ME2 Suicide Mission Guide

I believe you can on the broker ship, if the dlc is completed.

That would work as well.

Have her use overload on shields. Warp won't do anything to shields

His inferno grenade can be useful when facing a few bugs, fi their shields are down. While they're burning, he and Shepard can shoot them easily

That will work

That will work as well.

Just a heads up. Since you're playing on insanity, I would bring the cain, if you have it. Its for when the scion shows up while you're under the barrier. It makes things easier

Typical Soldier build:
4 - Hardened/Heightened Adrenaline Rush
0 - Concussive Shot
4 - Inferno Ammo
4 - Squad Disruptor Ammo
4 - Squad Cryo Ammo
4 - Commando
0 - Bonus power
 * 1 point left over for Concussive Shot or Bonus power. Stasis, Slam, and Neural Shock are considered one-point wonders

For the Soldier, you typically just need to hit activate Adrenaline Rush > shoot > rinse and repeat.

Not sure what weapons you have, specifically what bonus weapon you took. If difficulty is a concern, the Mattock (DLC weapon) is overpowered on the Soldier. But you can make any weapon work. 

If you have the Widow sniper rifle, you may want to use Heavy Warp Ammo instead of Cryo Ammo so you are more likely to one-shot enemies out of Adrenaline Rush. 
The Viper is probably the best weapon for the Soldier. I prefer the Vindicator as an assault rifle (unless i want to 'cheat' with the Mattock). I don't particularly like the Revenant.


As for the vents section: I would not worry about trying to hurry too much. You actually tend to have plenty of time; just ignore the complaints of whoever you sent through the vents. 

As for squadmates, I like the following:
1. Jacob with Pull Field + Miranda with Unstable Warp. Jacob can pull a clustered group of enemies, then Miranda can detonate them with Warp. They will finish cooldown at about the same time.

2. Jack with Pull Field + Mordin with Full Cryo Blast. Disable/stagger a clustered group of enemies. Frozen/pulled enemies take +100% extra damage. Mordin's rank 4 Cryo Blast has 4.5 second base cooldown (3.6 seconds with Tech Cooldown upgrade). Jack's Pull with Primal Adept and Biotic Cooldown upgrade is 4.95 seconds.


The only real tough part is I think the 5 or 6th vent, which is behind Harbinger and bunch of Collector Drones and more Collectors drop in.

The last two vents (7th and 8th) are fairly easy. The 7th is like next to an Assassin Collector if I recall. Take him out then hit the vent. Then just go around the left side, ignore all the Collectors, and hit the last vent to trigger the cutscene.

The game is obviously a little tougher on Hardcore and insanity since all enemies have a protection layer at that point (Barrier for Collectors). You can take Miranda or Thane (Warp) or Samara (Area Reave) to help take them down if you think you need the help. I think using guns to take down protection layers is fine. Soldier is good at that.

I can try to point you to some YouTube videos to help you out if you want to see how other people did it. 

I was able to do three. It happened in one playthrough only. To this day I have no idea how/why that happened

Two will be available if all squadmates haven't been recruited and loyalty missions haven't been completed. If all you have is Legions loyalty mission to do, the player can do that. After that one mission, the collectors will show up.

 If the player has side missions that have not been completed, but all squadmates are loyal and recruited, the collectors will show up. If the player doesn't want to recruited all squadmates and/or complete their loyalty missions, he/she can do 2 side missions to trigger the collectors.

If there's still loyalty missions to be done, Legion will not mention doing its loyalty mission until after. It says something about still building a consensus. I'm not sure if all have to be completed. After each one, talk to it. If it doesn't reveal its loyalty mission to Shepard, its best to save it for after the suicide mission. That's why its best to complete as much as possible before the IFF mission.

No. Any mission completed after the abduction will result in half the crew dying. If 3 or more are completed, everyone dies except Dr. Chakwas

It does count. Some folks save Tali's loyalty mission for after the IFF that way Legion can go on that mission and Tali can go on Legions before the crew is taken.

*Note* Make sure to activate the geth and talk with it right after the IFF. If the player happens to use the galaxy map, with all other squadmates recruited and loyal, it will trigger the collectors to show up.

I don't recall ever hearing that. If that's possible, then go for it.

I've never did any missions after the crew was taken. Always headed through the relay right away

If you haven't before, I would suggest taking Legion on her loyalty mission for the interesting dialogue heard from Legion and the quarians.

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My bad then.

In regards to firewalker. Its a good dlc if you want to do a quick run of ME2

In all of my (many) ME2 runs, I don't think I ever had all crew members survive, because I never went straight to the Omega 4 relay!

When do I open the relay? When does that mission become available? Is it after the dead reaper when I get the beacon? Or right after the crew is kidnapped?
Next time I'll have to finish everything BEFORE I open the relay so I can go there right after that!

Doesn't it take time to get loyalty missions? I seem to remember it taking a while of talking and wandering around on missions.

Awesome. Now I need to reinstall ME2
Might do a complete series replay for the occasion

Yeah I don't know why they removed that option in ME1. I hear it was there and got canceled. It seems there is a way to bring it back, but it will cause everyone to treat you as a woman in-game.

Going to have to crunch some numbers since I want to do a lazy Shepard who has all squadmates, but the minimum number of missions done to have them all survive. The main bad thing is that you are a bit heavy on the "squishy" squadmate LMs IIRC.

edit: maybe it is just easier to have the computer do this for me

^Yeah I think 7 is the hard minimum in this scenario (and I think what I read before on the old forum). That is partly because of specialists, crew escort, and final squad needing to be loyal to not die.  And Escort, both Squad members in final battle have to be loyal low tiers.  If I want to take Miranda (for instance) in the final squad, that bumps it to 8 loyalty missions required.

Here is the spreadsheet I banged out if anybody wants to play around with it. It might seem a bit overly complicated, but that was mostly because I wanted to just be able to move 1's around.

ME2 HTL Calc

As with these, "Make a Copy" to edit yourself. lmk if you run into errors.