About halfway through my second playthrough on Hardcore with an Infiltrator Shepherd. Never really paid much attention to the tech skills or the sniper rifle on my first playthrough, but hot damn are they a lot of fun. Liara will toss them around and throw them up in the air, while Wrex or Ashley lay on some fire. I just stay back, ruin their shields and weapons and pop them off at will.
I'm hoping the squad direction mechanics are a bit better this time around. I'd like my paper-thin biotic to take cover while my tank absorbs enemy attacks. Instead of how it is now, where Liara is killed two minutes while rushing towards a Krogan with Ashley. Ooooooops.
Separate commands for squadmates would actually be pretty welcome.
Because, I too have had Tali run up and try to melee Krogans. Sadly, it always ended in failure.
PC has this already, so if it's not in ME2 360 then it'll at least be in ME2 PC.
They've confirmed that it's in ME2 360. The statement which I'm way too tired to look up right now is to the effect of "we're building both games at the same time, we learned a lot from the ME PC port and both games will have identical squad controls.".
That's obviously not verbatim, but aside from the hotkeys on the PC version because of the keyboard, the actual character/squad management in battles are supposed to be the same on the two versions.
I believe they have confirmed individual commands for the 360 version.
Players can now issue squad commands to each individual in their party. The player can map various powers and abilities, and issue “context sensitive†commands to the squad, all in real time. So for example if you are pointing at a spot on the ground, the D-pad will send a squad member there. If you are pointing at an enemy, the D pad will instead have that squad member launch a power at the enemy. Right side is one squad mate, left side is the other one.
My soldier on insanity with full assault training and two of the best smashing exoskeleton armor upgrades I can find... does almost no damage in melee. Makes me kind of sad.
Players can now issue squad commands to each individual in their party. The player can map various powers and abilities, and issue “context sensitive†commands to the squad, all in real time. So for example if you are pointing at a spot on the ground, the D-pad will send a squad member there. If you are pointing at an enemy, the D pad will instead have that squad member launch a power at the enemy. Right side is one squad mate, left side is the other one.
Music to my ears. Squad control and the inventory system were the only two flaws that bothered me with ME1 (360). I hear that the PC version improves on both, but my machine would burst into flames at 320x240 with this game. So fucking psyched that ME2 improves on both.
i'm here to ask at which point do you guys do the wrex's armor sidequest?
because i usually do that right after therum (which i do right after getting off the citadel) and it is difficult on hardcore.
i.e. "my shotgun! the shredder rounds do nothing!"
so i dunno if there's a sequence that we're supposed to do these in or what. i do know that whatever level i'm at, the moon mission is a piece of cake, at least for me.
but, i'm anal, so as soon as i got the moon mission done, i went right back in and finally got the armor. i was...level 20 i think. none of the enemies were using immunity, but it STILL felt as if i wasn't doing very much damage.
guess that's hardcore.
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Wrex's armour quest is a difficult one. Confined spaces and at least on biotic, plus, on harder difficulties it won't help much. Technically, it's supposed to be paced that as soon as it becomes available through Wrex, you should be good enough to deal with it.
The only key is that if you care, do it before Virmire. But otherwise, the uneven difficulty of missions is just a by-product of a non-linear RPG experience.
My InfilHacker is much less fun against organics. Especially organics who spam Immunity. On the other hand, I just need to keep saving my money until I can buy the Spectre pistol, and then life is good.
Incendiary Ammunition and Toxic Ammunition. These are your friends against organics. Put them in your weapons. Put them in your friends' weapons. Hand them out for Halloween. Kill shit dead and watch the pretty lights float away...
Yeah, I've gotten a lot of Phasic and Sledgehammer rounds in my drops. I could shell out for Incendiary, but I'm really trying to save up for the Spectre gear.
Or I will eventually decide that I'm just playing to get a MaleShep worth porting to ME2, and I don't really care about doing Hardcore.
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edited September 2009
I adore Sldegehammer rounds. But for some reason, I still can't bring myself to replace my cryo rounds.
Also, in ME2, I'm gonna beed some Spectre armor in addition to guns. I need more armor options to put my stockpile of Medical Interface and Shield Generator upgrades in.
I have a question: why is it so hard for my vanguard to find weapons upgrades?
I got a bunch early in the game and dumped them because I thought I would get more. However now I get hardly any and those that I do get are always rail extension or combat scanner. I even scour stores for weapons upgrades and find nothing.
