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Sentinel Red posted:I did go through the whole 'connect your PS4 and PS5 with a LAN cable' rigmarole to transfer them. Remember to sync up your Trophy info on PS4 before you start as well. From there, I moved the ME install from the external drive onto the PS5 HD and the saves were all available. They had a slightly different and odd prefix to each save at first but on subsequent sessions, they were the normal/usual save names again. Thanks, I appreciate the info.
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DourCricket posted:It's weird because In 3 you CAN hide the helmets on the full suits right? Yes, there's an option to hide it during conversations but keep it on during normal gameplay.
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May 23, 2021 23:24
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Fuzz posted:100% this. It helps that Kaidan as a character also acts like an adult. His "arc" in ME1 basically just consists of him talking about some stuff from his past, but he doesn't actually need anything from Shepard and (as he says himself) he had already come to terms with things years ago. Sydin posted:"You're working too hard." My favorite so far is when I met some mercenary dude during Thane's recruitment mission and he refused to talk and is like "my buddies are going to shoot you" and I just kicked him through the window. It was a heart-warming bonding moment with Jack. I get the impression that those paragon/renegade actions generally occur in situations where you can only do one (as opposed to there being two possible actions depending upon your paragon/renegade points)? It's nice that the game doesn't really punish you for getting both paragon and renegade points. I still end up with more paragon than renegade, but maybe 1/3 of my total points are still renegade.
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May 23, 2021 23:33
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bobjr posted:I did forget how contrived the crew getting kidnapped in 2 was, where Shepard and co just leave on a shuttle. I liked the implication we've been doing that the entire time so whenever three of them have fun space adventures the rest are sitting in the car
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May 23, 2021 23:38
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Ytlaya posted:It helps that Kaidan as a character also acts like an adult. His "arc" in ME1 basically just consists of him talking about some stuff from his past, but he doesn't actually need anything from Shepard and (as he says himself) he had already come to terms with things years ago. There are a couple situations where it will first pop up with one of paragon or renegade prompt, and then the other afterwards, IIRC
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May 23, 2021 23:40
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What I’m getting from all this is I was correct to ignore Kaiden as he’s really boring
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May 23, 2021 23:40
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FWIW the reason the quarians never settled other planets is that the council is still making an example of them for illegal AI centuries later and refuses to grant them any colony rights. There's a planet description somwhere for a world some quarians tried to colonise and they were evicted at gunpoint with the turians threatening to bomb them from orbit. 
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May 23, 2021 23:54
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Reading about some of those PC mods makes me wish I PC gamed. Are any of the new mission/ acting decent good or do they stick out like a sore thumb?
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May 23, 2021 23:58
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Strategic Tea posted:FWIW the reason the quarians never settled other planets is that the council is still making an example of them for illegal AI centuries later and refuses to grant them any colony rights. That's probably part of it, but the main reason is they're basically biologically incapable of settling on any other planet because it would need to first off be a 1-in-a-trillion world with the right atmospheric conditions and no insect life like Rannoch, and even then it would take them so long to adapt because the flotilla ruined their already weak immune systems that they would basically go extinct before they were able to produce enough generations of children who could be considered fully adapted to their new world.
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May 24, 2021 00:08
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nine-gear crow posted:That's probably part of it, but the main reason is they're basically biologically incapable of settling on any other planet because it would need to first off be a 1-in-a-trillion world with the right atmospheric conditions and no insect life like Rannoch, and even then it would take them so long to adapt because the flotilla ruined their already weak immune systems that they would basically go extinct before they were able to produce enough generations of children who could be considered fully adapted to their new world. They would be perfectly capable of living in suits, just as they were doing on ships/places on other planets, except not on lovely old constantly breaking ships or as visitors where everyone hates them
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May 24, 2021 00:12
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May 24, 2021 00:13
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Spacebump posted:Reading about some of those PC mods makes me wish I PC gamed. Are any of the new mission/ acting decent good or do they stick out like a sore thumb? Expanded Galaxy Mod is pretty good. A lot of its additions are fairly unobtrusive and the stuff it adds wholecloth is usually done via text adventure style screens. The Orikon Collection (Priority: Earth Overhaul, Ambient Audio Overhaul, Immersive Thessia Mod, and Prologue Overhaul) primarily use assets and audio that was already there in ME3's data but dummied out to restore content, with a couple of community voice actors stepping in to fill in the gaps, and even actual Mass Effect VAs reprising their characters like George Szilagyi coming back to record dialog for Kirrahe that was scripted in the code, but never had any audio work done for it. Ark Mod is a blend of line splices from pre-existing trilogy dialog, importing stuff from Andromeda, and new voice acting. Haven't had much experience with it, actually. And Project Variety it like the Orikon mods, mainly asset repurposing without really adding anything new to the game in terms of mission or story content. Project Variety is a mixed bag because it does a lot of good things, but the mod author has fallen into feature creep and ruined a lot of the decent stuff the earlier versions added by just going too far and stubbornly refusing to let anyone create patches for it to make it play nice with other mods like Priority: Earth Overhaul, ect.
