Mass Effect

[Vargras]

For anyone curious, there's an additional tier beyond rare within multiplayer.

 

Uncommon items get the silver border, rare items get the gold border, and (I really hate using this term in this manner, but it's something familiar to a lot of folks) epic items are marked with the N7 logo. The Scorpion, which I snagged from a Spectre crate earlier, is marked as such.

Edited March 9, 2012 by Vargras

[Maritan]

http://www.ign.com/wikis/mass-effect-3/Endings

My OCD just kicked in...

[TheMightyEthan]

Must... not... click... link...

[Hot Heart]

Wake up, Ash, I need to make sure you know you are dumped, OK?

[Eleven]

Spoiler about Kaidan (early in the game, when he is... "stationed" somewhere, after talking to him 1 or 2 times).

 

 

I hate that they made Kaidan the 2nd Human Spectre. The Human Spectre is Shepard's thing. Now I don't feel that special anymore.

Human Spectres?? Oh we have two of those. Turian Spectres? Two of those. Asari spectre? We have only 1. Salarian? Just 1 too! (Yes I know there are a lot of them not mentioned in the story)

There better be a good reason for this!

 

[deanb]

The link Maritan gave seems to very strongly imply the "perfect" ending does require multiplayer.

 

 

He has 3171 and a full bar, with half the readiness rating because of no MP. The IGN link says it requires 5000 points to get the perfect ending. Which would, without MP, require 10,000 points in war assets.

[TheMightyEthan]

That sounds like a miscommunication to me. Based on how my bar is filling I was estimating it would take 2500 points to get the best ending, which would be 5000 war assets without MP, so that might be what IGN meant.

[TheMightyEthan]

Spoiler about Kaidan (early in the game, when he is... "stationed" somewhere, after talking to him 1 or 2 times).

 

 

I hate that they made Kaidan the 2nd Human Spectre. The Human Spectre is Shepard's thing. Now I don't feel that special anymore.

Human Spectres?? Oh we have two of those. Turian Spectres? Two of those. Asari spectre? We have only 1. Salarian? Just 1 too! (Yes I know there are a lot of them not mentioned in the story)

There better be a good reason for this!

 

 

 

Shep still has the distinction of being the first human spectre.

 

[Maritan]

The link Maritan gave seems to very strongly imply the "perfect" ending does require multiplayer.

 

 

He has 3171 and a full bar, with half the readiness rating because of no MP. The IGN link says it requires 5000 points to get the perfect ending. Which would, without MP, require 10,000 points in war assets.

Yep. But I doubt that the ending will be "perfect", it's still fucked up. Also, secret ending in NG+, lol.

There's also one thing: galactic readiness is shared between playthroughs, at least I heard that. So on the second playthrough you can definitely get 5000+.

 

That sounds like a miscommunication to me. Based on how my bar is filling I was estimating it would take 2500 points to get the best ending, which would be 5000 war assets without MP, so that might be what IGN meant.

That might be the case, too. But effective readiness is what really counts.

Oh well, I won't be returning to this game any time soon. Maybe with new DLC...

[TheMightyEthan]

Bioware has repeatedly and unequivocally stated that you can get the perfect ending without MP.

 

If that weren't true I would have expected them to just not address the issue, like they did with the ME1 face import thing.

[Vargras]

Bioware has repeatedly and unequivocally stated that you can get the perfect ending without MP.

 

If that weren't true I would have expected them to just not address the issue, like they did with the ME1 face import thing.

 

I'd say it's possible, Ethan. I had something like 3000+ resources on my first playthrough, but there was still quite a bit I think I missed out on. I probably could have pulled it off.

[Maritan]

Bioware has repeatedly and unequivocally stated that you can get the perfect ending without MP.

