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Post by gottaloveme on Apr 24, 2017 8:51:23 GMT
I, myself, would like a black emporium. Me too. I would definitely try a bit more crazy looking Ryder (and we have options to do that) if I knew I could tone her down later. I had a crazy Ryder and figured that's what you get when you let your Alliance mates buy you drinks. Waking up 634 years later with a hangover and stupid haircut. Obviously his mates don't have to face DadRyder. I wonder how long it'll take for hair/outfit mods to come out?
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Post by Rascoth on Apr 24, 2017 9:34:53 GMT
Me too. I would definitely try a bit more crazy looking Ryder (and we have options to do that) if I knew I could tone her down later. I had a crazy Ryder and figured that's what you get when you let your Alliance mates buy you drinks. Waking up 634 years later with a hangover and stupid haircut. Obviously his mates don't have to face DadRyder. I wonder how long it'll take for hair/outfit mods to come out? True friends. I would give another month or two for mods. Saw some modding tools appearing already, soon some tools to create mods should appear as well. I think people are also waiting what BW does with CC fixes they said they'd look into, as well as casual outfits that are supposed to come out.
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Post by saandrig on Apr 24, 2017 16:39:23 GMT
And now, fourth time the charm, began a new tale of Sara Ryder and she will try her best to ruin everyone's day in Andromeda (well, except perhaps for Suvi). There are decisions ahead that none of her three predecessors had the stomach or will to do - like make experiments on the space hamster, screw the krogans and be as much of a massive jerk as the game allows. To that end I decided that Sara should look as innocent and cheerful as possible Tell me if you expect that face to stab you in the back first chance she gets. She already thinks about headbutting Addison for stealing her hairstyle. Gets jealous looks from the salarians.
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Post by bigevil on Apr 24, 2017 18:33:35 GMT
Today I activated the monoliths and vault on Kadara. I picked up popcorn and graxen for Vetra, although the movie night quest is all sorts of time paradoxes thanks to NG+. I helped Kaetus deal with some Kett in the badlands. Sloane 'wipe your face after a meal' Kelly showed up and called Ryder a lapdog. Ella made the universal sign language for 'something on your face'. After that I went back to the Tempest to get the email so I could start High Noon (insert your own Macree joke here).
Decided to let the sniper take the shot and have Reyes in charge. So ended the life of Sloane 'had an accident with indelible ink' Kelly.
I've also settled the outpost. Next up is probably Cora's loyalty mission, or perhaps grabbing the first part of PeeBee's scanner on Eos and meeting Jill.
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Post by melbella on Apr 24, 2017 19:42:31 GMT
Scott had to force himself to not flirt with Vetra since he's trying to romance Cora this game. Vetra needs a hug.
Finished up Havarl stuff, got the vault working, found all the manifestos and Remnant doohickeys in the jungle. Scanned the mutated wildlife before they all died a fiery death (Flamethrower ftw! ).
Then back to Eos to meet an asari from the lost ark and get my ass handed to me by the kett over at Site 2. I don't remember that fight being so hard before (ok, playing on hardcore this time, but still - almost every kett enemy was an Annihilator ** ). No wonder the colonists didn't stand a chance. Finally beat them down, then found the rest of the dead for that quest. Also scanned in the "Site 2 secret project" data, but I have no idea what the end result of that is supposed to be. Can I now make something?
Might do a bit more on Eos before heading to Voeld.
**Edit: Whoops....that should be "Anointed." But they were annihilating me pretty well, so I went with it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2017 22:03:28 GMT
Post game Sara, Vetra and Peebee easily took down the architect on Kadara. Then answered an "emergency" distress call from a couple outlaws not too far from the remnant battle grounds. Something about their UV lamp not working? 😤 Waste of time...
