Ce sujet est ferméThat game seems like the perfect game. It is so awesome!estebanus wrote...
... I see. Well, back to playing DayZ again.BatmanTurian wrote...
estebanus wrote...
Hey there. What's up?
Mostly speculating on whether Aria is an undercover spectre or not.
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Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 08:39
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starlitegirlx wrote...
BatmanTurian wrote...
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right, but we usually always manage to fail every third operation, although it might have changed now that they are going back to doing them every week rather than every other week.BatmanTurian wrote...
Arashi08 wrote...
oh btw isn't this latest operation scheduled to be the one we are supposed to fail?
It's pretty easy to beat, especially if you just solo bronze.
They might be breaking up the cycle on purpose if they were being too predictable.
Well, the minute I read it I knew it was a fail because how many will have N7 weapons? That right there has a strike against them. Then they have to have the character to use where carrying the weapon isn't going to interfere with gameplay. I took the eagle on adept human and never used it once. But my human adept next to never uses guns and certainly wouldn't use the eagle. So yeah, fail because right away you limit how many people can play it by specifying a weapon many don't have and might not be able to incorporate into gameplay. I played about 10-15 games yesterday and nobody was carrying the weapons but me. Then today the server kept crapping out, dropping hosts and losing connections and freezing the game in the cycle.
I just moved up to silver games, dying all over the place LOL along with teammates. I think a lot of people who just played more for fun are slowly getting forced to move to silver because there are few playing bronze that aren't new with below 50 on their N7 and most of the time I land in whitebase/cerberus constructs. So now I'm doing silver but not feeling too bad because in all my games we never made it to extraction. Usually wave 8. Clearly I'm not the only bronze in the learning stage. I just wonder if all the silvers have gone gold give all my teammates last night and today were dying quite a lot.
I'm in your predicament as well, phasing into silver but not quite ready. I can solo bronze with a quarian female engineer but even playing silver with friends and using mics and working as a team is hectic.
I never even made it to soloing bronze. Never cared to do it. I probably could but I'd rather have a team and get more points if I'm wasting my time. Points = levels and levels = promotes so that soon enough I will never have to even think about playing MP if I don't want to when playing ME3 as well as all the dumb fetches. Don't mind hitting a few systems fast, but most of them are a pain.
Nobody I've played silver with yesterday or today uses mics. I'm with strangers. My gaming friends are not around these days and I never played A LOT with them due to their schedules, so it's pretty limited. Plus, I think MP play has gone down and will continue to go down until people get something new for the MP. Also, borderlands came out and people are probably playing that along with other big releases. But I really need to get better at Silver. I had been getting 50 kills here and there on bronze so I figured I was ready. Before that I was averaging 25 kills. I'm getting better with the guns, but a lot of gang assaults in silver make it really hard to survive. Seems like ambush city.
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Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 08:42
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Yup, even though it's only a mod, it's a great survival simulator.401 Kill wrote...
That game seems like the perfect game. It is so awesome!estebanus wrote...
... I see. Well, back to playing DayZ again.BatmanTurian wrote...
estebanus wrote...
Hey there. What's up?
Mostly speculating on whether Aria is an undercover spectre or not.
#40454
Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 08:43
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starlitegirlx wrote...
BatmanTurian wrote...
starlitegirlx wrote...
BatmanTurian wrote...
Arashi08 wrote...
right, but we usually always manage to fail every third operation, although it might have changed now that they are going back to doing them every week rather than every other week.BatmanTurian wrote...
Arashi08 wrote...
oh btw isn't this latest operation scheduled to be the one we are supposed to fail?
It's pretty easy to beat, especially if you just solo bronze.
They might be breaking up the cycle on purpose if they were being too predictable.
Well, the minute I read it I knew it was a fail because how many will have N7 weapons? That right there has a strike against them. Then they have to have the character to use where carrying the weapon isn't going to interfere with gameplay. I took the eagle on adept human and never used it once. But my human adept next to never uses guns and certainly wouldn't use the eagle. So yeah, fail because right away you limit how many people can play it by specifying a weapon many don't have and might not be able to incorporate into gameplay. I played about 10-15 games yesterday and nobody was carrying the weapons but me. Then today the server kept crapping out, dropping hosts and losing connections and freezing the game in the cycle.
I just moved up to silver games, dying all over the place LOL along with teammates. I think a lot of people who just played more for fun are slowly getting forced to move to silver because there are few playing bronze that aren't new with below 50 on their N7 and most of the time I land in whitebase/cerberus constructs. So now I'm doing silver but not feeling too bad because in all my games we never made it to extraction. Usually wave 8. Clearly I'm not the only bronze in the learning stage. I just wonder if all the silvers have gone gold give all my teammates last night and today were dying quite a lot.
I'm in your predicament as well, phasing into silver but not quite ready. I can solo bronze with a quarian female engineer but even playing silver with friends and using mics and working as a team is hectic.
I never even made it to soloing bronze. Never cared to do it. I probably could but I'd rather have a team and get more points if I'm wasting my time. Points = levels and levels = promotes so that soon enough I will never have to even think about playing MP if I don't want to when playing ME3 as well as all the dumb fetches. Don't mind hitting a few systems fast, but most of them are a pain.
