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[enormousmoonboots]

Meta Ray Mek wrote...

That is SO cute.

Also as an aside, I'm really beginning to loathe the recruitment mission, if for the second shutter you have to close /w the Blood Pack people. I've got Zaeed and Jack (though Zaeed is staying behind with Garrus) and my Shep this time is an Engineer... I'd hate to leave Garrus all alone, but I've died at least 4-5 times now. D;

On Insanity, I'd actually advise against taking Jack anywhere (unless she has squad warp ammo), since biotics only works on enemies down to their health. Garrus's recruitment is largely vorcha and krogan, so you pretty much NEED someone with Incendiary Ammo to stop them from regenerating; if you've done Zaeed's LM, his Inferno Grenade works too. Miranda is (unfortunately) one of the best squadmates because she passively increases your health and damage, has Overload for shields, and Warp for armor and barrier. Jacob and Grunt have shotguns and Incendiary Ammo, so they're pretty good choices for coming with you to the shutters. And make use of the sprint/storm button; you need to get to that shutter as fast as possible or enemies will just keep spawning.

Also, a general tip: after you close the first shutter, run back up the stairs to the armory thing. Go into the 'select loadout' screen and quit out. ALL OF YOUR AMMO IS REFILLED. I just about cried when my friend showed me this.

[Kim Shepard]

I just make different Shepards for different romances. xD If I played through the Garrus romance with anyone except Shepard #2 (and her clone), it would almost be like he was cheating on her.

It's good to know I'm not the only one who doesn't have any DLC. It would be nice if everyone could just buy the DLC in disk-form like the expansion packs... that's what I would want, anyway.

[Nightfire78]

Remaix wrote...

Nightfire78 wrote...
mwahahaha, I was so waiting for that... Now he just needs a mustache and a cigar and he can be a vid star

...I was really, really, really bored, alright. (that crappy edit took me nearly half an hour XD)

...I need to get myself a life!

"Elementary, my dear Kaiden" ...

[SavageLycan]

Nightfire78 wrote...

Remaix wrote...

Nightfire78 wrote...
mwahahaha, I was so waiting for that... Now he just needs a mustache and a cigar and he can be a vid star

...I was really, really, really bored, alright. (that crappy edit took me nearly half an hour XD)

...I need to get myself a life!

"Elementary, my dear Kaiden" ...

Get out of my head! I was totally about to do the whole Sherlock Holmes thing! MIND NINJA'd!

[Sialater]

Kim Shepard wrote...

I just make different Shepards for different romances. xD If I played through the Garrus romance with anyone except Shepard #2 (and her clone), it would almost be like he was cheating on her.
It's good to know I'm not the only one who doesn't have any DLC. It would be nice if everyone could just buy the DLC in disk-form like the expansion packs... that's what I would want, anyway.

I'll have two years to do this.   I'll probably leave my triangle Shep alone, I've already got the dedicated Kaiden Shep.  IF I like the Thane and Jacob romances, I'll make two more Sheps to carry forward.  AND I'll make one just for Garrus. 

What's really sad is that before our 360 died this past time, I had more than enough completed Sheps to do this already.  *whimper*

Thank God for Best Buy's replacement policy.

[Nightfire78]

Oh, sorry SavageLycan, I forgot... "RELEASING CONTROL" =D



I'm just glad I'm not the only one who saw Garrus Holmes there

[Tootles FTW]

Nightfire78 wrote...
Garrus' mission is a huge toughy for me too... On Casual I had no problem anywhere except that mission (3-4 deaths)... Playthrough on Normal, no problems anywhere except there (8 deaths at least)... well and I died twice on that praetorian or whatever the floating laser shooting thingit on Horizon is. Since my shooter skill is pretty much maxed at "normal" level, I have no statistics from anything more "insane" ... Of course, I always leave someone with Garrus, perhaps it would go better on me otherwise, but I just can't bring myself to leave him alone out there

I only ever play casual unless achievements are involved (and even then I only go up to Normal mode), but jeezus...that ONE corner in particular during Garrus's recruitment mission where that damn flamethrowing sonova**** is lurking in wait.  That and Horizon had to be the worst areas for me, death-wise.

