Mass Effect

[TheMightyEthan]

So I unlocked Krogan Soldier and Asari Adept.

 

Even though I was so looking forward to Krogan Soldier I've now learned that Asari Adept is the best thing ever.

[jimmuhpage]

Finally. Playing really late last night, I told my buddy, "this is my last game," and then I unlock the asari adept, so I had to play another game, and immediately after that, I unlocked the krogan soldier. I was too tired to play another match, but it finally happened. **single tear**

 

As far as lvl I unlocks I'm missing, I think the Revenant and the Hornet are all that remains. I'm not expecting too much out of those though, anyone really like either of them?

[TheMightyEthan]

I don't have the Revenant, Hornet, Widow, OR whatever the big-ass shotgun is. The only power weapon I've unlocked is the Carnifex (which is a fuckin beast, I don't even bother carrying anything else on my Asari Adept).

[Vargras]

Finally. Playing really late last night, I told my buddy, "this is my last game," and then I unlock the asari adept, so I had to play another game, and immediately after that, I unlocked the krogan soldier. I was too tired to play another match, but it finally happened. **single tear**

 

As far as lvl I unlocks I'm missing, I think the Revenant and the Hornet are all that remains. I'm not expecting too much out of those though, anyone really like either of them?

 

I like the Revenant, but the Hornet is pretty meh. Fairly small ammo capacity, and a very high recoil. Attempting to use a scope with it is an exercise in futility.

[jimmuhpage]

big-ass shotgun

The Claymore. It hits with a LOT of power, but it has only one shot per reload and takes forever to reload as well as being extremely heavy, maybe even heavier than the Widow.

 

And yes, the Carnifex is indeed among my two favorite weapons right now. I either go with just a Widow or just a Carnifex, if I need more fire rate. The only exception is my human soldier, where I can't not take my Mattock. My sweet'n'sexy Mattock X

 

I like the Revenant, but the Hornet is pretty meh. Fairly small ammo capacity, and a very high recoil. Attempting to use a scope with it is an exercise in futility.

 

Hmm, I already don't like the scope on the Tempest, I imagine the Hornet won't be one of my favorites. I remember not liking the Revenant too much in ME2, I guess I'll have to try it out once I unlock it.

Edited February 25, 2012 by jimmuhpage

[Hot Heart]

Figured out why Commander Shepard will be visiting Mars.

 

To recruit the Biker Mice*

 

*Only available to GameStop pre-order customers

 

[Vargras]

Hmm, I already don't like the scope on the Tempest, I imagine the Hornet won't be one of my favorites. I remember not liking the Revenant too much in ME2, I guess I'll have to try it out once I unlock it.

 

I only liked the Tempest because of the ginormous amount of ammo it could hold, and the Hornet can't even begin to compare in that aspect. Only thing the Hornet really has is a three-round burst, but that's about it.

[Hot Heart]

"We land, #$*% the females, and leave before anyone changes their mind."

[TheMightyEthan]

That might be the ugliest femshep I have ever seen.

[jimmuhpage]

So, I'm trying to max out my N7 rank, but I'm not enjoying playing as a turian sentinel at all. Instead, I tried using the human sentinel with warp/throw combo. It's not effective enough to warrant trying silver or gold (which Ethan, a couple friends, and I accomplished earlier today ), especially since it means you're putting less points into tech armor, but man is it fun. Maximize the area of effect for biotic explosions and you can easily get a quadruple kill on bronze, with a fireworks show to boot .

 

And my favorite censorship was the first one, Vega's "not supposed to $%#! you either" lol

[Vargras]

Yeah, I realized that after I posed, that Mal was talking about sitting on the DLC itself, when I just meant they intended to sit on the announcement.

 

Honestly though I don't really get what people are complaining about. My understanding is that this was intended to be CE-exclusive content, and the reason they're releasing it at all is that the CE is sold out everywhere and they want people to be able to get it if they want. If anything you should be happy: the CE costs $20 more than the regular edition, but the DLC only costs $10.

 

We should be happy? Son, you crazy. They are taking very major, very plot important content, cutting it out of the game, and now we should be thanking them because they are, by grace and goodwill, letting us pay ten dollars for content that should have been included in the sixty dollar game to begin with?

