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[thatguyhasgone]

I've just watched the gameplay demo on youtube & something is bothering me..........The size of the reapers seems to be wrong. ()
At about 0:25 you see a reaper blowing up buildings in a rather slow process with its laser guns, however Soverign was 2km long. The ship here does not seem that big, granted that human architecture could stretch into the sky but in comparison to the collector pod-ship that lands on Horizon/cut-scenes of Sovereign in the citadel. This reaper looks signaficantly dwarfed. The same goes for later in the demo when Shepard is driving away from a reaper & using a gattling gun to fight it.
Secondly in that same scene i don't understand how the gattling gun is proving effective against the reaper or why one would even think of firing a gattling gun at it. Soverign took most of the alliance fleet & if i recall correctly the turian defence fleets attacking it before it went down after about 30 seconds of constant bombardment with its shields down.

Am i missing something??? (PS can somebody tell me how to ''reply'' to individual posts, i've yet to get the hang of these forums)

[Jeth Prime]

They aren't the same Reapers....

[Jessihatt]

They vary in size

[Mrkew]

They don't make 'em as good as in the olden days, I tell you!

[Sisterofshane]

Check out the thread on known features. Sovereign and Harbinger are among the largest of the Reapers at 2km, and there are other that can be as small as 600-800m.

To "reply" to an individual within a thread, just click on the "QUOTE" button that appears at the top of their post. It will create a new form for you with their entire post already quoted within it.

Hope this helps!

[Elvis_Mazur]

Size isn't everything!!

[Darksaberexile]

It makes sense that not all of the Reapers would be the same size as Harbinger and Sovereign, it would be hard to harvest all advanced organic life with only 2km long ships, not everywhere supports landing ships that size.

[ZenJestr]

PetrySilva wrote...

Size isn't everything!!

Why so touchy, Joker?

[Robhuzz]

Like sisterofshane said, the avarage reaper seems to be about 1 km long with small reapers being no smaller than 600 meters and the biggest (and probably most powerful) reapers being about 2km. Harbinger falls into the last category, probably Sovereign as well considering a sane person (or machine) would not leave a weakling behind to see to the return of their entire race.

ZenJestr wrote...

PetrySilva wrote...

Size isn't everything!!

Why so touchy, Joker?

I'm just saying you need firepower too.

Modifié par Robhuzz, 10 août 2011 - 07:32 .

[Dionkey]

It seems that flagships (or ships higher in rank, considering each ship has its own individuality) are around 2km long while the smaller, more common ships are around 600m.

[thatguyhasgone]

Arcian wrote...

Reapers are not bigger than the Collector ship. Where the OP got this notion from, I have no idea.

The collector base is significantly bigger than the collector ship, in the suicide mission we see the collector base ejecting the ship which is tiny in comparsion. Whilst no official size measurement is given, the ship dwarfs the normandy much like Sovereign dwarfs the alliance fleets. Similarly In both Me1 & Me2 we see sovereign and the collector ship grounded at a human colony from a relatively same distance (give or take a few hundred metres). When compared like this they seem near to the same size

[thatguyhasgone]

Thanks guys makes much more sense that obviously each reaper would not be the same size as it wouldn't allow for diverse performances (ie landing & taking off colonised worlds)/fighting dreadnoughts in space.
The whole gattling gun vs reaper still bothers me, i suspect there is reasoning behind it such as the reaper being weakened already, though a gattling gun taking down an ancient highly technological reaper seems odd.

[didymos1120]

thatguyhasgone wrote...

The whole gattling gun vs reaper still bothers me, i suspect there is reasoning behind it such as the reaper being weakened already, though a gattling gun taking down an ancient highly technological reaper seems odd.

I don't know if you noticed, but it was having absolutely no effect.  Hence Shep calling in an orbital strike....which also didn't do much.

[celuloid]

And who else's size is out of proportion?

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Funny you should mention old tech out doing high tech. Back in the 1980s when nations started coming out with stealth this and stealth that, electronic countermeasures, and stuff that couldn't be detected on modern radar, the Soviets still had an old WWII radar array in Siberia, and the electronics were vacuum tube based, that could detect any of our stealth stuff, and pretty much anyone else's as well. It operated on a different band. As part of the treaty they had to shut it down to assure Mutually Assured Destruction continued. So sometimes a low tech weapon might be able to do damage whereas a high tech weapon might encounter the proper countermeasures.

[celuloid]

Neofelis Nebulosa wrote...

celuloid wrote...

And who else's size is out of proportion?

Flamebait much?

Wrong. It's mine.

[didymos1120]

nvm

Modifié par didymos1120, 10 août 2011 - 07:58 .

[Humanoid_Typhoon]

sH0tgUn jUliA wrote...

Funny you should mention old tech out doing high tech. Back in the 1980s when nations started coming out with stealth this and stealth that, electronic countermeasures, and stuff that couldn't be detected on modern radar, the Soviets still had an old WWII radar array in Siberia, and the electronics were vacuum tube based, that could detect any of our stealth stuff, and pretty much anyone else's as well. It operated on a different band. As part of the treaty they had to shut it down to assure Mutually Assured Destruction continued. So sometimes a low tech weapon might be able to do damage whereas a high tech weapon might encounter the proper countermeasures.

Not to mention early cell phones got reception ANYWHERE,and I can't get signal to my phone in my own house,tey had to shut down those early phones.

[Homey C-Dawg]

thatguyhasgone wrote...

The whole gattling gun vs reaper still bothers me, i suspect there is reasoning behind it such as the reaper being weakened already, though a gattling gun taking down an ancient highly technological reaper seems odd.

It sort of would have made more sense if the gatling gun had been used to shoot down rockets fired from the reaper or something, wouldn't it?

At least it would serve a purpose other than showing how immune reapers are to..heh.. machinegun fire.

[Inverness Moon]

It's already been stated that some reapers are as small as 500m while others, like Sovereign, are 2km long.

[gogman25]

And here comes the swarm of Male Genitalia jokes. Oh dear.

[Loup Blanc]

I guess there is some kind of hierarchy among the Reapers and they vary in rank and sizes. Sovereign was one badass mofo among the race, I guess. I sure hope the last boss will be the head of the Reapers and will be gigantic, like the size of our moon or something. Thing is... I have the bad feeling Harbinger is actually the Reaper leader and it will be the final boss.

[bmwcrazy]

gogman25 wrote...

And here comes the swarm of Male Genitalia jokes. Oh dear.

I thought we were talking about ******.