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Post by Element Zero on Jun 11, 2021 19:10:16 GMT
I can count on my fingers, probably of one hand, how many Cobras I've ever used. They're a cool idea, but entirely unneeded.
I never used grenades in ME1 until the LE. They've been moved from the old "Select" button, which was absurd, to the □ button on the "face" of the controller. Much easier to use, and therefore easier to get into the habit of using.
Maybe if Cobras weren't hidden in a menu for console I'd get into the habit of using them.
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Post by azarhal on Jun 11, 2021 19:36:27 GMT
I can count on my fingers, probably of one hand, how many Cobras I've ever used. They're a cool idea, but entirely unneeded. I never used grenades in ME1 until the LE. They've been moved from the old "Select" button, which was absurd, to the □ button on the "face" of the controller. Much easier to use, and therefore easier to get into the habit of using. Maybe if Cobras weren't hidden in a menu for console I'd get into the habit of using them. Wait! You always killed all the people in Zhu's Hope until the LE?
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Post by Element Zero on Jun 11, 2021 19:48:25 GMT
I can count on my fingers, probably of one hand, how many Cobras I've ever used. They're a cool idea, but entirely unneeded. I never used grenades in ME1 until the LE. They've been moved from the old "Select" button, which was absurd, to the □ button on the "face" of the controller. Much easier to use, and therefore easier to get into the habit of using. Maybe if Cobras weren't hidden in a menu for console I'd get into the habit of using them. Wait! You always killed all the people in Zhu's Hope until the LE? No, I used them in that special case, nowhere else.
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Post by dazk on Jun 12, 2021 1:15:09 GMT
17 PT's 16 NG+ I have 3,000 + Cobras lend me a few... I'll send them via Pyjak mail, I am sure they won't take long.
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Post by dazk on Jun 12, 2021 1:18:14 GMT
17 PT's 16 NG+ I have 3,000 + Cobras You are supposed to use them, not just buy them... I only use them if I am impatient to move on or want to finish a mission because I need to stop playing. I just bought a lot so I never had to worry about them again, same with Remnant Decryption keys. I have the store on the Tempest stock 1,000 via a Mod.
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Post by dazk on Jun 12, 2021 1:23:17 GMT
I can count on my fingers, probably of one hand, how many Cobras I've ever used. They're a cool idea, but entirely unneeded. I never used grenades in ME1 until the LE. They've been moved from the old "Select" button, which was absurd, to the □ button on the "face" of the controller. Much easier to use, and therefore easier to get into the habit of using. Maybe if Cobras weren't hidden in a menu for console I'd get into the habit of using them. Unnecessary but fun and useful if you are a hurry to get through a mission for whatever reason. I can't remember if they accessed via a key or the weapons wheel. My first PT I didn't even know what they were and was just selling them until cmoe pointed out to me what an idiot I was for selling them after I asked her what they were. Sure made some of the harder fights easier for a NOOB like me back then.
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Post by azarhal on Jun 12, 2021 11:21:11 GMT
I think my build is overpowered even on hardcore. Sara meet the Angara on Aya and then went to help some scientists on Havarl. Saved some that were "frozen" studying Remnant tech. Helped another save some "lost" astrocharts. Even found Turians and got back all their scrap metal. And I've been destroying everything on Havarl. Big guys with just armor are melting in seconds. I don't remember Jaal/Peebee to be that effective, so it's something I'm doing. Maybe it's all the debuff everywhere (Annihilation, Cryo Beam+ passives, Peebee's invasion) or combo damage bonuses (put some on armor/weapon). Or the Scattershot. What I suck most against is shields now. I don't need Energy drain anymore. Scattershot built with Shield oscillator+Plasma Charge takes care of that. The point is to turn it into the smallest clip before overloading possible which trigger Shield Oscillator. It recharge so fast that having a single shot doesn't feel that different than having multiple shots per clip. I used a rank X so I have 2 shot before overloading. That's fine with me. Now my problem is that Plasma Charge sucks (drop damage, incontrollable explosions, I'm pretty sure that's why I have issues with shields now). The setup might work better with another weapon where vintage heat sink is used to drop the clip size instead of Plasma Charge. I'll do some testing today.
