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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:Who are the returning permanent party members? Do they just leave the spaces empty or do they get similar people? Garrus, Tali, Liara, Kaiden/Ashley. That's it. If they didn't make it through ME 2 (or if you throw Kaiden/Ashley off the Normandy for being shitheads to you) there is no substitute for them. New party members are EDI, Vega, Javik (DLC). All other former party members have cameos as pure NPCs, but Anderson is the only non-permanent party member.
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Decius posted:
I'd love to know what happens if Mordin isn't alive in your game. I didn't import, so I enjoyed the wonders of not-Wrex. Does Mordin have a twin brother too? 
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:Who are the returning permanent party members? Do they just leave the spaces empty or do they get similar people? Garrus, Tali, EDI (yup, she gots herself a body that Joker won't stop staring at), Jarik (if you have the DLC), Ashley/Kaiden (depending on whomever you didn't sacrifice in ME1), Liara, James Couldn't tell you what happens if members died during the ME2 suicide mission - I always went for a perfect (no deaths) run. So far just saved the Geth and the Quarians - having a save all the way from ME1, getting Legion's and Tali's loyalty, rewriting the heretics, saving the admiral, having a crazy reputation/paragon at the time pretty much saved Tali from not dying. Awesome. Off to bed but tomorrow I'll go save some whiny Asari. They complained when I cured the genophage (RIP Mordin, I choked up when he sacrificed himself) but now they're desperate for my help. Go figure. drat, I messed up and let Ashley live. I shouldn't have - she's useless to me. 
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Anal Tributary posted:I'd love to know what happens if Mordin isn't alive in your game. I didn't import, so I enjoyed the wonders of not-Wrex. Does Mordin have a twin brother too? You meet his stunt double. Really, it is Mordin with a different name and less personality, like Weav instead of Wrex in ME 2. Same for some other characters too.
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Decius posted:
Oh so you can't kill off your entire party like I was wondering No way to kill off Liara, was there? So at a bare minimum any party will have Vega, EDI and LiaraAnal Tributary posted:Dead Mordin Question I asked in the last thread, and (Spoiler for Dead Mordin) yes he does.
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Anyone know what the point of all the non-fish misc items you can buy from merchants is? I just remembered buying books, flowers, candy, and something else early on the citadel and they never appeared in my cabin and weren't used as gifts or anything, so did I miss something?dethl posted:drat, I messed up and let Ashley live. I shouldn't have - she's useless to me. Useful in that you don't have to listen to Carth yet again. Decius posted:You meet his stunt double. Really, it is Mordin with a different name and less personality, like Weav instead of Wrex in ME 2. Same for some other characters too.  I wonder if they do the same thing with the rachni queen if you killed her, you know the very last of her kind that you could make extinct in part 1 of this series about meaningful choices. Is there just magically another one in ME3 with a slightly different skin color? doo doo thief fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Mar 7, 2012 |
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Mar 7, 2012 12:51
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dat fukkin dog!! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjlZ-Bp41Ww That's obviously a tribute to the Myth games and not half-assedness.
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Mar 7, 2012 12:51
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Don't think anyone asked yet, does anyone know the maximum number of skill points you can get? And is it feasible to get to level 60 with an imported level 30 character? Just trying to plan some Shepards out.
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Mar 7, 2012 13:08
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doo doo thief posted:I wonder if they do the same thing with the rachni queen if you killed her, you know the very last of her kind that you could make extinct in part 1 of this series about meaningful choices. Is there just magically another one in ME3 with a slightly different skin color? The Reapers have their own indocrinated rachni queen.
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Mar 7, 2012 13:12
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Got the CE sitting her on my desk, installed..but nope, can't play until I finish my adept insanity run. gently caress you collector ship. Is the art of Mass Effect any good as far as nerdy coffee table hardback eye candy books go?
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Mar 7, 2012 13:27
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Well, the N7 Crusader is my pick for favorite new gun. It's a shotgun that doubles as a sniper rifle, which means I can carry it around only and still be able to pick off pesky turrets with ease!  The Graal would've been great if I didn't have the collector's edition guns though. Also, in multiplayer, probably.
