And the PS3 and the PC (not DD) versions as well. Has been for a while.
There's a couple of quests where you can pull the I'm still a Spectre card, but no one really cares.
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And the PS3 and the PC (not DD) versions as well. Has been for a while.
There's a couple of quests where you can pull the I'm still a Spectre card, but no one really cares.
Reluctant-Hero
Member
Right. It just bugged me, when playing the ME3 demo, Anderson says "You used to be a council Spectre, that has to count for something".
It's as if the demo is setup to assume that you never put Anderson on the council and that Shep blew off the council in ME2 and never regained Spectre status.
I think it does in a few instances. When you help the Quarian in the Citadel, or when you're dealing with the hostage situation in the Shadow Broker DLC. If I remember correctly, bits of dialogue vary ("I am a Spectre/I used to be a Spectre"). Could be wrong, though.
Yeah, the Spectre in the beginning of Shadow Broker acknowledges your status. She says something like "I heard you got reenstated. That's good, will make this easier."
The default Shepard is a pure renegade.
IINM, the demo/no previous save game will assume you choose the middle option in every conversation. n from that, i think shepard in the demo choose to kill the old council n make Udina the councilor in ME1.
There's also Thane loyalty mission when you interrogate that human. If you're renegade, Shepard threatened him with a gun saying he/she is a Spectre and can do anything to him. He's so scared he immediately tells you where to go.
I love Thane comment about this being the fastest interrogation in history.
Ok, I just notice on my pc playthrough of ME2 that I don't have Zaeed and that dlc, but then I remember hearing how wonky things are with DLC for ME2 on pc.
How the heck do I get this stuff? Through Origin? The new content available just brings me to some rubbish Bioware social site that I dont want to sign up for.
How the heck do I get this stuff? Through Origin? The new content available just brings me to some rubbish Bioware social site that I dont want to sign up for.
ColonelColon
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The DLC is only available here: http://social.bioware.com/page/me2-dlc
Yes, you need to have a Bioware social account. And the DLC prices are never discounted on PC.
Psychoward
Banned
Finished my last ME 2 run before 3. It was on Insanity, the final shot with the heavy pistol was so satisfying.
Tali died, bitch didn't let Legion do whatever he wanted.
Tali died, bitch didn't let Legion do whatever he wanted.
Phew, I'm almost done with ME1. Only Ilos remains. It was strangely satisfying to let Ashley die on Virmire. It was the first time I chose Kaidan over her and I wanted to make it different this time.
Also collected all of the collect-a-ton artifacts just in case it does something in ME3.
Hopefully I have time to beat ME2 before 3 is out.
Also collected all of the collect-a-ton artifacts just in case it does something in ME3.
Hopefully I have time to beat ME2 before 3 is out.
Yippee....
And here's the kicker: heard somewhere that there is no way to know if a DLC's successfully installed, until you reach the specific trigger in the game. (I wouldn't know, though: Lair of the Shadow Broker BSODed my PC several times; had to do my new playthrough on my PS3). Yippee indeed.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Except when it show up on your BSN page, or when the game itself tells you it is not installed.
Well you also get an email for each of them... So it's easy to check if they installed properly, no?
The Illusive Man send you an email for the Zaeed and Kasumi missions. You also get emails for the Overlord and the hammerhead missions.
The only one I don't remember if there is an email is for the Shadow Broker.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
So one of the ME head honchos just said that level and powers transfer.
Preston Watamaniuk
@macwalterslives @cgaspur @mischuge The level cap for #ME3 is 60. If you import from #ME2 you retain all class powers and your xp level.
The bonus power does not carry over. We have a range of new bonus powers in #ME3 to discover and try.
The Normandy features some handy consoles to respec Shepard and individual squad-mates.
Your ship models are still on the Normandy post import.
You cannot reach level 60 without an ME2 import or NG+ in #ME3
Preston Watamaniuk
@macwalterslives @cgaspur @mischuge The level cap for #ME3 is 60. If you import from #ME2 you retain all class powers and your xp level.
