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by **Belial** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:09 am UTC

BlackSails wrote:In the trailer, at around 1:20, it looks like one reaper is attacking another?

Not that I see? At 1:30 there's a thresher maw attacking a reaper.

by **Lucrece** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 5:49 am UTC

It's a Maw. Reapers don't attack other Reapers -- they may be sovereign entities but they operate under consensus. Also, there IS variety in Reaper structure -- when you see Harbinger playing ME3 you'll get a real sense of the scale and represented rank/seniority of Reapers.

by **An Enraged Platypus** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 11:33 am UTC

Obby wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2W3mif0z-Q

^ Official launch trailer

As stupid as it may sound, I honestly am left speechless after watching that. I want this game, and I want it right the hell now.

Dammit BioWare, why must you release on the 9th in Europe?

by **SlyReaper** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 3:23 pm UTC

An Enraged Platypus wrote:
Obby wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2W3mif0z-Q

^ Official launch trailer

As stupid as it may sound, I honestly am left speechless after watching that. I want this game, and I want it right the hell now.

Dammit BioWare, why must you release on the 9th in Europe?

1. Download FlyVPN
2. Get the Free trial username and password from here: http://www.flyvpn.com/freetrial
3. Log in to Origin under your NORMAL IP. This is important.
4. When Origin is loaded up go to your VPN and connect, pick the Asia tab at the top and pick Hong Kong
5. Click play on Mass Effect 3, it'll do the date and time check
6. When it's activated disconnect from the VPN
7. Exit Origin and turn it back on again
8. Enjoy the game before nearly everyone else.

^^ Copy pasted from another forum, I've not tried it myself yet, but I will.

by **An Enraged Platypus** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:15 pm UTC

Do not read the bioware forums. It was rookie mistake, but I just got spoiled. Some jackass made a thread whose title gave away a major spoiler.

by **SlyReaper** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:20 pm UTC

This is why I'm not even playing the demo.

by **Obby** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 1:16 am UTC

An Enraged Platypus wrote:Do not read the bioware forums. It was rookie mistake, but I just got spoiled. Some jackass made a thread whose title gave away a major spoiler.

Yeah, I'm even avoiding the mass effect subreddit until I play the game. I know the moderators there are usually pretty good, but I'd rather not risk it.

by **VectorZero** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 2:28 am UTC

Lucrece wrote:Harbinger playing ME3

I bet he rolls Renegade.

by **Chewbaccawacca** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:59 pm UTC

Man I hate spoilers, I played the demo and it was pretty clean. But still, spoilers are called that for a reason. It's never been a problem here, but I believe that there's a special hell for spoiler-trolls. A special hell.

by **Obby** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:58 am UTC

Chewbaccawacca wrote:Man I hate spoilers, I played the demo and it was pretty clean. But still, spoilers are called that for a reason. It's never been a problem here, but I believe that there's a special hell for spoiler-trolls. A special hell.

Yep. I like to think that this hell involves the spoiler-troll being told they're getting early access to a special screening of a brand new, ultra-hyped up movie. They get the whole set-up, movie theater, popcorn, soda, the works. They sit the whole movie, and then are released into the depths of the internet. Upon posting spoilers everywhere, every comment in reply to them is "Dude, that movie came out like five years ago."

Yes, I have a scenario for this. Don't judge me.

by **VectorZero** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:33 am UTC

Re spoilers, even knowing that

Spoiler:

is too much a spoiler. And that's just from reading thread titles.

by **Xeio** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:39 am UTC

Not sure why that would be a spoiler unless they're saying why in the title too.

by **VectorZero** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:53 am UTC

Less a true spoiler than more than I wanted to know, I guess. Directs my anticipation in different directions.

by **Xeio** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:55 am UTC

Eh, I suppose, but everyone has different tastes, and usually the people who hated it are more vocal about it. So.... I'd take anything said on a forum with a grain of salt. Particularly the bioware forums, where they can whine about a character in the game being gay as ruining the game.

by **Gelsamel** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:46 am UTC

I've been trying to spoil myself but I've only been able to find the 'bad' ending, anyone know where I can find spoils for the other endings? Perhaps PM me.

by **Belial** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:37 pm UTC

Basically, you can find someone to hate anything. There are people who thought DA2 was worse than DA1 for gods' sake. The fact that there are people on the bioware forums pissed about the ending just tells me that:

A) There are people on the bioware forums
and
B) The game has an ending.

by **Chen** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:44 pm UTC

Belial wrote:Basically, you can find someone to hate anything. There are people who thought DA2 was worse than DA1 for gods' sake.

A little off topic, but didn't MANY people prefer DA1 to DA2? I don't think that was just one of those minority things.

by **An Enraged Platypus** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:52 pm UTC

Made me laugh (ME3 material here that was in the demo and trailers, but spoilering just in case):

Spoiler:

by **ArgonV** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:24 pm UTC

An Enraged Platypus wrote:Made me laugh (ME3 material here that was in the demo and trailers, but spoilering just in case):

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

by **Belial** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:33 pm UTC

Chen wrote:A little off topic, but didn't MANY people prefer DA1 to DA2? I don't think that was just one of those minority things.

