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Rotten Red Rod posted:So, is it just me, or are the squadmates a LOT less aggressive this time around? Even when I order them close to the enemy, it's like pulling teeth to try and get them to fire their gun. I watched James sitting in cover right next to a guy and wouldn't even fire on him when I ordered him to, and they hang back a LOT more than they need to. Yeah, I'm seeing this too. It bugs me given how great the enemy AI is.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:So, is it just me, or are the squadmates a LOT less aggressive this time around? Even when I order them close to the enemy, it's like pulling teeth to try and get them to fire their gun. I watched James sitting in cover right next to a guy and wouldn't even fire on him when I ordered him to, and they hang back a LOT more than they need to. It seems that way. Then again, this isn't a Bad Thing, considering in my ME2 replay last week it seems that all my squadmates (especially Mordin) seemed to enjoy traipsing across the battlefield completely exposed, usually dying in a fire. Between "turtle" and "lemming" I'll gladly take the option that keeps their powers available without draining my medigel every mission. Also: 138% recharge and upgraded throw is just hilarious against husks.
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Annakie posted:Words Maybe someone at Bioware will see this and reward you for your efforts. HINT HINT Or pick up the bill for you, since they do use it afterall.
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Mar 7, 2012 21:21
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OldTennisCourt posted:I'm really really loving this game more and more and I'm barely even started I think. I was surprised, he said it so matter of factly. He has a cool storyline.
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Mar 7, 2012 21:22
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Yeah, maybe a hoodie with an autographed litho or something. That site has saved me so much grief.
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Mar 7, 2012 21:22
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I was never asked what type of game I wanted (action/narrative etc.) and I just got to the Citadel. Did I skip that by changing the difficulty before I started or something? I'm enjoying the game so far despite being so unimpressed by the demo that I almost didn't buy the game at all. Choosing to be an adept instead of a boring old soldier helps a lot. Especially with mega level up points from the ME2 save. Just wish I hadn't saved Kaiden in that save.  Ashley is much easier on the eyes.
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Mar 7, 2012 21:27
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I already have a N7 hoodie (one of the originals) but I wouldn't say no to a Kaidan Alenko litho autographed by Raphael Sbarge.  I'd settle for Garrus / Brandon Keener.
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Mar 7, 2012 21:28
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Am I at a big storyline disadvantage by starting a new save? I don't have any of my ME1 or 2 saves and am already about 6 hours in on a fresh one. Is it worth it to generate a save with the editor and import it?
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Mar 7, 2012 21:29
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Is there a way to enable cutscene skipping or fullscreen windowed mode yet? I'm really not that interested in watching the tedious loving intro and the same cutscenes for the fourth time when trying out another class. It won't even let me tab out without pausing the oh so important cutscene.
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whaam posted:Am I at a big storyline disadvantage by starting a new save? I don't have any of my ME1 or 2 saves and am already about 6 hours in on a fresh one. Is it worth it to generate a save with the editor and import it? Almost everyone is dead and replaced with a stuntman with half the dialogue. You get half as many emails, too. Considering ME3 is a game that carries itself only by building on the previous plot and characters, yes, you want to import good choices. ED: BTW, I also think this is a fault of the game, in that many times being an rear end in a top hat results on you missing out on extra content. That's not proper balance. Technically you can be renegade all you want in ME3 since there'll be no continuation, and are thus free to get everyone killed, but choices are very limited compared to the previous two titles and the game seemingly forces you to be paragon most of the time. Nephilm fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Mar 7, 2012 |
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whaam posted:Am I at a big storyline disadvantage by starting a new save? I don't have any of my ME1 or 2 saves and am already about 6 hours in on a fresh one. Is it worth it to generate a save with the editor and import it? masseffect2saves.com
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OAquinas posted:It seems that way. Then again, this isn't a Bad Thing, considering in my ME2 replay last week it seems that all my squadmates (especially Mordin) seemed to enjoy traipsing across the battlefield completely exposed, usually dying in a fire.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:So, is it just me, or are the squadmates a LOT less aggressive this time around? Even when I order them close to the enemy, it's like pulling teeth to try and get them to fire their gun. I watched James sitting in cover right next to a guy and wouldn't even fire on him when I ordered him to, and they hang back a LOT more than they need to. This. I just finished my insanity run as an infiltrator and the only thing I ever used my squadmates for was lifting husks and occasionally eating a shield or some armor. Garrus with a sniper is hilariously useless this time around, he fires a shot maybe twice a minute, thank god I can take most things down with my viper in two headshots.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I've been playing on ME2 insanity and I just remedy with by telling them where to go. But they're always good about doing damage and putting lead downrange. Now, in M3, they won't even do that. They just cower behind cover, and if they do fire, it's at a REALLY slow rate - they pop up, fire a shot, get into cover again. It's maddening. Just pick a damage class and kill everything. Just as ME2 was easier than ME1, ME3 is easier than both.
