Petition: Overhaul Mass Effect 2.

After Just recently starting ME2, after about 40 hours of ME1 on insanity. I have to disagree. Combat in ME1 is rudimentary at best. ME2 combat is the point where all classes played differently from each other. There is almost no overlap between classes. ME2 brought fun and challenge to combat, especially playing a vangaurd. I literally only used a pistol with explosion ammo in ME1, switching up that tactic when either the burdensome overheat mechanic demanded me.

Or when I used my teammate powers to unlock trophies. Combat was never fun in ME1. It's boring and is the worst thing about the game.

For my taste, Mass Effect 3 and "The Arrival" would have to be completely redone for Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 to work. But I don't want that from THIS Bioware team anymore.
Walters still hopes that all customers will finally see the art in HIS ending. An ending that is in no way connected to any development that took place over the dealing of the three parts. There are the 3 endings. The game simply converts the state of the world situation into numbers. The ending then determines the quality of the plot at the end by these numbers.
That is never a satisfactory conclusion to a three-part storyline for me.
It's like DAO asks for a minimum score in the Archdemon fight and because you sacrificed Connor, you're one point short of getting the best possible ending. Because Bioware now starts to judge your decisions.
(That is absolutely a no-go, in a decision-making action, to blame the player for the decision he has made and to point the finger at him. Game is not the reality. This decision should have Consequences, but must not be transferred to the real world.)

ME2 would have a real impact on ME3, when we have the possibility to choose a side to fight the Reapers. But Bioware made this irrelevant, because they stopped making Cerberus grey shading. A "Arrivale"Alike DLC had to be an Expansion Pack that introduced a new head for Cerberus, with someone who plausible offers the possibility to choose the side in ME3. Victory against the Reapers is the overriding goal and need not have been changed anyway. After all, it was never a question of sparing the Archdemon.

Like the only gripes I have with ME2 is the weapon restrictions for classes and the forced missions, but beyond that its my favorite game of the trilogy and I don't see any reason to overhaul it. Improve some things here and there, but overhaul the game completely? That would just ruin the magic of it

Yeah, when I heard they were "overhauling" ME 1, I had figured they were going to bring combat in line with ME 2/3. I was...rather disappointed this was not the case. ME 2 easily has the best combat of the series. The "I-hold-the-trigger-until-I-win" combat of ME 1 was...meh. And then when we were given the Lancer in ME 3: Citadel, I was like, "Oh boy...a useless gun I'll never use". The combat of 2 made me use teammate powers; it was use them or die. In ME 1, I felt the allies were pointless and just spammed powers randomly at walls and objects.

This is how I feel. ME2 combat just seemed more balanced. It had the perfect amount of challenge, with the perfect amount of variety. Plus with the heavy weapons, it was a chef's kiss. ME3 took away the challenge of playing a vanguard by adding nova, and it ruined sentinel for me as well, by reworking how tech armor worked. 

I have completed Eden Prime in ME1 LE for the like the fourth time. While I appreciate the change to the weapon system, I am not sure it was the best choice? I completed Eden Prime with:
- Soldier
- Adept
- Engineer
- Vanguard

Now because powers are have such long cooldowns to start, I am using my guns mostly. So for Eden Prime it feels like I just played slightly different flavors of Soldier. As the game goes on, the classes will really branch out, but it really feels like the Soldier is somewhat shafted.

NOTE: The Soldier also felt kind of shafted in the original ME1 as well, particularly if you took a bonus weapon talent on the Infiltrator. That seems like it will be the same thing here. I say "kind of" since the Soldier still has access to Adrenaline Burst which allows more weapon talent use than the Infiltrator, but I rarely used it outside of a handful of times. I did use it a bit more than in the original trilogy.

Another option -- if possible due to game code -- would be to remove weapons if you did not have a talent for it (exception for pistols on the Sentinel, Kaiden, and Liara). But note that would come with its own set of problems. It would lead better into ME2.

There are benefits and drawbacks to each system. I recall a thread on the old BSN forums while ME2 was in post-development, where someone proposed an "encumbrance system", where each weapon had an encumbrance and each class had an encrumbance value. So Soldiers had the most, then Infiltrators and Vanguards, then the caster classes. Each class could equip any weapons they wanted so long as it did not go over their max encumbrance value. "Special" weapons like the Claymore, Widow, and Revenant would cost the most, meaning casters could carry the Claymore if they wanted but only the Claymore because it had too much encumbrance.

This works a little like the weight capacity system in ME3 and MEA. I think this system works best from a class customization standpoint, but both ME3 and MEA had some issues with it.
- ME3 tied the weight capacity into the cooldown system which immediately made it a bad idea; it should have been separate. The Soldier also got shafted since all classes started with the same weight capacity, and the Soldier had a terrible evolution placement for its weight capacity upgrade (do you want weight capacity or weapon and ammo power damage?).
- MEA separated its weight capacity from cooldown unless you took too much weight. You also only started with two weapon slots, unlocking one or two more based on Combat power passives.

I think a good weight capacity system could work, if:
- It has hard limits
- You can increase limits based on passive skills
- It is not tied in any way to the cooldown system.

Of course it also depends on class skills. In an ME2 and ME3 system where specialty ammo types are powers, then it makes more sense to have combat-oriented classes to use more guns. If you have an ME1 or MEA system where ammo types are gun mods, then it may make more sense to have all classes use all guns about equally since combat, tech, and biotic powers would not necessarily be tied to weapons.

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I also recall what someone else once wrote: "Classes are not just defined by what they can do, but also what they cannot do."
Restricting weapons by class is not necessarily a bad thing, as it is just another way to make them feel unique based on which weapons they can or cannot use.

In ME2, each class starts with at least one weapon that deals bonus damage to armor, and at least one weapon that deals bonus damage to shields and barriers. ME2 also later gives you a choice of a bonus weapon to further define the class/playstyle.

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Maybe a hybrid system would also work?
- Engineers, Adepts, and Sentinels get two weapon slots.
- Infiltrators and Vanguards get three weapon slots.
- Soldiers get four weapon slots?

Or maybe all classes get two weapon slots, but each class has different weight capacity requirements with a later option to get a third weapon slot?

They were never grey shading. That is just the impression TIM wanted to give you, by assigning the least shitty people in his organization to the Normandy. 

Did Admiral Kohoku not happen? Rachni army experiments? David happened. Jack happened. Akuze happened. All those things line up with Sanctuary and armies of brainwashed slaves. Did you forget that even the Cerberus Cheerleader Miranda firmly disagreed with TIM wanting to save the base? Which naturally means she's fired, because how dare you disagree with my decisions.

All you guys who keep acting like Cerberus was grey, at any point, are lying to yourselves because you thought it was cooler to be more edgy. 

Haven't played the legendary edition and don't intend to. I am a little curious though, did they improve the Biotic Charge coding in ME2? Can it find the target more often? What about turning while sprinting? You could enable that in the ini files but it wasn't part of ME2 which seemed a bizarre decision.

Play it and find out. We aren't here to play test for you!