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Post by
Rankkor
Well, this is a response to executorvgk but since it has MASSIVE spoilers regarding the ending, I'm gonna hide it on the black box.
While I felt the endings weren't what I expected, I think people are over-reacting with the kid part.
Shepard isn't a robot, s/he's a human being, seeing people die affect him/her, even if s/he doesn't show it due to needing to keep morale on his/her troops. As we saw on the conversation with Liara on "Lair of the Shadow Broker" shepard is as scared sh1tless as everyone else regarding the reapers, s/he just chooses to dig the heels in and suck it up because SOMEONE has to lead the rest into the fray.
As such, seeing a child you wanted to save be BLOWED UP in front of your eyes would affect anyone but the most f*cked up sociopath (Which even the most hardcore renegade shepards ARE NOT). So yes, having nightmares about the kid is completely normal, as it would be having nightmares about the 50 marines dead on akuze, team-members that died in the past, heck even jenkins. It doesn't matter if you just met the kid 5 minutes ago, or you've known him since the moment he was born, he was still a kid, and he was still killed in front of you, without you being able to do SQUAT about it. That would traumatize even the most hardass soldiers.
As for the kid "playing a role in the game's ending" that's also total BS. The Catalyst IS NOT the kid. That kid was just that, a human kid on earth who died at the start of the invasion. Nothing less NOTHING MORE.
The catalyst however simply CHOSE THAT FORM in order to communicate with shepard, "a form you're more confortable with" so to speak. Implicating that it has some telepathic abilities (Which as proven with the asari are entirely possible in this universe). Its just a form it took in order to better comunicate with shepard, unlike Vigil in the first game who was so damaged he was completely shapeless and deformed.
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Post by
Rankkor
Sad thing I bought this game for the single player/story only reason why I am glad for the purchase is the multi player.
Now THIS is an exageration. Yes the ending sucks in several levels, but that alone doesn't make the game entirely worthless.
Deus Ex Human Revolution also had crappy endings (Along with boring bosses to boot) yet it was still a memorable and enjoyable game.
To put it simple: if you can derive entertainment from a game, then the game is worth its money. Games have flaws (Some more than others) and its only when the flaws are so overwhelming that they make the game completely unplayable that the game deserves to be thrashed (Such as Jurassic Park: Trespasser, or Dungeon Lords) but others will have flaws yet still retain MASSIVE entertainment value (Such as this game or skyrim)
This game has TONS of comedy, drama, horror, badass action sequences, cameos galore, and truly epic bosses. Not to mention one of the most engaging and challening difficulties ever. I mean every word of it when I say that I haven't seen enemies this smart since FEAR or Crysis.
Plus, there's also the (very real) option that DLCs can fix the game, either by adding/changing endings, or providing a proper epilogue that actually ties in the MANY loose ends and plot holes left by the default endings.
Now the part that really ticks me off is that this game will REALLY punish you for playing renegade U_U its not fair.
Post by
Thror
The enemies in ME3 are so weird. It is literally just the three enemy types that are in the multiplayer. Shields are used a trillion times more often than Barriers. Why did they not let me to encounter some Varren on Tuchanka. There were so many places where a pack of Varren would make a million times more sense than some other enemy type.
I kinda like how each of the major enemy factions has a lot of various types of units, but I really miss the colorful variety of the merc groups we mostly fought in ME2.
Also the ultimate tip for bringing your squadmates is: Bring the ones with Overload and possibly Incinerate. Upgrade both powers for single target damage and maximize their capabilities of piercing their respective types of defense.
