Mass Effect Sexy Time Is Back!

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Elliot_G

9 years ago

SEXY TIMES, YEAH!!!

Elliot_G

9 years ago

Not every ending destroys the relays. The Paragon blue ending fixes the relays in the aftermath scenes.

ShilohCyan

9 years ago

Still would take a while for each corner of the galaxy to rebuild ships, communication devices, rebuild their own relay, communicate with other relays to see whose work that they can travel to, travel to the nearest working ones to repair the broken ones several light years away... It would take at least a few decades.

DarkTempler7

9 years ago

They could just make a Mass Effect keep thing to handle the diffent endings. Since we're in a different Galaxy and super far in the future from the end of 3, most of what you do won't matter until you maybe recontact the Milky Way.

DarkTempler7

9 years ago

Also from what I remember, the only major talk about N7 in the actual game was if you talked to Vega enough. And the romance stuff from Andromeda sounds like Dragon Age 2, which suprises me given how poorly received the game was, including that aspect of the game.

ShilohCyan

9 years ago

If they imported your ending to the new games, then they'd still need an original organic, husk, and synthesized texture for every single character.

DarkTempler7

9 years ago

@DavidtheWavid

Not unless they bring people from the Milky Way to Andromeda in a reasonable amount of time. The ending stuff from ME3 was carried through the Mass Relays, meaning the ships were probably out of range.

ShilohCyan

9 years ago

So if they were out of range of The Crucible's blast, no matter when they leave they're not affected by the ending of Mass Effect 3. They wouldn't know what the different colors of energy mean. They'd be out of range of communications.

Regardless, we know they left before the end of ME3. This debate is pointless.

ShilohCyan

9 years ago

Just because there are four ark ships and four council races doesn't mean there's only one species per ship. There could be Krogans and Drell (Thane's race) which are near extinction, and other non-council races like Elcor and Vorcha and Volus sprinkled throughout. In fact, if they're trying to save Milky Way life, why WOULDN'T they send along Drell and Krogan?! I just hope we see Quarians. Their expertise on living on ships would seriously help the initiative.

And maybe game 1 will follow one sibling, then the second game shows what the other sibling was doing. One of them dies, and the third game follows the second one further into the timeline.

Ashley

9 years ago

You can save Mordin in Mass Effect 3, but in order for that to happen, Wrex has to die in Mass Effect 1. That's what I was referring to.

ShilohCyan

9 years ago

@Ashley Wait, WHAT?! I've played through so many times, read so many things that say Mordin dies no matter what. Holy... I... what?! Oh my God. Every single one of my playthroughs is a lie. I apologize for correcting you. I apologize so hard.

aisultan1996

9 years ago

Even though we know Krogans didn't send a ship of their own to Andromeda there was a 100% a Krogan somewhere in the footage they released, whether or not it will make it to the game is anyone's guess though.

aisultan1996

9 years ago

I think 600 years is a long time, there was a marvel comic where this dude is put into stasis and sent somewhere just like in the plot of andromeda, but by the time he gets there in his outdated little spaceship and comes out of stasis humanity has developed far superior tech and made it there before him. Who's to say that won't happen in Andromeda and who's to say Krogans didn't send anyone later in a superior ship that could get there before or slightly after those who took off right after mass effect 2. Also I hope Bioware does a Bethesda and choose a cannonical outcome of the original trilogy.

ShilohCyan

9 years ago

I just did a bunch of math involving the Normandy's speed at the beginning of ME1 and the mass relays and how close the Milky Way and Andromeda will be in 2783 just to realize all you need to do is divide 2.5 million light years between our galaxies by 600 years to see the fleet is travelling at more than 10 times the speed of light. I seriously doubt any ships in the future can do much better than that.

But the thing is, each ark ship being one council race is pure speculation. If we're preserving Milky Way life, it seems a bit arrogant that humans who JUST joined the galaxy 30 years before get to survive, while Hanar, Volus, Krogan, Elcor, Quarian, Drell, and Vorcha can just go to hell. Hanar wouldn't want to leave the galaxy of the "Enkindlers" anyway, but why wouldn't they send Drell and Krogan if they're trying to preserve life, and why not bring a few Quarians who know how to manage life on a ship for extended periods of time, who can count this as their pilgrimmage and come back with something of value 1200+ years later (Only to find Rannoch fully settled) (And I know it's supposed to be a one-way trip. I'm just saying.)

