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Never played, heading to Best Buy for the steel book. Male Shepherd or female Shepherd? Who has a better voice actor?
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LionArcher posted:Never played, heading to Best Buy for the steel book. Male Shepherd or female Shepherd? Who has a better voice actor? I like Meer for paragon and Hale for renegade
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May 14, 2021 18:44
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As someone who only ever played Soldier I'm thinking of doing the following for each game so I can get a feel for all the classes. Can anyone tell me if this is the optimal way to distribute stuff? 1) Adept 2) Vanguard (ME2 is the Always Be Charging game right?) 3) Infiltrator? Sentinel? Engineer? (Not sure here) LionArcher posted:Never played, heading to Best Buy for the steel book. Male Shepherd or female Shepherd? Who has a better voice actor? FemShep is the most consistent throughout, Maleshep is pretty flat in ME1 but Meer got better as a VA as time goes on. I prefer FemShep but it's up to you. If romances matter to you, there aren't any same-sex romances until ME3 so if you want to romance certain male or female characters in ME1 or ME2 keep that in mind. axeil fucked around with this message at 18:52 on May 14, 2021 |
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May 14, 2021 18:46
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Is it a pain in the rear end to get max Renegade in ME1 without a guide, and does maxing it matter?
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May 14, 2021 18:47
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fadam posted:Is it a pain in the rear end to get max Renegade in ME1 without a guide, and does maxing it matter? I don't remember maxing either being a pain, but ME1 is I think the one game where it does matter as you need to accumulate enough points if you want to do the talky ending to the game instead of fighting it out. But in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter too much really I don't think? If you just go one way most of the time you should get enough points usually, or at least that's what I remember from my last play through 5 years ago
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May 14, 2021 18:52
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RaySmuckles posted:always roll with a krogan James Vega's fursona is Krogan
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May 14, 2021 18:53
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RBA Starblade posted:I like Meer for paragon and Hale for renegade Mass Effect's definitely a game you should plan on playing twice, as general advice for anyone reading. I also prefer maleshep for paragon & femshep for renegade runs. The game really ropes you into choosing one morality path for dialog or the other, there is no benefit to, and only punishment for flip-flopping between the options. Hale is so good at 'menacing badass', I definitely advocate Jane for renegade runs.
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May 14, 2021 18:54
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axeil posted:As someone who only ever played Soldier I'm thinking of doing the following for each game so I can get a feel for all the classes. Can anyone tell me if this is the optimal way to distribute stuff? Sounds decent. I always play Adept because I prefer loads of magic ragdolls in my shootymans game but this time I'm gonna do something different... ...maybe probably not.
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May 14, 2021 18:55
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axeil posted:As someone who only ever played Soldier I'm thinking of doing the following for each game so I can get a feel for all the classes. Can anyone tell me if this is the optimal way to distribute stuff? you might consider vanguard for me3 since that's also ABC but you also get the cooldown weight bonus + nova + wpn mods + misc gameplay improvements quote:If romances matter to you, there aren't any same-sex romances until ME3 so if you want to romance certain male or female characters in ME1 or ME2 keep that in mind. liara for femmeshep in me1?
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May 14, 2021 18:56
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LionArcher posted:Never played, heading to Best Buy for the steel book. Male Shepherd or female Shepherd? Who has a better voice actor? axeil posted:As someone who only ever played Soldier I'm thinking of doing the following for each game so I can get a feel for all the classes. Can anyone tell me if this is the optimal way to distribute stuff? fadam posted:Is it a pain in the rear end to get max Renegade in ME1 without a guide, and does maxing it matter? hard counter posted:liara for femmeshep in me1?
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May 14, 2021 19:00
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Sombrerotron posted:There's also Kelly in ME2. if we're counting kelly you can also make your squadmates watch you embrace eternity with the asari consort in me1
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May 14, 2021 19:05
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hard counter posted:if we're counting kelly you can also make your squadmates watch you embrace eternity with the asari consort in me1 "I should go"
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May 14, 2021 19:06
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hard counter posted:
I suppose although technically the Asari are monogender so I have no idea if that really "counts" I'm really hopeful based on the tidbits the modding community has found so far that there's a working same-sex relationship mod by the time I get to ME2. Dating Ashley/Kaiden in ME1 is sort of meh to me so I don't care but the options in ME2 are way more interesting (iirc its Jack and Jacob) Sombrerotron posted:
Awesome, thank you for the advice! I think I'll go Adept->Vanguard->Engineer then.
