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Published: 2014-09-24 14:15:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 3389; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 38
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Here is my second render using the XPS software, while my last one was in Daz Studio, this one was only in XPS due to having a problem with the textures not showing up in Daz like my last one. Perhaps it was due to having more than one model. I will have to experiment and see what the issue is and a solution.A little story with this one:
One year after the end of the Reaper war, Savior of the Galaxy John Shepard and Liara T'Soni, daughter of the date Benezia T'Soni, are seen here on the Silversun Strip. After the firing of the Crucible John Shepard mysteriously disappeared from the public eye, rumors of his death have now been laid to rest. When approached by Emily Wong for an interview hard questions were asked by the reporter.
"Commander, is it true that you were solely responsible for the destruction of the reapers, and in turn saving the galaxy from destruction?" Emily Wong asked.
"It was a combined effort, no single person even a Spectre could accomplished what we did, it was through unification that the reaper threat was finally destroyed." The Commander answered.
"Yes, but isn't it true the Council stated that without your efforts, all of us would have perished at the hands of the reapers and isn't it true that they have on occasion referred to you as the savior of the galaxy?"
"I am not responsible for what others call me, even the council, I did what I could to with the resources and skills I had available, any single person in the same situation would had done the exactly the same." The Commander replied.
"So Commander, where have you been all this time, for almost a year you appeared to disappear? My viewers want to know what you've been up to all this time."
"For a good amount of that time I was in a coma following the war." The Commander answered.
"And he has been recovering with the help of close friends." Liara added smiling at the commander.
"Is it true, the two of you have become quite close?" Wong asked. "Are there any truth you are to be married this coming year?"
The Commander smiled. "There are so many rumours flying around, it's hard to keep track of them all Miss Wong." The Commander replied.
"If it were true, I feel that it would be our business and on one else's." Liara responded dryly. "After everything we've been through, I would hope your viewers would understand that it's about time all of us who had fought for so many years trying to prepare the galaxy for the Reapers have earned a good rest."
"Of course, one last question Commander." Wong continued. "Have you returned to the Spectres since the war, what roles are you currently undertaking?"
"It's the duty of all of us, to make sure the unity we achieve during the war doesn't fall apart, we couldn't had done what we did without each other and it's something that is too important to loose. For as long as I continue to serve the Alliance and the council I will continue to advocate peace and cooperation."
John Shepard by:
Liara T'Soni by
M-12 Locus by:
Background by:
Thanks to for directing me to the XPS software
Rendered in XPS/XNA, post work in Photoshop CS6.
EDIT 28/09/2014: I have updated this art/render. Changes include things I have learnt since I originally did this render. I also rendered it in Daz3D this time around and I am quite happy with the lighting and changes I have done. Remember to click download to get a larger view and a better look at it. Feedback always welcome.
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Whoa! I didn't think this picture could get any better! Definitely downloading this one!
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Thanks mate, amazing what a few days of messing around in Daz can do.
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It truly is amazing! I've been learning how to "mesh-mod" from Padme4000 after three days or so, I've finally gotten the hang of it!
Her tutorials are truly amazing!
If you ever want a mesh-mod made for you, I don't mind making it.
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Thanks that's a kind offer and I'll keep that in mind, Padme4000 did a mesh mod for me just the other day. She was kind enough to get the MShep hoodie version for me. It was a little strange that there were no Mshep models in any form of hoodie. Consider he is one of only two models in the game that can wear it (the other being FemShep) I found it strange he wasn't available. Padme4000 was kind enough to fix that for me.
Currently I am after only two models, I can't seem to find anywhere. The first one is this one:
I have talked to the owner of the image and they no longer have the files for it. The download links are unfortunately broken on the new site that is listed in the comments. I was originally hoping to use it in my Shepard's render but went with the Ajaz armour meshmod instead as a substitute.
The second is Jane Shepard in the Alliance uniform fatigues. I did edit a model I found that had Renegade markings and I removed them but when I imported it into Daz for the render it was messed up. Still new to this I may have messed it up or overlooked something. But it didn't turn out usable.
So I went with the N7 armour ones for my latest render.
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Yikes! That's creepy... I think her face came out like that due to a texture missing it's diffuse.
It usually happens when it's supposed to have a emissive map (something that's mostly transparent, and glows in the dark. Like her scars)
There is two ways of fixing it.
1. Apply the correct diffuse, the scars. Go into the surfaces tab, and scroll through the list of materials on the side. And look for the Diffuse box, that's missing a texture. Like THIS . It might work if you apply the face texture instead of the scars. I'll have to check that out.
