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Post by dazk on Aug 16, 2017 1:22:37 GMT
I shot Kalinda for the first time in a play through yesterday, I liked getting the artifact but still feel bad about shooting her today Not sure why, but this was one of the few times I had no guilt. Well kinda know why, repeated attempts on their lives was getting old, though if we held all characters to that standard, who would live long in these games. I think it was just so out of character for the way I play my Ryder, yeah she has been trying to kill me and the team (and that was the justification I used to myself) but I am usually a live and let live kinda guy and in this particular scene just seemed so cold cause the only reason to kill her is to get the piece of tech. Also I missed the part where PB punches her in the face
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Post by Element Zero on Aug 16, 2017 4:16:12 GMT
Wildfire , you can actually grab great screens on PS4, if you're willing to use a USB drive to transfer them afterward. The share button allows you to grab a photo and view it before saving. I have a ton of them, but I'm too lazy to port them to a PC and onto imgur. I've played a lot since starting my current PT. I'm 100% on Eos and Havarl, and I'm tidying up the last few quests on Voeld. I'd never minded the silly cold hazard on Voeld until today. (She's wearing a space suit. Is Voeld colder than space?) I used the glitch to my advantage, today, and had no Level-1 hazards to manage nearly the entire time. It was liberating. I ruined it when I went into the secondary vault (the one in which the kett were trying to weaponize the remnant), and the game fixed itself. The cold hazard annoyed me the rest of my time on planet. I understand what they were trying to accomplish, but I think the heat/cold hazards were a bad idea. They make no sense when the protagonist is wearing a space-capable hardsuit (assuming the Ai's tech is as good as any standard MW hardsuit from the OT). Perhaps more importantly, they don't add to the enjoyment of the game. It's downright annoying on Voeld. Since a recent patch ruined the beautiful (white w/orange lighting) aesthetic of my X5 Ghost, I decided to try something that I'd always wanted to do. With the autofire augmentation finally in the game, I was able to build my N7 Valkyrie with autofire and VHS. The "clip" is a bit limited, especially coming from the Ghost. Still, it's an insanely effective weapon for a caster. A few bursts from the Valkyrie do as much damage as a long spurt from the Ghost, so it mostly balances. (The M25 Hornet remains the best "assault rifle", but I wanted to try the Valkyrie.) I also built a full-auto Hesh, and find it at least equal to the N7 Piranha, if not better. Plus, it has a smaller, less ugly profile. This is a big plus, since it stays on Ryder's back or hip 95% of the time. I want to build a full auto Incisor, next, since I suspect that it will be amazing. We shall see.
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Post by Curious Crow on Aug 16, 2017 21:07:03 GMT
I shot Kalinda for the first time in a play through yesterday, I liked getting the artifact but still feel bad about shooting her today It gets easier every time . I don't feel particularly bad about it, because all of the trouble she puts you through and the whole is her life worth more than her mooks. But I kind of prefer it when she lives and ends up helping out. That feeling of "We brought everybody". ~-~-~- Was in mood for the Good Stuff tm so Renata kicked her way through Archons flagship, leaving with Raeka in her arms. It was a nice time, but sadly Liam's cuddle content was gated behind one main quest more. So desperate times call for desperate measures. Did a bit of sidequesting first. Found some stolen boxes, did an interview, played poker and woke up Scott. Was thinking how hilarious it would have been if I'd forgotten to talk to him before, but nope, Renata had spoken to him and lied about dad's condition. Oops I guess. After a few more side quest stuff, Renata went to vanguard Kett at Meridian. Had loads of fun this time around. She has that nice, heavy punch to her and even if things get dicy, it's fun to turn the luck around. Died twice. Once got blasted across the room by a destroyer and the second time that dirty fiend grabbed her. Wouldn't mind some sort of Alistair's shield bash when that happened or be able to stun punch him in the snout or feed him a cobra. Or just anything other than an instant death. Anyways after that I got to see the jump jet scene. It was adorable. But Eos looked a bit strange today. I remember it having that nice orange glow, but this time it was in darker colors and less sand foggy. So I could see differences in the layers in the cliff. It was pretty, but I was a bit more fond of the orange. Also learned to use Ansel today, so Pyjak got his pictures taken, many, many times. And some pictures off other stuff as well I guess. Might put Renata on a bit of a hold for now to get some newbie Ryders up to speed. And a little picture, cuz I can. Finger painting with friends I call it.
