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Jan 9, 2018 21:04
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bman in 2288 posted:What are sync kills? Within the context of videogames, it's when two characters enter into a single animation where one of them kills the other, the executions in the new Doom game are Sync Kills, for instance. Within the context of ME3 there are 3 or 4 enemies that have instant kill attacks that work regardless of your current health/shields and in Multiplayer you automatically bleed out after a Sync Kill and can't be rezzed until that round is over.
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Jan 9, 2018 21:10
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I hope those attacks have gigantic windup, then, because that's kind of rude to the player.
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Jan 9, 2018 21:15
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bman in 2288 posted:I hope those attacks have gigantic windup, then, because that's kind of rude to the player. When it happened to me, the enemy was close enough to hit me once, then activate the synch kill
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Jan 9, 2018 21:21
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bman in 2288 posted:I hope those attacks have gigantic windup, then, because that's kind of rude to the player. They're all Melee attacks and have tells, but that's not much comfort to the classes that deal the majority of their damage in melee range. They're also based off of your position on the host's game, not your own, so sometimes you'll get force pulled off a ladder to your doom if you had a lag spike. Also one of them is very good at flanking and teleporting behind you. It's an incentive to stay on the move and guard each others back. Still annoying when you're playing a Krogan Warlord and get ripped in half because you don't have immunity like the other massive characters do.
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Jan 9, 2018 21:26
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bman in 2288 posted:I hope those attacks have gigantic windup, then, because that's kind of rude to the player.
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Jan 9, 2018 21:27
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In theory, they keep the threatening enemies threatening no matter how strong you are as a player, but in practice it makes some normally effective strategies suicide, no matter how quickly you should be able to kill that enemy On easy or bronze, where you can kill an ATLAS by sneezing, it's acceptable. But for insanity and platinum, they make bullet sponge enemies into death machines
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Jan 9, 2018 21:37
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chiasaur11 posted:Considering the comparative achievements of the turian and human militaries so far, that might not be the best approach. In canon the Turian military has the largest fleet by a significant margin. Edit: Military fleet, sorry, Quarians have a bigger fleet overall. grack fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Jan 9, 2018 |
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Jan 9, 2018 23:06
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My only regret in dealing with the turian counselor before he sends you to Palaven is that you can't go "Reapers? I thought you dismissed those claims?"
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Jan 9, 2018 23:08
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Sylphosaurus posted:Nope, if you are close enough for a melee attack then you are close enough to get an unavoidable instadeath. Kurieg posted:My only regret in dealing with the turian counselor before he sends you to Palaven is that you can't go "Reapers? I thought you dismissed those claims?" 
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Jan 10, 2018 01:24
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I hated the spoilered enemy in multiplayer, those shiteating fucks got me nearly every time. I am probably bad at video games, but still.
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Jan 10, 2018 15:36
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Mr. Freeze MP video #2. I'm playing as a Paladin who is fun as hell and also very good on all difficulties. You have cryo/fire and shield drain. It's extremely easy to set up and detonate your own combos here, which is where Andromeda's MP fell the gently caress down. Only a couple of the characters there can do this so you have to wait/hope one of your teammates will synergize with what you're doing and it generally doesn't work out much. The Paladin's cryo blast goes through solid objects as well so you can hide behind a wall and spray things down, then pop out of cover and explode them. Aces is running a variant vanguard that has a hand cannon which is fantastic AoE and stagger, plus his heavy melee decapitates enemies  I generally avoid using vanguards above silver as the number of enemies that sync kill increase exponentially and it gets too hazardous. KC is running the default human biotic, which was really poopy at launch but got patched later on and is now also good on all difficulties.
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Jan 11, 2018 04:20
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Speaking of multiplayer patches, I love how when we got the Cerberus defectors as multiplayer characters, they weren't actual enemies in any game yet. Shame they patched out that room, but there's a crate on that level that looks like an orange tinted oil rig that you can hide in with a volus that also guarantees a plat win
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Jan 11, 2018 07:01
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When plat was first a thing I remember everyone would just hunker down in a small area and abuse the spawns or chokepoints. You had Firebase White and the basement (for a long time it was impossible to find a plat match on any other map), Glacier with the now-closed room, Rio with the Box of Shame. Then they tweaked some of the maps, added new enemies like the Dragoons and Bombers and people were actually forced to play. Funny thing, turns out plat is totally doable on an open map as long as people aren't morons. I think the preferred is still Giant - it's the one I did my gold solos on for BotB as you do have a reliable way to funnel enemies in and escape routes when it all goes to poo poo (it will always go to poo poo) but at least it's not hiding in a box or crouching behind cover for 40 minutes.
