True story: I just got a date with a hot girl because we met in a bar and had a like half hour conversation about Mass Effect, and I was able to impress her with the story of the time I met a bunch of guys from Bioware, and gave them shit for the vehicle controls.
Why do you preface your blatant lies with 'True Story'.
You're so deceptive Lewie it's unbecoming.
Can we get his Mum in here? I think we need a ruling...
As someone who knows him "in real life" (And who was just linked to this thread hence being late to reply) I can clarify that this is a "true story".
In fact the guys from Bioware did a better job than me, who failed as a wingman in the very same bar with two other ladies.
True story: I just got a date with a hot girl because we met in a bar and had a like half hour conversation about Mass Effect, and I was able to impress her with the story of the time I met a bunch of guys from Bioware, and gave them shit for the vehicle controls.
Why do you preface your blatant lies with 'True Story'.
You're so deceptive Lewie it's unbecoming.
Can we get his Mum in here? I think we need a ruling...
As someone who knows him "in real life" (And who was just linked to this thread hence being late to reply) I can clarify that this is a "true story".
In fact the guys from Bioware did a better job than me, who failed as a wingman in the very same bar with two other ladies.
back on topic, every god damn article i read is making it sound like ME2, played horrifically, could literally turn into the ending of saving private ryan, which sounds fuckin' a
Like, the flavour text for a random planet says that Salarian scientists found a corpse of a "seemingly organic ship" on it, which disappeared when a Batarian ship was nearby, and the Batarians deny its existance despite video evidence from the Salarians.
So the Batarians has a deactivated Reaper. Little snippets of info like that makes this game great.
I still have never done a renegade playthrough. I can't bring myself to do it. The closest I've got is a paragon run where I make renegade choices for the big shit (Except the Rachni Queen. I couldn't do that either.) I should probably redo that run.
I'm so weak.
That's funny, even in my Paragon run I killed the Rachni Queen. With the Krogan population decimated, I just couldn't risk another Rachni plague on the galaxy. Plus everyone thought they were extinct anyway, so I was just finishing the job that the council originally authorized any way.
On the other hand, the Rachni rising again would be an excellent way to make compassionate citizens suddenly band together to find a cure for the genophage.
More proof that the Shadow Broker is a krogan and was secretly manipulating Saren. Now I've just got to figure out the Feros angle.
Like, the flavour text for a random planet says that Salarian scientists found a corpse of a "seemingly organic ship" on it, which disappeared when a Batarian ship was nearby, and the Batarians deny its existance despite video evidence from the Salarians.
So the Batarians has a deactivated Reaper. Little snippets of info like that makes this game great.
And that's why they have Taky. You need someone as crazy as him to do all that.
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Like, the flavour text for a random planet says that Salarian scientists found a corpse of a "seemingly organic ship" on it, which disappeared when a Batarian ship was nearby, and the Batarians deny its existance despite video evidence from the Salarians.
So the Batarians has a deactivated Reaper. Little snippets of info like that makes this game great.
And that's why they have Taky. You need someone as crazy as him to do all that.
Actually I don't think that what the Batarians have is a Reaper, the Leviathan they found was organic, reapers aren't.
I beat the first Mass Effect as a sniper type guy and I was expecting to just be able to play again as a God like most games, but I don't see the option. After the credits I hit continue and it just takes me back to the fight with Saren. Is this how it is or what am I doing wrong?
Like, the flavour text for a random planet says that Salarian scientists found a corpse of a "seemingly organic ship" on it, which disappeared when a Batarian ship was nearby, and the Batarians deny its existance despite video evidence from the Salarians.
So the Batarians has a deactivated Reaper. Little snippets of info like that makes this game great.
And that's why they have Taky. You need someone as crazy as him to do all that.
Actually I don't think that what the Batarians have is a Reaper, the Leviathan they found was organic, reapers aren't.
Obviously it was of the race that made the Reapers that were annihilated when the Reapers rebelled.
Today I imported my Sentinel character's plotstate into ME2.
Today was a good day.
You are a horrible person.
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So, catching up after a grim day trying to reconstruct my incredibly convoluted process of writing planet descriptions. (Spreadsheets were manipulated. Dice were rolled. Texts were referenced. Hands were waved. I only finished two small systems, when I was able to do a whole cluster in one day for Mass1. I must have been on meth back then...)
