I made Garrus too strong. I've missed like 7 opportunities to get the kill a brute while it's charging you achievement because he murders it before the charge starts.
So I think I’m up to the part in me 2 towards the end
where your crew gets kidnapped? That happens right? I was planning on doing more but I think if you take too long to then go through the relay to they die or something? Can’t remember how it works
You have room to do a Loyalty quest after the Reaper IFF, which is good, because there's one that won't even unlock until after that mission. But after that, going to the map again will trigger a cutscene where everyone hops on a shuttle for a bit. Once you've scene that bit, and the part you're talking about occurs, you must go through the Omega 4 Relay immediately, or there will be consequences. Doing even 1 more mission after that results in things you probably don't want to happen.
Golden Rule is to finish everything you need / want to do before completing the Reaper IFF mission. Then do the final Loyalty quest following that. Then through the Relay.
Pretty sure you can do two quests.
I've left Tali's until after the IFF mission because I wanted to take the most diplomatic choice along with her, then done Legion's mission, and still saved the whole crew.
You can do two but iirc it has to be Legion's and Tali's (possibly in that specific order?) and doing any others removes that possibility.
So the safest bet? Do literally all loyalty missions before doing the IFF mission but (and no really, look it up, I'm fuzzy on the specifics) you should be able to get Legion and do both his and Tali's loyalty missions while still getting the best ending.
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yeah i'm pretty stoked with how the ME3 transition for my Shepard has turned out. It actually looks really good from a distance too, which not all faces that look good closeup can match
Finished ME1, presumably 100%'d it. Got all the achievements anyway, though I did end up doing a save file edit at the end just to push over to level 30/60, because the game wouldn't go past 59. Also just corrected the bugged choices that they didn't bother fixing for the LE, which annoys me more than it should.
Moved to ME2, Bioware made an ace decision having Martin Sheen voice TIM. Weird that the ME2 prerendered cutscenes look worse, now, than ME1's.
I've got a weird thing happening in ME2, though: When I order a squadmate to use a power, it immediately uses my first power (in this case Charge). I don't want it to do that! I can't see anything in the settings that would cause this, does anyone have an idea why it might be?
The custom loading screens for ME3 DLC kinda lose their impact loading of a ssd. One of the Leviathan ones in particular was brilliant and now it's barely there.
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All the space racism has got me thinking—I don’t remember as much alien hate in me2 and 3, more that renegade Shepard was an asshole and took a lot of short cuts (that often resulted in more dead people).
But maybe my memory is fooling me?
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I'm playing through it again and the specieism is pretty thick.
It's usually in a "I have nothing against them that's just the way they are." Kind of way which is its own can of worms but it's there. And it's generally across most groups.
In 2 though. Usually in 3 everyone is too busy trying to survive.
If anything one of my biggest problems with ME(and most Scifi) is that humans are always presented as being genetically and culturally diverse while everyone else is one way all the time.
Finished ME1 last night. I ended up blitzing through it by the end because I wasn't having nearly as much fun as I did the first 5 times I ran through it lol. The story, environments, music, dialog... All still top notch. But it just wasn't very fun to play.
I 100% ME1, but started skipping most of the dialogue around halfway through.
My ME2 playthrough is going by much more slowly, but the game is a lot more fun to play. I'm not struggling through Insanity nearly as much as I expected. I'm getting close to unlocking the Collector Ship mission, which I'll do ASAP to unlock another weapon type. That's the hardest mission in the game, from what I remember.
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Yeah, l was never a fan of ME1's gameplay and never understood all the complaints RPG purists had when it went to a more actiony standard. Chalked it up to some people simply not liking change.
The changes made it tolerable but still not anything I would want to go back to.
I will say only thing I miss was throwing people to the moon with an adept.
The only real thing I had a problem with going from ME1 to ME2 was the decision to make an Omni-button instead of binding all those commands to different keys.
Yeah, l was never a fan of ME1's gameplay and never understood all the complaints RPG purists had when it went to a more actiony standard. Chalked it up to some people simply not liking change.
The changes made it tolerable but still not anything I would want to go back to.
