Mass Effect 3

[Simond]

A developer showing that they just didn't care enough to expend any sort of real effort for the big reveal of a fan-favourite isn't an issue in your world?

...

You're part of the problem.

[Rokal]

I wonder if unlimited ammo can be modded back in.  I can't believe they kept it from ME2.

The DLC companion quest actually gives you a rifle that has infinite ammo, but a large 'cooldown' if you expend a full clip without letting it recharge. 

After playing the DLC quest, yeah, they should have included this with the main game. There are some really cool bits of lore and seeing bits of the last 'failed' cycle, the consequences of an even more-advanced race failing to defeat the reapers, shows how high the stakes are.

[luckton]

A developer showing that they just didn't care enough to expend any sort of real effort for the big reveal of a fan-favourite isn't an issue in your world?

...

You're part of the problem.

And here I thought I was going to scolded for posting another Kotaku article 

Stay classy, f13!   

[Sjofn]

Simond has an amazing sense of perspective.

[Simond]

It's not easy, being right all the bloody time. 

[Ingmar]

The first couple hours the melodrama is turned up to 11 and I found that pretty annoying. I like the halfway point they found between ME1 and ME2 with inventory/mods/levelup stuff. I don't have much more to add as yet. I don't mind the scanning stuff, I'll say that.

[Sky]

Are you playing this on the PC? Because so long as you rotate your camera to land your crosshairs on someone, you can target anyone you have LoS to. Or maybe I'm not understanding what you mean by "select."

How do you do that in the shift-pause screen? (Yeah, PC, kbam) Guess I didn't see a way to move the camera.

Scanning seems clunkier than I remember. Navigating the galaxy map also seems clunkier. It feels like I should be using a gamepad to play this, except it's an FPS so  

[Pezzle]

LT Roidrage stays on my ship and complains about it!  DLC guy comes with me most times because of the fun.  I dislike the system scanning immensely!  The rest is reasonable enough, though the hit parade of previous NPC's continues (as does new characters mostly being boring and terrible).  I guess that says bad things about your game?  The previous installments nostalgia factor is pretty high.  At least the scenes have started to entertain me.

[tmp]

How do you do that in the shift-pause screen? (Yeah, PC, kbam) Guess I didn't see a way to move the camera.

You can pan around holding down right mouse button in ME2; i'm presuming this didn't change in ME3.

in other, worse/funnier news, going by the official forums multiplayer servers may have trouble remembering your unlocks. Fun especially for people who burnt cash/BioWare points to get them, i'm sure

[Tarami]

It's <spoiler>  The worshippers would raise hell even if it was visage of robot raptor jesus.

(that said, it is pretty lulzy/lazy)

My issue is more that the photo is *terrifying*. It doesn't look like a different lifeform, it just looks like a horrifically mutilated (human) woman, like a bomb victim.

Which is rather in one sense - given the expectations - but in my guess so very not intentional.

[Nightblade]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIP73xIAPLU

[Ratman_tf]

It's <spoiler>  The worshippers would raise hell even if it was visage of robot raptor jesus.

(that said, it is pretty lulzy/lazy)

My issue is more that the photo is *terrifying*. It doesn't look like a different lifeform, it just looks like a horrifically mutilated (human) woman, like a bomb victim.

Which is rather in one sense - given the expectations - but in my guess so very not intentional.

Wat? She looks like a chick that someone drew on her face with a magic marker. I'm not seeing the bomb victim angle, though I will say with that ginormous lens flare I'm barely able to make out much anyway.

[Tarami]

So it's just me? I saw the side-by-side in the spoiler thread and spontaneously found it disturbing in the way.

[Sjofn]

How do you do that in the shift-pause screen? (Yeah, PC, kbam) Guess I didn't see a way to move the camera.

You can pan around holding down right mouse button in ME2; i'm presuming this didn't change in ME3.

Yep, that's the way.

[Quinton]

How do you do that in the shift-pause screen? (Yeah, PC, kbam) Guess I didn't see a way to move the camera.

You can pan around holding down right mouse button in ME2; i'm presuming this didn't change in ME3.

Well it's massively slower at panning while the button is held now.  Annoying.

[tmp]

Well it's massively slower at panning while the button is held now.  Annoying.

Is it always slower now? In ME2 it'd sometimes glitch and pan very very slow on seemingly random occasions, but return to regular, decent panning speed when unpaused and then paused again. Maybe that bug is still in..?