Nobody I've played silver with yesterday or today uses mics. I'm with strangers. My gaming friends are not around these days and I never played A LOT with them due to their schedules, so it's pretty limited. Plus, I think MP play has gone down and will continue to go down until people get something new for the MP. Also, borderlands came out and people are probably playing that along with other big releases. But I really need to get better at Silver. I had been getting 50 kills here and there on bronze so I figured I was ready. Before that I was averaging 25 kills. I'm getting better with the guns, but a lot of gang assaults in silver make it really hard to survive. Seems like ambush city.
You get challenge points and banners for soloing different difficulties. I think you said you were on Xbox? I play with Banshee BleedingUranium and Jade You should play with us some time.
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Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 08:44
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estebanus wrote...
Yup, even though it's only a mod, it's a great survival simulator.401 Kill wrote...
That game seems like the perfect game. It is so awesome!estebanus wrote...
... I see. Well, back to playing DayZ again.BatmanTurian wrote...
estebanus wrote...
Hey there. What's up?
Mostly speculating on whether Aria is an undercover spectre or not.
what's it take to run it? Besides Arma 2 I mean.
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Agreed, only sad part is all my XBL friends who played ME3 stopped playing MP around April, so I have to make do with PUGs. We usually reach extraction in virtually all of the silver games but my best character is a Quarian Infiltrator and her Widow isn't strong enough for gold matches. If I can't even headshot a Cerberus Trooper and get an instakill on Gold, then clearly my Sniper Rifle needs a few upgrades...Big_Boss9 wrote...
Again, there are no more allied/community goals since Retaliation. It's individual only. PUGs are a nightmare, but Gold (and even Platinum) are manageable with people you actually know and communicate with.starlitegirlx wrote...
BatmanTurian wrote...
Arashi08 wrote...
right, but we usually always manage to fail every third operation, although it might have changed now that they are going back to doing them every week rather than every other week.BatmanTurian wrote...
Arashi08 wrote...
oh btw isn't this latest operation scheduled to be the one we are supposed to fail?
It's pretty easy to beat, especially if you just solo bronze.
They might be breaking up the cycle on purpose if they were being too predictable.
Well, the minute I read it I knew it was a fail because how many will have N7 weapons? That right there has a strike against them. Then they have to have the character to use where carrying the weapon isn't going to interfere with gameplay. I took the eagle on adept human and never used it once. But my human adept next to never uses guns and certainly wouldn't use the eagle. So yeah, fail because right away you limit how many people can play it by specifying a weapon many don't have and might not be able to incorporate into gameplay. I played about 10-15 games yesterday and nobody was carrying the weapons but me. Then today the server kept crapping out, dropping hosts and losing connections and freezing the game in the cycle.
I just moved up to silver games, dying all over the place LOL along with teammates. I think a lot of people who just played more for fun are slowly getting forced to move to silver because there are few playing bronze that aren't new with below 50 on their N7 and most of the time I land in whitebase/cerberus constructs. So now I'm doing silver but not feeling too bad because in all my games we never made it to extraction. Usually wave 8. Clearly I'm not the only bronze in the learning stage. I just wonder if all the silvers have gone gold give all my teammates last night and today were dying quite a lot.
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Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 08:48
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Arashi08 wrote...
Agreed, only sad part is all my XBL friends who played ME3 stopped playing MP around April, so I have to make do with PUGs. We usually reach extraction in virtually all of the silver games but my best character is a Quarian Infiltrator and her Widow isn't strong enough for gold matches. If I can't even headshot a Cerberus Trooper and get an instakill on Gold, then clearly my Sniper Rifle needs a few upgrades...Big_Boss9 wrote...
Again, there are no more allied/community goals since Retaliation. It's individual only. PUGs are a nightmare, but Gold (and even Platinum) are manageable with people you actually know and communicate with.starlitegirlx wrote...
BatmanTurian wrote...
Arashi08 wrote...
right, but we usually always manage to fail every third operation, although it might have changed now that they are going back to doing them every week rather than every other week.BatmanTurian wrote...
Arashi08 wrote...
oh btw isn't this latest operation scheduled to be the one we are supposed to fail?
It's pretty easy to beat, especially if you just solo bronze.
They might be breaking up the cycle on purpose if they were being too predictable.
Well, the minute I read it I knew it was a fail because how many will have N7 weapons? That right there has a strike against them. Then they have to have the character to use where carrying the weapon isn't going to interfere with gameplay. I took the eagle on adept human and never used it once. But my human adept next to never uses guns and certainly wouldn't use the eagle. So yeah, fail because right away you limit how many people can play it by specifying a weapon many don't have and might not be able to incorporate into gameplay. I played about 10-15 games yesterday and nobody was carrying the weapons but me. Then today the server kept crapping out, dropping hosts and losing connections and freezing the game in the cycle.
I just moved up to silver games, dying all over the place LOL along with teammates. I think a lot of people who just played more for fun are slowly getting forced to move to silver because there are few playing bronze that aren't new with below 50 on their N7 and most of the time I land in whitebase/cerberus constructs. So now I'm doing silver but not feeling too bad because in all my games we never made it to extraction. Usually wave 8. Clearly I'm not the only bronze in the learning stage. I just wonder if all the silvers have gone gold give all my teammates last night and today were dying quite a lot.
I need to play with some of you guys
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Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 08:53
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BatmanTurian wrote...
spotlessvoid wrote...
Most of us are using a broken umbrella in a category 5 hurricane.
Man, you are kind of a downer today.
A good person I met once told me: "Pretty much everyone is living with a low-grade case of PSTD, so go
easy on yourself and be wide-thinking and tolerant of others."
