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Post by Element Zero on May 9, 2017 5:35:15 GMT
I started Sara #3, today. I had been playing as Scott, but sometimes you get a character into your head that you simply must play. My current Sara is such a character. I really need to post some pics and ME Archives links, even if it is a PITA on PS4.
The other problem I encounter is that I tend to do so damn much in a single sitting that it becomes difficult to write a meaningful recap. Today, Sara arrived in the Heleus Cluster; saw dad die; became Pathfinder; and established Prodromos on a 100% viable Eos. (There's plenty left to do, once the radiation is reduced.) There were many interesting happenings in between those events, but they're too many to recap. She's now returned to the Nexus to resupply, touch base with leadership, and look into Spender (the Ass in Assistant Director).
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Post by melbella on May 9, 2017 12:45:34 GMT
I love exiling Spender. My first game I put him in jail, but exile seems so much more fitting. It'd be really funny to run into him in some random shack on Kadara or Elaaden, just to see how bad off he is.
Kinda like Fist in ME2.
Currently at level 107 and have all profiles except Adept at level 6. Unlocking achievement soon? I cheated a bit for this one, went to respec station and put points that unlocked one lvl6 profile at a time. Then reloaded save from before my little cheating, keeping my 20 credits respec I have a ways to go yet doing it the hard way since I'm still a few points away from level 5. Will probably need another NG+ tacked on to get there. I'm still trying to figure out how I haven't unlocked the 25 strike team missions one.
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Post by Rascoth on May 9, 2017 13:03:54 GMT
I'm still trying to figure out how I haven't unlocked the 25 strike team missions one. Yeah, that one is strange. It seems it doesn't count missions properly, since I got it randomly one day, after completing waaaaaay more than 25 of them.
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Post by Element Zero on May 9, 2017 15:05:58 GMT
I love exiling Spender. My first game I put him in jail, but exile seems so much more fitting. It'd be really funny to run into him in some random shack on Kadara or Elaaden, just to see how bad off he is.
Kinda like Fist in ME2.
Unlocking achievement soon? I cheated a bit for this one, went to respec station and put points that unlocked one lvl6 profile at a time. Then reloaded save from before my little cheating, keeping my 20 credits respec I have a ways to go yet doing it the hard way since I'm still a few points away from level 5. Will probably need another NG+ tacked on to get there. I'm still trying to figure out how I haven't unlocked the 25 strike team missions one. I hope you haven't encountered a bug. I believe that trophy even calculates across PTs, since strike teams aren't tired to a single character, but rather MP. Rascoth's experience gives hope. It may just pop-up unexpectedly. I thought about maxing out my 100+ level character, since I was so close. I think I finished NG+ at 115, after the post-game stuff was finished. The bosses just got so grindy that I didn't feel up to it, at the time. I like the increased enemy damage, but the remnant bosses take so long to whittle down. I think that enemy scaling probably should've stopped at Level 90, 95, or no later than 100. It's not like our character gets any more powerful after Level 80. If I ever do this, I'll likely drop the difficulty to Normal during boss fights, just to keep things moving, as you said you might do with architects.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2017 17:20:09 GMT
I love exiling Spender. My first game I put him in jail, but exile seems so much more fitting. It'd be really funny to run into him in some random shack on Kadara or Elaaden, just to see how bad off he is.
Kinda like Fist in ME2. I did the same in Sara's run, jailed Spender. Scott will be more than happy to throw this piece of garbage out into Kadara's wilds
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Post by Rascoth on May 9, 2017 17:22:36 GMT
I love exiling Spender. My first game I put him in jail, but exile seems so much more fitting. It'd be really funny to run into him in some random shack on Kadara or Elaaden, just to see how bad off he is.
Kinda like Fist in ME2. I did the same in Sara's run, jailed Spender. Scott will be more than happy to throw this piece of garbage out into Kadara's wilds Aaaah, I wish we could check out how our friend is doing. You know, really friendly visit
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Post by Psychevore on May 9, 2017 19:05:52 GMT
I've pretty much cleared the game until movie night.
Hoping tomorrow's patch fixes it.
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Post by melbella on May 9, 2017 19:20:04 GMT
I thought about maxing out my 100+ level character, since I was so close. I think I finished NG+ at 115, after the post-game stuff was finished. The bosses just got so grindy that I didn't feel up to it, at the time. I like the increased enemy damage, but the remnant bosses take so long to whittle down. I think that enemy scaling probably should've stopped at Level 90, 95, or no later than 100. It's not like our character gets any more powerful after Level 80. If I ever do this, I'll likely drop the difficulty to Normal during boss fights, just to keep things moving, as you said you might do with architects. At the final battle near the end, I didn't feel like messing around anymore. I'd bought up every Cobra RPG I came across so had about 15 at that point. Used them on the final Fiend and Destroyer (after letting them go at each other a while) and also threw a couple at the Architect head to piss it off. Made that part of the fight much less tedious. I've pretty much cleared the game until movie night. Hoping tomorrow's patch fixes it. There's a patch coming out tomorrow???
