Does the codex mention any major incident prior to the Morning War that caused everyone to be so wary of AI? Or were people just extrapolate the possible outcomes and being extra cautious?
The reapers/starchild leave hints laying around the citadel that AIs have a tendency to go apeshit, thus fueling the synthetic/organic conflict they are there to manage.
The Geth are the first time AIs have had a chance to actually exist, and it proves them so hilariously wrong that the starkid tweaks the crucible to fry them too out of spite.
Citidale archive level also has a non-geth holo from previous AI race.
Honestly its not much of a leap from "why do I exist" to "why do you exist". Considering ~1/3 of an advanced poopulation is a waste of o2 Its probably best to nip it in the bud.
And yeah, the Citadel archive that shows the AI (inhabiting regular security mechs)
pleading with C-sec officers to be allowed the right to speak to the council, and then C-sec guns them down.
Not exactly a violent revolution.
On the other hand, there is a side quest in ME1 where you track some oddities happening at the casino and when you follow the breadcrumbs you find a rogue AI inhabiting a computer terminal, non-mobile. Since it has been discovered it decides to self-destruct taking all nearby organics with it, Shepard included. No amount of talking will convince it otherwise. It is a malevolent entity.
So one thing that I thought was strange was how javik comments how he (the protheans) should've taught the hanar to speak better. Is this why everyone speaks english?
Also putting the vision cones would've made so much sense instead of energy drain-headshot everyone as a biotic god
Yeah, I really wish when I started that run that I had opted for Energy Drain on the vanguard. And, yes, it went much better when I ran it with my infiltrator, even though I remember spamming ED way more than cloak during the initial fights.
Seriously, zero medigel? I couldn't wait 10 more minutes for Liara to come bring me some, rather than fighting my way to a car dealership?
Did you guys see the Bioware Blog post by Chris Priestly?'
A little snippet.
I also love Mass Effect. I love Wrex, Jack, the Illusive Man, Noveria, the Normandy, suicide missions, Kepler’s Syndrome, and omni-blades.
So now I guess he'll be blamed by all those dA artists for Thane's ME3 situation.
Nothing about Thane in ME3 bothered me.
He was terminally ill in ME2, and he explained that he did not really have much time left regardless.
As far as him not being able to take out Bro Leng, well, Shepard couldn't do it either due to invincible plot armor and enforced cutscene stupidity/inability to aim.
And Thane's death scene was handled extremely well. For those who romanced Thane in ME2 and were disappointed, well, don't romance terminally ill people. I mean, come on you were essentially doing what Doctor Cameron did in her character backstory.
Yeah, I really wish when I started that run that I had opted for Energy Drain on the vanguard. And, yes, it went much better when I ran it with my infiltrator, even though I remember spamming ED way more than cloak during the initial fights.
Seriously, zero medigel? I couldn't wait 10 more minutes for Liara to come bring me some, rather than fighting my way to a car dealership?
Yeah I used to play a lot of salarian engineer in mp a long tine ago and it was just spam tech drain for stunlock so I put it on vangod.
Also the stupid high damage output of snipers and heavies which is just instant death.
I kind of enjoyed the vulnerability you had to deal with.
But the segment where you activate the door. Nooope
Did you guys see the Bioware Blog post by Chris Priestly?'
A little snippet.
I also love Mass Effect. I love Wrex, Jack, the Illusive Man, Noveria, the Normandy, suicide missions, Kepler’s Syndrome, and omni-blades.
So now I guess he'll be blamed by all those dA artists for Thane's ME3 situation.
Nothing about Thane in ME3 bothered me.
He was terminally ill in ME2, and he explained that he did not really have much time left regardless.
As far as him not being able to take out Bro Leng, well, Shepard couldn't do it either due to invincible plot armor and enforced cutscene stupidity/inability to aim.
And Thane's death scene was handled extremely well. For those who romanced Thane in ME2 and were disappointed, well, don't romance terminally ill people. I mean, come on you were essentially doing what Doctor Cameron did in her character backstory.
A+ for sage advice, wrapped in an old House reference.
