Wellp, old one's Sage'd. So, new one!So, first thing's first:How the hell do I get those stupid mastery achievements on ME1? I swear, I tallied over 90 uses of Lift, and nothing.And fuck the companion achievments. I can't get any of them to unlock.Also, post your Shepard.
You have to actually use the abilities on a viable target, namely enemy combatants. A workaround for this is to simply target breakable structures like crates (although this doesn't work for Stasis or AI Hacking) and arguably the most useful setup is within the Geth base on Liara's recruitment mission. Simply hop out of the Mako and save your game, then unload your abilities on the environment, Stasis on the nearby Geth, and AI Hacking on the turrets.It'll take you a while, but it's doable.As for Shepards, my favorite is a Colonist/Survivor Paragon Vanguard. As you can expect from having everyone he cares about die around him twice, I'd decided to give him the shittiest possible story paths to offset the inherent "Canon Sue" nature of the character; he sorrowfully broke Liara's heart to be with Ashley before being forced to leave his girlfriend to die on Virmire. Romanced Tali in ME2, though. Couldn't resist. Physically, he looks like the bastard child of Bruce Willis and The Rock, my attempt at a purely distilled action hero.
>>87641God damn, man. Poor Shep.I'm a Vanguard though. Would using Tali work for the Tech achievements?
I used the default Shepards because any time I customized them they went into uncanny valley when they started talking.Also finally finished ME1 in full, all missions, etc. I think when ME3's out I'm just gonna get all the DLC for the first two at once so I can make a completionist's save file without the worry of forgetting if I did or didn't for all the other parts of the game.
I'm doing my ideal run right now in preparation for the DLC that's supposed to connect 2 to 3. I'm playing a Vanguard with extra training in Sniper Rifles and maining Garrus and Liara. Going back, the Mako still sucks, but it sucks less than the that Firewalker shit.
I have two Shepards but pictures of just one. Like a faggot, I have a headcanon for the both of them. This Shepard was a Renegade in the first game. You know, tear shit up, do what needs to be done to complete the mission. Dying changes a lot of things about a person though, and she decides "well fuck. life in this galaxy already sucks as it is. Who am I to make things worse?" So by ME2, she's softened up a little to be more Paragon-with-Renegade-tendencies. Someone who's TRYING to do good and is only kind-of good at it. (pic is that Shep.)The other Shep is paragon who, upon dying and realizing the council turned their back on her, decided to give them a mighty fuck you and become the almighty bitch of the galaxy. (Kind to her crew though because they are not treacherous fuckheads.)Fuck yeah faggy headcanon!
I love faggy headcanon. No for realz.Here are my first two ME2 Shepards, based on the same ME1 completionist run (oh god what a slog that was - hey look another building that looks exactly the same). The only difference is the redhead was decidedly more renegade than the blonde. And once I played renegade I couldn't go back to paragon ever.I've also done a couple of insanity runs, one using this Shepard: http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/2338/celinesh.jpgYes I love playing infiltrator STFU. And yes I like that hairstyle a little too much. >_>
>>87654I'm just going to use a save editor, lol.
Oh, pff, forgot about gameplay style. Usually stuck with Soldier class because assault rifle fuck yeah, but have really loved Tech abilities so I have a secondary save file as an Inflitrator or Engineer, can't remember which.Used a Paragon-with-Renegade-tendencies for both games, usually getting close to maxing out my paragon score but a sizable chunk of Renegade choices make me seem like a nice person with a bad attitude who doesn't take any bullshit. Case in point: in the first Mass Effect when that bitchy reporter interviews me? I leave the interview about halfway. In the second one, I punch her before she even finishes her first question. But then I always go and hug Tali when she finds her father, and I always take the Paragon route with my loyalty missions to ensure that their ghosts are properly put to rest.
>>87663Pretty sure Zaeed rests better at night when Vido dies rather than taking the paragon route. But good on you.I can never be a jerk to Tali. I was pretty mad at myself when I killed Kal'Reegar because I was too slow at killing the colossus. I also have a hard time letting the injured salarian in Dantius Towers (Thane's recruitment mission) die in front of me. Garrus gave me a hard time on that one. :(
When I get a camera, I'll post my Shep.My friend describes him as a cancer-ridden William Ryker. But he tends to make fun of my character regardless.
