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[CroGamer002]

Encarmine wrote...

look OP, its wouldnt be a fun game, if it went down somthing like

Ground Control: ' Major Tom, can you see anything unusual near the moon at the moment'
Major Tom: 'hmm yeah some kind of kuttlefish in space have just turned up Ground Control'
***Earth Explodes***
Major Tom: 'Balls'

You made my day.

[CroGamer002]

Spartas Husky wrote...

This has already been done... look at the rate 2 mill first day. 7 mill 5 days later. Meaning it every week it multiples by 3.5
24 mill in the 2nd week
85 mill 3rd
nearly 300 mill by the end of the month.
keep adding and the earth will be cleared pretty soon.

But also keep in mind.. their point is to subdue... not to destroy.

I think casualty rate will slow down after a while since defenders will get themself organized and many civilians sheltered and/or armed. And I count on sewer level in ME3.

[CroGamer002]

Jarek_Cousland wrote...

Anybody else hope we dont have some "earth timer" where we only have a certain amount of time to do our thing before earth gets destroyed?

[CroGamer002]

xXSnak3Eat3rXx wrote...

"It's a well coordinated attack."

What..? Really? Are the Reapers going door to door strangling people with pillows?

I mean, there were about what...100,000 immediate casualties when the nuke was dropped on Hiroshima and that was in the 40s! We're talking about the Reapers here - an ancient, spacefaring, hyper-advanced machine race of synthetics. Is that the best they could do? 

Nuking a city is not good for harvesting.

[Moiaussi]

Mesina2 wrote...

Nuking a city is not good for harvesting.

Is everyone captured assumed instantly dead? It seemed a slower process with the collectors. Instead of individual tubes are people just being chucked in a big bin or something?

[Mr. Gogeta34]

I think it's pretty obvious that the Reapers aren't doing a full-scale assault. They're after something else besides killing.

What really makes the Reapers impressive here is that they've been there for atleast a week and are moving seeminlgy unimpeded.  Killing people by the millions while the rest of the world is powerless... and they've been there atleast a week (repeat ftw) 

Modifié par Mr. Gogeta34, 29 janvier 2011 - 10:31 .

[Moiaussi]

If they are after something other than slushies they really will have tossed ME2 in the dumpster....

[TheBlackBaron]

Uh, systematically harvesting an entire species is a pretty time-consuming process, especially if they've got motive separate and/or in addition to a simple Kill 'Em All. Vigil will flat out tell you this.



Besides, think about it: they achieved approximately 1/4 of WWII's entire death toll in ONE city in ONE week. That's not slow, even by extragalactic machine horror standards.

[CroGamer002]

^Didn't like 60 million people died in WW2?

How is 7 million 1/4 of that?

Then again I think you meant that in other major cities similar so more died. Then again Reapers probably killed more then WW2 in just 1 week.

Modifié par Mesina2, 29 janvier 2011 - 11:29 .

[Aeowyn]

@Mesina: We can compare the death toll from the Reaper attack on London with the death toll from the Blitz. The Germans bombed London for 76 consecutive nights and the final death toll was 43,000 with around 50,000 injured.
Yeah I'd say 9 million in the first week in London alone is huge.

Back then people hid in underground stations and cellar bunkers to stay safe.

Also, the Reapers would want to take down our defenses so they can work "in peace" so to speak. Additionally, we have no idea what the casualty count is for other cities. I'm wondering if the weekly death toll is higher in e.g. Bombay and Shanghai than London.

Modifié par Aeowyn, 29 janvier 2011 - 11:38 .

[TheBlackBaron]

Mesina2 wrote...

^Didn't like 60 million people died in WW2?

How is 7 million 1/4 of that?

Then again I think you meant that in other major cities similar so more died. Then again Reapers probably killed more then WW2 in just 1 week.

Mmm, yes. Total brainfart there on my part. Don't know why I thought it was 40 million. *is ashamed* 

Still, it's anywhere from 1/6 to 1/8, still not exactly chump change. When you factor in a worldwide attack, you're probably looking at a nine-figure death toll in the first week alone. 

[JRCHOharry]

Remember that the Reapers have also annihilated the earth's defences, and I'd suppose us humans would want to protect our homeland with a pretty large fleet. So the Reapers have killed 9 mill civilians as well as destroyed most of the earth's remaining forces in little over a week. Plus we don't even know if the entire Reaper fleet is on earth.

[STG]

Looking at it from a reaper perspective, no one can stop them this time so why rush anyway.

[Aeowyn]

Exactly! Why rush it? Nothing is really standing in their way. Considering how it took the entire Arcturus fleet minus casualties to kill Sovereign, the gunships we see flying around in the trailer are pretty much screwed.

[masterkajo]

I so hope you get to somehow decide Earth's fate. Either engage with high risk (outcome depening on choices throughout trilogy) to save Earth or regroup your entire galagtic fleet elsewhere to stop the Reapers but lose Earth in the process. Would make for a though call I am willing to make!

[CroGamer002]

^I'm more for; more you take time more causalities will be on Earth.

[TheBlackBaron]

^ I'm more for "the reaper invasion is going down all across the galaxy instead of just one planet".



I'm glad we'll likely finally get a chance to visit Earth and save our home field, but I'm really hoping that there's more to ME3 than just that.

[Silmane]

I guess OP didn't play Mass Effect 1 or you don't remember a few things.



First off, it took the Reapers centuries to wipe out the Protheans. They didn't even know they were being hit.



Second, we've known(Though only Cerberus has really prepared) about the Reaper threat for 2+ years.



Third, Shepard and crew will be ready. The outcome is obviously up in the air depending on all the choices you make in the game and I'll get nowhere speculating about that.



So, yeah, it's not so far fetched considering what happened to the Protheans. A gigantic empire that didn't even know they were under attack.

[Burdokva]

KainrycKarr wrote...

Assuming he is only talking about London, sure, that's epic.

But is he?

"... reports are coming in from other cities..."  - everyone seems to be missing that line. 9 million casualties in the London area, which is probably most of Great Britain's territory by the time of Mass Effect.

[Someone With Mass]

They had probably shut down the relay network when they harvested the Protheans, though.

[vanslyke85]

Such a dumb topic, 7 million people dead in London in 1 week is an insane number. that's a lot of zeroes and a lot of thousands of people. To Kill that many people so fast it would have to be a precisely co-ordinated attack without any time for retaliation. I believe it is a somewhat slow, gradual, systematic process of elimination. We've heard it before, it took the Reapers a couple centuries to completely wipe out every Prothean in the Galaxy. It isn't easy to just wipe out an entire species without blowing up entire planets, which clearly is either not the way the Reapers do things, or they are incapable.

[hawat333]

We don't know if their goal is extermination.

We assume it's not, considering they've already harvested humans for creating the Governminator DeLuxe in the second game.

That nine million people were the initial resistance and the collateral damage in my opinion, they don't just rush in to kill anyone and everyone, that would be too simple.

[Strugz]

ZachForrest wrote...

90% of london is wankers, so no great loss

I agree , I live in London and this statement = win.

[J0HNL3I]

its just london: "reports are coming in from other major cities, its a well co-ordinated attck"

Modifié par J0HNL3I, 29 janvier 2011 - 02:33 .

[Vaenier]

Why is there even a resistance? Why dont they just drop seeker swarms on the planet and call it a day? Or will they just say the only swarm in existence was on the collector base and the reapers never bothered to bring some with them even though they are the most overpowered weapon in the galaxy.