Mass Effect 3 Catch-All

Kamakazi010654 wrote:

Has anybody started the game without a save? (see post in the other thread for my reasons why)

I did start a game from scratch and if I'm reading the previous thread correctly, then yes, I did make a female Shepard. I'm just finishing up with

Spoiler:

my first trip to the Citadel

, so I'm pretty early on in the game.

Is the import face bug stopping anyone from bringing in their ME1/ME2 character?

I imported mine from ME1 and tried to re-create the face, but it just doesn't feel right. I may start a brand new file until it's fixed.

I always slightly tweak my faces between games for some reason. The different engine enhancements make me just want to tweak things slightly ever time.

The face-import bug is something that I'm amazed got through. Given how big a deal they made about your choices in the first two games affecting this one they must have tested the import. Did none of their test games use anything other than the default faces?

I'm having an issue with the single player audio going fuzzy and cutting out on the right channel periodically. After awhile, it goes back to normal. So far, I haven't experienced this in the multiplayer. I'm pretty certain it's not an issue with my audio setup because when I alt+tab out of the game and start playing music, it's just fine. I'm going to try playing music quietly while playing the game to see if it's just the ME3 audio that cuts out.

Searching the Bioware tech help forum didn't give me any answers, so I figured I would post here in case someone else experiences it.

Edit: Oddly enough, when I have music playing in a browser while playing ME3, it will go fuzzy and cut out too. The instant I alt+tab out, though, the music goes back to being normal. I'm going to try turning the dynamic range thing to low instead of high. I'm not sure what that actually does. My audio setup nice and can handle 24-bit, 96,000 kHz audio if it needs to (not that you need that much). Grrrrrrr.

Edit 2: Actually, alt+tab out doesn't seem to fix it. I must be having other issues.

I was not planning on picking this up but when I went to Best buy today to pick up Game of Thrones I just couldn't help myself when I saw the pile of Mass effect 3 games. I will be up tonight giving it a try.

I found another fun bug, if you're on the key bindings menu and scroll too fast with the mouse wheel, it goes up above the top of the list. I know it's an improvement that they recognised the mouse wheel after ME2, but a menu staying within bounds should be an elementary thing (but I guess easy to miss).

Scratched wrote:

I found another fun bug, if you're on the key bindings menu and scroll too fast with the mouse wheel, it goes up above the top of the list. I know it's an improvement that they recognised the mouse wheel after ME2, but a menu staying within bounds should be an elementary thing (but I guess easy to miss).

I was annoyed that I couldn't rebind "T". At least it's not as bad as Skyrim.

I skimmed the thread up until now so this may have already been answered but has anyone else having issues with where their automatic weapons randomly stop firing or will only fire semi-auto? This keeps happening to me (got me killed a couple times when facing an Atlas), and I want to know if it is my mouse or the game.

tanstaafl wrote:

The face-import bug is something that I'm amazed got through. Given how big a deal they made about your choices in the first two games affecting this one they must have tested the import. Did none of their test games use anything other than the default faces?

Well the bug happened in the demo too, when using face codes. People shrugged it off as saying the codes had just got bigger with more options, but clearly that wasn't it.

EDIT: Like the picture in this article. That's what I got in the demo.

Without having read up to here: if you bought the CE/N7 edition, do not look into the art book before playing! Major spoilers!

On a happier note, my N7 edition, my new GPU and I just arrived at home. Just a few more minutes...

Luggage wrote:

Without having read up to here: if you bought the CE/N7 edition, do not look into the art book before playing! Major spoilers! :(

If that's the spoiler I'm thinking about, that could make strategy discussion interesting as it pushes it into the spoiler thread, unless we dig out REDACTED again and avoid a specific skill name or just call it (the generic per-character improvement skill (or, the REDACTED skill)).

Seems like most folks 'round here are running the PC version, but just for the record, the facial import bug apparently affects the 360 version too.