I really wish people would stop throwing around PTSD in a way that diminishes it. We've got untold millions of soldiers coming home with it and it really should not be treated as if it's something less tragic and traumatic than it is. There is no such thing as low level PTSD. Sorry, but there just isn't. Overstressed, sure. But not low level PTSD. You either have it or you don't. You may not have ALL the symptoms but you've got more than enough to make you suffer beyond what is fathomable if you have never lived through it. So please, please, please, do not dimish the horror of PTSD by tossing it around like a catch all for whatever suits you.
Sorry if I seem touchy on this topic but to see it dimished in this way is like saying living with schizophrenia is like having noisy neighbors.
I'm not picking on you. I'm just asking to please reconsider all things PTSD related. It's a horror you cannot imagine until you've survived it. There are people who live in this hell for years with it going in and out of remission like cancer for some and ruining your life in the process, driving people you love away, causing untold damage to you and those around you. To see it belittled, particularly in this thread, makes me sad because this thread has quite intelligent people in it.
Semi rant over. Not really meant as a rant but as information.
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Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 09:00
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BatmanTurian wrote...
Arashi08 wrote...
Agreed, only sad part is all my XBL friends who played ME3 stopped playing MP around April, so I have to make do with PUGs. We usually reach extraction in virtually all of the silver games but my best character is a Quarian Infiltrator and her Widow isn't strong enough for gold matches. If I can't even headshot a Cerberus Trooper and get an instakill on Gold, then clearly my Sniper Rifle needs a few upgrades...Big_Boss9 wrote...
Again, there are no more allied/community goals since Retaliation. It's individual only. PUGs are a nightmare, but Gold (and even Platinum) are manageable with people you actually know and communicate with.starlitegirlx wrote...
BatmanTurian wrote...
Arashi08 wrote...
right, but we usually always manage to fail every third operation, although it might have changed now that they are going back to doing them every week rather than every other week.BatmanTurian wrote...
Arashi08 wrote...
oh btw isn't this latest operation scheduled to be the one we are supposed to fail?
It's pretty easy to beat, especially if you just solo bronze.
They might be breaking up the cycle on purpose if they were being too predictable.
Well, the minute I read it I knew it was a fail because how many will have N7 weapons? That right there has a strike against them. Then they have to have the character to use where carrying the weapon isn't going to interfere with gameplay. I took the eagle on adept human and never used it once. But my human adept next to never uses guns and certainly wouldn't use the eagle. So yeah, fail because right away you limit how many people can play it by specifying a weapon many don't have and might not be able to incorporate into gameplay. I played about 10-15 games yesterday and nobody was carrying the weapons but me. Then today the server kept crapping out, dropping hosts and losing connections and freezing the game in the cycle.
I just moved up to silver games, dying all over the place LOL along with teammates. I think a lot of people who just played more for fun are slowly getting forced to move to silver because there are few playing bronze that aren't new with below 50 on their N7 and most of the time I land in whitebase/cerberus constructs. So now I'm doing silver but not feeling too bad because in all my games we never made it to extraction. Usually wave 8. Clearly I'm not the only bronze in the learning stage. I just wonder if all the silvers have gone gold give all my teammates last night and today were dying quite a lot.
I need to play with some of you guys
I'm in if you'll have me. I'm a bronze learning silver. Silver friends I did play with dragged me to silver a while ago because they said I could do it. I just needed a team who worked as a team. I've been with PUGs (sounds so derogatory) for games since end of summer. It is possible to find some amazing teams that way, but few use mics. Anyway, count me in. GT starlitegirlx
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Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 09:01
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Operation: Arrowhead, a DLC for Arma 2.BatmanTurian wrote...
estebanus wrote...
Yup, even though it's only a mod, it's a great survival simulator.401 Kill wrote...
That game seems like the perfect game. It is so awesome!estebanus wrote...
... I see. Well, back to playing DayZ again.BatmanTurian wrote...
estebanus wrote...
Hey there. What's up?
Mostly speculating on whether Aria is an undercover spectre or not.
what's it take to run it? Besides Arma 2 I mean.
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Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 09:04
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Equipment is definitely a gate for higher difficulties. I've seen some fantastic players do well with just about anything, but the flip side of that is that even newer players will rock silver and perhaps gold with X level stuff. The RNG system is awful, but that will never change, because microtransactions. Yuck.Arashi08 wrote...
Agreed, only sad part is all my XBL friends who played ME3 stopped playing MP around April, so I have to make do with PUGs. We usually reach extraction in virtually all of the silver games but my best character is a Quarian Infiltrator and her Widow isn't strong enough for gold matches. If I can't even headshot a Cerberus Trooper and get an instakill on Gold, then clearly my Sniper Rifle needs a few upgrades...
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Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 09:06
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yeah we'll play some time, it's especially fun to play with Banshee and BlUr. GT Snark Shark.starlitegirlx wrote...
BatmanTurian wrote...
Arashi08 wrote...
Agreed, only sad part is all my XBL friends who played ME3 stopped playing MP around April, so I have to make do with PUGs. We usually reach extraction in virtually all of the silver games but my best character is a Quarian Infiltrator and her Widow isn't strong enough for gold matches. If I can't even headshot a Cerberus Trooper and get an instakill on Gold, then clearly my Sniper Rifle needs a few upgrades...Big_Boss9 wrote...
