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[Mass Effect] “My God,” the asari Council member said feelingly.

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  • Renegade WolfRenegade Wolf Registered User regular
    Also I found a newer weapons list on bsn, seems mostly the same as the one Dragkonias posted ages back but still got quite a few I hadn't heard of before

    Assault rifles :

    M-8 Avenger
    M-76 Revenant
    M-96 Mattock
    Geth Pulse Rifle
    Collector Assault Rifle
    M-15 Vindicator

    Cobra - new
    M-37 Falcon - new
    M-99 Saber - new
    Phaeston - new
    N7 Valkyrie (DLC) - new
    Chakram Launcher (DLC) - new
    M55 Argus (DLC) - new

    13\13


    Pistols:

    M-3 Predator
    M-5 Phalanx
    M-6 Carnifex

    Ivory - new
    Scorpion Defensive Ordnance Pistol - new
    M-358 Talon - new
    Thor - new
    Arc Pistol - new
    N7 Eagle (DLC) - new

    9\9



    Shotguns:

    M-23 Katana
    M-22 Eviscerator
    M-27 Scimitar
    M-300 Claymore
    Geth Plasma Shotgun

    The Disciple - new
    Graal Spike Thrower - new
    Striker - new
    N7 Crusader (DLC) - new
    AT12 Raider (DLC) - new

    10\10


    Submachine guns:

    M-4 Shuriken
    M-9 Tempest
    M-12 Locust

    M-237S Hornet - new
    N7 Hurricane (DLC) - new

    5\5



    Sniper rifles :

    M-92 Mantis
    M-97 Viper
    M-98 Widow
    M-29 Incisor

    M-112 Raptor - new
    M-90 Indra - new
    Javelin - new
    Black Widow - new
    N7 Valiant (DLC) - new

    9\9


    Heavy weapons :

    M-622 Avalanche
    M-920 Cain
    M-451 Firestorm
    M-100 Grenade Launcher
    ML-77 Missile Launcher
    M-490 Blackstorm
    Arc Projector
    Collector Particle Beam
    Geth Spitfire - new
    M-51 Havoc - new

    10\?

  • SynthesisSynthesis Honda Today! Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    Booker wrote:
    Hell, a soldier's pistol-only run could end up with combat sequences that are undertaken completelly in slow-motion.

    Time to make Tequila Shepard

    "I told you not to go alone!"

    "I didn't, Hackett...I brought my two friends."

    Synthesis on
  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    Elendil wrote:
    I wonder how practical a shotgun only vanguard will be

    get that charge cooldown alllll the way down

    Depends on how many balconies ME3 has.

    Dragkonias on
  • Renegade WolfRenegade Wolf Registered User regular
    Elendil wrote:
    I wonder how practical a shotgun only vanguard will be

    get that charge cooldown alllll the way down

    I wonder if you can take more than one of each type of weapon

    so I can run around with a shotgun for every possible situation

  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    Synthesis wrote:
    Booker wrote:
    Hell, a soldier's pistol-only run could end up with combat sequences that are undertaken completelly in slow-motion.

    Time to make Tequila Shepard

    "I told you not to go alone!"

    "I didn't, Hackett...I brought my two friends."

    Or maybe a Max Payne Shepard. I've always felt that the battle against the Reapers needed more metaphors...

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    That's pretty neat.

    I mean for a vanguard it basically means you get to rain hellfire and shotgun forever.

    I seem to recall soldiers have a passive that ignores weight

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    Arc Pistol? Found my Adept's new best friend.

    Ha.

    Haha.

    HAHAHAHAHAHA~!

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    I don't think they ignore weight. Moreso I think weight differs between classes.