I will say only thing I miss was throwing people to the moon with an adept.
As much as I enjoy ME2, I still find ME1 combat more enjoyable. Poking out from chest-high walls to take pot shots for 40 hours hasn't been great. Ended up switching from Adept to Sentinel because because they made biotics useless until you've already shot them 80 times.
Now I just Tech Armor and shotgun people to death.
Yeah in ME1 I was a Sentinel so it was just Barrier -> Throw -> Pistol everything. Didn't even use cover 90% of the time. Was able to use Stasis on the final boss. It was kind of boring tbh. Probably should have put the game on the harder difficulty.
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I think he was saying in ME2 you stay hunkered down which hasn't been my experience.
I only really hunkered to recover shields or against the more annoying bosses like Preotorians(who are just badly designed imo).
And even then staying in one spot too long is usually a bad idea.
ME2 combat is somewhat "rigid", so I need to make use of cover frequently and wait for abilities to charge, at least on Insanity. Tools and options are limited compared to ME3. It's still a fun time.
The changes to the cooldowns due to the weapon weight system, the expanded combo system, and other changes make ME3 combat much more flexible and mobile.
I'm playing through it again and the specieism is pretty thick.
It's usually in a "I have nothing against them that's just the way they are." Kind of way which is its own can of worms but it's there. And it's generally across most groups.
In 2 though. Usually in 3 everyone is too busy trying to survive.
If anything one of my biggest problems with ME(and most Scifi) is that humans are always presented as being genetically and culturally diverse while everyone else is one way all the time.
I’d like to read a SFF story some time where the hat humans wear is that we can ignore a mountain of perfectly compiled and logically sound and easy to understand data and go “no you’re wrong.”
Like, every other species would be like “A mask mandate to reduce spread of a deadly disease? That is perfectly reasonable, I will certainly wear one” and “these vaccines have passed clinical trials for safety and efficacy, and I recognize the collective good that is furthered by becoming vaccinated.” Instead of saying and doing whatever it is that way too many humans do.
Basically, they’d look at us as being frequently insane and incapable of basic logic.
About 1/3 of all Humans in the ME universe should be like “Salarians eat babies! I’m not a racist, but Quarians are all thieves. The Asari Councillor is a Satan worshipping pedophile! Councillor Anderson is going to be locked up any day now!” And other races would just be like “How the heck do we tell which humans are reasonable and which have brain worms?”
Civics is not a consumer product that you can ignore because you don’t like the options presented.
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I have a sneaking suspicion I will end up buying this again when I’m able to upgrade my PC and monitor. God I bet it looks slick in 4K.
I'm playing through it again and the specieism is pretty thick.
It's usually in a "I have nothing against them that's just the way they are." Kind of way which is its own can of worms but it's there. And it's generally across most groups.
In 2 though. Usually in 3 everyone is too busy trying to survive.
If anything one of my biggest problems with ME(and most Scifi) is that humans are always presented as being genetically and culturally diverse while everyone else is one way all the time.
I’d like to read a SFF story some time where the hat humans wear is that we can ignore a mountain of perfectly compiled and logically sound and easy to understand data and go “no you’re wrong.”
Like, every other species would be like “A mask mandate to reduce spread of a deadly disease? That is perfectly reasonable, I will certainly wear one” and “these vaccines have passed clinical trials for safety and efficacy, and I recognize the collective good that is furthered by becoming vaccinated.” Instead of saying and doing whatever it is that way too many humans do.
Basically, they’d look at us as being frequently insane and incapable of basic logic.
About 1/3 of all Humans in the ME universe should be like “Salarians eat babies! I’m not a racist, but Quarians are all thieves. The Asari Councillor is a Satan worshipping pedophile! Councillor Anderson is going to be locked up any day now!” And other races would just be like “How the heck do we tell which humans are reasonable and which have brain worms?”
Isn't there a Star Trek story that delves into this? Other races advance through experimentation and measured science, while Humans are like "let's get drunk and cold-weld two warp cores together!" and accidentally discover time travel.
I'm playing through it again and the specieism is pretty thick.
