Mass Effect 2

[E-Man]

When it's time for me to do the suicide mission, I'm going to try to ensure that everybody lives; I want to see all the characters back in ME3. Hopefully Liara and Ashley will return as well.

I like everyone(except Jack), but I don't want to see them all come back as team members. I would love it if I got a chance to do missions to help them out like with Liara, but the way they introduced a new team in ME2 was pretty cool. They gave us two of my favorites in Tali and Garrus, but new teammates gave the story a better feel since I was working with Cerberus instead of the Alliance and the Council.

Then again, the way we all survived that suicide mission makes me think that everyone would want to stick with Shepard. It was awesome the way everyone looked at him at the end. I was like, "Yeah that's right. You love me because I kill all the bad things. Lets go kill some more reapers."

 

[War Party]

I lost Thane in my renegade playthrough and Miranda in my paragon. As much as I would liked to have everyone survive, I'm sticking by my decisions. I feel it's kinda cheap to go back and change what you originally did, because I think it takes the fun out of it.

 

[Soapy]

I agree.

 

[Havok83]

I lost Thane in my renegade playthrough and Miranda in my paragon. As much as I would liked to have everyone survive, I'm sticking by my decisions. I feel it's kinda cheap to go back and change what you originally did, because I think it takes the fun out of it.

Tali being dead is my canon ending, but I made another one in which she lived bc I want to see how she is integrated into the story with that scenario

 

[zenith16]

wow I managed not to loose any one. Then again I was one of those few that ported my shepard from the first. oh well explains alot I guess.

 

[javi1024]

i read that you have to sit through the credits to be able to send that file to ME3. how does that work? does it lock the file or something and makes an exportable save file?

 

[Havok83]

i read that you have to sit through the credits to be able to send that file to ME3. how does that work? does it lock the file or something and makes an exportable save file?

not true. You can skip the credits if you want. I think you have to let it save once you do (which is done automatically if you have autosave on) Id make manual save of that so you dont accidentally erase it if you load up an old save for that character

 

[Raiden]

wow I managed not to loose any one. Then again I was one of those few that ported my shepard from the first. oh well explains alot I guess.

I also port my Shepard from ME1 to this game. Hopefully this will increase the liklihood that all the members will survive.

Btw, my Shepard has his first encounter with Wrek last night. So glad I let him live in ME1! I wonder who's the alternative for clan chief if he had bite the dust.

 

[javi1024]

not true. You can skip the credits if you want. I think you have to let it save once you do (which is done automatically if you have autosave on) Id make manual save of that so you dont accidentally erase it if you load up an old save for that character

ok. so i guess when i pop in ME3 the first time i would just say 'Load Game' and it will find my saves from ME2 and just continue from there.

 

[Havok83]

ok. so i guess when i pop in ME3 the first time i would just say 'Load Game' and it will find my saves from ME2 and just continue from there.

if you can import your ME2 character into a new ME2 playthrough, then you should be good to go for the sequel

 

[The Squirrel]

I lost Thane in my renegade playthrough and Miranda in my paragon. As much as I would liked to have everyone survive, I'm sticking by my decisions. I feel it's kinda cheap to go back and change what you originally did, because I think it takes the fun out of it.

I disagree, if only because I put a lot of work into having everything ready for everyone to survive. Only to then have math averages screw it up. So I reloaded and fixed it. Now for my Renegade, I may let people die. I haven't decided yet.

 

[E-Man]

I can't wait to play as my Renegade. Right now I'm taking a Fallout 3 break, but when I get back to it I'm playing my old Renegade Shepard that goes around berating people. I have a feeling that me and The Illusive Man will be getting along just fine.

 

[Havok83]

I just got to the Collectors Ship and man this part is driving me crazy. I cant get past the first enemy encounter. Anyone have tips for this on Insanity? Im a sentinel and have Mordin and Miranda with me. Should I swap them out for someone else?

 

[eternalinferno]

On insanity I always kept grunt with me, heck even another soldier type too, as a sentinel I used my powers and warm ammo to bring down their defenses and my soldiers would help take them out

 

[Raiden]

I just got to the Collectors Ship and man this part is driving me crazy. I cant get past the first enemy encounter. Anyone have tips for this on Insanity? Im a sentinel and have Mordin and Miranda with me. Should I swap them out for someone else?

Since you are a Sentinel, I think it would be a good idea to bring a heavy-hitter with you, like Grunt. Both Mordin and Miranda have good powers, but they are too fragile in combat.

 

[War Party]

I disagree, if only because I put a lot of work into having everything ready for everyone to survive. Only to then have math averages screw it up. So I reloaded and fixed it. Now for my Renegade, I may let people die. I haven't decided yet.

If you say so.

 

[eternalinferno]

You know what's awesome? Freezing an enemy then using the vanguards charge ability to bulldoze right through him/her, making them shatter in the process

 

[Raiden]

Right now I'm still contemplating what loyalty power to use, and I'm leaning toward getting the lvl 4 Disruptor Ammo (for squad) so I can get the lvl 4 Warp Ammo (also for squad) so I can deal against any type of enemies. If I do that, though, I'll have to respec Shepard because the pts I put in the Incendiary Ammo will be wasteful, as well as for Jack because I already put pts to bring her Warp Ammo to lvl 3, and I don't have enough E-Zero right now. Aside from Warp Ammo, I'm also deciding on Armor Piercing Ammo (but Warp Ammo is probably better as long I use Disruptor Ammo against shield/barrier) or Barrier for additional defense, but I customize my Shepard to be a killing machine, and extra shield seems counter-intuitive for this strategy.

 

[BlackLantern]

Inferno ammo works pretty good for me.

 

[javi1024]

was it Mass Effect 1 where there was controversy about being able to have homosexual romances, and if so, is that still the case in ME2?

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

There was controversy over the sexual relationships in general (which were honestly pretty tame) but there is a lesbian relationship with Liara that got singled out by critics. In ME2 you can have a f/f relationship with Kelly in this that is sort of fling-ish and you can continue your relationship with Liara in the Shadowbroker dlc. There are no male/male romances in either game.

 

[E-Man]

You know what's awesome? Freezing an enemy then using the vanguards charge ability to bulldoze right through him/her, making them shatter in the process

Damn. I gotta use that. I have a vanguard that just used to see what it would be like to play without importing an old save. I barely play as him, but now I just might use this with with the Cyro Blast.

 

[javi1024]

There was controversy over the sexual relationships in general (which were honestly pretty tame) but there is a lesbian relationship with Liara that got singled out by critics. In ME2 you can have a f/f relationship with Kelly in this that is sort of fling-ish and you can continue your relationship with Liara in the Shadowbroker dlc. There are no male/male romances in either game.

huh thats interesting. yeah my Shepard got pretty close to Jacob and i thought if the game would allow it to go that far, but by the end of the game it looked like they were drinking buddies.

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

Yeah I know which convo you're talking about, it seemed as if they were borderline-flirting with each other.

 

[Havok83]

was it Mass Effect 1 where there was controversy about being able to have homosexual romances, and if so, is that still the case in ME2?

There was a male/male romance in ME1 but it got cut. You can see the clips on YT

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Oh and via a mod on the PC version, someone got a male romance with Thane