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Post by Element Zero on Aug 16, 2017 21:38:50 GMT
I'm playing as I type this, but I was too pleased to wait and share later. I mentioned my intent to try building the Incisor SR with Automatic Fire. I did, and it's amazing. I don't use BioConverters, since I think they're ridiculous cheese. That said, there's a possibility that this would be one of the very best SRs in the game (in terms of DPS) with Autofire and a BioConverter.
My new favorite all-rounder loadout is: * N7 Valkyrie (Autofire, VHS, DoubleMod Extension and Kinetic Coil) * Incisor (Autofire, DoubleMod Extension, Kinetic Coil) * Hesh (Autofire, DoubleMod Extension, Seeking Plasma, Kinetic Coil)
I might vary from this a bit if I were playing a pure gun-user, but not too much. The Autofire Augmentation vaults these guns to the front of the pack. As I mentioned, BioConverter would be extra chees. It would basically double the DPS of the Hesh and Incisor, and really buff the Valkyrie, as well.
I kind of want to build a Sidewinder Pistol with Autofire, just because I think it looks awesome and would put out some solid damage. I don't have any room in my loadout, though, so I'll wait on that one.
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Post by Lost Mercenary on Aug 17, 2017 1:07:35 GMT
Just landed the platinum trophy.
*drops mic*
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Post by melbella on Aug 17, 2017 3:15:59 GMT
Not game-related but I did read Discovery #3 yesterday and I'm wondering why the fuck wouldn't the salarians put in a bullet in Agent Zeta's head instead of "cutting him loose"??! First the rachni, then the genophage, then the yahg.....when are they gonna learn?
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Post by dazk on Aug 17, 2017 21:49:04 GMT
Not game-related but I did read Discovery #3 yesterday and I'm wondering why the fuck wouldn't the salarians put in a bullet in Agent Zeta's head instead of "cutting him loose"??! First the rachni, then the genophage, then the yahg.....when are they gonna learn? Is that one of the comics?
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Post by Curious Crow on Aug 17, 2017 23:38:04 GMT
Wasn't going to play today, but loaded up Renata to test something and ended up (finally) clearing up site two. Then I started pondering about squad load outs and loaded up Ollie to get the feel for her. Thinking Liam and Peebee. Not sure who to romance. Suvi is off limits since it feels a bit like romancing a clone. That leaves Reyes and Keri. But Peebs and Liam are tempting too. As for personality. Ollie is an easy going nerd. Would have gone for Andromeda, even if things hadn't gone sour in the Milky Way. Going for an emotional/professional with a healthy dose of casual. Outfit is Deep Space Explorer armor and load out is Snipers and maybe try out the Scorpion. Only power currently is Energy Drain. Not sure what the other two will be. No profile yet either. As for what she did: Activated the Vault on Eos, assembled the ground team and set down an outpost. Also cleared Site two with the help of a handy Cobra from Clancy. Next session will be bantering with the outpost Crew, find the last missing body and probably some more busy work on Eos. Liam and Peebs have already started bickering, so that will be fun. They also spoiled meeting the Angara, which would have been quite scandalous if this had been my first run in Andromeda. But what can you do. Anyways. Had fun and here is a tiny picture of Ollie. Because I'm bad with sizes and stuff.
