Mass Effect 3 - New Free DLC This Tuesday

  Soooo... Bioware are giving out another freebie for anyone who bought Mass Effect 3 new…

  Called The Rebellion Pack...

  Hmmm catchy...

  Because we so wanted multiplayer DLC!!! Heh, I almost said that with a straight face...

  So yea, if you redeemed your online pass with a sparkly new copy of ME3, then on Tuesday and later on Wednesday for PS3 because SONY Sucks Bahahaha!!! You will be able to download a total of 6 new characters, 2 new maps and 3 new weapons to use online.

                        ...and a brand new objective type ooohhh!!!

  Well anyway maps first: Fire-base Jade and Fire-base Goddess are the two new arenas. So Jade takes place in a lush jungle reservoir with both interior and exterior sections, while Goddess takes place on Thessia the Asari home world, Goddess is basically a large circle. The two maps are going to be completely fresh when they drop during the week, and as always, they don’t have to be unlocked and are good to go once you finish your download. Thank god for that.

  Next up is the new characters. Bioware are flooding us with choice this time around with a whopping six characters vorcha, Male Quarians and Humans, well sort of... they are ex-Cerberus so cybernetic husk people.

  Ex-Cerberus Vanguard: These guys tote Cerberus Armour and all the fun that comes with your regular vanguards, but with a brand new lash attack, which can only be described as a huge-beam of death unleashed from the arms of the character, just like Wiplash from Iron-Man 2.


  Ex-Cerberus Adept: Miranda’s old Smash/ Slam move comes into play here, you know lifting a guy into the air and then smash him into the ground and of course Singularity, the human adept class just got a lot more fun.

  Vorcha Soldier: Vorcha come equiped with Bloodlust and dual omni-blades. Bioware haven’t mentioned if the Vorcha’s regeneration ability will make an appearance in multiplayer, but it’s unlikely given the current health system, which is a shame, but it might we never know it could be one of their innate powers to choose.

  Vorcha Sentinel: This brand of Sentinels come with something called ‘Flamer’, which I haven’t come across in any of the three games…probably because I was never tempted to play as a sentinel. We assume that the flamer has something to do with the vorcha’s flamethrower class from ME2, but it’s all speculation at this point.
  
  Quarian Engineer: A lot of players found it odd that there were only female quarians in the vanilla ME3 multiplayer well now it's the guys turn bazinga!!!. And it seems that Bioware were obviously listening, as their Male counterparts are finally making an appearance. They even come with Arc Grenades how brilliant is that?!?

  Quarian Infiltrator: Infiltrators have something called a Tactical Scan, which allows you to see enemies through objects for a period of time, now combine that with with the Tactical Cloak, and this can become very devastating very fast. Geth Hunter eat your mechanical heart out!!!

  And finally, the 3 new weapons have been announced: the Cerberus Harrier Assault Rifle, the Reegar Carbine Shotgun and the Krysae Sniper Rifle...

  So The assault rifle has significantly reduced kickback, the shotgun is basically a big arse arc pistol, and the sniper rifle has a snazzy self-adjusting zoom so it can be used at long and short ranges, so a overly powerful hand rifle then.

  Finally there is some form of escort mission bonus objective coming, as well as an extra slot for you to use your equipment in before matches, which is semi permanent apparently...

  Now while there’s nothing wrong with free multiplayer DLC, and to be fair there’s nothing really right about it either and yes sure it’s fun, you never turn your nose up at free stuff, but is it really necessary? And to be honest I’d rather see Bioware put more time into developing single-player content rather than multiplayer.