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Havoc 03-22-2012 01:07 PM

Yeah after the assault on the Cerberus HQ nothing makes sense anymore. Suddenly the Citadel has been moved, conveniently, to Earth, even though the Reapers have no reason to but it there explicitly since there is no real 'main attack' in the Reaper's invasion. Obviously they needed an excuse for a battle on Earth but this is just forcing in a plot device like forcing an anorexic girl to eat 6 Big Macs in 2,353 seconds.

There's not even a movie of sorts to show how they are moving it or what happens on the Citadel during the move. It's just 'Good job on that attack, Shepard. Oh btw, the Citadel is now in orbit around Earth. Bye!'.

Varrok 03-22-2012 01:22 PM

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None of the plot points in the previous games make any relevance whatsoever, you don't see any Asari, Krogans, Turians, Quarians.

They all die because of Mass Relays' explosions.

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Speaking to the "stuck on Earth" point. The FTL drives in Mass Effect would allow them to travel from one side of the galaxy to the other in about 25 years without using Mass Relays. Most species could be back on their home planets in about ten years.

Awesome! Just let them pack their 10-year food supplies and... wait

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just how do the Reapers manage to sneakily move the Citadel to Earth.
They used the Plot device

EDIT: Damn ninjas!

OANST 03-22-2012 01:49 PM

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[spoiler]Awesome! Just let them pack their 10-year food supplies and... wait

I expect that the Quarians could show them how to do it.

Varrok 03-22-2012 02:34 PM

Devastated Earth/Sol system hardly has food for humans and not for huge multirace fleet to pack

Havoc 03-22-2012 02:36 PM

I think he meant that the Quarians grow food for their entire fleet onboard their ships, since they didn't have a homeworld.

Varrok 03-22-2012 02:49 PM

Oh...

They still died in Mass Relay's explosion, so it doesn't matter anyway

OANST 03-22-2012 02:53 PM

No, they didn't. The explosions weren't really explosions. They were more like bursts of energy that performed specific tasks.

Varrok 03-22-2012 11:40 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if something burst destructive energy, and after that the thing itself is destroyed too, it's a clear definition of an explosion :P

Havoc 03-23-2012 02:26 AM

The Mass Relays quite clearly seem to be destroyed as well, OANST.

OANST 03-23-2012 07:13 AM

They were supposed to be destroyed. They were destroyed because they were the conduits for that energy burst, and it overloaded them. It's clearly shown in Mass Effect 2 what happens when a Mass Relay is destroyed by means other than an overload, and it's an explosion that takes out just about everything in the solar system. I thought it was pretty clear that those bursts of energy caused targeted destruction.

Strike Witch 03-23-2012 07:38 AM

Well either way.

Even if you disagree, props for the musical choices.

OANST 03-23-2012 07:52 AM

Look, I'm not saying that the ending was great, but some of you guys are just making up new reasons for it to be bad that don't exist. There are plenty of reasons to not like the ending. There's no need to make shit up.

Or maybe you genuinely don't understand what happened.

Havoc 03-23-2012 10:47 AM

Actually some parts of that explaination do make sense to me. Part of me wants to believe that this ending is just Bioware being extremely clever and bringing the indoctrination to the player. By revolting the bad ending we're massively fighting the indoctrination.

I would really like to believe that, but I really doubt it's actually true :(

Varrok 03-23-2012 12:25 PM

The best thing they can do now is to pretend that was their whole point from the beginning and base ending-DLC on that

AlexFili 03-23-2012 01:01 PM

As far as I can tell, the only ending where the galaxy is screwed is the 'Bad' Red ending where the citadel laser obliterates ALL LIFE. In the other endings, the reapers die and/or the synthetics die and the Mass Relays break. They don't explode violently like the Batarian one that kills 300,000 of them.

One thing I think most people can agree on, the music on the first mission with the shuttles where Shepard looks at the kid, is one of the best pieces of Mass Effect music.

Havoc 03-24-2012 07:56 AM

I think the 'Future for the Krogan' music is very good as well.

AlexFili 03-25-2012 02:00 AM

Leaving Earth and The Fate of the Galaxy are also good tunes. I like the ending music for ME2 also.

Bullet Magnet 03-25-2012 03:20 PM

I haven't started the main game yet while I wait for the face import patch. It seems silly, but it's like unexpectedly replacing an actor in a TV show. I spent the last week redoing ME2 and all the side quests without using the EXP glitch.

I am having fun with the multiplayer, I particularly like playing the Salarian Infiltrator, he's the only Infiltrator with powers worth using. I'm looking forward to the character DLC that was leaked a few days ago. It will add Geth to Engineer and Infiltrator, Batarians to Soldier and Sentinel, and from appearances, whatever Asari Justicar and Krogan Battlemaster will be (not that that makes much sense given what we already have). I'm hoping for a biotic Krogan comparable to a Vanguard.

