Mass Effect Megathread: Electronic Skills Still Too Low - Games

[QUOTE=yellowoboe;39878958][t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/MassEffect3_2013-03-10_20-44-10-52.jpg[/t] Probably my favorite loading screen. I like how you can even see Cronos Station.[/QUOTE] One thing confused me about it, if the Cronos station is so close to it, how the hell is the sun/whatever so small in Illusive man's office?

[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;39876616][sp]Yeah, the clone plot in general was better than I expected, despite its deliberate over-the-top tone. CloneShep wasn't Shepard, he just looked and sounded like him. The personality, authority, jealousy, and sense of right-and-wrong were unique to him. He struck me as bitter that he was "second fiddle" and I liked that the DLC's message is that what makes Shepard...well, Shepard is the people he has with him. It might have been Mission Impossible: Space Edition, but it was well done.[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]Wasn't Mission Impossible: Space Edition Kasumi's mission in ME2? I know it wasn't as lighthearted, but the entire thing reeked of a movie I can't remember the name of.[/sp] Got a weird glitch today; I unlocked a super spectre pack thing and got the Volus Adept (and a shaman, which is also really awesome). Already having him, I liked the secondary color option. On a whim, I checked his powers that I had already maxed out a while back (got to the end of everything except . Guess what? I had 59 points to spend. By the time I got done, I had about 30 points and my Volus was truly maxed. Weird, but I wasn't complaining. I play a game, come back to the powers screen-now I have -21 points to spare. Glitches are awesome.

[img]http://puu.sh/2g4Rj[/img] Holy fuck I forgot how much fun a Disciple is. This round put me at 100k credits, so I bought a something something and [img]http://puu.sh/2g5fP[/img] well, it isn't what I wanted (especially out of a 99k pack..) but it sure is fun to play [editline]11th March 2013[/editline] that SMG Ultralight Materials makes my Hurricane just a bit better. I still don't love it, but it's much much better than what it used to be.

[QUOTE=Saza;39879732][img]http://puu.sh/2g4Rj[/img] Holy fuck I forgot how much fun a Disciple is. This round put me at 100k credits, so I bought a something something and [img]http://puu.sh/2g5fP[/img] well, it isn't what I wanted (especially out of a 99k pack..) but it sure is fun to play [editline]11th March 2013[/editline] that SMG Ultralight Materials makes my Hurricane just a bit better. I still don't love it, but it's much much better than what it used to be.[/QUOTE] I utterly fail at N7 Shadow. I cant keep alive for more than 1-2 rounds or so due to my need to melee (which usually ends up with me being caught by more enemies that I can handle). Then again, this is coming from a me, who played through Deus Ex by being master-chief and killing everything...

Also, why do nearly all of the guns in this game have two "barrels"?

[QUOTE=Marden;39879556]One thing confused me about it, if the Cronos station is so close to it, how the hell is the sun/whatever so small in Illusive man's office?[/QUOTE] Well it's not really that close. [t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/MassEffect3_2013-03-10_20-38-07-26.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=Angus725;39879882]I utterly fail at N7 Shadow. I cant keep alive for more than 1-2 rounds or so due to my need to melee (which usually ends up with me being caught by more enemies that I can handle). Then again, this is coming from a me, who played through Deus Ex by being master-chief and killing everything...[/QUOTE] I do okay with it so far. I don't really love it because I'm used to my Turian or other classes I play that have higher health / shields or damage resistance, whereas this has decreased health and shields - which ends up in me getting cocky, and going down. It's a different experience.

Is there any way to recreate the default Shep face, but as a custom character? I can't seem to find any of the right features.

[QUOTE=Estolle93;39880024]Is there any way to recreate the default Shep face, but as a custom character? I can't seem to find any of the right features.[/QUOTE] Nah, his face was modeled after Mark Vanderloo's face.

[QUOTE=yellowoboe;39879949]Well it's not really that close. [t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/MassEffect3_2013-03-10_20-38-07-26.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Yeah, you have to remember that the maps like that aren't to scale.

[QUOTE=Angus725;39879882]I utterly fail at N7 Shadow. I cant keep alive for more than 1-2 rounds or so due to my need to melee (which usually ends up with me being caught by more enemies that I can handle). Then again, this is coming from a me, who played through Deus Ex by being master-chief and killing everything...[/QUOTE] My very first reserve pack I got the N7 shadow, so I tried it out and holy fucking shit meleeing enemies like Brutes,Banshees,and phantoms is so goddamn satisfying. Shadow striking a phantom and using your melee to decapitate it is like best feeling in the world if you've ever been insta-killed by the douche bags.

