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(Formerly the 'Free Mass Effect 3 DLC' thread, changed to general discussion at the request of Ouze!)


Released on the 10th of this month for absolutely nothing!

The new maps and races look awesome, but not sure about the weapons though. I was starting to get bored of the MP too, it would have been nice to release some new enemies with it as well.

Considering it's free however...

Awesome. I'll definitely be playing the Geth races almost exclusively.

Harpoon gun looked really cool.

horray for free DLCs!

I really want more guns .. but at the same time, more guns = tougher to collect em all :(

alright, who's forming an A-Team to do gold mode this weekend as quickly as possible to accumulate creds to buy these guys?

If so, contact me metalmessiah7

I would, but I've just promoted 3 characters leaving me with just a level 10 max.

What platform are you playing on?

PC

level is largely irrelevent, good player + geth shotgun + infiltrator = massacre

Geth Infilrator. Helli Legion 2.0

ZOMG!!! Its free DLC?? The apocalypse must be nigh.

Saying that it looks to be a nice little expansion.

@Grundz, you would be better off doing bronze levels for credits, less chance of failing the credit missions. Heck even I found silver a real challenge.

Kinda wondering if they're doing free DLCs just to get people to stop crying about the ending

I can't do gold mode, I've never made it past round 2 or 3 on there.. I can do silver with a decent team though. I mostly just do bronze games though so I know there's a good chance to get through to the end

Like how the batarian gets his own melee attack by swinging the rifle like a club. Awesome by the looks of it. Will the justicar just be another skin for the adept or will she have different abilities? Geth looks epic. Do you think we'll still have to unlock the customization options?

Totalwar1402 wrote:Like how the batarian gets his own melee attack by swinging the rifle like a club. Awesome by the looks of it. Will the justicar just be another skin for the adept or will she have different abilities? Geth looks epic. Do you think we'll still have to unlock the customization options?

I'm guessing judicar is a soldier subclass

Necros wrote:Kinda wondering if they're doing free DLCs just to get people to stop crying about the ending

end

They're also doing an epilogue thing thats also going to be free.


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Grundz wrote:

Totalwar1402 wrote:Like how the batarian gets his own melee attack by swinging the rifle like a club. Awesome by the looks of it. Will the justicar just be another skin for the adept or will she have different abilities? Geth looks epic. Do you think we'll still have to unlock the customization options?

I'm guessing judicar is a soldier subclass

I was sure it said adept on the trailer. Armour looks awesome though and that was my first impression. But a justicar has to have biotics.

johnscott10 wrote:
@Grundz, you would be better off doing bronze levels for credits, less chance of failing the credit missions. Heck even I found silver a real challenge.

Not to be a dick, but then it isn't for you, Anything less than gold is a snoozefest for me :(

Wait, just rewatched the trailer. The justicar is an adept but gets the ability to create that super barrier you see on the campaign. Probably in place of stasis sadly.

My body is ready.


I want me that Harpoon gun.

I actually think the batarians look really nice in that. Good to see them as not being total jerks. Now they're jerks with a good cause.

Batarians... I could live without.

That Krogan Vanguard looked awesome though. F=MxA!

BOOM!

The Geth Engineer seemed to have some kinda energy-field thing. That could prove useful.

Thank God there's no friendly fire. Playing as Geth vs. Geth would get really confusing really fast.

"Ah! Hunter!"

"That's me you idiot!"

Still playing through ME2 (never finished it when it was released ).

But multiplayer looks interesting

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/11098111

Grundz wrote:

johnscott10 wrote:
@Grundz, you would be better off doing bronze levels for credits, less chance of failing the credit missions. Heck even I found silver a real challenge.

Not to be a dick, but then it isn't for you, Anything less than gold is a snoozefest for me :(

I will admit that playing a bronze after a silver was a lot more boring. However I think it may be due to the fact I am really frugal when using the consumables.

Bronze gets you... what... 15k Credits?

Still takes 15-25 minutes.

Gold gets you 70K Credits.

Takes about 30 minutes.

