He looks like Jonas Schmidt But you probably don't know who that is.
Holy shit, can't unsee now... Well, there's the krogan explained. Dolph with shotguns instead of clubs. Now I need mp characters to have a battle cry again. And for the krogan's to be "død ved kølle!" (Death by club, for the non-Danish speakers)
Cuniving @cuniv1ng Will our weapons be replaced with the basic pistol in cutscenes like me3 did? Or more like ME1 which showed our actual weapon
Ian S. Frazier @tibermoon We'll see where things land, but we're definitely aiming for the player to see their own gun as much as possible.
I'll don't want be negative here but considering how close to release we are, his answer is that we're not going to see the weapon our character is using. Just like ME2 or ME3, when sometimes it was and sometimes it wasn't. ME1 doesn't count cause you had 4 weapons in that game and you always carried all of them.
Well, for one thing, trying to keep them honest, is a good thing.
And, two, I much prefer a dev diary than this constant non-existent employee bubbly of gushing enthusiasm. I have worked in stressful situations meeting impossible deadlines. What I see is artificial and have no issue with saying so.
You ought to welcome diversity in this excellent BSN.
Well, Twitter is not a "dev diary". It's a social media and marketing platform. You're being ridiculous if you think that the studio head of Bioware and the lead producer on the game are going to react to fan excitement in ANY way other than to encourage it. And why would you presume that the developers aren't genuine in their bubbly, gushing enthusiasm, anyway? MANY of them talk frequently about how exhausted they are and express frustrations at their workload--obliquely, perhaps, but what can you expect from 140 characters?--but if it was up to you, their Twitter feeds would apparently be nothing but a litany of depressing curses, robbed utterly of joy, excitement and PRIDE in their work.
This has nothing to do with "welcoming diversity", Sartoz. Everyone is well aware by now of your salt level, and you are free to be as pessimistic, as skeptical, as doubting of the game as you want, but I dare say your expectations of the developers personally are even loftier and more patently absurd than of the product they're working on. And if you're going to express absurd ideas, you should prepare to be called on them.
I recognise the character as Princess Bubblegum (or, PB) from Adventure Time, but someone who actually watches is gonna have to connect the rest of the dots.
So, they said there are four arks, containing the four council races. Still wondering who gets to squeeze in the krogan?
I think they will travel on Nexus. Maybe as a hired muscle, maybe as an group of adventurers (remember what Wrex said in ME1, not all Krogan acts and lives the same way.) We'll see.
So, they said there are four arks, containing the four council races. Still wondering who gets to squeeze in the krogan?
I think they will travel on Nexus. Maybe as a hired muscle, maybe as an group of adventurers (remember what Wrex said in ME1, not all Krogan acts and lives the same way.) We'll see.
You know, since there is going to be a book called "Nexus Uprising", maybe the Krogan will throw everyone else off of the Nexus and take it for themselves and rule Andromeda.
Well, for one thing, trying to keep them honest, is a good thing.
And, two, I much prefer a dev diary than this constant non-existent employee bubbly of gushing enthusiasm. I have worked in stressful situations meeting impossible deadlines. What I see is artificial and have no issue with saying so.
You ought to welcome diversity in this excellent BSN.
Well, Twitter is not a "dev diary". It's a social media and marketing platform. You're being ridiculous if you think that the studio head of Bioware and the lead producer on the game are going to react to fan excitement in ANY way other than to encourage it. And why would you presume that the developers aren't genuine in their bubbly, gushing enthusiasm, anyway? MANY of them talk frequently about how exhausted they are and express frustrations at their workload--obliquely, perhaps, but what can you expect from 140 characters?--but if it was up to you, their Twitter feeds would apparently be nothing but a litany of depressing curses, robbed utterly of joy, excitement and PRIDE in their work.
This has nothing to do with "welcoming diversity", Sartoz. Everyone is well aware by now of your salt level, and you are free to be as pessimistic, as skeptical, as doubting of the game as you want, but I dare say your expectations of the developers personally are even loftier and more patently absurd than of the product they're working on. And if you're going to express absurd ideas, you should prepare to be called on them.