Oh, well. My Shep isn't that much different from the default Shep, so I'll stick with that. Fanwank justification: she had some down time between games and finally decided to spring for the surgery to correct all that Renegade scarring she got in 2, and had them tweak things a little while they were in there.

Luggage wrote:

Without having read up to here: if you bought the CE/N7 edition, do not look into the art book before playing! Major spoilers!

That's the rule with pretty much every game that has an art book.

I clicked on it when it downloaded, looked at the cover... and then remembered to wait and look at the rest after I beat the game.

There's something about the citadel that's just draining to play there for any length of time. I noticed they brought the ME1 music back and I think that might be a factor, but I think the larger problem is that it's not varied gameplay, it's just running around and talking.

tanstaafl wrote:

The face-import bug is something that I'm amazed got through. Given how big a deal they made about your choices in the first two games affecting this one they must have tested the import. Did none of their test games use anything other than the default faces?

Well, according to Casey Hudson in the Giant Bomb podcast they did last week, he doesn't even have his own Shepard that he has played from 1 -> 3. They use pre-set characters during the testing/QA phase, so my guess is that they never even knew this was an issue.

Holy crap is that installer slow. I am installing of a DVD and after 35 minutes, I am barely at 50%.

nel e nel wrote:
tanstaafl wrote:

The face-import bug is something that I'm amazed got through. Given how big a deal they made about your choices in the first two games affecting this one they must have tested the import. Did none of their test games use anything other than the default faces?

Well, according to Casey Hudson in the Giant Bomb podcast they did last week, he doesn't even have his own Shepard that he has played from 1 -> 3. They use pre-set characters during the testing/QA phase, so my guess is that they never even knew this was an issue.

Still seems like a pretty huge oversight that they couldn't get ONE guy in QA to take ONE ME1 -> ME2 save file just once to see if it would work. That's sort of what QA departments are for. The freaking project director shouldn't have to have such a save file for them to catch it.

Since Steam overlay doesn't seem to work anymore, any good ideas on how to take screenshots in the game?

Luggage wrote:

Since Steam overlay doesn't seem to work anymore, any good ideas on how to take screenshots in the game?

You can use fraps or launch origin.exe from steam.

I must be doing something wrong. My imported Shepard is shown as Earthborn and War Hero, but should be a Colonist and Sole Survivor.

Edit:
Ah, got it. The folder of your ME2 save will be of the format [name]_[xy]_[class]_[date of creation].

x needs to be 1 for Spacer, 2 for Colonist, 3 for Earthborn
y needs to be 1 for Survivor, 2 for War Hero, 3 for Ruthless

Not sure if it actually reads what's saved in the latest save file and just uses this information for the initial selection or not.

Stele wrote:
Luggage wrote:

Without having read up to here: if you bought the CE/N7 edition, do not look into the art book before playing! Major spoilers!

That's the rule with pretty much every game that has an art book.

I clicked on it when it downloaded, looked at the cover... and then remembered to wait and look at the rest after I beat the game.

I remember the same thing from the ME2 art book. Luckily not too much damage was done this time around!

I know that it was mentioned up thread, but the "want the best ending? Best play mp" thing is seriously hacking me off.

ME games have always been incredibly strong sp adventures, with story choices dictating the ending. I am not a mp guy, and even if I was, sinking however many hours into sp and then more into mp isn't realistic for me.

I have played 100% paragon on my main saves for 1 and 2. I want the happy ending, damnit!

spider_j wrote:

I know that it was mentioned up thread, but the "want the best ending? Best play mp" thing is seriously hacking me off.

ME games have always been incredibly strong sp adventures, with story choices dictating the ending. I am not a mp guy, and even if I was, sinking however many hours into sp and then more into mp isn't realistic for me.

I have played 100% paragon on my main saves for 1 and 2. I want the happy ending, damnit!

Multiple press people have been saying that's just not true, that you can still get the "happiest" ending by playing the SP game by making the right choices and doing the side missions.

It might be easier with MP work, but not necessary.

