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Don't read this Bubba.Quote:
Originally Posted by Randy
Who can die? I don't remember anyone dying in my playthrough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Freya
(SPOILER)Seriously Bubba: don't do it(SPOILER)How many times do I need to warn you?(SPOILER)This is just getting ridiculous.(SPOILER)Fine. You can kind of doom the Batarians to death by destroying the mass relay and the planet filled with hundreds of thousands of people
Finished the Freedoms Progress mission and things are heating up very nicely. I was so excited at the end of this!
Update to follow :D
Illusive Man is illusive.
It turns out he has revived me to help ensure the survival of humanity. No pressure then... jeez. I'm starting to think they should have left my corpse floating through space. Cutting through the waffle, there's an Alliance colony called Freedom's Progress that is under siege. Time to flex my muscles! Once I'd done that I picked up the controller and carried on with the game.
Had quick chats with Miranda and Jacob before jetting off. Miranda clearly has reservations about me which I don't mind. I guess I'll have to earn her trust. Jacob on the other hand was far friendlier and pleased as punch to be working with me. He's quite the charming dude, I can see why Pumpkin was sucked in.
I loved the start of the Freedom's Progress mission. It reminded me of Aliens again when they all first land in the dropship. I was happy to learn that Captain Illusive made me the commanding officer of the mission. Miranda did not seem pleased. I told her to shut the hell up (or I would if it was an option) and said our first priority was to look for survivors. Still familiarising myself with the controls, I accidentally sent both Jacob and Miranda sprinting to the other side of the landing platform. I then entertained myself for a few minutes making them both run back and forward across the platform to the sound of them both shouting "OK!" and "On my way!". I am a terrible commander.
Bleep test over, we started snooping around. Things seemed pretty quiet... a little too quiet. After a box or two containing credits, we were attacked by some more mechs. Once again it seemed like they'd been reprogrammed to attack humans. I've seen I, Robot, I could have told them years ago that making robots was a bad idea.
After a few more mechs and crates, we come face to face with an old friend. Tali! Even though I didn't use her that much in ME1, it was still nice to see a familiar face. Plus, she stopped us all getting shot by her Quarian buddies. Apparently, they're after a fellow Quarian called Detour who is here helping the colony as part of his pilgrimage. It seems like finding this freakazoid will give us the answers we need so we decide to team up *virtual Human and Quarian team high five*.
We soon encountered these pain in the ass flying drone thingies. Overload does the job but yeah, I don't like them. Still getting used to my improved arsenal of weapons. Not had a good enough opportunity for the sniper yet. After cutting down more drones, Tali comes over the comm to say that she's unleashed this badass mech boss and it's tearing everyone apart. Good going, love. It didn't actually cause me as much trouble as the cut scene suggested it might. Overload came in handy again and Shepard can add another reason for everyone to think he's amazing.
After picking up the area's loot, we find Detour in a cabin and hoooo boy... shall we say he is a little disturbed? I'm playing as paragon so I made Shepard shut down Detour's monitors. He did this impressively fast too. Nearly as quick as me closing down my porn browsers when MissH gets home. Apparently these folk called Collector's are kidnapping humans for reasons unknown. Lovely. I didn't take Detour into custody, I let Tali take him with her because she's my dudette.
Mission over, General Illusive gave me some vague info on these Collectors. It would seem I'm on a need-to-know basis though. He says I need to start recruiting members for my team. Let's do it! Apparently, none of my original crew are available so my first stop appears to be to grab this scientist. One familiar face did return though, Joker! Also, he's going to be piloting a brand, spanking new Normandy!
Tune in next time as Shepard accidentally damages a drive plate within his first twenty minutes on board killing the entire crew.
Oh, I also got a load of bonuses from my stellar performance in Mass Effect 1!
+ 2000 experience (start at Level 3)
+ 30000 Credits
+ 5000 Element Zero
+ 5000 Iridium
+ 5000 Palladium
+ 5000 Platinum
+ 190 Paragon
+ 22 Renegade
I also received a bonus 100000 credits for importing a rich ME1 character :D
Is this decent or could I have done better?
For your reassurance, there's really not much else you could do:
Seeing how reaching level 60 takes a herculean effort (one you can't do on an initial play-through regardless), you did just great, Bubba.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mass Effect Wikia
On a small note, even during your initial play-through of ME: 2 without experience bonuses, it is possible to reach the maximum level of 30 by completing every single mission (including DLCs).
Nice one, Formy!
It looks like I did everything I possibly could then in ME1. Happy with that!
Oh yes! The illusive man! Great voice actor.
Actually, the ME series had a stellar cast.
Oh hell yeah.Quote:
my first stop appears to be to grab this scientist
The scientist is one of my most favorite ME characters.
His thinness made me jelly
Just a quick (maybe) update on my initial exploration of the new-and-improved Normandy!
Well, they've certainly improved on the original. The navigation area and cockpit is largely unchanged. There was a pretty, young lady called Kelly Chambers who is a Yeoman and is charge of all my emails and messages. We had a long chat and she was basically telling me how amazing I was. Seeing as Liara left me to have blue babies with Conrad, I decided to do a little flirting. Though Shepard's closing line of "Maybe I'll do more than catch you, Kelly" did make me throw up onto my own feet. Whilst clearly a pretty girl, I'm not sure she's fantastic at her job. She said she'd let me know when I had messages. OK, thanks. I went over to my personal computer. Bam! 4 messages. Cheers for the heads up, Kelly! After reading and closing all four messages I went back to have a word with her. She then told me I had messages. I know! I've just bloody read them! I issued her with a verbal warning and told her she better buck up her ideas if she wants to keep her job.
Oh yes, Shepard's quarters are swish. Hopefully I'll get to test the springs on this swanky bed a few times during this game. On further inspection of the ship, I came across another familiar face. Dr Chaka Khan from the original Normandy Crew! She is still keen on working with the legend that is Shepard (why wouldn't she?) and I'm happy to have her on board. Activated a side quest too as it turns out she is a raging alcoholic. No problem, doctor. I'll make it my first priority. The rampaging Reapers and Collectors can wait for now.
I also spoke to the chef who wanted some fancier ingredients. He seemed decent so I didn't mind going on on the hunt for basil and rosemary (these are herbs, not secret characters - just so you all know). I also chatted to a couple of engineers down in the bowels of the ship. They were nice and side quest number three was activated. I can't remember exactly what they asked for. I think it was some sort of engineering-type stuff so they can do a better job at engineering.
Saved it just before heading out. I think I'm gonna pop back to the Citadel before the next mission. One of my messages was from Commander Anderson so I should probably touch base with the new council seeing as I'm the one responsible for killing all their predecessors.
Oh yeah there's a few old NPCs all over the place!
Unless you murdered them. Mwahahahahaha!
EDIT: Neeever mind I'm thinking of ME3.
"This is Commander Shepard... and this is my favourite store on the Citadel."