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Mass Effect 1&2 - YOU HUMANS ARE ALL RACIST!
BlackDove
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Wiki wrote:Mass Effect is an award-winning, bestselling series of science fiction RPG third person shooters developed by the Canadian company BioWare and released on the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The first game takes place in the year 2183, with the player assuming the role of an elite human soldier named Commander Shepard, set out to explore the Galaxy on a starship, the SSV Normandy. The Xbox 360 edition was released worldwide in November 2007 published by Microsoft Game Studios. The Windows edition was released on May 28, 2008, published by Electronic Arts. The first downloadable content package, Bring Down the Sky, was released on March 10, 2008 (with a PC version released on July 29, 2008) The second downloadable content package, Pinnacle Station, was released on August 25, 2009 for the PC and Xbox 360.
Essentially everything you need to know about the first Mass Effect game is located here.
Alternately, you can trawl through the old OP.
If you've got Steam issues with the first game, a good place to look for information is by clicking on this sentence.
Release Date:
It's already been released for the Xbox 360 and the TurboGrafx 16. Why haven't you bought it already?
What is wrong with you?
Screenshots:
Videos/Media:
Most can be found here.
Interviews and other videos can be found here.
Additional Info:
If you really NEED to contact Commander Shepard, we have his facebook.
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Mass Effect Soundtrack music can be pretty much found on YouTube, but you should buy it to get the full effect of the lossless bitrate.
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Mass Effect 1 save compendium for those of you that want to import characters in but have lost your own/haven't played the game due to being a heretic.
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FIX FOR FREEZING ON THE LOADING SCREEN
Courtesy of pcultimate from the Bioware forums for creating the dummy load.blk files and mtvnot from Piratebay for figuring out the fucked up .blk files that don't play correctly for whatever reason:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1KHDBLIL
Get those files.
Replace the following files ONLY, NOT ALL OF THEM, or you won't be able to move forward with the game past the IFF sequence of events. Only the files below are broken, the rest you should be able to watch.
load_f01
load_f02c
load_f02d
load_f03
load_f03b
load_f05
load_f06
load_f08
load_f08b
load_f08c
load_f08d
load_f09
load_f09b
load_f09c
load_f09d
load_f15
load_f80_ESN
load_f80_INT
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If you're getting in-game freezing every few seconds, do the following:
Go to the folder where you installed the game.
Go to Binaries and make a shortcut of MassEffect2.exe.
Now open properties on this shortcut and add the line -nomoviestartup.
It should look like this "...Binaries\MassEffect2.exe" -nomoviestartup.
Start the game. It should work lag free now.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1KHDBLIL
Get those files.
Replace the following files ONLY, NOT ALL OF THEM, or you won't be able to move forward with the game past the IFF sequence of events. Only the files below are broken, the rest you should be able to watch.
load_f01
load_f02c
load_f02d
load_f03
load_f03b
load_f05
load_f06
load_f08
load_f08b
load_f08c
load_f08d
load_f09
load_f09b
load_f09c
load_f09d
load_f15
load_f80_ESN
load_f80_INT
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If you're getting in-game freezing every few seconds, do the following:
Go to the folder where you installed the game.
Go to Binaries and make a shortcut of MassEffect2.exe.
Now open properties on this shortcut and add the line -nomoviestartup.
It should look like this "...Binaries\MassEffect2.exe" -nomoviestartup.
Start the game. It should work lag free now.
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Man I need to go scan for resources, but it's so boring.
Mass Effect 1&2: Touch my four thousand tits
OH YOU WILL BE PLEASED, I THINK!
The Only Ship in the Galaxy with a Talking Holo-Vagina.
I am relieved to see I am not the only one who thinks "Vagina" when EDI speaks...
Thank god I'm not alone.
