Mass Effect 3 Discussion Thread

I wish there were less overlap as well, but it is what it is I guess. It sucks the Soldier got the better of the new abilities. Submission Net would be SO much better if they'd buff up the projectile speed again or reduce the cooldown so you could spam it more. I rarely use him because it's so frustrating to rely on when you barely have a 50% chance of actually connecting to normal mobs.
 
you know the net can stick to walls and floors right?

we've "thrown" (lifted, pushed, etc) mobs into the webs at where 2 stories up. it was hilarious. he's still a melee force, the net is just sticky gravey. I'm hoping the "phoenix" race has dark channel, and they somehow manage to put Slam back in there. Full evolution of lift grenade is not slam.
 
Slam SERIOUSLY needs to make a return. Dominate as well so all those Firebase farm fests will switch to Reaper. It'll not only spice things up but how funny/awesome would it be to charm a group of husks into humping a brute to death? Ravagers sniping the Marauders in front of them? Banshees going on a murder spree? I mean sure it would undoubtedly break the game but IT WOULD BE SO MUCH FUN TO WATCH UGH.

I knew about that aspect of the net, but never fully tested it out. Besides although useful it still sounds like a gimped Proxy Mine to me. ;(

Btw how does Dark Channel work anyway? I'm probably never going to buy From Ashes so I'll never know.
 
[quote name='Ink.So.Well.']Slam SERIOUSLY needs to make a return. Dominate as well so all those Firebase farm fests will switch to Reaper. It'll not only spice things up but how funny/awesome would it be to charm a group of husks into humping a brute to death? Ravagers sniping the Marauders in front of them? Banshees going on a murder spree? I mean sure it would undoubtedly break the game but IT WOULD BE SO MUCH FUN TO WATCH UGH.

I knew about that aspect of the net, but never fully tested it out. Besides although useful it still sounds like a gimped Proxy Mine to me. ;(

Btw how does Dark Channel work anyway? I'm probably never going to buy From Ashes so I'll never know.[/QUOTE]


Dark channel is like pestilence. You infect 1 target and it has a DoT/duration. If you pop the guy before the duration ends it spreads to another enemy nearby...and it keeps on giving so long as there's duration left. I think it also make the target take more damage when you hit thim but offers you no additional self buffs like Reave does.

Dominate after knowing how we abused Hack on Geth will probably be exactly like Sabotage post nerf. I don't think there will ever be a better farm than Geth because none of them have instant kill animations, everyone can be tossed except the prime, and outside of the prime's staggering ability, they're really kinda easy to beat so long as you don't let them flank you. Just AoE/Tech or Biotic Burst them down. you don't even need to focus. Heck, inferno grenade works on them.
 
[quote name='Ink.So.Well.']I hope so man. I really do. I'm running out of ways to make this game fun for me which is vital since I can't afford to pick anything new up at the moment. I've tried nearly every combination, class and weapon I can think of besides the oddball combinations randoms come up with. Now I'm tempted to mimic those at the expense of being a liability or others believing everyone can be successful with them when that is rarely the case. Regardless I can't deny how tempting a Hurricane Infiltrator/Soldier would be but I'd prefer screwing around with a Locust X. Oh how I wish they never changed it. ;(

I really hope those Vorcha come with Inferno Grenades because I have a blast spamming them and Carnage with my Krogan Soldier. I honestly don't see the point wasting them on my Batarian though.

Btw how did you fair with Silencer? I caved in and did a couple public Gold Firebases for it then put in work as a Sentinel on Reaper Silvers to help out. That Jumbo Equipment Pack got me trippin' man. I seriously need to curb the heroing because I'm only hurting myself, but it was fun stretching out hacks to the fullest for Banshees. God knows I have plenty of Cobras to go around.[/QUOTE]

I took a break this weekend. Did wonders for me, considering how tired I was getting of randoms. Trying to do my Full Extraction on Gold today, but so far, not too good. Heck, you should take a break. Especially since this weekend doesn't have an event.

Also, I'm on right now if you want to knock out a few games.
 
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Wow... DC sounds great. A ME version of DA's Walking Bomb spell. Almost enough to convince me to buy From Ashes, but I think I'll wait until the eventual MP reveal. Not sure why people think lore actually matters that much in an MP setting but no one said RPG fans were rational human beings either.

Edge: I honestly want to take a break, but I have nothing here sparking enough interest to take a detour. I keep coming back to ME MP because it's the only pick up and play title I've got that gives me more instant gratification than headaches. I don't have to spend that much energy to perform well, worry about lag, map design, op weaponry, camping or any other nonsense a competitive format brings me.

What I truly need is another Skyrim in my life right now. I'll be on later tonight if you want to run some Gold though definitely. It's been a while since we last played.
 
