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Mass Effect

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  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.

    After further research, it's not so bad:



    Your ending(s) are determined by your "Effective Military Strength" (let's call it EMS for now) bar. Focus on that bar - that is your indicator of how well you will do in the end-game.

    You can maximize your EMS just by collecting War Assets in the single-player game. There is a certain threshhold of these you would need to exceed (I can't get too specific) but I can tell you there are MORE than the required amount that can be gathered in the single-player campaign.

    "Galactic Readiness" is a modifier you can improve by playing multiplayer. That is to say, if you play a lot of multiplayer, you will need less War Assets from single-player to fill up your EMS bar (ie it will balance out the requirements to account for you playing in both modes).  Single-player game play does not impact that bar.

    EMS = success. EMS can be maximized via collecting war assets alone, even if your Galactic Readiness is 50%.


  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    why is diana allers so terrifying
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    edited 2012-03-07 19:29:25
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    My readiness rating suddenly dropped to 0% between missions D:


    What the fuck happened?


    EDIT: Reloading didn't fix it, but loading from the main menu did.

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    Huh.
  • gentlemanorcusgentlemanorcus
    edited 2012-03-07 19:52:56

    Mass Effect 3 is taking fucking days to download.


    I WANT TO PLAY MASS EFFECT 3 GODDAMMIT 


    God, I hate Origin.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    Just took a few minutes for me.

  • gentlemanorcusgentlemanorcus
    edited 2012-03-07 19:59:21

    ^ Really? Did you pre-load? I got my pre-order too soon to really do that.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    edited 2012-03-07 20:00:31
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    Wait, I ordered the physical edition. Of course it was quick.


    I'm a bit tired today, okay? Shut up.


    In other news, my latest death involved getting stepped on by a reaper.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    No, Mordin! T_T

  • AlkthashAlkthash
    edited 2012-03-07 20:17:07
    I'm a damn twisted person

    Eh, he's a rather old  Salarian. He would have only had a few years left to live anyways. Glad to know something cool came out of deciding to save the genophage cure last game.

  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2012-03-07 20:17:29
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.

    [Not gonna lie, I teared up when Mordin died.  That's what that last sad post was referring to.


    Having him sing the Scientist Salarian song wasn't fair]

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    ^^I know, but still...


    ^Yeah, that was a low blow.

  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2012-03-07 20:22:44
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.

    Also, his lines about [analyzing seashells and the callback about how it had to be him.]


    It was a damn good death scene, though.


    I totally thought [Grunt] was going to buy it too, but luckily for my heart he survived.  I think it has something to do with him being loyal from 2.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    Yeah, they had me fooled there. Which meant that when someone actually did die, I was hoping they were faking it again...T_T

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.

    Have you seen the version of [Mordin's death where you prevent him from undoing the sabotage?]  It's even worse.

  • gentlemanorcusgentlemanorcus

    So, for those who can play it, does Grunt make an appearance?


    Also, for those who downloaded it online, how long did it take?


     

  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2012-03-07 20:40:44
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.

     

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.

    Yes, he does.  And it is glorious.  So far, of the Mass Effect 2 squadmates, I've run into Garrus, Jack, Grunt, Miranda, Mordin, Thane, and Jacob.  In the order that I saw them.


    And I downloaded it in somewhere between 2 and 4 hours.  I wasn't really watching it.

  • gentlemanorcusgentlemanorcus

    2 to 4 hours?! Shit. Either Origin is even shittier than I thought or something's fucked up with my computer.

  • AlkthashAlkthash
    I'm a damn twisted person

    Can't really say I was much a fan of Grunt. Blah blah blah Krogan ubermensch going through puberty. 

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.

    I dunno, I downloaded it through Origin.

  • gentlemanorcusgentlemanorcus
    edited 2012-03-07 20:49:16

    I am too, that's the problem. It's saying 24 hours for the download. It's been about four hours and it's at 23%.


    EDIT: Getting in the 300s again, for now. 

  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!

    ^What's you average download speed?

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.

    I found Samara.  :D

  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2012-03-07 21:55:49
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.

    It kind of amuses me that (not counting Liara) guyshep has better gay romance options than femshep.

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    "You obviously haven't seen Turians swim. It's a lot of flailing and splashing, interrupted by occasional bouts of drowning."



    I love Garrus.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    Thane too? :c


    I should've shot Udina myself.

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.

    Yeah.  His death was pretty rough too.


    And I did shoot him myself.  If you don't, does Ashley/Kaidan?

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    Yeah, he pulls a gun on the Asari councilor, so Kaidan figures that's a pretty obvious sign of guilt.

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    I love how Garrus being a master of calibrations is a running joke now.
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