rock2much posted:

I don't need to have one of each gun type on me then this time around huh? I'm guessing a shotty, a rifle and a heavy pistol?

r1ngwthszzors posted:

What do you guys do to those shield guardians? I've actually been getting my rear end kicked as Vanguard. Feels like I'm playing ME2 again on hardcore (normal was faceroll easy so I stepped up.)

Also, spacebar is so annoying.

Oxxidation posted:

So how do you find places like the Attican Traverse or the Shrike Abyssal? Are there star maps I have to purchase, or what?

fookolt posted:

What should I be focusing on in terms of points for Vanguard? I always used to just play soldier in ME1 and ME2

Also, I'm guessing there's no way to skip through the beginning?

fivegears4reverse posted:

Inconsistent dialogue in Mass Effect has been a franchise staple since the first game, but nobody bitched about it back then. If anything, people praised ME1 for having great dialogue...despite the fact that it actually didn't have any really good dialogue at all. Ever. At any point.

1stGear posted:

This ends up better than it sounds. The fundamental idea wasn't bad, its just that, in classic Bioware fashion, they had to sex it all up.

The part where you'll want to uninstall is when (ending spoilers)a hologram of a kid you saw die in the first half-hour walks up to you. Just stop there and pretend something else happened.

chumpchous posted:

Hey so do the Nemesis assume your character class/sex? I'm playing a female infiltrator and they're female infiltrators, just curious.

JaundiceDave posted:

so, this is the biggest renegade thing you can do on tuchanka http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-1FAxiUAoo

who would do this, honestly. i mean come on

User0015 posted:

I was curious about a class discussion thread as well. I think I'm going to do a renegade run using downloaded saves + Gibbed's editor to set everything up and port it to my Xbox. The question is, what class should I pick? My current run is pure adept with max Pull/Throw/Warp, Pull/Throw x2 and tons of cooldown reduction.

Combat consists of throwing out two Pulls every single second and then Throwing at anything that isn't shielded/armored. Warp for shielded enemies. Grenades for armored enemies/loving Turrets. But I'm tired of spamming Y until half the battlefield is hovering around my head, then a Throw that causes Biotic Explosions that send guys everywhere. I need combat a little more...visceral? A little more death-defying? More awesome?

It's just not enough. I need more. I want to punch an Atlas to death, goddamnit! I want to walk up to(or arrive at) a loving Turret and just punch the engineer cowering behind it in the face, then break his little toys. I want to Not Give A gently caress, ever, in any circumstance against any enemy.

Noxville posted:

My alternate ending: Corporal Jenkins awakes with a start and realizes he just dreamed the entire series while awaiting the start of their mission to Eden Prime.

Noni posted:

In my version of that DLC scene, Tali removes her mask and everyone in the room gags from 20 years of unwashed pleather hitting their noses.

Elysiume posted:

I actually like ME2's way a lot more. Far fewer weapons, but the differences are more than statistics.

Took me a while to stop randomly throwing grenades. All of my instincts say hit R after a firefight.

Grimwall posted:

Altering these are HUGE time savers.

You miss the soldier being a walking arsenal? Tweak those ini files.

You hate scanning for poo poo? Tweak those files so you can scan once and everything lights up.

You hate the multi or fetch quests? Just bump up those war assets trough simple hackery.

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/PC_Tweaks_(Mass_Effect_3)

Aristobulus posted:

Well, rather than "skip combat" there should just be a way to make it narrative like a movie and you just sit back and watch Shepard and his squad blow poo poo up and crack lines to eachother, while you eat popcorn.

I mean, there's some really good dialogue that happens in combat that you'd miss if there was a "skip combat" option, and you would miss out on some good visuals and such too, and not getting to see and explore places.

Think about Lair of the Shadow Broker for example, and all the dialogue and such you could miss out on if you could just skip the entirety of all the fights there.

Elysiume posted:

Priority: Tuchanka was incredibly. The fight between Kalros and the Reaper was amazing, and Mordin's death was really poignant.

Also, gently caress the dalatrass.