Hmmmm....

You do need a good, organized, intelligent team to pull of Gold for sure. Pick up groups are destined to get steamrolled a few games in. Having a play and knowing your role turns Gold into a shooting gallery.

I can pretty much Solo bronze. It's like easy-mode. If I ever want to feel awesome, I just set it to bronze and go wholesale slaughterfest on the AI. It's not even a contest anymore.

The new maps will be very welcome additions as well.

Dear Harpoon Gun:

You and I will be getting very acquainted.

johnscott10 wrote:

I will admit that playing a bronze after a silver was a lot more boring. However I think it may be due to the fact I am really frugal when using the consumables.

Yeah man, the higher difficulties aren't really much harder, they just punish mistakes more harshly, once you get used to it, it isn't bad at all.

And stacking debuffs, like having a quarian engineer with full cyro and a full warp sentinal w/ throw, will make short work of /anything/
My current favorite is salarian infiltrator with fast recharing (1 ability use) cloak, 25% damage debuff mines, mid-level energy drain, and geth shotgun. Every 3 seconds or so you can cloak, fire off a 1100+damage prox mine, and fire a cloaked charged shotgun blast that can instantly kill almost anything.

//EDIT 2, Here's hoping the protective shields and such will provide more teamwork, as I think slow, heavy firing weapons really do too much damage to off-armor types and totally dominate the mp game, it should have more teamwork! :(

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:Batarians... I could live without.

Haters gonna hate. I take pride in playing the ugliest species in the ME universe. Keep your sparkling aliens to yourselves!

Totalwar1402 wrote:

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:Batarians... I could live without.

Haters gonna hate. I take pride in playing the ugliest species in the ME universe. Keep your sparkling aliens to yourselves!

You can play a Vorcha?

silver games are just hit or miss for me .. I'm pretty much always in a group of random folks, no idea if they have any talent until we get wiped out 3 turns in or not.

Sometimes I spend a good 15 minutes just trying to find a group of folks that are high enough level, half the time there's 1 or 2 noobs that think they can do it because the played 2 games so far. So I just leave and go look for another group if they're not all at least level 70 or so. And I also drop immediately if I hear anyone talking through a mic, cuz it always sounds like crap and annoys me, and half the time they have nothing useful to say anyway. And there doesn't seem to be a setting to mute people.

So yeah, takes a while to find the perfect group and then all it takes is 1 of em to leave to ruin it because we always get some dummy joining up in their place :( So for me it's usually easier to just play a bronze game.. I'd rather breeze through bronze than get stuck in a bad group in silver or gold.

@ Necros - If you're on XBL my SN is The Steamdriven. Hit me up and we'll roll through some matches.

I'm on PS3.. I have like 2 whole friends on my list who are never online

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:

Totalwar1402 wrote:

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:Batarians... I could live without.

Haters gonna hate. I take pride in playing the ugliest species in the ME universe. Keep your sparkling aliens to yourselves!

You can play a Vorcha?

...

Yes. A vorcha is prettier than a Batarian. Vorcha are a species that could be included in DLC mind... Are there any others that haven't been done which can be tried.

(Veiled threat) No Hanar.

I suppose they could bring out alternate types like the justicar and battlemaster for popular races. They made sure they added one to each class. Is there room for anymore?


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Chemical Cutthroat wrote:@ Necros - If you're on XBL my SN is The Steamdriven. Hit me up and we'll roll through some matches.

I think the EA servers are down. At least they seem to be down my end. edit back up now. ps Live gamertag is total war1402 if anyone up for a game. edit forgot to include space

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:@ Necros - If you're on XBL my SN is The Steamdriven. Hit me up and we'll roll through some matches.

I'm on XBL. My Tag is AldarionnEB if you wanna hit me up. I'm on at least a few nights a week. I tend to play bronze or silver out of simplicity, depending on if I get lucky with a decent group or not. If I'm playing with friends, we don't do less than Silver. I'm grooming my Salarian Engineer to do golds this time around so once he is 20 I'll probably be setting up groups to farm cash.