2. Just turn the Opacity Strength all the way down on the box that's missing a texture.
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For example:
I was trying to render a Marine I made, and when I imported him into DAZ, his armor rendered the same why as Shep's face did.
Take a LOOK
But after filling the missing Diffuse spot with his armor texture, it came out fine. RESULT
I got the same result from lowering the opacity strength's bar down all the way to make this layer invisible.
The reason this model came out like that, was because he had a emissive map. It was to make his armor's lights glow in XPS.
I hope this answers your question.
Let me know if you have anymore.
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Thanks, yeah it's a bit creepy. I never thought of adding the face texture to the untextured part, There's a solution for next time I come across that. Thanks.
Padme send me a link to a alternative model she did which sorted it right out for me, I just needed to re-do Jane's pose which wasn't that much of an issue and probably turned out better in the long run anyway.
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Yeah, I just seen the model!
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was just checking your update which is fantastic by the way
Default Femshep Outfit Pack has Jane in alliance fatigues. I had Liara in that armour so I've uploaded it. Just different texture to the one you linked but it is the same armour. Liara MP Commando Armour includes PSD for all the textures I did that you see in the femshep pack
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Damn how did I miss that pack. I must be blind or something. lol
What I love about your models you extract is that you keep the default bones as I can save my poses and use them as a template for other renders. I know that no matter what I download from you're gallery I won't have to worry about poses not loading due to renamed bones.
Looks like I will be uploading an alternative siblings render in a day or two. Got a lot of time on my hands due to this bug I have caught. Doing renders allows me to focus on something other than feeling sick.
Thank you so much for the armour, the PSD's will sure come in handy as I planned to make some texture mods of the armour, give a few alternative types.
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Don't worry about it I've done that with geth models in the past. I looked through galleries of people I know who export ME models and completely missed the geth models. It wasn't till last week when I looked for a friend that I found them.
I'm really glad you've said that about the bones because it makes it so much easier keeping them with those bone names. I have poses made for those bones too because before I started porting I was using models from someone else who doesn't rename bones.
Just-Jasper doesn't rename bones on her models and she has a lot of lovely ones
just-jasper.deviantart.com/gal…
just-jasper.deviantart.com/gal…
sorry to hear you're ill I hope you feel better soon but I know what you mean about renders taking focus away from feeling ill. When I'm ill I try do renders or write as it helps me focus on anything but feeling ill.
You're welcome and if I find the other psd I once made for that armour I'll be sure to upload that as well. As it had all the different MP options with it so like the camo look etc.
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Thanks, been suffering with it for a few days now, chills, sore throat, headaches and the works. It's being pretty resilient. I hope I am better by Wednesday (it's Monday here today). I need to take the 4WD down to the Mechanics and I have a 20-30 min walk home and then another to go pick it up. Just been pumping myself with fluids and pain killers. I avoid hard medication and those cold and flu tablets unless it's absolutely necessary. I'm one of those people who prefer my immune system to do what it was designed for. Plus it means when I do really need the hard stuff it will do a better job as my body isn't used to it. A little suffering as my body fights the bug is usually a small price to play. Did you know symptoms like I have are created by the body as it fights the bug/virus and in fact virus' don't create them? Probably a way for our bodies to tell us we're sick. To be honest I usually only get really sick once a year so I guess my time for 2014 has come.
I have looked through Just-Japser gallery. Some pretty neat stuff there. I love the datapads she released. I need to get a render up where I can use them. So far I haven't used many props apart from the odd gun or two.
I would do some writing today, but my head isn't up for it, so renders will suffice. I might go play Mass Effect later as well to take a break from the renders.
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I sadly have problems with tablets so I don't take them unless absolutely needed. So I can understand waiting to till they are absolutely necessary.
Yeah there are tons of props in the ME3 files sadly some I want I can't find like the ring EDI gives Shepard in the citadel DLC. Oh and apparently they are making a remastered ME1-3 for PS4 and XboxOne with updates that caused problems on the consoles. Charming you'd think they'd fix the problems on the 360 and ps3 first.
Yeah I do that.
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I heard a rumour of an updated trilogy for the new gen consoles. I hope if they are doing it, all DLC's will come included or at least if you have downloaded/purchased them on the older consoles you'll get them for free on the newer ones. I'll certainly buy it for the XboxOne if they do release the revamp trilogy.