I will have to do an Adept playthrough, just because I am very curious about how useful will the Adept abilities be. The CC potential of Singularity is pretty useless against most of the really dangerous enemies. :-/
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Post by
Rankkor
Ya seeing a kid die like that would have some effect on even someone like Shepard but not to the extent that it did. Shepard's seen so much death and destruction that the death of one kid shouldn't hit him
this
hard. Mordin, Thane, Legion, (possibly) Miranda, Ashley and/or Kaiden,Tali, and Jack can all die on you and have a similar (if not arguably a lesser) effect on Shepard than the death of this one random kid. If any of these people die you'll hear about it a bit from Shepard and your other crewmates for the next mission or 2 and then it'll barely get touched upon again if at all, whereas we keep seeing Shepard having nightmares regarding this kid throughout the
whole game.
The death of this random kid and the toll it takes on Shepard really feels forced and unnecessary. Rather than further emphasizing how each individual death of a major plot character takes it toll on Shepard we have this random kid who more or less symbolizes everyone who dies.
The kid does take a part in the ending of the game, like I mentioned the whole death of the kid thing seems to have just been forced in there, by the ending of the game you can see why that was. They focused on the kid and the kid was there so they can use the image of this kid for the catalyst. The kid may not be the catalyst but that doesn't mean he doesn't play a part in the end of the game. The character was introduced so they could use his image at the end, even without it being him he plays a part.
This is where you are wrong.
Its one thing to see Mordin, Thane, Legion, (possibly) Miranda, Ashley and/or Kaiden,Tali, and Jack die since they are COMBATANTS than seeing a CIVILIAN die. Specially a civilian kid. I'm pretty sure that even if its not reflected in-game, shepard must have recurring nightmares about the Horizon Colonists s/he wasn't able to save from being liquified. Such as Lily.
Again, soldiers learn to somewhat cope with seeing the deaths of their comrades at arms, but seeing civilians, SPECIALLY children get killed is a pretty big trauma.
Shepard's seen so much death and destruction that the death of one kid shouldn't hit him
this
hard.
Its pretty obvious you haven't seen a kid die in front of you. I have, I didn't even knew her name, nor did I talked to her, I just saw a PSUV fanatic put a bullet in her chest and in her moms as I was trying to run away during the coup' attempt in 2002, and I had recurring nightmares regarding that kid.
Shepard has done a lot of things in his/her life, and depending on your background s/he may have killed, or seen die THOUSANDS, but this is the first time she's seen a child die. And that's not something you just shrug off like that unless you are a seriously messed up person.
heheheh xD I like how we're having these in-depth discussions but all hush-hush. BLACKBOX IN A BLACKBOX.
I'm voting that within 3 more weeks we stop using spoiler tags, because by then, just about anyone intrested in the game will have completed it already.
Post by
Rankkor
Well, time to spill the beans with some good'ol spoilers :P
You all know that on the first game, pretty much half of your squad could die depending on the choices you make, and on ME2, they went into overdrive, because YOUR ENTIRE SQUAD can die if you don't make the right preparations.
Well, the same can happen on ME3, so here's a small resume on how to (or how NOT to) get them killed. This is directed both at ME3 companions, as well as ME2 companions that just make cameos.
There will be quite a lot of spoilers here, some of them are quite strong, so read at your own risk, either to prevent their deaths, or, in case they already died, figure where the hell did you screwed up xD.
VIRMIRE SURVIVOR.
I'll begin with the infamous Virmire Survivor (Which shall be referred to as VS for short)
on the first game, you HAD to choose between saving Kaidan Alenko, or Ashley Williams, whoever lived, repaid you gladly on the sequel by acting like complete jerks, and then the third game comes and the jerkiness goes into overdrive :S
Well, as it turns out, there is a very real possibility for them to die.
