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Mass Effect 3 |OT| Space Jesus Returns (tag all spoilers)
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Gillian Seed
Banned
Edit: Which squadmates have been confirmed as playable?
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Uhm.....shepard?
Vega
Too much work. Locke Sheperd has been lost to the abyss, it seems :_(
Gillian Seed
Banned
That is some serious BS! So my Shepard from ME1 will not have his face that he had in the first 2 games? He will have to be recreated in ME3?
Hey, so just for laughs, I fired up MassEffect3.exe. It went to a release date verification which I(of course) immediately failed. Here is the weird thing, the release date was
, not the 6th.
Is it possible that preloaded Origin customers are going to get this
Note, I spoiled this so that if this ends up being some sort of bug that lets me
I don't want to bring enough attention to it for EA to fix it. Anyone getting this?
March 5th
Is it possible that preloaded Origin customers are going to get this
at midnight?
Note, I spoiled this so that if this ends up being some sort of bug that lets me
play the game a day early
MiamiWesker
Member
I am shocked at how many people didnt play the ME2 DLC. I got the PS3 version so to me it was always part of the game, I really cant even imagine what the game would be like without it.
Equus Bellator Apex
Junior Member
Really not worth the money.
What the, I completely missed this, have Bioware given a reason as to why it couldn't be done?
If it wasn't going to import in the future they should have made you remake your face in ME2, not go through two games and then in the third make you do it, and that even a new game + one wont work, ridiculous to be honest at this point and to have kept it quiet too!
shingonation
Member
You're the most negative opinion so far of people who have actually played the game instead of read/see specific videos.
Eager to see if your opinion changes with a few more hours of play
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Simple answer: ME3 uses ME2 face codes to create face data. Unfortunately ME1 didn't have face codes, and it appears when importing into ME2 it took raw data or something. This means a ME1 imported face in ME2 does not have any face code, thus ME3 cannot read the face.
It's lame. That's why I suggest following the above. If you're not a lazy git like Solo you'll have your code in no time.
Yup. The chapters are separated by game.
edit:
Stop at page 129 with all the ME2 weapon art. The title pages for the next chapter may be a bit spoilerish if you don't know anything about who shows up in ME3.
Hey, I resemble that remark!
But for realz, even after all that work, your character STILL isn't exactly like your ME1 character. Pass. Guess my Shep will just mysteriously look like default Shep all of a sudden in this one.
NihonTiger90
Member
Well, at least I was able to recreate my Shepard's face in the demo as is. Shouldn't be a bit issue for me.
It's based off the default face with a few tweaks.
Felix Lighter
Member
That does suck. I imported my female Shepard from ME 1 but I have a face code. According to the article EatChildren posted, that's probably because I went into the customize option before selecting my ME 1 Shepard face.
Ephemeris
Member
Thanks Garrus.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Have you tried the code, in ME2 or the ME3 demo? Because sometimes it gives you a code, but it's for a random ME2 default face, not your actual face.
This is a huge downer for me. I have no idea how I made my ME1 Shep's face (I tried replicating it in ME2 and failed utterly) so fuck.
Yes it looks like Origin, unlike Steam, actually unlocks the game exactly at midnight EST March 6th and 9PM PST March 5th, which is awesome. Ive always hated Steam for the fact that they dont have any kind of automated system and us east coasters have to wait till at least noon the day of release for the people are Steam HQ to get into work on the west coast and flip the switch to let the game unlock. I know they do it for quality assurance things so that if something goes wrong theres people there to fix things, but 99% of the time its just an annoying inconvenience.
Felix Lighter
Member
Ha, I downloaded but never launched the ME 3 demo yet. I'll check it out.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
You can do it in nine.
Jinjo
Member
Good to know. I was debating whether to finish an old ME1 save (halfway through) and run that through ME2 so I could use the character for a second or maybe first playthrough in ME3. Now I know not to bother.
Default Shepard ftw, like it has been from the start.
Still a pain in the ass, they should have offered an import ME1 save or something if it is a ME2 save problem.
Ah well, having a Mac means I have to go steal my gfs computer to get it done, and with 3 characters to sort out, a right pain in the ass, lol.
I wish they hadn't tried to hide it and been more open explaining the problem early on, we could have sorted character codes out or tried to match in the ME3 demo long before release, it would have saved backlash from hiding it just before release.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
Banned
So anyone think that Origin will allow for authorizations in earlier timezones like what happened with Battlefield 3?
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Felix Lighter
Member
I just put in my code for my imported ME 1 Shepard into the ME 3 demo and it is basically her but the hair color, brow color were definitely wrong and maybe the nose shape, but there isn't a nose that quite matches her nose from ME 1 and 2.
Got my slaughterhouse femshep run done in about 5-6 hours. Everyone but Garrus, Samara and Grunt died >
Hoooly moly. Interesting for sure, but my god I would not want to play that way.
Reluctant-Hero
Member
Weird. Wonder what that's about? Glitch on their end enable access? Guess I'll find out in about 33:30 hours
Well I have my main full completion ME1/ME2 playthrough done and set for 3 already but I wanted to see what would happen in ME3 if almost everyone died so I did a quick second run. ME2 is really short when you don't have to worry about doing any planet scanning at all or any loyalty missions :lol
In fact if I didn't do Shadow Broker I would have shaved at least an hour off of that 5-6 time.
6 hours? Phew... maybe I should do one for fun and with renegade for ocne (I never did that, hate it).
Reluctant-Hero
Member
It's not that shocking. A lot of gamers still do not bother with DLC. I've got a buddy at Orkney who loves both Fallout games, played the shit out if them. But he has no desire to buy any of the DLC for either game. I think a lot of "Joe Consumer" gamers have the same mentality.
SweetTeddie
Member
I played ME2 pretty late so I'm not sure, but has there been any outcry against Bioware Points being needed to buy ME DLC on PC? This seems like an extremely stupid way to do business and makes buying DLC annoying. Plus you can get stuck with a useless currency if you have some left over. Luckily all I bought was the Shadow Broker DLC for ME2 so I didn't get stuck. I wish they'd just take my money the old fashioned way.
Got my slaughterhouse femshep run done in about 5-6 hours. Everyone but Garrus, Samara and Grunt died >
You're lucky that even Shep survived.
There were some people who said that the CC was not accurate since there was some letters missing. Might be a bug in the demo
Manos: The Hans of Fate
Banned
You mean to see if it works (and would that be tonight?) Sorry I forget where the hell it unlocked with BF3 (I think it was SK), and would think it wouldn't be till the 5th.
I followed that guideline that was linked to me a day or two ago. You need to have at least 2 people survive to have Shepard survive so I did Garrus' and Thane's loyalty missions. Thane died before we even landed on the base though so I had to get a little lucky at the very end, where the rest of your squad stays behind to hold them back. There's some complex math equation that goes into place there but I just winged it and hoped it would work out.