TheVisualizer
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evlcookie said:
I played it twice paragon/renegade and...
zaeed killed him when we didnt save the workers red renegade text on all encounters, he got away when I chose to save the workers and chose all blue paragon text options
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I played it twice paragon/renegade and...
So far, the game's good.
But the whole (character spoiler)
part was underwhelming.
Thankfully, the Omega quests were much more fun than that one.
But the whole (character spoiler)
Jack
The twist, that the warden wants to sell you, sucked hard and was so cliché it wasn't even funny. And the areas you explore there are boring as hell too.
Two questions.
How many levels should i gain from doing the
And where the fuck is detective anaya? I have to hand something in but i can't find her at all. The quest/mission stats a specific planet, but i can't find a way to get to her, getting to the planet is fine of course.
How many levels should i gain from doing the
IFF quest and all to the finish. I'm level 22 at the moment, i really wanted to try hit 30 by the time i finish.
And where the fuck is detective anaya? I have to hand something in but i can't find her at all. The quest/mission stats a specific planet, but i can't find a way to get to her, getting to the planet is fine of course.
MegaKungFuRadio
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Crunched said:
Tech Armor and Fortification is redundant. I prefer getting Reave so you can skip Warp and use your points to more efficiently. With 51 points to spend, you want to max five abilities (passive class ability, Tech Armor, Overload, loyalty ability are musts) and put one point in another. Since Throw is a pre-requisite for Warp, you can't max Warp without giving up one of the other abilities, so Reave tidies up your options.
With Blood Dragon Armor, max Passive, and max Tech Armor alone your powers gain a 45% bonus, which make your Reave and Overload grossly more powerful than anything your squad can muster by the time you're done upgrading. This combination also covers all your bases, which is key. You still might want Incinerate in your party early on as a permanent regen stopper while you're still getting Reave to the point where it's lethal.
MisterAnderson
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So I'm taking the Female Shepard plunge and giving that a go. Thinking about actually doing an ME1 run because I feel like I'm doing the game a disservice in case I get attached to this character and want to do ME3 with her for the whole experience including decisions made in ME1.
Regardless, I think I made a pretty decent Fem Shepard. I would normally go with brunette but I think blonde ended up looking better with the face I made, as well as have more variety on the ship since there's a brunette Miranda and a red headed Kelly. Also looked better with the green eyes. So far, the voice actor is definitely a lot better. There's just something about playing as male, I just feel like I have an obligation to play one since usually I roleplay myself and male is...well...what I am. Also WTF why did they put Kaiden in Ashley's pink armor?? LOL
Kind of reminds me of Nova from StarCraft Ghost when she's in her armor.
Regardless, I think I made a pretty decent Fem Shepard. I would normally go with brunette but I think blonde ended up looking better with the face I made, as well as have more variety on the ship since there's a brunette Miranda and a red headed Kelly. Also looked better with the green eyes. So far, the voice actor is definitely a lot better. There's just something about playing as male, I just feel like I have an obligation to play one since usually I roleplay myself and male is...well...what I am. Also WTF why did they put Kaiden in Ashley's pink armor?? LOL
Kind of reminds me of Nova from StarCraft Ghost when she's in her armor.
Psychotext
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Definitely one of the better Femsheps around.MisterAnderson said:
chespace said:
Your fps goes to shit because you are using 8x edge-detect filter. I found edge-detect makes the game look and perform much worse for me. Try using the "Box" filter instead. That or change it to 4x Box filter in AA settings and change AA mode to Super-sample AA and the game will look extremely better if your machine can handle it. I got way better performance out of that than I did with edge-detect. If super-sample gives you really bad performance just leave it at 8xAA Box filter / multi-sample.
If you are still getting bad performance I think there might be an issue for SLI users in this game. I don't exactly remember where I seen people talking about it but i'm sure you can find it with a search on google. Hope this helps because I don't really know all that much about this stuff its just that I had messed around with basically every different AA setting I could.
MisterAnderson
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mileS said:
How do you set the AA mode to "super sample"?
Question:
How do people respond to you if your ME1 file saved the Council? I'm considering a Paragon FemShep Sentinel for my Insanity run but I'm wondering if I should follow through by importing a saved Council. I would need to find a save game to download though, I don't want to play ME1 again. I think there was a link to save games somewhere in this thread but GAF hasn't been allowing me to use the Search function lately.
How do people respond to you if your ME1 file saved the Council? I'm considering a Paragon FemShep Sentinel for my Insanity run but I'm wondering if I should follow through by importing a saved Council. I would need to find a save game to download though, I don't want to play ME1 again. I think there was a link to save games somewhere in this thread but GAF hasn't been allowing me to use the Search function lately.
Zzoram said:
http://www.annakie.com/me/home.htm
If you save the Council
you hear several reports of their ship going around the Universe, meet them at the Citadel and the reporter asks you why you saved them instead of a lot more lives that were fighting the Sovereign
In the ATI CCC under the 3D options there is the AA tab and right beside it is the AAMode tab. If you move the slider all the way over to Quality you'll see that its set to Super-sample AA. Like I said I don't know much about this so I'm not sure how many different ATI cards support SS.MisterAnderson said:
Yesterday I spent all day just chilling, talking with friends in a full party on XBL and later on played about 4 hours of SFIV, just so that I can only focus on Mass Effect 2 this whole weekend - I don't wanna rush it, but I really want to beat it this weekend because starting next Monday, I'll be busy from morning till late at night with papers all week...
