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Post by ahglock on Apr 26, 2019 18:18:55 GMT
Out of all the backgrounds I think Colonist and Earthborn are the saddest, the first one because you knew your parents but they died, and the second one because you never even knew your parents and don't even know who they were or why they abandoned you (my head canon for my Earthborn Shep's is that their parents died in the First Contact War, seeing as Shep would've been 3 years old at max during that time it'd make sense for them not to remember having any parents)
Colonist/Sole Survivor = maximum trauma. I honestly don’t know. I’ll give colonist the edge over earth born but barely. But all 3 backgrounds are fucked up. You have sole survivor of a thresher maw, pushed your men to wipe out a slaver group losing most your men, and holding a spot while colonists get taken around you and countless others die.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Apr 26, 2019 20:26:52 GMT
so...I may or may not have started another Mass Effect 1 playthrough
wasn't sure about how I handled certain things, so I restarted Cameo's playthrough I made a few changes to her background, first time doing Sole Survivor, I've only played War Hero's in the past...she's still a Colonist also changed her class to Vanguard (it's my favorite class), and due to finishing earlier with an Engineer I was able to grab a bonus power, I've picked Electronics for the shield overloading (only other one I had unlocked was Sabotage)
I also made a few changes to her appearance, though I was happy with it before, it felt a bit repetitive to have so many raven-haired people in the team (Kaidan, Ashley, Miranda, Jacob, Kasumi (at least presumably)
and while you can say it shouldn't matter, I tend to try and look for ways to make my characters stand out a bit from the other team members, which is why I tend to look for ways to avoid making characters look like relatives of party members (for example I once had a Hawke who looked like she could be a sister to Anders )
so...here's Cam's new appearance Sliders in spoiler tag Facial Structure: 7-3-1-1 Head: 12-18-24-20-14-12-16 Eyes: 6-31-20-10-16-4-4 Jaw: 20-12-14-18 Mouth: 1-8-16-24-10 Nose: 3-4-12 Hair: 6-8-16-6 Makeup: 2-1-4
So far I've finished up Eden Prime, and had the initial meeting with the Council tomorrow I'll be heading out finding information about Saren, as well as meeting up with the other party members
going to try to grab a few more achievements this time around
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Post by brfritos on Apr 26, 2019 22:19:42 GMT
Well, tragedy strikes upon Cestis journey. Everything was going fine until now. We escaped Earth, battled Cerberus, blew up some Reapers, sabotaged the Genophage cure - harsh decision, but I'm sure we can fix things later and Wrex will be none the wiser, so no worries - saved the Citadel, killed some Morinth v2.0 and so on. The usual day to day routine in Shepard's life. That's why I like my turian liaison, it's EXACTLY how he described our own past adventures: blow up some Geth, landed on Ilos, killed Saren, prevented the Reapers from returning after 50.000 years and survived a suicide mission. You know, nothing worthy of notice. After saving the Citadel - again! - this time from Cerberus, Hackett ordered me to go talk to the Quarians, since they have the largest fleet in the galaxy. Should I remeber him that actually this fleet is composed of rotten rusted ships salvaged from shipyards or decommissioned vessels acquired nexto to nothing? Or that the turians, asari, salarians and even humans have more battleships, let alone dreadnoughts overall? Nah, the old man seems to know what he's doing, so here we go. Funny thing. We arrive at the meeting point and the quarian ship have the same stealth technology from the Normandy. Well, the salarians also have this tech and Cerberus payed BILLIONS from various sources to recover the ship's schematics, I'm sure having a quarian travelling with me for two tours and studying our ship has nothing to do with it. But of course, nothing is ever easy, is it? Why should it be? I'm Commander Shepard after all. Take the mess we are in now for example. We are battling a war against an enemy who wants to exterminate all advanced civilizations in the galaxy and what the quarians do? Start a civil war with a vowed enemy that kicked their asses hard 300 years ago. What are the odds of things going wrong? And of course the whole thing goes wrong fast. You see, their vowed enemy are the Geth, syntethic life forms and unlike us they have a cooperative inteligence. And more unlike us they don't need bodies, they are programs. They need to be close one of another to be able to do anything more than turning a wrench. So they were building a mega-structure to end their isolation and every single one of them could live togheter side by side. The quarians attacked this mega-structure and they hadn't surplus hardware to save some programs, so they were lost. Fearing their annihilation they allied themselves with the reapers and are now kicking the quarians asses even more harder again. And who needs to save they day? Of course is me. Because reapers weren't enough. Since this is the journey of Cestis Shepard, we also did the common day to day tasks not worthy of notice. Like erasing a geth server responsible for attacking the quarian's civilian fleet with fighters (because they had the brilliant idea to arm them, but without armor), saving an admiral responsible for the civilian fleet and one of the voices against the war and in the meantime finding time to also save a fuel reactor deep in the middle of enemy lines. You know, the usual walk in the park.
