Bioware General (Mass Effect/Dragon Age/Other)

[Riptide]

The combat definitely is doing everything I could of ever asked of it. I also appreciate different factions use different weapons tech.

[Someone With Mass]

I also noticed that the Avenger is now reloaded by releasing two clamps near the stock and opening the top and inserting a new clip. I've always liked when weapons in third person shooters aren't just static models.

The Katana is in there. The Tempest submachine gun is now called Charger. The Phalanx's back.

Other familiar weapons: Disciple, Predator, Piranha, Carnifex, Black Widow, Indra, Incisor (bleh), Valiant, Valkyrie, Mattock, Revenant, Venom, Reegar Carbine and Viper.

Weapons also have a rarity attached to them, like rare or uncommon. Sounds something like ME1's loot system, which I am not too fond of.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrWgLMH8yRU

Oh boy, the Hornet is a pistol now. Also, the sounds for the guns are just weaksauce. You'd think that something can easily break the sound barrier would produce more of a thud.

The gameplay/combat looks fluid and entertaining.

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

[Riptide]

Drag, in case I've never said it before, I just want you to know I appreciate you.

[Someone With Mass]

Sara's armor had a C8 on it instead of an N7.

What the hell.

Well, it'd be fun if you actually had to work your way up to N7 instead of being granted the rank on the spot. It's intended for the elite of the elite, after all.

It only goes up to 7, though.

At this point, is this really surprising?

I mean, I could verify that fact with a simple search on the wiki page within like 15 seconds.

[Riptide]

Sara's armor had a C8 on it instead of an N7.

What the hell.

Well, it'd be fun if you actually had to work your way up to N7 instead of being granted the rank on the spot. It's intended for the elite of the elite, after all.

It only goes up to 7, though.

At this point, is this really surprising?

I mean, I could verify that fact with a simple search on the wiki page within like 15 seconds.

No, but it IS galling. What the hell did Ryder do to earn a rank that basically says they're better at what they do than Shepard is?

Worse, the vocational code is Alliance. Ryder isn't Alliance anymore. Which means earning that rank should have been done prior to leaving the Milky Way.

[Riptide]

AND it goes up to a number that shouldn't exist. The hell.

[Someone With Mass]

No, but it IS galling. What the hell did Ryder do to earn a rank that basically says they're better at what they do than Shepard is?

Worse, the vocational code is Alliance. Ryder isn't Alliance anymore. Which means earning that rank should have been done prior to leaving the Milky Way.

Well, I can't answer any of that since I don't have the information. Maybe they're following Alliance organizing systems to have some semblance of order, even though there's a high possibility that the Alliance doesn't even exist anymore.

[SciFlyBoy]

No, but it IS galling. What the hell did Ryder do to earn a rank that basically says they're better at what they do than Shepard is?

Worse, the vocational code is Alliance. Ryder isn't Alliance anymore. Which means earning that rank should have been done prior to leaving the Milky Way.

Well, I can't answer any of that since I don't have the information. Maybe they're following Alliance organizing systems to have some semblance of order, even though there's a high possibility that the Alliance doesn't even exist anymore.

Maybe it's just different military traditions? The Air force and Navy have the same ranks, but a captain in the Air force is different then a captain in the navy. Army has rangers, navy has seals, marines have...green berets? Either way the game will reveal.

[Mazder]

Sara's armor had a C8 on it instead of an N7.

What the hell.

Well, it'd be fun if you actually had to work your way up to N7 instead of being granted the rank on the spot. It's intended for the elite of the elite, after all.

It only goes up to 7, though.

Is C8 an Alliance rank or Citadel Rank?

[TheodoricFriede]

Sara's armor had a C8 on it instead of an N7.

What the hell.

So?

That could literally be anything.

If anything I think its dumber that these nobodies managed to reach N7.

[TTTX]

noticed there was an "unknown" on a Kett in the video, which means that fototage was most likely from the start of the game.

Combat looks good, that's probably one of the things I expect to be great in ME:A, while I had issues with the story of ME3 the gameplay was awesome I expect the same for ME:A.

A minor nitpick the voice said that milky way guns use ammo, while that is true, Thermal clips aren't ammo so either that was a mistake or they have changed the gameplay so you go through the chunk of metal you use for ammo in your gun to decade faster.