[quote name='Ink.So.Well.']Wow... DC sounds great. A ME version of DA's Walking Bomb spell. Almost enough to convince me to buy From Ashes, but I think I'll wait until the eventual MP reveal. Not sure why people think lore actually matters that much in an MP setting but no one said RPG fans were rational human beings either.[/QUOTE]

The salarians successfully cloned a dinosaur...i don't see why they can't make protheans. plus what you experience in game is only shep's story. while there's only 1 shep, there's still the entire N7 doing other things throughout the galaxy...finding more prothean artifacts could very well be "from ashes." see what I did there? ha haaa..bang bang (finger bang)

but from the campaign standpoint the DLC was worth it for the story and character interaction.
 
[quote name='Ink.So.Well.']Wow... DC sounds great. A ME version of DA's Walking Bomb spell.[/QUOTE]
Eh... kinda, but not really.

Dark channel is damage over time, and if the target dies while it's active, it switches to a new target. You can only have one dark channel running at a time. It can be detonated.

Walking bomb also did damage over time, but if the target died, he exploded, doing damage to anyone nearby. Virulent walking bomb added a chance of passing on the walking bomb status to explosion victims. You could have multiple walking bombs out at the same time.
 
[quote name='The Crotch']Eh... kinda, but not really.

Dark channel is damage over time, and if the target dies while it's active, it switches to a new target. You can only have one dark channel running at a time. It can be detonated.

Walking bomb also did damage over time, but if the target died, he exploded, doing damage to anyone nearby. Virulent walking bomb added a chance of passing on the walking bomb status to explosion victims. You could have multiple walking bombs out at the same time.[/QUOTE]

Point taken. Still it's leaps and bounds better than the current line up of available biotics. Only three of them truly matter with the rest either being window dressing, marginally effective, or just plain terrible.

[quote name='100xp']finding more prothean artifacts could very well be "from ashes." see what I did there? ha haaa..bang bang (finger bang)[/QUOTE]

...NICE. :cool:
 
Or they could poke Javik and clone that.

Also, I still haven't had a Full Extraction for the event, so I need that before 5 pm PST (had a VERY close one, but the 4th AFK'd the whole match so we only got Partial :cry:)
 
Never encourage leechers, Edge. You should have left the split second you realized that asshole wasn't playing man. I'll be on around 6 EST if you still need help.
 
Next time if you see me on, feel free to hit me up edge. I saw you on earlier but your game was full so I didn't bother popping in my disc.
 
strange sensation being able to stand directly in the line of fire of a sentry turret...and not die in 3 seconds. (bronze) played a a map this morning with some high lvl randoms, still not sure why lvl 18 + play bronze with N7 ratings of 700+ but hey, helps my lvl 5 get 3 lvls in 13 minutes.

Indra on the turian sent was a bucket of fun.

think they'll release the Chakram AR for MP?
 
They honestly should but I doubt it will happen anytime soon. I still haven't used it myself nor mained it on squadmates, but anything that will prolong my interest in mp is fine by me. I know that if EC doesn't float my boat though I'll be out as soon as the free MP DLC stops. I plan to milk that cow dry.

I'd also like to thank Edge for contributing to the best match I've ever had in MP yesterday. Gold Reapers with three infiltrators and me as an Asari Justicar on Reactor. DAT VALIANT SPHERE ALL DAY BWOY. The AI was utterly PISSED at us. We were killing Banshees so fast it kept spam spawning them with a vengeance. Then after our random bitched out on us the game decided to drop a Wave 10 hack on us for the hell of it. We spent every cobra we had just to finish it then ran around the map screaming like bitches to guarantee an extraction. Oh man... the funniest shit ever and way too much fun.

Of course in typical BioWare fashion that match was followed by the WORST match I've ever had in Gold. The game decided to lock me out of my own hosted game after booting me by finding TWO OTHER PEOPLE during host migration on the last two f*cking waves. Neither player had any idea they were on Gold. I came real close to Gears of War levels of nerd angst. ;\

Now I'm playing for enough respec cards to create some of the worst class/weapon set ups I can think of for the hell of it. I'm almost ready to publicly debut my Krogan Kishock Sentinel. Oh... the hate is going to be glorious. Time to carry ME for a change assholes. ^_^
 
@ - ink, wouldn't a quarian focused on melee be less effective than a krogan kishock sent though? I mean if you want to be dead weight...choose the lightest race to make the biggest impact.
 
Oh most definitely but my plan is to be carried and not just troll. Otherwise I'd just respec a Geth character, skip any point allocation, load up on equipment w/ a GPS and head straight to random Gold with the intention of going on a melee spree when the game starts. Now that is downright diabolical my friend. I'm a dick but I still want to get paid and kill things. Plus I dig the challenge of trying to be successful with a deliberately shitty build.

