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Post by mastert on Mar 31, 2017 12:42:05 GMT
A game about traveling to new and unknown worlds gritty and dark with choices that could change people and have consequences including death of people you know, about uncovering secrets of lost civilizations and and wondering what happened to them.
About being on the light side and being a jedi padawan rising to the rank of master and helping people or being succumbed by the dark side and slicing your peoples throats before they could say anything.
Also i can't remember if this was in Mass effect 1, but in kotor for example if you had medicine skill high you could have the options to save some people or if explosives was high you could blow them up.
So depending on your skills you could do different things and dialogue interactions.
Mass effect 1 for me always was a successor to Kotor games which I loved, the layer games always streamlined things so they were more casual and accesible less skills, inventory, etc. more focused on the combat.
I honestly don't now what made mass effect 1 so great for me, but i feel like im missing stuff these days.
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Post by mastert on Mar 31, 2017 10:34:18 GMT
I hear the soned and valkyrie are pretty decent, especially on a power build that relies on biotic combos. Valkyrie n7 unlocked at me at my first pack from the preorder or deluxe and I absolutely hate it, weak and innacurate with terrible recoil.
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Post by mastert on Mar 31, 2017 10:31:57 GMT
Remember: Teams made up of all the same class and weapon combos are clearly superior, bonus points if you all paint your armour bright pink and luminous green, but make sure you this in the lobby, everyone just loves staring at finger twitching characters. best game i played was when the whole lobby equipped vanquishers
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Post by mastert on Mar 31, 2017 10:27:18 GMT
I like Cora, all she wants is to have a garden with me and she respects me as the pathfinder and even said how she realised that I was the right choice Her talking about being asari was annoying tho especially in her mission talking to the other asari like she was one of them I READ THE ASARI GUIDE JUST BREATH SOLDIER But honestly most people seem to complain about her actions in the beginning of the game, same with all the Anderson hate when she wants Alec back and doesn't trust you or doesn't call you Pathfinder, a lot of people seem very sensitive about this and later hold a grudge. I don't get it, since she clearly respects you later on after your actions and even apologises.
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Post by mastert on Mar 30, 2017 22:22:10 GMT
What the hell do you people expect a ps4 pro playing at 4k with good graphics, not even with a 1080ti you can play ultra at real 4k smooth
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Post by mastert on Mar 30, 2017 17:44:53 GMT
Im disappointed how you can have the best guns and armor in the game and there is nothing unique about others, also opening chests is a waste of time since all weapons and armor scale with level so you can't find an unique helmet armor or weapons.
Even doing the story doesn't grant you anything special along the way so when you craft your stuff there's no reason to change anything ever.
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Post by mastert on Mar 30, 2017 17:41:46 GMT
Mass effect was literally Kotor3 i wish it still felt like it. Miss you Drew
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Post by mastert on Mar 30, 2017 11:31:54 GMT
OP is origin of the problem and complains about it. Sorry but if you've got a shitty connection, play single player games, don't ruin other people fun Yeah nah, I'll keep playing
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Post by mastert on Mar 30, 2017 10:46:25 GMT
Its still transparent and ugly, The N7 helmet is much better. If it was dark like your op image it would have been perfect The N7 Helmet does tint, but you have to craft N7 Pathfinder Helmet IV. Helmet V works too. Its just weird that the original without the little side scope or antenna doesn't tint. Maybe its a bug? wait what the fuck, i tried the pathfinder v and it doesn't look as dark as that one at all, it looks like your second image still very transparent but in black
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Post by mastert on Mar 30, 2017 10:43:21 GMT
Yeah i tried hosting a game but the people that joined didn't have a great time, they lagged out and got replaced by another 3 and then they got replaced... and then another
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Post by mastert on Mar 29, 2017 23:24:40 GMT
H047 is also my favourite, with the different gravity it felt like i was actually on a different world rather than having same gravity and oxygen on all the boring planets. Statement: Also i like the name
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Post by mastert on Mar 29, 2017 21:10:44 GMT
Pathfinder 3 and 4 have dark tinged glass. Weird that pathfinder 1and 2 helmets don't. Maybe it's a bug? Thanks for the responses Its still transparent and ugly, The N7 helmet is much better. If it was dark like your op image it would have been perfect
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Post by mastert on Mar 29, 2017 20:54:35 GMT
Drack was fun, destroying those 2 hydra was fun and the choice is, giving drack approval to throw the guy down.
