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Ok. I'm in the group of people who finished the game. Whoo hoo -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif --<br><br>Anyway I've started going through it a second time with my original character. Things to note. I did get completionist first time through, I missed Level fifty by 4000 measly experience points. This annoyed me slightly. I did get scholar and tactician (surprised the hell outta me, but hey -- View image here: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/forum/smilies/biggrin.gif --)<br><br>Blah blah blah. So - lets talk about a few of the achievements. I got completionist just before I started the last set of main missions, so I figure I've seen probably 90% or more of the Paragon game. On my second playthrough I'm definately picking up the few things I did in the wrong order (yes, such things exsist - aka they make more sense done in a different order.)<br><br>Over-all, if I was to recommend a play route - pick up Liara, do Ferros, then Noveria, and on from there. Play side missions. Really, do it. Its fun. Or don't do it - thats your call. But you need to do a ton to have any chance in hell of maxing your character to 50 (max level first playthrough)<br><br>I'm fairly sure you can only get one Ally Achievement per playthrough, and when they mean the majority of the game, they aren't kidding. I had Ashley in my Party through every moment of the game it was possible to do so - and got her achievement - but I had Liara with me most of that (Left her out for Garius and Wrex's side missions) and so I figure you can get one max. I certainly could be wrong.<br><br>There are some charm/intimidate options you simply can't use on your first playthrough. Some of them require much higher charm/intimidate scores then a low level character can have.<br><br>Also, You get free points in Charm and Intimidate depending on your paragon/ renegade score, and when you replay the game with your first character, the paragon/renegade bars reset. But any free points you got last round stick around. For example - simply by becoming a spectre, you get a point in intimidate. When I started my replay and became a spectre again you get, another point. In theory, you could be nuts and max out your character in charm intimdate by playing the game 24 or so times with the same character. I'm not sure why you would. But you could.<br><br>The Rich achievement gives you access to the awesome spectre weapons from the Normandy. Its nice. Also - on second playthrough, those awesome weapons now have a bigger cousin. The X version. Infact, lots of X versions start dropping. Yay for leveled loot. And yay for awesomely highpowered weapons and armour.<br><br>I ended the first game with the max number of credits (1 credit short of a billion) and all your armour and weapons including those that were on party members do transfer. Not sure if the licenses did or not, but I assume so, because the one's I'm finding now are for companys I don't recognize and are much more expensive. Your equipment from your main actually duplicates itself once, and I think this is a minor bug, but I don't mind. You start the game wearing the armour you ended the game in, which is nice, because now I at least feel the badass I was supposed to be when I first started the last time -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif --<br><br>Anyway - if anyone has any questions about things they can't find, or second play throughs on a single character, let me know I'll see if I can help. (Side note - the X versions of the spectre weapons are so good, that with the proper mods, I'm going through and working at the assault rifle achievement with my Infiltrator. Who can't even train it. hasn't mattered yet. -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --)
OK, where do I get the best biggest, baddest assed armour of all the systems? I got good armour, very good armour, but I'm after me some of the *BEST* armour you can lay your grubby mitts on. Right now, the stats for my armour is as follows:<BR><BR>Damage Protection: 77<BR>Shields: 390<BR>Tech Biotic Protection: 14<BR><BR>I want me some bad assery armour like the Spectre Master Gear <3 HMW.<BR><BR>P.S. I already have the Spectre Master Gear weaponry, I just want the armour.
Gah! I was sooo close on finishing the mineral quest. I only had one light metal left and couldn't find one! Plus, I had like 10 other minerals/metals in surplus from all the others. So frustrating. -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif --<br><br>Playing through with your level 50+ character on the unlocked difficulty isn't much harder yet.<br><br>I'm hoping creating a new character for insane will be close to the right difficulty level I want, provided I can make it past the first ten levels. -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif --<br><br>[EDIT] By the bye, if you do Liara very last of the mandatory missions, she's all delirious, and the dialogue is quite funny. -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif --
I finished the game tonight myself.<BR><BR>I'm fairly convinced the ally achievements are bugged.<BR><BR>I only very rarely didn't use Ashley yet didn't get the soldier achievement, and I'm certain I used Wrex since I got him except for Garruses side mission and I didn't get his either.<BR><BR>I did however get the completion achievement. No idea why I didn't at least get the soldier ally one.