Again, there are no more allied/community goals since Retaliation. It's individual only. PUGs are a nightmare, but Gold (and even Platinum) are manageable with people you actually know and communicate with.starlitegirlx wrote...
BatmanTurian wrote...
Arashi08 wrote...
right, but we usually always manage to fail every third operation, although it might have changed now that they are going back to doing them every week rather than every other week.BatmanTurian wrote...
Arashi08 wrote...
oh btw isn't this latest operation scheduled to be the one we are supposed to fail?
It's pretty easy to beat, especially if you just solo bronze.
They might be breaking up the cycle on purpose if they were being too predictable.
Well, the minute I read it I knew it was a fail because how many will have N7 weapons? That right there has a strike against them. Then they have to have the character to use where carrying the weapon isn't going to interfere with gameplay. I took the eagle on adept human and never used it once. But my human adept next to never uses guns and certainly wouldn't use the eagle. So yeah, fail because right away you limit how many people can play it by specifying a weapon many don't have and might not be able to incorporate into gameplay. I played about 10-15 games yesterday and nobody was carrying the weapons but me. Then today the server kept crapping out, dropping hosts and losing connections and freezing the game in the cycle.
I just moved up to silver games, dying all over the place LOL along with teammates. I think a lot of people who just played more for fun are slowly getting forced to move to silver because there are few playing bronze that aren't new with below 50 on their N7 and most of the time I land in whitebase/cerberus constructs. So now I'm doing silver but not feeling too bad because in all my games we never made it to extraction. Usually wave 8. Clearly I'm not the only bronze in the learning stage. I just wonder if all the silvers have gone gold give all my teammates last night and today were dying quite a lot.
I need to play with some of you guys
I'm in if you'll have me. I'm a bronze learning silver. Silver friends I did play with dragged me to silver a while ago because they said I could do it. I just needed a team who worked as a team. I've been with PUGs (sounds so derogatory) for games since end of summer. It is possible to find some amazing teams that way, but few use mics. Anyway, count me in. GT starlitegirlx
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Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 09:10
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401 Kill wrote...
Maybe it does have significance, but not in that way. The thing is, where are those numbers shown in-game? I think that if this was found before any of the ME3 DLC's were released, this probobly would not have been interpreted this way. I think that it is a coincidence because we are still in the DLC cycle.CmdrShep80 wrote...
So...I was thinking about the prime number reference someone made earlier about 2, 3, 5, 7
I noticed
ME 1 had 2 single player dlcs
ME 2 had 7 single player dlcs
ME 3 so far has 3 single player dlcs
Does this mean they'll stop at 5 or stop at Omega? Citadel and that rumored guardian (or is that the same?)
So far we have 2, 3 , 7
May not be much but just found it curious
Would EC be among those...?
i didn't count the EC BUT IF I DID THAT WOULD MAKE IT 4 with omega still leaving us open to have one more
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Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 09:11
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starlitegirlx wrote...
SwobyJ wrote...
BatmanTurian wrote...
spotlessvoid wrote...
Most of us are using a broken umbrella in a category 5 hurricane.
Man, you are kind of a downer today.
A good person I met once told me: "Pretty much everyone is living with a low-grade case of PSTD, so go
easy on yourself and be wide-thinking and tolerant of others."
I really wish people would stop throwing around PTSD in a way that diminishes it. We've got untold millions of soldiers coming home with it and it really should not be treated as if it's something less tragic and traumatic than it is. There is no such thing as low level PTSD. Sorry, but there just isn't. Overstressed, sure. But not low level PTSD. You either have it or you don't. You may not have ALL the symptoms but you've got more than enough to make you suffer beyond what is fathomable if you have never lived through it. So please, please, please, do not dimish the horror of PTSD by tossing it around like a catch all for whatever suits you.
Sorry if I seem touchy on this topic but to see it dimished in this way is like saying living with schizophrenia is like having noisy neighbors.
I'm not picking on you. I'm just asking to please reconsider all things PTSD related. It's a horror you cannot imagine until you've survived it. There are people who live in this hell for years with it going in and out of remission like cancer for some and ruining your life in the process, driving people you love away, causing untold damage to you and those around you. To see it belittled, particularly in this thread, makes me sad because this thread has quite intelligent people in it.
Semi rant over. Not really meant as a rant but as information.
I'm sorry, but I've also been diagnosed with depression, *and* my mother and uncle have acute schizophrenia, *and* I'm formally studying psychology with a focus on mental illness (though I intend on possibly moving into video game design/writing as a narrative designer for a company at some point). I'm very familiar with mental illness and the study of it.
"Low level PTSD" here does not literally mean low level PTSD, but I'm not just 'throwing it around'. I'm saying that the human mind is VERY plastic and is formed by trauma that can happen at any point, even without being diagnosed with anything more severe. This impacts almost all of us in ways typically undetactable, yet still in big ways.
I have close friends with PTSD and I'm not diminishing it. At the same time, I've seen those who wouldn't fit the diagnosis of it try to commit suicide, even as they wouldn't fit the 'classification' of it until you start looking much more deep into their life and their experiences.
My boyfriend was born in Lebanon during a war. His early years are formed by that with bombs and shooting being heard in the distance, and relatives scrambling to leave the country. As a result, I seem to notice that his exaggerates (to at least some extent) his young year bullying experiences in order to greater justify his aversion to conflict. This stuff happens all the time, and it fits the format of PTSD, yet in SUCH a minor form at it would never get an official diagnosis - its just not strong enough.