But I agree they should also bug fix the 360 and PS3 versions, some of those bugs can be nasty. Some are a mere annoyance. But most game companies don't revamp old content/software as it doesn't make them the money and isn't cost effective. Pretty much when a new version is coming (such as an XboxOne version) the older version (360) has reached the end of it's lifespan for any updates other than massive stability ones like crashing the game. Things you learn when doing a diploma in game design.
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Yeah I figured. But it would be nice to think one day a company would think about those who still play their games on the older consoles lol
It would be nice if they included all the DLC as well as I imagine that itself would get a lot of people buying it.
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Well I did come across this link yesterday while trying to find info on it:
thefusejoplin.com/2014/09/mass…
Basically there are plans to include the DLC's if the news report can be believed. Until I see an official announcement from either EA or Bioware I am treating this as a rumour. But I think including the DLC's are a must some of the best content from ME2 and ME3 can be found in the DLC's like the Citadel and LOTSB. I also think it would be unfair to their customers who are re-buying the series for their new consoles to have them re-buy all the DLC's. If you bought them already and got a free download of the updated DLC's that would be okay as well in my books.
But I agree they should at least do a bug fix for the original games while they're at it. They'll need to do it for the remastered games anyway.
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Yeah if they don't include it for new customers it would be nice to see them free for those who have already bought them on other consoles or pc.
If I'm honest I'd probably buy it myself if the graphics were increased enough (most specifically for the first game) but I imagine they should be fixing the bugs before adding anything graphic wise so it would be logical to update the 360 and ps3 versions.
But as you said that isn't what gaming companies do.
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Yeah I hope it's more than a simple texture/graphics upgrade. ME1 in particular needs a lot of work gameplay wise to bring it up to ME2/3 standards. If they aren't going to put the effort in to do that I don't think it's worth doing. Many people on the bioware forums have said that if it's a graphics update they won't bother buying it. I will probably be in that boat too, as it's not like the games are over 10 years old and released on the original X-box like Halo 1 and Halo 2 are. So two generations ago. All 3 ME games were released for the Xbox 360, so that's only 1 generation old now (barely) and ME3 has only been out for a couple of years.
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ME1 does really need improvements when it comes to the controls. I don't expect them to do loads in the revamp but that and graphics are my main thing with ME1. Its so much easier to control ME2/3 than it is the first game. Its why I tend to avoid replaying it. Especially on PC.
I am playing it at the moment on PC but the controls make it so I don't play that long.
If they are a decent price with all DLC though I'd probably be tempted slightly. Especially since there are never sales on the DLC on pc. Its why my brother never bought the DLC. I did buy them all but it would be nice to buy a version for my brother to play that has all the DLC.
I told he has no idea what he is missing when it comes to the DLC as I love them. LTSB being a favourite in ME2 as well as Arrival. Then Citadel and Leviathan for ME3.
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The DLC's really make ME3 shine.
ME1 does need controls and level improvements, mainly the side missions where you go into the same bunker on like 30 planets. lol. Hopefully they'll make the update really worth something, at least for ME1. I'm not too worried about ME2 and 3 as they aren't that old and still hold up fairly well.
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Good render all-around, although I'm curious why he has a gun out (Maybe he's fed-up with reporters?). Also, I may just be a stickler for these kind of things, but next time you may want to give the writing a second round of editing, a few words are out of place. Can't wait to see more!
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Truth be told the writing was off the top of my head, just something to match the picture really. As for the gun, he was caught straight after the mission, he had a job to do on the Citadel as those pesky reports always catch him when he is least prepared. The Citadel isn't what it once was.
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Well executed My friend .
Looking forward to enable the Mass effect moding section on MSFC that surely to come Maj,.
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Lol thanks we'll see about that section, though it's well within the realm of possibilities. 
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I've had that problem before sadly when that happens you have to assign the textures yourself to the model. Or if it has the diffuse textures assigned just check the opacity option and put it down to 0% or up to 100% to see if the model shows up. I've had to do that to make a texture show up before in Daz3D.
Now for this render. I really love the posing and the story that goes with it. I can imagine if Shepard did survive that they would be hammered with questions. I'd also imagine a lot of people would look to Shepard for guidance because of what they did.
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Thanks I'll look into that, still learning the ropes of Daz like I am with XPS. 
My feelings as well. I believe the council would pin him with that savior title, use him as a tool to try and keep control as everything has changed with the Reapers, civilizations gone, others would blame the council for in action when Shepard and Liara were publicly advocating that the Reapers were real and coming for years before and the council just covered it up and pinned Sovereign as a Geth ship.
