[Official] Mass Effect 2

[Nagisan]

Question - I read somewhere that your urgency to go to the Omega 4 relay is put into the equation as far as whether parts of your crew survives in the end mission or not. Is this true?

Sort of.....

After the Normandy crew is abducted by the Collectors, Shepard has to decide whether to immediately travel through the Omega 4 Relay and commence the suicide mission against the Collectors or delay it in order to better prepare themselves.

If the former option is chosen, Kelly and the rest of the crew are discovered trapped in the Collector pods, about to be harvested for the Human-Reaper. Luckily, Shepard and the squad manage to free them just in time. At this point Shepard can assign a squad member to lead the survivors back to the Normandy. However, if Shepard orders them to travel back on their own or assigns a non-loyal squad member to the task, the crew will be killed en route, unless you assign Jack (unloyal) to the mission who will otherwise get the job done but sacrifice herself in doing so. You also encounter one of the Horizon colonists, Lillith, just before she is dissolved in the tubes. If you chose to better prepare your team then Yeoman Kelly is the one liquified in the tube.

Provided that she is saved by Shepard in the suicide mission, she recalls the events of her imprisonment in the way Thane would have, indicating that she may also possess eidetic memory or that there are aftereffects from being imprisoned by the Collectors.

No, I did not type that, I copied it off the Mass Effect Wiki. In short,

Kelly is the only one who dies if you choose to farther prepare, unless you choose an un-loyal person (besides Jack) to escort them back, in which case they can all die.

[Ionium]

Man, this thread makes me wanna re-install the first ME

[Slane]

Anyone knows how to find Baria Rep... I been looking around and no luck. :(

All missions and assignments are complete except Illum: Medical Scans - Baria Rep

She should be literally right past the lady you got the quest for. In front of the terminal where you can buy additional star galaxies to travel to.

[Green_Eye]

So what did the rest of you guys do at the end? Destroy the collector ship or hand it to Cerberus? I personally handed it over to Cerberus after all the dude spent upwards of 5 Billion plus bringing me back and done nothing but support my mission. If he turns on me in Mass Effect 3 I will look forward to shoving my space boot so far up his ass it will take an exploration team 3 weeks to find it again :p

[Leo Natan]

In short,

Kelly is the only one who dies if you choose to farther prepare, unless you choose an un-loyal person (besides Jack) to escort them back, in which case they can all die.

No that is completely incorrect.

First, it depends on how much you keep preparing. If you do a few more mission before going to the Collector base, Kelly and half the crew will die. You can see that there is only one person in the Crew room, Gaby the mechanic is gone, etc. If you do a lot of missions, the entire crew can die before even getting to the collector base.

[Slane]

No that is completely incorrect.

First, it depends on how much you keep preparing. If you do a few more mission before going to the Collector base, Kelly and half the crew will die. You can see that there is only one person in the Crew room, Gaby the mechanic is gone, etc. If you do a lot of missions, the entire crew can die before even getting to the collector base.

So knock everything out before that quest more or less?

[Leo Natan]

So knock everything out before that quest more or less?

Indeed. Do all the available loyalty missions and ship upgrades before the

IFF mission

, then EDI will tell you

there is so and so hours left to install the IFF

.

DO NOT CLICK THE MAP AT THIS POINT!

Go to the doctor room and now

you can open a new room (that was locked up until now)

. Awaken

Legion

,

talk to him twice

and then

you can click the map once to go out and do his loyalty mission

. Then when you return,

click on the map

.

BTW, yes, I was

mocking

the

spoilers

. :laugh: Someone who doesn't want to be

spoiled

,

doesn't talk about the game on forums

. :rolleyes:

[Nagisan]

No that is completely incorrect.

First, it depends on how much you keep preparing. If you do a few more mission before going to the Collector base, Kelly and half the crew will die. You can see that there is only one person in the Crew room, Gaby the mechanic is gone, etc. If you do a lot of missions, the entire crew can die before even getting to the collector base.

My bad, I was just going off what the wiki says, I personally did Legions loyalty mission and then did the suicide mission and got my entire crew back., so I do not personally know the specific details if you decide to wait.

[Osiris]

You can always watch this...

That video was great, thanks

[smashguy]

She should be literally right past the lady you got the quest for. In front of the terminal where you can buy additional star galaxies to travel to.

I tried but no luck, can you share a video for me please? :)

[Osiris]

Indeed. Do all the available loyalty missions and ship upgrades before the

IFF mission

, then EDI will tell you

there is so and so hours left to install the IFF

.

