Not sure if you thought my post was about killing the thresher maw on foot. It was about doing it from the Mako.
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Not sure if you thought my post was about killing the thresher maw on foot. It was about doing it from the Mako.
They said that they changed it so the there is no difference in the exp, but I have not tested it yet.
Woke up to this and I'm pissed because I have a slow internet connection. I can't even launch it while I wait. If I go offline mode can I bypass this?
If your Xbox is your home Xbox then going offline should let you start the game.
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Yeah, the eye issue should be nice. And I'm curious about the terrain texture fix. If it means better anisotropic filtering that would be amazing. It's an 18gb update for all three games, so I won't be able to check until tonight, but hopefully they fixed the reflection half refresh rate bug.
Someone had a theory that 2915 is the year the next Mass Effect is set.
Talking about theories, I wasn't the only one that noticed they specifically choose to have the N7's helmet in the launcher's screen, right? The same helmet (type) that Liara founds a piece of in the trailer for ME4.
Erm sorry, I meant ignore everything in MY post, lol. Your post was great advice, and I was quoting it for usefulness in wearing down the maw before finishing it on foot, which apparently isn't necessary anymore.
That would be an interesting tease.
Always funny to see things like this. Like within 200 years we're that sophisticated?
I haven't played it until now since 2007/early 2008 but now and then I had the same issues. The Citadel is poorly laid out IMO and it's kind of a slog to figure out where to go. I powered through though because the gameplay loop once you take control of the Normandy is so good.
However I feel like I'm getting destroyed in a lot of encounters so much so that I put the difficulty to the lowest. I don't remember having these issues when it came out originally. For example, on the first Liara mission there's these giant lizard looking things that I just could not aim at quickly enough. I eventually cheesed them by hiding in a place that they couldn't touch me lol.
Overall very happy to be replaying though. Wish I'd chosen someone other than soldier but it's easy enough to use teammates skills and being able to reroll class in ME2 makes it not worth starting over at this point.
I've been enjoying the first game on the Legendary edition on the Series X, I've never really given the series a shot and it's been pretty fun so far. I got to the first vehicle part on Feros I think and died after I had to get out and it restarted me at the beginning, assuming saving frequently is probably helpful. Is it normal to have NPC's glitch around sometimes? In conversation sometimes they will just randomly appear standing up after sitting or while fighting I've noticed enemies sometimes will appear in different spots.
200 years is a very long time.
If you told people in the 19th century hey 200 years from now we can clone animals, fly across the world and land on the moon they'd call you loony lol.
True.. Maybe I'm looney but 200 years to have galactic cooperation and sophistication is wild. Then again.. It's a game 🤔
This is a bit of a problem with the ME universe. Not so much the technology, the explanation for that is that the Prothean data cache found on Mars advanced human technology hundreds of years. That's why there is such a massive change in technology. Even though before that there was already some... questionable technological developments.
The main problem I find is that humanity is on equal footing with races that have been well stablished in the galaxy scene for hundreds, if not thousands of years. There is no proper justification why a species with just a handful of ridiculously small colonies should be so powerful.
Has anyone been playing on an Xbox One X? I don't have any next gen consoles and am curious how performance is. Sorry if this has already come up, I tried searching the thread and couldn't find anything.
Are they though? I'm pretty sure pound for pound they still don't match the Turian or Asari militaries unless I'm mistaken.
As for other races I don't think it's that farfetched. Just because other species were space faring (Volus, Hanar, Drell etc) doesn't mean they're automatically military and/or commercial geniuses.
The Codex entry for the First Contact War indicates that the humans were able to take back Shanxi from the Turians, but:
So, yeah - humanity is doing ok, but if there were an actual war, it's implied that they'd get wrecked.
They would have at the time, they have advanced considerably in a short space of time since first contact.
I was actually thinking about humanity in the series earlier, and I thought the reason humanity seems pretty dominating in the Mass Effect universe could be due to capitalism. The other species excluding the Volus probably aren't as competitive. A lot of the gear is human made, even for non-humans, by human manufacturers. It would make sense for humanity to capitalise on opportunities to profit off of Krogan mercs and human individuals to even pursue merc work themselves, something the other council races would be less inclined to do so.
I still think humanity is a bit too numerous on the citadel, especially in the tower. We also don't know population numbers of the other species.
I still think humanity is a bit too numerous on the citadel, especially in the tower. We also don't know population numbers of the other species.
You could say that the humans are not military as strong as the Turians, scientifically advanced as the Salarians and economically as powerful as the Asari. But they are a extremely significant force in the galaxy theatre. To the point humanity got a sit in the council before races that have been around for hundreds of years. And I'm not talking about being geniuses, I'm talking about a natural advantage races would have on account of being more developed for a much bigger spam of time. Humanity industrial based should be minimal compared to other races. The same is true for its economy and population. I mean, Earth is the only meaningful planet humans control. The Turians for example should have at least 100 times humanity's population.
Oh they addressed the lightning issue in ME2? Nice. Will test it later tonight.Any details on the patch yet. I'm currently downloading it for PC (Origin). Does bioware usually release patch notes?
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The Prothean data cache on Mars was put in there specifically for that reason lol. My brain's perfectly okay with using that as a plot device to say "this ancient alien tech they found opened up the door to all new kinds of space travel, manufacturing tech, biological tech" etc that allowed them them rapidly expand.
It's like humanity inventing boats in ancient times and thus then being able to settle all new lands much faster than before.