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Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 09:16
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[quote]Andromidius wrote...
[quote]Rifneno wrote...
It doesn't work that way. It's all or nothing. Averting a dark energy apocalypse was never going to be their real motivation.[/quote]
I know that. We know that. But maybe the Reapers are so arrogant that they think they can change things.
I mean they already think that its perfectly acceptable to preserve life by...you know...killing it and turning it into weapons to kill more lifeforms.
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The Reapers' failing is morality, not science. Their science is impeccable. They didn't defeat a thousand civilizations by being stupid.
[quote]Davik Kang wrote...
Does your answer intentionally ignore everything I said in the above post? I literally started the quoted text with "I am not trying to start a Hackett is indoctrinated theory" and you first line response is "You didn't start that theory..." Yes, I just said that... seriously, please don't start random arguments when you aren't even responding to a single thing I actually said. Do I need to dig up all the stuff I posted before? Do I need to explain my whole point again?[/quote]
Right. You're not trying to get into whether that ridiculous theory has merit, that's why you're complaining about it being called stupid. Seems legit.
[quote]Much of this comes from Codex entries. Do you remember Admiral Mikhailovich? He is the guy who demands to inspect your ship early in ME1. It is revealed that his fleet suffered the fewest losses, and supported the Fifth Fleet (Hackett's) in the ME1 Citadel battle. Both of these gain the most post-ME1 with their subsequent promotions.[/quote]
That's only true if you let the Destiny Ascension be destroyed. If you did the right thing then Mikhailovich's fleet took some more signficant loses... him included.
[quote]The Fifth Fleet, Hackett's fleet , is said to be tasked with protecting Arcturus Station. However, it is not destroyed, while other fleets are. More pressingly, the codex actually says that Hackett sacrificed the 2nd fleet so that the 3rd and 5th could survive. Is this really the action of a hero? The 2nd fleet by the way was the one that saved Shanxi from the Turians.[/quote]
See, this crap is what I mean. "He made the choice for some to survive instead of letting them all die, he's a bad guy!" By your... "logic", Shepard is a bad guy too because he left Grunt behind to die on Utukku.
[quote]Meanawhile, the fourth fleet, guarding Earth, is decimated, despite advance warning of the attack. So, Hackett's fleet and his alarmingly well-prepared allies in the 3rd fleet survive, while all other fleets are destroyed.[/quote]
Yeah, some advance warning. "Shepard, do you think this is the Reapers incoming?" "Duh." "That--<dead>"
[quote]Note that Anderson remarks that the Reapers couldn't be here already at the beginning of Vancouver. So why is he surprised? Did the forces at Arcturus not really put up the fight they were expected to put up? Why does Anderson say this?[/quote]
The codex is your friend.
"The Reapers bypassed the Sixth and Seventh Fleets at Terra Nova and Eden Prime, flying straight from relay to relay where they could neither be tracked nor intercepted. The tactic was unexpected, since the navies of organic species would never risk coming out of FTL within combat range or leaving enemies at their backs to threaten supply lines."
Not only are Reapers capable of many times the FTL speed of organic ships, they also maneuvers and tactics that are suicide for organics.
[quote]The consequence of all this is that Hackett becomes the de facto leader of humanity, and the person in charge of defending Earth. What does he do? Immediately reinstates Shepard and asks her to go to Mars to look for something.[/quote]
Anderson reinstates Shepard, not Hackett. And holy crap, they asked the player character to do something important? Obviously Hackett is indoctrinated! It's all so clear now!
[quote]In the meantime he's been sitting pretty, minding over the Crucible construction. He then sends everybody to Earth, and makes it clear that the only concern is getting the Citadel doors open. During this whole mission exposition, we see warning signs intentionally uncovered between Shepard and Hackett. Shepard expected the assault to be on the Citadel, and is positively surprised when Hackett tells her to head to Earth instead.[/quote]
Yeah, it's very suspicious that Hackett didn't send us to an impenetrable quantum shielded Citadel that's locked up tight. It's very odd that he sent us to the only place they think there's a way inside to open the arms so they can dock the Crucible.
Oh no wait, that makes perfect sense. Woah. For a second, I completely forgot how everything in Mass Effect works.
[quote]Huh? This is just odd. He's already got a plan to abandon Earth, draw humanity's resources away from Earth, and bide time for... what? Just hoping that his own forces will magically find a ginat spacegun?
But... that's exactly what happened. Hackettis prescient? Liara also reveals that it was Hackett who ordered her to Mars and gave her security clearance to search there.[/quote]
No, Hackett asked Liara to use her resources to try to find something that could help. She did, and it was in Mars, so he let her in.
So you think it'd be a better idea to stand and defend Earth when there's literally no hope of victory rather than pull back and try to find a way to win unconventionally? You'd make an exceptionally poor leader.
[quote]Hackett appears to have engineered himself into being the leader of humanity, and via Shepard, the galaxy. Even in the Low EMS ending, his ship appears to have survived while others were vaporised. Where did he go? How was he so far away that his ship wasn't obliterated?[/quote]
You're aware of course that everyone in this thread believes that only happened in Shepard's head?
[quote]Restrider wrote...
Well, then you shouldn't be lurking/posting in this thread, since it is kind of obvious that you won't find a lot of support for Synthesis here...
It's like going into a gay-bar and then complain about homosexuality.
