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Coming in Late March. The Firewater DLC featuring five new missions and the M57 Hammerhead. Free to all Cerberus Network members:
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.
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.
Shepard's diary leaked onto Facebook as well.
ANSWERS TO ALL YOUR QUESTIONS REGARDING MASS EFFECT 2 ARE LOCATED HERE, COURTESY OF GIANTBOMB.
THE PAGE DETAILS THE ENTIRE GAME, SO SPOILERS ARE ABOUND. BE WARNED.
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The damage statistics of all the weapons in the game.
Location of the planets to scan for starting the N7 missions:
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Location of Resources and Upgrades for weapons, made by DVG.
You can use EditGrid to view it online or install OpenOffice to view and edit the data. Excel in Microsoft Office does the job as well.
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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
(note: The PC Patch 1.01 should fix freezing issues)
Why you should save the council in ME1
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Now in theaters:
Wiki wrote 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.
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.
Shepard's diary leaked onto Facebook as well.
ANSWERS TO ALL YOUR QUESTIONS REGARDING MASS EFFECT 2 ARE LOCATED HERE, COURTESY OF GIANTBOMB.
THE PAGE DETAILS THE ENTIRE GAME, SO SPOILERS ARE ABOUND. BE WARNED.
______________________________________________________________________
The damage statistics of all the weapons in the game.
Location of the planets to scan for starting the N7 missions:
Neith - Amun - Eagle Nebula = Wreched Merchant Freighter
-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
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
-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
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
______________________________________________________________________
Location of Resources and Upgrades for weapons, made by DVG.
You can use EditGrid to view it online or install OpenOffice to view and edit the data. Excel in Microsoft Office does the job as well.
______________________________________________________________________
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.
______________________________________________________________________
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.
______________________________________________________________________
FIX FOR FREEZING ON THE LOADING SCREEN
(note: The PC Patch 1.01 should fix freezing issues)
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.
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The third kind of loading problem is addressed here. It deals with their length.
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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The third kind of loading problem is addressed here. It deals with their length.
Why you should save the council in ME1
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Now in theaters:
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I'll be back when this ticks over to page 2. :x
Shepard to Miranda: Why can't you just admit what we're both feeling!? LOVE!
I hate you so much you silly, silly, silly goose.
be a man, 1920x1200 is the best resolution
"Big, stupid jellyfish...."
Sleep with the Councilor's Wife!
"Hello, I'm Commander Shepard and I "slept" with your wife."
You'll have to wait until Bioware actually designs female turians.
Also, where do you hear this about the Hanar Spectre ? I guessed it was on the Citadel in those news things or the big advertisements, but after 2 playthroughs I've never heard it once.
Enkindle this.
He makes Shep look like a scrub
Krogan females? Pools of room-temperature superconducting fluid.
Vorcha? They're hermaphroditic, like snails. Also like snails, they shoot barbed calcite spears into each other, whoever gets hit first is the lady.
Batarian females? The second set of eyeballs.
so I could play this game fresh again. Hurry up bioware and make ME3, stop being so lazy.
so many nipples
SNOO SNOO
salarian females also never leave salarian space.
Instead of a hump they have enormous back-breasts
Semi-aroused Declaration: Your face stirs sensations in my genitals
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
that's not a female, it's the envoy to the female camp, if you're talking about the one in the shaman's room
Edit: Goomba, what about Elcor on Elcor porn designed for humans? What then?
maybe not, I guess? it definitely has a different-sounding voice, which I interpreted as being a sign of different gender
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
dammit GOOMBA. Raining down on the fun.... Fine Elcor porn for the masses :P
its a child who has yet to take the rite.
XBL : lJesse Custerl | MWO: Jesse Custer | Best vid ever. | 2nd best vid ever.
it should be it's own interrupt and is activated by smashing the controller with your head.
I'd imagine they could make an exception for one female being in probably the most important position in the galaxy
But the devs can't! And thats what matters :P
ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL.
Oh hey, I got a text message!
Genius.