Besides I never melee with Krogan characters unless absolutely necessary because it isn't my strong suit. I really suck at it. I just max out the bottom row of Fitness and go about my business. Works wonders for my Soldier but then again I'm spamming Charge and Infernos with a Striker X as host so... yeah. The only way I could f*ck that up is by not playing at all.

Wait... good idea on the melee build! I completely forgot I made a melee based Sentinel in the past tricked out for tech burst stagger. I should get back to figuring out how to make that shit more effective. I just need a damn card. -_-
 
you could just promote and relevel...doesn't take many runs to get back to lvl 17. You practically get 3-5 levels per full extraction depending on difficulty. your N7 rating will go up (trivial in nature but it does seem to influence if ppl try and kick you immediately or not)

the burst stagger is really just my OH @#$% button when phantoms gets too friendly.
 
The only reason I don't promote anymore is because I have a ton of bad ass color schemes that I'm sick of memorizing. My rating is high enough that I don't have to worry about randoms kicking based solely on it, but I rarely join in games unless I have no other choice. Much easier for me if I host my own and solo until someone shows up. If I've gone a few games without anyone then I'll move onto something else. I have neither the interest nor patience for dealing with random kicking and I hate wasting equipment on a solo run. I play till I'm dead then start over again.

If you could only promote one character instead of the entire roster in that class or at least save your aesthetic preferences I'd use it more often. Plus there's that irritating point you can't do anything about without a respec card which usually screws all of my builds up. So the only use I have for it now is to boost my leaderboard ranking which I honestly couldn't care less about.
 
petition to let gotdott give you 17 of his respec cards, he has like 90 of them.

I basically promote all my classes after a few games with the lvl 20's except my engineer and infiltrator. I basically have them where I want them and the salarian engine is a guarentee I can host a FWG w/little margin of error.
 
I'd gladly take any number of those off his hands. They'd certainly find a good home.

Oh, and btw... anybody interested in some FBG farming tonight? IT BEGINS.

DAT MALE QUARIAN ON DECK ALL DAY BUT ONLY IF ITZ FREE. I also find it funny how whenever I plan to play like a jackass the game purposely pairs me up with three people who are interested in working as a damn team. I can't troll those people especially a new player who's putting in work and helping out. Damn you karma gods. -_-'

I think I also fell in love with the Kishock. It's a hilariously fun weapon to use, but I still need respecs to make a serious build out of it.
 
[quote name='IanKazimer']I would, but Max Payne's staring me down right now. I've got painkillers and heads to pop.[/QUOTE]

LIES! it's because you X'd 99% of your rares!
 
Maybe a new gun to replace the Incisor. Or Vindicator. Kind of like what they did with the Striker replacing the Falcon!

Nerf one into oblivion and then make it absolutely worthless by adding in a better gun.

Brilliance.


Oh, and one more thing: if I'm on later, I'll join you for FBG. I have never done one before. SERIOUSLY #-o
 
You've never done a FBG farming session? Oh god... you are going to bored out of your mind. It's Gold Geth + CoD camping + Bad Kids/Try Hards who yearn for the number one spot whilst getting paid. Personally I can only stomach a couple unless I find a team who can knock them in 20 minutes or less.

As for the DLC, well, I'd say that's par for the course when it comes to BioWare and weapon balancing.

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Such an award winning formula! Sadly the release date on the official Sony site was debunked by Prestly, but that's it. I figure I might as well get an early start on stacking so I can unlock everything when the Rebellion Pack comes out. Well provided this one is free otherwise I'm sitting it out.
 
Yea, I've never done it before. I had a chance to do it twice, but both times I "lost connection to the server". Almost like BioWare didn't want me to do FBG.
 
the group I played a lot with all use Vindicators, IanK knowns them well...they swear by it. it's not often you can just stand with your junk out and unload an entire clip so a burst first gun w/decent punch isn't a bad choice.

I played briefly this morning. 30 mins of gold is much more predictable than trying to only play 30 mins of Diablo 3.
 
The rebellion pack was supposedly outer via japan psn or something. It referenced a firebase jade jungle map + firebase goddess Theseus map and quarian, gotcha and phoenix races. Some of this we heard about before in rumors, maybe now it'll be officially announced.
 
[quote name='Ryuukishi']Can we get a dang single player DLC up in here already?! I'd even take a costume pack at this point. :lol:[/QUOTE]

the CE came w/a alternate costumes no? wouldn't a costume pack be just be that? since alt outfits actually give bonuses.
 
I think what my man Ryu is saying is that there are some folks who only like the single player stuff and are dying for more content. While I enjoy the MP, I'd shank a kitten for more sp content. Even if it is more costumes or whatever. ANYTHING good for the campaign would be welcome. More cheevos would be nice too.
 