Then is time for the gran finale and finally help reunite the two of them in the grand scheme of galatic peace and love, right? Not so fast junior! You see, Cestis in her previous adventures had to solve a problem with the way Geth do things. Some geth chose to follow the reapers, some not. So there was a schism in their collective. But the ones following the reapers wanted to enforce their will upon the rest of the geth. They created a virus that would "brainwash" them. Legion asked my help to solve the problem and why the hell not? Blowing up geth is always fun. Except later we discover that things are not what used to be. When erasing the geth server responsible for attacking the quarian's civilian fleet, we also learn that the geth weren't violent, it was the quarians who turn on them from fear of having created an AI. Worst, they also attacked those quarians who tried to mediate a solution. Since there was a war and the geth kicked the quarians out of Rannoch, I asked why they spared them and let them go? The geth with me said they were their creators. How can you kill the one that created you, even if it's justified? Except he also says they are growing weary and tired of them. Oh, oh. And that's the problem. You see, when the geth asked me for help, later we learned that instead of blowing up the geth following the reapers, we could use their own virus against them! Well, why not? More numbers in our fight against the reapers, since from the looks of it the geth were also against them.
Crap, I should have listened to Joker, because the decision came biting my ass now. You see, it seems the geth "hoped" one day reunite with their creators and since I upped the geth numbers, I also put this plan in danger, because the geth allied with the reapers are now in greater numbers. Way to go Shepard... So in the end, no. I can't save them both and can't have a galaxy full of love. I like the quarians to be honest, their history is interesting and pardon me for the insensivity, but their suits are great. Just forget the fact that you have to live in them 24/7, can't take them off in public or you'll die from infection since your immune system is too weak because you have to live in those suits, if you take your suit off it has to be in a isolated environment and we are good. But yeah, the quarians bite the dust. And Tali commits suicide watching her old ship, the Raya, crashing on Rannoch with probably no hope for survivors because their scape pods malfunctioned. Back on the ship almost every single one of my crewmates look down on me or simply scow at my decision. Hackett? He goes with my plan because the geth armada packs quite a punch and we are in the middle of a war for survival, otherwise he would resign his post on the spot. Garrus? He will try to respect my decision, but is clearly pissed with me. Liara? Shocked and depressed from seeing an entire race go extinct. Joker? He can't even look me in the eye. Javik? The usual "you primitives are too stupid". Ashley? Holy cow, that was a serious 180 turn! First she has not love for aliens, now Tali was like a little sister to her? And she wants to be alone, so it's better if I beat it. The only ones that supported me were EDI, for obvious reasons, and... Dr. Chakwas. She was the only one to ask if I was ok and it was a shame the quarians and Tali died. Because you know, a decision to save one race and doom the other is easy peasy, right?
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Apr 27, 2019 1:54:59 GMT
I started playing Brandi Shepard on a mission, but I was not really feeling it. then I kept dying in the same spot over and over again, until I finally quit after about 30 minutes. I'll probably pick it up again in a few days and then be fine.
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Post by brfritos on Apr 27, 2019 4:42:34 GMT
My mistake then, you are role playing your Shepard. My bad. No worries. Perhaps useful for someone else. I love RPing my Shepards here. My earliest stuff were full-on Paragon. It took me a while to work up to adding more Renegade choices. Never gone full Renegade yet but this PT has more Renegade choices than ever before. You want a full renegade playthrough? Here we go... Not for the weak, Shepard makes dreadfull decisions throughout the game, ME3 in this case. Also, do something like this and then pick the control ending. I dare those who call control "the good ending" still stating this afterwards.