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Post by melbella on Aug 18, 2017 0:26:33 GMT
Not game-related but I did read Discovery #3 yesterday and I'm wondering why the fuck wouldn't the salarians put in a bullet in Agent Zeta's head instead of "cutting him loose"??! First the rachni, then the genophage, then the yahg.....when are they gonna learn? Is that one of the comics? Yep. Mass Effect: Discovery. It centers around Tiran Kandros. 3 issues are out so far and I think the last one got delayed.
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Post by dazk on Aug 18, 2017 3:06:51 GMT
Is that one of the comics? Yep. Mass Effect: Discovery. It centers around Tiran Kandros. 3 issues are out so far and I think the last one got delayed.
Thanks
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Post by Element Zero on Aug 18, 2017 6:23:37 GMT
Wasn't going to play today, but loaded up Renata to test something and ended up (finally) clearing up site two. Then I started pondering about squad load outs and loaded up Ollie to get the feel for her. Thinking Liam and Peebee. Not sure who to romance. Suvi is off limits since it feels a bit like romancing a clone. That leaves Reyes and Keri. But Peebs and Liam are tempting too. As for personality. Ollie is an easy going nerd. Would have gone for Andromeda, even if things hadn't gone sour in the Milky Way. Going for an emotional/professional with a healthy dose of casual. Outfit is Deep Space Explorer armor and load out is Snipers and maybe try out the Scorpion. Only power currently is Energy Drain. Not sure what the other two will be. No profile yet either. As for what she did: Activated the Vault on Eos, assembled the ground team and set down an outpost. Also cleared Site two with the help of a handy Cobra from Clancy. Next session will be bantering with the outpost Crew, find the last missing body and probably some more busy work on Eos. Liam and Peebs have already started bickering, so that will be fun. They also spoiled meeting the Angara, which would have been quite scandalous if this had been my first run in Andromeda. But what can you do. Anyways. Had fun and here is a tiny picture of Ollie. Because I'm bad with sizes and stuff. Enjoyable write-up! I understand the "Suvi clone" reference. I've not played a ginger* Ryder, but I've used the Suvi hairstyle. I recall thinking, "This Sara will definitely not be pursuing Suvi." In my current PT, I'm finally trying to like Liam. I have Sara on course to pair up with him; and I felt resigned to his foolishness, rather than angered by it, during his LM today. I don't think I could tolerate him in my active squad, though. He's way to invasive and adversarial with everyone. It improves, once he overcomes his initial prejudice toward pretty much every other individual on the team. Still, by then I'm ready to shoot him and space the body. I'm focusing on how nice a guy he is, and how rudderless and desperate for connection he is. It's helping me be patient. * Seemingly odd tangent incoming: melbella once asked if "ginger" is a derogatory term. I'd say no. It's pretty commonly used in English. I even see the MC1R gene casually referred to as the "ginger gene mutation" in scholarly circles. I carry the mutation, as the son of a ginger mom (her entire family), and don't personally find it offensive. (I have black hair, but fair skin, green eyes and some freckles.) This may seem like an odd tangent, but I wanted to be clear that I'm not taking a swipe at my red-headed friends.
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Post by Curious Crow on Aug 18, 2017 16:47:50 GMT
Element Zero Thanks The Suvi clone thing also kind of applies to her face shape,not the whole face but the lips are eyrily similiar and they seem to use the same brand of lipstick. Oops. I'm quite fond of Liam, especially since inclusive outroverts have a soft spot in my heart in real life. So his, no one should be an outsider outlook gives me the fuzzies. Never found him particularly hostile to anyone, Vetra started it when they were paired up, don't remember any bad blood between him and Cora and Jaal only got grumpy with him once, after having been under a very tiring session with Lexi. Haven't played with him and Drack or Peebee. Never found him that foolish, just a bit to quick to take action instead of thinking. But I'm not exactly mature either. Hopefully you'll find something to love about him (And sorry for any weird mispellings, phone typing and no spellcheck risk some strange words.)
