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clevemire has been making his way through the series, he's currently playing the Citadel DLC for ME3. He'd mentioned having trouble with the Cat6 Heavies, since he's playing an adept, and they have those shields that block his powers, he was having to try and mail slot them. I've always found it interesting in games like this how different an experience you get depending on what class you play. Like when I was watching sparkyboy playing his sentinel last year, it seemed like he had his squad do the heavy lifting, and he was just keeping himself alive long enough for them to kill the baddies.
And for me, playing an infiltrator, I could carry around a black widow and just punch through shields. The carried kind, that is, though I had energy drain from Tali to take care of personal shields (and barriers). Plus, infiltrators get sabotage, so I could hack turrets and atlases and geth, so cerberus and cat6 and geth didn't give me much pause. Reapers on the other hand, always made me nervous, particularly since they go for the swarm tactics. And me with my slow firing sniper rifle. Like it definitely takes a chunk out of brutes and banshees, but after playing MP for a while, biotics are a more devastating class against the reapers. Like yeah, I can line up my sniper rifle and hopefully put down a brute before it gets to me. But since biotic powers auto track, its way easier to just do some combo of powers to cause a biotic explosion to take it out.
Which speaking of, been working on the krogan shaman and batarian slasher. I think I've said before what I like about the shaman is he's an adept, but with the resiliency of a krogan. Which is pretty useful for weathering enemy fire while I line up shockwave on someone I just warped. The slasher is only slightly less resilient than the krogan, but I like his power set. Warp + cluster grenade is pretty friggin devastating, particularly against the reapers. And especially against brutes and ravagers. They're slow enough that they can't dodge the warp, and since grenades aren't on cool down, you can quickly follow up with a cluster. Plus they're big enough that you can actually hit them with the weird ass trajectory of the clusters. I mean, the drell's reave+cluster is still better, but the batarian gets lash, which is vastly superior to pull. Not only can I grab and throw enemies farther, it will detonate anything. I like it better on him than the project phoenix guys actually. The phoenix adept's singularity has the baddies floating every which way, so its easier to miss grabbing them and setting off the biotic explosion. And while smash is a primer and a detonator, it just has such a slow windup that smash to lash or lash to smash biotic explosions are pretty risky.
TV commentary:
NCIS- Is it me, or did Ellie look way cute undercover at that Christmas tree lot? I'm still amused they made sure to have her mention she was married, just so the Tiva fans wouldn't worry about the show having Tony hook up with her now that Ziva's gone. Even then though, it seems Tony and Ellie's rapport is more brother-sisterly than anything else. I was worried the show was going to be macabre and possibly have one of the sick children die, but its a Christmas ep, they can't have little kids dying. So, they conveniently had some old guy get sick and die, because apparently its okay for elderly to die.
Person of Interest- ah, interesting reveal! So Camryn Manheim is actually Control! I was suspicious of her the whole time. Though I was thinking maybe she was with Vigilance, like she hated what the NSA did to her husband or something. It wasn't until we got close to the actual reveal that I realized, "Oh wait, that's what they're going for there, its not dementia, he literally does not remember this lady being his wife, because it isn't his wife!"
But heh, on Artie's name on this ep being Arthur, I wonder if it was a strange coincidence, or an intentional wink at Warehouse 13? With HR destroyed, and this show always having multiple balls in the air, Vigilance couldn't be the only enemies, they needed someone else, so they brought Shaw's old employers back into play. Interesting though, so after the machine was online and the government finally got what it wanted, they scrapped the competing projects, but it looks like Artie was close to building his own. Which is why Control was after him. Since they no longer directly control the machine (I thought it was still giving them intel though?), they wanted Artie's machine, because it seems like he may not have totally destroyed his work after all.
It will be interesting to see how this second machine plays into this. Also, I bet Control was ecstatic when she saw Shaw, and that she brought Finch into their hands, since now she had two people she could get a new machine out of.