The bonus power does not carry over. We have a range of new bonus powers in #ME3 to discover and try.
The Normandy features some handy consoles to respec Shepard and individual squad-mates.
Your ship models are still on the Normandy post import.
You cannot reach level 60 without an ME2 import or NG+ in #ME3
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
I can't believe I wasted all those hours planet scanning in all these ME2 playthroughs. How did it take me two years to start using the gibbed editor? I must've always just brushed it off as a PC-only thing and not looked into it. Mmmmm 999999 Platinum, feels so good.
I wonder if that includes the bonus power, if so I'm going to have to do some serious thinking as to which ability I want.
Big Papa Husker
Member
Any chance for any of the ME2 DLC to go on sale before ME3? I never bought Shadow Broker or Arrival.
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
I believe your bonus power from ME2 does not transfer, but there will instead be a new set of bonus powers in ME3. How you acquire the bonus powers this time around remains to be seen.
Does the game auto choose which paths you take for the powers in the squad menu? In ME3 you can alternate between the two paths for each power. It has more variety than ME2 where you only choose a path a the very end of the chain.
The skill tree starts to branch on the 4th tier of each power in both games, so it shouldn't have to auto-chose anything, because you couldn't get that deep into the skill tree in me2.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
That's fun.
Absoludacrous
Member
That's interesting, I was wondering if they were going to try to justify taking Shepard back to level 1.
Finished Arrival. Yeah... being somewhat civil, that mission was obviously an afterthought and an elaborate excuse to have you on Earth for 3. Such crappy corridor combat. Well, maybe if they play it smart they'll give you some interesting things to do to try and convince Batarians help with the Reaper attack/prevent full scale war. If they were smarter they'd probably even give you a squadmate, but that is expecting too much from Bioware at this point.
I guess that's it. Scanned every planet and finished every side mission and DLC. Can't believe it took me 2 years, lol. I think I've finished ME1 like 10 times in that period.
I guess that's it. Scanned every planet and finished every side mission and DLC. Can't believe it took me 2 years, lol. I think I've finished ME1 like 10 times in that period.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
WHY
Oh damn, I need to go back and actually buy all of them. I wonder if fishes are transferred.
bigace33
Member
I got an email for all of them. While it is kind of silly to have to go to Bioware social and buy spacebucks to get ME2 dlc, it is really a pretty painless process, relatively speaking. I have all the dlc instaled for my PC ME 2 play through. This should be fun. Even though I beat ME2 on 360, I have never played Shadow Broker, The arrival, or Overlord. :^)
yeah, im going through it here now, it just used my origin account, so it wasnt that bad. downloads are slow as crap though. I've never played those dlc missions either, since I did my multiple me2 playthroughs right at launch and havent played it really since then.
NihonTiger90
Member
This is why my second playthrough plan is to BUY EVERYTHING before getting into ME3.
So I finally got ONE character fully prepared for ME3, and now I have to find a way to get my BroShep through the entirety of ME2 within a week.
I just wanna say that damn, the files you unlock at the end of Lair of the Shadow Broker are almost worth the $7 by themselves.
I just wanna say that damn, the files you unlock at the end of Lair of the Shadow Broker are almost worth the $7 by themselves.
MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
The environmental art direction in Mass Effect (PC) still looks so good at times. I'm revisiting the game for the first time in years (I only played it on the 360 before), but damn do I love the look of Chora's Den, Flux, and the Upper Wards, overlooking the city. I also love how smoothly this runs on my PC compared to what I remember of the 360 version.
Finished my Renegade ME1 play through tonight. Ended at 49 and missed out on Quarian Ally. 
I suppose I'll go back a save and see if I can get both. I messed up a few missions (didn't go back to Conrad soon enough, didn't tell the guy on Feros that I killed the Geth before he died) and only have the lame assignments like finding things left, as well as the Geth outposts ones. I hope that's enough to nail the last cheevo.
