[Day/Night Game] Trouble on the Citadel - round "LE Part 2: Why Cerberus Is Right For You"

Not yet. I've talked to Miranda and Jacob. Both of them claim the Council is useless again. I didn't go to Citadel. I've just finished exploring new Normandy and set course for Omega since they said we need to recruit some scientist. Landed on a station and ran into a merc guy making pancakes out of some sniveling alien. That's about it.

I've also met Tali, but she refused to join my team. I wander if there will be another opportunity to recruit or she held a grudge for yelling at her in ME1.

I guess there was a mini toaster boss fight when I met Tali. It's funny I've used rpg kiting tactics in a shooter game to get rid of it without even dying once. That stupid robot kept chasing my Shepard around a bunch of crates and trying to unload his machine gun into her face at point blank rage. While we kept running is circles, Jacob and Miranda were standing directly behind the toaster and unloading all of their ammo into it.

That toaster freaked me out. He didn't do any introductory dance and ran directly at Shepard. I only had a moment to use one skill on him and then it was meet heavy machine gun. The freaky part is how he's not nice and slow like those nice toasters in ME1. This guy is FAST. I must have made 500 circles around the crates until it kicked the bucket.

What's with Shepard tank all the time anywho. I understand if Shep is a tank class, but going agro on squishy one is certain problematic.

oops.

Voting Romice.

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Regards the mech, I just drag everyone into the building; why even run about?  There's ammo for the grenade launcher in there. I just directed the other two to cover, hunker down, use Miranda's warp, etc and just whittled down the mech. I hardly use the grenade launcher. 

That bothersome Krogan was the second longest fight after that 1st big toaster. He has the meanest punch ever that killed Shep in something like one of two hits. But, he wasn't necessarily after Shepard specifically. I had Ash on the team and sometimes I got lucky he went after her first while I had time to keep firing at him. But yea once he attacked Shep specifically it was over. He was faster too so couldn't outrun him.

I like ME story, but I don't like shooters in general. ME1 is better than ME2. ME2 is doing all this additional complexity with clips and weapon reload and etc. That's too much attention to weapons for my taste. I like my games to be rather simple.

So far I haven't exactly figured out how the armour and weapon upgrades work, but I've noticed the lack of inventory. So much for getting the gel by recycling the loot.. oh wait.. what loot... there is none at least not in inv which doesn't exist. This has a bad taste of non pc friendly console combat. It's weird how J doesn't open the journal.

She means the mech at the end of the first mission before you get the ship, where you meet Tali and the other quarians. Freedoms Progress?

But yeah that praetorian. ugh. heh

I actually like ME2's way better than ME1, which I find cumbersome. An in-universe upgrade rendered omnigel obsolete, so you don't have to worry about that anymore. Once you pick up the scientist, you will use the upgrade console in the science lab to add any upgrades you pick up. You can check out Shepard's armor choices up in her cabin and apply them by clicking on her dresser/closet thingy. You don't have to worry about managing squad armor, and you will be prompted to choose their weapons when you take them on missions. When you pick up upgraded weapons, they will be automatically equipped to each squadmate who can use them (though you can switch back to a previous weapon if you want).

Incidentally, mods are available to auto-win the puzzles and to make planet scanning go faster, if you are interested.

That's because I didn't know he's composing an answer at the same time as me. He popped it in earlier than I did.

I did it about 5 times before I got fed up with having to drop the difficulty just to get through it. I have no patience for that. I dont remember having such difficulty before. Maybe just rusty? The krogan hides until all your team are dead and all the geth are dead, then charges you. At least what it did to me. I could have been better prepared, like I didnt have unity yet. Usualy I do a  bunch of little quests before I do that one too.



Same, I play for the RPG parts. Sadly, as you noted, they really stripped out a lot of rpg elements in order to appeal to the 'cod' crowd. Or something. ME2 is still a fun game if you take it as  the main focus is meeting all the characters.

Yeah and M doesn't open the map. Because there is no map. In most places anyway. The hubs have a map iirc.

No omnigel either, they lampshade that later in a dlc.

They made it simpler in a lot of ways but not in ways I liked.

Definitely made to be more console friendly. Mind you ME1 was a console exclusive before they ported it to PC.  The biggest change to ME2 from 1 was the near abandonment of interesting world building for the 'rule of cool'. Even more so in 3 and in MEA.. well... I'm not going to say anything about that one.

Wait, what!?! There's a mod to bypass those damned puzzles!?! Here I am, so many hours into playing and replaying the series, and I just now learned about this!

I wish Shep could hit on Anderson.



He seemed like an utter creep. I'm sure he'll get along fine with my Renegade Shepard.




Yeah.. that's the guilty bugger.

Too late for that. I feel like Shep wasn't the only one who got blown up two years ago.

I don't remember ANYTHING about Cerberus from ME1. Weren't we fighting the Reapers and some overgrown fire hydrant with a massive superiority complex?

I spent the last 10 minutes looking for the planet scanning mod, before I realized that both things I mentioned are part of the same mod. If anyone is interested, here it is:

No Minigames

No minigames, and single-probe planet scanning.

Yep. Definitely probe them a few times, even if you have the mod above. 

I see it as too much of a mentoring relationship for that, but I do wish we could see more of him and Shepard working together.

Yeah, I can't stand Zaeed. Utter creep indeed. Even with my renegade I couldn't bear to get his loyalty. Can't say more without spoilers.

They show up in some side missions and do sleezy, shitty things. We weren't fighting them primarily.