I've been thinking of a way the crucible could have opperated so that it could enable the defeat of the reapers, without having to meet the Catylist, and tie in a few more of the Checkhov's guns laying around (dark energy buildup anyone?).
Instead of some bizzare device that wipes out/controls synthetic life, the crucible should have temporarily negated all mass effect fields within its area of effect. If this was it's effect, it could be completely detatched from the Reapers and the Guardian, and still come across as a reasonable creation cumulated by the multiple organic civilizations that were attempting to defeat the Reapers in their cycle.
The effects would be drastic because Reapers are necessarily more depended on dark energy than other ships. Their hulls are relatively easily penetrated once their shields have been dropped, and their thanix-style weapons would problably destroy themselves without the necessary mass effect fields to contain them.
Organic weapons are primarily based around simply magnetic accellerators, and while they use ME fields to enhance them, the basic function is not as intetgrally tied to eezo use.
The negative effects of using the cruicible would be drastic even for the organic force, though. weapons would produce far more recoil, omni-tools would no longer work, and the atmospheric airpower would drop like flies because they are eezo dependent for staying airborn.
This would also potentially solve or exasterbate, the problem of dark-energy buildup that has been aluded to or at least set the stage for a viable means of counteracting future buildups.
What the Crucible Should have Done
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SandTrout
, mars 10 2012 06:33
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Posté 10 mars 2012 - 06:37
Archereon
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I think the crucible could have been used the way it was, if only it had been more developed.
Instead of making the Catalyst some magic space god, make it a synthetic intelligence housed in the Citadel, which directs the cycle of extinction. The Crucible allows Shepard to directly interface with it, and, if so desired, use its link to all Reaper technology to destroy all Reapers, Mass Relays, and AIs (who can be handwaved as having originated from Reaper tech) in the galaxy.
And take away the goddamn sacrifice for the Destroy and Synthesis ending, the latter was really contrived, and the former really didn't HAVE to happen. Also give the option to have Anderson (who lives if you have enough military points) be the one who sacrifices himself to take control of the Reapers in your stead.
Finally, no Normandy landing on some random planet.
Instead of making the Catalyst some magic space god, make it a synthetic intelligence housed in the Citadel, which directs the cycle of extinction. The Crucible allows Shepard to directly interface with it, and, if so desired, use its link to all Reaper technology to destroy all Reapers, Mass Relays, and AIs (who can be handwaved as having originated from Reaper tech) in the galaxy.
And take away the goddamn sacrifice for the Destroy and Synthesis ending, the latter was really contrived, and the former really didn't HAVE to happen. Also give the option to have Anderson (who lives if you have enough military points) be the one who sacrifices himself to take control of the Reapers in your stead.
Finally, no Normandy landing on some random planet.
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Posté 10 mars 2012 - 06:45
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Should have been like Gears 3, big bulp of glowy light going thru le galaxy making the reapers fall to the ground like the locust did, WITHOUT sacrificing the relays. Or something similar because i can't stop thinking about normandy and her crew.
(oh noez RAAM said we need more gears in a mass effect game)
(oh noez RAAM said we need more gears in a mass effect game)
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Posté 10 mars 2012 - 06:50
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So instead of being another layer of control in a system to manipulate and gauge the development of organic life in the galaxy, culminating in giving the manipulated life self determination when they've been deemed ready to make the choice... it should have been a big weapon?
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Posté 10 mars 2012 - 06:58
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Yeah, considering that additional layer of control ammounts to a giant retal-pull, and the choices provided are out of left field, and its end function ammounts to space magic (Merge organic and synthetic into new DNA? Really?).QuirkyGroundhog wrote...
So instead of being another layer of control in a system to manipulate and gauge the development of organic life in the galaxy, culminating in giving the manipulated life self determination when they've been deemed ready to make the choice... it should have been a big weapon?
Do I wan't to win the war with a really big weapon? Yes. Weapons and soldiers (along with the necessary tools to get them where they need to be) win wars. Everything else in the ME series is at least that grounded. Instead we got a textbook Deus Ex Machina in the form of the Catalyst giving us esoteric choices that negate everything we've done up to that point to preserve galactic society.
Modifié par SandTrout, 10 mars 2012 - 06:59 .
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Posté 10 mars 2012 - 07:01
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there are a lot of subplots that I don't like.