I have a question: why is it so hard for my vanguard to find weapons upgrades?
I got a bunch early in the game and dumped them because I thought I would get more. However now I get hardly any and those that I do get are always rail extension or combat scanner. I even scour stores for weapons upgrades and find nothing.
I recently had a dearth of upgrades in the V-VII range, too. Should pick back up for you after then, though.
I have a question: why is it so hard for my vanguard to find weapons upgrades?
I got a bunch early in the game and dumped them because I thought I would get more. However now I get hardly any and those that I do get are always rail extension or combat scanner. I even scour stores for weapons upgrades and find nothing.
I recently had a dearth of upgrades in the V-VII range, too. Should pick back up for you after then, though.
Speaking of upgrades in the V to VII range, there's one thing I really, really hate.
Rail Extensions, Tungsten Rounds, and Shredder Rounds cap out at VII. That means that after a certain level you stop getting them. Except, they're the highest damage upgrades available. If you didn't get enough of them, well you're just screwed.
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I have a question: why is it so hard for my vanguard to find weapons upgrades?
I got a bunch early in the game and dumped them because I thought I would get more. However now I get hardly any and those that I do get are always rail extension or combat scanner. I even scour stores for weapons upgrades and find nothing.
I recently had a dearth of upgrades in the V-VII range, too. Should pick back up for you after then, though.
Speaking of upgrades in the V to VII range, there's one thing I really, really hate.
Rail Extensions, Tungsten Rounds, and Shredder Rounds cap out at VII. That means that after a certain level you stop getting them. Except, they're the highest damage upgrades available. If you didn't get enough of them, well you're just screwed.
Or if you did not know they capped out, and ditched them because they were the VII version and you expected to be getting IX or X versions soon, it was the first week the game came out, and you truly did not know any better - goooooood times party on.
I have a question: why is it so hard for my vanguard to find weapons upgrades?
I got a bunch early in the game and dumped them because I thought I would get more. However now I get hardly any and those that I do get are always rail extension or combat scanner. I even scour stores for weapons upgrades and find nothing.
I recently had a dearth of upgrades in the V-VII range, too. Should pick back up for you after then, though.
Speaking of upgrades in the V to VII range, there's one thing I really, really hate.
Rail Extensions, Tungsten Rounds, and Shredder Rounds cap out at VII. That means that after a certain level you stop getting them. Except, they're the highest damage upgrades available. If you didn't get enough of them, well you're just screwed.
i like level X scram rails more than rail extensions. i can stack two and still have a decent fire time before overheat.
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My InfilHacker is much less fun against organics. Especially organics who spam Immunity. On the other hand, I just need to keep saving my money until I can buy the Spectre pistol, and then life is good.
yeah, I hope you nixed that whole 'krogans trip up and become sponges' mechanic. Especially since it seemed to recharge at about the rate I could kill them under fire.
I have a question: why is it so hard for my vanguard to find weapons upgrades?
I got a bunch early in the game and dumped them because I thought I would get more. However now I get hardly any and those that I do get are always rail extension or combat scanner. I even scour stores for weapons upgrades and find nothing.
I recently had a dearth of upgrades in the V-VII range, too. Should pick back up for you after then, though.
Speaking of upgrades in the V to VII range, there's one thing I really, really hate.
Rail Extensions, Tungsten Rounds, and Shredder Rounds cap out at VII. That means that after a certain level you stop getting them. Except, they're the highest damage upgrades available. If you didn't get enough of them, well you're just screwed.
i like level X scram rails more than rail extensions. i can stack two and still have a decent fire time before overheat.
Snipers go better with the rail extensions though, since they auto-overheat with scram rails anyways.
Oh man, I went back and started my new game plus with my Biotic+Assault rifle.
I gave Garrus the spectre sniper, rail extentions, and explosive rounds.
Jesus. We'll be fighting and every few seconds a body flies back at a billion miles per hour while on fire.
buh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuhFLAMING CORPSE
Also taking the specialty with lift and throw I figured that the fact that anyone I lifted or threw just went into orbit only happened when I was on the citadel. Turns out it happens everywhere where they go flying like there's no gravity. Hell, sometimes I don't even bother shooting them. I just throw them over convenient sides. It's always funny.
Well back in my day we made jokes all following the same theme about how things were better and tougher in the old days and loosely based them around the Mass Effect theme interweaving classic sayings in with game mechanics and themes to create a subtle yet amusing payoff at the end.
