Mass Effect - Legendary Edition (Mass Effect Trilogy Remaster) Announced

[Greevir]

Going to use to check if the import bugs are still there (like Conrad remembering gun instead of Paragon option, for example).

This bug still exists, but Conrad will apologize for it in ME3.

[beanman12345]

Question for those who have played the ME1 part. Do you still get achieves with weapons so you unlock them on other classes? Like getting assault rifle achi on soldier then make a sentinel with bonus skill for assault rifles?

Achievements are just points and unlock nothing. In fact some achievements are gone, like the million credit achievement, and so you can get the spectre weapons as soon as you have credits for them, no level requirement. But I'm almost positive now since I'm on my second playthrough that they locked level 10 spectre gear behind all 4 main story planets, regardless of whatever level you are. All classes can use any weapons, and i'm pretty sure there is no RNG anymore with guns, which kinda flips it from soldier being basically the best class to kinda middle of pack imo.

[Lahis]

This bug still exists, but Conrad will apologize for it in ME3.

They might have left the bug in due the fact that ME3 Conrad was written around the ME2 bug.

If they fixed the ME2 bug, ME3 Conrad would be talking nonsense in turn, and I doubt they could re-record his dialogue for this.

[Jastall]

Achievements are just points and unlock nothing. In fact some achievements are gone, like the million credit achievement, and so you can get the spectre weapons as soon as you have credits for them, no level requirement. But I'm almost positive now since I'm on my second playthrough that they locked level 10 spectre gear behind all 4 main story planets, regardless of whatever level you are. All classes can use any weapons, and i'm pretty sure there is no RNG anymore with guns, which kinda flips it from soldier being basically the best class to kinda middle of pack imo.

Being fair, being able to use a gun doesn't mean you'll do well with it. As an Adept, switching to rifles or snipers was always much less effective than the pistol I specced into. I was however kinda surprised at how damaging the squadmates could be, Garrus especially. I handed him the strongest sniper rifles and while he could never hit foes in cover, once I lifted them off the man tore through them in two shots, and was capable of shredding Krogans before they even reached me. That was mostly at higher levels, but still welcome. And yeah, I got the Spectre weapons at the shop upon completing all 4 main story quests, even if I was a millionaire way before that. I also couldn't find decent light armor to save my life which annoyed me.

Also, holy cow the graphical upgrade from ME1 to ME2 is significant. I think a lot of it comes down to the lighting, ME1 has little of it and thus a lot of environments end up looking lifeless and sterile. ME2 has far better, moodier lighting which helps Omega alone have a far better atmosphere than all of ME1 combined. That and better animations combine to make the game not quite look its age. And while the combat is still not perfect at all, at least the shooting isn't dogshit anymore.

[beanman12345]

Being fair, being able to use a gun doesn't mean you'll do well with it. As an Adept, switching to rifles or snipers was always much less effective than the pistol I specced into. I was however kinda surprised at how damaging the squadmates could be, Garrus especially. I handed him the strongest sniper rifles and while he could never hit foes in cover, once I lifted them off the man tore through them in two shots, and was capable of shredding Krogans before they even reached me. That was mostly at higher levels, but still welcome. And yeah, I got the Spectre weapons at the shop upon completing all 4 main story quests, even if I was a millionaire way before that. I also couldn't find decent light armor to save my life which annoyed me.

Also, holy cow the graphical upgrade from ME1 to ME2 is significant. I think a lot of it comes down to the lighting, ME1 has little of it and thus a lot of environments end up looking lifeless and sterile. ME2 has far better, moodier lighting which helps Omega alone have a far better atmosphere than all of ME1 combined. That and better animations combine to make the game not quite look its age. And while the combat is still not perfect at all, at least the shooting isn't dogshit anymore.

I think you miss my point. OG ME1, insanity, you are, specifically and especially for the first chunk of the game, entirely self reliant, cause AI partners are mess. Later game it becomes easy but early not being limited to gun type was a big boon, so soldier was arguably best class. Now your not limited to gun type, and AI isn't crap. I mean insanity was REALLY hard early game, now, not so much, due to many factors, which changes up things on which class is best. They really did their best to streamline combat so going from ME1 to ME2 isn't so jarring. But the streamlining does make change up the class rankings.

