I have someting on my mind that i don't really understand yet, Its about the Galaxy at War system in singleplayer mode.
I do understand the fact when you are playing the multiplayer system you are collecting the so called galaxy at war tokens where you can buy for example:
units
ships
buildings
characters
to expand your singleplayer gameplay and even take your multiplayer character to the end battle.
My question is each multiplayer map, building up your char, getting your units. ships, characters will have a impact in the singleplayer game if you choice for this. The thing is if im a person that wants to experience everything i want the best out of the best of the best from my gameplay i want to see every single tinny update,characters,ships, the things you have in store for us in the near future, How do i need to start my gameplay in Mass effect 3. Do i need to start playing the multiplayer first or can i start with singleplayer? will this galaxy at war tokens upload if i started a new mass effect shep walkthrough/or a save from ME1 / ME2
Or if i start ME3 and lets say im playing the game for about 50% and decide to start multiplayer will it happen that i will miss out a lot of i choice to have multiplayer to be a part of my gaming experience. What are the timeframes for example do we have any. As you can see bioware i have a few questions about this and i really will have respect for you guys if you can help me and your fellow fans with this. my applogies for my english or what so ever as i find it hard to light out the point but i hope everything is clear.
Mass Effect 3: Galaxy at War and 4 player co-op multiplayer announced now with video and official FAQ page
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Posté 30 octobre 2011 - 03:52
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Actually I have the same question. If I uploaded multiplayer character - does it essentially upload to all future shepard characters? I would hate that. I would want the possibility of doing a fresh new game entirely, each time I clicked new game.
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Posté 30 octobre 2011 - 07:57
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didymos1120 wrote...
aj2070 wrote...
Now Games Radar is reporting that you can not get the optimal finish for Mass Effect 3 without multiplayer. Can you either correct them or confirm?Quote from GamesRadar.com...
And here’s the connection: War Assets are earned by completing missions in not only the campaign, but the co-op as well. So yes, the multiplayer does affect the single player, and yes, avoiding the multiplayer altogether will hurt your chances of reaching the best possible ending in the single player.
So by that quote we have to play multiplayer, mini-games, facebook games, etc. to get the optimal ending for Mass Effect 3. A contradiction to what the official line has been.
http://www.gamesrada...feature/?page=2
You apparently missed the paragraph right after that:Before you panic, though, remember how the endgame of Mass Effect 2 worked. Rush towards the climax without checking off enough of your team’s loyalty quests, or without mining enough to purchase your team’s recommended upgrades, and anyone could die. Even Shepard. The Galaxy at War system is similar – if you’re as much of a 100% completionist as you were in Mass Effect 2, finishing every possible side mission and visiting every possible planet, you’ll bank enough War Assets that you won’t need the multiplayer. But if you’re not that obsessive-compulsive, the multiplayer provides an alternative route to experiencing the game’s optimal conclusion. The developers at BioWare aren’t punishing you… they’re giving you options.
Yes, it could be worded better, but they do know it's not required.
The developers at bioware aren't punishing you... they're pushing you... to buy the game new... and install ea origin...
So actually they do punish you. But in the real world.
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Posté 30 octobre 2011 - 08:57
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EA and their freaking spyware. They can blow off. Yes, I said "blow off" to keep it relatively classy.
Yes, bioware/EA's new lapdog is punishing you for not using this online code crap. If it was truly "optional," it wouldn't be a blatant, direct assault on the used game market.
Yes, bioware/EA's new lapdog is punishing you for not using this online code crap. If it was truly "optional," it wouldn't be a blatant, direct assault on the used game market.
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Posté 31 octobre 2011 - 09:37
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What's the very first thing Casey says in the video? "Mass Effect 3 is the best place to start". Trust ME marketing to bring up that little tidbit in even the most irrelevant context.
Marketing is ****ing ruthless.
Marketing is ****ing ruthless.
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Posté 31 octobre 2011 - 09:44
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Gibb_Shepard wrote...
What's the very first thing Casey says in the video? "Mass Effect 3 is the best place to start". Trust ME marketing to bring up that little tidbit in even the most irrelevant context.
Marketing is ****ing ruthless.
Um, no, he didn't. He actually said "Mass Effect 3 is really a great place to start". But yeah, obviously the point of this video was marketing.
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Posté 01 novembre 2011 - 06:04
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Surprisingly, BioWare's marketing productions focus on marketing.