The Asari would have problems as well, keeping that Prothean beacon hidden when they themselves were involved in making it illegal by law to do that. Humanity would be looked as the new favourite considering it was them who lead the fight and were behind the construction of the crucible, at least the majority of the work and funding was by the Alliance. I think the council would be concerned that the Alliance could become a threat to their status and power, further issues being now the Citadel is in Earth orbit.
Then there are all the minor parties and merc bands, I could see Aria being a new threat, with all those mercs under her control would she try and seize power and create a small empire headed out of Omega? So much story and possibilities that would fit in well for a new ME with Shepard and co. There doesn't need to be an all powerful enemy like so many games (ME and Halo included) seem to do these days.
My thoughts on Shepard and Liara is all they want to do is settle down and have a family, but like always it seems the Galaxy isn't ready for the Spectre and Broker to be left to their own devices. This could cause some tension between the pair, Shepard has had enough of it all and feels the galaxy owes him for a change, while Liara finding it hard to walk away from the vast information Empire she has. Being only 109 she isn't in any rush there however Shepard almost dying again feels he's used up all his chances.
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I could certainly see a lo4 of that happening and everything you said would make for a brilliant sequel to the trilogy. It would be a really interesting story to play through.
Yeah i could see shep wanting to finally get away from it all. Also with liara not wanting to step away completely.
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Yeah a little tension is always good in a story. Maybe I should pitch the idea to bio-ware. See what happens. I would like to see relationships take on a more complicate and realistic turn in future ME games, It's like when you're unfaithful with a character they all seem fine with it, except Liara in LOTSB, not very realistic when you come to think of it. I have seen few realistic examples when someone would say "I understand, oh it's fine."
I'd also like to see more consequences to your actions, especially if you go Paragon or Renegade. The consequences could be you can only manage a romance with said character if you can go Paragon, you can only retain a companion or even recruit one of you go Paragon (same with Renegade). It would make players choices when deciding what to do and which way/road to go down have greater consequences. A little like KOTOR how Carth dislikes it when you head back into the Dark Side.
Oh one can wish.
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If you did/do I'd hope they'd listen to it.
Yeah I mean Kaidan's reaction is a bit more realistic than a few but yeah they should have tried to keep reactions from some of the characters more realistic especially with shep being unfaithful to them.
I'm hoping they learn for future games to have more consequences for their characters actions and it would be nice to have similar things to KOTOR like some actions make a character dislike you or like you. They had it in Dragon Age so I have no idea why they didn't have it in Mass Effect. I love that in KOTOR and Dragon Age as it makes me rush to find a way to make that person like my character again especially when its someone I listen to.
I mean saving the geth should have had more of a reaction than it did. I love the geth but the quarians didn't react as completely as I thought they would when I sided with the geth. Though I managed to save them both.
But yes one can wish.
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Yeah we can hope that one day a ME game will come out that will make all these consequences an enjoyable experience. I felt with ME3, not much of what I did really mattered.
I too saved both the Geth and Quarians, in fact on my first play through of the trilogy (late comer here) I only lost Thane and Mordin in ME2 and Wrex and Kaiden in ME1 and saved the Krogan, Geth and Quarian in ME3. Though I did loose my people in the final mission as I didn't have the extended cut installed plus I think my EMS wasn't high enough as I didn't really do any side missions. Every play through since I have managed to get a high enough EMS without multi-player and expansions and also managed to save everyone in ME2, saved Wrex in ME1 and saved the Krogan, Quarian and Geth in ME3. Though my renegade is going to trick the Krogan in ME3 and probably loose either the Geth or Quarian. As hard as it is, I want to play the Renegade faithful of being the bad guy.
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My thoughts exactly. I enjoyed the game and felt yeah my choices are going to matter and then at the end I wondered why I thought so much about what choices I made and if they were right ones afterall. Like with the rachni queen I could not kill her in mass effect 1 or 3 and wondered if that was going to bite me in the ass again.
I really want to do a playthrough of Mass Effect with a proper Renegade but at the moment I'm doing a playthrough of all 3 games with my mshep who is a mix of paragon and renegade. Mainly doing the playthroughs as well to take more screenshots to add to those I've already taken from the games for renders.
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Yeah clearly ME3 was really rushed which is a shame, I would have preferred they spent another year or so on the game to get it just right. I would have prefered choices making a bigger impact rather than just contributing to the EMS. I would have also liked to see the final battle be more than just humans. I would have loved to fight alongside Rachni, Krogan, Turians, Geth, Eclipse/Blue Suns/Blood Pack mercs etc. They all came to Earth to destroy the Reapers so my question is where are they? In all honestly the final mission really should had been twice to three times as long as it was. The entire game and in a way the entire trilogy was leading up to that point and was a great opportunity to make something really massive and special out of it and it failed.