Also bar fight was cool
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Post by mastert on Mar 29, 2017 20:49:53 GMT
I typically hover in Adamantium. I'm usually impenetrable there. That's not what she said last night. More like thats what He said
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Post by mastert on Mar 29, 2017 20:24:21 GMT
After finishing the game, 50 hours played and 96 % completion, I am at the following: Impulsive actions taken: 11 Casual choices made: 27 Emotional choices made: 60 Logical choices made: 412 Professional choices made: 382 And yet the Lexi report still says I have a tendency to act impulsively in many situations... Cmon, Doc, it was all flirting. Why does it count toward my work performance? Do I have to be all "No fun allowed, just here to make babies" even in my off hours? Anyway, time to go for a snarky casual mayhem Sarah run Hello fellow INTJ
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Post by mastert on Mar 29, 2017 18:57:20 GMT
As the title says, what are some retcons or outright contradictions that you noticed in this game, compared to the numbered trilogy and expanded universe? They can be small and minute and not-all-that-important, or major and lore-breaking. For me, the one that stuck out is how the asari now have male terms and pronouns for themselves, despite being an all-female species with a language that has, up to this point, only had female signifiers, e.g. the stages of life of an asari are "maiden", "matron", and "matriarch", and asari children always being referred to as daughters. Introducing a male dynamic completely does away with what makes the asari interesting, that they are a monogendered species with a culture that reflects that. Aria in Mass Effect 2 even mentions that the reason she named Patriarch "Patriarch" is because the asari don't have a proper term for a male leader, because there are no male asari. Aria is in essence saying that Patriarch, as the previous leader of Omega before her, is nothing, he may as well not exist, he's so irrelevant. Nothing about the asari beforehand supported the notion that they would even have any concept of males in their own culture, and Andromeda mentioning that there are now, for lack of a better term, transgender asari, just comes off as progressive pandering for good boy points. Wait...wait! Asari have male pronouns now in their culture?Since when? The only time they ever used male terms was when they talked about their mates,no matter what gender or species. If the mate was a female human,she'd still be called "father".Isn't that right? Don't remember them calling eachother as "he". Tumblr writers helped changed this, asari are non binary non cis and use different pronouns now.
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Post by mastert on Mar 29, 2017 18:32:27 GMT
Totally agree. So far (I'm only 15 hours into the game but have visited 3 planets) there have not been a lot of new discoveries, which is unfortunate. I am hoping they also play around with strange things like gravity and the effect of low gravity on biology, species w/o two legs re: hanar. Nope in mass effect every species talks English acts like humans, all races breath oxygen and live in planets with the same gravity. Also have the same technology with vehicles that look exactly the same but in a different paint job. The kett the angaran and the humans habe vehicles on planets that look the same, also use tables and chairs that don't look much different and the architecture is hardly different.
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Post by mastert on Mar 29, 2017 14:16:24 GMT
KOTOR 2 > KOTOR > ME1 > ME2 > ME3 > MEA
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Post by mastert on Mar 29, 2017 14:01:44 GMT
How can you people even use casual or emotional,let alone enjoy it.
I forced myself to see it for myself and its so cringy tween shit I just couldn't.
Also better than shepard??? What the fuck
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Post by mastert on Mar 29, 2017 12:31:48 GMT
You should check out the massive difference in Gta V for example That's a good point. I really don't know of other games that would significantly benefit from SSDs or even NVME. Do you have any links to some tests anywhere close? Some might say this isn't a lot, but given how many times you load in that game its a game changer.
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Post by mastert on Mar 29, 2017 12:21:30 GMT
Anyone else on PC with the game on an SSD getting abysmal loading times? Loading times seem to be the same as those with HDD's. Not a problem with my PC, everything else loads like lightning, including the previous ME games. Not sure if this can be fixed or if it's just how it is. Kinda hard to stomach, especially with the 25 second galaxy transitions and landing/departure scenes that can't be skipped. Check this out: They tested modern games loading times while looking at actual drive read speeds. Turns out, the drives are not the bottleneck. During loading times, the data is being read on average of 20 mb/s with peaks at 100 mb/s, which is 5-20% of what standard SATA SSDs can do. And they had 0% improvement with NVME over classical SATA drives. So... yeah. Yeah. And I can testify myself that I noticed no improvement in loading times when I transfered my copy of DAI and MEA from hybrid SSHD to SSD. Don't know about regular HDDs but probably not much difference either if it never goes past 100 mb/s. You can test it yourself. And yes, I know there are many other benefits with SSDs like shorter access times and so on, but we're talking loading times here and those are the same, unless you would have for example an extreme case of fragmented and old HDD. But if you're saying your MEA loadings are "abysmal" it still hits me as bit of an odd thing, as load times are quite fast for me compared to DA:I. About 3 times as fast as DA:I I would dare to bet. But the downside is that a lot of content is being streamed in after, specially the first 10 seconds everything is stuttering like hell (and never ends later, in smaller doses). It did load for much longer when I first started the game and the MP lobby, I would guess it was unpacking the files at that time, but now it's quite snappy. Now if only the game ran that snappy as well. You should check out the massive difference in Gta V for example
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Post by mastert on Mar 28, 2017 22:31:25 GMT
The other thing that wrecks immersion is the fact that all races behave like humans in this game. Turians the militaristic civilization? Nope. Asari the long lived and experienced hot chicks? Get patronized by a 30 something year old Cora. Angarans? Hipster humans that like hugs. Thank god for the krogans! Wish I could play as one... THIS HOLY SHIT its annoying as fuck Every single race acts the same now even the salarians speak more normal and even the krogans behave less like killing machines brutes and are soft spoken traders
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Post by mastert on Mar 28, 2017 22:22:55 GMT
So just spoke to Sara, after she woke up from the coma... Talking about father and she.. well I started talking through her, lipsync and scotts voice coming out of nowhere it caught me so off-guard it was hilarious.
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Post by mastert on Mar 28, 2017 21:35:02 GMT
Literally everyone says its fast for them but maybe it depends what you call fast.
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Post by mastert on Mar 28, 2017 20:33:50 GMT
Tumblr the game, a 16 year old girls fantasy story.
It literally feels like some parody, before the game came out people were saying no bigots all the time I thought it was some joke, when i saw the text word for word in the game i nearly lost my shit.
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