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No, thats what I meant.adam_grif wrote:At first I read that as "high explosive anti tank", then I realized you had just capitalized "heat". The entry claims it does damage from KE as well as "irresistible heat". Yeah, I'm sure temperature contributes a lot when your main guns are C-fractional.
Thats really all a HEAT round is, molten metal, it just uses an explosive to form and propel it. It's just the connection my mind made when I read the entry. No biggie.adam_grif wrote:....
Oh.
In that case, why? It's not an explosive. It's just molten metal flung out.
You're thinking recruitment, loyalty there're two you fight right at the end.adam_grif wrote:You realize that on Garrus' loyalty mission you can hack the heavy mech right? Or are there extra ones I'm forgetting about?
Right you are.You're thinking recruitment, loyalty there're two you fight right at the end.
Yes and yes. But I was too heartbroken after losing my fish to actually buy the hamster. I didn't want to risk it.Jaepheth wrote:Did anyone else notice the references to Baldur's Gate?
The space hamster
Tali telling her drone to "Go for the optics"
The hamster can take care of itself. The fish need to be fed. The yeoman can do it for you though.adam_grif wrote:Yes and yes. But I was too heartbroken after losing my fish to actually buy the hamster. I didn't want to risk it.
And she won't do it for a female Shepard, either. Bigwig commander Shepard can use his position to threaten crewmembers into letting him/her win poker games, but is too much of a softy to order somebody to feed his damn fishAndrew_Fireborn wrote:Apparently, Kelly -can- take care of the fish... but you have to talk to her a fair few times.
Yeah, I thought it was terrible, too. What, the Reapers aren't enough of a threat if they're malevolent, ancient machines posessing advanced technology? They need to be "techno-organic constructs" and physically eat people, too?adam_grif wrote:The "reapers are harvesting organics to turn feed them into the reaper making machine" reveal was horrendous in my humble opinion.
The sad truth is that when you have a team of a hundred people making a game like this, a third of them will be programmers and writers who actually understand technology and plausibility etc, a third of them will be artists who scream 'who cares about the technobabble, it must look as cool as possible!', and a third of them will be business types whose only concern is that the product be bought by as many people as possible. IMHO we're fairly lucky to get the moderate nods to realism that Mass Effect does include.PeZook wrote:Yeah, I thought it was terrible, too. What, the Reapers aren't enough of a threat if they're malevolent, ancient machines posessing advanced technology? They need to be "techno-organic constructs" and physically eat people, too?
They clearly have Star Trek Magic Sensors (tm).It was also kind of funny how EDI could immediately tell the machine that looked nothing like a Reaper was in fact one.
Well, it's a minor problem compared to what some other sci-fi often does, but it's really grating nevertheless. The fact they decided to try and go for realism in irrelevant fluff is nice, but the effort should really go into the main story firstStarglider wrote: The sad truth is that when you have a team of a hundred people making a game like this, a third of them will be programmers and writers who actually understand technology and plausibility etc, a third of them will be artists who scream 'who cares about the technobabble, it must look as cool as possible!', and a third of them will be business types whose only concern is that the product be bought by as many people as possible. IMHO we're fairly lucky to get the moderate nods to realism that Mass Effect does include.
Which, of course, only work when Shepard actually reaches the larva's chamber - but then they can instantly analyze what it's made of.They clearly have Star Trek Magic Sensors (tm).
100% of said nods come from the Codex, which takes it up the ass from cutscenes and gameplay really hard, really often. I've had people tell me that Mass Effect is "so realistic" because they're incapable of noticing massive discrepancies between the sources we get from inside the same game.IMHO we're fairly lucky to get the moderate nods to realism that Mass Effect does include.
The cutscenes are inexcusable; some combination of 'artists are idiots', 'writers can't give good guidance' and/or 'producer refuses to rein science-hating artists in'. Gameplay on the other hand; well, there is a reason why in Star Wars canon, the story and cutscenes of the games are considered canon but a specific exception is made for the game mechanics. Game mechanic design needs more artistic license than even movies, because while movies have to turn real life into something dramatic and engrossing, game mechanics also have to be consistently fun for a player of average skill. You need a different level of suspension of disbelief, so that you can see things like the hacking minigames as representations of what's really happening, rather than the usual SDN ultra-literalism.adam_grif wrote:100% of said nods come from the Codex, which takes it up the ass from cutscenes and gameplay really hard, really often.IMHO we're fairly lucky to get the moderate nods to realism that Mass Effect does include.
Yes she will.PeZook wrote:And she won't do it for a female Shepard, either.
EDI was able to tell by the power signature that the baby reaper was giving off, because she had reaper tech integrated into her design and had access to information from Sovereign. But hey, why pay attention to the game.It was also kind of funny how EDI could immediately tell the machine that looked nothing like a Reaper was in fact one.
What the fuck is a power signature? Is that some tricorder shit or what?Havok wrote:EDI was able to tell by the power signature that the baby reaper was giving off, because she had reaper tech integrated into her design and had access to information from Sovereign. But hey, why pay attention to the game.
When? I never got the dialogue option, all I could do throughout the game was ask her about the Three Generic Background Fluff Pieces and about the crew.Havok wrote: Yes she will.
That would've been quite a trick seeing as the Reaper was unpowered, unfinished and of a completely different configuration than all the others. It was made with the same material, sure, but that wasn't readily apparent, either, unless Shepard has a spectrograph in his helmet. It was obviously a Star Trek magisensor thing done to save time before the final boss fightHavok wrote:EDI was able to tell by the power signature that the baby reaper was giving off, because she had reaper tech integrated into her design and had access to information from Sovereign. But hey, why pay attention to the game.
You have to hit on her. Like, a lot. She's an LI for both genders. You have to ask her out to dinner, then next conversation she should offer to feed your fish. Your main LI will take precedence over Kelly, so the only way to get it on with Kelly is to romance nobody, then she'll send you an email after the attack and you can invite her up to your apartment.When? I never got the dialogue option, all I could do throughout the game was ask her about the Three Generic Background Fluff Pieces and about the crew.
Something like this I imagine.adam_grif wrote:What the fuck is a power signature? Is that some tricorder shit or what?Havok wrote:EDI was able to tell by the power signature that the baby reaper was giving off, because she had reaper tech integrated into her design and had access to information from Sovereign. But hey, why pay attention to the game.
There are plenty of ways to find electrical disturbances, large power draws, and in the Mass Effect universe, the presence of a Element Zero core. And, you'll note, when planning the mission, EDI points out that the central control whatsits are beside some sort of big-old electro-magnetic disturbance which, hey, turns out to be a baby Reaper when you step in yourself.EDI wrote:Shepard, I just linked into your suits sensors and holy fucking shit look at the waste heat on that motherfucker!