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May 14, 2021 19:10
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hard counter posted:liara for femmeshep in me1? Excuse me, Asari aren't female.
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May 14, 2021 19:10
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axeil posted:Dating Ashley/Kaiden in ME1 is sort of meh to me so I don't care but the options in ME2 are way more interesting (iirc its Jack and Jacob) In what world is Jacob interesting
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May 14, 2021 19:12
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hard counter posted:if we're counting kelly you can also make your squadmates watch you embrace eternity with the asari consort in me1
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May 14, 2021 19:16
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axeil posted:Awesome, thank you for the advice! my only complaint is that adept and engineer are in their very essence essentially the same both their class power serve to lock enemies into place. yes, the adepts can take that to another level with shield-stripped soldiers and combo-ing with warp, but once the shields are stripped its always just as easy to kill as it is to do an elaborate combo. (though, yes, there is a great satisfaction to warp-exploding floating enemies). sure, some of their secondary powers are different, but ultimately (in me2 at least) its always better to just spam your class power i'd go adept first too, though. its still really fun
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May 14, 2021 19:17
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Thanks thread. Female shepherd it is!
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May 14, 2021 19:17
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https://store.steampowered.com/points/shop/app/1328670/ hahahaha 
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May 14, 2021 19:17
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Sombrerotron posted:Oh that reminds me! There's also the option to romance Morinth in ME2 if you play your cards Critical Mission
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May 14, 2021 19:18
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Chatika with the party hat gets a  from me!
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May 14, 2021 19:20
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I'm tempted to deny letting Garrus join my crew in 1 to hear what his dialogue is like in 2 when he shows up.
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May 14, 2021 19:23
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it's so weird that steam will let you buy everything except the emotes without buying the game. But to get emotes you have to buy and play the game for 2 hours.. I
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May 14, 2021 19:25
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Still torn if I want to get this on Steam or for XBOX. I've got a really solid PC and Ultrawide but seeing some reports that the PC version has framerate and controller issues. Any goons here have any issues on PC? Honestly can't tell if they're legit issues or if it's just the usual "steam users are inept and blame the game for being inept".
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May 14, 2021 19:32
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Spacebump posted:I'm tempted to deny letting Garrus join my crew in 1 to hear what his dialogue is like in 2 when he shows up. to my eternal shame, in my first me2 playthrough i didn't open the grunt tank. i figured, "if there is a choice, then there must be a consequence, and the ship just warned me that it might be dangerous." i thought i was such hot poo poo. turns out there are virtually no negative consequences in the game i wish there were more consequences. characters that could betray you, or turn against you, or sabotage you. that stuff could have been so interesting. there was so much promise in the first two games of the series. instead in the end virtually nothing mattered and everything only counted toward some stupid "readiness score" in 3. for shame
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May 14, 2021 19:33
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All right, so, I'm having a little trouble over here. Before first launching the LE, I was a little worried about how my aging i7-4790 / GTX 970 setup would handle the LE. To my pleasant surprise, it seems to basically do perfectly well, maintaining about a constant 60 fps at 1920x1080 in dialogue and cutscenes with dynamic lights and ambient occlusion on. And initially when walking around, it does so too. Even when approaching the little pond with the new reflections on Eden Prime, it's fine - until suddenly it's not. For some reason, and this happens on the Normandy as well, after maybe two minutes of faffing about the framerate drops dramatically and then swings around wildly from 20-40 fps. If I exit the game and reload it's fine again for a little bit, then it's back to headache-inducing framerates. Tried switching off all the graphical enhancements and v-sync, tried disabling Origin's overlay, no difference. Running the latest Geforce drivers, so unless they introduced some bug that shouldn't be it either. Any other ideas? EDIT: I should also add that when I enter another dialogue or a cutscene starts, the framerate's smooth again. It really seems tied specifically to the actual gameplay. Sombrerotron fucked around with this message at 19:52 on May 14, 2021 |
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May 14, 2021 19:38
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RaySmuckles posted:my only complaint is that adept and engineer are in their very essence essentially the same There's more to Adept than that in ME2, you can strip one enemy's defenses then Singularity them and use Thane or Miranda's Warp to trigger the combo and strip defenses from all their buddies. Your other physics powers are also effectively instakills on undefended enemies, because they ragdoll for so long that you can easily SMG them while they're flopping, and all have much shorter cooldowns than Warp so they don't leave you defenseless while recharging. They also make defended enemies flinch for a second, which you can use to set up damage on them or defend yourself in a pinch. Using your own Warp is usually a weak option on Insanity, it's very inefficient compared to getting instant Warp combos that you set up with Singularity. Sometimes you have to do it, but only if the circumstances are bad enough that you can't crack into the group with a Warp combo. Engineer in ME2 really is just "a series of damage abilities that share a cooldown + drone" though, which is sad.
