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thetrin posted:So then if that's the case, what is the minimum line on the bar? There doesn't seem to be any other visual representation for how much EMS you need for the best ending. Between 2800 and 4000 depending on what your definition of "best" ending is. You need 2800 for the helios ending and 4000 for a 5 second after-credits cutscene on the tracer tong ending.
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Hentai Tentacle Demon posted:Easier than you think. Just have Liara with you at all times for stasis. My big problem right now is never having any loving ammo. I constantly feel like I'm out of bullets despite landing the majority of my shots, once I upgrade my shotgun a bit I'm sure I can biotic charge more safely, but right now I feel like I'm spending most of my fights whittling down people with Pull by the end.
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Worth saving up for the Black Widow rifle on my Infiltrator?
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thetrin posted:Hmm, I don't think I know what dialogue box you're talking about. Yea, top level of War Assets screen, there's an option that will overview your chances.
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kater posted:Yea, top level of War Assets screen, there's an option that will overview your chances. I'll have to check that out when I play tonight. Thanks. Rei_ posted:My big problem right now is never having any loving ammo. I constantly feel like I'm out of bullets despite landing the majority of my shots, once I upgrade my shotgun a bit I'm sure I can biotic charge more safely, but right now I feel like I'm spending most of my fights whittling down people with Pull by the end. I don't even carry a shotgun. Do you have the Scorpion pistol? It shoots tiny singularities at enemies. That plus biotic charge is devastating. Despite the small magazine on the Scorpion, one or two shots will literally cause most infantry to explode. At first I thought the Scorpion kind of sucked, because I wasn't entirely sure if it was hurting my enemies, but it basically shoots tiny, timed singularities at enemies, which stick to them, and then explode after 2-3 seconds. The damage they do is a little ridiculous. thetrin fucked around with this message at Mar 8, 2012 around 16:34 |
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Chasiubao posted:Worth saving up for the Black Widow rifle on my Infiltrator? It's similar to the Mantis, but a THREE round magazine. So I'd say yes. You won't get a better one until the Asari have a mission for you.
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I have a confession to make... I never finished Mass Effect. It kind of bored me, I got stuck and just lost interest entirely. It wasn't until ME2 that I got stoked on this series, and now that I'm into 3 I kind of have this burning desire to play this series "right". I may just rely on mass effect saves to bypass number one, as I don't own it. The main reason for this is I don't like some of the stock choices that you end up with in 3 based on things I never did in Mass Effect. I mean, I have no problem playing 2 over again, I think I beat it 5 times or something like that. But here I am in 3 with Legion and Miranda dead, as well as the aforementioned bad outcome of 1. My brain hurts.
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I'm running around with a full team using the laser rifles. We absolutely destroy anything. It don't take any time at all to take down a mech. We look like a bunch of ghost buster shooting beams and poo poo.
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So I told the Dalatress to gently caress off about sabotaging the Genophage cure, do I get a chance to shame her genocidal bitch rear end? Yes or no answers are fine.
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Nephilm posted:Between 2800 and 4000 depending on what your definition of "best" ending is. You need 2800 for the helios ending and 4000 for a 5 second after-credits cutscene on the tracer tong ending. I'm pickin' up what you're throwing down. I won't bother with 4000 EMS if it's just a 5 seconds supplementary cutscene. I'll still get as many war assets as I can, but I won't bother playing multiplayer just to up my readiness. I do like playing it though, so maybe I'll just play with my roommate in the evenings after a couple hours of SP. floor is lava posted:I'm running around with a full team using the laser rifles. We absolutely destroy anything. It don't take any time at all to take down a mech. We look like a bunch of ghost buster shooting beams and poo poo. Imo, the Scorpion and the particle rifle are the two most awesome weapons in the game. The particle rifle is like some crazy beam weapon, and the Scorpion is like a tiny sticky grenade launcher. I really hope I get a Scorpion in multiplayer... thetrin fucked around with this message at Mar 8, 2012 around 16:38 |
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There are so many shocked, surprised and unhappy smilies in this thread. This game is going to kill all my crew, isn't it? 
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:So I told the Dalatress to gently caress off about sabotaging the Genophage cure, do I get a chance to shame her genocidal bitch rear end? Yes or no answers are fine. I'm actually right there right now, and even my Cerberus-loving ice queen can't go along with that plan. gently caress that. I hope that bitch gets what's coming to her (hopefully a krogan headbutt).
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The Academy atrium scene was a LOT easier once I sprinted right and went up the ramp. Taking the high ground removes most of the difficulty of the shootout, since the upper walkway troops spawn less and can't shoot down at you even in cover. On insanity, a sentinel Shep + Liara is a cerberus shredding machine; it's gotten to the point where I can storm around like a vanguard and give no fucks. For the krogan female mission half the cerb troops were dead within 5-6 seconds of contact on each level. Then again, it could be my +190% power regen; being able to spam multi-throw every other second--periodically combo'd with warp/singularity--makes crowd control trivial. Biotic artillery, if you will.