At one point in the game, cerberus tries to assassinate the council, and VS will be assigned as their bodyguard. However, its revealed that the whole thing was orchestrated by Udina (Sneaky lying bastard I knew he was rotten from day 1). After you save (or fail to save) the salarian concilor, you catch the others, and there it is: Udina tells VS that shepard is still with cerberus, Shepard says Udina is the one with cerberus, both accuse the other, and VS can't tell who's lying (Because apparently being friends and comrades in the first game and possibly even lovers, counts for squat)
Its up to you to do what you did with Wrex in the first game: Use charm/intimidate to make VS stand down, or simply shoot the VS for being both stubborn and stupid at the same time. Curiously, killing them doesn't seem to grant renegade points (I think)
WREX
Wrex is...... complicated. IF on ME2 during Mordin's loyalty quest you destroyed the test-data of the genophage cure, Wrex WILL know about it (he aint stupid ya know?) and will naturally treat you with hostility and suspicion. Otherwise, he treats you like a brother/sister.
After the mission to rescue Eve on the salarian homeworld, we learn that the salarian leader IS A REAL B1TCH. She thinks krogans are just animals and need to be purged. She tries to sabotage the genophage cure, and its up to you to either let her succeed or not. If you somehow sabotage the cure (Wow you really need to be on a whole new level of a-hole to do that, renegade or not is just PLAIN STUPID) Wrex will know of it, and will attack you, forcing you to kill him ='(
TALI
Now this one is a real tear-jerking example.
Because during the course of ME3, quarians and geth finally come to full-on war, and you need to choose to either help her people, help the geth, or achieve a diplomatic peaceful solution for both (really REALLY hard) thing is, if you side with the geth, then all the quarians die, every single one of them, while tali watches helplessly from the surface of Ranoch. Driven to desperation to see her entire race die, she removes her helmet, says "she's sorry" and dives off the cliff she's standing. So for the love of all that's holy DON'T SIDE WITH THE GETH, either side with the quarians, or achieve peace. I swear that suicide scene is the most depressing thing I've ever seen.
GARRUS
Come on, were you expecting to find out that he dies a horrible death? HE'S GARRUS, a true badass, people like him don't die. If he survived waging war against 3 armies, taking a gunship blast to the face, and the suicide mission, no pissy reaper is gonna kill him. The only moment in the entire saga that garrus can die, is during the suicide mission on ME2, if he wasn't loyal, or was asigned to the wrong task.
LIARA
I love liara, but I gotta say, she has the thickest plot armor I've ever seen because there is no way for her to die in the first, second OR third game as far as I know. She's gonna live, no matter what. Deal with it ;)
Now that we got the ME1 characters out of the way, lets go into ME2 people.
JACK
HOLY CRAP JACK, now this is what I call massive character development. While in the first game she was more or less a punk, and on top of that, a massive jerk, she REALLY turned around for this game. She becomes a teacher at Grissom Academy for biotic children, and does A DAMN GOOD JOB AT IT. At one point in the game, cerberus attacks that base, and its up to you to stop them.
However, you can choose in what order you wanna do some misions, and some of them are time-sensitive, take too long and they're gone for good. Her mission is like that. If you don't save her and the people on grissom academy, cerberus reprograms her and when you assault the cerberus base, she's a mini-boss there, serving as a modified (and HIGHLY STRONG) Phantom Enemy.
SAMARA
My god, the creators of this game really love to pile crap on top of this poor old woman. On the third game, the Ardat-Yakshi monastery is under attack by reapers who wanna convert these sterile asari into the dreaded Banshee units, and while samara is able to save her youngest daughter, her eldest one is killed. With the entire monastery destroyed, most of the Ardat-Yakshis dead, and only her daughter left alive, her Justicar Code compels her to kill her final daughter, and naturally she can't do it, so she prefers to commit suicide.
Mercifully, a paragon interrupt is there to prevent her from doing it, and FINALLY make her basically say "F*bleep*K THE CODE" Totally worth it BTW. So this one is easy to prevent.
ZAEED
.
Now this guy has a pretty dumb death =/ because its basically due to poor communication skills. He's leading his own band of mercs attacking anything and anyone related to Cerberus, there's this diplomat in the citadel who WAS with cerberus in ME2, but as of ME3 has defected once he saw just how BATSH1T insane they are. Thing is, Zaeed doesn't know that, and he's hunting him down, shepard on the other hand needs this diplomat alive because he can give precious intel on cerberus.