The stripe on the N7 armor isn't a "commander's stripe". The artists thought it looked good -- anything beyond that would be a retcon, like Han's "bloodstripe" in SW.
Shepard is a Lt Commander when the game begins, and "behind the scenes" promoted to Staff Commander when given the Normandy after Eden Prime. Commanders of any sub-rank are shortened to "Commander in conversation, as Lieutenants of any sub-rank are shortened to "Lieutenant."
GURPS Transhuman Space hypothesizes a future in which the United States Aerospace Force develops out of the Air Force. The Chinese space force develops out of their navy, which is considered part of the army, and is thus sprawlingly-titled PLAN-SF; the People's Liberation Army Navy Space Force.
I beat the first Mass Effect as a sniper type guy and I was expecting to just be able to play again as a God like most games, but I don't see the option. After the credits I hit continue and it just takes me back to the fight with Saren. Is this how it is or what am I doing wrong?
Start a new campaign, and you'll have the option to select an existing profile. Do that.
The stripe on the N7 armor isn't a "commander's stripe". The artists thought it looked good -- anything beyond that would be a retcon, like Han's "bloodstripe" in SW.
I both liked and hated that the same Onyx armour on Shepard wouldn't have the stripe when placed on anybody else.
So, catching up after a grim day trying to reconstruct my incredibly convoluted process of writing planet descriptions. (Spreadsheets were manipulated. Dice were rolled. Texts were referenced. Hands were waved. I only finished two small systems, when I was able to do a whole cluster in one day for Mass1. I must have been on meth back then...)
The stripe on the N7 armor isn't a "commander's stripe". The artists thought it looked good -- anything beyond that would be a retcon, like Han's "bloodstripe" in SW.
Shepard is a Lt Commander when the game begins, and "behind the scenes" promoted to Staff Commander when given the Normandy after Eden Prime. Commanders of any sub-rank are shortened to "Commander in conversation, as Lieutenants of any sub-rank are shortened to "Lieutenant."
GURPS Transhuman Space hypothesizes a future in which the United States Aerospace Force develops out of the Air Force. The Chinese space force develops out of their navy, which is considered part of the army, and is thus sprawlingly-titled PLAN-SF; the People's Liberation Army Navy Space Force.
You guys need to get some more of those N7 shirts in stock, dammit. As a USAF Officer Applicant and huge nerd, make it so.
Dry-fit material would be rocking too, instead of just 100% cotton. That way it would fit like Shepard's... if you have massive upper-body muscles.
Like, the flavour text for a random planet says that Salarian scientists found a corpse of a "seemingly organic ship" on it, which disappeared when a Batarian ship was nearby, and the Batarians deny its existance despite video evidence from the Salarians.
So the Batarians has a deactivated Reaper. Little snippets of info like that makes this game great.
And that's why they have Taky. You need someone as crazy as him to do all that.
Actually I don't think that what the Batarians have is a Reaper, the Leviathan they found was organic, reapers aren't.
The things that made the Reapers perhaps? Or maybe something like what the Dark Ones and Encyclopods were the newest Futurama movie?
So, catching up after a grim day trying to reconstruct my incredibly convoluted process of writing planet descriptions. (Spreadsheets were manipulated. Dice were rolled. Texts were referenced. Hands were waved. I only finished two small systems, when I was able to do a whole cluster in one day for Mass1. I must have been on meth back then...)
The stripe on the N7 armor isn't a "commander's stripe". The artists thought it looked good -- anything beyond that would be a retcon, like Han's "bloodstripe" in SW.
Shepard is a Lt Commander when the game begins, and "behind the scenes" promoted to Staff Commander when given the Normandy after Eden Prime. Commanders of any sub-rank are shortened to "Commander in conversation, as Lieutenants of any sub-rank are shortened to "Lieutenant."
GURPS Transhuman Space hypothesizes a future in which the United States Aerospace Force develops out of the Air Force. The Chinese space force develops out of their navy, which is considered part of the army, and is thus sprawlingly-titled PLAN-SF; the People's Liberation Army Navy Space Force.
Like, the flavour text for a random planet says that Salarian scientists found a corpse of a "seemingly organic ship" on it, which disappeared when a Batarian ship was nearby, and the Batarians deny its existance despite video evidence from the Salarians.
So the Batarians has a deactivated Reaper. Little snippets of info like that makes this game great.
And that's why they have Taky. You need someone as crazy as him to do all that.