I just want to say that I want an Elcor character in the third game.
They mentioned that Shepard was the first human Spectre, but they never mentioned the lack of Elcor, Hanar, or Volus Spectres. Think about it.
They do imply it pretty heavily though.
There are a couple of random NPC conversations about how with humanity starting to get on the path to a council seat those races could theoretically be next, and the Shadow Broker's agent makes a big deal about the fact that when you become a specter it means humanity is gaining power and respect and the Volus might be next.
Not locked one way or the other, but it seems to be intended to lead us that way.
So yeah, once again, first time doing the whole New Game + thing. Biotic. Super awesome biotic. With Assault Rifles. And Garrus turning Geth into flaming projectiles themselves.
I decided to rescue Liara first, since last time I accidentally managed to sleep with Kaiden(I still have flashbacks about that. I didn't even talk to him! Our first conversation was the sex!), and sweaty nerd fantasy is better than that ugly ass.
anyways I'm up against the colossus outside the Mako. I remember nothing working against that shit except a bajillion bullets.
Apparently maxed out with prestige class lift and throw work. There is nothing cooler than lifting the fuck out of a goddamn building.
I just want to say that I want an Elcor character in the third game.
They mentioned that Shepard was the first human Spectre, but they never mentioned the lack of Elcor, Hanar, or Volus Spectres. Think about it.
They do imply it pretty heavily though.
There are a couple of random NPC conversations about how with humanity starting to get on the path to a council seat those races could theoretically be next, and the Shadow Broker's agent makes a big deal about the fact that when you become a specter it means humanity is gaining power and respect and the Volus might be next.
Not locked one way or the other, but it seems to be intended to lead us that way.
Yet you'd think the volus ambassador would mention something about that...
This one is going to break your fingers if you don't tell it what it needs to know. You think the Council will save you? The Council answers to this one, not the other way around.
in my day son we didn't have shotguns to put our shredder rounds in
we used melee, in waist-deep snow, uphill, both ways, and we liked it
We put barbed wire on our feet for traction, and dammit, we were glad to have it.
you spoiled brats complained about the elevators
back in the days men were men, we used the stairs
that'll put hair on your chest
Oh, you kids with your so-called "stairs." I bet you used your sissy little FTL engines and spaceships, too?
When I was a kid, we didn't have those luxuries! When we explored space we WALKED to the nearest star! That's right, took us ten thousand years even to get to Alpha Centuri, in zero Kelvin, through a meteor shower! You know what we called that weather? Bracing!
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edited September 2009
Oh, you mean you guys never took the stairs instead of the elevator? It's a minigame where you have to use the analog sticks to find the correct pacing (like Summer Games on C64) in order to climb the stairs. The Presidium Tower is a bitch (over 8000 steps), but it's really rewarding if you manage to make it under 4 minutes.
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This one is going to break your fingers if you don't tell it what it needs to know. You think the Council will save you? The Council answers to this one, not the other way around.
A hanar serial killer that told its name to its victims before sending them on their way to the Enkindlers would be pretty cool
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This one is going to break your fingers if you don't tell it what it needs to know. You think the Council will save you? The Council answers to this one, not the other way around.
i think i love you
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So I've got kind of a weird issue. I used to recover my Xbox live profile between 2 boxes on a semi-frequent basis. Well for a long stretch the actual live profile was tied to my buddy's xbox, and I got a good chunk of my ME achievements with a profile that wasn't 'up to date' or some such nonsense. Well apparently when you sync your profile, it just overwrites the stuff on the current one with whatever is on Live.
So I've got a bunch of missing achievements, and I can't seem to get them again, because I think the game/save file thinks I have them. The strange thing is, I appear to be missing the bonuses tied to some of these as well.
Can I just wipe everything clean and start over? Honestly I could enjoy starting over, but I'm not sure if there's an easy way to do it and be sure I'll be truly starting fresh.
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Music to my ears. Squad control and the inventory system were the only two flaws that bothered me with ME1 (360). I hear that the PC version improves on both, but my machine would burst into flames at 320x240 with this game. So fucking psyched that ME2 improves on both.
because i usually do that right after therum (which i do right after getting off the citadel) and it is difficult on hardcore.
i.e. "my shotgun! the shredder rounds do nothing!"
so i dunno if there's a sequence that we're supposed to do these in or what. i do know that whatever level i'm at, the moon mission is a piece of cake, at least for me.
but, i'm anal, so as soon as i got the moon mission done, i went right back in and finally got the armor. i was...level 20 i think. none of the enemies were using immunity, but it STILL felt as if i wasn't doing very much damage.
guess that's hardcore.
