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[Mass Effect] Resurgence MP DLC on the 10th; 6 chars, 3 guns, 2 maps. MARK SPOILERS!
Starting up that failshep run as an Adept. Man, that makes me appreciate how much of a badass Shepard really is. Your MP characters really don't hold a candle.
Shepard on her worst day could kick the crap out of her squad on their best.
Her squad tends to consist of the best in the galaxy.
Shepard is the most terrifying person in the universe.
Therefore:
Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani is the bravest person alive.
I would pay $10 for a vanguard ending where the mcguffin simply fails and shepard, with a determined look on her face, charges the nearest reaper and blinks out into the distance, too far to see. Then it fades to credits and leaves it up to us to decide if she managed to defeat the reapers with charge nova spam.
This is actually in the game, but you have to promote 150 vanguards to get it. Good luck.
Late to the party but everyone who enjoyed the ending to the Hunger Games trilogy is no longer allowed to comment on the badness of ME3's ending. Seriously.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Late to the party but everyone who enjoyed the ending to the Hunger Games trilogy is no longer allowed to comment on the badness of ME3's ending. Seriously.
Ha, why exactly? Hunger Games is a trilogy that starts out bleak and gets bleaker as time goes on. While it's not world's finest literature, at least the author prepares you for how bad it gets by continually piling on. It's not like she used the second book to make the story light-hearted, fun, and heroic.
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Late to the party but everyone who enjoyed the ending to the Hunger Games trilogy is no longer allowed to comment on the badness of ME3's ending. Seriously.
I hated that book.
I felt like she didn't participate in any of the events that would have actually been interesting. Oh I was underground hopped up on drugs while all of these battles happened.
Late to the party but everyone who enjoyed the ending to the Hunger Games trilogy is no longer allowed to comment on the badness of ME3's ending. Seriously.
I thought the hunger games had a good ending really
Just because it was really bleak didn't make it bad
Late to the party but everyone who enjoyed the ending to the Hunger Games trilogy is no longer allowed to comment on the badness of ME3's ending. Seriously.
Ha, why exactly? Hunger Games is a trilogy that starts out bleak and gets bleaker as time goes on. While it's not world's finest literature, at least the author prepares you for how bad it gets by continually piling on. It's not like she used the second book to make the story light-hearted, fun, and heroic.
Like Nicopernicus says, a lot of the agency is removed from Katniss as the series goes on. By the end it seems like all she's good for is agonising over which boy to pick. Narratively the second book's games are far less interesting with too much buildup, and the third is largely forgettable other than the "twists".
Prim's death serves no purpose other than to push her into Peta's arms, and Katniss shooting whatsherface at the end with no repercussions is laughable. The epilogue is also largely pointless other than to act as shipper dynamite, not unlike the end to Harry Potter. I did like her retreating into obscurity and her mental recovery though.
I believe the protheans had comms that went over lightspeed. I believe Javik makes a comment on how primitive our comms systems are, so its entirely possible that all the systems were in contact with each other.
Also, is anyone surprised in all that time no one went battlestar galatica and just ran and hid? I thought in this game we might have found a small colony that consists of various members of races that have been reaped, who had the combined tech know how of all reaped races and thats where the anti-reaper weapon would come from.
Late to the party but everyone who enjoyed the ending to the Hunger Games trilogy is no longer allowed to comment on the badness of ME3's ending. Seriously.
Ha, why exactly? Hunger Games is a trilogy that starts out bleak and gets bleaker as time goes on. While it's not world's finest literature, at least the author prepares you for how bad it gets by continually piling on. It's not like she used the second book to make the story light-hearted, fun, and heroic.
Like Nicopernicus says, a lot of the agency is removed from Katniss as the series goes on. By the end it seems like all she's good for is agonising over which boy to pick. Narratively the second book's games are far less interesting with too much buildup, and the third is largely forgettable other than the "twists".
Prim's death serves no purpose other than to push her into Peta's arms, and Katniss shooting whatsherface at the end with no repercussions is laughable. The epilogue is also largely pointless other than to act as shipper dynamite, not unlike the end to Harry Potter. I did like her retreating into obscurity and her mental recovery though.
I actually thought that
Allowing Katniss to die would have been the happy ending of the series. I was surprised that the author took the darker choice of forcing her to live.