So, when you 2 confrot each other, you can try to persuade him that the diplomat has defected and needs to live. Whether zaeed listens or not depends if you completed his loyalty quest on ME2. If you completed it, he trusts and respects you, and will take your word for it.
If you did not, he has no reason to trust you, and you will be forced to kill him to protect the diplomat. So, if you did the paragon ending to zaeed's loyalty quest, what happens to Vido? ohh he gets his due reward. Reapers turn him into a husk :P
KATSUMI
This one is similar to Zaeed. She's beeing hunted by another specter, and you meet her at one point for a certain quest. After that quest is done, Kasumi gets caught in a blast and its aparently killed. both you and the specter hunting her see her charred corpse. If you did her loyalty mission on the previous game, after that specter is gone, she gets up :P turns out she (Quite convincingly) faked her own death, so that she stops being a wanted criminal, she just lets you in on the secret because she trusts you and considers you a friend.
If you didn't completed her loyalty mission............. she apparently is killed for real, we never get to clear that up. Either she really died for real, or she was faking her death but since she doesn't trust shepard nor the other specter, she chose to let both think she died. Either way, we will never know for sure. (Fits her shadowy character somehow)
JACOB
wow, what a MASSIVE JERK. Regardless of wheter you romanced him or not, he basically dumps you. After the events on ME2, he leaves cerberus, is guarding a group of former cerberus scientists who also defected, and got into a relationship with one of the female scientists. REGARDLESS IF YOU ROMANCED HIM OR NOT. What a prick, he even left her pregnant which is why he cuts you off romantically. So remember those few of you who actually romanced this prick on ME2, its not too late to replay ME2 and let him die on the suicide mission. Because there is no way to kill him or let him die on this third game.
MIRANDA
Wow, bioware seems to have taken the hint that several people really didn't liked Miranda (AKA: Miss "I'm genetic human perfection") Because there are no less than 5 WAYS FOR HER TO DIE. WoW, you really need to bust your ass if you want her to live.
Lets start with the obvious one that she can die on the suicide mission if you don't do her loyalty quest and you bring her with you for the final boss.
Then there's number 2, at one point cerberus will attack the citadel, and you gotta warn miranda BEFORE that happens, you need to check the dossier on Kai Leng in your computer, then the email of Miranda, and then contact her and warn her about Kai Leng. Otherwise, Cerberus Troopers will gun her down when they hit the citadel.
But wait, there's more, there's a third way for her to die. If you warn her about the cerberus attack, but don't warn her about Kai Leng, she will be fatally injured when fighting the jumpy bastard, and will die in your arms after her mission is over.
There's the fourth way, if you didn't completed her loyalty mission on ME2, then she dies, even if you warned her about cerberus, and about kai leng.
And finally, even if you warned her about cerberus, warned her about kai leng, completed her loyalty mission AND kept her alive during the suicide mission, she STILL has another way to die xD. On her mission in ME3, she ends up confronting her father, who holds her sister hostage at gun-point.
You can deal with this 3 ways, shoot the bastard, use diplomacy to force him to stand down, or let him go. IF you choose to let him go, miranda refuses, uses her biotics to push him out a window, but is fatally shot by her father before he plummets down
(See miri? this is why you don't use a frikking leather cat-suit to fight YOU USE FRIKKING ARMOR. Silly cheerleader)
GRUNT
wow, our little baby krogan has grown so fast T_T and has matured into an awesome little killing machine (d'awwwwww) He's gonna lead a great mission against reaper-indoctrinated Rachni on some planet, and if you choose to spare the rachni queen, Grunt performs the ultimate sacrifice to delay the bugs and give you time to escape............... EXEPT HE'S TOO BADASS TO DIE, if you secured his loyalty on the second game, he WILL survive, and will even CATCH UP to you on the shuttle =D
Don't believe me? See it
here
When he said on ME2 "I am pure krogan, YOU SHOULD BE IN AWE" he
F*bleep*KING MEANT IT
. Sadly he will die for real if you didn't completed his mission on ME2, so GET TO IT.