Plus, just like ME2, I don't believe this game is designed with one specific win condition. You're probably supposed to lose some people.

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I can't remember, do the ammo skills that are shared with the squad stack? Say I have incindiary equipped on Shepherd, and Warp Ammo on somebody else that's upgraded to where their ammo type is shared, does Shepherd get both incindiary and warp effects?

Luggage wrote:

Holy crap is that installer slow. I am installing of a DVD and after 35 minutes, I am barely at 50%.

At least you are getting somewhere. I put in disc 1, get to the splash screen and followed the prompts to install Origin. Then nothing. Origin is there, but no prompts to continue the install. Did the standard PC troubleshooting - DVD drive is good, disabled anti-virus. I can install any other game from this drive. Rebooted PC, reinserted DVD. Same issue. Get to the splash screen, select install, and the drive spins for about 30 seconds and then just stops. I even went back to the store and exchanged the DVDs for another box. Get back home and it's doing the same darned thing.

Not sure what I am missing here. I was able to activate my serial number in Origin and am now downloading the game. Something I intended to avoid by getting a physical copy.

Heretk wrote:
Luggage wrote:

Holy crap is that installer slow. I am installing of a DVD and after 35 minutes, I am barely at 50%.

At least you are getting somewhere. I put in disc 1, get to the splash screen and followed the prompts to install Origin. Then nothing. Origin is there, but no prompts to continue the install. Did the standard PC troubleshooting - DVD drive is good, disabled anti-virus. I can install any other game from this drive. Rebooted PC, reinserted DVD. Same issue. Get to the splash screen, select install, and the drive spins for about 30 seconds and then just stops. I even went back to the store and exchanged the DVDs for another box. Get back home and it's doing the same darned thing.

Not sure what I am missing here.

If I had a decent internet connection, at that point I'd just do the Origin download. Just load Origin, go to settings, and punch in your game key. Then it will register it to you, and you can do the download/discless install.

I had your exact situation with Dawn of War II, and was so happy when I figured out I could put the key in Steam and install that way.

MannishBoy wrote:
Heretk wrote:
Luggage wrote:

Holy crap is that installer slow. I am installing of a DVD and after 35 minutes, I am barely at 50%.

At least you are getting somewhere. I put in disc 1, get to the splash screen and followed the prompts to install Origin. Then nothing. Origin is there, but no prompts to continue the install. Did the standard PC troubleshooting - DVD drive is good, disabled anti-virus. I can install any other game from this drive. Rebooted PC, reinserted DVD. Same issue. Get to the splash screen, select install, and the drive spins for about 30 seconds and then just stops. I even went back to the store and exchanged the DVDs for another box. Get back home and it's doing the same darned thing.

Not sure what I am missing here.

If I had a decent internet connection, at that point I'd just do the Origin download. Just load Origin, go to settings, and punch in your game key. Then it will register it to you, and you can do the download/discless install.

I had your exact situation with Dawn of War II, and was so happy when I figured out I could put the key in Steam and install that way.

Yea, downloading it now. Does anyone else miss the days when you could go to a store and buy a physical copy of a game, and then play it? EA needs to get the heck off of my lawn.

So... I'm apparently stuck already, incapable of contuining to where the objective is...

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I'm an infiltrator out of "ammo" ... if that matters. (f*cking thermal clips)

I see where I am supposed to go, but I have no apparent way of getting there due to the forcefield.

MeatMan wrote:

So... I'm apparently stuck already, incapable of contuining to where the objective is...

IMAGE(http://s18.postimage.org/i1wots2u1/image.jpg)

I'm an infiltrator out of "ammo" ... if that matters. (f*cking thermal clips)

I see where I am supposed to go, but I have no apparent way of getting there due to the forcefield.

Spoiler:

Go back out of that room and you'll see some panels up against the glass that move the force fields.

Late to this discussion, but... MAN did they cheap-out on the animations.

Also kinda peeved that my Shepard appearance didn't transfer from my ME2 save.