As a person who reads romantic books in which nothing happens except boy meets girl, and someone who enjoys books like that, let me tell you: There was absolutely nothing romantic about the ending of The Hunger Games. A choice made out of pragmatism is, by it's nature, not a romantic choice.
Maybe that's just me. *shrug*
Cambiata on
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
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chiasaur11Never doubt a raccoon.Do you think it's trademarked?Registered Userregular
I believe the protheans had comms that went over lightspeed. I believe Javik makes a comment on how primitive our comms systems are, so its entirely possible that all the systems were in contact with each other.
Also, is anyone surprised in all that time no one went battlestar galatica and just ran and hid? I thought in this game we might have found a small colony that consists of various members of races that have been reaped, who had the combined tech know how of all reaped races and thats where the anti-reaper weapon would come from.
I believe the protheans had comms that went over lightspeed. I believe Javik makes a comment on how primitive our comms systems are, so its entirely possible that all the systems were in contact with each other.
Also, is anyone surprised in all that time no one went battlestar galatica and just ran and hid? I thought in this game we might have found a small colony that consists of various members of races that have been reaped, who had the combined tech know how of all reaped races and thats where the anti-reaper weapon would come from.
Don't the current races have comms tech with that capability already? Quantum entanglement I think it is, Emily Wong used it in the twitter thing and I believe its how the illusive man contacted the Normandy in ME2.
Another one of the reasons I don't think the ending is all that bleak as everyone thinks it is
Late to the party but everyone who enjoyed the ending to the Hunger Games trilogy is no longer allowed to comment on the badness of ME3's ending. Seriously.
Ha, why exactly? Hunger Games is a trilogy that starts out bleak and gets bleaker as time goes on. While it's not world's finest literature, at least the author prepares you for how bad it gets by continually piling on. It's not like she used the second book to make the story light-hearted, fun, and heroic.
Like Nicopernicus says, a lot of the agency is removed from Katniss as the series goes on. By the end it seems like all she's good for is agonising over which boy to pick. Narratively the second book's games are far less interesting with too much buildup, and the third is largely forgettable other than the "twists".
Prim's death serves no purpose other than to push her into Peta's arms, and Katniss shooting whatsherface at the end with no repercussions is laughable. The epilogue is also largely pointless other than to act as shipper dynamite, not unlike the end to Harry Potter. I did like her retreating into obscurity and her mental recovery though.
I actually thought that
Allowing Katniss to die would have been the happy ending of the series. I was surprised that the author took the darker choice of forcing her to live.
As a person who reads romantic books in which nothing happens except boy meets girl, and someone who enjoys books like that, let me tell you: There was absolutely nothing romantic about the ending of The Hunger Games. A choice made out of pragmatism is, by it's nature, not a romantic choice.
Maybe that's just me. *shrug*
I didn't say it was romantic, I said it was to pre-emptively sink all other ships :P The tone of the ending is fine, what it tries to do is decent, the actual content is awful. Sound familiar?
Also
It does that hamfisted thing where it tries to show that here's the new boss, same as the old boss, especially with the vote to re-establish the games.
Late to the party but everyone who enjoyed the ending to the Hunger Games trilogy is no longer allowed to comment on the badness of ME3's ending. Seriously.
Ha, why exactly? Hunger Games is a trilogy that starts out bleak and gets bleaker as time goes on. While it's not world's finest literature, at least the author prepares you for how bad it gets by continually piling on. It's not like she used the second book to make the story light-hearted, fun, and heroic.
Like Nicopernicus says, a lot of the agency is removed from Katniss as the series goes on. By the end it seems like all she's good for is agonising over which boy to pick. Narratively the second book's games are far less interesting with too much buildup, and the third is largely forgettable other than the "twists".
Prim's death serves no purpose other than to push her into Peta's arms, and Katniss shooting whatsherface at the end with no repercussions is laughable. The epilogue is also largely pointless other than to act as shipper dynamite, not unlike the end to Harry Potter. I did like her retreating into obscurity and her mental recovery though.
I actually thought that
Allowing Katniss to die would have been the happy ending of the series. I was surprised that the author took the darker choice of forcing her to live.
As a person who reads romantic books in which nothing happens except boy meets girl, and someone who enjoys books like that, let me tell you: There was absolutely nothing romantic about the ending of The Hunger Games. A choice made out of pragmatism is, by it's nature, not a romantic choice.
Maybe that's just me. *shrug*
I didn't say it was romantic, I said it was to pre-emptively sink all other ships :P The tone of the ending is fine, what it tries to do is decent, the actual content is awful. Sound familiar?
