You get a lot stronger once you level up and Bronze challenges become easy. Silver and Gold will have more enemies and special enemies like Banshees and Atlases. They'll be tougher too.

Yeah. Pretty much been doing the Bronze mission with me and my buddies. None of us really got the gear to make the jump to silver. Just keep winning matches and saving "cash" to grab Vet or Spectre packs.

Supposedly, if you get lucky and get the Black Widow, you won't ever have to grab another gun again cause it's that powerful.

On the subject on multiplayer, a question to the tribe.

Anybody hit a glitch around lvl 15? After the round, the bonus boxes you get when you bought the N7 edition and started up multiplayer for the first time popped up (battlefield 3 and recruit pack I think) and and I unlocked them. However, when I got back to the lobby, I lost the guns I took into the round. I lost my Mattock and whatever SMG I had. But I also lost all of my SMGs and assault rifles.

Any help on this would be great, but I think it's just one of those rare glitches.

The package on sale is awesome. You get five of everything...however, if you don't want those extra medigel I could take them off your hands.

They're especially easy when you have a good team of guys all near level 20.

Bah...who needs guns?

Random buying. No way around it. Would do the spectre packages for that, however.

Might play it a 2nd time just to do the mission I forgot to do to get that achievement. I wish I saved more.

I was saving all the time for Mass Effect 1 and 2.

Soo...I hear that other games have had DLC endings. Anybody know of some examples?

Fallout 3

Bioware reminds everyone that this weekend is the first "N7 Weekend" with special challenges and rewards available. The rewards won't be sent until Tuesday and have to be activated within a week.

http://www.joystickdivision.com/2012..._n7_weeken.php


Also Bioware will be having a special discussion with fans concerning the current endings of Mass Effect 3 but won't official start the debates until a larger percentage of owners complete the game. No hints of any changes will actually be made but they will consider complaints offered.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ers-finish-it/


Finally, anyone hoping for a new storyline in the Mass Effect series might be disappointed since the current plan is for all future Mass Effect games to involve being a side story of what occurs during Mass Effect 3 or as a prequel to set up Mass Effect 3.
http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/201...mass-effect-3/

Good luck, G.

Me and my guys will probably go for it. Reapers only kinda stinks, missing out on the 5000xp bonus for going unknown. But gear is gear, free is free.

My Vanguard's been having shitty luck with the Banshees lately on Silver. Might try to level up another Sentinel or something...

Love Penny Arcade

See, I don't remember this being due to a bad ending so much as allowing DLC to be released. I don't remember, nor can I find much negative reaction to the end.

I see people throwing F3 out as an example a lot. It doesn't seem much like Mass Erect.

Besides, they don't need to retcon much to sell you DLC.

Anyone ever figure out what that humming was Vega kept hearing?

Still, if you died at the end of the game, you are magically still alive in Broken Steel. I'm not gonna get dragged into an argument over it like other people here would.

It changed the ending of the main game, which is what was asked, regardless if the ending was bad or not.

Which for the record, my problem isn't with what happens with Shepard, it's the lack of an ending for everyone else. Could've thrown some text in there like Dragon Age for the fate of your squad/ex-squad members.

Translation: Whiiiiiiiiiiine!

I'm not going to argue, I'm just going to state my case in an adversarial fashion. High ground!

FUCK ALL OF YOU! NO ONE IS GOING TO STAND IN MY WAY WHEN HOT GAY TURIAN SEX IS INVOLVED!!!!!!

Prevented a Cerberus Kidnapping is tied to the first mission Traynor gives you I think.

I blew that one off cause I thought it was a random N7 mission I could do anytime.

It wasn't.

Fallout 3 ended well but the problem was that it ended. The outcry about it was due to the fact that we wanted to wonder around the wastelands and explore more, which Broken Steel allowed us to do.

This game makes me sad.



With plenty more to come, I'm sure.

It's not gay if it's with a Turian.

Nearer bestiality.

This is the product of allowing gays to marry!

It's gay bestiality*. If you have sex with an Asari it's just bestiality since they really don't seem to have more than one gender. To be honest, their physiology is pretty creepy.

It's totally not gay.

Oh Garrus, you complete me.

The series took a serious turn for the worse when Microsoft Studios stopped being involved with the game. Just saying.

Me and Garrus had a picnic and I let him win...

