To each their own I guess. I personally think she looks feminine enough.
With Cassandra I could understand it to a point that she might not be for everyone (Though I had no problem with her face), but I'm not seeing it with Cora.
Post by GannayevOfDreams on Feb 5, 2017 21:08:03 GMT
Just when I thought this thread was getting a pick-me-up of cool fanart, we're dragged back into "hair and masculinity". The Jaal thread is really putting this one to shame.
Just when I thought this thread was getting a pick-me-up of cool fanart, we're dragged back into "hair and masculinity". The Jaal thread is really putting this one to shame.
Just when I thought this thread was getting a pick-me-up of cool fanart, we're dragged back into "hair and masculinity". The Jaal thread is really putting this one to shame.
The Jaal thread is putting every thread to shame But yeah, a change in topic would be nice.
What squad mate is everyone going to pair Cora with or do you think you won't take her with you?
As someone with biotic charge and a shotgun, I think I will have her around for a lot of the SP combat along with Drack or PeeBee.
Just when I thought this thread was getting a pick-me-up of cool fanart, we're dragged back into "hair and masculinity". The Jaal thread is really putting this one to shame.
The Jaal thread is putting every thread to shame But yeah, a change in topic would be nice.
What squad mate is everyone going to pair Cora with or do you think you won't take her with you?
As someone with biotic charge and a shotgun, I think I will have her around for a lot of the SP combat along with Drack or PeeBee.
With regard to Jaal, two things: Firstly he's mysterious and there's a lot more to speculate about both with respect to him and the Angarans in general. Secondly he's not a human female LI so people don't feel the need to endlessly dissect his looks as compared to their personal ideas of what is beautiful/feminine/masculine etc. Sadly that's the world we live in...
As to your question: I'm not sure. It depends how the game plays, and how I spec my Ryder, but I suppose someone quite tank-ish so maybe Drack or perhaps Liam...
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Post by The Elder King on Feb 5, 2017 21:50:42 GMT
I think Drack and Cora might be one of my favorite combos, but I'll wait and see when they'll release his bio. I think there are good chances for next week.
I think Drack and Cora might be one of my favorite combos, but I'll wait and see when they'll release his bio. I think there are good chances for next week.
Yea , I'm thinking Drack or Vetra will be next, and that Jaal will be last or next to last. We should be getting a decent chunk of info soon, at least by mid February going by Shinobi's comment on Neogaf.
Just when I thought this thread was getting a pick-me-up of cool fanart, we're dragged back into "hair and masculinity". The Jaal thread is really putting this one to shame.
The Jaal thread is putting every thread to shame But yeah, a change in topic would be nice.
What squad mate is everyone going to pair Cora with or do you think you won't take her with you?
As someone with biotic charge and a shotgun, I think I will have her around for a lot of the SP combat along with Drack or PeeBee.
Depends entirely on my own skill and that of the 3rd party member. I've no idea what playstyle will feel best in this game. I may go infiltrator again, or maybe stick to a more balanced setup. I like to be able to do a little bit of everything.
My gut tells me that with Cora I'll need some mid-range support while she gets in close and ties up enemies. Maybe another biotic specializing in crowd control so she doesn't get overwhelmed.
With regard to Jaal, two things: Firstly he's mysterious and there's a lot more to speculate about both with respect to him and the Angarans in general. Secondly he's not a human female LI so people don't feel the need to endlessly dissect his looks as compared to their personal ideas of what is beautiful/feminine/masculine etc. Sadly that's the world we live in...
... When you're talking to a bunch of dudes it seems. Another little detail of the Jaal thread is the posters are predominately female, and they don't seem to have that problem. This thread seems predominately male. As a guy I get the impulses that draw to appearance... but I'd like to think we're better than that.
Love or hate her appearance, 60+ pages of it has to make anyone eye-roll.
As a guy I get the impulses that draw to appearance... but I'd like to think we're better than that.
Some of us try to be. Most of my posts in here have been an attempt at counterbalance as I truly do find short hair attractive, but I'd rather get past that and talk about something of actual substance.
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The Jaal thread is putting every thread to shame But yeah, a change in topic would be nice.
What squad mate is everyone going to pair Cora with or do you think you won't take her with you?
As someone with biotic charge and a shotgun, I think I will have her around for a lot of the SP combat along with Drack or PeeBee.
Depends entirely on my own skill and that of the 3rd party member. I've no idea what playstyle will feel best in this game. I may go infiltrator again, or maybe stick to a more balanced setup. I like to be able to do a little bit of everything.
My gut tells me that with Cora I'll need some mid-range support while she gets in close and ties up enemies. Maybe another biotic specializing in crowd control so she doesn't get overwhelmed.