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May 24, 2021 00:19
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I love how the advanced training process that allows Shepard to use another weapon type in ME2 is that she sees a pile of guns and goes "hey, maybe I should try using shotguns now". I mean it's great to get the extra flexibility, but it's such a weird and awkwardly inserted bit right in the middle of that mission.
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May 24, 2021 00:20
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Yeah, you'd think they could do that, anywhere else than as deep in enemy territory as is feasibly possible for that point in the series.
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May 24, 2021 00:23
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Ark Mod is actually really cool. The best part about it is that it was made when Andromeda looked cool as poo poo, then given up on after it came out. But it lets you have Pathfinder armour and the X5 Ghost.
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May 24, 2021 00:37
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They did not fix the bug where the Sole Survivor sidequest guy thinks you're the Sole Survivor (and Shepard gets the lines) even if you're not.
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May 24, 2021 00:39
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nine-gear crow posted:That's probably part of it, but the main reason is they're basically biologically incapable of settling on any other planet because it would need to first off be a 1-in-a-trillion world with the right atmospheric conditions and no insect life like Rannoch, and even then it would take them so long to adapt because the flotilla ruined their already weak immune systems that they would basically go extinct before they were able to produce enough generations of children who could be considered fully adapted to their new world. No, the main reason is they're revanchist cunts. They could absolutely settle worlds, live in suits like they do on the ships and gradually adapt to their new homes even if it takes centuries for their immune systems to grow a backbone. They don't want to do that because it wouldn't be the sacred clay.
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May 24, 2021 00:49
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Spacebump posted:Oh, this must have been changed recently? I had read on reddit and this site https://www.gamespot.com/articles/mass-effect-legendary-edition-cross-saves-will-transfer-on-xbox-not-playstation/1100-6491400/ that PS4 saves wouldn't transfer to PS5. The page did say that, but it was wrong. Possibly confused about a different issue the PS5 has. The PS5 has no way to continue PS4 version saves into the PS5 version of a game (like Yakzua LAD) while the Xbox does, but for just playing a BC PS4 game on one you can just pop your save on over. You can just use the cloud saves if you have PS Plus to transfer, no need for LAN cable stuff.
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May 24, 2021 00:54
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bobjr posted:I do like how the rear end in a top hat admiral in 2 is one because he sees what happened to the Geth as inhumane and he’s a big asset in 3, while the nice one who Tali knows basically starts an all out attack that possibly gets them all killed. Blastedhellscape posted:Mass Effect 2 is kind of frustrating, since it's possibly the best game Bioware ever produced, but it does a terrible job of being the middle entry in a trilogy. yeah. 2 feels like a sidequel. it fills out stuff about the universe and does some genuinely good stuff with factions and characters but its mostly just setting some stuff up for 3 and reapers. the collectors are cool visually and lore wise but they are barely in it. Codependent Poster posted:Tali didn't commit war crimes, though. Her father did but she was innocent. She's willing to take the blame for him, which again just shows how badly he raised her. yeah, tali is fine. she is basically raised in weird sad migrating society where the leaders are either well meaning assholes who have good motives or weird bitter fucks and its the younger generations that get raised with it and die for it and most of the older generation assholes were shaped by their parents and so on and so on. i always go with them making peace with the geth and the quarrians because thats the most hopeful ending. Strategic Tea posted:FWIW the reason the quarians never settled other planets is that the council is still making an example of them for illegal AI centuries later and refuses to grant them any colony rights. yeah. pretty much the quarians are basicaly hosed because of their big gently caress up. ImpAtom posted:Yeah, that was a really nice twist. It's pretty interesting how the entire thing is framed as "The innocent girl is being unfairly hounded by assholes" except the innocent girl and her father are complicit in war crimes and the hardass 'bad guy' is in fact 100% correct and has a justifiable reason to be disgusted by what happened and the only solution that really keeps your party member happy is lying about the war crimes. https://twitter.com/theserfstv/status/1395107433639387139 another twist i liked was that the turian councilor is the only one to sorta come around to try to help. and honestly talking to Udina alot in 3 makes his heel turn work a little better, because its clear he literraly lost everyone he ever knew and he is loving desperate for anyone to fight for earth.