Let's see how many people get that one.

Lol just kicked a level one out of a silver mission and he was like "just cause I'm low ranked doesn't mean I'm crap." Bullshit.

Crap we were doing great until a Banshee grabbed two of us to death. Not fair should still be able to revive after dying like that. What's the best rank to go after Silver? Right now i'm a 20 solider.

Gold's the highest you can go. As far as classes go, that's compltely up to you, sir.

By the way, anybody got their silver reaper challenge over and done with yet?

No, I've never been able to beat a Silver closest I got was dying on 10.

When was that?

Well, I'm not ashamed to admit I totally didn't.

Yeah, couple times over now. Now just playing to kill Brutes.

You keep your equipment and weapons and mods, your character starts over at level 1 and you need to redo your powers

It's just kind of pointless. Did it twice...it's like 75 points on your war assets.

Kind of off-topic but, was playing multiplayer when my vanguard started to fly above the map. Was up there for like 15 minutes while the guys below me fought off the Reapers by themselves. Kept trying to figure a way back down. Random glitch.

After ME1. And I thought all they did was publish it.

Clearly an "EA ruined it!!!!!" moment.

Honestly, the series started to suck for me when they decided to make it more shootery anyway, so while I don't directly correlate that with EA, I still think it happened to go down about that time.

Which may have been because of EA, though. I don't know. They seem to hand down a lot of mandates.

Some fans have filed an FTC complaint over allegations of false advertising.

Normally, I'd expect Roxer to show his dry "wit" here, but he seems to be one of the people most vocally pissed.

I get the feeling that the ending is now going to be nowhere near as bad as I'm expecting it to be.

You mean something talked about on the internet won't live up to the hype?

Turn me on, deadman.

Got my silver reaper challenge done with last night. Got hairy at lvl 10, but we barely made it.

I wonder how many Brutes have been taken down right now?

Those fucking Reapers. I'm taking out all my hostility for the ending on the Reaper forces.

I'm not pissed, just disappointed. I've accepted that the ending is awful and I'm not grabbing pitchforks over changing it. If they want to chanhe it via DLC, I may buy it amd check it out eventually and if they never do than that's fine too.

Settle down there, Roxer.

What the hell? We just won reaper silver challenge. Where is the prize?

As soon as Death quit getting caught by the Banshee's we won. Stupid cheap alien bullshit.

I only have one achievement left and it's super easy. Just using overload 100 times.

Idk about others, but this game was substantially easier than the others on insanity. I was kinda disappointed.

Why do all games give the same amount of achievment points? I got 1000 points for NCIS. More important games should have more points.

Dude, that thing is awesome

The Falcon?!?

You must not be using it right

Are you clicking RT?

Unlocked the Saber this afternoon when I was helping my buddies get their silver reaper challenge. Figured that alone would be an equalizer, instead it barely made a dent in most enemies.

I figure that Vanguards are the worst possible class to play against Reapers with. Brutes catch you, Banshee's catch you...hell even the husks can grapple.

The Brutes and Ravagers aren't so bad with the Vanguard, but the fucking Banshee has some biotic power where she can pull you in. Singularity maybe???

http://calitreview.com/24673

Great article that sums the ending up in literary terms.

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Schadenfreude

Walk straight. That's it.

Did you do all the missions?

No, I didn't. But now my EMS is around 5k for finishing the online. So, if I were to replay the final mission and want the green ending, I don't want to waste 3 hours if it's not going to be there. There must be more than a high EMS. They also say you either need an imported save or a ng+.

What I am getting really tired of is the phrase "pulling a Lost"

I have never watched an episode of Lost.

Finally about to start playing this in the next couple of days. Just about finished on my conquest of Reckoning.

It's a fun ride. I think most of us agree on that much.

Beats the people pulling a lost.

You're probably better off.

After all, at the end of Lost, they pulled a Lost.

I thought it was more of a Gainax ending myself.

Started the final mission about an hour ago and took break for the night.

My thoughts sometime tomorrow.

gotta admit, the multiplayer is the one part of the game that's kinda appealing.

It's pretty fun. I mean, there isn't a whole lot to it, but I think the formula works.

Vanguards are glitching like a motherfucker. Keep getting stuck beneath the ground or up in the sky. Very weird.

Also, Xbox put a circular scratch on disc 1...what the fuck?