If you cannot tolerate a thing then try to avoid it instead of looking for confrontation/exposition.[/quote]
To be fair, it's not like synthesis fans are very good at logical deductions like that.
[quote]Lord Aesir wrote...
I just realize what you choose to interpret as symptoms of indoctrination a can also be PTSD and actual events rather than hallucination. Which I find more likely.[/quote]
A literalist touts PTSD without knowing what it is. You know the rules, everyone take a drink.
Oh well, wall of text is too tall as it is. I guess I shouldn't bother with the next 5 pages. <posts>
[quote]Rifneno wrote...
It doesn't work that way. It's all or nothing. Averting a dark energy apocalypse was never going to be their real motivation.[/quote]
I know that. We know that. But maybe the Reapers are so arrogant that they think they can change things.
I mean they already think that its perfectly acceptable to preserve life by...you know...killing it and turning it into weapons to kill more lifeforms.
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The Reapers' failing is morality, not science. Their science is impeccable. They didn't defeat a thousand civilizations by being stupid.
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Does your answer intentionally ignore everything I said in the above post? I literally started the quoted text with "I am not trying to start a Hackett is indoctrinated theory" and you first line response is "You didn't start that theory..." Yes, I just said that... seriously, please don't start random arguments when you aren't even responding to a single thing I actually said. Do I need to dig up all the stuff I posted before? Do I need to explain my whole point again?[/quote]
Right. You're not trying to get into whether that ridiculous theory has merit, that's why you're complaining about it being called stupid. Seems legit.
[quote]Much of this comes from Codex entries. Do you remember Admiral Mikhailovich? He is the guy who demands to inspect your ship early in ME1. It is revealed that his fleet suffered the fewest losses, and supported the Fifth Fleet (Hackett's) in the ME1 Citadel battle. Both of these gain the most post-ME1 with their subsequent promotions.[/quote]
That's only true if you let the Destiny Ascension be destroyed. If you did the right thing then Mikhailovich's fleet took some more signficant loses... him included.
[quote]The Fifth Fleet, Hackett's fleet , is said to be tasked with protecting Arcturus Station. However, it is not destroyed, while other fleets are. More pressingly, the codex actually says that Hackett sacrificed the 2nd fleet so that the 3rd and 5th could survive. Is this really the action of a hero? The 2nd fleet by the way was the one that saved Shanxi from the Turians.[/quote]
See, this crap is what I mean. "He made the choice for some to survive instead of letting them all die, he's a bad guy!" By your... "logic", Shepard is a bad guy too because he left Grunt behind to die on Utukku.
[quote]Meanawhile, the fourth fleet, guarding Earth, is decimated, despite advance warning of the attack. So, Hackett's fleet and his alarmingly well-prepared allies in the 3rd fleet survive, while all other fleets are destroyed.[/quote]
Yeah, some advance warning. "Shepard, do you think this is the Reapers incoming?" "Duh." "That--<dead>"
[quote]Note that Anderson remarks that the Reapers couldn't be here already at the beginning of Vancouver. So why is he surprised? Did the forces at Arcturus not really put up the fight they were expected to put up? Why does Anderson say this?[/quote]
The codex is your friend.
"The Reapers bypassed the Sixth and Seventh Fleets at Terra Nova and Eden Prime, flying straight from relay to relay where they could neither be tracked nor intercepted. The tactic was unexpected, since the navies of organic species would never risk coming out of FTL within combat range or leaving enemies at their backs to threaten supply lines."
Not only are Reapers capable of many times the FTL speed of organic ships, they also maneuvers and tactics that are suicide for organics.
[quote]The consequence of all this is that Hackett becomes the de facto leader of humanity, and the person in charge of defending Earth. What does he do? Immediately reinstates Shepard and asks her to go to Mars to look for something.[/quote]
Anderson reinstates Shepard, not Hackett. And holy crap, they asked the player character to do something important? Obviously Hackett is indoctrinated! It's all so clear now!
[quote]In the meantime he's been sitting pretty, minding over the Crucible construction. He then sends everybody to Earth, and makes it clear that the only concern is getting the Citadel doors open. During this whole mission exposition, we see warning signs intentionally uncovered between Shepard and Hackett. Shepard expected the assault to be on the Citadel, and is positively surprised when Hackett tells her to head to Earth instead.[/quote]
Yeah, it's very suspicious that Hackett didn't send us to an impenetrable quantum shielded Citadel that's locked up tight. It's very odd that he sent us to the only place they think there's a way inside to open the arms so they can dock the Crucible.
Oh no wait, that makes perfect sense. Woah. For a second, I completely forgot how everything in Mass Effect works.
[quote]Huh? This is just odd. He's already got a plan to abandon Earth, draw humanity's resources away from Earth, and bide time for... what? Just hoping that his own forces will magically find a ginat spacegun?
But... that's exactly what happened. Hackettis prescient? Liara also reveals that it was Hackett who ordered her to Mars and gave her security clearance to search there.[/quote]
No, Hackett asked Liara to use her resources to try to find something that could help. She did, and it was in Mars, so he let her in.
So you think it'd be a better idea to stand and defend Earth when there's literally no hope of victory rather than pull back and try to find a way to win unconventionally? You'd make an exceptionally poor leader.
[quote]Hackett appears to have engineered himself into being the leader of humanity, and via Shepard, the galaxy. Even in the Low EMS ending, his ship appears to have survived while others were vaporised. Where did he go? How was he so far away that his ship wasn't obliterated?[/quote]
You're aware of course that everyone in this thread believes that only happened in Shepard's head?