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I was actually hoping for more of the party members to be returning members, rather than new ones. How many total party members are there (including DLC)?
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Riso posted:I have found the most useful thing. Compared to all the others I found, this one is complete. Thanks so much for this. I really didn't mind space mining in ME2 compared to running around the galaxy randomly guessing where to find things in ME3.
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I'm terribly afraid to read through this thread so I apologize for this (I'm working through ME2 for the 1st time now) but is there a decision tree for the first 2 games leading to the 3rd out there somewhere? My google searches turn up nothing. Also, drat there is a lot of DLC available for the first 2 games, any writeups done by goons or otherwise detailing which ones are worth it. My plan is to finish this series as renegade then go through and be the best shepard I can be. But for that I really want to get and see everything across all games. And hey, if there is cool info like what I want, it would be a good add to the great OP.
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thetrin posted:I was actually hoping for more of the party members to be returning members, rather than new ones. How many total party members are there (including DLC)? Seven.
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thetrin posted:I was actually hoping for more of the party members to be returning members, rather than new ones. How many total party members are there (including DLC)? Whoever didn't die on Virmire plus 5 others (inc. DLC). Whoever didn't die aside, 2 of those are returning characters, and a third is a returning character that wasn't playable before.
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Fenrir posted:The guide won't save you from the poo poo ending, sadly. I still feel like I got rickrolled in space or something. So true. Thread title: the post Mass Effect 3: Rickrolled in Space Sur'Kesh question: So if I destroyed Maelon's data, there's no curing the Genophage right? If so, it's a bummer that Mordin was wrong about being able to recreate it, but also it's cool that there's a choice that has consequence. Not in the gameplay sense of course, since you can get both Krogan and Salarian support regardless (right?), but the "what does the future galaxy look like" sense. Also my Vanguard has gotten maxed Assault Mastery, choosing weight capacity when possible, and now I can carry a Predator III and an Avenger I and still have 200% cooldown. However, the Katana I brings me down to +152% which is not enough charging. Are there other shotguns (i.e., the Eviscerator and/or the Spectre version of the Eviscerator) where I can have that plus a Pistol (upgrades possibly required) and have 200% cooldown? I'd rather have a pistol + shotgun like a real Vanguard, but if my cooldowns are forever doomed with a shotgun then Avenger I it is.
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I have a question about the Quarian mission: Is it possible to end with both the Geth and the Quarians alive? I had to kill Legion at the last second, and it's eating me up inside having to do that to the Geth.
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tadashi posted:Thanks so much for this. I really didn't mind space mining in ME2 compared to running around the galaxy randomly guessing where to find things in ME3. The worst quests are the ones marked Citadel in the journal. I have no loving clue where I'm supposed to look most of the time. I've managed to finish them all so far, because I'm totally OCD, but it's still kinda silly. Though, I don't know if anyone has posted this yet, but the ones listed as Citadel are always found in missions. The ones where you have to scan are the ones where the system is listed.
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You can do Locust + Disciple + Carnifex and still have 200% CDs.
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Nitramster posted:I'm terribly afraid to read through this thread so I apologize for this (I'm working through ME2 for the 1st time now) but is there a decision tree for the first 2 games leading to the 3rd out there somewhere? My google searches turn up nothing. Also, drat there is a lot of DLC available for the first 2 games, any writeups done by goons or otherwise detailing which ones are worth it. My plan is to finish this series as renegade then go through and be the best shepard I can be. But for that I really want to get and see everything across all games. And hey, if there is cool info like what I want, it would be a good add to the great OP. The thing is, Renegade run gets a lot of people killed and since it's a Bioware game that means you're cutting out content for subsequent titles instead of getting different content. So the key is to avoid choices that get people killed in your Renegade run and then you can get to be an rear end in a top hat again to them later. That or do a kill everything Renegade playthrough for each game but don't bother importing it because it really isn't worth it.
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To clear up some endgame questions: Shepard only survives if you have a EMS of 5k, or 4k because of some event I don't know about, and you choose the destruction option. This is not NG+ specific, you can get it in your first run of the game. You see a brief scene of some N7 armor and him/her gasping for air on London the end thanks for playing our game suckers!! Every other option Shepard dies, your EMS affects how hosed up Earth is at the end and who pops out of the Normandy. There's no NG+ secret ending.
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PureRok posted:I have a question about the Quarian mission: Is it possible to end with both the Geth and the Quarians alive? I had to kill Legion at the last second, and it's eating me up inside having to do that to the Geth. Why would you choose the Quarian assholes over your synthetic bro? And yes, you can make peace if you fulfilled several conditions on ME2.
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BrianWilly posted:Worst "aspect" of the game so far is easily Diana Allers. Easily. I'm surprised by how much I dislike her, given that I didn't understand what people found objectionable about the character when she was leaked. She doesn't look or sound remotely credible as a war reporter. I'm just going to pretend Emily Wong is in there, alive and well.
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Best email so far is from Grunt.
