Mass Effect 2 gameplay thread

[al Roumi]

Like you, I used Garrus, Grunt, Thane, and Mordin a lot. I found Mordin less effective in combat but he's so funny that I wanted to take him along just to hear him talk. Sometimes I used Samara and Jack together for a crazy kill everything with biotics party. My Vanguard and Jack had maxed out Shockwave by the end, it was fun to have two characters using it at once. :P

I took Mordin on any mission mostly involving biological enemies - Neural shock and cryo-blast are great, incinerate is good on the big mechs' armour. Thane's Shredder ammo also makes him a good team mate for biological enemies. I mostly then used Garrus, Miranda or Zaeed against sinthetics.

[Mailman653]

Hammerhead DLC, March 23rd

[tibilicus]

New Kasumi DLC trailer.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/ka...s-effect/63465

Playing a vanguard in a dinner suit looks really fun.

[Krusader]

Coming out 23rd. Will cost some Xbox points and PC bioware points.
If I end up buying this, it will solely be to fix Garrus' armor. Looks like a hobo-dino at times. Don't like the sunglasses on Jack & Thane at all, but at least Jack got some clothes.

[Mailman653]

Heh heh, they made Shep look like a Cerberus James Bond in that video. As for the DLC costumes.....I don't know about that but they look nice.

[Krusader]

Firewalker DLC out along with Costume Pack.

Haven't bought costume pack and the Firewalker (Hammerhead tank with 5 missions) was not much to cheer for, then again its free.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

First mission is just a tutorial on how to do things. Unfortunately what pops up on screen are not the correct keys to press. Apparently its a problem on both PC & X360. And being a non-native English speaker I thought the "Mine" key was about laying mines, not mining for minerals or mission objectives.

You then get 3 missions you can do in any order. One is to race through a icy canyon and collect 10 data nodes (using mine key to collect them when hovering above a beacon thingy) before your engine is incapacited due to cold. At least the Hammerhead becomes visually icy and your boost & jumping is reduced to lower temperatues.
Another mission is to hover through a volcanic area, locate a base, use some sensors which causes seismic activity and you need to race your Hammerhead to an exit before lava & stone kill you. The third mission is to collect five artifacts while killing geth.
Last mission unlocks after doing "volcanic mission" and that is killing rocket drones while taking down generator shields and then entering base and thats just running to a Prothean relic. You find a Biotic Damage upgrade in there though.

The controls on the PC at least are good enough, better than the mako, but then again different vehicle types. But i was sorely disappointed with with weaponry. Only weapon is a "homing missile launcher". You dont even need to target enemies, just fire away and the missiles home in, as long as you keep the launcher somewhat horizontal. No secondary weapon. When I fought some Geth even though I kept crosshair on a geth a bit farther away the missiles homed in on nearest enemy.

All in all, had this been paid content I wouldn't have bothered. I hope if they ever make an expansion they will integrate the Hammerhead in a much better way. This just felt tacked on and done in a hurry.

[al Roumi]

Thanks for the review Krusader!