Mike the TV posted:

Witcher 3 was a good game because it stripped all the dumb bs out of a typical RPG, and could have been even better if they had removed crafting as well.

Cythereal posted:

Ironically, the art book for ME2 reveals that the Normandy 2's lighting was supposed to be the opposite. The Normandy 2 was envisioned as being dark, cramped, unpainted, and all around a thoroughly unpleasant ship to live on, sacrificing the amenities of the first Normandy for the sake of raw power.

SgtSteel91 posted:

No his wife is the AI scientist

Kavak posted:

Has the Krogan presence been explained yet?

Dolash posted:

Mass Effect always seemed to imply the galactic taboo on AI research was something humanity didn't much care about and was really only officially obeying while continuing all sorts of AI experiments off the books. It's not surprising they'd roll it out for their big extra-galactic mission ("Everything's legal in international waters!"), although it might turn out that the other Pathfinders (there's one for each Council Race's ark, right?) don't have their own.

Beefstew posted:

Also, why is Peebee's skin all smooth? By the time ME3 rolled around, the asari had pretty prominent scales.

Lobok posted:

Are we talking about a star cluster like a cluster of stars, or a solar system?

marshmallow creep posted:

He sounds juuuuuust enough like Nathan Fillion that someone is going to try to make Mal Ryder.

Waltzing Along posted:

The problem is that the milky way galaxy, in the games, is barely explored. There are a bunch of mass relays they don't even use for fear of what might be on the other end. And that's a tiny percentage of the ares that actually have a relay.

There is no reason to leave the galaxy whatsoever.

basic hitler posted:

I'm really good at detaching something from the fanbase, but gently caress me this is starting to put me off this franchise completely.

chiasaur11 posted:

There are still interrupts. They just list out what's going to happen. No "Well, the camera is looking at that gas tank, and the krogan just keeps talking... oh. Oh. Yeah, taking this one."

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-"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

Kurieg posted:

Yeah, the post cut-scenes explaining what exactly happened were needed, because Destroy seemed to imply that not only were you crippling the entire galactic community, you were also probably killing hundreds of thousands of turians and quarians who were caught in levo space with no food.

marshmallow creep posted:

Ian S. Frazier ‏@tibermoon 1m
In SP, there is a way to access more than 3 abilities while in the field. Will explain how it works later.

Flipswitch posted:

Surprised you haven't been able to romance an AI yet tbh

Eastbound Spider posted:

But i cang bang the computer, right? In vr?

AngryBooch posted:

Villains in Halo go by titles rather than actual names. Something the Halo writer has brought over to mass effect before he left. Everyone in halo is named like the prophet, the arbiter, the didact, etc.

Drifter posted:

Ehhh...it was never THE Harbinger or Sovereign. Just plain Harbinger and Sovereign.

marshmallow creep posted:

I think sarcasm is part of the Casual tone. They have also noted before that a Casual Ryder is liable to have a potty mouth.

Serf posted:

All the planets in Andromeda are high-grav planets and the Ryders are engineered to be stumpy little bastards to compensate.

Hedrigall posted:

Catflaps McBae

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Power Armor. Vetra’s custom armor hardens and activates reinforced shields, providing her with unrivaled protection.

The Lone Badger posted:

I hope Remnant technology is really old and lovely compared to Milky Way stuff and the best use that can be made of artifacts is either archaeology or recycling them for raw materials.

Lobok posted:

What's the context? She looks disappointed, or maybe mildly annoyed she's going to have to kill that person.

SgtSteel91 posted:

I think that early leak of Andromeda mentioned Strike Missions, too, and the mechanics in the leak are similar to what's said in the article.

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Deployed Strike Team Missions:

The Helius Cluster is 1000s of light years across, and you can’t be everywhere at once. As you develop more colonies, resource bases and settlements, you have to be able to keep them safe. Spend resources to recruit mercenaries and develop an AI controlled Strike Team that you can deploy to take on randomly generated, time-sensitive missions. Strike Team missions take many forms, including settlement defense and Remnant artifact recovery, which will take real-time to complete. Send your Strike Team out on a mission while you continue playing the main game and they will return, 20 – 30 minutes later, having gained rewards such as XP, currency and equipment based on the success of their mission. Spend money and resources to train your Strike Team and acquire better gear for them, which will increase their success rate and allow them to take on more difficult missions for greater rewards.