Well, to me the biggest error of the ME3 was that it in no way fits in with the rest of the series. It's like the end of a different series.
Whereas the end of Mockingjay fits in with the series perfectly. Whether you like that ending is a different question, but it really can't compare to ME3 in terms of wrongness.
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Late to the party but everyone who enjoyed the ending to the Hunger Games trilogy is no longer allowed to comment on the badness of ME3's ending. Seriously.
Ha, why exactly? Hunger Games is a trilogy that starts out bleak and gets bleaker as time goes on. While it's not world's finest literature, at least the author prepares you for how bad it gets by continually piling on. It's not like she used the second book to make the story light-hearted, fun, and heroic.
Like Nicopernicus says, a lot of the agency is removed from Katniss as the series goes on. By the end it seems like all she's good for is agonising over which boy to pick. Narratively the second book's games are far less interesting with too much buildup, and the third is largely forgettable other than the "twists".
Prim's death serves no purpose other than to push her into Peta's arms, and Katniss shooting whatsherface at the end with no repercussions is laughable. The epilogue is also largely pointless other than to act as shipper dynamite, not unlike the end to Harry Potter. I did like her retreating into obscurity and her mental recovery though.
I actually thought that
Allowing Katniss to die would have been the happy ending of the series. I was surprised that the author took the darker choice of forcing her to live.
As a person who reads romantic books in which nothing happens except boy meets girl, and someone who enjoys books like that, let me tell you: There was absolutely nothing romantic about the ending of The Hunger Games. A choice made out of pragmatism is, by it's nature, not a romantic choice.
Maybe that's just me. *shrug*
I didn't say it was romantic, I said it was to pre-emptively sink all other ships :P The tone of the ending is fine, what it tries to do is decent, the actual content is awful. Sound familiar?
Well, to me the biggest error of the ME3 was that it in no way fits in with the rest of the series. It's like the end of a different series.
Whereas the end of Mockingjay fits in with the series perfectly. Whether you like that ending is a different question, but it really can't compare to ME3 in terms of wrongness.
That's fair enough. I just think both endings are poorly written, it's a major peeve of mine.
i would like to see our multiplayer assets kicking ASS in singleplayer
seriously, by this point any of our promoted characters are old hands at fighting reapers and cerberus
i want them giving me flanking support and punching through enemy ranks
and once i unlock krogan vanguard, i want a special scene where a group of five of them take down a destroyer-class reaper
mathematically
less than 100 of those promoted characters are enough to defeat the reapers without any fleets
67 Characters at 100% readiness 8->
so with story-required fleets, like 50 drunk MP guys could win the war
If you promote too many vanguards it should decrease the readiness rating to reflect all the other squads complaining about the constant kill stealing and having to go revive them when they charge a group of reapers on the other side of the galaxy
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Funny dialogue with Mordin
Mordin -Might go somewhere sunny. Sit on beach. Look at ocean. Collect Seashells.
Shepard - You'd go crazy within the hour
Mordin - Might run tests on seashells.
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Updated my internet so my streaming should be better quality with less dropped frames.
More ME3 for all!
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So, I'm booting up the MP for the first time and decide to use the leftover 240 Microsoft points I've had for like two years to buy a premium spectre pack.
I get a Krogan Sentinel and a Black Widow. Yay?
Anyway, just so it's out there my Gamertag is GUTENSON, I'm totally new to this though.
"Grip 'em up, grip 'em, grip 'em good, said the Gryphon... to the pig."
Starting up that failshep run as an Adept. Man, that makes me appreciate how much of a badass Shepard really is. Your MP characters really don't hold a candle.
Shepard on her worst day could kick the crap out of her squad on their best.
Her squad tends to consist of the best in the galaxy.
Shepard is the most terrifying person in the universe.
Therefore:
Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani is the bravest person alive.
In all my playthroughs of the Mass Effect series, I have only punched her once.
Civics is not a consumer product that you can ignore because you don’t like the options presented.
Been playing with human soldier on silver. Concussion spam is pretty strong. I experimented with the level 6 evolution that takes on weapon mod powers. Pretty weak. Even on bronze it does nothing really. The organic damage though it very nice. Worthless against Geth, but so awesome against Reapers and Cerberus.
I pretty much specced out of adrenaline rush, not really worth it.
