They're going to destroy the Charon relay/destroy the sun to wipe out the Reapers. That's the only non-deus ex machina way to defeat all the reapers
[editline]9th April 2011[/editline]
it also bothers me that all the reapers look the same even though the human reaper looked human
[QUOTE=Dr.C;29080382]They're going to destroy the Charon relay/destroy the sun to wipe out the Reapers. That's the only non-deus ex machina way to defeat all the reapers
[editline]9th April 2011[/editline]
it also bothers me that all the reapers look the same even though the human reaper looked human[/QUOTE]
The human Reaper was a horrible idea imo (I mean on the writer's part).
I'm fine with them all looking the same. I mean it's not like humans look that different from each other.
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;29080192]The Destiny Ascension did not attack Sovreign, it's designed for long range, system to system fighting, like a galactic artillery piece, it's own defences would have been worthless against Sovreign. If it DID attack him a lot more live probably would have been saved.[/QUOTE]
Hmm. Arrival lied to me. And everything else.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;29080382]They're going to destroy the Charon relay/destroy the sun to wipe out the Reapers. That's the only non-deus ex machina way to defeat all the reapers
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I bet they're going to do that, and then determine how other races react with the surviving Humans based on the end decision in ME1.
Aka Renegades get boned hard while paragons get a massive alien-sponsored "help the Humans" rebuilding situation.
[editline]9th April 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Arachnidus;29079808]Don't be worried about this.
In Star Trek, the Borg were the most terrifying sons of bitches in the universe. They took out entire fleets with just one ship. They were relentless. But somewhere along the line, the shows made them out to be fairly stoppable, which detracted from the whole "unstoppable force of nature" idea, which is basically what the Reapers are.
But then this new Star Trek book comes out, and the Borg come back in force, with thousands of ships and trillions of drones. And yeah, the heroes and Starfleet/the Federation can fight back against the Borg, but just barely. Thousands of ships are still lost, hell, the Borg just plow through fleets, literally. They just ram them. Even though almost 12 years ago they were made out to be nothing more than the Big Bad that could be easily ass kicked by the heroes, they were now once again an absolutely horrifying, seemingly unstoppable enemy.
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Then Species 8472 came along (at least in Voyager) and raped the [I]SHIT[/I] out of the Borg, it was incredibly satisfying watching the Borg suffer that much.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;29080749]I bet they're going to do that, and then determine how other races react with the surviving Humans based on the end decision in ME1..[/QUOTE]
I really doubt the "good" ending to ME3 will be "80% of all humans, including Earth, etc, being killed, destroyed, etc." You might as well not even try to stop the Reapers in the first place.
[QUOTE=Whatwhat1337;29082048]I really doubt the "good" ending to ME3 will be "80% of all humans, including Earth, etc, being killed, destroyed, etc." You might as well not even try to stop the Reapers in the first place.[/QUOTE]
Well Bioware dug themselves into a pit that doesn't seem to have any non-DEM solutions, and that's the only one I can see thus far.
Unless they're being plot masters and actually have an ingenious, non-cheap way to defeat the Reapers, in which case I'll probably giggle with delight as I see it unravel while playing.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;29082110]Well Bioware dug themselves into a pit that doesn't seem to have any non-DEM solutions, and that's the only one I can see thus far.
Unless they're being plot masters and actually have an ingenious, non-cheap way to defeat the Reapers, in which case I'll probably giggle with delight as I see it unravel while playing.[/QUOTE]
Knowing BioWare, it's probably (hopefully) the latter.
Apparently Thresher Maws can eat Reapers whole....
Expect Mass Effect 3 to have a even bigger shit storm of rage.
[QUOTE=plokoon9619;29082730]Apparently Thresher Maws can eat Reapers whole....
Expect Mass Effect 3 to have a even bigger shit storm of rage.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like you took that article snippet out of context.
The Reaper most likely HAD to be a smaller variant for it to happen, but that's alright. Thresher Maws can still grow pretty big, especially on planets with a low gravity.
Also, they said lights erupt from the ground after that. 10 bucks says the Reaper busts out of the ground just fine.
[QUOTE=MaverickIB;29083247]Also, they said lights erupt from the ground after that. 10 bucks says the Reaper busts out of the ground just fine.[/QUOTE]
Reaper: "I MEANT TO DO THAT."
Shep & Co: "Show off."
And the thresher maw is turned into a husk version.
[QUOTE=plokoon9619;29082730]Apparently Thresher Maws can eat Reapers whole....
