Adambomb1222 wrote...
Any amazing revelations today folks?
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/10973597
I was very VERY impressed by this if that's anything.
DJBare wrote...
MegumiAzusa wrote...
This is
actually not quite correct. All internal files for the XBox are on the
MS servers, also for certification. The reason why you as a normal user
can't see them are just some flags in the entry for the software and the
status of your account. Same goes for Origin or Steam. For example when
you work at EA you get an EA Origin account that usually can only be
accessed from registered PCs that has access to all EA games, even the
ones not yet released. I don't know the exact procedure for XBox but
from what I heard it was that companies can create a group and users in
that group have access to these beta games. Now if someone set the flag
wrong for a game it's publicly available and not just for that specific
group.
Perhaps, but still does not explain why the writers script
was embedded in the beta, there were just too many things missed by the
time the beta was released, the lack of textures and lip movement being
the most notable, I cannot see microsoft releasing this unless they
were told specifically it was for beta testers, and everyone knows leaks
come from some beta testers, the developers are well aware that despite
NDA's beta's get leaked.
Here's some other interesting stuff from the leak - the catalyst's original dialogue.
Here it's a little more.... obvious, that he wishes you to choose synthesis... Y'know, like sovereign, and harbinger, and saren

<id>706388</id>
<position>42501</position>
<data>This is the Citadel. Where I live.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706389</id>
<position>42502</position>
<data>I am the Catalyst.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706390</id>
<position>42503</position>
<data>An honest mistake. The Citadel is an extension of me.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706391</id>
<position>42504</position>
<data>You must be quick. The war still rages out there.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>-2146777256</id>
<position>42505</position>
<data>-1</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706393</id>
<position>42506</position>
<data>The Crucible is a tool, much like the Reapers. And tools need a user.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706394</id>
<position>42507</position>
<data>You are the user of the Crucible, as I am the user of the Reapers.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706395</id>
<position>42508</position>
<data>I was created eons ago to solve a problem. The Reapers are my solution.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706396</id>
<position>42509</position>
<data>The Reapers main purpose is to prevent organics from creating an AI so powerful that it would overtake them and destroy them.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706397</id>
<position>42510</position>
<data>Not exactly. The Reapers harvest fully developed civilizations, leaving the lesser ones intact.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706398</id>
<position>42511</position>
<data>And the essence of each harvested civilzation is stored, forever, in Reaper form.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706399</id>
<position>42512</position>
<data>An important distinction.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706400</id>
<position>42513</position>
<data>An answer to a choice.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706401</id>
<position>42514</position>
<data>I can of harness and direct the energy of the Crucible.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706402</id>
<position>42515</position>
<data>But you must choose how to release it.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706403</id>
<position>42516</position>
<data>And you must decide the form it's energy will take.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706404</id>
<position>42517</position>
<data>The energy can be released as a destructive force. Organics will prevail at our expense. All synthetic life will be destroyed.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706405</id>
<position>42518</position>
<data>As will much of the technology your kind rely on.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706406</id>
<position>42519</position>
<data>Including the relays you will use to dispense the energy.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706407</id>
<position>42520</position>
<data>You may harness the energy. Use it to circumvent my control of the Reapers.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706408</id>
<position>42521</position>
<data>Correct... though he could never have taken control, as we already controlled him.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706409</id>
<position>42522</position>
<data>You will subvert my existence. You will control the Reapers. You will continue to seek an answer to problem.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706410</id>
<position>42523</position>
<data>Correct.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706411</id>
<position>42524</position>
<data>There is another choice.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706412</id>
<position>42525</position>
<data>My ultimate goal, the exact solution to the singularity problem, is to combine the synthetic and the organic.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706413</id>
<position>42526</position>
<data>Much like yourself. You are already a melding of both.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706414</id>
<position>42527</position>
<data>If you choose so, your energy, combined with that of the Crucible, can be used to convert, and transform each of our kind.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706415</id>
<position>42528</position>
<data>We, will become like you, and organic life will become like us. And the problem of Technological Singularity will be solved.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706416</id>
<position>42529</position>
<data>But you must choose.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706417</id>
<position>42530</position>
<data>But you must act. It must be your volition that guides my actions.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706418</id>
<position>42531</position>
<data>Go. If you falter now, the cycle will continue. I will not act as Catalyst if you do not act first.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>-2146777229</id>
<position>42532</position>
<data>-1</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>-2146777228</id>
<position>42533</position>
<data>-1</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706421</id>
<position>42534</position>
<data>What... is this?</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706422</id>
<position>42535</position>
<data>And who are you, exactly?</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706423</id>
<position>42536</position>
<data>I thought the Citadel was the Catalyst.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>-2146777224</id>
<position>42537</position>
<data>-1</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>-2146777223</id>
<position>42538</position>
<data>-1</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706426</id>
<position>42539</position>
<data>But, the Crucible... it didn't work?</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>-2146777221</id>
<position>42540</position>
<data>-1</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706428</id>
<position>42541</position>
<data>I don't...</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706429</id>
<position>42542</position>
<data>What?</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706430</id>
<position>42543</position>
<data>But that's exactly what you're doing.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>-2146777217</id>
<position>42544</position>
<data>-1</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>-2146777216</id>
<position>42545</position>
<data>-1</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706433</id>
<position>42546</position>
<data>What is it you want from me?</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>-2146777214</id>
<position>42547</position>
<data>-1</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>-2146777213</id>
<position>42548</position>
<data>-1</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>-2146777212</id>
<position>42549</position>
<data>-1</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706437</id>
<position>42550</position>
<data>I don't understand.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>-2146777210</id>
<position>42551</position>
<data>-1</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>-2146777209</id>
<position>42552</position>
<data>-1</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706440</id>
<position>42553</position>
<data>And the other choice?</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706441</id>
<position>42554</position>
<data>Control? So the Illusive Man was right.</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706442</id>
<position>42555</position>
<data>And what happens to me?</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706443</id>
<position>42556</position>
<data>But the Reapers will obey me?</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>-2146777204</id>
<position>42557</position>
<data>-1</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>-2146777203</id>
<position>42558</position>
<data>-1</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706446</id>
<position>42559</position>
<data>Combine?</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>-2146777201</id>
<position>42560</position>
<data>-1</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>-2146777200</id>
<position>42561</position>
<data>-1</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>-2146777199</id>
<position>42562</position>
<data>-1</data>
</string>
<string>
<id>706450</id>
<position>42563</position>
<data>So, I just...</data>
^It's a subtle change, but I prefer the dialogue now, it's more ambiguous, and it gives the illusion of a less strongly influenced course...
SS2Dante wrote...
byne wrote...
>Right click image
>Copy image location
>Paste image location inside image tags, like so:

