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Picked up Shaymin last night because yay Oak's Letter event. Hope you can find a hotspot for Wi-Fi, Epy.
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It's also how I intend to trade with you on the weekend, I just need to walk 2 minutes outside the grounds.
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At least this is sort of interesting because it gives a little bit of lore, but still. Needs less Shaymin, more Arceus.
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As far as games though, I'm rather skeptical that I'll ever see a story that can surpass it in terms of what it did. There's something to it that feels unique to it and in that regard I don't know if it can be beaten there.
I mean, there are other stories in games I like, and some might even win out in certain aspects, but there's just something unique about Planescape that I don't know if it will be replicated.
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I'd like Arceus to come over myself. =P
From what I've heard of Planescape, it does sound unique. Argh at trying to get it.
I got Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days and preordered Fragile today. I want to start playing sooo badly but Liquid Metal Slimes continue to torment me. =(
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It also gives you the longest bike route ever. I thought it would never end.
I mean, there are other stories in games I like, and some might even win out in certain aspects, but there's just something unique about Planescape that I don't know if it will be replicated.
I think part of the reason is that it pulls so many 180's on what RPG's usually do. The undead are more friendly and moral than the living that you find most of the time, even moreso when you get the ability to speak to the dead. Rats are some of the most dangerous enemies in the game. You can talk your way out of many encounters, and this is the closest I've seen to a game actually BEING a "Roleplaying" game.
There are also only three or four mandatory fights, one of which is the first zombie at the start of the game to get a key. Even major villains that you have to fight you can talk with for loads of time to get bonuses from them.
Argh at trying to get it.
Torrent or use the dozen rapidshares. ಠ_ಠ
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AND IT HAS POINT BUY. SCREW THE DICE ROLLER IN BALDUR'S GATE OH GOD.
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...Ehhhhhh, sounds complicated.
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...Ehhhhhh, sounds complicated.
The game automatically handles the terrible 2e rules for you, so it's not very complicated at all. The combat is also ridiculously easy, but you need to think a lot.
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See, my 360 warranty expires in November, so I want to play a game on it to make sure it's fully working before that happens. I've decided to play Mass Effect. I won't give up on Gale of Darkness but it's going to sit on the back burner until I've done Mass Effect. I might try to finish the Battle CDs first but that's only because a few are left.
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Needs more Metroid Prime/Tales of Vesperia/Link to the Past/Ocarina of Time/Baten Kaitos/Skies of Arcadia.
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So first things first, character customization. I decided to be a female named Ellen Shepard (for those who haven't played, your last name is always Shepard, most likely due to the voice acting) with black hair, blue eyes, and a scar over the bridge of my nose. I chose the backgrounds of Earthborn and Sole Survivor. Earthborn means you came from Earth (HOLY COW) and have no known parents, so you joined the Alliance (military of sorts) to get more fame than being on the streets. Sole Survivor means you were part of a fighting group of around 50 people and they all died, except for you, and you're famous for surviving such a thing. As for classes, I picked Vanguard because xp was saying Lift is amazing and Vanguard has Lift.
So I was called by Captain Anderson to report to him. I talk to crew members and am amazed at how much dialogue there is, even from NPCs that don't seem too important. In before I get told to go play Planescape which has a script that could crush people to death. I meet up with Anderson and Nihlus, who is a turian Spectre that the crew does not trust (apparently humans and turians had issues way back during the First Contact War). I am told that we are going to try getting a Prothean beacon. Since the Protheans are an extinct race that had highly advanced technology, we obviously want their powers. It is on a peaceful planet called Eden Prime that we will be heading to. This claim of peacefulness is promptly kicked in the head as a transmission comes over showing people being slaughtered. Whoops.
So I land on Eden Prime with Kaidan Alenko and Richard L. Jenkins. I promptly know Jenkins is doomed to die and am left to question whether Kaidan will. We walk along a path and then Jenkins gets shot down. That was fast! I get shot down soon after because I don't know which button is used to fire. Seriously.
