Mass Update

[cyrano]

Finally managed to kill Doctor CrazyLady. I have no idea yet why she's immune to biotics, but she screwed with my crew so she had to pay. We went to the Citadel and they said they were very very sorry for being complete assmonkeys for so many years, that I was right, and how many warships did I need to save Earth?
Or they didn't. You guess.
But I got a war correspondant, and I got my doctor back, and I punched the reporter again. I bought some flowers and a Tennyson collection for Ashley but she didn't wake up yet. When I went back to the ship, I met Specialist Winifred Burkle. She apparently is my support staff crush for this game.

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[tersa.livejournal.com]

Heeheehee. Traynor is so awesome, and 5000 times better than Kelly.

(refrains from saying more due to potential spoilers, even not giving spoilers)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm very fond of her after five minutes. I figure when she betrays me it'll be heartbreaking.

[tersa.livejournal.com]

I'll hold off on saying anything more until you play further. :)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

You are a good soul, especially knowing that I won't be back until Sunday. (Last night I walked around and talked to everybody. James is kind of giving me the wiggins--back on earth he was all cool and now it's like I stole the last piece of pie.)

[tersa.livejournal.com]

Vega's characterization to me is kind of a hot mess. I like him, but I've had to pick and choose what parts of his character I like and disregard parts of it which make no sense to me. The "stealing the last piece of pie" reaction was one of those.

I would kind of like to sit down with his writer and pick his brains over what he was thinking writing Vega (y'know, the stuff that didn't actually make it on-screen), but given that he was the head writer and the backlash he likely took for the original ending (and the fact that I haven't seen him make peep on Twitter since then, when he'd been fairly active prior to it), I doubt I'll ever get the chance.

I don't know if you need this encouragment, but I'm going to mention anyway that you should make a point of going around and talking to everyone after every mission. It can be a PITA having to wait for the loading time taking the elevator, but there's a lot of dialogues in there. Cortez has a bunch of stuff in Act I, after some major missions, and after every N7 sidequest mission (I think). But the regular squadmates tend to have something to say after every Priority mission.

Also, if you don't have the Extended Cut installed, do so, because it fixed a ship dialogue bug that can impact you early on in the game (dialogue you'll miss if it's not installed).

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I learned to talk to everybody in MEI. Then in MEII there was the loyalty gig. So despite ninjamancing, even if they installed some sort of FaceBook score where after you bugged them enough, they shot you in the face, I would still talk to everyone every time.

It's quick right now cuz there's just the three of us, and I'm just breaking open the sandbox so that'll change.

I have Extended Cut, From Ashes, and the two multi player packages installed. (Also? Played some multiplayer last night, and the ghosting did not happen. In fact, I got schooled every single time I stood up.)

[tersa.livejournal.com]

It's quick right now cuz there's just the three of us

Three of us? If you are where I think you are, there should be Liara, Vega, Cortez, Joker, and Traynor. Also to some extent your doctor (if you've recruited her) and Engineer Adams.

I have Extended Cut, From Ashes, and the two multi player packages installed. (Also? Played some multiplayer last night, and the ghosting did not happen. In fact, I got schooled every single time I stood up.)

There should be three MP packages installed; I'm surprised you were able to catch a match if you don't have them all installed.

Well, no ghosting is good, actually. :) Now we just need to arrange for a time for us to play together (and I have at least one friend who I can probably persuade to help us out). I'm not sure if having a voice program running in addition to ME3 would make your computer cry but, if you can, installing Mumble would allow you to talk to us while we played. :>

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Sorry. Three Away Team members. So yes, those seven plus the reporter.
And I probably have three, I'm just away from the machine right now. And I might be able to make Mumble work on the laptop and run it next to me.

[tersa.livejournal.com]

Sorry. Three Away Team members. So yes, those seven plus the reporter.

Ah, okay. :) That's true, but since there a lot more people to visit than just three, I know how it can seem long. :>

And I probably have three, I'm just away from the machine right now.

Okay, good. :)

And I might be able to make Mumble work on the laptop and run it next to me.

I was doing that for a while. If you can get it to work, that'd be awesome (the only potential issue there is having to have the mic open and not being able to do push-to-talk, but I've done it both ways. We can discuss it further when you're not at GenCon, which is where I'm assuming you'll be this week. :)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'll be in Indianapolis, with Kate, and Jess, and Randy Mullholland.
We're going to have a Far West gathering, and it looks like there will be a Deadlands game that we can watch, but I may have a conflict with that.