>>87665It's been two hours, and I have yet to get the fucking Assault Rifle Expert. I have been shooting fucking monkeys for the better part of two hours.Why do I not have my achievement? I counted: 345 monkeys.
I have one of each backstories mix'n match'd.Male Shep Spacer/Survivor/Infiltrator that looks like the clones from Clone Wars. Neutral through and through, ended up with Jack on the first ME2 and Tali on the ideal.Next up is the Vanguard/Earth Orphan/Skylian Blitz hero. She looks... well, she's harder to place. She's pretty Paragon with the occasional bitch moment. She's bumping the mental uglies with Liara. Because.Lastly is Yoko Shepard, a Soldier/Colonist/Hardass who let her love Kaiden die on Virmire, because ANYTHING FOR THE MISSION. She's pretty renegade-tastic, but with a soft streak through her that leads her to do the right thing a lot of the time. I have no idea who she will end up with in ME2 yet.
>Someone posts the Bioware cliche chart on the Mass Effect forums>Most people just get a good chuckle off of it>Suddenly a ME writer comes in and writes a furious tl;dr response.>Thread eventually locked.It's actually kinda embarrassinghttp://meforums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html?topic=705597&forum=144
>>87672The key is to use the assault rifle from the very beginning and never ever change weapons
>>87715Does the achievement work if I'm untrained?
>>87712 >It's actually kinda embarrassing But he's still not wrong in what he said, and he said it right.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_SituationsAnd as much as you can say "Hey dude its just a joke", when you're dealing with writers who probably are already never utterly satisfied with whatever they create? You can see why they'd want to put out a counterpoint to critisism that ISN'T valid and is phrased too childishly.
>>87641>Colonist/Survivor Paragon VanguardHoly shit I just started a new game with that. Except mine's a ladyShep.HIGH FIVE NONETHELESS.also, i found this and it made me chuckle.
Lair of the Shadow BrokerTwo years ago, Commander Shepard died and Liara T'Soni fought in a desperate struggle against the Shadow Broker to recover her former Commander. Now that Shepard is back, it's time to even the score.Team up with Liara and confront the mysterious and sinister Shadow Broker in the latest expansion to Mass Effect 2, coming soon!
>>87734OH SHIT THEY'RE USING THE COMIC PLOT THIS IS AWESOME
>>87734Is dat some new pistol?
>>87736Hell yeah it is.It's so sleek and delicious and oddly reminiscent of Star Wars storm trooper armor.I NEED IT.
>>87736I hope so.
>>87739Also someone on /v/ said it takes place after the game. So I wonder if there will be any dialog on the romance choices you make.
>>87734Fuck yeah! The old gang is back to kick ass!!My shep is actually the default male Shep with earthborn/survivor/soldier background, because I feel its the combo it best suited me (I prefer to be a crackshot to having any kind of power and what can I say, I love mah guns).Life has been kinda shitty on him for a good part of his life, but he has struggled hard to get to the places he's at now and has come to realize that his actions can make a difference on others. He makes paragon choices more often than not if he feels the outcome is worhty, regardless if it can lead to some bleak places. He's not afraid to go renegade on someone's ass if pushed enough, though he probably regrets when it happnes sometimes (would never say this, though).Fell in love with Liara in ME1 over their shared curiosity and intrest in knowledge, but is now involved with Tali, as he always found her fascinating but failed to act upon this feelings due to some of his doubts in quarian society and not recognizing some signals she was sending.He stands now at a crossroad, unsure of how to act and for the first time in a long time he just can't see what lies ahead, no matter how hard he tries.
>>87734I saw this image, and this song started playing in my head.
>>87643I know what you mean about the uncanny valley thing.There are just some mouth and eye settings that are just really bad when forced to do anything but remain unmoving. Using pretested face codes works and gets rid of the Udina-like eye clipping you see in his scene in ME2, as well as helps alleviate the grievances of ducklips. Codes like that are up on masseffect2faces.com, but the site seems to be down today.
