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Mass Effect |OT| Alien love in an elevator
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BenjaminBirdie
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Azih said:
The Galaxy Map theme alone is better than the title theme, if you ask me.
Future PhaZe
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Sylar said:Oh you dodge attacks? I just assumed it was like WOW and they autohit.
Yes, attacks are dodgable in ME. Obviously this is pretty much impossible against assault fire and the like, but its possible to dodge slow projectile fire like rockets, slow biotic attacks, shotgun carnage blast, etc. I suggest you go into your menu options and change auto-aim level to NORMAL. Minimizes auto-aim and the game plays a little more like a straight shooter where you just have to take recoil into consideration for your cross-hairs.
MAKO combat for me was generally just zoom click fire rockets and turret, use jump jets to dodge enemy missile fire, etc. Very simple. Typically people don't know about holding left trigger+right click. If you don't use this, every other option tends to be pretty inaccurate and I could see how people are losing battles.
Future PhaZe
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Sylar said:
Hold A button to jump
LT+RB is a decent zoom mode that shoots rockets. But LT + RIGHT ANALOG CLICK is an even better zoom than that, and has two levels to it for long range fire. Not sure if you knew about this or not, but that's probably what your referring to.
I was at that exact same part, without any medi-gel, and was wondering the same thing. That's when I found out that health regenerates on its own (at least it did for me, maybe I had some armor upgrade, but I'm pretty sure it regenerates no matter what). Also, you get medi-gel for killing some enemies, but I don't thinkharSon said:
the zombies created by the plant give you any
harSon said:
Keep going, there is a medical station on the 3rd or 4th level I think. You have to try and survive until then
Also as someone else mentioned, if you have any armor upgrades like First Aid Interface or Medical interface use that as it will slowly regenerate your health until you can get to the medical station.
JeStaH said:Keep going, there is a medical station on the 3rd or 4th level I think. You have to try and survive until then
Also as someone else mentioned, if you have any armor upgrades like First Aid Interface or Medical interface use that as it will slowly regenerate your health until you can get to the medical station.
Plus some skill will regenerate your health (only for soldier, I think) as well as some achivement bonus (Krogan ally, probably).
Sylar said:
:lol :lol :lol
Better give up now and play Kotor 2 instead. There are a lot more vehicle parts, especially if you are going to do the side quest planets.
All the "use throw, singularity, damping etc" achievements have to be done by sheppard. So you do have to have mutliple characters of different skill types in order to get all of them.
BenjaminBirdie said:
Probably a page late on this quote but it's the truth. The last couple of hours, especially at the last two sections were truly omfg moments. I wonder if the people that put bioshock over mass effect in their top 10's this year even got to the end. I thought Illos was amazing(does anyone have any wallpaper of that planet?), but the section after that just had me floored the whole time.
I finished it today at around 3am, 50+ hours in(Give one or two hrs for idleness). I'm going through it on hardcore now, and what I like is that your money and items carry over, but I wish I could reset the talent points so I could distribute them better. I also like how the items that you find even in eden prime are of the lvl 8 and up variety, so that you don't have to go through several chapters of useless low level junk.
For those of you who prefer the sniper path, what bonus combinations did you have? I have two +6 damage/+24% stability and one +30% weapons force, just wondering if there is a better combo to have.
harSon said:
They are a pain especially on Insane! What I ended up doing is ordering my guys to stay behind, then I make the
zombies and asari clones chase me back to my guys, usually through a choke point like a door or something where I can pick them off. Then I concentrate all my special talents on the asari, throw, lift, neural shock etc..
Ya forgot about those. Soldiers are nice to have in the party.
Coverly said:
Try Frictionless materials X2 and High Explosive rounds.. Take a second or so to cool down but fun to see the bodies fly.
Tokubetsu
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Just beat the game. Wow, while not my GOTY and definitely not RPG fo year, it was still great. A bit closer to an 8/10 in my book. The last 2 or so hours of the game really made it for me. I think I creamed myself more than a handful of times.
