Replaying Mass Effect (3) again

[Anteros]

I will wait to install that single mod until I have donned the armor. I love the design of it, it is cool looking and dare I say it actually well... sexy (on Fem!Shep and other females). I just feel like just as I refuse to use Cerberus weaponry, Shepard would refuse to use this armor without repainting it in Alliance colors. I guess my sense of roleplaying gets in the way.

He ran around for all of Mass Effect 2 in a Cerberus ship, full of Cerberus operatives, in clothing with the Cerberus logo on it. I don't think he's above using their equipment. Heck, half of his body is their equipment.

[Avilan the Grey]

He ran around for all of Mass Effect 2 in a Cerberus ship, full of Cerberus operatives, in clothing with the Cerberus logo on it. I don't think he's above using their equipment. Heck, half of his body is their equipment.

"...ANd then I got lose and started killing all their guys..!"
One of the best lines in the game!


...Oh and part of it, too, is that color scheme really clashes with the rest...

[Avilan the Grey]

So apparently Mirror Match on Insanity means only Shepards?

I am sorry but I am not good enough to take on three of me at the same time.
Especially with those same grenades used on the Normandy.

[Psyren]

It's the hardest one aside from Fatal Error.

[Avilan the Grey]

It's the hardest one aside from Fatal Error.

There also seems to be a bug with some followers in that mode: Grunt for example gets paralyzed and refuses to attack other than when manually told to. Vega for example works as normal.

[Psyren]

Is it? I actually did it solo - I AM THE ONE TRUE SHEP!

Novaguard with Kaidan's Reave and an Acolyte/Eagle X chews through their armor quickly, and without enemy instakills you can zip all over the place with impunity.

[Avilan the Grey]

Is it? I actually did it solo - I AM THE ONE TRUE SHEP!

Novaguard with Kaidan's Reave and an Acolyte/Eagle X chews through their armor quickly, and without enemy instakills you can zip all over the place with impunity.

Three infiltrators, cloaked, that somehow still sees me when I am cloaked(? it seems they can nail headshots on me despite me being invisible). I always end up dying from being shot from behind.

[Psyren]

What map are you fighting on? I mostly fight them on Armax Classic, move to the outer ring so I can see things coming before they can get behind me, and then start picking them off. Whenever you're not at the edge, don't stop moving.

Fatal Error isn't bad either - you can get them slowly trailing after you as you loop quadrant by quadrant, picking them off. That was the map I used to beat them on my Engineer.

I haven't tried them on any other maps though.

[Avilan the Grey]

What map are you fighting on? I mostly fight them on Armax Classic, move to the outer ring so I can see things coming before they can get behind me, and then start picking them off. Whenever you're not at the edge, don't stop moving.

Fatal Error isn't bad either - you can get them slowly trailing after you as you loop quadrant by quadrant, picking them off. That was the map I used to beat them on my Engineer.

I haven't tried them on any other maps though.

I always have the map on Random...

[Psyren]

I always have the map on Random...

That might help then - given the nature of their attacks, some maps are extremely hard to fight them on. For instance, Pain Train's pathways are incredibly narrow and the clones will box you in and finish you off easily.

[McDouggal]

Novaguard just wrecks mirror match. If you manage to prevent them from novaing. If you don't, you end up so staggered it's not funny.

Change in topic: Does anyone remember how the Batarians maintained order over their slaves? I'm writing a fanfic (again) and haven't found anything in the wiki for an answer.

I swear I remember there being something like a control chip that the Batarians used, but I'm not finding anything canon.

[Psyren]

I swear I remember there being something like a control chip that the Batarians used, but I'm not finding anything canon.

They use surgically implanted control chips, and usually no anesthetic. This often seriously messes up their victims' mental state; if your Shep has the Colonist background in ME1, you meet a girl named Talitha who was also from Mindoir (and not as lucky as you), who has undergone their "tender ministrations." She is suicidal and suffering from severe PTSD, Stockholm and other issues, and you have the moral choice of calming her down or getting her killed.

[McDouggal]

I'm trying to restrain my laughter in the break room at work.

[Avilan the Grey]

...Not getting it?

[Avilan the Grey]

Damn, I keep forgetting how much I LOVE x 1000 the tango scene. It's worth romancing Garrus for that scene alone.
I even find it genuinely sexy. Plus Shepard definitely has the legs for it.

[Landis963]

...Not getting it?