Also, now I have to replay Garrus's recruitment just to see the body bags that I apparently missed. 

[Nightfire78]

Ugh... you just had to mention the flamethrower guy, didn't you. He's the stuff nightmares are made of... really annoying nightmares...

I also need to replay it... I honestly never noticed 1. beds 2. a kitchen or 3. body bags... apparently all I ever see is the stairs and Garrus

Modifié par Nightfire78, 23 février 2010 - 11:37 .

[Sialater]

Tootles FTW wrote...

I only ever play casual unless achievements are involved (and even then I only go up to Normal mode), but jeezus...that ONE corner in particular during Garrus's recruitment mission where that damn flamethrowing sonova**** is lurking in wait.  That and Horizon had to be the worst areas for me, death-wise.

Also, now I have to replay Garrus's recruitment just to see the body bags that I apparently missed. 

I play all difficulties.  But I play normal at first just to figure out the GUI.  Took me forever to get the hang of ducking behind cover and vaulting over.

That flamethrower guy was a pain in the rear.

[Kim Shepard]

Sialater wrote...

Kim Shepard wrote...

I just make different Shepards for different romances. xD If I played through the Garrus romance with anyone except Shepard #2 (and her clone), it would almost be like he was cheating on her.
It's good to know I'm not the only one who doesn't have any DLC. It would be nice if everyone could just buy the DLC in disk-form like the expansion packs... that's what I would want, anyway.

I'll have two years to do this.   I'll probably leave my triangle Shep alone, I've already got the dedicated Kaiden Shep.  IF I like the Thane and Jacob romances, I'll make two more Sheps to carry forward.  AND I'll make one just for Garrus. 

What's really sad is that before our 360 died this past time, I had more than enough completed Sheps to do this already.  *whimper*

Thank God for Best Buy's replacement policy.

It'll probably take me two years to play all of the Shepards I planned out too. xD I only bought ME1 a couple months before the second came out, and finished a quick second playthrough with a female Shepard when I read about the Garrus romance.

That is the reason why I never download anything or use Xbox-Live... I've had bad luck with computers and the internet, so there's no way I'd connect it to my game system. D: I have no idea if that's related to any problems with the 360 (or other game systems), but I'm not taking any chances.

[Cerrydd]

Nightfire78 wrote...
I also need to replay it... I honestly never noticed 1. beds 2. a kitchen or 3. body bags... apparently all I ever see is the stairs and Garrus

Me neither. I'm too busy killing the baddies and running back to Garrus, because he'll keep saying "come back and meet me before they regroup". lol.

Alright, bedtime for me. Hopefully no flamethrower nightmares.

[enormousmoonboots]

Yeah, the flamethrower bastard is equally bastard on all difficulties. The only cheap trick I have for you there is either take cover on the corner wall + shotgun to face, or, for maximum cheese, Blackstorm Singularity Projector (or any Adept could toss a Singularity of their own). You can curve biotic, tech, and Concussive Shot around corners with some careful aiming (if there's red corners separate from your crosshairs around an enemy while you're on the power-selecting screen, it will curve to them, to a limited degree).



/gameplay advice corner

[Annora]

Sialater wrote...

I'm pretty sure the Rachni was the bottom choice. Killing the geth Heretics was the bottom (which is what I did), Anderson was definitely the bottom choice.

So I was wrong on one.

I made Garrus spare Saleon because his need for revenge wasn't personal, it was professional. Saleon did nothing to HIM, per se. Sidonis, on the other hand... it was entirely personal and my Shep put herself in his boots for a minute, remembering the dog tags she retrieved from the Normandy Crash Site. She stepped out of the way.

Doesn't mean I'll do that all the time, just this time.

No, letting the rachni queen go was the paragon choice, dumping a tank full of acid on her while she was helpless was renegade. Anderson was also the paragon choice, though it didn't mean much since you have to pick who presides on the Council at the beginning of this game anyway. And blowing up the collector base was the paragon ending, giving it to Cerberus is renegade.

[enormousmoonboots]

WRT: Renegade/Paragon choices--my friend always complains to me that, the way Paragon and Renegade are defined (Paragon is by-the-book military officer, Renegade is rulebreaker who gets the job done at any cost), some choices *should* be swapped; everything in career soldier Shepard's training would tell her to kill the rachni queen right off, for example. Much like Jade Empire, alignment ultimately got kind of dumbed down to flat-out good/evil, which is...annoying. It should be more like Lawful/Chaotic, and even then, I would consider it a Lawful decision to kill the rachni queen, since even in the second game you have no way of verifying anything she tells you.

[dream_avatar]

siltsonata wrote...

Ms Cherissa wrote...
That's apparently a RL law enforcement/military standard design, or a combo of images commonly used, including the stylized bird and the two bars. I haven't image-searched it yet but I'm guessing a patch like it exists.

No way.   I have to find it, because now I'm suddenly dead-set on making a hoodie that mimics Garrus's armor.

/delurk
Not sure if this is the closest insignia there is or not but the Archangel insignia looks similar to the U.S. Army Specialist 6 insignia. (http://upload.wikime.../E-6_-_SPC6.PNG)

[Ms Cherissa]

I've never thought of those as the definitions for Paragon and Renegade. Huh.

[enormousmoonboots]

dream_avatar wrote...

siltsonata wrote...

Ms Cherissa wrote...
That's apparently a RL law enforcement/military standard design, or a combo of images commonly used, including the stylized bird and the two bars. I haven't image-searched it yet but I'm guessing a patch like it exists.

No way.   I have to find it, because now I'm suddenly dead-set on making a hoodie that mimics Garrus's armor.

/delurk
Not sure if this is the closest insignia there is or not but the Archangel insignia looks similar to the U.S. Army Specialist 6 insignia. (http://upload.wikime.../E-6_-_SPC6.PNG)

Actually, it seems like a reference to the generally Roman nature of the turians; the aquila was the eagle standard of the Roman legion. I find it looks disturbingly like the symbol of the Imperium of Man. Well, if you want a stylized eagle, 40k fans are the place to go.

Modifié par enormousmoonboots, 24 février 2010 - 12:30 .

[siltsonata]

Hm, I thought we were saying that the patch probably already existed somewhere. I'll make my own if I have to, obviously, I'm just lazy as hell so less work is usually good.

[Kim Shepard]

Anastassia wrote...

No, letting the rachni queen go was the paragon choice, dumping a tank full of acid on her while she was helpless was renegade. Anderson was also the paragon choice, though it didn't mean much since you have to pick who presides on the Council at the beginning of this game anyway. And blowing up the collector base was the paragon ending, giving it to Cerberus is renegade.

This makes me wonder... Did anyone have their Shepards choose the "wrong" options when Miranda and Jacob are questioning Shepard about his/her past and the events of ME1? Now I'm curious if they'll think Shepard is going crazy or they messed up on the Lazarus Project. xD

[Gerse1]

snu55lepuff wrote...


I know what you mean. 6 days. 7 playthroughs. Every one of them Garrus. I kind of feel like I ruined the game for myself playing it that much, but it was just so damn fun! I will literally eat up any DLC, free or not, just for a chance to return to that world :/

Holy guacamole. 7 playthroughs in 6 days? I know there are lots of people who go through games realllllllly fast like that (and this is in no way a criticism I'm just amazed) but...wow.  I'm not sure I could do that even if I didn't have work, school, friends, hobbies, basic needs like sleep....  (ok again that sounds like I'm trying to insult people who finish games fast but that's not what I'm implying...I'm just trying to say ...I guess...that I can't imagine having that much time or being able to beat them that quickly). 
How does one go through game like ME2 that quickly? I mean sure the later playthroughs will be quicker especially if you aren't doing side missions or delving into dialogue trees for every convo, but my first playthrough is like 40 hours logged.  I guess I just take my time with games, I never understood why people rush through them.  With games like ME I have to explore every corner, talk to every person.  When I arrive in a beautiful new level for the first time, Illium for example, I just stand and look around for a moment.  Just feels like that's what I paid my 60 bucks for.  And if you are actually thorough like that (do all missions, all NPC quests, always "investigate" dialogue), you have no choice but to log at least 30 hours on a playthrough.  Of course, I am not as expert at shooter combat as some, so that explains some of the extra time.  But wow.