So I bought an arsenal pack for the first time. Didn't get a single weapon.

[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;39876420]Eh, this DLC doesn't really fit anywhere in the game though. The tone throughout the entire thing is pretty much the polar opposite of the rest of the game and having it in the base game would have been jarring as hell. A case could be made that stretching this DLC throughout the latter half of the game will dilute it enough to fit though. Besides that though, there is literally nothing in this DLC that is absolutely [I]essential[/I] to the main plot, and it's fanservice through and through. Quite frankly, it's the best example of how to do DLC that I've seen in a long time.[/QUOTE] The conspiracy plot doesn't have any business in ME3's main plot, but all the character stuff (easily half the DLC) was exactly what ME3 has been missing. Most non-squaddies showed up for 1-2 quick appearances and then they disappeared for the rest of the game. The DLC pretty much entirely exists because people complained that their favorite characters were barely in the game.

[QUOTE=yellowoboe;39880156]So I bought an arsenal pack for the first time. Didn't get a single weapon.[/QUOTE] pictures of what you did get then please

Didn't take a picture. Was like +3 cobra missiles, like 3 different ammo things, and some other things I already used.

After playing through Citadel and broing it up with Wrex and team I have reached consensus. I really don't want Mass Effect to end - more importantly Shepard's Mass Effect. They have really succeeded with the characters and the world. I even think they did a good job with Vega. They got the whitest white guy to play a hispanic Hercules and he pulled it off.

The citadel soundtracks are available to download now for free! [url]http://social.bioware.com/me3citadelsoundtrack.php[/url]

[QUOTE=Skyward;39879887]Also, why do nearly all of the guns in this game have two "barrels"?[/QUOTE] Aesthetic purposes probably What confuses me more is that the "actual" barrel (e.g. for purposes of attachments) is often the sillier one e.g. the vindicator

[QUOTE=NapyDaWise;39880646]The citadel soundtracks are available to download now for free! [url]http://social.bioware.com/me3citadelsoundtrack.php[/url][/QUOTE] That reminds me actually: you can buy the Extended Cut soundtrack in ~256 kbit/s MP3 format on Amazon ([url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008RAMJM2/[/url]) or you can get it in an uncompressed WAV format for absolutely free on the Bioware site ([url]http://social.bioware.com/me3ecsoundtrack.php?dl=1[/url]). Clearly two sets of people didn't bother to talk to each other.

I remember loving the Vindicator as the Spectre weapon and then never using it from ME2 on.

[QUOTE=JgcxCub;39880989]Aesthetic purposes probably What confuses me more is that the "actual" barrel (e.g. for purposes of attachments) is often the sillier one e.g. the vindicator[/QUOTE] Which one is it on the vindicator again? Top or bottom? [editline]11th March 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=yellowoboe;39881045]I remember loving the Vindicator as the Spectre weapon and then never using it from ME2 on.[/QUOTE] Tell me about it. It was eh in ME2, but totally worthless in 3.

Mattock master race. Also, the suppressed M-11.

You don't need weapons when you have a fully evolved Lash and instant kill fences you can knock mooks over

Or a combat drone to keep you company.

M-7 Lancer master race

join match in progress, wave 2. whatever, still can get max credits but there's a bit more 'miniboss' enemies now.. that's odd. wave 11, game over.. [img]http://puu.sh/2gcGB[/img] Oh. My face when I realize it was a gold match and I didn't go down twice. My teammate's faces when they found out I was level 12. [editline]11th March 2013[/editline] shadow is more fun with shotguns than snipers, seriously disciple or eviscerator alldayerrday

Pulled some of the new apartment songs from the game files, since I couldn't find these ones anywhere on youtube. [video=youtube;ZRARYQ6wCOA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRARYQ6wCOA[/video]

Traynor seems to have used Ender's strategy in that tournament thing.

Okay, this is annoying. I keep getting messages in the Normandy from crew mates telling me I should invite them to the apartment sometime, but whenever I go to the apartment, those messages aren't there. What am I supposed to be doing here?

You might have already invited them up and the messages are coming late/aren't synced. Edit: Having a tough time choosing Tali or Miranda in my latest playthrough. On the one hand you have a space elf that is the cute little sister type, the other you have the 'perfect' human and awesome australian ermagod Yvonne character.