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So I magically inherited a copy of this. How exactly do I get all the doodads and whatnots they've added to the game since launch? I remember reading they're separate from the patch updates, or is that only on consoles?
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Oct 16, 2012 21:35
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So do I pick them up through the horrible social.bioware website or the horrible origin program though? edit: oh you're fast
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Oct 16, 2012 21:39
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So is the strategy of "pick up cheapo army surplus packs until all your poo poo weapons are taken out of the rotation then get the expensive ones" still the way things work?
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Oct 16, 2012 23:04
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So what's the trick to getting the quickplay button to work when you have a level 1 rank 1 character? Prayer to Satan? edit: Oh Origin doesn't download updates automatically. Isn't that precious.
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Oct 17, 2012 06:08
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Psion posted:Start and host a bronze game by yourself; it'll populate with people who don't know you're level 1. By the time you finish, you won't be. I think the problem was that I was playing with an old version of Mass Effect 3.
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Oct 17, 2012 06:13
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Hi it's me again. Since I basically got the game for free I decided to drop $10 on premium spectre packs because that's what I planned to spend on it eventually. In my first one I got a paladin pistol. Thanks everyone this has been a wonderful time.
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Oct 17, 2012 09:11
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Holy poo poo BreakAtmo I am so sorry for you having to put up with my drunk rear end. edit: Just to prove my ranting about the lag wasn't pure bravado at one point Palmitos here turned into a red spark of pure energy 
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Oct 17, 2012 10:18
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Holy poo poo the slayer is loving fun when you're actually coherent enough to pay attention to what's going on 
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Oct 17, 2012 23:16
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Gazaar posted:I still get knocked out at the drop of a hat because some rocket trooper or something spawned behind me and had me in his sights for a milisecond. From what I heard charge is a lot more specific about what it needs to work right but it also doesn't gently caress up spectacularly and turn you into floating space jesus as often. Protip: His dodge goes through walls and up and down ladders! It's insane.
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Oct 17, 2012 23:36
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I basically use promoting as a method of rotating my classes. Once I hit 20 with my adepts, I promoted and moved over to my vanguards which had stacked up a bunch of levels from cards. Now that I've promoted my vanguards, I'm switching over to engineers for a while. Keeps things a little fresher.
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Oct 18, 2012 20:13
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I have efficient blast and it's fantastic because it leaves you with some shields left over after you throw your two during your charge's cooldown instead of leaving you naked. Spamming explosions like there's no tomorrow.
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Oct 19, 2012 04:30
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Run bronzes and drop all your money on the lovely recruit packs until you get a Katana X. It's not fantastic but it's just good enough to hold you in higher difficulties even with a low level character. Getting the crummy guns to X also takes them out of the rotation of showing up so the premium packs you buy later will have a a ever so slightly higher chance for better stuff.
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Oct 19, 2012 20:27
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What exactly is the yellow ranking number that shows up in the lobbies anyway? I know N7 is levels of characters + promotions, and the blue thing is number of promotions on that class.
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Oct 19, 2012 21:05
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So if my manifest looks like this should I be buying veteran packs to rounds out my low end stuff or just saving for premium packs? http://social.bioware.com/n7hq/?name=Cowcaster&platform=pc
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Oct 22, 2012 05:22
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Speaking of subpar powers I'm really impressed with what they did with singularity. With all the damage over time upgrades and the appropriate class force/damage skills the thing will simply kill enemies before you can even follow up with something to detonate them.
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Oct 22, 2012 15:22
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Elotana posted:Generally speaking you can never go wrong equipping the Hurricane on a caster class or the Harrier on a weapons class. The hurricane is heavier than my paladin with ultra-light materials for caster classes so that would be one of the exceptions I guess. On the other hand the hurricane does more damage than any of my assault rifles on a weapons class
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Oct 22, 2012 22:11
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I know they overhauled singularity, what'd they do to shockwave? That was one of the only powers I can think of that was lower on the totem pole than the original singularity. The other being concussive shot.
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Oct 23, 2012 00:20
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Zoran posted:They dramatically buffed its damage and range and made its combos slightly more powerful. Man and I thought the human adept with the new singularity alone was decent. I'm going to have to have to promote him and give that a shot.
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Oct 23, 2012 00:52
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So I gave the singularity/shockwave adept a run last night and was duly impressed. Think I'm going to have to go 6/6/6/5/3 with it from now on.
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Oct 23, 2012 14:38
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So this is the build I've been using for maximum face melting as the Slayer, does anyone have alternative advice? Biotic slash doesn't get much love with it, but being as 98% of my time is spent between charging and phase disrupting I don't really miss it. The 6th point in the melee synergy skill seems highly situational, but it seems a lot more useful to jack my phase disruptor damage even more through the roof in the instance that I finish off a straggler with the heavy melee than either of the rank 6 alliance training skills which both affect weapon usage. http://narida.pytalhost.com/me3/classes/#55RMDIQO0%400YC%40%40Z0J3%400%400
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Oct 24, 2012 04:38
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Cowcaster posted:So this is the build I've been using for maximum face melting as the Slayer, does anyone have alternative advice? Hey, it's me. I didn't get a reply. Was thinking about maybe taking the points out of biotic slash altogether and capping off alliance training that way? Then I could kind of get away with putting a heavy barrel on my paladin. Maybe? Love, Cowcaster
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Oct 24, 2012 18:42
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Well guys I managed to run into the vanguard charge bug except even worse than it used to be. I was able to fire my gun and throw powers, except I was completely unable to move or aim. On top of that I didn't even have the safety of floating away into the sky, instead being a paralytic moron flinging phase disruptors at my feet. So working as intended I guess.