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Post by azarhal on Jun 12, 2021 12:39:19 GMT
Nooooooooooo. You can't use Vintage Heat Sink with Shield Oscillators on the same gun. That means the Scattershot is the only weapon that you can "exploit". Technically, I might be able to use it on others too but I'll have to remove the weapon overhaul mod I'm using (it increase clip size on a lots of weapons). Oh well, I'll continue to use my blue explosions weapon (that's what plasma charge looks like on the Scattershot).
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Post by azarhal on Jun 12, 2021 15:17:11 GMT
Nooooooooooo. You can't use Vintage Heat Sink with Shield Oscillators on the same gun. That means the Scattershot is the only weapon that you can "exploit". Technically, I might be able to use it on others too but I'll have to remove the weapon overhaul mod I'm using (it increase clip size on a lots of weapons). Oh well, I'll continue to use my blue explosions weapon (that's what plasma charge looks like on the Scattershot). Responding to myself. The answer is the Fusion Mod of Rupture. It increase weakpoint/headshot damage vs reducing clip size by 70% (Plasma charge is 80% but comes with a -40 damage malus and other negatives). Mouahahahahahah!
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Post by KrrKs on Jun 12, 2021 15:19:08 GMT
Nooooooooooo. You can't use Vintage Heat Sink with Shield Oscillators on the same gun. That means the Scattershot is the only weapon that you can "exploit". Technically, I might be able to use it on others too but I'll have to remove the weapon overhaul mod I'm using (it increase clip size on a lots of weapons). Oh well, I'll continue to use my blue explosions weapon (that's what plasma charge looks like on the Scattershot).
For the Vintage Heat Sink, I once made a small mod that makes it non exclusive, so you can use it together with shields oscillator or others. (Though there might be some weird side effects that i don't know about)
As for Plasma Charge, IIRC that thing is actually pretty devastating on shotguns with more pellets. A fully charged Katana with 7 or 8 pellets results in about sizable AoE, that can devastate small tightly clustered groups with just a few shots. Its quite hilarious, especially when there also some of the elemental cannisters in the area that go off at the same time!
As for Weapon rebalance mods, there are at least 5 different ones on the nexus right now. So If you look I'm sure you'll find another one that you like.
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Post by azarhal on Jun 12, 2021 15:47:23 GMT
Nooooooooooo. You can't use Vintage Heat Sink with Shield Oscillators on the same gun. That means the Scattershot is the only weapon that you can "exploit". Technically, I might be able to use it on others too but I'll have to remove the weapon overhaul mod I'm using (it increase clip size on a lots of weapons). Oh well, I'll continue to use my blue explosions weapon (that's what plasma charge looks like on the Scattershot).
For the Vintage Heat Sink, I once made a small mod that makes it non exclusive, so you can use it together with shields oscillator or others. (Though there might be some weird side effects that i don't know about)
As for Plasma Charge, IIRC that thing is actually pretty devastating on shotguns with more pellets. A fully charged Katana with 7 or 8 pellets results in about sizable AoE, that can devastate small tightly clustered groups with just a few shots. Its quite hilarious, especially when there also some of the elemental cannisters in the area that go off at the same time!
As for Weapon rebalance mods, there are at least 5 different ones on the nexus right now. So If you look I'm sure you'll find another one that you like.
Vintage heat sink + shields oscillator is basically an exploit of the shield oscillator perk, that's probably why you can't use them together. My current scattershot regen 25% shields every <1 seconds. It can't run out of ammo, pack a punch and as secondary explosions thanks to plasma charge. I'm starting to like it, especially since I rebuilt it with 2x Kinetic Coils in the last two slots. I'll have to change my Heleus armor augmentation because I don't think I need a shield oscillator there for the on-kill bonus anymore. The Elemental cannisters usually start to float when I'm around thanks to Annihilation. I have to watch out I don't explode myself sometimes.