Yes, but it requires you to play through the game twice. If anyone doesn't want to complete every quest in the game looking for war assets this file gives you 7000 points after finding certain relic(I don't really remember) in the end of the game. http://rghost.net/36921269

Anyway, why I think those endings suck:

 

 

First of all, Deus Ex Machina, or as Russian saying goes, "Piano in the bushes". Why?!

Then the endings themselves...

Destroying reapers: kills EDI, kills geth. I was trying to save everyone and establish peace in the galaxy, but not like that.

Synthesis: what the fuck? Basically, make every creature in the galaxy the same and erase individuality. Yeah, fucking good idea.

Controlling the reapers is the only one that doesn't feature fucked up things, in my opinion. Still, I wanted my Shepard to live.

And none of those endings provide a proper conclusion.

 

 

 

Bioware has repeatedly and unequivocally stated that you can get the perfect ending without MP.

 

If that weren't true I would have expected them to just not address the issue, like they did with the ME1 face import thing.

 

I'd say it's possible, Ethan. I had something like 3000+ resources on my first playthrough, but there was still quite a bit I think I missed out on. I probably could have pulled it off.

I don't think it's possible in a single playthrough without MP. I had 70xx points by the end of the game, so it was 3500 with x0.5 modificator. There's no way you can get 10000 points in one playthrough.

Edited March 9, 2012 by Maritan

[TheMightyEthan]

Well that's bullshit.

 

*Edit* - In addition to the bullshit of making you not be able to do it in one playthrough, why the fuck would they make it so you can max out the bar but still not have enough for the best ending?

Edited March 9, 2012 by TheMightyEthan

[Strangelove]

I do hope they release an epilogue dlc like Fallout 3 got. I dont care much, but maybe itll stop(some) of the bitching.

 

 

Im also a little let down that there wasnt a definite Reaper antagonist. I didnt want one reaper controlling the others or anything like that, but I would have liked someone to represent them like Harbinger did in ME2. Someone to fight.

Then again, I got the feeling that Cerberus was way more harmful than the Reapers. I loved the Illusive Man in ME3. I wish they had given more backstory or even his real name in ME3 though. I dont want to read some novel to get that info.

 

Edited March 9, 2012 by Strangelove

[Waldorf and Statler]

To be fair guys, I dunno how you beat the game in 20 something hours. I already hit the 18 hour mark and unless all the extra things to do in the citadel run out, I haven't done much concerning the main mission besides helping somebody out with something very specific.

 

 

In fact I hope I still get to walk around the citadel and find extra missions

[Strangelove]

I finished it in 30 hours and Im pretty sure I did all if not most of the side missions. I didnt do all the "quests" though. I still had about 10-15 left. And that probably wasnt all of them. im sure I missed some.

I cant imagine finishing this game in 20 hours without skipping a lot of side missions and/or speeding through the cutscenes.

[TheMightyEthan]

Well I'm 29 hours in and I've barely started the second major conflict.

[deanb]

I've a feeling I'm probably gonna take more than average mainly because I'm missing on how to set stuff as "Active quests" or whatever, making find quest givers again to be a right pain (especially when you pick up quests by walking past people so knowing who you got the quest off is even harder).

In fact the whole mission system is a right cock up. The Journal list always loads with the scroll bar half way down, meaning as the game progresses I have to scroll further n further up. There's no stages to the quest, meaning if I have an item, I don't know unless I mentally note it down. The quests start and end as "A Salarian in Presidium Commons is looking for a Mark of Illium in the Blah Blah System". There's no way to mark Blah Blah system on my map, or no indicators I have a quest there. Then when I do pick it up there's no inventory so I don't know if I have it. When I do have the item it doesn't update as "Go back and give the Mark of Illium to the Salarian". And when I do go back to the Presidum Commons I then have to walk past the several dozen Salarians with no names trying to find one that lights up because the map only lists characters of importance. Liara "Hello Commander" T'Soni being more important that Random "Quest complete" Salarian.

