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My younger brother played as an Engineer in ME1. The aiming reticle for his pistol was so big. I laughed and told him to play as a Soldier next time. :laugh:

I only ever played as an Engineer on ME1 once I'd mastered the assault rifle on a previous playthrough

The engineer is the worst class on ME2, since the majority of enemies are organic

engineers are the worst class in ME2 because they only have one ability focused on mechs? Nonsense! The majority of enemies may be organic but that YMIR mech occurs in too many missions to throw away AI hacking.

There are a bunch of engineer skills that focuses on damaging shields, armor, and health. Biotic barriers are the only weaknesses against engineers, but thats no problem when you learn a party member special/ use a SMG. A lot of mini-bosses are shields+armor, and being an engineer makes those guys easy to kill. You also get upgrade discounts as you level up your class specialty.

The combat drone also helps against those nasty husks swarms, and serves as a valuable distraction when people are flanking you on insanity.

I played through mostly as Vangaurd as i find it the most versatile class in both games. Incindiary ammo rules. Not to mention shockwave works wonders on Husks. I'm playing as adept form my fem shep this time. Pretty good so far.

I'm about to do the final mission and I still don't have max Renegade. I tried to be the baddest bad ass of them all. But damn, it's too easy to get Paragon points.

if you don't go full renegade report back if they punished you with a "bad ending"

if you don't go full renegade report back if they punished you with a "bad ending"

I was playing earlier but had to quit and couldn't save because I was in combat. Still, I'll let you know how it'll end for me.

Oh no! I didn't have enough paragon points to stop the fight between Jack/Miranda so I sided with Jack. How do I get Miranda back on my side (especially in the "love" category :p)?

I don't think you can do that. "Choosing one will lose you the loyalty of the other and the chance for romance with them so pick wisely." and "If you choose one of them, you can afterwards regain her loyalty with an extremely high Paragon / Renegade score. The chance for romance is lost forever, though."

Source: Mass Effect Wiki

if you don't go full renegade report back if they punished you with a "bad ending"

So, I beat the game and chose to just kill everything in the base to keep the technology. The boss fight was too easy but interesting. The game basically ended with a small speech from the Illusive Man. Was that the "bad ending" you were referring to?

So, I beat the game and chose to just kill everything in the base to keep the technology. The boss fight was too easy but interesting. The game basically ended with a small speech from the Illusive Man. Was that the "bad ending" you were referring to?

I just read that people die on the mission if you don't 1. Have full renegade or paragon 2. Didn't buy all of your ship's upgrades 3. Don't have everyone's loyalty up 4. Didn't make the right roles to the right people 5. Didn't start the mission on time. Did anyone die on your mission?

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I was full Paragon, everyone was loyaled up, but I picked the wrong people for the missions and lost 2 (Mordis and Grunt). I had saved it before starting so I tried it again and completed it without losing anyone. I'm not sure where it gets the die/won't die algorithm from though.

^ Hahahaha!

I just read that people die on the mission if you don't 1. Have full renegade or paragon 2. Didn't buy all of your ship's upgrades 3. Don't have everyone's loyalty up 4. Didn't make the right roles to the right people 5. Didn't start the mission on time. Did anyone die on your mission?

I didn't have full Renegade, but I'm pretty sure I was good on everything else. I had Tali die as my tech specialist and Grunt died when I told him to stay back to serve as a distraction. I plan on replaying it to switch Legion with Tali and Zaeed Massani with Grunt.

^ Hahahaha!

I didn't have full Renegade, but I'm pretty sure I was good on everything else. I had Tali die as my tech specialist and Grunt died when I told him to stay back to serve as a distraction. I plan on replaying it to switch Legion with Tali and Zaeed Massani with Grunt.

I had Tali as my tech specialist and she didn't die. Maybe because you weren't full renegade?

I had Tali as my tech specialist and she didn't die. Maybe because you weren't full renegade?

That might be it. My brother had a full Paragon Shepard and that didn't happen.

I don't think you can do that. "Choosing one will lose you the loyalty of the other and the chance for romance with them so pick wisely." and "If you choose one of them, you can afterwards regain her loyalty with an extremely high Paragon / Renegade score. The chance for romance is lost forever, though."

Source: Mass Effect Wiki

Oh no that is too bad, looks like I'll have to get my freak on with a freak, literally.

engineers are the worst class in ME2 because they only have one ability focused on mechs? Nonsense! The majority of enemies may be organic but that YMIR mech occurs in too many missions to throw away AI hacking.

There are a bunch of engineer skills that focuses on damaging shields, armor, and health. Biotic barriers are the only weaknesses against engineers, but thats no problem when you learn a party member special/ use a SMG. A lot of mini-bosses are shields+armor, and being an engineer makes those guys easy to kill. You also get upgrade discounts as you level up your class specialty.

The combat drone also helps against those nasty husks swarms, and serves as a valuable distraction when people are flanking you on insanity.

+1 the drone is so usefull to distract enemies! and that damned YMIR mech is hard enough to destroy without wasting heavy weapon ammo.

I just read that people die on the mission if you don't 1. Have full renegade or paragon 2. Didn't buy all of your ship's upgrades 3. Don't have everyone's loyalty up 4. Didn't make the right roles to the right people 5. Didn't start the mission on time. Did anyone die on your mission?

ren or paragon doesnt really matter, its all about ship upgrades + making right decisions at the end.

ren or paragon doesnt really matter, its all about ship upgrades + making right decisions at the end.

Seems that way, although I can't for the life of me figure out why

Mordin died in my game. I had him stay behind to be part of the distraction team, and he was the only person who didn't make it, even though I had completed his loyalty mission. Same thing happened to my sister in her playthrough. Maybe I'll just have to drag his weak ass with me to fight the final boss.

I started a new game today, since I was curious to play as a new class (and as the female Shepard). The default choices they give you kinda suck though (assuming that the information I read is correct, I'm too early in my game to confirm any of this).

Wrex is dead, the council is dead, Udina is in charge, and the Rachni queen is dead. So they basically assumed that you went through the game as a complete renegade.

Other than that, it's pretty cool. Sentinel is a fun class, and the female Shepard's voice actor is way better than the male Shepard.

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Seems that way, although I can't for the life of me figure out why

Mordin died in my game. I had him stay behind to be part of the distraction team, and he was the only person who didn't make it, even though I had completed his loyalty mission. Same thing happened to my sister in her playthrough. Maybe I'll just have to drag his weak ass with me to fight the final boss.

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Added spoiler tags. Anyway, that didn't happen to me but it did happen to my brother. I'm sure it has something to do with the upgrades. I made sure I maxed out everything.

As for starting a game without an ME1 save, that's interesting. I would've thought they'd go the pure Paragon route, or even half Paragon/half Renegade route.

Added spoiler tags. Anyway, that didn't happen to me but it did happen to my brother. I'm sure it has something to do with the upgrades. I made sure I maxed out everything.

As for starting a game without an ME1 save, that's interesting. I would've thought they'd go the pure Paragon route, or even half Paragon/half Renegade route.

It might have something to do with ship upgrades, but not personal upgrades. The only upgrades I took were the ship upgrades (except the med bay) and upgrades that would affect an infiltrator Shep.......I didn't get any prototype/personal upgrades.

The ONLY person that died on my mission was Jack, who I did not have loyal due to siding with Miranda when they were arguing. I was mostly paragon, but not high enough to get Jack loyal again (therefore, not max paragon). I also had Legion as my tech specialist, Garrus led both fire teams, Jacob led the crew back to the Normandy, and Jack was with the distraction team (cannot remember if she led the team or not), and Jack was the only person to die, which I was expecting.

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