I thought Mass Effect 3 was done pissing me off. (This is not about the end, I swear)

[Smiley Face]

That's weird, I was playing a few hours ago (360) - first and only Spectre pack I got, I got the Geth Plasma SMG (not that great, but then it's an SMG). Played with a Krogan Vanguard, the new Asari, a Batarian Soldier, and I've seen more than a few Harpoon Rifles.

So yeah, it's working... now, at least.

 

[SageRuffin]

I was never all that enthused about the multiplayer so I can't say anything there, but I can tell you why the face import patch hasn't dropped yet...

BioWare explicitly stated that they're gonna test it, then test it again, then test it some more until the fucking wire-frames fall out making sure that the patch will not fuck up. While I'm not too keen on restarting the game from scratch as I'm rather fond of my Widow Mk.X, if that means I get to keep my lovely Erika [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v602/Ruffin316/Hi-Def%20Sage%20Screens/QueryStandardErika.jpg] the way she was in the previous games, I'll roll with it.

Besides, the first couple of runs are always throwaways anyway.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

holy crap, 2 million saved up?

sweet jesus...savin up for a while, huh?

that really does suck they didn't have everything go live at once...doesn't quite make sense to me, but live and learn on that i guess.

 

[Valdimarr Ravenkin]

Ive spent about 750,000 points and got a Geth Engineer, the Krogan Battlemaster Vanguard, harpoon gun and the new Striker Assault Rifle. Havn't gotten any of the new consumables, yet

 

[deathbydeath]

I'm actually considering ripping assets from me1&2 and recreating my own lore-friendly version that's more than just Ye Olde Enemy Wave Survival mode, and one that actually changes how each class works, so that there's a real semblance of teamwork instead of grouping up in a corner and shooting baddies.

Please don't let EA know, I don't want to be acquired and then forced to turn it into Gears of War.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

But that's not even the whole thing.
Remember the bug that doesn't allow you to import your Shepard's face if you've been playing since ME 1?
Bioware didn't.
What kind of fucked-in-the-head executive releases new content before fixing a bug as massive as that?

They actually did fix that a few days ago...

Apart from that, well ouch i guess. I've saved up 400k credits over the past week or so of playing which i was gonna blow in one go once the DLC hits.. fortunately it isn't out in the UK yet otherwise i would have dropped all my creds and wasted them too =/

 

[Vault101]

I think your overatcting

unrelated...but I'll probably do a full replay on PC at some point..

do you think theres some kind of Mod that I can use femsheps new default (or somthing similar) in ME1 and ME2?

 

[Mikeyfell]

But that's not even the whole thing.
Remember the bug that doesn't allow you to import your Shepard's face if you've been playing since ME 1?
Bioware didn't.
What kind of fucked-in-the-head executive releases new content before fixing a bug as massive as that?

They actually did fix that a few days ago...

Apart from that, well ouch i guess. I've saved up 400k credits over the past week or so of playing which i was gonna blow in one go once the DLC hits.. fortunately it isn't out in the UK yet otherwise i would have dropped all my creds and wasted them too =/

They did?

It didn't work when I tried it this morning.
Did they fix it for the UK before the US?
lucky...

 

[Mikeyfell]

Remember the bug that doesn't allow you to import your Shepard's face if you've been playing since ME 1?
Bioware didn't.
What kind of fucked-in-the-head executive releases new content before fixing a bug as massive as that?

I've never understood why that was ever even an urgent fix.

See, if the bug only affects characters who've been all the way through both previous games, then it's not unreasonable to assume that most of the players affected are not new players who only have ME3; they're players who have all three games. The bug is also only a major issue to very meticulous people who must have the same face as they did in ME1 and won't accept the facial reconstruction option provided upon import of any save into ME3. With that said, it thus stands to reason that people genuinely affected by this would be minimally inconvenienced by the very simple workaround already available to them: Load the save you want to import in ME*2* and jot down your character "face code" (the thing that looks like this: "733.1FI.G81.M89.EF1.1BQ.7LJ.811.RR6.FA7.311.316") and just make that face for your imported Shep in ME3. Problem solved.

P.S: On PC, this even works without ME2 installed at all; You can open the save file with a save editor and retrieve the character "face code" from there. I hear it's even possible to mess with Xbox save games, and I believe it, but that's out of my depth as I don't have an Xbox nor do I care to.

Oohh, nice power-of-two post count.

"Yeah, fuck loyal fans of the series who have been with us from the start. We're a subsection of EA now only concerned with milking our consumer base on microtransactions in our tacked on multyplayer mode. We don't make single player RPG's for losers because that's not where the money is, we want to get in on some of that shooter crowd money. What do we think about our long standing fan base? Two words: easy money. Those suckers will buy anything we shit out because we made Baldur's Gate and KotOR. Now excuse me while I go take a bath in the bittersweet tears of someone who had an actual emotional connection to the characters and events of Mass Effect 1 and 2. Enjoy your ending bitches, Trololol."

Or at least that's what I think everyone who works at Bioware is saying right now. Or maybe that's just what I hope they're saying, because if they really just don't care (Which is the feeling I've had ever since I beat Dragon Age 2) then I'm left stunned. Because, I cared. I cared a lot about the games that they made, the worlds and characters they made, and to think they simply don't care anymore. Not even enough to give a decent ending to the most ambitious narrative undertaking in the history of gaming, is baffling.

If they lied about what the "Extended Cut" DLC was and they're actually planing something for this series, great. But if they're not and they just gave up with out being bothered to end it properly the best case scenario I could hope for is that they were building up some elaborate 5 year troll because deep down inside they are all very evil people. Because the alternative is just too sad for me to wrap my head around.

P.S. the face code thing doesn't work on the Xbox. it shows us the same incorrect Shepard that it does when it first fails to import the face. It was the first thing I tried. and the second, and third... I took a picture and tried to recreate it too, didn't go so well.


P.P.S. Sorry this got a little emotional, I've got the Bioware sold their soul to an evil corporation and are therefore just as bad as them blues.

 

[SomebodyNowhere]

I'm not done. My only complaint I've had is that occasionally when I buy packs the transaction fails or something and the next time I log in it has gone through, but I have no idea what was in the pack.

And this probably isn't want you want to hear, but the first pack I bought once I got 99k together had a Batarian Sentinel in it. He has some good unique abilities. I'm really enjoying him, but like the turians he can't do combat rolls so that can be annoying sometimes.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

But that's not even the whole thing.
Remember the bug that doesn't allow you to import your Shepard's face if you've been playing since ME 1?
Bioware didn't.
What kind of fucked-in-the-head executive releases new content before fixing a bug as massive as that?

They actually did fix that a few days ago...

Apart from that, well ouch i guess. I've saved up 400k credits over the past week or so of playing which i was gonna blow in one go once the DLC hits.. fortunately it isn't out in the UK yet otherwise i would have dropped all my creds and wasted them too =/

They did?

It didn't work when I tried it this morning.
Did they fix it for the UK before the US?
lucky...

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/324/index/11094955
http://social.bioware.com/page/me3-patches
http://blog.bioware.com/2012/04/06/4270/

Depending on your platform it came out 1-2 days ago.
It was a 41mb download for the PC version.