[QUOTE=GetBent;35406247]At 2:00, the relay is preparing the signal, it sends the signal. It expends it's energy the rings stop spinning. Then they self destruct.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AdWqlsQjWo[/media][/QUOTE]
At the end of the scene you see the explosion of the relay expanding than it cuts out, I'm sure that, that alone shows that asteroid or not it would destroy an entire system.
[QUOTE=GetBent;35406247]At 2:00, the relay is preparing the signal, it sends the signal. It expends it's energy the rings stop spinning. Then they self destruct.[/QUOTE]
can it wait for a bit im in the middle of some speculations
fact is, none of that is in the game. you can say whatever you want about it, it SHOULD have been made clear in the game, not on fucking twitter or whatever.
[QUOTE=dragonkilla;35406324]At the end of the scene you see the explosion of the relay expanding than it cuts out, I'm sure that, that alone shows that asteroid or not it would destroy an entire system.[/QUOTE]
Not really. As we can't see the size of it completely.
Also, in Arrival the reason it wipes out the system is because relays are giant mass effect engines and the Alpha relay was still operating at full power. When it shuts down the resulting explosion would most likely be much smaller.
[QUOTE=Grim Joker;35406263]Yes, but, according to Arrival and The Codex, when Mass Effect Relays explode they have enough force to take out an entire star system.[/QUOTE]
The current cycle's research can't be really that accurate, can it? For a long time, they were led to believe that [sp]the statues on Ilos were Prothean, when they were actually from a race that preceded the former.[/sp]
[editline]2nd April 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=TheStateTrooper;35406284]so wait, if you [sp]blow up the mass relays,[/sp] doesnt that mean that [sp]all the races wouldnt be able to interract with each other? (besides radios and the aliens that were already in certain solar systems)[/sp][/QUOTE]
Yep. Everyone got fucked up.
[QUOTE=GetBent;35406247]At 2:00, the relay is preparing the signal, it sends the signal. It expends it's energy the rings stop spinning. Then they self destruct.[/QUOTE]
Mass Relays had been launching trillions of ships for billions of year without refueling, recharging or anything like it. Whatever is that powers them has an astronomical amount of energy, it's simply impossible that it is all discharged in a single launch.
[quote]An episode of “Hoarders” recently sent me into a neurotic frenzy of cleaning. While sorting through a pile of crap I found a copy of “Game Informer” I bought for its cover story on Mass Effect 3, dated from around this time last year. Because I’m a masochist I decided to re-read the article to see what was being said about a year ago. I’ve cherry-picked a few passages I thought were funny in hindsight.
From a section entitled THE PLAN:
[B]“In Mass Effect 3, you know you need to take back Earth, but the path to victory is less clear at the outset. You won’t just find some long-lost Reaper “off” button; says Hudson”[/B]
From a section called OLD CONFLICTS, NEW ALLIES:
[B]“Don’t expect to win the loyalty of the galaxy by simply completing a series of fetch quests,”[/B]
This is a text block entitled MASS EFFECT MEETS MULTIPLAYER?
“When the teaser for Mass Effect 3 first released, rumours were swirling that the project was actually a multiplayer title set in the Mass Effect universe. Those rumours turned out to be false, but it got many gamers thinking about how a multiplayer component would fit into the Mass Effect trilogy. Rest assured, the team has thought about this, too. “As a single-player experience, and just as a world that people want to immerse themselves in and share, we’ve been trying to think of a way that makes sense for people to experience Mass Effect with their friends,” says executive producer Casey Hudson. “We haven’t yet come up with a way to do that, so we don’t have anything to announce at this time. But, obviously, multiplayer is something we want to do more of in the future as a company.”
In a section called BEYOND THE TRILOGY:
[B]“… part of what you’re trying to do is save the universe so you can live in it. That’s part of the promise, I think, for any great IP. It has to be a world worth saving… I think Mass Effect has that quality to it. If you get rid of the Reapers and win that, wouldn’t it be amazing to just live on the Citadel or just take a ship to Omega? That makes sense.”[/B]
[/quote]
This hurts me.
[QUOTE=Black Milano;35406403]Mass Relays had been launching trillions of ships for billions of year without refueling, recharging or anything like it. Whatever is that powers them has an astronomical amount of energy, it's simply impossible that it is all discharged in a single launch.[/QUOTE]
Well then maybe all of the energy wasn't expended. They use element zero, correct? At least the codex says so. If the relay shuts down and isn't actively using that eezo, will eezo still cause a supernova like explosion?
[QUOTE=TheStateTrooper;35406284]so wait, if you [sp]blow up the mass relays,[/sp] doesnt that mean that [sp]all the races wouldnt be able to interract with each other? (besides radios and the aliens that were already in certain solar systems)[/sp][/QUOTE]
The radios would probably not work, considering any sort of com-signal was long destroyed during the war. That's why you actually have to physically travel everywhere. At the end of the game, I'd really say that it's only local communication still existing, and the quantum connections between the fifth fleet, Earth and the Normandy may still be up and running.
the sad truth of this whole matter is
I've loved this series for so long and after the third one... I feel so unbelievably dead.
Not just the quality of the endings... but this sickening idea that a universe that I've put an insane amount of energy into is all gone now. Gone without a future.
Seriously, there's never been a single game universe I've cared about as much as Mass Effect. Hell, I won't beat around a bush. Or any universe. (maybe the real one)
But... I've spent so much time roaming the citadel, scouring the galaxy, chilling with Garrus... to have it all taken away and now it's kind of spoiled forever is painful.