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Jan 11, 2018 16:19
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Mooning about Off to find the Primarch. Meet an old friend and a couple new enemies. Out of brutes and marauders, the latter is way more dangerous since they can pick you off at range. There's a stupid turret section; they decided to shoehorn these in at the worst times. It's baffling from a gameplay perspective, you have the best combat of the series and instead you're stuck shooting (literal) cannon fodder enemies for extended periods. Whoever thought this was a good idea needs to be punched in the dick. When we find our man he asks us to get the Krogans on board. Good thing we know a guy.
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Jan 15, 2018 23:32
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SubponticatePoster posted:Mooning about Yeah. Certainly is a good thing that Thax Vorak owes Shepard a favor. Don't know where to find him, though. Maybe we could ask Wrex.
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Jan 16, 2018 03:35
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I love that the different races are still making GBS threads on each other at a time like this, so cool. Were you going go be hitting Andromeda after this one?
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Jan 16, 2018 07:17
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Those marauders are real sons of bitches, they're the true evil. Them and their shields will haunt this game forever Really, the more critically I'm viewing this game, the more I realize that I'm grumpy and just want to play KOTOR 1&2 with ME3's gameplay and ME1's of combat balance
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Jan 16, 2018 09:03
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That camp fight at the end was so chaotic I couldn't tell what was going on or where the enemies were (enemies everywhere!?). The pinballing isn't actually confusing strangely enough. But those awful one liners "turn up the heat". So, will the Krogan only fight if the Asari does? And the Asari will only fight if the Salarians help? And the Salarians will only bother if the Volus aids? And the Volus won't do anything unless the Elchor lend a hand? Gleefully: The Elchor will only support if the Quarians do. And the Quarians won't even turn a spacebucket if not the Vorcha are in as well. And so on and on.
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Jan 16, 2018 11:16
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Dreadwroth posted:I love that the different races are still making GBS threads on each other at a time like this, so cool. 
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Jan 16, 2018 17:02
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Poil posted:So, will the Krogan only fight if the Asari does? And the Asari will only fight if the Salarians help? And the Salarians will only bother if the Volus aids? And the Volus won't do anything unless the Elchor lend a hand? Gleefully: The Elchor will only support if the Quarians do. And the Quarians won't even turn a spacebucket if not the Vorcha are in as well. And so on and on. Just like in real life, everybody is a petty jackass. Well, everybody except for Commander Butts. She's more violent than petty. I also do appreciate (not really) that the game takes big pauses in the middle of this desperate combat mission to vomit exposition at you. grack fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Jan 16, 2018 |
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Jan 16, 2018 22:16
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grack posted:Just like in real life, everybody is a petty jackass. Well, everybody except for Commander Butts. She's more violent than petty.
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Jan 17, 2018 00:15
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The only explicitly Renegade development is the dead Rachni Queen, isn't it? As far as I'm aware, every other default option is quests being skipped or failed.
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Jan 17, 2018 00:22
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:The only explicitly Renegade development is the dead Rachni Queen, isn't it? As far as I'm aware, every other default option is quests being skipped or failed. It's not exactly the same, but Wrex being dead or alive. You can choose to have Ashley shoot him, even if you could pass the speech check.
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Jan 17, 2018 00:42
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:The only explicitly Renegade development is the dead Rachni Queen, isn't it? As far as I'm aware, every other default option is quests being skipped or failed.
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Jan 17, 2018 01:47
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Dreadwroth posted:I love that the different races are still making GBS threads on each other at a time like this, so cool. Humanity had better as hell be in control of the galaxy after this, no one else seems to be doing poo poo to fight the Reapers. "Oh no, our allies are under attack! Sucks to be them!" followed by "OH NOES, why is no one helping us?!?"
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Jan 17, 2018 03:54
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The Asari are generally kind of assholes most of the time, they're kind of the Fairie Court of Mass Effect.
