Mass Effect 3 Discussion Thread

[quote name='KingBroly']I got my Soldier to Level 20 and I sent them off into nothing (Unless they actually do go into SP like the game mentioned; but I doubt it). So now I have a Level 3 Engineer to use for leveling and whatnot. I haven't touched the SP in about 5 days though.[/QUOTE]

I promoted a character and was surprised NOT to see it in the War Assets interface when I went back to SP. WTF!?
 
Sorry, about that Dual. I'm retarded when it comes to remembering to add people.

Add me: Action Kazimer. Generally, if I'm on and ME3 is in (which is pretty much always is,) I'm down to play.


XP, that last drop suuuucked. I was gonna say try to re-join on me, but it was the middle of wave 9 when I got your message. I gotta say though, that's a pretty damned impressive wifi connection. It's also impressive that around wave 5 I had to start running back and forth tending to my sick girlfriend and you guys STILL held shit down! We had some solid teams.

I'm also up to about 650k for tomorrow. Bet I don't get SHEIT.

I don't anticipate them messing with White or the Geth necessarily. I can see them making Decoy draw slightly less agro, but I REALLY don't want them to. Honestly, playing in there with that Human Engineer, the Combat Drone was getting just as much attention as my decoy was. I feel like it's just the nature of the class.

That and laying down fat layers of energy drain and fiiyyah.
 
[quote name='KingBroly']I got my Soldier to Level 20 and I sent them off into nothing (Unless they actually do go into SP like the game mentioned; but I doubt it). So now I have a Level 3 Engineer to use for leveling and whatnot. I haven't touched the SP in about 5 days though.

I've done 2 of 6 maps on Silver as well, so that's good. Silver is kind of tough actually.[/QUOTE]

[quote name='io']I promoted a character and was surprised NOT to see it in the War Assets interface when I went back to SP. WTF!?[/QUOTE]

The characters themselves are not listed amongst your war assets. They all get lumped together into the "N7 Spec Ops Team." You get a score of 75 for each class you promote.
 
[quote name='JediJames2']DLC is now up for Xbox! Found it at the main menu in game checking for Downloadable Content.[/QUOTE]

Whaa? I Just checked a few minutes ago (after you posted) and didn't see it - I went through the marketplace though. If it is there, I'm back on (just stopped playing after like 3 hours ;)).

Edit: Yep, it is there via the game. 165 MB... downloading now...

bigdaddybruce44 - Thanks, I'll have to look there. Since there was nothing tagged "new" I didn't look at every entry. You'd think it would update with new info though.

By the way, I had no problem getting "Master and Commander" in any case when starting up the penultimate mission. I also got the Atlas hijacking achievement from the beginning of that mission for good measure. So I'm pretty set on all the achievements except the insanity/gold ones (and Veteran, though I did get the 2000/5000 popup during my multiplayer). Oh, and I'm up to 6 mail slot kills now - must have gotten some in multiplayer without noticing because I was only at 1 or 2 from my original playthough. I has always used Pull to grab their shields away as I wasn't aware you could kill them through the slot until the very end.
 
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[quote name='JediJames2']DLC is now up for Xbox! Found it at the main menu in game checking for Downloadable Content.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the heads-up!

Downloading now.
 
The new maps are there but not sure about the characters. Well, at least I didn't get any new ones in the 2 Spectre packs I bought. And more telling, I didn't see anyone playing the new characters either in 5 multiplayer matches with the new maps. Oh well... I like the Hydra map, though. I even managed to make it all the way through a 3-player match with a new character (Turian Sentinel). Considering that I had relied on Throw for most of my multiplayer up till now that was a nice change of pace. He does much more weapon damage even at a low level.
 
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XP, that last drop suuuucked. I was gonna say try to re-join on me, but it was the middle of wave 9 when I got your message. I gotta say though, that's a pretty damned impressive wifi connection. It's also impressive that around wave 5 I had to start running back and forth tending to my sick girlfriend and you guys STILL held shit down! We had some solid teams.