SOMEONE FIND ME A WALLPAPER OF THAT PRONTO!
Aside from inventory fixes etc, My only hope for the sequel is that they somehow make it tailored so that depending on certain choices you made, the game plays out following them. Like what love interest you picked (I'd LOVE to see them take the romantic elements further and you form an actual close relationship with the girl you picked in the 1st game) and the other big decision
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Especially some of the cinematic shots near the end. Like Sovereign on the council, the naval battles, saren popping himself and then being resurrected as spider/husk saren. All had a cinematic flair about it that I love. The the final shot at the end of your Shephard infront of earth
Aside from inventory fixes etc, My only hope for the sequel is that they somehow make it tailored so that depending on certain choices you made, the game plays out following them. Like what love interest you picked (I'd LOVE to see them take the romantic elements further and you form an actual close relationship with the girl you picked in the 1st game) and the other big decision
whether to put Udina or Anderson on the council. I chose Anderson of course, Udina can lick my balls
FLUXCapacitor
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I have a recommendation for anyone wanting to play their own custom soundtrack. Check out http://www.ambient-nights.org. Most of his stuff is free to download and there is a lot of albums. He even has a series called Sol System with an album based off each planet in our solar system, so you can imagine it would fit very well with Mass Effect. Some really good ambient techno imo.
vumpler said:
Soldier can be played like a run n' gun shooter. You're super hard to kill, but there will be some moments when you will need to use your teammates biotic and tech abilities.
Engineer will let you absurdly dominate any and all robot enemies (and they even have a move that affects organics, too, that does serious damage).
Biotics will probably be the most useful in any situation since you can throw, lift, stasis, and singularity. The only downside is that you can only train in pistols, so bring Ashley, Wrex, or Garrus along with you.
arhra said:
I checked the achievement guide on Gamefaqs before I started and had planned only 3 play throughs. On my first play through I got all the story based achievements, the paragon achievement, all of the combat achievements except pistol (figured I'd get this when playing as another class easily), 2 ally achievements, the level 50 achievement and the Paramour one.
On a second play through I figure if I play as an Engineer and go renegade I can knock off all the achievements for Engineer, renegade and two more ally ones, also an achievement for Hardcore difficulty. Then I'd need another play through as a Biotic or whatever for those achievements and two more ally, plus insane difficulty. That should only leave me needing to get the high level achievements. Unless you get more EXP on higher difficulty levels since I hit 50 with no problem on Veteran or whatever it was.
arhra
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Er, that's not really the BIG decision...Tokubetsu said:
that one just changes a bit of dialogue, the big one is whether you save the council or not... and of course what your overall morality leaning was
On a related note, i just finally finished my full-on-asshole renegade run (well, i went a bit soft towards the end after i maxed out my renegade bar and it was getting a bit boring being a jerk constantly, but i was full renegade, and less than 25% paragon...), and holy shit the ending is so different from the others i've seen. I think i might have seen them all now, actually, or at least the major variations.
My first game was mostly-renegade (just barely, i was probably around one conversation's difference away from being mostly-paragon) but saved the council (and amusingly, i've just realised now that i pegged that one as the least likely to be seen in a regular playthrough in my writeup of the different endings a few pages back...), second game was paragon/council dies, then paragon/save the council, and now renegade/council dies; all choosing Anderson because as i mentioned a page or two back, Udina needs to go eat a bag of dicks. Especially after he went totally space-nazi on me. Renegade/council dies is way darker than all the others, almost has a sort of Palpatine/Vader tone to it (largely thanks to the aforementioned Udina space-nazi thing)
I'll be incredibly impressed if they pull off what they've promised and carry your decisions through to the sequel without any cheeseball moves to force a reset and wipe their effects out...
You don't. Even with all the exp bonuses (including Extreme Power Gamer), and doing all the sidequests, you max out at about 54-55 or so on your first playthrough, so you still need one more to hit 60.