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Jan 17, 2018 05:16
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The problem I have with the Asari is that whenever someone in game talks about them, you can just *feel* someone at Bioware jerking off. Like at one point Shepard says something to the effect of "The Asari are among the most intelligent, powerful species in the galaxy" and s/he just sounds so BAFFLED that you could ever think otherwise and it's like...That's fanfiction levels of writing. I really wasn't happy that there were basically two Asari teammates in Andromeda, but then Peebee made it clear that she didn't buy Asari bullshit and I was happy again.
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Jan 17, 2018 05:43
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Javik will take great pleasure in making GBS threads all over the Asari (and everybody else) over the course of the game, have no fear
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Jan 17, 2018 05:49
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Fire Storm posted:After the end of the video, I was all "gently caress the Asari" The turians behave reasonably, I think. "Yeah, you're in the poo poo. Guess what? Things suck for us too. Bail us out enough we have a free hand, and we'll give you all the help you need." Not exactly what Shepard wanted, but wanting to secure your own airmask before helping anyone else is pretty standard procedure.
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Jan 17, 2018 06:04
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Takezio posted:The problem I have with the Asari is that whenever someone in game talks about them, you can just *feel* someone at Bioware jerking off. Like at one point Shepard says something to the effect of "The Asari are among the most intelligent, powerful species in the galaxy" and s/he just sounds so BAFFLED that you could ever think otherwise and it's like...That's fanfiction levels of writing. There's a lot of this. A *lot* of this. Just wait 'til we get to Omega and Kai Leng.
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Jan 17, 2018 06:28
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Dreadwroth posted:The Asari are generally kind of assholes most of the time, they're kind of the Fairie Court of Mass Effect. Fey blue space lesbians.
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Jan 17, 2018 06:32
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Was it ME2 where it's implies that they have some sort of ability to always look as good as possible to every species, since they reproduce with all species? I like the implication that they're a cosmic DNA parasite that has just kind of tricked everyone into loving their presence chiasaur11 posted:The turians behave reasonably, I think. And Shepard should know the importance of a sealed air mask
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Jan 17, 2018 06:34
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Yeah, it comes up when you can stumble across a bachelor’s party with a stripper on... Thessia, I think? It’s three different races, and they all realize that they’re finding themselves subconsciously attracted to different aspects of the Asari’s body.
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Jan 17, 2018 19:01
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Regalingualius posted:Yeah, it comes up when you can stumble across a bachelor’s party with a stripper on... Thessia, I think? It’s three different races, and they all realize that they’re finding themselves subconsciously attracted to different aspects of the Asari’s body. It's in the bar where you find Conrad.
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Jan 17, 2018 20:42
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Im sad they missed the opportunity to make the Asari like totally alien asexual space elfs, showing the player what they really look like and having everyone act like theyr'e these sexy space babes. But they are really these like tentacle covered blue *things*.
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Jan 18, 2018 00:07
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Well, unless they've just literally adapted the entire species since they've met all the other races of the Galaxy. Good thing for them that between the Turians and the Salarians they've got almost everything they need for humans entering their sense of sexuality. It would be cool if there was a psychosomatic effect of the Asari that the Prothean Beacon cancelled out and you just got weird flashes of what they presented themselves as throughout the series. Who knows. In Andromeda, as soon as I could I totally went and devoted myself to Vetra as soon as I could. Dunno if that's a me thing but I ignored even PB's obvious advances for a FWB to pursue the Turian.
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Jan 18, 2018 02:04
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Laffo if you didn't intuitively end up boning the eel dude.
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Jan 18, 2018 04:22
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The uncanniest valley We chat with Victus really quick and then find out why the Normandy has been having technical difficulties. EDI done gone and stuffed herself into a sexy robit. At least we get a new squadmate out of the deal. Unfortunately they don't do anything unusual and exciting with her powers, she has incinerate and overload that other squaddies have. The decoy is still OP in the campaign, it got nerfed to poo poo in MP. However she has a tendency to drop it in weird places and it doesn't do a great job of distracting enemies hidden behind a rock or whatever. You do get some funny dialogue if you take her along on certain missions, but sadly that's about the only reason to take her along. The MP version is really good and what I used to do my solo gold runs since you get free revives. Also take care of one of the SP/MP tie-in missions on Glacier, which we did in one of the bonus videos. You can see the old layout here.
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Jan 21, 2018 22:59
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Its really too bad you cant take EDI and Legion along for maximum robot sass.
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Jan 21, 2018 23:47
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