The Bridge

Mattock is on Grissom Academy

3:25 AM

@LessPopMoreFizz I'd better double-check!

Multi needs 4 people

M-96 Mattock

it doesn't scale with body count

or level, best I can tell

I just did that before I left on my trip Thursday night. Maybe I forgot about finding it

SuddenlyTemptedToTalkLikeSalarian.

DrMorden,HighlyAmusing

3:27 AM

I do have it! Yay

To scope, or not to scope. That is the question.

@BenBrocka longasyoudontsinglikeone

@BenBrocka We've made it to wave 10 a few times. It always falls apart there. :P

theysing?WhywasInottoldofthis?

@Sterno can't you matchmake with public slots too? Play with a friend + random people and you're a lot more likely to survive

the big baddies are really hard without 4 people or that Reaper gun

@BenBrocka becauseyoutouchyourselfatnight

wittycharmingchildish,yetamusing

especially god damn banshees

3:30 AM

@BenBrocka Probably, but we're antisocial

@Sterno What class?

You don't have to talk to them

Soldier

Grenades are pretty awesome in multiplayer when you can keep running to ammo boxes

I never bothered with grenades of any sort

unless you count Nova...

The multiplayer soldier does not have many compelling non-grenade options

3:32 AM

never played soldier either

Vanguard, engineer and infiltrator

soldier all the way through, just fun to me

Seemed too...generic FPS to me, was never interested

Soldier is the way to go in ME1. Minimal bullshit, most survivability.

In the sequels, it kinda gets shafted though.

argh, got hit with -40 for serial upvoting

seems so boring

I like a class to have real specializations. And I've never been a big fan of grenades

3:40 AM

I know some of my voting has been in blocks when I finally get time to do it

I wonder if a bunch of people are doing it and that's how it triggers

it targets people who go to someone's profile, click every post and vote them without reading them all

user2334

yeah, serial up-voting generally only happens when someone opens someone else's user profile and decides to vote all the user's contributions. Many times it's done in good faith, but still not the Stack Exchange way.

it's not perfect but it seems impressively accurate

Excellent.

@FallenAngelEyes this happened to me the other day too

I think I was so far over the cap though that I lost 0 rep :)

3:42 AM

I took a 120 hit the other day

@Sterno yeeeeowch

@agent86 lost my 5 threshold for a couple things it seems :(

you guys must be cheaters, I've never had this happen

:P

@BenBrocka I had it happen twice in a week once a while ago

the person just kept going through my profile or something

@agent86 I knew it was fishy. I saw my rep page and 18 votes came in 2 minute window.

3:43 AM

@FallenAngelEyes Ah yeah, that was interesting...not really sure what caused that user to do that.

@TimStone Yeah, it was odd

argh almost 5am

I think you just left a comment on one of their posts or something. >_>

@FallenAngelEyes some of that might just be the bug

stupid ME3 multiplayer being all entertaining and stuff

mine has been going up and down recently, I was at 17 then 23 +5's within a few minutes, without gaining or losing rep

@Sterno I was just kind of afraid that friends I'd invited to join the site were doing a bunch of upvotes on me or something

3:45 AM

I can't believe the ITG vote is exactly tied. o_O

I think it's probably just the system going a bit nuts with all the activity

okay, what the HELL is with my ammo power unequiping EVERY SINGLE MISSION?

2 to 4 people can't follow directions on that ITG vote. Both answers have 2 downvotes :P

@BenBrocka ANd every time you pick up a new weapon!

@FallenAngelEyes I am kind of surprised with all the anti-ITG vitriol around that it's that close.

and with that, I must sleep. happy mass effect'ing, all :P

I haven't even changed my loadout

3:47 AM

@agent86 I need to sleep too. It's always a bad sign when I'm still awake when people in the US start going to bed.

I just want things to freeze before they die. Is that too much to ask?!

@BenBrocka Welcome to Mass Effect. :D

Happened to me all the time in ME2, heh.

Night all!

"...Crap, forgot to set my ammo power."

G'night

I never even notice until halfway into a mission and I'm like "why aren't these people freezing?!"

3:48 AM

@FallenAngelEyes this :P

g'nite

@BenBrocka you change weapon loadouts

@Sterno I imagine some of them are retaliatory

I've still got the same guns

@BenBrocka Even looking at other weapons

does it happen every time the weapon screen comes up?

laaaame

Pretty much

3:49 AM

I had a few times where my entire loadout kept resetting for some reason...not sure what was up with that.

Hmm, this question might need protection...it's derailing pretty quickly from the looks of it.

yeah...seems like NO is the clear answer with a point to the ending list...not that it will stop speculation

hah, in another week ME3 should be our #4 tag already

Q: What effect do monster companions have on target time?

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The target time of a battle is determined in part by your party's strength, but you can have up to three monster companions in your paradigm pack. How does the composition of your paradigm pack affect the party's overall strength for the purposes of determining target time?

final-fantasy-13-2

Oh wow, 483 questions already?

yes

and I bet most people aren't even on their second playthrough

I haven't even had time to start the second one myself, heh.

3:59 AM

I'm only halfway in..

I finished my first playthrough on Thursday, so I've just been slacking I suppose. :P

What? HAX

i hadn't been able to get too deep into in until this weekend

where it has completely consumed my productivity and general ability to do anything

I would have been done Wednesday, but I opted for sleep instead of starting the final mission...Luckily Tuesday and Wednesday were my "work from home" days...heh.

@BenBrocka It's rather addictive, isn't it? Hahah

@TimStone cheater!

I had to do work at work

it was so unfair

-1 work

4:11 AM

I'm gonna complain on Meta about it

that solves everything

Hah

shakes head

ok, i need black sorcery to get a pc me2 over to 360, the instructions...are broken at best

good luck

fuuuuu

i didn't even think it was worth trying to copy someone else's ps3 ME2 save over

4:21 AM

tech its for a friend xP

i did my 360 to pc, which was simple, but this its annoying

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Q: Encouraging Technophilia

So, EDI has a body. And Joker's interest is... well he's interested. And, in the couple of discussions I've had with EDI so far, she doesn't seem to be opposed. But I love to play the matchmaker and see new love blossom (and I do really want to see this ridiculousness), so how do I make sure that...

Q: Where's Irune and the book of Plenix?

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I need to get the Book of Plenix from Irune, but I'm not even sure if that's a person in the Citadel or a planet in the galaxy. Where do I find Irune?

mass-effect-3 quests

all the freaking instructions are written for modio 3, which you cant get because filesonic is derp

@LessPopMoreFizz It's weird, but the entire Mass Effect series assumes that everyone is using translators all the time, which is why they can understand each other.

@RavenDreamer i was wondering that as well

@BenBrocka Yeah, the best example I can give is in ME2 in a Fem Shep + Thane conversation where he starts calling her Siha.

And her response is, "I'm sorry? I think my translator must have glitched"

4:33 AM

ahh

translator or no I love the Thorian and salarian voices

One video of the Robie house in MC coming up shortly

I don't think you mean Thorian.

The Thorian was voiced by an Asari.

turian

can't keep the names straight

The thing Garrus is

You just liked the Flanging. :P

it's a neat effect

4:40 AM

I like Garrus' face in ME3 much better than ME2

He also has the best armor.

Shotgun shells studding his armor? That'swhatI'mtalkin'about!

I like his attitude

none of my other squadmates have 'tude. Except James...

but james doesn't count

ever

Steve V.

@RavenDreamer - Good call, it was distance. I thought it was the soldiers because it happened three times in a row; apparently I just wasn't killing them fast enough.

Thanks!

I do what I can

To as many people as possible

as fast as possible.

hmmm if I reveal the shroud sabotage, will I still be able to save morian?

I don't...actually care about Krogans

nevermind, I decided to be a lying monster

Steve V.

I do what I can
To anyone that I can
As fast as I can

@RavenDreamer - now it's a haiku

Q: My Mentor trophy won't pop up

4:49 AM

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I have 7 assassins that have reached the rank of master assassin but I didn't get the trophy. My dens are full so I can't rank anyone else up. Please help!

assassins-creed-revel

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Q: Does Guns of Icarus game have an ending?

I was playing Guns of Icarus and followed a route all the way to the "Into The Breach" level. But that level seems to be a never-ending survival one. Is there any way to actually finish the game? Is there any ending of some sort?

endings guns-of-icarus

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Q: How can I switch directly to a specific weapon?

It seems my only way to switch weapons is to use the mouse wheel, which slowly cycles through each weapon. The x key also switches between the last used weapon. However, if I want to switch from the assault rifle to the sniper rifle, a common scenario, I need to first mouse-wheel-scroll through...

pc mass-effect-3

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Q: What was Manny's sin?

