Mass Effect 3

Clover · 01-08-2012 12:57pm

noodler wrote: »

If I have all classess maxed out for exp, then whats the point of packs giving you character training?

Character appearance options is about all it would be worth to you , the exp would be wasted.

noodler · 01-08-2012 1:24pm

Clover wrote: »

Character appearance options is about all it would be worth to you , the exp would be wasted.

Really silly you can get things you already have after saving up 99000 gold with an average of 45 minutes gameplay.

Varik · 01-08-2012 2:12pm

Got a fury in victory pack, still no sign of the other pack.

Gbear · 01-08-2012 4:08pm

This game drives me demented.

I got the striker assault rifle but if I try to equip it, the game crashes.:mad:

Kiith · 01-08-2012 4:14pm

Gbear wrote: »

This game drives me demented.

I got the striker assault rifle but if I try to equip it, the game crashes.:mad:

If you're on the pc, try and repair the Resurgance dlc in Origin. Apparently, some of the dlc can become corrupt and this can fix it.

noodler · 01-08-2012 4:14pm

Gbear wrote: »

This game drives me demented.

I got the striker assault rifle but if I try to equip it, the game crashes.:mad:

I have been a loyal user of the Striker - have it up to V now.

Still though - it can be difficult to get the time for the exponential rate of fire to kick in.

I kind of think my obsession with the gun has kept me away from some of the others.

Gbear · 01-08-2012 6:54pm

Kiith wrote: »

If you're on the pc, try and repair the Resurgance dlc in Origin. Apparently, some of the dlc can become corrupt and this can fix it.

That appears to have worked. Sound.:)

noodler wrote: »

I have been a loyal user of the Striker - have it up to V now.

Still though - it can be difficult to get the time for the exponential rate of fire to kick in.

I kind of think my obsession with the gun has kept me away from some of the others.

Now that I've had a chance to use it i'm not sure if I like it. Recoils a bit hard to deal with. Suppose I could stick on the stabiliser mod.
It's not much use at close range.

I was using it on my N7 slayer. I was getting a fair bit of joy with my piranha shotgun but sometimes i'd have to sit there and get shot at with a lack of long distance weapons. I don't tend to carry more than 1 weapon - I like not having cooldowns.

Don't have much in the way of assault rifles. They're all crap or only level 1 or 2.

A nice Mattock or Phaeston X or something would suit me down to the ground.

Varik · 02-08-2012 12:21pm

Got onto EA support and finally got a new eagle.

Valiant III

Crusader III

Eagle III.

FutureGuy · 02-08-2012 12:35pm

Unlocked the Cerberus Harrier. Beast of a gun.

noodler · 02-08-2012 12:49pm

I am thinking of just buying Vet packs for a while.

Sick of getting screwed over with PSPs.

Gbear wrote: »

Now that I've had a chance to use it i'm not sure if I like it. Recoils a bit hard to deal with. Suppose I could stick on the stabiliser mod.
It's not much use at close range.

As I say I have it up to V now. Close range (really close range) is an issue alright.

It is great against armour imo. I take it upon myself to take down Brutes, Pyros and any Atlas (onmce sheilds gone). One you get the gun gong I find it can shred armour well.

I also love the fact it kind of has a stunning effect (maybe all ARs do?). It is also excellent for killing Phantoms if you can safely get a clip off on them you will likely stun them a little as well.

The splash damage is useful for anyone hiding in cover as well.

Gbear · 02-08-2012 1:32pm

noodler wrote: »

I am thinking of just buying Vet packs for a while.

Sick of getting screwed over with PSPs.

As I say I have it up to V now. Close range (really close range) is an issue alright.

It is great against armour imo. I take it upon myself to take down Brutes, Pyros and any Atlas (onmce sheilds gone). One you get the gun gong I find it can shred armour well.

I also love the fact it kind of has a stunning effect (maybe all ARs do?). It is also excellent for killing Phantoms if you can safely get a clip off on them you will likely stun them a little as well.

The splash damage is useful for anyone hiding in cover as well.

I suppose the thing is that my primary damage dealer is the Biotic Slash move, that kills Brutes in about 3 hits (on silver) if I'm shooting them a bit aswell and it can shoot through walls.

