*** Official Mass Effect 2 Thread ***

Normal is baseline.
Veteran they get a bit harder, use powers more, etc.
Hardcore every enemy will have at least a weak Armour/Shield/Barrier layer, along with improvements from the above.
Insanity gives them much stronger Armour/Shield/Barrier, even more damage, accuracy and health and makes them more agressive with better teamwork.

Basically the jump from Veteran to Insanity is gigantic and if you are finding the playthrough easy on Veteran, switch to Hardcore to get a feel for the enemies with the extra layer of protection since it screws with the vast majority of powers.
Insanity is best left for a brand new playthrough since it'll be harder when you start off (no upgrades, lacking some guns, no squad loyalty, no points unelss you newgame+) and make for a better challenge than jumping onto it for the last few missions at full power.
 
If I can do insanity, anyone can. There is only really a couple of tricky bits - fighting those big armoured things (name escapes me).
 
Meh, Scions are easy. They can't hit you behind cover and only have the Shockwave style attack. Its the Husk onlsaughts that are the hard part (with the odd Abomination), especially when you're geared more towards anti Barrier than anti Armour. YMIR Mechs and the 'trap' are the only hard bits i remember from my attempt at Insanity that weren't down to me being dumb. Doesn't seem like Adept was the best choice though. I should really try playing a Tech character...
 
Oh so that explains the Paragon/Renegade system...

Requirements have nothing to do with your current value of Paragon/Renegade, its your current percentage of total points available so far. Currently at about 85% of the Renegade bar, 15% of the Paragon bar but maybe there are other encounters i received neither points for which would lower it more without a visual clue as to how much.

Oh well, Legion is now not loyal again so i'll have to plan the suicide mission so he survives anyway. Not that it matters, both Tali and Legion are useless in this game against anything not involving Geth. Nvm, i fixed his loyalty straight after with an easier Renegade challenge ><
 
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I've just started playing this and seem to have some kind of bug when it comes to hacking,
The one with matching scrolling codes to the one displayed at the top will not let me select it when I see it no matter what keys I press and another one on the wall where you have to match several sets of two symbols which then link together only works part of the time.
The first one with the symbols early in the game was a wall safe and it wouldn't work until I restarted the game and then connecting all symbols worked first time, now I have another of the same type and it refuses to link any matching pairs I click on.
I am in a passageway and can't progress any further until I hack both of these :mad:
The game has all 3 patches
 
Just finished doing all the DLC.

Kasumi, overlord and especialy shadow broker were seriously brilliant well worth the money. All the other quite frankly were a waste of time

With the DLC i managed to get to Level 30 in one play through
 
The problem with the ME2 popups is Bioware were ****ing lazy. Seriously how hard can it be to connect the on screen popup to the button currently assigned? Took me a few attempts of reloading before a hack (cos it kept failing) of spamming every button to figure out which 1 worked. Then theres the planets where it uses F to leave... which as it turns out is the melee button and is infact bound to mouse 4. You sure you're clicking fast enough? It wears off after about 2 seconds.

The mouse sensitivity seemed ok, its just awkward sometimes. Sometimes when zooming in with a sniper rifle the mouse sensitivity doesn't adjust for the enhanced zoom immediately so you wind up scrolling half way across the area instead of across a targets body. Its really hit n miss on the hacking stuff too, sometimes it feels fine, others really sluggish.

I had about 2 or 3 levels worth extra on top. I had started a new game as Soldier on Insanity (it seemed to be going quite well, hadn't got myself killed in any of the harder fights i normally failed repeatadly on), though I decided to get the save game editor (Gibbed) and start again.
Just created myself a new Soldier (starting with 350,000 credits, the max available if you load a Rich lvl60 ME1 character and 500,000 of each mineral because its frigging tedious so no planet scanning for me!) and adjusted a few things in the Mass Effect history to see the story.
Decided to go for romancing Liara (to continue it in this game), not recruiting Garrus, keeping Wrex alive, saving the Rachni, saving the colony and sparing the asari and a few other things.

Only problem is it started me out with the default face so i'm gonna have to see if i can change it without corrupting it. Hopefully be able to lift the code it gives during the startup phase.
 
