[Official] Mass Effect 2

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

new shepard

import shepard

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I played Mass Effect on PC and beat it 3 to 4 times already, so yeah - I imported my ME1 character. So far so good! It runs very well on my HD 4870 and it looks awesome at 1680x1050.

[ViperAFK]

Yeah the game really does run great, even better than me1 whilst having much better graphics :)

Shepard starts looking very evil when you start getting renegade points lol, as evidenced in my avatar.

[Lexcyn]

Ugh, can't wait to import my save game and start playing tomorrow. :|

[+Mystic MVC]

Got my early from a local chain video game store! I've got so many games I want to play this year but I'm only a couple of hours into ME2 and it is freaking blowing me away!!! Besides the epic beginning sequence, this game takes the word "polish" to a high art. Anything a gamer could mark down in the first game has been revamped/improved. Even down to one of my tiniest complaints in the first game which had to be that you had to click through all the journal/codex entries to make the menu not flash at you. In ME2 they simply put a "mark all read" and solved the problem. Attention to detail makes me smile. :D

I'm starting completely from scratch going with a Paragon Shepard. Anybody know how to get rid of the scars on your face using the upgraded medical center? I unlocked it and went to the medical center but the only person there didn't give me any dialogue options to fix my scarring.

[John Freeman]

Dunno about medical center, as i didnt see point in wasting that much platinum (?), but if your going for paragon they will soon disappear on their own.

Also, havent you heard - scars make the man! :D

[Osiris]

I'm starting completely from scratch going with a Paragon Shepard. Anybody know how to get rid of the scars on your face using the upgraded medical center? I unlocked it and went to the medical center but the only person there didn't give me any dialogue options to fix my scarring.

After you purchase the upgrade, in the back of the medlab near the AI core door there is the device, use it and no more scars.

[Kronir]

Yay! Gamestop shipped my Collector's Edition today. :) It ought to be here sometime Wednesday.

Now if they would just E-mail me my pre-order items codes... :shiftyninja:

[+Mystic MVC]

After you purchase the upgrade, in the back of the medlab near the AI core door there is the device, use it and no more scars.

Thanks I'll try that. I had over 58k in Platinum and figured it was no big deal because of how plentiful it was (at least at the time). At this point I've done two side missions and I just can't believe it. I think we all had some doubts that they would overhaul the side missions as much as they said they would but I'm definitely surprised. I love the fact they removed the driving aspect to make the side missions smaller, more personal, and way more detailed graphically.

[Spookie]

Told ya so. ;)

[Osiris]

Is that Aziz Ansari

the bachelor party in the bar on Ilidum?

[Nagisan]

Thanks for the site with the ME1 saves. While I played mostly paragon through ME1, the ME2 canon story did have some differences from mine, and I think I have found a save on that site that virtually matches my ME1 game (in terms of the big choices and what not).

Aside from that, I am nearing the end of my new paragon game, getting close to the end of the final side-quests I have found so far (haven't explored crap for planets though, so I may be missing some). I plan on starting a pure renegade Shep though once I finish........might have a third career with a save similar to my ME1 choices.

[John Freeman]

Btw - M-920 Cain is just bonkers! Smth along the lines of "i win" gun :D

[Osiris]

Btw - M-920 Cain is just bonkers! Smth along the lines of "i win" gun

Its powerful but I didnt like it, taking too much fire and it wont shoot, targets too close it wont shoot. I like my weapons to fire when I click the button. old school Grenade launcher ftw!

The mission to get Tailia is one where I would take it were I to do that again.

Unless youre finishing off the last enemy, charge seems to be the most useless, high chance of causing your own death biotic power there is.

[Nagisan]

Btw - M-920 Cain is just bonkers! Smth along the lines of "i win" gun :D

Th ultimate sniper rifle (forgot its name, cannot check it right now) is similar, you go from killing a specific enemy in like 5-10 sniper shots (and much more pistol shots, on a rather tough enemy at the time) to killing the same thing in like 2 shots. Its freaking insane.....I can cloak (damage bonus) and headshot one of the bosses to a side-quest and drop them down over half their armor/shield/whatever stat it is they have it a single shot. Its only 1-shot at a time making it crap for multiple targets but man as long as you land that shot it does some insane damage.

Also, there seem to be so many more renegade actions than paragon actions. I have seen and done maybe 5-8 paragon actions through the entire game so far, I have seen easily 15 renegade options......so many times I was tempted to hit it and bash some dudes face in before he had a chance to fight back, but playing paragon on my first playthrough prevented it. :(

EDIT: Theres also much less item variety in ME2 than in 1, but there is no item management to worry about what-so-ever, so it balances out IMO (at the worst, you have to return to your ship to change out armor pieces and weapons unless there is a weapon locker nearby, but you cannot change armor without returning to your ship, which is annoying).