#2108
Posté 01 novembre 2011 - 11:29
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Just in case anyone was wondering why Multiplayer is in ME3, or just in case people still think it wasn't forced on them by EA...
http://www.gamespot....newstop;title;6
http://www.gamespot....newstop;title;6
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Posté 02 novembre 2011 - 01:29
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iakus wrote...
You don't need to be anywhere near 100% completionist to get the optimal endings in ME1 or ME2.
I think the important point to take from his comparison is that he's saying that if you're as much of a completionist as you were in ME2, you need not worry. "Completionism" in ME2 meant loyalty missions and scanning a few planets to get the best possible upgrades. While that may have been a grind, it certainly wasn't anything which required an excessive amount of effort, especially for anyone importing an ME1 Shepard. We still need more information to go on.
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Posté 02 novembre 2011 - 04:13
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Il Divo wrote...
iakus wrote...
You don't need to be anywhere near 100% completionist to get the optimal endings in ME1 or ME2.
I think the important point to take from his comparison is that he's saying that if you're as much of a completionist as you were in ME2, you need not worry. "Completionism" in ME2 meant loyalty missions and scanning a few planets to get the best possible upgrades. While that may have been a grind, it certainly wasn't anything which required an excessive amount of effort, especially for anyone importing an ME1 Shepard. We still need more information to go on.
Maybe, but again, phrases like "100% completionist", "every possible planet" "every possible side mission". and "obsessive compulsive" suggest this time around it will be more than that.
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Posté 02 novembre 2011 - 04:34
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So what? He never said you need to do everything to get the bast out of the game.iakus wrote...
Il Divo wrote...
iakus wrote...
You don't need to be anywhere near 100% completionist to get the optimal endings in ME1 or ME2.
I think the important point to take from his comparison is that he's saying that if you're as much of a completionist as you were in ME2, you need not worry. "Completionism" in ME2 meant loyalty missions and scanning a few planets to get the best possible upgrades. While that may have been a grind, it certainly wasn't anything which required an excessive amount of effort, especially for anyone importing an ME1 Shepard. We still need more information to go on.
Maybe, but again, phrases like "100% completionist", "every possible planet" "every possible side mission". and "obsessive compulsive" suggest this time around it will be more than that.
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Posté 02 novembre 2011 - 04:46
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I know if you complete everything in mass effect 3 you get the perfect ending, which im guessing is shepard defeating the reapers and walking off into the sunset kinda stuff..
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Posté 02 novembre 2011 - 05:30
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iakus wrote...
Il Divo wrote...
iakus wrote...
You don't need to be anywhere near 100% completionist to get the optimal endings in ME1 or ME2.
I think the important point to take from his comparison is that he's saying that if you're as much of a completionist as you were in ME2, you need not worry. "Completionism" in ME2 meant loyalty missions and scanning a few planets to get the best possible upgrades. While that may have been a grind, it certainly wasn't anything which required an excessive amount of effort, especially for anyone importing an ME1 Shepard. We still need more information to go on.
Maybe, but again, phrases like "100% completionist", "every possible planet" "every possible side mission". and "obsessive compulsive" suggest this time around it will be more than that.
Again, maybe, but that he used Mass Effect 2 as his source of comparison also begs the question: "What does he consider 100% completionist?" If he thinks of ME2 as such, even if it's not by our standards, then we have less reason to believe we need absolute perfection for the best possible ending.
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Posté 02 novembre 2011 - 05:32
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i really hope there is split screen, have they announced anything about it yet?
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Posté 02 novembre 2011 - 05:41
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Bioware NEEDS to add more races because right now my biggest concern is how each race is tailored for one class so groups will only except certain combinations=no flexibility
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Posté 02 novembre 2011 - 10:34
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Il Divo wrote...
iakus wrote...
Il Divo wrote...
iakus wrote...
You don't need to be anywhere near 100% completionist to get the optimal endings in ME1 or ME2.
I think the important point to take from his comparison is that he's saying that if you're as much of a completionist as you were in ME2, you need not worry. "Completionism" in ME2 meant loyalty missions and scanning a few planets to get the best possible upgrades. While that may have been a grind, it certainly wasn't anything which required an excessive amount of effort, especially for anyone importing an ME1 Shepard. We still need more information to go on.
Maybe, but again, phrases like "100% completionist", "every possible planet" "every possible side mission". and "obsessive compulsive" suggest this time around it will be more than that.
Again, maybe, but that he used Mass Effect 2 as his source of comparison also begs the question: "What does he consider 100% completionist?" If he thinks of ME2 as such, even if it's not by our standards, then we have less reason to believe we need absolute perfection for the best possible ending.