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Post by Rascoth on May 9, 2017 19:21:53 GMT
There's a patch coming out tomorrow??? Yup. Michael Gamble @gamblemike The next patch comes out tomorrow 10 AM MDT. Then we roll right onto creating the next one for you. Fernando Melo DiscoBabaloo Next #MEA patch tomorrow (Wed 10th) 9am PT / 5pm GMT! Full patch notes & MP specific balance info same time. Likely server downtime needed.
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Post by vonuber on May 9, 2017 22:41:24 GMT
Tonight Sara did this: Which seems to be mainly walking moodily down corridors.
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Post by colfoley on May 9, 2017 23:11:30 GMT
Patch tommorow? Awesome. Hopefully we start hearing about DLC soon.
Anyway i don't know what it is but i really hate the Kett base on eos. The voeld one was cool and fun and engaging but this one just pisses me off. Must be the alarms. Then i did shock treatment for the first time.
And I landed on Kadara for the first time. Robert got into a pissing contest with Sloan.
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Post by n7ltrobbiesann7 on May 9, 2017 23:20:46 GMT
On second play through, at Kadara Port. This time I went all badass on Sloane for the pistol scene. Got to see Reyes 'work around'.
1st PT I was agreeable with Sloane, so, neat to see the alternative.
Now roaming around hitting up tasks n quests.
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Post by Element Zero on May 10, 2017 0:11:34 GMT
I thought about maxing out my 100+ level character, since I was so close. I think I finished NG+ at 115, after the post-game stuff was finished. The bosses just got so grindy that I didn't feel up to it, at the time. I like the increased enemy damage, but the remnant bosses take so long to whittle down. I think that enemy scaling probably should've stopped at Level 90, 95, or no later than 100. It's not like our character gets any more powerful after Level 80. If I ever do this, I'll likely drop the difficulty to Normal during boss fights, just to keep things moving, as you said you might do with architects. At the final battle near the end, I didn't feel like messing around anymore. I'd bought up every Cobra RPG I came across so had about 15 at that point. Used them on the final Fiend and Destroyer (after letting them go at each other a while) and also threw a couple at the Architect head to piss it off. Made that part of the fight much less tedious. I've pretty much cleared the game until movie night. Hoping tomorrow's patch fixes it. There's a patch coming out tomorrow??? The Cobras are a great idea. I always have a million of them by the end of the game. I've been holding out on crafting anything (Level 16) in hopes that we'd get a patch tomorrow that includes at least one new weapon. Halfway there, so to speak! I'll likely need to check the CC, too, just in case.
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Post by themikefest on May 10, 2017 0:19:21 GMT
Currently on playthrough number...hold on...let me check....Oh yeah. Playthrough #12 taking a lot longer than I thought. Since a patch will be released tomorrow, I will take my time to finish this playthrough. See what new stuff has been added. Once done, I will start my 4th speedrun using only charge and a melee weapon on insanity. This is my current Ryder.
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Post by melbella on May 10, 2017 4:45:35 GMT
Ugh, the stupid remnant segment of Earn Your Badge. So.Badly.Bugged.
If you are going to have a quest that requires you to kill enemies within a certain time frame, you should probably make sure they actually SPAWN during that time. I tried this part 3 times, and the final enemies would not spawn. The closest I got was 13 + the Destroyer before time expired. I had like 2 minutes of time to kill waiting and NOTHING HAPPENED other than me dodging the Destroyer so I didn't kill it too soon.
So, I only got 2 Architects down since I wasted so much time on this. I went back to a previous save and re-did it a second time, which didn't work, then got irritated and deleted all the autosaves from my last manual save. Only to discover I also deleted the save that had the first 2 parts already finished. So, I had to do them again as well.
Hopefully the patch tomorrow will fix this quest since it's so badly screwed for so many players. I left the planet then came back, so I'll try it again tomorrow.
Some good news! I finally managed the jump 30 meters achievement.
Oop! Almost forgot - Movie Night, with not-invisible Ryder:
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Post by Psychevore on May 10, 2017 10:31:19 GMT
Patch tommorow? Awesome. Hopefully we start hearing about DLC soon. Anyway i don't know what it is but i really hate the Kett base on eos. The voeld one was cool and fun and engaging but this one just pisses me off. Must be the alarms. Then i did shock treatment for the first time. And I landed on Kadara for the first time. Robert got into a pissing contest with Sloan. Give it the Flophouse treatment: Run past pretty much everything, disable the alarms, get inside.