[quote name='chubbyninja1319']I think what my man Ryu is saying is that there are some folks who only like the single player stuff and are dying for more content. While I enjoy the MP, I'd shank a kitten for more sp content. Even if it is more costumes or whatever. ANYTHING good for the campaign would be welcome. More cheevos would be nice too.[/QUOTE]
Yes, that. :) I think the multi is fun and it's cool that people are really into it, but it's not going to replace Horde 2.0 for me and I'd really prefer to have some more campaign content.
 
Omega Relay...that's the DLC I'm wishing/waiting for. I can't think of anything else that would help the storyline much.

...and either the robot dog is broken or its confined to the hangar which is garbage.
 
[quote name='100xp']Omega Relay...that's the DLC I'm wishing/waiting for. I can't think of anything else that would help the storyline much.

...and either the robot dog is broken or its confined to the hangar which is garbage.[/QUOTE]I'd put my vote in for taking back Omega with Aria, as that's the only thing I can see as "dangling" and left over from the main SP gameplay.
 
[quote name='chubbyninja1319']I think what my man Ryu is saying is that there are some folks who only like the single player stuff and are dying for more content. While I enjoy the MP, I'd shank a kitten for more sp content. Even if it is more costumes or whatever. ANYTHING good for the campaign would be welcome. More cheevos would be nice too.[/QUOTE]

Definitely. I've not even touched the MP. Just not into MP these days, too many single player games to get through.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']Definitely. I've not even touched the MP. Just not into MP these days, too many single player games to get through.[/QUOTE]

I could understand if ME3 MP was like Fire Fight or Horde, but bioware tying in readiness and war assets through MP was pretty clever and sweet. as much as I love the SP experience and respect the shep, being able to play as other races is really part of the draw to the MP. Mindless cooperative combat, but it's addiciting somehow and not even just for card packs. I'd say, the MP is in some ways a part of the SP experience, it's up to you how much of a part it can be.

"Bananas!"
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']I hated that they tied it into the SP personally. I'm just not into MP stuff. Gaming is something I want to do alone to veg out.[/QUOTE]

I can respect dat.
 
They said that they're delaying SP DLC to accommodate for the Extended Cut, but I honestly doubt we would have seen any SP support at this point regardless. I can't personally remember what the windows were between ME2's release and it's DLC, but I'm cool with waiting if the shit's gonna be good.

Last I checked, BioWare Montreal was in charge of all things MP, so that dev time shouldn't be impacting Edmonton's cycles.
 
BUFF ALL THE THINGS! - MP Balance Changes:
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May 16, 2012
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Eagle Heavy Pistol
- Damage increased from [60.9-76.1] to [67.0-83.8]

Hurricane SMG
- Damage increased from [93.2-116.5] to [102.5-128.1]

Crusader Shotgun
- Damage increased from [442.1-552.6] to [486.6-608.3]

Indra Sniper Rifle
- Damage increased from [54.1-67.6] to [62.6-78.2]

Singularity Power
- Fixed a bug where the base duration that enemies are held in the air was still 3 seconds.
Should now be 6 seconds, as the April 24 changes specify.

Geth Horde Wave Data
- (Gold) Wave 6: reduced number of Hunters from 4 to 2
- (Gold) Wave 6: increased number of Rocket Troopers from 2 to 3
- (Gold) Wave 6: added a single Geth Prime
- (Gold) Wave 10: reduced number of Pyros from 4 to 3
- (Gold) Wave 10: increased number of Geth Primes from 2 to 3

Card Data
- 255 max cap on ammo, medigel, rockets, shields - they should grant equipment items instead if maxed
- Respec cards are now uncommon rather than rare
- Increasing XP bonuses for character cards

I especially love them making Geth easier to farm on Gold (CRI MOIR BSN) and respec cards becoming uncommon now. Hilarious. I finally have a reason to buy Vet Packs again. LOL @ the Hurricane buff. My Turians are going to be monsters now, but I'm still not going to be using the Indra nor Eagle anytime soon.
 
I'm a single player guy all the way but MP in this game is phenomenal and I couldn't recommend it more as an entry point for MP newbies (like I was).
 
funny...and the reason why Geth Gold was difficult was because of hunters and pyros and now they're less of them. must be a shortage of parts.

tbh, if you're capped at 255 on equipment and you get the card again...you should just get the shaft. unless i'm mistaken and they meant a total number of equipment is 255 and not 255 of a single type.
 
[quote name='chubbyninja1319']I'm a single player guy all the way but MP in this game is phenomenal and I couldn't recommend it more as an entry point for MP newbies (like I was).[/QUOTE]

I'm sure I'd like it probably since I did enjoy Horde in Gears 2 (didn't play it much in Gears 3).

I just got burnt out on MP, and built up a small backlog of single player stuff I need to get through. So I'm just avoiding any MP stuff for now.
 
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