This only goes to my point.

ArgonV wrote:
Spoiler:
The death of one boy is a tragedy, the death of ~~millions~~ hundreds-of-thousands is a statistic?

Besides, they just were batarians, right?

Spoiler:

by **An Enraged Platypus** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:14 pm UTC

Which reminds me, did anyone purposefully let Arrival's Reaper Clock run out? I never thought to do it, but I got a tip to try it. Just do it.

by **Obby** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:24 pm UTC

Yeah. You get some fancy cinematic, then you die and have to try again.

by **ArgonV** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:23 pm UTC

So I got word my hardcopy will be delivered tomorrow or the day after that. Will Origin be a little bitch about it and not allow me to play until the 9th?

by **SlyReaper** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:30 pm UTC

Probably, unless you VPN it.

by **Ryom** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:06 pm UTC

So I paid amazon for release day delivery and it says my copy is shipping the day AFTER release :roll:

Hopefully the website is wrong and it is on it's way already :/

by **ArgonV** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:12 pm UTC

SlyReaper wrote:Probably, unless you VPN it.

I'll try that if when it doesn't work out of the box then

by **Dark567** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:13 pm UTC

They seem to have unlocked all the digital extras for the digital deluxe edition. So I a going to listen to the soundtrack allday at work. :-D

Also EW recut one of the trailers so it would star one of our favorite Shepard's.

by **SlyReaper** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:38 pm UTC

Well, I've just started playing.

Spoiler:

by **SirBryghtside** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:15 pm UTC

Lucky Americans, we still have to wait 3 days :cry:

by **maybeagnostic** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:42 pm UTC

SlyReaper wrote:Well, I've just started playing.

How? Origin informed me that I don't get to play until 00:00 on March 6th.... oh, I forgot to check the time zone. Was it GMT?

by **Obby** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:46 pm UTC

maybeagnostic wrote:
SlyReaper wrote:Well, I've just started playing.

How? Origin informed me that I don't get to play until 00:00 on March 6th.... oh, I forgot to check the time zone. Was it GMT?

Either way, midnight GMT isn't for another hour and 14 minutes.

by **SlyReaper** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:49 pm UTC

Again: proxies and VPNs (are they the same thing?) are your friends. Specifically a Hong Kong proxy because they got it first. You only need to be connected to it for the initial activation.

by **Yakk** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 2:24 am UTC

Who do you recookend for Vpn action?

by **Xanthir** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:29 am UTC

Anyone else been following @AllianceNewsNet all day while they've been livetweeting the Reaper invasion of LA?

Spoiler:

by **F117Landers** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:33 am UTC

The game rocks. I won't spoil it, unless you want.

Achievements (Xbox 360): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prozDNlvpUs

Edit: Oh, and Strong VPN. also, flashing a router with Tomato or DD-WRT and having it auto connect works well for consoles and multiple connections at once.

by **Obby** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:13 am UTC

Started playing it around 6 PM, and it's now just after 2 AM.

I won't spoil any plot points, but I will say that the game feels far less open than the previous two. There are still loads of quests (I think I have 12 active right now), but there's a definitely a feel of "THIS is the main story" to some quests, and a decidedly less urgent feel to most others. But... those of you worried about gear customization need not worry at all. It's a damn fine system with a good combination of new weapons and TONS of weapon upgrades and modifications. They took all the good things about the inventory from ME1 and made them better, and took out the bad things like the endless lists of the same weapons.

Loving it so far.

by **Dark567** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:14 am UTC

Goddammit. It won't start. The demo had no problem but fucking Origin won't boot the game after dicking with stuff for an hour. :-(

I have to go to sleep now, maybe it will magically fix itself in the next 16 hours or so.

EDIT: Hooray! Apparently SecuROM thought my anti-virus was some sort of piracy tool.

by **SlyReaper** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 8:05 am UTC

Yakk wrote:Who do you recookend for Vpn action?

If what I posted earlier doesn't work, search "proxy" in Windows, click: configure proxy server -> LAN settings -> check use a proxy server and put in 210.176.171.237 with port 8080. Or any other proxy address you can find. It should be unlockable on a US proxy by now, but the one above is for Hong Kong. It's the one I used because the FlyVPN free account was being overwhelmed by people trying to activate ME3, and it was locking people out.

by **F117Landers** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:27 am UTC

Dark567 wrote:Goddammit. It won't start. The demo had no problem but fucking Origin won't boot the game after dicking with stuff for an hour. I have to go to sleep now, maybe it will magically fix itself in the next 16 hours or so.

EDIT: Hooray! Apparently SecuROM thought my anti-virus was some sort of piracy tool.

EA hatched this devilish plan to spy on the users. The only problem, they mentioned it in the EULA, and everyone freaked out, forcing them to issue a verbal backtrack. In order to hide their true activities of system observation, they had to develop a way to disable system safeguards, and what better way then by saying that it is actually a piracy tool!"

Just kidding. It probably sees the system monitoring following similar protocols to certain piracy tools.

by **Koa** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:31 am UTC

SecuROM is really good at hurting the paying customer, and doing absolutely nothing else.

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