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[GauntletFan]

Woohoo! just got 1 million credits and now my squad has all the spectre weapons. Can't wait to try these out.

I'm now Level 38, 18 hours in and I've done Noveria, Feros and the bit where you rescue the blue chick.

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Just did the side quest with the nuke down in the caves.. I loved how you came out and were up on the ridge with the mercenary camp below.. totally gave me a chance to use my sniping skills

Oh and another couple of side quest questions:

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I took garros? onto the ship to find the evil scientist who had been using people as human test tubes.. I said we'd be taking him in, then it went to battle mode and he ran off.. and suddenly I got a cutscene with garros saying "he dies anyway" .. did one of my crew shoot him, because I know I didn't.

on the side quest where you meet the guy who has his gun to the scientists head, and he's blaming him for a bunch of stuff.. I ended up telling him to kill the scientist, then he killed himself - is there another way out of this

 

[Confidence Man]

True...so far the only planet worth landing on was the moon...

Did you find the one that has you assisting an Alliance squad in a Starship Troopers-esqe holdout against a Rachni assault? That one was pretty cool.

 

[Gattsu25]

True...so far the only planet worth landing on was the moon...

 

[ShinAmano]

Did you find the one that has you assisting an Alliance squad in a Starship Troopers-esqe holdout against a Rachni assault? That one was pretty cool.

Apparently I missed the coolest one

 

[ShinAmano]

Yeah I did that on porpoise.

 

[firehawk12]

Woohoo! just got 1 million credits and now my squad has all the spectre weapons. Can't wait to try these out.

I'm now Level 38, 18 hours in and I've done Noveria, Feros and the bit where you rescue the blue chick.

Spoiler

Just did the side quest with the nuke down in the caves.. I loved how you came out and were up on the ridge with the mercenary camp below.. totally gave me a chance to use my sniping skills

Oh and another couple of side quest questions:

Spoiler

I took garros? onto the ship to find the evil scientist who had been using people as human test tubes.. I said we'd be taking him in, then it went to battle mode and he ran off.. and suddenly I got a cutscene with garros saying "he dies anyway" .. did one of my crew shoot him, because I know I didn't.

on the side quest where you meet the guy who has his gun to the scientists head, and he's blaming him for a bunch of stuff.. I ended up telling him to kill the scientist, then he killed himself - is there another way out of this

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1) - From my experience, the scientist will die in combat. Maybe your game glitched? 2) - Yes, if you have enough Charm, you can get him to surrender and arrest the scientist.

 

[medze]

Did you find the one that has you assisting an Alliance squad in a Starship Troopers-esqe holdout against a Rachni assault? That one was pretty cool.

And people say the sidequests lack substance! Seriously though, I understand that recycling environments/textures does get old, the story is still tied into every sidequest, some more than others.

I think we all agree that the story is Mass Effect's strong point and by skipping this stuff, you are doing yourself a disservice. I can see how some people may see it as grinding (I don't), but I think to get the full scope of the game/plot, you have to do these missions.

 

[ShinAmano]

And people say the sidequests lack substance! Seriously though, I understand that recycling environments/textures does get old, the story is still tied into every sidequest, some more than others.

I think we all agree that the story is Mass Effect's strong point and by skipping this stuff, you are doing yourself a disservice. I can see how some people may see it as grinding (I don't), but I think to get the full scope of the game/plot, you have to do these missions.

I only think it is grinding when in order to get specific achievements they force you to do it multiple times...I enjoyed my first visit to most of the planets...

 

[firehawk12]

Yeah. I don't think I mind doing all the side quests the first time because it was interesting to see the stories, but doing it two more times to get the Ally achievements seems very harsh.

 

["God's Beard!"]

Woohoo! just got 1 million credits and now my squad has all the spectre weapons. Can't wait to try these out.

I'm now Level 38, 18 hours in and I've done Noveria, Feros and the bit where you rescue the blue chick.

Spoiler

Just did the side quest with the nuke down in the caves.. I loved how you came out and were up on the ridge with the mercenary camp below.. totally gave me a chance to use my sniping skills

Oh and another couple of side quest questions:

Spoiler

I took garros? onto the ship to find the evil scientist who had been using people as human test tubes.. I said we'd be taking him in, then it went to battle mode and he ran off.. and suddenly I got a cutscene with garros saying "he dies anyway" .. did one of my crew shoot him, because I know I didn't.

on the side quest where you meet the guy who has his gun to the scientists head, and he's blaming him for a bunch of stuff.. I ended up telling him to kill the scientist, then he killed himself - is there another way out of this

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You can also kill the scientist yourself so the other guy doesn't get arrested if you have enough intimidate points

 

[Imperial Hot]

Either my Vanguard is a bitch, or this game is really fucking hard! I had to scale back the difficulty to easy in order to beat

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Matriarch Benezia. Maybe I shouldn't have gone to that mission as my first mission, because i was looking at some guides and the other ones seems substantially easier.