[TheodoricFriede]

Meanwhile combat looks like "better Mass Effect 1", which is pretty much what I was hoping for.

If only I was this satisfied with Story and romance options.

[Dragaros]

Drag, in case I've never said it before, I just want you to know I appreciate you.

Thank you.

[Dragaros]

"I am a biotic god! I think things and they happen! Fear me, lesser creatures, for I am biotics made flesh! I am a great wind that will sweep all before me like a... a great wind! A great biotic wind!"




I knew that reminded me of something.

[Dragaros]

[Someone With Mass]

Wait, those are bones from Kett? Seems rather barbaric. Then again, when they make Deadpool look like a photo model, I guess that's the only good use for them.

[TheodoricFriede]

That has to be a misprint. I dont think Kett are that big.

[Dragaros]

A "Roekaar" saboteur you say? Is that a species or a faction?

[Dragaros]

"the Andromeda Initiative left for Andromeda in 2185 between ME2 and ME3."

So sometime during the six months Shep was under house arrest on Earth.

They just missed the Reaper party. (All that money and material would have been mighty useful building warships and shelters; just saying…) I wonder what Shep and crew would have thought about this project. They would have been able to have seen the construction of the arks and Nexus going on in the Moon's orbit if they swung by the Sol System during ME2.

The last thing the Ryders would know about Shepard was that he/she blew up a relay and killed thousands of Batarians, assuming that was public knowledge.

[DarkStorm]

At least the combat is looking great.

[Riptide]

At least the combat is looking great.

Jetpack. Flamethrower. Wrist mounted Missile Launcher (Flak Cannon).

My Mandalorian Fantasies are coming true, at least.

[Someone With Mass]

"the Andromeda Initiative left for Andromeda in 2185 between ME2 and ME3."

So sometime during the six months Shep was under house arrest on Earth.

They just missed the Reaper party. (All that money and material would have been mighty useful building warships and shelters; just saying…) I wonder what Shep and crew would have thought about this project. They would have been able to have seen the construction of the arks and Nexus going on in the Moon's orbit if they swung by the Sol System during ME2.

The last thing the Ryders would know about Shepard was that he/she blew up a relay and killed thousands of Batarians, assuming that was public knowledge.

I doubt that was made public knowledge. Then conspiracy nuts would dig deeper and uncover the nasty truth. Not that it'd matter.

But this new info made the setting even worse, unless the Andromeda Initiative turns out to be a secretly funded contingency plan if the whole Reaper thing went south. I mean, the Nexus is bigger than the Crucible. Millions of lives could probably have been saved if all those resources had gone elsewhere.

This is seriously up there with the asari hiding their Protean beacon.

[Mazder]

At least the combat is looking great.

Jetpack. Flamethrower. Wrist mounted Missile Launcher (Flak Cannon).

My Mandalorian Fantasies are coming true, at least.

The Jetpack and Flamer combi are making me itchy for some of that Mandalorian flair.
I want a Kama dammit.
And Pauldrons!!!

And if I find a helmet that has the slightest T shape I am using that no matter the stat benefit/deficit.

[TheodoricFriede]

Nothing in Star Wars is as cool as anything in Mass Effect.

[DarkStorm]

At least the combat is looking great.

Jetpack. Flamethrower. Wrist mounted Missile Launcher (Flak Cannon).

My Mandalorian Fantasies are coming true, at least.

Hell I already know what i want to do, Jetpack, flak cannon, flamethrow, cloak, and shotgun

[TTTX]

Nothing in Star Wars is as cool as anything in Mass Effect.

Well Star Wars still have the better story and light sabers.

[Someone With Mass]

I have to admit, seeing the powers in actions makes me almost want to make a puppet master build. Tactical Cloak combined with whatever biotic power that lets you pick up and throw people/objects.

[TheodoricFriede]

Well Star Wars still have the better story and light sabers.

Lightsabers aren't that cool.

Star was story is only mediocre. Its world building is the best part.

[Riptide]

I'm also glad you can save out favorites of profiles and powers, so you switch things up as you go.

[TTTX]

Lightsabers aren't that cool.

Star was story is only mediocre. Its world building is the best part.

Lightsabers are cooler then any of the weapons of ME.