Oh, and I waited out of courtesy for my friends to get the hard cover LE guide at their store, but up till yesterday they still didn't even have it in their system so I said screw it and ordered it from a website I usually used yesterday (every now and then, two out the three stores they had ran out of stock, then refilled) and got it this morning...
Only thing I will look at until I beat it is the planets for mineral mining, trying not to spoil myself on anything else till I finish the game - the cover is gorgeous, and I haven't even torn the plastic seal off of it yet...
Props to the GAFfer who gave me the heads-up about the LE guide! And I know you're reading this BioWare, hopefully you give us a full-on artbook like ME1, you know I'm gonna buy it as well!
On to Mass Effect 2!
Oh, and I waited out of courtesy for my friends to get the hard cover LE guide at their store, but up till yesterday they still didn't even have it in their system so I said screw it and ordered it from a website I usually used yesterday (every now and then, two out the three stores they had ran out of stock, then refilled) and got it this morning...
Only thing I will look at until I beat it is the planets for mineral mining, trying not to spoil myself on anything else till I finish the game - the cover is gorgeous, and I haven't even torn the plastic seal off of it yet...
Props to the GAFfer who gave me the heads-up about the LE guide! And I know you're reading this BioWare, hopefully you give us a full-on artbook like ME1, you know I'm gonna buy it as well!
On to Mass Effect 2!
My final playtime was 51 hours, which really surprised me since I was expecting something around the 25 hours it took me to beat ME1. I took a lot of time reading the codex and scanning planets (and dying a few times on veteran), but I felt the game was quite well paced if you take it slow and explore and listen to all the dialogue options.
GhostRidah
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be happy you dont have the steam version, I cant rename it so there is no way to enable itchespace said:
Wiggum2007
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Chinner said:
Y'know, I've come to notice that without fail, any time anyone makes mention of enjoying or preferring Female Shepard, you have to come in and make some snide comment on it... Can't we all just be friends?
Wiggum2007
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Chinner said:
We are eternal. The pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing. Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything.
thanks, imdb mass effect quotes page!
Wiggum2007
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dejan said:
Same here, just hit the 30 hour mark and still have plenty of recruitment and loyalty missions to go. ME2 is an absolute blast, I'm loving every moment.
Chinner said:
Hopefully it comes up that the Reapers are like super nice in ME3, that oughta teach you.
So yeah, really, I've played through ME1 with both female and male and femshep rocks manshep's socks any day. Only downer as femshep is
the lack of Tali-sex in ME2
super hot Thane!
Wiggum2007
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Anso said:
Cloaca dude!!!
Enjoying it, but I definitely still prefer the original game at this point. It feels like the Invisible War to the first games Deus Ex, if you know what I mean. Everything feels condensed and simplified.
It's an excellent game, though, just not exactly what I was expecting.
It's an excellent game, though, just not exactly what I was expecting.
Wiggum2007
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dark10x said:
See to me that analogy doesn't really work, because a bunch of the extraneous stuff that was simplified from ME1 was frankly kinda shitty in the original, such as the inventory system, overload of way to many items with I-X ranks of slightly increasing stats, etc. In Invisible War, all the things that got cut out were essential to what made Deus Ex great.
At the same time, I can see where some might think they've gone too far with the streamlining. I think the best option would be to have ME3 fall somewhere between 1 and 2 in that regard. I'd really wouldn't mind just seeing a few more weapon options for each weapon class, along with more modular armor pieces available, the game does seem a bit lacking in that area.
â Narayan
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29 hours in - I haven't done any loyalty missions, nor have I recruited everyone. I'm still missing 3 party members. I'm on Illium right now.
Aye. Mass Effect 2 improves upon Mass Effect 1 in every way.Zeliard said:
Spider from Mars
tap that thorax
How are you playing it? Im 20 hours in, level 26, have everybody and done their loyalty missions and 100% the galaxy. What are you doing when you are not questing?
Wiggum2007
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Spider from Mars said:
I'm pretty much at the same point as he is with 30 hours on the clock, I've just been taking my sweet time soaking everything in, talking to every character after every mission, fully exploring every system, etc.
The Librarian
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Except there's no Mako.
Wiggum2007
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Dax01 said:
Which some would say is an improvement.
Buttonbasher
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Some incorrect people, yes.Wiggum2007 said:Which some would say is an improvement.
The Librarian
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And it's because of those some that we got some crappy mini game.Wiggum2007 said:Which some would say is an improvement.
Confidence Man
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dark10x said:
That's the best way to describe it. Bioware seems as clueless as Ion Storm was. I guarantee when ME3 is coming out they'll be talking about how they fucked up with 2.
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
Buttonbasher said:
Heh, I was just messin' with him.
I do think the Mako was pretty crap in ME1, but I'm a bit disappointed that they just scrapped it, instead of improving it like they did with most other aspects of the game. I'm interested in how the Hammerhead DLC will turn out, but I'm not expecting it to be more than some tacked on side stuff.
Haunted
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I think I can generally agree with the Invisible War statement, but it still has to be noted how good ME2 is - even with the unfortunate direction it took in some areas - compared to how bad Invisible War was.
These people are wrong.Wiggum2007 said:Which some would say is an improvement.
Red Blaster
Member
My fucking ass it does. For every improvement ME2 has over ME1, there's a step-back in something else.
Wiggum2007
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Red Blaster said:
ME2 is an improvement over 1 in that it has more aliens smoking cigars but a step back in that they can't seem to animate a cigarette-in-mouth correctly.
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