Mass Effect 2

[kardz]

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- This movie / sequence(intro) kinda sucks, and its long.

This is a valid point, not being able to skip the intro for your 2nd game is very annoying. As for it being sucky, are you serious? If Bioware didn't show this scene everyone would complain and want to know what happened and the scene SHOWS YOU exactly what happened.

- I work for Cerberus? I killed alot of those guys in ME1, now theyre my friends? Not a good story.

Cerberus is a shadowy black ops group that is pro human. They aren't your friends, but in the current timeline the Council & Alliance don't even want to recognize you as being alive. And they used billions of credits just to get your ass back in one piece and even give you a new ship, they want you to help humanity - as bad as Cerberus is Shepard understands this better than anyone.

You don't tell the only person willing to help you to go fuck themselves when no one else is going to lift a finger, for fucks sake the Council wants everyone to believe that Sovereign never existed. DERP BIG GIANT GETH SHIP DID THAT NO REAPERS DERP.

How do i ajust mouse sens? Oh.. they removed it from the options..

Don't know, don't care. I played on the PC and everything went fine.

Why are the controls different? Now i cant even crouch, and i need to press keys to take cover.

Oh god pressing a button is so difficult, really?

Cant open inventory and character screen. Wtf.

I was also somewhat annoyed at the fact you can't open up inventory and change your items there and have to go back to a weapon locker and your cabin to change armors, this was a huge negative.

That australian voice keeps repeating the same annoying shit over and over, when iam trying to figure the game out..verry aggrovating.

Miranda?

Help messages pop up on the screen, firstly they block the view, secondly when i change the key bindings they show the wrong keys.

Again pointless, you decide these things not the game.

I get shot at and cant get over the crate, i now need to press 2 keys. In ME1 you cant jump(a bit wierd), but you dont ever need to.

Ok what exactly are you trying to say? You get shot at and you want to not get shot at? Pressing 2 keys is difficult?

I get in my first firefight and notice that i got an ammo counter. Okay.. i think, why would they start to use normal projectile weapons with ammo when they used "micro-particle-railguns" with infinite ammo in

This has been discussed to death, they wanted to change combat in ME2 and they added heatsinks.The codex tells you this already, it's not ammo it's a heatsink but it fills the ammo role, maybe you should read?

ME1? Just to make it worse, the gun fucking sucks, becouse the bullets fly slow enough for me to see, and enemies to dodge.

So ME1 fucking sucks? What?

I get to the first npc / team8 and start shooting the robots, seems to be an infinite amount of them, i run outa ammo.. At this point iam really pissed off, and i quit. Havent played it since.

Oh for the love of god learn to use your abilities, it's not like the game hints this every fucking time. Do you just play as soldier and ignore abilities and just shoot stuff and complain you're out of ammo?

I played as Vanguard in ME and ME2, I liked being Vanguard in ME2 more also being able to combo Biotic powers is pretty neat. Combat needs work but shit is better than ME, I barely remember using cover unless I played on Insanity in ME.


I wish there was an option to have someone else voice your shepard, the VA for shepard is fucking dull.

What I expected and didn't get but hopefully will see in ME3:

Squad banters and random dialogue while exploring - I missed this so much.

A variety of weapons - and no I do not want the way ME1 did it where you get hundreds of guns that upgrade itself as you found more. I want it the same way in ME where 1 gun has pros and cons but with enough variety that I'm not only choosing from 2 pistols or 4 rifles.

More fucking dialogue - some members only have like 3 stories to tell (minus the ones you can romance who have 5 I believe). I really hate going up to Garrus and having him blow me off to calibrate those god damn guns.

For the love of god what happened to the Citadel, I know it got shit on by Sovereign and the geth but I don't remember the huge citadel only having 1 ward and there's barely anything going on here. The places were basically lifeless and dull, not enough damn meaningful sidequests.

[Sosseres]

I wish there was an option to have someone else voice your shepard, the VA for shepard is fucking dull.

I quite like the female VA, not perfect but good enough. The male VA is a bit worse. :/

[shabutie]

I wish there was an option to have someone else voice your shepard, the VA for shepard is fucking dull.

I quite like the female VA, not perfect but good enough. The male VA is a bit worse. :/

That's why I played a chick instead of a dude ^_^

[kenshin-dono]

was watching a review and it mentinoed that 2 of your party members can be

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party members from 1.

can someone go ahead and spoil me on what 2 those are? God i hope one of them is Wrex.. are there more or is it only 2?

Also, i heard you actually have ammo in this game? Plz tell me thats not true. That totally goes against the ME universe from the novels i read. Plus it would be a problem for those who can only use weaker guns and have to plink away wasting tons of ammo

[blubart]

was watching a review and it mentinoed that 2 of your party members can be

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party members from 1.

can someone go ahead and spoil me on what 2 those are? God i hope one of them is Wrex.. are there more or is it only 2?

