- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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Key unanswered questions:
• Who is the bulkiest squadmate I can gay romance?
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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For the benefit of the new thread,
Information from new Game Informer issue (stolen from another forum)
quote:Backstory
⁃ Around 2185, at the height of galactic progress, unaware of the impending Reaper invasion, several species band together for the "Andromeda Initiative".
⁃ 4 Arks, each carrying a different race, are built, housing thousands of individuals to chart a course to Andromeda. The Heleus Cluster is noted as having a significant amount of "Golden Worlds", or planets ripe for life. Each ark is led by a "Pathfinder".
⁃ The Pathfinder, recon teams and others onboard are in cryosleep, unaware of what transpires in the Milky Way after they depart.
⁃ You play as either Scott or Sara Ryder, the children of Alec Ryder (pathfinder of the human ark). Alec Ryder is voiced by Clancy Brown.
⁃ Events at the start of the game occur that pass this role down to you, you are untested and unproven, unlike Commander Shepard of the previous trilogy.
⁃ This doesn't mean Mass Effect is Ryder's story from now on, they want the game to feel like a complete story (while teasing other stories that could happen).
⁃ More customization options than previous games.
⁃ You can customize your father and your sibling, though not as extensively.
⁃ The "Nexus" is basically a forward command center staffed by multiple species that arrives in Andromeda early to pave the way for the Arks.
⁃ The Hyperion (humanity's ark) arrives at an incorrect location that's volatile and loses contact with the other arks and Nexus.
Inspiration
⁃ The (much improved) Mako of ME1, the loyalty missions of ME2, the multiplayer of ME3.
Combat
⁃ Global cooldowns are now replaced by individual timers.
⁃ Powers are instead hotkeyed for quick use, no longer pausing to bring up a wheel and aim.
⁃ Dynamic cover system (ala TLOU).
⁃ Still a cover based shooter with a goal to get the player moving around the battlefield more.
⁃ Jetpack allows for more movement variety; you can quick dash instead of rolling.
⁃ Jetpack has a hover function that allows you to hit enemies seeking cover or survey your surroundings.
⁃ Less emphasis on linear, clearly telegraphed environments that tell you a combat encounter is coming (though linear areas are still in the game).
⁃ Game Informer's hands on was positive, feel the game has a clearer identity in combat than previous games. You still queue up attacks, combos, order your squad, etc.
⁃ All key elements are still intact but the studio wanted to encourage more experimentation and wider variety of abilities.
⁃ Class system is gone; instead you have full access to abilities from all classes, you can mix and match skills from tech, soldier or biotics.
⁃ Goal is to allow players to try different approaches to combat without being locked in at the start.
⁃ However, you can still specialize once you invest enough points into a category of skills, you unlock a profile that can get you bonuses for your particular play style.
⁃ This is where class names like "Vanguard" (invest in combat and biotics) and "Adept" (invest in biotics) resurface.
⁃ Invest in multiple categories and you unlock the "Explorer" profile.
⁃ There is a narrative reason that allows you to reconfigure your points throughout the game so that you can try out multiple gameplay approaches without making multiple characters.
⁃ You can customize your helmet, chest, shoulders, arms and legs, more extensive than previous trilogy.
⁃ Many familiar weapons return, as well as new melee options like swords and hammers.
⁃ The 'Kett' are the main enemy
⁃ The team wanted players to experience the first time encountering a new alien species vs already having it established in prior games.
⁃ Rather than painting them as mortal enemies, BioWare wanted to make them feel foreboding but not ugly as they want you to also empathize with them.
⁃ Instead of having "linear slices" of planets that you land on, you explore these planets from the surface to their underbelly.
⁃ Critical paths, optional planets, major hubs, loyalty missions return.
⁃ Your land vehicle is designated the "Nomad", and the team got special guidance from NFS developers on its handling.
⁃ The Nomad isn't sluggish and cumbersome like the Mako, it's very fast, still boosts and maneuvers much better.
⁃ The Nomad doesn't have weapons, you can customize things like its speed and appearance.
⁃ BioWare did not want to repeat having things like mineral nodes and multiple identical outposts scattered across planets.
⁃ Points of interest include combat encounters, puzzles, narrative beats etc on planets.
⁃ One planet, called 'Elaaden', is flagged as a possible habitat zone, however the surface is hazardous (no water, extremely hot); you can be pointed in this direction in multiple ways, for example, a Krogan can request the Pathfinder to find a missing colony ship or you can just choose to land on the planet yourself and see what you find.
⁃ On planets, one of your priorities is to scout for drop zones for your crew that drop "forward stations" that establishes a foothold for you.
⁃ These stations allow for changing up your loadout, fast travel point, etc.
⁃ Planets can have multiple dangers like acid pools, burning wreckage, weather etc that can all kill you.
⁃ Since Andromeda is a new galaxy, Ryder can actively scan and discover things in the environments; that gets sent back for analysis and unlocks new technologies for the player
⁃ Scanning and discovering these things also allows you to obtain blueprints to craft weapons and armor for yourself.