  • Renegade WolfRenegade Wolf Registered User regular
    Combat Mastery <+25% influence / +x% weap. dmg. / 20pts weight capacity>
    Rank 2: Influence/Damage increased by x%
    Rank 3: Influence incr. by x% and Weight Capacity incr. by xpts
    Rank 4: [Damage increased by x%] -or- [Influence/Duration increased by x%]
    Rank 5: [Henchmen Damage incr. by x%] -or- [Headshot Damage incr. by x%]
    Rank 6: [Weight Capacity incr. by 50pts] -or- [Weapon Damage incr. by x%]

    Not quite ignore weight but can carry a lot more than other classes

  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    I was looking at that list and I have to say Engineer's abilities look cool. Drone + Turret, hell on the field.

    Also I noticed that for Vanguard...Nova has a tree skill that reduces the cooldown of all your abilities. And Vanguard's fitness class has a move that reduces your cooldown when you kill someone with heavy melee.

    Awesome.

    Dragkonias on
  • BerkshireBerkshire Earth Federal Forces MassachusettsRegistered User regular
    When I saw that FPJ video, I thought he was just being a typically out-of-touch celebrity when he used the term "henchmen" to refer to party members. However, I'm starting to see the term crop up elsewhere...are we really going that direction? Henchmen is one step above lackey, and lackey is only one step above flunkie. And no party member of mine should ever be on the same continuum as "flunkie." Especially not Garrus.

    Alright, that may have been a lot of grumbling over nothing. Uh...just to be safe...

    QUADS.

    "And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back."
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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    Berkshire wrote:
    When I saw that FPJ video, I thought he was just being a typically out-of-touch celebrity when he used the term "henchmen" to refer to party members. However, I'm starting to see the term crop up elsewhere...are we really going that direction? Henchmen is one step above lackey, and lackey is only one step above flunkie. And no party member of mine should ever be on the same continuum as "flunkie." Especially not Garrus.

    Alright, that may have been a lot of grumbling over nothing. Uh...just to be safe...

    QUADS.
    BW actually uses the term to describe every party character that isn't Shepard.

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    Umm...Bioware calls your squadmates henchmen in Mass Effect. They've done that for a while now.

    That's probably where he picked it up.

    Also...speculation based on the ability sheet I was looking at. I'll spoiler it since it shows unofficial stuff but its mostly just personal speculation.

    I noticed that Secret Squadmate #2 has "Biotic mastery" and "Slam" as personal skills.

    So...whose a squadmate in the past ME games that had Slam as an ability.

    Also...whose one we haven't heard any information about at all.

    Haha...if Bioware made that person a permanent squadmate that would be great.

    Dragkonias on
  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    everything posted on the previous page sounds awesome and great and yes

    -Tal on
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  • Renegade WolfRenegade Wolf Registered User regular
    The engineer sentry turret sounds pretty awesome

    hope it ends up doing a reasonable amount of damage

  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    "henchman" is the official, in-house term, and yes, it is fucking weird

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    guys I think I know how to maximize Charge cooldown
    M-358 Talon
    Shotgun-pistol hybrid with damage boost at close ranges.
    The Talon is a close-range pistol favored by Cerberus Guardians. Firing heavy-gauge shotgun pellets, it delivers massive trauma to unarmored targets. Its waste heat is punishing enough that it carries six separate ammunition blocks that rotate like a twentieth-century revolver to prevent any chance of shaver jam or misfire due to premature melting of the shot.

    -Tal on
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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    Wait...they put a magnum in the game.

    My god...there is no way I can't take that everywhere.

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    six separate ammo blocks carried like a revolver

    in space

    -Tal on
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  • Renegade WolfRenegade Wolf Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    Dragkonias wrote:
    Umm...Bioware calls your squadmates henchmen in Mass Effect. They've done that for a while now.

    That's probably where he picked it up.

    Also...speculation based on the ability sheet I was looking at. I'll spoiler it since it shows unofficial stuff but its mostly just personal speculation.

    I noticed that Secret Squadmate #2 has "Biotic mastery" and "Slam" as personal skills.