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Post by colfoley on May 10, 2017 18:10:01 GMT
Patch tommorow? Awesome. Hopefully we start hearing about DLC soon. Anyway i don't know what it is but i really hate the Kett base on eos. The voeld one was cool and fun and engaging but this one just pisses me off. Must be the alarms. Then i did shock treatment for the first time. And I landed on Kadara for the first time. Robert got into a pissing contest with Sloan. Give it the Flophouse treatment: Run past pretty much everything, disable the alarms, get inside. I don't know what it is but I have a really bad time finding the alarms in the bases. Especially on the Sheartop. I found a little more luck in the Flophouse. But not much. Anyways didn't do...well anything in MEA, exactly, just had to get up early for slightly work related purposes. But anyways, it is now time, to introduce the world to Robert Ryder. My second Ryder. And my new favorite picture of him, which coincdentally is a perfect look when reading through some of these threads.
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Post by trwisco on May 10, 2017 19:25:27 GMT
Anybody figure out why the EVA module thing is brought into the hangar bay of the Tempest on the passenger side of the Mako? you can scan it and people are standing next to it but I never realized why it was there.
Also any in game reason the Mako is lifted in the air while in the tempest after a while in the game? I tried to figure it out but no one had anything to say about.
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Post by Rascoth on May 10, 2017 19:30:48 GMT
Also any in game reason the Mako is lifted in the air while in the tempest after a while in the game? I tried to figure it out but no one had anything to say about. First, it's Nomad. Second, I'm sure it needs repair or two after all the shit Ryder drives thru.
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Post by colfoley on May 10, 2017 19:32:31 GMT
Also any in game reason the Mako is lifted in the air while in the tempest after a while in the game? I tried to figure it out but no one had anything to say about. First, it's Nomad. Second, I'm sure it needs repair or two after all the shit Ryder drives thru. You mean all the bullets it drives through.
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Post by trwisco on May 10, 2017 19:34:30 GMT
Ah yes, Nomad. Still get them confused. (I blame Bioware for calling it the new Mako prior to giving us the Nomad name for it)
It would've been neat for Gil to give a little rundown of what he's doing to the Nomad.
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Post by Rascoth on May 10, 2017 19:36:21 GMT
First, it's Nomad. Second, I'm sure it needs repair or two after all the shit Ryder drives thru. You mean all the bullets it drives through. ...Among other things...
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Post by colfoley on May 10, 2017 19:39:53 GMT
You mean all the bullets it drives through. ...Among other things... Honestly the two scariest things to drive through in the game are the sinkholes on Elaadaan and the Acid pools of Kadara. Its like with the sink holds "Oh God, Oh God, no, I can't, God no why...omg I'm burning L1, L1, L1 mother fraker....phew I'm safe just in time...oh God sink hole!"
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Post by dmc1001 on May 10, 2017 21:25:45 GMT
Scott, so far just a pure Adept:
- I unlocked some research that the second failed colony on Eos, Resilience, had been working on. - Completed the final monolith on Eos which opened up a path to a new area, something I'm calling a vault. The archaeologist Peebee joined Cora, Liam and I for this one. We found its atmospheric processor and fired it up. Then the vault did something that almost killed us and we had to run like hell to escape. In the end, we made it to the surface unharmed. Peebee asked to join up with us. I was hesitant because I knew she was a loner and I figured she was just trying to get her hands on Remnant Tech. In the end, I thought her time spent investigating the Remnant prior to the arrival of the Hyperion could make her a worthwhile teammate. I accepted her to the Tempest. She's not Nexus but not an exile, either, so it shouldn't be bad. - SAM pointed us to a navpoint where it was suggested that was optimal for a new outpost. Not entirely sure why we couldn't repurpose one of the old outposts, especially since I got them functioning, but whatever. The krogan Drack was already there fighting some Kett and we helped clean them out. He also wanted to join up with me since, as the result of my actions, the atmosphere had greatly improved. I agreed because a dude that's 1400 years old has a lot to bring to the table. - Founded the new outpost, which was named Podromos. August Bradley was put in charge. At this point, Addison wanted to be my friend. I acknowledged it was now favorable to be on my side and so rejected her handshake. I also called her out on the fact that she intended to use me just as much as everyone else. I still remember her trying to stall my departure from the Nexus. She'll have to do better if she wants me to like her.
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Post by traks on May 10, 2017 22:34:54 GMT
Started my third playthrough and discovered a funny scene in the Eos vault: there is a room you can open with some inactive remnants and Cora and Liam freak a little bit out thinking those remnants will go live any second. My Ryder keeps saying "we are fine". Remnants going live really doesn't happen, but one is falling down: My squadmates freaking out got a chuckle out of me.
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