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[Sable Phoenix]

mhenders wrote...

jlb524 wrote...

Very nice Shepard. Could I trouble you for the facecode?

I don't have them

ME1 import. 

Doesn't the game display them on the Squad screen, when you have Shepard selected? I think they're in tiny print in the top left corner.

Yeah, but that's an inaccurate code.  It won't give you your face, it'll give you the default face.  At least, that's what I've heard.

[adneate]

Sable Phoenix wrote...
Yeah, but that's an inaccurate code.  It won't give you your face, it'll give you the default face.  At least, that's what I've heard.

Yeah the code for imported faces is worthless it doesn't actually work, that being said with the Gibbed Editor you can transcribe a face code. I can't remember off the top of my head however it is possible to get the slide info then convert that into a ME2 Face Code.

[jwalker]

mhenders wrote...

jlb524 wrote...

Very nice Shepard. Could I trouble you for the facecode?

I don't have them

ME1 import. 

Doesn't the game display them on the Squad screen, when you have Shepard selected? I think they're in tiny print in the top left corner.

If it's an ME1 there's no face code. Sometimes may appear one (if you selected "custom" and then went back to accept the imported face), but that code doesn't reflect your sheps face.

[sagefic]

Brodyaha wrote...

You guys should all be in advertising. Or BioWare should use your screenshots.
It was one of sage's pics that convinced me to purchase Overlord, despite knowing the story and hearing how great it was.

"Gaaahhh! Buy Overlord!"

I actually bought overlord simply because I am a total ME fanatic and simply had to spend more time with femshep and all the squad. Interestingly, I used to suck at driving the hammer head and used to suck at shooters even. ME now has me playing hardcore because i was so in love with the story i was determined to master the gameplay.

i can now impress my guy gamer friends with my ability to snipe things.
(and i say guy gamer friends because i know no females IRL who game. except for me. this is sad.)

Modifié par sagequeen, 04 octobre 2010 - 02:44 .

[Fraevar]

yorkj86 wrote...

That Shepard can be "hacked" is disconcerting. He/she must be more synthetic than the reconstruction cinematic lets on.

This is a good point and one of my major disappointments in ME2 is that they didn't really approach this topic at all. Shepard was once a human Alliance soldier. Regardless of what you think of Cerberus she is something else now and I really wish they would have devoted some of the narrative to Shepard trying to find a bit of humanity again.

[adneate]

Delerius_Jedi wrote...

This is a good point and one of my major disappointments in ME2 is that they didn't really approach this topic at all. Shepard was once a human Alliance soldier. Regardless of what you think of Cerberus she is something else now and I really wish they would have devoted some of the narrative to Shepard trying to find a bit of humanity again.

I agree. Shepard isn't fully human anymore and I hope BioWare addresses this sometime in the future, because everyone seems way too cool with things right now.

[Fraevar]

adneate wrote...

I agree. Shepard isn't fully human anymore and I hope BioWare addresses this sometime in the future, because everyone seems way too cool with things right now.

We can only hope. I just don't want that scene from Overlord to be "random 'cool' cutscene element #1138" when it has the potential of getting the series back to its hard sci-fi roots. We've had a little bit of character development on the part of Shepard in the Shadow Broker DLC - I just hope BioWare realize that there is much more to explore and that their defined protagonist really makes it neccesary for them to do that.

[Sable Phoenix]

Delerius_Jedi wrote...

adneate wrote...

I agree. Shepard isn't fully human anymore and I hope BioWare addresses this sometime in the future, because everyone seems way too cool with things right now.

We can only hope. I just don't want that scene from Overlord to be "random 'cool' cutscene element #1138" when it has the potential of getting the series back to its hard sci-fi roots. We've had a little bit of character development on the part of Shepard in the Shadow Broker DLC - I just hope BioWare realize that there is much more to explore and that their defined protagonist really makes it neccesary for them to do that.

Totally agreed.  Unless BioWare explores this avenue with Shepard, the entire Lazarus Project was a giant (and pointless) deus ex machina whose only purpose was to 'reset' the game universe for people new to the franchise when ME2 started.

It's my firm belief that Shepard is in essence an organic AI.  They just didn't need the quantum blue box, because they could grow the pattern of an organic 'blue box' in her brain scans and genetic code.  It's the only way to explain (supposedly) bringing someone back from the dead after she's been exposed to vaccuum and sub-zero temperatures and completely brain dead for who knows how many months.

