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Post by flyingovertrout on Apr 9, 2017 0:16:18 GMT
He didn't tweet for ages after ME3, so I take it he primarily uses Twitter to promote his work anyway. Fyi, IT'S CREEPY THAT YOU KNOW THIS
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Post by lexxxich on Apr 9, 2017 18:05:45 GMT
Elaaden is big heap of logic problems. - If it's tide locked with the planet it orbits, sunlight would still get blotted out by the planet - If somehow it's locked with it's one side to always be in sunlight, and it's mother planet does not blot out the sun, than why everyone set up camps in the middle of hot zone and not near the terminator? - as Drack's loyalty mission tells us, another moon near Eladeen has breathable atmosphere, normal gravity and so much liquid water it rains there. But krogan settled burning sands of Elaaden anyway because "muh new tuchanka".
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Post by FeralEwok on Apr 10, 2017 0:39:30 GMT
Well I'm sure you encountered some of these through this game. I will start: Ok so Cora loyalty mission, did I just witnessed 2 biotics shielding entire ship and bouncing off missiles from Kett ship? Like WTF, remember how Samara or Jack struggled to even go through this corridor in ME2 with biotic bubble. Don't you think they went too far here? (HAS SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR!?) Also how Sara did anything with Remnant stuff without SAM? Well Jack or Samara had to keep a field up for an extended period of time, were walking for an extended period of time, and being attacked for an extended period of time. Somewhere between 5-10 minutes of sustained biotic use while having forces trying to penetrate your barrier would be a lot for one powerful biotic and we see that when they almost collapse by the end of the segment. Now if I have two experienced and powerful biotics and only require them to hold a barrier up for a fraction of that time (I forget, the barrage was only like 30 seconds tops, right?)...they now have double the power and less time required to keep it going. You could have a larger and/or more powerful field at the expense of duration and mobility.
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Post by timebean on Apr 10, 2017 1:41:37 GMT
Mine are mostly tech issues...
How did the archon's little floating sidekick re-image daddy Ryder on Habitat 7? Were there camera's in the Remanent vault that the little VI tapped into for that image? I can buy SAM doing that on Eos from cobbled together security footage (I guess).
How did daddy Ryder transfer SAM to his son/daughter thru the omni tool? Does this mean that anyone with a SAM implant can become integrated fully with SAM (ie, pathfinders) if someone simply overrides the code and gives SAM permission to do so?
Also, are SAM/Sara/Scott now basically one person since SAM is fully integrated into both of them now? (I am basing this assumption on the end game stuff).
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Post by mrtijger on Apr 10, 2017 14:24:20 GMT
Mine are mostly tech issues... How did the archon's little floating sidekick re-image daddy Ryder on Habitat 7? Were there camera's in the Remanent vault that the little VI tapped into for that image? I can buy SAM doing that on Eos from cobbled together security footage (I guess). How did daddy Ryder transfer SAM to his son/daughter thru the omni tool? Does this mean that anyone with a SAM implant can become integrated fully with SAM (ie, pathfinders) if someone simply overrides the code and gives SAM permission to do so? Also, are SAM/Sara/Scott now basically one person since SAM is fully integrated into both of them now? (I am basing this assumption on the end game stuff). First one; I got nothing, or rather, the game never gives you an explanation. SAM can always be transferred by the Pathfinder to his next in line or anyone who has the implant as far as I understand. So yes, anytime a Pathfinder authorizes a transfer it happens, given that this generally will kill or severely impair the Pathfinder there isnt a lot of incentive to do that at a whim. SAM is connected to quite a few people, Liam and Cora have, as I understand it, implants too, if you talk to SAM early on he says he gives the Pathfinder the majority of his processing time, he half-jokes that he gives them his undivided attention.
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Post by Bacus on Apr 10, 2017 14:27:26 GMT
The Turian pathfinder toasting with the levo wine.