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Post by Element Zero on Aug 18, 2017 18:11:00 GMT
Element Zero Thanks The Suvi clone thing also kind of applies to her face shape,not the whole face but the lips are eyrily similiar and they seem to use the same brand of lipstick. Oops. I'm quite fond of Liam, especially since inclusive outroverts have a soft spot in my heart in real life. So his, no one should be an outsider outlook gives me the fuzzies. Never found him particularly hostile to anyone, Vetra started it when they were paired up, don't remember any bad blood between him and Cora and Jaal only got grumpy with him once, after having been under a very tiring session with Lexi. Haven't played with him and Drack or Peebee. Never found him that foolish, just a bit to quick to take action instead of thinking. But I'm not exactly mature either. Hopefully you'll find something to love about him (And sorry for any weird mispellings, phone typing and no spellcheck risk some strange words.) He starts in immediately on Cora about her "shady" work as a huntress. He questions whether she blindly followed orders, and why. She points out that assassinating a terrorist before she blows up a bunch of civilians is much better than killing her after. He pretty much starts arguments with everyone but Jaal, digging into their past and questioning their ethics. It's a huge turnoff. I'd probably kick him off the team, if I could. His head isn't on right. He's not a good team player, though he certainly thinks he is. His judgment/decision-making is horrendous. All of that said, I'm enjoying him okay, thus far, since I've left him on the ship 100% of the time. He's a lot like Sera from DAI. If I ignore his glaring issues and a big event/mistake that causes tension, I can appreciate the character well enough. Sera goes bonkers and kills Pel Harmond at Verchiel immediately after joining the team. Liam gives classified data to an alien, thus endangering the entire Ai. Lukas loves writing unintelligible troublemakers, in recent times.
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Post by phoray on Aug 18, 2017 20:04:36 GMT
I was reading a Reddit Page about a question that I didn't want to ask on here and I found this gem: Me: *chokes laughing so hard*
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Post by vonuber on Aug 18, 2017 21:48:46 GMT
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Post by dazk on Aug 18, 2017 23:30:38 GMT
Wasn't going to play today, but loaded up Renata to test something and ended up (finally) clearing up site two. Then I started pondering about squad load outs and loaded up Ollie to get the feel for her. Thinking Liam and Peebee. Not sure who to romance. Suvi is off limits since it feels a bit like romancing a clone. That leaves Reyes and Keri. But Peebs and Liam are tempting too. As for personality. Ollie is an easy going nerd. Would have gone for Andromeda, even if things hadn't gone sour in the Milky Way. Going for an emotional/professional with a healthy dose of casual. Outfit is Deep Space Explorer armor and load out is Snipers and maybe try out the Scorpion. Only power currently is Energy Drain. Not sure what the other two will be. No profile yet either. As for what she did: Activated the Vault on Eos, assembled the ground team and set down an outpost. Also cleared Site two with the help of a handy Cobra from Clancy. Next session will be bantering with the outpost Crew, find the last missing body and probably some more busy work on Eos. Liam and Peebs have already started bickering, so that will be fun. They also spoiled meeting the Angara, which would have been quite scandalous if this had been my first run in Andromeda. But what can you do. Anyways. Had fun and here is a tiny picture of Ollie. Because I'm bad with sizes and stuff. * Seemingly odd tangent incoming: melbella once asked if "ginger" is a derogatory term. I'd say no. It's pretty commonly used in English. I even see the MC1R gene casually referred to as the "ginger gene mutation" in scholarly circles. I carry the mutation, as the son of a ginger mom (her entire family), and don't personally find it offensive. (I have black hair, but fair skin, green eyes and some freckles.) This may seem like an odd tangent, but I wanted to be clear that I'm not taking a swipe at my red-headed friends. Yes weird tangent but I am the same, black hair brown/green eyes and 10 minutes in the sun I crisp which isn't great in Australia!!!! All thanks to some Scottish and Irish grandparents and the knock on effect was that my son was born with fire engine red hair (my wife is brunette) so we were like WTF???