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May 14, 2021 19:46
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Handsome Ralph posted:Still torn if I want to get this on Steam or for XBOX. I've got a really solid PC and Ultrawide but seeing some reports that the PC version has framerate and controller issues. I've a friend who is playing the steam version now and says its fine so far And you really gonna pass up Ultrawide?
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May 14, 2021 19:48
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I fired up ME3 Classic to grab the face code for my main Shepard who's been imported all the way from the first game. Which gave me... this. Fortunately all the facial structure stuff seems to be mostly good, so it just took some skin and hair tweaking to make it a little less, uh, blackface-y.  Handsome Ralph posted:Still torn if I want to get this on Steam or for XBOX. I've got a really solid PC and Ultrawide but seeing some reports that the PC version has framerate and controller issues. I just played through Eden Prime, runs fine for me on whatever default settings it starts with. Haven't tried a controller though. The one graphical glitch I've seen was Kaidan disappearing during the final cutscene on Eden Prime, so Shepard bravely runs over and throws nothing out of the way before getting zapped by the beacon.
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May 14, 2021 19:49
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Wingnut Ninja posted:The one graphical glitch I've seen was Kaidan disappearing during the final cutscene on Eden Prime Sounds like a feature to me.
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May 14, 2021 19:51
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DourCricket posted:I've a friend who is playing the steam version now and says its fine so far Yeah, it's a tough call. I was ready to slam the purchase button on the Steam version this morning but then heard the cut scenes all have black bars on ultrawide which is kinda annoying. Then I saw some reports about controler issues and frames being odd. I'll ponder it more while I finish up my work week. Also the Xbox version is ten dollars cheaper 
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May 14, 2021 19:52
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I fired up ME3 Classic to grab the face code for my main Shepard who's been imported all the way from the first game. Which gave me... this.
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May 14, 2021 19:54
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Not awkward enough and he's clearly having too much fun.
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May 14, 2021 19:59
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Those seem like some really half-assed wallpapers even by Steam's low standards.
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May 14, 2021 20:07
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I picked it up on steam but I'm having a dumb controller issue. In at least ME1, it thinks that the X and A buttons are swapped on my Xbone controller and I don't see a way to rebind. This is annoying enough that if it doesn't have an easy fix I'm going to refund and buy on PS5.
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May 14, 2021 20:07
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Steam has built in controller config options doesn't it? In the overlay. You can swap buttons around. It works on my Elite 2 at least Also how you gonna come in here right after I said the steam version was fine how dare you
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May 14, 2021 20:09
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Sombrerotron posted:All right, so, I'm having a little trouble over here. Before first launching the LE, I was a little worried about how my aging i7-4790 / GTX 970 setup would handle the LE. To my pleasant surprise, it seems to basically do perfectly well, maintaining about a constant 60 fps at 1920x1080 in dialogue and cutscenes with dynamic lights and ambient occlusion on. And initially when walking around, it does so too. Even when approaching the little pond with the new reflections on Eden Prime, it's fine - until suddenly it's not. For some reason, and this happens on the Normandy as well, after maybe two minutes of faffing about the framerate drops dramatically and then swings around wildly from 20-40 fps. If I exit the game and reload it's fine again for a little bit, then it's back to headache-inducing framerates. Tried switching off all the graphical enhancements and v-sync, tried disabling Origin's overlay, no difference. Running the latest Geforce drivers, so unless they introduced some bug that shouldn't be it either. Any other ideas? Long shot, but do you have a controller or controller receiver connected while playing with M+KB? Once in a while a game comes along that can't stop polling USB devices.
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May 14, 2021 20:22
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Is there anyway to retrieve your face code after you’ve started playing the game? I was wondering because I thought I’d share my Disney Princess Shepard.
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May 14, 2021 20:25
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oh gently caress yes https://twitter.com/masseffect_peom/status/1393281544685506567?s=21
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axeil posted:oh gently caress yes So if they took the picture from a stock photo model before this one is obviously going to be taken from Deviant Art.
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May 14, 2021 20:34
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