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Post by dmc1001 on Apr 27, 2019 7:48:05 GMT
No worries. Perhaps useful for someone else. I love RPing my Shepards here. My earliest stuff were full-on Paragon. It took me a while to work up to adding more Renegade choices. Never gone full Renegade yet but this PT has more Renegade choices than ever before. You want a full renegade playthrough? Here we go... Not for the weak, Shepard makes dreadfull decisions throughout the game, ME3 in this case. Also, do something like this and then pick the control ending. I dare those who call control "the good ending" still stating this afterwards. Who calls Control the good ending? I did it once, just to see what it was like, and it's the creepiest. I can't imagine wanting to spend a single day with Reapers floating overheard, just waiting for them to disintegrate everyone I care about who they didn't previously disintegrate. FYI, similar issue with Synthesis.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Apr 27, 2019 11:25:01 GMT
I did Synthesis the first time I played ME3...because I wanted to safe everyone...yeah...that was a bad idea (also did Refusal once to see what it was about) I've done Destroy ever since, imo. it makes the most sense out of all the endings, because it's what you work toward during the entire trilogy there's no way Shep would suddenly be swayed to go the route of TIM(Control) or Saren(Synthesis) unless they were somehow indoctrinated (and yeah, I supported the theory when it first came out)
-- At present I'm re-downloading some texture mods for Mass Effect 1 and 2, as well as finishing up the downloads for ME3's dlc's I'm also making back-ups for the modded game folders for 1 and 2, just in case I screw something up when installing ALOT
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Post by themikefest on Apr 27, 2019 11:49:46 GMT
You want a full renegade playthrough? Here we go... Want a full renegade, and the best playthrough ever , click on the link in my signature
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Apr 27, 2019 16:35:08 GMT
It appears my capture device has failed. (I play single player on Xbox and use a capture device to record gameplay to a PC.) I am recording gameplay of Brandi Shepard -- a "Cryo DrainGuard", a Vanguard using just Cryo Ammo, Energy Drain, and Shockwave -- so I kind of want to finish recording the playthrough. All that is left for gameplay is: second half of Thessia, Sanctuary, N7: Communications Hub, then Cerberus HQ and Earth.
I am not completely sure if the device itself failed or if my old crummy laptop is preventing it from capturing. The video-through works (video from my Xbox to TV monitor works) so it may just be the laptop that is not recognizing the USB input.
I am going to try again later after another reboot to see if I can get it to work. Failing that, I may install the capture software on my desktop PC to see if that works.
I would hate to leave this playthrough unfinished because my capture device failed. I do not want to buy a second device in less than a year.
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Post by dmc1001 on Apr 27, 2019 18:21:07 GMT
I get this problem. I've had multiple instances of ME2 closing for no reason I can discern. It makes it difficult for me to get things going. Almost tempted to use Gibbed's save game editor to complete everything but the SM and Arrival and then importing that in ME3. But I'd rather play the game.
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Post by brfritos on Apr 27, 2019 21:16:38 GMT
You want a full renegade playthrough? Here we go... Not for the weak, Shepard makes dreadfull decisions throughout the game, ME3 in this case. Also, do something like this and then pick the control ending. I dare those who call control "the good ending" still stating this afterwards. Who calls Control the good ending? I did it once, just to see what it was like, and it's the creepiest. I can't imagine wanting to spend a single day with Reapers floating overheard, just waiting for them to disintegrate everyone I care about who they didn't previously disintegrate. FYI, similar issue with Synthesis. I see lots of time some people calling control "the good ending". Not joking.
Probably because EDI and the geth survive, that's the reasoning behind it.
You want a full renegade playthrough? Here we go... Want a full renegade, and the best playthrough ever , click on the link in my signature
My EMS I think was really low, like 1300 or something in this playthrough.
One of the things I remember is actually the volus ambassador mission. First because is bugged, which is a shame. Second because picking the Turian colony is the worst possible decision (in the vanilla game you gain nothing, just paragon points, while losing 75 points from the volus bombing fleet).
Everyone is dead, galaxy in shambles, Earth is a cinder block...
Nothing like a good day in the office.