Another biotic is what i was thinking too, Peebee was said to have biotics (and of course tech so sentinel), and Drack probably being our biotic specialist since Vetra gives me a tech specialist vibe and Jaal having a sniper and that visor screams combat/tech (maybe he'll even have tac cloak). Anyways, If i had to choose based on what we've seen so far I'll be mostly a combat/biotic. Taking Cora will be great for constant combo detonations. I might change my mind when I see some more tech powers. The tech powers in the trilogy weren't as visually appealing as biotics imo so it would depend on how much they've changed.
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So, in the spirit of finding other topics for conversation, why do we think Cora chose to join the Valkyrie Program and serve with Asari? Was she only interested in their tactics and biotic abilities or was she fascinated by their culture too? How might her time with Talein's Daughters have shaped her attitudes? Did it leave her more pro-Asari, or might she have had a falling-out with them? Why did she leave to join the Andromeda Initiative? Any ideas?
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I think Drack and Cora might be one of my favorite combos, but I'll wait and see when they'll release his bio. I think there are good chances for next week.
yea hthose 2 and Liam I suspect will be my go to team for my first playthrough. Bu8t I will try to do a couple of missions at least with everyone at some point though.
Depends entirely on my own skill and that of the 3rd party member. I've no idea what playstyle will feel best in this game. I may go infiltrator again, or maybe stick to a more balanced setup. I like to be able to do a little bit of everything.
My gut tells me that with Cora I'll need some mid-range support while she gets in close and ties up enemies. Maybe another biotic specializing in crowd control so she doesn't get overwhelmed.
Another biotic is what i was thinking too, Peebee was said to have biotics (and of course tech so sentinel), and Drack probably being our biotic specialist since Vetra gives me a tech specialist vibe and Jaal having a sniper and that visor screams combat/tech (maybe he'll even have tac cloak). Anyways, If i had to choose based on what we've seen so far I'll be mostly a combat/biotic. Taking Cora will be great for constant combo detonations. I might change my mind when I see some more tech powers. The tech powers in the trilogy weren't as visually appealing as biotics imo so it would depend on how much they've changed.
I was actually thinking Drack would be full on soldier. Just the vibe I get from how he chooses to dress. Looks like the kind of guy who likes to kill with his own two hands, not space magic.
Peebee might be a good pairing for Cora if I don't go sentinel myself. Her skill "invasion" sounds like it could be a DoT effect, which would set up for Cora to trigger a combo with her charge. I wonder how coordinated you can get though... how do you make sure they're setting up combos on the same enemy? If Peebee dots 'A' and Cora charges 'B' it all kind of falls apart. I get the feeling if I really want to set up combos I'm going to have to be in charge of dotting. Even then... if I can't tell Cora who to charge... it's gonna get frustrating.
If I am basing a party comp around Cora I'm not sure I can work in a sniper. Anyone sniping would only be useful pre-aggro trying to thin out a distant pack. They'd have to switch to assault/submachine gun range, and at that point I'd just as soon use a soldier type. Sniping in a firefight with a charging biotic is going to be very chaotic.
Another biotic is what i was thinking too, Peebee was said to have biotics (and of course tech so sentinel), and Drack probably being our biotic specialist since Vetra gives me a tech specialist vibe and Jaal having a sniper and that visor screams combat/tech (maybe he'll even have tac cloak). Anyways, If i had to choose based on what we've seen so far I'll be mostly a combat/biotic. Taking Cora will be great for constant combo detonations. I might change my mind when I see some more tech powers. The tech powers in the trilogy weren't as visually appealing as biotics imo so it would depend on how much they've changed.
I was actually thinking Drack would be full on soldier. Just the vibe I get from how he chooses to dress. Looks like the kind of guy who likes to kill with his own two hands, not space magic.
Peebee might be a good pairing for Cora if I don't go sentinel myself. Her skill "invasion" sounds like it could be a DoT effect, which would set up for Cora to trigger a combo with her charge. I wonder how coordinated you can get though... how do you make sure they're setting up combos on the same enemy? If Peebee dots 'A' and Cora charges 'B' it all kind of falls apart. I get the feeling if I really want to set up combos I'm going to have to be in charge of dotting. Even then... if I can't tell Cora who to charge... it's gonna get frustrating.
If I am basing a party comp around Cora I'm not sure I can work in a sniper. Anyone sniping would only be useful pre-aggro trying to thin out a distant pack. They'd have to switch to assault/submachine gun range, and at that point I'd just as soon use a soldier type. Sniping in a firefight with a charging biotic is going to be very chaotic.
