Mass Effect 3

[eldaec]

140 is ridiculous.

70 (regular edition plus the only dlc worth a damn) is just fine.

[Lantyssa]

40 is fine.  50 is pushing it.

[kaid]

Asari Adept is bullshit 
Stasis maxed out perk freezes the guy on the spot and on top of that gives 50% dmg bonus.
Now we all know why they carry sniper rifles. It's a free head shot.

Fuck that noise. Sniper rifle's too slow unless you've got the automatic one. Get the Carnifex and a couple of damage mods and it's headshotapalooza.

This sniper rifle is to slow I stasis bubble then do three head shots back to back with my carnifex in the time it would take to reload the sniper rifle.

The stasis bubble seems kinda OP compared to singularity the nastiest thing is biotic explosions do not remove the bubble. I wish singularity was like that as well where you could combo and not remove the CC area.

Curious how well singularity works vs other types of opponents other than cerebrus. If I remember in me2 stasis did not work super good vs mechanical units and that may be where singularity has a better showing.

[Paelos]

40 is fine.  50 is pushing it.

Those are my dating rules as well.

[Nonentity]

Asari Adept is bullshit 
Stasis maxed out perk freezes the guy on the spot and on top of that gives 50% dmg bonus.
Now we all know why they carry sniper rifles. It's a free head shot.

Fuck that noise. Sniper rifle's too slow unless you've got the automatic one. Get the Carnifex and a couple of damage mods and it's headshotapalooza.

This sniper rifle is to slow I stasis bubble then do three head shots back to back with my carnifex in the time it would take to reload the sniper rifle.

The stasis bubble seems kinda OP compared to singularity the nastiest thing is biotic explosions do not remove the bubble. I wish singularity was like that as well where you could combo and not remove the CC area.

Curious how well singularity works vs other types of opponents other than cerebrus. If I remember in me2 stasis did not work super good vs mechanical units and that may be where singularity has a better showing.

Been playing through ME2 to finish that up - The ME2 Stasis that Liara gets in the Shadow Broker DLC is nowhere in the same neighborhood as the ME3 Stasis. The ME2 stasis makes them invulnerable for the duration (like a hard CC), the ME3 one makes them take increased damage and will break after X amount of damage.

Also, someone explain biotic/tech combos to me. I see it happen sometimes, but I've never seen a clarified statement as to how exactly those work.

[Reg]

Are there actually triple A games that were released at 40 bucks any time in the last decade? I paid more than that for my first copy of Civilization back in the 80s.

[kildorn]

Tech Bursts are new, and not fully understood right now. It seems that Overload is the chain skill. You hit with another tech bursting power while the target is still under the effect of Overload(electricity on the model, lasts about 4-8 seconds) like the Salarian Infiltrator's Energy Drain. Sadly, it doesn't seem like Incinerate or Cryo Blast can trigger these, at least not reliably. Oddly enough inferno ammo and disruptor ammo DO trigger them. This is why I dislike tech bursts/tech classes in multi. Biotics can pretty much always chain by themselves. Techs seem to require help from another tech (Overload -> Overload seems to burst, so two overload spammers work well together), and it feels like it severely hurts their damage output.

Biotic Bursts are far more understood. Any duration effect + Warp is the easy method. Stasis -> Warp is a burst. Warp -> Throw is a burst. Singularity -> Warp is a burst (and I think Singularity -> Throw?). Shockwave's Lift -> Warp is also a burst. Any effect that is blown up by warp is used up (can't burst someone twice with Stasis->Warp->Warp)

For fun, whoever sets up the combo gets the kill credit for it. So if I stasis someone and another biotic warps him, I get the burst damage/kill spam.

[Stormwaltz]

The original article is from Destructoid, not Kotaku.

The Collector Rifle gets more powerful the more codes you have for it. So yes, in order to get the "best" Collector Rifle, you really do have to buy the full $870 list.

Cha-ching!

[eldaec]

Type in codes from magazine => Feel bad about using cheatmodes.

Pay $800 => Enjoy premium game experience!

Honestly I think it is awesome that someone somewhere is subsidizing EA for this worthless shit.

[Ingmar]

I can't get too worked up about the rifle thing since the multiplayer is only co-op and they won't be shooting ME with it.

[kildorn]

Amusingly, weapons go to tier 10, and there aren't 10 upgrades for it. So the best collector rifle, for nearly $900.. will always be shittier than everything else?

edit: for laughs, the people who wrote the multiplayer code are kind of terrible at the idea of security, so you could get a tier X collector rifle for free unless they fix the issue. Turns out you can alter the coalesced file and change the pack contents you buy. People were happily doing it in the demo and proving that the logic behind what comes out of your random loot back is entirely determined client side.

[Simond]

Spoilers are beginning to hit the official forum. People are getting p. mad. 

[tmp]

Spoilers are beginning to hit the official forum. People are getting p. mad. 