There is always plenty of time to do play throughs with other characters, William Shepard is my Renegade, and John is my Paragon still in ME1. I haven't spent a lot of time on either of them lately, been too busy with my fan fiction and renders but I know I'll get back to them soon.
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Yeah I agree there should have been more focus on the final battle or at least an mission or two based on the final battle where you could fight with everyone who went to earth. Like you said we don't really get to see them.
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A really big missed opportunity. I would have no issues playing for a DLC that fixed the entire last mission expanding upon that and correcting it including the ending options. While the Extended cut did fix it a little I want a happy ending.
Oh well it's up to fan art and fan fiction now. We better get a move on.
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At least it did fix a little but I agree a happy ending would have been nice. Heck the bit at the end of the credits could have been a scene where Shepard meets up with their love interest on the other side. That would have been a nice touch.
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Yeah even a small dlc would have been nice that allows you to play as a LI and go rescue him/her. They'd get more money out of us and make the fans happy for the most part, A win-win for bioware I'd think. Maybe they are holding off doe a future Mass Effect game, using ME4 to test the waters after ME3 to see if the fan base will be receptive to new Mass Effect games.
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That and it would probably restore a lot of the faith us fans had in them that was lost with how the game ended.
But yeah I hope that is the case. Mind you they also probably think that continuing might anger fans more as well as it will just cement the ending they chose.
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Either way people are going to be upset, you can't make everyone happy. But I think a lot of fans want to see what happens to Shepard after he/she takes that breathe after the destroy ending. In ME2 it was possible for Shepard to die depending on your choices. So it's no big deal if another ending leaves Shepard dead. It's all part of the choices one makes. I mean look at Udina, in ME3 he is the Councillor for humanity on the council yet I pick Anderson 99% of the time. They did that anyway regardless of the choice we make so I can't see why they can't have it that destroy is considered the default ending like how Udina is the default choice for that council position.
I guess only time will tell. Maybe after ME4 is released and people keep on asking about Shepard it might make Bioware consider doing another game with Shepard and co. Us fans can be a persistent bunch.
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To be honest I think destroy is the default ending if you look at the images that flash when the choices are being shown. Mainly because default shepard has a good relationship with anderson and being the default shepard he's the hero background as well. That default shepard would not choose to go down the same path as Saren or the Illusive Man.
We definitely can lol
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That was my thinking, my choose something that one of your enemies were trying to do. The whole point was finding a way to destroy the Reapers not control them and certainly not become more like them. To by honest I find Synthesis to be a little far fetched, plus what right does Shepard have to inflict that upon an entire galaxy? That's why I go with destroy 99% of the time.
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The only reason I choose that is because I don't want to see no Edi or Geth in the last scenes. But I pretend I chose destroy and they survived lol
However the main reason why I don't agree with synthesis is because to me Geth and EDI while 'synthetic' were/are quite real and alive therefore there was no need for synthesis. The simple fact legion asked if he had a soul to me was proof enough that they are alive. Though he convinced me in ME2 its just made it hard for me to choose destroy and see no geth in the last scenes. I didn't want his sacrifice to be for his kind to end up gone.
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The Geth were nothing other than something to shoot at until Legion showed up in ME2. He made me appreciate the Geth for something more than a faceless enemy to shoot. I always liked EDI, I prefer the ME2 version to ME3 however. I think she lost more than she gained in ME3, something I hope they don't make again if they do a movie of the trilogy. I find of like the idea of Joker being emotionally attached to a body-less voice/AI. Just goes to show how compassionate and emotionally close he is to his ship and those onboard even the AI.
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In ME1 I tended to wonder if there was more to the geth as they intrigued me. I was glad to find out there was when Legion entered the picture in ME2.
Yeah it was nice seeing him emotionally attached to his ship and the AI but if they do follow the games exactly I hope they at least go about EDI in a better way than having her look like she did.
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As do I, she is really a great character/personality and I do hope rather than following the games exactly they do something special with her.
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Well done Maj, breaking new grounds with these kind of renders, keep it up.
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Thanks mate, your support is always welcome and appreciated. I love the SR-1 render you just uploaded that looks awesome.
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It's all good Maj, Star Trek is all fine and dandy but if you want modern compelling sci-fi, Mass Effect is the way to go.
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I agree, it's always good to get into something new and different. To be honest I have become bored of ships and the mainline sci-fi series like Trek and Wars. Mass Effect had such an interesting universe and rich history it's go easy to be swept up in it.
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