After looking at the manual and not screwing around, I shoot down the attack drones and find Jenkin's corpse. We go further, picking up some treasure, and find a soldier getting attacked by more robot things. Shot them down, easy enough, and we learn her name is Ashley Williams. She joins the party. We move on and find that the invaders, called geth, are able to turn humans into 'husks', which are like zombies. After shooting them out, we find... a locked door. Which has me play a minigame. I had to load my game three times to figure out how to do this silly thing, but you press buttons as they light up on the screen. Met two survivors inside, with one of them being insane. Moving along...
After more walking, there was a cutscene where Nihlus (who went out on his own) met up with another turian Spectre named Saren. Nihlus turns his back on him, Saren brings out his gun, bang, dead Nihlus. Which is too bad because he seemed pretty cool. =(
I found another locked door to open which had three farmers inside. Since I had some points in Charm, I was able to get a pistol and an upgrade from them, but they wouldn't tell me about a smuggler due to not having enough Charm for those options. Oh well. Went down further to find a guy who survived the initial attack due to being asleep behind some crates. He tells us about Saren killing Nihlus and then runs off.
After taking a train, we find the geth have set four explosives, oh noes! I actually died my first try due to trying to get to the explosives and ignoring the enemies. >_> Second try, got it done with about two minutes to spare (out of what, four, maybe five?) so panicking over the time limit was a silly thing to do. When that fight was over, I got my first achievement, Distinguished Service. You get it for clearing Eden Prime so yay for getting what is probably the easiest achievement in the game? There's 45 total BTW.
Saren had apparently gotten to the beacon a bit ago (saw in a cutscene), but I ignore it to loot stuff. More locks get broken into, more weapons claimed, and then examine it. Kaidan nearly gets dragged into the beacon, but Shepard grabs him, throws him aside, and then gets dragged in herself. She sees horrific visions and faints after the beacon explodes. WHAT A TWIST!
Cutscene with Saren shows that he is very displeased Shepard got to use the beacon and says that SHE MUST DIE. Then she wakes up and talks to the doctor and Captain about the visions. Due to Saren's betrayal to the Spectres, we're going to present our information to the council and hope he gets booted from it. Talked with Kaidan, Ashley, and others before going to dock. Is it just me or does Ashley look really, really weird? Seriously what is up with her mouth. >_>
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When we arrived at the Council, they said we lacked proof to show Saren is a villain. Boo and hiss. Saren was especially smug about the whole thing (visiting the meeting by hologram) and said he was glad justice was served. I get the feeling I'm going to wind up hating him.
So what we need is to uncover proof that Saren has gone rogue. The Captain gives some suggestions: find Garrus and talk to Barla Von, who is good with information. But I wind up getting sidetracked by over 9000 sidequests. First I'm asked to scan all of the Keepers, little insect guys who do maintenance work on the ship (21 total). While trying to do that, I run into a bunch of other NPCs that ask for my help in things. In no particular order, I have to convince the Keeper scanning dude not to murder someone, tell a guy at a bar to stop spreading lies, convince an official that an alien should be allowed to preach his religion in public areas, and figure out why a guy who wanted my autograph (which I gave to him) is so sketchy. I might be missing a few more. The kicker is that NONE of them are completed yet. I've been trying to but there's so much dialogue I keep getting sidetracked. Thankfully, I have a Journal that keeps track of my main quests and sidequests, so I won't forget them in the long run.
Eventually I met two new team members that have an interest in taking down Fist, a guy who is working with Saren: Wrex, a krogan, and Garrus, the turian from before. Met Wrex while he was threatening random warehouse guys and Garrus helped to save a doctor who had information.
So Fist is the owner of a club, which we went to and got into a shootout. I died first attempt because I did not expect a krogan bouncer to run up and basically one shot me. Ow. Got through it second try and found two warehouse workers. My Charisma option convinced them to drop their weapons and flee. Then I saved after getting some more weapons and was promptly gunned down in the next fight because apparently the thing I took cover behind was not covering what I needed. I suck at this game.
