Original Mass Effect - Question

Admiral Huddy · 5 Jun 2011 at 20:16

Quick question.. I take it you can only have two squad companions at one time? What happens to the characters that you don't select as part of your squad? Can you meet up with them later?

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Fenris · 5 Jun 2011 at 20:20

Buah?

I don't really understand the question, it's hub based, you pick your goons and complete a mission, return to hub and repeat, the goons you don't pick just stay at the hub.

Ross1234 · 5 Jun 2011 at 20:22

You pick any two whenever you leave your ship. You can pick a different two every time. Some cause specific events in missions though.

AHarvey · 5 Jun 2011 at 20:22

Yes, only 2 at a time, the rest stay on the ship. Think you chose who to take when you leave the ship.

Fenris · 5 Jun 2011 at 20:25

Also don't feel bad about picking squad mates just because you like their characters, for the most part you can complete everything with anyone.

Admiral Huddy · 5 Jun 2011 at 20:27

Cheers. It's just I kitted one out, then selected another character and the other just vanished.

Thanks

Is it worth sticking with this game? Interface feels rather awkward.

Murray · 5 Jun 2011 at 20:33

Never played it myself but its supposed to be very good game!

Davinnicus · 5 Jun 2011 at 20:46

Finished playing through both games last weekend, much preferred the first over the second, but yeah they're both great games, stick with it.

Fenris · 5 Jun 2011 at 20:46

Admiral Huddy said:
Is it worth sticking with this game? Interface feels rather awkward.

The game as a whole is very good, however most will agree that the interface is horrible.

gronf · 5 Jun 2011 at 22:43

Yes there are some downsides, but do stick with it!

Overall great game in my opinion, must've played it nearly a dozen times

every way possible.

Gackt · 5 Jun 2011 at 23:00

I was a little disappointed that there's no gamepad support unless you buy Xpadder or something, and then work around the PC UI. But I've just started a character that I hope to move over to number 2, I played with the default sheperd on the xbox a long time ago. Missed a week of lectures as a result. :/

Pighardia · 5 Jun 2011 at 23:04

Definitely stick with it, it's an epic game. Tip- put points in to charm or intimidate and keep one of them maxed(i'm thinking of a certain moment with Wrex

)

I originally played it on the 360, then on PC and i found the kb/m to be much better actually, though it can be awkward at first.

angela · 6 Jun 2011 at 00:22

Epic game, finished both parts!

I set all commands to my razer naga, and some to G's of G11, so no problem with all menu/ buttons/etc.

Mr Flibble · 6 Jun 2011 at 01:24

I just played through the first one again this week. I'd forgotten how epic the soundtrack and story are, and how dreadful the bloody Mako is! Can't stand Kaiden either. Going to pick up the second one again this week I think, but I may look to avoid scanning for resources as that was even worse than the Mako...

wilko49 · 6 Jun 2011 at 01:55

Incredibly worth sticking with - the story is brilliant and I really like the combat system.

gronf · 6 Jun 2011 at 02:06

Mr Flibble said:
but I may look to avoid scanning for resources as that was even worse than the Mako...

Search for "Gibbed's save editor". Once you've made a ME2 save, you can modify it with that, e.g. changing decisions made in ME1 or simply giving yourself tons of resources so you can avoid scanning completely. I've played ME2 nearly as much as the first game and the only time I've scanned for resources was on my initial playthrough back when the game first came out, which was too much

'Wes · 6 Jun 2011 at 09:01

You get used to the interface, give it time.

Admiral Huddy · 6 Jun 2011 at 09:20

'Wes said:
You get used to the interface, give it time.

May be I'm just too used to the Fallout interface plus I've no game guide. That's a drawback with Steam games of this Genre. Doesn't matter about FPS games but these games require a bit of reading up I find..

Pighardia · 6 Jun 2011 at 10:55

If you are struggling to get into it, it might be worth reading the codex. Gives you lots of info and background on the game world. I read it the first time i played it and it really helped me get in to it.

HangTime · 6 Jun 2011 at 22:47

Like the OP I've recently started on ME, I'm at Level 15 now. One thing that really annoys me about the party selection is that (like KOTOR2) you can't access gear assigned to people not in your party. Effectively this means that if you want your active party to have the best gear (as you would), then when changing party members you have to faff about transferring over the kit. A good example would be weapon/ammo mods and maybe even the weapons themselves, you don't want your most effective weapons sat on your ship, you want them out there kicking ass. So you have to do something lame like, exit the Normandy with them in your party, unequip the gear, reenter the normandy, exit the normany again this time with your proper party, and equip the decent gear

Right pain in the arse and I can't believe they didn't change this after KOTOR2, I know that logically if person X has been issued a suit of armour, you wouldn't expect person Y to exit the spaceship and then be able to put it on. BUT, it's not like you can't manually get that situation to happen via the method I described above. So they are forcing you to do a laborious task for the sake of continuity, with the same net result as if you could just swipe items of characters who aren't in the party.