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Post by azarhal on Jun 13, 2021 1:44:51 GMT
I did lots of content today. Went to Voeld and saved the Moshea. Also got Zap after finding some Rem-tech for Peebee. Then I went back to Aya to learn there might be a way to find the Archon's ship and a way to Meridian, but instead of going after that I'm going to clear stuff on the already visited worlds. So far I cleared most of Eos quests on visit #2. Leaving the Kett strongholds for post Archon's death (Eos is at 100% viability already). Killing the Architect was easier with my new gun. I can't say build, because you can't get close enough for Annihilation to do anything to it, throw is useless because it's immovable and while Zap deals some damage to it the poor little VI also gets destroyed a lot. I'm back with the Remnant VI as tech skill, but something else might be better like the flamethrower...but I like Zap. Then I moved to Voeld. I did some small quests here and there on my way to reactivating the Monoliths and I'm now into the vault where I saved remembering it was the annoying one where you have to return to the life support protection all the time. Once I've done a bunch of stuff on Voeld (I need to get the Asari ship transponder for Cora's at least), I'll go to Havarl to visit the Sages. I also decided to romance Peebee (again).
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Post by Unicephalon 40-D on Jun 13, 2021 7:33:30 GMT
All this talk really itches me and I'm trying to finish OT LE After last nights amazing MEAMP games I was ready to ditch ME2 completely... but I'll try to get to their almost ends before changing the galaxy again completely.
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Post by azarhal on Jun 14, 2021 0:58:50 GMT
Today I did
- Lots of stuff on Voeld, reactivated the vault, created an outposts, did a few more quests, but left some for later. - Went back to Havarl, reactivated the vault there too (saying that, I think it's better to do this later as the dialogue is different if you know about the Jardaan during the lost monolith exploration). Still a bunch of stuff to do there because it's not at 100% viability yet. - Did Liam's loyalty mission aka "the mission where I just want to space him". - Landed on Kadara port (I stopped there)
I got a bit bored of my build, so I made some changes before doing Liam's mission. I went full biotic with a carfalon in the melee slot. Currently Singularity, Charge and Pull, but I feel I don't prime enough and squaddies aren't helping there. I'll have to respec for more priming.
I tried a Talon and Dhan, but I prefer the Talon. Now I got a Talon and an Ushior because I want to test the Ushior.
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Post by azarhal on Jun 15, 2021 2:08:08 GMT
Ah Kadara, the cesspool of the Heleus cluster... Every time I see someone complaining MEA is lighthearted I tell myself they didn't visit the place: - Ex-Cerberus crazy project - Cannibals leaving blood and their lunch everywhere in their hideout - Criminal turf war everywhere outside of the port - Drugs - Corpses ditched in acid water to hide crimes - Dead people a little everywhere for various reasons, some even kidnapped and then clubbed to death - Crimes, crimes, crimes... Jaal even prefers to stay on the Tempest... The Pathfinder is the Sheriff of the Heleus cluster now. I even left some stuff unfinished, again, for later. I'll have to return there for a few squadmate quests anyhow. I "took" a nice shot on Kadara but the stupid game moved too fast to the inventory at the same time so I actually don't have it. All that because my ReLive screenshot keybind include the same key as the one used to open the inventory, it's usually not an issue... But I got an Adhi who got real interested in my Nomad, probably trying to find if there was something to eat inside...
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Post by azarhal on Jun 15, 2021 10:56:31 GMT
Yesterday, I forgot to share my new build: Annihilation, Charge and Shockwave + a Talon. In combat, it's usually charge, let Annihilation lift enemies and then Shockwave. It's wiped rooms of enemies on Kadara in a single use of Shockwave (helped that there was some exploding cannisters but everything goes "boom").
I tried the Ushior and its rate of fire/reload are slower compared to the Talon. It doesn't feel as good to use because of it. I might play around with shotguns more now that I don't need shield oscillator because Charge replenish all my shield on use and I can spam it every 3.2 seconds.
I did try (again) the Dhan, but I didn't like it. I think I had the same reaction back in 2017 as my save used in NG+ had a piranha instead in inventory (I remember using the Dhan a lot on my first character).
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Post by azarhal on Jun 16, 2021 10:58:10 GMT
CIS Pathfinder Ryder
That's less or more what my PT looked like last night. Investigating murders and corrupt people. Chasing after escaped sick people and pirates.
