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    Mass Effect

    Game » consists of 21 releases. Released Nov 20, 2007

    Humanity is still a newcomer on the futuristic galactic stage, and it's up to the charismatic Commander Shepard to investigate the actions of a rogue agent while under threat from a dangerous synthetic race known as the Geth.

    Pinnacle Station is launching...Now

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    #1  Edited By GalacticPunt

    For DLC that is supposed to be combat heavy, its rollout is all stealthy for some reason.  First impressions?

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    #2  Edited By JJWeatherman

    Mass Effect is still getting DLC? Cool but... weird.

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    #3  Edited By natetodamax

    I assume it's 800 points, huh?

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    #4  Edited By VicRattlehead
    @natetodamax: 400
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    #5  Edited By GalacticPunt

    Five dollars / 400 BalmerBucks.  Wish I could comment on the gameplay,  but some sort of synchronization issue is going on.   
     
    Not only is the station not popping up on my map, the potential Achievement point total is still at 1050 everywhere.  So far deleting and re-downloading hasn't made the game recognize the 200 + meg DLC.

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    #6  Edited By Hitchenson

    I don't get it, it's a combat focused DLC for a game that's combat wasn't great to begin with...

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    #7  Edited By Mrnitropb

    Apparently the bioware PR team is stuck in Germany.

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    #8  Edited By End_Boss

    Dammit...
    Now I have to set my 360 back up...

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    #9  Edited By Venatio

    Wait what? I cant see it on the marketplace
     
    EDIT: I just saw it, does it work?

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    #10  Edited By Vorbis

    It does work, its essentially a bunch of VR missions, theres some dialogue from a few characters but thats it. 
    Theres abit of a back story: get high score on all maps or X gets arrested.
     
    Theres a few arena type maps, Tropical, Warehouse, Volcano, Subterranean.  Some mission types are:
     
    Hunt - Kill as many enemies as possible, each kill adds more time.
    Capture - Take and hold 4 points on the map.
    Time Trial - Kill a number of enemies as quick as possible.
    Survival - Stay alive as long as possible.

    If you're playing as a Sniper/Infiltrator like me, this DLC isn't for you, just not possible to do some of the missions. Assault rifle would make it easy. I'm not done with it yet so can't say how it ends, but yeah, it feels like Bioware spent more time on the Avatar clothing than this DLC.
     
    It's not bad for 400points I guess, but it's a let down after hearing about it such a long time ago.
     
    At least it has given me the urge for a 5th playthrough.

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    #11  Edited By suneku

    Hopefully it's fun, I'll be getting it when I play through it again before ME2 comes out.

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    #12  Edited By GalacticPunt

    If you have the regular single-disc release of Mass Effect, Pinnacle Station should work just fine.  The common factor for people like me who can't access it:  Bring Down the Sky installed from the Bonus Disc.
     
    http://meforums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html?topic=691346&forum=104     

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    #13  Edited By babblinmule

    I think I want to strangle the person at Bioware or EA who put the release date at today. I say this because just this morning, I left to study in Joensuu, Finland for 4 months, leaving my wonderful England and 360 behind.
     
    Like I said, I want to hurt someone......

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    #14  Edited By Mrnitropb

    Any new loots?

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    Wait, so it's out already?! I saw the achievements a few days ago, but didn't know it would be out this soon, wow.

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    #16  Edited By sickVisionz
    As far as new loot, I haven't beaten it yet but I know you can at least get a new gun.  Some guy makes a bet that if you can beat his scores, he'll give you his gun. 