I stopped there, but overall it's very good so far and I look forward to more. Notes on non-storyline stuff:
*I've invested points into Throw until Lift unlocked, and I have one point in Lift. My Charisma is maxed out (temporarily) at three. Also put points into Assault Rifle with some spare going into Warp. I've put a lot into Decipher for Kaidan and Garrus so I can unlock things; otherwise, I just give them whatever looks useful.
*Cover is amazingly useful and I try to take advantage of it a lot.
*I keep accidentally using Medigels. You get to hold a specific amount and they can be used by hitting Y. Guess what I keep doing instead of pressing B to holster my gun!
*I'm being totally good aligned this time. Just ask Epyon; I can't play evil people without trying really hard. >_>
*Holy heck sidequests all over the place!
*I've bought some things, but they're all unique items. I have a Combine License, Risk Control License, Medigel Upgrade I, Sitta Foundation License, Chameleon Tool III (or something like that), Aldrin Labs License, and Grenade Upgrade I. Yeah I'm weird. Should buy something useful like armor.
*Elevators are so flipping slow.
*THE ENEMY'S EVERYWHERE THE ENEMY'S EVERYWHERE THE ENEMY'S EVERYWHERE THE ENEMY'S EVERYWHERE THE ENEMY'S EVERYWHERE
If I keep using Kaidan, I'll get to hear that even more!
*A lot of the alien races are cool. Amusing note: if Kenshin were in Mass Effect, he'd be a pink jellyfish thing.
*Ashley is kinda boring, but all of the main characters are okay so far. Need to see more of them.
*Saren's a jerk.
*I have about five hours of gameplay and over 40 saves (the game counts how many times you save). Shows how paranoid I am.
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800,000 words, in fact. In comparison, LoTR and W&P have about 500,000 words.
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[Spoiler for Mass Effect, click to show]I shot down Fist and then learned that the woman we are supposed to be helping has apparently walked off into an ambush. Cue timer of four minutes to get to an alleyway. Ahhhhhhh! *Cue panic*
Well okay it wasn't that bad. I opened a safe and grabbed Fist's files before darting off. Quick fight later and a quarian named Tali joined us (like heck I can spell her full name). She had information from a geth core that confirmed Saren was guilty. Since quarians created geth originally, not a far-fetched thing to have happen. The council did not want to pursue Saren out of fear of starting a war, so they made me a Spectre to do it instead. Hurray! Got a point of Charisma and Intimidate from it, along with the ability to train in Spectre skills. Also got my second achievement, Spectre Inductee, which you get from... becoming a Spectre. What a shock.
So instead of going to the spaceship like I was supposed to, I decided to finish up the load of sidequests I had. This consisted of:
*Making sure a man got his wife's body sent home for a proper funeral.
*Giving a reporter Fist's files to expose him.
*Giving the preaching hanar money to buy a permit, pleasing both sides.
*Figuring out that an assassination was not being planned, thus allowing two guys to share data on Keepers as I continue scanning them.
*Convincing a general and another guy that a famous asari was not responsible for their problems.
*Stopping a blackmailing on the doctor in the area.
*Helping a woman get her sister out of dangerous C-Sector business.
*Getting a device from a cheater in the casino and turning it over to the guy who runs it.
There might be others but that's what I recall now. The C-Sector one had me make a goof; I thought trying to arrest the criminal, Jax, would give me Paragon points even if it was a stupid idea (as xp put it, Lawful Stupid). But I got Renegade points, so I reset to my last load and just did the transaction. When I had to fight him, I was such a loser. I had to try that fight like eight times due to be sucking so much at this game. Mainly because I didn't notice that they apparently use grenades. I'm still not sure how I can use MINE.
So I have one more sidequest to finish in this area: find the last Keeper to scan. Apparently one can get glitched away, and I was in the area without seeing it, so I'll have to hope it shows up with some resets. The other sidequests that I cannot do yet but I have in my journal involve hearing some news stories while taking elevators (they add to the journal after you hear them) and doing my first hard decryption on a computer. Hard just means more buttons to hit, no big deal.
