When talking to her about personal stuff in ME 1, she mentioned something about the Williams name being tarnished by an ancestor's actions, thus being stuck in crap assignments. Even in ME 2, after Shephard "dies", she gets sent off to some no-name colony in order to protect it. Maybe that was the Alliance specification she kept, despite getting the Council's honor?gigastrike said:
It's not. It's being used to make a rhetorical point. Most of the evidence we have for ancient armor being unisex is from burial sites like the ones described here [http://books.google.com/books?id=gWYg1QBAFW0C&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=scythian+woman+grave+armor&source=bl&ots=uCtd7Er5eQ&sig=ipJAd9cVaoCoKTdmRoAKkwPtisk&hl=en&ei=jmXpTr3FIYb_ggei7umCCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=scythian%20woman%20grave%20armor&f=false] - note that the armor could have been mistaken for male armor if the corpses buried with it had not been female.erttheking said:
Unless you plan to have your boobs move independently of the rest of your torso during battle (improbable), there's really no point in giving them their own armor compartment.erttheking said:
Well, yeah, some consideration to how stuff works IRL would be nice. But beyond that, it simply looks silly and juvenile.GreatTeacherCAW said:
Maybe - but at some point, even John Howe breaks down and says that while realism is all well and good, at the end of the day stuff also has to look cool. And you won't find many people in the ME3 target audience willing to take the standpoint that boob-armour is somehow less cool than a flat-chested unisex variant.Kahunaburger said:
Yes, current body armor is unisex.Kahunaburger said:
I think that that looks nothing like Ash. And I'm surprised that they managed to make me dislike her even more than I already did.shado_temple said:
Actually, it really isn't. Consider that the armor in question also represents a viable space suit. It turns out, of all the things that can kill you in space there is one people don't often consider: pressure. Or rather a lack of pressure. Modern space suits are big bulky affairs and much of the engineering challenge in their construction (and improving upon them) lies in the fact that they are pressure suits that need to maintain a constant 1/3 atmosphere pressure around the body. There are people out there trying very hard to improve upon the current design of the pressure suit with something that is <a href=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/space-suits.html>surprisingly form fitting.Kahunaburger said:
One of the challenges with armor is that, well, it is heavy. When I was in the Army, my medium IBA weighed in at over 20 pounds. Given that it is just a vest, that weight is, by default, carried on the shoulders. And given that there is little customization one can do with the armor, that means for many of us that weight is carried more or less on the muscles leading to the neck rather than the shoulders themselves. By itself, this isn't all that bad but then you consider that you aren't just carrying the armor. You've likely also got ammunition which is likewise surprisingly heavy - a single magazine for an M4 weights in at around a pound and you will carry, at a minimum, seven of them in total. God forbid you are a grenadier and have to carry 30 rounds for the M203 each of which weighs in at around a half pound. Beyond that, you'll likely want something to drink and as such will probably carry a liter or two of water. By the time you're done, your body armor plus all the gear attached to your body armor can easily weigh in between 50 and 80 pounds.Sincendiary said:
Because the only ME character less interesting than Kaiden is Jacob. I don't necessarily agree 100%, but it's what most people think.MrDeckard said:
Which is exactly the problem.MercurySteam said:
some proof huh? Not only does the painting show that the amour is clearly designed for females but it's a painting...Often exaggerated like how we use Photoshop.Kahunaburger said:
