They mentioned the code was days from final, which is why the demo was delayed in the first place.
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Mass Effect 3 Demo Impressions [Online Open To All]
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They mentioned the code was days from final, which is why the demo was delayed in the first place.
You seem to have a good capture card. If you have any spare time this weekend,would you be able to record the tracks from the Sur'Kesh mission by just pausing the game and letting the music loop?
The only ones I specifically want are the piece that plays after you tell Wrex to stay and you get the first opportunity to spec your characters, and the combat track that plays immediately after you send the elevator up.
If you're busy no worries, I can wait for them to be taken from the PC demo.
Look around on the ground while you're running with anderson
A lot of times I roll and don't expect to enter cover but I do, so I press A again after the roll animation finishes causing me to leave cover. Other times I'll roll towards cover and not enter it, but at least it's not as bad as rolling in the wrong direction straight in front of a turret
Ohh theyre not my vids, I just found them on youtube, but amazingly enough they were vids from a NeoGAF member KurowaSan. So I would sent him a PM for that, it is great music. I have to wait for the PC demo sadly since my 360 died.
I cant wait to see for myself and upclose how much better the texture work will be on the PC compared to the 360. There was already a pretty big gap between the two for ME and especially ME2 so it'll be nice to see how sharper and more detailed things are here since even on the 360 things look rather fantastic even compared the ME2 on PC.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
I really don't think it's fair that a fan of the series, like myself, who has the game pre-ordered, like myself, has to sit here demolesss meanwhile smelly Xbots get to play it on their stinky lame console, early at that.
Motion to close this thread and not speak of the demo until EatChildren has it.
Motion to close this thread and not speak of the demo until EatChildren has it.
I managed to snag the demo. Thanks a ton!
The Librarian
Banned
You're such a smelly Hanar.
I'll go play it again...just for you!
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
This one is shocked and appalled.
MrMephistoX
Member
Didn't want to make my launch day experience repetitive so I chose lady shep, muted the sound, pretended I saved Kaiden, and skipped through all the dialogue choices and story sections: gameplay wise I can already tell I'll like it more than 2.
P.S I played through "The Arrival" while waiting for it to download: wasn't half as bad as GAF made it out to be.
P.S I played through "The Arrival" while waiting for it to download: wasn't half as bad as GAF made it out to be.
Seconded. I dont know how many times I cant watch someone else play the demo on Youtube, with me yelling at them to choose different skill upgrades and to take cover and use throw now. They just refuse to listen to me, its altogether disrespectful frankly.
The English Conquistador
Member
Jeebus Crust!!!! The motion blur in this game...hnngggggggghhhhh!
universalmind
Member
What's the music like?
The English Conquistador
Member
Splendid. From what I've heard, it's quality Clint Mansell. Though I heard the main menu music is from Sam, previous composer on ME and ME2. The main menu theme is also lovely.
Glorious, from the little there is, really want the OST when it's released.
italianfreak240
Member
I just finished a ME2 run the other day and to me the differences are there. I didn't notice any AA issues but will try the demo again when I get off work and see. I didn't see any major slow down at all compared to the ME. Once I get home I'll look.
Psychoward
Banned
i's 'aight
No, but seriously, gameplay and graphics are a huge step-up, only downsides is you don't have to double tap A to roll, which results in sometimes frustrating things, "X" is still choose dialog as well as skip dialog, and the demo locks you with 4 weapons, so caster classes aren't as fun as they should be.
Pm me, I have a code that I have yet to use.
Photolysis
Banned
Just finished the demo and found it to be pretty mediocre.
To be sure, there are some definite plus points like the excellent score. The combat is improved but still not that interesting. It does the job but it's not anything special.
Since the demo has stripped away almost all the story there's not really that much there to get excited over; you can't really sell an ME game on its combat alone. Of course, just my opinion, YMMV and all that.
To be sure, there are some definite plus points like the excellent score. The combat is improved but still not that interesting. It does the job but it's not anything special.
Since the demo has stripped away almost all the story there's not really that much there to get excited over; you can't really sell an ME game on its combat alone. Of course, just my opinion, YMMV and all that.
I pmed the guy already asking him if he wanted it or not. I'll wait a little bit for him to respond, before giving it to you.
shingonation
Member
Someone has a Normandy avatar item?
This sums it up for me. Had the opposite effect of what the Amalur did.
perineumlick
Member
Someone has a Normandy avatar item?
If you have a demo code, I'll trade you a Normandy one.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Just finished the demo. Overall im happy with it, not sure if its because im not in the mass effect grove of the change in player movement but something felt off at the start. Vanguard Incendiary Ammo/Charge/Shotgun is still super strong but it seems they nerfed it by adding bigger cool down. Still doing tonnes of damage ill try insanity later.