Hopefully I can leave Citadel after this. Oy. Good stuff so far though.
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I chose the backgrounds of Earthborn and Sole Survivor. Earthborn means you came from Earth (HOLY COW) and have no known parents, so you joined the Alliance (military of sorts) to get more fame than being on the streets. Sole Survivor means you were part of a fighting group of around 50 people and they all died, except for you, and you're famous for surviving such a thing.
Tch. the Colony one is better.
Also, IIRC, Earthborn gives you an inherent boost to Renegade, it's definitely related. I think it just gives you a % boost on any Renegade points gained, but I can't recall entirely. Colony is neutral, IIRC. Space leans Paragon.
It works similar with the other one, Sole Survivor is the neutral one.
As for classes, I picked Vanguard because xp was saying Lift is amazing and Vanguard has Lift.
tbqh, if you can't solve a problem in Mass Effect with Lift you haven't tried hard enough.
(apparently humans and turians had issues way back during the First Contact War).
Yeah.
Which is too bad because he seemed pretty cool. =(
Nihlus was awesome.
I get the feeling I'm going to wind up hating him.
I actually like Saren, but yeah, he's uh... a real jerk a lot.
I died first attempt because I did not expect a krogan bouncer to run up and basically one shot me.
Krogan enemies are so OP. Charging and then using melee is god-tier when used against you.
Also put points into Assault Rifle with some spare going into Warp.
...Vanguard gets Assault Rifle? Also Warp is totally a joke skill.
*Elevators are so flipping slow.
You have no idea.
The C-Sector one had me make a goof; I thought trying to arrest the criminal, Jax, would give me Paragon points even if it was a stupid idea (as xp put it, Lawful Stupid).
Citadel Security. And I said it's either Lawful Stupid or Lawful Evil depending on interpretation. >_>
I had to try that fight like eight times due to be sucking so much at this game.
Actually, IIRC, that fight is uncharacteristically hard for that point in the game.
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Also, IIRC, Earthborn gives you an inherent boost to Renegade, it's definitely related. I think it just gives you a % boost on any Renegade points gained, but I can't recall entirely. Colony is neutral, IIRC. Space leans Paragon.
It works similar with the other one, Sole Survivor is the neutral one.
I was totally unaware of that. Shouldn't matter in the long run though since I'm being such a sap.
tbqh, if you can't solve a problem in Mass Effect with Lift you haven't tried hard enough.
It has been useful so far.
Nihlus was awesome.
Wish he had been around more.
I actually like Saren, but yeah, he's uh... a real jerk a lot.
Well, too early to make a judgment call right now.
Krogan enemies are so OP. Charging and then using melee is god-tier when used against you.
Oh good, I was hoping my armor wasn't totally useless against everything.
...Vanguard gets Assault Rifle? Also Warp is totally a joke skill.
Sorry, Assault Training. This is what I get for going mostly off memory. And yeah, I haven't used Warp yet, but I did want to unlock Barrier.
You have no idea.
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Citadel Security. And I said it's either Lawful Stupid or Lawful Evil depending on interpretation. >_>
Indeed you did.
Actually, IIRC, that fight is uncharacteristically hard for that point in the game.
Really? That's good to hear, I was afraid I was so awful that I was jobbing to an easy confrontation. =P
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I found that the captain had turned over his position to me, so now I'm in command of the Normandy (our ship). After questioning the captain on some things (his history with Saren, why he never became a Spectre), I got my third achievement, Scholar, which is earned by filling in all the primary alien races in the codex.
After giving an inspirational speech to my crew, I talked to everyone possible. Lots of Codex information to look at. Then I began to survey planets in the system that I was going to next. An archeologist could give us a lead and we need to find her. Too bad we don't know what planet she's on. I did get some more sidequests in my journal that I'll look at later. I landed on one planet and got my fourth achievement, Medal of Exploration, which you get from landing on an uncharted world. Left though because there was nothing interesting on it for the moment.