[Christmas Ape]

Sable Phoenix wrote...
Honestly, with their mouth structure I don't see how turians drink anything, unless it's at a trough.  They have no lips and the sides of their mouths are always open.  The mandibles don't tighten down enough to close their mouths completely, either.  Do they get all their hydration from their food?

Prior to tool use I'd imagine it is scenarios like a river, either dipping their mouths completely into the water or possibly the turian tongue is well-adapted to the process.
Since developing some basic science, though, the same basic "squeeze it and a stream jets out" wineskin humanity figured out several thousand years ago would work fine with their head tipped back a bit, or just small enough drinking vessels they can toss it straight down the throat. An entire civilization drinking out of sake bowls and sports bottles.

As to naming Shepards, I had a site bookmarked that seems to be gone now that suggested a first and middle name based on gender and surname. I'd just get ten or twenty recommendations, and narrow them down out loud. If I don't like the way it sounds, it gets scrapped. Wound up with a lot of four-syllable Shepards, but I really like 4-2 or 2-4 syllable counts when it comes to character names so I guess that's not unexpected.

And a fantastic end-of-ME1 photojournal! Doing something like that was why I originally started learning the Mass Effect/ME2 mod process, so as to have shots that stood out from the conventional. Which the console'd armor does a pretty good job of as well, I might add - real "loaded for bear" looking hardsuit. One of the Jormungand Technologies models, right?

[Fraevar]

Sable Phoenix wrote...

Totally agreed.  Unless BioWare explores this avenue with Shepard, the entire Lazarus Project was a giant (and pointless) deus ex machina whose only purpose was to 'reset' the game universe for people new to the franchise when ME2 started.

It's my firm belief that Shepard is in essence an organic AI.  They just didn't need the quantum blue box, because they could grow the pattern of an organic 'blue box' in her brain scans and genetic code.  It's the only way to explain (supposedly) bringing someone back from the dead after she's been exposed to vaccuum and sub-zero temperatures and completely brain dead for who knows how many months.

If you look at the critique that's been made of ME2, over half of it centers around exactly that - Shepard's "death" being simply an excuse for their redesigned gameplay systems. And to be honest, I am in that camp myself. They make this lavish intro with my ME1 protagonist dying and then she is brought back to life and then...nothing. Buisiness as usual with minimal references or reflection on the event. I am dying for femShep to finally get that particular bit of self-reflection.

I like your organic AI theory, it does open up some interesting possibilities for ME3 - like who will finally deter the Reapers from their murderous ways? Can it be that it will be our femShep who will have to give up her human body by ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL (sorry, lulz) over the Reapers?

[Rockworm503]

why'd it take me so long to get to this thread?
Anyway after playing 2 full playthroughs of both ME 1 and 2 once with Femshep and another with male shep I can honestly say I prefer femshep the voice work is just better IMHO and its just funner being the badass and so hot (a lot of games don't make the females look so great *cough* Fallout 3 *cough*)
anyway I just changed my sig to show off my femshep love.

Edit: oops gotta fix it i'll be back after I figure out how to put up the banner.
Edit2: ok trying this again
Edit3: yay got it

Modifié par Rockworm503, 04 octobre 2010 - 04:32 .

[Sable Phoenix]

Christmas Ape wrote...

And a fantastic end-of-ME1 photojournal! Doing something like that was why I originally started learning the Mass Effect/ME2 mod process, so as to have shots that stood out from the conventional. Which the console'd armor does a pretty good job of as well, I might add - real "loaded for bear" looking hardsuit. One of the Jormungand Technologies models, right?

Yes, it's Jormungand Hazard armor, available only through the console.  It's actually quite overpowered, as it renders you immune to the Environmental Hazard meter and has more shields at level 8 than a Colossus X.  Basically, I used default armors until I got a level 3 Scorpion, then consoled in the level 1 Hazard (which are about equal in stats) and RPed it that Jessica got it from the Requisitions Office on a trade-in, or perhaps worked out an exclusive Spectre deal with Jormungand itself.  I never consoled a new set in until I had found or bought a set of armor that was equal or better stats, thus when I finally reached Colossus X armor, I was able to mod in Hazard VIII and finally use two armor customization slots.  I got that armor for its looks, but it really does make you a tank, too.