At least the story is consistent (at least until the prequel trilogy came around) in Star Wars, ME can't get the story right between sequels, ME1 ends with Shepard wanting to go out find a way to stop the Reapers, ME2 has nothing to do with that and basically ends with Shepard being right where he began, ME3 happens and the Reapers are here and the galaxy should be dead and Shepard has fail do to the facts and world building that came before, but nope none of that happens and the humans and Earth take top priority in the plot for no reason.

[TheodoricFriede]

I dont agree with you, you will never convince me.

[Riptide]

If those are kett bones, how fucking long has the Nexus been in Andromeda ahead of Hyperion and the others?

[TheodoricFriede]

If those are kett bones, how fucking long has the Nexus been in Andromeda ahead of Hyperion and the others?

Thats why i think that was a misprint.

Im not even 100% convinced that those heights and weights are any more accurate than the ones we got from the mass effect 2 action figures.

[TTTX]

I dont agree with you, you will never convince me.

Then you haven't played ME1.

Vigil makes it very clear what happens when Reapers take the Citadel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUdYxa6r_bI

And the ending of ME1 makes it very clear Shepard has a goal for the sequel find a way to stop the Reapers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_6yQwHJ4tU

The start of ME2 has none of that instead Shepard is hunting geth and dies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoFrh_e5cWY

and the rest of the game is just kill the collectors and ends with Shepard learned nothing useful about the Reapers and the Reapers "wake" up and are coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-RFVPZhXbo

Then ME3 starts and well Reapers are here and Shepard have failed doing the goal he set out to do in ME1 and the Milky Way should be harvest without much of a problem if the Reapers took the Citadel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4UCnvQCo_4&t

if you want someone who has written several blog posts in depth about how the story starts to fall apart at the start of ME2. It's actually a good read.

Mass Effect Retrospective

[Someone With Mass]

Okay. The Reapers were laying dormant in dark space during the events after ME1. The fuck could Shepard have done against that? If he had run to every allied nation and asked for help, he would have only come across as a madman, since very few believe that the Reapers exist.

[TheodoricFriede]

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Not what i was talking about.

[magnuskn]

What? Just an option for a full beard would be my cup of tea. But I'll be picking the most fanciest option.

After the Witcher 3, I think dynamic beard growth would be best. ^^

This has noting to do with actual practices in game, y'all are just bitter because you're on the Bioware hate-train and think every decision you don't agree with has to be some form of massive fuck up.

Now, now, I'm only on the Hack Walters hate train and therefore quite skeptical of ME:A, since he was lead writer again.

ME1/3 hybrid skill system: YES
Milky Way and Andromeda guns being projectile/beam: Eh, Halo did it, but I'm cool with it, since there's _no ammo_ for the latter.
Combat: Silky and pretty.
3 skill slots active: Only one of each type or what?

Good video though. That honestly hyped me up a bit.

Same here, I'm now seriously considering buying it immediately, although I still got story concerns. But the combat looks so much like a better version of ME3 (of which I loved, loved, loved the multiplayer), that I might just do it against my better judgement. I just hope the characters and story are not as weaksauce as in DA:I.

Female Ryder's face: ...Not great.

Yes.

[Mazder]

If those are kett bones, how fucking long has the Nexus been in Andromeda ahead of Hyperion and the others?

Thats why i think that was a misprint.

Im not even 100% convinced that those heights and weights are any more accurate than the ones we got from the mass effect 2 action figures.

You can clean bones of their flesh easily and bones, once exposed, don't last terribly long without looking a bit weathered, especially when on Krogan armour where they'll just go into all the harsh environments.

Nothing in Star Wars is as cool as anything in Mass Effect.

When ME has an actually satisfying Space Battle, a load of space ships with variety and actually uses it's world building get back to me.
Oh, and Mandalorians.
And no Krogan/Turian don't count as the Mandalorian equivalent because they're not an interspecies mishmash and not a mindset rather than one race.

[TheodoricFriede]

Oh, and Mandalorians.

Boba Fett was killed by a blind Han Solo accidentally bumping his jetpack and sending him into a worms mouth. Jango Fett immediately gets his head cut off by a win button.

Extended universe stuff was cut from the series.

Mandalorians aren't that cool.

[Someone With Mass]

After the Witcher 3, I think dynamic beard growth would be best. ^^

Be given the choice to either cut it or let it grow would be nice.

