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[RiptideX1090]

Azint wrote...

NuclearBuddha wrote...

Hey, I was just thinking: what the hell do vanguards do against the Reaper larva? Just tough it out with heavy weapons?

Well the Eviscerator has very good range, and the Locust is also a very good weapon, though both of them are DLC weapons. The Carnifex is actually very good, too. But I wouldn't know, I don't play vangaurd. They don't get a Widow rifle.

I play all classes.

Vangaurd? Carnifex with Inferno ammo. Fully modded. TEARS through the Larva.

[NuclearBuddha]

I f-ing love the Locust, too, BTW. Not that it really needs saying.

[Pacifien]

NuclearBuddha wrote...

Pacifien wrote...

NuclearBuddha wrote...
Hey, I was just thinking: what the hell do vanguards do against the Reaper larva? Just tough it out with heavy weapons?

I try to avoid heavy weapons, so I believe it took every bullet I had and a generous helping of Mordin's Incinerate.

I've only played infiltrator, so I've never considered how tough that might be.

It would have been a laugh if I could have charged it. Then again, there's not a platform underneath him, so it would have been a one-time only charge then Critical Mission Failure. Still, I would have done it.

[cannedcream]

NuclearBuddha wrote...

Hey, I was just thinking: what the hell do vanguards do against the Reaper larva? Just tough it out with heavy weapons?

Mostly they just die a lot. But, yes; you heavy weapon the HELL out of those things.

Azint wrote...

Well the Eviscerator has very good range, and the Locust is also a very good weapon, though both of them are DLC weapons. The Carnifex is actually very good, too. But I wouldn't know, I don't play vangaurd. They don't get a Widow rifle.

That's a damn good reason.

[NuclearBuddha]

Azint wrote...
 I don't play vangaurd. They don't get a Widow rifle.

Ha!  Too true.

[Strawberry Kiwi]

NuclearBuddha wrote...

Pacifien wrote...

NuclearBuddha wrote...
Hey, I was just thinking: what the hell do vanguards do against the Reaper larva? Just tough it out with heavy weapons?

I try to avoid heavy weapons, so I believe it took every bullet I had and a generous helping of Mordin's Incinerate.

I've only played infiltrator, so I've never considered how tough that might be.

Damn straight. Tactical Cloak has saved my sorry ass more times than I can count.

Edit: Widow.

Modifié par Strawberry Kiwi, 25 juin 2010 - 07:26 .

[Azint]

NuclearBuddha wrote...

Well, feel free to scan it next time you're in the studio.

Interestingly enough, the high-qualitythankgoditbelongstotheschool scanner is not as forgiving on spiral sketchbooks than my now broken one at home.

Pacifien wrote...

Azint wrote...
Miranda would be a mid-tier, then. Still, I would guess it was just chance that it happend.

So... you sure you didn't lose her loyalty in the Jack/Miranda fight?

Actually I had to reload the game and do some other missions just so that I could have passed the persuasion check then. It is much easier to do so when you do their loyatly missions early.

[cannedcream]

Kira Shepard wrote...
used to be hand cannon with heavy weapons save your shotty for harbinger and the drones.
Now just two words: Kassa Locust.
Damn good gun.

It's the gun that made me stop hating the SMG.

Needless to say, Kasumi's loyalty mission gets done early-on in the game.

[Azint]

I prefer Infilitrator and Solider by far. Adept and Engineer are fun, too.

[cannedcream]

Strawberry Kiwi wrote...
Damn straight. Tactical Cloak has saved my sorry ass more times than I can count.

Edit: Widow.

Agreed.

I loved that cloak sooooooo much. Never would have made it through insanity without it.

[Azint]

Pacifien wrote...

It would have been a laugh if I could have charged it. Then again, there's not a platform underneath him, so it would have been a one-time only charge then Critical Mission Failure. Still, I would have done it.

Would you call this enthusiasm bravery, or foolhardy?

[NuclearBuddha]

cannedcream wrote...
It's the gun that made me stop hating the SMG.

Needless to say, Kasumi's loyalty mission gets done early-on in the game.