[minteK917]

Solider still the best in ME1, simply because it maintains the ability to face tank the entire game lol. Kinda like sentinel in ME2, where its next to impossible to die even on insanity, i can just run in there and melee stuff. But the gun change in ME1 is great, i can run the entire series easily on insanity with the same class and not have an annoying time because soldier can do it eye closed and i wanted to play canon as something else.

[Elim Garak]

I had a weird bug with Spectre weapons - when I got access I had no money, but when I had money - there were no Spectre weapons on sale. Not that I needed them by that time.

[Easo]

I had a weird bug with Spectre weapons - when I got access I had no money, but when I had money - there were no Spectre weapons on sale. Not that I needed them by that time.

Known bug, can be fixed by a mod.

[DarkAmbient]

Finally finished my first ever ME1 playthrough (LE). Not sure if I'll ever play it again because some of the sections were absolutely horrible (Noveria easily the worst). I had to turn up the brightness to see where the fuck I was going in parts of Feros and it was buggy as hell. I had to redo the intro to Virmire 4 times because either it crashed or the Mako randomly flipped upside down forcing me to have to reload a save. I really enjoyed Ilos though. Loved the art design with those old seated statues dotted around the place, like something from a Beksinki painting (my avatar). Maybe I'll look up ways to race through the shitty parts if I ever play it again.

Not sure if it's a bug but I imported my ME1 save into ME2 and started with 999999 credits, not that I'm complaining

[Selastan]

Anyone knowledgeable about the final mission on ME2? Got a question.

Kasumi died. I used her as the specialist in the first section of the collector base because I KNOW it worked in previous playthroughs before the remaster. Squad full loyalty, Second team lead was Samara, squad was Miranda and Mordin. What did I fuck up this time? Newest manual save was several missions ago, so poor Kasumi is perma-dead in this playthrough, but I still wanna know what I did wrong for future attempts.

[zealo]

Finally finished my first ever ME1 playthrough (LE). Not sure if I'll ever play it again because some of the sections were absolutely horrible (Noveria easily the worst). I had to turn up the brightness to see where the fuck I was going in parts of Feros and it was buggy as hell. I had to redo the intro to Virmire 4 times because either it crashed or the Mako randomly flipped upside down forcing me to have to reload a save. I really enjoyed Ilos though. Loved the art design with those old seated statues dotted around the place, like something from a Beksinki painting (my avatar). Maybe I'll look up ways to race through the shitty parts if I ever play it again.

Not sure if it's a bug but I imported my ME1 save into ME2 and started with 999999 credits, not that I'm complaining

It's not a bug, they changed some of the import bonuses to now be 10% of your money in ME1, once you get to the Normandy there's a new mail about just that on the terminal that weren't in the original ME2.

[PACOX]

Anyone knowledgeable about the final mission on ME2? Got a question.

Kasumi died. I used her as the specialist in the first section of the collector base because I KNOW it worked in previous playthroughs before the remaster. Squad full loyalty, Second team lead was Samara, squad was Miranda and Mordin. What did I fuck up this time? Newest manual save was several missions ago, so poor Kasumi is perma-dead in this playthrough, but I still wanna know what I did wrong for future attempts.

You basically have to do it right after the ambush. Otherwise she should have been fine.

[Low Hanging Fruit]

Anyone knowledgeable about the final mission on ME2? Got a question.

Kasumi died. I used her as the specialist in the first section of the collector base because I KNOW it worked in previous playthroughs before the remaster. Squad full loyalty, Second team lead was Samara, squad was Miranda and Mordin. What did I fuck up this time? Newest manual save was several missions ago, so poor Kasumi is perma-dead in this playthrough, but I still wanna know what I did wrong for future attempts.

So I am not claiming to be 100 on this so forgive me if it is incorrect.

But I think where it went wrong was the pick of Samara being the second fire team lead. From what I understand it should be a loyal Miranda, Jacob, or Garrus that leads the fire team along with a loyal Tali, Legion, or Kasumi in the vent. If one of those is incorrect or either is disloyal then the vent specialist dies.