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Post by sentinel-shep-paragon on Apr 10, 2017 15:00:58 GMT
Cora is said to be an incredibly powerful biotic. She is far from normal. That is why humans won't work with her. She is so powerful that they are scared of her abilities. Sarissa is also incredibly powerful. Even low-level asari commandos used some incredibly powerful barriers on Thessia in ME3 (right at the beginning of that mission. It held against a lot of reaper attacks). The reasons the biotics in ME2 were so drained from their barrier is that they had to hold it for a very long time and move with it. It was a little bit of an exaggeration of biotic powerful, but it's not THAT huge of a stretch based on past biotic feats in the original trilogy.
As for Sara/Scott operating Remnant tech without SAM, that is something that is said to be hard. Even if the implant isn't properly connected to SAM, it is still somewhat connected. SAM says he is restricted, but he is even able to talk to you in the final battle. Ryder can still use the implants and the power that comes with them to operate the rem-tech at a cost to his/her own health...it is the proper connection to SAM that helps him/her to do so stably. If he/she didn't at least have some connection to the implants then he/she wouldn't be able to change profiles during the fight (which you can still do). Also, you are connect enough for SAM to "reboot" you after the Archon restricts your access to SAM. So you still have a connection, but it is a restricted and unstable one. That's why you can still use the tech, but just at a cost to your brain without the full help of SAM.
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Post by formerfiend on Apr 10, 2017 19:15:52 GMT
I imagine that the Archon's floating device - it gets named in a datapad after the final battle and is also called an "omni-tool equivalent" but I cannot for the life of me remember the full proper name) works similar to Ryder's own scanner that's able to recreate scenes of people standing & walking through areas with "environmental data".
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Post by whanzephruseke on Apr 11, 2017 2:10:52 GMT
Perhaps the kett also have implants that relay information back to the Archon's floaty thing? Some sort of "camera" that can still gather data when the kett wearing it is dead?
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Post by vyndral on Apr 11, 2017 6:25:09 GMT
I am bonded with an AI that is so powerful that it can almost instantly learn a new alien language, hack it, and control the ancient devices they left behind. Devices that are so far beyond anything we could hope to do we might as well be primitives.
Yet in the first failed Initiative colony I arrive at a door with a simple security lock is to powerful an enemy for us.
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Post by Garo on Apr 14, 2017 14:50:19 GMT
This is pretty bad. It doesn't make sense.
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Post by whanzephruseke on Apr 14, 2017 23:02:57 GMT
This is pretty bad. It doesn't make sense. We already have 11 pages written on that one. Here's the link.
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Post by Garo on Apr 15, 2017 14:18:51 GMT
This is pretty bad. It doesn't make sense. We already have 11 pages written on that one. Here's the link. I was lowkey hoping someone will show this to me xD I couldn't find it.
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Post by Link"Guess"ski on Apr 15, 2017 15:14:29 GMT
He didn't tweet for ages after ME3, so I take it he primarily uses Twitter to promote his work anyway. Fyi, IT'S CREEPY THAT YOU KNOW THIS Twitter is my developer feed. I notice when a developer suddenly starts tweeting after years of absence and I was in hardcore "search for answers" mode after my confusion over ME3 so I kinda browsed waaay back the feed of all the ME3 writers.
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Post by gplayer on Apr 16, 2017 9:31:48 GMT
I don't get the first contact situation with the Angara. They act like they have never seen a human before, but its clear they have had prior contact with Outcasts out of Kadara port. So this is second contact not the first. I think it would have made much more sense for their distrust of you be based on the dealings with the Outcasts more so than the Kett.
Also, this is not a plot hole per se, but its about the Jump jets. A great game mechanic but I am finding it hard to believe people built structures hundreds of years ago assuming you need jump jets to get around. Its just silly. Also in the game you see several human structures with no ladders or stairs to get up to so you just use jump jets. For these structures to work this way by design assumes jump jets are so wide spread and extremely cheap to use. Fair enough, but if that is the case why are walls the normal height! Check the walls in Kadara slums to see what I am talking about. They would have to be double that height if everyone had jump jets! That security gate is a joke. There is an observation post above it but no stairs leading to it. So they has to jump jet up there. But the walls are shorter than it!
