#mass effect initiation

[nesonkin]

Sometimes it makes me feel insane knowing that "the reason Alec made one of his kids a Pathfinder is not because he wanted them "to see the process through" but because his SAM cannot be safely integrated into anyone who doesn't carry his genes" is not common knowledge because I doubt many bothered to read Mass Effect Initiation

[not-a-newt]

Anyways, here's an excerpt (Mass Effect Initiation) on the way that turian, asari, and krogan crowds move as opposed to humans

[felassan]

Dragon Age: "Photo mode is coming to Dragon Age: The Veilguard at launch! 📸 Capture stunning memories from your adventure in Thedas - and check out some that IGN captured here: [link]"

[source]

Photo Mode is confirmed!

Features of photo mode:

" - Free-roaming camera, tilt, focal length, and lens distortion - Depth of Field - Auto Focus - Distance - F-Stop, which lets you control the lighting - Vignette mode, which darkens the edge of the screen and gives it a more cinematic look - Bloom strength - Saturation, brightness, and contrast - The ability to hide the player, the party, enemies, or NPCs"

The article also mentions that DA:TV's photo mode was inspired by Mass Effect:

"Director Corinne Busche credits Mass Effect: Legendary Edition producer Brenon Holmes for getting photo mode implemented into The Veilguard. "Not only did he drive this feature, he did a lot of the work to support it," she explained. "What I really like is the tab that lets you hide various characters. So hide character, hide party, hide enemies, hide NPCs. You can really curate the shot to your liking...You might be mid-fight with a dragon, but there’s a character in the way, so you can clear them out.”"

[source]

The article also contains a gallery of new screenshots of DA:TV taken by IGN using photo mode.

[catsharky]

As terrifying as it would have been, I like to think there was a moment of peace there at the end, among the stars.

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So... this is the next part of the Shakarian comic, but it's not the big one I said would come next. I've made the decision to put that on the back burner for now and pick away at it a lot more slowly while I continue on with what I originally had planned. The next thing you see from me will likely be the Joker-centric part I mentioned a while back, but for now please enjoy this rare coloured comic in the meantime.

Part 1 • Previous Part • Next Part

[swaps55]

Cover art by the utterly phenomenal @legionofpotatoes!

Mezzo

Pairing: mshenko | Rating: M Tags: Canon-typical violence, trauma, dealing with your problems poorly, body autonomy struggles   Summary: The twists and turns of ME2, through the eyes of everyone but Commander Shepard. Chapter Summary: Death was the only way

Chapter 1: Stars | Read on Ao3

At first, you think you can survive this. Your ship is in pieces, your momentum catapulting you away from the wreck, the planet you call Alchera watching serenely as your life burns. You tell yourself, you’ve faced worse. The first time you fought death was the first breath you took, into lungs that weren’t ready, in a body too small and fragile to survive on its own. You struggled for days in a vessel adrift between our stars, an insignificant speck of heat in our cold universe, determined to burn as bright as a sun. When your mother finally held you for the first time, she showed you to us and asked if we were what you were in such a hurry to see for yourself. You have always been ours. You were ours when your father sang you to sleep while we gleamed through the shutters. You were ours when you rose for the first time on unsteady legs because you wanted to see us. You were ours when you felt our power come to life under your skin and understood that we are part of you in ways you’d never imagined. How many times did you palm the glow of dark matter in your hand and imagine you were one of us? But no matter how bright you burn now, it won’t be enough to save you. There is fear, now, but you swallow it back.    The second time you fought death it wasn’t your life you were fighting for. You begged, pleaded, to march into the unknown and rescue a father who didn’t come home, and when no one listened, you turned to us in the dark and begged to take his place. That was when you learned we could be cruel.   We felt your pain, we heard your anger, we wi ditnessed your tears and did nothing. And you forgave us. We wonder if you will forgive us now.

Read the rest on Ao3 | The Mezzo Playlist

[inuhodo]

-You know what it's like to think you're alone and find out you're not? -I do. -You don't have to agree so fast, you fucker.

its mental illness awareness week on the normandy sr-2 and the crew is about to be very aware

[edains]

Mass Effect LE1: Cyrus & Garrus' first conversation on the Normandy

Casual Hubs for LE1

Andromeda Officer Casual for Male Shepard (LE1)

Morning's Hairstyles for MaleShep LE1

[hellafluff]

Underutilized character dynamic: Tali and Kasumi. Kasumi is a snoop who knows the deets on everyone around her and Tali herself says quarians are always getting involved in each other's business because theyre a social people. They're also both tech people with cool hoods.

These two could gossip for days.

[alias-sqbr]

@anghraine's Pride and Prejudice Mass Effect AU: Darcy as a tall Asari surrounded by glowing biotic blue, and Elizabeth as a female Shepard with sniper rifle and glowing orange and red lights, back to back in a fighting pose.

[ghostryders]

i have so many mixed feelings about mass effect revelations bc like…. Is it full of detailed world building? yes! Do we get to know Anderson intimately as a person and his background with Kahlee and Saren? also yes. Does aforementioned Kahlee also take magical pigment pills that temporarily make her skin as dark as Andersons? ………. yeah. Are women and their appearances described a little too much? you know it. Are said female characters actually badass? thankfully yes. Do we learn how fully unhinged, terrifying, and psychopathic Saren is? double yes. Does the book go just a little too into detail about torture and gore? oh yeah. Does it kinda have a romance thing that ends really reasonably bc the characters are grown adults? thank god yes.

have I read it cover to cover 5 times? absolutely

[gemsbokk]

IS EVERYONE ON THE TEMPEST FATHERLESS??? NO WONDER ANDROMEDA INITIATIVE WENT TO SHIT

[fereldanwench]

this might be the year i revisit my mea stuff

maybe

idk could just be the coffee talking

i had started going all again shortly before cp77 just took over my ENTIRE EXISTENCE and i do still have such a fondness for one dr harry carlyle

i love my ryder, too, although i think i'd have to age her up even more to get back in that headspace. iirc, i made her 25 instead of 22, but as of this april i feel like i can officially say I'm very much pushing 40 and I'm good to leave the 20-something experiences far behind lmao

and i was taking some pretty cool shots using the basic features of ansel and having no idea what i was otherwise doing. it'd be fun to revisit ~*virtual photography*~ in another game. i don't think anything is gonna come close to vp in cp77 tbh but mea is a very pretty game with very pretty characters uwu

[not-a-newt]

Excerpt from Mass Effect Initiation on other species' perceptions of volus gender

[gabumonisbestdigimon]

I think Miranda is one of those girls that violently shakes their pre-made salad while talking to people.

[a-local-idiots-shitpost]

Local "I would rather die than buy a game younger than 10 years" no established last name really wants to play Baldurs Gate 3

[kelean]

got tagged by @frogmorton to post a poll with my favorite characters and let my followers choose their favorite. thank you <3

tagging @lexsnotdead @mourn-and-watch @saronchan and anyone else who wants to do this!!