Mass Effect 3 - Starting character

[Grognaurd]

I thought I heard something about iPad aps and MA 3 and them adding to rediness. I downloaded the free one. I do not even know what it does yet. LOL. I will check it out and report back. If there is not one for Android, there should be one soon. Not nearly as many legacy issues to deal with and social / mobile games are a big push for game developers

[HaveCrowBarWillTravel]

see, i don't use a lot of powers anyway, mostly grenades and guns (thank God they took grenades off the cooldown timer and let you carry a reloadable number) so i just carry one of everything and take the hit. on the powers i do use the cooldown has been reduced enough that if i wanted to just carry a smg and assault rifle i would perpetually be in slomo. i am falling in love with the multi, lot's of fun. i haven't played in a few days so i'll proly get on tonight.

hahah. well, see, I think I figured something out from your post. I'm like -200 for weight. ROFL! I'm carrying some beasts apparently.

I just found a handgun that shoots frigg'n sticky grenades. I enlongated the barrel and threw a scope on that puppy! Sheeeeetttt, now all I do is use that and my sniper rifle. Running around straight Merc'n cats!
I still have an issue with not knowing WTH what weapons are what. You don't know until you buy or pick it up. Sucks culo! You should be able to see automatically if it's better or worse than what you're carrying or in your inventory.
I wish you could sell or unequip stuff. I still have one weapon slot and can't figure out what would go there since I have a shotty, handgun, SMG, and Rifle. The Plasma gun is considered as an SMG for game... so pfft!

[reaper239]

sniper rifle, or assault rifle. you didn't mention one or the other. yeah, that sticky pistol is beast ain't it?i gave all my guys that gun. when you pick up a new weapon you should have an option to go to the loadout screen. once there you can make the comparisons, but you can't switch back if you decide to switch. on the plus side your mods transfer from one gun to the other when you switch.

[Grognaurd]

I thought I heard something about iPad aps and MA 3 and them adding to rediness. I downloaded the free one. I do not even know what it does yet. LOL. I will check it out and report back. If there is not one for Android, there should be one soon. Not nearly as many legacy issues to deal with and social / mobile games are a big push for game developers

OK, messed with this a bit yesterday.

It has several parts

1) Is like a TwitterFeed. People send something to MassEffect blah blah and get a reply. So, this is real life people. I do not know if it is with or without spoilers
2) An game email. Like your private terminal. You do a Mish or talk to people and make a choice and later you get a little email that references the choice you made.
3) Codex. A portable codex llike you have in game, but on your mobile
4) A cheezy game. LIke Mafia Wars and other very simple first gen mobile games. You have a map of the galaxy. There are places of interest. You can send a fleet to do something. No further input fromm the player. These mish take time to finish. This AM, I set a fleet to do an action. It will take 8 real life hours to complete, before I can use that fleet again. Rewards are currency used in game to skill-up your fleets as well as 1% or so increase in readiness.

There is probaby more, but I did not look too extensively at it this AM.

It is free, but requires cerberus account to link the game to your account. It is worth it. Send the fleet out while the game is loading on xbox. It is not a high maintenance thing.

There is another game, but it seems to be more hands on action. It is like 6 or 7 bucks.

[Grognaurd]

So, I finished my first play through. War rediness only at 50%. I have started second play through and will try to up my war readiness to get a better ending.

I do not like the multiplayer maps. Because, they are multiplayer maps. What I mean is that there are so many different ways to come and go on the maps it is built for PVP. This is a mistake, IMO. A horde PVE assault will not have the life-span of a PVP map no matter how complicated. MY guess they were trying to get to PVP and ran out of available RAM for the engine or just time and money or ambition.

Late in the game, there are some pretty dark urban street maps. Now those would make really good Horde maps.

[HaveCrowBarWillTravel]

sniper rifle, or assault rifle. you didn't mention one or the other. yeah, that sticky pistol is beast ain't it?i gave all my guys that gun. when you pick up a new weapon you should have an option to go to the loadout screen. once there you can make the comparisons, but you can't switch back if you decide to switch. on the plus side your mods transfer from one gun to the other when you switch.

on the Xbox you either, pick up, equip or leave it on the ground. That's it.
as far as the mods, I'd rather not have the same upgrades for every weapon. My Shotty should have extra damage and recoil reduction, while the assault should have a larger clip and..BUT, the argus shouldn't have the same crap the Vindicator does. Two different.
LOL. what idiot upgrades his AK with the same stuff on his AR??

I keep hearing about the crappy endings.. I may just go back to playing "Borderlands" and wait for them to fix this mess.

[reaper239]

rocking that racoon city right now. speaking of which...

[AdrianHD]

Completed all on disc achievements. Mass Effect 3 Insanity is soooo much easier than Mass Effect 2's Insanity. Probably because of the extra 30 levels you can upgrade.

So, I finished my first play through. War rediness only at 50%. I have started second play through and will try to up my war readiness to get a better ending.

I do not like the multiplayer maps. Because, they are multiplayer maps. What I mean is that there are so many different ways to come and go on the maps it is built for PVP. This is a mistake, IMO. A horde PVE assault will not have the life-span of a PVP map no matter how complicated. MY guess they were trying to get to PVP and ran out of available RAM for the engine or just time and money or ambition.

Late in the game, there are some pretty dark urban street maps. Now those would make really good Horde maps.

Really? I like pretty much all of the maps. I don't groan or any particular one. I complain about the massive amounts of glitches as opposed to map design.

[Hellbringer]

I heard about the bad endings, but I also saw there's like 16 of them. Are all the endings bad? I'm probably about 2-3 hours away from finishing and I am playing in off-line mode because I cannot connect my Xbox to the internet at the hotel right now. Guess I keep a special save file for when I get back on Xbox Live and see if they have updated this ending business.

I'm still having a blast getting through the story, though.

[AdrianHD]

If you or anyone else has doubts about the ending, watch this and be happy.

MAJOR SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY. DO NOT WATCH UNLESS YOU WANT IT SPOILED.
http://youtu.be/ythY_GkEBck