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Mass Effect 3 |OT| Space Jesus Returns (tag all spoilers)
- Thread starter Blue Ninja
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I would love the reaction of your previous love interest, though.
shinobi602
Member
Awww yeaaa, wife goes to work at 7 AM and comes back around 8:30 PM tomorrow and Sunday.
Fucking.ME3.marathon.
FrontalMonk
Banned
Yeah, I kinda want to just zoom through all the story missions, I've been mainly doing side quests, but I want to hop into that spoiler thread, but I don't want the ending spoiled for me....etc.
I'll likely be working a few hours tomorrow, so that kinda sucks, but no big deal.
Ehhhh... I want to take my time and enjoy the game and go at my own pace, so I'm not going to change how I play the game for that. It'll just be nice to see the spoilers and opinions of folks on specific story things.
Ugh pretty sure the 1 sidequest I had left just bugged on me.
Had to (later game spoiler)but I never got a mission prompt for the planet and couldn't land or scan it. Pretty sure I picked up some asset from it earlier but this seemed like a real mission.go to Dekunna for the elcor ambassador to help evacuate their people
Anyway I went back to the guy and talked to him and Shepard finished the quest, got xp and everything. So I think I missed out on going to a cool planet
Same bug happened to me.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
Are you serious?
So wait, would that make the Batarians Poland? And the Turians England? (Largest fleet in the galaxy, but get hit hard by bombing). The moon of Palaven is the Turian equivalent of the English Channel.
AlimNassor
Banned
Man, Javik is so cool, but, he could be a bit of a jerk. I would be more upset if he was terrible and had no dialogue or importance, but, at least Bioware gave him crew interactions and didn't just throw him in there. Protheans were pretty cool it seems. I'm glad we got a ton of info on them. I guess for a casual fan Javik would be meaningless, but, for any ME fan Javik is kinda important if you cared about the lore.
I agree. There are so many unanswered questions. One major question: how can reapers retreat after all mass relays are destroyed in the "control end"? Actually when the "child" appeared I was so surprised and thought ME changed its genre from sci-fi to fantasy... It is just so unpredictable.
Someone argues that the purpose of existence of reaper is to avoid "Technological singularity". Because of mass relay, every sapient species will learn from it and the development trend of science and technology is predictable. After the destruction of all mass relays there will be no limitation of development. Based on current technology it will come up with many possibilities. I think that is what the catalyst means. The peace will not last long. Someday organic will invent super AI and there will be war between synthetic and organic, like geth and quarian. So the child warned you if you destroyed reapers there will be no one to stop the war.
Someone argues that the purpose of existence of reaper is to avoid "Technological singularity". Because of mass relay, every sapient species will learn from it and the development trend of science and technology is predictable. After the destruction of all mass relays there will be no limitation of development. Based on current technology it will come up with many possibilities. I think that is what the catalyst means. The peace will not last long. Someday organic will invent super AI and there will be war between synthetic and organic, like geth and quarian. So the child warned you if you destroyed reapers there will be no one to stop the war.
Calisto Glory
Banned
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
I like Javik. He's got an interesting colonial mindset. The protheans remind me a lot of the British Empire (or maybe the Roman Empire?)
Scott32020
Member
Any deals for PC other than Green Man? (can't buy from them with my card)
UPDATE: Does the Best Buy digital download for PC just give you an Origin key? Might go with that, I have credit with them
UPDATE: Does the Best Buy digital download for PC just give you an Origin key? Might go with that, I have credit with them
ScreenSplitter
Member
Screw all of you.
The side quests have timers? They expire?
So, I don't want spoilers, but what is the premise of the game? I don't like playing and learning after a play through how it works only due to trial and error and because they didn't explain it to me well enough.
ME2: get squad, get loyalty, save IFF for late in the game, and don't enter Omega relay until the end when you are ready. Is there a similar trend for this game? How does the galactic readiness thing work? Do missions in those areas and balance them out to get them all up to 100%?
Dark Stalkers
Member
What exactly does reputation do?
In previous games, certain dialogue options were gated depending on how much Paragon/Renegade score you have. Here, some decisions are gated by an overall score, which is calculated by adding Paragon + Renegade + Neutral. This is the Reputation score.
Finally got my copy yesterday and played for about 4 hours last night. I just
and felt that this was really where the game finally started to feel compelling. The visuals suddenly took a big leap forward on that mission as well. Pretty hit and miss so far on that front.
I was surprised at how long it took before I was actually able to start exploring the Normandy, using the galaxy map, etc. Because of this, the start felt a bit dragged out and some of the plot seems a little too convenient so far, but I am enjoying it. I am sure it will only get better, as I am really just getting started.
got the Turian Primarch Victus
I was surprised at how long it took before I was actually able to start exploring the Normandy, using the galaxy map, etc. Because of this, the start felt a bit dragged out and some of the plot seems a little too convenient so far, but I am enjoying it. I am sure it will only get better, as I am really just getting started.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
diamondstar
Member
If they expire, please tell me they grey out. If not I may be running back and forth to the damn Citadel for nothing.
ScreenSplitter
Member
Hey, it's not our fault your education apparently sucked.
Oh I meant how you all have delicious Mass Effect 3 and I don't. Been a while since I did World War II, and I genuinely only remembered Germany fighting Russia at the borders.
But yeah! No ME3 for me 'till Monday. Might as well play the Amalur demo to get the second item.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
Side quests, scanning and main quests will add fleets, platoons, powerful allies to your military strength. They each have a value.