>>87753yea again part of it is in the U3 Engine which has a LOT of problems when it comes to face sync and with Garrus the texture buffer errors
Finished my first run of ME2 and WOW I ACTUALLY LIKE THE ENTIRE FUCKING CREW. WHAT IS THIS.
>>87775YEAH IT'S PRETTY AMAZING. Miranda and Jacob weren't really anything special (they were alright, but nothing like Tali or Garrus or Legion or Jack) but the crew was really the highlight of the game. Hell, even the NPCs - after every mission, I would run down to the Crew Deck to see if there was an update on that guy's family.
>>87776Yeah, I really loved the two as pals, but when I heard I could romance them? I shrugged and called it pointless.Also Donelly down in the Engine Room always had something hilarious to say, I was sure to visit him after every damn mission.
While we're speaking of Sheps, does anyone have a face code for a kind of boyish or young looking male Shepard? I could only make manly or freaky Shepards.And I guess here's my Shepard. The only picture I have of her with eyelashes... does anyone else have that problem? Just suddenly their eyelashes'll disappear? I kind of feel lame for not having a headcannon about her.
>>87895HAL WANTY! HAL WANTY SO MUCH!
>>87895Hmm. Well-sculptured, finely detailed, excellent craftsmanship. Wonderful representation of good doctor, will recomment to others.
>>87910
Anyone else planning on buying any of these. I want Garrus, Mordin, and Tali. I'm kind of considering Shepard but good lord that face.
>>87926Poor Garrus. His toy is force to forever have the damaged armor.
>>87927MAN, that shit was annoying until they came out with a fixed armor.
>>87640Hey, forgot to explain the companion achievements.Simply complete 35 Assignments and 15 Missions in a single playthrough with a given character in your squad. While this is relatively easy for most characters, Liara requires something of a carefully planned run of the game to accomplish it.The weapon achievements? Easy. Kill the Pyjaks on Eletania and rinse, reload, repeat.
>>87895>>87926>>87927When and where are these going to be released?
>>87935I also need to know this.My Batman and Shadowrun dwarf statues are getting very lonely, and I think a Mordin would brighten the top of my desk right up.
>>87935The first wave which consists of Thane, Tali, Grunt, and Shepard come out next month. They're DC Direct so you'll only find them in comic/hobby shops or online.
I'll probably break down and get Tali. But what I'm really excited for is getting Garrus and causing a little chafing.I still have all the capes from my old Batman figures, including a giant 90s cowl.
>>87943I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE IMPLYING, AND THERE BETTER BE PICTURES.And maybe a custom Batman armor repaint if the figures are cheap. That would be AWESOME.
If I have the cash to pony up, I'd get every figure. Except Shepard, fuck that. I'm hard gay for FemShep.http://www.toywiz.com/masseffect.html>Garrus and Mordin not being released first>I raged so hard
>>87980If they're anything like the WoW figures though they might be kinda cheap. Yeah they have some nice detail to them, but they can't even stand on their own which is BS.
>>87998Yeah, the articles I read said they won't be more than $25, so that's good.
I SO want Shep and Tali
>>88060That's the general cost for non limited run figures from DC. If you plan to buy them though and they don't come with their own stand I advise not taking them out of the box.
>>88112But then how am I supposed to play with them?
>>88154You wouldn't get much enjoyment out of playing with them since their limbs aren't movable.
>>88157well ball joint shoulder and hinge wrist but really they have so much detail all the joints are about plum useless.
>>88112But I need to take them out of the box so I can put them on my desk. Although I could just steam the plastic open then reseal it if I ever need to sell them.No big deal.
Man, I forgot how scary Sovereign sounds.
Hmmm they have another DLC before Shadow Broker stuff apparently and the weapon that have been shown in the SB Screenshots are from that Content. Really hoping they give something to wrap up the Liara romance or at least a lead into a completed relation with her in 3 (though personally I'll run through that with Jack and Tali as my primaries)
>>88195Never get over how much he sounds like Leonard Nimoy and Soundwave blended together.
>>88343OH WAIT, PETER JESSOP VOICED SOUNDWAVE IN WAR FOR CYBERTRON! HAHAHAHA!
>>88195Who sounds scarier?Sovereign?Harbinger?
