MASS EFFECT 2 HOLYFUCK

[Sithdarth]

I UNDERSTAND YOUR FEELINGS ON THE MATTER, BUT I JUST CAN'T QUITE GRASP THE DISTINCTION.

IT HELPS IF YOU HAVE LIKE $60,000 WORTH OF PHYSICS EDUCATION. I MEAN IT MAKES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD SCIENCE MUCH CLEARER. OF COURSE IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF IN GENERAL IT WON'T HELP THAT MUCH.

[Eltargrim]

THE FLAWS ARE APPARENT IF YOU KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR. FOR EXAMPLE, THE BIOWARE GUYS APPARENTLY DON'T KNOW A LOT ABOUT HOW ELECTRICITY WORKS.

EDIT: ALSO, MY POTENTIAL FOR SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF IS MASSIVE. ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S AN OTHERWISE FUN AND PRETTY GAME. MINOR SCIENCE FUCK-UPS < GAME AS A WHOLE.

[Sithdarth]

THE FLAWS ARE APPARENT IF YOU KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR. FOR EXAMPLE, THE BIOWARE GUYS APPARENTLY DON'T KNOW A LOT ABOUT HOW ELECTRICITY WORKS.

CAN YOU GIVE A SPECIFIC EXAMPLE. FOR INSTANCE THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CURRENT THING IN THE ELEMENT ZERO THING ISN'T REALLY WRONG. FOR EXAMPLE WHILE CURRENT IS GENERALLY CARRIED BY NEGATIVE CHARGE CARRIERS IT CAN BE CARRIED BY POSITIVE ONES AS WELL. SPECIFICALLY IN SEMI CONDUCTORS. POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CURRENT CAN ALSO BE DEFINED IN TERMS OF CURRENT DIRECTION. SO THERE ARE SEVERAL POSSIBILITIES. CURRENT IN ONE DIRECTION CAUSES MASS REDUCTION AND IN THE OTHER CAUSES MASS INCREASE. THIS IS NOT UNHEARD OF AND IT IS IN FACT THE BASIS OF SEMICONDUCTORS AND THEREFORE ALL OF COMPUTERS. THAT OR P AND N TYPE SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS ARE ADDED TO ELEMENT ZERO AND THE MASS INCREASE IS TRIGGERED BY ONE AND THE DECREASE IS TRIGGED BY THE OTHER. ALTERNATIVELY "CURRENT" COULD BE CODE FOR BEAM OF CHARGED PARTICLES WHICH IS ALSO A CURRENT. POSITIVELY CHARGED BEAMS TRIGGER ONE EFFECT AND NEGATIVELY CHARGED BEAMS THE OTHER.

[Eltargrim]

APPARENTLY YOUR SCIENCE EDUCATION IS MUCH GREATER THAN MINE! OH WELL, I'M LESS CONCERNED WITH ELECTRICITY AND MORE WITH ORGANIC CHEMISTRY RIGHT NOW. I'LL LEARN ABOUT SEMICONDUCTORS LATERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

FOR REFERENCE, I WAS LOOKING AT IT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A CONVENTIONAL METAL CONDUCTOR; REGARDING IT AS A SEMICONDUCTOR MAKES MUCH MORE SENSE.

THE MORE YOU KNOW!

[Aerozord]

WELL SITH IF IT HELPS, DONT THINK OF IT AS MONITORING BUILD UP OF HEAT, BUT DAMAGE TO THE HEAT SINK. THUS A DEGRADE IN ITS EFFECTIVENESS UNTIL IT EVENTUALLY NEEDS REPLACING

[Marc v4.0]

IT STILL DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. AS I RECALL FROM EARLY REPORTS (AND THOSE WHO HAVE PLAYED IT CAN CORRECT ME IF THIS IS WRONG) THE GAME PICKS BACK UP DIRECTLY AT THE END OF ME1, IF NOT MOMENTS THEN LESS THEN DAYS LATER. THERE'S NO JUSTIFICATION FOR SUCH A DRASTIC SHIFT IN THE NEEDS AND DEMANDS OF THE TECHNOLOGY AT ALL. I HATE IT WHEN GAMES PULL THAT SORT OF CRAP ON YOU IN SEQUELS.

[Aerozord]

WELL ABOUT AS MUCH SENSE AS A SUDDEN LOSS OF EQUIPMENT AND EXPERIENCE. MAYBE THEY WILL BE SMART THOUGH AND ATLEAST NOT MAKE DUPLICATES OF THE OLD WEAPONS BECAUSE THEN THEY COULD HANDWAVE "and this is how these ones work"

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Marc v1.0

IT STILL DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. AS I RECALL FROM EARLY REPORTS (AND THOSE WHO HAVE PLAYED IT CAN CORRECT ME IF THIS IS WRONG) THE GAME PICKS BACK UP DIRECTLY AT THE END OF ME1, IF NOT MOMENTS THEN LESS THEN DAYS LATER. THERE'S NO JUSTIFICATION FOR SUCH A DRASTIC SHIFT IN THE NEEDS AND DEMANDS OF THE TECHNOLOGY AT ALL. I HATE IT WHEN GAMES PULL THAT SORT OF CRAP ON YOU IN SEQUELS.

Yeah.

It does.

Then you die for two years.

[Marc v4.0]

So in two years technology evolved backwards? No.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Marc v1.0

So in two years technology evolved backwards? No.

No.

In two years they figured out how to fire off rounds SO FAST that all guns would have similar overheating problems as ME1's sniper rifles, so they then figured out how to conduct that heat into a sink, that dissipates heat quickly by allowing packets of it to change state in a near immediate fashion. Once all the packets have changed state a new heat sink has to be placed in the gun so that the friction from firing rounds that powerful doesn't turn the gun to slag.

This is also why Cerberus didn't keep your god like spectre x and collosus/pred x equipment. It'd be useless against/with the new armaments being used.

Note: I totally just pulled all of that out of my ass and don't have the game (and therefore lack the codexes to look up the real reasoning), but it's really really really not hard to justify this if you care to at all.