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Mass Effect 2 |OT2| The Den Of Xenophiles
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Just about to dive in after crit-pathing ME to get a save ready.
Question: I'm without Live access at the moment. Can I add my Cerberus code in a week and still get all the goodies or do I need to do that before starting a game?
Also, is there a consensus on the most "fun" class to play? Went through the first as a soldier and it got a little tedious after a while.
Question: I'm without Live access at the moment. Can I add my Cerberus code in a week and still get all the goodies or do I need to do that before starting a game?
Also, is there a consensus on the most "fun" class to play? Went through the first as a soldier and it got a little tedious after a while.
Lostconfused said:
Lostconfused said:
1 is completely reasonable, 1 you've forgotten, and all three are from Mass Effect 2 where she is distant until she isn't depending on how you talk with her? That's not exactly bitchy. I don't know man, it's just that from my perspective Liara was designed purposefully to be the anti bitch, almost to a fault.
Where did the implants conversation take place?
Kinspiracy
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Arjen said:
Agreed. There's nothing remotely difficult or complicated about playing this with a controller.
Buckethead
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I forget, can you change difficulty in-game?
The beginning can be a little difficult (as with all classes except soldier.) Just be sure to use warp bombs as often as possible and it gets easy. With a proper party it gets really easy. Blue Suns and Geth-Mech should be Miranda + Garrus. Just about everything else should be Miranda + Thane. AR is a pretty good bonus weapon talent. I have a lot of success with SR. The Viper is great.Patryn said:
With all that said I just bought the Aegis Pack. I started doing Overlord with my adept. I checked 3 times to make sure I was playing on Insanity. Zaeed/Garrus with Incisors is easiest mode.
Vanguard. You will probably die a lot before you get a feel for it.AShep said:
Comic 3 just came out. Where are they going with this? TIM seems like a pretty reasonable individual now.
DL'ed Lair of the Shadow Broker and got sucked back into Mass Effect 2 right away 
. I want to start a new game with my ME1 character. I was wondering, can you change your class while importing a ME1 character? My ME1 Shepard is an infiltrator, I kinda want to do something else but it'd be more fun playing with this character then with a new character.
. I want to start a new game with my ME1 character. I was wondering, can you change your class while importing a ME1 character? My ME1 Shepard is an infiltrator, I kinda want to do something else but it'd be more fun playing with this character then with a new character.Phantom Limbs
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samdavis said:
MGS3 disagrees with you also.
Yes. You can change everything except sex and name.Rei_Toei said:DL'ed Lair of the Shadow Broker and got sucked back into Mass Effect 2 right away
Kinspiracy
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Beat the game on normal a couple weeks ago with a Vanguard. Just started a new game as an...I forget the name but you get stealth on Insanity. So much harder for me now. Just did the mission to get Archangel and died a lot.
Second playthrough... although somewhat casually. I love being Vanguard. I love fucking blasting in there with a charge and then shift pausing... looking around, seeing who I can take out with an ally's concision blast, and then charging the fuck out again to a new spot XD
Is there a trailer or something for the new DLC yet?
Is there a trailer or something for the new DLC yet?
Patryn said:
It's not hard, honestly. Just get used to recognizing the best ways to set up Warp detonations to hit multiple targets safely. I think I've linked this video before, but you can absolutely maul shit in this game with Warp detonations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOLiQgOlZh4 (note this is spoilery, very late game)
AG did this quick run at the request of someone wanting to see how effective Warp detonations really were compared to the other classes in this section. Also take note of how he uses Singularity because it's a CC on pretty much any target regardless of whether they have armor/shields/barrier or not.
Mindlog said:
Man, that's weird, I could swear I didn't get the option to change the class. Maybe I overlooked it. Will try again.
Edit: weird, now it did show up, right after the facial reconstruction. Weird, I must've missed it.
Another thing I'm wondering about: I was replaying ME1, but then dl'ed Shadow Broker. To make room I deleted the Bring down the Sky DLC for ME1. Now I can't play my old ME1 savegames anymore because it says I'm missing the BdtS dlc. Kinda weird - only way to solve it is probably to re-install the DLC?
Wallach said:
Hmmm.
I'm so tempted to make run number 3 be an adept run, but I really feel like I'd be abandoning my beloved engineer class. I tried doing a Sentinel run, but I still prefer Engineer (Incinerate + Drone = LOVE).