I went to the official forum to look for drama but got distracted by a thread named "Goatse Effect 3"


(you're welcome)

[Velorath]

Spoilers are beginning to hit the official forum. People are getting p. mad. 

Haven't looked since obviously I want to avoid spoilers.  I was thinking the other day though that their whole "Mass Effect 3 getting shot into space, get the game a week early" thing had huge potential to backfire from someone rushing through the game and then posting spoilers.  Not sure if that's what's happened here, but I'll be avoiding Bioware's forums even more than usual now.

[Velorath]

1) You linked to Kotaku which in and of itself is generally a sin here.
2) It's not even an article that Kotaku wrote.  They just copied and pasted an article from Destructoid.
3) It's fucking Kotaku.

I have nothing useful to add; i just want to note i love how wonderfully your AV and the content of the post fit together.

I wish I could own a pygmy hedgehog, but hedgehogs are apparently illegal in California.  I have to settle for this pic of a very stern and unamused looking one.

[Ingmar]

Spoilers are beginning to hit the official forum. People are getting p. mad. 

I went to the official forum to look for drama but got distracted by a thread named "Goatse Effect 3"


(you're welcome)

I'd like to say I blame you for how I will always see that UI now, but odds are it would have been the first thing I thought of anyway.

[Fordel]

Eh, that one is a stretch.

[Sjofn]

I see what you did there, Fordel.

And if you didn't do that on purpose, pretend you did.  


And I am sad about hedgehogs being illegal in CA, we totally wanted one back before we had cats, and learned that little factoid to our dismay. CA outlaws all sorts of fun pets. :(

[Paelos]

Eh, that one is a stretch.

 

[rk47]

Spoilers are beginning to hit the official forum. People are getting p. mad. 

Haven't looked since obviously I want to avoid spoilers.  I was thinking the other day though that their whole "Mass Effect 3 getting shot into space, get the game a week early" thing had huge potential to backfire from someone rushing through the game and then posting spoilers.  Not sure if that's what's happened here, but I'll be avoiding Bioware's forums even more than usual now.

Script was leaked.

[Stormwaltz]

Script was leaked.

The actual script, or the 6-9 month old in-process version from last year?

[Simond]

Well, bearing in mind that the person who found one of the balloon-copies has said that the actual script is more-or-less the same as the leaked one, I don't really see much point in splitting hairs.

(Official forums status update: still at stage one of the Kübler-Ross model)

[tmp]

(Official forums status update: still at stage one of the Kübler-Ross model)

Looks they just upgraded threat level, too:

(this warning pops up on login. Shit is getting all srs)

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[Simond]

or other Community members.

Ahahahahahaha!

E: Anyone else figured out where Bioware nicked the endings from yet, btw? 

[rk47]

thank god they cracked down on those  

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BSN is not really a great place to criticize the games.

[tmp]

male Shepard gay sex scene leaked out

I suppose that reception was to be expected :/

[Lakov_Sanite]

  or  ?

[HaemishM]

So the gay romance scenes are just as awkward as the straight ones then.

[Surlyboi]

Yup.

[tmp]

or  ?

Depends if you are paragon or renegade, apparently.

[Paelos]

Sjofn will be pleased with awkward gay spaceman sex.  

[kaid]

Most awkward video game "sex" scene has to be the garrus femshep thing from ME2. Yes we had relations and by that I mean we  awkardly hugged while wearing full battle armor. I think the only way it would have been more awkward would have been if we had just nervously fist bumped.

[tmp]

Garrus scene was my favourite from ME2. So there. /shakefist

[Lakov_Sanite]

Emi/shed sex scene in Katawa Shoujo is both the most awkward and best sex scene in any game ever.

[Velorath]

Pretty good article from Bioware on the new Reputation (Paragon/Renegade) system works.


There's a lot more to the article than this, but here is the key summary:

Under the hood: Changes from Mass Effect 2

If you played Mass Effect 2, a lot of this will seem familiar. The key differences are:

There’s no penalty for mixing Paragon and Renegade: In Mass Effect 2, if you wanted to get the hardest Charm options, you had to play an almost completely Paragon character. We intended many of those Charms to be fun Easter eggs, but many players felt like they had to play pure Paragon to avoid being penalized by the loss of a dialog option. In Mass Effect 3, your Reputation score determines both Charm and Intimidate options, and that score is determined by adding your Paragon and Renegade scores together. You’re still rewarded for being a completionist player and doing as much content as you can, but you can do it as a Paragon or Renegade player without penalty.

We now have non-flavored Reputation: In Mass Effect 2, after a mission that didn’t have any major choices, we would give both Paragon and Renegade points, to show that even without a major decision, Shepard was more famous and had more influence as a result. This confused some players and made others angry – people who wanted to play pure Paragon didn’t like getting rewarded with both Paragon and Renegade points. In Mass Effect 3, whenever there’s a mission with no major decision, you will get Reputation points that add to your overall score but don’t carry a Paragon or Renegade flavor. The bar on your screen will grow, but the Paragon/Renegade ratio will remain unchanged.