Yah, dunno about the ally achievements. I got one, but not the other, for two characters I played though the exact same amount of time. Go figure.
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<br><br>A lot of light metals can be found on asteroids hidden in asteroid belts. They glint a bit if you keep your camera in the system view static. Some light metals are also on planets to be surveyed. The GameSpot Guide has a quite a few locations listed, so give that a go. I was also missing one in the end, and found it on one of the planets of the list.<br><br><br>And I also missed out on the ally achievements in spite of taking Ashely & Liara all the time (but I made the mistake of not picking up Liara as the 1st but 2nd mission).
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<br><br>A lot of light metals can be found on asteroids hidden in asteroid belts. They glint a bit if you keep your camera in the system view static. Some light metals are also on planets to be surveyed. The GameSpot Guide has a quite a few locations listed, so give that a go. I was also missing one in the end, and found it on one of the planets of the list.<br><br><br>And I also missed out on the ally achievements in spite of taking Ashely & Liara all the time (but I made the mistake of not picking up Liara as the 1st but 2nd mission).
Am I the only one here to think that the original "John Shepard" looks like either one of the Scofield brothers?
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I didn't know you could start again with an old character, but I've been playing about with both that and another new character.<BR><BR>I thought the game would be harder playing with an Infiltrator, stuck with a pistol, but upon creating my character (something I didn't pay much attention to the second time around!) I found that having finished with a Soldier first, I had a feat to choose, and that feat was Assault Rifles (maxed the assault rifle talents on my first go through, presumably that's what unlocks it). Naturally, my dude sucked with the AR, but I quickly got some stabilisers and didn't use any ammunition that hurts accuracy and by level 10-15 he's awesome with it, about standard fare but not 100% accurate like my maxed out soldier.<BR><BR>Neat touch no? Having tech AND an assault rifle was pure win, presumably hitting the talent caps for other things (like biotics, or tech) will unlock them for the soldier class as feats.<BR><BR>As for the side quests, I didn't use the citadel elevators much, cause it was usually quicker to watch the loading screen by using a transport terminal. So this time around I've got a heck of a lot more.<BR><BR>Strangely enough too, despite pumping points into intimidate, all but one of the intimidate options were greyed on my first play through. However, even with a charm score of only 3 my newest character is charming the pants off of everyone he comes across. Maybe this is something to do with finishing the game too.<BR><BR>But whatever, I'm gonna go back so sniping things now, since I've finally got a high enough sniper score to blast things accurately. I retract all claims that the sniper sucks, cause with an uber high calibre barrel and powerful incendiary ammunition it can down almost anything in one shot. Out of curiosity I fired it at both Armatures and Colossus and managed to almost kill the Armature in one shot, so my sniper rifle is more powerful than the Mako cannon! The Colossus however wasn't so cooperative, and only lost several bars of its shield, then shot me in the face while my weapon was overheated.<BR><BR>Pistols too are not to be underestimated. The pistols are super accurate and extremely powerful throughout the whole game, despite their low damage scores, and are very effective weapons at most ranges. Certainly makes it useful to play a biotic/tech class as you can still do decent damage but get better support abilities too.
Yah, even though I had a character that could use shotguns, I maxed pistols instead my first run through. Hideously effective.
I just finished the game and got 2 of the ally achievements. I used Kaiden and Tali through most of the game. I got the Kaiden achievement about partway through Ilos, and got Tali achievement after the final battle.
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Watcherq:<BR>Am I the only one here to think that the original "John Shepard" looks like either one of the Scofield brothers? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>You mean, you think one shaven-headed guy looks like all other shaven-headed guys?<BR><BR>The default male Shepard is actually Dutch model Mark Vanderloo.