Ok, seriously. This is my GOTY and I can say without hesitation one of THE best games I have ever played. I just completed Feros - my first mission after the Citadel. As a breather, I visted Luna (aka our moon) and Terpin to rescue a survey team.
The framerate isn't as bad as I was expecting but the texture pop in is WAY worse than I was expecting. Nothing is game breaking (so far I'm managing inventory well, but I can see how it could be a problem down the road) like some suggest on here. Far, far from it.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT BIOWARE! WOWOWOWOW!!!!!!
The framerate isn't as bad as I was expecting but the texture pop in is WAY worse than I was expecting. Nothing is game breaking (so far I'm managing inventory well, but I can see how it could be a problem down the road) like some suggest on here. Far, far from it.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT BIOWARE! WOWOWOWOW!!!!!!
Tokubetsu
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RSTEIN said:
If you don't want the inventory to become a problem. STAY ON TOP OF IT FROM NOW. Seriously. Also, if you see shit piling up and it's gonna be awhile till the next shop, don't be afraid to turn it into omni gel. Especially if you have a party member that is good at decrypting etc, you are guaranteed to run into a shit ton more loot.
Randy Lanzarote
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Bought the game for £20 in Gamestation on boxing day, waited until I got hold a new Falcon 360 before I started playing it.
According to my last save I'm 2hr06min into the game and...ruddy hell. This game is ruddy huge. The scope and depth of the universe Bioware have created is second to none, and I'm only 2 hours in! God knows what else is awaiting me in the solar system, I can see myself getting quite consumed by Mass Effect over the next week or so.
According to my last save I'm 2hr06min into the game and...ruddy hell. This game is ruddy huge. The scope and depth of the universe Bioware have created is second to none, and I'm only 2 hours in! God knows what else is awaiting me in the solar system, I can see myself getting quite consumed by Mass Effect over the next week or so.
This is the type of game you just don't want to end. As for the framerate, I've seen some hitches and the odd rough patch or two, but it's been surprisingly smooth for me for the most part. Just gotta let all the textures load in before carrying on which doesn't take long. Though I'm playing on an SDTV, so I don't know if that would make the game run smoother? Could be better overall, but nowhere near what I was reading from some people.
Only other complaints are that I wish there was more. Lots more (and deeper) sidequests, more varitey to them, and change up the underground bases on those smaller explorer planets. Change the layouts, size, design, the colours, the item placement, the lighting, etc. That and bring back the ability to control each squadmate, and the pause combat feature from the E3 demo. I wish all the planets had sidequests as good and deep as the ones found on the main planets. Speaking of main planets, for the next game double the amount. I need/want more, the game is that good.
It's also a shame that there are tons and tons of planets on the map that can't be explored, hopefully they either add some via downloadable content or just really beef up ME2. My biggest complaint with the game is that I just want more of it, and that's not saying there isn't already lots here. GOTY easily imo. In terms of your squad I'd like to see atleast three or four additional squadmates in the sequel, plus the six you get in the first game. Maybe one Salarian, and then three others from new races.
QFT.
Only other complaints are that I wish there was more. Lots more (and deeper) sidequests, more varitey to them, and change up the underground bases on those smaller explorer planets. Change the layouts, size, design, the colours, the item placement, the lighting, etc. That and bring back the ability to control each squadmate, and the pause combat feature from the E3 demo. I wish all the planets had sidequests as good and deep as the ones found on the main planets. Speaking of main planets, for the next game double the amount. I need/want more, the game is that good.
It's also a shame that there are tons and tons of planets on the map that can't be explored, hopefully they either add some via downloadable content or just really beef up ME2. My biggest complaint with the game is that I just want more of it, and that's not saying there isn't already lots here. GOTY easily imo. In terms of your squad I'd like to see atleast three or four additional squadmates in the sequel, plus the six you get in the first game. Maybe one Salarian, and then three others from new races.
RSTEIN said:
QFT.
Rabbit Lord
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HolyStar said:Hey, is it true that you can have sex in this game, and if so, when and where?
