Talking about Mass Effect 3 With Spoilers - Page 11

Krylo · 05-14-2011, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Osterbaum

e: Someone explain to me what made the Hammerhead a cool vehicle? It's unimaginative, has a boring weapon. It just outright sucks. It broke my suspension of disbelief because I felt no one would actually make that sort of military vehicle in the ME universe or anyhwere else for that matter. Plust the DLC "missions" were just a waste of money. And it didn't even have this.

Hovercraft + Jump Jets that actually work + Missiles.

Kerensky287 · 05-14-2011, 07:43 PM

If they keep the Hammerhead for ME3 I hope they have some missions designed to its strengths a little more. Perhaps some high-speed platforming, weaker (but more numerous) enemies, perhaps a boss or two... like, say they give you a big stretch of freeway that you have to use to chase down a Reaper ship, shooting at targets of opportunity and weaving around cars/gaps/other obstacles so you can keep up with it and destroy it before it hits a major military base. Or something.

Any time I found the Hammerhead missions boring it was either because a) there was no reason to do anything but hide behind a rock and shoot missiles with jumpjets or b) machine guns do way too much fucking damage to it on Insane.

Osterbaum · 05-14-2011, 07:43 PM

I just find all three of those; tiringly unoriginal, overpowered and thus immersion breaking and boring.

Toast · 05-14-2011, 07:50 PM

meh, the hammerhead was a pretty piss-poor hovercraft, considering you couldn't keep it aloft for more than a few seconds. Even though it somehow managed to gain enough altitude to get back to the Normandy once the mission was over.

All in all, I really liked the mako driving sections of the story planets, I'd like that to return in me3. I wouldn't mind there being one or two open, explorable planets like the me1 sidequests, just so long as they're not the majority.

The hammerhead was kind of fun to drive around, but that's all you got to do with it--drive around. It's a hovertank for frig's sake! I'm kind of glad it was free.

To be honest, I'd have paid for a dlc that let me use that mercenary gunship, or something like it. That's what Shep should really be exploring planets in, not something that has to hug the ground.

Krylo · 05-14-2011, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Toast

meh, the hammerhead was a pretty piss-poor hovercraft, considering you couldn't keep it aloft for more than a few seconds.

I don't think you know what a hovercraft is.

Overcast · 05-14-2011, 09:16 PM

I dunno the Israeli are making hovercraft that are supposed to take the place of military helicopters for evacuation in more enclosed environments. The prototypes fly, not high, but they float over buildings.

Krylo · 05-14-2011, 09:24 PM

Pretty sure those are either hovercraft/helicopter (or jet) hybrids then or not actually true hovercrafts at all, as that hovercrafts travel on a cushion of high pressure air and are not classified as aircraft. You, literally, can't keep a cushion of high pressure are under you to lift you more than a couple feet off the ground. Because, being high pressure, it tends to disperse.

Are you sure it's not just using a system similar to the vertical take off systems used in modern fighter jets... or remote controlled helicopters? Because that honestly makes a lot more sense.

Overcast · 05-14-2011, 10:10 PM

Well it is certainly not using the VTOL, but it could be using heli tech. The major difference is rather than having a huge rotor that is freely spinning just above the craft it is contained in the fuselage. We have remote controlled ones that are much smaller already in use for surveillance which get pretty good use in modern warfare videogames, just think that but bigger.

Krylo · 05-14-2011, 10:53 PM

Yeah, I think those are technically considered helicopters.

Overcast · 05-16-2011, 03:19 PM

And then Mass Effect 3 got gayer.

05-14-2011, 07:43 PM	#103
Osterbaum The revolution will be memed! Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: FIN Posts: 5,967	I just find all three of those; tiringly unoriginal, overpowered and thus immersion breaking and boring. __________________ D is for Dirty Commie!

05-14-2011, 07:50 PM	#104
Toast Existential Toast Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Georgia Posts: 440	meh, the hammerhead was a pretty piss-poor hovercraft, considering you couldn't keep it aloft for more than a few seconds. Even though it somehow managed to gain enough altitude to get back to the Normandy once the mission was over. All in all, I really liked the mako driving sections of the story planets, I'd like that to return in me3. I wouldn't mind there being one or two open, explorable planets like the me1 sidequests, just so long as they're not the majority. The hammerhead was kind of fun to drive around, but that's all you got to do with it--drive around. It's a hovertank for frig's sake! I'm kind of glad it was free. To be honest, I'd have paid for a dlc that let me use that mercenary gunship, or something like it. That's what Shep should really be exploring planets in, not something that has to hug the ground. __________________ “How dare you! How dare you stand there acting like your brand of suffering is worse than anybody else’s. Well, I guess that’s the only way you can justify treating the rest of us like dirt.” ~ Major Margaret Houlihan (Mash) “If we’re going to be damned, let’s be damned for what we really are.” ~ Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

05-14-2011, 09:16 PM	#106
Overcast Cinderella Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Trespassing in the graveyard Posts: 3,076	I dunno the Israeli are making hovercraft that are supposed to take the place of military helicopters for evacuation in more enclosed environments. The prototypes fly, not high, but they float over buildings. __________________ Time to bust out the glow sticks!

05-14-2011, 09:24 PM	#107
Krylo The Straightest Shota Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: It's a secret to everybody. Posts: 17,789	Pretty sure those are either hovercraft/helicopter (or jet) hybrids then or not actually true hovercrafts at all, as that hovercrafts travel on a cushion of high pressure air and are not classified as aircraft. You, literally, can't keep a cushion of high pressure are under you to lift you more than a couple feet off the ground. Because, being high pressure, it tends to disperse. Are you sure it's not just using a system similar to the vertical take off systems used in modern fighter jets... or remote controlled helicopters? Because that honestly makes a lot more sense. __________________ I am very tired.

05-14-2011, 10:10 PM	#108
Overcast Cinderella Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Trespassing in the graveyard Posts: 3,076	Well it is certainly not using the VTOL, but it could be using heli tech. The major difference is rather than having a huge rotor that is freely spinning just above the craft it is contained in the fuselage. We have remote controlled ones that are much smaller already in use for surveillance which get pretty good use in modern warfare videogames, just think that but bigger. __________________ Time to bust out the glow sticks!

05-14-2011, 07:43 PM	#102
Kerensky287 Just That Good Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 3,426	If they keep the Hammerhead for ME3 I hope they have some missions designed to its strengths a little more. Perhaps some high-speed platforming, weaker (but more numerous) enemies, perhaps a boss or two... like, say they give you a big stretch of freeway that you have to use to chase down a Reaper ship, shooting at targets of opportunity and weaving around cars/gaps/other obstacles so you can keep up with it and destroy it before it hits a major military base. Or something. Any time I found the Hammerhead missions boring it was either because a) there was no reason to do anything but hide behind a rock and shoot missiles with jumpjets or b) machine guns do way too much fucking damage to it on Insane.

05-14-2011, 10:53 PM	#109
Krylo The Straightest Shota Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: It's a secret to everybody. Posts: 17,789	Yeah, I think those are technically considered helicopters. __________________ I am very tired.

05-16-2011, 03:19 PM	#110
Overcast Cinderella Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Trespassing in the graveyard Posts: 3,076	And then Mass Effect 3 got gayer. __________________ Time to bust out the glow sticks!