Well I know that with ME2 you can get the "best ending" without doing a single side mission. And by "side mission" I mean anything from the "assignments" category. You don't have to do a single N7 mission, any of the "talk to this person standing 10 feet away" missions on any of the hub worlds. None of the lame cameo missions. Just do teh "Mission" category stuff, and you can get everyone out alive.
Same with ME1. The only one that you might want to do to save Wrex's life is get his armor. But even that could be gotten around with blue or red talk.
Maybe it will be no worse than these two. But the way it's being presented tells me it's not.
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Posté 02 novembre 2011 - 10:49
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I'm interested in this. I think it could honestly be a good way for people to explore classes and the galaxy at whole. I don't want to have to restart the game six times to figure out what I want from my Shepard, as there are pre built sets that I can use.
Plus, this'll be different from Shepard missions. I personally like the "hold the line" style of missions, and I think that it could be an interesting co op experience. As opposed to playing four identical dudes, you can have your soldier providing covering fire, your biotic screwing physics up one side and down the other, your tech specialist completing the hacking and disarming manuvers, and one wild card.
Not to mention you won't have to rely on the AI. I've seen a few too many Zaeeds stand there blankly while I was being pumped full of plasma and a few too many Tali's accidentally fusing with the level geometry.
Plus, this'll be different from Shepard missions. I personally like the "hold the line" style of missions, and I think that it could be an interesting co op experience. As opposed to playing four identical dudes, you can have your soldier providing covering fire, your biotic screwing physics up one side and down the other, your tech specialist completing the hacking and disarming manuvers, and one wild card.
Not to mention you won't have to rely on the AI. I've seen a few too many Zaeeds stand there blankly while I was being pumped full of plasma and a few too many Tali's accidentally fusing with the level geometry.
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Posté 03 novembre 2011 - 02:39
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I'm excited for this, but as you have said in video and elsewhere that it won't comprimise the campaign, it better not, because I've seen it: single player game for a game or two then featuring multiplayer and then the campaign is either too short or just sucks, so please Bioware don't let this happen.
I might know the solution (which might already be happening as we speak), have the multiplayer action on a completely seperate disc wihch would have the multiplayer and/or the 'everything else' features, don't have it on the campaign discs. We all know that Mass Effect 3 will have more than 1 disc because ME II had 2 discs. Which to make this epic story go with a bang I have a feeling that ME III will have 3 discs for the campaign. Since there is multiplayer you might as well have a fourth (or third if your really not having 3 discs for the campaign only, which would be sad :
) disc and have that awesome multiplayer experience on a completely different disc than the campaign, it would only make it fair because and so you can get the full potential on the campaign. Do something like that so we know for a fact that the capaign won't be comprimised because the multiplayer takes up too much space on one of the discs so you don't have to take out awesome content from the campaign.
I might know the solution (which might already be happening as we speak), have the multiplayer action on a completely seperate disc wihch would have the multiplayer and/or the 'everything else' features, don't have it on the campaign discs. We all know that Mass Effect 3 will have more than 1 disc because ME II had 2 discs. Which to make this epic story go with a bang I have a feeling that ME III will have 3 discs for the campaign. Since there is multiplayer you might as well have a fourth (or third if your really not having 3 discs for the campaign only, which would be sad :
) disc and have that awesome multiplayer experience on a completely different disc than the campaign, it would only make it fair because and so you can get the full potential on the campaign. Do something like that so we know for a fact that the capaign won't be comprimised because the multiplayer takes up too much space on one of the discs so you don't have to take out awesome content from the campaign.
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Posté 03 novembre 2011 - 03:28
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let me get this stright if you play multiplayer, you do NOT have to do the side quest in single player mod. is this right
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Posté 03 novembre 2011 - 03:42
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Airell wrote...
let me get this stright if you play multiplayer, you do NOT have to do the side quest in single player mod. is this right
Correct. If you play multiplayer you can max out your readiness without needing to do all the sidequests. The reciprocal is also true: you can max out your readiness through sidequests and need never touch multiplayer. They are two paths to the same goal.
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Posté 03 novembre 2011 - 06:51
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I read about this in OXM a while back and the only things that could cross my mind were:
Coop = mining
Gallaxy at War = let's be like gears of war
.....and then they started doing twitter promos with gears of war DLC giveaways so it seems pretty clear what they're playing at. The fact is BioWare is expanding with more studios and developments and all these cost lots of tens of millions of dollars so luring the large numbers of well educated 1337 kids that value gunz gears fans with chainsaw gunz gears like content and gameplay is likely part of the marketing strategy to make more money.