⁃ You can create a wide array of items, not just ammo types and weapon mods, items that haven't been seen before in the Milky Way (thanks to new alien tech).
⁃ Some plot threads and missions lead you across multiple planets.
Characters
⁃ Peebee: Asari squadmate shown in previous footage. Went off on her own after arriving on the Nexus and described as having a "bubbly personality". She's smart and not concerned with social norms and "niceties".
⁃ Liam: Arrived with the Pathfinder, former police officer and described as having a "light attitude", bringing levity to situations.
The Tempest (Your Ship)
⁃ Important to harken back to the Normandy as it was a fan favorite.
⁃ There are no loading screens as you move through the ship.
⁃ Galaxy map returns but rather than piloting a mini ship on a map, it is more immersive, you select a planet, the game gives you sense of traveling towards that planet, and when you back out, you're immediately at your destination.
⁃ You don't pilot the ship manually, but it feels seamless as you go from planet to planet and see them from your bridge getting closer in the window.
⁃ They wanted a seamless experience from picking a planet to walking down to your cargo hold, hopping into the Nomad and landing on a planet. There is a landing sequence and you get off the ship. No more loading screens and instantly popping up on the surface of a planet.
Relationships/Characters
⁃ There are more relationships in the game than any other Bioware game (as they noted fans make a big emphasis on romance in the games).
⁃ The squadmate with the least amount of lines in Andromeda has more lines than the squadmate with the most amount of lines in ME3.
⁃ Due to complications in the awakening process, your sibling won't join you in combat but you can interact with them and build a relationship.
⁃ Many of these dealings are optional, and discovering more about the Ryder family is a plot thread.
⁃ BioWare is confident the details of this story are what differentiates it from a traditional "hero's journey".
⁃ Loyalty missions return but they are not critical to the ending of the game; you can complete them after you complete the main story path for example.
⁃ Emphasis that relationships don't just culminate in a sex scene, but rather characters can just want to get in the sack, while others are interested in long term relationships and others still aren't interested at all. Bioware wanted to capture more "shooting bottles with Garrus" moments in the game, of which there are plenty.
Multiplayer
⁃ More evolved and refined form of ME3.
⁃ Card based economy where you earn XP and credits.
⁃ There are microtransactions but no real world money is required, you can unlock normally.
⁃ You still set the map, enemy, as before but you can also activate modifiers that can give you decreased health (for greater reward) or more damage (less reward).
⁃ Bioware also plans to release custom crafted missions with unique modifiers that players can't change themselves.
⁃ These custom missions give you a 3rd currency, "mission funds" which allow you directly purchase items and weapons vs the mercy of random card packs; however these items are only available for a limited time in the store and can change often.
⁃ In MP, you play as the "Apex Force", a militia strike team from the Nexus.
⁃ Different enemies require you to use different tactics (some are shield heavy, some use heavy biotics etc).
⁃ Playing MP will have advantages for the single player but it absolutely does not affect the ending of the game.
⁃ New "Prestige" mechanic added: With several types of characters, you earn regular XP and prestige XP. The prestige XP goes into every character of that 'type', for example 'tanky' characters. Earning enough prestige can grant you added health for all tank characters, etc.
Choices
⁃ No more Paragon/Renegade system.
⁃ They want more nuance and subtlety and giving the player more opportunity to express themselves.
⁃ You can agree or disagree with someone without being punished or cornered into a paragon or renegade choice Dialogue option tones: heart, head, professional and casual.
⁃ These don't affect you or sway a meter one way or another, rather they allow you freedom without worrying about unintended consequences.
⁃ "Narrative actions" (previously "interrupts) return but rather than giving a "red"=bad or "blue"=good choice, it can say "shoot", leaving more ambiguity to your choice.
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Nov 7, 2016 22:35
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- Hedrigall
- Mar 27, 2008
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by vyelkin
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Goodreads is not a reliable source for release dates.
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Nov 7, 2016 22:37
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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I just wanna know how hosed earth\milky way is after all those races stuck there after the explosions of the gates. Sures, its 600 years after ME3 but they can't gloss over it.
Assuming they don't repair the relays or build new ones somehow, every stranded planet still with useable spaceships will have to travel at regular superluminal speeds to other worlds.
If they can go the same speed as the Andromeda Initiative arks, which get to Andromeda in 600 years, it'd take ships within the Milky Way about 14 years to travel the approximate radius of our galaxy. Many key worlds are closer spaced than that.
I'd say that by the time the arks get to Andromeda, things are up and running again in our galaxy, just at a much slower pace than before.
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Nov 7, 2016 22:57
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- Hedrigall
- Mar 27, 2008
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by vyelkin
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Wait, they're leaving the fourth ship unannounced but the example they give is a Krogan request. Is the fourth ship a mix of races or maybe let you decide during the character creation questionaire?
They say it's a distress call from a colony ship. Could be a much smaller ship sent to seed one planet, rather than a species-carrying ark.