Expect Mass Effect 3 to have a even bigger shit storm of rage.[/QUOTE]
That's what I'm worried about, even Thresher Maws can drag a Reaper out of the sky into the ground. It just seems so disappointing that the Reapers, even in size, have been scaled down to meer enemies like Geth. I'm really not looking forward to ME3 anymore, as I honestly think it's going to be a massive rape of possibly one of the best enemies I've seen in a long time.
Are there any better quality photos from the new issue of Game Informer than the ones posted around about page 28 or 29 or something?
[QUOTE=ThePutty;29083326]That's what I'm worried about, even Thresher Maws can drag a Reaper out of the sky into the ground. It just seems so disappointing that the Reapers, even in size, have been scaled down to meer enemies like Geth. I'm really not looking forward to ME3 anymore, as I honestly think it's going to be a massive rape of possibly one of the best enemies I've seen in a long time.[/QUOTE]
Think about it, though. This Thresher Maw is supposedly the biggest one anyone's ever seen, it should be plenty big enough to at least fuck with an average Reaper. Stop trying to find something to be disappointed in, it's annoying to other fans who aren't neurotic.
[QUOTE=Whatwhat1337;29083484]Think about it, though. This Thresher Maw is supposedly the biggest one anyone's ever seen, it should be plenty big enough to at least fuck with an average Reaper. Stop trying to find something to be disappointed in, it's annoying to other fans who aren't neurotic.[/QUOTE]
I'm assuming that it's probably not one of the regular Reapers we're familiar with, but one of those new, smaller looking ones. If it was one of the regular ones, I could see myself being kind of disappointed too.
BioWare have set the Reapers up to be these night-indestructible, god like machines. Sovereign simply PLOUGHED through the Citadel defence fleet without batting a... uhh... tentacle, and it took a mass accelerator round large enough to tear a sizeable chunk out of the size of a planet to put a HOLE through another Reaper. It'd seem sort of weird if a Thresher Maw (even a gigantic one) could drag a full-sized Reaper underground. I'd imagine maybe a GROUP of them being able to do so, but not just one.
so now I don't know how you guys look at "cheating" people, but either way, is there any way to get the anti material rifle off the start of the game?
if you can even use the antimaterial rifle that is, I wouldn't know.
[QUOTE=sltungle;29083563]I'm assuming that it's probably not one of the regular Reapers we're familiar with, but one of those new, smaller looking ones. If it was one of the regular ones, I could see myself being kind of disappointed too.
BioWare have set the Reapers up to be these night-indestructible, god like machines. Sovereign simply PLOUGHED through the Citadel defence fleet without batting a... uhh... tentacle, and it took a mass accelerator round large enough to tear a sizeable chunk out of the size of a planet to put a HOLE through another Reaper. It'd seem sort of weird if a Thresher Maw (even a gigantic one) could drag a full-sized Reaper underground. I'd imagine maybe a GROUP of them being able to do so, but not just one.[/QUOTE]
Not to mention it's got shields, wouldn't that simply stop the thresher maw from grabbing onto it
[QUOTE=ThePutty;29083645]Not to mention it's got shields, wouldn't that simply stop the thresher maw from grabbing onto it[/QUOTE]
Kinetic barriers protects against high velocity objects. Things slower then (Sound i think) don't trigger them. That's why persons are able so shake hands or sit down while having active shields
[QUOTE=sltungle;29083563]BioWare have set the Reapers up to be these night-indestructible, god like machines. Sovereign simply PLOUGHED through the Citadel defence fleet without batting a... uhh... tentacle, and it took a mass accelerator round large enough to tear a sizeable chunk out of the size of a planet to put a HOLE through another Reaper. It'd seem sort of weird if a Thresher Maw (even a gigantic one) could drag a full-sized Reaper underground. I'd imagine maybe a GROUP of them being able to do so, but not just one.[/QUOTE]
I think people are reading too much into the Reapers' alleged strengths, and are using it as an excuse to bitch about something. Because Mass Effect fans always have to bitch about something.
[QUOTE=Whatwhat1337;29083733]I think people are reading too much into the Reapers' alleged strengths, and are using it as an excuse to bitch about something. Because Mass Effect fans always have to bitch about something.[/QUOTE]
It's people like you that ruin main enemies by saying "oh they don't actually have that even though we've been told they do"
[QUOTE=sltungle;29083563]I'm assuming that it's probably not one of the regular Reapers we're familiar with, but one of those new, smaller looking ones. If it was one of the regular ones, I could see myself being kind of disappointed too.