I hated the SMG until I got to Haestrom.  I don't know why anyone would have a problem with the Tempest.  But the Locust is still better, yeah.

ME2 was a real change-up for me in terms of weapons.  I barely used the sniper rifle in ME1:  did pretty much everything with the pistol.  It was rough trying to do the same in ME2 until I figured out how much easier sniping was.

Edit:  God, but the Shuriken blows.

Modifié par NuclearBuddha, 25 juin 2010 - 07:31 .

[Strawberry Kiwi]

cannedcream wrote...

Kira Shepard wrote...
used to be hand cannon with heavy weapons save your shotty for harbinger and the drones.
Now just two words: Kassa Locust.
Damn good gun.

It's the gun that made me stop hating the SMG.
Needless to say, Kasumi's loyalty mission gets done early-on in the game.

It's the first thing I do after FP.

Citidel, Pick up Kasumi > Kasumi's Loyalty.

Also, on a semi-related note, I kinda cheat by doing the Firewalker missions right after I recruit Tali. 
The Collector Ship mission unlocks early and you get to do Tali's loyalty followed by her romance right afterwards.

[Pacifien]

Azint wrote...

Pacifien wrote...
It would have been a laugh if I could have charged it. Then again, there's not a platform underneath him, so it would have been a one-time only charge then Critical Mission Failure. Still, I would have done it.

Would you call this enthusiasm bravery, or foolhardy?

Play like a Vanguard. Die like a Vanguard.

[Collider]

The locust is amazing. Though I'm doing my F!Shepard Soldier playthrough, can't use SMGs.

[El-Destructo]

NuclearBuddha wrote...

Oh, vanguards get SMGs.  Okay.

If you're not planning on using the Claymore heavily, you can pick up assault rifle or sniper rifle proficiency and take along some more ranged firepower, too.

[NuclearBuddha]

Sometimes I wonder what the military role of the Vanguard is. I mean, he's a biotic, so he's a very limited resource. Presumably he's backed up by regular soldiers (using ARs?). But if he charges, he's going to be in their line of fire.

[Kira Shepard]

What Shepard and the quarian? Damn lucky bastard that guy, even if he don’t know it. Takes a lotta trust for one of them to show their faces to anyone else. Hope to hell he doesn’t screw it up.

Common knowledge that a lot of people in this galaxy don’t think much of the quarians. They label them scavengers and thieves, or prettied up vorcha.

Not me.
Never understood the racial stigma myself. Yeah, they’re ancestors created the geth. Yeah, the geth attacked Eden Prime or whatever three hundred years after the fact, but it seems stupid to me to punish an entire race for the mistakes of their ancestors.

I for one have nothing but respect for the quarian people as a whole. They’re survivalists and damn good ones too. Sure there’s a scumbag here and there but point me to a race that doesn’t have a few of them.

Actually this takes me back…

Picked up a mission about fifteen-sixteen years back maybe? I’d had Jesse for a few years at least and Vido had already left me for dead. Anyway doesn’t matter.

Someone wanted this turian merc dead or alive. Something about how he spat in a primarch’s daughter’s face or something I dunno. Guy was offering me double my usual fee if I bring him in alive so they could teach the poor bastard some manners first.

My usual fee is considerable.

So I traced him all over the systems, finally cornered him on Illium. And right as I walked in the room to finish him off, he falls over dead. Knife in the back, and guess who’s holding the hilt? A quarian merc. I know, not what you’d expect; not many quarians get into that kind of work, what with there immune systems and all. Most of em stay out of a fight if possible and failing that they run the hell away.

Heh. Not this biitch.

I tell you, I was piissed as all get out after losing my mark, and then the quarian just looks up at me, winks and says. “Better luck next time Bosh’tet.” Damn near lost it right there. Chased after her as she ran for the balcony, got hold of her arm just as she reached the door; big mistake on my part.

See most people think that just because of the immune system, quarians can’t fight worth shiit. Most people don’t know that a single well aimed kick can break a man’s ribs like there were made of glass.