Either it's a reference to the old ME2 Vanguard bug where Shepard could get caught in the scenery after a Charge, or to getting caught on a ladder in ME3, which depending on luck might have been the cause of many a death in single-player or multiplayer.

[Psyren]

I assumed that was Shepard down below (Default FemShep with freckles + N7 Hoodie) while the dangling character is Traynor.

And yeah, I don't get it either. Is the vat supposed to be "Lemon Curry?" Or something?

[Landis963]

I assumed that was Shepard down below (Default FemShep with freckles + N7 Hoodie) while the dangling character is Traynor.

And yeah, I don't get it either. Is the vat supposed to be "Lemon Curry?" Or something?

Lemon Curd. Type of jam associated with the most British of breakfasts. Much like cucumber sandwiches are to British teatimes.

[Psyren]

That proves it's Traynor then.

Thanks, I'd have never gotten that on my own.

[Leon]

I've heard of people who play Shepard as a man. Those people are strange!

If Femshep could romance Tali i'd not have to.

[Siosilvar]

If Femshep could romance Tali i'd not have to.

This person gets it.

[Psyren]

Whereas if MShep could bang Garrus then I'd probably never have heard Hale's dulcet tones for the whole trilogy

[Avilan the Grey]

This person gets it.

Oh that annoying girl that dies all the time? I never bring her on anything.

[Psyren]

Oh that annoying girl that dies all the time? I never bring her on anything.

Leave Ashley out of this!

[Anteros]

I think he meant FemShep.

[Siosilvar]

Oh that annoying girl that dies all the time? I never bring her on anything.

It's called sass, and if you think it's annoying then that's pretty telling.

Now, she is pretty hypocritical about the whole Geth thing (like most Quarians) and is rather over-attached, but annoying?

[Lethologica]

It's called sass, and if you think it's annoying then that's pretty telling.

Now, she is pretty hypocritical about the whole Geth thing (like most Quarians) and is rather over-attached, but annoying?

If fanfic is anything to go by, there is definitely a subset of players who think Tali is the most annoying person who dies at the drop of a hat and just Won't. Stop. Infodumping about her culture. (That's mostly a ME1 phenomenon, though.)

[Avilan the Grey]

If fanfic is anything to go by, there is definitely a subset of players who think Tali is the most annoying person who dies at the drop of a hat and just Won't. Stop. Infodumping about her culture. (That's mostly a ME1 phenomenon, though.)

Yeah that's basically it. Though the biggest problems for me are (most from ME1):

1. The best person to bring along for hacking
2. Not good at anything else
3. Dies all the time because of it
4. I would rather bring anyone else.

In other words I was so. damn. tired. of dragging her along everywhere after ME1.

Oh and one thing from ME3:
5. Turns out they look EXACTLY like humans with Nighcrawler's hands and feet (including hair, despite WOG before ME3 says only humans have hair).
...Because Bioware suddenly remembered they needed to show her face so they spent 30 seconds on downloading a stock photo and let an intern do the photo-shopping.*


Edit:
I don't mind her on the ship. She is smart, intelligent and friendly. With hips.
But I ONLY drag her out of there if I HAVE to.

*This is part of the reason I don't have any hype for ME4. Bioware are lazy bums.

[Psyren]

1. The best person to bring along for hacking
2. Not good at anything else
3. Dies all the time because of it
4. I would rather bring anyone else.

In other words I was so. damn. tired. of dragging her along everywhere after ME1.

(1) is false - literally anyone with Electronics and Decryption can be as good at opening locks as she is, including Garrus and Kaidan. I never took Tali anywhere in ME1 except on her Geth Incursions mission, and IIRC you don't even need to bring her along for that, you can pick up the Geth (Heretic) data without her and still deliver it to her on the Normandy. If you did drag her everywhere that was purely your own choice.

As for the mind-control type of hacking, that's actually more trouble than its worth in ME1. You end up with a bad guy following you around with fully restored health and shields that can turn on you at any moment, and you can't kill them until the ability wears off. Total waste of points if you ask me.

*This is part of the reason I don't have any hype for ME4. Bioware are lazy bums.

Meh, that was EA's fault for rushing them. Inquisition showed what they're capable of when the leash isn't so tight, and I'm confident that ME4 is benefiting from that lesson too.

[Avilan the Grey]

(1) is false - literally anyone with Electronics and Decryption can be as good at opening locks as she is, including Garrus and Kaidan. I never took Tali anywhere in ME1 except on her Geth Incursions mission,

But she starts off better than they.