Also, i heard you actually have ammo in this game? Plz tell me thats not true. That totally goes against the ME universe from the novels i read. Plus it would be a problem for those who can only use weaker guns and have to plink away wasting tons of ammo

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Tali and Garrus

and yes, weapons use "termal clips" (ammo) to dissipate heat. and because those "termal clips" can only take a limited amount of heat they have to be changed (reloaded) regularly. luckily dead enemies drop "termal clips".
- i wonder if it took them more time to implement this ammo change or to think about an explanation for its functionality in an cartridgeless weapon-universe.

[kardz]

was watching a review and it mentinoed that 2 of your party members can be

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party members from 1.

can someone go ahead and spoil me on what 2 those are? God i hope one of them is Wrex.. are there more or is it only 2?

Also, i heard you actually have ammo in this game? Plz tell me thats not true. That totally goes against the ME universe from the novels i read. Plus it would be a problem for those who can only use weaker guns and have to plink away wasting tons of ammo

As far as squaddies go you get

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Garrus and Tali back, everyone else shows up if they lived in your previous game but they are not recruitable.

Liara shows up in Illium

Either Kaidan/Ashley shows up in Horizon

Wrex is in his homeworld if he lived in your ME file, if you dont have an ME file and play default then he is dead and replaced by his brother.

As far as ammo goes:

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The idea is still the same that you accelerate small particles via mass effect but now they introduced heat sinks to keep the gun from overheating, aka you no longer have overheat but there is an ammo system. Ammo is always there though, I doubt you'd run out of ammo unless you just spam guns and never use abilities.

The whole heating thing was already in the game but not for guns in ME, it was for ships traveling via FTL drives.

Hope that helped.


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was watching a review and it mentinoed that 2 of your party members can be

(click to show/hide)

party members from 1.

can someone go ahead and spoil me on what 2 those are? God i hope one of them is Wrex.. are there more or is it only 2?

Also, i heard you actually have ammo in this game? Plz tell me thats not true. That totally goes against the ME universe from the novels i read. Plus it would be a problem for those who can only use weaker guns and have to plink away wasting tons of ammo

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Tali and Garrus

and yes, weapons use "termal clips" (ammo) to dissipate heat. and because those "termal clips" can only take a limited amount of heat they have to be changed (reloaded) regularly. luckily dead enemies drop "termal clips".
- i wonder if it took them more time to implement this ammo change or to think about an explanation for its functionality.

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After analyzing geth advances in weaponry, the Alliance retrofitted every weapon in service with a thermal clip system developed by the geth.

Thermal clips hold a store of disposable heat sinks universal to all small arms. Instead of waiting for an overheated weapon to cool down, you can simply eject the spent heat sink and the clip feeds in a new one. This allows for a greater sustained rate of fire and more numerous impacts on targets down range.

The HUD element in the lower left corner shows how many shots are left in your weapons thermal clip. The bar below the number is the progress towards expending your current heat sink.


Modern infantry weapons are micro-scaled mass accelerators, using mass-reducing fields and magnetic force to propel miniature slugs to lethal speeds. Nearly every gun on the battlefield is laden with features, from targeting auto-assists to projectile shavers that can generate thousands of rounds of ammunition from a small, internal block of metal.

It was long thought that personal weapons had plateaued in performance, but the geth proved all theories wrong. Mathematically reviewing their combat logs, the geth found that in an age of kinetic barriers, the weapon with the most rounds down-range the fastest wins. Combatants were forced to deliberately shoot slower to manage waste heat or pause as their weapons vented.

To eliminate this inefficiency, the geth adopted detachable heat sinks known as thermal clips. While organic arms manufacturers were initially doubtful this would produce a net gain, a well-trained soldier can eject and swap thermal clips in under a second. Faced with superior enemy firepower, organic armies soon followed the geth's lead and today's battlefields are littered with these thermal clips.

In Mass Effect 2, the player can manually "reload" a thermal clip at any time, or Shepard will automatically do so when the current clip becomes unusable. Clips are designed to be universal, so the player doesn't need to carry seperate clips for each weapon. They can be obtained from fallen enemies.  

It's from the Codex.


For people who want to play ME2 but didn't have ME1 save files and do not want the default ME2 setting of past events this website has savefiles of different playthroughs of other peoples ME1 Shepards:


http://www.annakie.com/me/home.htm

[sanguis]

Actually the talk about the thermal clips being from Geth tech reminded me; wasn't what we choose happen to the Indian soldier lady's body supposed to have some ramification on ME2? This seems to indicate that it should, but I didn't notice anything.

[Therion77]

Actually the talk about the thermal clips being from Geth tech reminded me; wasn't what we choose happen to the Indian soldier lady's body supposed to have some ramification on ME2? This seems to indicate that it should, but I didn't notice anything.

I think she was mentioned once in citadel news... something about how her husband went back to earth and started a restaurant or something.

