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The alessa Shepard looks almost identical to my "elyssa" shepard. scary.

That's the same response my paragon fem-shep got (did not romance him in ME1)

That strategy apparently falls apart with the Galaxy. The base turn rate is so slow that bumping it up with buffs just doesn't help. It's also pretty difficult against escorts because they turn on a dime and they're constantly exposing a fresh shield to you. The tier 4 cruiser has a turn rate of 5, that's nearly half the turn rate of the tier 2 cruiser and the klingon negh'var has a turn rate of 9 AND it's a bigger ship with an extra weapon slot. And the problem with "just broadside it", especially if you're a tac, is that cruisers actually don't have the best shields, science vessels do. So while you're chipping away with the lowest DPS weapons in the game, you're also exposing just one shield surface against enemies that can *all* turn faster than you and mount more weapons than you. To make that strategy work you need to be an engineer and have the rotate shield ability but then there goes your Alpha. It's fine if you're playing on a team since your buddies should be vaping your target for you but most of the missions are solo. And then there's fleet actions and PVP games and I'm already noticing this in my tier 2 cruiser. By the time I got my ship turned around and pointed more or less in the direction of the next group/objective, my science vessel and escort team mates ( and they were all 4-5 levels lower than me, all brand new lt. cmdrs) are already there and frankly, they burn through the enemies so quickly that by the time I get there, there's not much left for me to do. The *only* time when I was useful was during a deep space encounter were my team accidentally pulled aggro on three mobs, two groups of two battleships and one cruiser mob. Even then, I couldn't dish out enough damage to keep their attention, I found myself using my engineering teams and shield buffs keeping the escorts alive.

u turn at the same speed, just in a smaller circle. It's not bad apparently until you hit tier 4 and then it just sucks. The problem with tac + cruiser is it beefs up where the cruiser sucks (turning) and you don't capitalize on the cruiser's strengths (shields).

there's no physics in this game. tier 4 cruisers have a turn rate of like 1/4 the rate of tier 4 escorts and science vessels. it takes a galaxy class ship 1 min to make a full 360.

Saw an Intrepid and an Akira today. That Akira is HUGE... it's turn rating makes no sense in light of how massive it is.

Mordin kept running into fire and dying when I used him early on to do zaeed's loyalty mission, after than I never used him again. I had my own biotics for area effect attacks and so I ended up using garrus for sniping and then tali for geth missions or whoever else the loyalty mission was for

he sang for me as well, told me he wasn't interested in mating with humans, used him for zaeed and Jack's loyalty missions and nothing else, didn't use him at all during the final mission, had his uber omni tool upgrade and he lived.

I didn't use mordin for anything and he survived.

buffalo is good, but it's SUPER lean so if you over cook it (anything over medium rare) it dries up and is basically shoe leather.

That breakdown isn't quite right . I had full normandy upgrade, full loyalty only did 1 mission (legion loyalty) from when I got IFF to running final mission

well post it again!

At least zaeed doesn't tell you the same story over and over again. He may be a cookie cutter "bitter old man" but at least his stories mix things up.

there's a flame war over .1? this is why I don't read video game forums. I found jack to be the most boring character. All her stories are the same, "this is where the kids and I played games and guards were really nice to me!"

I'm thinking VF-4 as well

because it's a better game?

getting cold call Fleet join requests seems to be the in thing edit: holy crap, I saw a few T4 ships out there today... 0_o Nothing like watching a galaxy class ship swoop in with 4 beams going popping quantum torpedoes and vaping that pesky cruiser you've been hammering on in one massive salvo.

sure

Are you sure about that?

Why? I thought the first Matrix was a very good ripoff adaptation of Ghost in the Shell.

Her dialog during the ethical choice portion of the mission is pretty interesting in light of the Quarian's relationship to the Geth. makes me wonder if is the "wrong" choice.

Did you take tali with you on Legion's loyalty mission?

The Helena Blake thing was right for me. As for the consort thing, you just stopped the leak, you didn't stop people from talking about it.

yeah, ME2 is FILLED with stuff from the first game. The conversation between tali and garrus as you wander around the citadel is hilarious as well