Yeah, I really wish when I started that run that I had opted for Energy Drain on the vanguard. And, yes, it went much better when I ran it with my infiltrator, even though I remember spamming ED way more than cloak during the initial fights.
Seriously, zero medigel? I couldn't wait 10 more minutes for Liara to come bring me some, rather than fighting my way to a car dealership?
Next you will be wondering why csec is cool with shep toting a half-dozen grenades around, but no boomstick. That sounds like US Grade gun control crazyness there.
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Shepard is clearly passing off those grenades as being frisbes.
The arrangement of the Tetris music on that album is kind of amazing.
I picked up that album months ago, for the Oblivion theme, the Tetris theme, and a few others. I actually feel that the Suicide Mission track is inferior to the one on the game's soundtrack.
Civics is not a consumer product that you can ignore because you don’t like the options presented.
Shepard is clearly passing off those grenades as being frisbes.
Huh, forgot the frisbie grenades in me1. Don't recall even chucking one in me2 though.
If memory serves, grenades were a pain in the ass to throw in ME2. Like, Shep had a noodle arm when it came to chunking them. Meanwhile, his squadmates didn't throw them, but would have their grenades teleport and explode magically wherever you wanted.
But yeah, ugh, ME1 grenades... whoever thought of that should've been slapped. The whole point of grenades is you can toss them over/around cover and either blow someone up or flush them out. A grenade that goes in a line just as straight as your gunfire is just silly. Sometimes you could catch someone around a corner, but that's it. Wanna put it over a piece of cover, though? Good luck.
Not to mention they seemed buggy at times, and all too often got stuck in odd places instead of going where you intended. The only time I can even remember using them consistently was against the Thorian creepers, since it just absolutely wiped them out. Then again, I also just spent most of the game with a sniper rifle loaded with scram rails and explosive rounds, making a shot from my gun just a better version of the grenades.
Yeah, I really wish when I started that run that I had opted for Energy Drain on the vanguard. And, yes, it went much better when I ran it with my infiltrator, even though I remember spamming ED way more than cloak during the initial fights.
Seriously, zero medigel? I couldn't wait 10 more minutes for Liara to come bring me some, rather than fighting my way to a car dealership?
Next you will be wondering why csec is cool with shep toting a half-dozen grenades around, but no boomstick. That sounds like US Grade gun control crazyness there.
wait, if you're playing a grenade character, you get to take those into the sushi restaurant? now i'm definitely questioning the zero medi-gel.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Yeah, I really wish when I started that run that I had opted for Energy Drain on the vanguard. And, yes, it went much better when I ran it with my infiltrator, even though I remember spamming ED way more than cloak during the initial fights.
Seriously, zero medigel? I couldn't wait 10 more minutes for Liara to come bring me some, rather than fighting my way to a car dealership?
Next you will be wondering why csec is cool with shep toting a half-dozen grenades around, but no boomstick. That sounds like US Grade gun control crazyness there.
wait, if you're playing a grenade character, you get to take those into the sushi restaurant? now i'm definitely questioning the zero medi-gel.
Ah, but the zero medigel is actually explained in the story
Brooke "accidentally" took all the medigel at once.
What's not explained is why they let Shep carry her grenades but not her sidearm. Maybe grenades don't set off alarms in ME.
Yeah, I really wish when I started that run that I had opted for Energy Drain on the vanguard. And, yes, it went much better when I ran it with my infiltrator, even though I remember spamming ED way more than cloak during the initial fights.
Seriously, zero medigel? I couldn't wait 10 more minutes for Liara to come bring me some, rather than fighting my way to a car dealership?
Next you will be wondering why csec is cool with shep toting a half-dozen grenades around, but no boomstick. That sounds like US Grade gun control crazyness there.
wait, if you're playing a grenade character, you get to take those into the sushi restaurant? now i'm definitely questioning the zero medi-gel.
Ah, but the zero medigel is actually explained in the story
Brooke "accidentally" took all the medigel at once.