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You said it... marketing. As I said, artificial.
Morpheus: "know what happened happened and that it could not have happened in any other way".
Cuniving @cuniv1ng Will our weapons be replaced with the basic pistol in cutscenes like me3 did? Or more like ME1 which showed our actual weapon
Ian S. Frazier @tibermoon We'll see where things land, but we're definitely aiming for the player to see their own gun as much as possible.
I'll don't want be negative here but considering how close to release we are, his answer is that we're not going to see the weapon our character is using. Just like ME2 or ME3, when sometimes it was and sometimes it wasn't. ME1 doesn't count cause you had 4 weapons in that game and you always carried all of them.
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Yeah.. got that feeling as well. He skillfully avoided a direct answer.
It can't be helped with pre-rendered animations and that is what cut scenes are.
Morpheus: "know what happened happened and that it could not have happened in any other way".
Well, for one thing, trying to keep them honest, is a good thing.
And, two, I much prefer a dev diary than this constant non-existent employee bubbly of gushing enthusiasm. I have worked in stressful situations meeting impossible deadlines. What I see is artificial and have no issue with saying so.
You ought to welcome diversity in this excellent BSN.
Well, Twitter is not a "dev diary". It's a social media and marketing platform. You're being ridiculous if you think that the studio head of Bioware and the lead producer on the game are going to react to fan excitement in ANY way other than to encourage it. And why would you presume that the developers aren't genuine in their bubbly, gushing enthusiasm, anyway? MANY of them talk frequently about how exhausted they are and express frustrations at their workload--obliquely, perhaps, but what can you expect from 140 characters?--but if it was up to you, their Twitter feeds would apparently be nothing but a litany of depressing curses, robbed utterly of joy, excitement and PRIDE in their work.
This has nothing to do with "welcoming diversity", Sartoz. Everyone is well aware by now of your salt level, and you are free to be as pessimistic, as skeptical, as doubting of the game as you want, but I dare say your expectations of the developers personally are even loftier and more patently absurd than of the product they're working on. And if you're going to express absurd ideas, you should prepare to be called on them.
Well, I welcome the diversity of both LFS and Sartoz on this forum .
Talking about marketing, I personally feel that tweeting about what you like carries personal enthusiasm, but it's hard not be to be conscious that you are also representing a company, so I think it has to carry an element of both excitement but also a level of awareness that the boss is watching .
Back to here, I'll take gushing enthusiasm and salt in equal measure so long as such positions contain an interesting rationale and it doesn't get spammy or annoying through repitition. Makes for an interesting discussion.
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So, they said there are four arks, containing the four council races. Still wondering who gets to squeeze in the krogan?
I think they will travel on Nexus. Maybe as a hired muscle, maybe as an group of adventurers (remember what Wrex said in ME1, not all Krogan acts and lives the same way.) We'll see.
Mass Effect @masseffect The best part about finding alien technologies? Pushing buttons until something happens. Watch the full trailer: bit.ly/2fM2mlW
Mass Effect @masseffect The best part about finding alien technologies? Pushing buttons until something happens.
A few random thoughts ...
With Ryder's broken faceplate, obviously the atmosphere is safe to breathe, so maybe all the heavy breathing WRT the Hamburgler's attire is ... a bit too much huffing and puffing?
The Khet's comment (assuming it is a Khet) about humans being special ... I heard "special" in scare quotes, as in the Khet is being sarcastic and dismissive, so it is less about humans being special than the Khet being contemptuous of the interlopers.
The visual that implied, "no, no, don't push that button" ... just made me laugh.
As the "new" pathfinder ... maybe RyDad was on the Nexus ... so when the Hyperion got Lost in SpaceTM, lacking a pathfinder, Ryder-progeny had to fill the role. So RyDad is not RyDead ... just RyLost, WRT the Hyperion. Now, why the Wonder TwinsTM would be chosen over any other Hyperion sleepers ... hope there is a good back story for that.