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I'm sorry if this has been mentioned before, but is there some sort of bug that resets your money, or does it cost money to die or something? Because i just lost like everything i had except for 10%. I mean if its going to be like that then i have to replay a few hours to make sure i don't die to bullshit anymore. Also like spend everything in advance.
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Nephilm posted:Just pick a damage class and kill everything. Just as ME2 was easier than ME1, ME3 is easier than both.
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Doniazade posted:Is there a way to enable cutscene skipping or fullscreen windowed mode yet? I'm really not that interested in watching the tedious loving intro and the same cutscenes for the fourth time when trying out another class. It won't even let me tab out without pausing the oh so important cutscene. Go to graphics settings and set it to Windowed (no border)?
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I just found some Geth, they can be very annoying. edit: just found a useful one. 
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Nephilm posted:Just pick a damage class and kill everything. Just as ME2 was easier than ME1, ME3 is easier than both. This is true. I'm actually a bit surprised at how well I'm cruising through this, considering I'm doing my first play with a completely unhinged Vanguard ABC'ing my way through Hardcore. My next run will be on insanity, but for the first one I more or less wanted to cruise, I guess. Didn't expect it would be this easy though.
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leidend posted:I was never asked what type of game I wanted (action/narrative etc.) and I just got to the Citadel. Did I skip that by changing the difficulty before I started or something? Pretty sure if you import a character from 2 it just assumes you want classic mode instead of action or story mode.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:So, is it just me, or are the squadmates a LOT less aggressive this time around? Even when I order them close to the enemy, it's like pulling teeth to try and get them to fire their gun. I watched James sitting in cover right next to a guy and wouldn't even fire on him when I ordered him to, and they hang back a LOT more than they need to. Also Liara does not hesitate to unload her SMG at the first sign of an enemy and won't stop until they're dead.
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JaundiceDave posted:where the gently caress is the hades nexus. i swear it is not on the galaxy map. same thing for the silean nebula. can someone answer this
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Lotish posted:How badly does Fortification slow down your biotic charge? The slowdown is a but confusing. I don't know whether it's supposed to slowdown cast time or cooldowns. If its cast time, the it straight up doesn't affect charge and nova. If it is cooldown and if you have very little weight and other power reducing effects, it doesn't slow it down at all. My charge still comes up about 1 second after nova. I'm actually using three weapons as well and still have extremely quick cooldowns (because the weapons are all weightless thanks to my powers and mods). Fortification is just so good. Virtually no cooldown for 25% damage reduction (30% if you don't want the melee damage bonus) and 20% damage and force. Then you can expend it for 100% melee damage bonus. Combined with other +melee from powers, bonuses, and weapons, this makes you melee for incredible amounts. With this setup, I don't have to be that cautious on insanity like I was in 2. Other than a handful of situations, I've been able to just charge around and explode people with melee.
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I haven't actually played ME3 yet, but judging by the discussion in this thread (major Rannoch spoiler) the ME series hasn't really cast the Quarians in the most sympathetic light. It works better for me from a dramatic standpoint to force the choice of genociding the Quarians vs genociding the Geth and... you know what, gently caress the Quarians. The Geth weren't the ones who couldn't let sleeping dogs lie. Do the Quarians ever actually do anything to particularly redeem themselves or is it just "gently caress peaceful coexistence, kill every last Geth and take back our homeworld"? Yeah it kinda sucks that Tali's entire world crumbles around her (literally) and causes her to kill herself, but hey, that's war for you. Doing what makes your squeeze happy at the potential cost of billions of lives is a great way to get your entire side killed.
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Ash1138 posted:I'm not seeing that at all on the PC. I was fighting brutes on Palavan's moon and my squad had no problems getting stuck in while I ran around looking for upgrades. I'd fire off incinerate & Vega's carnage for sweet explosions, but otherwise there was a lot of time where they were far away and fighting.
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What is going on with this bullshit. What origin fuckery must I carry out to import an old me2 save, exactly?
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Well, MightyApe just charged my card and the game's shipping today at NZ retailers. I better get my Collector's Edition tomorrow, spending the weekend without the game would be loving unbearable. 