And thank you for the compliments on my screenshot documentary, you and everyone else who complimented me.  Some of them were just good on their own, others took a lot of work to turn them into the finished product, but I put them up in the hope you would enjoy them all.  I'm glad you did.

[Rockworm503]

hehe yeah i just figured it out thanks

[sagefic]

Delerius_Jedi wrote...

yorkj86 wrote...

That Shepard can be "hacked" is disconcerting. He/she must be more synthetic than the reconstruction cinematic lets on.

This is a good point and one of my major disappointments in ME2 is that they didn't really approach this topic at all. Shepard was once a human Alliance soldier. Regardless of what you think of Cerberus she is something else now and I really wish they would have devoted some of the narrative to Shepard trying to find a bit of humanity again.

THIS.

I was musing on this while making dinner (yeah, that's what I do while I cook. I think about random stuff) and I was thinking that one thing that really got shot up with the short-story-style narrative of ME2 was Shep's character development. Since ME1 played like a novel, you got to see Shep go from well-known character X (with a certain background) to choosing to fulfill this great role of Spectre. As you go through the battlefield promotion to Spectre and how shep deals with it, you really see SHEP come in to her own as a character.

But then ME2 all this wild stuff happens to shep and there is ZERO time to reflect on it and no squaddies to reflect with. liara/kaidan/ash, heck, even garrus had stuff to say about you becoming a spectre and advice or thoughts on the matter. seriously, in ME2:

you come back from the dead
get hacked by a computer system
get yelled at by former BFF/lover on horizon
get dumped/slandered by the Alliance
get railroaded into working with terrorists
etc. etc. etc.

and never once does shep get the chance to reflect on it nor does anyone else in the game. it's like we're not supposed to think about these things. i'll take improbable happenings - i like fantasy and sci-fi, after all, but at least follow through on the implications of it all

okay, i'm done now. 

/end rant

[Cypher0020]

Ah I totally agree with the above posters. I don't have Overlord....but I swear those aren't normal upgrades!



that's why Liara in LOTSB is SO refreshing to ask Shep- either as a lover or a good friend about how he/she IS doing....



I wonder if there will be some big revelation for Shep in ME3..... every BW game had it



baulder's gate, Kotor, Jade Empire......

[Fraevar]

@sagequeen: Well said - you're not alone there. I actually hope ME3 will be a lot more introspective, since this will be the final outing for Commander Shepard. This is why I don't really like the rumblings of ME3 being another stand-alone game, because as we've seen in ME2, once you spend half the game recruiting squadmates, the main character gets shortchanged on development :-/

[Gokuthegrate]

I feel the same way. Eventhough ME is my favorite game I am disappointed with certain aspects with 2 mainly the loss of rpg elements and watered down story.Ive been able to overlook these problems by telling myself that 2 was more of a test by BW for the new combat and graphics. I think that now that BW has considered it a sucess then they will focus on the rpg elements and story that originally brought people to the game since ME1.

My biggest fear is that BW will turn ME into another Xenosaga. The developer screwed a game with such potential.



O yeah this is the femshep theread so BW give femshep some more love in advertising and in game.

Its looks strange having the same frame for male and femshep.

[Sable Phoenix]

Screenshot randomness!


"Hey Tali, poke your head around this rock and check which direction the bullets come from, willya?"


"Dagnabbit!  I know the keys to the Mako are around here somewhere!"


"This town ain't big enough fer the both of us."

Modifié par Sable Phoenix, 04 octobre 2010 - 06:52 .

[Nhani]

This'll be long; trying to catch up to multiple pages, sorry about that!

yorkj86 wrote...
That Shepard can be "hacked" is disconcerting. He/she must be more synthetic than the reconstruction cinematic lets on.

L-l-look at you, hackerrr.. a p-p-pATHetIC creAture of meat and booooneeee, panting and sweating as you r-r-ruun through my CooRIdooorssss. Hoow can you challENGe a pERfeCt imMorTAL machiiiiineeeeeeeee--

sagequeen wrote...
and never once does shep get the chance to reflect on it nor does anyone else in the game. it's like we're not supposed to think about these things. i'll take improbable happenings - i like fantasy and sci-fi, after all, but at least follow through on the implications of it all.

Agreed!

