LegalEagleMike
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No excuse for poor posture and disrespecting the chain of command!
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No excuse for poor posture and disrespecting the chain of command!
DevilDog
Member
There really isn't.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
"Iconic" clothing instead of armor sets made sense, but IMO they should have limited it to off-duty uniforms and designed proper battle gear for combat and exploration. Not just Jack, but Mordin and Miranda as well. You can still design custom ones instead of customizing it based on loot, but they needed something.
DeadlyParasite
Member
They did have proper armour for Miranda but it was sold as DLC.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
And had that horrible visor.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Damn that visor. I kept switching her appearance back and forth, because I really wanted her armored up during missions but my god was that orange piece of garbage distracting trying to hold a conversation.
Poodlestrike
Banned
You think that's bad? I had the Archon visor on the entire game.
The WORST.
I always thought it was pretty funny that the +Paragade score helmet (and thus, the best for talking) was a) called Death Mask and b) full face. That's some wacky shit.
I unironically loved the Archon visor.
Officer.Sanchez
Member
One visor to rule them all.
Yeah I lost her too.
This is the only companion whose player-affected fate Bioware decided to be sneaky about.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
I've looked it up online, no condition I can think of means she should have died. It's really bizarre, and since I don't know what condition to fix, there's no point reloading.
Guess I'll just look up the citadel party bits with her instead, coz there's no fuckin way I'm going back and doing this game again.
prag16
Banned
Yes. The best. That had to be some kind of intentional joke on the part of Bioware.
Ivory Samoan
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This so much, I pine for it each playthrough until I get it, it's the only one for me <3One visor to rule them all.
exmachina64
Banned
You can speak to her during the final battle on the communicator if she is alive.
DeadlyParasite
Member
Anyone have any theories on what The Scourge is? I saw some people arguing it was the work of the Kett but I think maybe it's something the Remnants unleashed that backfired. It seems to consume planets but I'm not sure it's alive and organic or some kind of weird nano-machine like cloud technology.
Kind of reminds me of Tyranid Hive fleets from Warhammer 40k. (They basically consume/liquify all life and genetic material on a planet to expand)
Kind of reminds me of Tyranid Hive fleets from Warhammer 40k. (They basically consume/liquify all life and genetic material on a planet to expand)
Nostremitus
Member
Anyone have any theories on what The Scourge is? I saw some people arguing it was the work of the Kett but I think maybe it's something the Remnants unleashed that backfired. It seems to consume planets but I'm not sure it's alive and organic or some kind of weird nano-machine like cloud technology.
Kind of reminds me of Tyranid Hive fleets from Warhammer 40k. (They basically consume/liquify all life and genetic material on a planet to expand)
The bloating corpse of an elder god that's growing out of control... I think that'd be pretty funny considering the backlash against the Reapers not being elder gods themselves...
Preorder trailer with some (very) tiny bits of multiplayer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0cEi5ezcu0
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[img]http://i.imgur.com/8avJWx8.jpg[/img]From what little we can see, it does look pretty similar to ME3.
Heckler456
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Do we know anything about when the MP beta is supposed to drop? I presumed there would be a closed one and an open one, but now I'm thinking the open one might be during the 5 day period the first 10 hours of the game will be accessible to Access/Origin users.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Theory: the scourge is a terraforming anomaly related to the Remnants tearing through celestial bodies making them effectively uninhabitable to conventional life. Kett survival requires unification under their banner to co-exist with the scourge, while the Angaran seek a solution to destroy it.
It sure does. Then again ME3 MP was the only thing almost everyone liked about the game so can't blame them for not reinventing the wheel.
No official info so far. But I wouldn't be surprised if it dropped a week or two before the EA access trial. Beta a few weeks before launch seems to be the norm now
Dandy Lyin
Member
They've said you cannot re-map the controls button for button on console, but they do provide a few alternate control schemes to use.
TC McQueen
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It was Y/Triangle, but IIRC, that button controls your jumps/dashes now, at least on default controls.
If there is as many characters in the MP as in ME3, I really don't want to waste time with customizing the face for each of them lol. I'm betting it's not gonna be a choice.
Poodlestrike
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Yeah, no thanks to customizing all those faces lol
Normally I would go for Bumper Jumper, but tbh the jump here seems more like an ability than a part of regular movement. I'll leave it on y, provisionally.
Normally I would go for Bumper Jumper, but tbh the jump here seems more like an ability than a part of regular movement. I'll leave it on y, provisionally.
True, it would take me a week to customize them all haha.
And good point on the jump, I suppose it depends if the Jump/Dash is on a cool down or not.
I'd just like to think of it as the web/hive of space spiders/millipedes.
DeadlyParasite
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Youtube blurriness and compression aside it does look like they tried their hardest to maintain the art aesthetic of Mass Effect 3, which is very cool. I think that bodes well if they ever try to attempt a trilogy remake in Frostbite.
DevilDog
Member
I'd wager that they're just objects from the OI ported from their design programms, directly into frostbite.
DeadlyParasite
Member
You mean having to use both bumpers for one power? Yeah it's really dumb and is clunky in every game that does it.
But we can only equip 3 powers at any one time regardless, even for Ryder, correct?
orichalcos
Member
Guys, any info about multiplayer tech test?
So has there been any word about if MP will be force fed this time around too or can one fully ignore it and still access all SP content and/or endings?
Edit: Got reply from Ian.
Edit: Got reply from Ian.
https://twitter.com/tibermoon/status/827621821604384768
The MP won't change the story or ending but there's still reward for playing it. Most likely currency, crafting material or something like that. You could ignore it in ME3 too anyway.
I couldn't find way to mass enough "War Effort" in ME3 without MP. I must have missed some very significant boosters to it.
Some of it was linked to choice made in the previous game so can easily get screw that way. Not that it mattered much, the only thing you missed was half a second cut of shepard breathing in one of the 3 endings... And they made it much easier with the extended cut
prag16
Banned
At launch, it was impossible to get the best ending without playing multiplayer.
When they patched in the extended cut ending, they lowered the threshold so that multiplayer was no longer mandatory.
TC McQueen
Member
Three active ones. You get a number of passives too.
Drone, warp, singularity.
That's assuming that we still get those super satisfying biotic explosions. If not, drone, incinerate, overload. Classic Engineer style.
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