AlexFili 03-26-2012 12:37 AM

Quarian Infiltrator is useful against the Geth. What is this EXP glitch you mentioned? I never saw it.

Dipstikk 03-26-2012 07:19 AM



Footage for the latest proposed Mass Effect DLC.

I'd rather play something like this, actually.

Havoc 03-26-2012 08:50 AM

Everyone hates Joker!

Also I hate the people who try to cut and paste the TF2 voices together to make a decent sentence. It's fucking anoying and sounds horrible, stop fucking doing it!! :(

Dipstikk 03-26-2012 09:05 AM

I like it. :>

Varrok 03-26-2012 10:47 AM

Makes more sense than ME's plot. And the music is cooler.

Dipstikk 03-26-2012 10:54 AM

IT'S NOT A PLAN, BUT IT'S A PERFECT PLAN.

Bullet Magnet 03-26-2012 12:16 PM

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Quarian Infiltrator is useful against the Geth. What is this EXP glitch you mentioned? I never saw it.

Well, obviously. But I play random enemy, it's a crapshoot. Fingers crossed that the Geth Infiltrator will have decent powers.

There were two EXP glitches, though I only bothered to use one. It will only work now if you clear your cache to get rid of the patches (which does mean going back to slow planet scanning, but you can always download them again once you've leveled up.

Basically, if you press select and cancel at the same time when choosing level 4 of a power, the points are reset but you still go to the power evolution screen. Choose one and the bar is filled back to level 4, but you keep the points. If you level all the way from nothing then you get all ten points back. All you have to do is not level up for about two missions and then you can max out them all. Is helpful on Insane difficulty, and lets you try out good versions of the powers you never use.

However, it may make a mess of things for the character import for ME3. I don't know what it will do. I actually thought it was responsible for the face glitch, I replayed ME2 without even looking it up.

Apparently the face glitch is fixed, but the patch still needs to be tested for secondary glitches before it is ready for release. Then Microsoft takes another week to approve it.

sheridanm962 03-27-2012 12:24 AM

*Clicks unsubscribe*

This thread honestly sucks and isn't going anywhere, it's just a war against people and the ending....

Just throwing my two cents here.

AlexFili 03-27-2012 01:36 AM

How about favourite squadmates? Mine are Tali, Garrus, Grunt and Zaeed!

Dynamithix 03-27-2012 06:12 AM

Uhh, in Mass Effect 3 or in general? I think this should be a thread for Mass Effect in general, not just for the third one.

Anyways, my top three squadmates are definitely 1. Wrex 2. Garrus and 3. Mordin. Tali is the best romance in ME2 though...

Havoc 03-28-2012 01:21 AM

Garrus and Williams, gotta have some ass to look at while shooting bad guys.

Dynamithix 03-28-2012 04:24 AM

Then choose Miranda or Tali. Ashley is the worst squadmate.

Mac Sirloin 03-28-2012 03:32 PM

Mordin, Garrus and Legion. Mostly because Legion's real fuckin' neato.

OANST 03-28-2012 03:36 PM

I will say that I found the squad mate selection in Mass Effect 2 to be very disappointing. I ended up bringing Liara with me into every battle because I felt the need to have a good biotic, and I fucking hate Kaiden.

Hazel-Rah 03-29-2012 01:05 AM

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Garrus and Williams, gotta have some ass to look at while shooting bad guys.

And on elevators, but yeah this for ME1. In ME2 I usually picked Miranda and Mordin.

I actually liked ME2 better but it was cool that you never had to scavenge for ammo in ME1.

AlexFili 03-29-2012 02:20 AM

For all you Mordin fans out there:



I kinda like the thermal clip idea, it's cool having powers that recharge pretty quickly. Especially for something like ME3 multiplayer as a Quarian when you're trying to Sabotage as many Geth as you can, while remaining cloaked.

Hazel-Rah 04-02-2012 03:53 PM


Havoc 04-04-2012 01:50 PM

Apparently an ex employee leaked the plot for the DLC (which he says has been planned for months) and even a new series of games set in the same universe as Mass Effect, continuing the story where Shepard has actually become the catalyst. From what I've read so far, it would be really really really lame if they went down that path.

Check it out: http://i.imgur.com/bcSRH.jpg (Heavy possible unconfirmed spoilers)

Varrok 04-04-2012 01:55 PM

How can you tell it's legit ex employee and not some random guy spreading shit?

OANST 04-04-2012 02:02 PM

His reasons for sharing this information are vague, and kind of stupid.

Havoc 04-04-2012 02:05 PM

Hence why I said it hasn't been confirmed anywhere.

Varrok 04-04-2012 02:12 PM

It's so shitty that I hope it will happen