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[lsmoke]

how come they made Bring down the sky so hard to acquire for PC mass effect?

its the only DLC i dont have and cant seem to get

[marshalleck]

What do you mean, it's free

[Bad King]

Saphra Deden wrote...

CrazyCatDude wrote...

You know, the thing that always amazed me about it is, if you let him go, he doesn't kill the hostages. I've never let him go, even on my Paragon play throughs, because my Shepards always assume he'll gank the hostages either way.

Why would he kill the hostages? He's a batarian, not some shameful human. Batarians have a sense of honor. They keep their word.

He set a timer on the charges so that Shepard would be delayed (while attempting to defuse them), thus giving him the opportunity to escape. It wasn't done out of honour.

[Dream Shot]

lsmoke wrote...

how come they made Bring down the sky so hard to acquire for PC mass effect?

its the only DLC i dont have and cant seem to get

Go to EA help. they'll give you a CD key.


I really hope there is at least some assignment in whch the story is continued if you let him go, or at least some conclusion as to what happened to Balak. He has to die in some way or another eventually.

[Bad King]

Saphra Deden wrote...

Bad King wrote...

He set a timer on the charges so that Shepard would be delayed (while attempting to defuse them), thus giving him the opportunity to escape. It wasn't done out of honour.

I was being sarcastic.

Sarcasm is hard to detect on teh internet. Still, my comment was also aimed at CrazyCatDude who was surprised at the fact that Balak didn't kill the hostages.

Modifié par Bad King, 09 août 2011 - 06:35 .

[lsmoke]

Dream Shot wrote...

lsmoke wrote...

how come they made Bring down the sky so hard to acquire for PC mass effect?

its the only DLC i dont have and cant seem to get

Go to EA help. they'll give you a CD key.


I really hope there is at least some assignment in whch the story is continued if you let him go, or at least some conclusion as to what happened to Balak. He has to die in some way or another eventually.

I have the steam version of ME though and ive heard it doesn't work with it. At least that's what I get from the official steam forums.

[marshalleck]

lsmoke wrote...

Dream Shot wrote...

lsmoke wrote...

how come they made Bring down the sky so hard to acquire for PC mass effect?

its the only DLC i dont have and cant seem to get

Go to EA help. they'll give you a CD key.


I really hope there is at least some assignment in whch the story is continued if you let him go, or at least some conclusion as to what happened to Balak. He has to die in some way or another eventually.

I have the steam version of ME though and ive heard it doesn't work with it. At least that's what I get from the official steam forums.

I have ME on Steam. It works. 

[azerSheppard]

DPSSOC wrote...

Look we all know how Balak is going to pan out, he's either going to be in some dead end dive, completely ruined because of Shepard's actions (I like to call it getting Fist'ed) or he's going to be working with Conrad Verner to ease the suffering of victims of Batarian attacks (getting Blake'd). It's Mass Effect and letting a serial criminal go free is never, ever a bad idea.

I hope he gets fisted then, incorrect spelling on purpose xd

[lsmoke]

marshalleck wrote...

lsmoke wrote...

Dream Shot wrote...

lsmoke wrote...

how come they made Bring down the sky so hard to acquire for PC mass effect?

its the only DLC i dont have and cant seem to get

Go to EA help. they'll give you a CD key.


I really hope there is at least some assignment in whch the story is continued if you let him go, or at least some conclusion as to what happened to Balak. He has to die in some way or another eventually.

I have the steam version of ME though and ive heard it doesn't work with it. At least that's what I get from the official steam forums.

I have ME on Steam. It works. 

OK, I go to this page: http://masseffect.bi...nthesky_pc.html

but when I try to register my ME key for a Bring down the sky CD Key it just takes me to the bioware homepage.

I can download the stand alone installer but I need a key to continue the install but the link to get that CD KEY is broken.

Did you contact EA or steam?

[didymos1120]

lsmoke wrote...

OK, I go to this page: http://masseffect.bi...nthesky_pc.html

but when I try to register my ME key for a Bring down the sky CD Key it just takes me to the bioware homepage.

That's because the page that gives you the key was your account page for the old forums.  They recently got hacked, so they took them down. This problem was an unfortunate side-effect of that.

Did you contact EA or steam?

Contact EA and they'll give you a key.

[Aumata]

Why the hell would you leave him alive in the first place? Even as a paragon playthrough that was such an obvious choice. Killing him means he won't get another chance at pulling this stunt again, a few people who can easily be replace is worth less than a potential thousands to millions of deaths for some silly chance at saving their lives. Priorities people.

[didymos1120]

Aumata wrote...

Why the hell would you leave him alive in the first place?

You can choose to attack and leave him alive for interrogation and trial.  You don't have to let him escape.

