Mass Effect

[bbobb]

Just finished the Hardcore runthrough.

Later in the game the Adepts become incredibly overpowered rape. Singularity is beastly strong, and if you pick the right Advanced Class you can do damage to enemies in Stasis. I just beat Saren by having him in Stasis essentially the whole fight and shooting the shit out of him. Now to try to do a 60 run on Insane and get the last two ally achievements while I'm at it.

[Drewbacca]

I just killed all of those fuckers on Feros. I refused to even consider the poison gas grenades. I accidentally knocked out the shopkeep though, and it was a good thing since he had an incredibly powerful assault rifle for sale that I took advantage of.

This game hasn't stopped being awesome.

proton rounds are your friend in such instances. Shield bypass FTW

Shield bypass rounds are okay but you can fight much, much smarter than that if you aren't an adept. For instance I have no biotics, so I bring Tali with me. Her Overload ability is pretty maxed out and is specifically designed to disable any nearby enemy sheilds. When we fight the geth I put on Tungston rounds that give me a +30% vs. synthetics (so far, you can get higher depending on what level the tungston rounds are at). There are also rounds, anti-personnel or something like that, that give you a +30% vs. organic lifeforms too. So depending on what I'm fighting I'll open my equipment page and quickly switch between the two. So Overload + specific rounds makes most enemies drop after two small taps on the assault rifle's trigger. Not to mention if I need a break Tali can overheat the enemy weapons so they can't fire for like 6 seconds. Wrex is good to have for stuff like Carnage and Throw -- I haven't put any points in to shotguns. I don't feel I need to when his is maxed out so much.

On my second play through I plan on using biotics because they sound like fun, but so far I'm having very little difficulty coping without them. It's a little more work, but that's the nature of the game when you rely on the in-game technology to help you.

I haven't died once since being ambushed my the geth on the planet with Benezia's daughter (pretty close a couple of times). Tali and Wrex, my go-to team, are expendable. I also have first AID pretty high so that when I heal myself I can fall back a bit and my health is way up. Most of the fighting can easily be overcome if you just strategize and don't rush in when you need to rest. I've also equipped Tali with an equipment enhancement that renews her health meter. Wrex does it by himself and so do I, so if we wait long enough we're in good shape for another run.

[Error]

I finished my second play through the other day, used a male adept the first time and then a female vanguard the second time. I'm going to give it a bit of a break before I try it again, I want to see what the infiltrator is like. Plus there were some side stories that I didn't get to finish, namely the Cerberus one.

[Drewbacca]

http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/ne...es-sold/18805/

This game is selling like crazy. Over one million copies in 3 weeks -- second only to Halo 3.

[Rem]

I finally beat it, clocking in at around 13 hours and 22 minutes. Over all it was very good, great even. It had the epic feel of kotor, and the battle system grew on me. But the glitches are just unforgivable at this point, come on guys.

[Chux]

I haven't run into any glitches with around 30 hours total.

Stop breaking shit.

[Brand X]

Seriously. The only issue I have ran into is the Halo 2 style texture pop in issue, besides that I haven't ran into anything.

[B-Ri]

i ran into a glitch near end game with the mako, getting stuck between a rock and a small ledge, going reverse, trying to force it out with the cannon, using the boosters, nothing worked, it was stuck so perfectly that the game wouldnt let me exit the damn thing.

[mannerbot]

Can't you just hit X to return to the ship there?

[B-Ri]

it was mid story mission, the prompt wouldnt appear.