Mass Effect 2

[CAMAROBOY69]

I finally decided to beat the main campaign last night. I have around 43 hours into it with each character side mission completed. My character is level 22 Adept. I am sure I still have a fair amount of side quests and planets to explore. So overall ME2 is better than ME1. But the ending level itself was much better in ME1. Still a great game. 👍
Now I can finally look at the achievements to see if I missed anything since I never look at the achievements until I beat a game. I am full paragon but noticed I didnt unlock anything for that.

 

[Joey D]

Did you survive the suicide mission?

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

***spoilers****





I guess so. lol I heard there are a lot of endings so I must have done something right. Lots of decisions to make at the end for sure. I only had 1 crew member die. It gave me the option to continue my game with this character and finish all the side quests. I can also use him for the next playthrough.

 

[Joey D]

That's cool you can go back and finish side quests after the game is complete.

Has anyone got Mordin Solus to sing his own version of Gilbert and Sullivan's I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major-General? I laughed so hard when I discovered it I made his sing it like six times. If anyone wants to see is here is the YouTube video:



Mordin is one of my favourite characters in ME2, although I'm starting to really like all the characters and how different they all are.

 

[[empty space]]

yeah, that was one of my favorite moments. recruiting legion and edi telling joker "i like seeing humans on their knees" were the best moments ... fighting the human repears an OHMYGODWTF! moment

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

Yes Mordin sang for me too. The most funny part for me was when Mordin found out I was trying to hook up with Miranda. He warned me to watch out for females because they have bugs and
diseases. But he reasured me that he could take Miranda into his office and "probe" her for parasites. That was the most funny line in the game for me.

Last night I decided to complete the free mercenary DLC mission. It was VERY short. Maybe 10 minutes max. At this point there really is nothing left for me to do on my first playthrough. I have about 45 hours into the game and just about everything is complete. No more battles, no more fights. So I will probably have to start my 2nd playthrough. The only thing that confuses me is that I still dont have a single weapon fully upgraded. Most are 4/5 but none of them are 5/5 yet. Not sure how or when a weapon will be fully upgraded.

 

[Joey D]

For the weapons you have to look all over the place to find the upgrades.

Oh and apparently most free DLC is coming by the end of the month. I don't care how good or bad it is, free is always good when it comes to DLC. I just hope BioWare treats ME2 better then ME1 because the DLC from ME1 was sort of "meh".

 

[///M-Spec]

I hate scanning planets. In order to thoroughly scan a planet you'll need to use all 30 of your probes. Which means leaving the system your in, burning money to get more fuel and probes. Scaning takes a while too while being boring.

I agree scanning is boring but you shouldn't need to use 30 probes on each planet.

Move the scanner (right drag on PC ver, dunno what for consoles, but it should tell you) around until you find a deposit of minerals. The scanner signal will peak and make a unique sound for each of the four minerals.

Only then do you need to launch a probe.



Re: Team mate development

It seems like Bioware went too far in the quantity vs. quality equation when developing your squad. Each member does have some nice dialog and interaction scenes but only when you're on the Normandy or doing their personal side quests.

When you are on a 'regular' mission, your squad members only very rarely comment on things going on. And they pretty much never interact with each other. This is probably because the more squad mates you can choose from, the more complex it is to write and record dialog for each possible combination.

And even if you do create the dialog, most players will only experience a small fraction of the produced content, which makes it inefficient.

Which is too bad, because I'd prefer to have less squad members to choose from and more interaction within the squad.

My only other beef is that sometimes I'm picking up renegade points unexpectedly. I don't mind getting the points. I only mind when the game doesn't make it clear why you're getting them.

Shep got 2 Renegade points during the conversation with the Krogan Doctor who made Grunt. Can't figure out why. Even played the scene again.


Aside from that, I'm really digging the game.


The advert for the production of Hamlet with an "all Elcar cast" was rofflecopter. As was the advert for the movie with the first Hanar Specter.


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[[empty space]]

I agree scanning is boring but you shouldn't need to use 30 probes on each planet.

Move the scanner (right drag on PC ver, dunno what for consoles, but it should tell you) around until you find a deposit of minerals. The scanner signal will peak and make a unique sound for each of the four minerals.

Only then do you need to launch a probe.

i know. i find 30 spots worth launching at. i start at the north pole and rotate the planet and the move the scanner in the same direction gradually move it south.

 

[Joey D]

I think Thane is beating out Mordin for my favourite character, his back story is just awesome.

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

i know. i find 30 spots worth launching at. i start at the north pole and rotate the planet and the move the scanner in the same direction gradually move it south.

I start at the north then go south. Rotate about 2 grids. Go back north. I cant imaging spinning the entire planet non stop like you are doing. That would take forever. I can finish each planet in about 3-5 minutes max fully depleted.

I pretty much got everything I could get from my first playthrough. So I decided to start my 2nd playthrough last night and already hit level 30 within an hour. You start out quite weak and I actually found myself dying quite a bit. But you level up extremely fast in the beginning. So now I will just continue through and finish my 2nd playthrough. After that I will attempt to play through on insane for my 3rd playthrough.

 

[[empty space]]

In my experince, moving up and down the grid takes longer because even with the scanner upgrade is too slow and rotating the planet is much faster. I never fire a probe either unless the graph turns yellow.