    So...whose a squadmate in the past ME games that had Slam as an ability.

    Also...whose one we haven't heard any information about at all.

    Haha...if Bioware made that person a permanent squadmate that would be great.
    Well I noticed Kaiden managed to pick up Reave so it might not mean that

    Miranda I can more see as a temporary squadmate during some of the cerberus missions.

    Personally I think it could be Jack

    Edit: Oh my

    That Magnum makes me so very happy

    Renegade Wolf on
  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    Oh man...I hope the heat sinks fall out when you reload.

    Dragkonias on
  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    i'm pretty sure it's not miranda because ms. "in theory any biotic can do it" has no right whatsoever to call herself a biotic master

  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    But...but man...that would be a troll of massive proportions.

    I hope I'm right.

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Man I hope you can have more than one bonus power, the new ones on top of the ME2 ones give ridiculous variety

    in multiplayer at least you could use all of them

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    I like how they invent SCIENCE reasons for it to be a fucking revolver

    also, are the skill trees for each class posted somewhere, or is it just a few screens? google is failing me

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    hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
    that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    also I hope miranda is back; her interaction with other squadmembers was the best

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    hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
    that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    I like how they invent SCIENCE reasons for it to be a fucking revolver

    also, are the skill trees for each class posted somewhere, or is it just a few screens? google is failing me

    http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/323/index/8213000/1

    Here you go. Know that most of this stuff isn't confirmed to be final and subject to change.

    Also, it is incomplete in a lot of spots.

    Dragkonias on
  • Renegade WolfRenegade Wolf Registered User regular
    I like how they invent SCIENCE reasons for it to be a fucking revolver

    also, are the skill trees for each class posted somewhere, or is it just a few screens? google is failing me

    http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/323/index/8213000/1

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    OH HEY GUESS WHAT ELSE I FOUND

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    -Tal on
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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    I mean, miranda having an argument with ashley?

    yesssss

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    hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
    that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    I mean, miranda having an argument with ashley?

    yesssss
    and tali

    and liara

    one per game

    (with one angry at being left out)

  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    I mean, miranda having an argument with ashley?

    yesssss
    Miranda having an argument with Kaidan, while not as sexy, would be infinitely more hilarious. Mostly because she'd browbeat the hell out of him and he'd probably just stand there and take it.

    Ashley v. Jack though, that's what I pay to see.

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    Sorce wrote:
    I mean, miranda having an argument with ashley?

    yesssss
    Miranda having an argument with Kaidan, while not as sexy, would be infinitely more hilarious. Mostly because she'd browbeat the hell out of him and he'd probably just stand there and take it.

    Ashley v. Jack though, that's what I pay to see.

    ashley and jack actually just bond over their love of terrible poetry

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    hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
    that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
  • LemmingLemming Registered User regular
    I'm still glad that I murdered Space Hitler.

  • Ad astraAd astra Registered User regular
    Shotgun revolver... I have tears in my eyes at the sheer beauty of such a thing.

  • SkyEyeSkyEye Registered User regular
    Since I can't check without spoilering something, do you un-opaque your helmet in cutscenes so you can see Shepard's face in ME3?

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  • Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Alexandria, VARegistered User regular
    Lemming wrote:
    I'm still glad that I murdered Space Hitler.

    I've never been able to kill her. Kaiden is just so much more annoying and boring. Then again, maybe it's just that I don't talk to him and get to know the character; that cured me of thinking that Ashley was stupidly xenophobic, after all.

  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    SkyEye wrote:
    Since I can't check without spoilering something, do you un-opaque your helmet in cutscenes so you can see Shepard's face in ME3?

    Yes.

  • GoodKingJayIIIGoodKingJayIII They wanna get my gold on the ceilingRegistered User regular
    Ad astra wrote:
    Shotgun revolver... I have tears in my eyes at the sheer beauty of such a thing.

    Finally I can play Mass Effect as Dirty Harry.

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