[quote]Restrider wrote...
Well, then you shouldn't be lurking/posting in this thread, since it is kind of obvious that you won't find a lot of support for Synthesis here...
It's like going into a gay-bar and then complain about homosexuality.
If you cannot tolerate a thing then try to avoid it instead of looking for confrontation/exposition.[/quote]
To be fair, it's not like synthesis fans are very good at logical deductions like that.
[quote]Lord Aesir wrote...
I just realize what you choose to interpret as symptoms of indoctrination a can also be PTSD and actual events rather than hallucination. Which I find more likely.[/quote]
A literalist touts PTSD without knowing what it is. You know the rules, everyone take a drink.
Oh well, wall of text is too tall as it is. I guess I shouldn't bother with the next 5 pages. <posts>
#40466
Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 09:16
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You can play with me! Blur and I seem to have a decent reputation.starlitegirlx wrote...
I never even made it to soloing bronze. Never cared to do it. I probably could but I'd rather have a team and get more points if I'm wasting my time. Points = levels and levels = promotes so that soon enough I will never have to even think about playing MP if I don't want to when playing ME3 as well as all the dumb fetches. Don't mind hitting a few systems fast, but most of them are a pain.
Nobody I've played silver with yesterday or today uses mics. I'm with strangers. My gaming friends are not around these days and I never played A LOT with them due to their schedules, so it's pretty limited. Plus, I think MP play has gone down and will continue to go down until people get something new for the MP. Also, borderlands came out and people are probably playing that along with other big releases. But I really need to get better at Silver. I had been getting 50 kills here and there on bronze so I figured I was ready. Before that I was averaging 25 kills. I'm getting better with the guns, but a lot of gang assaults in silver make it really hard to survive. Seems like ambush city.
Wow
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#40467
Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 09:18
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[quote]BatmanTurian wrote...
[quote]starlitegirlx wrote...
[quote]BatmanTurian wrote...
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Agreed, only sad part is all my XBL friends who played ME3 stopped playing MP around April, so I have to make do with PUGs. We usually reach extraction in virtually all of the silver games but my best character is a Quarian Infiltrator and her Widow isn't strong enough for gold matches. If I can't even headshot a Cerberus Trooper and get an instakill on Gold, then clearly my Sniper Rifle needs a few upgrades...[/quote]
I need to play with some of you guys
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I'm in if you'll have me. I'm a bronze learning silver. Silver friends I did play with dragged me to silver a while ago because they said I could do it. I just needed a team who worked as a team. I've been with PUGs (sounds so derogatory) for games since end of summer. It is possible to find some amazing teams that way, but few use mics. Anyway, count me in. GT starlitegirlx
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yeah we'll play some time, it's especially fun to play with Banshee and BlUr. GT Snark Shark.
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I'm in too, if we ever get the chance to set something up I think it'd be awesome. heads up though, I can't use my mic atm, since it's broken. I need to get a new one, but I'll still be up for it. GT Yurusa08
[quote]starlitegirlx wrote...
[quote]BatmanTurian wrote...
[quote]Arashi08 wrote...
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Agreed, only sad part is all my XBL friends who played ME3 stopped playing MP around April, so I have to make do with PUGs. We usually reach extraction in virtually all of the silver games but my best character is a Quarian Infiltrator and her Widow isn't strong enough for gold matches. If I can't even headshot a Cerberus Trooper and get an instakill on Gold, then clearly my Sniper Rifle needs a few upgrades...[/quote]
I need to play with some of you guys
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I'm in if you'll have me. I'm a bronze learning silver. Silver friends I did play with dragged me to silver a while ago because they said I could do it. I just needed a team who worked as a team. I've been with PUGs (sounds so derogatory) for games since end of summer. It is possible to find some amazing teams that way, but few use mics. Anyway, count me in. GT starlitegirlx
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yeah we'll play some time, it's especially fun to play with Banshee and BlUr. GT Snark Shark.
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I'm in too, if we ever get the chance to set something up I think it'd be awesome. heads up though, I can't use my mic atm, since it's broken. I need to get a new one, but I'll still be up for it. GT Yurusa08
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#40468
Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 09:18
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Home run MF wrote...
paxxton wrote...
Thanks but the control in the extended form doesn't work for me and BBCode disappears if I edit my post.
There are 3 numbers in a color definition, each coresponding to one of 3 basic color components (red, green, blue). Each number can be ranging from 0 (no contribution) to 255 (full intensity), and together they blend to form the final color.
Really?
@paxxton - click the far right icon under the full form that says bbcode and type what they said about the color. I like doing [color=red] and just typing the color in it
[color=red] like this [\\color]. Just don't forget to end te quote with the same [*\\color] minus the *
#40469
Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 09:19
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Funny my phone didn't do it right lmao
#40470
Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 09:20
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BansheeOwnage wrote...
You can play with me! Blur and I seem to have a decent reputation.starlitegirlx wrote...
I never even made it to soloing bronze. Never cared to do it. I probably could but I'd rather have a team and get more points if I'm wasting my time. Points = levels and levels = promotes so that soon enough I will never have to even think about playing MP if I don't want to when playing ME3 as well as all the dumb fetches. Don't mind hitting a few systems fast, but most of them are a pain.