>>88346Or Orson Welles sounding bored?
Also, what's with Saren's horns? Do they grow as a Turian grows older, like an Ibex?
>>88348I mean, look at this one. See the difference?
I thought they were like broadcast receivers that were just made to look normal what with that cord in them.
>>88348maybe but it also might be Cybernetics since like Shep he got ripped all to hell and rebuilt a couple of times over his career.
>>88348Could be genetic variation, like connected earlobes. There's a few other turians who have longer side plates, but nowhere near as long as his.
>>88367this is true since Bioware has clrealy not been a slouch in the generic background category with aliens (humans are a different bag though) I mean many Asari have different tones, textures, face shapes and markings dependent on their "father" genetics with some being just cultural like the turian settlement tattoos others having clear Krogan textures (Bartender clearly has scale textures) and then the Pure bloods that have softer features while the human fathered ones tend to have more rounded faces...its quite interesting.
>>88375We haven't even seen any Human-Asari. They're literally still in their infancy.Also, fuck it. I'm starting again as a Soldier to get the ach-WaitWhat would a Hanar-Asari look like? Or a Volus? Oh dear god, would a Batarian-Asari have four eyes? Or eye spots?
>>88381someone needs to get to word on art for that. A Hanar Asari...hmmm maybe a bit broader with a deeper voice, Batarian Asari possibly would have facial ridges and facial markings were the eyes would be I think.
>>88382KeeperElcorQuarianV-Vorcha...CollectorRachniWe need a drawfag! Stat!
>>88382There's already a Batarian-Asari in ME2. I didn't get a very close look at her, but she's talking to a friend on Illium, in the area where you find that inspector who tells you to catch a cab to get to the area where Samara is. Y'know, the place where you do the first part of Liara's mission. They're talking about some dangerous drug thing.
>>88383>>88382>>88381Guys they don't borrow genetic material, they just randomize their natural asari DNA to closer resemble the species they melded with.
>>88383wonder if it would be cumulative I mean Sheppard was the first to have a truly mixed crew and I wanna see what an Asari would look like after a thousand years of species crossing. Heck I wanna see the Clan of the Asari and the Krogan poet, you thought an Asari Commando was dangerous now she's got Krogan family as backup (Remember it only takes one of each to obliterate a station)
>>88385its a contradiction with the Bartender being the key one declaring that its crap
>>88385That was a retcon, though. As Bunker said, the Krogan-Asari Bartender looked like she had scales, the Asari Councilor had Turian markings as well as tattooing, and according to Astro, eyespots for the Batarian-Asari.
>>88388All life on earth shares the some amount of genetic code, its something like 50 percent for a human and a banana so even if its still just a sequencing of what is already available in the host they may still end up with traits that would have occurred doing things "The ol' fashioned way" I mean they all just about nitrogen breathing life forms and humans ourselves still have genetic markers that would have triggered the development or scales and such had the right conditions been met. And that doesn't add into the environmental conditions and such that could also influence things.
Doodled what I think a Batarian-Asari would look like anyways. Face markings are fun.
>>88383Oh, and they can't bond with the Keepers. They're an engineered construct.
>>88398though they likely could be forged into a Keeper like being
>>88399Oh yeah, no doubt, given the right level of technology. But that would undermine the entire concept of Asari reproduction. If they could just go around sexily taking bits from every ancient bio-engineered being, the Mass Effect universe would have some kind of Asari Terminator going around. Nah, the Keepers don't reproduce. When one of them are damaged or destroyed, another one pops up to take its place. Like geth, but more complicated and old. And probably evil. There's no genetic line to patch from.
>>88400well Keepers are more or less just machine extensions of the Citadel gate system to keep it operational for when the Reapers once again return.
>>88398I thought the Keepers were one of the races enslaved/mindfucked/Indoctrinated by the Reapers' dentist drill waves? In Saren's base you have a whole bunch of Salarians in cages that have been the game says have been indoctrinated, and Saren fears the same thing will happen to him (hence the cybernetics).