[Gerse1]

Splinter Cell 108 wrote...


It's the same thing with me. I'm probably not going to romance anyone else at least not with the same character. The other romances deserve different characters and making 2 more female Shepards would be really hard and time consuming since I would start from ME1 and I'd get to level 60 which takes me 3 playthroughs of ME1.

Isn't it possible to "reconstruct" the face of an imported Shep? I haven't tried yet, but I was contemplating the same problem.  I want a different female Shepard to be my renegade, and a different one to "stay true" to Kaiden (I don't even really want to, but I'm gonna hold my nose and do it just in case the ME1 LI story in ME3 is really really good).  I don't know ifyou can change their name, but if you have a Shepard who made all the decisions you want in ME1, I think you can change their face during the Lazarus project stuff. Just pretend they are a "new" one.  As long as that doesn't bother you.  May not be any worse than replaying ME1.  

[silentstephi]

So I'm backing up my ME movie drive (for that eventual MV I'm planning on making /flail) since I just got a new HD! Yaaaay! Boo taking an hour to swap the files over. Gonna upgrade to Win7...



So I'm probably going to steal the laptop to continue with this Garrus related thought:



So, as much as I would absolutely LOVE to visit Palaven, and see fauna and local wildlife as well as just what a turian port/city would look like, is his dad Retired C-Sec? Because wouldn't Papa Vak be on the Citidal? Or did I miss something some where?



PS: That plushie is ADORABLE.

[enormousmoonboots]

Kim Shepard wrote...

Anastassia wrote...

No, letting the rachni queen go was the paragon choice, dumping a tank full of acid on her while she was helpless was renegade. Anderson was also the paragon choice, though it didn't mean much since you have to pick who presides on the Council at the beginning of this game anyway. And blowing up the collector base was the paragon ending, giving it to Cerberus is renegade.

This makes me wonder... Did anyone have their Shepards choose the "wrong" options when Miranda and Jacob are questioning Shepard about his/her past and the events of ME1? Now I'm curious if they'll think Shepard is going crazy or they messed up on the Lazarus Project. xD

Unfortunately, that's not an option; when you import a game all of those options are set, so all you can do is respond to their "So you're a War Hero/Ruthless/Sole Survivor..." stuff with a Paragon/Renegade line ("I did what I had to"/"HELL YEAH KILLING BATARIANS", in essence). The only thing you actually have an option for is the human councilor, even if you imported. A strange choice; if I was gonna change any of my ME1 decisions it wouldn't be that one. I would have liked to troll Cerberus with wrong answers.

[Gerse1]

Kim Shepard wrote...

Anastassia wrote...

No, letting the rachni queen go was the paragon choice, dumping a tank full of acid on her while she was helpless was renegade. Anderson was also the paragon choice, though it didn't mean much since you have to pick who presides on the Council at the beginning of this game anyway. And blowing up the collector base was the paragon ending, giving it to Cerberus is renegade.

This makes me wonder... Did anyone have their Shepards choose the "wrong" options when Miranda and Jacob are questioning Shepard about his/her past and the events of ME1? Now I'm curious if they'll think Shepard is going crazy or they messed up on the Lazarus Project. xD

YES accidentally screwed up and got Udina on the council.  I had thought maybe if you pick the wrong choice, Miranda says "oh apparently her memory's not as good as we thought" but instead she was like "yes that's right" and I was like...huh..weird...I didn't realize it actually puts him on the council until I went to the Citadel and Anderson was complaining about him.  As I'd already done several missions at that point, definitely didn't want to practically start the game over.  It kind of made me mad.  What was the point of that?  They ask you who you Virmired and everything.  Doesn't that kill the whole, you know, "making choices with consequences" thing? (de ja vu all over again). If it was for people who didn't play ME1, then they should have made sure to write something else for the vast majority who did.