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Post by brfritos on Apr 27, 2019 21:28:39 GMT
At present I'm re-downloading some texture mods for Mass Effect 1 and 2, as well as finishing up the downloads for ME3's dlc's I'm also making back-ups for the modded game folders for 1 and 2, just in case I screw something up when installing ALOT
but with luck it'll work just fine since this time I actually read the entire installation guide for Re-Calibrated and didn't do it when half sleepy like the first time
as for installing mods for ME3...I'm not sure yet which one's I'll be installing yet...I'll think on that once I get there I can recommend three that are really good.
- ME3Recalibrated - Better Dreams - EGM, Expanded Galaxy Mod
The rest it's up to you, a lot of people like Thane and Back Off mods, but they are not my cup of tea.
I get this problem. I've had multiple instances of ME2 closing for no reason I can discern. It makes it difficult for me to get things going. Almost tempted to use Gibbed's save game editor to complete everything but the SM and Arrival and then importing that in ME3. But I'd rather play the game. Which problems do you have? Usually ME2 is rock solid. The error messages are Windows system messages or is the game telling you some textures or DLC can't be found?
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Apr 27, 2019 21:30:23 GMT
It appears my capture device has failed. (I play single player on Xbox and use a capture device to record gameplay to a PC.) I am recording gameplay of Brandi Shepard -- a "Cryo DrainGuard", a Vanguard using just Cryo Ammo, Energy Drain, and Shockwave -- so I kind of want to finish recording the playthrough. All that is left for gameplay is: second half of Thessia, Sanctuary, N7: Communications Hub, then Cerberus HQ and Earth. I am not completely sure if the device itself failed or if my old crummy laptop is preventing it from capturing. The video-through works (video from my Xbox to TV monitor works) so it may just be the laptop that is not recognizing the USB input. I am going to try again later after another reboot to see if I can get it to work. Failing that, I may install the capture software on my desktop PC to see if that works. I would hate to leave this playthrough unfinished because my capture device failed. I do not want to buy a second device in less than a year. UPDATE: After some fiddling, I can confirm that my capture device is toast. Basically, none of my computers can recognize the USB, so I cannot record any gameplay with it. That sucks.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Apr 27, 2019 21:33:45 GMT
At present I'm re-downloading some texture mods for Mass Effect 1 and 2, as well as finishing up the downloads for ME3's dlc's I'm also making back-ups for the modded game folders for 1 and 2, just in case I screw something up when installing ALOT
but with luck it'll work just fine since this time I actually read the entire installation guide for Re-Calibrated and didn't do it when half sleepy like the first time
as for installing mods for ME3...I'm not sure yet which one's I'll be installing yet...I'll think on that once I get there I can recommend three that are really good.
- ME3Recalibrated - Better Dreams - EGM, Expanded Galaxy Mod
The rest it's up to you, a lot of people like Thane and Back Off mods, but they are not my cup of tea.
thanks for the recommendations I was thinking of using Back off as well, and perhaps an ending mod, though I'm not sure yet
at present I'm struggling with coming up with a new appearance for my Vanguard...I tried looking on the Faces of Gaming site, but most of those faces are modded so they don't translate correctly into ME1 it's the one thing I always struggle with...making unique looking characters...9 out of 10 character I make end up looking the same (and it doesn't help that I only like using face structure 7 for my FemShep)
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Post by dmc1001 on Apr 27, 2019 21:35:59 GMT
I get this problem. I've had multiple instances of ME2 closing for no reason I can discern. It makes it difficult for me to get things going. Almost tempted to use Gibbed's save game editor to complete everything but the SM and Arrival and then importing that in ME3. But I'd rather play the game. Which problems do you have? Usually ME2 is rock solid. The error messages are Windows system messages or is the game telling you some textures or DLC can't be found? None of that. Just a complete crash. One second I'm playing and the next it completely shut down. ME1 ran rock solid. ME2... not so much.
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Post by dmc1001 on Apr 27, 2019 21:45:06 GMT
I see lots of time some people calling control "the good ending". Not joking.
