Once considered a tacked on, and unnecessary, addition to Mass Effect 3, the horde-style co-operative multiplayer mode has continued to provide gamers with good reason to stay committed to the Galaxy at War – while waiting for the highly anticipated Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut DLC update. Co-op might not be for everyone – but it’s hardly the misfire that many concerned fans predicted.
Now, only a few short weeks after the release of the Mass Effect 3 Rebellion Pack – which added Vorcha forces (among other class variants) into the mix – we’re now getting potential word of yet another multiplayer DLC update as well as a very brief product description for the aforementioned Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut.
It should be mentioned that the following product descriptions are unconfirmed at this point and, considering the details are the result of an internal leak, it could be awhile before we receive official confirmation (or outright denial) from BioWare.
That said, assuming the report (originally posted by a Reddit user) is true, the new multiplayer DLC, titled “Earth” would bring players home for a fight on three real world fronts (with seven new human characters to customize).
Check out the leaked Earth product description below:
The fighting is fiercest when it’s your home at stake! Mass Effect 3™: Earth adds mods, gear, and new maps for Rio, Vancouver, and London. It features 3 new weapons: Piranha assault shotgun, Acolyte pistol, and Typhoon light machine gun. Six new human N7 classes are also available: Destroyer, Paladin, Demolisher, Slayer, Shadow, and Fury!
No doubt some players will wish that BioWare would focus on more single player DLC, instead of multiplayer, but it’s hard to argue with new co-operative content – especially since, in keeping with prior online DLC, the pack will likely be available free of charge (one again relying on micro-transactions to payback development costs). Admittedly, the Earthly locales (Rio, Vancouver, and London) are the highlight this round – considering it’s hard to imagine players getting very hyped over another batch of human characters. Anyone hoping to play as a new alien race (we’re still waiting for our Volus Vanguard) will just have to focus on unlocking more characters from the Rebellion Pack.
That is, unless they’d rather just replay the campaign in preparation for the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut DLC. While no further details have been provided regarding exactly what players will specifically see in the non-playable add-on, the leaked info does offer brief clarification about the Extended Cut’s overarching purpose (i.e. flesh-out the post-catalyst endgame).
An expanded ending for Mass Effect 3. Additional scenes and an extended epilogue reveal the impact of Shepard’s choices on the future of the galaxy.
BioWare had previously asserted that the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut would release this summer and, unfortunately, the leaked product descriptions don’t reveal any further clarification about the release window for either the Earth pack or the Extended Cut DLC.
We’ll keep you posted as we await Mass Effect 3 DLC confirmation and release information (or outright debunking).
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So in other words, for the single player game series finale I bought, the multiplayer gets actual consistent gameplay updates, but the single player campaign gets a few cutscenes, that explain why Bioware’s crap stinks.
Yeah I’m officially done with Bioware.
For those who don’t understand why multiplayer is getting content.
In multiplayer you can purchase item packs. The item packs provide useable items such as med packs, ammo, shields, missiles and random characters or weapons.
If you purchase the higher tier packs such as premium spectre packs you have more chance of obtaining a rare weapon & character.
You can spend in game credits or real money on microsoft points for these packs.
Obviously people are spending alot of money on these packs because they keep releasing multiplayer content for free.
Think about it, they release a single player DLC. People are done in a few hours. Multiplayer, they keep playing and buying packs for all the weapons and characters.
To translate. Mulitplayer = money for bioware & microshaft.
multiplayer needs to be boycotted. You do that and it’s guaranteed to cause a panic, that is easier said than done though with so many people that like it, there are probably people who never played the first or second ME yet love MP, not saying those people are wrong or bad, just what I think anyways. They are trying to be like CoD or any other game that is popular for Shooter MP modes, which Mass Effect never was and should have never been.
