[quote]MrFob wrote...
About the suggestion to have the party after the ending: I am honestly not sure how that could be done. I can certainly try it but it may really be tough to get level to load right. There would also be a lot of lines that would need to be edited and then, there is the general issue of the timing. When would this take place? 5 years after the reapers are defeated perhaps? Hm, I am really not even sure if it's a good idea to do this. Anyway, I'll get back to you on that when I gave it a try from the technical side.[/quote]
Currently what people do is simply hold off on the party until after beating the game, then hold it when the game bumps you back to pre-Cronos Station.
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Also, I feel really tempted to replace Joker's "Come on girl let's show them what we can do" line in MEHEM with "It's Jokin' time!"

Well, not really, just a little.

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:lol:

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Although I gotta say, when does BW finally get a lore master guy for Mass Effect employed? If you listen to Anderson's notepads in the apartment (which are really nice to listen to for the most part), he tells a story how he met a Salarian spectre on the day after he graduated to N7. What the hell? Did no one over there read Revelation? Anderson graduates N7 right BEFORE the first contact war. It's the first chapter of the book. I don't know, maybe I am just a bit crazy here but these things really put me off.[/quote]
Given the Starkid itself violates previously established lore, I'd say continuity checked out long ago

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About the Thessia VI: I didn't get that point anyway. Of course there is a pattern to the cycles. I mean they are ... cycles, right? That term in itself already implies a repetition of sorts which are a pattern. That's due to the reapers. How did they hypothesise another layer of intelligence beyond that from that data (if you look at the galaxy map during that scene, it really does look like they are just talking about the cycles).[/quote]
Dunno. It seemed to hint that life itself was following some kind of grand cycle. And that the Reaper cullings were only a part of that. A pattern within an even greater pattern, in a way. It's all so vague it can be interpreted in a number of ways, so I don't think the presence or absence of the Catalyst (or "the intelligence" in the case of Leviathan) is really needed.
[quote]@sH0tgUn jUliA & Dr_Extrem: The fact that you can shut down EDI wouldn't necessarily save her IMO. If the crucible pulse does something to the quantum blueboxes that are required for AI, it's over. Given that AIs are specifically affected while other tech seems to be able to withstand the blast at least partially and that the quantum bluebox is hardware, unique to AI, that seems the most likely candidate to be targeted by the crucible. It's also the reason why "we can just rebuild EDI and the geth" is not an argument IMO. You can rebuild another AI, yes, you can probably even transfer data (like memories, etc) but you can't rebuild that exact AI, at least that was my understanding of things from the (ME1) codex.[/quote]
I think they're likening the blast from the Crucible as being like an EMP. Perhaps by shutting down EDI (and other AIs, the blast would pass over them without damaging them too badly. Since the Reapers don't get blown apart, but simply fall over. But that isn't necessarilly the case, since we really don't know what the blast does.
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