Fucking depressing as balls.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;35406419]This hurts me.[/QUOTE]
i was just about to post that you fuck
god fucking damn it game infromer
All of those blatant lies.
[QUOTE=Sardonus;35406482]the sad truth of this whole matter is
I've loved this series for so long and after the third one... I feel so unbelievably dead.
Not just the quality of the endings... but this sickening idea that a universe that I've put an insane amount of energy into is all gone now. Gone without a future.
Seriously, there's never been a single game universe I've cared about as much as Mass Effect. Hell, I won't beat around a bush. Or any universe. (maybe the real one)
But... I've spent so much time roaming the citadel, scouring the galaxy, chilling with Garrus... to have it all taken away and now it's kind of spoiled forever is painful.
Fucking depressing as balls.[/QUOTE]
welcome to the support group, where paragon interrupts always end in hugs
unless someone tries to jump off a cliff
[QUOTE=Lankist;35406544]welcome to the support group, where paragon interrupts always end in hugs
unless someone tries to jump off a cliff[/QUOTE]
I'm actually not sure how to occupy what used to be my "gaming" time :v:
I don't really give a flying fuck about most games out there with the exception of the new Bioshock and the new Assassins Creed.
[QUOTE=GetBent;35406464]Well then maybe all of the energy wasn't expended. They use element zero, correct? At least the codex says so. If the relay shuts down and isn't actively using that eezo, will eezo still cause a supernova like explosion?[/QUOTE]
That gigantic amount of energy has to be released somehow, it can't just disappear. Basic physics.
There are two possible solutions: Either the final launch actually expended all the accumulated energy or it was violently released in the following explosion.
[QUOTE=Black Milano;35406578]That gigantic amount of energy has to be released somehow, it can't just disappear. Basic physics.
There are two possible solutions: Either the final launch actually expended all the accumulated energy or it was violently released in the following explosion.[/QUOTE]
in the former instance, someone somewhere is going to have their day ruined.
isaac motherfucking newton
[QUOTE=Hamsterjuice;35397598]i'd rather she looked stupid and sexualised than this
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoPplpBPQxQ&ob=av3e[/media]
that shits fuckin creepy[/QUOTE]
It's still fuckable by Bioware standards.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;35406419]This hurts me.[/QUOTE]
Can't you technically sue them for that? It's all false advertising. None of what they said is true.
[QUOTE=Lankist;35406596]in the former instance, someone somewhere is going to have their day ruined.
isaac motherfucking newton[/QUOTE]
EVERYONE got their day ruined regardless
casey motherfucking hudson
[QUOTE=Black Milano;35406403]Mass Relays had been launching trillions of ships for billions of year without refueling, recharging or anything like it. Whatever is that powers them has an astronomical amount of energy, it's simply impossible that it is all discharged in a single launch.[/QUOTE]
Or it could recharge through kinetic energy, possibly from the friction generated by the spinning rings at their axes.
[QUOTE=Black Milano;35406578]That gigantic amount of energy has to be released somehow, it can't just disappear. Basic physics.
There are two possible solutions: Either the final launch actually expended all the accumulated energy or it was violently released in the following explosion.[/QUOTE]
This is all shit that should have been resolved. One of the questions the ending should NOT leave us with is: "Did Shepard just annihilate a huge percentage of the known galaxy?"
[QUOTE=H4wkeye;35406622]Can't you technically sue them for that? It's all false advertising. None of what they said is true.[/QUOTE]
None of the 'advertisements' said it, nor did the back of the game box/the game manual, so I think they're in the clear. You can lie in interviews and get away with it. That being said, the PC version got yanked from Amazon due to false advertising.
[QUOTE=Ridge;35406666]Or it could recharge through kinetic energy, possibly from the friction generated by the spinning rings at their axes.[/QUOTE]
What spins the rings in the first place?
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;35406670]This is all shit that should have been resolved. One of the questions the ending should NOT leave us with is: "Did Shepard just annihilate a huge percentage of the known galaxy?"[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I still don't see why they even included the relays being destroyed when it is never explained what it would cause outside of one example in Arrival (that was extremely destructive) under completely different circumstances.
[QUOTE=Black Milano;35406773]What spins the rings in the first place?[/QUOTE]
No clue, but from the ending of The Arrival, it seems they contain the massive ball of energy they surround.
[QUOTE=GetBent;35406780]Yeah, I still don't see why they even included the relays being destroyed when it is never explained what it would cause outside of one example in Arrival (that was extremely destructive)[/QUOTE]
And thus we see the dark side of speculation. If we go specifically by ingame lore, Shepard is the biggest mass-murderer in history, responsible not only for up to three total genocides, but potentially for the tens of billions of inhabitants of Relay systems.
Victorious and uplifting!
You're not preparing to live in it if you strand most of the galaxies war forces in a system with one planet that sustains life.
Best response I've seen to "Why is the life support area empty throughout the game?":
[i]"The ending was supposed to be there."[/i]
[QUOTE=TheStateTrooper;35406284]so wait, if you [sp]blow up the mass relays,[/sp] doesnt that mean that [sp]all the races wouldnt be able to interract with each other? (besides radios and the aliens that were already in certain solar systems)[/sp][/QUOTE]
That's the bit that pissed me off the most.
I kinda like the idea of a galactic community.
Life Support is likely the chill-room for another squadmate they'll add in.
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