Mass Effect 2

[Kuya]

You can't equip it if nobody in your posession can use assault rifles.

edit: and no, he doesn't use rifles, only smg (or heavy pistol, i forget) and sniper rifles.

[Exoduso]

I just beat it... the final dungeon was epic beyond belief!
As for the squadmates...

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I just wished I knew what I actually did that caused the specific squad members that died to die though... since it seemed random. I picked Legion for the first specialist mission and he did just fine and survived it... but then in the next section I picked Miranda for the 2nd specialist and she survived as well, but Thane got captured by the swarm right at the door and was taken away... it seemed extremely random and pissed me off, but I don't know what I did wrong and if the character slot I used to choose him for my party got him killed, or perhaps I simply wasn't supposed to pick him to be in my party for that section...
The second squadmate I lost was Jack, right at the end... apparently, she was the only one who didn't make it at the area where the rest of the team was holding off the collectors as I was dealing with the human reaper.. She was also the one to pick up the comm when Shepard called her, but I dunno if that makes a difference.

Ugh, this game will drive me mad attempting different combinations time and time again!

[BadKarma]

I just beat it... the final dungeon was epic beyond belief!

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I just wished I knew what I actually did that caused the specific squad members that died to die though... since it seemed random.

Same here

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I lost Mordin and Thane.

Also:

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The pan out to the tens of thousands of reapers left me saying....fuck, how....gdi. I saved the collector base btw

[Exoduso]

I edited my post... did something like that happen to you as well?

[BadKarma]

I edited my post... did something like that happen to you as well?

Not exactly.

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Thane died in the same way, but Mordin was my 2nd squad leader and died from a bullet wound as he got in the blast doors. Everyone that I left behind to hold the collectors off when i fought the larva made it. They were all biotics save for Grunt though, and all my biotics + grunt had max upgrades

[Exoduso]

Not exactly.

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Thane died in the same way, but Mordin was my 2nd squad leader and died from a bullet wound as he got in the blast doors. Everyone that I left behind to hold the collectors off when i fought the larva made it. They were all biotics save for Grunt though, and all my biotics + grunt had max upgrades

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I guess 2 squad members have to die... if you finish the quota before that part, then every one that remains survives... that's my theory anyways, starting a new game now with the save from my first run, so we'll see... I'll have them all maxed before I reach that dungeon.

[Komm Suesser Tod]

The fucking thermal clip shit pisses me off. What possible reason would there be for technology getting worse after two years?

[BadKarma]

The fucking thermal clip shit pisses me off. What possible reason would there be for technology getting worse after two years?

That's actually not unusual and Miranda explained it. The tech in the guns caused them to become more powerful and therefore generate more heat, causing the guns to be unable to disperse the heat on their own. Hence the need for ejectable heat sinks.

[Exoduso]

Not exactly.

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Thane died in the same way, but Mordin was my 2nd squad leader and died from a bullet wound as he got in the blast doors. Everyone that I left behind to hold the collectors off when i fought the larva made it. They were all biotics save for Grunt though, and all my biotics + grunt had max upgrades

BTW, I just realized that there is an achievement called no one left behind where you're supposed to survive the final mission with all your teammates... so I guess that it does depend on the choices you make.

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I know for a fact that choosing Legion in the first section to go through the pipe works; as for the part where you're going through the area with the swarms, I used Miranda but she was losing her shields towards the end, which is probably why Thane was taken away... perhaps Samara will do a better job? For the final part it's hard to say... I took Miranda and Garrus, and sent Legion to escort the doctor back to the Normandy... Legion brought them to safety so that's good... now I just need to figure out the character combination to take with Shepard to fight the human reaper so that the rest of the team actually survives the assault.

[Brill Weave]

Skipped going to the gym yesterday to pick it up. Kind of wishing I had leveled my guys to 60 on ME before loading up on ME2. But so far I'm enjoying it.

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Though I'm only at the point where you Joker and the Normandy back from the Illusive Man. So now I have to go to Omega and get the scientist guy since they are really pushing me to do so.

[Odesseiron]

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I guess 2 squad members have to die... if you finish the quota before that part, then every one that remains survives... that's my theory anyways, starting a new game now with the save from my first run, so we'll see... I'll have them all maxed before I reach that dungeon.