This is one of the pieces of info I am most looking forward to learning about. With the power wheel gone I want to know how we will be able to coordinate squadmates like Cora who could get killed in 2 secs on insanity after biotic charging into a pack of enemies. We were told we would have access to more than 3 powers so maybe we'll be able to coordinate using whatever new system they have set up.
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So, in the spirit of finding other topics for conversation, why do we think Cora chose to join the Valkyrie Program and serve with Asari? Was she only interested in their tactics and biotic abilities or was she fascinated by their culture too? How might her time with Talein's Daughters have shaped her attitudes? Did it leave her more pro-Asari, or might she have had a falling-out with them? Why did she leave to join the Andromeda Initiative? Any ideas?
I would guess she went there initially to try to learn how to control and use her biotics more effectively in combat in a kind of exchange program or something like Anderson did with the Turians in the trilogy. After all the Asari are the most skilled in using these abilities due to them effectively being part of their lives and being born with them. It's p-art of their schooling being taught how to control them so it makessense that we'd send people t olearn from them. It's like what Shep says to Ashley in ME1 "we're new to all this why not learn from the people who've been doing this for the last 1000 years or so" or something like that when Ash expresses her concern about Wrex and Garrus being aboard the Normandy.
So, in the spirit of finding other topics for conversation, why do we think Cora chose to join the Valkyrie Program and serve with Asari? Was she only interested in their tactics and biotic abilities or was she fascinated by their culture too? How might her time with Talein's Daughters have shaped her attitudes? Did it leave her more pro-Asari, or might she have had a falling-out with them? Why did she leave to join the Andromeda Initiative? Any ideas?
I would guess she went there initially to try to learn how to control and use her biotics more effectively in combat in a kind of exchange program or something like Anderson did with the Turians in the trilogy. After all the Asari are the most skilled in using these abilities due to them effectively being part of their lives and being born with them. It's p-art of their schooling being taught how to control them so it makessense that we'd send people t olearn from them. It's like what Shep says to Ashley in ME1 "we're new to all this why not learn from the people who've been doing this for the last 1000 years or so" or something like that when Ash expresses her concern about Wrex and Garrus being aboard the Normandy.
That's the obvious primary motivation, but the interesting question is whether there's more to it, either initially or after spending time with them, and I don't necessarily mean the obvious romantic fling angle. I mean a respect for and interest in their culture, or maybe her time with them put her off them in some way..
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So, in the spirit of finding other topics for conversation, why do we think Cora chose to join the Valkyrie Program and serve with Asari? Was she only interested in their tactics and biotic abilities or was she fascinated by their culture too? How might her time with Talein's Daughters have shaped her attitudes? Did it leave her more pro-Asari, or might she have had a falling-out with them? Why did she leave to join the Andromeda Initiative? Any ideas?
I think Cora joined the Valkyrie program as a plan to increase asari-human relations. The asari were the dominant race in the milky way (by that I mean they had the greatest galactic authority standing due to them being crucial mediators between races) and the alliance could have asked Cora and some other biotics to be alongside the asari and learn from them like Kaidan had a Turian teacher. Being alongside asari commandos, i'm sure she eventually if she didn't already, get along with asari and learn to respect their culture. After watching the debriefings and hearing how she speaks she sounds much warmer than miranda and less aggressive than Ashley. I'm thinking her time with the Asari gave her that formal but sincere attitude.
Another thing I'm also wondering is whether or not Cora will be casual in her romance. I'm thinking she'll be rather passionate towards her relationship with Ryder should he choose to pursue one, but I'm not sure quite how much work it's going to take to get in a relationship with you. It'd be cool if Ryder had some prior familiarity with Liam and Cora before their journey. Also I'm wondering if Cora has a religious side, but I'm sure that'll be revealed in the romance.
So, in the spirit of finding other topics for conversation, why do we think Cora chose to join the Valkyrie Program and serve with Asari? Was she only interested in their tactics and biotic abilities or was she fascinated by their culture too? How might her time with Talein's Daughters have shaped her attitudes? Did it leave her more pro-Asari, or might she have had a falling-out with them? Why did she leave to join the Andromeda Initiative? Any ideas?
My best guess is that she wanted to be the best, and as a biotic the With their biotic history, their training would be much more advanced. I'm assuming she's going to be very pro asari. my best guess is that she joined andromeda for the fresh challenge.
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Post by The Elder King on Feb 5, 2017 22:50:04 GMT
I think based on her bio that she joins the program about multi species cooperation because she has an open attitude towards alien. We don't know much, but from what was stated I think the program might work as sending people to learn tacticts and techniques in different alien groups, not only asari. Maybe some humans went to some particular group of turians (humans already worked with them for the Normandy) and salarians. Maybe some aliens worked with special human groups/N7 as well.