As to boycotting… no, that just eliminates the incentive to include multiplayer. Which would be shameful given the high amount of attention the topic of ME multiplayer got pre-ME3. In addition, those micro-transactions from multiplayer are likely the only reason DLC so far is free. Now, while I agree that multiplayer is gimmick-y and tacked on, it’s only faulty for mishandling. (Personally I railed against including it, precisely because I felt it would interfere with the campaign too much; which, it did.) As to the COD feeling… really? I don’t get that feeling at all. I would say it ripped off Gears of War, personally. But then, people want to have the option to play with friends I guess. To clarify, I really am not against Mass Effect including multiplayer, as long as it is handled well. And Bioware botched it before tying it up with a bow and saying, “Here you go.”
I like the multiplayer & have purchased packs with microsoft points. The latest round of new characters are disappointing. Multiplayer gets boring after awhile because its always the same. They’ll have to add actual pvp or something to keep it going.
I feel the same way Jason. Ya aren’t alone in that sentiment.I’m getting sick of EA tainting some of the great franchises.
I love how fans HAND Bioware a chance to right their wrong (when 90% of your fanbase is pissed about an ending that has plenty of wrongs and not a lot of rights) all they give us back is more multiplayer DLC. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy multiplayer ALOT more than I thought I would, but it seems as though, like we all feared, it’s now getting in the way of what ME fans bought the game for, the final installment of what is a phenomenal series. All we get for a “fixed” ending is apparently how Shepard’s choice affected the galaxy……. not that we really cared. I’d rather know what happened to Shepard and the crew AFTER the final scene.
Oh Bioware. I hope you redeem yourself with Dragon Age 3.
Aleakim,
Would you not expect to find out “what happened to Shepard and the crew AFTER the final scene” built into “an extended epilogue reveal the impact of Shepard’s choices on the future of the galaxy?” Maybe we will, maybe we won’t — I don’t know — but I’m hoping we do.
As for Shepard’s personal fate , I think it’s pretty clear what happens to Shepard after the final battle based on the decision you choose and your EMS score. At least, it was clear for me, and I’m not overly intelligent; surely others came to the same conclusions I did about Shepard’s fate (I don’t want to throw out spoilers on the off-chance someone is reading this that hasn’t finished the game).
Regards,
Matt
I think they should totally redo the ending and say you have the option of going with one or the other depending on what you like the best. Logically it doesn’t make sense at all.
1. Why would the star child come up with different options after exterminating whole species every 50,000 years for how long ? Abit late wouldn’t you think.
2. Military strategy or lack thereof. Hey we’re facing a technologically superior entity that our military is incapable of facing. Its like throwing rocks at a tank. The plan. Lets organize everyone we know and try to attack an armada of them while we try to turn on a device that we don’t know how to use or what it does. All our hopes are based on this device too btw.
3. The star child wants to use synthetics to kill organics to prevent synthetics from killing organics. Makes sense ?
Why didn’t they have shepard investigate Dark Space and Reaper origins ?
the Multiplayer is a misfire, because the bloody single player is just so damn awful!
Maybe they’ll make an all new game that answers all unanswered questions. Mass Effect: The Year After. Complete with a new multiplayer experience, tons of new DLC, and a whole lot more options for you to spend your money on. (Release date: Whenever the current multiplayer stops being profitable).
people bitch to much. The ending to the single player was fine.
No Steve it was not fine, if you don’t understand why it was not fine then you either didn’t play the game or are too stupid to understand why it was not fine. there has been plenty written about why it was not fine so I suggest you Google it. I prefer to give you the benefit of the doubt and not hurl insults your way so I don’t think you are stupid, I think your comment is simple trolling of the interwebs.
Why all the bitching about when this single player thing is going to be released? It takes time to get voice actors and the visuals rendered and any gameplay they add put in. Stop complaining the game doesnt even need this extended cut ending. Bunch of whiners. This Game rant post even said this isnt offical information coming out its all leaked it could be fake. Bitching and complaining and you dont even know for sure that this is real information or just some leaked falsehood.
