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Post by name_here » Sun Feb 10, 2013 5:48 pm

There's some way to go into zoom mode, cleverly concealed on the keybindings menu.
Seriously, in modern games I find the most useful tutorial is reading the keybindings.

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Post by Maxus » Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:09 am

Secondary fire mode--the big cannon. Does enough splash damage to fuck some baddies up. Left bumper button on the Xbox, dunno on the PC
It's also total power-gaming, but if you want to level up more, weaken enemies in the Mako and finish them off on foot for more XP/money.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Mon Feb 11, 2013 3:37 am

Alright, when I got used to the controls, the Mako tractor isn't that bad. And when you don't have heat on you, it's kind of fun to jump it over mountains and stuff.
There's no key binding screen on the Xbox version, so I'm still learning how to do things. I've been playing as a Vanguard for 9 levels and I just found out how to do biotic stuff recently. Still haven't figured out how to throw grenades.
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Post by Maxus » Mon Feb 11, 2013 5:18 am

Select/back button. Then you hit it again to detonate it when you want.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Post by John Magnum » Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:13 am

http://www.meekeo.com/Xbox-360-manuals_mass-effect Game manual (PDF)
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Post by Meikle641 » Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:29 pm

Just finished the PC version of Rage. Fuck that game, man. Id really disappointed me on this, nowhere near as good as Doom 3 or earlier games.
1) Too fucking short. I beat this game in 15 hours, and that was with a bunch of dicking around doing sidequests and stuff.
2) Your last mission is a fucking joke. You shoot some mutants, a few soldiers, and hit some buttons. Right before this they give you the BFG which can do the BFG charge blast or act like a gatling gun, depending on mode. Nothing worth actually nuking, not even a boss.
3) You finish clicking your buttons, and it goes straight to credits after a shitty cinematic showing Arks rising from the ground. No epilogue or anything, just that then credits.
4) This game is so on rails it is amazing. You're in a gorgeous post-apocalyptic world full of ruins, and you are restricted to a narrow path everywhere. No exploring. Invisible walls are fucking everywhere.
I'd feel more angry and cheated if I'd actually bought the game. Instead this was given to me by a friend. So much potential, but it was squandered.
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Post by Stahlseele » Tue Feb 12, 2013 2:09 pm

if i remember correctly, rage was meant for mobile gaming on smartphones and the such . . so even worse than on consoles i guess . .
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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Tue Feb 12, 2013 3:04 pm

More mass effect stuff: I just recruited the blue chick. I wanted to hate her on principle (a species of female pansexual space nymphos that look like human females? GAAAAAY!), but so far she has been the least douchey of my party members.
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Post by name_here » Tue Feb 12, 2013 3:13 pm

Less douchey than Tali and Garrus?

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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Tue Feb 12, 2013 3:37 pm

Maybe not garrus.
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Post by Maxus » Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:09 pm

I've been in a video game funk lately.
So I screwed around with ME3 multiplayer, and remembered that I'd unlocked a couple of volus classes.
These dudes are actually pretty fun. They can't take cover, but they're so short they can just stand behind shit. They don't have melee attacks--instead they have the infiltrator tac cloak without the damage boosts and only lasts for four seconds, and their "heavy melee" is a shield sphere.
All the volus classes get a shield-recharge power that lets them restore their shields, and those of anyone by them.
And then they tend to get semi-unique volus powers, like Recon Mine (the mine scans enemies in a wide radius, and makes them show up, even through walls. And it inflicts huge damage over an even bigger radius).
It sounds crazy, but the round little buggers are growing on me.
So now I have my volus engineer named Mitah Bom, whose unique "shoot them in the crotch" style of marksmanship makes him a perilous foe to go against.
Bow before my rotund glory, bitches.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:26 pm

Are there any elcor classes in Mass Effect 3 multiplayer? I like those guys.
EDIT: Looked it up. Bah, no elcor playable characters. Volus is clearly the second most superior choice though.
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Post by Maxus » Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:59 pm

Oh, I wish.
Apparently, Elcor infantry serve as walking tanks. They're strong enough they can carry computer-run vehicle-sized weaponry and other such goodies.
So what's your favorite race on the list?
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Wed Feb 13, 2013 7:31 pm

