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Post by Element Zero on Jan 17, 2018 2:12:31 GMT
OK, here we go. No nagging required. The codex is actually called, "Kett: Secret Intelligence"
This is pretty cool. I’ve done the deal before, but never read the Codex.
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Post by melbella on Jan 17, 2018 4:55:08 GMT
A few pics from Khi Tasira....
I sort of got one of the mystery specimen which just happens to look like a nug. It's really hard to see, even if I know what I'm looking at since the glare is so bad. I tried from the other side but it was too dark.
Here is the map location for it; it's on a lower level that you have to jump to. There's a puzzle to decrypt to open the door, one of the tougher ones, and you can't use a key for it.
Some interesting data on the process of creation.
Scott finally got to do the melding thing with Peebee. I was expecting a lot more....er, graphic scene....on par with Cora and Jaal, but it seemed pretty tame compared to them. I was also distracted by Peebee's neck, which looked weird.
Back to it tomorrow to find the real Meridian. Not sure I can do the whole end mission before X-Files comes on though.....
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Post by dazk on Jan 17, 2018 5:00:57 GMT
A few pics from Khi Tasira....
I sort of got one of the mystery specimen which just happens to look like a nug. It's really hard to see, even if I know what I'm looking at since the glare is so bad. I tried from the other side but it was too dark.
Here is the map location for it; it's on a lower level that you have to jump to. There's a puzzle to decrypt to open the door, one of the tougher ones, and you can't use a key for it.
Some interesting data on the process of creation.
Scott finally got to do the melding thing with Peebee. I was expecting a lot more....er, graphic scene....on par with Cora and Jaal, but it seemed pretty tame compared to them. I was also distracted by Peebee's neck, which looked weird.
Back to it tomorrow to find the real Meridian. Not sure I can do the whole end mission before X-Files comes on though.....
Mmmm mysterious Nug, not sure I have ever discovered that s I don't remember having to manually do a puzzle manually except on Elaaden. Will try and find it this time through Yeah all those data screens have interesting info except for the one about something that is broken and to not bother filing a report. Sorry I never notice her neck You mean when she tilts her head back?
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Post by melbella on Jan 17, 2018 5:28:34 GMT
No, the back of her neck. I guess the tentacle things extend down that far? I never noticed because her jacket is covering up her neck for the most part.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 6:47:57 GMT
Continuing to work on my project of making a huge codex of all the stuff I talked about earlier. There's a lot of detail in this text I'm finding. Not just slapped together. Very well thought out.
Very interesting to read.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 15:20:16 GMT
Jade Dreamer this is brilliant stuff, I love hearing your kids perspective on the game!!!!!! Thanks, she really plays in a very different way than I do, so I am often surprised with the things she discovers or does. She is absolutely way more into the OW portions of the game than I am. And she is in that age when fantastical and reality mix really easily and well. Yesterday she was talking to our cat about the game, lol. Every time the cat would mew, she'd say something like" "Okay, okay, I know I need to finish Drack's mission, not climb this mountain." I think she spent a couple of hours yesterday climbing mountains on Kadara... simply to see the views. And, shhh, don't tell anyone, but the little one is getting a PeeBee Funko soonish.
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Post by Curious Crow on Jan 17, 2018 16:05:01 GMT
No, the back of her neck. I guess the tentacle things extend down that far? I never noticed because her jacket is covering up her neck for the most part. I'm kind of disappointed that they don't go any further. Or at least the soft looking spinal thing in the middle. But since Asari are pretty much human shaped and we only see like 3 in the buff, it makes sense not spending a lot of resources to give them tentacles in other places as well. But the ridges have gone down to the base of the neck/shoulders since ME1. Hers are just super well defined.
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Post by dazk on Jan 17, 2018 23:08:14 GMT
Jade Dreamer this is brilliant stuff, I love hearing your kids perspective on the game!!!!!! Thanks, she really plays in a very different way than I do, so I am often surprised with the things she discovers or does. She is absolutely way more into the OW portions of the game than I am. And she is in that age when fantastical and reality mix really easily and well. Yesterday she was talking to our cat about the game, lol. Every time the cat would mew, she'd say something like" "Okay, okay, I know I need to finish Drack's mission, not climb this mountain." I think she spent a couple of hours yesterday climbing mountains on Kadara... simply to see the views. And, shhh, don't tell anyone, but the little one is getting a PeeBee Funko soonish. Forgive my ignorance but what is "OW portions of the game"? Yeah I actually find it hard watching my son play games I have played cause I keep wanting to say "did you know you just missed this" or "why don't you do this" because he plays differently to me. Talking to the cat about MEA, that is so cute I never ventured too far off the track in Kadara but I did spend a long time getting the Nomad to the top of a very large mountain on Elaaden Lucky kid, wish I had a PeeBee funko
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Post by colfoley on Jan 17, 2018 23:15:48 GMT
Personal Log: Robert Ryder, Pathfinder: Mission Day: 111.