Probably because EDI and the geth survive, that's the reasoning behind it. I like them but don't see how the survival of any of them makes it especially "good". They are unintentional by-products of Red. Maybe Shepard completely understood the consequences or maybe not. He was barely conscious at the time. He probably could reason that "Dead Reapers = Good" and "Live Reapers = Bad". If you look at it from that barely conscious viewpoint there's really only one decision to be made. It's a gamble, because this thing caused unimaginable numbers of deaths over the course of at least a billion years, but if it's lying it will kill everyone anyway. Everyone is dead, galaxy in shambles, Earth is a cinder block... Maybe not a great ending but the galaxy does have a chance to rebuild. Since the relays were also destroyed, each race gets to develop technology in their own way rather than the way of the Reapers. And you just know some high ranking military/government people plus a few hundred or thousands of others were holed up in a bunker somewhere. Humanity will be fine. I'm always sad in any ending with a dead Shepard but complete and total freedom from the Reapers and the chance to rebuild the galaxy on their own terms is worth it.
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Post by brfritos on Apr 27, 2019 22:33:30 GMT
Everyone is dead, galaxy in shambles, Earth is a cinder block... Maybe not a great ending but the galaxy does have a chance to rebuild. Since the relays were also destroyed, each race gets to develop technology in their own way rather than the way of the Reapers. And you just know some high ranking military/government people plus a few hundred or thousands of others were holed up in a bunker somewhere. Humanity will be fine. I'm always sad in any ending with a dead Shepard but complete and total freedom from the Reapers and the chance to rebuild the galaxy on their own terms is worth it.
I don't think humanity will be fine if Earth is a cinder block. In fact, I think humanity is about extinct just like the batarians, at least in the Sol system and some others. The reapers basically annihilated all of our colonies in citadel space, like Hades Gamma, Artemis Tau, Arcturus, Hades Nexus and so on. The energy released by the Crucible killed most life on Earth and not just human: the blast also killed the animal life and the plants. Trees and such, just like Ilos. How oxigen will be created without plants? Earth is just dead, the entire planet.
Maybe Terra Nova could survive, which will be the newer birth place of humans. Eden Prime is also dead, given the proximity of the planet and the mass relay. Even if not, the colony population after Saren's attack never recovered and the reaper invasion hit the planet hard, so forget it.
The other races can have a better outcome, specifically... the quarians. Yeah, I know.
If they survived the blast and Commander Shepard of course. They don't need planets, they scavenge the materials they needed and they are adapted to survive with a restrictive diet. They grow their own food and after the blast there are tons of materials and eezo scatered throughout the galaxy, let alone the sol system for them to survive.
With the relays destroyed basically the asari, salarians, turians and krogans are locked in their system. If their planets are not destroyed like Earth, they have a chance at the future. The krogans are a curious case. They survived the lethal ecology of Tuchanka, nuclear wars, the genophage and can't survive the cure being sabotaged? I don't buy it.
Yes, the conditions would be even more harsher and dredfull in Tuchanka, but you see krogan males and females in the end game slides. So the species can continue, even if at a slower pace. And they are locked in their system, thank god for that!
The problem is each species need to rebuild all the tech we are reliant while at the same time ensuring the survival of their own species. The priority will not be rebuilding fleets and mass relays, but cleaning cities, rebuilding infrastructure, ensuring the population has enough food and etc. It will be a long time before we can travell to other systems again. It will happpen, I agree with you, but not very fast like the game implies.
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Post by brfritos on Apr 27, 2019 23:06:04 GMT
thanks for the recommendations I was thinking of using Back off as well, and perhaps an ending mod, though I'm not sure yet
at present I'm struggling with coming up with a new appearance for my Vanguard...I tried looking on the Faces of Gaming site, but most of those faces are modded so they don't translate correctly into ME1 it's the one thing I always struggle with...making unique looking characters...9 out of 10 character I make end up looking the same (and it doesn't help that I only like using face structure 7 for my FemShep)
I usually don't have problems with the default femShep in ME1 and ME2. In fact, I like it A LOT. In my opinion is the best of all available in the game and 90% better of a lot of custom faces I've seen.
I usually don't tinker too much my character of make a totally new one (I'm really bad at it ). Sometimes I change the hair, iris color and maybe change the default's mouth shape. But that's it.
In ME1 I can't help you, but for ME2 and ME3 there's one femShep that stands out of every single one I had seen: ELE08 Shep. Try it and tell me what you think.
In the file there's a headmorph for ME2.
None of that. Just a complete crash. One second I'm playing and the next it completely shut down. ME1 ran rock solid. ME2... not so much.