I forget, what is Wrex again? I like playing big, hulking monsters because I feel like one myself.
Even after trimming a lot of fat, I still take up two seats on the bus.
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Post by Guyr Adamantine » Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:22 pm

That's krogans. I really like quarians myself.
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Post by Maxus » Thu Feb 14, 2013 3:08 am

Playing as the krogan is badass. I have a melee build I break out for when I want to just smash some stuff.
The quarians are cool, too.
Count, if I recall right, you have the ME trilogy. If you give me a holler on Xbox, I'll be glad to play a few rounds of the multiplayer with you.
The main grievance with the multiplayer is you start out with very, very basic equipment and get everything else--weapons, gear, races--through randomized packs bought with money earned by doing matches.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Thu Feb 14, 2013 3:16 am

That is correct, I have the trilogy. I might pop in to try out multiplayer, but i'll be honest it's kind of intimidating because I don't really know how to play yet (I'm still fumbling around with things, hitting the wrong buttons, and accidentally shooting my squad mates in the head when they walk in front of me).
So basically, you unlock races and classes like you would Magic the Gathering? LAME.
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Post by Maxus » Thu Feb 14, 2013 4:05 am

They do give you a freebie when you first start. I'll give them that much.
And unlocking stuff isn't so bad--some of the item packs are biased towards characters or weapons.
But there's a -lot- there now. Couple of kinds of humans for each class, salarians, asari, turians, drell, krogan, geth, batarians, vorcha, and now volus.
There's a couple of krogan basics--the soldiers and sentinels get a bit more mobility, and the adepts and vanguards get tanklike shields.
And a couple of kinds of turians--now there's jetpack/armored-suit wearing turians.
Drell and vorcha show up in Mass Effect 2, by the way. Don't look out for them in 1. Batarians are only seen in ME1 if you got one of the DLC packs.
And geth have an actual reason to be on the good guys side. It's a spoiler, so I won't go into it 'less you want me to.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Post by Korgan0 » Fri Feb 15, 2013 4:11 am

Wait, vorcha? Really?
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Post by Maxus » Fri Feb 15, 2013 5:06 am

Vorcha are -badass-.
They regenerate all their health, instead of segments, have melee damage on par with a krogan, and have a wrist-mounted flamethrower that fucks up brutes and ravagers and whatever else comes within range.
Like so (random gameplay Youtube video).
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Post by Korgan0 » Fri Feb 15, 2013 6:35 am

Whoops, I confused Vorcha with those weird dog-fish things.
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Post by Maxus » Fri Feb 15, 2013 6:47 am

Oh, the varren.
Allrighty.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:08 pm

Here's a ME1 question: Is there any tricks to getting certain types of gear?
I've managed to pick up some Colossus armor for about half my group (Shepherd, Wrex, Garrus, and Ashley). I'd like to pick up some light colossus gear for Kaiden, Liara, and Tali. Any tricks?
Also, I managed to loot a Prodigy omni-tool and sprouted the biggest boner of my life. Where can I get more? And are there bio-amps like that (they seem to be very rare, I'm at level 42 and I'm just now starting to see bio-amps and omni-tools that I like better than the crap I started with.)
Also, I want to say it's kind of funny that just like in real life, being rich makes you win (I found out that hitting 1,000,000 credits makes two merchants start stocking the second best weapons in the game, heh. Although until I managed to get colossus armor, my dudes kept dying if the bad guys farted towards them).
The game has an odd wealth progression. In early game, there's awesome stuff in stores but you don't have the money to buy it. Mid-levels you have lots and lots of money, but everything in the stores suck now (and it's remarkably easy to hit 1 million credits and start getting the really good weapons). At high levels there are good things in the item stores, and you have the credits to pretty much buy whatever you want.
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Post by Avoraciopoctules » Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:00 pm

CVBLA just did an overhaul that makes item crashes less spammy.
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Post by name_here » Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:02 pm

I am pretty sure loot drops are a complete crapshoot and there's nothing you can do to influence drop rates. You'll just have to kill more stuff.
On repeat playthroughs, the Spectre gear shows up for sale fairly early on, way the hell before you can afford it.

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