Dude if you need jack off material the net is full of free boobies, just google it man. No need to drop $60 for it.
Future PhaZe
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Just now starting my female career. Man, I really LOVED my male Shepard and I thought being a female would take me out of the experience. Now I'm wondering who my 'cannon' Shepard will be for ME2 XD. Probably my male, but still the female Shepard has some wonderful VA, and its like a completely new experience playing as her. I like her so much I wish I could replace her with Ashley or something in my Male career so I could sex myself :lol .
arhra
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I'm not sure i'd want that, personally. Looks cool in one video, but having to manually move your squad members around every single fight would get old, fast. What i would like is just individual move/attack commands on the command wheel (ie, rather than hitting the dpad to tell them both to move/attack, you bring up the command wheel, and use a command on each one seperately), which would give you 90% of the usefulness, but 10% of the annoyance.
Mass Effect was an amazing experience. Bioware is truly the best RPG house on the market.
With that said, KOTOR is still a much better experience IMO. The story and characters seemed much deeper, there were more NPCs, and the worlds were more interesting. Maybe it's the Star Wars geek in me talking.
For ME2, I want to see some of the races' homelands. Go on the Turian homeworld, see what Asari cities are like, etc. That's what I felt was really missing from ME, not enough detail surrounding the other races.
Heck, I wouldn't mind not seeing Mass Effect on current-gen hardware, the premise of the world is so big that a launch title for the next round of hardware would kick all sorts of major ass.
With that said, KOTOR is still a much better experience IMO. The story and characters seemed much deeper, there were more NPCs, and the worlds were more interesting. Maybe it's the Star Wars geek in me talking.
For ME2, I want to see some of the races' homelands. Go on the Turian homeworld, see what Asari cities are like, etc. That's what I felt was really missing from ME, not enough detail surrounding the other races.
Heck, I wouldn't mind not seeing Mass Effect on current-gen hardware, the premise of the world is so big that a launch title for the next round of hardware would kick all sorts of major ass.
Virmire done. I definitely must have finished the huge majority of the sidequests before Noveria, because I can rapidly see the end approaching, with nary a bump to slow me down. Virmire was actually a bit disappointing. Lame "boss" fight, and each of the combat scenarios felt empty and lacking. Way too much walking, not enough fighting. I thought the other main story planets struck a better balance and were, as a consequence, more exciting. I guess one more trip to the Citadel to see if any more grenade/medi-gel expansions, licenses, or sidequests open up, and then off to Ilos and presumably, the end-game.
Considering how much I've done (level 49, 53 hours on the clock), should I have gotten one of the ally achievements by now? I'm a bit concerned. Starting to think that I borked myself by doing too many of the optional sidequests before I had my final party decided.
Considering how much I've done (level 49, 53 hours on the clock), should I have gotten one of the ally achievements by now? I'm a bit concerned. Starting to think that I borked myself by doing too many of the optional sidequests before I had my final party decided.
No Means Nomad
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Mass Effect is kind of like the opposite of Oblivion in a lot of ways. In Mass Effect the main quest is awesome, but the side missions are repetitive and boring. In Oblivion the main quest sucks because it's so repetitive but the side missions are really fun and make the game.
If I'm doing something like the optional Rogue VI mission on Luna can I go off and do other stuff before I clear out the third station or would that start the whole thing over the next time I go back? I figured I'd try it but my characters aren't powerful enough yet for the rocket assault drones.
I don't know how anyone said this game is 15 hours. I did about every side mission in the citadel that was possible before going on any of the main missions.
I don't know how anyone said this game is 15 hours. I did about every side mission in the citadel that was possible before going on any of the main missions.
vilmer_ said:
Yup, I've been fortunate to play all the big titles this year - Bioshock, Halo 3, Uncharted, Orange Box, Assassin's Creed, CoD4, RC Future. I agree 100% - Mass Effect is head and shoulders above the rest of the field - which says a whole lot considering the amazing games we've had this year.