THANE
Well, the last 3 I left them for last because these, no matter what, will die ='( sorry but there's nothing to do to save them.
Thane as you know from ME2, is suffering from a terminal illness that has no real cure, only a treatment that can delay the effects. At most he was given about 6 months to live on ME2, yet 1 year later, here we are on ME3 and he's still alive, if barely. He politely declines to re-join your squad because his condition has worsened to the point that he needs a daily treatment with several medications and machines to keep him alive, and as such he wont be able to perform at his top physical capacity.
If you visited him BEFORE the cerberus attack on the citadel, when Kai Leng tries to assassinate the Salarian Councilor, Thane confronts him and saves the life of the councilor. IT WAS AWESOME. Leng is basically a cyborg ninja, with state-of-the-art Reaper Implants, combat exoskeleton, and N7 Special Forces training, and he gets his ass handed to him by a drell in terminal condition. Everyone knows that if Thane had fought him at his full capacity he would had thoroughly owned his ass (as it is, on his crippled condition he gave leng a full can of whoop-ass). However, due to his illness, Leng ends up having the upper hand, and fatally stabs Thane. ='(
He's still badass enough to survive that, but the stab wound accelerated his terminal condition to its final stages, so he only has a little time left after the attack is over. You can visit him, and be with him for his final moments in what has to be the third time this game genuinely made me shed a few tears (
MANLY
tears mind you T_T)
LEGION
.
Well, this is another one who pulls the ultimate sacrifice. The details are a bit long, but the main point here is that during the war between the quarians and the Geth, Legion manages to get some sort of advanced software that he can upload to every single geth program in the collective, to give each of them individual personality and sentience. Making them fully aware beings. Sadly doing this, sacrifices his own platform and he dies. He will get killed regardless of what ending you pick (Quarians, Geth, or peace between both) but due to his sacrifice, all geth now possess awareness and individual sentience.
MORDIN
.
You know, this guy really did ended up proving that he IS the very model of a scientist salarian.
We've established that the salarian leader is a REAL %^&*!. She tries to sabotage the genophage cure, and its up to you to fix it, however, in order to do so, whoever fixes the problem needs to die =/ Since the dispersion device used to spread the cure is malfunctioning. Mordin Volunteers. He gives his life so that the krogan race can finnaly live. Wrex himself honors him as an honorary krogan, and names Shepard a brood-brother/sister, worthy of the name Urdnot. T_T I'm not crying dammit, I just got something in my eye.
So there it is, as you can see, a lot of people can die in this game, and its up to you to do something about it and prevent it. So if you wanna prevent their deaths, that's how. If you already lost some of them, then you already know why......... wait a second, but what about Morinth? ohh yeah, about her.......
MORINTH
After gloating about how she's the genetic destiny of the asari and flaunting how she's a godess and everyone should be in awe........ she ends up indoctrinated and turned into an Asari Banshee Husk. HA HA! =D
Post by
OverZealous
Wow. I'm not touching any of those, yet, but it looks like they can all die. I like that.
Post by
Rankkor
you should at least take a look at the Morinth one, because lets face it, who REALLY chose her instead of Samara? I bet nobody did, so what harm could it be to see what happens to her? :P
and yes, they can all die, but in all cases it can be prevented.
unlike ME2 however, its not as boring as "If loyal= live, if unloyal= iced"
these deaths can happen WAY before the final battle, in fact one of them can happen quite early. At several points of the game, if you screw up (or feel like being a massive jerk U_U) you can kill some of them, or let them die. This applies to both ME1 companions, and ME2 ones who only show up to make a cameo.
