motyak wrote:
I usually just went for ammo/damage, and relied on my Infiltrator skills/hiding like a little girl to keep me safe from harm. It worked pretty well.

 motyak wrote:
Yeah I make liberal use of the Mattock and cloak, which is why I go for so much extra ammo because that thing doesn't get much to start with.

And the Mattock was in ME2? I need to replay that, I don't know how I missed it. Or I've probably just forgotten.

 motyak wrote:
Yeah I make liberal use of the Mattock and cloak, which is why I go for so much extra ammo because that thing doesn't get much to start with.

And the Mattock was in ME2? I need to replay that, I don't know how I missed it. Or I've probably just forgotten.

 Madcat87 wrote:
Myself and a lot of my friends all agree that Mass Effect 3 is 99% amazing. It was just that ending that really screwed an otherwise amazing series. I just gotta give big credit to the writers for making...

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Mordin & Thane's deaths tear inducing despite both characters being one foot in the grave already from old age/terminal illness respectively.

Almost always played as the Infiltrator with sniper rifles and getting the cloak in ME2 is awesome fun. I thought it was funny when I got the achievement in ME3 for killing x amount of the shield guys by headshotting them through the eye slot. Reminded me of Happy Gilmore's first hole in one, I was just doing that because it was easier.

I just recently finished another insanity playthrough as Vanguard, bloody hard but a nice challenge. That class is great for quickly killing stragglers that think its smart to move off by themself.

Lynata's headcanon wrote:For my playthrough (only did one so far), Shep chose Destroy - in her mind, it was the only way to make sure the Reapers would never be a threat again. Control might have enabled her to achieve the same result, yet there was that lingering suspicion that the merger could end up with her being altered by the Reapers instead of assuming complete control. In the meantime, Joker dodged Reaper fighters to move the Normandy closer to the extraction point, where the few survivors of the ground forces awaited pickup by shuttle. Given their fighting spirit and aggression, I don't think any of the krogans made it. Same as Vega, Ash or Javik, although I'll admit that I'm merely adding them to the bodycount because deaths make it feel more realistic, these three are the sacrificing types, and I don't care about them too much. I'd think Vega died providing covering fire for a squad of retreating Alliance Marines; that would fit him well. Cortez didn't survive the Hammer drop-off in my game, it was only later that I learned he can actually survive depending on an earlier dialogue option.

As the Crucible fired its beam, Normandy was already back in the air and approaching the Relay, together with a portion of those ships that had survived so far. In an eery replay of the Alliance's first retreat only months earlier, a portion of the fleet stayed behind to keep the Reapers busy and allow the others to escape. The turians in particular proved their honour once more as they insisted that their forces would provide the bulk of the sacrifice, whereas the Quarian Flotilla reluctantly pulled back first, intending to save as many of its civilian ships as possible. The Destiny Ascension remained at Earth as well, with Matriarch Lidanya adding the awesome power of its impressive main gun to the turian dreadnoughts. The Citadel flagship's kinetic barriers began to buckle under the onslaught, but just before the Normandy made the jump, it managed to cripple another Reaper by blasting through its vulnerable weapons port just as the enemy ship prepared to fire on the SR-2.

The Crucible's blast hit the Normandy in mid-transit, crippling half its electronic control systems and frying its AI. With all servers and backup blades being hit simultaneously, EDI simply ceased to exist. Thrown out of the Relay slipstream and stranded in a star system with no knowledge of their exact position, Joker confirmed the existence of a habitable planetoid in their vicinity. As FTL jumps without VI support were deemed too risky and the ship was already in a bad enough shape, it was decided to land on the planet and use it as a base until repairs could be completed. Controlling the ship's descent without a flight computer was a nigh-impossible feat, but Joker managed to pull it off and set down the SR-2 mostly unharmed. As shown in my game's cinematic, Joker, Garrus and Liara leave the ship, but other survivors like Traynor would follow them soon as well. The group begins to set up a basecamp at the foot of the ship and, realizing that they are cut off from the rest of the galaxy in terms of communication, prepare for a longer stay.