No reasoning with these fools Steve. The game was good as it was. Gamers will b|tch and complain for a new ending. Then bi+ch about the new ending. It’s bc of all your retarded demands we r getting non playable single player DLC. Give me some new single player missions. I hate this generations gaming community.
“Game was good as it is.”
Well A LOT of Mass Effect fans disagree with you, but you are entitled to your opinion, just as I am entitled to mine.
You are even entitled to voice your opinion, as I am mine.
Now which opinion did Bioware react to? Is that my fault?
As for “retarded demands”, please learn to use the word…more English classes would not only clear up your grammar but perhaps show you how a story should be structured.
There is your problem, how do you expect people who don’t understand story structure to understand why the game was broken. That’s fine if all you want is pew pew. I have to agree this generation of gamers is pretty dreadful, all the griefers and trolls out there. But lets not confuse the point. The fan base which had invested themselves into the game and spent lots of money doing it was very much within their right to complain about the ending.
I don’t expect them to understand, I just felt the need to reply to G’s comment.
I try not to speak for this generation of gamers (though I think that would include me despite my having been gaming for almost 30 years)…
…but I too find certain things troubling…Metacritic Bombing, Amazon Review Bombing, the willingness to throw money at microtransactions, the Wii?!?!???…however, the reaction to the ME3 ending by those that have voiced their displeasure with it, is certainly not one.
Ahem, to interject here… I just find it ironic that Bioware, a champion of good story, has botched so badly what may be the most epic plot they’ve ever conceived of… And that’s not even to say the game was bad. Because the game’s campaign was freaking awesome. Right until the ending. Bottom line, we were promised conclusiveness,finality, and the knowledge of just how all decisions made affected the ending. And they did not give us that. Now, this may solve that third one, but from everything I’ve heard so far, it still falls bitterly short on the first two. And I’m pretty angry it’s taking this long to release some more playable dlc for campaign. While we’re busy squabbling, they’re busy putting band-aids on gaping wounds that should never of existed in the first place. Especially when the fanbase proved their willingness to provide Bioware a second chance by thinking up Indoctrination Theory… if they’d run with Indoc, they’d have a second chance at that ending, and we’d be chatting, laughing and speculating about dlc now instead of arguing and debating. Bioware just haaad to look a gift horse in the mouth…
Sorry. Didn’t know I was writing a comment for an English class.
G – did you really expect to write a comment that began with “No reasoning with these fools…” and then continue by using the word retarded completely incorrectly and everyone would just let it slide?
As they say…
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Yup I could care less if you want to pick apart grammar. I have a good education and a great job. But the fact of the matter is that EA is successful bc they run a great business model and they publish and will continue to publish great games. So go on with your EA spewing hate while I, along with millions, will buy their games. ‘worst company in America’ voted by 12 yr olds who can’t afford new games or dlc.
Ok G,
Your grammar and stance on ME3 are two things which go hand in hand. Clearly you needn’t be mad at me but rather at your supposed “good education”.
Your deflection was also laughable, I never mentioned EA. My issue is with the ending of Mass Effect 3.
But I agree with you about those danged lazy jobless 12-year olds who can’t afford new games or DLC…why don’t they go get a job?
LOL
Seriously G, you should have stopped when you were JUST a fool.
Perhaps your reading comprehension took a back seat when you were so caught up in grammar. Like I said I don’t care about grammar in a discussion thread. I’m typing on an iPhone. This is not an English class nor am i an English teacher or writer. You understood my point so obviously grammar was not needed. And I never said those 12 yr olds were lazy and needed jobs. They just have nothing else to do so they troll. My EA rant was directed towards the other people on the thread bashing them. I never said I was mad at you either and mocking my ‘good education’ = fail.
Man G, you just don’t get it do you?
Every reply of yours to my comments has had nothing to do with the topic at hand. I think it’s great how you don’t reply to anything substantive but choose to stick on the grammar thing (it’s actually a vocabulary issue but that’s besides the point).
You have no honest or thoughtful retort to gamers disappointed with the ME3 ending so you resort to namecalling.
