Mass Effect (Spoilers!!!)

[mpompey]

I just finished my first run through Mass Effect. UNBELIEVABLE!!! This game rocks.

I'm actually playing through again with my character, skills, and items from my first round of play. Which is cool, since now I know a little more about the character creation skills than I did at first. Even though I can't "re-roll" my character, I was able to re-roll all the NPCs that came with me. Can't wait to hit level 60.

This time playing through as Renegade, interesting conversation options going as a hard A$$.

 

[Alamar]

I'm also on another replay at this point. The renegade options are a fresh change of pace after 2 playthroughs as a paragon. To REALLY be a bad boy though you may need to max out intimidate so you get all of the conversation options.

I also cranked up the game difficulty and I'm having a more enjoyable time with the game.

 

[mpompey]

I maxxed out Intimidate my first go round, and there were still some intimidate options (bottom, left side) that were still greyed out and unavailable to me. My first go round I loaded HE rounds into my pistol right before I jumped through the conduit to the Citadel. After I started fighting outside my gun overheated on every second shot. I thought it was because I was fighting in no atmosphere. I had no idea it was my ammo mod. It took me forever to defeat Saren only able to fire to shots at a time. I'm looking forward to playing it correctly next time we meet.

Plus, be able to re-roll Wrex and Williams have made them into juggernauts! I too cranked up the difficulty this second time through.

 

[Alamar]

I'm finding the same things that you are ....

My first character had tons of Charisma / Eletronics / Decription / some first aid .... Needless to say I relied on a good pistol and my teammates to help me through.

While I find that Ash & Wrex are buff when rerolled I was impressed how good of a team Liara && Tali are if you're playing a Soldier.

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As far as the high explosive rounds go I currently only use them in the Sniper Rifle. At a long distance you don't really need a high rate of fire ... tons of damage will work nicely.

For my regular weapons I seem to like the Sledgehammer rounds on hardcore. The Proton [Shield Bypass] rounds don't seem to have enough punch so the other effects of the Sledgehammer seem to work well for me.

 

[mpompey]

I'm finding the same things that you are ....

While I find that Ash & Wrex are buff when rerolled I was impressed how good of a team Liara && Tali are if you're playing a Soldier.

I'll have to remember that. My next play through may be as a soldier. I really want to lay waste with an Assault rifle. Hopefully by then, my theatre will be ready and I'll be playing on my new screen!

Yeah, I saw that too. I loaded up HE and cast Assassination with the sniper, my next shot blew away this geth trooper, his barricade, and the guy standing next to him. Granted I totally maxed out sniper skill. Man that was glorious to see!

 

[jliedeka]

I just finished my first play through last night and immediately started a new character on Veteran difficulty. The first time I played as an infiltrator, now I'm the one that has some combat and some biotics.

I Maxed out paragon in the first game but got renegade points for the ending. I chose to send the fleet after Sovereign rather than save the council. I didn't know doing the smart thing would make me a renegade. Besides, f--- the council. They had their heads where the sun don't shine. Why should I save those genetic defectives?

Okay, I'm calm now.

I haven't gotten far the second time around but the minigame is a lot easier now that I know what I'm doing. I get more goodies this time around.

 

[Alamar]

I just finished my first play through last night and immediately started a new character on Veteran difficulty. The first time I played as an infiltrator, now I'm the one that has some combat and some biotics.

I Maxed out paragon in the first game but got renegade points for the ending. I chose to send the fleet after Sovereign rather than save the council. I didn't know doing the smart thing would make me a renegade. Besides, f--- the council. They had their heads where the sun don't shine. Why should I save those genetic defectives?

Okay, I'm calm now.

I haven't gotten far the second time around but the minigame is a lot easier now that I know what I'm doing. I get more goodies this time around.

I can see how you'd get renegade points for that.

By-the-book I'm sure that you're supposed to save your leaders if possible. Technically the council are, sort of, your leaders. Anyway being a renegade doesn't mean that you're evil ... it just means that you may not play by-the-book to accomplish your goals.

Of course my next play thorough the council is sure to bite it ....

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EDIT: I'm doing a quick playthrough in hardcore this time to see how tough the "insanity" (??) difficulty is ...

 

[mpompey]

Of course my next play thorough the council is sure to bite it ....

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EDIT: I'm doing a quick playthrough in hardcore this time to see how tough the "insanity" (??) difficulty is ...

I agree I chose to save the council the first time I played through. I wasn't really in character, I was pretty much playing like myself. I'm totally renegade now, we'll see if the council makes it or not. I love the ability to hang up on them while they are talking to me!

 

[Alamar]

BTW: Is anyone playing the game on the insanity difficulty level?

What are your favorite rounds in the various weapons? How do those choices work on higher difficulty levels??

FYI: I was very disappointed when I found out that the L10 Spectre sniper rifle with L10 upgrades and L10 High explosive bullets won't one-shot-kill a person in Chora's Den ... I assume that you might be able to kill them with master assasinate but I'm not even sure of that ...

 

[mpompey]

Right now I'm playing through on HardCore.

My Infiltrator is two XP slots away from Master Assassinate. I've got Level X Spectre Sniper Rifle and HE rounds. I can one shot kill most people, but Geth primes etc take a couple of shots to take down. But I figured that was because I was level 55 and all of the enemies

Is level 10 as high as the weapons and armor go? If so, then I can stop flying back to the Citadel in the hopes of finding a Level XI Sniper rifle and pistol.

 

[Alamar]

Right now I'm playing through on HardCore.

My Infiltrator is two XP slots away from Master Assassinate. I've got Level X Spectre Sniper Rifle and HE rounds. I can one shot kill most people, but Geth primes etc take a couple of shots to take down. But I figured that was because I was level 55 and all of the enemies

Is level 10 as high as the weapons and armor go? If so, then I can stop flying back to the Citadel in the hopes of finding a Level XI Sniper rifle and pistol.

Unless I'm mistaken everything is capped at level 10 so you can't go past that. I'm still looking for Collossus X armors for all of my party but so far that seems to be very hard to come by .... [I can't find the human light collossus & the Quarian collossus armors .... uggg]