In the game Grim Fandango, we find out that the protagonist, Manuael Calavera, is working off a debt to the powers that be. Presumably, he committed a sin in his life which meant he had to work for the DoD before he would be allowed to make his 4-year journey to the 9th underworld. Is it ever ex...

grim-fandango

flashlight segment...fuuun

@RedriderX Uploading a video tour of the house now.

Q: DreamFall: the longest Journey On Xbox 360...Removed?

5:17 AM

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First question so sorry if i dont make these clear on my first attempt. Recently Re-Purchased an Xbox 360 and recovered my profile. I started downloading games i hadnt finished before i traded my last console one of these was DreamFall: The longest Journey. Well, i attempted to but it Came up ...

xbox-360 xbox-live dreamfall

@RedriderX youtube.com/watch?v=SEyi4LHD3zk

5:37 AM

@RavenDreamer Why is that aimed at me?

@LessPopMoreFizz Okay, so you said the alt appearances have stat bonuses. How can you tell?

@Sterno When you cycle through them, click Info on the squad screen

See the line Armor Bonus?

It changes with appearances,

Oh man

Also, someone with Kaidan around should totally tell me what his bonus from From Ashes is so I can complete my answer.

Now I can't just pick the hottest appearance.

5:46 AM

@Sterno Fortunately, I've found that that usually lines up with the most useful one anyway.

No one of taste chooses Kaidan!

more or less.

@Sterno Though, TBQH, I suspect he's more useful than Ashley in ME3.

REAVE, man! F'in REAVE.

Q: Sample texturing using Texture atlas and openGL 1.1 in android

I see no reason to take anyone but Liara and EDI anyway!

Every mission is like Shepard's Angels!

Gaming not on Gaming

0

I'm trying to learn openGL 1.0~1.1 in android and I'm having a problem with texturing objects in OpenGL using texture atlases, I'm creating a 2d game and I know how to texture a POT bitmap to an object but, I can't seem to find a tutorial in converting my code to use a texture atlas for performan...

android opengl textures texture-mapping gaming

Q: Looking for a list of how to unlock titles

6:41 AM

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In game you have numerous ways to unlock titles for showing off during online play, I was wondering if anyone has stumbled upon a list of said titles and how to unlock them. I was mainly looking for how to unlock the "insomniac" title but I thought this question would be better if it was more gen...

unlockables street-fighter-x-tekken

Q: Are the Mass Effect 3 Missions affecting voting?

9:02 AM

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Having received relatively few votes for my own ME3 questions, I looked at all the mass-effect-3 questions and noticed that the number of votes for both questions and answers is considerably lower on average than other top tags, for example skyrim or minecraft. Could this be due to tactical vot...

discussion site-promotion voting

Ronan Forman

The ITG vote is drawing again, how long before it ends?

@RonanForman ya do know there is a limit to the number of rewards in each bracket right???

And that only the top rated people in that bracket get it, everyone else goes down to the next one bumping the lowest people out of that one downward and so on and so forth.

Ronan Forman

@James Really? I honestly didn't know that. Feel free to downvote me and answer the question then.

Posted a comment with a quote from the rules with the quotas

Also posted my own suggestion for why he may be seeing what he is seeing

[shrugs] Mostly speculation though, I can not read people's minds maybe they are more competitive than I thought :)

And for what its worth, a lot of us didnt know. I asked if @RavenDreamer got all of the ranking rewards or just the top, sent all of us to look at the contest rules and then we found out about the caps per tier and such as well, hehe.

Hmm, I think my iPhone's time is messed up

Q: What's the correct way to leave cover?

9:32 AM

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When I'm in cover and I want to leave it (say when all enemies are dead and I need to move on) I often make a fool of myself - I usually end up rolling around or moving to another piece of cover while my squad-mates look on with withering distain (or that's how I see it). Often I find I'm 'stuck'...

Q: What difference does my choice of significant combat loss make?

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I've not played Mass Effect 1 or 2, and during character creation in Mass Effect 3 I'm asked to choose what experience of combat loss I have. This makes little sense to me, I don't know who the people mentioned are. What difference does it make to the game?

