For my 2nd playthrough on my vanguard,

I'm not sure if I'll replay this game anytime soon. Combat is a bit of a disappointment for me... the global cooldown means one is reduced to sitting behind cover waiting for one power to recharge.

Also I have the feeling that the majority of my playtime has consisted of scanning planets... side-missions & even main missions are all over so quickly.

Didn't spend much time planet mining. If you go after rich-good planets only and go after the high spikes, resource gathering is quick and a bit painless. For my vanguard, the cooldowns didn't bug me so much. Half the fight was also picking the right teammates for the situation, and if you wanted people to compliment your fighting style.

I'm glad I'm at least playing as a Soldier. Playing an Adept must be really boring... with the way biotics were rendered almost useless (save for warp).

Seems like all classes, save for adept, look good to play as. The only thing I noticed with the Vanguard is to not get charge. Shockwave and pull are very helpful though! Plus, shockwave and pull annihilate husks like no other! Use it, after armor is down, and BAM! Dead.

The problem I'm having with biotics is that when enemies are reduced to only a health bar, they die very quickly with a couple of gun shots. So using biotics on those seems a waste of a power.

But Shockwave is indeed good for dealing with husk hordes... although a level 4 Concussive shot owns them just as much.

For all of those who have played Dragon Age, did anyone else notice that the people who play Morrigan and Loghain do the voices for

I don't know why some people didn't upgrade the Normandy. Seeing as we had the option to upgrade it I knew I had to otherwise something bad would happen in the end (also, it seems like all the consequences happen in the end together).

With regards to Samara:

From what I gather, all the key people on the Normandy crew can be saved, but (not knowing how it works), it seems tied to whether you save everyone in your own team. Get everyone out alive and all key people from Normandy are alive as well.



Here is what works....based on earlier posts:





Agreed.

I went to start a new game with an import from ME2. Console kept locking up after the long intro scene that you can't X out of. Did this 3 times and the new save matrix for the game DOES NOT form until the end of that scene. So, I had no choice but to load a different career (last game I played through) and use the "restart mission" slot then replay the whole suicide mission part.

This happened THREE times before (for some reason) the console didn't lock up and let me continue. I was pinching bricks because I just got all the DLC (brought the console to work where I have broadband) but at home I don't have a connection so I always get a notice about being unable to connect to the Cerebus Network (irrelevant since it doesn't affect DLC already on the HDD).

As to plot, I find the revelation of the Collectors to give insight to the Reapers themselves.

Clearly the base was not recently built (no reason to presume that). If the Reapers are synthetic/organic hybrids on a technological level, then the only way to build more Reapers is to mass-harvest the galaxy and use them to build a new generation of Reapers. This implies that Reapers return every 50,000 years or so to acquire materials they need to keep existing Reapers operational and to produce even more Reapers.

Still leaves a question of their origin, but that's for future games to address.

The thing about the missile launcher is that it doesn't hit what you aim at, but the enemy closest to you. You can't lock with the launcer, so it chooses it's targets independently. Keeping that in mind will improve it's usefulness a lot.

Would be better to spoiler

I think those mechs can ward off the missiles while their shields are up. Once their shields are down, you can missile the crap out of them.

But, the big mechs are able to wave them off when they have shields.

Never experienced that, even with Geth Primes.

I recognised Loghain, but which one did Morrigan play? I didn't catch that. Still though, there's a lot of DA voice actors, like the guy at the very beginning who gets shot by Miranda, that's your second in the dwarf noble origin and Oghren.

EDIT: And now that I looked into it, that's Steve Blum, who also voices Grunt.


I can.

Die as in game over right?

I remember before the game was released there was speculation that you could die in the game but the game carried on. Didn't make much sense.

Never noticed that, but i only use heavy weapons against unsheilded/unbarriered targets, except :nuke: and :flamethrower:

I really wish there was an "Assault Cannon" type of heavy weapon, like in the original F.E.A.R. or Killzone.

Nah, Heavy Rain does that.

You get a game over screen. Though I was under the impression that Shepard could actually die during the end of the suicide mission.

Hmm, I need to look into that. I know it's not the female admiral who's kind of overseeing the whole ordeal, the one who stands above the three others.

EDIT: On that note, did you know Aria is Trinity from the Matrix?

No, it's not her. I think her name is