I'm also up to about 650k for tomorrow. Bet I don't get SHEIT.

I don't anticipate them messing with White or the Geth necessarily. I can see them making Decoy draw slightly less agro, but I REALLY don't want them to. Honestly, playing in there with that Human Engineer, the Combat Drone was getting just as much attention as my decoy was. I feel like it's just the nature of the class.

That and laying down fat layers of energy drain and fiiyyah.[/QUOTE]

i noticed the geth were standing idle in my stasis bubble but not in stasis. Then my connection dropped. I also didn't realize how much more credits we earned, I have about double what I posted from last night's runs.

If they mess w/White it might be spawn points and more of them storming in rear nahmsayin? as for Geth, probably just upping their shields, armor, and health, damage output, shield recharge delay, RoF, accuracy, speed, resistance for tech damage, delay between shots when cloaked, just minor tweaks. Decoy? cool down duration will probably be longer, shields/hps for the decoy will probably drop, and it may only fool X number of targets vs. everything until it pops.

...we'll find out soon enough.
 
Didn't notice before, the new consumables in the DLC packs. "Stablization Mod" that'll be nice. Esp for the Revenant and Turian/soldier.

IanK - I took the time to see how a Tech Burst works. If you hit them with Incinerate (w/duration) then follow it up with Overload (though imagine any tech power w/a linger affect + one w/an instant), it will cause a chain reaction which looks like a close range chain lightning or even the drone w/the up to 3 targets w/lightning upgrade. If they die during that exchange, you get the tech burst kill.

Like mentioned earlier in comm chatter, it'd be nice for more customization vs just a palette change...I'll trade the virtually unnoticable skin tone change for an alternative outfit or even a friggin new helmet/tiara/eye piece.
 
[quote name='zewone']He says there will be a Resurgance Pack specifically for the DLC unlocks. Seems like it will be easy to unlock the new stuff.[/QUOTE]

No new items until around 5pm it seems. That's when they usually update the packs.
 
[quote name='100xp']Didn't notice before, the new consumables in the DLC packs. "Stablization Mod" that'll be nice. Esp for the Revenant and Turian/soldier.

IanK - I took the time to see how a Tech Burst works. If you hit them with Incinerate (w/duration) then follow it up with Overload (though imagine any tech power w/a linger affect + one w/an instant), it will cause a chain reaction which looks like a close range chain lightning or even the drone w/the up to 3 targets w/lightning upgrade. If they die during that exchange, you get the tech burst kill.

Like mentioned earlier in comm chatter, it'd be nice for more customization vs just a palette change...I'll trade the virtually unnoticable skin tone change for an alternative outfit or even a friggin new helmet/tiara/eye piece.[/QUOTE]


That makes a lot of sense since everything on my engie is spec'd to hit AoE and sustained. I imagine with all those techs flying everywhere, we were only bound to get thousands of explosions.

I'm pretty sure the fire explosions come from detonating the pyro's flamethrower. I can do it pretty consistently with an Infiltrator, but I guess potshots were triggering them last night. Either way, they're amazing. Mini missiles, pretty much.

As for customization, I'd be happy with even getting different helmets. Then again, I'm a huge TF2 fan. Hats will placate me in most venues. I wouldn't hate a dedicated face-paint option either. I was pretty bummed that the Turians didn't end up with any, while the Asari did.
 
Well... looks like I'll have well over a million credits or more if I keep playing until they sort this bullshit out with the content. I almost feel sorry for those that already spent them, but the split second I knew they had a content specific packs and didn't see them in store I headed straight for BSN without spending a dime.
 
Yeah, I tend to wait it out with stuff like this. DLC launch times are way too inconsistent for me to trust.


Good video inside. Based on something slightly spoiler-ish in a character relationship arc, however.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdAXhrgKamU
 
[quote name='Ink.So.Well.']Well... looks like I'll have well over a million credits or more if I keep playing until they sort this bullshit out with the content. I almost feel sorry for those that already spent them, but the split second I knew they had a content specific packs and didn't see them in store I headed straight for BSN without spending a dime.[/QUOTE]

"the hasty stroke often goes astray" - some guy in Lord of the Rings

It's not like they didn't get jack squat, spectre packs still yield the best wpns and upgrades.
 
