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[Mass Effect]: Victory & Commendation Packs out! Mark ALL spoilers or BANSHEES!!
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The computer hack at the bottom of the stairs is a bitch, though, and one of you is going to go down. Whenever that comes up I pretty much accept that I'm not going to be in there at all: my whole job becomes "piss off the Banshees and Brutes enough to make them chase me"
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You're thinking of Firebase White, the Noveria map. Glacier looks like this:
my unofficial autobio will be accompanied with tips on how to smile
cause I've found that when they don't see you frown, they never know that you're a threat
and they don't sweat you when you came around
that is a hard map for reapers
but its pretty enjoyable in a super hectic sort of way though
when I did it on silver for the challenge on that map it kept giving us hold the point objectives which are usually pretty hard against reapers anyway
this quote tree has ending spoilers
it's gonna be tough for a while, but not an insurmountable obstacle
I haven't played with any of the PA folks but as a rule I use voice where possible. It's necessary for good coordination on anything above Bronze.
Bronze is boring now. Dammit!
Xbox Live: GZOTP | Origin: Khuutra
Single Player
Yeah I charge and punch more than I shoot stuff. I use an upgraded phalanx at range. I mostly use the shotgun to pop the noggins of my secondary targets. The disciple is the spectre shotgun yes?
I haven't been using a mic. Granted I don't have a full-on headset. If I did, I might consider it. As is , if I used one you would get feedback from me playing the game. Which would just be annoying.
The Disciple is an asari shotgun.
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disciple is the asari one, spectre shotgun is the wraith and has two shots in a clip
I used the graal for most of my insanity run after I got it, only carried it and still had a172% cooldown which is fine and since I had a ton of cooldown orientated armor pieces i could still charge forever
it does good damage and with maxed out inferno ammo as well as armour piecing as my bonus skill it could take on pretty much any enemy type easily
and it shoots spikes which is pretty awesome
i played with the upgraded Vindicator rifle in the singleplayer. Its light enough to let you maintain 200% recharge bonus. Between Charge and Nova, I never had the time to shoot at close range, let alone any inclination to do so. The Vindicator helped fill the vanguard's long-range deficiencies.
What the Hell is "long-range"!
Xbox Live: GZOTP | Origin: Khuutra
fighting enemies across a gap that you can't charge.
happens from time to time.
Katana X does damn near as much damage as Widow 1, but gives 191% recharge speed. Phalanx give 200% speed and has great range and decent damage. I think there are better pistols.
Let's Play Mass Effect - Set 6 Updated 9/8/2012
yeah, I don't have a mic that works with the 360. I guess I could plug some earbuds in or just run voice through the speakers, though
my unofficial autobio will be accompanied with tips on how to smile
cause I've found that when they don't see you frown, they never know that you're a threat
and they don't sweat you when you came around
Probably going to go shotgun only to finish out this playthrough and respec less PUNCH MANS and go the barrier route. I'm only playing in Normal atm so it's not like I'm ever in any real danger anyway. Until I get the Disciple I'm probably going to run with either the Eviscerator (gotta respect the classics) or the Scimitar. In a build like that do I still want to keep max inferno ammo or at that range would cryo ammo actually be not shit since I'm going to be in everyone's grill all the time anyway?
There's nothing to say it won't repeat itself, just like there's no way to say, hey Germany won't try to take over Europe again sometime down the road. But you don't base the annihilation of organic life across an entire galaxy on what might be. The starchild might have concluded it was the only way to go but that doesn't mean that it is some all knowing omnipotent being, it isn't god, it is just a super evolved AI that came to a calculated conclusion.
The geth may very well rebel again down the road, or some other created synthetic life may, but you don't stop evolution, you don't stop progress and life purely to prevent that from occurring.
Yeah I don't agree with his point there either, except that:
That had a huge emotional impact on me - it made me feel bad as a human being (as it should mind you). But it did so because it was my choice. It wasn't Bioware forcing me into a rubbish "Choose from these same three shitty options all with the same dumb result anyway", it was my decision to shoot him in the back and so it had full impact. I didn't *have* to, but I couldn't let him cure the genophage with how screwed up the Krogan were (Wreave is an idiot). Because the consequence of that decision was the result of my decisions it had impact. Destroying the relays has nothing to do with me and happens regardless of what I do: So potentially one of the greatest changes that could have a massive impact on the setting has no impact or meaning.
Why should I care? My choices didn't do this at all. I am literally getting three different options of "Shoot Mordin" and that's it. Where is the investment that I am supposed to have in this? Where is the genuine decision? There is none, just take whatever crappy color I want and watch the same boring cutscene (just colored differently) then get on with things. There is nothing to mull over about if I did something that was right or not, because nothing in the past of the game matters a damn on what I did now. While with Mordin, with Wrex and Eve alive, you can have a considerably different moral debate about curing the genophage: A moral debate that is lost if the game didn't take into account your past actions (but again, it totally does and that's what makes it awesome).
Really that is in the end why I hate the ending. It doesn't take into account your past actions and is just a waste of a brilliant opportunity. I can only imagine how my renegade shepard would even *live* with herself (or feel as she was dying) knowing what she had done to the galaxy after purging the reapers by destroying the relays with them. That would have a huge impact on me as a player, because it's a shitty resolution but if it was that way because of my past actions I would just have to deal with it. I would also absolutely love the ending for having the balls and courage to do that, because space asshole Shepard would totally be dealing with the consequences to his actions. That's all I wanted from the ending and it's what the ending failed to deliver with its "Choose ABC, btw they all suck and are utterly illogical!".
Though I concede I hate the space magic synthesis ending the most.
I'd take Inferno Ammo and Cryo Ammo together, and take the Squad Ammo evolution for Cryo, because it's still great and will save your butt a few times (on Insanity; on Normal you'll just turn people in snowcones).
When you unlock Warp Ammo, though, you might as well drop Inferno Ammo in favor of that. Warp Ammo is better in every way that matters.
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I imported my save from ME2, have done about every side mission possible and I've just about maxed out my Paragon rating. I'm floating somewhere around 7k points but with only a 50% Readiness Rating. How much multiplayer will I have to play to get that up above 5000 points so I can get the "good ending?"
I think
It would not take very long to get that to 60%-70% or so to have more than enough EMS.
Personally I've heard the most interesting ending in ME3 ironically has hardly any EMS, but it isn't like I have any motivation to play the SP again any time soon (if ever).
It's the same result as destroy imo. Sythesis doesn't create peace forever just like destroy and control does not create universal peace forever. Sooner or later there will be more war and destruction.
Starkid is a lier. Or stupid. Or both.
Let's Play Mass Effect - Set 6 Updated 9/8/2012
would you advise I drop lift for that? So far I've been taking a fast recharge lift and bringing the brothean along to give it a 1 second cooldown to set up my own biotic explosions, using charge as the trigger.
I just bought 3 cards worth of Spectre packs. (I am weak.)
Only missing the Asari Vanguard, Turian Soldier, and Quarian Engineer classes, Got the Geth Rifle, Geth Shotgun, Carnifex, and Arc Pistol to rank IV, and the Widow to III, and unlocked all the rare weapons but the Falcon and Graal.
plus I have like 70 each of medpacks, rockets, etc.
Now to really get to business on some multiplayer.
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Yes, it almost certainly is.
:rotate:
I never expected them to actually change the ending
but it doesn't rule out any dlc that could expand on it
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