Shorty Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 To get Kelly you have to talk to her after you meet every new squad member and say the flirtiest thing, then you get dinner (and she feeds the fish!). After the suicide mission you have to have no other romantic interests to go any further, but it doesn't grant the achievement.
Dyson Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 How does the suicide mission work by the way? Reason I ask is because I managed to have everyone survive on my very first try, which was cool, but I don't know how I did it. I'm guessing it depends on who you have in the squads and such but I refuse to believe that I made all of the right choices the first go with no information
Sméagol Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 (edited) Hmm, I spoke to her as often as I found myself near the Galaxy map, but it's possible I still missed some reactions of certain new crew members. I also always picked the flirty reaction I think, but I may have picked a neutral one too at one point (can't remember though), which already messes the romance up according to the internets. Too bad, but at least that's one temptation less in the way of my true love Liara :P. I wonder what they'll do in ME3 regarding the romance factor. I hope they'll promote Kelly to a true love interest, if I do another run of the total trilogy at some point, I may go after her .Also, I hope you can have Urz, the Varren who follows you on tuchanka as a pet running around your ship, or possible fighting besides you in battle . Urz is cute. Anyway, can't wait for Liara assignment, and a patch so I can bring Legion along for my last remaing mission (for now), project Overlord. How does the suicide mission work by the way? Reason I ask is because I managed to have everyone survive on my very first try, which was cool, but I don't know how I did it. I'm guessing it depends on who you have in the squads and such but I refuse to believe that I made all of the right choices the first go with no information Yeah, me too, but I spoilered myself ahead for the info on that. Although, I was pretty much on the right track anyway. It depends on certain factors. - the 3 important ship upgrades (weapon, shield and armour): For each one you don't have, you lose a squadmember (which ones and the priority of who you lose you can find on the mass effect wiki for example). Since I depleted pretty much half the galaxy, I upgraded my ship a long time ago. - The non-squad crew, like Kelly and your doctor: If you go straight after them as soon as they're abducted, you'll save everyone. Instead of seeing Kelly dissolve (), you'll see someone from Horizon die instead. If you decide you need to prepare more, and do more missions for exp, loyalty, loot and stuff, you'll lose crewmembers. When you save them, you need someone to escort them, or you still lose them. You can't use this squadmember anymore after this. I've done everything, so there were practically no more preparations to be done. I was level 29, everyone was loyal, had most upgrades.. So I went straight after them. - During the mission itself: Choose the appropiate people for the job. That means loyal people and specialists. Choose anyone else, and someone dies. This means: For the door, choose a techspecialist (Kasumi, Legion and Tali, I chose Kasumi). For the teamleader of the diversion squad (both instances): choose a "leader-type". Ok, so this isn't a specific class, but you can shoose Miranda, Garrus, and Jacob. I chose Miranda. For the shield, use a biotic specialist. So Jack or Samara/Morinth. I chose Samara. - Hold the line: The ones staying behind will survive or die depending on what the average score of the team is, each squadmember has a score of how suited he or she is for this task. Soldier types shine here. Also, again, loyal squadmembers have a higher score. Mine were all loyal, so everyone survived. Edited July 27, 2010 by Sméagol
Sméagol Posted August 17, 2010 Posted August 17, 2010 Coming to PS3. http://www.masseffect.com/ There will be extra content, but no further details are given. Also no word on a ME1 release.
Ryan Posted August 17, 2010 Posted August 17, 2010 The extra content could be the workaround for no first game.
Sméagol Posted August 17, 2010 Posted August 17, 2010 I think it'll be packed in dlc, if not, then I hope it is what you also mention, "flashback missions" that'll let you make all the big decisions of ME1. Of course, if I was a PS3 gamer, I'd hope for a release of ME1 or an option to import PC savefiles or something. Anyway, I hope it's not exclusive content, like a lot of people on the Bioware forums are concerned about.
Cube Posted August 17, 2010 Posted August 17, 2010 Could not releasing the first one have something to do with Microsoft publishing it?
Ryan Posted August 17, 2010 Posted August 17, 2010 Could not releasing the first one have something to do with Microsoft publishing it? Seems logical. Must of been a contractual thing even though EA now have the IP. EA published it on PC without the Windows branding, so looks like in it's current form, Mass Effect stays on Xbox. Unless they can get through it with a NG: Sigma type of deal.
Aimless Posted August 17, 2010 Posted August 17, 2010 I think it's more that porting the original would be a pain in the arse. It performs terribly on 360 so they'd probably have to get it running on a newer version of the Unreal Engine, plus they'd be somewhat obligated to include the improvements made to the PC version, and a lot of things about it haven't aged terrible well in the first place. The sequel should be a breeze to bring across by comparison.
Sméagol Posted August 24, 2010 Posted August 24, 2010 It's coming 07-09-2010, and will cost 800 points. From the site: "This DLC adds the Shadow Broker intel center, new research, and five new achievements – and the chance to continue a relationship with Liara." Yay!
Shorty Posted August 24, 2010 Posted August 24, 2010 =O New achievements eh... I wasn't interested in the previous two DLC because they seemed rather shallow and pointless, but I'm interested now.