Getting beaten to rem-tech by some thugs too and they stole Peebee's bot POC (which was aboard the Tempest which means Kallo and Suvi don't lock the doors, ever). Just evil. We will get it back thought.
Also managed to save the Asari ark. My idealist Ryder had Sarissa step down as Pathfinder. If Sara could learn on the job, everyone can!
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Post by azarhal on Jun 18, 2021 10:44:49 GMT
Advanced stuff on Elaadeen.
I rebooted the vault there. It's not as hot anymore. I found Peebee's bot POC in an abandoned building. No trace of the thieves. I found enough local plants for the gardener on the Nexus. I'm currently chilling at New Tuchanka among the Krogans, preparing to talk to Morda.
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Post by Unicephalon 40-D on Jun 18, 2021 10:54:30 GMT
I'm currently chilling at New Tuchanka among the Krogans, preparing to talk to Morda. It always feels to me in New Tuchanka like its more cool there, and otherwise Elaaden is a burning place. So nice atmosphere.
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Post by Blast Processor on Jun 19, 2021 1:27:24 GMT
After finishing the trilogy I figured this was as good a time as any to revisit Andromeda. Love that you can edit your character whenever. I was rocking my old Ryder, but that facial animation jank was bugging me so I switched to default Ryder. See how that goes.
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Post by azarhal on Jun 19, 2021 2:15:43 GMT
Only two things left to do before going for the Archon's ship and finishing the main story: - Peebee's loyalty mission - Getting the Remnant core from the derelict ship on Elaadeen. Today I've done more stuff on Elaadeen. I did the loyalty missions for Drack, Jaal and Vetra. Had a bar brawl with Drack. And closed a few quests on the Nexus. There is a bunch of side quests I haven't done, but that's for later...or never considering I'm planning a DAI PT already.
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Post by Element Zero on Jun 19, 2021 4:01:11 GMT
I got a little bored in ME3 my Infiltrator, and briefly switched to Vanguard. It didn't stick, and I happily settled into Adept.
Getting to the point, ME3 Vanguard made me really miss my MEA Vanguard and Sentinels. I feel like MEA does them better, or at least more fun.
My favorite Vanguard is Charge/Annihilation/Energy Drain. It's a flying whirlwind of tech and biotic explosions. With Energy Drain, a Shield Oscillator on my chest, and Life Support evolved, it's effectively immortal. It can start to get old, but that just makes Profiles and open skill selection all the more fun.
I do prefer ME3 Infiltrators to MEA, but I enjoy MEA Soldiers better.
ME3 Adepts are far better, because biotic combos are undertuned a bit. Too many stragglers get thrown far off-screen without dying. This could've easily been rebalanced if support had continued.
In general, MEA gameplay is just really good. I like the freedom to build whatever character I want; though in practice there are only a half-dozen builds I'll ever actually use. I hope, wherever Mass Effect goes from here, they take some gameplay cues from Andromeda. The game had problems, but few were tied to its combat mechanics.
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Post by Unicephalon 40-D on Jun 19, 2021 7:11:42 GMT
I got a little bored in ME3 .... In general, MEA gameplay is just really good. I like the freedom to build whatever character I want; though in practice there are only a half-dozen builds I'll ever actually use. I hope, wherever Mass Effect goes from here, they take some gameplay cues from Andromeda. The game had problems, but few were tied to its combat mechanics. Rarely one encounters the level of responsivity MEA combat has, every time I go to MP its just so natural, the movement and no long delays when into/from cover etc. like in 3rd (though I havent played 3LE yet, they seemed to fix 1LE better than 2LE in this case on PS5). Even some really new games with similar kind of combat are very janky in controlling situations and some actions take way too long. The guy who designed MEA combat was really knowing what and how things should work in the movement/cover/evade/jump functions. There is a video somewhere where they test the heights of covers etc. in Frostbite.
