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[Sir-diealot]

First off thanks again to those of you that helped me with Mass Effect 1 I beat it last night.

Now I have started playing 2 (PC) and I am lost with something. I am trying to do the hacking stuff where you have to match up the colored segments and I find them OK but I don't know how to select them. I have tried left mouse click, enter, and the Space bar but none of them seem to work.

Any idea of what I am doing wrong and what I have to do? It did not come with instructions. Thank you in advance for your time and any help given.

[PsiFive]

Yes, it's not obvious, particularly as the bypass minigame uses the mouse which made me think the hacking was the same. That you have to avoid the red ones was obvious but it took me ages to figure out that you actually move the highlight around with W,A,S and D for up, left, down and right respectively. I was pretty sure you select with Space but since you say you've tried that I'm doubting my memory. I'll have to replay it to be sure now and I'm in the middle of an ME1 replay so I'd probably get the controls mixed up anyway.

Edit: Just googled and it looks like it is Space to select unless the interact button has been remapped to something else.

Modifié par PsiFive, 01 mai 2012 - 06:42 .

[Sir-diealot]

OK thank you PsiFive perhaps I thought I used space and did not. I did figure the WASD right off the bat after not being able to use the arrow keys. I will try it when I wake up and let you know. My eyes are hurting to much to try right not.

[Tonymac]

Yeah - its space. yo uwill get the hang of it and NEVER ever waste money on the hack modules. they are a waste of time.

[Sir-diealot]

Yep just tried it any came into forum to let you know it worked. Now another question, should I start over? I have just been leaving those behind because I could not figure it out. I am only a short bit into it.

[PsiFive]

How short is only a short bit into it? I'd seriously think of starting again because ME2 is as stingy with credits as ME1 was insanely generous and the hack modules almost all have money in them. In fact even if you earn every single credit in the game there's not actually enough to buy everything that's for sale, at least not in the first playthrough (subsequent playthroughs will have a useful money bonus). But then if you're still early in the game you won't actually have missed all that many and if you stick to essentials and avoid buying stuff to decorate your cabin on the Normandy you might be okay.

[Sir-diealot]

I decided to go on after I posted, I just got Archangel (Garrus) and gave some parts to the engineers. I will have to deal with it I guess.

Modifié par Sir-diealot, 03 mai 2012 - 03:09 .

[PsiFive]

Yeah, you probably haven't missed out on more than half a dozen, and mostly <1000 credits each, but if my memory serves one or two in the Archangel recruitment mission had quite a bit of money in them. Like I said before, probably not cost you vast amounts but I wouldn't go off buying everything to display in your quarters now in case you find yourself short of cash for an important weapon upgrade you want later. Or spend some real world money on the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC as there's a fair bit of money to be had on that mission, though you can't do it until later on anyway,

[Sir-diealot]

Never heard of the Lair of the Shadow Broker, I may look into it. I know there is some kind of multiplayer I have seen on EA that you can buy but it did not sound very interesting. I am having another problem though, I fly to one of the Green arrow areas that I assume represent some kind of planet because there is a percentage thing there but then when I click on them it brings me out to another universe that I have already been to. Am I misunderstanding something?

[PsiFive]

Without giving much away in this spoiler free area, Lair of the Shadow Broker is a large DLC mission that involves Liara from ME1 and stuff that happened while Shepard was sort of dead. It has many arses to be kicked, names to be taken and credits and upgrades to be picked up. I'd say it's by far the best of the playable DLC for ME2, which is just as well as it's also the most expensive if I recall. It's not multi-player as there is no multi-player for ME2, just ME3. Can't comment on that as I've not played it, multi-player online holds about as much interest for me as steaming off old wallpaper and we're talking about ME2 anyway.

Sir-diealot wrote...

I am having another problem though, I fly to one of the Green arrow areas that I assume represent some kind of planet because there is a percentage thing there but then when I click on them it brings me out to another universe that I have already been to. Am I misunderstanding something?

Okay, they changed the galaxy map a bit from how it works in ME1. I'm not at the computer with the games installed so I'm going from memory here, but in the ME2 galaxy map each relay you can travel through is marked with a percentage of how much of the surrounding cluster you've visited, and in turn when you go through and come out in the solar system the relay's in there's a percentage up in the corner to show you how much of that system you've checked out as well as a green ring around the outside with pointers to the other local systems and percentages for those systems too. Visit 3 planets in a 5 planet system and it'll say 60% for that system, but if there are two more five planet systems nearby that you haven't visited at all yet then the cluster in the galaxy map will show 20%. Visit one more planet in that system and it'll go up to 80% in the system and, er, (gets calculator out) 27% for the cluster.

It sounds like this is where you are - you've flown to the edge of the solar system and the screen's zoomed out, but it's not showing a universe, just the local cluster. Click to enter the system you're on and you go straight back to where you came from, but click anywhere else in the cluster (and hold the mouse button down for this like you do when flying around inside a system) and the Normandy will begin to fly toward it. If you've clicked in the direction of another system then you begin flying in that direction, and just like flying to a planet inside a system you just mouse-fly the Normandy all the way there. Unlike flying inside a system this will use up fuel which you have to pay to replace, and in general only systems with a mass relay in have a refuelling station (you can buy probes there too, though they come in packs of five), so it's best to fly as direct as possible to other systems rather than explore the nothing-to-see-here vacuum in between, and watch your fuel because obviously if you use more than half getting there you won't have enough to get back and there's probably no space gas station and definitely no mass relay where you're going. When you get to another system, and by the way I found it easy to overshoot and have to do a space U-turn, it gets highlighted and the Enter System button appears. You can then explore that the same way you did the system with the mass relay in.

[Sir-diealot]

Thanks again for all your help. Mass Effect is the first gaming series of this type I have ever tried, I have always been a FPS gamer so I guess I am learning a whole new thought process for this style of gaming. I am really began to enjoy it half way through the first one and you and others here have been a big help.

[PsiFive]

No worries.