Regardless, the combat is really fucking awesome and I am really getting into the story.

 

[WrikaWrek]

Specte weapons?

What? I went to see the re what something thorian, saw his inventory and it was all pretty yuck compared to what i had. Maybe i missed something.

 

[BravoSuperStar]

Specte weapons?

What? I went to see the re what something thorian, saw his inventory and it was all pretty yuck compared to what i had. Maybe i missed something.

I didnt get the option to buy the spectre weapons till my 2nd play-through.

 

[firehawk12]

You need to get the "rich" achievement.

 

[medze]

You need to get the "rich" achievement.

Yup, once you get this achievement you can buy the Spectre weapons from either the C-Sec or Normandy Quartermaster. I've seen the level "X" ones but I'm not sure if they get any better than that. Still leaps and bounds above anything else you'll find

 

[sixteen-bit]

Any

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geth

weapons available other than the AR?

 

[firehawk12]

Yup, once you get this achievement you can buy the Spectre weapons from either the C-Sec or Normandy Quartermaster. I've seen the level "X" ones but I'm not sure if they get any better than that. Still leaps and bounds above anything else you'll find

Yeah, I think the Spectre gear is the best in the game and once you hit high levels, the money just rolls in to a point where you can load up every character with the stuff and not worry about running out of cash.

 

["God's Beard!"]

Any

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geth

weapons available other than the AR?

I was wondering this as well.

 

[Gattsu25]

I was wondering this as well.

I dunno...I just picked up a license for a manufacturer with

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Geth

in the name, though. Haven't checked to see what items they make.

 

[GalaxyBird]

Omni-Gel question
How else can I get omni-gel other than turning items into it right when I pick them up? I'm sure this is probably a stupid question, but thanks

 

[firehawk12]

Sometimes you pick it up when you kill people, or you get it from lockers/chests, or its given to you as a reward.

 

[watership]

Ahh yea I totally agree here. It turned out to be one of my favourite moments of the game actually. Shame (and lazy) that BioWare didn't let us land on any of the other planets in our solar system.

Considering that the content in the game took 4 years to make, how is it lazy?

 

[GalaxyBird]

Sometimes you pick it up when you kill people, or you get it from lockers/chests, or its given to you as a reward.

so you can't turn items that are in your inventory into omni-gel?

 

[Walshicus]

I think I am done with ME1 and now patiently await ME2!

Aren't there supposed to be downloadable episodes for ME1 coming to tide us over until ME2?

 

[firehawk12]

so you can't turn items that are in your inventory into omni-gel?

Oh yeah, that's the easiest way to get gel if you need it. In fact, if you do all the quests and hack all the lockers, you'll get to a point where you have to keep converting stuff to gel in order to look into your inventory.

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

so you can't turn items that are in your inventory into omni-gel?

Press the Y button while highlighting an item in your inventory screen. =/

 

[sixteen-bit]

so you can't turn items that are in your inventory into omni-gel?

You can. Press Y in the equipment screen.

 

[kirbybreezy]

Did you find the one that has you assisting an Alliance squad in a Starship Troopers-esqe holdout against a Rachni assault? That one was pretty cool.

whoa whoa whoa....I though I did every sidequest but I don't remember this one. How do you activate it?

 

[Gattsu25]

Press the Y button while highlighting an item in your inventory screen. =/

GalaxyBird, the reason why this quoted post has a =/ is because the inventory screen tells you that pressing Y will convert an item into Omni-Gel

 

[Mrbob]

whoa whoa whoa....I though I did every sidequest but I don't remember this one. How do you activate it?

I haven't hit this yet either, but it does sound cool. My guess is getting this sidequest might depend on what you do with the Rachni Queen earlier in the game?

 

[GalaxyBird]

GalaxyBird, the reason why this quoted post has a =/ is because the inventory screen tells you that pressing Y will convert an item into Omni-Gel

oh... well I suppose thats deserved then. I swore I look up and down that page. but thanks for all the help anyway.

 

[Gattsu25]

oh... well I suppose thats deserved then. I swore I look up and down that page. but thanks for all the help anyway.

No problem and sorry for being an asshole, today :\

 

[newsguy]

Ok, day 2 with the game last night. About 3 hours in. It is definitely growing on me. the plot is getting good. The reason I struggle in this game is because I don't like RPGs. Of course this game is really only an RPG under the surface, so that's a good thing. One major similarity is that it throws 10000000 things at you at all times and in my action/sports/fps upbringing this is daunting. I always want to do every side task before continuing the main quest, but right now I check my journal and 10 people want me to traverse the Citadel for sex scandals and news stories.