It's usually in a "I have nothing against them that's just the way they are." Kind of way which is its own can of worms but it's there. And it's generally across most groups.
In 2 though. Usually in 3 everyone is too busy trying to survive.
If anything one of my biggest problems with ME(and most Scifi) is that humans are always presented as being genetically and culturally diverse while everyone else is one way all the time.
I’d like to read a SFF story some time where the hat humans wear is that we can ignore a mountain of perfectly compiled and logically sound and easy to understand data and go “no you’re wrong.”
Like, every other species would be like “A mask mandate to reduce spread of a deadly disease? That is perfectly reasonable, I will certainly wear one” and “these vaccines have passed clinical trials for safety and efficacy, and I recognize the collective good that is furthered by becoming vaccinated.” Instead of saying and doing whatever it is that way too many humans do.
Basically, they’d look at us as being frequently insane and incapable of basic logic.
About 1/3 of all Humans in the ME universe should be like “Salarians eat babies! I’m not a racist, but Quarians are all thieves. The Asari Councillor is a Satan worshipping pedophile! Councillor Anderson is going to be locked up any day now!” And other races would just be like “How the heck do we tell which humans are reasonable and which have brain worms?”
Isn't there a Star Trek story that delves into this? Other races advance through experimentation and measured science, while Humans are like "let's get drunk and cold-weld two warp cores together!" and accidentally discover time travel.
Isn't that essentially how humans did discover the warp drive in one of the star Trek movies? We basically bootstrapped a nuclear missile and turned it into a warp drive right?
You know I rarely spend time hunkered behind cover(even with non-Vanguard classes) so I've never understood that complaint.
Playing Hardcore in ME2 you really can't stay out of cover for more than a second or two without going down. In ME1 you just cast Barrier and high five people to death.
I'm playing through it again and the specieism is pretty thick.
It's usually in a "I have nothing against them that's just the way they are." Kind of way which is its own can of worms but it's there. And it's generally across most groups.
In 2 though. Usually in 3 everyone is too busy trying to survive.
If anything one of my biggest problems with ME(and most Scifi) is that humans are always presented as being genetically and culturally diverse while everyone else is one way all the time.
I’d like to read a SFF story some time where the hat humans wear is that we can ignore a mountain of perfectly compiled and logically sound and easy to understand data and go “no you’re wrong.”
Like, every other species would be like “A mask mandate to reduce spread of a deadly disease? That is perfectly reasonable, I will certainly wear one” and “these vaccines have passed clinical trials for safety and efficacy, and I recognize the collective good that is furthered by becoming vaccinated.” Instead of saying and doing whatever it is that way too many humans do.
Basically, they’d look at us as being frequently insane and incapable of basic logic.
About 1/3 of all Humans in the ME universe should be like “Salarians eat babies! I’m not a racist, but Quarians are all thieves. The Asari Councillor is a Satan worshipping pedophile! Councillor Anderson is going to be locked up any day now!” And other races would just be like “How the heck do we tell which humans are reasonable and which have brain worms?”
Isn't there a Star Trek story that delves into this? Other races advance through experimentation and measured science, while Humans are like "let's get drunk and cold-weld two warp cores together!" and accidentally discover time travel.
Isn't that essentially how humans did discover the warp drive in one of the star Trek movies? We basically bootstrapped a nuclear missile and turned it into a warp drive right?
The repurposed nuclear missile was just a launch vehicle to get the craft into space. It wasn't related to the warp drive.
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
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Having finally seen Battlestar Galactica (00's version), I can finally put a face to EDI's voice actress.
Oh hey she was also in Lucifer what the shit how have I wasted so much time on not being on the 'Tricia Helfer is awesome' train?!
I 100% ME1, but started skipping most of the dialogue around halfway through.
My ME2 playthrough is going by much more slowly, but the game is a lot more fun to play. I'm not struggling through Insanity nearly as much as I expected. I'm getting close to unlocking the Collector Ship mission, which I'll do ASAP to unlock another weapon type. That's the hardest mission in the game, from what I remember.