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Nephilm posted:Why would you choose the Quarian assholes over your synthetic bro? And yes, you can make peace if you fulfilled several conditions on ME2. Which ones specifically? I destroyed the Geth heretics, and Legion made it seem the Geth were willing to give up, but the Quarians kind of forced my hand. I was worried if I let Legion keep uploading the Reaper stuff that they would end up wiping out the Quarians. Could you tell me how achieve peace? Edit: For your first question: "Talimancer".
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Dreylad posted:To clear up some endgame questions: as far as i'm concerned shepard crawls out of the wreckage, gets herself fixed up and mounts a rescue mission for her stranded crew. 
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DMBFan23 posted:Sur'Kesh question: The game is pretty explicit about what having Maelon's data does. The cure was derived from the Krogan Maelon cured, not his data. Mordin repeatedly states that having it is helping her recover though. Which I'm fine with. I haven't progressed much past that point but it's elegant and feelsgud and seems like it *might* be important later.
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Extra Smooth Balls posted:as far as i'm concerned shepard crawls out of the wreckage, gets herself fixed up and mounts a rescue mission for her stranded crew. Yeah that's pretty much my line of thinking as well.
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It's a shame playing this knowing that i cant go back to ME and ME2 and do a marathon run from the start without having to put up with the absolute crap shooting gameplay of the early games. Me3 gunplay is so much more fun than the first 2. What is needed is some kind of mod that pulls all 3 games into one.
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Nephilm posted:The thing is, Renegade run gets a lot of people killed and since it's a Bioware game that means you're cutting out content for subsequent titles instead of getting different content. So the key is to avoid choices that get people killed in your Renegade run and then you can get to be an rear end in a top hat again to them later. Oh idk, aside from wrex and kaiden in the first game, noone else died (minor NPC's and the drat council not included, bwahahah). In the second I'm reading through a decent guide as I play to do everyones loyalty missions. Sure I'm racking up paragon points but I'm over 80% renegade and only 25% paragon, seems you can be an rear end and still save people (well I haven't finished yet, but from what info I'm getting it can be done. I guess if some all knowing flowchart was out there it would already be discovered and in the OP now that I think about it.
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Chasiubao posted:Worth saving up for the Black Widow rifle on my Infiltrator? Absolutely yes. It doesn't have quite as much power as the regular Widow, but you can get it so much earlier and the three round clip makes for much higher damage output. thetrin posted:I really hope I get a Scorpion in multiplayer... It's an ultra-rare drop, so start praying.
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epenthesis posted:I'm surprised by how much I dislike her, given that I didn't understand what people found objectionable about the character when she was leaked. She doesn't look or sound remotely credible as a war reporter. Everything about Allers is bad. Her model is so poorly made that its worse than ME2 Miranda. Her voice acting sounds like they just go some random person off the street to read lines. And her writing is pretty awful too. My only guess about her design is that they wanted a reporter love interest and decided to make her different from the other reporters. 'We already have a confident and good report and we have a tabloid journalist. I know what we need! A complete airhead that sounds like she's has a giant wad of gum in her mouth at all times. Brilliant!'
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Nitramster posted:Oh idk, aside from wrex and kaiden in the first game, noone else died (minor NPC's and the drat council not included, bwahahah). I'm actually having trouble thinking of a quest you couldn't resolve by killing everyone in ME1.
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Brackhar posted:Depends. The game scales appropriately to your level, so it's not a problem from a balance perspective. Me I prefer starting at level 1 so I have a slower reveal of the base game mechanics and also scratch the RPG itch a bit more for building my character up. Fair enough. Somebody mentioned that the infiltrator slow-zoom doesn't work anymore, right? I've barely played, but started up sentinel and the number of different abilities was kind of annoying. Versatility is nice and all, and I don't mind having more buttons to press but they seem kind of redundant. What other classes are people having the most fun with? I see a lot of endorsement for vanguard. Is it more interesting than just charge->nova all day?
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PureRok posted:Which ones specifically? I destroyed the Geth heretics, and Legion made it seem the Geth were willing to give up, but the Quarians kind of forced my hand. I was worried if I let Legion keep uploading the Reaper stuff that they would end up wiping out the Quarians. Could you tell me how achieve peace? AFAIK Do Tali's loyalty mission and don't get her exiled. Legion's loyalty mission. Don't lose their loyalty. Rescue admiral whatshisname in ME3. Do most/all geth missions in ME3.
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Dreylad posted:To clear up some endgame questions: Just to clarify further: The event is saving Anderson's life during the final debate with the Illusive Man.
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Lawlicaust posted:Everything about Allers is bad. Her model is so poorly made that its worse than ME2 Miranda. Her voice acting sounds like they just go some random person off the street to read lines. And her writing is pretty awful too. Seriously. my only complaint so far, having loads of fun traipsing all over the galaxy and I love every single member on board the Normandy....except for her. Regretting bringing her on board.  She can rot wherever she is and never talk to anyone, as much as I care.
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