Untrue.

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I beat the game and lost nobody. I chose the pretty obvious choices as to who leads the alt. teams. I chose Garrus in both situations as he was familiar with leading his own team before. I also had Legion do the hacking, as he is an A.I, so he can hack just about anything. Everything worked out for me just fine. I'm sure that there are other combos that will work as well, those just seemed blatently obvious to me.

[Akucaen]

Untrue.

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I beat the game and lost nobody. I chose the pretty obvious choices as to who leads the alt. teams. I chose Garrus in both situations as he was familiar with leading his own team before. I also had Legion do the hacking, as he is an A.I, so he can hack just about anything. Everything worked out for me just fine. I'm sure that there are other combos that will work as well, those just seemed blatently obvious to me.

Hmm. I'm still working on my second playthrough but...

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At all the prompts it just SCREAMED, "oh they're gonna die, don't you worry." Instead of picking the best team member for the job, I was sending off people I didn't like very much.

[Hellfury]

Ngh, I told myself I was only playing through once, then focus back on uni, but screw it, I

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got the salarian killed. Despite loyalty

Unacceptable! once more unto the breach

Question to everyone who finished.

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if your entire team made it. Who did you have do what (in detail)? Odesseiron had Garrus lead the two teams and legion go ai hacking, did you use miranda or the asari justicar to hold the shields?

[Thulius]

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if your entire team made it. Who did you have do what (in detail)? Odesseiron had Garrus lead the two teams and legion go ai hacking, did you use miranda or the asari justicar to hold the shields?

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Jack and Samara are fine for holding the barrier, no idea about Miranda. Tali also lives through the hacking, and Grunt is good for the escort. Garrus is the obvious fire team leader, so I think that covers everything.

[Diamicles]

Picked this up last night, and was able to spend 2 hours with it.

Very happy that essentially everything has improved Only qualm with the game so far is that the talents don't seem to be as customizable as they were in ME1 - doesn't seem to be as many available, but stuff probably unlocks later that I don't know about yet.

My lv42 shepard that I imported started at lv2 with 180k+ credits and 2500 of each harvesting material. Also it makes a big difference in what your alignment was for your ME1 character, my guy was a Paragon and came in with ~135 paragon points which helps unlock stuff you might not have access to if you just start a new character.

Can't wait to waste 30 more hours on this game!

[Insanecyclone]

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Short and easy dlc but exciting nonetheless. You get a flamethrower heavy weapon out of it so it wasn't all bad.

[Atreides]

Very happy that essentially everything has improved Only qualm with the game so far is that the talents don't seem to be as customizable as they were in ME1 - doesn't seem to be as many available, but stuff probably unlocks later that I don't know about yet.

I agree with this for the most part. I kinda miss having 20+ powers between tali, liara, and myself, so maybe I'm just not used to it but the whole power system just feels a little too streamlined. That, and the fact that they did away with XP from killing enemies make levels feel a bit arbitrary. Also, scanning is relaxing but beyond tedious, although I can't say it's any worse than driving the mako around looking for crap.

Still, game is amazing etc

[BadKarma]

BTW, I just realized that there is an achievement called no one left behind where you're supposed to survive the final mission with all your teammates... so I guess that it does depend on the choices you make.

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I know for a fact that choosing Legion in the first section to go through the pipe works; as for the part where you're going through the area with the swarms, I used Miranda but she was losing her shields towards the end, which is probably why Thane was taken away... perhaps Samara will do a better job? For the final part it's hard to say... I took Miranda and Garrus, and sent Legion to escort the doctor back to the Normandy... Legion brought them to safety so that's good... now I just need to figure out the character combination to take with Shepard to fight the human reaper so that the rest of the team actually survives the assault.

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Samara did the shield for me and I still lost Thane

[ZarakiKujata]

although I can't say it's any worse than driving the mako around looking for crap.

Still, game is amazing etc

There are no 70 degree mountains in space?

[rezn0r]

does anyone know of any locations that have the CE (360) still, that aren't jacked up prices? i had it preordered from cduniverse but that just turned into a backorder which i'm expecting to never get filled. i'm not really in a rush, i still have to play the first one a few times, but i'd like to have the CE.