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So I got a side mission to hit up a planet in the Krogan DMZ, but I can't find the system on the star map Does it unlock later or something?
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Stuck on top of a building on Eden Prime because the ladder is bugged out. Literally can't progress aurgheghhug Bioware
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Is ME3 filled with decisions where you don't realize they're going to have momentous impact on the story, or get main characters killed, etc.? I've read something about timers for missions but are they really timers, or just missions that might get locked off if you progress the main story past a certain point?
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Rotten Red Rod posted:See, I'm seeing a lot of opposing stories. It's confusing. Next time I play I'm going to hang back and watch how the squadmates handle themselves - maybe it's something in the way I play. Is squad AI depend on what class you are? I play infiltratior, and my squad (vega, liara) is always up in everyone's business.
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Mr Dog posted:I haven't actually played ME3 yet, but judging by the discussion in this thread (major Rannoch spoiler) the ME series hasn't really cast the Quarians in the most sympathetic light. It works better for me from a dramatic standpoint to force the choice of genociding the Quarians vs genociding the Geth and... you know what, gently caress the Quarians. The Geth weren't the ones who couldn't let sleeping dogs lie. Do the Quarians ever actually do anything to particularly redeem themselves or is it just "gently caress peaceful coexistence, kill every last Geth and take back our homeworld"? Yeah it kinda sucks that Tali's entire world crumbles around her (literally) and causes her to kill herself, but hey, that's war for you. Doing what makes your squeeze happy at the potential cost of billions of lives is a great way to get your entire side killed. Actually it really hammers home that the quarians did some really awful and lovely things to the geth and their own people during the Morning War. Taking everything into account it's pretty hard to even side with the Quarians at all especially since they blew up their Dyson Sphere and killed an absolute shitload of Geth in an unprovoked attack. It also sheds a little more insight on Legions origins It's highly likely one of his platforms was the very first Geth to take up arms against the Quarians. He still utilizes the same sniper rifle and gets weird when you ask him about it just like the N7 armor tl;dr gently caress the quarians and the horse they rode on.
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nuncle jimbo posted:What is going on with this bullshit. What origin fuckery must I carry out to import an old me2 save, exactly? Shouldn't have to do any. Sure the save is in the right place?
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Got home from work and found my copy arrived in the post today in the UK despite the game not being out until Friday. Yay. I cannot for the life of me find the activation code that Origin is asking for. I don't have a collectors edition or anything fancy, my e-mail account has nothing, theres no instruction manual or anything in the dvd case besides the 2 installation disks. Could someone who has a physical copy of the plain standard edition say where their code is located? This is driving me insane.
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leidend posted:I was never asked what type of game I wanted (action/narrative etc.) and I just got to the Citadel. Did I skip that by changing the difficulty before I started or something? If you import, it defaults to RPG mode, I believe. efb. by losonti tokash
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I'm breaking my Soldier streak to try Vanguard, since apparently goons love it. Here's to hoping I have no regrets.
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Kavak posted:I have the feeling the very, very end was the absolute last thing done in the game, or it was changed around at the last minute. IIRC In the script leak, Control didn't destroy the relays or kill Shepard, nor did Merge (Which didn't fuse everybody, just Shepherd with Yeah I agree. The encounter with TIM was pretty well fleshed out, but the ending is just thrown at you. And it's kinda obvious they stitched some stuff together. Like why is the Normandy running away from the shockwave when it's in the middle of battle over Earth? I'm the last person to give a poo poo about little continuity errors but that seems pretty brazen. Now that I look back at the possible endings, I guess I got the "best" endings, with the synthesis and destroying the Reapers with Shepard surviving. Bolow posted:Actually it really hammers home that the quarians did some really awful and lovely things to the geth and their own people during the Morning War. The geth history and resulting negotiations can be the most  things ever. The whole sequence is really well done. The game is kinda patchy, I guess. There are some fantastic bits and then there are some bits that needed some more content/context/fixing. I wonder why they removed so many dialogue options at the beginning (I thought it was just poor sound editing with the 2 second delay between dialogue lines until someone pointed out that's what it was.)
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rock2much posted:I'm breaking my Soldier streak to try Vanguard, since apparently goons love it. Here's to hoping I have no regrets. Oh God you're going to have so much fun. Be sure to spec points into Charge and Nova, maybe one point into Pull to handle Guardians. Travel light, charge is your most important weapon and it has to refresh as fast as possible.
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rock2much posted:I'm breaking my Soldier streak to try Vanguard, since apparently goons love it. Here's to hoping I have no regrets. There are none when you are a Vanguard. 
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