Mass Effect

Post by **Grimmie** » August 7th, 2009, 11:36

Reinstalled Mass Effect, planning to play right through it this time.

It used to suffer from a nasty game breaking crash, as did Bioshock. Recently bought new rams, and Bioshock worked perfectly right to the credits screen. So, I'm going to go through and play as Mr. Sheppard once more and shoot some dudes.

Any tips for me, personal tactics that you used?

I'm going as a Soldier at the moment, as it seemed the most action based shooty class available, did any of you choose something different or play through several times as different classes and get a different experience?

Post by **Dog Pants** » August 7th, 2009, 11:54

I chose soldier, relying on my mates to do the other bits.

shot2bits · Post by **shot2bits** » August 7th, 2009, 12:05

Dog Pants wrote:I chose soldier, relying on my mates to do the other bits.

this ^ i played as a techy shooty guy for a bit and realised i might aswell be a soldier myself and take out the full tech and full biotic team mate and sink points into them for that stuff and concentrate on shooty things myself as generally i hit alot more than the computer did

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » August 7th, 2009, 12:42

I chose Soldier as well on my "pro" playthrough, teammates can do the techy stuff and biotics seem just plain useless. Biotics are also pretty useless on teammates because you DON'T EVER stop an action game in the middle of a firefight to pause the game, move the camera and push the enemy with LOL NEWTONS.

As for teammates, I took Tali because I like her voice, and Garrus because he's half soldier half techy. In fact, teammates are pretty much skilldumpsters only, they take out stuff you could take out but when it's important they can't do shizz. BUT they have first aid, damping, decryption and electronics which are all extremely useful.

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » August 7th, 2009, 13:15

Baliame wrote:I took Tali because I like her voice

You chose her because SHE SOUNDS LIKE YOU!!1!1!11! LOLOLOL1

Seriously though, I picked soldier because of all the reasons mentioned above, I used all the weapon types frequently except the pistol, so I picked the right class for me.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » August 7th, 2009, 13:17

From what I can remember, I was an engineer. Because I am an engineer and I like engineering. That worked out well enough for me.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » August 7th, 2009, 13:47

Mr. Johnson wrote:You chose her because SHE SOUNDS LIKE YOU!!1!1!11! LOLOLOL1

Well you need to learn the difference between squeak and weird accent lady in a suit!!1!1!11! LOLOLOL1

Post by **deject** » August 7th, 2009, 13:52

I think the people who say biotics aren't useful must not have used them because the biotic powers are insane. Lift, Warp, Singularity are all incredibly powerful abilities and can often be enough to kill some enemies. They have incredible debuffing power and allow anyone to destroy people.

In my opinion you can't really go wrong with any of the classes. All of the weapon types are good in their own way, though I think I prefer shotguns the most. Tech and Biotic abilities are powerful if you actually put more than 3 points into them. Treat it like KOTOR, if you want to go all shooty shooty, then pick soldier. If you want to use powers, then go with Engineer, Biotic, or any of the hybrids. I am partial to Infiltrators and Sentinels.

Post by **FatherJack** » August 7th, 2009, 23:56

I think I took enough shooting to unlock sniper rifles, but put most points into tech so I could hack and unlock everything as I didn't want to rely on having the correct team mates to do that for me. So Infiltrator.

I swapped the team mates constantly, as I always do, so they all stay around the same level. I think they do level out of combat, but I prefer to spend their points as they get them. Also I tried to keep the 3 classes balanced in the party, but I did slightly favour all-girl teams.

By the end, though I found myself taking mostly the big-hitters with the most armour, which I think was Ashley and Urdnot as the others tended to get themselves killed.

I went in first to pick off enemies at range and relied on team-mates to cover me in close-quarters with shotguns and AR - the AI seems poor at using sniper rifles.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » August 8th, 2009, 0:07

If I remember correctly, everyone with even slight tech affiliation gains shield from a lot of places.

Also, experience is global, so if you level up, all 6 teammates level up as well.

Post by **FatherJack** » August 8th, 2009, 0:27

Baliame wrote:Also, experience is global, so if you level up, all 6 teammates level up as well.

I thought so, but I still preferred to spend points one level at a time and use everyone equally, it's just ingrained in my RPG playstyle for when they cruelly kill off one of your bestest characters halfway through the game and you're forced to use all the shit ones.