Official Mass Effect 3 Thread (Releases 03/06/12)

Quote from appleyum : Could you edit Mass Effect 2?

According to this post on BSN [bioware.com] you can. I never did it, though, so I can't say how well it works or how easy it is.

Quote from appleyum : If you played it on PC you can use an editor to "revive' Ashely.

Quote from GreggerG : You can also mod saves even for the 360 game. I looked into it back in about February and never actually did it so I'm hazy on the details but it seemed easy enough to do. Google 'mass effect save editor' to get info on it if you're interested.

played it on xbox and thanks for the save mod suggestion, but i'd rather relive the game again

New extended ending DLC announced for release on Tuesday. I'll have to reload and run through the endgame sequence again then and see if it makes it feel like less of a kick in the junk.

GI Link [gameinformer.com]

this is great news to me! I'm getting close to the end game, and don't want to have to wait really long, especially since my 'galactic readiness' rating is dropping like a rock (had it at 100%, but not it's around 60%! What the crap? Last i checked, i just....did something to raise it! stupid auto dropping based on REAL LIfe time isntead of in game time. that is just retarded.

Quote from GreggerG : New extended ending DLC announced for release on Tuesday. I'll have to reload and run through the endgame sequence again then and see if it makes it feel like less of a kick in the junk. GI Link [gameinformer.com]

yeah, in the Bioware FAQs it says its best to run the game from savepoint before attacking the cerberus base to get the best experience.

if you forgot, today the Extended Cut DLC dropped for all platforms today. also ME3 producer Mike Gamble tweeted "there's much more" DLC coming for ME3.

yea, i've got it DL'ed, and now i can start playing with the intention to actually beat it instead of continuing to wait for this update. I'm excited to finish playing my first play through now

Hearing they have much more DLC planned isn't that exciting to me however...i'm all for them adding to the multiplayer as they have been, but adding in missions/side quests to the main campaign just....never flows well IMO. i don't have the Ashes DLC that came with the special package, but i haven't heard anything that good about it regardless, and typically the add-on quests just..aren't worth it. It's not just how good the quest is, but how it intertwines with what is already there. Ideally, a quest would be wrapped up into other parts of the game and would feel like a natural extension. But for the most parts, the DLC add-ons that Bioware has done have always been so blunt in their addition, and their integration always feels more forced.
Anyone else feel teh same way?

2 More endings to go.

At least they added 4th ending. The big FU

Finally finished all 4 endings. They were better but still didn't really explain some of the plot hole at the end.

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Still don't get why Joker fly away instead of parking the Normandy on Earth

Quote from appleyum : Finally finished all 4 endings. They were better but still didn't really explain some of the plot hole at the end. Spoiler Still don't get why Joker fly away instead of parking the Normandy on Earth

That was covered in one of the endings (well the only one I played, anyways)

Spoiler
Admiral Hackett gave the order for all ships to disengage and meet at the rendezvous point, which was away from Earth more than likely

Quote from noother84 : That was covered in one of the endings (well the only one I played, anyways) Spoiler Admiral Hackett gave the order for all ships to disengage and meet at the rendezvous point, which was away from Earth more than likely

Problem with that are

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You squad mate pop back on to the Normandy.

No other ship was flying next to the Normandy or land on the same planet. The shockwave wouldn't have done anything to the Normandy as it was demonstrated by the wave that pass through Earth (It does do damage if you have low war assets though)

They also didn't explain how alien armada got back to their planet. If all the ships passed through a mass relay before the shockwave then why wasn't Normandy able jump to a far away mass relay? (since mass relay explosion depends on the distant. Granted they would be really stuck afterward)

And what happened to all the aliens that were on Earth fighting right next to the human?

At least the ending is acceptable(Not too different from Deus Ex ending) and some of them are workable for future Mass Effect games

Quote from appleyum : Finally finished all 4 endings. They were better but still didn't really explain some of the plot hole at the end. Spoiler Still don't get why Joker fly away instead of parking the Normandy on Earth

what part did you resume the game at? BioWare said to start it at that "no turning back" mission but joystiq said its possible to load the auto save from right before the ending.

im trying to figure out if i should raise my galactic readiness level through multiplayer first, as my percentages are all in the toilet by now.

Quote from kasty : what part did you resume the game at? BioWare said to start it at that "no turning back" mission but joystiq said its possible to load the auto save from right before the ending. im trying to figure out if i should raise my galactic readiness level through multiplayer first, as my percentages are all in the toilet by now.

The game creates a save before you stagger your way back to the Citadel. I don't know when Bioware use war asset to calculate the final ending. But I went in with 100% first time around (no point of return) so the autosave should have been save with that information e.g. everybody showed up for the final battle in space I also spent time to re-raise my readiness back to 95%-100% before viewing the extended ending from the autosave point

I would go with autosave if you already have that(because everything is painfully sluggish, you can't skip conversation, and you can't save from that point on)

Quote from appleyum : The game creates a save before you stagger your way back to the Citadel. I don't know when Bioware use war asset to calculate the final ending. But I went in with 100% first time around (no point of return) so the autosave should have been save with that information e.g. everybody showed up for the final battle in space I also spent time to re-raise my readiness back to 95%-100% before viewing the extended ending from the autosave point I would go with autosave if you already have that(because everything is painfully sluggish, you can't skip conversation, and you can't save from that point on)

hmmm. i might do some multiplayer first. im probably kinda rusty.