Post by
OverZealous
Saving the Turian squad on Tuchanka is bloody crazy on Insanity. I've been at this for three hours and I've gotten nowhere
D:
Post by
Thror
Saving the Turian squad on Tuchanka is bloody crazy on Insanity. I've been at this for three hours and I've gotten nowhere
D:
Just wait for the last mission. You do not even have banshees there on Tuchanka. >_>
Completed the game today. Woooo. Doing a ton of multiplayer now. Got my Salarian Engineer to 20, he owns hard. I especially love Shield Drain, I can basically strip anything of its shields instantly, and do considerable shield damage to Atlas. Then I tried a Vanguard after I haven't played the class for a while... and oh my god is that class OP or what. I soloed a couple Cerberus waves when I was level 2.
I also got a Quarian Infiltrator and a Drell Adept. The only Adept I really like is Asari though, and Infiltrators are generally a terrible class for multiplayer, if you are gonna roll them as snipers. Sniper rifle kills are terribly slow and each miss is a big hindrance. Also, Infiltrator players seem to swing towards the retarded mindset that they can not do ANYTHING unless they are cloaked, which means that during the cooldown periods they are completely useless and crumbled in some hole. Seriously, the best weapons for multiplayer are assault rifles and shotguns. Possibly pistols, if you have something that packs a punch like the M-6 Carnifex..
Post by
Rankkor
see, this is why I consider Shepard to be the BEST protagonist in a videogame EVER. She agrees with me regarding politicians:
Shepard: Politicians are like the weed of the galaxy.
Bailey: Hmmm. You know, if that was a bumper sticker I'd place it right on my desk.
Post by
ElhonnaDS
@Rank
Actually, there IS a way to save Mordin, but the price is pretty high. First off, you have to get to ME3 with Wrex dead and having told Mordin to destroy the genophage cure data in ME2. If you do that, then by the time you get to the tower, Eve is dead and we all know Wrex's brother is a moron. If you've done all that, then you can use a paragon/renegade option to talk him down and make him agree to sabotaging the cure. He only agrees because Eve and Wrex (both of whom would make reasonable leaders for the Krogan who would push for peace and temperance) are dead, and the leader they have now would return to galactic conquest after the reaper war, if they survived it.
If you decide to sabotage the cure, but either Eve or Wrex are still alive, Mordin won't be stopped in his attempt to do it, and you have to shoot him as he gets into the elevator to complete the sabotage. It's much harder to watch, because he still gets to the top and drags himself across the floor as he's dying, trying to fix his genophage mistake, and he dies just before he reaches the terminal.
Saw those both on Youtube, btw. I'm not that mean.
So I totally cried over Thane, Legion and Mordin. I really thought Grunt was dead, so I did when he had his "final charge." I cried when Samara lost her daughter. I also teared up over the poem that Krogan wrote for his Asari wife and daughter, because I remembered hooking them up. I was sad when I got the e-mail about Kal Reegar. There were other too, I'm sure- I can't think of them off the top of my head.
The entire story is about person after person who refuses to back down, who stands firm and faces death for their people, their friends or just because it's the right thing to do. Shepard (in my game) will be the last to make that sacrifice, but by no means is she the only one. I was just impressed by the storytelling in this game. The drama was fantastically done, but they threw so much humor in between the sad moments that it stopped the game from becoming actually depressing.
Post by
Thror
What the hell does an Adept do against enemies with Shields? Warp spam works somewhat (when they do not jump sideways, bloody buggers) but it seems so uneffective.
It's kind of a question for both single and multiplayer. In single, it's pretty easy though... just bring two allies with Overload. That should apply for every mission really, until you get an ally with Energy Drain, which is better than Overload.
Post by
Rankkor
What the hell does an Adept do against enemies with Shields? Warp spam works somewhat (when they do not jump sideways, bloody buggers) but it seems so uneffective.
It's kind of a question for both single and multiplayer. In single, it's pretty easy though... just bring two allies with Overload. That should apply for every mission really, until you get an ally with Energy Drain, which is better than Overload.
easy.