 

Fuck these guys. I'm not picking ME3 up until it's at least 30 dollars. They can blow me.

 

Casey Hudson put out the following tweets just the other day:

The Prothean DLC character is really cool, but not at all critical to the main story. #ME3 centers on the Reapers, not the Protheans.

For the many who asked, plot arcs of the Protheans and other races are resolved in #ME3, not DLC. That is after all the focus of the story.

 

Other stuff:

RT “@RemiosR: who's character has the best dialogue just walking around in ME3?” Love them all but Vega is a blast - great banter!

@KuzeySoldado Yes, you'll be able to fly to planets and choose locations to land as before, but with some new activities.

[Hot Heart]

New activities like this?

 

Just been reading some stuff about the games and Krogans have '240-degree vision'. So, why is their FOV in multiplayer so limited?

 

And I'm assuming... PROBABLY EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT THE CHARACTER BY NOW BUT JUST IN CASE

 

The Prothean was one of the scientists awoken by Vigil, and went on to alter the Keepers so they wouldn't activate the Citadel relay.

 

Edited February 26, 2012 by Hot Heart

[Waldorf and Statler]

People hated scanning for minerals. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING.

 

So now, we made war assets and fuel. TOTS DIFFERENT YO

[Vargras]

People hated scanning for minerals. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING.

 

So now, we made war assets and fuel. TOTS DIFFERENT YO

 

It looks better (and faster) than the mineral scanning, if you ask me. Mineral scanning was slowly going up and down the grid, and watching for spikes on the meter so you knew where minerals were. This is just following pings until you find it.

[Waldorf and Statler]

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck trying to disguise himself with a top hat and mustache, it still is a duck.

[Vargras]

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck trying to disguise himself with a top hat and mustache, it still is a duck.

 

But it'll be a very classy duck.

[Waldorf and Statler]

Nobody's arguing the duck's level of fanciness. We can all agree that when that duck goes to stores, he has so much money he can just open a bill.

 

But if people are tired of duck, putting a disguise on it wont make it better. I hope there's at least a way to fight the reapers that try to attack you in these galaxies

[Luftwaffles]

You know, I'm just glad they didn't remove it completely. It would be completely like Bioware to just remove it, seeing as some people didn't like it. It's what they did with ME1's inventory system and ME2's bypass and hack minigames.

[TheMightyEthan]

Yeah, IMO they fixed the problem with scanning: that it took for fucking ever to find minerals cause you had to scan the whole damn planet grid. This is MUCH better.

[jimmuhpage]

Trying to finish my last proper Shepard in ME2 before the 6th. 2 days ago, no Cerberus Daily News. Today, a message about Khar'Shan, the batarian homeworld, going dark. I wonder if they'll do one every day or just leave that one up.

[Hot Heart]

Decided to give Adept a go in ME3 multiplayer. It was actually a lot of fun, even at level 1. I'd never really liked the class in ME2 because it involved a bit of care in line-of-sight for the powers, but it works really well here (I think they tend to home in a bit more). The human adept has a good choice of powers too, although I hear the Asari has Stasis which is supposed to be amazing.

Edited February 27, 2012 by Hot Heart

[Waldorf and Statler]

Hey if they improved the Adept even more from the previous game, freaking awesome

[TheMightyEthan]

Get Stasis Field for the Asari Adept once you get leveled up. It is the best thing ever. Ridiculously over powered. It works on all enemies, even if they have shields or barriers up, which means Phantoms are no longer a threat at all. The only enemies it doesn't work on are the Atlases.

[Hot Heart]

Problem is, I'm now quite torn as to which class I will choose for single-player. They all seem awesome in their own way, just a shame the demo doesn't let you 'optimise' some of them as you'd hope.

[TheMightyEthan]

I've got enough characters importing from ME2 that I can actually play one playthrough as every class.

 

*Edit* - I probably won't though, the only ones I've really liked so far are Soldier and Adept. Biotic charge as a Vanguard was a lot of fun, but I got sick of dying all the time... though in single player I could just play on an easy difficulty I guess.

Edited February 27, 2012 by TheMightyEthan