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Post by Petroshenko on Apr 16, 2017 13:48:02 GMT
Everything regarding Angara first contact is a writing mess.
Spender is in regular contact with the Exiles on Kadara. Kesh is in regular contact with the Krogans on Elaaden.
Both planets have Angara dealing with the leadership. Yet apparently neither knows about them nor anyone else on the Nexus and it's a big whoop whoop shock when Ryder meets them on Aya.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2017 14:40:48 GMT
Ryder (and a few other characters) mention weight limits imposed on the Initiative before leaving the Milky Way...but Dad brought along his entire library, collection of display weapons, and a small boulder. And I swear, there are more books and papers lying around the Nexus and in all the outposts than I saw in the whole OT combined. Maybe it's a negligible amount of weight overall, but it's made to seem like it's practically an "only the shirt on your back" situation, so you'd think *most* hard copies could easily left behind in the age of omnitools. Not so much a "plot hole" as something I can't help but notice every time I play...kind of like those random cracked nut shells and tiny coffee cup handle on that one ME3 load screen
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Post by gplayer on Apr 16, 2017 14:58:58 GMT
I don't know if this was explained in the novel, but why did the Nexus not have its own SAM & Pathfinder? It seems like a perfectly sensible redundancy given all the ships were traveling separately.
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Post by fredvdp on Apr 16, 2017 19:12:35 GMT
The asari on Ark Leusinia refer to the rock monsters as kett before they hear Ryder's gang refer to them by that name. That means they came up with the name separately, which is highly unlikely.
Also, not really a plot hole, but is Garrus surviving the suicide mission canon now? We learn in ME3 that Garrus talked to his dad about the Reapers after ME2, and MEA confirms this conversation took place. If we instead assume Garrus talked to his dad about the Reapers before ME2, does that mean Garrus being recruited in ME1 is canon?
Edit: I was wrong about the Garrus thing. I just replayed that part and his dad says Garrus was a C-Sec agent at the time and heard Shepard's report about the Reapers. This works out even if he weren't recruited.
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Post by Garo on Apr 16, 2017 21:30:19 GMT
I don't know if this was explained in the novel, but why did the Nexus not have its own SAM & Pathfinder? It seems like a perfectly sensible redundancy given all the ships were traveling separately. Yea, giving Nexsus SAM would be highly logical, I guess they assumed everything will work out...
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Post by TurianFetish on Apr 16, 2017 21:44:51 GMT
The asari on Ark Leusinia refer to the rock monsters as kett before they hear Ryder's gang refer to them by that name. That means they came up with the name separately, which is highly unlikely. Also, not really a plot hole, but is Garrus surviving the suicide mission canon now? We learn in ME3 that Garrus talked to his dad about the Reapers after ME2, and MEA confirms this conversation took place. If we instead assume Garrus talked to his dad about the Reapers before ME2, does that mean Garrus being recruited in ME1 is canon? I think it's always been canon? I mean, who doesn't recruit Garrus or let him die?
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Apr 17, 2017 1:15:39 GMT
The asari on Ark Leusinia refer to the rock monsters as kett before they hear Ryder's gang refer to them by that name. That means they came up with the name separately, which is highly unlikely. Also, not really a plot hole, but is Garrus surviving the suicide mission canon now? We learn in ME3 that Garrus talked to his dad about the Reapers after ME2, and MEA confirms this conversation took place. If we instead assume Garrus talked to his dad about the Reapers before ME2, does that mean Garrus being recruited in ME1 is canon? I think it's always been canon? I mean, who doesn't recruit Garrus or let him die? It's been that way since the OT. For example, Liara will mention Garrus in the intro to the Menae mission when it's entirely possible she never met him.
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Post by gplayer on Apr 17, 2017 1:38:47 GMT
I don't know if this was explained in the novel, but why did the Nexus not have its own SAM & Pathfinder? It seems like a perfectly sensible redundancy given all the ships were traveling separately. Yea, giving Nexsus SAM would be highly logical, I guess they assumed everything will work out... If it was NASA running the show every ship would have a SAM and a backup SAM, and 2 co-Pathfinders!
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