Assuming Control of this Forum [Mass Effect 2]

Munkus Beaver

Oh hey guys, it's mass effect 2! Still!


The simple FAQ for the endgame:

Why did my men die?

You picked Zaeed.

What if all my men died including Shepard?

You can't make an ME3 game with that data.

How do I not make my men die?

Pick Garrus as the squad leader, Legion as the tech, anybody to lead back the crew, Samara to be the biotic, and Garrus as the squad leader.

When does the endgame start?

2 missions after completing the Reaper IFF mission. You have time to do Legion's loyalty mission and one other story mission.

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MASS EFFECT 1 SAVE FILES
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For example, the code for Munkus' Female Shepard face is: 743.W9G.1M7.F8A.JDQ.62Q.1DA.711.966.413.2G6.276

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_Wiki

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Bogey edit - THE NO SPOILERS RULE IS STILL IN EFFECT IN THIS THREAD!

Also, here is a cool ending video set to music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxqW0Clok7U

smof

Think this needs to go in the new thread

http://tindeck.com/listen/lqip

UnbrokenEva

Screw you, Beaver. Garrus sticks with me. Miranda can lead the squads.

Edcrab

You forgot loyalty there Munkus

God damn it man!

Wren

goddamn original post

there's no 100% failsafe method. my picks were completely different and I made it through without a loss. some people have picked the same in the original post and lost guys and same with the ones I picked. don't like what happened? well congratulations to the amazing world of saved games.

Munkus Beaver

You have two options for each one. I just picked the one I liked the most.

Miranda can also lead. Tali can also be a tech. Jack can also be the biotic.

And I've heard that jacob can lead.

But outside of that, nope.

ronzo

on the last mission

it also a good idea to pick mordin to send back, unless you use him in your squad. For some reason he seems to have a higher chance of eating it, even if loyal

Wren

ronzo wrote: »

on the last mission

it also a good idea to pick mordin to send back, unless you use him in your squad. For some reason he seems to have a higher chance of eating it, even if loyal

and I sent grunt. there's no amazing strategy to this. just luck and little common sense. loyalty too.

strebalicious

Wren wrote: »

goddamn original post

there's no 100% failsafe method. my picks were completely different and I made it through without a loss. some people have picked the same in the original post and lost guys and same with the ones I picked. don't like what happened? well congratulations to the amazing world of saved games.

As I understand it...

Squad Leader can be any of Miranda, Garrus, or Jacob.
The person you tell to lead back can be anyone as long as they are loyal.
Tech Specialist can be either Legion or Tali.
Biotics can be either Jack or Samara.

Wren

I'd also like to

kill off every cerberus crew member. let the crew get liquified, get jack and miranda killed

then its my boat

Butters

Gonna play this game lots and lots when I get home.

Supraluminal

In the interest of talking about something other than endgame squad choices for a minute,

I love the part where you play as Joker. I mean it's not especially complex or impressive in a splashy way, but it's a great bit of psycho-drama that really ramps up the tension. Plus Joker is hilarious.

I wonder if we'll see any more small scenes played from the perspective of other characters in ME3? It's kind of cool to be someone other than Shepard the Almighty for a couple minutes.

ronzo

Wren wrote: »

ronzo wrote: »

on the last mission

it also a good idea to pick mordin to send back, unless you use him in your squad. For some reason he seems to have a higher chance of eating it, even if loyal

and I sent grunt. there's no amazing strategy to this. just luck and little common sense. loyalty too.

and the whole point is that luck really doesn't factor in unless you don't have everyone loyalty or make the wrong choices.

Mordin is the exception, as people have found that for some reason he tends to die if not sent back or taken on the team, loyal or not, correct choices or not

Buttcleft

I'm commander Munkus and I suck at making ops

ronzo

also i hate that my game glitched last time and it only let me have 6 heavy weapon ammo upgrades

seeing the cain top out at 185 was kind of annoying

FrylockHolmes

for the last mission

I chose Jacob as the other team leader the second time my group split up. When we regrouped, there was a little bit where Jacob seemed to have been shot in the gut, but he shrugged it off and lived. Maybe Jacob might have a better chance of living as the leader than other characters, but not as good as Garrus or Miranda?

VisionOfClarity

I started playing last night. I meant to play for a lil bit and then stopped 3.5 hours later because I was getting a bit seasick because I still don't have the hang of the camera. Being unemployed is going to give me ample play time at least.

Khavall

ronzo wrote: »

Wren wrote: »

ronzo wrote: »

on the last mission

it also a good idea to pick mordin to send back, unless you use him in your squad. For some reason he seems to have a higher chance of eating it, even if loyal

and I sent grunt. there's no amazing strategy to this. just luck and little common sense. loyalty too.

and the whole point is that luck really doesn't factor in unless you don't have everyone loyalty or make the wrong choices.

Mordin is the exception, as people have found that for some reason he tends to die if not sent back or taken on the team, loyal or not, correct choices or not

There was a bioware post about it. Think of the final choice of who to bring with you to the Reapinator as choosing who will stay behind and watch your back. So if you, say, bring Garrus and Grunt with you, then you're risking losing more people by taking away a dude who can hold off massive amounts of troops for weeks and an invincible defense machine.


there is no luck involved, it's all by the numbers, just you can't always see them. You will not lose your tech expert if you have Garrus/Miranda/Jacob leading the team and Legion/Tali in the vents. You won't lose someone from the biotic group if Jack or Samara are doing the shield. You will not lose Moridin if you have good "hold the line" stats holding the line.

smof

ronzo wrote: »

Wren wrote: »

ronzo wrote: »

on the last mission

it also a good idea to pick mordin to send back, unless you use him in your squad. For some reason he seems to have a higher chance of eating it, even if loyal

and I sent grunt. there's no amazing strategy to this. just luck and little common sense. loyalty too.

and the whole point is that luck really doesn't factor in unless you don't have everyone loyalty or make the wrong choices.