The problem is that it takes a long time to cast so I can't just duck in and out of cover and it has a limited range - I need something for close up when I don't have time to use the Biotic slash and I need something that can also hit targets across the map (ravagers and primes in particular).

I suppose it wouldn't be as much of a problem if I actually played properly - having a team with specific tasks - snipers for bosses, me at close range, a support character.

Half the people I seem to play with are russian.

J. Marston · 02-08-2012 2:29pm

Sent an email to EA support about the commendation pack. Will wait for them to get back to me but apparently it's a fairly widespread problem according to the Bioware forums.

Varik · 02-08-2012 4:25pm

J. Marston wrote: »

Sent an email to EA support about the commendation pack. Will wait for them to get back to me but apparently it's a fairly widespread problem according to the Bioware forums.

Try them on Live chat.

J. Marston · 02-08-2012 4:40pm

Varik wrote: »

Try them on Live chat.

Where do I find that?

Varik · 02-08-2012 6:31pm

J. Marston wrote: »

Where do I find that?

http://www.ea.com

contact support and you'll get 3 options with one being live chat.

J. Marston · 02-08-2012 6:47pm

Varik wrote: »

http://www.ea.com

contact support and you'll get 3 options with one being live chat.

Thanks. Found it there 10 minutes ago and got the pack.

The contents weren't worth the hassle really.

Josey Wales · 02-08-2012 8:42pm

There was news tonight about single-player DLC. It confirms what was rumoured a few weeks ago.

I'm interested to learn who we will play as.

Link

Gbear · 02-08-2012 10:03pm

Josey Wales wrote: »

There was news tonight about single-player DLC. It confirms what was rumoured a few weeks ago.

I'm interested to learn who we will play as.

Link

Think I remember seeing somewhere that there was an underwater level planned at some point. That sure looks like it.

I presume for new weapons in the single player they'll use some of the MP ones. It would be silly to create yet more weapons when there's plenty of perfectly good ones to import into SP.

As much as anything, I haven't bought the other DLC because of a lack of access. I don't have a credit card and I thought the LE was insanely overpriced.

It could well be the same for this.

It's the same for all DLC in games really. Coming up with a mechanism to buy them using phone credit or something would be nice.

noodler · 02-08-2012 10:51pm

Trailer for the Levi DLC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDurT_0Sde0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDurT_0Sde0

A little bit meh.

Josey Wales · 03-08-2012 9:44am

Gbear wrote: »

As much as anything, I haven't bought the other DLC because of a lack of access. I don't have a credit card and I thought the LE was insanely overpriced.

It could well be the same for this.

It's the same for all DLC in games really. Coming up with a mechanism to buy them using phone credit or something would be nice.

Could you not buy a voucher in store like Gamestop or HMV? I'm sure one of them sell Xbox Live Points or PSN cards.

noodler · 03-08-2012 9:43pm

Michael Gamble

Hardest. Day. Ever. Seriously, if you people knew all the stuff we are planning...you'd, we'll - hold onto your copy of me3 forever.

He said that on March 9th.

Assuming he was talking about Levi...its some big expectations!

degrassinoel · 03-08-2012 9:50pm

i certainly hope so

Gbear · 03-08-2012 9:54pm

Josey Wales wrote: »

Could you not buy a voucher in store like Gamestop or HMV? I'm sure one of them sell Xbox Live Points or PSN cards.

PC

.

I need Bioware points.

J. Marston · 03-08-2012 11:19pm

noodler wrote: »

He said that on March 9th.

Assuming he was talking about Levi...its some big expectations!

Can't imagine it'll change anything about the ending, might add a sentence from the starchild but nothing else. Looks good though.

Gbear · 04-08-2012 12:05am

J. Marston wrote: »

Can't imagine it'll change anything about the ending, might add a sentence from the starchild but nothing else. Looks good though.

There was a definite lack of Reaper interaction in the game - Sovereign just sounded epic - the bit of dialogue with him on Virmire in ME1 was utterly magnificent.

In ME3 there was the destroyer in Quarian-land. That was great but it's really all there was.

Gbear · 05-08-2012 6:19pm

Got the Harrier there - combined with the Destroyer in "Destroyer Mode" its unbelievable. Ludicrous rate of fire. Eats through ammo mind you..