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

****END SPOILERS*****

I am beyond frustrated right now. I re-loaded my first save to try and get the "No one left behind" achievement. I honestly think it is impossible for this save. I made it further but at this point Jack dies no matter what I try at the end. Since Jack is not loyal it doesnt even seem possible for me to get everyone out alive. I have spent 3 hours straight trying everying and she dies no matter what I try. But on my gfs playthrough Miranda was not loyal and she still got everyone out alive. I just dont get it.

 

[[empty space]]

my jack wasn't loyal and she survived.

heres a small cheat list to help: click me

 

[[empty space]]

i have a feeling that if you dont load up a shepred in ME3, you wont be sheperd.

 

[[empty space]]

CAMAROBOY69 - when you scan, do you go all the way around the planet or until it says the planet is depleted? the reason i ask is because it'll say the planet is depleted but i still get huge readings on the scanner and get resources from the planet.

 

[[empty space]]

so ... im going to keep talking to myself ...

im happy they trouble shooted better this time around, but, the two glitches i've had ment reloading. i had a varin i couldn't kill because it had no life bar so i had to restart grunts rites. i also had to redo a fight because someone got stuck in an elevator door and i couldnt him which in turn wouldn't let me open the elevator door.

 

[drvac]

the game is awesome but i miss mako, don't know why they removed it, i thought it will be in the game since there were controls for a vehicle :s

final boss was a bit too easy but at least my whole team survived

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

@ [empty space]

Thanks for the link. Maybe one of these days I will try that. But for now I need a break from that last mission. I dont even know if I have a save for that last mission anymore.

I gave up on saving my team mates in my first playthrough and quit playing the game for a few days. Yesterday I played for about an hour with my 2nd playthrough. Hopefully I can do it right on my 2nd playthrough and save everyone. Heather started her insanity playthrough and that does not look fun at all.

I usually probe the planets until it says depleted. Sometimes there are still resources but once it says that I just leave.

 

[Joey D]

Scanning and probing the planets is pretty boring. I only focus on them if they are rich with resources and even then I'll throw two or three probes down and call it good. I have a ton of material and nothing really to spend it on.

 

[[empty space]]

The problem is platium. I'll fire at any hint of it. When you load a ME 1 shep, you get a lot of resources. Boarding on too much, specially if you never find things to research. I got the long service achievement and still got a lot of resources. I've more element zero than I'll ever need.

I'm already on my third run and I'm mcloving the adept class. I feel like I've strong control over the battle field. I had everyone loyal and everyone survived but I didnt destory the base on my second run through. On contrast, I'm going to try to kill everyone while pissing in everyone cerial and laughing as they drown in it as a pure renegade I only plan on doing mirandas loyalty for the relationship achievement and sameras so I can kill her.

Jack and Miranda with my adept is working surprisingly well ... Untill I've to fight heavy mechs and scions.

Camaroboy - one thing to remember, don't do Jack and then mirandas and tali then legions missions unless you have at least 3/4 renegade or pragon points so you don't have to choose between them.

 

[[empty space]]

they released new armor today ( 2-9-2010 ). cerberus armor and shotgun.

 

[Joey D]

Free too, which is nice. I'm glad it's not the typical EA nickel and dime thing.

 

[[empty space]]

its probably free because you have to either buy day one, get the collectors edition or buy into the network. but, either way. it does feel good to see it say free

 

[[empty space]]

spoilers btw -





wow, i hate to ask a stupid question like this but - how do you kill sheperd?

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

There must be a catch to it because Heather was not able to get the "free" armor and shotgun. She has been using my game but I entered all the codes and have unlocked everything so far. She has not unlocked anything. So there is a catch.

 

[Joey D]

I haven't gotten far enough into the game to see how it ends.

For some rather interesting news:

Analyst: Mass Effect 2 outsold everything else 6-to-1 in Jan.

If you bought Mass Effect 2 and you like being on the winning "team" when it comes to game trends, high five. According to DFC Intelligence, BioWare's latest spacefaring adventure sold an estimated 1.1 million copies (of the Xbox 360 version) in January -- six times the sales of any other game. Estimating game sales based on GamerDNA activity, DFC also believes that there was a significant uptick in play of Mass Effect as well, "likely supported by the ability to transfer a save file from a completed Mass Effect game into Mass Effect 2 where several key player decisions in the first game could be carried over into the second game."

The other leading Xbox 360 sellers in DFC's estimate include Darksiders (150,000), Bayonetta (170,000) and Army of Two: The 40th Day (175,000) -- with Dark Void somewhat of a surprise bomb (22,000).

I'm surprised how many copies it sold in the month of January, especially since it came out at the end.

 

[[empty space]]

There must be a catch to it because Heather was not able to get the "free" armor and shotgun. She has been using my game but I entered all the codes and have unlocked everything so far. She has not unlocked anything. So there is a catch.

weird, you cannot just log into the Cerberus network and download it?

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

She tried and has not been able to get anything. I thought it was because I used the code on my 360. Oh well its not a big deal. I dont even think either one of even uses the shotgun.

 

[[empty space]]

probablyu because once a code is linked to one ea account it cannot be used on another. or is it the same account?

i dont use shot guns too often because youve to be in there face for them to be effective. jack and grunt use them though.

i find myself using the heavy pistol/hand cannon the most since has good power and range then switching to a smg in close range if i cant use my powers.