So let me just end this by saying, I too hate gamers of this generation, but only specific ones. Later.
I don’t expect much
The ME3 game was fine, great even . . .until the ending. Fans had been promised throughout three games that their choices would extend to the ending and come to find out “all” the endings are the same thing! I believe Bioware and EA have sold out the single-player for the “little bits” of money they obtain from multiplayer, which I, and many like me, refuse to play. EA/Bioware put out a totally off-the-mark, crappy DA2 after promising to continue the story of DA:Origins. They have consistently misrepresented the type of endings we could expect in ME3. Not even a fantastic Dragon Age 3 could lure me back into their fold. They have totally lost faith with me, a single-player fan.
Just a Band-Aid. EA is sucking the life out of games and gamers. Somebody put a stake in them.
Vote with your wallet. No Madden, No FIFA, No DragonAge etc….
Seeing that Dragon Age 3 is going to be Dragon Age 2.5 I didn’t plan to touch it.
1. Let me take my ORIGIONAL CD’s to ‘Game Stop’, etc.
2. Exchange them there for a NEW set from Bioware with EVERYTHING on them.
3. Then I’ll be happy for the evening-out for what they promised or should have done in the first place.
4. Now we’re all happy! Thanks! -Stark
AMEN BRUTHAH!
You know, I always thought a good game was based on good gameplay or was at least the sum of its parts. But no, apparently if the story doesn’t add up to your expectations, the game is bad, a travesty, a non-metaphorical sin in black chitin. “It’s more than just a bad story, Bioware BETRAYED blahblablah,” is childish. Everyone seems to want to believe that Bioware was maliciously negligent, which is goddamn absurd. You loved them up to that ending. Companies like Blizzard can do things like give you one third of a game in Starcraft 2, or release one that doesn’t work the day of release like Diablo 3, but god forbid Bioware slip up on the writing. Mass Effect 3 was a good game with a bad ending. Stop being so dramatic.
I agree with everyone that says that ME3 was great unt the last 5 minutes which in my opinion was the game of the year Up until then..now I’m patiently waiting for the ext cut dlc whichat this point BW should have put out a release date….(they been at it for over 2 months)I also knew once they agreed to making the end dlc it would push back any other campaign related dlc..I hope they do this right since they r taking this long in making it…also I was worried that the mp might have taken away from the game but in my opinion it has added to it it being fun and no one can complain about free dlc regardless how it’s paid for…I had a point to this but I think I lost it…but let’s see what they do with the ext cut then go from there before we crucify them which undoubtedly many will do regardless…
Of course we f-upped the ending. Someone else could of gotten it right.
Casey Hudson
I fully agree with your statement. The ending did leave me wanting more. But lets see what they come up with before we bash the extended cut dlc.
I find the multiplayer a great addition to the game. The cerberus network, from ME 2, was a cool way to draw fans further into the ME universe. But, it was passive experience. The multiplayer in ME 3 allows fans to be an active participant in the galaxy spanning war of ME 3. With a bit off imagination, it offers a great way to connect with the ME universe. For example, I have been playing on Firebase Goddess a lot lately. With my Asari Adept, I like to think I am participating in the battle of Thessia. So, yes the multiplayer is simple, but it is suprisingly fun and inventive way to continue your adventures in the ME universe.
Does anyone remeber the Asari bartender that is on Ilium? I believe that she said the Asari (at least) could build new mass relays (albiet it sounded expensive). Second, at the very end when the “light show” shoots out threw the mass relays, some say that the destruction would destroy the SOl system. But, it looks like the “light show” took all the energy from the Charon relay to spread that “light show” through out the Mass Relay system and thereby allowing “light show” to spread through out the universe, using each new relay to expand and propagate the “light show.” So, the energy that would have destroyed the SOl system, instead was used to power the “Light Show”.
As for the Normandy, I still have no idea how everyone got back onboard or where they were running too.
Any ways just some thoughts