Aside from that the way they have constantly repeated that the single player experrience has totally not been affected at all has successfully managed to convince me that we should indeed expect drastic changes such as story simpliffication to make it easily undertandable to the brilliant new target audience.
Give it another few years and I would not be surprized to see Bioware become an exclusively shooter game developer with grand new titles like Gears of Modern Warfare......with badazz dudes and chainsaw guz.....that fire badazz chainsaws....cuz itz 1337.
Coop = mining
Gallaxy at War = let's be like gears of war
.....and then they started doing twitter promos with gears of war DLC giveaways so it seems pretty clear what they're playing at. The fact is BioWare is expanding with more studios and developments and all these cost lots of tens of millions of dollars so luring the large numbers of
Aside from that the way they have constantly repeated that the single player experrience has totally not been affected at all has successfully managed to convince me that we should indeed expect drastic changes such as story simpliffication to make it easily undertandable to the brilliant new target audience.
Give it another few years and I would not be surprized to see Bioware become an exclusively shooter game developer with grand new titles like Gears of Modern Warfare......with badazz dudes and chainsaw guz.....that fire badazz chainsaws....cuz itz 1337.
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Posté 04 novembre 2011 - 06:15
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Guys, new interview.
http://bioware.wordpress.com/
And this phrase in particular:
"...but I can say there will be a lot of interesting races that you may not expect to be able to play as because they wouldn’t normally be looked upon as characters who are for the fight normally."
Also, much clarification regarding internet activation and offline co-op.
http://bioware.wordpress.com/
And this phrase in particular:
"...but I can say there will be a lot of interesting races that you may not expect to be able to play as because they wouldn’t normally be looked upon as characters who are for the fight normally."
Also, much clarification regarding internet activation and offline co-op.
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Posté 05 novembre 2011 - 05:38
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So having seen the leaked and CLEARLY UNFINISHED beta footage and screens, I'm somewhat disappointed with the race choices for multiplayer.
The biggest problem I have? No Krogan vanguards. The most iconic Krogan from the series was, in effect, a vanguard, and it also fits for them to be the "close combat" class.
Honestly? Here's how I think the race distribution should be.
Asari: All biotic classes (Vanguard, sentinel, adept), maybe soldier
Quarian: All non-biotic classes (Engineer, infiltrator, soldier), due to Eezo being too precious to waste on creating biotics
Krogan: All non-tech classes, maybe not adept (Which pretty much just leaves soldier and vanguard). Ratch and the Krogan Engineer imply that technical knowledge is extremely rudimentary amongst the Krogan, plus I can't see a Krogan sitting back and using a sniper rifle
Salarian: Adept, engineer, sentinel, infiltrator. Salarians don't really have "soldiers", at first I was thinking about eschewing all three combat classes but I figured the infiltrator's cloaking and methods of combat really do fit them.
Drell: All classes
Turians: All classes
Humans: All classes.
The biggest problem I have? No Krogan vanguards. The most iconic Krogan from the series was, in effect, a vanguard, and it also fits for them to be the "close combat" class.
Honestly? Here's how I think the race distribution should be.
Asari: All biotic classes (Vanguard, sentinel, adept), maybe soldier
Quarian: All non-biotic classes (Engineer, infiltrator, soldier), due to Eezo being too precious to waste on creating biotics
Krogan: All non-tech classes, maybe not adept (Which pretty much just leaves soldier and vanguard). Ratch and the Krogan Engineer imply that technical knowledge is extremely rudimentary amongst the Krogan, plus I can't see a Krogan sitting back and using a sniper rifle
Salarian: Adept, engineer, sentinel, infiltrator. Salarians don't really have "soldiers", at first I was thinking about eschewing all three combat classes but I figured the infiltrator's cloaking and methods of combat really do fit them.
Drell: All classes
Turians: All classes
Humans: All classes.
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Posté 05 novembre 2011 - 02:03
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Even with the devs trying to calm this forum down i still expect Mass Effect 3 to be **** the way it's going, I don't agree with the marketing at all and I am having a hard time expecting the game to be awesome. Atleast if it is **** then I won't be as disappointed as everyone else and if I am wrong then I will be happily surprised. Once doubt crawls into my head I can't get rid of it.
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Posté 05 novembre 2011 - 04:56
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I tried a Co-op mission today at GameX here in sweden and i can say it gonna be a great asset to the game then iit comes out next year:D