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Post by dazk on Aug 18, 2017 23:36:57 GMT
Element Zero Thanks The Suvi clone thing also kind of applies to her face shape,not the whole face but the lips are eyrily similiar and they seem to use the same brand of lipstick. Oops. I'm quite fond of Liam, especially since inclusive outroverts have a soft spot in my heart in real life. So his, no one should be an outsider outlook gives me the fuzzies. Never found him particularly hostile to anyone, Vetra started it when they were paired up, don't remember any bad blood between him and Cora and Jaal only got grumpy with him once, after having been under a very tiring session with Lexi. Haven't played with him and Drack or Peebee. Never found him that foolish, just a bit to quick to take action instead of thinking. But I'm not exactly mature either. Hopefully you'll find something to love about him (And sorry for any weird mispellings, phone typing and no spellcheck risk some strange words.) He starts in immediately on Cora about her "shady" work as a huntress. He questions whether she blindly followed orders, and why. She points out that assassinating a terrorist before she blows up a bunch of civilians is much better than killing her after. He pretty much starts arguments with everyone but Jaal, digging into their past and questioning their ethics. It's a huge turnoff. I'd probably kick him off the team, if I could. His head isn't on right. He's not a good team player, though he certainly thinks he is. His judgment/decision-making is horrendous. All of that said, I'm enjoying him okay, thus far, since I've left him on the ship 100% of the time. He's a lot like Sera from DAI. If I ignore his glaring issues and a big event/mistake that causes tension, I can appreciate the character well enough. Sera goes bonkers and kills Pel Harmond at Verchiel immediately after joining the team. Liam gives classified data to an alien, thus endangering the entire Ai. Lukas loves writing unintelligible troublemakers, in recent times. I tried so hard last play through to like Liam, took him on numerous missions and I guess I understood him better but this time through I have been leaving him behind again, pretty much for the same reasons as Element Zero stated. The other reason being I just found he got in the way a lot in combat, he'd often just stand right in front of Ryder when I was in cover and it became too annoying. Plus there are just others I prefer to listen to in the Nomad, Drack and PeeBee being my favourite, followed by Cora and Drack. Drack told Cora yesterday she couldn't handle that much Krogan referring to himself. She said I'd rather kiss a Thresher Maw, to which Drack replied I know a few single ones and can hook you up if you want!!!!!
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Post by dazk on Aug 18, 2017 23:38:09 GMT
I was reading a Reddit Page about a question that I didn't want to ask on here and I found this gem: Me: *chokes laughing so hard* That is LOL funny
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Post by dazk on Aug 18, 2017 23:39:05 GMT
Does anyone ever just leaver her there with the Kett? I never have.
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Post by Wildfire on Aug 19, 2017 17:14:01 GMT
Today I visited Elaaden for the first time, located the asari and turian arks and saved Paachero from the Kett. Playing the game on insanity, and there were some pretty hard fights on the Archon's ship. Especially the final push to save the krogan scouts, that was intense. The Destined and the Anointed just kept coming, and the Ascendant behind them all definitely did not make it any easier. I must be part krogan because I just love fighting against an overwhelming opponent Also, I managed to unlock all but the final memory of Alec Ryder, and I can't wait to see what is going to be revealed. Been actually playing Andromeda rather intensely over the last week or so, and gotta say that the game is just getting better. I think it's been treated very unfairly by the general public. I mean, it may not be the emotional rollercoaster like the original Trilogy, but it's a very solid game in its own right. The original trilogy didn't really work unless you played them all, and ME1 sure would have been rather miserable if no sequels had been released. Andromeda, in comparison, is pretty much a standalone epic. There's just so much to do, and it just gets better if you take a relaxed approach and give all the quests the time and love they need. I actually find it enjoying to just drive around with the Nomad and listening to the companion banter. The companions are actually very good, but like everything in MEA, they just need the player to be patient enough to slowly explore their quests and personalities. Running around the