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Mar 7, 2012 13:34
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LazyDivey posted:drat this game. I teared up when Mordin died   The most tragic of moments.  Had to be me. Someone else would have gotten it wrong.
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Mar 7, 2012 13:52
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Decius posted:
Sure am glad I spent 95% of ME2 building my team!
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Dolphin Fetus posted:Got the CE sitting her on my desk, installed..but nope, can't play until I finish my adept insanity run. gently caress you collector ship. Yeah, I got my copy a couple of weeks back. The sections on ME1 and ME2 are pretty thorough (the ME3 section is full of spoilers.) Lots of concept art and alternate designs for squadmates, as well as some really pretty location art. My only complaint is that the spine seems fairly fragile-looks like it's not going to last/the pages are going to wind up coming out sooner rather than later. That might just be my copy though.
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Mar 7, 2012 13:58
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Ahahahaha Ashley is all hungover from some booze Vega gave her what a great exchange. Game of the Millenium! edit: And now Adams and Donelly are debating... something
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Mar 7, 2012 14:01
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Crappy Jack posted:The Reapers have their own indocrinated rachni queen. Which actually does make some sense: (Rachni Queen talk) The Reapers would have had to be using living Queens to indoctrinate the Rachni they used during the Rachni wars, it's obviously just one of those that survived. The Queen you get to rescue/kill in ME1 was found on a ship unhatched. So while we thought she was the last of her race, she obviously wasn't... Unless you saved her in ME1, in which case she was... BIOWARE!
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Mar 7, 2012 14:03
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Hallowed posted:Which actually does make some sense: The Reaper breeder says herself that she is not a queen and was made by the reapers, Shepard asks her how and she says they pieced her together from parts of dead rachni they collected or something. So no, she wasn't a survivor from the rachni wars.
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Mar 7, 2012 14:07
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I'm disappointed Harbinger doesn't show up at all. I'm happy about how I got to end Kai Leng's life. gently caress you, you xenophobic son of a bitch. Just beat it. Incredible game, I'm man enough to admit I teared up a little bit when talking to Garrus the one last time before the end of the game. It's been a long 6 year journey. Nelson Mandingo fucked around with this message at 14:13 on Mar 7, 2012 |
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Mar 7, 2012 14:08
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OK, I really want to avoid spoilers, but I've been beating my head against the wall for a while now. I suspect this is one of the most common questions in this thread, but it moves so fast and if I want to not accidentally spoil something... 1.) How the gently caress am I supposed to deal with turrets? I'm playing a Vanguard (imported from ME1-->2 with a shitload of points) on hardcore, and while I can absolutely destroy a pack of like 8-9 grunts simultaneously, I get absolutely murdered in like 2 seconds by a single turret. I know not to charge them, obviously. But with a shotgun, I don't have a weapon to hit them with, and neither Liara's Biotics or James' whatever-the-hell is any use against them. They're the only 2 characters I have. I guess I'm about to get a 3rd character whose identity I already knew as soon as I started downloading the DLC. Jerks. 2.) What the hell is with the lip sync in this game? It's really irritating, as is the awkward pauses between conversation lines. It was so much more smooth in ME1 and ME2. Plus Shep had an exorcist moment whilst talking to Liara on the ship, with her head pointing like 180 degrees away and no eyeballs present. Was creepy as gently caress. 3.) I'm also MAD ABOUT CHOICES since apparently it doesn't matter at all (ME1 stuff) Who you saved on Virmire/who you made councillor. I suspect the Virmire person spends the rest of the game in the hospital, and Udina ends on the council anyway. Basically I'm kind of disappointed with the game but want to see it through anyway. Turrets are keeping me from doing so.
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Mar 7, 2012 14:10
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What the hell, I didn't know that there's a sprint melee attack with an area of effect. I discovered this accidentally few minutes ago, and I've beed playing this game for 16 hours already.
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Mar 7, 2012 14:11
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So, unless I missed it, we cannnot install the PS3 version, right? I am hating these horrible horrible load times. Six hours played with two of those hours on loading screens.