Mordin is the exception, as people have found that for some reason he tends to die if not sent back or taken on the team, loyal or not, correct choices or not

An explanation, by Bioware

Under the hood, each character has a "hold the line" score, which gets a bonus if the character is loyal. Characters like Mordin, Jack and Tali are squishy and not experienced with bunkering down and holding out for an extended period of time. Characters like Grunt and Zaeed are tanks who thrive on this type of work. The score is tallied for all the team members that are holding the line, and the number of survivors are calculated. If people are to die, the non-loyals squishies go first through the list to the loyal tanks. Alas, I think Mordin is at the head of the death list. Some characters can't survive without help even if they are loyal. Others can survive even if not loyal.

Here are some examples for the group holding the line:
Loyal Mordin by himself: He can't hold the line by himself. He dies.
Non-loyal Grunt by himself: Grunt lives. He hunkers down and gets the job done, and doesn't have to worry about helping any one else.
Loyal Mordin and non-Loyal Grunt: Grunt dies, but Mordin lives. Grunt is able to hold the line but goofs up helping Mordin... he was just too aggressive without his right of passage.
Loyal Mordin and Loyal Grunt: They both live.

Note it is possible to get non-loyal henchmen to survive through the end game with the proper group holding the line.

So what is a good strategy? Send back a loyal squishy with the crew, like Mordin or Tali. Leave your defensive bad asses to hold the line (hmmm, Garrus defended a base all by himself to an extended period of time....) and take your loyal offensive favorites with you to the end.

As for saving Kelly and the crew, you just need to make sure you go through the Omega-4 relay right after the crew is taken, and make sure you send a loyal squad mate back as an escort.

Quethal

Jesus Christ, a new thread in 3 days? You people must really like this game. I wish I had enough time for awesome games.

Wren

Jack doesn't seem too squishy to me, at least when shes in cutscene mode

DrZiplock

Wren wrote: »

Jack doesn't seem to squishy too me, at least when shes in cutscene mode

In cut scene mode she's a fucking demon demi-god.

In "she's in my party mode" she can fuck shit up but she's a glass cannon.


If I stick with the shotgun will I ever be able to use Grunt's version of it?

Also, my girlfriend is pissed that I keep screwing up the name of Grunt by calling him Wrex. More so after I went on about how well drawn, animated and developed he was.

smof

You can get the kro-gun on the

collector ship

if you are a soldier or a vanguard, I think.

FrylockHolmes

yeah

there's a part where you get to choose between learning how to use a new weapon type that you didn't know before and being able to use the super upgraded version of a weapon type you already know

DrZiplock

Ah, ok. So yea...I can't.

Wren

FrylockHolmes wrote: »

yeah

there's a part where you get to choose between learning how to use a new weapon type that you didn't know before and being able to use the super upgraded version of a weapon type you already know

if only there was a section like that for biotic powers. not including loyalty powers

Buttcleft

Wren wrote: »

FrylockHolmes wrote: »

yeah

there's a part where you get to choose between learning how to use a new weapon type that you didn't know before and being able to use the super upgraded version of a weapon type you already know

if only there was a section like that for biotic powers. not including loyalty powers

Yes, another power that can rend the fabric of the universe in twain..but be stopped by humble body armor

Wren

theres a hotfix for that someplace I think. fanmade obviously

Shakesbeard

DrZiplock wrote: »

Wren wrote: »

Jack doesn't seem to squishy too me, at least when shes in cutscene mode

In cut scene mode she's a fucking demon demi-god.

In "she's in my party mode" she can fuck shit up but she's a glass cannon.

It'd be fucking boss as hell if ME3 had an expanded melee system so that all the badass stuff from the cutscenes wasn't so far removed from the actual gameplay. Biotic haymakers and tech headbutts for life

Wren

that would make combat too complicated. if its not crouching behind some cover waiting for the red on your screen to disappear, some person somewhere might not understand it.

CG Faggotry

I made it through the end-game losing nobody, yet having 3 "disloyals". I think the player's personal speed per objective is important too.

Shabooty

playing jade empire after this game is hard

gotta get back into the habit of quick-saving every 5 minutes

Melding

Computer Generated Faggotry wrote: »

I made it through the end-game losing nobody, yet having 3 "disloyals". I think the player's personal speed per objective is important too.

Or maybe you just made good decisions so loyalty didn't hinder you much.

Zen Vulgarity

Fuck loyalty

vsove

Oh good, they made a thread in G&T about Day 1 DLC.

This promises to bring forth unique and interesting viewpoints full of thought provoking comments.

Kuribo's Shoe

all downloadable content should be free and have no content that enhances the game!

Kuribo's Shoe

and it has to come out a year after the game's release or you could have just put it on the disc YOU CHEAP FUCK

vsove

Also Call of Pripyat is freaking awesome.

Best STALKER game yet? I do believe so!

Kuribo's Shoe

vsove can we still be friends if I tell you I own both the older stalker games and have no real desire to play them

vsove

Kuribo's Shoe wrote: »

vsove can we still be friends if I tell you I own both the older stalker games and have no real desire to play them

They're very difficult to get into. It took me seven or eight tries to finally get into the first STALKER game.

We can still be friends.

101

cal of pripyat is out now??