Topic: Effects of Mass (Read 66891 times)

Mothra · « **Reply #520 on:** December 26, 2010, 08:55:44 AM »

Quote from: TA on December 26, 2010, 07:58:48 AM

Quote from: Mothra on December 26, 2010, 07:52:59 AM
Just got this game on Steam for Christmas, likely going to start up a femshep run. Any mods I should add in or things I should probably know before I get going on this thing?

Get a list of which planets have real quests on them, to minimize the amount of wandering in the Mako you have to do. The collection quests are beyond pointless.

I should specify Mass Effect 2. I played ME1 up until I got stuck in some god-forsaken bunker in some god-forsaken crevice of some god-forsaken backwoods planet.

TA · « **Reply #521 on:** December 26, 2010, 09:03:44 AM »

Oh. Good. ME2's actually fun.

The big thing I'd say really is that you don't actually need as many upgrades as it makes available, so don't feel the need to mine for resources if you don't want to. And unless you're an Infiltrator with their snipe-specific boosts, the two best guns in the game are the Vindicator and the Mattock, both of which are assault rifles, so be aware of that.

Norondor · « **Reply #522 on:** December 26, 2010, 09:15:34 AM »

get a save

playing without loading a save from ME1 sucks

Mothra · « **Reply #523 on:** December 26, 2010, 09:20:30 AM »

Nor c-can

can I have your save perhaps

Norondor · « **Reply #524 on:** December 26, 2010, 09:28:36 AM »

there's a website fulla saves

Mothra · « **Reply #525 on:** December 26, 2010, 09:31:50 AM »

Doom · « **Reply #526 on:** December 26, 2010, 11:04:38 AM »

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The big thing I'd say really is that you don't actually need as many upgrades as it makes available

You need almost every upgrade on any difficulty above normal ┐('～`；)┌

Mothra · « **Reply #527 on:** December 27, 2010, 07:24:07 AM »

Man

This game is pretty awesome huh?

Ziiro · « **Reply #528 on:** December 27, 2010, 07:33:47 AM »

Yes.

Why did it take you so long to play it.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #529 on:** December 27, 2010, 07:46:03 AM »

Quote from: TA on December 26, 2010, 09:03:44 AM

Oh. Good. ME2's actually fun.

The big thing I'd say really is that you don't actually need as many upgrades as it makes available, so don't feel the need to mine for resources if you don't want to. And unless you're an Infiltrator with their snipe-specific boosts, the two best guns in the game are the Vindicator and the Mattock, both of which are assault rifles, so be aware of that.

You forgot the Locust, the SMG that comes with Kasumi's Loyalty Mission. That's the best weapon in the game.

DestyNova · « **Reply #530 on:** December 27, 2010, 11:19:58 PM »

masseffectsaves.com gives you saves for ME1 and ME2. Paragon or Renegde and the various important choices. You will want to snag a save if you plan on playing more than twice. Don't worry about the class, you are free to change it during set-up.

Avoid the melee upgrades unless you are playing Vanguard. If you find yourself in HtH with any other class, you did it wrong.

Figure out if you want to be Paragon or Renegade and stick with it. You can finish the game by waffling, but the red/blue specific ones will get harder to unlock the longer the game goes on.

TA · « **Reply #531 on:** December 27, 2010, 11:51:43 PM »

Also a possibility: start a new game, picking the name you like, then fire up the ME2 savegame editor. Set your ME1 flags to be whatever you want them to be, then flip the "has beaten ME2" flag. Then use it to start a New Game +. You have to do it that way, because the editor can't flip what flags are being interpreted as true for your current play, but on a replay it reloads them.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #532 on:** December 28, 2010, 02:08:42 PM »

In other, console-based news: the three big mission DLC are discounted today.

And look, you don't even have to get off of the computer to buy them. Yay!

Thad · « **Reply #533 on:** December 28, 2010, 02:20:10 PM »

...as always, becoming unemployed leads to a conflict between "I finally have time for this shit!" and "I no longer have money for this shit."

DestyNova · « **Reply #534 on:** December 28, 2010, 07:23:43 PM »

I'm guessing that the second 'bridge' DLC will be first quarter or summer and the final one will be near ME3's release date in order to whip up replays.

Bal · « **Reply #535 on:** December 30, 2010, 06:15:44 AM »

I accidentally 16 hours of Mass Effect 2 in a row.

Mothra · « **Reply #536 on:** December 30, 2010, 09:27:07 AM »

ffff when do you get Legion in this game? I just got Jack and MAN I am itching to get some gethtalk up-ins.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #537 on:** December 30, 2010, 09:56:09 AM »

Pretty late into the game, actually. After you grab Mordin, Archangel, Jack and Grunt, there's a story mission, then you can get Thane, Samara and Tali and start doing Loyalty missions. After four or five of those missions, there's another story mission, and that opens up the story mission the lets you recruit Legion.

However you may want to hold off on doing the Legion mission until you've done everything you want to. After you get him, there's only enough time to complete a single mission or so before... stuff happens. (And that single mission is his Loyalty mission) Said stuff segues into the endgame, and if you wait too long to start the endgame, bad things happen.

Also unloyal characters tend to die permanently during the endgame.

Doom · « **Reply #538 on:** December 30, 2010, 10:28:33 AM »

[spoiler]If you don't give a flying fuck about the Cerberus crew on your ship, get Legion and then do whatever you want. They're the only thing at stake.[/spoiler]

Mothra · « **Reply #539 on:** December 30, 2010, 12:05:52 PM »

Does this crew include the main characters and Joker? So long as I get down to b'ness with my bisexual xenophile secretary I am A-OK with the redshirts going down in flames.

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