She leveled me with this drop kick; knocked me about halfway across the room, broke four of my ribs. ‘Course I pull my pistol ready to continue the fight but she’s nowhere to be found. I figured she was knocked over the railing when she flipped off me. Fell to her death.

“Good riddance.” I thought through my clenched teeth as I took a holo of the mark and dragged myself out of there. I spend about a day longer on Illum, patching myself up. Next thing I know, I’m paying my shuttle fare off world and before I’m even out of the system; Bam! Shuttle’s attacked by the Suns.

Story of my goddamn life.

So they dock with the shuttle, blow out the standard “Try to run and we’ll blow you to bits.” dialogue over the comm. Civilians are panicking, got a baby crying somewhere in the back and my ribs still hurt like hell. Goddamn batarians.

I draw my rifle and advance to the doorway. As soon as the door opens, two batarians fall over dead. Before they even know what’s going on I’ve boarded their ship and I’m killing mercs left and fight. Loss of the target’s forgotten as I take down one batarian after another. I’m in my element. This is what I live for.

I take a rifle butt to the back. Probably from a rookie, head’s a far better target, still throws my off my rhythm though. Never saw the turian coming. I turn around, Jesse in hand, ready to tear the scales off the bastard, when his brains explode all over me. Sniper. As per standard when you’re dealing with an unknown sniper you take immediate cover, keep your head down, and start looking for a shooter. I figure one of the mercs was an incompetent bastard who took out one of his own while trying to get at me. Shot sounded like one of those newer model rifles, m96 maybe a 97 Widow if I was having a bad day, which I was.

Anyway from my cover I see two more mercs looking for me and checking their dead for credits. Scumbags. Back in my day, we buried our dead or sent em to the void with what was theirs. We didn’t take creds off their still smoking corpses. I’m about to raise my rifle out of cover and fire blind at em; draw their attention. When I hear another shot from the sniper. Slug flew through the chest of one merc, right over my arm and ricocheted off the uneven bulkhead to hit the other. Never seen a shot like it before or since.

So at this point I know two things, whoever the shooter is isn’t one of the Suns and whoever the hell he is he’s a damn good shot. I’m just about to pull back out of cover and take my chances when the cold barrel of a gun is pressed against my skull.

It’s Vido all over again.

“Bang!” The shooter shouted, damn near making me jump outta my skin. And then I hear this laugh. Sounded about half mechanical, half feminine with this accent that I’d recognize anywhere.

“Just kidding.” I hear her laugh as the barrel moves back. I was on my feet in seconds; my rifle pointed right between the breasts of that exact same quarian biitch who stole my mark. She had what looked like a m90’s series sniper on her shoulders but the model seems a bit different from the ones I’d been hearing about lately looked more advanced. Her faceplate was a dark red, matching her hood. And even though I couldn’t see it, I knew that she was smirking at me in that infuriating way that women do.

“You.” I half snarled at her, digging my gun deeper into her chest plate. She was wearing armor, also dark red, beyond a thicker envirosuit and shields you don’t see many quarians in heavy armor. “The hell’re you doing here?”

“Easy big boy.” She winked at me before indicating the sounds of the Suns who were heading our way. “Let’s finish these idiots before we try killing each other.”

And I shiit you not, I took my eye off her for one second to look where she was pointing and the **** just vanished.

I will say this much though, the woman was a goddamn monster with a rifle. Every kill I made in that fight she matched point of point. I don’t doubt for a minute that if it weren’t for the fact that she had to reload she could’ve taken every merc in there and won. Hands down. I was still mad as all hell about losing a mark, but I give her credit as a sniper. “So what’s your name?” She shouts at me as I ram Jesse’s barrel down a turian’s throat and pull the trigger.

“The hell do you care?” I snarled back, kicking the dead merc into his human friend who got a few rounds to the face.

“I figure-” She snipes a batarian as I round on him. “I’d like to know the name of the man whose back-” Another shot. “Boom! Headshot!” She laughs again, that same lunatic devil may care laugh. “The name of the man whose back I’m watching.”

I backhand the last man and she snipes him as he falls, damn near taking my hand with it. I figure I may as well answer her, she’s gonna be dead in a few minutes anyway. “Zaeed Massani.”