>>88415Ok, one. "But Shepard's words bred doubt in Saren's mind. Sovereign saw his conviction beginning to falter, and implanted Saren, making him cybernetic and completely devoted to the Reapers' cause. Saren thought of himself as "the future", a true cyborg, a fusion of both organics and technology, comprising "the strengths of both, the weaknesses of neither." "Two. Dentist Drill Wave?Three. Lookie what I found.
>>88415No, there's a mission surrounding the Keepers in ME1, where if you scan all of them for some Salarian to help with his research, Shepard gets an email from him about his conclusions in ME2. He tells of how the Keepers are self-repairing autosomal bio-engineered constructs that were brought into creation to watch the Citadel, and that every 50,000 years their biological clock rolls over and they destroy themselves to give control back to their makers, the Reapers. Or something like that. He says that the current 50k years are almost up and that the Reapers are coming back to claim what's theirs.
>>88417Yeah, that VI, Vigil, you encounter on Ilos tells you all of that stuff before the salarian can email you about it in 2. The Keepers were created by the Reapers to open the citadel when they showed up after the next 50k year gap in time. The conduit on Ilos allowed a prothean team to sneak back on to the citadel after it was abandoned and "reprogram" the Keepers so all they really function to do now is repair the station.
>>88418Stupid VI, ruining all my sleuthing fun.Anyways, I think I might do more of the Asari race-mixing pictures, since all the game really shows any evidence of is Asari-Turian and Asari-Krogan. Vorcha and Hanar are definitely on my list.
Illium also has some Asari-Batarian and Asari-Salarian.
>>88457Oh, yeah, and the father really wanted to get his wife something to remember him. He was close to thirty-five. Tugged a heart string.
>>88497OH GOD THAT SALARIAN I BAW'D ;A; this is all the proof i need to know that salarians do love people, just in their own twitchy way
Was there ever an available option to talk to that gamer on the citadel? There was a trailer showing Shepard talking to him I recall but I've never seen him alone to be able to do so.
" Klencory: small, out of the way unpopulated world occupied by one wealthy volus named Kumun Shol and his mercenaries, who have apparently been ripping the surface apart for the past decade looking for the "lost crypts" of the "beings of Light" in order to defend the galaxy against "Machine Devils" based off a "vision" Shol claims to have received from a "higher being." "Sound familiar, anyone?
Hey, does anyone remember what that one guy said about Krogan reproduction in a previous thread? All I remember is the immediate reaction:"Oh God. Mordin was right."I want to add it to TVTropes.
It's time for funny. Or awesome, I'm good either way.Just, y'know, make it happen, It'll make my swollen head feel better.
>>88521And for sake of the nature of the game itself, enjoy this femshep alternative.
>>88521>>88526Yeah, I still like Jennifer Hale's voice better. But renegade Mark Meer is pretty funny. All I can think about when I hear him as a renegade is this picture.
>>88530That is still one of my favourite jokes.
HAHA Seth Green.
Three questions:1. Ardat-Yakshi kill their mate when they try to bond, right? And they are sterile. What would happen if two Ardat-Yakshi mated? Would they kill eachother?2. If Asari don't actually need to mate, and only need to look at someone's genetic history to swap around, why is that so detrimental when they do that to eachother? What would be the difference?3. In that regard, do Asari asexually reproduce by budding?
>>885511.Yes 2.Its something to do with increasing the genetic diversity of the culture and purebloods are seeing as being wasteful and being an its usually a taboo (something probably linked to their first contacts with other races or something) which is why Purebloods usually keep quiet or become isolated i.e. Liara at the excavation site.3.I think they become pregnant though the gestation cycle is not gone into yet I think. Maybe Liara will drop a baby bomb on Shep in three both male and female!!
>>88552That still doesn't make sense, but what do I know?Ok, so I just arrested Anoleus, and a thought came to me. How does due process work? I mean, a human charged with kidnapping would get 45 to life, counting for inflation. Would a Krogan get a longer sentence since he lives that much longer? Opposite goes for a Salarian.
>>88556Rape would get a Salarian a two day sentence; he's back raping the same Asari before they can even get him a shuttle off the Citadel. By the time he dies, this Salarian has spent a third of his life raping that same Asari.>>88551I always imagined that since they become mind pregnant, Asari produce the baby from the back of their heads. That mass of tentacles is actually an alien birth canal.