Mass Effect 2 Details :)

[assaulter_99]

I finished the game lask week, man I'm so pissed off I didnt give the 1st one more time (had played 15 mins of the game, and said "meh, another game for the geeks") I'm actually replaying the first, but its hard trying to re adapt to the game. A lot of stuff has been polished in the second. Man I hate the mako... especially when you have to move from point a to b on a planet. The combat too is better in the ME2. ME2 was like a sci fi movie, really loved it. I'm not too happy with my ending though, my best pals died. I'll try a re run when I finish with ME to try and rectify this.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I had so many extra minerals lol..

I mined every Good/Rich planet to Depleted/Poor status. I finished the game with almost 200,000 EeZo and over 500,000 of the other three. There were no upgrades left to get. I wasted a lot of time.

 

[kurosagi01]

Only Jack died on my 1st play through because i didn't have her loyalty so i am going through my 2nd to have all of them alive.

 

[D007]

Everyone survived on my team .
Yay.
I had over 100k zero and over 400k everything else in minerals..lol
Total waste of time, but the planets were pretty.
I can't believe your not allowed to sell the extra minerals or something..

Well, time to play bioshock 2 now I guess.
Ending mass effect always makes me sad..lol..

Has anybody else had trouble connecting to the Cerebrus network in-game? I got the dl content but every time I try to connect to Cerebrus I get a timed out message. No router, have tried disabling firewall, not sure what's going on here. Perhaps EA is telling me I need not buy their games anymore when it's so much easier to pirate......

I'd take this issue to EA forums or tech support.
I'm really not sure why that'd happen.

 

[WhiteNoise]

I hit 53 hours last night and I haven't entered that last jump gate yet. I just added legion to my Team and I'm doing his loyalty quest. I think I've done all of the quests up to this point so all that is left is the last gate.

 

[D007]

Ooh the point of no return.. drumroll please!..
DUM DUM, DUM DUM, DUM DUM, DUM DUM, DUUUMMMM!

Assuming control.. direct intervention is necessary.
good luck, try to keep em all alive.
and remember the choices make sense.

IE: don't send thane to lead the distraction team, he's a single man hunter.
It makes perfect sense who to send, if you know your guys.

They can still die if you send the wrongs ones in to lead teams.
regardless if they have max loyalty.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I can't figure out...

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if Harbinger is a Reaper or not. I'm leaning towards no because it doesn't have those red bands of electricity all over the place but it does exhibit the same effect on subordinates as Soverign did to Saren. It could be a a Reaper without a Reaper ship so it possesses others to stay alive.

 

[assaulter_99]

Ooh the point of no return.. drumroll please!..
DUM DUM, DUM DUM, DUM DUM, DUM DUM, DUUUMMMM!

Assuming control.. direct intervention is necessary.
good luck, try to keep em all alive.
and remember the choices make sense.

IE: don't send thane to lead the distraction team, he's a single man hunter.
It makes perfect sense who to send, if you know your guys.

They can still die if you send the wrongs ones in to lead teams.
regardless if they have max loyalty.

I've experienced that miranda or garrus are excellent team leaders. May be wrong though.

 

[D007]

I can't figure out...

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if Harbringer is a Reaper or not. I'm leaning towards no because it doesn't have those red bands of electricity all over the place but it does exhibit the same effect on subordinates as Soverign did to Saren. It could be a a Reaper without a Reaper ship so it possesses others to stay alive.

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That's the big question really.
Some hints lead me to believe he is not a reaper.
I'm leaning to believe he is to the reapers, what the illusive man is to cerberus though.
I'd say he's much older than the reapers.
Did you see how many ships there were in the omega relay? eesh...lol.
Those represent the rise and fall of galactic civilizations in number..
No telling how far things really go back at this point.

I've experienced that miranda or garrus are excellent team leaders. May be wrong though.

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Ding ding ding! one cigar for you!
Missed one though, but 2 out of 3 ain't bad.
Jacob will do as well.
I did that battle 3 times..lol

Oh and my vote for the most messed up thing that happened to someone goes to:

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Kelly..
Man they really screwed kelly lol..
Turned her into mush soup, alive and all.
What a way to go huh..
ouch factor 10.1

The thing that pissed me off most about ME2 is:

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I ended up hooking up with Tali because I wanted to see her freaking face forever..
The they didn't even show it.. Seriously lame..lol
and honestly a very lame love scene in general.

spolier field trip! come on everybody!

 

[HolyCow02]

Thanks for the heads up on the ore... I've been taking every planet I hit to depleted. Guess I'll stop doing that lol. I'm taking my sweet time on this game... still have to do the jack loyalty quest, and get the quarian. There is still one team member slot left (other than Tali), but I have no idea who fills it.

 

[D007]

Thanks for the heads up on the ore... I've been taking every planet I hit to depleted. Guess I'll stop doing that lol. I'm taking my sweet time on this game... still have to do the jack loyalty quest, and get the quarian. There is still one team member slot left (other than Tali), but I have no idea who fills it.