[Jastall]

Anyone knowledgeable about the final mission on ME2? Got a question.

Kasumi died. I used her as the specialist in the first section of the collector base because I KNOW it worked in previous playthroughs before the remaster. Squad full loyalty, Second team lead was Samara, squad was Miranda and Mordin. What did I fuck up this time? Newest manual save was several missions ago, so poor Kasumi is perma-dead in this playthrough, but I still wanna know what I did wrong for future attempts.

Samara is a bad team leader and will get someone killed. Viable team leaders are (loyal) Miranda, Jacob and Garrus. Samara is ideal for the Biotic shield portion, just like Jack. And indeed Kasumi works well for the initial portion in the vents, as do Tali and Legion. But she then bit it because Samara isn't a good enough leader to protect her and she's one of the squishy squadmates who die first when that happens.

Yeah, the Suicide Mission can be tricky like that. Probably intentionally, not much of a suicide mission if you can easily get everyone out alive.

[segara82]

Anyone knowledgeable about the final mission on ME2? Got a question.

Kasumi died. I used her as the specialist in the first section of the collector base because I KNOW it worked in previous playthroughs before the remaster. Squad full loyalty, Second team lead was Samara, squad was Miranda and Mordin. What did I fuck up this time? Newest manual save was several missions ago, so poor Kasumi is perma-dead in this playthrough, but I still wanna know what I did wrong for future attempts.

So far those choices worked for me in several playthroughs, both original ME2 and LE, all characters loyal before grabbing the IFF:
Vent: Kasumi, Legion or Tali
Team leader: Garrus, Jacob or Miranda
Extraction Team: Mordin
Biotic: Samara for the shield, Jack is better used to clear out the Husks during that segment
Second Team Leader: Garrus or Jacob
For the final fight take Miranda and Thane with you, leave the tanks (Grunt, Zaeed, ...) with the second team
If you take the tanks to the boss fight team members will croack since they can't withstand the assault.

[Selastan]

So I am not claiming to be 100 on this so forgive me if it is incorrect.

But I think where it went wrong was the pick of Samara being the second fire team lead. From what I understand it should be a loyal Miranda, Jacob, or Garrus that leads the fire team along with a loyal Tali, Legion, or Kasumi in the vent. If one of those is incorrect or either is disloyal then the vent specialist dies.

Really want to question BioWare on that one. Samara as a bad team lead? The thousand year old asari with hundreds of years of combat and military experience is a bad team leader? The fuck...

[zealo]

Really want to question BioWare on that one. Samara as a bad team lead? The thousand year old asari with hundreds of years of combat and military experience is a bad team leader? The fuck...

Being old and experienced doesn't necessarily equate to being good at keeping people alive in a leadership position, it's the same reason why picking Zaeed as a squad leader gets people killed.

[Dhrizzle]

Really want to question BioWare on that one. Samara as a bad team lead? The thousand year old asari with hundreds of years of combat and military experience is a bad team leader? The fuck...

Samara is an honour-bound member of a religious order, her decisions are more likely to be dogmatic than pragmatic which doesn't necessarily translate well into special-ops squad command.

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Being old and experienced doesn't necessarily equate to being good at keeping people alive in a leadership position, it's the same reason why picking Zaeed as a squad leader gets people killed.

Is there a way to guarantee getting Zaeed killed?

[Selastan]

Samara is an honour-bound member of a religious order, her decisions are more likely to be dogmatic than pragmatic which doesn't necessarily translate well into special-ops squad command.

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Is there a way to guarantee getting Zaeed killed?

Damn, don't like the guy? Maybe keep him disloyal and have him lead the survivors back to the ship?

[Gorsameth]

Really want to question BioWare on that one. Samara as a bad team lead? The thousand year old asari with hundreds of years of combat and military experience is a bad team leader? The fuck...

She is a loner, if I remember right the game talks a lot about how alone and independent she is as a Justicar.
Just because someone is an experienced soldier doesn't mean they are a good team leader.