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SubponticatePoster posted:FemShep is a straight-up badass soldier and the only dumb holdover is that her armor has boobs. For what it's worth, the US Army recently introduced female-specific body armor. It doesn't quite have outright boobs, but it does have different proportions for women because the normal armor doesn't fit properly and is more of a hinderance than a help. The new female-proportioned armor feels lighter and is easier to move around in because it fits the body and distributes the weight better. It's a conceit, but I just imagine that future armor applies this principle to the point that the ceramic/whatever plating is tailored to the individual's body through future-science instead of being mass produced one-size-fits-all, so it's not so bad. Certainly not as bad as swaying butts in the sequels. RickVoid posted:As much fun as we make of "What does this Alien's sweat taste like", it's sort of a natural extension of the level of Sperg Bioware put into the game. Still awful, mind you. What does alien sweat taste like is tame, Fightclub Sandwich and I were playing MP where the other two were on mic talking about Krogan Vaginas for half the match. I don't think either of us said anything during the whole match. I know my mic was muted and I was laughing my rear end off. Did you know Krogan females have five of them? Judge Tesla posted:I'd dislike aliens too if I'd spent my life being poo poo on by humanity because my Grandfather surrendered to the Turians because he was massively overwhelmed by them, this is kind of why Ashley isn't fond of them, is it an excuse? Not really, but it is a main reason for it. She's also never spent any time around them before she arrives on the Citadel, and as you near Virmire, she starts to realize that maybe she was wrong all this time. Character Development! nine-gear crow posted:make them hospital buddies in 3 so they could trade stories about what an awful girlfriend I was to both of them.  Is this a thing that actually happens, or is it just what you imagined happened?
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Inferior posted:Star Trek and Star Wars have their sexy colorful lady aliens as slave girls. Mass Effect puts them in charge of the galaxy. Progress! It makes you wonder what they look like to the aliens, especially to the Elcor
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SubponticatePoster posted:Correct. Krogan had advanced enough to "split the atom" as it says in the Codex, but were still fighting with relatively primitive weapons. Think early 20th century level tech. Then the Rachni happened and the Salarians decided to drop in and say hello. The Nuclear War on Tuchanka was almost 2000 years before the Rachni, basically they were on track with scientific development until the war, then devolved into clans and post-apocalyptic society. But then the Rachni War was almost 2000 years before the Reapers. But then, you get into long-lived species problem again. Where the Asari become procrastinators, the Krogan hold grudges, and nothing gets done.
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Transmogrifier posted:Pretty sure in the mission in ME3 to rescue Eve, there's a log that talks about the Salarians planning to covertly uplift the Yahg actually. They were studying the idea, and they had a Yahg there, but they were considering the unintended consequences of uplifting the Krogan. I'm pretty sure they were against the idea, they were just watching them.
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Alexeythegreat posted:E2: wait there's a 5 minute gap between the posts how did I not see it what the hell New page that was created while you were reading the previous page. It's an interesting flashback in terms of world-building, but otherwise ultimately pointless. I wonder, does it get mentioned in From the Ashes?
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The Flashback is about Prothean Observers putting an implant into an early Human. I can't remember if it's referenced in a conversation between Shepard and Javik
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SubponticatePoster posted:Enemy is everywhere! Garrus has to be in every party. Also, you're not doing a lot of the side quests, but are you doing the character specific ones, Wrex's family armor, Garrus & Doctor Love, Tali and the Geth data? My Q-Face fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Dec 23, 2015 |
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Pittsburgh Lambic posted:Garrus could have become a legendary figure like Shepard, but it all came down to the hand that he was dealt. If not for being suddenly approached by a group of angry humans wanting everything Garrus had learned during his failed investigation of Saren, Garrus would have lived and died alone, forgotten as soon as the Keepers showed up to cart his body away to the reprocessing vats. But this isn't exactly true. You can ignore Garrus or decline to take him with you and he will still go to Omega to become Archangel, except instead of being old friends, you will vaguely recognize each other, like "Oh yeah, didn't I meet you in the council chambers that one time?'. And then become best friends by ME3 anyway. Doc Morbid posted:My favorite thing about Zaeed is how people put him in charge of the fire team or send him to escort the crew, and then it's a total surprise to them when everyone gets killed. It would be even better if everyone but Zaeed died in those situations, but oh well. Ahahahaha! I never realized this! That's hilarious.Aces High posted:I think the only thing that I hate about the first Mass Effect is that enemies have the same skills as you (kind of) which means that snipers have Assassination. That means they can kill you in one hit and it is loving annoying because snipers are everywhere I liked that enemies had tech abilities and could cast overload on you, which a lot of people took to be the game bugging out because they couldn't shoot any of their weapons and never put two and two together. It's the same thing with enemies having Warp and Fire effects in ME3MP. My Q-Face fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Jan 7, 2016 |
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Aces High posted:Don't get me wrong, the fact that biotics and tech skills could be used by the enemy added to the strategy aspect but making snipers able to one shot you in a game that had waaaaaaaay too few autosave flags and (depending on which system you're playing on) load times that are atrocious and you have one of many reasons why people don't like playing Mass Effect 1 as much as 2 and 3 The worst part of that was that snipers could kill the Mako.