Right now, our pathfinder and the dynamic duo are chasing down the architect on Voeld. I think this fight's going to be a challenge, because of the cold weather conditions. But the funny part while driving to site is listening to Vetra and Peebee hook up. 😜
Am I the only one that gets annoyed at Peebee's name? I always think it's Peanut Butter and the girl just confirmed it.. 🙄
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Post by melbella on Apr 25, 2017 0:02:42 GMT
Post game Sara, Vetra and Peebee easily took down the architect on Kadara. Then answered an "emergency" distress call from a couple outlaws not too far from the remnant battle grounds. Something about their UV lamp not working? 😤 Waste of time... Right now, our pathfinder and the dynamic duo are chasing down the architect on Voeld. I think this fight's going to be a challenge, because of the cold weather conditions. But the funny part while driving to site is listening to Vetra and Peebee hook up. 😜 Am I the only one that gets annoyed at Peebee's name? I always think it's Peanut Butter and the girl just confirmed it.. 🙄
Nope....Peebee is just annoying. Is there anyone she doesn't flirt with?
I voted Cora my least favorite companion in the poll, but I might have to change my vote.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2017 2:52:35 GMT
Continuing with post game Sara, she and her team took down the architects on Voeld and Eos.
The one on Voeld was a bit dicey, because of the weather, but I kept Sara moving for cover and restoring life support.
Eos was easy. On the water vs natural gas deal with the Advent group, Sara went with water, because that was what Prodromos needed in the first place. She also completed other mini quests, such as the kett surveillance. Damned buggers spying on her first outpost!
Much to Peebee's delight, she, Sara and Vetra found a secret remnant vault as per a researcher's recordings. That and beating the last two architects got me enough research credits to craft rank 7 remnant reborn armour and weapons.
I think I'll have Sara storm the kett bases on Eos and Voeld next. They deserve to get their asses kicked! 😈
As for Scott, not sure when I'll get back to his run. 🤔
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2017 3:03:55 GMT
Nope....Peebee is just annoying. Is there anyone she doesn't flirt with?
I voted Cora my least favorite companion in the poll, but I might have to change my vote.
It's true Peebee flirts with everyone, but in Sara's run, she really got together with Vetra. Screw Kalinda. 😜 I'd say Liam is my least favourite squad mate. To me, it seems like he tries too hard to get along with everyone. Cora's kinda like general uptight, and goes on and on with the asari stuff. 🙄
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Post by melbella on Apr 25, 2017 4:31:49 GMT
Did more stuff on Eos. Got the navpoint the correct way for Watchers, so hopefully it completes properly this time. Need one more remnant core for the Data Trail quest. Left the rest of the kett stuff until next visit. Also avoiding the Architect quest line.
Crafted myself a new Black Widow IX that fires sticky grenades. This will be the first time I've tried that particular augment, so we'll see if I can actually make it work. Things going boom is always fun though.
I put enough points in Throw to get it to level 6 for the "Full Power" achievement. Still haven't used any biotics though, other than picking Explorer profile for a while. For some reason my blue shield bar turned to purple barrier bar, even after I switched back to Infiltrator profile.
Currently on the Nexus with a laundry list of to-do's. Scott is a very busy man.
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Post by Element Zero on Apr 25, 2017 4:55:19 GMT
Did more stuff on Eos. Got the navpoint the correct way for Watchers, so hopefully it completes properly this time. Need one more remnant core for the Data Trail quest. Left the rest of the kett stuff until next visit. Also avoiding the Architect quest line.
Crafted myself a new Black Widow IX that fires sticky grenades. This will be the first time I've tried that particular augment, so we'll see if I can actually make it work. Things going boom is always fun though.
