Mass Effect Legendary Edition (General Discussion)

I missed the back and forth of the ME3MP community and devs when MEA released. They eliminated their forums and released a less popular game, so it was not meant to be. Still, all that engagement improved SP as well as MP; and it created readily available repositories of game knowledge for those who enjoy that stuff. Those were the golden days.

I feel like we'd have had something similar here if Andromeda had been as popular as the MET. Maybe even if MEAMP alone had been as beloved as ME3MP, we'd have seen a resurgence. Ah, well...

I've been messing around on different missions when various Centennals have thrown grenades at me.  At the range I was at, I'm surviving about 50% of them with a fraction of a health bar left.  I do think, overall, they are hitting harder than the old ME3... but it is more consistent than I thought.  So, we'll leave it there... One combat roll away just won't cut it anymore.

I somehow missed this until now. Breaks lore in what way? In that it's not a stream of bug bites but one big hit?

A barrier's strength has limits. We visit a dead Reaper that got sniped from across the galaxy; and its barrier was enough to allow it to float unscathed in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf for hundreds of millions of years after. (Must've been a cool gun. The slug did that even after transferring a fair bit of energy into Klendagon.)

Shepard can be one-shot killed in ME1 by Geth Rocket Drones through "shields" plus the biotic "Barrier" enhancement. In each game, we had snipers who could drop you from full health and shields to just a sliver of health in one shot.

A single, powerful hit will sometimes be more desirable that whittling away at barriers. Grenades make sense to me within the lore.

In the novels, suits had batteries powering their barriers. (Or at least they did in the 2160s. People also definitely used grenades.) Discharged batteries had to be swapped in combat, much like magazines in most shooters. I guess this sounded undesirable for gameplay, since we never saw it in-game. I feel like I recall ME1 codex stating that military hardsuits contain tiny nuclear reactors for power. This generates more lore questions about scifi metamaterials and the like, but it works. That was their solution.

The game is rarely going to give the player an auto-kill mechanic. Some games do, but this one isn't really balanced around it. Grenades are too easy to collect and spam to be auto-success for Shepard.

Lore and mechanics never match up 100%. If they manage "most of the time" they're doing great.


I noticed I'd misremembered and misstated the nature of Tech Armor a couple of times lately. The actual, correct lore and function match up well with ME2's Tech Armor, less so with ME3's, and not at all with MEA's. I wonder if the incorrect lore I'd recently referenced actually referred to something I'd read in MEA? Maybe I'll remember to check sometime.

My incorrect reference does closely match other things like omnitool applications such as omniblades.

(Tech Armor is not an ablative sheet suspended in a ME field like I'd mistakenly posted. It's a thin Warp plane, essentially. Ballistic objects are shredded when they hit it, thereby never reaching the target.

The Warp field is contained between two thin ME fields that protect the wearer, his surroundings, etc... When the outer layer takes too much damage, it drops and the warp field destabilizes and detonates.

The orange lighting is a safety feature, warning allies to keep their distance.

How cool is it when devs and writers cooperate to create such cool stuff? I love it.)

You have to have dinner with her in ME2. Friendly or romantic doesn't matter.

Well, to be fair since she never shows up we don’t know what happens to her other than she left Cerberus, similar to Rupert, Patel, and so on. So maybe she survives in that route.

If you are on PC you can use the save editor and tick a box to say you had dinner with her and she should then appear.


www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/20

It probably is by that point sadly. 

Exactly my thoughts, but who the hell is Patel? Is he or she one of the nameless (for me, who never uses subtitles) crew who chat in the mess and sleeping quarters?

I just take it as a friendship dinner and after that I never flirt with her, Shep just getting to know her better there is no implied romance in the invite that I remember.  But I agree that Shepard speaking to her like that to her is weird.