Petition: Overhaul Mass Effect 2.

In Mass Effect 2, enemies will generally target the nearest threat. So if you position your squadmates behind you, they will target you. If you position your squadmates in front of you, they will target your squadmates. Combat Drone will cause the harassed enemy to target it. Hacked enemies and Dominated enemies will act like squadmates and will take the focus of all enemy fire if they are close enough.

This is why cloaking as an Infiltrator can cause enemies to kill your squadmates quickly on higher difficulties, since they will attack the nearest threat and they can deal a lot of damage very quickly.

Note that if squadmates are behind you (out of site), they will not perform an animation when casting their powers, meaning their powers can hit instantly.

Don't make a half ass excuse for you being a bad player. 

ME2 is fine. It's the only singleplayer game in the series that isn't easymode. Hiding in cover because you can't kill fast enough is L2P issue.

get gud

Wanna talk shitty AI programming let's talk ME1 squadmates charging leroy jenkins style to kiss a pack of Thorian Creepers/Krogan, getting flattened and leaving me to kill everything.

Fortunately, this is braindead easy with my infinite ammo frictionless materials gun, infinite health immunity powers and broken biotics.

I don't enjoy interrupting my gameplay loop to babysit the squadmate AI, and never did it in ME2 or 3 either.

They should be programmed well enough to know not to blindly rush a melee enemy that can instakill them, like they largely were in later games.

That would've been a nice improvement, that and hotkeys for at least one of their powers like those games. 

This right here was my issue with ME 1 combat. The "shoot-forever-until-you-win" style of combat; this also made most powers useless. In both ME 2 and 3, you had to conserve and fight smart as opposed to "LEEEEERROOOYYYY JENKIIIINNNSSS!" every fight.

But again - each person should play how they want to. To me, the clips actually made sense and made combat more fun and interesting. But YMMV

Yeah that'sa cdool wa yof playing Vanguard. I don't tend to pla ythat wa ybut that's mainly because of my disability as I'm a little slower on the controls. It is a class tha tyou have to stay co0nstantly on the move though to get the most out of it though at least in ME2 and 3 when Biotic Charge is introduced. Personally I do generally prefer t ohang back in on earea as it makes comba tin genera leasier for me which is wh yfo rme whilst I like Vanguard as I like all 6 classes but it's my least favourite.

Lotta wasted words when you coulda just said "I'm a bad kid and I'm mad cuz I'm bad".

ME2 doesn't have bullet sponges, that's again ME1 and it's immunity, bub. You just suck and can't aim or position correctly like the video above, so you blame the game when you get stuck in cover.

Come 1v1 in my Thunderdome to prove you aren't bad. Bet I get the 15 revives medal off you before W1 is over.

If you do not like the combat in ME2, that is fine. Everyone has different tastes. I will do my best to help you as best I can to at least try to improve your experience and help you with certain things where possible.

It has not been my experience that the enemies shoot at me nearly as much as you say they shoot at you even when you cloak or hang back. Without watching you play, it is hard for me to see what may be causing this disconnect. It may be possible that I have played this game for far too much to notice such things.

I also prioritize different squadmates and positioning. I usually position myself in front so I take all the fire, regardless of class. I also prioritize squadmates that have good crowd control. Mordin with Cryo Blast and Jack, Samara, and Jacob with Pull are also good. Morinth (Dominate) and Tali/Legion (AI Hacking are excellent as well.

Early game, Jacob and Miranda are a great pair. You do not need to prioritize killing an enemy, just stripping defenses. Just strip one defense, then Pull > Warp with Jacob and Miranda. When they have Pull Field and Unstable Warp, try to get multiple enemies clustered together and take out their defenses for pull > Warp.

On Insanity, if you want to kill with the Mantis, it can be hard to do because you do not have the upgrades to help right away. It takes three sniper rifle damage upgrades for the headshot bonus, so two in stores on one on Grunt's recruitment mission.

i also would not cloak right away. Best to shoot without it, then cloak, then shoot with it. You can:
1. Snipe.
2. Power cancel the reload with cloak.
3. Snipe again.

Like all classes, try to switch weapons more often depending on the situation.

If you are struggling, you can probably find some older original ME2 videos on YouTube that can help with class guides and gameplay. I am sure you know all this though. I am trying to help the best I can.

There's asking for help and there's being an arrogant clown who insists that the square peg must go in the round hole, blaming the peg if it doesn't.

I enjoy helping the former, and I enjoy ridiculing the latter.



Lmao piss off. You secretly a Mod, tuff guy? 

You can 1v1 Thunderdome me as well, if you aren't afraid to back up that mouth on you.

Interesting.

I have a problem with many kinds of puzzles in video games too, as I also have major issues with pattern recognition. I think this is based upon my lack of ability with arithmetic. I'm 'number blind', in that my brain cannot seem to process numbers. I'm very poor at remembering numbers, dates, times etc. and constantly forget them unless I write it down, have almost no ability to add up, subtract, multiply etc. and trying to concentrate on such things gives me a frustration headache. Pattern recognition uses the same parts of the brain that process numbers and handle arithmetic. 

Gauntlet puzzle in Dragon Age Origins - forget it. I've probably completed that game 50 times and still have to look on the wiki for a solution every single time, Tower of Hanoi in Mass Effect - might as well ask me to fly to the moon. Omni Gel every single time. I can't even do the simple puzzles in Mass Effect 2's abandoned research station, or the one in Overlord with the crates.

For some weird reason though I don't have a single issue with the decryption and hacking minigames in ME2. I don't know why I can do them, I just can - and I'd find it hard to explain how I do it. I do know that I use a mnemonic to mentally label the symbols for decryption, and I also say the names of them aloud, as saying it aloud helps the brain hold onto the memory better than purely mental notes.

I call the symbols: 'cigarette carton', 'drill bit', 'circle' 'gates' and 'Y'. Doing this helps me visualise them, and thus I can do the hack.

Hacking is OK for me to, as I work with formatted text as part of my job, so I'm kind-of used to see shapes of paragraphs, text lines etc. and I can hold the pattern in my mind - though once again I'd find it hard to say how.


I TOTALLY get how frustrating it is not being able to do videogame puzzles though, especially when everyone else goes "duh it's easy lololol" - the desire to punch them has to be fought.

All I can say is that if you do ME2 Legendary after completing ME1 Legendary, and take a max credits with you the ME2 minigames are completely unnecessary, as you'll have enough credits to buy out every single store in the game right from the start.

I'm not into ME2LE yet... and from the various reports of bugs here, I'm probably not going to start it unless they issue a patch.  I'd rather play the old version for now if I'm going to play it.  I probably going to go back to playing more Fallout 3 (which is what I was playing before MELE came out).  At any rate, I digress.  It baffles me that they bothered to give us unlimited hacking attempts in ME1 and apparently didn't extend that over into ME2.  I just don't get their thinking on that one at all.