To add to that there are religious nuts who I have to spend money on just so they can preach
their jellyfish religion! I am enjoying the sidequests alot actually, I just feel like there are so many of them I may never get back to the main story.

 

[Walshicus]

To add to that there are religious nuts who I have to spend money on just so they can preach their jellyfish religion!

Racist.

 

[Son of Godzilla]

Am I the only one disappointed by how this game has pretty much gotten a free ride, review wise? I mean, the game is still pretty awesome but jesus christ I can't remember the last game I played that had fucking v-sync issues. I'd be alot less disappointed if I knew going in.

 

[WrikaWrek]

Am I the only one disappointed by how this game has pretty much gotten a free ride, review wise? I mean, the game is still pretty awesome but jesus christ I can't remember the last game I played that had fucking v-sync issues. I'd be alot less disappointed if I knew going in.

You gotta be kidding me. lol Your last game must've been along time ago.

 

[timmy]

I've completed the opening citadel stuff so far, and right now my big complaint lies with the feel of the game environment. For being the hub of the galaxy, The Citadel sure feels pretty barren to me. It's sparsely populated, and the characters who are there don't really seem to move much. Even in the night clubs, which are supposed to be pretty wild, all of the npcs look like wallflowers.

 

[widgetraf]

Can I do a New Game+ while changing my character from male to female, or my class? I want to go for the other achievements but my first game was Soldier class.

 

[DesertEasy]

Can I do a New Game+ while changing my character from male to female, or my class? I want to go for the other achievements but my first game was Soldier class.

Nope, NewGame+ is the same exact character you created.

 

[Shinjitsu]

Am I the only one disappointed by how this game has pretty much gotten a free ride, review wise? I mean, the game is still pretty awesome but jesus christ I can't remember the last game I played that had fucking v-sync issues. I'd be alot less disappointed if I knew going in.

Free ride? Are we playing the same game...

Yes it has some graphical issues (V-Sync being the least of these) Lost Planet, Saints Row and many other games are MUCH worse with the V-Sync problems, stop blowing things out of proportion. It's an amazing game, and well deserving of the high review scores it got.

 

[jet1911]

Can I do a New Game+ while changing my character from male to female, or my class? I want to go for the other achievements but my first game was Soldier class.

You can't.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Can I do a New Game+ while changing my character from male to female, or my class? I want to go for the other achievements but my first game was Soldier class.

No, but if you got the weapon achievements you'll be able to start a new character with those talents regardless of class.

 

[Walshicus]

Was just thinking about things I'd like to see as DLC; English main character voice option seemed fairly obvious. I think I noticed just one English accent and but a handful of other non-American accents throughout the entire game.

 

[Gattsu25]

No, but if you got the weapon achievements you'll be able to start a new character with those talents regardless of class.

Is it possible to NOT choose a bonus talent when making a new character?

Does choosing a bonus skill add an extra skill to your list or replace a skill, entirely...and in the case of an Adept: what skill is replaced?

Was just thinking about things I'd like to see as DLC; English main character voice option seemed fairly obvious. I think I noticed just one English accent and but a handful of other non-American accents throughout the entire game.

Ever heard your character pronounce the word "Against"? Breaks the illusion that all surviving humans are from the USA

 

[Walshicus]

Ever heard your character pronounce the word "Against"? Breaks the illusion that all surviving humans are from the USA

I wouldn't know the difference between how an American pronounces it and how a Canadian [which is what I presume you're infering the main character is] would.

 

[Gattsu25]

I wouldn't know the difference between how an American pronounces it and how a Canadian [which is what I presume you're infering the main character is] would.

I'm not sure if that's how it is pronounced in Canada, either. Just noting that whenever I hear my main character say the word it throws out the "all humans are American" illusion that the other characters convey.

 

[Shinjitsu]

I'm not sure if that's how it is pronounced in Canada, either. Just noting that whenever I hear my main character say the word it throws out the "all humans are American" illusion that the other characters convey.

Yah uhh, not once does the game imply that all Humans are American...

 

[Confidence Man]

whoa whoa whoa....I though I did every sidequest but I don't remember this one. How do you activate it?

It was a random planet I got a distress signal from. It was in a cluster toward the center of the galaxy near Artemis Tau. Started with Styx or Stygian or something like that.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Bhatia is Indian

I notced some fake French and Russian accents too.

 

[Gattsu25]

Yah uhh, not once does the game imply that all Humans are American...

No shit?

I'm talking about accents not game lore.