galaxy might be annoying, but the sheer amount of companion content is just amazing, and I'm not the one to complain about it, even if I have to land on every planet in the galaxy to complete some of the loyalty missions I just spent hours doing all the small stuff for Peebee before her loyalty mission, which is probably coming up next. It's pretty weird... In only a week, it seems that I have already completed a lion's share of the game. Talk about intensive gameplay! The main quest is at its end, and that's one complaint I still have - the main quest is far too short! And completing it requires no contact whatsoever with Havarl, Elaaden and the Turian golden world. Establishing outposts should have been somehow incorporated into the main quest, and not just in the case of Eos. Anyway, I've already got outposts on Eos, Voeld and Kadara, and next up I'm going to complete the loyalty missions of select squad members. The asari ark is up next, then the Turian ark. Got to say one thing - I love Sara Ryder's voice. It's perfect for the character and the game. Her interactions with Reyes are something to be treasured: two total trolls going at it together Btw, the Kadara storyline was so damn good! And Reyes has stolen my heart. How suave can someone be? In the end, I had to choose Peebee over Reyes, but the latter still has the best scene in the whole game so far: sitting on the rooftop, drinking almost 700-year-old whisky, contemplating life in Heleus. "I came here to be someone."
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Post by dazk on Aug 20, 2017 5:09:14 GMT
Well today I finished my 8th play through on hardcore with my new graphics card which was great. Managed to defeat the Archon without falling off a pillar which was a nice change I was going to start another straight away but with the news from Bioware .................. I really don't know if I have the heart for it. :contempt:
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Post by traks on Aug 22, 2017 12:08:10 GMT
A busy day yesterday finishing off some stuff I left for post-game in my 4th playthrough: - did the "settling Kadara" stuff I don't like, because I wanted to fight the architect. a) because it's fun and because I wanted to finish the "remnant data cores"-quest. - did that and was a bit disappointed that the data core quest doesn't lead to anything. Why did I then have to find 9 of those? That's an example for stupid game design, because it seems like a big quest and then all you get is a little codex entry with no real new insight. - a byproduct was finishing the 100% viability quest, which is at least having a nice cutscene at the end. Whenever I get to that scene I can't help though thinking "how nice would it be to actually set foot on Habitat 7 for one final mission?" - finished Jaal's loyalty quest, letting Akksul shoot on Jaal. - put Dr. Aden into prison. In between on the Tempest I learned that Lexi does actually like my Ryder a lot and doesn't care about Liam seeing it: I also started business with one of my favorite minor NPCs: Now there isn't much left to do that I look forward to play, so maybe I have to start a new playthrough focusing on different powers.
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Post by SofaJockey on Aug 22, 2017 12:50:42 GMT
Well, there was this... and this... and all the model ships and every open quest and open task I could find (99%, not sure why not 100%) I liked the game, I got great value from it. But I'm done.
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Post by traks on Aug 22, 2017 23:07:54 GMT
Started my 5th playthrough. It seems like I'm not ready to give up on this game yet. It'll probably my shortest run though: main missions, probably all vaults, all arks and some minor stuff I like (maybe a Kett command center on Voeld or Eos). Will leave the 5 remaining loyalty missions and H047c (though it's my favorite) as my "DLC" to have something post-game if I want to continue this fifth Ryder. Mainly looking forward to play with different powers (I started with Annihilation Field, Lance and Energy Drain - might tinker a bit if it doesn't mesh as well as I think once I have leveled up) and go through the main arc again - which is IMO one of this game's strength.
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Post by Garo on Aug 23, 2017 20:06:56 GMT
Ended my second playthrough, this time with Scott and on insanity. So I basically saved everyone in Heleus Cluster today, no big deal.
Damn it, they say this new crew is not memorable, but when I talked to them after the final mission and then on Tempest again, I was just like.. LETS GO FOR ANOTHER ADVENTURE FRIENDS!
After all, that was a good ride and I want more. Actually sad that there will be no DLC.
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