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Mar 7, 2012 14:12
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quote:1.) How the gently caress am I supposed to deal with turrets? You have two options. #1. You can shoot them. #2. You can prevent engineers from placing them. To give a less smarmy answer: rapid fire gun removes their shields, powerful single shot guns like pistols or sniper rifles remove their armor.
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Nelson Mandingo posted:You have two options. So...carrying 1 weapon (a shotgun) is precisely the wrong thing against them. Great.
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Mar 7, 2012 14:12
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Oh well you -can- use one one weapon...but then you're going to run into situations where you find an enemy who counter your setup. Or they're Banshees.
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Mar 7, 2012 14:14
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FairGame posted:So...carrying 1 weapon (a shotgun) is precisely the wrong thing against them. Great. Not if you're heavily into using powers. And you have something that works against shields/armor.
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Mar 7, 2012 14:15
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Nelson Mandingo posted:You have two options. What I've found to work really well is have Garrus use his maxed overload, and then Liara uses maxed Warp on them. Doing that leaves only tiny bit of armor left even on insanity.
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Dr. Abysmal posted:The Reaper breeder says herself that she is not a queen and was made by the reapers, Shepard asks her how and she says they pieced her together from parts of dead rachni they collected or something. So no, she wasn't a survivor from the rachni wars. That's actually disgusting. Also you can tell I don't own the game yet. Nelson Mandingo posted:I'm disappointed Harbinger doesn't show up at all. WHAT!?
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FairGame posted:So...carrying 1 weapon (a shotgun) is precisely the wrong thing against them. Great. You can roll with EDI and make her blow up turrets for you.
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Hallowed posted:WHAT!? Yeah, Harbinger doesn't show up at all. He was the very first Reaper and he gets no screen time at all! It was disappointing, but the two main antagonists in ME3 are pretty good so it makes up for that.
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Nelson Mandingo posted:Yeah, Harbinger doesn't show up at all. He was the very first Reaper and he gets no screen time at all! It was disappointing, but the two main antagonists in ME3 are pretty good so it makes up for that. Okay, the mind boggles. The ME3 codex even establishes Harbinger as the leader of the Reapers and he's not in the game? Maybe we're all just racist and don't recognize him when he shows up and doesn't say anything?  edit: You know what? I am just going to not read this thread for a while. I need to be finding all this poo poo out for myself and I have to wait until Spring Break to really sit down with it.
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God, turrets are so much less annoying in single player. A shotgun blast and a charge just about does it by level 40 or so.
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Nelson Mandingo posted:Yeah, Harbinger doesn't show up at all. He was the very first Reaper and he gets no screen time at all! It was disappointing, but the two main antagonists in ME3 are pretty good so it makes up for that. Let me guess, this is going to be what the DLC is going to be about.
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Mar 7, 2012 14:23
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Reroll an engineer and put one point into sabotage. The turrets work for ME now! Atlases too.
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evilmiera posted:Let me guess, this is going to be what the DLC is going to be about. I sure hope so. No really, I would pay $15 for a "Kill Harbinger" DLC.
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Nelson Mandingo posted:I sure hope so. No really, I would pay $15 for a "Kill Harbinger" DLC. "This costs you, Shepard"
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Mar 7, 2012 14:38
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Just to confirm: priority missions are the ones that don't have a time limit to them?
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Mar 7, 2012 14:38
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Some of you guys need to learn how to use spoiler tags - don't leave a blocked out wall of text without at least saying what topic its about. In a seperate note, does anyone have insight into what/when quests fail due to timing out? I haven't been able to find a solid source for that online.
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As I'm not wanting to risk spoiling myself I haven't read any of this thread so sorry if this has been covered already. With the pre-handle out the way my question is: Is there a central place to read the all the ANN twitter and the Cerberus news stuff that isn't the mass effect wiki? I'm in the UK and can't play until Friday but I want to get myself in the mood.
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NihilCredo posted:The guy who does Questionable Content (please don't derail into whether it's a good webcomic) made this shirt: It's not a hoodie.
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Decius posted:
Wait so are you telling me I don't get a chance to get frisky with Miranda again in ME3? That makes me sad in the pants.
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