[Aumata]

didymos1120 wrote...

Aumata wrote...

Why the hell would you leave him alive in the first place?

You can choose to attack and leave him alive for interrogation and trial.  You don't have to let him escape.

Correction why would you let him leave for the sake of the hostages?

[didymos1120]

Aumata wrote...

Correction why would you let him leave for the sake of the hostages?

I don't know. It's just about the only Paragon choice that I can't see any even halfway-decent argument for. Dude is just way too dangerous.  I've only ever saved the hostages once to see what it was like, and didn't save after.

[Fiery Phoenix]

didymos1120 wrote...

Aumata wrote...

Correction why would you let him leave for the sake of the hostages?

I don't know. It's just about the only Paragon choice that I can't see any even halfway-decent argument for. Dude is just way too dangerous.  I've only ever saved the hostages once to see what it was like, and didn't save after.

Whoever was responsible for BDST's story deserves to be applauded for this decision. It is choices like these that make a game really shine. Let a dangerous man go to save a couple people or kill him and watch the hostages burn alive.... I'm thankful I wasn't on Shepard's shoes.

[tjzsf]

If, as a Renegade, I have to deal with the fact that I those scientists are dead, then my Paragon Sheps should have to deal with the fact that letting a known criminal go and demonstrating that taking hostages work is a bad idea.

Honestly, the problem isn't solved by a simple "Balak failed, so he probably won't be able to do what he did again." Just because he failed once doesn't mean he may not have resources left elsewhere or followers who haven't lost faith in him. And, more importantly, it has demonstrated to those with more resources who are more able to take such losses that if they take a hostage, even the human spectre will let them live to fight another day.

[Aumata]

Fiery Phoenix wrote...

didymos1120 wrote...

Aumata wrote...

Correction why would you let him leave for the sake of the hostages?

I don't know. It's just about the only Paragon choice that I can't see any even halfway-decent argument for. Dude is just way too dangerous.  I've only ever saved the hostages once to see what it was like, and didn't save after.

Whoever was responsible for BDST's story deserves to be applauded for this decision. It is choices like these that make a game really shine. Let a dangerous man go to save a couple people or kill him and watch the hostages burn alive.... I'm thankful I wasn't on Shepard's shoes.

It wasn't that hard, it wasn't that hard, standard terrorist attacks includes sending an astroid to planets, picking between saving hostages and letting a badguy go who can get a WMD at anytime or killing him and losing the hostages.

[Fiery Phoenix]

Aumata wrote...

Fiery Phoenix wrote...

didymos1120 wrote...

Aumata wrote...

Correction why would you let him leave for the sake of the hostages?

I don't know. It's just about the only Paragon choice that I can't see any even halfway-decent argument for. Dude is just way too dangerous.  I've only ever saved the hostages once to see what it was like, and didn't save after.

Whoever was responsible for BDST's story deserves to be applauded for this decision. It is choices like these that make a game really shine. Let a dangerous man go to save a couple people or kill him and watch the hostages burn alive.... I'm thankful I wasn't on Shepard's shoes.

It wasn't that hard, it wasn't that hard, standard terrorist attacks includes sending an astroid to planets, picking between saving hostages and letting a badguy go who can get a WMD at anytime or killing him and losing the hostages.

It's not really "hard" in that sense, no. I just think it's deep and actually makes you stop for a minute to think and reconsider, like the heretics decision from Legion's loyalty mission, for example. I find it to be interesting nonetheless.

[Captain Crash]

I know it was an optional DLC, but the Balak issue is one of those things I really want to see resolved.   Especially with the ME2 Citadel announcement saying he was still at large if you let him loose.   Makes me want to get an end to it even more.


However is that just the price for a paragon, having his name crop up and knowing he can do more evil?  I hope not.

I think even renegade Sheps would like to see if shooting him and letting the hostages die was truly the right decision.

Modifié par Captain Crash, 09 août 2011 - 11:00 .

[KreeCapt]

I like to think Balak ate it in "Arrival"

[Brand New]

Perhaps Ballak will be at your trial to testify against you.

[Ben800000]

I want to know what happened to the Batarian I convinced to leave without a fight by telling him that I'd kill Balak. And then didn't. He might be angry, if not dead.

[TexasToast712]

nvm

Modifié par TexasToast712, 11 août 2011 - 06:17 .

[Massadonious1]

Brand New wrote...

Perhaps Ballak will be at your trial to testify against you.

Because he has a ton of credibility to begin with.

"So, uh, this man/woman tried to stop me from blowing up an asteroid. Clearly untrustworthy. I say they hang."

Modifié par Massadonious1, 11 août 2011 - 06:24 .