I then found a distress call on Edolus and thought that might be where I needed to go. Found some mineral deposits, which you have to do the minigame for hacking to survey (what). Then I drove on and HOLY HECK GIANT SANDWORM OUT OF NOWHERE. My poor car didn't stand a chance. So yeah, coming back to that later. >_>
I landed on a third world after that, where apparently we were getting a very strange reading. Still being an idiot with the Mako (our car), I managed to drive into lava for instant death. Stopped after that and will explore more later, hopefully with less fiery pain.
Also, I think my 360's clock is broken. Every time I turn on my system, it reverts to 12:00 on 22/11/2005. I've tried changing the time and date but it just resets to that when I turn it off and then on again. I'm honestly not sure what to do about this.
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Pull up the map, it'll mark the significant things.
Also, I think my 360's clock is broken. Every time I turn on my system, it reverts to 12:00 on 22/11/2005. I've tried changing the time and date but it just resets to that when I turn it off and then on again. I'm honestly not sure what to do about this.
Stop completely cutting the power to the 360 and that will stop.
If it stops getting any power whatsoever, it will do that every time. You can turn it off, but if it loses its power source, the clock will reset.
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Ah, for some reason I never thought of doing that. Probably because I've never had the need for a map before.
Stop completely cutting the power to the 360 and that will stop.
If it stops getting any power whatsoever, it will do that every time. You can turn it off, but if it loses its power source, the clock will reset.
Holy heck that's annoying. At least it isn't broken. Thanks for explaining.
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[Spoiler for Mass Effect, click to show]While driving along, a huge ship came out of nowhere to drop some geth. It took several resets to realize I had missiles I could fire at them from my car instead of just the weak turret thing. Blew them up and continued.
There was a gatehouse/fortress of sorts that had many geth troops and turrets around. I acted cautiously, ducking behind rocks while shooting the missiles to destroy them one by one. When I got inside by using a side path as Tali suggested, I got out of the Mako and proceeded on foot to destroy some lingering geth and loot the place. You get more experience if you make kills on foot, so when I see a group of enemies I know I can handle without missiles, I get out of the Mako.
After opening a side gate and driving on, we went through a tunnel and came across, surprise, more geth. As I drove, I suddenly got a game over. Restart, look carefully at the area I had driven on, and I see some steam near (but not that close to) a lava pool. I can understand the Mako not being able to take lava, but why in the everloving world does a slightly hot ground destroy me instantly? Thanks Mass Effect, I appreciate it.
Anyhow, after some more tunnels, the Mako's radar got jammed, and the section to continue on was too small to fit it through. We continued on foot and came across more soldiers. I am really liking Lift and Barrier, they're quite helpful. I also am making use of Tali's AI Hacking to cause soldiers to go crazy and attack each other. It's amusing to watch.
Unfortunately, my rampage came to an end when I got assaulted by a huge geth, several snipers, and these things that could cling to walls and ceilings. Pretty overwhelming to say the least. I'm not sure how I'll get by this one.
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Beating enemies with the Mako is silly.
You get more experience if you make kills on foot, so when I see a group of enemies I know I can handle without missiles, I get out of the Mako.
I stand by my advice of, "Just weaken things with the Mako, and once the health bar is nearly depleted, pop out of the Mako for a second and finish it off on foot."
Unfortunately, my rampage came to an end when I got assaulted by a huge geth, several snipers, and these things that could cling to walls and ceilings. Pretty overwhelming to say the least. I'm not sure how I'll get by this one.
If you're on the Plot World, then the on foot parts here stand out in my mind as possibly the hardest parts in the game, at least on higher difficulties, and heading here first.
More so on the early parts IIRC, because they become hyper-competent on higher difficulties, whereas the area you're describing is annoying but more fair.
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I tried fighting those jerks on foot and failed miserably. They have five barrier bars and can kill me in one hit. =(
I stand by my advice of, "Just weaken things with the Mako, and once the health bar is nearly depleted, pop out of the Mako for a second and finish it off on foot."