Its tough living with some of the things I have done,the decisions I have made as Pathfinder. Having both Kesh and Drack upset at me for my decision to save Raeka over their scouts. And instead of being sympathetic I was defenisve, not easy to do when you hear them bickering over such nonsense. But, in the end, I feel I did the right thing. I just do not know how to make it right with Drack and Kesh. Maybe getting their shuttle back would help.
Cassandra's awake though in the good news department. She wants to get back into the fight of course but, despite the weirdness of it all, she needs time to rest and get used to doing things again.
As for the Iniative,they finally have exposed themselves as being entirely incompetent and improper. I guess I have to take a more active role. In the military there is a chain of command, your officers aren't always perfect but they are your officers. You often are all working towards a common end. Here? The Iniative seems scared of the Kett, I cannot blame them, but the only choice we have is to confront them now while they are still off balance. But I cannot do it without the backing of the Iniative, at least not easily.
The scientists on the Nexus has given me their support, but Suvi says it could take months to perfect the ghost storm tech, our systems aren't quite designed for it. So, in the meantime I will do what I can. I will start securing the rest of Heleus, building a network outside the Iniative, being the law and saving us from ourselves. I will work towards defeating the Kett, looking for what allies that will help me and looking for ways to heal the rest of Heleus. It may take a while, but I will be victorious. I have no other choice.
SAM, delete last two paragraphs of this log.
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Post by dazk on Jan 18, 2018 0:02:26 GMT
So yesterday I cleaned some stuff up on Voeld, saved the whales, established an outpost, helped the gloryseeker, found the dead missing scientists and made an error in judgement taking on the Architect on two counts. I have been fighting a damn virus all week and it is making me tired and cranky so the first mistake was deciding to fight the architect. I have used one successful tactic against the Voeld Architect several times, there is one building where you are a decent distance form it and you can camp next to a heater for the first two stages of the fight. This time around I picked the wrong building and I am like where is the damn Architect.......... Oh shit it landed right on top of me so losing shields and health rapidly I ran for it and by the time I found a spot near a heater I was at 25% health and my life support was in the red. So I cheese'd the rest of the fight with Cobra's Then back to the Tempest, few conversations with crew (does anyone ever side with Kallo over Gil?), gave Suvi her Tarav plant to make snacks for movie night, finally took the Moshae back to Aya, ran around doing several quests including going to the vault and then off to Kadara. I so want to choose Sloane this time but man I just can't stand the woman and her means. But decided to play it business like with Reyes rather than casual and with humour and will see if I can find something redeeming to make me choose Sloane somewhere during Kadara. Be interested to see Christmas Tate's take on Sloane if you side with her. I love my Ryder but the hairstyle can be quite annoying as a lot of the cut scenes seem to film her from the right (her left) meaning her left eye is often obscured, same in conversations. Problem is I can't find another hairstyle that suits her and plus I was trying to make her look similar to Ellen (mum) Ryder.
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Post by dazk on Jan 18, 2018 0:13:06 GMT
No, the back of her neck. I guess the tentacle things extend down that far? I never noticed because her jacket is covering up her neck for the most part. I didn't notice any difference, in the romance scene are they longer than this?
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Post by melbella on Jan 18, 2018 1:10:55 GMT
Yeah, I think so. A bit longer, at lesat. I guess I just never noticed them before because I don't normally romance asari. Re: siding with Sloane In one of the conversations with Reyes, where you ask him about how to go about settling the planet, he says to help the "little people" and the rest won't matter. I took that as tacit approval to side with Sloane this time around.
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Post by dazk on Jan 18, 2018 1:46:41 GMT
Yeah, I think so. A bit longer, at lesat. I guess I just never noticed them before because I don't normally romance asari. Re: siding with Sloane In one of the conversations with Reyes, where you ask him about how to go about settling the planet, he says to help the "little people" and the rest won't matter. I took that as tacit approval to side with Sloane this time around. Well I am not sure beatings and extortion is "helping the little people", that's the problem I just cannot see how Sloane is a good choice in anyway. Do the beatings, extortion and exiling to the badlands stop if you put her in charge?
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Post by melbella on Jan 18, 2018 4:20:19 GMT
Eh, nope.
Beat the Archon - woooohooo!
Crash landing
Pick one, look at the rest. I really had no clue/preference on who to go with this time so I picked Morda again just to mess with Tann.
I don't recall seeing this datapad before. It was on a bench next to where Drack was standing. SAM comments on it and then Drack comments on what SAM said.