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nine-gear crow posted:That's probably part of it, but the main reason is they're basically biologically incapable of settling on any other planet because it would need to first off be a 1-in-a-trillion world with the right atmospheric conditions and no insect life like Rannoch, and even then it would take them so long to adapt because the flotilla ruined their already weak immune systems that they would basically go extinct before they were able to produce enough generations of children who could be considered fully adapted to their new world. Hell, they're not any more biologically capable of settling their old homeworld. Tali says at one point that even retaking the Quarian homeworld now would mean generations of people living in suits and slowly adapting to survive in their old biosphere again. I figure at that point, they could just go through that poo poo anywhere.
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May 24, 2021 01:01
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Is there a guide somewhere for a "perfect" suicide run? I last played me2 on release or some poo poo but I vaguely remember that there's a timer ticking in the background somewhere?
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May 24, 2021 01:04
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The only background timer is the one after the crew gets taken.
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May 24, 2021 01:13
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tithin posted:Is there a guide somewhere for a "perfect" suicide run? Right here: https://imgur.com/nJPAc
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May 24, 2021 01:16
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Finally finishing up ME1 yet and I never even posted my Shepard, enjoy my terrible phone pics:    I went almost pure paragon, except when appropriate (executing the Cerberus guy from Akuze, calling that hanar a big stupid jellyfish, etc). Nearly completionist, but I didn't bother with the 'go kill a few more thorian zombies/rachni/etc' missions. I forgot how much ME1 really sticks the landing; the second the menu music starts to the end is such an effective climax. Weird bug though: I was trying to setup that confrontation where Ashley and Liara confront you about hitting on both of them so I could have Shepard make an rear end of himself, but it just...never happened. Instead it just defaulted to Liara 
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May 24, 2021 01:18
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That is a great Shepard.
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May 24, 2021 01:27
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Ok I swear I’m not being weird or doing a bit but the Quarians are clearly supposed to be Space Israel right?
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May 24, 2021 01:27
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Israel wasn’t a mobile group, they were pretty established in various cities pre recon quest of Israel. They have more in common with he Romani if anything
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May 24, 2021 01:29
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nine-gear crow posted:Right here: https://imgur.com/nJPAc Legend, cheers. Kibayasu posted:The only background timer is the one after the crew gets taken. That's good to know, I thought the timer was basically always running.
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May 24, 2021 01:33
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They’re 100% Romani, with everyone else considering them thieves and scavengers and all that racist bullshit.
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May 24, 2021 01:57
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Forgot how bad the ME1 credits music was Also the little miniature 'Shepard died' fake out before he comes jogging out of the wreckage holding his stomach and grinning like a jackass 
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May 24, 2021 02:08
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Wolfsheim posted:Forgot how bad the ME1 credits music was drat how does it feel to be so fuckin' wrong about something
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Wolfsheim posted:Forgot how bad the ME1 credits music was 
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May 24, 2021 02:33
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I will never ever choose the alternative against punching Udina during the mutiny.
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May 24, 2021 02:38
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Wolfsheim posted:Forgot how bad the ME1 credits music was mods??? I also completely forgot about Anderson punching Udina until it happened and it made my day all over again
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SettingSun posted:I will never ever choose the alternative against punching Udina during the mutiny. Especially since it winds up with Anderson getting shot instead.
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May 24, 2021 02:41
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Just started ME3 - it says I have 245% power speed?? I thought it caps at 200
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May 24, 2021 03:01
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May 24, 2021 03:11
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While I normally don't recommend doing ME1 sidequests, the really generic Geth base one is worth doing. It takes you to four different planets that all have amazing skyboxes.
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Man, the writing in ME3 is not subtle at all. It reads like it presumes the player never played 1 or 2 cuz it just ladels on the exposition in the most obvious way.
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