Step 1: Stasis.
Step 2: headshot with the strongest sniper-rifle you can get your hands on.
Step 3: ?
Step 4: Profit.
I dunno about human adepts, but Asari Adepts are goddesses because of it. Stasis this time allows the enemy to take damage, and can be used even when scoping. Even shielded enemies can be affected by it, and this includes phantoms. A headshot can pierce shields and deliver instant kills, specially if its a WIDOW sniper.
Post by
buzz3070
Getting headshots is much more satifsfying in ME3 then in CoD. Though it probably was not the best idea using an asari vanguard as a sniper......
Also how do you guys decide to buy packs? do you buy the begining one until a certain point? or do you just save for the 20 and 60 thousand credit ones?
Post by
Rankkor
Getting headshots is much more satifsfying in ME3 then in CoD. Though it probably was not the best idea using an asari vanguard as a sniper......
Also how do you guys decide to buy packs? do you buy the begining one until a certain point? or do you just save for the 20 and 60 thousand credit ones?
its best to save for the big ones all the time, because they have a higher chance to give you NEW stuff.
Keep buying the cheap ones and you just get the same'ol same'ol stuff.
The idea of the packs is to unlock new characters, new stronger weapons (Like the precious Widow, or Carnifex) and new customization options.
All of these goodies can and often do show up when buying the big packs, but on the cheap ones they are VERY rare.
Post by
Thror
I keep buying the 5k ones because I am an impatient prick and I actually like the M-23 Katana shotgun and the M-8 Avenger assault rifle.
The strategy with Stasis sounds good for multiplayer Rank. Dunno if I want to have Stasis as my bonus power in single though, I kinda fell in love with Warp Ammo on my Adept...
Post by
Rankkor
Stasis is grossly OP this time man.
Lets Analyze it.
Powers like Pull and Throw are good because they do 2 things. A: they disable an enemy (he or she stops attacking and is no longer a threat for the duration) and B: leave him helpless to kill since they can't move or evade attacks.
However they have 2 disadvantages.
A: you can't use them on protected enemies (Shield/armor/barrier) and B: even if they are incapable of moving by themselves they still are hovering in the air moving and thus a bit tricky to hit, specially to head-shot.
Stasis on ME2 was somewhat balanced, it froze an enemy in place, thus nullifying them as a threat but it also made them invulnerable to damage. However, after the effect was over, they had a few seconds in which they had to get back up and THAT small window was the one moment they were vulnerable to attack. Pros and Cons.
Stasis on ME3 is pure pros, no cons.
Like Pull and Throw, this thing can disable an enemy by freezing it in place instantaneously, and leaves them helpless to kill since they can't move or attack, but UNLIKE pull or throw, Stasis CAN be used on protected enemies (Shield/armor/barrier) and its FROZEN IN PLACE allowing for precision shots to be placed. Also unlike its ME2 counterpart, this time YOU CAN damage enemies while they are frozen.
Combine this with the fact that you don't need to get out of the scope to use them, and you get a sniper that can freeze targets in place, and headshot them on the spot.
Know those phantom? hate those jumpy little b1tches? when they do one of those damn backflips, use stasis, and BOOYA, frozen and paralyzed MID-AIR. Stasis works on enemies jumping, falling, enemies suspended, it works on just about anything but athlas mechs. Has a fairly long duration, ignores enemy defenses, and on top of that, IT CAN BE UPGRADED TO BE AOE.
Seriously, place a giant blue stasis bubble on the ground and any enemy that enters it, will be frozen in place, ready for the kill.
Most OP skill ever :P And the reason Asari Adepts in Multiplayer ARE THE KINGS (well, queens) OF THE MOUNTAIN.
Post by
Thror
You forgot one thing, Stasis has no travel time. That's also quite an advantage, since every goddamned thing is capable of dodging abilities that have travel time. It's so annoying.
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