Just odds and ends left. Got a few more systems to map, Habitat 7 to revisit, and Movie Night (gotta get the movie first). Also want to check out Voeld to see if the vault is accessible or locked down.
One of the emails on Meridian talks about the tracker backdoor and supplies going missing. It makes a lot more sense having not done the ZK Tracker quest. I found the first one in the Eos system but didn't scan it.
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Post by Element Zero on Jan 18, 2018 4:44:06 GMT
Yeah, I think so. A bit longer, at lesat. I guess I just never noticed them before because I don't normally romance asari. Re: siding with Sloane In one of the conversations with Reyes, where you ask him about how to go about settling the planet, he says to help the "little people" and the rest won't matter. I took that as tacit approval to side with Sloane this time around. Well I am not sure beatings and extortion is "helping the little people", that's the problem I just cannot see how Sloane is a good choice in anyway. Do the beatings, extortion and exiling to the badlands stop if you put her in charge? Yes, they stop. Also, you haven’t seen Reyes’ murder holes? There are a number of them on Kadara. The Outcasts are rough but simple, transparent; use a blunt instrument to maintain order types. The Collective steals satellites. The torture and murder with calculated precision. They’re scary as hell. Willingly giving them a lucrative port as a home base is insanity. As to liking Sloane better, you’ll need to read the book. The game writers did a terrible job representing her. How is she supposed to compete with a charming part-time ally, even if he is a murderous liar? The way they left the Nexus, the survivors passed through horrors to arrive at Kadara. She’s maintaining order in a primal, brutal fashion. It’s bad, but I understand how the circumstances brought everyone to that point. Most importantly, her organization is all about keeping Kadarans (new label?) alive. They might be oppressed, but they’re alive. She has no greater ambition. Reyes and the Collective, though, are all scary ambition. I have no doubt that choosing them was the “trap option”.
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Post by melbella on Jan 18, 2018 5:09:37 GMT
Element Zero I'm not sure how you can say the extortion stops when Sloane still requires payments from the outpost to keep it running and "protected." The only thing that may be different is no more heads on spikes, and that's only if you take that dialogue option.
The book didn't make me like her any more. She made some dumb decisions and let her pride get in the way of making things work - ironically, the same fault she finds in Tann.
Also, she really was a pretty crappy head of security. Passcodes get stolen and you don't disable/change them immediately?!
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Post by dazk on Jan 18, 2018 5:11:13 GMT
Well I am not sure beatings and extortion is "helping the little people", that's the problem I just cannot see how Sloane is a good choice in anyway. Do the beatings, extortion and exiling to the badlands stop if you put her in charge? Yes, they stop. Also, you haven’t seen Reyes’ murder holes? There are a number of them on Kadara. The Outcasts are rough but simple, transparent; use a blunt instrument to maintain order types. The Collective steals satellites. The torture and murder with calculated precision. They’re scary as hell. Willingly giving them a lucrative port as a home base is insanity. As to liking Sloane better, you’ll need to read the book. The game writers did a terrible job representing her. How is she supposed to compete with a charming part-time ally, even if he is a murderous liar? The way they left the Nexus, the survivors passed through horrors to arrive at Kadara. She’s maintaining order in a primal, brutal fashion. It’s bad, but I understand how the circumstances brought everyone to that point. Most importantly, her organization is all about keeping Kadarans (new label?) alive. They might be oppressed, but they’re alive. She has no greater ambition. Reyes and the Collective, though, are all scary ambition. I have no doubt that choosing them was the “trap option”. I know your stance Element Zero we have been over this before. I just completely disagree, yes Reyes is shady and yes the collective torture and murder a few people but Sloane does the same on a much bigger scale even if you don't include exiling people. I am also optimistic that Reyes will actually turn out to be a good guy. He helps the pathfinder and initiative in several ways during the game (what does Sloane do to help?) Sloane is just setting up her own little fiefdom and even the NPC's at Kadara comment on how much better it is without Sloane in charge. It is also a better situation for the Angaran's. I have since cleaned out a lot of my screenshots but I took one of every example of Sloane or her people being bad of talking about the bad stuff they do and ended up with over 20. So I am still not convinced that Reyes is not the best solution for Kadara at the time and I don't actually see anything in game that makes me believe he can't turn out being better in the future for Kadara. However I intend through gritted teeth to let Sloane rule this time
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Post by melbella on Jan 18, 2018 5:13:11 GMT
Just lay on the charm and she'll like you just fine.
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Post by dazk on Jan 18, 2018 5:22:26 GMT
Just lay on the charm and she'll like you just fine. I kinda wish I had read Nexus Uprising first instead of currently being two thirds through Initiation which I am really enjoying. Its silly but I actually find Sloane truly repulsive and her attitude doesn't help. Reyes is a bit slimy but he's obviously smart and funny and after the whiskey moment when he says in a very genuine way that, he came to Andromeda to be someone, I took it in a positive way not that he wanted to be Heleus's overlord.