BioWare have set the Reapers up to be these night-indestructible, god like machines. Sovereign simply PLOUGHED through the Citadel defence fleet without batting a... uhh... tentacle, and it took a mass accelerator round large enough to tear a sizeable chunk out of the size of a planet to put a HOLE through another Reaper. It'd seem sort of weird if a Thresher Maw (even a gigantic one) could drag a full-sized Reaper underground. I'd imagine maybe a GROUP of them being able to do so, but not just one.[/QUOTE]
A massive Tresher Maw probably weights more than a Reaper, considering most of it is underground.
[QUOTE=ThePutty;29083645]Not to mention it's got shields, wouldn't that simply stop the thresher maw from grabbing onto it[/QUOTE]
How do shields exactly stop something from wrapping around you? Just because they stop from touching your hull doesn't mean it can't just grab your shields.
I can see how you're annoyed by it a bit but it's a minor gripe at best, of a section that sounds pretty damn cool.
[QUOTE=The_Marine;29073457]How exactly is nobody complaining about this? It is bullshit! What the hell happened to DLC being side quests? I haven't the first idea what the fuck happened in the Arrival DLC because I didn't buy it. I'd hoped that fucking playing through ME2 would be enough, but nooooooooo. You have to play the Arrival DLC. I mean come on what?
This is fucking stupid.
WANT THE REAL ENDING? PAY MORE MONEY LOL.[/QUOTE]
No.
The climax, the [i]real[/i] ending, is the Suicide Mission, since that was the entire point of the game, to collect specialists from all over the galaxy in order to shut down the Collector Base.
Mass Effect 3 just starts a few weeks later than that, with Shepard's trial.
Want to know what happened in the meantime? Play Arrival.
[editline]10th April 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;29083822]How do shields exactly stop something from wrapping around you? Just because they stop from touching your hull doesn't mean it can't just grab your shields.[/QUOTE]
Indeed, I believe that shields just stop anything with very high kinetic energy, such as bullets. They can't block, for example, a punch.
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Indeed, I believe that shields just stop anything with very high kinetic energy, such as bullets. They can't block, for example, a punch.[/QUOTE]
I think they say that in Ascension at some point since you can read that a character puts a gun to the head of a shielded Quarian without any resistance from the shields
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;29083822]A massive Tresher Maw probably weights more than a Reaper, considering most of it is underground.[/QUOTE]
Granted Thresher Maws are big, I doubt they're anywhere NEAR the size of a Reaper. I mean, the exposed part is... what... 20 or 30 metres tall in game? Even being generous and saying 50 metres means it probably isn't anywhere more than a few hundred metres in length in total (external and subterranean parts all taken into account).
Go outside, find a huge, flat, straight road, and walk for half an hour. That's how long a Reaper is. It's FUCKING HUGE.
I don't think the Arrival DLC will be free near ME3, if you haven't got the DLC, you just don't know the details about what happened.
If you import a save with the DLC completed you will get you a "get out of court-free card" meaning you can keep some shit imported from me1 and 2 (money, weapons, upgrades?) and can have a renegade option "Blow it out your ass, they're just batarians".
[QUOTE=BreenIsALie;29083923]I think they say that in Ascension at some point since you can read that a character puts a gun to the head of a shielded Quarian without any resistance from the shields[/QUOTE]
And then he shoots him?
Yeah, that's because the gun is too close (past the barrier thing) for the shields to do anything.
More article pics.
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[quote]Wrex, Mordin, Anderson and Legion are stated to return as NPC's only.
Weapon Modification will pretty much be ME1's combined with ME2's more limited choice of weapons. Some new weapons are seen in the video in one of the scans. Upgrades seem to include adding scopes and modifying the barrel
Reasons are unknown why The Illusive Man wants Shepard dead, specially if you picked the option to give him the Collector Base, but a picture of a Cerberus Kill Squad is seen in the scans in the video.
Still no Tali confirmed. For those of you who care!
It's still all the same source, the May issue of GameInformer, the cover of which can be seen in the first few seconds of the video.[/quote]
[QUOTE=sltungle;29083924]\
Go outside, find a huge, flat, straight road, and walk for half an hour. That's how long a Reaper is. It's FUCKING HUGE.[/QUOTE]
I can see the distance that an "average" Reaper is supposed to be (2km or thereabouts) while looking out my front door, and I assure you that it's nowhere near as far as you would imply. Also, the Thresher Maws are at least twice as large as you suggest and this one is potentially much larger. Tell me, can a 6ft tall man be tripped if a small garden hose is wrapped around his legs sufficiently? Is that at least possible? If so, then does it not follow that an intelligent, comparatively more massive, not to mention highly aggressive Thresher can not at least temporarily subdue a Reaper?
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