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we used melee, in waist-deep snow, uphill, both ways, and we liked it
The only key is that if you care, do it before Virmire. But otherwise, the uneven difficulty of missions is just a by-product of a non-linear RPG experience.
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Don't put it in the assault rifle though, that was a poor choice on my part.
Or I will eventually decide that I'm just playing to get a MaleShep worth porting to ME2, and I don't really care about doing Hardcore.
Also, in ME2, I'm gonna beed some Spectre armor in addition to guns. I need more armor options to put my stockpile of Medical Interface and Shield Generator upgrades in.
Level 1 Adept on Insanity = Ultimate experience.
I got a bunch early in the game and dumped them because I thought I would get more. However now I get hardly any and those that I do get are always rail extension or combat scanner. I even scour stores for weapons upgrades and find nothing.
I recently had a dearth of upgrades in the V-VII range, too. Should pick back up for you after then, though.
Speaking of upgrades in the V to VII range, there's one thing I really, really hate.
Rail Extensions, Tungsten Rounds, and Shredder Rounds cap out at VII. That means that after a certain level you stop getting them. Except, they're the highest damage upgrades available. If you didn't get enough of them, well you're just screwed.
Or if you did not know they capped out, and ditched them because they were the VII version and you expected to be getting IX or X versions soon, it was the first week the game came out, and you truly did not know any better - goooooood times party on.
i like level X scram rails more than rail extensions. i can stack two and still have a decent fire time before overheat.
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yeah, I hope you nixed that whole 'krogans trip up and become sponges' mechanic. Especially since it seemed to recharge at about the rate I could kill them under fire.
Snipers go better with the rail extensions though, since they auto-overheat with scram rails anyways.
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I gave Garrus the spectre sniper, rail extentions, and explosive rounds.
Jesus. We'll be fighting and every few seconds a body flies back at a billion miles per hour while on fire.
buh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuhFLAMING CORPSE
Also taking the specialty with lift and throw I figured that the fact that anyone I lifted or threw just went into orbit only happened when I was on the citadel. Turns out it happens everywhere where they go flying like there's no gravity. Hell, sometimes I don't even bother shooting them. I just throw them over convenient sides. It's always funny.
We put barbed wire on our feet for traction, and dammit, we were glad to have it.
They mentioned that Shepard was the first human Spectre, but they never mentioned the lack of Elcor, Hanar, or Volus Spectres. Think about it.
you spoiled brats complained about the elevators
back in the days men were men, we used the stairs
that'll put hair on your chest
And we liked it goddamit
They do imply it pretty heavily though.
Not locked one way or the other, but it seems to be intended to lead us that way.
So yeah, once again, first time doing the whole New Game + thing. Biotic. Super awesome biotic. With Assault Rifles. And Garrus turning Geth into flaming projectiles themselves.
I decided to rescue Liara first, since last time I accidentally managed to sleep with Kaiden(I still have flashbacks about that. I didn't even talk to him! Our first conversation was the sex!), and sweaty nerd fantasy is better than that ugly ass.
anyways I'm up against the colossus outside the Mako. I remember nothing working against that shit except a bajillion bullets.
Apparently maxed out with prestige class lift and throw work. There is nothing cooler than lifting the fuck out of a goddamn building.
Yet you'd think the volus ambassador would mention something about that...
You're likely just reading things into it.
Oh, you kids with your so-called "stairs." I bet you used your sissy little FTL engines and spaceships, too?
When I was a kid, we didn't have those luxuries! When we explored space we WALKED to the nearest star! That's right, took us ten thousand years even to get to Alpha Centuri, in zero Kelvin, through a meteor shower! You know what we called that weather? Bracing!
A hanar serial killer that told its name to its victims before sending them on their way to the Enkindlers would be pretty cool
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So I've got a bunch of missing achievements, and I can't seem to get them again, because I think the game/save file thinks I have them. The strange thing is, I appear to be missing the bonuses tied to some of these as well.
Can I just wipe everything clean and start over? Honestly I could enjoy starting over, but I'm not sure if there's an easy way to do it and be sure I'll be truly starting fresh.