I've started doing side quests and along my travels I've been to every part of the citadel and I'm still missing 2 Keepers for scans.<BR><BR>It's so frustrating because all that's left for me to do now is talk to the Elcor diplomat and Sha'ira and then become a Spectre and I don't want to leave Citadel until I've done all the questing in there.<BR><BR>I don't want to go into detail about which 19 I've found, but are there any in particularly hard places to find? I have the one behind the med bay and behind the embassy bar, they're the only two even remotely hidden that I've found. I got 2, maybe 3 up near the Council Chamber too.<BR><BR>This is frustrating the hell out of me, can I only get them later? Thoughts would be nice.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by WhiskeyOscar:<BR>I've started doing side quests and along my travels I've been to every part of the citadel and I'm still missing 2 Keepers for scans.<BR><BR>It's so frustrating because all that's left for me to do now is talk to the Elcor diplomat and Sha'ira and then become a Spectre and I don't want to leave Citadel until I've done all the questing in there.<BR><BR>I don't want to go into detail about which 19 I've found, but are there any in particularly hard places to find? I have the one behind the med bay and behind the embassy bar, they're the only two even remotely hidden that I've found. I got 2, maybe 3 up near the Council Chamber too.<BR><BR>This is frustrating the hell out of me, can I only get them later? Thoughts would be nice. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Hmm... areas I remember.<BR><BR>Rypbe/Ibyhf rzonffl<BR>Oruvaq Qvcybzng'f one<BR>Orfvqr Pbafbeg'f<BR>Nebhaq gur pbeare qbja sebz gur Pbafbeg'f<BR>Bar hcfgnvef va gur Unane'f fubc ol Oneyn Iba'f<BR>Ol gur Nivan bhg sebag bs gur Pbhapvy gbjre<BR>4 va gur Pbhapvy Gbjre (gjb va gur fvqr nernf jvgu gur oevqtrf ng gur sne raqf, gur svefg bar lbh svaq Pubeona ng, naq bar onpx ng bar bs gur sbhagnva nernf cnfg Xbunxh)<BR>Gur bar oruvaq gur zrq pyvavp<BR>Bar ng gur onpx bs gur hccre znexrgf<BR>Bar va gur Unyy nern jurer lbh svaq Gnyv<BR>Bar va gur P-Frp Pbageby Gbjre nern va n yvggyr punaary gb bar fvqr<BR>Bar hc va gur qbpxvat onl<BR><BR>I did find them all when I did it, but that was a couple days ago and I don't remember where they all are now.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by WhiskeyOscar:<BR>I've started doing side quests and along my travels I've been to every part of the citadel and I'm still missing 2 Keepers for scans.<BR><BR>It's so frustrating because all that's left for me to do now is talk to the Elcor diplomat and Sha'ira and then become a Spectre and I don't want to leave Citadel until I've done all the questing in there.<BR><BR>I don't want to go into detail about which 19 I've found, but are there any in particularly hard places to find? I have the one behind the med bay and behind the embassy bar, they're the only two even remotely hidden that I've found. I got 2, maybe 3 up near the Council Chamber too.<BR><BR>This is frustrating the hell out of me, can I only get them later? Thoughts would be nice. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>If you use the Google, there's a post on the Bioware forums with a list of all 21. That's what I had to end up using, because I also got stuck at 19.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by WhiskeyOscar:<BR>I've started doing side quests and along my travels I've been to every part of the citadel and I'm still missing 2 Keepers for scans.<BR><BR>It's so frustrating because all that's left for me to do now is talk to the Elcor diplomat and Sha'ira and then become a Spectre and I don't want to leave Citadel until I've done all the questing in there.<BR><BR>I don't want to go into detail about which 19 I've found, but are there any in particularly hard places to find? I have the one behind the med bay and behind the embassy bar, they're the only two even remotely hidden that I've found. I got 2, maybe 3 up near the Council Chamber too.<BR><BR>This is frustrating the hell out of me, can I only get them later? Thoughts would be nice. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Presidium:<BR>4 inside the Citadel Tower<BR>1 outside Citadel Tower, by the avina<BR>1 in the back room of the emporium<BR>1 on the balcony of the embassy lounge<BR>1 in the roughly rectangular room to the right of c-sec HQ at the embassy<BR>1 in the volus and elcor office at the embassy<BR>1 opposite of the avina halfway between the consort chambers and the emporium<BR>1 outside the entrance of the consort chambers<BR>1 outside the wards access entrance, just north of the arguing hana and c-sec officer<BR><BR>Wards:<BR>1 in the rightmost sideroom in the presidium-wards access corridor<BR>1 in the alleyway<BR>1 in the upper markets<BR>1 inside Flux, behind the quasar machines<BR>1 behind the med clinic<BR>1 at the c-sec academy entrance<BR>1 inside the traffic control room, c-sec<BR>1 inside the requisition office, c-sec<BR>1 in the hangar bay