Before Lair of the Shadow Broker, I always felt that the one thing Mass Effect 2 really lacked over its predecessor was the ability for your Shepard to be uncertain, and balk under the pressure. Sure, Shepard always kept a focused, determined and unshakable outwards face, but Mass Effect 1 felt like it had more opportunity to show beyond that, from time to time. I realize Mass Effect is also by large an action game and not an existential dilemma, but it sort of feels like there's just these questions one would ask.. at this point we have a Cyborg Shepard with the combined social identity of an entire dead species implanted in her head - feels like at some point.. that has to hit critical mass.

..and I just gave myself a mental image of Shepard starting to speak in prothean in her sleep, soo.. moving on.. (in an attempt to catch up!)

LesEnfantsTerribles wrote...
I selected the name "Kate" as I feel that her full name rolls off the tongue very well. Kate Shepard. Unlike some of my fellow FemShep players, there's no elaborate explanation behind her name at all.

Not that much different for me either, really; I actually had one Shepard prior named Anne which was my very first playthrough; Kate was the alternate where I tried to mix some things up and .. ended up playing pretty much the same way anyway and came to like so much more. Both of them just seemed like fitting names, I didn't really think about it much. Though in hindsight, I think the ordinaryness (*invents words*) works rather well with her mum being named Hannah.

That said, it's always weird to swing by Bring Down the Sky and have a talk with Kate Bowman. So Kate says "So long, Kate" to another Kate. Clearly the Batarians did not expect the sheer wrath of double Kate.

sagequeen wrote...
"For more a discerning romance, try T'Soni..."

Interestingly.. I tried to romance Liara once.. but failed; the first conversation was funny and adorable with her getting sooo flustered, but the two following just struck me as far too serious; even Shepard's lines. I just couldn't picture Kate (well, my Kate, knowing there are multiple!) through all that - no offense to T'Soni (who was awesome in Lair of the Shadow Broker, let's be clear about that) or those who found her romance really engrossing, but to me it somehow felt like trying to romance a calculator. Or maybe a history book.

Kaidan threw jokes and jabs back at you!

Chugster wrote...
thought i would highlight the coolness of glowy, TIM-style eyes in FemSheps..

Holy cats on a wafer, those green eyes have significant epic involved. If I wasn't so wary of meddling with my legacy Shepard save in fear of future import difficulty, I would demand the secrets of this at once!

in closing, this on random:

Iwakura-Lain wrote...

Nhani wrote...
I have a tendency towards rerolling disease, myself; I don't so much have multiple Shepards as I have this one, single Shepard I keep replaying through Mass Effect 1 every so often because there's just some mission or detail or whatever that I'm unhappy with and want to fix.

Your Femshep is prettier than you may think. I especially like the way she looks in your profile picture. Seems all that fiddling around paid off.

hah, thanks! I always find myself wondering if she looks tough enough for the job, but.. I can't seem to find myself deviating much from that look either -- as example, the profile picture is actually an older incarnation of her.. if you'd put them side by side though, I'm not sure how much of a difference you'd find!

As an interesting aside (and why I brought this up) was that - as random - I actually find one of my favorite screenshot opportunities for female Shepard in Mass Effect 2 is the Garrus loyalty mission - the profile one is just before the last stretch before Harkin (you can barely see the subtitles going "I saw something.."), as well as this one moment where she's talking to Sidonis where there's this gloomy lighting going.. actually.. I think I still have some old images left of.. ah yes, here:


I'm not sure why, but those are my two favorite screenshot spots (so to speak) for female Shepard in Mass Effect 2.

[f1r3storm]

Put myself a new wallpaper together last week. Planet background is not from me, though, but still nice.

[Nhani]

Actually, while I'm at it, I'm going to add this because I have a question for the rest of you..

A comparison between two different incarnations of my Kate; I think the old one is the same one as I use as profile picture/avatar, but I'm not entirely certain. My old saved screenshots are something of a mess. Anyhow!



One of the more significant differences is that her face is wider, and there's a reason for this - for some reason (for me, at least) when you make a too thin femshep face in Mass Effect 1, there's certain moments (notably, any conversation with Admiral Hackett) where either her temples, or where her jawbone meets her temples that stick out to the side like this really bright spot, and it just looks off - for some reason it just bugs me, I can't not think of it when seeing it.

There's another weird situation looking from the side and slightly from behind where the one eye you see somehow just ends up looking really tired and weird; I can't quite put my finger on it.

So, am I the only one who's picked up on these things and/or am I crazy in the gray matter?