Q: Galaxy readiness and how to increase it

1

Is there anyway to increase galaxy readiness without playing Galaxy at War, or is this the only way I can increase it? If I do badly in multiplayer will it lower readiness below 50%?

10:40 AM

Wow, this question is accruing views at a scary rate

Ronan Forman

This gives me hope I might complete some of the missions after all.

Q: Mass Effect 3: Using savegame from illegal version in legal verson?

10:57 AM

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I have an illegal version of ME3 as i wanted to test it out a bit before buying it as i found the demo a bit too short to determine if it was worth the (high) price. I intent to buy it now but i wonder if i could use the savegame with the progress i made thus far in the legal version. Otherwise ...

mass-effect-3 save-games legal

@RonanForman Are any of the missions dependent on views. They seem to be dependent on 'sharing' but I'm not quite sure what that entails exactly. Just handing out the share link to a few questions?

Fabian

@fredley You need to link to any post and get something like 5 views from different IPs

Blem

11:12 AM

I finaly got my ME3 :D

11:33 AM

@Fabian Hmm. That's a lot of sharing

11:57 AM

@fredley "For post sharing: use sharing buttons embedded in the question page on the left side or the permalink below the question. Shared posts should have a score greater than 1 and at least five click-throughs on the shared link. Feel free to share any posts you find most interesting within the mass-effect-3 tag. " from the contest rules details

@FallenAngelEyes Ah, the minimum score of 1 is what got me I think! I shared my popular post but no one's upvoted it!

user2334

GDI I hate answering sometimes. There's a user who keeps down-voting my stuff in the final-fantasy-13-2 tag, sometimes for strategic purposes and other times for nonsensical reasons like answering my own questions.

@fredley balpha confirmed that it doesn't have to have an upvote upon sharing, as long as it ends up getting at least one before the contest ends, it'll count

@MarkTrapp whaaat

@FallenAngelEyes Ah, cool.

I doubt I'll make it to a prize level anyway, ME3 questions are getting 0 attention at the moment

user2334

@FallenAngelEyes idkmybffjill what the deal is. But it's really annoying.

Fabian

12:01 PM

@fredley Level 3 or 4 is pretty achievable, everything after that is really hard

@Fabian Might make it to 3, we'll see. The game is great though, so I don't really mind if I don't get even more swag

@MarkTrapp I haven't seen that meme in forever

user2334

@FallenAngelEyes Like Hi-C Ecto-cooler, I'm bringing it back

@MarkTrapp ...I just had flashbacks to like, first grade or something

user2334

Then my work here is done.

12:42 PM

Ugh this ME3 contest runs for two more weeks.

@StrixVaria Hey, you're back to normal.

@OrigamiRobot Huh?

@StrixVaria Oh... stupid caching...

I'm just too lazy to go back to the gravatar site.

This show isn't that great.

It's not horrendous like I expected, but it's nothing special.

DST is gonna kill me. I chose to come in at 8 instead of 7 for this very reason.

12:46 PM

Most of the clocks I use adjust automatically.

And I just fixed my watch, so all good now.

@StrixVaria It's not the clocks, its the whole being up an hour earlier.

Most of the office works 7-5. I work 8-6 so I can get more sleep.

@OrigamiRobot Oh, I always get up early anyway. The adjustment for me is just not having as much free time in the morning for a few days.

10-hour days?

Oh yeah, you have a really short day Friday right?

Yeah, and an hour lunch.

I wouldn't mind that schedule, actually.

I work 9-6 M-Th and 9-5 Friday, with an hour lunch. But I'm up by 7 every day anyway, so coming in at 8 wouldn't be a big deal.

Q: Does the minimum amount of readiness ever change?

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On my list of war assets, I can see the minimum amount of readiness required, indicated with a little bar. Does this value ever change?

Q: Is it possible to keep both sides of the Geth/Quarian conflict?

-1

This has been bugging me for a while...so I choose the geth and destroyed the quarians(thus leading to Tali's suicide). Is it possible to make peace with both sides and get their support?

Q: Playing ME3 co-op on a single PS3

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Is it possible to play 2 player on one console on ps3 as both me and my friend want to play together or do we need to have to have 2 consoles and discs to play together? And if do we do can we do it via lan so its just us or do we have to do it via Internet with 4 players? Or is there anyway we c...

mass-effect-3 ps3

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Q: How do I use my Xbox 360 control pad in Mass Effect 3?