Nobody I've played silver with yesterday or today uses mics. I'm with strangers. My gaming friends are not around these days and I never played A LOT with them due to their schedules, so it's pretty limited. Plus, I think MP play has gone down and will continue to go down until people get something new for the MP. Also, borderlands came out and people are probably playing that along with other big releases. But I really need to get better at Silver. I had been getting 50 kills here and there on bronze so I figured I was ready. Before that I was averaging 25 kills. I'm getting better with the guns, but a lot of gang assaults in silver make it really hard to survive. Seems like ambush city.
Wow
yeah friend-requested starlite
#40471
Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 09:21
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[quote]Arashi08 wrote...
[quote]BatmanTurian wrote...
[quote]starlitegirlx wrote...
[quote]BatmanTurian wrote...
[quote]Arashi08 wrote...
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Agreed, only sad part is all my XBL friends who played ME3 stopped playing MP around April, so I have to make do with PUGs. We usually reach extraction in virtually all of the silver games but my best character is a Quarian Infiltrator and her Widow isn't strong enough for gold matches. If I can't even headshot a Cerberus Trooper and get an instakill on Gold, then clearly my Sniper Rifle needs a few upgrades...[/quote]
I need to play with some of you guys
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I'm in if you'll have me. I'm a bronze learning silver. Silver friends I did play with dragged me to silver a while ago because they said I could do it. I just needed a team who worked as a team. I've been with PUGs (sounds so derogatory) for games since end of summer. It is possible to find some amazing teams that way, but few use mics. Anyway, count me in. GT starlitegirlx
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yeah we'll play some time, it's especially fun to play with Banshee and BlUr. GT Snark Shark.
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I'm in too, if we ever get the chance to set something up I think it'd be awesome. heads up though, I can't use my mic atm, since it's broken. I need to get a new one, but I'll still be up for it. GT Yurusa08[/quote]
That's fine.
[quote]BatmanTurian wrote...
[quote]starlitegirlx wrote...
[quote]BatmanTurian wrote...
[quote]Arashi08 wrote...
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Agreed, only sad part is all my XBL friends who played ME3 stopped playing MP around April, so I have to make do with PUGs. We usually reach extraction in virtually all of the silver games but my best character is a Quarian Infiltrator and her Widow isn't strong enough for gold matches. If I can't even headshot a Cerberus Trooper and get an instakill on Gold, then clearly my Sniper Rifle needs a few upgrades...[/quote]
I need to play with some of you guys
[/quote]
I'm in if you'll have me. I'm a bronze learning silver. Silver friends I did play with dragged me to silver a while ago because they said I could do it. I just needed a team who worked as a team. I've been with PUGs (sounds so derogatory) for games since end of summer. It is possible to find some amazing teams that way, but few use mics. Anyway, count me in. GT starlitegirlx
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yeah we'll play some time, it's especially fun to play with Banshee and BlUr. GT Snark Shark.
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I'm in too, if we ever get the chance to set something up I think it'd be awesome. heads up though, I can't use my mic atm, since it's broken. I need to get a new one, but I'll still be up for it. GT Yurusa08[/quote]
That's fine.
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Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 09:21
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Keep in mind that what I just said about PTSD doesn't mean Shepard is suffering from a 'true' form of it.
While he fits the format, he's not fitting the diagnosis. It doesn't match. He may be under trauma, but *everyone is when the Reapers are invading*.
My comment about PTSD might have been in bad taste to some people (and I understand why, and apologize), but my message was only that everyone encounters traumas and even though they seem to move past them, they never fully do. Our minds carry that stuff like a sponge, even when the outright memories of them are somehow erased (hypothetically), and we tend to act on those formative events.
While he fits the format, he's not fitting the diagnosis. It doesn't match. He may be under trauma, but *everyone is when the Reapers are invading*.
My comment about PTSD might have been in bad taste to some people (and I understand why, and apologize), but my message was only that everyone encounters traumas and even though they seem to move past them, they never fully do. Our minds carry that stuff like a sponge, even when the outright memories of them are somehow erased (hypothetically), and we tend to act on those formative events.
#40473
Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 09:22
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While your point is a good one, I'm not sure how it's relevant to what I'm saying - sorry if I've misunderstood.
The slides are improved depending on your EMS rating. You 'see what you want to see' relative to how big your army was. Why do we still get a bad Jacob slide in Synthesis? The point I made is one possible explanation.
It's a separate issue, but I think if the endings are to be taken at all literally, they are from best to worst
High EMS Destroy
Mid EMS Destroy (need a YouTube vid to confirm this!)
High EMS Control
Low EMS Control
Low EMS Destroy
Synthesis/Refuse
my signature on the ending comparisons has the comparison for all 3 destroys 2 controls and 1 synthesis. I also saved a bunch on my favorites. I can try to look for those later
#40474
Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 09:23
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I'm off, wife is on lunch and wants to use the puter.
#40475
Posté 27 octobre 2012 - 09:24
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I think a level 1 Mantis with no mods and no gear will one-hit-kill a trooper on gold. Could be wrong though. Cloaking alone will make it 1-hit-kill.Arashi08 wrote...
Agreed, only sad part is all my XBL friends who played ME3 stopped playing MP around April, so I have to make do with PUGs. We usually reach extraction in virtually all of the silver games but my best character is a Quarian Infiltrator and her Widow isn't strong enough for gold matches. If I can't even headshot a Cerberus Trooper and get an instakill on Gold, then clearly my Sniper Rifle needs a few upgrades...
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