Finally felt I had a combo worthy of Gold and got a fairly comfortable win the on first try (had to rambo it a few times when the rest of my squad died but I've got like 3k health so I basically cant die).

noodler · 05-08-2012 7:16pm

Gbear wrote: »

but I've got like 3k health so I basically cant die).

???

Gbear · 05-08-2012 7:57pm

noodler wrote: »

???

Between the shields and life i've got about 2500.

J. Marston · 05-08-2012 9:11pm

I was breezing through silver matches with my N7 Sentinel so I thought I'd give gold a go. Ouch. Battered, down and out after 4 waves. If I can get a better weapon I might have a shot but it's tedious playing numerous silver matches to get a Premium Spectre Pack only to receive a crappy upgrade to a shotgun that I don't use.

degrassinoel · 06-08-2012 12:29am

J. Marston wrote: »

I was breezing through silver matches with my N7 Sentinel so I thought I'd give gold a go. Ouch. Battered, down and out after 4 waves. If I can get a better weapon I might have a shot but it's tedious playing numerous silver matches to get a Premium Spectre Pack only to receive a crappy upgrade to a shotgun that I don't use.

Try doing firebase white, against geth on gold. Go down the stairs and inside the building, stay behind cover. on the hacks/escorts etc.. just follow the others and keep yourself alive, dont worry about score, just do what you can. 20 minutes of that and you have yourself 75k credits.

dont worry about weapons so much, if you get stuck, just make a salarian engineer and spam the hell out of decoy and energy drain. you dont even need to fire your weapons with a salarian engineer on gold

J. Marston · 06-08-2012 2:59am

degrassinoel wrote: »

Try doing firebase white, against geth on gold. Go down the stairs and inside the building, stay behind cover. on the hacks/escorts etc.. just follow the others and keep yourself alive, dont worry about score, just do what you can. 20 minutes of that and you have yourself 75k credits.

dont worry about weapons so much, if you get stuck, just make a salarian engineer and spam the hell out of decoy and energy drain. you dont even need to fire your weapons with a salarian engineer on gold

Interesting. Will give it a go.

Varik · 08-08-2012 5:18pm

This weeks operation is one of the easiest that they've done.

Gunmonkey · 08-08-2012 5:27pm

Varik wrote: »

This weeks operation is one of the easiest that they've done.

Dunno, its a lot of extractions for the Community goal: around 400k spread between Bronze, Silver and Gold. And no way to know how many of a type are still needed (Bioware really needs to add a realtime tracker for these events soemwhere).

The personal goal is pish easy, one Bronze extract on London :pac:

Varik · 08-08-2012 5:39pm

Gunmonkey wrote: »

Dunno, its a lot of extractions for the Community goal: around 400k spread between Bronze, Silver and Gold. And no way to know how many of a type are still needed (Bioware really needs to add a realtime tracker for these events soemwhere).

The personal goal is pish easy, one Bronze extract on London :pac:

It's the silvers that i would be worried about.

Gold get's farmed and bonzes of 200k is not much but silver will be close.

Icyseanfitz · 12-08-2012 1:00am

wheres the best place to get a digital copy of this? is origin the only place? dont particularly want to pay 50 for it

noodler · 12-08-2012 1:39pm

Looks like no hope of the operation being a success:

UPDATE
Apologies for the delay, but we wanted to run teh numbers twice to ensure accuracy.

We have checked and then rechecked the totals for all 3 platforms. Currently:
Bronze - 66,611= 33%
Silver - 48,281 = 27%
Gold - 17,466 = 30%

J. Marston · 12-08-2012 2:17pm

I suppose multiplayer is slowing down. It's been around 4 months since it came out plus there isn't a whole lot of variety to it. Pick one of three enemy groups, pick a base and complete 3 objectives.

Gbear · 12-08-2012 2:37pm

J. Marston wrote: »

I suppose multiplayer is slowing down. It's been around 4 months since it came out plus there isn't a whole lot of variety to it. Pick one of three enemy groups, pick a base and complete 3 objectives.

I think the free DLC has kept things quite fresh but with the same fairly narrow gameplay there's always going to be a drop off.

degrassinoel · 12-08-2012 2:48pm

Icyseanfitz, you missed the 50% off on origin a few weeks ago, not sure if you'll find it much cheaper than 50 quid digitally. If you've played ME and ME2 and enjoyed those, it's worth the 50 quid.