Whether that works for you or others though, it's not for me to say 😅
Isn't it implied in the Codex that the Turians lost a good chunk of population and territory to infighting during the Unification Wars?
If the Roman Empire suddenly got the technology to build aircraft carriers, that wouldn't put their navy on par with the American one. And this is more or less what happened in Mass Effect. An "ancient" state that got modern technology and in a few years was equally powerful as the entire modern Earth combined.
But yeah, it's not exactly something that have a definitive answer. For me, the timeline of the ME universe is by far its weakest aspect. The events are extremely interesting in themselves, but the timeframe is all messed up.
It's likely because it's not a 'bug' though - it's probably a performance-saving measure. Render to texture for reflections is expensive. I agree though it's very off-putting, wish a different method could have been found.
I agree with you, but if you want some real-life analogues, just look at China; they have one of the fastest modernizing defence forces and will probably leap ahead of the USA in a decade or two (if things continue at their current rates). I agree that Mass Effect is cutting it close, but if the Prothean discoveries were a part in creating some form of world peace and would put most of the whole world's economic power behind space exploration a lot would be possible than what we are currently familiar with. This is also one of the reasons why I like For All Mankind; it shows an alternative history were space exploration became a much bigger priority and because of that shows electric cars in the 80s (for example).
I mean, some people were born at the beginning of the 1900s when people were still travelling on horseback and easily lived to see the moon landing on color TV; and that was without us discovering alien technology that advanced our scientific knowledge hundreds/thousands of years like in Mass Effect.
Yeah, but that's the end of a long process, starting with Imperial China getting stumped by Europe's technological progress due to the industrial revolution, losing the Opium Wars and getting forced into a dependent position on Europe's colonialist demands. All in all it's taken China 200 years to get ahead of the West again, and that seems more realistic than ME's 30 years
I guess Mass Effect is the optimistic version, where the First Contact War didn't end in Earth becoming a Turian colony, but the Council intervened, negotiated peace and allowed humans to get an equal footing.
I've never seen this used before though in any game. Even if you drop a ps5 down to performance mode it still does it. Its a very weird choice
Agreed, it's very distracting. At least how games like Hitman dealt with it was to render the reflections at a much lower internal resolution.
Who thought this god awful vignette was a good idea in ME2? And why can't we deactive it outside of the photo mode?
It's bad enough that this game is dark as shit in general but these make even bright scenes look pretty bland.
I know it's also in ME 1, but here it really sticks out.
It's bad enough that this game is dark as shit in general but these make even bright scenes look pretty bland.
I know it's also in ME 1, but here it really sticks out.
Who thought this god awful vignette was a good idea in ME2? And why can't we deactive it outside of the photo mode?
It's bad enough that this game is dark as shit in general but these make even bright scenes look pretty bland.
I know it's also in ME 1, but here it really sticks out.
Probably the same person that thought the original RED_VEINS.jpg was a good idea. Some real bad decisions got made in the original release.
Vignetting has always been super aggressive in this series and I'd love to be able to disable it.Who thought this god awful vignette was a good idea in ME2? And why can't we deactive it outside of the photo mode?
It's bad enough that this game is dark as shit in general but these make even bright scenes look pretty bland.
I know it's also in ME 1, but here it really sticks out.
What's funny is that I actually did have enough Paragon points to where I could save him, I just kept going with neutral dialogue hoping it would let me side with him. Ultimately that Paragon dialogue choice is just convincing him to be ok with eliminating a cure. I feel like it was a missed opportunity to not let you somehow choose to save the cure for the Genophage.
I actually read that Bioware originally had an option for that in the game but it was cut.
Idk I just wish there was a way to help my man Wrex out. He really grew on me :(.
I actually read that Bioware originally had an option for that in the game but it was cut.
Idk I just wish there was a way to help my man Wrex out. He really grew on me :(.
1. True, that's a great point. I guess we as the player are definitely not meant to understand their full intentions (or even anything about them really). I just can't help but feel like it's a slightttt cop out though. Like yeah sure the Reapers are scary and hellbent on destroying the entire galaxy, but we only talk to Sovereign once. After this encounter the Reapers have arrived and it's the end of the game. The Reapers are just a bit too abstract for me by the end of the game to have felt their full impact in the plot.
Idk maybe it's just me preferring more concrete details in a storyline. I can totally understand why some fans would prefer things be kept mysterious though.
2. Sweeettt. Looking forward to it!
3. True true, that's probably on me. I was expecting it to let you continue playing after the story but I should've looked it up.
Idk maybe it's just me preferring more concrete details in a storyline. I can totally understand why some fans would prefer things be kept mysterious though.
2. Sweeettt. Looking forward to it!
3. True true, that's probably on me. I was expecting it to let you continue playing after the story but I should've looked it up.
I'm really biting my tongue not to tell you more about what happens next, but it's best for you to experience first yourself. See you later in the spoiler thread. ;) But I really do suggest you try another trilogy playthrough with
Wrex alive later
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This series is pretty good.
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They're all really bad, maybe read the prequel novel if you're desperate.
I'm 15 hours in and I just found out there's classes. The only Mass Effect I played was 3 and I definitely remembered it having classes. Did I button mash something and just skip over the class selection? That's freaking lame. No wonder I'm stuck with boring ass soldier skills.
Did you do a custom character at the start? If not I believe it just defaults to the soldier class.