Current Events > thermal clips still make no sense in mass effect

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ME1: technology blah blah magazines are no longer needed and we have spectre mods to make your gun fire more

ME2: lol jk lets go back on established lore and use outdated, archaic tech

I mean there's an explanation given. It's stupid, but you're acting like it's just lore breaking even though there's literally lore that explains it.

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DeadBankerDream posted...

I mean there's an explanation given. It's stupid, but you're acting like it's just lore breaking even though there's literally lore that explains it.

Just like midichlorians

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Midichlorians are also stupid.

I don't know enough about Star Trek to say whether they're lorebreaking.

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People just got mad because they could no longer have their broken permashooting lasers that never overheated from the first game.
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Heineken14 posted...

People just got mad because they could no longer have their broken permashooting lasers that never overheated from the first game.

I'm more annoyed that ME1 had a unique weapon system and ME2 changed it to fall in line with a type of game I don't generally play.

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DeadBankerDream posted...

I'm more annoyed that ME1 had a unique weapon system and ME2 changed it to fall in line with a type of game I don't generally play.

Yeah, I mean they probably could have fixed it to work better but I don't mind it either way.
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Idk anything about mass effect. What's the difference in shooting between 1 and 2?

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ApherosyLove posted...

Idk anything about mass effect. What's the difference in shooting between 1 and 2?

ME2 and 3 have ammo pick ups. ME1 weapons have no ammo and work on a cooldown being triggered if you shoot too much within a given period of time.

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And what's the lore reason

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That was the worse. I would Mass Effect held on the what made the first one special . By 3 it was a mindless shooter . ( besides like two parts )

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ApherosyLove posted...

And what's the lore reason

Originally weapons used mass effect engines to fire miniature pieces of metal, sort of like a rail gun but with gravitational force instead of electromagnetic. This meant they functionally never ran out of ammunition but could only be fired at a certain rate or else they would overheat.

After the events of the first game, they redesigned the guns so that they could be fired much more quickly, and without overheating, but this required the addition of attachable heat sinks called thermal clips which store the energy from firing the mass effect cannons to keep the guns cool.

The functional effect is that you can only fire so many shots with a thermal clip before it must be replaced, and the new guns cant fire without a thermal clip in place. So its basically a traditional ammo system, dressed up as new technology.

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ApherosyLove posted...

And what's the lore reason

Thermal clips make things easier for rookies/less likely to damage the weapon from overheating.

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What if you ran out of metal tho

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ThePieReborn posted...

Thermal clips make things easier for rookies/less likely to damage the weapon from overheating.

So Commander Shep and crew should not be using them. Like at all. ( in storyline)

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cjsdowg posted...

So Commander Shep and crew should not be using them. Like at all. ( in storyline)

It doesn't make much sense in that regard, yes, because it would presumably be not difficult to modify newer models to work as the old did.

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I use a Biotic Charge/Nova/Lash Vanguard, so I technically dont use thermal clips.

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Also I am pretty sure that you would find old guns in the game that had the thermal chips. Which should not have been possible.

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cjsdowg posted...

Also I am pretty sure that you would find old guns in the game that had the thermal chips. Which should not have been possible.

Yeah, in ME2 on Jacob's loyalty mission you go to a ship that crashed 10 years prior and the enemies there drop thermal clips.

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Yeah, ME1 had it right. I like how you can get a mod in Andromeda to make your gun have infinite ammo again.

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Hi sorry, last ignorant post, sorry.
In Titanfall 2 there's a gun called the L-Star and it's both. Infinite ammo if it doesn't overheat, but if you make it overheat you do have to reload it. Why didn't ME do that.

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DeadBankerDream posted...

Midichlorians are also stupid.

I don't know enough about Star Trek to say whether they're lorebreaking.

Star Wars* Though Im assuming youre trolling with that one lol.

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