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Is the character/spec really that important? Aside from Geth, all Infiltrators have the same damage bonuses in the same place.

Of course, you didn't take the headshot damage bonus, and he didn't take the Vulnerability VI, which basically cancels out any damage discrepency between the two builds, or theoretically it should.

The question at this point is whether or not the Vulnerability VI is bugged, because the video reasonably proves that the Widow is not the issue.

The fact that it's cross platform shouldn't matter unless the guy had modded files. The coding is the same from system to system and it uses the same set of EA servers. I haven't actually seen a bug so far that has no existed across all platforms except for the issues with PS3 and the events every two weeks.

Aldarionn wrote:Is the character/spec really that important? Aside from Geth, all Infiltrators have the same damage bonuses in the same place.

Of course, you didn't take the headshot damage bonus, and he didn't take the Vulnerability VI, which basically cancels out any damage discrepency between the two builds, or theoretically it should.

The question at this point is whether or not the Vulnerability VI is bugged, because the video reasonably proves that the Widow is not the issue.

Not really. It proves that with the Headshot damage bonus and the Sniper Rifle Rail Amp it was not having an issue.

But when I could only manage to have the effect happen with the Widow, Javelin, and Mantis---it reinforces my point that the issue seems to be the single shot rifles.

I have a theory, though I have no way of knowing if it's correct or not. Bear with me while I explain.

Players have Shield Gating mechanics, the same as Gold level enemies. When we take damage from a single attack and we have even 1 point of Shield remaining, we cannot take any damage in excess of our shields except from some very specific attacks (Melee, grenades, etc...). Similarly, we ALSO have Health Gating. If an attack would do enough damage to kill us, and we are above 1 hit point, it will instead leave us at 1 hit point and a SECOND attack must do the killing. This is the reason that a single Nemesis is 100% incapable of killing a player. Her shot from her rifle does 3600 damage on Gold, but unless we are at 1 hit point, it can never fire the killing blow, and because our health regenerates faster than her rifle reloads, she is incapable of killing us on her own.

I believe enemies ALSO have Health Gating, but many things negate it. Torso shots, head shots, melee, grenades, pellet weapons, etc...Effectively, if you score a limb shot on an enemy, you cannot possibly kill it in one hit, but a chest shot or a head shot should do the job as long as the gun does enough damage.

My theory is that something in the Vulnerability VI code doesn't bypass Health Gating the way it should, so sometimes headshots do not outright kill an enemy. If you have reproduced the problem with those three weapons using that gear, it must be an interaction with the code of single shot snipers that causes the problem.

Well at this point, BioWare has my data and are "looking into it".

Hmmm. If you hear anything back, let me know.

AND IT GETS WEIRDER!

I was actually able to perform this same thing in SP now.

Quick query for multiplayer, are the gear bonus items one shot like the other three?

Gear Bonus items are permanent.

Once you have them; they do not go away--but you will have to reequip them each game session.

Ah sweet, I was hoping so, otherwise I was going to froth at the mouth for wasted rare items on one shots.

I seemed to get four of them yesterday, where I'd had none previously over all my packs so far, just wanted to check before I started throwing them on characters for Bronze missions.

Apropos of my post on page 16, apparently Argos didn't get the memo about the ME3 increasing in price from £25 to £40, I just managed to get it for £15, which means I can also afford the From Ashes DLC as well!

Also, has the extended cut changed anyone here's opinions on the ending of the game?

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Ah sweet, I was hoping so, otherwise I was going to froth at the mouth for wasted rare items on one shots.

I seemed to get four of them yesterday, where I'd had none previously over all my packs so far, just wanted to check before I started throwing them on characters for Bronze missions.

BE CAREFUL! There are now rare consumables that are a 1 shot like any other consumable, so do NOT waste them on bronze difficulty.

