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grack posted:Brings me to my first real complaint about this game: Why in the gently caress do like half of your squadmates not wear armour? Jacob is supposed to be a career soldier and a combat veteran and he more or less runs around in a space onesie with shoulder pads. Miranda's outfit looks like it was spray painted on. Because Mass Effect shields are so much better at ablation than armor. Guys who wear heavy armor are either not good enough with tech or biotics to manage them on their own. Garrus is the only real aberration.
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grack posted:Everyone wore armour in ME1 Only soldiers and krogan got heavy armor. Everyone else got medium armor at best (which was maybe a slightly more armored breastplate and some shoulderpads). But the tech/biotic only classes were basically wearing pajamas.  That's ME1's light armor  That's medium, and that's roughly equivalent to what Jacob's wearing when you find him, sans helmet. Kurieg fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Apr 21, 2016 |
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SubponticatePoster posted:He got titty plating too! Yeah, he's got shoulder and literal breast plate, that's as much as medium armor gets. He's probably wearing some kind of bullshit ballistic fiber mesh clothing because Cerberus, but his loyalty armor has more obvious plating. Other than GGZ everyone else is basically a specialist. Garrus is an outlier but he probably needs it to shield his brittle bird bones.
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Jaeger Abomination? Maybe use some kind of nucleation reaction to make it foam up like crazy if you don't drink it in time 
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Apr 27, 2016 16:09
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It also gives you the Locust, which is hands down the best SMG in ME2 unless you need the Typhoon(Tempest? the one with the huge magazine on the barrel) for something specific.
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May 1, 2016 20:41
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Well, there's also the greater implication of chosing Morinth's side in 2 and 3.
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The tempest is good if you're playing a vanguard with the explosive fire ammo. Charge and unload the entire clip into their face during the time dilation.
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SubponticatePoster posted:"implications...unpleasant" Salarian Scientists are the best Manic_Misanthrope posted:The Cain is great in another loyalty mission. Get enough range and it's "gently caress this encounter" The Cain can one-cycle the final boss, if you've go enough ammo upgrades that you can carry 200% Cain ammo, it lets you rapid fire two shots after the first one is charged.
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The issue is that the 360 was knecapped by the DVD disc size and they wanted to have as few disc switches as possible so there are the act 1 recruits and act 2 recruits.monster on a stick posted:It's Shaun, like the kid from Heavy Rain. They do both have excellent fathers  .
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How is he tactical cloaking as a volus vanguard?
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Poil posted:You can always get Garrus before Mordin, and bring him along into the plague zone. The plague which affects turians. He bitches about it when you go in, and starts coughing, but Mordin gives him a stage one cure when you meet him in the Clinic.
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And Garrus' is about avenging his squad, which is the closest thing he has to family until he reconnects with his father in 3
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EponymousMrYar posted:Even if it's Kaidan who set Saren up the bomb in ME 1, Ashley is no less insufferable here. It's kind of nice how they are different in their insufferableness though (the mechanic is right both ways.) They're both pretty insufferable, particularly if you've romanced them. Both here and in ME3. "How dare you die and get resurrected by a shadowy extraterritorial agency that you've obviously broken ties with!? I thought you loved me!"
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grack posted:Not only is Joe boring and generic, his weapon loadout and his powers are also terrible. The perfect character (to leave on the Normandy)! Well, part of that is that the AI characters aren't programmed to use shotguns properly. The other part of it is that basically EVERY biotic character save Miranda has Pull in the game where they introduced alternate health bars that protect against pull.
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I like Miranda too because her plot arc has a few of the better missions in it. Jacob's ME3 mission is notable only for all the ways you can Get Archer to kill himself in grief. Though that's more an Overlord thing than a Jacob thing
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They'll also only use single shots or bursts regardless of what weapon you give them. Meaning your AI partners are usually better off using sniper rifles with long reload times.
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IIRC those things are magnetic attachment points for weapons/backpacks/chairs.
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Haestrom is a part of the abandoned Dark Matter plotline, the idea being that the star burned out faster because Dark Matter etc. etc. The TNG Plot was actually referenced. In later episodes they need authorization from starfleet to go to higher speeds than warp 5, and the reason why Voyager has the weird bendy nacelles is to change the shape of the warp field so it will still engulf the ship, but any ripples beyond that would be broken up by the competing patterns. Why are we spoilering 90s era star trek again? Kurieg fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Aug 5, 2016 |
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The Asari bartender is Liara's Father, you find this out in ME3.
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berenzen posted:Yeah, calling bullshit. If it was glitches, they'd be the UV maps of Garrus and thus horribly unrecognizable. It's identical to the icon on the bottom that shows he's in your party minus the alpha blending.