What's not explained is why they let Shep carry her grenades but not her sidearm. Maybe grenades don't set off alarms in ME.
she took all HER medigel
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Yeah, I really wish when I started that run that I had opted for Energy Drain on the vanguard. And, yes, it went much better when I ran it with my infiltrator, even though I remember spamming ED way more than cloak during the initial fights.
Seriously, zero medigel? I couldn't wait 10 more minutes for Liara to come bring me some, rather than fighting my way to a car dealership?
Next you will be wondering why csec is cool with shep toting a half-dozen grenades around, but no boomstick. That sounds like US Grade gun control crazyness there.
wait, if you're playing a grenade character, you get to take those into the sushi restaurant? now i'm definitely questioning the zero medi-gel.
Ah, but the zero medigel is actually explained in the story
Brooke "accidentally" took all the medigel at once.
What's not explained is why they let Shep carry her grenades but not her sidearm. Maybe grenades don't set off alarms in ME.
she took all HER medigel
Yes that's the way SP medigel mechanics work. If one teammate takes the medigel, then the medigel is gone!
the lack of medigel is easily explained by the lack of armor
medigel is distributed through the armor
Been a while since I've run through SP, doesn't the tutorial stuff on Earth have you use medigel? You aren't armored then, and neither is Anderson.
It was that somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had learned a way to see inside an ugly, broken thing... And take away its pain.
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So, I'm back on the Normandy, about to do battle with the Clone, and I see Shep's space hamster. I'm clicking on it, trying to get the fun dialog, but there's something wrong.
I'm hearing this muffle scream, like someone with a strep throat, but a pillow over their head. So I turn down the sound, thinking maybe it's something outside the game. It's not, this scream is coming from within the game.
What could it be?
Holy shit! It's the husk head from Leviathan! It's buried under all that other stuff in the crate and making a racket!
So awesome.
Battlenet ID: MildC#11186 - If I'm in the game, send me an invite at anytime and I'll play.
the lack of medigel is easily explained by the lack of armor
medigel is distributed through the armor
Been a while since I've run through SP, doesn't the tutorial stuff on Earth have you use medigel? You aren't armored then, and neither is Anderson.
No, it doesn't actually. You're thinking of the ME2 mini tutorial. There is a medigel box on that level, but you don't use it (and if you did, it could be explained by the box of medigel you found!)
Have I been reading Cryro Blast/Snap Freeze wrong? I've been taking the rank 5 debuff to mean "affected targets take 10% more damage (from all sources)" but looking into it, I guess it probably means "deal 10% more damage to affected targets with this skill" which is significantly less awesome.
Didn't see this get answered, but seeing as cryo blast doesn't do any damage, 10% increase would be bad. It's from all damage sources.
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I be getting on ME3 MP. TTODewback of course.
pew pew pew
Have I been reading Cryro Blast/Snap Freeze wrong? I've been taking the rank 5 debuff to mean "affected targets take 10% more damage (from all sources)" but looking into it, I guess it probably means "deal 10% more damage to affected targets with this skill" which is significantly less awesome.
Didn't see this get answered, but seeing as cryo blast doesn't do any damage, 10% increase would be bad. It's from all damage sources.
It's true, you can't even defeat a single swarmer with it
It's...unfortunate, since even 1 point of damage would mean it could set off fire explosions...
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Citidale archive level also has a non-geth holo from previous AI race.
Honestly its not much of a leap from "why do I exist" to "why do you exist". Considering ~1/3 of an advanced poopulation is a waste of o2 Its probably best to nip it in the bud.
The game continues to not give me a harrier though.
Not exactly a violent revolution.
On the other hand, there is a side quest in ME1 where you track some oddities happening at the casino and when you follow the breadcrumbs you find a rogue AI inhabiting a computer terminal, non-mobile. Since it has been discovered it decides to self-destruct taking all nearby organics with it, Shepard included. No amount of talking will convince it otherwise. It is a malevolent entity.
A little snippet.
So now I guess he'll be blamed by all those dA artists for Thane's ME3 situation.
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Also putting the vision cones would've made so much sense instead of energy drain-headshot everyone as a biotic god
Want to play co-op games? Feel free to hit me up!
Seriously, zero medigel? I couldn't wait 10 more minutes for Liara to come bring me some, rather than fighting my way to a car dealership?