ViPeR Posted August 24, 2010 Posted August 24, 2010 It's coming 07-09-2010, and will cost 800 points. From the site: "This DLC adds the Shadow Broker intel center, new research, and five new achievements – and the chance to continue a relationship with Liara." Yay! FFS!! I got with Miranda because Liara wasn't interested even though she was my interest from the first ME. Typical.
Cube Posted August 24, 2010 Posted August 24, 2010 FFS!! I got with Miranda because Liara wasn't interested even though she was my interest from the first ME. Typical. You have to take Miranda with you on that mission, just to see if anything happens.
Mundi Posted August 24, 2010 Posted August 24, 2010 I wanna see what happens if Liara was your love interest in ME1 and you take your love interest from ME2 with you. The scale of awkwardness would go trough the roof!
ViPeR Posted August 24, 2010 Posted August 24, 2010 I'm going to! It's her own fault for showing no interest when we met again lol.
Eddage Posted August 24, 2010 Posted August 24, 2010 I'm going to! It's her own fault for showing no interest when we met again lol. Apparently if you didn't get with anyone in the second game you'd be able to continue your relationship from the first in the third. Can't remember if that's just people speculating or not though. Anyways, I fired this up for my third play through yesterday, only did the training mission but wanted to see what it looked like on my new 50 inch plasma, it's beauty reduced me to tears
Konfucius Posted August 24, 2010 Posted August 24, 2010 Did any of you read the Mass Effect Comic? It explains why Liara is after the shadowbroker. So maybe this DLC could be the conclusion and she can rescue the Drell (or find him dead) whose name I forgot.
Sméagol Posted August 25, 2010 Posted August 25, 2010 I did not, but I may buy it at some point, just to get the whole story. I didn't read your spoiler. That said, I'm not a comic guy, and I've even seen a lot of fans on the forums being upset about the quality of the comic.. Hmm. Still, I may get it regardless, plus the novels, since well, I love the Mass Effect franchise, and it's fun to get to know all of such a cool franchise, now it's still doable (2,5 games + dlc, 3 novels and comic).
Konfucius Posted August 26, 2010 Posted August 26, 2010 I did not, but I may buy it at some point, just to get the whole story. I didn't read your spoiler. That said, I'm not a comic guy, and I've even seen a lot of fans on the forums being upset about the quality of the comic.. Hmm.Still, I may get it regardless, plus the novels, since well, I love the Mass Effect franchise, and it's fun to get to know all of such a cool franchise, now it's still doable (2,5 games + dlc, 3 novels and comic). I actually quite liked the comic, also the drawing style. It's more of sidestory than a backstory though because they have to make the game understandable to people who didn't read the comic after all. But judging by the information about the DLC it could continue the story of the comic.
Konfucius Posted September 2, 2010 Posted September 2, 2010 Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC Trailer: Looks awesome, this could be a fantastic piece of DLC.
Shorty Posted September 2, 2010 Posted September 2, 2010 That does look good. I think I'll wait for Kotaku's mini-review because they seem to get it pretty spot on and led me wisely to avoid the Kasumi - Stolen Memory. Also I gave up on Liara assuming she was no longer a relationship option -_-
Sméagol Posted September 2, 2010 Posted September 2, 2010 (edited) I wasn't sure if I should watch it, but I did. Plenty of people found the DLC overpriced so far, personally I found Kasumi enjoyable (haven't played Overlord yet due to an bug, which I'll hope they'll fix along with the new DLC), but I too found the price too be a bit on the high side, if you consider there isn't that much of extra story to be enjoyed, and very little dialogue (during the mission as well as after that, the character never felt fully integrated with the main game). Fans were extra concerned because this DLC was even pricier (800 as opposed to 560). But the trailer looks great. It looks like we'll be getting plenty of story, dialogue, and drama, a long with plenty of action (which includes new gameplay it seems (?)), so I'll bet its justified. I'll be adding my Bioware points now.. Edit: Also, they call this the firts of the "bridging DLC", what story-wise will connect ME2 to ME3, so that's probably also why they went the extra mile. Edited September 2, 2010 by Sméagol
Eddage Posted September 2, 2010 Posted September 2, 2010 That does look good. I think I'll wait for Kotaku's mini-review because they seem to get it pretty spot on and led me wisely to avoid the Kasumi - Stolen Memory. Also I gave up on Liara assuming she was no longer a relationship option -_- I really liked the Kasumi add on! Her shadow strike move is awesome as well.
Sméagol Posted September 7, 2010 Posted September 7, 2010 (edited) It's been released on X-Box live a few hours ago already apparently, but the PC release is just up. Go download that (1,5 GB) shit! Edit: There seems to be something wrong with the PC download, hmm. Edited September 7, 2010 by Sméagol
Konfucius Posted September 10, 2010 Posted September 10, 2010 I just finished Lair of the Shadow Broker and must say it was absolutely awesome, although I expected it to play out a bit differently. It's an outstanding mission not only compared to the other DLC but to the rest of the game. The locations are interesting, there's a lot of dialogue and it actually really advances the story after ME2. I don't want to spoil anything so I'll just leave it at 'one of the most gripping missions in ME2 for me'.
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