Over the course of the next couple hundred years (which is when the post-credits Stargazer scene takes place), this small community becomes an independent colony, first turning into a village, then a city-state, with remote outposts set up for resource gathering slowly growing into larger communes as well. Liara, having been pregnant from "embracing eternity" with Shepard, gave birth to twins, who in turn became the origin of a small asari subset of the otherwise human-dominated population. Guided by the wisdom of Matron-turned-Matriarch Liara, the people adopt the asari model of e-democracy and manage to largely avoid internal conflict. Even as the colonists grow apart and found further settlements, they remain united in their spirit. The mother of Shepard's kids manages to live for another few hundred years before dying in her sleep, a content smile on her lips.
Unfortunately, with Garrus and Tali being the only members of their respective species on this world, there are no turians and quarians around, although they have spent their final days as a pair of lovers. Both of them continue to be revered for their part in the legend of the Shepard.

After many generations of hardship and rebuilding, the scientists of this colony have come close to a breakthrough in drive technology that will finally present an evolution of traditional FTL engines, enabling travel to faraway worlds outside the local sector, whose barren planetoids are already being visited by small mining vessels searching for deposits of element zero. The colony's ultimate plan is the construction of a spaceship as large as the legendary Normandy, whose ancient wreck remains preserved in a temple. Estimated construction time is 20 years. On the local extranet, human and asari philosophers publicly debate the prospect of re-establishing contact with their distant genetical relatives, with historians and sociologists suggesting their theories of what may have become of them, or the possible difficulties renewed diplomatic contact might pose. A number of conservatives oppose the project, argueing that nobody knows what they might find out there and that it could put every human and asari on this world at risk.

This is where a new generation of adventurers and heroes steps up.

motyak wrote:That'd explain it, I haven't got any of them yet.

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 Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:
I always made sure I found the eye targetter headpiece asap when ever playing with my characters, not a huge fan of helmets.

kingbobb wrote:
I wish I could appreciate it. I pre-ordered it, like I did ME2. And when it turned out that the Devs were wrong when they promised that you could access all the story content without playing any multiplayer, I informed Amazon that they had sold me a game that was not as advertised and got a refund.

I appreciate EA making a game that stuck to it's guns...but not for making a Mass Effect game that betrayed the core foundations of the series, and their customers. I enjoyed what I did play of it. I didn't find it to be as good as ME1 or 2, either story or play wise, and I'm a little sad that ME3 turned out to be such a disappointment.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:I always made sure I found the eye targetter headpiece asap when ever playing with my characters, not a huge fan of helmets.

kingbobb wrote:betrayed the core foundations of the series

 Kanluwen wrote:

kingbobb wrote:
I wish I could appreciate it. I pre-ordered it, like I did ME2. And when it turned out that the Devs were wrong when they promised that you could access all the story content without playing any multiplayer, I informed Amazon that they had sold me a game that was not as advertised and got a refund.

I appreciate EA making a game that stuck to it's guns...but not for making a Mass Effect game that betrayed the core foundations of the series, and their customers. I enjoyed what I did play of it. I didn't find it to be as good as ME1 or 2, either story or play wise, and I'm a little sad that ME3 turned out to be such a disappointment.

What?

You could get all the story content without touching the multiplayer. All the MP did was make it so that your "Readiness rating" would go up--which the single player game would do as well.

kingbobb wrote:betrayed the core foundations of the series

kingbobb wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

kingbobb wrote:
I wish I could appreciate it. I pre-ordered it, like I did ME2. And when it turned out that the Devs were wrong when they promised that you could access all the story content without playing any multiplayer, I informed Amazon that they had sold me a game that was not as advertised and got a refund.

I appreciate EA making a game that stuck to it's guns...but not for making a Mass Effect game that betrayed the core foundations of the series, and their customers. I enjoyed what I did play of it. I didn't find it to be as good as ME1 or 2, either story or play wise, and I'm a little sad that ME3 turned out to be such a disappointment.

What?

You could get all the story content without touching the multiplayer. All the MP did was make it so that your "Readiness rating" would go up--which the single player game would do as well.

The devs promised pre-release that all endings...meaning all story content...were possible to achieve without playing a stitch of multiplayer. Within two weeks of release, players proved that it was impossible to attain a readiness rating high enough to access all ending content using only solo play. Devs continued to insist otherwise, even when the numbers were proven repeatedly that the solo-only player at release could not unlock all possible story endings.

Bioware did release an update some weeks later that reduced the Readiness threshold so that solo-only play could unlock all possible endings. By that time, I was tired of the lies and denial that Bioware and EA had issued.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Right, they released an update because of a bug that was not present on the developer's side. That's why the devs were "continuing to insist otherwise". There were certain things from ME1+2 that when interacting with parts from ME3 would have affected your Readiness rating negatively instead of positively, like they were supposed to.