“Nia’Tasi vas Nedas.” I jumped again and rounded on her, there she was, sniper held over her shoulders and a hand on her hip. Biitch wasn’t two feet behind me and I didn’t even know it. “Pleasure.” She walked past me and my gun stayed on her. “C’mon we have to kill the pilots before they-” I fell to the ground as the ship lurched, like it just made some big maneuver. The quarian, Nia, put her faceplate in her hand as she leaned on a bulkhead for support. “Do something stupid.”

Modifié par Kira Shepard, 25 juin 2010 - 07:33 .

[khevan]

Ok, now I know I'm in the right place.



I always start a playthru with a class, and I get through a few missions and quit and restart an Infiltrator.



I also have started various playthrus to bring a Miranda romance into ME3, to see how that plays out...but I just can't bring myself to finish it.



I always wind up re-starting as an Infiltrator...and romancing Tali.



I have one playthru where I stayed loyal to Ash from ME1, to see how that story arc plays out, but every. single. other. playthru has been with Tali.

[Strawberry Kiwi]

NuclearBuddha wrote...

cannedcream wrote...
It's the gun that made me stop hating the SMG.

Needless to say, Kasumi's loyalty mission gets done early-on in the game.

I hated the SMG until I got to Haestrom.  I don't know why anyone would have a problem with the Tempest.  But the Locust is still better, yeah.

ME2 was a real change-up for me in terms of weapons.  I barely used the sniper rifle in ME1:  did pretty much everything with the pistol.  It was rough trying to do the same in ME2 until I figured out how much easier sniping was.

Edit:  God, but the Shuriken blows.

I only used the Sniper rifle in ME1 on my second/third playthroughs, when I realized how awesome Assasination was with it. But yeah, the pistol was still better considering Marksman let you go full-auto without having to let it cool down.
Fake Edit: I agree. The Shuriken is horrible. :whistle:

[Azint]

NuclearBuddha wrote...

I hated the SMG until I got to Haestrom.  I don't know why anyone would have a problem with the Tempest.  But the Locust is still better, yeah.

ME2 was a real change-up for me in terms of weapons.  I barely used the sniper rifle in ME1:  did pretty much everything with the pistol.  It was rough trying to do the same in ME2 until I figured out how much easier sniping was.

Edit:  God, but the Shuriken blows.

I favor the sniper rifle in most games, so the infiltrator seemed like a good fit, and I do have fun. I actually liked the Tempest, it was an SMG that actually worked like an SMG, but like the Arc Projector, a certain DLC weapon eclipsed the rest in the category.

[cannedcream]

NuclearBuddha wrote...
I hated the SMG until I got to Haestrom.  I don't know why anyone would have a problem with the Tempest.  But the Locust is still better, yeah.

ME2 was a real change-up for me in terms of weapons.  I barely used the sniper rifle in ME1:  did pretty much everything with the pistol.  It was rough trying to do the same in ME2 until I figured out how much easier sniping was.

Edit:  God, but the Shuriken blows.

The sniper rifle in ME1 only had one good use as I can remember; and that was sniping from the top of the hill after the Mako gets stolen. Other than that, yeah it just got you shot.

[NuclearBuddha]

El-Destructo wrote...
If you're not planning on using the Claymore heavily, you can pick up assault rifle or sniper rifle proficiency and take along some more ranged firepower, too.

Pretty sure the Evisc is better overall than the Claymore (range, ROF).  But I'm not planning a Vanguard playthrough.  I was just pondering.

[Pacifien]

I always return to the Infiltrator. But I've had fun as a Vanguard, Adept, and currently as an Engineer.

[El-Destructo]

NuclearBuddha wrote...

Sometimes I wonder what the military role of the Vanguard is. I mean, he's a biotic, so he's a very limited resource. Presumably he's backed up by regular soldiers (using ARs?). But if he charges, he's going to be in their line of fire.

Shock troops. They can find a hole in the enemy defenses and exploit it more easily than anyone else. And take a bigger beating because of the way charge refills their barrier.