EDIT2: Oh, and

Ashley is a freakin &$^%* I was dead and missing for 2 years, and she completely hates me because of the people who saved my life. Hello, the guy who romanced you and your commander during ME1 is believed dead and now alive and all you freaking care about is the people who saved me?

Edited January 26, 2010 by Nagisan

[+longgonebn Subscriber²]

EDIT2: Oh, and

Ashley is a freakin &$^%* I was dead and missing for 2 years, and she completely hates me because of the people who saved my life. Hello, the guy who romanced you and your commander during ME1 is believed dead and now alive and all you freaking care about is the people who saved me?

lol hahahaha yea i was thinking the same thing.

[John Freeman]

I found it to be most useful in few side missions where you have get past a number of heavy mechs (with shields armor and health, you know). Normally that would take some time, slowly chipping them away one by one. That - kaboooom. Area clear in 5 seconds. Also - last boss - half health away in one beautiful explosion. Me being adept that gun was perfect, as i hardly used rocket launchers at all (4 times throughout the whole game)... or guns for that matter. Later in game when you have more points in your skills you can just spam pull-throw, pull-throw. Unless they have shields or smth (but thats why you have garrus or miranda with "heavy overload").

Also - just checked final playtime - 33-something hours. Maybe some small side missions left, but i dont feel like scanning every system there is to find them. Result -

Jack dead (kinda good thing so, wanted to kill her myself actually), crew dead as well (dunno if that could have played otherwise, must try other scenarios next play through), collector ship preserved for Cerberus, also failed to gain full loyalty from Legion thanks to his fight with Tali. Also shagged Miranda (yes, I know, so unoriginal, but still - well worth it :D ).

.

What else there is to mention - Krogans and everything on Tuchanka is awesome! :D

EDIT2: Oh, and

Ashley is a freakin &$^%* I was dead and missing for 2 years, and she completely hates me because of the people who saved my life. Hello, the guy who romanced you and your commander during ME1 is believed dead and now alive and all you freaking care about is the people who saved me?

Hah, yeah, true. But then again it went fine with my "Alliance can kiss my ass" atitude this time.

Also what mattered most was

garus

return, as he was my favourite character from first episode.

Edited January 26, 2010 by John Freeman

[+Mystic MVC]

Guys is I'm still exploring/mining and have only picked up two group members, Jack and the alien guy from the first game (his name is escaping me right). Will I skip any more side missions if I get the Krogan now?

[Osiris]

Guys is I'm still exploring/mining and have only picked up two group members, Jack and the alien guy from the first game (his name is escaping me right). Will I skip any more side missions if I get the Krogan now?

What side missions do you envision not being able to finish? The game may feel like its progressing fast and acquiring team members does trigger events but the side missions arent going anywhere and you have ample opportunity to do them.

[+Mystic MVC]

What side missions do you envision not being able to finish? The game may feel like its progressing fast and acquiring team members does trigger events but the side missions arent going anywhere and you have ample opportunity to do them.

Don't ask, I get worried easily especially in a game where I don't want to miss a single mission at all. What's the #1 way to get credits? I want to buy a sniper upgrade for 75k but I just bought a different upgrade for 50k/75k (I can't remember) but can't even use it because I need one more medi-gel or medical bay upgrade or something like that.

[ViperAFK]

You can still play after you beat the game even, all the time in the wolrd to do side missions. And the whole middle of the game is all open ended, do whatever missions you want, the end of the game only happens when you start the suicide mission.

[Osiris]

Easiest way is just to do main missions or side missions really. Purchasing upgrades via stores was never much of a worry for me as by fully exploring areas+hacking n bypassing (main missions and side quests) youll find a significant portion of upgrades. The most tedious part was mining for the resources to actually implement the upgrades.

[+longgonebn Subscriber²]

Yea, do the main quests first. Building up your story and characters the way you want too. And you can do all the extra side stuff at the end.

[Slane]

So apparently my local gamestop only received 4 copies of the LE to sell. Did they make a limited number of these? Wondering how big of a profit I can make of it if it really was a small number made.

[trag3dy]

So apparently my local gamestop only received 4 copies of the LE to sell. Did they make a limited number of these? Wondering how big of a profit I can make of it if it really was a small number made.

I doubt it. Seems like a small number for your Gamestop to get though.I should be getting my copy tomorrow, I can't wait! I'm trying to resist the urge to read more about the game...failing..

[Hupp]

On my first play through I got everyone to be loyal to me, but I must not of beat the final reaper in time since Jack died; She was a b***** anyway. That damn sniper rifle is a god, love that thing.