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Post by Blast Processor on Jun 19, 2021 15:45:30 GMT
Eos now has an science outpost. I enjoyed the competition with Peebee to see who would reach the end of the Vault first. This is probably my first time playing a level 1 Ryder since March 2017. I went Vanguard as the starter profile, and any time I do something the least bit brave I get slaughtered. Haha. Thinking Charge isn't the best skill at low levels, I've been mainly using Incinerate and Energy Drain, and have switched to the Sentinel profile for now. My favorite Vanguard is Charge/Annihilation/Energy Drain. It's a flying whirlwind of tech and biotic explosions. With Energy Drain, a Shield Oscillator on my chest, and Life Support evolved, it's effectively immortal. It can start to get old, but that just makes Profiles and open skill selection all the more fun I'll have to try that out once I level up a bit, I vaguely remember trying out Charge/Annihilation back in the day, just seems like a fun combo, but I couldn't really get desired results with it. Ended up giving up, and going Charge/Energy Drain/Incinerate as both powers can prime and detonate once evolved, and rolling from there. I'd be glad if anyone wants to recommend there favourite custom weapons. Previously, I just purchased the Piranha and didn't bother with crafting.
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Post by Element Zero on Jun 19, 2021 18:36:26 GMT
Eos now has an science outpost. I enjoyed the competition with Peebee to see who would reach the end of the Vault first. This is probably my first time playing a level 1 Ryder since March 2017. I went Vanguard as the starter profile, and any time I do something the least bit brave I get slaughtered. Haha. Thinking Charge isn't the best skill at low levels, I've been mainly using Incinerate and Energy Drain, and have switched to the Sentinel profile for now. My favorite Vanguard is Charge/Annihilation/Energy Drain. It's a flying whirlwind of tech and biotic explosions. With Energy Drain, a Shield Oscillator on my chest, and Life Support evolved, it's effectively immortal. It can start to get old, but that just makes Profiles and open skill selection all the more fun I'll have to try that out once I level up a bit, I vaguely remember trying out Charge/Annihilation back in the day, just seems like a fun combo, but I couldn't really get desired results with it. Ended up giving up, and going Charge/Energy Drain/Incinerate as both powers can prime and detonate once evolved, and rolling from there. I'd be glad if anyone wants to recommend there favourite custom weapons. Previously, I just purchased the Piranha and didn't bother with crafting. I've used that Vanguard, or techically a similar Sentinel, from level 1. Energy Drain is so powerful that it's surprisingly hard to get killed. Once you get the Fusion Mod of Adrenaline on Havarl, cooldowns are essentially eliminated, and you become god-like. My favorite weapons vary by build. For a close-quarters build like that Vanguard or a CQC Sentinel, I like Seeking Plasma weapons. The Hesh is awesome because of its high rate of fire, and excellence versus all types of defenses. Autofire makes it insanely good. Seeking Plasma makes it infallibly accurate at short to medium range. (Long range too, but you gotta wait for the globules to hit.) I add Bioconverter so that clip sizes and reloading are a non-factor. You're constantly healing anyway if you've evolved the Life Support skill. Throw a Shield Oscillator on your armor and make Energy Drain your active tech skill and you're invincible, as described above. So, for that build I like: Hesh, full-auto, seeking plasma, biocoverter Shotguns are often too loud for me to tolerate long-term, because I'm noise sensitive. Because of how Seeking Plasma functions, it's easy to substitute the Hornet SMG or the N7 Valkyrie in the above configuration. In practice the gameplay loop is this: Energy Drain at range-> Charge and detonate-> Annihilation immediately primes and exposes-> Shotgun or Asari Sword to kill the primary target if it survived-> Energy Drain or Charge to detonate another target If it's within Annihilation, it's already primed. If not, ED will prime it from afar. It's an unstoppable loop of explosions. For more general use weapons, Full-Auto Bionconverter on the N7 Valkyrie is super powerful. Change that to Hornet and throw in a Beam Emitter and you probably have the best all-purpose gun that can be made. The Hornet's real stats are way better than the stat blocks claim. The easiest way to break a gun is to take a gun without autofire and give it autofire. Bioconverter gives it unlimited ammo, assuming you're using an active tech power that will constantly heal you. Beam Emitter eliminates any stability issues. There are other cool combos, like a Burst-fire, Beam Emitter Dhan; a full-auto Incisor, etc... Again, because of the way they balanced RoF vs Damage, boosting RoF is the sure way to improve many guns.
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