This is a very good strategy if you aren't horrible at the game. I tend to get shot and die in a heartbeat, and I doubt they are any less deadly even with lower health.
If you're on the Plot World, then the on foot parts here stand out in my mind as possibly the hardest parts in the game, at least on higher difficulties, and heading here first.
More so on the early parts IIRC, because they become hyper-competent on higher difficulties, whereas the area you're describing is annoying but more fair.
I think I am on the plot world you recommended me going to (rather than my other two options). At least I can try to get the hardest out of the way first, I guess. *Cries inside*
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Like there are two enemies I can think of off the top of my head that should be capable of OHKO. The Geth Armatures (Which I generally refer to as tanks) who fire the huge blobs of blue energy at you, and the giant sandworms.
And for the tanks, they have horrible firing rate, so once they're at low health, wait for them to fire, and then the moment they fire, hop out of the Mako, the attack is targetting the Mako and not you, and you'll have the time it takes for that to land + the "reload" time for the next attack. And assuming you have decent distance, you can probably dodge any next attack. >_>
This is a very good strategy if you aren't horrible at the game. I tend to get shot and die in a heartbeat, and I doubt they are any less deadly even with lower health.
Again, only two that I can think of off the top of my head should be able to do that.
I think I am on the plot world you recommended me going to (rather than my other two options). At least I can try to get the hardest out of the way first, I guess. *Cries inside*
Oh, I know you're not on the other two, but I meant versus other non-critical worlds.
And it's likely only the hardest in my reckoning because my general order is: Early Game (Minimal, if no, Citadel Sidequests) -> This place -> Citadel Sidequests -> Other Non-Critical Worlds, all of them -> Back to the plot.
So I'm doing almost a low-level run to this point. Not really, but...
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And for the tanks, they have horrible firing rate, so once they're at low health, wait for them to fire, and then the moment they fire, hop out of the Mako, the attack is targetting the Mako and not you, and you'll have the time it takes for that to land + the "reload" time for the next attack. And assuming you have decent distance, you can probably dodge any next attack. >_>
It was the Geth Armatures I believe. They're insane.
Again, only two that I can think of off the top of my head should be able to do that.
Yeah, hence why I can't do it right now.
Oh, I know you're not on the other two, but I meant versus other non-critical worlds.
And it's likely only the hardest in my reckoning because my general order is: Early Game (Minimal, if no, Citadel Sidequests) -> This place -> Citadel Sidequests -> Other Non-Critical Worlds, all of them -> Back to the plot.
So I'm doing almost a low-level run to this point. Not really, but...
Well the fight I'm on has two Geth Stalkers, a Geth Ghost, a Geth Shock Trooper, two Geth Snipers, and a Geth Armature. This. Is. Insane. I have tried around ten times with no luck despite varying strategies. Even if I tell Tali and Garrus to get into cover, they somehow perish within ten seconds of the fight anyway. If the Armature hits at any point, I die. Something else hit me to OHKO me, but it was a red bullet, so I don't know WHAT did that. The Stalkers can shut down my powers, so even though I try to make use of Barrier and Lift, no such luck. And if I take cover for a long period of time, the Shock Trooper gets the drop on me. I actually took out the Shock Trooper once only to get killed by the red bullet thing out of nowhere.
Long story short, this is ridiculous. I feel like a One Hit Point Wonder.
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Tch, they're total jobbers if you have the Mako with you.
Yeah, hence why I can't do it right now.
No, I said they're the only two enemies I can think of that can OHKO. But as I was saying, they're both so easy to outmaneuver that they can't be reasonably considered a problem. I'd be more concerned with smaller things than them.
Well the fight I'm on has two Geth Stalkers, a Geth Ghost, a Geth Shock Trooper, two Geth Snipers, and a Geth Armature. This. Is. Insane. I have tried around ten times with no luck despite varying strategies. Even if I tell Tali and Garrus to get into cover, they somehow perish within ten seconds of the fight anyway.
Either flee way back behind everything and see if anything follows that you can pick off.