Look at the event viewer in Windows what type of error is. But as a guess, I think it's a system error, like video card drivers or the PhysX software from nVidia. Or it can be a disk error, try a scandisk on ME2 folder.
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Post by burningcherry on Apr 28, 2019 0:07:05 GMT
After saving the Citadel - again! - this time from Cerberus, Hackett ordered me to go talk to the Quarians, since they have the largest fleet in the galaxy. Should I remeber him that actually this fleet is composed of rotten rusted ships salvaged from shipyards or decommissioned vessels acquired nexto to nothing? Or that the turians, asari, salarians and even humans have more battleships, let alone dreadnoughts overall? Nah, the old man seems to know what he's doing, so here we go. He's probably correct. "Largest" != "best armed and armored". I hope she did so. Rightest thing to do with Reapers at the gate. They were though. They refused peace negotiations. I see lots of time some people calling control "the good ending". Not joking. Probably because EDI and the geth survive, that's the reasoning behind it. Paragon Control? Sure. Most realistic way to keep the krogans, the Leviathan and the geth in check at least for a while.
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Post by brfritos on Apr 28, 2019 0:50:08 GMT
I see lots of time some people calling control "the good ending". Not joking. Probably because EDI and the geth survive, that's the reasoning behind it. Paragon Control? Sure. Most realistic way to keep the krogans, the Leviathan and the geth in check at least for a while. Turning yourself into a reaper? Hardly. At some point Shepard the reapers will decide, for example, the krogan can't occupy other worlds, even if they needed. Or the geth need to be confined at the edge of the galaxy and can't interact with other species. Or vice versa, other species can't interact with them. And so on until it decides this isn't working and it needs more "data" to make the galaxy better. And the cycles return. Also, what if Shepard is renegade and choose control?
The narration starts at 7:38
It's a lot of "ifs" in the middle, while destroy reagrdless if you are paragon or renegade still accomplish what we want without a single doubt: end the cycles and stop the reapers. Apart everything we can talk about Garrus, he's right when he says this is a war not everyone can be saved.
As Leviathan I have a suggestion. How about we break into Bioware headquarters and pick a copy of the Unreal engine they used to build the game? dmc001 would distract Casey Hudson, TheMikeFest and RedCaesar97 would held hostage the Bioware staff while you, I and some others would copy the files. After that we change the Leviathan ending and put a choice to call the Reapers and send Leviathan to the black hole it deserves. Pricks.
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Post by burningcherry on Apr 28, 2019 4:02:40 GMT
Paragon Control? Sure. Most realistic way to keep the krogans, the Leviathan and the geth in check at least for a while. Turning yourself into a reaper? Hardly. At some point Shepard the reapers will decide, for example, the krogan can't occupy other worlds, even if they needed. Or the geth need to be confined at the edge of the galaxy and can't interact with other species. Or vice versa, other species can't interact with them. And so on until it decides this isn't working and it needs more "data" to make the galaxy better. And the cycles return. Also, what if Shepard is renegade and choose control?
The narration starts at 7:38
This would have to happen fast because, having access to all the knowledge the Reapers posessed, the "protected ones" will quickly become more powerful than their "protectors". As I noted, Reapers and their new controller mind matter only for a while and even the renegade speech doesn't sound like renewing the old story without a radical change of mind.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Apr 28, 2019 10:19:19 GMT
thanks for the recommendations I was thinking of using Back off as well, and perhaps an ending mod, though I'm not sure yet
at present I'm struggling with coming up with a new appearance for my Vanguard...I tried looking on the Faces of Gaming site, but most of those faces are modded so they don't translate correctly into ME1 it's the one thing I always struggle with...making unique looking characters...9 out of 10 character I make end up looking the same (and it doesn't help that I only like using face structure 7 for my FemShep)
I usually don't have problems with the default femShep in ME1 and ME2. In fact, I like it A LOT. In my opinion is the best of all available in the game and 90% better of a lot of custom faces I've seen.
I usually don't tinker too much my character of make a totally new one (I'm really bad at it ). Sometimes I change the hair, iris color and maybe change the default's mouth shape. But that's it.
In ME1 I can't help you, but for ME2 and ME3 there's one femShep that stands out of every single one I had seen: ELE08 Shep. Try it and tell me what you think.