[quote name='IanKazimer']Good video inside. Based on something slightly spoiler-ish in a character relationship arc, however.[/QUOTE]

Also NSFW I just discovered. :lol:
 
;)LOL Timesaver
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Also that video Ian, lol just as good as the Miranda Jack one.
 
[quote name='100xp']"the hasty stroke often goes astray" - some guy in Lord of the Rings

It's not like they didn't get jack squat, spectre packs still yield the best wpns and upgrades.[/QUOTE]

Pretty much. They only have themselves to blame for not doing their homework. Besides the golden rule of any DLC is to never buy/download on its release date without expecting SOME type of glitch to occur. Prestly said the issue was server related (big f*cking surprise considering how many times I got dropped from Gold games yesterday. Hell... on one occasion I got kicked literally three seconds from being invited back in. Ugh.) and for us to be patient while they fix it.

Until then I'm still not buying from the stores and letting my creds stack. Did have a chance to check out the new maps though. Hydra feels like a much smaller version of Reactor (enemy spawns are awkward and it is quite easy to run into mobs behind corners or get shot and not be able pinpoint where before you find cover) and Condor has an annoying bit of verticality to it that transforms it into a total clusterf*ck if you're stuck with a bunch of idiots (ammo boxes are in some of the worst places you could possibly imagine and it is child's play to get trapped from almost anywhere so you need to keep moving or stick together).

I don't either map being a problem with a good team and Condor is easily going to be the most fun to play on Gold. Overall I like them.
 
[quote name='Spybreak8']Also that video Ian, lol just as good as the Miranda Jack one.[/QUOTE]
There's a Miranda-Jack one like that? Now this I must see, my coworkers can just
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Ink - in the end, any map is fun so long as your squad mates are good or they have comms w/a sense of humor and good spirit.

possible they put ammo boxes where they did to make the map harder, that's really a big issues for some maps...and the ammo hording on gold is horrible w/selfish randoms. hitting every 2 shots from a sniper rifle.

cluster #$%@ isn't always bad when you can tech/biotic/shoot your way out. gives you a sense of accomplishment...but I can totally relate when you don't want it to happen because you're with craptactular randoms. :D
 
I can't believe there is another crapstorm against Bioware because of the free dlc. Just because people are impatient and blew their creds its all Biowares fault. People need to chill out, enjoy the new maps and get the characters later on tonight.

I can't believe we finally got so bad that free isn't good enough. That's sad.
 
[quote name='chubbyninja1319']I can't believe there is another crapstorm against Bioware because of the free dlc. Just because people are impatient and blew their creds its all Biowares fault. People need to chill out, enjoy the new maps and get the characters later on tonight.

I can't believe we finally got so bad that free isn't good enough. That's sad.[/QUOTE]
Out of real things to complain about?
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[quote name='100xp']Ink - in the end, any map is fun so long as your squad mates are good or they have comms w/a sense of humor and good spirit.

possible they put ammo boxes where they did to make the map harder, that's really a big issues for some maps...and the ammo hording on gold is horrible w/selfish randoms. hitting every 2 shots from a sniper rifle.

cluster #$%@ isn't always bad when you can tech/biotic/shoot your way out. gives you a sense of accomplishment...but I can totally relate when you don't want it to happen because you're with craptactular randoms. :D[/QUOTE]

Of course. Both maps are fun with decent players and I like them. The problem with the ammo boxes on Condor is that all of them are either placed in dark corners, wide open spaces with little cover, near enemy spawns or choke points. It's a pain in the ass with randoms but fun to take into account with competent players. It adds a necessary layer of urgency that compliments the overall flow the map. It works. Hacking objectives and evac can also be pretty trying in public.