Actually I don't think that what the Batarians have is a Reaper, the Leviathan they found was organic, reapers aren't.
I think they (the writers) wrote in quite a few hooks like this and left them ambiguous so they'd have all kinds of options open when writing the sequels.
Like, the flavour text for a random planet says that Salarian scientists found a corpse of a "seemingly organic ship" on it, which disappeared when a Batarian ship was nearby, and the Batarians deny its existance despite video evidence from the Salarians.
So the Batarians has a deactivated Reaper. Little snippets of info like that makes this game great.
Or the Zeioph, the massive underground crypts in a planet, containing millions of graves.
My favorite is Logan though:
Logan is a standard hydrogen-helium gas giant. The survey team who charted the system twenty years ago reported many strange disturbances in Logan's cloud bands, suggesting many remarkably large solid objects were present beneath the cloud tops. As the ship approached, however, they subsided one by one. These disturbances have not been reported again.
I was a big fan of that one planet with the huge mass accelerator scar on its surface.
I always figured that the Leviathan of whatever-it-was was left from a pre-Prothean civilization that used organic ships and the such, sort of like the Yuuzhan Vong in Star Wars.
I don't understand how people think technology 100,000+ years old could possibly work. In the high-radiation environment of a stellar system outside of a planet's magnetic field, radioactive decay would be causing non-trivial changes to things like microcircuitry, considering the fact that those spaceships would likely have nanoscale electronics.
I don't understand how people think technology 100,000+ years old could possibly work. In the high-radiation environment of a stellar system outside of a planet's magnetic field, radioactive decay would be causing non-trivial changes to things like microcircuitry, considering the fact that those spaceships would likely have nanoscale electronics.
Becuase 120,000 years ago, they invented a micropolymer spray that is applied to all surfaces which simultaniously protects from stelar radiation and refrains from interfereing with any other aspects of the material.
It's based primarily on the inovative scotch guard formulas created 120,002 years ago.
I thought we already determined that Mass Effect was a Space Opera and not bound by the rules of conventional hard Sci-Fi, such as logic.
My Shepard used space/brain magic to undermine the dastardly plans of a sentient super machine while my squad introduced the Big Bad's right hand man (a former organic being with his body altered to be more like the machines he served and his mind twisted via electronic mindwaves) to the almighty Quad-Bag.
So, yes, the 100,000+ year old tech works just fine. It was originally developed on the planet Germanic. You know the Germanics always make good stuff.
I'm hopefully going to be starting up my first playthrough of ME1 soon, as an Infiltrator. After I do a bullshit starup enginner to get the AI Hacking achievement, anyway.
I can't decide how to play, though. Being 'me' never works out in these games, so I usually pick a character from some other media and go with that. I'm trying to decide if I should have Commander Jason Bourne Shepard, Commander Han Solo Sheppard, or actually give it a shot playing as if I were making the decisions. Also, I think my Sheppard will look like young Harrison Ford.
I'm hopefully going to be starting up my first playthrough of ME1 soon, as an Infiltrator. After I do a bullshit starup enginner to get the AI Hacking achievement, anyway.
I can't decide how to play, though. Being 'me' never works out in these games, so I usually pick a character from some other media and go with that. I'm trying to decide if I should have Commander Jason Bourne Shepard, Commander Han Solo Sheppard, or actually give it a shot playing as if I were making the decisions. Also, I think my Sheppard will look like young Harrison Ford.
Infiltrators are so freaking fun. Just finished my playthrough with one, and you don't really need hacking. Now I'm playing an adept with a Sniper Rifle because I can't imagine playing without one after my Infiltrator. Electronics is for sissies.
I don't think I can ever stop playing this game.
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In the high-radiation environment of a stellar system outside of a planet's magnetic field, radioactive decay would be causing non-trivial changes to things like microcircuitry, considering the fact that those spaceships would likely have nanoscale electronics.
All current space-faring races use optical and quantum computers.
I think the only problem I'm going to initially have with this game is going to be figuring out which save game of mine is which. I probably played through that game 6 times, all with different decisions and different character tweaks. It's been so long since I've played that I have no idea which save will represent what.
I would just play through it again, but I got seriously burned out on that game last year after playing through it so many times.
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In the high-radiation environment of a stellar system outside of a planet's magnetic field, radioactive decay would be causing non-trivial changes to things like microcircuitry, considering the fact that those spaceships would likely have nanoscale electronics.