A reporter might have a value of 5. A fleet might have a value of 250. A Shadow Broker Wet Squad might have a value of 100. Basically, as you collect each of these assets for your war, they add up to a total.
That total is then multiplied by the galaxy's "readiness rating", which is a percentage of how much of the military you've collected is ready to fight the Reapers.
Your readiness rating defaults to 50%. Military Strength x readiness = Effective Military Strength, or EMS.
EMS is the value you have to pay attention to when getting close to the ending.
You can ONLY raise your readiness by playing multiplayer. You don't need to raise your readiness for the good ending, but it makes the SP easier.
Think of it this way. Let's say the best ending requires 3000 EMS. You can either do two things: Play only SP, or play both SP and MP. If you play SP only, you would NEED 6000 Military Strength to get 3000, since your readiness would be sitting at 50%.
Now, if you play multiplayer, your readiness increases by about 4% every time you finish a bronze (easy) difficulty battle. Readiness also decays at a rate of 1% per day. Which is fine, because playin a single bronze level per day means that you're gaining readiness faster than you're losing it.
So if you play enough MP to get to 100% readiness, you suddenly only need 3000 total military strength to reach your EMS of 3000. So that means doing less side quests, scanning for less assets, etc etc.
Does that make sense?
On the topic of side quests, side quests don't have an actual timer, but can be failed if you don't do them BEFORE doing priority missions in the same system. Priority missions are story missions, and they will move the story forward, which means circumstances will change in the galaxy as you propel the story.
Basically, it's a good idea to do side quests you can do before taking up story missions. That said, you WILL get side quests that you cannot do until a star system opens up for you via the story. It's a little annoying.
bitoriginal
Member
Newb question for UK peeps, got my N7 Warfare Pre-order bonus but the code doesn't seem long enough to be a standard Xbox code, IE it doesn't work when I click redeem code on the dash. Is there a way to redeem codes in game?
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
I won't be able to play until Sunday, so I've been keeping out of this thread and most of the info on ME3 as much as possible, but last night I heard that the games doesn't have the film grain option? Is this real?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
THANK YOU for explaining this. So perfectly explained it should be in the OP!
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
Not really. The MP is awesome. If you don't want to play the multiplayer, you can just play more single player. I don't really see the problem.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Is there any time dilation when scoping as an Infiltrator? It must be toned down pretty significantly from ME3 as I don't notice it at all.
thetrin
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There is, but from what I've heard, it's only like, 10%.
I won't go on MP because I'm afraid some asshat over the mic will spoil the ending for me. I have got my Readiness % up to 74% through the iOS game (Infiltrator) though.
Does a full green bar mean best ending? Mine has been full for awhile and I think I'm only about 2/3 or maybe 3/4 through the game.
It isn't. The iPhone game raises your readiness.
Does a full green bar mean best ending? Mine has been full for awhile and I think I'm only about 2/3 or maybe 3/4 through the game.
It isn't. The iPhone game raises your readiness.
A bit but I think one of the mods can improve it. There's 1 that upgrades damage a tiny bit but something about sensory upgrades too. I haven't used it but the description sounds like it controls that aspect.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
What is your EMS? Afaik, if you're over 2800, you're a-okay for the good ending. You need 4000 for the shitty post-credits extra ending thing which I don't give a fuck about.
My readiness is at 64%, and will probably rise again today because I'm going to be playing multiplayer with my roommate after a couple hour of playing SP. I really like the multi, so I don't mind that readiness is affected by it. It's nice that you don't HAVE to play MP if you don't want to, but I can relax a bit about my EMS because of the multi.
CAW
Member
So close. I ended my first play through with 5797 military strength and an EMS of 2898. I missed out on a few side quests and didn't scan every planet.
Is there info and/or a video of the 'best' ending that requires a high amount of EMS? Also,
Is there info and/or a video of the 'best' ending that requires a high amount of EMS? Also,
is it just the scene after the credits that's different?
shinobi602
Member
Doesn't change anything if you don't play multiplayer. Do all the sidequests without touching multiplayer and you'll still get the "perfect" ending.
Yeah, I have well over 2800 EMS.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
I just finished that first
mission (early) and I'm really loving how pretty much EVERYTHING is contributing to the overall game. Even random convos in the citadel. Really makes me want to explore every nook and cranny.
Garrus moon
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thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
Explore the citadel thoroughly after every story mission. Ambient dialogue results in missions that can lead to war assets.
Also, a quick tip that might help:
Any Citadel mission that has the prefix "Citadel:" will require that you get the item they need either from an N7 mission (scan everything you see), or from the Spectre Terminal.
Any Citadel Mission that has a prefix like "Ismar Frontier:" or any other star system means that you will get that item by scanning the star system as you're flying around.
Just finished it, what a joke of an ending.
I'm done with BioWare.
Really Bioware, really? Three exactly the same 1-minute endings, only with different colored beams? 100+ hours of saving the galaxy and then it just ends like that? No closure on anything, no summary what happened after with Shepard, crew, Normandy, Earth, other races, Reapers, anything else? What about decisions I made, saves I transfered? This lazy excuse of an ending is all we get for buying all your games, DLCs and whatnot. Why not just send us a t-shirt with "I played the Mass Effect Trilogy and all I got is this lousy green beam" written on it? Or no, just keep the t-shirt, I'd probably have to pay 19.99$ for it anyway.
I'm done with BioWare.
I know I've already missed at least one because I didn't expect
the Citadel attack