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The motif in the song comes up a lot in Mass effect 3 but I believe the specific track is "Leaving Earth".
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Regalingualius posted:Eh, it was pretty much "Gurren Lagann, but with Reapers instead of the Anti-Spirals". Even Gurren Lagann ended with the main characters screaming at the Anti-Spirals "You know if you had actually told us what was going on rather than treating us like meddling insects perhaps we would have helped rather than almost blowing up the universe in our desperate fearful scrabbling to survive."
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Sindai posted:I forgot how bizarrely blatant the EVIL AURA was in ME2 if you went renegade. it's like Bioware got drunk and thought they were making KOTOR again. You can really mess with the evil aura with the save editor in ME3 but there are limits to how much the glow will show up. That said you can make your glowing scars chartreuse if you really wanted to. It has basically zero sanity checking.
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SgtSteel91 posted:Take the original squad: Garrus and Tali This, they want to go see their old friend kick some biotic rear end. And yeah, I prefer doing Overlord after the paragon ending, lends some finality and justification to the whole thing.
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Psion posted:Garrus. Always. In everything. Obviously! This person speaks the truth.
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Yeah I have it on PC and have been spending some idle time just buying packs with the totally legit 9 billion space bucks that i totally earned through dedication to the game. Getting all the black guns will happen eventually. We could probably run some PC groups in addition to the PS3 ones. Kurieg fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Dec 22, 2016 |
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Aces High posted:surely if you gave yourself that many credits you have maxed the amount of level 1, 2 and possibly 3 for the bonuses. However I agree the ultra-rare guns are a pain in the rear end to unlock Even if they're maxed you keep getting consumables. Only your credits are stored locally. It is a pretty liberating feeling, however, being able to use rank 4 consumables with utter abandon.
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The PS3 version of Trilogy comes with all the ME1 and 2 DLC except for Pinnacle Station (you won't miss it ) and Arrival. But that's it.
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Supposedly they lost the source files that would have allowed them to port it to PS3 since the PS3 version of Mass Effect was made after ME2.
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Grissom is hard for every class. particularly the huge atrium fight.
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The worst part of the atrium is mostly the way that it's designed allows the AI to flank you very, very easily from the rafters that you can't get to, and your partners don't do a very good job of defending your flanks. But turning to engage the other side just means that the guys in front of you are now ventilating your rear end in a top hat. The second half is a lot easier because they can't flank you from the lake. The only thing that keeps it from being pretty much impossible is the fact that Cerberus doesn't have access to Nemeses and Phantoms yet. Kurieg fucked around with this message at 07:27 on Jan 11, 2017 |
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I used to go "Charge. Aim Tempest at groin of target, hold down right trigger letting the ammo hits explode." cause when you're unloading a 50 round clip at point blank range who cares about spread and recoil?
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SubponticatePoster posted:It's true. Everyone makes jokes about how Shepard is a huge horndog but he/she gets laid exactly 3 times over about a 4 year span. Not exactly prolific. Well, you can squeeze in two more times in there if you want. Or you can die after one with Morinth. 
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J.theYellow posted:It takes a lot to get that mass erect. "As you can see here if we apply a positive electric charge it increases the mass of the object!" "Mordin. Stop. Please."
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Chambord and Sake is called Purple Haze, so I think we're doing Samara's loyalty mission next.
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zxqv8 posted:Ohhhhh. Hah, nerd. Neither am I, I just googled the ingredients.
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Not really, Morinth gives you dominate, Samara gives you reave.
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Aces High posted:I actually managed to fail "agreeing" with Morinth and I can't remember how it happened, I think I just didn't want to answer with the right info, like giving the name of the Elcor artist or that one band because I thought that was stupid. Yes Morinth I tooooootally am an individual person and that's why I love exactly all of the things you like. Instead if you tell her you love being in control or whatever she just thinks you're an arrogant prick or some poo poo. If you pick one of the "GIVE INTO MORINTH" options at her apartment, or don't have enough Paragon/Renegade to pick the red/blue options you fall unconcious and come to as Samara's killing Morinth and you won't have an option to pick a side.
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Aces High posted:too bad the writers forgot this in ME3 Remember the time Kai Leng broke into Anderson's apartment and ate his cereal while waxing poetic about how this meant that he was better than Anderson in every possible way?
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Kai Leng is basically TIM's second run at making Shepard but he doesn't have Miranda to help this time. So while he does put in the mind control chip, he also picks the edgiest edgelord that ever edged and made him into a badass cyborg ninja with built in mirror shades. Kai Leng was a stupid character before they turned him into a 5th grader's Metal Gear Rising OC, they just somehow managed to make him even worse both in game and in the book so bad it's basically been retconed out of existence.
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