Noodler & J. Marston yep, i have no idea why they had those extractions numbers so high, surely they can see average stats of how many people play MP. Seems far to high to have ever had any chance of success, even across all of the three platforms.

I did a few last night for the craic, and some people even on bronze are just too stupid to understand what the goal is, more than once one imbecile, a vanguard in my case would biotic charge out a second before the extraction completes and it just ruins the entire game.

that said, i also did the london map on gold against geth, and it's pure awesome! I think i lucked out with 3 decent pugs we didnt get any deaths/incaps til very late, i was using a demolisher engineer with the rank V grenade mod, so i had 10 homing grenades, and the ammo pylon giving me a refill of 2 more every 12 seconds. great fun, oh and a rank 3 scorpion pistol, 'splosions everywhere! Epic!

Gbear · 12-08-2012 3:53pm

I can't really put my finger on why Geth are so much easier than the other two.

It's really easy for hunters to sneak up on you if you're focusing on a Prime and you can always run around a corner into some Pyros and Rocket troopers are really annoying. I think the Phantom and Banshee are just so much harder that they make the difference.

It's so much easier to just run away from Primes. Maybe they should make their turrets stronger?

Clover · 12-08-2012 4:18pm

Just did the squad goal once , almost had it done a second time but one of the squad moved out of the zone at the last second.

I'm not going to bother trying for the allied goal after last time.

Gunmonkey · 12-08-2012 4:19pm

Lack of "sniper" units, such as Nemesis' and Ravagers. Rocket Troopers could count but their shots arent as intense DPS-wise compared to the other two factions. Also, they all move pretty slow, Reapers have Husks to cover ground quick, and then the Brutes charge and Banshees teleport can close a gap fast, while Cerberus have the Phantoms who zip around and their base troops move quite fast.

Get some decent bottlenecks and geth just stroll through it, even Hunters are a cinch if picked out from a half decent range.

noodler · 12-08-2012 5:17pm

Yeah on FBW, the other races have classes like Brute and especially Banshee who won't just stand on the otherside of the counter that people hide behind in FBW like the Primes will. The Banshees will transport through it and the Brutes will Flank.

Same with Banshees and Phantoms (also Guardians can't be 'Grabbed' with their shields still in tact).

Its only on that level imo.

I don't think Geth are much easier usually.

Gbear · 12-08-2012 5:47pm

noodler wrote: »

Yeah on FBW, the other races have classes like Brute and especially Banshee who won't just stand on the otherside of the counter that people hide behind in FBW like the Primes will. The Banshees will transport through it and the Brutes will Flank.

Same with Banshees and Phantoms (also Guardians can't be 'Grabbed' with their shields still in tact).

Its only on that level imo.

I don't think Geth are much easier usually.

Maybe they need a melee unit? The hunter is close to it but that's the only option.
Or failing that bring back the "Hopper" guys from ME1.

They were awesome.

They've got 5 units.
Cerberus have 7 and Reapers have 6. Would seem to be a gap they could fill there.

degrassinoel · 14-08-2012 11:56pm

Operation Olympus was a success! yey!

http://blog.bioware.com/2012/08/14/operation-olympus-success/

anyone that participated got something something extra, read the last line

Varik · 15-08-2012 12:06am

degrassinoel wrote: »

Operation Olympus was a success! yey!

http://blog.bioware.com/2012/08/14/operation-olympus-success/

anyone that participated got something something extra, read the last line

The commendation pack was normal, got a valiant iv.

Victory pack had Shock Trooper Upgrade, if that was meant to be it.

degrassinoel · 15-08-2012 12:19am

hmm, just got mine now too, and nothing out of the ordinary, though i did get a valiant II. Could be just the ultra rare chance was upped or something.

Gbear · 15-08-2012 12:30am

Is the eagle any good? I seldom use pistols and I've got a Carnifex 5 and a Paladin too so I can't see it usurping them.

degrassinoel · 15-08-2012 1:20am

i think the eagle is full auto, the carnifex and the paladin are powerhouses.

Gunmonkey · 15-08-2012 9:15am

Paladin is a beast of a gun, headshots most enemies in 1.

Didnt notice anything extra in my packs, got an N7 Crusader (yay

) but also had a level 3 movement boost, maybe those got added. Got a lvl 1 Barrage pack in the other though, +10% weapon stability and +5% ammo

Mass Effect 3

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