But yeah. There's no reason Krogans wouldn't come on the initial expedition. Most of them accepted that their race was fucked.

zechio

9 years ago

"more than 10 times the speed of light. I seriously doubt any ships in the future can do much better than that."

Why not? At the point you're talking about FTL, what's to say you can't just keep increasing it? Especially when you are talking about hundreds of years to get those increases. If we compare 1800 to modern times, a mere 216 years apart, we went from about 40mph being the max, to a bit over 36,000mph.

It's actually a well known problem in space exploration. As time goes on, we have gotten faster and faster. With such vast distances, and long time scales, it can very easily be better to just wait a bit.

Consider the ME:A case. It will take the arks 600 years to reach Andromeda. What if in 250 years, they double their speed? They arrive 50 years BEFORE the arks. That's with a very generous 250 years to merely double the speed. Now consider a comparable speed increase to that in real life: 200 years for 900x the speed. The entire trip would take just 8 months, arriving about 400 years before the arks.

ShilohCyan

9 years ago

But how quickly can the systems track themselves? Without any sensors to track stars, they can only rely on math to get them there, that being a fraction off in one variable could end the expedition any number of ways.

moultonlava

9 years ago

Ryan they upscale Xbox one S to 4K on 4K tvs

moultonlava

9 years ago

Ryan the PS4 pro doesn't run games at true 4K. They use techniques like checker boarding. In that case it's double the resolution of 1080p.

ReckonBallZ

9 years ago

Elon Musk through Tim Urban informed me on Twitter about Fermi's Paradox 2 years ago. Thereafter, I was on board with the ending to ME3. In case you missed it, here it is. Mass Effect is an awesome series! I only played Skyrim more than it (in total hours).

zechio

9 years ago

Ryan, I am a bit disappoint. I think it was even you that recently mentioned that you can absolutely get a lot of the benefits of a 4k online video on a 1080p monitor. Even 8k looks better, just because of the extreme compression companies have to use for them to be viable. As such, I would love if you could even just up-Res your videos to 4 and 8k before uploading:) It pretty much takes an 8k stream to get equal to just regular old 1080p from an uncompressed source like a Blu-Ray.

As for the bandwidth side of things, most people actually can stream it. Even as bad as the US is, most places have enough to watch 4k@30, with quite a lot able to do 4k@60. I would imagine your viewers tend to skew towards those with higher speeds than the average.

Interestingly, it's actually the CPU that is most peoples limiting factor. My old Core 2 quad QX6700 OCed to 3 GHZ, couldn't manage 1080@60 videos. My new i7-6700 however, does 8k@60 perfectly, so the transition is indeed happening now. ( I was kind of surprised it seems to be so heavily on the CPU too, not video card. ) We see the same with the consoles as well of course.

AbstractSpaces

9 years ago

If anyone is thinking about replaying the trilogy (or even just ME3) but has a bad memory of the ending, I absolutely recommend playing with the free Extended Cut DLC. It drastically extends the final cutscenes and you get to see the consequences a lot of your choices had.

I never played the non-extended version, so when I finished I didn't understand what the complaints were. Then I read what the original ending was and was kind of horrified at how bad it originally was. My point is that the Extended Cut makes everything better, so go play it.

DarkTempler7

9 years ago

I've played both and I don't understand the hate it get's. Then again I heard people saying how bad it was before I played any of them, so maybe I had such low expectations that I was happy with it. Though I'm of the opinion that Bioware just doesn't do good endings in general.

SecretlyASpider

9 years ago

So it has actually been confirmed that the four Arks belong to the humans, asari, turians and salarians. However, in that same source you can see a suggestion (although not a confirmation) that other major species such as krogan and quarians may be present on the fifth Ark, the Nexus.

In addition, an early leak of game information suggested we had a krogan squadmate named Drak. Whether this is actually the case is unknown, but we have certainly seen krogan in the trailers before. Quarians are still unconfirmed at this time.

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