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[Heggy]

Just a quick note Broganisity, you referred to the Lancer as the Avenger when talking about the overheat mechanic. 

Modifié par Heggy, 23 février 2013 - 08:41 .

[Broganisity]

Heggy wrote...

Just a quick note Broganisity, you referred to the Lancer as the Avenger when talking about the overheat mechanic. 

I wouldn't be me if I didn't make errors everywhere!

[Broganisity]

-lets just push this on back to the top after a few little tweaks-

[SectiplaveB4]

For the love all that is holy, do we have any form of confirmation that the commendation, reserves, arsenal pack art work is going to be included with this DLC so the store does not need to continue to download the art every single time?

[DMX0002]

SectiplaveB4 wrote...

For the love all that is holy, do we have any form of confirmation that the commendation, reserves, arsenal pack art work is going to be included with this DLC so the store does not need to continue to download the art every single time?

Working as intended

[Bryan Johnson]

SectiplaveB4 wrote...

For the love all that is holy, do we have any form of confirmation that the commendation, reserves, arsenal pack art work is going to be included with this DLC so the store does not need to continue to download the art every single time?

Even if that was the case it wouldnt help

Since you technically would see the packs without the DLC so we cant cut the server reference, and we also cant have "dual"

[OneCoolCow]

Bryan Johnson wrote...

SectiplaveB4 wrote...

For the love all that is holy, do we have any form of confirmation that the commendation, reserves, arsenal pack art work is going to be included with this DLC so the store does not need to continue to download the art every single time?

Even if that was the case it wouldnt help

Since you technically would see the packs without the DLC so we cant cut the server reference, and we also cant have "dual"

Here is a better question: Is there a practical way to decrease the loading time in the store and will it be implemented?

[SectiplaveB4]

Bryan Johnson wrote...
Even if that was the case it wouldnt help

Since you technically would see the packs without the DLC so we cant cut the server reference, and we also cant have "dual"

Thanks for the reply.

I thought if the game knew the art was on HDD via the DLC it would bypass this wait time. Though considering it's actually not part of the DLC that could raise some issues also.

Ahhh well, I'll avoid mass pack purchases in the future bar when the final DLC lands, I'm gonna go banana's with whatever I have left

[Cyonan]

OneCoolCow wrote...

Bryan Johnson wrote...

SectiplaveB4 wrote...

For the love all that is holy, do we have any form of confirmation that the commendation, reserves, arsenal pack art work is going to be included with this DLC so the store does not need to continue to download the art every single time?

Even if that was the case it wouldnt help

Since you technically would see the packs without the DLC so we cant cut the server reference, and we also cant have "dual"

Here is a better question: Is there a practical way to decrease the loading time in the store and will it be implemented?

The only thing you really can do is to reduce the file size by reducing the quality of the image. This leads to pixelization of the image, which you can already see happening in the current Arsenal and Reserves Packs images(I believe Commendation too) It doesn't look like they have much room left for lowering the quality of the images however, if any room at all. The pixelization is already pretty big in the images we have.

The best way, which is used by all modern browsers, is by caching the image so that you don't need to re-download it every single time you visit the page(or in this case, the store) but rather only when the cache expires(if it's set to expire) or gets cleared.

I'm going to take a wild guess and say that unfortunately Mass Effect was probably not pre-built to cache images, however.

[Broganisity]

Word around the watering pool is that there have been some leaked DLC Banners.

While five of them are racial based (Asari, Krogan, Geth, Turian and Salarian), the other two are rather interesting. These are the are the 'Punisher' and 'Admiral' Banners.

Kudos to Yatsufusa and their thread here. While nothing concrete, they are interesting to say the least.. Especially Punisher, which shows not only a human in zaeed's armor and a special helmet, but a green biotic toting Collector (who looks like a Protoss to me.), assumingly a thrall. No idea what the Admiral banner would be though.

If these Banners really are true, they show us the following:

- The Six 'Main' (assuming more than six) characters are the five we know, Plus the Collector Thrall.

- There is a human in Zaeed's armor and helmet. Whether or not they are the Talon Mercenary is not known, but given the rough appearance of the suit compared to how well equipped the Talons appeared in Omega it is doubted.

- The poses these characters are shown in are likely their Character Select Screen poses.

- The Krogan Warlord has some sort of tech armor variant. It's considerably smaller than that used by other Sentinels

- The Geth Juggernaut has Three eyes. I was right, man!

- Each Racial Banner has three different characters appearing on them. With this in mind, three different Salarians are shown on the Salarian Banner despite there only being two salarian classes. While they all look the same, we might be getting some 'recycled asset characters', with at least one being a Salarian.

- The 'Admiral' banner may be for the base game and N7 humans.

- Assuming the Zaeed tribute character is not the Talon Mercenary and then assuming that there is a third Salarian with recycled assets, this means we will be getting at least eight different characters.

Modifié par Broganisity, 25 février 2013 - 03:54 .

[OneCoolCow]

Cyonan wrote...

OneCoolCow wrote...

Bryan Johnson wrote...

SectiplaveB4 wrote...

For the love all that is holy, do we have any form of confirmation that the commendation, reserves, arsenal pack art work is going to be included with this DLC so the store does not need to continue to download the art every single time?

Even if that was the case it wouldnt help

Since you technically would see the packs without the DLC so we cant cut the server reference, and we also cant have "dual"

Here is a better question: Is there a practical way to decrease the loading time in the store and will it be implemented?

The only thing you really can do is to reduce the file size by reducing the quality of the image. This leads to pixelization of the image, which you can already see happening in the current Arsenal and Reserves Packs images(I believe Commendation too) It doesn't look like they have much room left for lowering the quality of the images however, if any room at all. The pixelization is already pretty big in the images we have.