Active Strike Team Missions:

When you encounter a Strike Team mission in the Single-Player mode, you can leave your Strike Team at their base and decide to tackle the mission yourself with your Multiplayer roster of characters. You also have the option of tackling the mission by yourself, or recruiting up to three friends to play with you. The more friends you bring, the greater the challenge and the greater the reward. These missions will play out using the Next Mass Effect’s multiplayer Horde mode (more details on this later). These missions will include a variety of thematically appropriate objectives, like defending a Settlement against Khet attacks, or recovering a Remnant artifact off of a planet before an outlaw gang gets there first. By taking an active role in strike team missions, you can earn special Single-player rewards in addition to the usual multiplayer specific characters, weapons, weapon mods, and pieces of equipment which can be customized between missions. Additionally, players who join another person’s Strike Team mission will receive bonus in-game currency and multiplayer XP for helping others with their missions.

marshmallow creep posted:

Hedrigall posted:

Hmm, this bioluminescence... and m'flaps...

This game is the real Avatar 2

Beefstew posted:

So, I guess we're retconning the whole "no genetic material from fathers" again. But where could she even get hair from? None of the ME aliens have hair. Maybe Quarians? I guess she's our Quarian squadmate too, then?

BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:

Peebee walks to her own daredevil drumbeat and has an unrivalled thirst for adventure. She’s pathologically independent but manages to maintain a loose, even friendly spirit. Bored with the Milky Way, she would have done anything to join the Initiative – flirt, favors, fudged credentials. But to her, she was just hitching a ride to the great unknown.

Neurophage posted:

hosed up opinion time: Benezia is a worse villain than Kai Leng.

SgtSteel91 posted:

It also looked like a gas canister got roped into the pull too, so maybe there's an upgrade to pull multiple objects, maybe people too.

frajaq posted:

Hmm alright gameplay looks solid, although the teammate AI looked a bit silly just standing there. Some of the enemies too, hopefully that's fixed before launch

Jose Oquendo posted:

I haven't bought a boxed PC game in years. What's in the box, just a code?

Groetgaffel posted:

ME2&3 were good enough ports, Inquisition worked well enough for me, I saw no reason to plug a controller in.
So with that history I see no reason to doubt that the port will be competent enough.

Keru posted:

I'm going to laugh so loving hard if Vetra is romanceable, just not by the player. That would be straight up amazing.

Flatscan posted:

Wouldn't know, I always let him die in ME1.

Deakul posted:

guys when turians poop is it white like bird poop or

frajaq posted:

One of the skills is still unknown, have they talked about how to unlock these? Are some supposed to be secret?

Ihmemies posted:

They could have used the same voice actors! I wouldn't mind. You see same actors in different movies all the time. Why not voice actors too?

Trast posted:

One more bit of Miranda chat. One of the ME2 dlc gave her a much better uniform. It was proper sentinel armor with a cool HUD visor.

IcePhoenix posted:

There's a ton of stuff coming out today from the press event held a week or so ago where a bunch of people got a good amount of hands on time with the game.

e: here's a reddit thread with a bunch of them - https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/5vq0qp/embargospoiler_discussion_thread/

and here's a comment that summarized a lot of them - https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/5vq0qp/embargospoiler_discussion_thread/de4a760/

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Shepard’s gender affects Andromeda’s story somehow.
No importing of the trilogy’s save files.

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Game starts out quickly with the introductory sequence takes place on a toxic planet.

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Autosaves seem generous and Ryder respawns 1 to 2 mins before they he/she died.

BrianWilly posted:

One hand chopping lettuces at waist-height to emphasize point.

Cythereal posted:

It got posted ten pages ago, along with a thing from a playtester in an interviewer who said yeah you can end up driving around a zone for an hour and find nothing of interest.

RPS posted:

I spoke to Fabrice Condominas, a producer at BioWare, he talked about the difficulties of dealing with huge environments and retaining player interest. “We tried a lot of things and failed in a lot of different ways in development! So at the end the decision we made for this game was to say, we have those huge spaces but we’re not going to randomly generate anything. Everything we’re going to make will be memorable, hand-crafted and placed, and have a narrative impact even if it’s a very small thing. Can you drive 50 minutes without encountering anything? We’re trying to avoid that, but because of the nature of what we’re doing, I can’t promise it won’t happen. That being said, if it does happen as a player you will know it, because it means as a player you’re going to a part where we don’t promise you anything. Our hope is that you never have to hit an invisible wall because you keep finding something interesting.”

marshmallow creep posted:

Apparently Remnant Tech opens doors to the rift.

Hedrigall posted:

Devs tweeted this. Is he fondling himself?