In the file there's a headmorph for ME2. I saw that face, it does look lovely
for me it depends on the CC a game has to see what kind of characters I can make, for example I tend to make all of my Wardens for DA:Origins in the toolset these days since it gives more control then the actual in-game CC
the other day I was looking at some other faces for a FemShep, then came across this post from someone who said (freely written since I no longer remember the actual words) 'once you found a face you like and try to make something new and it doesn't fit, then it means you already found your 'canon' look for your Shepard' and I think they're right...a few playthroughs back I made a face for my Shep which I love a lot, and I guess I'll just stick with it problem is, is that I also figured out a canon name which makes finding her files a lot more difficult
though I guess at least for ME1 all you really need is the endgame file for when you want to replay the character to get them to lvl. 60, so in theory I could just delete the other playthrough
and for my FemShep I actually did the same as you did, I picked a preset I liked and made a few personal tweaks to it, no use in starting from scratch
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Post by brfritos on Apr 28, 2019 16:38:30 GMT
Turning yourself into a reaper? Hardly. At some point Shepard the reapers will decide, for example, the krogan can't occupy other worlds, even if they needed. Or the geth need to be confined at the edge of the galaxy and can't interact with other species. Or vice versa, other species can't interact with them. And so on until it decides this isn't working and it needs more "data" to make the galaxy better. And the cycles return. Also, what if Shepard is renegade and choose control?
The narration starts at 7:38
This would have to happen fast because, having access to all the knowledge the Reapers posessed, the "protected ones" will quickly become more powerful than their "protectors". As I noted, Reapers and their new controller mind matter only for a while and even the renegade speech doesn't sound like renewing the old story without a radical change of mind.
I can only hope your responses to TIM when talking to him on the Citadel were the renegade ones then. Because the second paragon response Shepard says is how we are not ready and shouldn't use the power to control the reapers.
As I said, the problem is not accessing the knowledge the reapers have and passing them to "the protected ones". Is the "ifs" this decision carries, there are A LOT of them to be too comfortable with.
And yeah, passing this kind of knowledge to a krogan or a vorcha. Or a Yahg.
What could go wrong with this...
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Post by DerekG on Apr 28, 2019 21:17:14 GMT
I managed to tear myself away from other games (and “real life”) long enough to make a bit of progress over the last few days on my Roy Shepard playthrough (Vanguard, Earthborn / War Hero). Did some stuff on the Citadel, along the way running into an old “friend”, Finch, from the street gang I was mixed up with as a kid. He wanted me to use my influence to get another gang member – Weisman - released from turian custody, and threatened to expose my past if I refused. I’d left that life behind me, but never tried to hide it from anyone as I built my career / new life, so his “threat” had little affect on me. Weisman stayed locked up, and Finch stormed off empty handed. Headed to Luna to take out a rogue “VI” for Admiral Hackett and the Alliance (picked up the Nemesis specialization at the end of it). Then back to Artemis Tau to try and rescue Nassana Dantius’ sister. It turns out the diplomat had been less than truthful with me, and the sister was actually the gang leader and not the victim. A few snapshots: Yes sir, Admiral Butthurt sir! Whoa, we've got ourselves a badass here... Better luck next time, Finch. There’s no place like home. How did a Soviet lander from 1974 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_23)... ... end up with modern weapon and armour mods stored on it?
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Apr 29, 2019 20:05:25 GMT
continued with my Vanguard Cameo playthrough (after making another restart to remake her initial look) So far she became a Spectre, recruited everyone (including Liara) saved Terra Nova and found Admiral Kohaku's team I've also done a few other smaller side missions, but I've yet to turn them in I should be returning to the Citadel, but I tend to wait 'till I have 9 Charm or Intimidate points so I can fully complete the snap inspection quest (atm. I have 8) might have to do with the initial bonus you receive when picking the Sole Survivor background generally after doing Bring down the sky I have acquired enough Paragon points to unlock the 9th slot...hm...maybe it's because I forgot to do the Hanar prophet quest ah well, I'll figure something out to grab that last point I need... hm...maybe I should just complete Noveria first...doing the Lorik Qui'in quest usually gives quite a few paragon points
I'll figure something out tomorrow
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