Toast Museum posted:

You seem to have misspelled Carnifex

Banjodark posted:

Edit - so there's a bug in this game if you saved Kaidan and not Ashley in ME1. Long story short, if Kaidan is alive and ashley is dead (or has a low friendship score with shepard), various conversations on the normany with javik, tali, gabby & ken and engineer daniels wont activate.

after trawling through the bioware social forums, I've found a fix for this on pc (and xbox) that requires gibbed's save editor.

What you want to do is load up your save (probably best to do this at the midpoint of the game when kaidan rejoins your crew

hit the "plot" tab and in the "int" section type 10314 and set that flag to 8.

or this:

conditional_863]
(((plot.ints[10314] + plot.ints[10330]) >= 8) || (plot.bools[19724] == false))

plot.bools[19724] must = false or you'll activate Ashley's 'true love' romance lock and you wont be able to romance anyone in me3 and it will break your current romances in game.

however simply setting 10314 to value 8 for me was more than enough to fix the bug and keep my romance with kaidan active.

hope this helps anyone else who wants to circumvent this problem.

Viperix posted:

Yeah, as a Vanguard I actually managed to be ahead of her at several points. While I can't remember which other games did this, ME3 is not the first offender. It's always amusing when through dumb chase mechanics you can get ahead of the person your chasing, yet it doesn't matter.

The Neal! posted:

Not sure its been covered in this thread. Just cracked into Mass Effect 3 after playing my way through 1 and 2 on xbox. Really happy so far, little hard to get used to the new look though.

I played the default fem shep look and the import did not give me a look that came anywhere close to what Shepard looks like. HATE the new look, the freckles and eye makeup just make her look stupid it's completely throwing me off and I can't get into the game as a result. Anyone know the face code that gives her a close look to the old one? Google hasn't helped at all.

magimix posted:

Having checked the Wiki, the Disciple sounds like an interesting weapon. Won't be getting my hands on it for a while though! Any thoughts on the M-11 Wraith? I've had good experiences with the other two Spectre Requisitions weapons in previous runs.

tiberion02 posted:

Does Leviathan come with new music as well? My favorite parts of LoTSB/Overlord/Arrival were the musical cues, and I wanna know if this holds up.

Craig Spradlin posted:

Hell, if you played with the Sole Survivor origin, Cerberus was responsible for the death of your whole squad, and it really stretched plausibility for me that Shepard's first course of action in 2 wasn't to airlock everyone loyal to Cerberus and straight-up steal the Normandy at the start of the game.

Burning Mustache posted:

Actually, Tali is pretty drat vocal about it throughout ME2, which was pretty cool I think (as the only other character-defining thing she has going in ME2 is the almost creepy obsession for Shepard, especially if you're playing ManShep). I mean, unlike Kaidan / Ash she does end up joining Shepard, but she remains pretty vocal about calling Cerberus out for what it is.

Garrus, on the other hand, gives no fucks, that is true.

E: I mean, Tali flat out refuses to join you in ME2 because of Shepard working for Cerberus alone, until you effectively save her rear end.

jackofarcades posted:

I would advise against playing Insanity with Vanguard on ME2.

Hemish posted:

I feel like maybe replaying this whole serie as a Renegade FemShep (I played each one once as MaleShep and Paragorn). I checked the OP but couldn't find anything about what I'm looking for.

For Mass Effect 1 on the PC, is there a list of tweaks I should do to help performances or take full advantage of my computer which is a lot more powerful than a Xbox 360? I played ME1 on the Xbox back in the day so I have no experience with it on the PC.

Luminous Obscurity posted:

Guess what?

Me neither.

lenoon posted:

Cheerfully corrected.

Dr. Abysmal posted:

Wrex's stim pack power had to be bugged in a similar way too, he would just spam it constantly as soon as he saw any enemies until he ran out of grenades (also rendering his other grenade power useless because he never has grenades). Like the AI couldn't detect that the buff was applied and it should stop activating the power so it just keeps trying. I always thought it was an odd power choice and a poor thematic fit for him anyway and he should have had an offensive biotic power like warp or throw instead.

Kurtofan posted:

Chexoid posted:

Bioware plz just make ME4 waking mars but in three d's thanks.