Hey milk ducks, do you have a good vanguard build you could post? It's pretty much the only class I effectively suck with. I tried the charge-nova spam build with maxed fitness but that gets me killed pretty often. I'm considering a build that focuses on shotgunning and maybe even dropping nova.
Hey milk ducks, do you have a good vanguard build you could post? It's pretty much the only class I effectively suck with. I tried the charge-nova spam build with maxed fitness but that gets me killed pretty often. I'm considering a build that focuses on shotgunning and maybe even dropping nova.
I can't advise you on Gold (haven't played it much as a Vanguard, and dropping Nova might even be viable there) but on Bronze and Silver you really should use it since it's such a powerful tool.
You need to have low cooldowns though so you can Charge rapidly to refill your barrier. Definitely take both weight reduction perks and run with a light Shotgun. What I did was spam Recruit packs till I got the Katana X and I haven't even glanced at other Shotguns since. With such low cooldowns you really don't have to be afraid of using Nova while surrounded by Pyros, Primes and Hunters on all sides since your Charge cooldown will be pretty much nonexistant.
Hey milk ducks, do you have a good vanguard build you could post? It's pretty much the only class I effectively suck with. I tried the charge-nova spam build with maxed fitness but that gets me killed pretty often. I'm considering a build that focuses on shotgunning and maybe even dropping nova.
I can't advise you on Gold (haven't played it much as a Vanguard, and dropping Nova might even be viable there) but on Bronze and Silver you really should use it since it's such a powerful tool.
You need to have low cooldowns though so you can Charge rapidly to refill your barrier. Definitely take both weight reduction perks and run with a light Shotgun. What I did was spam Recruit packs till I got the Katana X and I haven't even glanced at other Shotguns since. With such low cooldowns you really don't have to be afraid of using Nova while surrounded by Pyros, Primes and Hunters on all sides since your Charge cooldown will be pretty much nonexistant.
Yeah, the problem is gold. On bronze and silver the spam method works really well unless I get insta-killed, but even then I wanna avoid it because it's no fun for me or other players.
Hey milk ducks, do you have a good vanguard build you could post? It's pretty much the only class I effectively suck with. I tried the charge-nova spam build with maxed fitness but that gets me killed pretty often. I'm considering a build that focuses on shotgunning and maybe even dropping nova.
I can't advise you on Gold (haven't played it much as a Vanguard, and dropping Nova might even be viable there) but on Bronze and Silver you really should use it since it's such a powerful tool.
You need to have low cooldowns though so you can Charge rapidly to refill your barrier. Definitely take both weight reduction perks and run with a light Shotgun. What I did was spam Recruit packs till I got the Katana X and I haven't even glanced at other Shotguns since. With such low cooldowns you really don't have to be afraid of using Nova while surrounded by Pyros, Primes and Hunters on all sides since your Charge cooldown will be pretty much nonexistant.
Yeah, the problem is gold. On bronze and silver the spam method works really well unless I get insta-killed, but even then I wanna avoid it because it's no fun for me or other players.
I don't know, being on top of the scoreboard is pretty fun to me :P
But yeah, on Gold I'd use it rather sporadically, maybe only to finish off a group of already weakened enemies. Might wanna look at the Drell or Asari Vanguard I guess.
Or just wait till tomorrow and roll with the Krogan Vanguard and win every match instantly.
Like most classes, you can be effective on gold as long as you aren't brainless about it. You just can't do what every vanguard does on bronze and charge immediately into the first thing you can lock onto. Charge still makes you pretty durable, and there's plenty of instances where enemies get closer than you'd maybe like.
On a related note, I was playing a gold game with a krogan sentinel who was really fun to run around supporting. He did really well with a saber/claymore combo running around meleeing.
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Shepard on her worst day could kick the crap out of her squad on their best.
Her squad tends to consist of the best in the galaxy.
Shepard is the most terrifying person in the universe.
Therefore:
Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani is the bravest person alive.
Why I fear the ocean.
WUB WUB WUB
I want to do a 3 game "canon" playthrough as Nathan Drake Shepard, Vanguard with a thing for treasure and one-liners.
This is actually in the game, but you have to promote 150 vanguards to get it. Good luck.
Ha, why exactly? Hunger Games is a trilogy that starts out bleak and gets bleaker as time goes on. While it's not world's finest literature, at least the author prepares you for how bad it gets by continually piling on. It's not like she used the second book to make the story light-hearted, fun, and heroic.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I hated that book.