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Deleted member 81567
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Trying the link for the facebook one but it's not working. Does it have to do with the uk on the url?
Lifejumper
Member
Is it just me or is the use of motion blur in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thwfC-9oGNw better than the actual demo?
Liara: Pure Biotic 4, Singularity 2.
Sentinel: Throw 6 reset after detonation.
Infinite warp bombs. I managed to destroy the glass that covers the Atlas cockpit. When I get to play again hopefully I'll take over the mech. Sentinel was the class I used in multi for the beta.
Sentinel: Throw 6 reset after detonation.
Infinite warp bombs. I managed to destroy the glass that covers the Atlas cockpit. When I get to play again hopefully I'll take over the mech. Sentinel was the class I used in multi for the beta.
This is your punishment for buying the book.
Wow, the sentinel can do biotic combos on his own now with Lift Grenades and Warp. Makes the adept less appealing to be honest
The Adept's Cluster Grenade looks pretty great for crowd control along with singularity and shockwave. Adepts should be able to manage large groups extremely well, controlling the battlefield and just screwing with enemies. Plus the biotic powers seem to pack more of a punch than in ME2 so they should be more viable as an attack power and not just tactically useful.
Sentinel will likely still be my favorite class, having warp, push and overload is just fantastic and with tech armor allows you just to deal so much destruction and damage on all fronts. No enemy is too much for a Sentinel.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
lol seconded!
Well that explains why its super duper slow. Guess you'll all have to wait with us PSN users.
Psychoward
Banned
Diablohead
Member
I like the normandy prop so I used it in the avatar editor to make a new gamertag image
Psychoward
Banned
The cooldowns are partially based on how many weapons you have, and what weight the weapons are, that's why you could throw out a charge like every 1.5 seconds at the start, and for some stupid reason, they lock you to 4 weapons at Sur Kesh.
Infinite Justice
Member
Pretty good.
Well damn. That does save a lot of time later though. Thanks for the heads up.You can't control the mech in the demo.
shinobi602
Member
Dumb? That was like the best segment of the demo....
Anyway, look down at the streets when you're outside the buildings. Tons of people running away.
The class build guides for ME3 will be 100x as complex and unique with all the combinations available. I can't wait.
perineumlick
Member
What a bad day; can't get the ME3 demo, and now Whitney Houston dies. I'm going to get a drink. : /
Adept's Cluster Grenade is godlike... Shepard throws a bunch of grenades. With luck or good aim, you can have them spread over a large area... Very, very much fun.
Adept's heavy melee is great, it actually does a small biotic throw. I assume it lacks the power of some other classes melee but the throw makes up for any damage loss, if there is such.
Otherwise Adept is a bit lame. The biotics still lack the power they had in ME1. At least they feel like they're lacking. Maybe investing enough talents in them makes them better, maybe not. Singularity and Warp is a fun combo though. Can't figure out what to do with Pull though... but then it was never part of my arsenal in ME2 (useless against shielded/armored targets, defenseless targets i shoot as that was the most efficient way of playing, IMO).
My brother played as Engineer. Long cooldowns cripple that class just like they cripple Adepts. The turret power is fun, it is Engineer's grenade equivalent (does Vanguard have grenade-like power?) though dunno how effective it was, my brother didn't seem to be liking it. Cryo blast seems to be more useful as it can now affect targets with shields or other defenses (worthless in ME2, only neural shock was even worse since that one affected only organics). Engineer's heavy melee looked really boring... does it cause DOT effect on the enemies?
Adept's heavy melee is great, it actually does a small biotic throw. I assume it lacks the power of some other classes melee but the throw makes up for any damage loss, if there is such.
Otherwise Adept is a bit lame. The biotics still lack the power they had in ME1. At least they feel like they're lacking. Maybe investing enough talents in them makes them better, maybe not. Singularity and Warp is a fun combo though. Can't figure out what to do with Pull though... but then it was never part of my arsenal in ME2 (useless against shielded/armored targets, defenseless targets i shoot as that was the most efficient way of playing, IMO).
My brother played as Engineer. Long cooldowns cripple that class just like they cripple Adepts. The turret power is fun, it is Engineer's grenade equivalent (does Vanguard have grenade-like power?) though dunno how effective it was, my brother didn't seem to be liking it. Cryo blast seems to be more useful as it can now affect targets with shields or other defenses (worthless in ME2, only neural shock was even worse since that one affected only organics). Engineer's heavy melee looked really boring... does it cause DOT effect on the enemies?
Appreciated the kind gesture greatly man, I was asleep for a bit - so I hope the other guy enjoys the code.
Got woken up to hear Whitney died some time ago - crazy.