Am I the only one who just loved this game? One of the best games I have ever played. It took quite some time to get through, even though the main story line was rather short.
Is that Mass effect 2 ore.?
Played it all the way through, side quests and everything not just the main plot, 5 times on the 360. It's the only game i've ever got all 1k achievements for (plus the extra 250 for the DLC as well). Unfortunately the missus now twitches a little if I even so much as put the soundtrack on ;)
It had its issues. The Mako was a complete pig to drive, at least on the 360 version (I heard they fixed it for PC). The texture pop in was horrendous (as with pretty much every other Unreal Engine 3 game out there, on any platform - Mass Effect, Gears of War 1 & 2, UT3, Bioshock etc etc). The exploration element, while nice, was largely pointless as every planet was pretty much identical, most of the buildings were exactly the same inside, and anything you did there had little to no effect on anything else that happened.
That being said, I absolutely *loved* the story, and the gameplay was good and fun. Mostly I just enjoyed taking all the different conversational and plot routes to see how differently the game panned out. I wouldn't have played it 5 times and done all the side quests each time if I didn't think it was an excellent game. I have seen interviews with the devs on Gamespy and the like where they are claiming that basically everytihng I moaned about in the paragrah above has been fixed for the sequel, so i'm hoping to see some really exciting stuf at E3 this year with respect to it.
Carrot, well put! The flaws I noticed to, and what a game it could have been it was there was more diversity. But I am on my second game with my lvl 35 char and it is still fun. First time around I did not exploit all the fighting functions, but this time I will :)
Quote from: KKND;277493Is that Mass effect 2 ore.?
Nah, just the first one. Looking forward to as sequel tho :)
the game is absolutely awsome...
plot is fantastic, it really sucks you in :D
Tho coding on the pc version is rubbish, loads of bugs that cause the game to be very unstable :s
Quote from: kregoron;277543the game is absolutely awsome...
plot is fantastic, it really sucks you in :D
Tho coding on the pc version is rubbish, loads of bugs that cause the game to be very unstable :s
Odd, I had absolutely no problems :g:
I havn't played Mass Effect, but I thought I'd just throw in Knights of the Old Republic, if you havn't played it look out for it, made by the same peeps & well worth a play through.
Quote from: delanvital;277577Odd, I had absolutely no problems :g:
i encountered numerous CTD's each day :s
and by looking at Mass Effects forum, i was far from the only one.. tons of people had issues
Bring down the sky DLC is now out :D
Wait, what? It came out for 360 *yonks* ago. I thought it was packaged with the PC version, or available on day of release. Sucks if not.
im not really sure :) i just noticed it today so thought id give people a heads up if they missed the news too :D
Just got it through EA store; installing...
Good choice m8 :)
so far, it looks like a skin for KOTOR. a bit longer, less action.
Quote from: Le Rouge;293251so far, it looks like a skin for KOTOR. a bit longer, less action.
Be sure you play until you can travel all the worlds, before making up 6our mind
To be honest, a lot of the side quests I thought were a bit same-y and dull. It was the main plot I thought was really good.
Quote from: Carr0t;293313To be honest, a lot of the side quests I thought were a bit same-y and dull. It was the main plot I thought was really good.
True and that is actually my point. At that stage you should've been sucked hopelessly in :devil:
First time you take your own ship, you need to choose if you go to one of two stars, or to look for some scientist - which was what I chose. After an enjoyable ride in some vehicle, I am now constantly defeated by some major aliens dropped from a spaceship of a kind...
and BTW, wh ois your fav team?
Quote from: Le Rouge;293339First time you take your own ship, you need to choose if you go to one of two stars, or to look for some scientist - which was what I chose. After an enjoyable ride in some vehicle, I am now constantly defeated by some major aliens dropped from a spaceship of a kind...
and BTW, wh ois your fav team?
Your fav team is those you have met and join ranks with. For each mission you select three, I think it is.
Aliens - hmm, not sure. Be sure to hang back and use both types of guns on the vehicle?
Hmm, what class are you and are you making good use of your team members? You can specifically get them to use certain abilities on the enemy via the tactical interface. I've just started playing it again on PC, and I was getting owned until I remembered that and started telling Kaidan to throw the bigger enemies around with his biotic powers.
Personally, I really like Garrus (the Turian you get in your team from the security forces on the Citadel [I initially wrote 'Citadel Station', then remembered that was System Shock :rolleyes:]), and Liara (the Asari who you're working to free in your current mission). I tended to use them most of the time, but switch to certain other characters if I knew I was going to a planet they had a vested interest in.
As to classes, I went soldier first off, got the unlock via that that allowed me to give other classes who wouldn't otherwise have been able to use them use of the assault rifle, then tried other classes. Engineer, for e.g. is virutally impossible to use until you've got an unlock like this and can give them an assault rifle or whatever.
Am now fighting this bitch (Liara's mother?); a hard fight...
Two questions:
1. How do you use the quick slots?
2. Almost all the lockers I encounter are "Decryption skill too low" - where do I upgrade this skill?
Quote from: Le Rouge;293645Am now fighting this bitch (Liara's mother?); a hard fight...
Two questions:
1. How do you use the quick slots?
Hold whatever key you use to access the Tactical HUD (I think the default is space or something), which also freezes the action. Along the bottom of the screen are your weapons and available abilities like overcharge and the like. Drag and drop these abilities into the quickslots. Then, during combat, press the number key associated with the quickslot to activate that ability.
You can also activate these abilities by accessing the tactical HUD and just left clicking on them. This is the only way to manually activate the abilities of your squadmates, who show up on the left and right of the Tactical HUD, as they cannot be quickslotted. Did you not get the tutorial about all this? I was having the same issue when I was still on Eden Prime, but during a few of the combat scenes tutorial notes popped up telling me this.
Quote2. Almost all the lockers I encounter are "Decryption skill too low" - where do I upgrade this skill?
It's a skill you upgrade by spending XP in it, the same as everything else, but it's only avaialabe to specific classes (namely those with an engineer leaning). Whenever you gain a level and get XP your squadmates will as well, and you can either auto-level them up or manually assign their points. Note also that every squadmate gains XP when you do, so if you gain 3 levels on a mission then change squadmates for the next mission then your new squadmates will have 3 levels worth of XP waiting to assign.
I know Kaidan and Garrus have access to the Decryption skill. I *believe* that the skill required to try and break a lock is dependant on who you have with you, so you don't need levels in decryption yourself, you just need someone on your squad at the time who has the required level. Same goes for stuff like First Aid as I understand it. If you have a squadmate with high first aid, then whenever you use medpacks you'll get the bonus of that high first aid score. I could be wrong about that though, as it's a while since I played it.