Really hope that there is a squadmate named Justin, Justine, Jenny, John ... anything with a J ... so that when Ryder goes out exploring, the team can consist of PB & J. That will become my default exploration team.
Mass Effect @masseffect The best part about finding alien technologies? Pushing buttons until something happens.
As the "new" pathfinder ... maybe RyDad was on the Nexus ... so when the Hyperion got Lost in SpaceTM, lacking a pathfinder, Ryder-progeny had to fill the role. So RyDad is not RyDead ... just RyLost, WRT the Hyperion. Now, why the Wonder TwinsTM would be chosen over any other Hyperion sleepers ... hope there is a good back story for that.
The orientation briefing specifically states that each ARK is assigned a Pathfinder. Alec Ryder was selected as the Pathfinder for Hyperion, humanity's ARK so it wouldn't make sense if he left ahead of the ARK with Jien Garson aboard the Nexus. As far as I can remember, it has been said by the team that the Hyperion arrives at the wrong location in the Andromeda galaxy which is why it is lost and separated from the others.
I think Ryder only gets elevated to Pathfinder for Hyperion because Alec Ryder becomes MIA or KIA and the chain of command aboard the Hyperion suffers casualties.
The Arks were supposed to fall in on the Nexus. All the pathfinders are on the Nexus ... because they are part of the leadership ... so they made the trip on the command vessel. Once the Arks arrived and their live cargo awakened, the Pathfinders would transfer to their respective Ark ships. Assigned is not the same as present on the Ark for the journey that is done in stasis. Why wouldn the Nexus house all the Pathfinders, who are awakened upon the arrival of the Nexus, prior to the arrival of the Ark ships? So the Pathfinders could be up and running, briefed on the latest intel WRT Andromeda, before anyone on the Arks were awakened.
The Hyperion got lost (VI malfunction, navigation malfunction, who outside of BioWare knows?) ... so it ended up where it wasn't supposed to be. RyDad is supposed to be part of the story ... yet we start ME:A with RyDad out of the picture and RyProgeny the new Pathfinder. There must be some way to reconcile that ... my thoughts are just one way. I think it can fit into the storyline that we know so far.
As the "new" pathfinder ... maybe RyDad was on the Nexus ... so when the Hyperion got Lost in SpaceTM, lacking a pathfinder, Ryder-progeny had to fill the role. So RyDad is not RyDead ... just RyLost, WRT the Hyperion. Now, why the Wonder TwinsTM would be chosen over any other Hyperion sleepers ... hope there is a good back story for that.
The orientation briefing specifically states that each ARK is assigned a Pathfinder. Alec Ryder was selected as the Pathfinder for Hyperion, humanity's ARK so it wouldn't make sense if he left ahead of the ARK with Jien Garson aboard the Nexus. As far as I can remember, it has been said by the team that the Hyperion arrives at the wrong location in the Andromeda galaxy which is why it is lost and separated from the others.
I think Ryder only gets elevated to Pathfinder for Hyperion because Alec Ryder becomes MIA or KIA and the chain of command aboard the Hyperion suffers casualties.
On Ryder's promotion to Pathfinder:
Since we know that the thing that determines which Ryder twin becomes Pathfinder is one of the two getting stuck in cryo/suffering complications with the awakening process, I'm thinking that most of the Hyperion's command staff are probably in a similar predicament. Maybe the system is damaged in such a way as to make it impossible to wake up just one or two people? So, Ryder could wake someone above her in the chain of command, but to do so she'd have to wake up the Hyperion's entire population--which would be ill-advised without having first found them somewhere to live.
Which could lead to desperate attempts to contact the Nexus ... to get repair teams to the Hyperion, while fending off threats to the Hyperion ... while most of the folks are still in stasis ... that idea could certainly lead to a lot of branches and sequels in the story.
Some of what we spitball over the next few months will be correct, most won't. Ideas might even spur some thoughts in the minds of the devs, as they lurk amongst us ... so some of the cool things people come up with here, might see the light of day in a DLC.
But you probably don't know who that is.
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