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Fordel
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Reply #1575 on: April 12, 2012, 03:35:55 PM

I want to say the facial stuff in game isn't actually animated by hand, but some kind of algorithm that syncs up with the spoke dialogue somehow.


But I could be talking out of my ass too.

and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Reply #1576 on: April 12, 2012, 04:09:55 PM

I want to say the facial stuff in game isn't actually animated by hand, but some kind of algorithm that syncs up with the spoke dialogue somehow.

In the previous two games, there was a procedural system that did the raw animation, but this wasn't considered "shippable quality" - the cinematics team hand-touched every individual line.

There was a fair amount of stuff cut from ME2 Citadel simply because there wasn't enough time for the animators to tweak them all. For example, in the original version of the Khalisah interview, she ambushed you with a family member of someone who died in the battle - an asari related to someone on Destiny Ascension or a human related to a crewember of one of the additional Alliance cruisers that gets blown up if you save Ascension (I watched the ME1 Citadel cutscenes dozens of times, counting every single ship that blew up in the two versions). You used your Persuade/Intimidate in conversation with the relative, to get them to understand whatever your decision was.

There was also a quest in which you catch a Terra Firma politician having an affair with an asari at the Dark Star. His dialogue included a number of statements paraphrased from Senator Larry Craig.

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Reply #1577 on: April 12, 2012, 05:13:43 PM


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Reply #1578 on: April 12, 2012, 09:12:51 PM

Grumble. I enjoy the multi, but playing an hour of it to have the store system lose your transaction and the points is.. frustrating.
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Reply #1579 on: April 12, 2012, 09:18:49 PM

If you keep track of your unlocks with a spreadsheet or something, you'll see that if it takes away the credits, you get the items.

It's been really consistent when I've gone in and looked for discrepancies in my sheet after every failed purchase.

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Reply #1580 on: April 12, 2012, 09:44:03 PM

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Reply #1581 on: April 12, 2012, 11:19:08 PM

I find it incredibly sad that I know what oo-mox is without having to look it up.
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Reply #1582 on: April 12, 2012, 11:53:53 PM

If you keep track of your unlocks with a spreadsheet or something, you'll see that if it takes away the credits, you get the items.

It's been really consistent when I've gone in and looked for discrepancies in my sheet after every failed purchase.

I earned 107k tonight, bought the special for 99k. Failed, gave me back the credits. Failed again, etc etc about 15 times, went to main menu, came back, failed again.

Exited ME3, restarted. I now have 8k credits, and no pending purchase.

The bug is that it gives you back the cash, UNLESS you exit the game. And if you're secretly not connected and need to restarted ME3, you're basically fucked.
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Reply #1583 on: April 13, 2012, 12:08:44 AM

Yes, that's what I mean.  It'll take away the credits and never show you the contents of the pack, but you do get them.  There's no pending purchases because it already completed it at some point, probably on the first or second time it "failed".

This is on PC by the way.  No clue how it works out on consoles.

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Reply #1584 on: April 13, 2012, 12:09:24 AM

If you keep track of your unlocks with a spreadsheet or something, you'll see that if it takes away the credits, you get the items.

It's been really consistent when I've gone in and looked for discrepancies in my sheet after every failed purchase.

I earned 107k tonight, bought the special for 99k. Failed, gave me back the credits. Failed again, etc etc about 15 times, went to main menu, came back, failed again.

Exited ME3, restarted. I now have 8k credits, and no pending purchase.

The bug is that it gives you back the cash, UNLESS you exit the game. And if you're secretly not connected and need to restarted ME3, you're basically fucked.

This has happened to me a few times, and every time I got the items, I just didn't get the 'pack opening' sequence.

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Reply #1585 on: April 13, 2012, 01:08:54 AM

same here. do an inventory. It hardly happens to me. One time i thought it occured to me, but when I picked my salarian i knew exactly what I received, a bunch of new color schemes and patterns.

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Reply #1586 on: April 13, 2012, 07:46:49 AM

Hm. I'll look, I know I didn't get anything New from the indicators. But it may have given me a Something IV instead.
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Reply #1587 on: April 13, 2012, 10:09:18 AM

Quick update: This weekend's event:

Anyone who has the Resurgence Pack multiplayer DLC operational during this weekend will be granted a Reserves Pack.  A Reserves Pack unlocks one of the new random alien classes guaranteed.

All participating squads will earn +10% additional experience when playing on the Resurgence expansion’s new maps, Firebase: Condor and Firebase: Hydra.


So, play with the DLC installed this weekend, get an alien pack. Also, a flat XP buff that seems enh.
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Reply #1588 on: April 13, 2012, 10:47:13 AM

I find it incredibly sad that I know what oo-mox is without having to look it up.

You're welcome.
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Reply #1589 on: April 13, 2012, 12:59:21 PM

The new sniper rifle sucks. No wonder the Batarians lost.

Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something.  We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Reply #1590 on: April 13, 2012, 02:00:52 PM

Fuck batarians, man. Fuck 'em!

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Reply #1591 on: April 13, 2012, 03:31:03 PM

The harpoon gun is awesome!

*flings corpses around the map*
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Reply #1592 on: April 13, 2012, 08:58:44 PM

Yeah, got the harpoon gun the other night. My QI isn't giving up her Widow anytime soon.

Liking the new maps quite a bit, though.