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Post by melbella on Jan 18, 2018 5:29:14 GMT
Yeah, I prefer Reyes too. I just wish the choice to pick one or the other was set up differently. Not a QTE for one thing, and not knowing (the first time around) that not letting the sniper shoot Sloane automatically means you pick her.
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Post by Element Zero on Jan 18, 2018 5:31:06 GMT
Just lay on the charm and she'll like you just fine. I kinda wish I had read Nexus Uprising first instead of currently being two thirds through Initiation which I am really enjoying. Its silly but I actually find Sloane truly repulsive and her attitude doesn't help. Reyes is a bit slimy but he's obviously smart and funny and after the whiskey moment when he says in a very genuine way that, he came to Andromeda to be someone, I took it in a positive way not that he wanted to be Heleus's overlord. Not Overlord, just rich, regardless of how bloody the money. In my experience, he and Sloane do the exact same things to “help the Initiative” (not much). There is no benefit or penalty for either choice in this game. The arrangement is exactly the same with both. One of the greatest disappointments for me in not getting a sequel is not getting to see Reyes’ marks (players who fell for the charm) realize they’ve been duped. I’ll never be able to understand how handing him Kadara seems like a good idea to some. I never argue that Sloane is a good person. I do argue that Reyes and the Collective are terrifyingly bad. They’re dangerous criminals who are way smarter than the Initiative. What could possibly go wrong?
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Post by dazk on Jan 18, 2018 5:31:11 GMT
So in MEA today I did so many quests on Kadara. Saved remi from being eaten by Johan's gang, activated the monoliths but not the vault yet, did the random weapon cache mission, got ambushed at the site provided by Thrasia, found some plants legal an not legal which saved a guys life and Ryder may have sampled some Ryder in altered state:
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Post by Element Zero on Jan 18, 2018 5:37:53 GMT
So in MEA today I did so many quests on Kadara. Saved remi from being eaten by Johan's gang, activated the monoliths but not the vault yet, did the random weapon cache mission, got ambushed at the site provided by Thrasia, found some plants legal an not legal which saved a guys life and Ryder may have sampled some Ryder in altered state: I need to watch this on YouTube. It doesn’t work on PS4. (Thanks for patching the game so well, BioWare. 🙄) That Remy quest is pretty crazy. Her VA convinces me. Drack is the king of dark humor, since he has only a krogan’s filter.
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Post by dazk on Jan 18, 2018 5:38:12 GMT
I kinda wish I had read Nexus Uprising first instead of currently being two thirds through Initiation which I am really enjoying. Its silly but I actually find Sloane truly repulsive and her attitude doesn't help. Reyes is a bit slimy but he's obviously smart and funny and after the whiskey moment when he says in a very genuine way that, he came to Andromeda to be someone, I took it in a positive way not that he wanted to be Heleus's overlord. Not Overlord, just rich, regardless of how bloody the money. In my experience, he and Sloane do the exact same things to “help the Initiative” (not much). There is no benefit or penalty for either choice in this game. The arrangement is exactly the same with both. One of the greatest disappointments for me in not getting a sequel is not getting to see Reyes’ marks (players who fell for the charm) realize they’ve been duped. I’ll never be able to understand how handing him Kadara seems like a good idea to some. I never argue that Sloane is a good person. I do argue that Reyes and the Collective are terrifyingly bad. They’re dangerous criminals who are way smarter than the Initiative. What could possibly go wrong? They are criminals but so are the exiles, plus the exiles are traitors and don't like the Initiative, WYSIWYG at least Reyes wants to work with the Initiative. The collective are secretive but I am not convinced by their actions that they are out be some rogue smuggling gang that wants to rule Heleus. Iam as I said before optimistic that Reyes will play a positive role in any future DLC, expansion or game. If I have been duped, then well done writers as I am obviously the fish they wanted to catch
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Post by dazk on Jan 18, 2018 5:40:07 GMT
So in MEA today I did so many quests on Kadara. Saved remi from being eaten by Johan's gang, activated the monoliths but not the vault yet, did the random weapon cache mission, got ambushed at the site provided by Thrasia, found some plants legal an not legal which saved a guys life and Ryder may have sampled some Ryder in altered state: I need to watch this on YouTube. It doesn’t work on PS4. (Thanks for patching the game so well, BioWare. 🙄) That Remy quest is pretty crazy. Her VA convinces me. Drack is the king of dark humor, since he has only a krogan’s filter. A modder fixed it for PC and said it was apparently really easy . SAM sings the words to the same tune as Mordin sings his Patter song I think.
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