Started ME2, man I love 2 so much better. Looks, sounds, controls better. Menus faster, everything is just better IMO.
Trying Infiltrator, is that a fun class? If so, what is a good bonus ability to choose for this class?
Earlier in the thread I read about the best way to scan planets, can someone touch on that again?
Edit: Here it is. This effective?
I suppose I'll go back a save and see if I can get both. I messed up a few missions (didn't go back to Conrad soon enough, didn't tell the guy on Feros that I killed the Geth before he died) and only have the lame assignments like finding things left, as well as the Geth outposts ones. I hope that's enough to nail the last cheevo.
Started ME2, man I love 2 so much better. Looks, sounds, controls better. Menus faster, everything is just better IMO.
Trying Infiltrator, is that a fun class? If so, what is a good bonus ability to choose for this class?
Earlier in the thread I read about the best way to scan planets, can someone touch on that again?
Edit: Here it is. This effective?
BabeSlayer
Member
wife is out of town this weekend...hopefully i will finish up my me1 cheevos and get everything squared away just right in 2. So looking forward to 3....straight up addicted to the demo multiplayer.
CrankyKong
Member
What do I need to do to diffuse the argument between Jack and Miranda?
Have either a high Paragon or Renegade ratio. You'll need a higher paragon ratio than a renegade ratio for that situation, btw.
Reminder: That does not mean have a high number of Renegade or Paragon points. Remember that all choices are based of a ratio of your total points divided by the total number of points you could have possibly gotten at that point. So it's entirely possible that it may be easier to diffuse earlier in the game than it is later.
prodystopian
Member
Has anyone used the ME2 save game editor to max paragon or renegade at the beginning of a playthrough? Because the condition is checking for a ratio, I'm wondering if this will break anything.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
Before I read this thread I never realised the paragon/renegade stuff was so awfully done.
I did the same thing, and had like 500K minerals of everything except eezo.
WHY? It's interesting reading about the little planet descriptions as they add a little bit of side or background story to the game. Part of the reason my recent ME2 play through took me 51 hours and I still need to play Arrival.
It shouldn't, because the game has to take into account the possibility that you have a ratio greater than 1 early on due to the import bonuses from ME1 (i.e. a lot of players would have more points than it's possible to get for at least a little while in the game).
It'd just so heavily weight the calculations, that you'd get every option.
It was done due to the non-linear nature of everything. They'd have no idea in what order a player would tackle stuff, and if they set hard caps they'd be implicitly creating a "proper" order to play stuff.
prodystopian
Member
Oh, good point. I just wanted to ask in case someone could tell me that it broke something.
That's what I'm hoping for. I've beaten the game before and I want to see the renegade choices this time.
PhoenixSFT
Member
Some of those are hilarious, and it fills you in so much on character backgrounds. Miranda's IMs with her sister are great, Jack's info is as crappy and useless as her character. Mordin's were pretty good.
Seeing as I wrote that, it would be redundant for me to recommend it. If you have any further questions on planet scanning, though, I'll answer those.
Precisely. Some of that stuff is very interesting, adds some atmosphere and I liked it since the first game. Some days I just launched the game to wander around reading planet descriptions. For example, there were a couple of planets home to sapient races that were deliberately wiped out, first thought to have been impacted by meteors. Or this mining planet where someone wrote "there's nothing here" or something like that with a mining laser when left to mine it by himself. There's also this super toxic planet where Krogan would land and try to survive naked to prove their toughness and only one dude made it out alive and was received back like a king, etc. A lot of this stuff is better than the side missions honestly.
Also, anything less than 100% is unacceptable to me, fuck the reapers. There's enough time to explore the galaxy.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought there were two things working against Shepard in regards to this in ME2:
1. S/he is technically dead, as evidenced by everyone's shock that s/he is still alive throughout the game
2. While the council did reinstate Shepard, I recall it wasn't 'on the books' so to say.
TangoAlphaLima
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A Krogan nudist colony? Gross.
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