DO NOT CLICK THE MAP AT THIS POINT!

Go to the doctor room and now

you can open a new room (that was locked up until now)

. Awaken

Legion

,

talk to him twice

and then

you can click the map once to go out and do his loyalty mission

. Then when you return,

click on the map

.

BTW, yes, I was

mocking

the

spoilers

. Someone who doesn't want to be

spoiled

,

doesn't talk about the game on forums

.

On my first playthrough I would have agreed with that assessment, however on Veteran/Renegade

After doing the IFF I only had Samaras loyalty and a cpl ship upgrades to do, upgraded the ship and had to do a scan world side mission before Legion would give me his Loyalty quest. Did his quest, crew abducted (presumably probed) did samaras loyalty (finally with enough renegade to you know what), onto suicide mission all crew lived. So I guess getting everything done prior to IFF is a good idea but if youre hanging out for more renegade/paragon you still seem to get some time up your sleeve based on some variables.

[Leo Natan]

You have time for 2 missions between IFF mission (installing the IFF device at the end) and Joker mission. After the attack on Normandy, if you don't go to save the crew at once, at least half will die.

[LOC Veteran]

So my friend who bought the game on day one and finished it on day one (oy!) said that ME2 runs much better than ME1. Can any of you confirm that's the case? I mean obviously Bioware had more time and development on the UE3 engine this go round so that would make sense.

:)

[John Freeman]

So my friend who bought the game on day one and finished it on day one (oy!) said that ME2 runs much better than ME1. Can any of you confirm that's the case? I mean obviously Bioware had more time and development on the UE3 engine this go round so that would make sense.

:)

Confirmed. Runs amazing even with 8x AA forced. ME1 was rather sluggish.

[Daedalus]

Confirmed. Runs amazing even with 8x AA forced. ME1 was rather sluggish.

+1

I had all sorts of problems with ME1 on my PC - ME2 runs perfectly by comparison!

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

So my friend who bought the game on day one and finished it on day one (oy!) said that ME2 runs much better than ME1. Can any of you confirm that's the case? I mean obviously Bioware had more time and development on the UE3 engine this go round so that would make sense.

:)

It looks and performs better than Mass Effect 1. (Y)

[ViperAFK]

First ME was a third party port on PC which is why the performance wasn't as good.

[WastedJoker]

Completed it today - I think I pretty much completed every side mission before taking on the IFF Reaper mission. Then did Samara's loyalty mission + Legion's.

Lost Legion and Zaeed

in the final battle

I went to rescue them straightaway

and am now playing through a second time with the same character. Going to get lvl 60 Renegade then back that up for ME3.

Will probably play as Adept or Vanguard after.

collector Ray Gun makes the final encounter a piece of cake

[+Mystic MVC]

Jeez I feel bad reading this post. I still haven't finished ME2 yet! I know it is in part because I'm trying to do every side quest/loyalty mission but I've really had to buckle down with this past week because of class work. After this next week I should finally be able to get my final impressions up and it it looks like I won't be disappointed.

[metal_dragen Veteran]

Just finished my first playthrough today - 38h 25m played. I did every side/scan mission, all the loyalty missions and spent some time running around grabbing upgrades. I played my imported paragon infiltrator and saved everyone at the end. Damn was that fun. The ending really leaves me wanting ME3 nao!

Time to import my renegade vanguard and do some bad things...

[Green_Eye]

Just finished my first playthrough today - 38h 25m played. I did every side/scan mission, all the loyalty missions and spent some time running around grabbing upgrades. I played my imported paragon infiltrator and saved everyone at the end. Damn was that fun. The ending really leaves me wanting ME3 nao!

Time to import my renegade vanguard and do some bad things...

haha wow that's weird I did everything you just posted in nearly the exact time frame. I think I was only like 10 mins quicker then you!

I too am starting a new game but I have a quick question. Can I change from Vanguard to say Soldier in this new game? I don't want to have to play through the whole game as a Vanguard again :(

Anyone?

[Sethos]

When I imported my "ME2 Character" I wasn't allowed to change class :/

[Green_Eye]

When I imported my "ME2 Character" I wasn't allowed to change class :/

Damn I don't think I'll be able to either :(

That sucks!

[Sethos]

Indeed it does, just seems like a punishment; having to play the same class all over again - I don't see the issue in letting you pick another class and then just transferring over your level and any XP points.

[darth_vader]

I don't know what you guys did, buy I changed the class from vanguard (L47) to soldier, it allowed me to choose it right after the cinematics.

Edit: Sorry, I was thinking at ME1 character.