It's a nice surprise who fills it.
Just do like you said, finish the side quests and you'll find em.

 

[Deleted member 67555]

Yeah That Is Actually A Nice Suprise

 

[kurosagi01]

Hey guys i am on my second play through and i got grunts loyalty but it still shows his last ability Fortification or something is blanked out saying i ain't got his loyalty? is this a glitch? i can change his outfit and theirs a ring below him showing i have his loyalty,anyone had this issue?

 

[FordGT90Concept]

It's a nice surprise who fills it.
Just do like you said, finish the side quests and you'll find em.

Just don't accept the IFF mission until you are ready to start on the path to ending the game.

Hey guys i am on my second play through and i got grunts loyalty but it still shows his last ability Fortification or something is blanked out saying i ain't got his loyalty? is this a glitch? i can change his outfit and theirs a ring below him showing i have his loyalty,anyone had this issue?

Nope, never had that issue. Did you kill the Thresher Maw or run out of time?

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Four things...

1) A pic of 100% Renegade female Shepherd (without using the Med-bay Upgrade):

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And yes, you can see her red beady eyes through helmet visors and her scars glow an orangish color.

2) The planet scanning thing in ME2 is really making me miss the Mako on ME1. On ME2, my mind keeps drifting to other things because I don't have to think, at all, to scan a planet. On ME1, you had to plot the best path on the planet and often had to wrestle the terrain. My mind can't even drift on the flat plateaus because that is exactly where Thresher Maws pop up so you always got to be alert (even if you beat it a dozen times).

I'd love to meet the dumbass that thought scanning planets for minerals was a good idea.


3) Renegade can hardly be called Renegade on ME2. In ME1, was there were a lot of dire consequences for taking the Renegade path (namely, everything died). In ME2, virtually the only thing that changed by being Paragon or Renegade is how easy the mission is (e.g. kill someone before they got a chance to fight back or tell people to save themselves making the battle harder for you). There appears to be no major Paragon/Renegade option that actually carries any weight--especially no action that makes Shepherd appear as wicked as his/her skin/eyes becomes...


4) Why does no one comment on how you look? If a friend of yours started looking like that, wouldn't you be somewhat apprehensive and/or encouraging them to do something about it?

 

[assaulter_99]

Four things...

1) A pic of 100% Renegade female Shepherd (without using the Med-bay Upgrade):

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http://img.techpowerup.org/100218/renegade_female_shepherd.png

And yes, you can see her red beady eyes through helmet visors.

Jeez she looks real bad I gotta admit! That really tempts me to do a re run being renegade this time.

 

[kurosagi01]

Just don't accept the IFF mission until you are ready to start on the path to ending the game.



Nope, never had that issue. Did you kill the Thresher Maw or run out of time?

Yeah i killed the thresher maw..i hope its not some glitch and he better not die at the end or id be looking at a 3rd playthrough not really bothered but on 2nd i want all my squad to live.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Jeez she looks real bad I gotta admit! That really tempts me to do a re run being renegade this time.

It is worth running through the game once as Paragon and once as Renegade. The little areas where it is different add up to a different experience.

Yeah i killed the thresher maw..i hope its not some glitch and he better not die at the end or id be looking at a 3rd playthrough not really bothered but on 2nd i want all my squad to live.

All I can suggest doing is restarting the mission (or autosave before the end). If you moved on though, that's not a very viable option. It is a glitch because completing that mission should make Grunt loyal (Fortitude + different skin).

I guess one way you could check if he considers himself loyal is to talk to him. If he says something about needing to go to Tuchunka, he is not. If he says something about being a member of clan Urdnot, he is.

 

[kurosagi01]

It is worth running through the game once as Paragon and once as Renegade. The little areas where it is different add up to a different experience.



All I can suggest doing is restarting the mission (or autosave before the end). If you moved on though, that's not a very viable option. It is a glitch because completing that mission should make Grunt loyal (Fortitude + different skin).

I guess one way you could check if he considers himself loyal is to talk to him. If he says something about needing to go to Tuchunka, he is not. If he says something about being a member of clan Urdnot, he is.

funny you mention that i can talk to him still since he is loyal but if he wasn't loyal after he wouldn't be talking to me,i just hope i can finish game with him alive.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Um? You can't talk to him? He isn't even on the Normandy anymore?

 

[kurosagi01]

Um? You can't talk to him? He isn't even on the Normandy anymore?

I can talk to him perfectly fine,his on the Normandy still so yeah..his loyal but his last ability is grey out but i can still talk to him and change his appearance and got the orange ring at bottom.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

What does he say when you talk to him?

 

[kurosagi01]

What does he say when you talk to him?

basically give you the whole tough guy attitude like "i can't wait kick some collectors ass" which gives a paragon lol.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Sounds to me like he is loyal. He'd be all "I need to kill something" if he weren't.

 

[Muhad]

For me Mass Effect 2 is everything Mass Effect 1 was - Just better, more polished, better looking and far more fun.

I'll pre-order ME3 the second it shows up.

I'll second that!