Most of those are like that. Minor news stories and/or emails.

[Carnivus]

Actually the talk about the thermal clips being from Geth tech reminded me; wasn't what we choose happen to the Indian soldier lady's body supposed to have some ramification on ME2? This seems to indicate that it should, but I didn't notice anything.

I think she was mentioned once in citadel news... something about how her husband went back to earth and started a restaurant or something.

Most of those are like that. Minor news stories and/or emails.

Actually you also meet up with most on Illium,like the Asari chicks(the one on the Virmire lab and the one on Feros),that woman from Noveria,Giana Parasini or something along the lines,there is also a side quest to persuade someone to aid those Feros collonists etc.

[sdedalus83]

Is this one as depressingly humorless and lacking in personality as the first?

[Aneroph]

Is this one as depressingly humorless and lacking in personality as the first?

If you expected this game to have humor then it's certainly not the game that has problems....

[shabutie]

I dunno... I thought Seth Green was pretty funny ^_^

[Carnivus]

The note from Bring Down the Sky was funny enough.It was a reference to that lady who started ranting about ME1,because it almost contained an alien sex scene.And that's why we haven't heard from space anything.

Shepard's voice and dialogs are clichéd to extreme,screaming of average."That doesn't sound right","I bet you didn't tell them","Tell me more about yourself" and "I don't give a rat's ass".Seriously,CN's cartoons have more interesting dialogs.

[Aneroph]

The note from Bring Down the Sky was funny enough.It was a reference to that lady who started ranting about ME1,because it almost contained an alien sex scene.And that's why we haven't heard from space anything.

lol yeah, that stupid girl complaining about the apparent 'full digital nudity' in ME1 was hilarious.

Shepard's voice and dialogs are clichéd to extreme,screaming of average."That doesn't sound right","I bet you didn't tell them","Tell me more about yourself" and "I don't give a rat's ass".Seriously,CN's cartoons have more interesting dialogs.

This is why you go renegade.
"You'll never get the names out of me!"
*gun blast*
"Okay...their names were (blank)"
*Gun blast*
End of conversation.

[kardz]

The two engineers in the engine room made me smile, but Mordin made me laugh.

[newy]

So, where's ME3 I just finished ME2 on Insanity. I love it! Though there was a period of getting accustomed to all those changes. I don't think that the changes you all mentionend (some text blocks were tl;dr^^) are only horrible at the beginning. In the end I wasn't aware of them any more.

Why do you think that Biotics have become useless in ME2? Without them I would've have run out of ammo very soon.

Regarding the squad members: Using the same members all the time wouldn't work here. At least for me. It ended up way too difficult.
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The investigation of the Collector vessel. The platforms. A lot of Collector Drones and Guardians. For every platform a Collector General and to spice things up two Scions. My first run was without Mordin... Never cleared the first two platforms. The two Scions knocked me out while I was trying to fight them and the Collectors.
Second run, a lot easier.

I can't wait for ME3.

[Carnivus]

Well,you revived this thread,so I'll play ball.

Some changes were good,like not playing the missions in the same area,that was really confusing and irritating.I loved what they did with the characters.Brillian t.I do regret not having the possibility to bring most of them back,but it's kinda natural.Shepard died,they moved along with their lives.I didn't like the Liara thing.I mean,Prothean expert->galaxy-saving soldier->Information Broker.WTF?
I also that they should have made a system similar to DA,concerning the characters like or dislike.They should be angry or happy with your decisions,shouldn't they?

Biotics are useless because most of them were stripped out and because there's a lot of ammo anytime and weapon classes have been cut out,so...

Well that thing is true,at least for the last mission.I underestimated Mordin and sent him with the crew that I saved there.At least he kept them safe.

[shabutie]

I'm really confused with everyone saying Biotics are worthless....

I played through the game using nothing but biotics... I was an adept and my team consisted of Miranda and Jack/Samara.  Maybe I was doing something wrong...

Triple Warp was nearly an insta-kill on guys with armor...  Throw was an instakill on husks (and also had about a second cooldown).  and against regular guys I just chained warps and shot them with my pistol. 


Granted I wasn't playing on insanity, but it was a pretty sound strategy.

[newy]

there's a lot of ammo anytime

You haven't played on Insanity, have you? Well, I can't compare the enemies on Insanity with like Normal because I didn't start with Normal but it took a fair amount of damage to even take down cannon fodder using weapons. I was glad about Warp, Reave, Pull, Throw.

There was one curiosity: The final fight was a lot easier than some skirmishes in-between

[Proin Drakenzol]

There was one curiosity: The final fight was a lot easier than some skirmishes in-between

Yeah... I was only playing on normal (I'm not that good at shooters of any sort), but the last fight was pretty "meh."

Of course, I got the last boss down to about half health and then remembered I was totting about the Cain heavy weapon with 175% charge (never really used the heavy weapons). One shot knocked out its remaining health.