Even if true it doesn't seem like a very big revelation. Clearly something went wrong at the writing process for that final stage and was never the main theme for the series. But the internet seems to be very set in finding a villain, be it Hudson or EA or any specific figure it would seem.

RobotBastard said:

Actually I think the latter is pretty close to the truth. It's certainly been Bioware's attitude. If anything, it's probably the case that the rest of the game is the anomaly, and that "synthetic versus organic" was what we were supposed to be playing all along.

The Mass Effect Artbooks would suggest this was the case. It was mentioned in the artbook for ME1 that the Geth were originally going to be a race of bat-like creatures, but they made them robots to fit in with theme of 'organics vs synthetics.

Still, the dark energy plotline is better foreshadowed and a lot more sensical.

That's just called combined fire.

I've only had it happen maybe two or three times. It's really damn hard.

Tali's Song.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you.

I got my second Valiant and I still think it sucks.

Maybe I'll give it another try, but I really did not like it.

I got a Valiant last night, and holy crap that gun is amazing. I agree with my roommate that it's so good, it feels like cheating. It's bad enough that it gets three shots in rapid succession, but does it have to reload so quickly, too?

Basically I'm thinking of this as them apologizing for giving me an Eagle last time.

I want a Wraiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiith.

Though it's pointless to even get one, since I'll never get it to X or anywhere near there.

I want to do more golds. I like the idea of coordinating and working as a team instead of my usual "turn up Leonard Cohen and biotic charge anything in my field of vision."

You need it to be really high level before you can get 200% with it. Otherwise there's the disciple, which is lighter, but a lot worse, and also a rare item so it's harder to level up.

I feel a bit sad to say this but I don't think krogans make good vanguards. Maybe the idea is just get like a katana x or whatever is good that's pushing 190%+ and dispel barrier/biotic charge? Between that class one and other one I have, soldier seems like the better class for a krogan. I mean, I know it's hard to compete with a human vanguard but I don't think it stacks up to the other races either.

Yeah, I'm actually reluctant to do silvers nowadays because they teach me habits that will get me killed on gold.

I do get a lot of Firebase White, though for some reason people don't pick Geth much. I set my filters to Any and just take whatever comes. Last match I played was with some Eastern European guys who were really good. We were in Firebase Ghost with Cerberus, and we got full extraction. Phantoms are, bar none, the scariest fucking enemies in this game. Their little pea shooter takes most of your health instantly, and if you don't have people with Stasis, good luck hitting them with a sniper rifle (or maybe I'm just awful at sniping--I find it really hard). You just want snipers for cloak and some engineers/adepts for biotic synergy and, if fighting humans, stasis. I've done probably 20 of these gold matches randomly now, and my win average is less than 50%, largely because you almost always have one guy (and in horrible circumstances, three guys) who doesn't know how to coordinate, doesn't know how to play, and has a score of 3500 when everyone else is in the 60k range. Though I had this exceptional team where one dude dropped early, and we three-manned it until we got a hack on Wave 10 and just didn't have the firepower we needed. That was my favorite match so far.

Edit: That Eastern European match? Two of them were vanguards. I'm slowly seeing more folks willing to use them in Gold, but your play style has to change completely, so I'm thinking it's probably not for me. I'm way too suicidal with that shit.

Is there a more reliable way to get Medigel? I'm always at 0.

You'll get more medigel on average if you buy the cheaper packs (e.g. veteran or recruit.) From what I've seen, if you get medigel from a pack, you get 1 in a recruit pack, 3 in a vet pack, and 5 in a spectre/premium spectre pack - but a vet pack costs 4x a recruit pack, and a spectre pack 12x, so for medigel you're best off buying the cheapest packs.

That's also a great way to get a ton of rockets.

Carnage is a piece of shit. You shouldn't even spec into it as a Krogard.

The whole point of charge is that you can take shitloads of damage then completely negate it by charging and restoring your shields. Krogards have something ridiculous like 2.4k shields when barrier is up, which is 3x a human vanguard, so you can basically just sit in fire and wait for charge to come back off of cooldown. I'll take that over inferno grenades any day.

One day maybe they'll fix the Krogard's bugged rage tree and they'll get like 80% damage resistance like they're supposed to.

Gold challenge, Reapers, Firebase Condor. How the fuck is this doable?

See, I think everything would be easier if I could run that adept/sentinel combo like we did one night. Banshees? Bring 'em on. But with pugs, I can't get folks to coordinate. This morning has been a losing streak of sufficient egregiousness as to cause me rage.

Digitalguardian said:

Someone I was playing with told me about using the Justicar's biotic dome offensively, by placing it in a choke in front of your fireteam for the damage debuff and auto-warp. That could be interesting to try.

Yeah. That person was me. A MONTH AGO.

Unless you weren't playing with us when I was using the Justicar, in which case I apologize.

I want a Justicar =\

Those waves last a lot longer than a minute. Getting up to reapply it is just asking for an Atlas to sneak up on you.