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hard counter posted:in one shot? I think about five. On insanity It only takes one or two to take down your barriers completely. I forget, it's been a while, I just remember being very shocked when it happened, and then happened again.
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On the PS3 over the weekend, I caught SubPonticate online in Mass Effect and wondered if the user is online pop-up would show up in the LP edit?
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If you've been wanting to get the ME Trilogy, or wanting to get it on PS3, it's on sale right now for $12.00 ($9.00 for PS-Plus members). Holy
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I didn't have arrival for my first full playthrough, so there was that reference at the beginning of three to "someone" killing off millions of Batarians by hurling an asteroid into a relay for reasons. Then on my replay, after doing arrival I was a little disturbed to find out that "someone" was me.
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There were a few holes filled in, but I felt like I was hearing the same thing from the cuttlefish aliens that I was hearing from the Catalyst.
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zxqv8 posted:I gotta say that ME3's Rachni treatment is a sore point in the series. Here's the thing: even if you wiped them out on Peak 15, there are others who were shipped to Cerberus facilities in the Traverse. In ME1 they appear in two side missions on other planets.
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zxqv8 posted:Hmm. It has been a while since I've played through the whole of the series, so maybe I'm misremembering how the whole story went, but I thought we could eliminate the last Rachni queen? Cloning is a thing that happens in ME. Yes, you can kill the "last" Rachni queen. As in she's the last of the old. Except she's also the first of the new.
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monster on a stick posted:Mockery: "Oh Shepard, I do not trust you. I cannot trust you or anyone ever again!" Now reread it as an Elcor.
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There's that. It's something to do with fighting off indoctrination, sure, maybe as foreshadowing for a later encounter? But what I want to know is what happened to that guy in the tunnels who was fighting it?
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Feb 24, 2016 20:16
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Ah, I must have missed him then. Can you talk to him afterwards?
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Flowers for a Duece Ex Mashinima!Poil posted:Geth do not infiltrate. My Geth Hunter would like some words with you.
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"Hey Commander, have you embraced eternity lately?"
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Pittsburgh Lambic posted:That could eventually have given the Thorian an entire new perspective on its place in the universe, especially as it started using asari clones to tend to its needs instead of colonist thralls and the mostly-useless creepers. If I'm not mistaken, there was a planned alternate ending with the Thorian like there was for the Rachni queen, but it was cut for time. And also possibly because it offered a "cure" for indoctrination and they didn't want to deal with that.
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SubponticatePoster posted:Well, curing Thorian influence doesn't necessarily translate into fixing what the Reapers do. I don't think they use spores No, but the spores may counter the effects. Shiala spent a lot of time on Sovereign and got indoctrinated, but is fine after her encounter with the thorian.
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I'd read somewhere that the conversations with Garrus and the end of his mission affect how he acts in the next game, like you can either convince him that paragon is good, or that renegade is good through your conversation, then in 2 something-something, but I never figured out what difference it made. Like, is it supposed to affect his loyalty mission, how he deals with Harkin, how he responds if you keep him from killing the traitor? I dunno.
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SubponticatePoster posted:His stuff in 2 makes me think no, but she's probably really glad he's out There was that one line, "she even paid for his ticket off world" or something that makes the bartender facepalm that suggests she is real. Or was at least.
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I just write that off as one more thing from 3 that doesn't match up with the rest of the series.
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Torrannor posted:"This video is not available in Germany, since it contains music from UMG, etc." Der Typ, der bei der GEMA die Titel eintippt, ist ein ganz blöder Penner http://youtu.be/jiOTKjXZaYI
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Regalingualius posted:On the other hand, pretending he has a wife is totally pathetic enough for Conrad. Yeah, but then who paid for his trip? Why would he make up a story about his wife being "excited" for him?
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DeusExMachinima posted:It always bothered me that Wrex wasn't immediately tackled by everybody for randomly plinking away... at a base that they were trying to keep secret. Not like the sound of gunshots travel or anything. Not like you didn't just roar up that canyon with both the Normandy and the Mako, blasting every Geth and checkpoint along the way just before that.
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monster on a stick posted:Hackett and Anderson Well if you're including non-playables, then Conrad.
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hard counter posted:Jason universally forgotten 
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Shaka. Liara when the Shepard fell!
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My first playthrough was also as a sole survivor. I was under the impression that Cerberus' goals in 1 had to do with them trying to create a super soldier or a super weapon, which is why they set up the Akuze ambush and why they were experimenting on Toombs, and why they took such an interest in Shepard, and I suspected Miranda of setting up the station attack as a test of whether Shepard was ready or not. Then it turned out I put more thought into it than the developers did.
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JT Jag posted:I mean, Tali is basically undertaking her Quarian Bar Mitzvah right now isn't she No, the Quarians are Mormon analogues (by virtue of being the direct analogue of the colonists and the cylons from Battlestar Galactica.), which means she's in her missionary phase: 18-24. Considering that she didn't just start her pilgrimage, probably not just now 18.
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