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BioWare Officially Releases “Rebellion” DLC Details
Last week, Sony’s Hong Kong website leaked details about a forthcoming DLC pack for Mass Effect 3 called “Rebellion.” Today, BioWare and Electronic Arts have pulled the curtain for real this time, offering up all the details you could want. Much of what we knew from last week has been confirmed, and things we didn’t know have been elaborated upon. Herewith are the DEETS from the press release published today:
- Two New Action-Packed Maps – Land on Firebase Jade, located in a Salarian STG base on Sur’Kesh and fight to control Firebase Goddess on the Asari homeworld of Thessia.
- Six Powerful New Unlockable Characters – Level and promote six new unlockable characters, including the ex-Cerberus Adept and Vanguard, the Vorcha Soldier and Sentinel or the Male Quarian Engineer and Infiltrator.
- New In-Mission Objective – Randomly occurring during waves 3, 6 and 10, this new objective will demand that teams retrieve a high priority package and securely escort it to a designated extraction zone on each map.
- New Gear Slot – A new slot will be available on the equipment screen, offering players a persistent gameplay bonus that will not expire after the end of a match. These new items will vary from weapon upgrades to character enhancements and will be available through reinforcement packs.
- Lethal New Weapons – Eliminate the enemy with deadly new weapons, including the Cerberus Harrier, Krysae Sniper Rifle, and Reegar Carbine.”
“Rebellion” will be available on XBLA and Origin worldwide on May 29, while PSN users will have access that day in North America, and May 30 in Europe. Oh, and it’ll also be free.
How you like THAT?
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free ahahaha good one….
oh wait your serious, you actually think its free…..forgot about the card packs that more than make up the costs by keeping people playing and spending on the microtransactions.
such a waste.
At least you don’t have to earn creds or spend money to get the maps.
Free? Who said it was free? It was something they probably cut out for DLC purposes. Free? lol
maps no but characters and weapons yes
And people are so pulled in by the multiplayer that there have been people who have paid close to 200 dollars or more to level up their characters and try and get the best weapons and gear. The whole system screams of like pokemon or magic the gathering cards/POG’s online with the incentive being on spending real world money to get the better equipment. EA’s own CEO views this as a future to the gaming industry so you can bet that all future EA titled will find a way to include microtransactions in some for or another(look at FIFA and Dead space), this is the sole reason I hate face book and farmville, because its this type of enviroment where people are constantly being datamined (whether they know it or not) that these large corporations are using their buying habits and internet browing habits to predict how the stupid populace will want the next big thing and how they can make the most money off of you. Don’t beleive me google ftc creating a privacy friendly data policy pdf document, or head direct to the FTC’s actual website and look up the rules regarding consumer privacy, some of it is very chilling as what the FTC allows companies to do, but back to my main point the DLC was already paid for in advance but the money people are spending on the microtransaction card packs. It makes them look good but the reality of it is they’re raking in money over the coals on the multiplayer.
To the people who actually spent over 200 dollars on it. Seriously. What the fuck. Are you stupid with your money or just insanely rich? I’m guessing stupid with your money. It’s like League of Legends, if you play it long enough you can buy the stuff for in-game currency instead. I mean you want to play the game right? Then go play the freaking game instead of wasting money on this.
He says it’s free because IT IS free.
The first DLC was free too. I don’t know what these guys are going on about.
Because they are determined to jump on the EA hate train when there is nothing to hate about.
There are plenty of reasons to jump on that train. More than there are not to.
Some news about the extended ending would be nice. Just saying…
Sweet. Hopefully the next DLC will include new enemies also. New objectives make up for that though.
Doubtful because now they are wasting time making an extended ending. :(
aww they care, free DLC
if the Extended Cut DLC is well accepeted by the fans, i think BioWare will find Redemption
i hope the MP dlc and Extended Cut are good cuse this is one of my fav si-fi series and i dont like when people say ME3 is crap just becuse of the ending, it was bad, but that dosent meen that the game sucks
sadly the game was rushed, the illusion of choice is shattered when you sswitch your playthrough around to the renegade options from paragon, its a pity, the ending is overshadowing a lot of this games faults and lore contradictions and forced outside text, meaning that to understand the main enemy of the game, not the series mind you but the game, you need to understand the books meaning that bioware really wants you to buy the books…….
This is a game that screams EA microtransactions on everything they have done so far and when the customers pushed back we were blatantly ignored and insulted, EA is all over this because they own and fully manage the developer, bioware stopped existing the moment EA bought them back in 2007.