A bit of trial and error but it seems its working fine. Had to switch the game state to completed and import it as an ME2 character in order for the ME1 history to take effect. Easy enough to get faces to import from other characters though the ME2 save import made it irrelevant since i could redesign my face as i wanted anyway.

Seems some of the major ones have taken effect (Liara is a romance and Council was saved), yet to see if Wrex lives and Garrus is unknown, gonna have to see how the minor ones worked since its not clear how to use it. Do you click all options or the latest only...
 
Evilsod said:
A bit of trial and error but it seems its working fine. Had to switch the game state to completed and import it as an ME2 character in order for the ME1 history to take effect. Easy enough to get faces to import from other characters though the ME2 save import made it irrelevant since i could redesign my face as i wanted anyway.

Seems some of the major ones have taken effect (Liara is a romance and Council was saved), yet to see if Wrex lives and Garrus is unknown, gonna have to see how the minor ones worked since its not clear how to use it. Do you click all options or the latest only...
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Which editor did you use?
 
Gibbed, don't know if there are any other ones.

Odd, Garrus is still mentioned in the Illusive Mans 'old team status' thing even though i didn't recruit him. Wonder if its glitched.
 
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stoke1863 said:
Just finished doing all the DLC.

Kasumi, overlord and especialy shadow broker were seriously brilliant well worth the money. All the other quite frankly were a waste of time

With the DLC i managed to get to Level 30 in one play through
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Hmm, completed the main story and thought it was good but I may have to check out the DLC as I have been hearing positive feedback about them.

How many additional hours did the DLC add to the game and how do you personally think they compared to the main game?
 
hdpcgamer said:
Hmm, completed the main story and thought it was good but I may have to check out the DLC as I have been hearing positive feedback about them.

How many additional hours did the DLC add to the game and how do you personally think they compared to the main game?
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For me, Lair of the Shadow broker is the main one worth getting. My second favourite mission of the game.
 
Shadow Broker is a good few hours and starts connecting ME2 to ME3 and has some great moments.
Overlord is a good few hours (not as much as Broker) and is pretty good.
Kasumi is similar to Zaeed really, only 1 or 2 hours, but her Shadow Strike skill is great, her Flashbang is even better an the Locust SMG is so much better than the Tempest its not even funny. And as a comment i found on the Bioware social site goes... "Kasumi's ass > Miranda's ass"

If you could only get 2 i'd pass on Overlord depending on whether you'd plan on using Kasumi (or playing chars that use SMGs). You may aswell pick up the Firepower Pack if you're getting Broker since its only an extra £1.20ish and the guns are pretty sweet.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
For me, Lair of the Shadow broker is the main one worth getting. My second favourite mission of the game.
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After looking at the reviews for the DLC, the Lair of the Shadow broker seems to be one everyones favourite DLC.

You said that it was your second favourite mission of the game, whats your favourite?
 
Evilsod said:
Shadow Broker is a good few hours and starts connecting ME2 to ME3 and has some great moments.
Overlord is a good few hours (not as much as Broker) and is pretty good.
Kasumi is similar to Zaeed really, only 1 or 2 hours, but her Shadow Strike skill is great, her Flashbang is even better an the Locust SMG is so much better than the Tempest its not even funny. And as a comment i found on the Bioware social site goes... "Kasumi's ass > Miranda's ass"

If you could only get 2 i'd pass on Overlord depending on whether you'd plan on using Kasumi (or playing chars that use SMGs). You may aswell pick up the Firepower Pack if you're getting Broker since its only an extra £1.20ish and the guns are pretty sweet.
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Thanks for the feedback guys. I'll check out all three of the recommended DLC (Shadow Broker, Overlord & Kasumi) and that should hopefully give me at least 10 hours of enjoyable gaming and also get me back into universe of Mass Effect 2 to without replaying the entire game again.
 
I'm not a fan of the first boss on the Shadow Broker DLC... constant biotic attacks that can knock you out of cover, constant teleporting making you need to change position every 5 seconds and the absolutely ridiculous amount of health, armour and barrier (and that was just on Hardcore) broken up rather pointlessly by attacks by Engineers or Drones. The rest of its great though.
 
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