Mass Effect 3

**Ikarys** · 2012-07-23 13:14

Hate to say it, but I'm pretty sure that means the game is working as intended. There are 29 Rare/Ultra Rare guns with ten levels each, and now five rare mods with five levels each, and now rare consumables on top of that... and then 24 rare characters. It is completely random and the odds of getting exactly what you want are understandably low, in favor of replay value. You are playing a TCG without the ability to trade cards, basically.

**Moss** · 2012-07-23 15:56

Rare gun attachments too, like the AR melee damage+. What rare consumables are you talking about?

**Ikarys** · 2012-07-23 16:35

Originally Posted by Moss

Rare gun attachments too, like the AR melee damage+. What rare consumables are you talking about?

By rare mods, I meant the rare attachments. The level 4 consumables in your ammo slot (Disruptor, Warp, etc.) are all rares.

**Pendulum** · 2012-07-23 17:12

Mass Effect store:

(And FFXI kings etc.)

**Moss** · 2012-07-23 17:24

Originally Posted by Ikarys

By rare mods, I meant the rare attachments. The level 4 consumables in your ammo slot (Disruptor, Warp, etc.) are all rares.

Ok well then there's also the gear packages that are rare. I didn't know there were level 4 consumables lol, guess I have been lucky enough not to get any.

**mightyg** · 2012-07-24 10:33

I believe the level 4 consumables only show up once you've maxed out all your character cards.

**Lonely** · 2012-07-24 19:58

Krysae Sniper Rifle
- Damage decreased from [476.0-595.0] to [429.0-548.0]
- Rate of fire decreased from [50] to [35]
- Recoil Increased from [5.0] to [10.0]
- Zoom Recoil Increased from [3.0] to [5.0]
- Total ammo dropped from [9-21] to [9-18]

N7 Typhoon
- Distance Penetration decreased from 100cm to 25cm

Cobra Missile Launcher
- Rate of fire decreased from 140 to 50
- Charge up behavior disabled to fix rocket glitch

- Fix for some uncommon gear not showing up in Spectre + Spectre Premium packs
- Increased XP bonus for common characters in Spectre + Spectre Premium from 62.5k to 250k XP
- Enemies in Gold and Platinum will stomp downed players now

R.I.P. Krysae, you will now join the rank of the kishock harpoon gun by now being a useless paper weight. They finally removed the missile glitch so Striker/Scorpion is dead again.

Oh and you CAN get ammo IV even if you haven't max out all gold character cards....

**mightyg** · 2012-07-24 20:58

God damn that is a heavy nerf bat on Krysae. Thing was already borderline garbage on anything other than infiltrator. Could have at least buffed it in some other way to compensate for all that crap.

**Ikarys** · 2012-07-24 21:32

holy shit @ Krysae nerfbat, any one of those alone could have been a decent power curb

**Mots** · 2012-07-24 22:01

Demolisher is such a ridiculously powerful class to play. Depending on the map you play at least. If you can get set up next too an ammo crate and set up your pylon with a good line of site on the rest of the map you can just toss grenades across the map for so many multi kills the entire time. Its stupid how easy it is.

This one dude got all mad at me when I was playing on the London map because I set my pylon up in the FAR corner of the map near where the evacuation point is. And I stayed there the whole time while he ran forward and got downed like 30 times. Fuck that shit, I'm not leaving my safe area with good cover when I can just lob grenades across the map for kills. Its his dumbass that got killed and apparently he couldnt be bothered to use any Medi-gel. Was funny because I was the top score that run and he was just soooo butthurt that I stayed back there.

**Pendulum** · 2012-07-25 06:43

Holy shit, I pretty much stopped using krysae after the first nerf. Round 2 is just brutal. Not been able to play much since dlc, hope i can get an N7 or 2 tonight.

**Brill Weave** · 2012-07-25 07:39

Wow RIP Krysae. You were glorious once.

**Krazy** · 2012-07-25 08:24

Just saw this on gamefaqs, apparently patch notes for 8/31/12 leaked on 360. Dunno if it's legit or not though.

edit: nvm, confirmed fake, not that it really needed confirmation.
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/to...26136#13326260

**Moss** · 2012-07-25 09:37

That has to be fake.

**Brill Weave** · 2012-07-25 09:57

I agree. The credit lottery was the first red flag to me lol.

**Ikarys** · 2012-07-25 10:24

We are also getting PvP and Emblems based on your N7 rank, totally

**Kuya** · 2012-07-25 13:44

http://blog.bioware.com/2012/07/25/operation-overwatch/

Operation OVERWATCH (July 27th 10AM PDT – July 30th 5AM PDT)

Operation OVERWATCH drops troops on Earth to tackle the most secure Reaper strongholds. Reaper anti-air defense will make for high-risk shuttle extractions.

Squad Goal: Extraction on any difficulty with at least one squad member using an Earth Pack character

Allied Goal: Extract 800,000 individual players on any difficulty, with each live member counting toward the goal.

Squad Goal Success: All squad members awarded a Commendation Pack.
Allied Goal Success: All players awarded a Victory Pack that includes a new Earth character.

Special Circumstance: Extraction time lengthened due to failure of Operation BROADSIDE.

Requirement: Mass Effect: Earth must be installed to earn these rewards.

Extraction time lengthened but since any difficulty is fine it's no big deal.

**Brill Weave** · 2012-07-25 13:50

And of course ME3 was one of the things I packed up yesterday while I was packing boxes for our move. Damn it now I have to dig it out.

**Nevex** · 2012-07-25 14:07

Played the trilogy in the last month. Here's my thoughts (spoilers incoming):

The whole "choices" mechanic is stupid. Not only does it slow the game down considerably, but 90% of the time the "canon" outcome is incredibly obvious. The genophage is cured. The quarians make peace with the geth. Everyone survives the suicide mission in ME2. Garrus and Tali hook up, which means neither of them is the canon love interest. Speaking of that, Liara is obviously the deuteragonist of the series and I'm pretty sure she was intended to be the main love interest. Destroy ending with high EMS is the canon ending. The Rachni queen survives. I could go on and on but everyone with common sense can easily see what's canon and what isn't.

It's not like your choices matter in the end anyway, due to the whole space magic BS the ending of the third game pulled from its ass.

The gameplay is pretty boring. Generic FPS with RPG mechanics here and there. ME1 had depth but horrible controls and inventory management, which needed to be fixed in the sequels, not outright axed. I tried Soldier and Sentinel and couldn't stomach them, then switched to Vanguard and luckily it was actually decent and stuck with it for the entire trilogy. Sadly the third game reduced it to Charge+Nova spam, which was fun during the first 2 hours, not so much afterwards.
They should have focused more on the gameplay instead of all that redundant dialogue 90% of the players are never going to experience.

On the good side, the characters were excellent, the main plot was solid (until the second half of ME3), VA was top quality (except for Chobot--I mean Diana Allers) and the lore was interesting.

I'd give the series as a whole a 6.5/10, with ME1>ME2>ME3 in terms of gameplay and ME2>ME1>ME3 in terms of story.
Not going to compete with Final Fantasy anytime soon, though.

**Kuya** · 2012-07-25 14:09

The gameplay is boring? I'd ask you what you're smoking but you're both a raging final fantasy fan and a bit of an idiot.

edit: oh did not see this:

Not going to compete with Final Fantasy anytime soon, though.

figures

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