Or, if I remember this fight, from your starting position after the cutscene there's some kind of "building" to your left. Go to that thing, keeping the alley that the Armature covers to your right, and out of your line of sight. I don't think it chases you, and if it does, it's dreadfully slow. That said, that thing some times gets a completely lucky/cheap hit on you if you get cute with it. You have to get the timing on its shots right before even trying to mess with it to minimize the chances of that.
If the Armature hits at any point, I die.
Yes, it does that.
Something else hit me to OHKO me, but it was a red bullet, so I don't know WHAT did that.
Snipers. Which are by far the biggest concern and why the parts before this battle are actually like 20x harder and more tedious than this fight itself on higher difficulties, because they're damn near everywhere. It's like Halo 2 Sniper Alley Part II. Okay, not nearly that bad, but it's the same idea.
The Stalkers can shut down my powers, so even though I try to make use of Barrier and Lift, no such luck.
IIRC, biotics won't even matter here until the Armature really and only then to try and knock off as much as you can from it before it can recharge. Lift can be useful if you get it off, but...
And if I take cover for a long period of time, the Shock Trooper gets the drop on me.
See, now that's a problem I can't actually suggest anything about because my only solution is, "You can't let that happen". I mean, honestly, it shouldn't be, if it can, you either don't have good cover, or you're not watching your flanks frequently enough.
I actually took out the Shock Trooper once only to get killed by the red bullet thing out of nowhere.
Those things, which I think are held by the things thatjump around the walls and stuff at like Mach IV are the things that make that fight annoying. They should probably be your primary concern. The Armature should be a non-factor until it's the only thing left.
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I learned that when I came across the missiles. >_>
No, I said they're the only two enemies I can think of that can OHKO. But as I was saying, they're both so easy to outmaneuver that they can't be reasonably considered a problem. I'd be more concerned with smaller things than them.
Probably will be the same as my thoughts once I get the hang of combat.
Either flee way back behind everything and see if anything follows that you can pick off.
Or, if I remember this fight, from your starting position after the cutscene there's some kind of "building" to your left. Go to that thing, keeping the alley that the Armature covers to your right, and out of your line of sight. I don't think it chases you, and if it does, it's dreadfully slow. That said, that thing some times gets a completely lucky/cheap hit on you if you get cute with it. You have to get the timing on its shots right before even trying to mess with it to minimize the chances of that.
As far as I can tell, the Armature doesn't move at all. It usually gets a hit on me while I go for cover, but when I have Barrier up I survive. I don't think I tried going completely to the left, I'll give that a shot next time.
Yes, it does that.
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Snipers. Which are by far the biggest concern and why the parts before this battle are actually like 20x harder and more tedious than this fight itself on higher difficulties, because they're damn near everywhere. It's like Halo 2 Sniper Alley Part II. Okay, not nearly that bad, but it's the same idea.
Ew. I've tried using AI Hacking on them a couple of times but I think Tali dies before she can. >_>
IIRC, biotics won't even matter here until the Armature really and only then to try and knock off as much as you can from it before it can recharge. Lift can be useful if you get it off, but...
Barrier's dead useful, and Lift has helped to disable the Shock Trooper. But you're right, it's not life or death like some other situations.
See, now that's a problem I can't actually suggest anything about because my only solution is, "You can't let that happen". I mean, honestly, it shouldn't be, if it can, you either don't have good cover, or you're not watching your flanks frequently enough.
It's probably the former because I keep careful watch. Hopefully the cover you suggested above will suit me better.
Those things, which I think are held by the things thatjump around the walls and stuff at like Mach IV are the things that make that fight annoying. They should probably be your primary concern. The Armature should be a non-factor until it's the only thing left.
Those are the Stalkers. I think it was the Sniper that killed me on this occasion but the Stalkers are argh worthy too. I NEVER bother with the Armature due to above mentioning of 'it doesn't move'. And when I do, I will be hiding behind cover, putting up Barrier, shooting like mad, hiding, repeat. Or so I plan to try if I ever get that far.
Thanks for the tips. I'll give them a shot.
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