[Sjofn]

I pan slowly if I'm doing that to start with, so I have no idea. I haven't noticed any particular slowness, though.

[rk47]

Going through the Kingdom of Amalur Demo tonight to check out the Chakram Launcher & Reckoner Armor.

That Indra Sniper promo was a strange idea. Clip size of 25 for a sniper is amazing, but full auto and low damage? Err...I'll keep the Widow, thanks.

[koro]

There was a similar pre-order/DLC sniper rifle for ME2: high magazine capacity, full-auto, low damage.

It was about as useless.

[rk47]

Yeah I thinks the devs themselves don't understand how power and rifles synergy together.
Stasis + Widow is insta-kill at Rank 6 +50% dmg on target for most targets.

When I equip the Indra, the Stasis was broken in one headshot, yet the guy is still alive with minor damage. What???

[Miasma]

Yeah I thinks the devs themselves don't understand how power and rifles synergy together.
Stasis + Widow is insta-kill at Rank 6 +50% dmg on target for most targets.

When I equip the Indra, the Stasis was broken in one headshot, yet the guy is still alive with minor damage. What???

I looked it up before deciding to join whatever the heck that alienware thing is and noticed the terrible damage so I didn't bother.  It's description says something like it's very good at destroying shields but has a massive penalty to health damage so I don't know what good it is.

[Pezzle]

Yeah, it is a terrible weapon.  At least it is free!  Already get the Dell spam from partnerships at work so why not? 

Sniper rifles still inspire awe.  Not using the Widow at the moment, but AP mods plus disruptor ammo is doing silly things to the enemy right now. 

On a different note, you know what this game needs?  MOAR KROGAN (and cowbell).

Dammit, now I want to go back and play ME1, and I swore to never do that again.

[Margalis]

Spoilers involving that image:

[Ratman_tf]

Spoilers involving that image:

[Simond]

Spoilers involving that image:

[Outlawedprod]

No idea if legit but I saw it linked on a few places.

[Ingmar]

We have a spoiler thread for a reason, people!

For Xbox users, the disc switching is a lot more annoying in ME3 than it was in ME2, if that influences your platform choice at all.

[Rasix]

Yah, it asked me to switch disks on like the second side mission I got.   

[Miasma]

How many cigarettes do you think I would have to smoke to sound like admiral Hackett?  It might be worth the cancer.

[Simond]

We have a spoiler thread for a reason, people!

Is that reason "because people have no self-control and keep clicking the shiny bold spoiler link"? 

[Ingmar]

No, the reason is not to clog this one up with page after page of nothing but posts with spoiler tags.

[Ratman_tf]

Does the combat feel worse in this game than 2? I'm about 3 hours into the game, doing some mission against Cerberus. I swear to god, I'm firing at a turret, Pa-pow! Pa-pow! Pa-pow! And this Cerb engineer guy walks calmly into my line of fire, walks up point blank, and without missing a beat, I blow him away. WTH kind of AI is that? Did the dude lose the will to live? 
The cover mechanic is as frustrating, if not more so than in ME2. I'm constantly popping in and out of cover ,or jumping over it accidentally. Or just standing there while Cerb flanks me and blows me away while I'm humping a wall.
Grrr. I wish they'd tried to fix their shitty 3rd person shooter mechanics while they were making pretty cutscenes.

[Sjofn]

Combat felt the same to me, personally. Except for my teeny, tiny, sometimes really hard to see crosshairs.

[rk47]

Does the combat feel worse in this game than 2? I'm about 3 hours into the game, doing some mission against Cerberus. I swear to god, I'm firing at a turret, Pa-pow! Pa-pow! Pa-pow! And this Cerb engineer guy walks calmly into my line of fire, walks up point blank, and without missing a beat, I blow him away. WTH kind of AI is that? Did the dude lose the will to live? 
The cover mechanic is as frustrating, if not more so than in ME2. I'm constantly popping in and out of cover ,or jumping over it accidentally. Or just standing there while Cerb flanks me and blows me away while I'm humping a wall.
Grrr. I wish they'd tried to fix their shitty 3rd person shooter mechanics while they were making pretty cutscenes.

Being turned into semi-husk trooper does that to you.

[Trippy]

Is anybody else getting horrific amounts of stuttering on the PC version? I turned off the fucking in-game Origin interface and that helped a bit but it's still really bad, especially during cut scenes. Is there anything else I can try to fix the problem?