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Currently on the Nexus with a laundry list of to-do's. Scott is a very busy man. That gun sounds like fun! Today, (my) Scott and team won over many angara by stabilizing Hajarl. (More on that, momentarily.) Jaal says that even Evfra was impressed, though it's not in Evfra's nature to say so openly. Evfra was openly appreciative, later, when Scott was honest about SAM's existence and capabilities. Plans to aid in the rescue of the Moshae are in place. This is great news, since it both opens the door for an eventual Angara-Initiative partnership, and moves us one step closer to Aya's vault. Evfra is a skilled and honorable defender of his people. Building trust with him is a big win. Working with the erstwhile roekarr Taavos, we found the missing monolith and accessed the vault. Taavos' experience opened his eyes to the roekarr pursuit of "easy solutions", rather than true solutions to angaran problems. Speaking of the roekarr, we had numerous run-ins with these guys. We foiled a short-sighted roekarr plot to "poison" worlds that could support and house AI personnel. Jaal and Scott have agreed that Akksul must be found, and the roekarr dealt with, one way or the other. Finding the Moshae is the next step; which was on the agenda anyway. Cora found us a potential lead on Ark Leusinia's location. We need to track down the asari vessel Periphona, and check her nav-logs. Good idea, but we have to find her first. Scoot, Jaal and Cora just set boots on icy Voeld. Having met Resistance leadership and other assorted personnel at the Resistance Base, they've assembled a list of objectives to tackle on a Voeld. The Initiative also wants an assessment of Voeld's ability to host an outpost. Ultimately, an assault on that looming kett fortress seems a must. It's the command-and-control center for kett operations in this sector. It's destruction would open a lot of doors, and likely make our eventual Moshae-rescue operation much more tenable. Lots of icy cold work on the docket for tomorrow.
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Post by themikefest on Apr 25, 2017 5:02:39 GMT
Am I the only one that gets annoyed at Peebee's name? I always think it's Peanut Butter and the girl just confirmed it.. 🙄 Nope. I got annoyed that it took over 20 seconds for an interrupt to push her off my Ryder. I got annoyed there wasn't an option to not recruit her. I got annoyed that Ryder didn't have an option to throw her off the ship for what she did with the escape pod. With that name, its too bad Ryder couldn't laugh when hearing the name for the first time. Even have the squadmates laugh at her name.
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Post by Element Zero on Apr 25, 2017 5:21:37 GMT
Post game Sara, Vetra and Peebee easily took down the architect on Kadara. Then answered an "emergency" distress call from a couple outlaws not too far from the remnant battle grounds. Something about their UV lamp not working? 😤 Waste of time... Right now, our pathfinder and the dynamic duo are chasing down the architect on Voeld. I think this fight's going to be a challenge, because of the cold weather conditions. But the funny part while driving to site is listening to Vetra and Peebee hook up. 😜 Am I the only one that gets annoyed at Peebee's name? I always think it's Peanut Butter and the girl just confirmed it.. 🙄 Pre-release, PeeBee's name really bugged me. Now, I think it suits her. Her somewhat silly rebelliousness against nearly anything serious is typical for asari in their maiden years, as Lexi says. I'm just glad that we learned her real name nearly immediately, and that at least someone (Kalinda) uses it exclusively. PeeBee's explanation for why she shortened her name just worked, in my opinion. I was worried that she might annoy me, but I actually like her. Even her crazy stunt to kick off her LM is softened by the tragic happenings in that mission, and by her admission that it was a very poor choice. Compare that to Liam, whose decision was even worse, and who doesn't seem to get it at all, for a long while afterward. Most of all, Christine Lakin's VA work hooks me, I think. Her work is phenomenal, and I find her voice adorable, for lack of a better, less cheesy word. The second part is completely subjective, and is the subject of interesting studies. (Everyone tends to have their own personal preferences for vocal ranges that they find attractive. It's the science of taste, if you will.)
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Post by Rascoth on Apr 25, 2017 8:15:46 GMT
Am I the only one that gets annoyed at Peebee's name? I always think it's Peanut Butter and the girl just confirmed it.. 🙄 Nope. I got annoyed that it took over 20 seconds for an interrupt to push her off my Ryder. I got annoyed there wasn't an option to not recruit her. I got annoyed that Ryder didn't have an option to throw her off the ship for what she did with the escape pod. With that name, its too bad Ryder couldn't laugh when hearing the name for the first time. Even have the squadmates laugh at her name. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I miss times when we could not recruit some squaddies. Doubt I would use that often, because I'm squaddie hoarder, but option would be nice...