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Oct 24, 2012 19:13
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Pumpking posted:I have slash at 3 for hacks and the like, when I need to hang back and can spam it through walls. Though I also normally run with an SMG so weight isnt a problem. If you aren't using biotic slash at all then spec out of it and take the passive weight decrease. Less weight means faster cooldowns means more charging, after all. This is good information! I took the shield recharge in the fitness tree because taking the melee alternative just seems to encourage suicidal heavy melee attacks to get a bonus that only benefits additional suicidal heavy melee attacks. Swapping the phase disruptor rank 6 sounds like a good idea, I'll definitely do that next time around.
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Oct 24, 2012 19:40
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Does the pull 'cheevo count enemies killed by biotic detonations primed by pull, or literally only kills that have "Cowcaster [Pull] Thingummy"?
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Oct 24, 2012 20:32
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Psion posted:I read your thoughts but I don't see where you said it was a sentinel. I did read your post one whole page ago. Now if it had been two pages... He said it had tech armor clearly it was a sentinel 
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Oct 24, 2012 21:00
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I've left the game running at least once when I've gone in to work for a short bit.
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Oct 24, 2012 21:57
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I wish this game had a text chat so I could let my teammates know when an urgent phone call has happened so I'm just rolling around uselessly on Gold trying to not die.
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Oct 24, 2012 22:20
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Thought we were tearing up a gold round like it wasn't no thang and it turned out it was on silver 
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Oct 24, 2012 22:57
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Cowcaster posted:Thought we were tearing up a gold round like it wasn't no thang and it turned out it was on silver Tearing up an actual gold round like it wasn't no thang and then I get my very first crash to desktop I've ever had in Mass Effect 3
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Oct 24, 2012 23:45
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:That's a very good point. I did get a little side-tracked on my post. What I meant to say was, it doesn't seem possible to build a "tanky" character in Gold or Platinum. The damage is just too high. All of the characters that can stick it out and fight have gimmicks to avoid getting hit or regenerate their shields quickly. None of them can afford to stand there and take it. I guess in a roundabout way I was agreeing with precision. Tanking seems like a trap choice. Avoid getting hit, deal out the damage, the best defense is a good offense, etc. Sorry that I meandered. I agree with this post. It's actually really strange going from Mass Effect 2's/Mass Effect 3's single player, which have some of the most rigidly enforced cover-shooting gameplay, to the multiplayer where cover is not only unnecessary most of the time, but outright suicidal in most cases. It's easy to see why though. In the solo games, a player more or less is in a corridor moving forward. Enemies spawn in front of them, and to proceed they move through them to the next round of enemies. This means cover is useful to both sides because it can clearly be put in front of the other parties' bullets. In a wave-based multiplayer map though, enemies spawn anywhere and everywhere. There's no linear progression. This means that no matter where you find cover, you are exposed to gunfire regardless. Without cover acting as cover, the only thing you gain from using it is a minor aiming bonus to your weapons at the price of absorbing every bullet sent your way from enemies that show up behind you. Making the tank classes tankier won't really fix that key problem unfortunately.
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Oct 25, 2012 00:18
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Donald Kimball posted:Just had a weird glitch, maybe. Was playing some Platinum Rio as a Volus Adept, and occasionally my Stasis would one-shot enemies. Not just Swarmers or Turrets, but Phantoms, Marauders, and Hunters. What were you fighting that you had to deal with cerberus phantoms, reaper marauders, and geth hunters all at once? 
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Oct 25, 2012 01:52
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Donald Kimball posted:Platinum difficulty spawns enemies from several factions! I did not know this considering it's pretty hard to even clear golds with my current stockpile of weapons. I learned something!
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Oct 25, 2012 02:01
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Speaking of which is there any trick to getting grab kills besides "oh poo poo there's an enemy behind the exact right amount of cover gogogo" because that only gets me one once in a blue moon. It seems as though cover is as useless to enemies as it is to players these days.
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Oct 25, 2012 02:18
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Speaking of possessed abominations, they don't go off if you pop their head, right? Or was I just imagining that?
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Oct 25, 2012 20:20
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Can someone elaborate for me how tech/flame bursts work now? They seem to happen a lot.
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Oct 25, 2012 22:31
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So I got this collector sniper rifle. It seems like poo poo, but it also seems like it does insane damage on a headshot? It's like Schroedinger's gun over here.
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Oct 26, 2012 00:47
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As long as you're really, really careful not to overheat it and you really, really keep the beam focused on the enemy's head it seems pretty insane. Those are two big corollaries though. edit: And with the proceeds gotten from the rounds I was trying it out I got a spectre pack, and unlocked a collector assault rifle
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Oct 26, 2012 01:44
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Does anyone else see the phoenix characters as having big goofy whale-baleen smiles on their helmets or is that just me.
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Oct 26, 2012 22:41
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Vsuck my dick.
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Oct 26, 2012 23:45
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They really gotta stop using the same names for weapons as they do for classes. First the paladin and now the valkyrie.
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