The ME wiki agrees with you. When I played the original version on Insanity, though, the only mission I remember giving me a real problem was Horizon, in the final battle there. (Taking Mordin and Miranda ended up being my solution and I've never forgotten it.)
I just went through the Collector Ship on this playthrough; didn't have an issue, but then I'm playing on Normal right now. I semi-randomly took Jack and Kasumi along (I'm playing Infiltrator so I've got long-range covered - extra now I've picked up the Widow), and they had plenty to say there! All 'bout that squad banter.
Having finally seen Battlestar Galactica (00's version), I can finally put a face to EDI's voice actress.
Oh hey she was also in Lucifer what the shit how have I wasted so much time on not being on the 'Tricia Helfer is awesome' train?!
She was also revealed as the 'surprise' bad guy in Burn Notice, where the surprise was kinda ruined the instant they tried to do it because 'random woman at the bar turning out the be the bad guy' turned into ' that's Tricia Helfer, of course she's a significant character'.
Having finally seen Battlestar Galactica (00's version), I can finally put a face to EDI's voice actress.
Oh hey she was also in Lucifer what the shit how have I wasted so much time on not being on the 'Tricia Helfer is awesome' train?!
She was also revealed as the 'surprise' bad guy in Burn Notice, where the surprise was kinda ruined the instant they tried to do it because 'random woman at the bar turning out the be the bad guy' turned into ' that's Tricia Helfer, of course she's a significant character'.
The law and order guest character effect. Obviously it’s the guest starring guy who did it!
Going to do a renegade jerk run but also an insanity run of 1, want to play something different than my usual soldier. I’m not really concerned about the best class or min maxing just is there any class that’s way more difficult overall for insanity in ME1?
Engineer is difficult but also tons of fun in 1 when you get the right fight and suddenly control the geth with hacking.
Tempting. But I think I may end up going full biotic just cos it feels drastically different from soldier and suits my evil power mad play through. I’ve never played the games renegade should be fun. Wondering whether to take squad members on to be jerks to them or to just never invite them in the first place. I think I’ll go with the one that allows for longer term jerkiness
I’m guessing vanguard is tough early on in insanity? Still tempting. Damn I can’t choose between adept, sentinel and vanguard
I can never remember this how do you get the default shep back after you’ve messed around in custom? Do I just have to back out of the whole creator and start again? It’s so frustrating that you can’t even like change default fem sheps hair or eye colour or anything
I did Adept, it's fun though I've never played on Insanity. If this is a 2nd play through, it gets better since you can pick your bonus power to add another weapon skill.
I'm playing Sentinel on Hardcore and it's fun with the Assault Rifle perk. Using the semi auto model with explosive rounds works great. Overload for shields, Lift and Shock for those without.
I can never remember this how do you get the default shep back after you’ve messed around in custom? Do I just have to back out of the whole creator and start again? It’s so frustrating that you can’t even like change default fem sheps hair or eye colour or anything
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Pretty sure you can do two quests.
So the safest bet? Do literally all loyalty missions before doing the IFF mission but (and no really, look it up, I'm fuzzy on the specifics) you should be able to get Legion and do both his and Tali's loyalty missions while still getting the best ending.
Moved to ME2, Bioware made an ace decision having Martin Sheen voice TIM. Weird that the ME2 prerendered cutscenes look worse, now, than ME1's.
I've got a weird thing happening in ME2, though: When I order a squadmate to use a power, it immediately uses my first power (in this case Charge). I don't want it to do that! I can't see anything in the settings that would cause this, does anyone have an idea why it might be?
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It's usually in a "I have nothing against them that's just the way they are." Kind of way which is its own can of worms but it's there. And it's generally across most groups.
In 2 though. Usually in 3 everyone is too busy trying to survive.
If anything one of my biggest problems with ME(and most Scifi) is that humans are always presented as being genetically and culturally diverse while everyone else is one way all the time.
My ME2 playthrough is going by much more slowly, but the game is a lot more fun to play. I'm not struggling through Insanity nearly as much as I expected. I'm getting close to unlocking the Collector Ship mission, which I'll do ASAP to unlock another weapon type. That's the hardest mission in the game, from what I remember.