I've never once had that fail on me.
Fails on me every time. It always works, in the end but takes around 3 edits to do so, with me typing the same thing each time.
Hasn't ever worked for me

draken-heart wrote...
HellishFiend wrote...
draken-heart wrote...
SS2Dante wrote...
Aside
from this being a story, and lots of precedence for people making
decisions in dreams in fiction, the choice is subconcious, we're only
seeing the visualisation of it.
which is why
hallucination by blood loss is just as viable as IT. at the end when the
Citadel looks wacky, it could be that Shepard, suffering from the blood
loss, is hallucinating all the places he/she been to and attrbuting
parts of those to the Citadel (representing his subconcious mind)
@Hoodaticus: did not know only one does that, but still Blood loss hallucination works just as well as IT do you not think.
Except
IT is supported by precedent events and lore, foreshadowing, and
context. I'm not saying blood loss isnt a possible factor, heck it most
likely is, but a secondary factor, at best.
it
could be that the reapers are using a hallucination caused by Blood
loss, manipulating it so Shepard does not think that the reapers are
involved in it
Blood loss causes hallucination, reapers manipulate it. Simple, right?
It's possible (likely even) that the beam strike knocks shepard out and combined with the extreme stress makes him/her much easier to manipulate. I still think it's likely to be a secondary thing though, since we see the other indoctrination symptoms all the time in-game.