I hope this server business sorts itself out soon. I'm really hoping to get a Batarian Sentinel, Geth Engineer or Justicar tonight. That Batarian net ability had better be kick ass because Shockwave still really f*cking sucks compared to our current biotic line up. They really should gave them Slam or Throw instead. ;\
 
[quote name='Ink.So.Well.']Of course. Both maps are fun with decent players and I like them. The problem with the ammo boxes on Condor is that all of them are either placed in dark corners, wide open spaces with little cover, near enemy spawns or choke points. It's a pain in the ass with randoms but fun to take into account with competent players. It adds a necessary layer of urgency that compliments the overall flow the map. It works.

I hope this server business sorts itself out soon. I'm really hoping to get a Batarian Sentinel, Geth Engineer or Justicar tonight. That Batarian net ability had better be kick ass because Shockwave still really f*cking sucks compared to our current biotic line up.[/QUOTE]

Oh...Shockwave is quite decent when you use it to farm geth gold. It's sole ability to pass through walls is where it shines. Just don't have any snipers on your team cause they will be sad panda. IanK and some randoms rocked the geth with my low lvl Vanguard. Shockwaving things behind cover, through walls and then lifting them into the air.

The B_net. (ironic) sounds great, not a lot of classes have that type of CC. Murphy's law will kick in and I'll get a Batarian in potentially the next 10 spectre packs or whatever the new DLC packs that have these in them. I have no problem with the class/powers i'm just not a big fan of the race when compared to the other things they're offerring.

same w/the server business...and please fix the vanguard bug. I saw the top of Firebase last night. It looked like Cloud City. I was fortunate enough that some blind fire killed me while floating hundreds of feet above the landing pad so I got my exp and credits.
 
The problem is phasing through walls the ONLY thing that Shockwave has going for it. All the other biotic abilities have better utility and inflict more damage. I'm honestly not sure why they haven't buffed it yet. At the very least they could address the range. I have an Adept spec'd for Warp/Shockwave dets and everytime I dust them off I immediately wish I were playing my Sentinel instead.

I feel you on the odds man. I know for a fact when this shit goes live I'm going to have an appearance maxed out Krogan Battlemaster, Geth Infiltrator, a bunch of X'd out weapons I don't want/use, STILL no Asari Adept to be found and those weapon stability equipment packs I won't touch either. ;\
 
[quote name='Anexanhume']Yeah, shockwave is weak.[/QUOTE]

I found it extremely useful since it can phase through walls. I saw someone pretty much spamming it every second which was helping a lot doing a silver mission because of the knockback it has. I plan to respec one of my Vanguards to do the same.
 
Word on the street is they fixed the issue with new classes and weapons not being in rotation. The problem is the added that shit to frickin' Spectre Packs with zero ETA on when the Resurgence content packs will be available.

So yeah... considering the fact I always get absolute dick in those [pause] nothing has changed for me. I am not spending a dime until that pack is released. Regardless of the predictably ridiculous price tag I'm sure will be placed on it. Now that I've gotten word my copy of Catherine and the Assassin's Creed trilogy got delivered I think I'll delve into those after I stack up 1 - 1.5 mil and take a break later tonight. The fact that I have zero Medigel to speak of however has done wonders for my environmental awareness.
 
Today's patch notes:

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April 10, 2012
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Adrenaline Rush Power
- Evolution 1 damage reduction increased from 25% to 40%
- Evolution 5 shield recharge increased from 50% to 100% of base shields





That's it. Hahahahahahahahahaha.
 
Firebase white with geth.
Firebase white with geth.
Firebase white with geth.
Firebase white with geth.
Firebase white with geth.
 
[quote name='IanKazimer']Today's patch notes:

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April 10, 2012
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Adrenaline Rush Power
- Evolution 1 damage reduction increased from 25% to 40%
- Evolution 5 shield recharge increased from 50% to 100% of base shields





That's it. Hahahahahahahahahaha.[/QUOTE]


...time to harvest the geth.
 
