Comments on: Mass Effect 2 Savegame Scandal/Salvation

By: Arthur Barnhouse

Arthur Barnhouse — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:39:15 +0000

I’d recommend using Amazon S3, with S3 Browser. it’s outlandishly cheap if you’re working with small bits of data, like game saves.

By: ascagnel

ascagnel — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:41:38 +0000

Jeremy said:
Remapped Shift and Spacebar and my game improved dramatically. Liking the fights… it’s not like cover is some new feature that wasn’t in the first game… it just makes more sense in ME2. Your teammates actually stay IN the cover, and the enemies don’t just cluster and charge like wild men without regard to their personal safety. Maybe it seems to gamey, but I prefer it by a mile to the confused mess of ME1 combat.

I played through once on normal difficulty, but I might try this key-remapping malarkey on my “insanity” playthrough.

As for the squaddies, they definitely do not stay in cover during firefights. It looks like they can take a few more bullets than you, but they’ll still do some patently stupid things, like slowly jogging to the middle of the battlefield while you’re in a sniper fight.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:42:22 +0000

Remapped Shift and Spacebar and my game improved dramatically. Liking the fights… it’s not like cover is some new feature that wasn’t in the first game… it just makes more sense in ME2. Your teammates actually stay IN the cover, and the enemies don’t just cluster and charge like wild men without regard to their personal safety. Maybe it seems to gamey, but I prefer it by a mile to the confused mess of ME1 combat.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:36:13 +0000

Maybe it’s a matter of using the right powers at the right time… they seem to be working wonders for me, including cryo, pull, throw, shockwave, etc. Who knows?

By: chadplusplus

chadplusplus — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:38:54 +0000

What I haven’t seen mentioned yet is this ridiculous bit: On the 360, you can only import your ME1 save if it was made on the same console as your are playing ME2. My original 360 died (shocking, right?) but I was able to recover my saves by swapping my old hard drive into my new 360, but ME2 wouldn’t recognize them. So I had to buy ME1 to replay the final battle with Saren and get a new save at the end of ME1, which then imported into ME2.

It was nice in that I got to relive those last few minutes of ME1 before started ME2, but it sucked because I had to pay an extra $20.

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:47:47 +0000

neat, I chose this save to do my second runthrough of the game. I had an equivalent character from ME1, but he was male and I wanted to try a female.

Thanks!

By: jalf

jalf — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:24:07 +0000

They’ve said several times that the Mass Effect *trilogy* is about Shepard. He/she will be there in the third game. If you die in ME2, it won’t be canonical.

(They’ve also hinted that after the trilogy, they’ll still want to expand the ME universe “beyond Shepard’s story”

By: Raquel

Raquel — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:16:50 +0000

Thank you very much for the tip. I’m facing the same problem as you: I played the original Mass Effect on the XBox 360 and now decided to get the PC version.

Although it’s not a perfect solution, since one can’t change our character’s name, it’s much better than the default path you mentioned on ME2. :)

By: Wraggles

Wraggles — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:09:41 +0000

Biotics seem powerful??!!….You must be playing a different game to me, only useful biotic powers are warp or Reave, throw/pull/shockwave/singularity don’t affect any opponent with protections of any kind(except for extremely minor damage), and once an enemy is in the red a single headshot kills. Tech on the other hand is obscene (except for cryo blast which is just as bad as the biotics), AI hacking is excellent, as is incinerate and overload.

By: simonkaye

simonkaye — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:01:47 +0000

I’m loving the combat! Playing as a Vanguard is enormously rewarding – biotics feel incredibly powerful this time around, my character feels mobile but vulnerable in the open: exactly what you’d want. The squad is actually helpful and the bads have a fair mix of abilities to keep you on your toes.

By: Nalano

Nalano — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:39:05 +0000

I rather have to agree. My thought process in half the firefights is

Why am I being shot all to hell – oh, because in my furious button-mashing I accidentally tapped spacebar and unglued myself from the low cover.

You already right-click to aim better. You already press number keys for special abilities. You already order mates around with Q, E and C. It’s not any less complicated than your average FPS, so where’s the crouch key? Whatever happened to crouching? Let the NPCs do the whole peekaboo from cover system. I stand up like a moron if there’s not a waist-high fence around.

By: Alexander Norris

Alexander Norris — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:51:56 +0000

Keldorn Firecam and I both approve of this reference.