 

 

Also fuck the DLC having an affect on the game. I don't have the DLC to ME2. Fuck being bitched at because someone Brother died, or planet got wiped out or friend tortured because I never got the DLC . Those events never happened. If you've played the compete version of ME2 what happens is you take down the collectors and then....end up incarcerated on Earth. I've not played Arrival, I honestly haven't a fucking clue at why the Batarians are pissed at me. Supposedly I blew up their planet. I don't know, I never remember doing that. Yes, many pages ago I said it'd be nice to have your past choices and actions affect the ending of the game. It'd be nice to have choices and actions you never made to not be part of the game though. And when I wanted it to affect stuff I was thinking more than just it tweaking the War Asset number down because I had the human fleet save the council n other lame ass stuff. NPCs have actually reacted more to the results of DLC events than they have in-game events like having the Alliance fleet take the hit for the Council. Say some soldier/other maybe smacking me in the face for getting their friend killed and now sending more out to fight the reapers or something. In fact my choice for councillor in ME1 and (due to the save issue of "woops no end-game save") ME2 has had jack shit result on ME3 and that hasn't been explained at all and yet I still had to deal with the repercussions of a decision I didn't make.

[TheMightyEthan]

I've a feeling I'm probably gonna take more than average mainly because I'm missing on how to set stuff as "Active quests" or whatever, making find quest givers again to be a right pain (especially when you pick up quests by walking past people so knowing who you got the quest off is even harder).

 

Once you complete the quest that person will show up on your map, so just go to the citadel, open the map, and see where new names have appeared. There's only been one quest that didn't show up that way for me.

 

*Edit* -

There's no stages to the quest, meaning if I have an item, I don't know unless I mentally note it down. The quests start and end as "A Salarian in Presidium Commons is looking for a Mark of Illium in the Blah Blah System". There's no way to mark Blah Blah system on my map, or no indicators I have a quest there. Then when I do pick it up there's no inventory so I don't know if I have it. When I do have the item it doesn't update as "Go back and give the Mark of Illium to the Salarian".

 

I do agree with all of this though.

 

As for the sorting the quest log, it's stupid, but a work around is if you resort it the cursor goes up to the top, so you can hit the "Sort by..." button a couple times to rearrange it to how you want it, and it's faster than scrolling.

Edited March 9, 2012 by TheMightyEthan

[deanb]

I have the more in-depth side quests with markers. (e.g meeting with the Salarian Spectre), but the fetch quests come up with nothing on the map.

[CorgiShinobi]

Anyone with the Collector's Edition, was it worth it?

 

I picked up my copy today and there were still extra copies of the Collector's Edition for PS3. That's an extra $20 though, and I looked through the list of "extras." Aside from the Ashes DLC, it all looked cosmetic, though in-game weapons and a soundtrack didn't seem too bad.

 

In the end I did get the standard game, but I wanted to know what you guys think of what you got for that extra money.

[Maritan]

Anyone with the Collector's Edition, was it worth it?

 

I picked up my copy today and there were still extra copies of the Collector's Edition for PS3. That's an extra $20 though, and I looked through the list of "extras." Aside from the Ashes DLC, it all looked cosmetic, though in-game weapons and a soundtrack didn't seem too bad.

 

In the end I did get the standard game, but I wanted to know what you guys think of what you got for that extra money.

Pirated everything. Not worth it.

[Waldorf and Statler]

The Salarian Spectre is my favorite spectre ever. Especially dealing with hanars and mistresses hahaha

[Vargras]

Unlocked Turian Soldier earlier. Their Marksman ability, combined with the Revenant rifle, is absolutely terrifying. I completely wasted an Atlas earlier before the power even wore off.

[Hot Heart]

Anyone with the Collector's Edition, was it worth it?

 

Probably not for how much extra it is. I mean, the soundtrack's nice and all, and I'll be looking at the art book once I've finished. Getting some extra Prothean stuff is good but the hoodie and dog are silly, plus the weapons don't appear to be very good...