Don't get me wrong, mouse and keyboard is, to me, the only way to play the game seriously (multiplayer, usually), however, sometimes I just like to sit back and enjoy myself. Enter: The Xbox 360 controller. In almost any other modern game, I only need to have the controller plugged in to have it...

pc mass-effect-3 controllers

12:49 PM

I typed in my password this moring, knew it was wrong, stared at it for 30 seconds, and pressed enter anyway.

Well I see @Lazers has no problems with mornings...

@OrigamiRobot Oh right, I'm supposed to go into work...

@StrixVaria Maybe this is why I'm so tired. You are taking up all the CPU time in the mornings.

user2334

@StrixVaria Really? Even Skyrim only lasted like a week and that is far more open-ended and long-tailish than ME3. Not sure I see the value of close to a month for ME3 questions.

@MarkTrapp They probably saw how successful the Skyrim one was and thought "more weeks = more better".

user2334

More like more weeks = more dupes and more barrel scraping

12:54 PM

I'll offer you all a deal. If you upvote my questions and answers until I get to rank 5, I'll stop asking new questions :)

@StrixVaria You can't argue with math.

Seriously, you can't

Do "belongs on meta" flags not count as helpful flags?

@DaveMcClelland There's a close reason for that.

@StrixVaria Oh, right... I guess I didn't flag it

@StrixVaria Nevermind, I'm just dumb

@DaveMcClelland Blame DST.

12:58 PM

@OrigamiRobot Oh believe me, I do

Captain TylerShads, reporting for duty =D

@MarkTrapp Why aren't you blue? Aren't you a mod on another site?

user2334

@StrixVaria I decided after a year of moderating Programmers I didn't want to do it anymore so I stepped down.

@MarkTrapp Oh ok. Understandable.

user2334

Programmers is very… special. Demands a lot of care and attention. :P

1:13 PM

With all the arguments we have here about what is a very objective subject matter, I can't imagine the heat where it's based around subjective topics.

user2334

Yeah. Doesn't help that the site was originally conceived to be a playground for people annoyed by the heavy moderation on Stack Overflow.

I actually like heavy moderation.

I'm sure no one here noticed :P

Q: Kinect Sprots: Season Two. Top Jumps.

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What gestures you use after jump to improve your jump? What is your best jump length?

kinect kinect-sports

But the sites I've seen where things have to be on topic and have a certain level of quality like Team Liquid, Shoryuken, Smogon (even though they're forums and we're not) have just been better overall than free-for-alls where no one cares.

user2334

@StrixVaria There's a preponderance of evidence that shows curation and moderation produces higher quality content, but the argument that keeps getting brought up is steeped in counterfactuals and imaginary worlds: "What about all the potential content that might've been missed because people who don't like moderation left?"

1:22 PM

@MarkTrapp That's the main argument for ITG too. It doesn't make any sense in either case.

1:34 PM

@StrixVaria Just counter with the ITG logic of "It's not that bad."

Hello there @mana, my fellow Canadian!

Hi

I'm gonna be gone most of the week, stressed as hell.

@Mana School?

yes

Or female problems?

1:37 PM

no

There are so many Canadians on here. I feel like they're all just sockpuppets for the same person who is trolling everybody.

4

@Mana Calm down. Just calm down.

@StrixVaria lololololol

Daph and I are sharing the same school problems atm

What is the problem?

1:38 PM

@OrigamiRobot I'm calm, man, just I need to focus.

@Wipqozn the problem is five assignments and two midterms in the span of three days

@Mana Cool cool, alright.

@Mana ah, yes, I think we've all been there..

It's complete hell.

so

yeah

anyways gonna go shower and stuff, see you guys later.

but yeah, try not to completely lose your mind.

thanks

Q: Battle star rating effect on drops in FFXII-2

1:43 PM

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Is there only an effect on drop rates in final fantasy XIII-2 with 5 stars? You just see an increase listed with 5 stars but I thought there may possibly be an alternate effect for stars 1 through 4.

final-fantasy-13-2

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Q: mass effect 1 to 3 for ps3.save descisions

As i cant seem to find mass effect 1 on ps3 and have been informed rhat it was made for 360 ponly is there anyway to get a save for ps3 to make the changes in me3 based on desicions made in it or do i just have to miss it and forget about it and just play me3 with the save i have for mass effect ...

mass-effect-3 mass-effect