The best way, which is used by all modern browsers, is by caching the image so that you don't need to re-download it every single time you visit the page(or in this case, the store) but rather only when the cache expires(if it's set to expire) or gets cleared.

I'm going to take a wild guess and say that unfortunately Mass Effect was probably not pre-built to cache images, however.

So if there was no image at all for the packs would it decrease the time?

[Broganisity]

Edits to the first post and some information about some rumored banners, nothing fancy.

[JerZey CJ]

Broganisity wrote...

Word around the watering pool is that there have been some leaked DLC Banners.

While five of them are racial based (Asari, Krogan, Geth, Turian and Salarian), the other two are rather interesting. These are the are the 'Punisher' and 'Admiral' Banners.

Kudos to Yatsufusa and their thread here. While nothing concrete, they are interesting to say the least.. Especially Punisher, which shows not only a human in zaeed's armor and a special helmet, but a green biotic toting Collector (who looks like a Protoss to me.), assumingly a thrall. No idea what the Admiral banner would be though.

If these Banners really are true, they show us the following:

- The Six 'Main' (assuming more than six) characters are the five we know, Plus the Collector Thrall.

- There is a human in Zaeed's armor and helmet. Whether or not they are the Talon Mercenary is not known, but given the rough appearance of the suit compared to how well equipped the Talons appeared in Omega it is doubted.

- The poses these characters are shown in are likely their Character Select Screen poses.

- The Krogan Warlord has some sort of tech armor variant. It's considerably smaller than that used by other Sentinels

- The Geth Juggernaut has Three eyes. I was right, man!

- Each Racial Banner has three different characters appearing on them. With this in mind, three different Salarians are shown on the Salarian Banner despite there only being two salarian classes. While they all look the same, we might be getting some 'recycled asset characters', with at least one being a Salarian.

- Assuming the Zaeed tribute character is not the Talon Mercenary and then assuming that there is a third Salarian with recycled assets, this means we will be getting at least eight different characters.

I believe the Admiral banner is for humans, since it shows the Alliance fleet.

[Broganisity]

JerZeyCJ2 wrote...

Broganisity wrote...

-Self imposed snip! try not to quote the whole thing next time!-

I believe the Admiral banner is for humans, since it shows the Alliance fleet.

Thought I'd written that tid-but in there. It's likely the racial banner for the alliance/N7 kits. With all these races getting special banners one can assume others will as well, the question is:

What will these banners be called? 'Assassin' or 'Hunter' for the Drell? 'Merchant' or 'Stockholder' for Volus? 'Suit-Rat' (that's a joke, son!), or 'Fleet Marine' for the Quarians? 'Savage' for the Vorcha? 'Guerilla' or 'Privateer' for the Batarians? Who knows!

Speculation hooooo~

Modifié par Broganisity, 25 février 2013 - 03:53 .

[Uchimura]

That would be an awfully short time to add in a Zaeed tribute character. I think it's more coincidence.

[Broganisity]

Uchimura wrote...

That would be an awfully short time to add in a Zaeed tribute character. I think it's more coincidence.

I only call them a Zaeed Tribute character because I have no idea what to call them otherwise...sorta like how I call the EDI bot 'Phillis'.

Modifié par Broganisity, 25 février 2013 - 03:59 .

[shnig_1]

The zaeed character is totally the Talon merc. That's just imo though

[BigFresh37]

The one that looks like Zaeed is almost definitely the Talon Merc.

[Broganisity]

BigFresh37 wrote...

The one that looks like Zaeed is almost definitely the Talon Merc.

Most likely assuming the Punisher banner is true, but it feels odd.

Look at the human mercs in Talon. They have some pretty solid armor. the Zaeed Tribute as I shall forever call them? Not so much. It's wierd. nevertheless we won't be certain until tuesday!

[ntrisley]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and make a prediction of the character on the banner being a new human Infiltrator, not the Talon Mercenary (which is supposed to be an Engineer).

[nicethugbert]

Broganisity wrote...
- The Krogan Warlord has some sort of tech armor variant. It's considerably smaller than that used by other Sentinels

Does his belly button show?  Does he walk the cat walk?

[Broganisity]

nicethugbert wrote...

Broganisity wrote...
- The Krogan Warlord has some sort of tech armor variant. It's considerably smaller than that used by other Sentinels

Does his belly button show?  Does he walk the cat walk?

Thank you for that reference and mental image.

[nicethugbert]

Broganisity wrote...
- Each Racial Banner has three different characters appearing on them. With this in mind, three different Salarians are shown on the Salarian Banner despite there only being two salarian classes. While they all look the same, we might be getting some 'recycled asset characters', with at least one being a Salarian.

But, Asari have 4 classes yet only three on the banner.  Turians have 5.

[Broganisity]

nicethugbert wrote...

Broganisity wrote...
- Each Racial Banner has three different characters appearing on them. With this in mind, three different Salarians are shown on the Salarian Banner despite there only being two salarian classes. While they all look the same, we might be getting some 'recycled asset characters', with at least one being a Salarian.

But, Asari have 4 classes yet only three on the banner.  Turians have 5.

Asari have five different classes. Huntress, Justicar, Base Game one, Base Game Two, and the Valkyrie. And only three turians appear on the Turian banner.

So I'm not sure what you're exactly trying to say here.

Modifié par Broganisity, 25 février 2013 - 04:49 .

[nicethugbert]

Broganisity wrote...

nicethugbert wrote...

Broganisity wrote...
- The Krogan Warlord has some sort of tech armor variant. It's considerably smaller than that used by other Sentinels

Does his belly button show?  Does he walk the cat walk?

Thank you for that reference and mental image.

I bet he walks on sunshine.