Yes, because that model's face is ugly as fuuuuuuuuuck. Forget Space Hamster, Chobot is a Space Chipmunk.
I thought the hunger games had a good ending really
Just because it was really bleak didn't make it bad
seriously, by this point any of our promoted characters are old hands at fighting reapers and cerberus
i want them giving me flanking support and punching through enemy ranks
and once i unlock krogan vanguard, i want a special scene where a group of five of them take down a destroyer-class reaper
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Like Nicopernicus says, a lot of the agency is removed from Katniss as the series goes on. By the end it seems like all she's good for is agonising over which boy to pick. Narratively the second book's games are far less interesting with too much buildup, and the third is largely forgettable other than the "twists".
Also, is anyone surprised in all that time no one went battlestar galatica and just ran and hid? I thought in this game we might have found a small colony that consists of various members of races that have been reaped, who had the combined tech know how of all reaped races and thats where the anti-reaper weapon would come from.
Want to play co-op games? Feel free to hit me up!
I actually thought that
As a person who reads romantic books in which nothing happens except boy meets girl, and someone who enjoys books like that, let me tell you: There was absolutely nothing romantic about the ending of The Hunger Games. A choice made out of pragmatism is, by it's nature, not a romantic choice.
Maybe that's just me. *shrug*
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
People tried.
See: Javik and Ilos.
It didn't go well.
Why I fear the ocean.
Don't the current races have comms tech with that capability already? Quantum entanglement I think it is, Emily Wong used it in the twitter thing and I believe its how the illusive man contacted the Normandy in ME2.
I didn't say it was romantic, I said it was to pre-emptively sink all other ships :P The tone of the ending is fine, what it tries to do is decent, the actual content is awful. Sound familiar?
Also
mathematically
less than 100 of those promoted characters are enough to defeat the reapers without any fleets
67 Characters at 100% readiness 8->
Well, to me the biggest error of the ME3 was that it in no way fits in with the rest of the series. It's like the end of a different series.
Whereas the end of Mockingjay fits in with the series perfectly. Whether you like that ending is a different question, but it really can't compare to ME3 in terms of wrongness.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
That's fair enough. I just think both endings are poorly written, it's a major peeve of mine.
so with story-required fleets, like 50 drunk MP guys could win the war
If you promote too many vanguards it should decrease the readiness rating to reflect all the other squads complaining about the constant kill stealing and having to go revive them when they charge a group of reapers on the other side of the galaxy
Shepard - You'd go crazy within the hour
Mordin - Might run tests on seashells.
More ME3 for all!
Slice like a god damn hammer. LoL: Rafflesia / BNet: Talonflame#11979
I get a Krogan Sentinel and a Black Widow. Yay?
Anyway, just so it's out there my Gamertag is GUTENSON, I'm totally new to this though.
In all my playthroughs of the Mass Effect series, I have only punched her once.
I pretty much specced out of adrenaline rush, not really worth it.
Edit: Mom Effect is pretty awesome.
*On shootout in Fist's club*
Mom: I bet everyone started shooting because the bartender won’t serve anyone.
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I can't advise you on Gold (haven't played it much as a Vanguard, and dropping Nova might even be viable there) but on Bronze and Silver you really should use it since it's such a powerful tool.
You need to have low cooldowns though so you can Charge rapidly to refill your barrier. Definitely take both weight reduction perks and run with a light Shotgun. What I did was spam Recruit packs till I got the Katana X and I haven't even glanced at other Shotguns since. With such low cooldowns you really don't have to be afraid of using Nova while surrounded by Pyros, Primes and Hunters on all sides since your Charge cooldown will be pretty much nonexistant.
Yeah, the problem is gold. On bronze and silver the spam method works really well unless I get insta-killed, but even then I wanna avoid it because it's no fun for me or other players.
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I don't know, being on top of the scoreboard is pretty fun to me :P
But yeah, on Gold I'd use it rather sporadically, maybe only to finish off a group of already weakened enemies. Might wanna look at the Drell or Asari Vanguard I guess.
Or just wait till tomorrow and roll with the Krogan Vanguard and win every match instantly.
Alternatively just wait for Kroguard and slap shit around
On a related note, I was playing a gold game with a krogan sentinel who was really fun to run around supporting. He did really well with a saber/claymore combo running around meleeing.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
I love when DLC is announced close to its release