or get close enough to.

Edit: And to be honest you really don't need to hit more than level 80 anyway for the craftables. At this level I'm putting points into stuff because there's stuff to put points into, I never really use it. I have no reason to switch to biotics when I have tech maxed out and the only reason I put points into the soldier stuff is because it gives you more health and a few damage resistance abilities. Maybe there's some amazing Explorer bonus if you get points into every tree to that capacity but I kinda doubt it?

evilmiera fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Apr 4, 2017

Lollerich
Mar 25, 2004

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

Ambaire posted:

And the facial animations are amazing.
Oh come on, I've played like 65 hours so far, haven't encountered any severe bugs and I agree that it's a pretty ok game that looks pretty for the most part, but I can't agree on that.

The facial animations are a bad joke.

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?
Noticed the beta patch notes and plans don't mention new Asari faces.

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

Lollerich posted:

Oh come on, I've played like 65 hours so far, haven't encountered any severe bugs and I agree that it's a pretty ok game that looks pretty for the most part, but I can't agree on that.

The facial animations are a bad joke.

They were referring to Inquisition. (unless that's what you're also playing)

Taear
Nov 26, 2004

Ask me about the shitty opinions I have about Paradox games!
I hate how everyone just instantly knows everything about you. I get to the top of Havarl and there's people there going "Oh I've been meaning to talk to you!". No, I just turned up and you're loving cloistered there's nobody who would have told you about me, hence why the head sage was so confused by my presence.
It's really immersion breaking.

Not to mention being able to put a forward station there.

Taear fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Apr 4, 2017

lunar detritus
May 6, 2009


The patch seems like it's going to address all my problems with the game so :shrug:

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?

gmq posted:

The patch seems like it's going to address all my problems with the game so :shrug:

Some of the issues have no place being in the game in the first place. And you don't mind the mono-faced Asari?

I do appreciate them giving a poo poo about the negative response, though.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
And game beat. My two cents:

* The story and characters are charming, more than the original trilogy in my opinion. Sarah Ryder especially shines, a certified dork completely unprepared for the role she's thrust into who grows into the job as the game goes on. Unlike Commander Badass McJesus Shepard, Sarah felt like she earned the respect she was eventually given and that she grew as a character. Everyone else felt memorable and good, especially compared to ME1. How well Andromeda will stack up to the entire original trilogy, we'll see.

* Combat was fluid and felt fun. No complaints there aside from a lot of powers feeling anemic unless they're setting off an explosion.

* Whoever made the UI needs to be fed feet-first into a woodchipper.

* Here's hoping the coming patch fixes the bugs, Andromeda was prone to infinite loading screens and occasional crashes.

* I liked most of the planets, they were universally pretty and fun to drive around on, but the game didn't need two desert planets.

* On a personal note, I did the Suvi romance and felt it was a bit of a letdown. Suvi has some minor daddy issues and there's no further depth to her. Maybe that's because I was playing Sarah heavy on the logical/gear responses with a spiritual side and so it made complete sense that Sarah and Suvi just clicked together. Although, a Bioware romance with no sex scene of any kind, not even implied, was different and somewhat refreshing.

* I adore how optimistic the game is. Grim, pessimistic settings are a dime a dozen, particularly for sci-fi, and I really appreciate Andromeda's premise that exploring space is awesome and good and there really is hope for everyone.

* Addison calling Tann a colonialist rear end when I appointed an angara to lead the Council was great.

All in all, I'd give the game 8/10. A good game in dire need of polish and a UI overhaul.

Troposphere
Jul 11, 2005


psycho killer
qu'est-ce que c'est?
I think Kadara is the best planet with the best storyline and writing. I just wish I could go back and talk with Reyes about further plot developments but Bioware was laaaazy. At least let me smooch him whenever I want like in Inquisition gosh!!

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SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.
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Rinkles posted:

And you don't mind the mono-faced Asari?
Eh, they're already monogendered

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