Fans Tear New Mass Effect Book to Shreds

The novel Mass Effect: Deception is getting divided to shreds by fans who have found multiple errors and inconsistencies.

Book splice-ins to popular videogame franchises are scarce a bran-new fad. In fact, I recall checking out S.D. Perry's Resident Evil adaptation a few geezerhood back and finding it to be a unobjectionable read. Unfortunately, book tie-ins don't always do justice to their source material, as verified with the near recent and apparently error-filled Sight Force book tie-in, Flock Effect: Deception.

Fans of the serial publication birth gone through the fresh very thoroughly and complied a massive Google DoC detailing the dozens of issues present in the book, ranging from timeline inconsistencies cognate other ME novels, inaccuracies with how technology works in ME, to simple plotholes in the story. There are so many mistakes that one ME fan flatbottom went so far as to solidification his simulate on fire unconscious of frustration.

Here are a some (remarkably thorough) examples of mistakes constitute by fans:

10. Batarian pirates in bondage-raid on the turian homeworld of Palaven – while not impossible, this is incredibly unlikely ascribable the military nature of turian society, one consequence of which is monomania of one of the largest military fleets in the galaxy. And flatbottomed if there had been a foray into on Palaven, the turians would have likely responded with overwhelming discipline impel. [Error: Lore]

27. Two volus are described as wearing masks that don't completely cover their faces – This would result in instant decease for a volus, as they must vesture completely sealed environmental suits that provide both the ammonia atmosphere and high pressure they require to exist, and donjon them isolated from the oxygen-N mixture breathed by other species, which is toxicant to them. [Error: Traditional knowledge]

4. Hand Weapons that fire at "relativistic speeds" – for those who don't roll in the hay it the term, philosophical doctrine speed means close or apprising the light speed. The term is usually old when talking about speeds higher than 10% of C – considering that a backbone corn fired of those speeds will hold the impact of 90 kg TNT and also that a main gas pedal on a Everest class dreadnought only fires at 1.3% of C I would say that relativistic speeds power be a bit high. [Error: Technology]

Unlike the preceding novels, which were typed by Mass Effect's Lead Writer John Drew Karpyshyn, Deception is written by William C. Dietz. A veteran writer of several original sci-fi novels and many another others based off Halo, Starcraft, and Resistance: Fall of Man, Deception marks his first foray into the Lot Effect world. Sadly though, it doesn't feeling like anyone at at Ea or BioWare did much proof-reading of Dietz's novel, not to mention provide him with a guidebook on how the ME universe works… Like the wide codex found precise in the games.

Source: Kotaku

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