Mass Effect 3’s new multi-player downloadable content (DLC)
"Retaliation" is now available. So log on and down load
that new content. There some interesting
things I’ve noticed just playing a couple bronze missions and not reading lists
of stuff from the professional gaming sites.
It's free and it’s good.
Get it. One of the first things
you’ll notice is the menu screen is different with the addition of a challenge
tab. For you badge and achievement collectors your time has come. There are to many categories to talk about
but it appears EA/Bioware took a page out of “Call of Duty” and other similarly
structured games where you can earn achievements in certain categories by doing
certain things or maxing out a skill or item. For example there is an Assault Rifle category
where you need to get to 100% with each assault rifle in the game. Not sure how they are calculating but I don’t
think anybody will be finishing up the achievements tomorrow.
An old enemy is back to throw a wrench in our plans. The Collectors who we spent a good deal of
time fighting them in Mass Effect 2 and especially the climatic final “Suicide Mission” are
back. (See post "I Like Miranda and Won’t Apologize For It" for video of the "Suicide Mission.") The Collectors even killed Commander Shepard in the beginning of ME2 filling us with self-doubt until we sorted things out. It’s good to fight the Collectors again and get some more pay back. It also adds more variety in the
enemies you can fight. The Collectors bring their
usual techniques but have a few tricks up their sleeves. At one point I came across a “Collector
Web.” Not sure what it did I figured you didn't want to get caught up in it so I fired it up and destroyed rather easily. Seeker Swarms are back and if you're in a weakened state and they attack you'll need to use a pack.
With the Collectors the Husks they control are “possessed”
and they explode when destroyed. If you
happen to be in weakened state and one is destroyed next to you it is like a
heavy-duty grenade going off. Most
likely you won’t make it. So try not to
let them close in on you if your shields are down.
Flipping through a Premium Sprectre Pack I saw some new ammunition; Drill Rounds, Explosive Rounds and Phasic Rounds to name a few. I had a chance to use the Drill rounds and
liked them a great deal. I also picked
up a new N7 Particle rifle that I didn’t care for.
I saw a Volus player, with a jet pack, not sure what class he was off the top
of my head. Never seen a Volus move so fast, perhaps that fat boy had an upgrade? lol There are also new alternative maps to mix things up. The video above features the Firebase Dagger alternative
map. On this map visibility is cut short by a
sandstorm. I believe there is an alternative map for each map, effectively doubling the number of maps. (If I'm wrong someone let me know.)
I’m sure there are many new changes I haven’t
mentioned. These are just some I noticed
after playing a couple of bronze games to check it out. So log on and
find them out for yourself. Good luck with those achievements.
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