Mass Effect 2. Somebody's getting shot and thrown out a window

Best quote in the game?

Somebody: Shepard? But you died!

Shepard: I got better.

So i posted one of my favorite femsheps on ME2Faces.com and its in the top ten rated femsheps, you guys can take a look and rate it

Is it even possible to be 100% paragon or 100% renegade in part 2? Seems impossible to be 100% without a little of the other.

If you import an ME1 character you can be 100% of one and 50% of the other

Your femshep looks identical to mine, except mine has black hair and a scar.

Honestly, it’s very hard. You’ve basically just gotta just be committed to filling up renegade or paragon. If you just decide to wing it, you’re not going to be able to fill them up.

Anyone here try playing insanity on soldier with success? If so, what is your setup? Seems infiltrator is considered the best amongst the masses.

Already beat it on insanity with infiltrator, I’m on my soldier run now. So far I’ve got everyone in my party cept Legion, and I’ve got half of my loyalty missions done.

Shotguns are absolutely useless on Insanity, cuz if you ever get close enough where shotgun does any damage, chances off you’re ass is dead. Stick with assault rifle, get the warp ammo or Armor piercing, focus on bursts to the head.

When I was infiltrator the stealth shit saved my ass so many times. Unfortunately Soldier has no such “Oh SHIT!” button. I guess you could try learning fortify or something and try to use that for another 2 seconds of survival.

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I think the only class that can utilize a shotgun to its full extent is the vanguard. I recently finished an insanity playthrough with a vanguard, and I found that it was much easier than I originally thought it would be when I first started playing the class. I actually had an easier time beating the game on insanity with the vanguard than I did with my infiltrator.

The first few missions can be tough for a vanguard because the cool downs of your abilities take too long to recharge, which leaves you with very few options after a charge. Thus, in the beginning of the game, you have to use charge sparingly. However, once you have enough talent points to evolve assault mastery into champion and charge into heavy charge, you can, and should, be charging as often as you can. Once you get the claymore (and learn the reload-trick), you can literally charge an enemy, kill it, kill another, and then charge again to repeat the process.

One important thing about Charge that I learned mid-way through my playthrough is that using heavy charge actually restores your shields when you charge. There were many times where I would charge a target, kill it, but then start taking damage from an enemy next to them, which would inevitably bust my shields, only to be saved because I charged again.

I think I played the majority of missions and assignments using only the shotgun, regardless of whether I was fighting krogans, scions, or the harbinger. In the few places where you can’t charge (e.g., unreachable snipers, inside the biotic bubble during the suicide mission, etc.) I mainly used reave (awesome bonus skill) and shockwave, and let my teammates do all the shooting. The only times that I switched out the shotgun was against the huge mechs, the helicopters, the praetorian, and the final boss, and even with some of those enemies I still switched back to the shotgun if their shields were down or if I was close enough to hit them with the shotgun.

Vanguard is a very fun class to play on insanity. You just have to drop the FPS mentality, and play the class as if you’re using a rushdown-type character from a fighting game and stay in the enemies’ faces. The shotgun is a very underrated weapon in this game. Here is essentially how you’re supposed to play a vanguard with the shotgun:

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run into a little bit of a problem.

i have the collector’s edition, with the dlc, but i can’t load my saves if i dont have an internet connection. says something about dlc not being able to be loaded. is there a way to bypass this? i’d like to be able to play without being connected to xbl.

thanks.

That’s fucking awesome. Way different looking battle than my Infiltrator on Insanity.

That’s weird. Did you start the game on one xbox that had downloaded the DLC and tried to play it on another xbox w/o the dlc? That’s the only reason I can think of it doing that.

God Infiltrator is ez mode, I should have done this shit from the start.

You ain’t just whistlin’ Dixie. This class is just as broken as it was in the last game.

So…who else here plays as an Engineer?

I’ve not tried the infiltrator class, but MAH SENTRY comes in plenty handy.

My first Insanity run was an Engineer with AP Ammo. That little drone saved my ass on numerous occasions. :sweat:

I’m playing on Hardcore right now, and that exploding drone has indeed kept me alive in times where I otherwise shouldn’t be. It always draws the fire away.

I just got this game yesterday… Vanguard is rough at the start with the beginning guns… just waiting for Heavy Charge…

wait i was going to play a sentinel on insanity but went with infiltrator. What makes them so much better? I’m dying alot sofar.

Basically, an Infiltrator has extremely high damage output, ability to deal with two of the three resistances with relative ease(and get a quick bonus talent to deal with the third), one of the best unique powers(only Tech Armor might be better), and a class talent that lets you slow down time enough to more or less guarantee a headshot every time you zoom in.

I guess they get better as i lvl up…right now its a pain.