All current space-faring races use optical and quantum computers.
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This should be fine, as long as you don't need your mom to help.
As someone who knows him "in real life" (And who was just linked to this thread hence being late to reply) I can clarify that this is a "true story".
In fact the guys from Bioware did a better job than me, who failed as a wingman in the very same bar with two other ladies.
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you should let him borrow your testicles.
Like, the flavour text for a random planet says that Salarian scientists found a corpse of a "seemingly organic ship" on it, which disappeared when a Batarian ship was nearby, and the Batarians deny its existance despite video evidence from the Salarians.
So the Batarians has a deactivated Reaper. Little snippets of info like that makes this game great.
On the other hand, the Rachni rising again would be an excellent way to make compassionate citizens suddenly band together to find a cure for the genophage.
More proof that the Shadow Broker is a krogan and was secretly manipulating Saren. Now I've just got to figure out the Feros angle.
And that's why they have Taky. You need someone as crazy as him to do all that.
"Read twice, post once. It's almost like 'measure twice, cut once' only with reading." - MetaverseNomad
Actually I don't think that what the Batarians have is a Reaper, the Leviathan they found was organic, reapers aren't.
Obviously it was of the race that made the Reapers that were annihilated when the Reapers rebelled.
Today was a good day.
Generally, it's all in the OP right now. Anything that isn't there, isn't going to be significantly different or new.
The new quads?
BURN THE PRIVILEGED EMPLOYEES
You are a horrible person.
The stripe on the N7 armor isn't a "commander's stripe". The artists thought it looked good -- anything beyond that would be a retcon, like Han's "bloodstripe" in SW.
Shepard is a Lt Commander when the game begins, and "behind the scenes" promoted to Staff Commander when given the Normandy after Eden Prime. Commanders of any sub-rank are shortened to "Commander in conversation, as Lieutenants of any sub-rank are shortened to "Lieutenant."
GURPS Transhuman Space hypothesizes a future in which the United States Aerospace Force develops out of the Air Force. The Chinese space force develops out of their navy, which is considered part of the army, and is thus sprawlingly-titled PLAN-SF; the People's Liberation Army Navy Space Force.
Start a new campaign, and you'll have the option to select an existing profile. Do that.
I both liked and hated that the same Onyx armour on Shepard wouldn't have the stripe when placed on anybody else.
You guys need to get some more of those N7 shirts in stock, dammit. As a USAF Officer Applicant and huge nerd, make it so.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Edit: I guess someone else pretty much said that.
I had to read this 4 times to realize you hadn't imported your characters prostate into ME2.
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So we were all right/wrong
I can't believe we made it 4 hours without someone saying this; congratulations
It's always a good feeling the first time something you've been working on actually does what it's supposed to.
What about bunnies?
I think they (the writers) wrote in quite a few hooks like this and left them ambiguous so they'd have all kinds of options open when writing the sequels.
Or the Zeioph, the massive underground crypts in a planet, containing millions of graves.
My favorite is Logan though:
Creepy.
I always figured that the Leviathan of whatever-it-was was left from a pre-Prothean civilization that used organic ships and the such, sort of like the Yuuzhan Vong in Star Wars.
Space wizardry
It's based primarily on the inovative scotch guard formulas created 120,002 years ago.
My Shepard used space/brain magic to undermine the dastardly plans of a sentient super machine while my squad introduced the Big Bad's right hand man (a former organic being with his body altered to be more like the machines he served and his mind twisted via electronic mindwaves) to the almighty Quad-Bag.
So, yes, the 100,000+ year old tech works just fine. It was originally developed on the planet Germanic. You know the Germanics always make good stuff.
I can't decide how to play, though. Being 'me' never works out in these games, so I usually pick a character from some other media and go with that. I'm trying to decide if I should have Commander Jason Bourne Shepard, Commander Han Solo Sheppard, or actually give it a shot playing as if I were making the decisions. Also, I think my Sheppard will look like young Harrison Ford.
Infiltrators are so freaking fun. Just finished my playthrough with one, and you don't really need hacking. Now I'm playing an adept with a Sniper Rifle because I can't imagine playing without one after my Infiltrator. Electronics is for sissies.
I don't think I can ever stop playing this game.
All current space-faring races use optical and quantum computers.
I would just play through it again, but I got seriously burned out on that game last year after playing through it so many times.
I'd imagine they'd have to if they have A.I.