I always make sure I shoot every batarian in the back at least once a game...
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Reply #1593 on: April 14, 2012, 02:22:58 AM

My impressions of the Resurgence DLC so far:

Like that there are some "support" powers now (Biotic Sphere and Geth Turret)

Biotic Sphere is interesting - can be spec'd for either offense or defense

Biotic Sphere + Reave on the Asari Justicar seems like it could be an interesting combo if spec'd for damage reduction

Batarians are hard to use - Ballistic Blades is slow to fire and heavy melee is very slow

Kishock Harpoon Gun is also hard to use but does ridiculous damage when charged up

Both Batarian classes (Soldier and Sentinel) get Blade Armor which makes it feel like they are different flavors of Sentinel

I like that the Geth Turret is fired from your weapon, makes it easier to place

Hunter Mode puts too much crap on the screen making it hard to see stuff

Haven't unlocked Geth Infiltrator or Krogan Battlemaster (Vanguard) yet
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Reply #1594 on: April 14, 2012, 03:14:15 AM

God knows what was going through their head with hunter mode. I really like the Geth infiltrator, and desperately wanted to play the engineer, but those graphics make the game unplayable for me. I get a headache after a short time of looking at the screen, and on some maps I can't find objectives or mission markers. On one map I kept running out of the hacking zone because I couldn't actually see it against hunter mode graphics!
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Reply #1595 on: April 14, 2012, 06:02:41 AM

it does show encouraging signs of having support abilities better implemented.
i unlocked asari justicar & both geth classes. i won't play the geth infil. since the hunter mode seems counter productive.
The engineer however is probably the best engineer out there. Shield restoring turret and some decent Hunter Vision to spot those pesky phantoms. Good , solid class.

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Reply #1596 on: April 14, 2012, 07:59:27 AM

Justicar Barrier is also a leecher favourite, though. Just went into my third game where a player just bubbles up and doesn't contribute anything to the match.
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Reply #1597 on: April 14, 2012, 08:33:13 AM

What's the purpose in that? 
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Reply #1598 on: April 14, 2012, 09:05:15 AM

trolling, most likely. got the batarian soldier unlocked. Horrible, horrible class.

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Reply #1599 on: April 14, 2012, 10:24:33 AM

Money and XP is split among all players so if the other three finish you get the dough.

Since there's no way to kick players once the round starts you have to live with them.

Finished a silver game last night as a duo (infiltrator + asari adept) because we got two leechers with Justicar bubble.
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Reply #1600 on: April 14, 2012, 11:55:43 AM

trolling, most likely. got the batarian soldier unlocked. Horrible, horrible class.

Really? Girlfriend hated it at first but quickly began to love just running around Falcon Punching everything.
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Reply #1601 on: April 14, 2012, 06:10:31 PM

trolling, most likely. got the batarian soldier unlocked. Horrible, horrible class.

Really? Girlfriend hated it at first but quickly began to love just running around Falcon Punching everything.

It didn't really work for Silver games. The oncoming damage is too massive, and they can't even roll. It's like a gimped turian, and ballistic blade power activation time is too long and range too awful that activating it usually results in hitting a corpse cause that infiltrator / adept is already gibbing the dude from behind cover. I'm fucking disappointed. They shd make ballistic blade a grappling hook that can grab regular enemies so he can falcon punch them instead of being like a free shotgun that has no range.

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Reply #1602 on: April 14, 2012, 06:52:28 PM




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Reply #1603 on: April 14, 2012, 09:49:35 PM

trolling, most likely. got the batarian soldier unlocked. Horrible, horrible class.

Really? Girlfriend hated it at first but quickly began to love just running around Falcon Punching everything.

It didn't really work for Silver games. The oncoming damage is too massive, and they can't even roll. It's like a gimped turian, and ballistic blade power activation time is too long and range too awful that activating it usually results in hitting a corpse cause that infiltrator / adept is already gibbing the dude from behind cover. I'm fucking disappointed. They shd make ballistic blade a grappling hook that can grab regular enemies so he can falcon punch them instead of being like a free shotgun that has no range.

That's really weird. She only plays Silver and Gold matches and absolutely loves the Batarian. Maybe she was in a team that synergized well with it, who knows.

She hasn't played much since the first day of the patch thanks to game after game after game of Justicar trolls who just keep their shield up all the time and do nothing but spew shit over voice comms.
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Reply #1604 on: April 15, 2012, 06:29:37 PM

I got an email from EA trying to get me to buy MA3.  The quote they used was the followiing:

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... Mass Effect 3 has provoked a bigger fan reaction than any other video game's conclusion in the medium's History.
- Entertainment Weekly


I suppose that's one way of putting it.  Make some lemonade, boys. awesome, for real

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Reply #1605 on: April 15, 2012, 06:39:37 PM

Same reaction when I read it.


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Reply #1606 on: April 15, 2012, 07:27:40 PM

That's like saying, "Biodome was the best movie about two stoners played by Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin stuck in a biodome ever!"

It's true, but it's not exactly something to crow about.

Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something.  We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Reply #1607 on: April 15, 2012, 07:45:36 PM



Well, that was predictable. What a bunch of tossers.



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Reply #1608 on: April 15, 2012, 09:17:44 PM

Are they just trolling now?
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Reply #1609 on: April 15, 2012, 10:04:29 PM

They're also trolling from the pack rewards as well.

Remember those medigels, survival packs, and ammo?
Well make sure you spend them when you're getting close to 255.
Why? Cause it maxes out at 255 and even if it does, Bioware still rewards you with those consumables and NO, IT REMAINS AT 255.
This plus Character Costume Cards duplicates makes very little sense other than 'let's jew them till they throw real cash into the packs'

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