I take some sick pleasure out of the fact that I play the most unpopular combination in the game: Female Engineer. Does that make me a hipster?
Rei_Toei said:
Unfortunately, yes. Once you DLed a DLC and started a game with that DLC installed, you can only play those saves with the DLC installed. Ran into that problem myself when I was still using my old 20GB Pro and had to uninstall Pinnacle Station to DL Shadow Broker.
Wallach said:
Yeah, I'm starting another full series run to prep for The Arrival (also ME3). And my problem is that while I'm playing I'm constantly thinking "I wish I had Incinerate for this situation...." or "My drone would have been really useful right here..."
But I am inclined to constantly replay the series. If I end up doing this, it'll be run number 6 for ME1 and run number 3 for ME2. What can I say? ME1 is actually my favorite game of all time.
Patryn said:
Hm. Well that's a tougher call I guess. I think what you'll find is that the Adept and the Engineer feel a little bit similar on some levels. They are very similar in terms of being very "squishy" on Insanity, and both kind of rely on a couple powers to CC stuff. When those CC skills are used right it's much easier to survive.
Where I think the Adept and the Engineer mostly diverge is just the damage dealing. I think Adepts are more fun to actually play when it comes to destruction, but I also really like Warp detonations - especially when you have a full party that is working together to cause serious Warp death. That feels pretty bad ass sometimes.
But I'm probably not the best person to ask really because Engineer is far and away my least favorite.
RyanardoDaVinci
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Does the game frequently go out of sync in regards to voice/sfx in certain situations/cutscenes for anyone else, or is it just me?
I'll get a half-second or so de-sync of voices in some scenes (mostly involving TIM).
PS3, btw.
I'll get a half-second or so de-sync of voices in some scenes (mostly involving TIM).
PS3, btw.
Unfortunately I may have already had the DLC spoiled for me. Quite a few of the critics from the other thread are going to get something they've been asking for. I wonder how they'll react. I predict a new wave of whinging that ignores previous complaints.subversus said:
I hear ME3 will have no scanning.
I hear ME3 will have a more complex weapon upgrade choices.
cornontheCoD
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One thing that I hope that Bioware does for ME3 is make some fun hacking minigames. Unfortunately, the only developer that makes interesting hacking minigames is Insomniac Games (every hacking minigame in the ratchet and clank games is great). I would really like to see a compelling hacking minigame in ME3.
CarbonatedFalcon
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cornontheCoD said:
The ones in ME2 were a significant step up from the durr SimonSays-esque ones of ME1 and KotOR. So by the history of incremental improvements we've seen, minigames in ME3 should be superior (at least by a little bit.)
Punchy4486
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kitzkozan said:Perhaps if Mike Laidlaw moved on to "supervise" the Mass effect franchise and it's DLC I would be worried, but I'm confident Arrival will have solid gameplay and setpieces even if it's a solo mission.
I don't usually hope someone loses their job, but yo, if he's as responsible for DA2 as he seems, I hope he loses his job... or at least moves to a company making games I don't give a shit about.
Just finished up Overlord last night. Had a blast with it. The final stretch was emotionally compelling, and the music that segued from the final boss battle to the final conversation was gorgeous.
I've heard lots of negative things about this DLC but I throughly enjoyed it. Now on to Shadow Broker.
I've heard lots of negative things about this DLC but I throughly enjoyed it. Now on to Shadow Broker.
CarbonatedFalcon
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I'm a whore and just bought Shadow Broker, Overlord, and Kasumi, never having played them (and missing out on that one sale, drat). Damn unjustified anticipation for this DLC!
The sad thing is I was 10 points short to buy both Overlord and Kasumi at the same time, so I had to get even more points to get both of those. Oh well, at least I have excess points for Arrival now, though I'll still have a weird spare amount of points afterwards.
The sad thing is I was 10 points short to buy both Overlord and Kasumi at the same time, so I had to get even more points to get both of those. Oh well, at least I have excess points for Arrival now, though I'll still have a weird spare amount of points afterwards.
Mister Wilhelm
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Patryn said:
Agreed, but LOTSB is the only DLC that actually does anything for the plot.
Overlord was fun but Kasumi is pretty passable, even though I like her as a character.