I assume the arks and the Nexus are all enormous, and hold tons of colony ships.
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Nov 7, 2016 23:05
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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There is also confirmed talk of a krogan colony ship you have to find but that's probably not the same as an ark ship.
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Nov 8, 2016 04:10
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- Hedrigall
- Mar 27, 2008
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by vyelkin
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Also krogans and turians are the 100% greatest and I hope they're in the game in droves and fully romanceable
ALSO PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT if you're planning on romancing Peebee you'd better name your Ryder "Jay" so you can be Peebee and Jay
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Nov 8, 2016 04:13
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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Well, a Krogan is confirmed to tell you about a missing colony ship. Nothing says the colony is comprised of Krogan.
Last year's reddit leak which has been proven true time and time again said something about your krogan squad mate asking you to track down a lost krogan colony ship.
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Nov 8, 2016 04:15
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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And if you're in doubt here's what that leak already got right long before each was announced:
Andromeda being the setting
Khet/Kett
Tempest being the ship
Helius cluster
Remnant vaults
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Nov 8, 2016 04:18
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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You forgot the hunky gay Krogan!
Thankyou.
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Nov 8, 2016 12:32
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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So, four ark ships... what are the odds of them being the McGuffins?
One of the novels next year is called Mass Effect: Lost Ark so ... yeah
Interestingly, another is called Mass Effect: Nexus Uprising. And now we know what Nexus is.
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Nov 8, 2016 12:46
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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Genophage humanity
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Nov 9, 2016 08:43
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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Games > ME45: I'm so loving sick of these reapers
In Mass Effect 14, the Reapers and the Milky Way races will decide to settle their differences with a friendly kart racing tournament.
In Mass Effect 26, the Reapers will challenge the Milky Way to track and field events at the Johannesburg 2024 summer Olympics
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Nov 11, 2016 03:14
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- Hedrigall
- Mar 27, 2008
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by vyelkin
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Looks good, but will it be The Sixth Element or Jeaupierre Ascendement?
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Nov 11, 2016 06:32
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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There is already fan art of every variety of the Kett.
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Nov 15, 2016 20:50
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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Fan theories on just how rough Kett osseous tissue is against my naked, trembling skin please
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Nov 16, 2016 03:25
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- Hedrigall
- Mar 27, 2008
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by vyelkin
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Someone do photoshops of the turians, krogans, elcor etc if the current Bioware creative team had designed them
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Nov 16, 2016 22:57
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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*cries*
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Nov 16, 2016 23:21
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by vyelkin
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Nobody should overestimate the minimum amount of anthropomorphism something needs for the internet to want to gently caress it
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Nov 17, 2016 07:16
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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:gethout:
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Nov 18, 2016 01:04
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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If you think this game won't have cool aliens then you've got hanar-ther think coming.
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Nov 18, 2016 02:05
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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"You can explore in any direction!" = "This game has no direction"
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Nov 21, 2016 03:07
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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Player freedom, sure, freedom to say how much it stinks
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Nov 21, 2016 03:08
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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Have the fuckable Turians been confirmed.
I'm confirming it riiight nooowwwwwwww
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Nov 21, 2016 03:31
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- Hedrigall
- Mar 27, 2008
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by vyelkin
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Whatever happened to those tie in books? I've read one of Jemisin's previous books and found it pretty interesting and was actually kind of excited in spite of it being a video game book, but everything I can find just seems to be about the initial announcement and nothing else.
Page 8 of this catalogue:
http://media.titanbooks.com/filebrowser/2016_rightsguide-frankfurt.pdf
First book is in March. Jemisin's book has been delayed until Autumn next year.
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Nov 22, 2016 07:28
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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Ugh all this witchery talk. Someone go back to talking about aliens they want to bone please
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Nov 23, 2016 12:48
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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Maybe they don't have penises but, like, biological turkey basters that slither out of their cooter like they smuggled an elephant up there and extract their mate's essence by sending that squirmy little cooter trunk up the cooter (or butt) of their fellow asari?
I think that's a legit theory. And if they ever drop their wallet or keys on the ground instead of bending over they just gotta squat a little bit and their cooter trunk can pick it up off the ground and put it back into their pocket.
really makes you think.
Welcome Back, Cooter
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Nov 23, 2016 21:23
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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Never played a Witcher game, can I start with #3?
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Nov 24, 2016 02:39
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by vyelkin
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Man can you at least wait until I'm home from work and not checking this thread on my phone? Jeeeez Louiiiiise!
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Nov 24, 2016 03:58
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- Hedrigall
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by vyelkin
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I bought the Witcher 3 today, thanks gang!
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Nov 25, 2016 01:04
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by vyelkin
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Why'd you stop PMing me bro
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Nov 26, 2016 01:05
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by vyelkin
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wheres my female turian love interest
i want to do it with a bird
Put it in her cloaca
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Nov 26, 2016 01:09
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by vyelkin
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Can I gently caress the turians
Yes good sir, right in their ends
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Nov 27, 2016 03:53
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