The changes made it tolerable but still not anything I would want to go back to.
I will say only thing I miss was throwing people to the moon with an adept.
As much as I enjoy ME2, I still find ME1 combat more enjoyable. Poking out from chest-high walls to take pot shots for 40 hours hasn't been great. Ended up switching from Adept to Sentinel because because they made biotics useless until you've already shot them 80 times.
Now I just Tech Armor and shotgun people to death.
I only really hunkered to recover shields or against the more annoying bosses like Preotorians(who are just badly designed imo).
And even then staying in one spot too long is usually a bad idea.
The changes to the cooldowns due to the weapon weight system, the expanded combo system, and other changes make ME3 combat much more flexible and mobile.
I’d like to read a SFF story some time where the hat humans wear is that we can ignore a mountain of perfectly compiled and logically sound and easy to understand data and go “no you’re wrong.”
Like, every other species would be like “A mask mandate to reduce spread of a deadly disease? That is perfectly reasonable, I will certainly wear one” and “these vaccines have passed clinical trials for safety and efficacy, and I recognize the collective good that is furthered by becoming vaccinated.” Instead of saying and doing whatever it is that way too many humans do.
Basically, they’d look at us as being frequently insane and incapable of basic logic.
About 1/3 of all Humans in the ME universe should be like “Salarians eat babies! I’m not a racist, but Quarians are all thieves. The Asari Councillor is a Satan worshipping pedophile! Councillor Anderson is going to be locked up any day now!” And other races would just be like “How the heck do we tell which humans are reasonable and which have brain worms?”
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Isn't there a Star Trek story that delves into this? Other races advance through experimentation and measured science, while Humans are like "let's get drunk and cold-weld two warp cores together!" and accidentally discover time travel.
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Isn't that essentially how humans did discover the warp drive in one of the star Trek movies? We basically bootstrapped a nuclear missile and turned it into a warp drive right?
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Playing Hardcore in ME2 you really can't stay out of cover for more than a second or two without going down. In ME1 you just cast Barrier and high five people to death.
The repurposed nuclear missile was just a launch vehicle to get the craft into space. It wasn't related to the warp drive.
Oh hey she was also in Lucifer what the shit how have I wasted so much time on not being on the 'Tricia Helfer is awesome' train?!
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She also voiced Sara Kerrigan in StarCraft.
Yeah its kind of funny, when they put her in a sexy robot body in 3 it was really just making the game come closer to reality.
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The ME wiki agrees with you. When I played the original version on Insanity, though, the only mission I remember giving me a real problem was Horizon, in the final battle there. (Taking Mordin and Miranda ended up being my solution and I've never forgotten it.)
I just went through the Collector Ship on this playthrough; didn't have an issue, but then I'm playing on Normal right now. I semi-randomly took Jack and Kasumi along (I'm playing Infiltrator so I've got long-range covered - extra now I've picked up the Widow), and they had plenty to say there! All 'bout that squad banter.
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She was also revealed as the 'surprise' bad guy in Burn Notice, where the surprise was kinda ruined the instant they tried to do it because 'random woman at the bar turning out the be the bad guy' turned into ' that's Tricia Helfer, of course she's a significant character'.
The law and order guest character effect. Obviously it’s the guest starring guy who did it!
In fairness, you did spend the last 2 years dead and being put back together by Cerberus goons. Like, I think anyone would be a little off their game.
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Tempting. But I think I may end up going full biotic just cos it feels drastically different from soldier and suits my evil power mad play through. I’ve never played the games renegade should be fun. Wondering whether to take squad members on to be jerks to them or to just never invite them in the first place. I think I’ll go with the one that allows for longer term jerkiness
I’m guessing vanguard is tough early on in insanity? Still tempting. Damn I can’t choose between adept, sentinel and vanguard
I'm playing Sentinel on Hardcore and it's fun with the Assault Rifle perk. Using the semi auto model with explosive rounds works great. Overload for shields, Lift and Shock for those without.
Yep. It's really dumb.