[Dragaros]

I doubt that was made public knowledge. Then conspiracy nuts would dig deeper and uncover the nasty truth. Not that it'd matter.

But this new info made the setting even worse, unless the Andromeda Initiative turns out to be a secretly funded contingency plan if the whole Reaper thing went south. I mean, the Nexus is bigger than the Crucible. Millions of lives could probably have been saved if all those resources had gone elsewhere.

This is seriously up there with the asari hiding their Protean beacon.

I'm sure the Alliance and even the Citadel Council would want to keep the truth of that event hush-hush, but the Batarian government could have been flooding the extranet with accusations and charges.

Nothing in Star Wars is as cool as anything in Mass Effect.

Really nothing? Nothing at all? By that are you suggesting that TIM, Harbinger, and the Starbrat are better antagonists than Darth Vader, Tarkin, Thrawn, or Palpatine? That Cerberus is better than the Empire? That omni-blades are cooler than lightsabers? That ME3 was a better trilogy-ender than RotJ? That the space battles in ME's cutscenes are superior to the ones in SW? That an ATLAS mech blows an AT-AT or AT-ST out of the water? That the Destiny Ascension is better than a Star Destroyer? That there's any light fighter in ME as beloved or iconic as an X-Wing, Y-Wing or TIE fighter? We’re gonna have to agree to disagree, my friend.

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

[Spartanburger]

Oh boy, the Hornet is a pistol now.

Just a quick clarification: SMGs are still in the game; they are just included in the same "slot" if you will. Like, pistols vs machine pistols in the same slot.

According to a reddit comment who reviewed the footage, some abilities have a "+1 holster" bonus to them. The suspicion being that holsters are weapon independent, so you should still be able to use a pistol and an SMG if you wanted to.

[Someone With Mass]

I'm sure the Alliance and even the Citadel Council would want to keep the truth of that event hush-hush, but the Batarian government could have been flooding the extranet with accusations and charges.

Pretty sure the Reapers invaded the same day the mass relay explosion happened, though. The first thing they'd do is destroy the communication buoys that are near the mass relays and thus prevent any outward messages. That is, if the mass relay explosion didn't create a gap in the system on its own.

[TheodoricFriede]

Really nothing? Nothing at all? .

Yes.

[Mazder]

Boba Fett was killed by a blind Han Solo accidentally bumping his jetpack and sending him into a worms mouth. Jango Fett immediately gets his head cut off by a win button.

Extended universe stuff was cut from the series.

Mandalorians aren't that cool.

1) Sabine Wren disagrees.
2) Jango got the same treatment as every other enemy that went up against Shepard, plot armour.
3) THU CURNURN only applies to people who care enough about lore to make it this shitshow written in stone with no ability to be expanded upon or altered for the better.
4) Just because YOU don't find something cool doesn't mean it can not be cool to others. If you don't like it then kindly shut the fuck up about it and be an adult and not be a part of that piece of the discussion. No-one asked you to comment if you thought anything in Star Wars compared to ME.
With this;

Nothing in Star Wars is as cool as anything in Mass Effect.

paired with this;

I dont agree with you, you will never convince me.

means you've taken yourself out of the conversation. Well done edgelord.

And yeah, I'm going heavy handed with this, I woke up grouchy. No that's not an excuse it's just an explanation of my poor behaviour, but at least I'm not turn the discussion onto yet another hate-train of another franchise.

Really nothing? Nothing at all? By that are you suggesting that TIM, Harbinger, and the Starbrat are better antagonists than Darth Vader, Tarkin, Thrawn, or Palpatine? That Cerberus is better than the Empire? That omni-blades are cooler than lightsabers? That ME3 was a better trilogy-ender than RotJ? That the space battles in ME's cutscenes are superior to the ones in SW? That an ATLAS mech blows an AT-AT or AT-ST out of the water? That the Destiny Ascension is better than a Star Destroyer? That there's any light fighter in ME as beloved or iconic as an X-Wing, Y-Wing or TIE fighter? We’re gonna have to agree to disagree, my friend.

Also yeah, TIM being anywhere near as well written as Tarkin, even in Rebels is just a lie.
Harbinger being anywhere near to as good as Vader, especially WITH the stupid Blu-Ray edits (including Rogue One) is just straight up laughable.