To be more specific, Ammo Bonuses (Warp Ammo, Armor Piercing Ammo, Etc...), Armor Bonuses (Strength Enhancers, Cyclonic Modulators, Shield Power Cells, Etc...) and Weapon Bonuses (Rail Amps, Targeting VI's, Etc...) are STILL consumable, but the rank IV versions are gold cards, and the rank III versions are now silver cards. What are NOT consumable are "gear" which are what you equip in the bottom right corner on your equipment screen. Those items can be ranked up like weapon mods and don't go away between matches. You do not have to re-equip them between matches, but if you log out of the game, they will need to be re-equipped when you log back in.

So yes, it's possible your rare slots will be taken up by consumable gear, but this replaces repeat character cards so it's a tradeoff. It can be a little annoying when you haven't unlocked everything, but when your manifest looks like mine or Kanluwen's it's a blessing!

Edit: @ Goliath - No. It's basically a bunch of cutscenes that don't matter and change nothing. The ending is still crap. If you want my take on it, look at this post. I quote a post from the BioWare Social Network and it illustrates how I feel on the ending perfectly. I didn't write it, but it's so spot on I had to re-post it.

Ah cheers for the clarification, will keep an eye out. Fortunately these where all in Gear Bonus slot. (well I think they where, three for certain. need to check next time I log in.)

As I don't want to look at a walkthrough and get the entire story spoiled, roughly how far through the game is Priority:Tuchanka? Because I've gotten there after about 20 hours, but I'm not sure how much longer my game is going to be.

I have a feeling that was just before the half way point, but not one hundred percent.

I think Its like the fifth priority/key mission, and there a quite a few more to go, I won't say exactly, but I'd guess you've easily got more than the time you have out in so far, maybe double depedning on how many of the missions you do, sidetracked etc.

Tuchanka is a little under halfway if you're just doing the bare minimum of the game, quite a bit if you're doing all the side missions and the like.

You really should do all the side-missions, though. They are well worth it.

I'm doing the side missions, just had to replay the rachni mission because my game froze while auto saving at its conclusion and corrupted the file

First time I did it I did the same thing, I saved it and than said "wait a second, I dont really trust this thing. I also killed off the original version and that was far less likely to turn on me than this one. I dont mind my chracter being a bit more renegade because of Earth but this is a bit much"

So I restarted it and fixed it.

Karon wrote:You really should do all the side-missions, though. They are well worth it.

The evesdropping fetch quests?

or the randomly interupting NPCs to be nosey?

All of them.

On a single player side note..

It should say that she's taken events on Sanctuary very hard, not Miranda's death. Not if Miranda lives at least. From what I got out of that, she got drunk because she saw what Cerberus was really capable of and it scared her ****less.

We are getting an Operation this weekend.

Community Goal: 400,000 squads extracted against the Reapers on Gold.
Squad Goal: At least one person extracts against the Reapers on Gold.

So Aldarionn, we gonna try to get Shiv and Gold Reaper it up this weekend?

Gold against reapers eh? The problem is just finding players who are good enough to actually survive that.

One of the good things with the change to the War effort requirements in single player, is promoting is not really as important unless you want N7 rating.

So I'll be leaving most of mine at 20 from now on.

Just promoted my Drell Adept, are characters that are promoted supposed to appear in the war assets? Because he didn't

Also, what are people heres favourite classes?
Because I've just unlocked the Batarian Soldier and hes a hell of a lot of fun to use.

MIne didn't appear initially, well I might have missed them, but I was pretty certain they didn't appear until the second one was promoted.

They appear under Alliance forces as the N7 team. 75pts per promoted.

Just got logged out of the EA servers. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but when I logged back in it welcomed me as if I was a brand new player, and all of my progress was lost, including any unlocked characters, weapons or mods.
Despite this my Galactic Readiness is at 100% everywhere (Woohoo!)
I reset my PS3, and the problem fixed itself, but has anyone else had any similar problems?

That's all it is. It resets itself temporarily when you get disconnected.