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Melissia wrote:The thermal clip is ejected outwards like a spent magazine. I think the intention is obvious.

And that they aren't reuseable pissed me off too. Especially since the bolt action sniper rifle spent a thermal clip every shot and you never had more than ten shots with it any given time. It was bs.

Clips can be ejected, I believe the Springfield was noted for exactly that.

In this case I refer to it as a clip because its a single piece. There's no magazine at all (including internally). At least, that's how it works in my head.

Macok wrote:
Sovereign is Wildly Inappropriate

we need a disturbed orkmoticon now

Ill leave this here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tKdX-G_WOE&feature=related

Requia wrote:

Melissia wrote:The thermal clip is ejected outwards like a spent magazine. I think the intention is obvious.

And that they aren't reuseable pissed me off too. Especially since the bolt action sniper rifle spent a thermal clip every shot and you never had more than ten shots with it any given time. It was bs.

Clips can be ejected, I believe the Springfield was noted for exactly that.

In this case I refer to it as a clip because its a single piece. There's no magazine at all (including internally). At least, that's how it works in my head.

garand too

but there is an internal magazine in the sniper, because when you rack the bolt the new clip is already in the gun, think of each thermal clip like a shell-casing in the case of the sniper rifle

Edit, i thought you said clips CAN'T be ejected


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I would like an attack Varren.

Also, a more intelligent AI relationship system. E.g. You've romanced Miranda, but are always down in engineering talking to Tali, and taking her on missions, etc. Miranda gets jealous. Similarly, resentment breeds in the crew if they never get used. Similarly, repeated FF or saving characters from tight spots had an effect.

I realise it would be a challenge to implement. Perhaps instead of 'loyal' or not, there is a sliding bar?

I want Garrus to finish his calibrations

Not to get Reaper Rolled
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XbkfFMTGAE&NR=1

Who here thinks that after Bioware finishes up with SW:ToR & ME3, that they should make a Mass Effect MMORPG?

If I do say so myself,that would be kick @ss!

I always though ME would make a good tv-show, a Star Trek for this generation. ME2 even had episodic missions, I could see one episode per loyalty mission for example. The main story planets from the 1st game could take anywhere from a few episodes to a whole season, or even small made-for-tv-movies.

Or just set the show somewhere in the ME universe.

I'd add that I'd like some new opportunities for long distance sniping.

One of my favorite things to do in the first game was get out of the Mako and take out enemies at 300m.

Requia wrote:I'd add that I'd like some new opportunities for long distance sniping.

One of my favorite things to do in the first game was get out of the Mako and take out enemies at 300m.

ya, but for the life of me I COULD NOT be able to enter scope mode when using my sniper rifle ( very annoying!) in the first game.

I want to be able to change my species to a Taurian. Garrus is the best character ever because our last names are almost identical.

DickBandit wrote:I want to be able to change my species to a Taurian. Garrus is the best character ever because our last names are almost identical.

This would never happen in the current series (ME1, 2, 3), as Shepard is the established main character. It would be silly and counterintuitive of them to just insert a pick-a-race function all "lolrandom"-like.

DLC or a mission where you play Garrus? Possible. Highly unlikely, but possible.


One thing I hope ME3 opens a gateway to is an expansion of the game franchise, though not as a continuation of the series - that would also be silly - but there's great room for them to turn the Mass Effect games into a SoaSE or EaW-style space or space/ground-level RTS. Some of the campaigns could include the Rachni wars, a Terminus Systems campaign, the fleet battles that will obviously be a big part of the backdrop in ME3, and future campaigns against yet-undiscovered hostile races.

I'd sink cash into that. I can only imagine my girlish squeals of glee as I rip apart enemy fleets with an excessive number of Dreadnoughts

metallifan wrote:

I'd sink cash into that. I can only imagine my girlish squeals of glee as I rip apart enemy fleets with an excessive number of Dreadnoughts

but the treaty of Farixen says 5:3:1, as of ME2, humans only have 8, so that wouldn't be very good, personally I would just spam frigates and carriers


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not really ME3, more like ME2 1/2

but...

don't mind me, i'm just ADMIRAL HACKETT!!!

I check out the BSN (Bioware Social Network) on occasion and some ME sites and from there it would seem Bioware has at some point noted they see the Mass Effect franchise/Universe continuing after the Shepard story comes to a close.

I really hope that is accurate.

I would think so. ME4 will probably be a multiplayer one.

FM Ninja 048 wrote:

metallifan wrote:

I'd sink cash into that. I can only imagine my girlish squeals of glee as I rip apart enemy fleets with an excessive number of Dreadnoughts

but the treaty of Farixen says 5:3:1, as of ME2, humans only have 8, so that wouldn't be very good, personally I would just spam frigates and carriers


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not really ME3, more like ME2 1/2

but...

don't mind me, i'm just ADMIRAL HACKETT!!!

You get to meet Hackett?!?! When does that happen?!?

Lance Henriksen is basically the white Morgan Freeman.

new DLC coming out 29th march, one of the 'ME3 Bridge peices', like lair of the shadow broker

FM Ninja 048 wrote:new DLC coming out 29th march, one of the 'ME3 Bridge peices', like lair of the shadow broker

really? I wonder what its about.

FM Ninja 048 wrote:new DLC coming out 29th march, one of the 'ME3 Bridge peices', like lair of the shadow broker

Cool beans

don't know, all I know is it's called ARRIVAL






all I got


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not all, this is final

It appears to be about a Mass Relay crashing into a planet!

I thought something crashing into the mass relay because of the extremly curved trajectory on the screen, although it's probably not as simple as either of them, due to the last pic and the "Bring down the sky" pack

or something coming through the relay, a reaper vangaurd (Arrival of the reapers )

Or that could be Jump Zero (The space station) seeing as he has his vacuum helmet on in that pic but not in any of the other ones.

LordofHats wrote:Or that could be Jump Zero (The space station) seeing as he has his vacuum helmet on in that pic but not in any of the other ones.

I thought jump zero is further from the relay than that

from the codex

"Today, Gagarin Station has a permanent population of approximately 9,000. A plan has been proposed to move it to the gravitationally stable barycenter point between Pluto and the Charon Relay, allowing it to serve as a gateway facility between the Sol and Arcturus systems"

Hmm. Maybe no Jump Zero then.

Now that I look there are other pics that seem to depict a landscape beside the first one. Maybe that one section is on some kind of orbital station?

Or maybe the Mass Relay is falling. Sucks for that planet :/

Maybe they're crashing a mass relay through another mass relay

I wonder what would happen if you essentially throw a teleporter into another teleporter.

what I can tell is it seems to be split into a least two (possibly three) sections: the facility seen in pic 1, (scene seen out the windoe behind the computer(possibly planet in pic 1, but it's not raining)) and an orbital facilty around the relay.

maby we'll get to fight ON THE RELAY!!! that would be cool, they can be accessed inside, it's what kicked off the first contact war

--wait--

what if we have to deactivate a relay(they can be disactivated, i think) before some BBEG comes through it

what if we have to deactivate a relay(they can be disactivated, i think) before some BBEG comes through it

I have a solution!

We will take asimo's idea, and send one mass relay through another, destroying the relay on the other side when they crash into each other! It's so perfect it's flawless.