Mass Alex: Mass Effect 3 - Part 06

Apparently having two characters be "relentless" means they have to be one-dimensional. Despite being my favourite feature on the site this episode was just as much of a slog to get through as playing through this DLC was. Can't wait for next week's.

@alex@vinny FYI the couch was at the bottom of that dam:

https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Omega:_Assist_Harrot

Ha ha ha

@alex if you're planning to keep using that assault rifle you def should've upgraded it from that elcor shop guy.

Playing on Normal is sooooo boring.

Bump up the difficulty please!

@asantosbr: He died multiple times, it's challenging enough, no? Especially with how unresponsive the gamepad appears. Let our commander do his thing.

Good god guys, just play on easy. The number of times Alex just stands out in the open taking fire, or walk towards/ignore grenades, or try to scope and miss hitting an enemy 3 feet in front of him while slowly tracking his reticle a inch behind a moving target unable to hit it... I honestly just skip all the combat parts.

Actually, watching Mass Alex 3 just reminds me how much I hate ME3's writing, so I think it's best I just stop watching altogether... it's just not worth slogging through all the crap just to get to the good parts (Rannoch/Tuchanka/Citadel).

Does make me pine for some ME3 Multiplayer... As much as I hated the campaign, I had an absolute blast in multiplayer.

Perhaps not "for Traynor", but that chess board *should* appear in Shep Shep's quarters as a decoration.

That poor couch... he started caring just a bit too late.

@zachattack294: @iridium884: Not his fault that the game doesn't let you explore freely....he did at least one dive towards a hole in the fencing of that dam....it should have let him dive into or jump down from that area and pick up the couch...

But noooooo, you have to use the ladder that is 2 feet to the left of that hole to get down.

I notice Alex missing a lot of things that I at first think "oh that's very obvious" but the way I play and think is completely different from what Alex is doing. Trying to pick out the red ( ) in the sea of icons, textures, and enemies all shooting at you [and sometimes against a time limit] is painstaking...and considering the morons at EA rushed ME3 and forced their idiotic ideas of "action game" into it, nobody got the memo that having USE/DIVE/TAKE COVER/MOUNT LADDER all on the same button was a bad idea.

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I'm kinda ticked about the way they handled Nyreen's death too. She was able to ninja-flip down there...why not use the same moves to get out? She wasn't able to save anyone else...

@michaelafingers: Oh totally, I also acknowledge that I've played this game through so many times that I know where nearly every pickup is.

@alex @vinny You're doing a great job of figuring out the details of the ME3 combat. I'm sure there's at least a dozen things the folks watching and I could tell you to help but I think that's worth leaving to you to figure out, save for one thing. The weapons and mods work on a leveling system. When you buy a gun or a mod, you aren't just getting an item, you level it up (10 levels total). This does fun things like increase damage/decrease weight on guns and increase mod effectiveness. You have no other use for money. Buy all you see, especially when you see an upgrade for the gun you use the most. Cheers!

P.S. The info you got on Grissom Academy wasn't phony video game urgency. It really won't hold out long (i.e. this is a time sensitive mission)

Man, you think you are used to Alex' lack of spatial awareness (or whatever the equivalent is called in a video game).

Good episode. This DLC seems pretty solid.

Hooray the space hamster has been rescued! Omega mission seemed pretty good overall, Aria is an alright character. Poor Ny'reen.

That moment when you relearn that Aria’s voiced by Trinity...

@wiseblood: how about Infiltrator and sentinel? I remember way back when I played 1, I picked infiltrator, and was doing all right with locked doors and crashed probes, even on the somewhat rare occasions that I didn't bring Tali with me.

@hostyl1: Cortez revealed this back in episode 1 or 2... 2, I think. Episode 1 was mostly getting off of Earth, I think. In fact, as soon as you meet him, you can do the usual round of questioning, and when asked about family, he'll say that his husband was killed.

It was back during this first meeting with Cortez that Vinny or Dan joked about Vega doing pull-ups off-screen, only to find out he WAS. I think that's when James said "you know you like the show, Esteban!"