So with Shaw and Finch captured, I guess Lionel will bring Reese back to NY just in time for Root to help them rescue Finch and Shaw? I am curious how Root was able to get the new number. Does she have a secret computer device somewhere in that room, and there's a hole in whatever Finch was doing to block signals going to and from her cell? Or has the machine come up with more clever ways to communicate with her?
clevemire has been making his way through the series, he's currently playing the Citadel DLC for ME3. He'd mentioned having trouble with the Cat6 Heavies, since he's playing an adept, and they have those shields that block his powers, he was having to try and mail slot them. I've always found it interesting in games like this how different an experience you get depending on what class you play. Like when I was watching sparkyboy playing his sentinel last year, it seemed like he had his squad do the heavy lifting, and he was just keeping himself alive long enough for them to kill the baddies. And for me, playing an infiltrator, I could carry around a black widow and just punch through shields. The carried kind, that is, though I had energy drain from Tali to take care of personal shields (and barriers). Plus, infiltrators get sabotage, so I could hack turrets and atlases and geth, so cerberus and cat6 and geth didn't give me much pause. Reapers on the other hand, always made me nervous, particularly since they go for the swarm tactics. And me with my slow firing sniper rifle. Like it definitely takes a chunk out of brutes and banshees, but after playing MP for a while, biotics are a more devastating class against the reapers. Like yeah, I can line up my sniper rifle and hopefully put down a brute before it gets to me. But since biotic powers auto track, its way easier to just do some combo of powers to cause a biotic explosion to take it out.
Which speaking of, been working on the krogan shaman and batarian slasher. I think I've said before what I like about the shaman is he's an adept, but with the resiliency of a krogan. Which is pretty useful for weathering enemy fire while I line up shockwave on someone I just warped. The slasher is only slightly less resilient than the krogan, but I like his power set. Warp + cluster grenade is pretty friggin devastating, particularly against the reapers. And especially against brutes and ravagers. They're slow enough that they can't dodge the warp, and since grenades aren't on cool down, you can quickly follow up with a cluster. Plus they're big enough that you can actually hit them with the weird ass trajectory of the clusters. I mean, the drell's reave+cluster is still better, but the batarian gets lash, which is vastly superior to pull. Not only can I grab and throw enemies farther, it will detonate anything. I like it better on him than the project phoenix guys actually. The phoenix adept's singularity has the baddies floating every which way, so its easier to miss grabbing them and setting off the biotic explosion. And while smash is a primer and a detonator, it just has such a slow windup that smash to lash or lash to smash biotic explosions are pretty risky.
TV commentary:
NCIS- Is it me, or did Ellie look way cute undercover at that Christmas tree lot? I'm still amused they made sure to have her mention she was married, just so the Tiva fans wouldn't worry about the show having Tony hook up with her now that Ziva's gone. Even then though, it seems Tony and Ellie's rapport is more brother-sisterly than anything else. I was worried the show was going to be macabre and possibly have one of the sick children die, but its a Christmas ep, they can't have little kids dying. So, they conveniently had some old guy get sick and die, because apparently its okay for elderly to die.
Person of Interest- ah, interesting reveal! So Camryn Manheim is actually Control! I was suspicious of her the whole time. Though I was thinking maybe she was with Vigilance, like she hated what the NSA did to her husband or something. It wasn't until we got close to the actual reveal that I realized, "Oh wait, that's what they're going for there, its not dementia, he literally does not remember this lady being his wife, because it isn't his wife!"
But heh, on Artie's name on this ep being Arthur, I wonder if it was a strange coincidence, or an intentional wink at Warehouse 13? With HR destroyed, and this show always having multiple balls in the air, Vigilance couldn't be the only enemies, they needed someone else, so they brought Shaw's old employers back into play. Interesting though, so after the machine was online and the government finally got what it wanted, they scrapped the competing projects, but it looks like Artie was close to building his own. Which is why Control was after him. Since they no longer directly control the machine (I thought it was still giving them intel though?), they wanted Artie's machine, because it seems like he may not have totally destroyed his work after all.
It will be interesting to see how this second machine plays into this. Also, I bet Control was ecstatic when she saw Shaw, and that she brought Finch into their hands, since now she had two people she could get a new machine out of.
So with Shaw and Finch captured, I guess Lionel will bring Reese back to NY just in time for Root to help them rescue Finch and Shaw? I am curious how Root was able to get the new number. Does she have a secret computer device somewhere in that room, and there's a hole in whatever Finch was doing to block signals going to and from her cell? Or has the machine come up with more clever ways to communicate with her?