[quote name='IanKazimer']Today's patch notes:

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April 10, 2012
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Adrenaline Rush Power
- Evolution 1 damage reduction increased from 25% to 40%
- Evolution 5 shield recharge increased from 50% to 100% of base shields





That's it. Hahahahahahahahahaha.[/QUOTE]

Bwahahaha... Decoy lives to fight another day! Let's go! Mattock X Tank Soldier however is looking quite fetching right now.
 
More tweets from Michael Gamble

"Unfortunately, due to some technical issues - it doesnt look like we will be running the Resurgence Reinforcement pack this week... BUT..."
"... don't worry! Spectre Packs (and Premium Specture Packs) will be available containing the new content!"
"we're opening them up again pretty soon!"

Looks like Spectre packs are the way to go for the interim. Unless you are willing to wait for an unknown amount of time.
 
Edit: Haha, Kefka beat me to it. I might buy a couple for shits. I've got 650k right now, and I imagine I'll be playing more this week. I just want my Krooooooooogaaaaaaaaaaan.
 
I got a Krogan Vanguard in one of my two Spectre packs I redeemed late last night (right after the Resurgance Pack came out). I take it that is not the new one. However, it did have a Yellow border on that one instead of the standard blue on the "cards" it showed me when I redeemed the pack. What does that mean?
 
It sounded like they're bringing the Premium Spectre Packs back with Resurgence DLC included. I might bite on some of those if it holds up. I'm over the "Get more respec cards" limit, so worst case scenario I max out a few more rares or add character trading cards to my ever growing deck.
 
[quote name='io']I got a Krogan Vanguard in one of my two Spectre packs I redeemed late last night (right after the Resurgance Pack came out). I take it that is not the new one. However, it did show with a Yellow border instead of the standard blue on the "cards" it showed me when I redeemed the pack. What does that mean?[/QUOTE]

You sure it was a Vanguard? Battlemaster? If so, you may have somehow beaten the system on this one. Congrats if you did!
 
[quote name='IanKazimer']You sure it was a Vanguard? Battlemaster? If so, you may have somehow beaten the system on this one. Congrats if you did![/QUOTE]

I don't think it said "Battlemaster" anywhere on it, but it was definitely a Krogan Vanguard. The funny thing is that after I got that I chose my new Turian Vanguard and played 4-5 matches with him. If that really was the new Krogan it's funny that I didn't even use it :lol:.

But I thought maybe it was like the Asari Adept and Asari Justicar Adept where I got the "plain" version and there is also the newer better one.

OK, looking here http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_3_Multiplayer I see that the only Krogan Vanguard is the new one :shock:.
fuck, now even though I am trying to get real paying work done I may have to fire up the game just to check it out!

EDIT: fuck, never mind... I guess in the haze of playing at 4am I got confused. I also got a Human Female Vanguard around the same time and must have mixed them up. What I got was the Krogan Sentinel. A "rare" so not too bad - but, still, damn, thought I had something extra special there ;)...
 
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i think Battlemaster is just a nickname, as there isn't a specific catagory for Battlemaster or Justicar. They just fall in the vanguard and adept class catagory.

well done. let's hope I am so fortunate, so I can finally find a hope for all these shotguns.
 
[quote name='io']I don't think it said "Battlemaster" anywhere on it, but it was definitely a Krogan Vanguard. The funny thing is that after I got that I chose my new Turian Vanguard and played 4-5 matches with him. If that really was the new Krogan it's funny that I didn't even use it :lol:.

But I thought maybe it was like the Asari Adept and Asari Justicar Adept where I got the "plain" version and there is also the newer better one.

OK, looking here http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_3_Multiplayer I see that the only Krogan Vanguard is the new one :shock:.
fuck, now even though I am trying to get real paying work done I may have to fire up the game just to check it out![/QUOTE]


Yeah, I think you might just have your classes mixed up! There's definitely not Turian Vanguard. Before the DLC, the only Krogans and Turians available were Soldiers and Sentinels.

Also, XP's right. The "Battlemaster" and "Justicar" just squeeze in right before the Vanguard and Adept titles.
 
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