Gamer Tag: LeeWay0
PSN: Leeway0
Freud would have a field day with you people
Planet - System - Sector = Mission Name
-leads to Abandoned Research Station
--leads to Hahne-Kedar Facility
Joab - Enoch - Rosetta Nebula = Archeological Dig Site
-leads to MSV Strontium Mule
--leads to Blue Suns Base
Tarith - Lusarn - Crescent Nebula = Blood Pack Communications Relay
-leads to Blood Pack Base
Zanethu - Ploitari - Hourglass Nebula = Wrecked Ship
Daratar - Faryar - Hourglass Nebula = Eclipse Smuggling Depot
Helyme - Zelene - Crescent Nebula = Captured Mining Facility
Franklin - Skepsis - Sigurd's Cradle - Javelin Missiles Launched
Sinmara - Solvieg - Caleston Rift - Endangered Research Station
Canalus - Dirada - Pylos Nebula = Anomalous Weather Detected
Gei Hinnom - Sheol - Hades Nexus = Quarian Crash Site
Aequitas - Fortis - Minos Wasteland = Abandoned Mine
Nah, there are a ton of 10-15 year olds on the internet. You are not alone.
I keed, I keed.
He wouldn't be very good at it though, smokes way too many cigars.
So regarding Aria, is it just me or is she
It would then give you a "blip" that you could probe right away, or let you mark it, and scan the rest of the planet, which you could probe after "blipping" the entire planet.
That'd make it quicker and less dull.
So just like all my relationships in real life, my girlfriend yells at me for things that aren't my fault.
Women... am i right?
Is it possible to continue the romance stuff with her? Or should i just ditch her and bang my PA. She's well into me i tell you. Not surprising really, I'm fucking brilliant.
Are you talking about the basic ammo? It should - if not, congratulations! You're seeing a bug that only myself and like two other people on the dev team ever saw. Try accessing your weapons locker/armory again.
It doesn't? I've never really noticed, except that it doesn't refill heavy weapon ammo, which is annoying but makes sense. I do wish I could use the nuke gun more often, but the particle beam is really more useful.
Supposedly the ME1 relationships can continue in ME3.
You will get an apologetic e-mail about the incident you just experienced. Whether you choose to hold out hope for that in ME3 or decide she's a bitch and move on now is up to you.
Yes. Jacob, at the least, should be able to give you heat sinks.
EDIT:
And you should have med-gel supplies on the Normandy too.
I've also noticed a bug where my armor +ammo upgrades don't show up on some missions.
SniperGuyGaming on PSN / SniperGuy710 on Xbone Live
Yea sorry, I meant the heavy weapon ammo. No bug here.
Your first problem is that you romanced Ashley in ME1
Yeah, Michael Hogan is the C-Sec dude in the Citadel
and i understand that the soft bits would be on the inside. after doing some dorky math, the volume issue isn't that crazy... if the average person is 150 pounds, an aircraft carrier (if i did the conversion right (weighs 227 million pounds. that would mean you need 1.51 million people to get the weight. if the reapers have a way to create very dense matter, which their armor seems to be, i supposed you could get to millions of people sucked into one Human Reaper.
also, maybe they do need it all to come from the source race because there's something else involved? like a soul, or some other essence that's not purely chemical or biological? not trying to get religulous, but there were those themes throughout the game.
My biggest frustration is that my playthrough has been plagued with geometry issues. The derelict on the cliff would rock, and I would be suspended in mid air and have to restart the quest. This also happened with the final fight during Grunt's sidequest. Several times I would be near a stack of crates and some kind of concussive blast would knock me on top of them with no way of getting down. The frequency of the issues is really surprising.
Has anyone else run into these problems?
Just give me those two resources gosh darnit
I've got enough Palladium to choke Paris Hilton
Yeah, that's a balancing thing. Heavy weapons are supposed to be situational, and it was decided that refilling it after every mission would take away from that.
Personally, I never fire my heavy weapons because of this faint belief that in the future, I'm going to need them.
And Medi-Gel. I want Medi-Gel to refill everytime I hit the Normandy. A ship this size, with Cerberus outfitting it, I should never leave without full ammo and meds.
It's the bees knees when it comes to taking out anything bigger than a breadbox
I never really fired mine either.
Then I started a New Game+ on Insanity.