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Giggity.

Unlike any of the other DLC though, From Ashes gives you a character you can use in all missions & any of the DLC that allows you to bring squadmates. Sure, you gotta "get to know him" by taking him on missions & talking to him in his room (like the rest), but additional dialogue is available in most of the DLC missions & on the Asari homeworld. He's also way, way more interesting than Kaidan or Vega.

As far as DLCs go, From Ashes gives you the most bang for your buck. If you're really into Aria & want to see a female Turian, Omega's pretty good. Leviathan is probably the hardest of the DLCs & it gives you some background on the creators of the Reapers (Whom ended up being their first harvest). Interesting lore-wise, but no new enemies, temporary squadmates, & lots of reapers to kill.

Citadel is mostly fan service. Hilarious fan-service, but it gives you a chance to get together with everyone of your surviving squadmates (And Mordin sorta makes a cameo, beyond the grave. Didn't notice anything from Thane though). The mission itself was probably the easiest of all the DLCs as I think I was done the fighting in under 2 hours & spent another hour or so partying with the crew.

Every review I've read about the Citadel DLC has been positive; it seems most people agree it's the best DLC for the series since Lair of the Shadow Broker.

I own all the non-weapon DLC for ME2, but I haven't bought a single one for ME3 yet. I'll be finishing up my Fem-Shep Insanity Renegade run in the next day or two (only have Legions loyalty, the Suicide Mission, and Arrival left), and then I'll probably go on a spending spree and get From Ashes and Citadel (perhaps Leviathan and Omega... we'll see).

I'll admit, reading reviews of this latest DLC has me all sorts of excited. Much like DA2, I loved ME3's gameplay and hated the ending coming down to limited choices that don't give your choices any value or resolution. Even if this is all fan service, one-liners, and comic relief, I actually think that the relationships are more important than the gameplay itself... so Citadel is just what I want.

The big Geth seems to have some sort of damaging shield, that doesn't actually do a whole lot of damage. If you want kills, just follow one around and wait until they use it - it stuns the enemy while doing slow D.O.T. making it easy to get the kills yourself.

Seems handy for reapers, as I haven't seen one 1 shotted by a Banshee while using it.

I guess I didn't hear it the first time, but during the mission part of Citadel on my Renegade Shep you're covering for your squad while they go up a ladder & Liara exclaimed, "No fair, I'm on a ladder!"

Heh.

Edited, Mar 8th 2013 2:28am by Omegavegeta

And the good ending Spoileris still depressing as hell. Yay for artsy game developers and their colossal hard-on for bittersweet endings.

Indoctrination is the only good ending.

The new classes are a bit finicky. Their theme is skill-based play.
--Geth Jug is a tank. Your job is to get everything's attention and not die while your teammates kill them. Fails without teamwork because you kill things slowly alone.
--Krogan is pretty beastly with his hammer, but try combining it with detonations primed by teammates and everything turns to jelly. Downside is slow wind-up makes it easy to be sync-killed, and unable to take cover.
--Turian charge goes where you point rather than at enemies. Great mobility once you adjust but easy to ***** up if you don't.
--Collector's got some great abilities and a "do more damage, take more damage" power-up, but it needs planning to keep swarms up and the slow-moving Doom Bubble.
--Talon Crossbowman's got amazing mines, but the crossbow's currently a bit too weak. Once that's fixed though he'll be about managing grenades and ammo types. In the current form you just go for the mines and absolutely pop everything. Fragile though.
--Alliance Infiltration Unit Infiltrator Unit Alliance Infiltrating Alliance Unit is the most straightforward. Very fragile without repair matrix, but that thing's 40% DR and a free medpack. If she can keep her grenades up she's a monster, able to tank on Gold and the damage of a Shotgun Cloaker. Snap Freeze primes anything in its arc, so team up with someone with an area detonator like Overload. Make friends with a Krogan's Electrical Hammer to absolutely melt groups of enemies.

Edited, Mar 10th 2013 11:22pm by selebrin

I have to admit, I'm surprised at how long the ME3 multiplayer has been going on successfully, and how long they've been giving new content for it.

I was expecting one or two free DLC with new classes, then for it to die down rather quickly. I wonder how much they're making off the packs?

Well, I for one like ME3's single-player mode... besides the ending of course. Replaying it on insanity is pretty fun, though the hardest levels so far have been the multiplayer map analogs; having enemies attack from multiple corridors means you need to constantly be aware of your surroundings and on the move. The single-player levels on the other hand effectively let me plop down behind one wall and spam singularity/warp + throw and kill everything with very little risk. But I play the games for the story primarily and not the challenging combat... though ME3's combat is definitely the best out of the trilogy.

On a somewhat related note, I told someone (Dig?) before that I didn't find Fem-Shep's voicing very good in ME, and only adequate in ME2 (she sounds silly when she tries to sound threatening). In ME3 though, her voicing acting is top-notch. I've enjoyed the dialogue immensely.

Currently at Priority: Citadel II. Hoping to get to the Citadel DLC pretty soon... can't wait!

I'm sure I'm about a year late to the story, but I just today read about how the original plans for the ending were the same kind of "pick a choice" ending, but the story behind the Reapers was supposed to revolve around dark energy. Basically, using the mass relays and the mass effect was destroying dark matter and creating dark energy, which will ultimately cause the galaxy to be destroyed. The Reapers learned about this and decided to use the Harvests as a way to keep this in check. Because Shepard threw off their timeline 3 years ago, the end is a choice between destroying the Reapers and trying desperately to figure out some other way to stop the destruction of the galaxy, or to force humanity to become a Reaper and hope that it's enough to rectify the damage.

I guess the tie-ins would be Tali's recruitment from ME2 which never explains why the star is going supernova, and a whole bunch of info on eezo and mass effects and whatnot.

Meh, doesn't sound any better than the current ending, and obviously it was never fleshed out, as the story in ME3 is all about Synthetics destroying organics to keep them from destroying themselves.

Ending a beloved franchise didn't exactly have more market appeal hence the bemoanings of the endings.

My paragon shep was modeled after after my fiance & given the options, synthesis certainly fit within what I thought she would do, given the situation. Boaning as many of the chicks she could was what I would have wanted her to do, mind you.

My renegade Shep actually hadnt done any of the DLC, picked Kaiden over Ashley, & had the full crew's loyalties & survival in ME2. Had Morinth, though, so I doubt she'll show up in Citadel. Might as well play through to the end & kill all the reapers with the expanded ending...