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Post by gottaloveme on Apr 25, 2017 11:07:42 GMT
Post game Sara, Vetra and Peebee easily took down the architect on Kadara. Then answered an "emergency" distress call from a couple outlaws not too far from the remnant battle grounds. Something about their UV lamp not working? 😤 Waste of time... Right now, our pathfinder and the dynamic duo are chasing down the architect on Voeld. I think this fight's going to be a challenge, because of the cold weather conditions. But the funny part while driving to site is listening to Vetra and Peebee hook up. 😜 Am I the only one that gets annoyed at Peebee's name? I always think it's Peanut Butter and the girl just confirmed it.. 🙄
Nope....Peebee is just annoying. Is there anyone she doesn't flirt with?
I voted Cora my least favorite companion in the poll, but I might have to change my vote.
How long have the humans and asari known each other? Would she even know about peanut butter? I have my doubts about it.......
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2017 11:43:11 GMT
I find PB annoying, but she does not warrant dismissal for me in a sense that the game will be better without her. I dismissed Sera on initial cutscene in first PT of Inquisition, but picked her up in the second, and grew to like her. On the other hand, Morrigan and Isabela make me happy I can get rid of companions, because the game is way better without. PB is more like Sera for me, she is okay, but silly, and sometimes her banters with others are cool. She is a flirt, but she is not mean, and childish, rather than a rival you can't defeat/win over.
Overall, I find PeeBee parallels Liam well enough.
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Apologies for switching the forum handle, but I needed a time-out and a clout on the ear as a reminder that arguing on Internet is not what I want to do with my life. This is a reboot of my domi’s account. Vasco, in the meantime, explored Voeld. Vasco, in frosted gray heavy armor, in Voeld’s color/light… was nothing short of gorgeous. Figure 1. But the Pictures Did not Turn out. Boo-Hoo! Where is My Armor Frosting?! Initially, I wanted to leave Voeld ASAP for this PT, but it’s such a smooth sailing – or skating?- that I inadvertently continued on with the storyline, even after Jaal prompted me to go back to Evfra. I also really wanted to keep the psychotic AI this time around, so I guess this will be a PT where I have every world to 100% viability. Figure 2. A Hostile AI? Let's Keep It! Speaking of which, if you do not take Jaal for Voeld, he grumbles that he should be along, and talks a lot on the com – it’s like having three companions along! Woah! A French benefit of playing a Ryder distrustful of Angara, not bad! Tempest left the skies over Voeld to ripple with a never-ending aurora borealis and set course for Nexus, and the dark jungles of Havarl are next (yay!) Gil’s romance so far was neat. The mini-encounter with Ignacio was just borderline inappropriate in that Gil lets you see a very personal letter he receives, and makes fun of someone’s feelings. But overall, Gil seems to be like that, a borderline malicious character. I don’t like him, but the personality is well captured.
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Post by saandrig on Apr 25, 2017 12:59:14 GMT
A funny glitch happened which I now like to call “How I ended up in Jaal’s house”.
As most should know, at some point Jaal invites you to visit his family in their house on Havarl. It is all done in a cutscene. However at the end of the cutscene my game decided to sorta freeze up for a minute then do a save and go to a black screen. So I reloaded that save and lo and behold – I was inside the house which turns out to actually exist on the map of Havarl. Its position is straight south from the Tempest marker but there is an invisible wall that also stopped me from going back on foot to the regular Havarl map. I explored the house. It is actually smaller than the cutscene lets on. Sara probably peaked and rummaged through all the private stuff she could find. Then I ran around the outside area which seems to be big and span through the entire length of Havarl’s map. No enemies, but it was normal jungle if somewhat emptier on plants. Didn’t find holes in the invisible wall so I just fast traveled back to the Tempest.
