In Progress Let's Play Mass Effect 3: Emotional Engagements

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Haha. So phallic.

So uh, Shepard's actually alone for now? That's pretty rare. Or are Ash and Tali with him somehow?

....Dude. this is a squad tactical shooter. A solo shooter this is not. The loneliness lasted for a whole 2 minutes, whereby nothing threatens our brave commander as he employs the universal space bar to disable locks on another airlock.

Spoiler

he cannot fail.

But ash still goes 'Shep, are you ok?'

Is Ashley wearing a gas mask in a vacuum?

...

*whimper*

What if vacuum is not empty and it's just full of poison and that's why you die?

[/philosoraptor]

They did the whole "gas masks" in vacuum thing a lot in ME2 too. It's so retarded.

Also, you should have looked out the windows, there's a space battle to watch iirc.

Anyway, this part of the game is pretty cool because at least you're not fighting cerberus.

So what happens when Tali was exiled in ME2? Endless butthurt and drama?

I concur. Bioware is innovative like that.

Also...




Medkits on a robot ship.

<science mode>
Actually, gas masks would work decently in vacuum, assuming the underpressure and radiation issues are dealt with.
Otherwise you'd might get a nasty case of bends - but perhaps the rest of the suit would be enough.
Radiation poisoning and sunburn aren't too nice either, but those can be relatively easily dealt with in some other way.
</science mode>

Helping the Space robots is a must, especially if you want to see maximum derp.

Suifag vs iRobots, which is better and why DISCUSS!

Suitfags means space pussy though and . So the choice seems obvious.

BTW link-up

I hate the goddamn Suitfags. Legion was a True Bro.

Crap, now I'm curious what happens if Legion died in ME2.

<science mode>
The radiation problem could be solved simply by keeping the Normandy or any other radiation shielded body between the crew and the system's stars. The pressure issue would be minimal. Exposure to hard vacuum would hurt like a bitch - Ashley would probably feel like her face was on fire after a few minutes - and after more than a few minutes would lead to some nasty bruising, but it would take hours before it became a fatal hemorrhage. Her skinsuit is pressurised, so risk of decompression sickness would be real but would take significant time to develop. Basically, if she hangs out for a while she'll look like she did back in hospital all over again, but otherwise be okay.

Of course, then there's the fact that the Normandy has managed to approach this close to another vessel undetected, or that these vessels are engaging at such suicidal ranges to begin with - CRITICAL SCIENCE MODE FAILURE, ABORTING.
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A couple of lines are different, otherwise same stuff. Including same voice actor.

Yeah, it was hilarious especially with Miranda wearing the tiny tiny mask and hair flowing freely.

Well Tali was a pretty good NPC until the whole Talimancer pedo teen romance shit came along. I'd say she was the most solid ME1 NPC (I think Andyman agrees as well).

Windows are structural weaknesses.

*Science mode restarting... recovery in progress...*

Not so suicidal if you consider the (abandoned?) lore of GARDIAN lasers and heat shields. In fact a vessel like Normandy could be thought as an advanced missile that can't be jammed easily.
Note that it's darn hard to focus any weaponry on a craft that close, barring a flak cannon... or very manoeuvrable missiles. Notice a whole branch of missing weaponry in Mass Erect lore?
(Yes, there are some off-hand mentions of bombs - but why the hell are those delivered by bombing runs? It seems only necessary to overload the silly laser point defence with decoys.)

Of course the CRITICAL issue is the required jump precision to even get there. I wonder how lucky Mr Token Disabled Crewmember must've been to not crash into one of those other ships while exiting FTL-space.

*Science mode FAILED.*

EDIT: The above post is multiple kinds of wrong, especially... the DERP FACES! It CANNOT be unwatched!

CLEAVAGE IN SPACE!

We shouldn't look into this game's science too hard. It just wouldn't hold water.
Remember the thermal clips in ME2? The devs wanted those because 'reloading looks cool' this leads to the in-game lore writers making themselves look stupid by adding the justification 'thermal clips increased the rate of fire for all guns.' which doesn't make a single lick of sense when you consider bolt action sniper rifle.

Shows how much I was paying attention - yeah, she's dying of decompression sickness if she hangs out in a vacuum for more than a minute or so because she unsealed her own skinsuit to show off her chest. Hope she wasn't anyone's waifu.

A vessel that close would be trivial to target - the rate at which you can change the index of refraction and orientation of the optics of a laser would far exceed the angular velocity of the Normany on approach, and as a Dreadnought it ought to have been surrounded by screening elements more than capable of engaging a Frigate. Hell, at that distance you wouldn't even really need to aim a missile, just setting off a nuclear shaped charge a few seconds after it left the tube would hit most of the ships in that battle. The real science fail is their claim that their stealth system protects them at that range - their heatsink+stealth system idea wouldn't work, but it was more than enough for suspension of disbelief so long as it only worked for IR and RADAR. Every visible spectrum sensor and LIDAR in the fleet would pick it up at that distance plain as day, no windows required.

Even if you can refocus well enough, you'd need the laser to actually see it. Don't tell me there are no blind spots on a ship that large - there's (almost) no way you'd have a full extremely close range coverage with just a few lasers. The ship itself would get in the way. Said screening elements are all engaged as we see. According to the "lore", GARDIAN is meant for engagements at about one or two kilometer range.

Now that is true and what I meant by flak. No need for expensive nukes, enough conventional explosions (preferably with shrapnel) would turn the vessel into a crippled piece of metal, shields or no shields. Or if you want to get real fancy, warp bombs.
LIDAR actually might not work, since it's based on reflection and the ship could absorb the tiny extra heat; optical could be confused in a firefight this large and a reasonably black ship.

The main problem is that they've just exited FTL - that according to their own lore should make them visible due to blue shift on the moment of exit. This would look like a huge blue lantern in the sky, ready to be shot down.
A vessel like that would have to exit FTL at long range and close in using the fancy silent drive, then attack like a submarine (with quick FTL exit strategy) rather than with a boarding party. (although that could still work if the cannons were too weak)
Reminds me why they just don't fire the dreadnaught-destroying Thanix cannons at the signal source.

Bros, the only good robot is a dead robot.

If a desk lamp speaks - kill it.

Damn default Femshep is ugly.

Her eyes are also uncovered.

Seems Bioware forgot that superheroes only use masks like that in space because the only problem they have with vacuum is the lack of air.