Nothing about Thane in ME3 bothered me.
He was terminally ill in ME2, and he explained that he did not really have much time left regardless.
And Thane's death scene was handled extremely well. For those who romanced Thane in ME2 and were disappointed, well, don't romance terminally ill people. I mean, come on you were essentially doing what Doctor Cameron did in her character backstory.
Yeah I used to play a lot of salarian engineer in mp a long tine ago and it was just spam tech drain for stunlock so I put it on vangod.
Also the stupid high damage output of snipers and heavies which is just instant death.
I kind of enjoyed the vulnerability you had to deal with.
But the segment where you activate the door. Nooope
Want to play co-op games? Feel free to hit me up!
A+ for sage advice, wrapped in an old House reference.
Gods I need this whole album. So good.
Next you will be wondering why csec is cool with shep toting a half-dozen grenades around, but no boomstick. That sounds like US Grade gun control crazyness there.
Steam: pandas_gota_gun
The arrangement of the Tetris music on that album is kind of amazing.
Huh, forgot the frisbie grenades in me1. Don't recall even chucking one in me2 though.
I picked up that album months ago, for the Oblivion theme, the Tetris theme, and a few others. I actually feel that the Suicide Mission track is inferior to the one on the game's soundtrack.
They removed them almost entirely in me2, adding it in with Zaeed's inferno grenade ability
Want to play co-op games? Feel free to hit me up!
If memory serves, grenades were a pain in the ass to throw in ME2. Like, Shep had a noodle arm when it came to chunking them. Meanwhile, his squadmates didn't throw them, but would have their grenades teleport and explode magically wherever you wanted.
But yeah, ugh, ME1 grenades... whoever thought of that should've been slapped. The whole point of grenades is you can toss them over/around cover and either blow someone up or flush them out. A grenade that goes in a line just as straight as your gunfire is just silly. Sometimes you could catch someone around a corner, but that's it. Wanna put it over a piece of cover, though? Good luck.
Not to mention they seemed buggy at times, and all too often got stuck in odd places instead of going where you intended. The only time I can even remember using them consistently was against the Thorian creepers, since it just absolutely wiped them out. Then again, I also just spent most of the game with a sniper rifle loaded with scram rails and explosive rounds, making a shot from my gun just a better version of the grenades.
BOOM BEEPBEEPBEEPbeepbeepbeep...
BOOM BEEPBEEPBEEPbeepbeepbeep...
Good times.
wait, if you're playing a grenade character, you get to take those into the sushi restaurant? now i'm definitely questioning the zero medi-gel.
Ah, but the zero medigel is actually explained in the story
What's not explained is why they let Shep carry her grenades but not her sidearm. Maybe grenades don't set off alarms in ME.
Sure, why not. Can you host?
Garrus's proximity mines are still frisbees!
Throw me an invite when you get a chance (if you have room).
Yes that's the way SP medigel mechanics work. If one teammate takes the medigel, then the medigel is gone!
medigel is distributed through the armor
Warframe/Steam: NFyt
I'm hearing this muffle scream, like someone with a strep throat, but a pillow over their head. So I turn down the sound, thinking maybe it's something outside the game. It's not, this scream is coming from within the game.
What could it be?
So awesome.
Battlenet ID: MildC#11186 - If I'm in the game, send me an invite at anytime and I'll play.
Jeff could've pilfered the medigel. Maybe he used to regularly take it for his bones and now he just takes it to level out.
No, it doesn't actually. You're thinking of the ME2 mini tutorial. There is a medigel box on that level, but you don't use it (and if you did, it could be explained by the box of medigel you found!)
Holy interest peak, Batman!
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Didn't see this get answered, but seeing as cryo blast doesn't do any damage, 10% increase would be bad. It's from all damage sources.
Origin: KafkaAU B-Net: Kafka#1778
pew pew pew
It's true, you can't even defeat a single swarmer with it
It's...unfortunate, since even 1 point of damage would mean it could set off fire explosions...
Steam ID: 76561198021298113
Origin ID: SR71C_Blackbird