I was surprised to find that the house exists in the game but now I wonder if that was supposed to be a part of the map that was cut. Because if it was made just for a single cutscene... holy crap, Batman, that’s where the 5 years development went!!! Creating vast, separate and never seen maps in order to show a close up on Peebee’s smirk.
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A funny glitch happened which I now like to call “How I ended up in Jaal’s house”. As most should know, at some point Jaal invites you to visit his family in their house on Havarl. It is all done in a cutscene. However at the end of the cutscene my game decided to sorta freeze up for a minute then do a save and go to a black screen. So I reloaded that save and lo and behold – I was inside the house which turns out to actually exist on the map of Havarl. Its position is straight south from the Tempest marker but there is an invisible wall that also stopped me from going back on foot to the regular Havarl map. I explored the house. It is actually smaller than the cutscene lets on. Sara probably peaked and rummaged through all the private stuff she could find. Then I ran around the outside area which seems to be big and span through the entire length of Havarl’s map. No enemies, but it was normal jungle if somewhat emptier on plants. Didn’t find holes in the invisible wall so I just fast traveled back to the Tempest. I was surprised to find that the house exists in the game but now I wonder if that was supposed to be a part of the map that was cut. Because if it was made just for a single cutscene... holy crap, Batman, that’s where the 5 years development went!!! Creating vast, separate and never seen maps in order to show a close up on Peebee’s smirk. I don't think they would actually make a map separately. It's likely a reuse of another one, or an earlier version of the planet, etc. Like you said, it was not populated by creatures, just had placeables in a landscape. I do not know how frostbite works, but in the NWN2 version, embedding the triggers in the map file was the most trouble free way to make everything work, rather than scripting on creatures. So, to animate a fairly complex cut scene, making a separate map, that is not overloaded by other scripts that will interfere or take priority because of something you did not expect a player would do is a good idea. Not to mention that it guarantees that you are not going to be taking potshots from a random aggressive creature while you are in the middle of something.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2017 18:10:44 GMT
Traced the boundary fence of H-047c.
Lots of backseat driving commentary from Cora and Peebee about driving off the cliff. About once a minute for 20 minutes.
Cora: Ryder, look out! Peebee: No! Noooo!
I kind of wonder if Peebee has Aspergers' Syndrome. Remnant tech is more or less what she talks about. Her social skills aren't that great. Not to mention, when you first run into her, instead of kindly advising you to not touch the remnant tech, she tackles you.
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Post by Kelwing on Apr 25, 2017 21:36:31 GMT
I am amazed at the things I missed only to find on my second run. Completing far more but doing it quicker. Nearly have Elaadan wrapped up.
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Post by vonuber on Apr 25, 2017 22:34:03 GMT
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melbella
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Trouble-shooting Space Diva
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Post by melbella on Apr 26, 2017 4:52:12 GMT
Sadly, my sticky grenade Black Widow isn't as awesome as it sounds. I'm going to have to deconstruct and remake it since I prefer heads exploding when I aim right. Also, it doesn't appear to do as much damage as I think it should when each one explodes. Those dang Anointeds take forever to bring down. And, due to the cold hazard on Voeld and my life support running out, I had to attempt vehicular homicide via Nomad on a couple of them. Got some pretty good ragdoll effects, at least.
Found the remains of the Periphona so Cora's got her work cut out for her reconstituting the black box.
So far avoiding the major missions, just roaming around doing small stuff. Will probably hit the kett command center tomorrow, then go after the Moshae. Depending on how many times I die, that might be two nights' worth of game instead of just one.
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Post by zipzap2000 on Apr 26, 2017 5:03:10 GMT
I finally got press X to start to work!
Unfortunately reinstalling doesn't reinstall the patch so five hours till I can finish meridian on my NG+
So doing a playthrough as Aza Ryders sister Sheeza.
Biotic template.
Should kill off enough time for the download to finish.
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