Video game news and reaction

[Mister Andersen]

Has anyone else had trouble downloading the ME3 demo? The page keeps looping on me

[vardeman]

Has anyone else had trouble downloading the ME3 demo? The page keeps looping on me

Yes, the notification i got from "Origin" kept looping, but I went on into the program and it's letting me download it.

V

[Mister Andersen]

Nope, still no luck even from the Australian page

[Antilles]

Having played a little ME3 multiplayer, anyone fancying a little crafty team-up? I've found the multiplayer to be delightfully difficult, so far.

[foproy]

pc or xbox, i have both.

[Krensky]

My 360 tag is the same as my nick.

[foproy]

mine is the book 0f eli. the o in of is a zero

[Antilles]

PC: Naeiro

Also, having gotten a handful of matches in, it seems the secret to success is... a full team. I just breezed through several matches (on bronze) with a full four-man team.

[foproy]

try an engineer. the assault drone can be a nasty little partner.

[Antilles]

Went Turian Sentinel, got him in the rookie pack. Pretty cool so far, Tech Armor's kept me alive when things got a little hairy, and I've just got a mod for the sniper rifle that'll one-shot all but the phantoms and nemesis' even with a body hit (previously it left them with two bars of health left). Great fun so far, gonna keep to the one class until he's level 20, hopefully I've gotten some other cool class/species combinations by then.

[foproy]

i got the krogan assault. they can be nasty too. the melee with only a slight boost will take a centurion down to half health after his shields.

[foproy]

in diablo 3 news, they released a new update for diablo three recently and all characters have been wiped. i am starting over from level one with my monk.

[Sletchman]

Went Turian Sentinel, got him in the rookie pack. Pretty cool so far, Tech Armor's kept me alive when things got a little hairy, and I've just got a mod for the sniper rifle that'll one-shot all but the phantoms and nemesis' even with a body hit (previously it left them with two bars of health left). Great fun so far, gonna keep to the one class until he's level 20, hopefully I've gotten some other cool class/species combinations by then.

It's sort of strange that the Turian is the only real Sentinel out of all the races (with Krogan getting an honourable mention as a "kinda").  Tech Armour is also so much more balanced then it was in ME2 (where it was totally overpowered).

Also, now that Multiplayer is available the way weapon weight and power cooldown works is actually apparent, and I really like it.  It totally bugged me that power cool downs went from 2 seconds to 22 seconds with no obvious reason, but looking at different loadout combos now it makes total sense (especially since part 2 of the demo gave you a silly amount of kit).  My Adept Shepard is just gonna rock an SMG and spam powers like a crazy person.

I am totally digging the multiplayer though (which I didn't really think I would).  My only complaints are not being able to map your own buttons and not being able to customise your armour style (beyond colour - I mean like Shepards N7 armour can have parts changed, or like Halo 3/Reach style even if its just cosmetic).  I'm not gonna be playing it much until after ME3 comes out though, since Bioware stated that no unlocks / levels / kit will carry over and I still have Kingdoms of Amalur to finish before March 6th.

[Mister Andersen]

PC: Technacothaka

[Krensky]

Sadly, the demo multiplayer doesn't carry over to the full game.