    @Hitchenson
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    " I don't get it, it's a combat focused DLC for a game that's combat wasn't great to begin with... "  
    Compared to a 3PS the combat may not have been as good as Gears, but compared to RPGs it's probably one of the best combat systems.  I don't play many 3PS so I enjoyed the slower pacing of it.  If you use the radial menus on a regular basis, it feels like some super mix of everything that makes KOTOR's combat fun and a shooter, which I really latched on to.
    ---- 
    I loved the combat in ME wanted for them to do something like a Hurricane Pack for it but now that it's here, i'm wishy washy on it.  Most of them are pretty easy and there's almost no variety when you're fighting non-Geth enemies.  With the Geth you'll start out with grunts then shock troopers, then rocket troopers, juggernauts, destroyers, etc.  Survival mode with that is fun because it keeps ramping up and eventually it feels like the game is spawning nothing but rocket launching enemies.  With organics it's kinda lame because all you're fighting is "Pirates".  It's not like they ramp it up to Krogans, then Asari commandos up until you're fighting waves of Matriarches or something like that.  Itt's just grunts.
     
    Plus there really isn't much story to this at all.  All there is a guy challenging you to beat his score.They also missed a major opportunity for leaderboards.  These simulations are all competitive things and the game has leaderboards with a bunch of fake NPC characters.  I'm hoping that maybe once I beat the "story" the leaderboards will open up and have XBL users instead of NPCs. 
     
    From what i've played (I still haven't done Time Trials nor the 3rd stage for the other modes) i'd give it 3/5.  If you enjoyed the combat of ME, you'll probably find something to latch on to that makes it worth $5.  If you didn't like the combat there is NOTHING at all.  The gun you get probably isn't all that good if you're on your second playthrough and have access to level X Specter equipment.
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    #17  Edited By breadfan

    I hope it's longer than 'Bring Down the Sky'

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    #18  Edited By Lies

    Depressed as fuckkk my 360 is currently broken :(

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    #19  Edited By Damien
    @GalacticPunt said:

    " If you have the regular single-disc release of Mass Effect, Pinnacle Station should work just fine.  The common factor for people like me who can't access it:  Bring Down the Sky installed from the Bonus Disc. 
     
    http://meforums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html?topic=691346&forum=104"

    Well looks like I'm not playing this today then.
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    #20  Edited By natetodamax

    I plan on getting this game through GoD once I get some points so I can play through it again (haven't been able to play it for probably a year). I'm not sure I want to get this now if people are claiming it's mostly just combat.

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    #21  Edited By Shadow

    now I can FINALLY get all 1250 in that game.  1050 is a really unsettling maximum score for some reason.

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    #22  Edited By wh1terav3n

    @Shadow
     
    1200 total. 3 new 50 pt achievements.

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    #23  Edited By Karl_Boss

    It was pretty fun....the last mission is pretty intense.

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    #24  Edited By PJ

    Why hasn't there been any news on this on GiantBomb, This is bigger news then some add on for a shit game like death tank.

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    #25  Edited By Relys

    I just  bought it, and it doesn't work. (I have Platinum Hits).
     
    WHAT THE FUCK!

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    #26  Edited By raidingkvatch

    I got it, I've done the majority, it's alright it seems like they were thinking of something like the Arena from KotoR but it just doesn't work as well, if you liked ME is worth the 400 points but it's nothing groundbreaking.

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    #27  Edited By EvilTwin

    It sounds lame, and it once again only works on an uncompleted game save.  Pass.

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    #28  Edited By Mrnitropb

    Ok, I was moderately exited about this, as the info stated you could win a weapon, and I've played alot of fallout, so I was like Shit Balls, new weapon drops for the first time in a year! Nope, the winnings are not new, nor even top-of-the-line. F that noise.

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    #29  Edited By onyxghost

    The DLC is O.K. The story is paper thin, but the combat if fun if you've already smoked all the fools in the game proper.

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    #30  Edited By Gypsy816
    @Shini4444 said:
    " Holy Crap!! Mass Effect has more DLC? Where have I been? "
    Same here. I just saw it on XBLM a few days ago. Lucky coincidence!
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    #31  Edited By Shaymarx

    Im surprised that no media outlet is commentating on Msoft's refusal to address this non working DLC issue.
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    #32  Edited By Shaymarx

    Well at least it's working now.
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    #33  Edited By Vigilance

    I read something about an apartment being one of the things in this DLC. Like a permanent character home ala Bethesda's games?

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