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[Adugan]

Just thought id share this with you guys

[White_Buffalo94]

I saw it as a way to kill time and still benefit from the resources you gain and potentially find new missions

[Lunatic LK47]

jeweledleah wrote...

I liked it. I found it soothing. I kept scanning even when I no longer had to - it was loads better then riding over the mountains up and down the planet hoping that you run into an ore node, IMO.

This.

[Icinix]

I didn't and still don't mind it.



To be honest - I preferred it to having to actually FLY the Normandy around. That irked me more.



Especially because I wasted time flying to the arrows where I wanted to head instead of realizing I could just go to the edge...

[Lunatic LK47]

****ing forums.

Modifié par Lunatic LK47, 14 février 2011 - 05:41 .

[Abispa]

The actual act of scanning can be addicting in the same way a Facebook game is addicting. Unfortunately, as is the case when I play FB games, I look at the clock and realize that I've lost a huge chunk of time to something that in hindsight seems stupid and meaningless. I don't have that same feeling when I spend hours actually playing the rest of ME. I have a similar reaction to the landlord screens in Fable III, I don't mind it at the time, but I'm ticked later when I see how much time I wasted doing it.

[jwalker]

After the 1st playthrough (back in february 2010), the only scanning I do is when is strictly necessary for a mission. First I used gibbed. Now Shepard gets 400k each when (s)he wakes up in Lazarus Project.

I guess that would be a "no"

[Interactive Civilian]

iakus wrote...

I would like to know what 12 year old thought "probing Uranus" was funny though.

I've been 12 years old for over 20 years now, and I got a good chuckle out of it.

[Vralenalien]

I didn't mind it. Granted that there might have been more you could have done with the resources you get. Sell them for money or something. Now you just don't need to do it in the end. All tho I still end up scanning planets occasionally even efter there's no need for it anymore. It is better than driving around planets with Mako and putting flags on mineral deposit. (That sucks when you just have to get all collecting missions done in ME1 like I do.)

[bergklintmichael007]

It certainly was an original way of finding resources and side missions.

[Dark Specie]

Eh, it was okay, but I preferred driving all over the planets like in ME, actually

[adneate]

bergklintmichael007 wrote...
It certainly was an original way of finding resources and side missions.

If by orginal you mean done a million times to death and then dug up and beat with a shovel a few more times for good measure. I agree.

[DarthSliver]

The thing that made scanning bad was, i dont wanna to do it again when i go to beat the game the second time. Scanning derailed me from the actual story of ME2, made me forget why i was even playing ME2. I almost just turned my console off after scanning a few planets the second time, forgetting i was playing a game i cared about.

ME1 Mako run was funner because at least you sometime found crap to shoot at when looking for mineral deposits.

[Dark Specie]

DarthSliver wrote...
ME1 Mako run was funner because at least you sometime found crap to shoot at when looking for mineral deposits.

True. We could run into a few surpises when driving around on the planets.

[Ramirez Wolfen]

No, I didn't like the scanning. If Bioware brought back Mako-style traveling in ME3, I'd scream for joy.

[weedyfun]

I didn't mind it, because I usually just smoked something and listened to music while scanning for minerals

[Sable Phoenix]

I liked planet scanning!

The first three times.

Then it becomes a tedious, repetitive, boring, annoying chore. I now hack the savegames with Gibbed instead of wasting my time with it.  It's nothing but a timesink.

Modifié par Sable Phoenix, 14 février 2011 - 07:27 .

[ObserverStatus]

no.

[Breakdown Boy]

I wasn't so bad. But Gibbe's editor saves me loads of time.

[Stormy-B]

It gets boring. And it's a bit weird, how does the minerals actually get onto the Normandy?

The system of finding minerals and getting paid for the finds as in ME1 would make more sense, and it would be nice if the locations of minerals could be sold to different corporations on the refueling stations. This could then possibly unlock sidemissions as corporations might pay you extra for finding and removing a known pirate threat in the area for example.

[EffectedByTheMasses]

DetailedSubset wrote...

Lapis Lazuli wrote...

maybe a closeup of the probe impact against the surrounding landscape (or gas giant atmospheric surrounding) would help?

I guess you've never played burnout paradise.

I've been staring at this quote for ten minutes and still fail to see the connection. Not trolling, just genuinely curious as to what it's supposed to mean.

On topic: I like planet scanning, I find it calming, but I also enjoyed the sense of vastness that I got from ME1's planet exploration. I liked the Mako too!

Modifié par EffectedByTheMasses, 14 février 2011 - 07:48 .

[spernus]

Scanning will have to be changed and improved for the third game and it will.I don't mind if it's a short and painless activity to gather minerals,but it was so slow in it's original form.In fact,slow,tedious,repetitive and the interface wasn't much to look at.

I expect Mass effect 3 to have scanning in some form+planetary missions similar to the Overlord DLC.

Modifié par spernus, 14 février 2011 - 07:50 .

[Sinapus]

It's a great timesink, though I found it didn't take too long to get what you needed. Otherwise... I sometimes felt a temptation to render every planet Depleted or cover it with enough probes to match some of the screenshots I've seen. Never really got that bored.

Oh and yes, my inner 12 year old found the Uranus easter egg to be amusing.

It Could Always Be Worse...

Hopefully not ME3 Harbinger: BEWARE, I LIVE!!!

[LiquidCraigor]

I actually enjoyed finding one of the salarian systems on my first play-through, i specfically found a Planet called Wenrum that was named after a salarian 'White-Knight'. I personally love the tales of the dashing 'White-Knight' leaping in the save any and all in sacrifice to his own things and this added touch made me invest a little more in the planetary backgrounds during the mining.