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by The Faceless Rebel:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Bammer:<BR><BR>I am glad they avoided respawning enemies and MMO like grind content. The only thing more unappealing to me than grinding in multiplayer is grinding alone. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Ummmm, if the enemies could respawn, it would eliminate a lot of the angst from picking the Paragon non-fighting peaceful shitty-to-no-XP path instead of the Renegade kill-em-all, let God sort em out with lots of XP path. I personally would prefer enemies which could respawn rather than the typical Bioware approach where you get X number of enemies, so if you blow any off, then no XP for you!! No other RPG that I am aware of purposely limits the amount of enemies you get to kill except ones by Bioware. Every Japanese RPG in existence either uses a random encounter mechanic, thus making enemies as endless as you care to hang around, or respawns them when you leave the area and return. Bioware is the exception here, not the rule, in single player RPGs.<BR><BR>This drove me nuts in both KOTOR and Jade Empire. Just give me something to shoot, <BR>dammit! </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>What are you talking about? I'm 17 hours in, only completed the Feros part of the main quest and am level 27. I've filled up two "sections" of Paragon, and barely hit 1/3 of a section for Renegade. No problem getting experience here.
Any recommendations on a character class? I'm going through on Soldier, but am thinking about starting over so I can get a character class that has more alternative skills beyond Guns.
Started playing on Friday, then had to stop for all of Saturday (out of town) then played some more on Sunday. About 7-8 hours of gametime in. I finished the Novaris (Matriarch Benezia quest) and that was hella hard. My character is at level 20. <BR><BR>I love this game. Great story and rich world. Much better thought out than Knights of the Old Republic, if you ask me.
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<br>I think any maxed weapon is hideously effective.<br><br>Maxed shotguns can take out Geth at a long distance, much longer than should be possible with a shotgun. And killing multiple people at once up close is so much fun. -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif --
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<br>I think any maxed weapon is hideously effective.<br><br>Maxed shotguns can take out Geth at a long distance, much longer than should be possible with a shotgun. And killing multiple people at once up close is so much fun. -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif --
This game is amazingly good fun. I'm 15 hours in and have been playing through many of the side quests and whilst some things can be a little repetitive (e.g. the architecture on other planets - I just pretend to myself that these buildings are factory carbon copies) it's still a blast and the dialogue cracks me up (even the little things, like the pregnant woman and her brother in law in the Citadel, it's so camp!).<BR><BR>I'm now treating myself to the main plot missions, starting with Feros. All those Geth with their clickity-click dolphin sounds, the audio is amazing, and I have to say that after playing Halo 3 with it's weak super-soaker weapons it's a joy to hear my subwoofer rumble every time I fire off a shotgun round.<BR><BR>Still trying to work out what the best combo is for my team mates. I'm Vanguard and usually take Wrex (same skills as Vanguard) and the Quarian (Tech) along however Wrex is a bit on the dull side.
When playing through "Mass Effect" (now completed), the 360's frame rate looked like it dipped in the 15-20 fps range the during the battle following use of the "Neutron Purge". I thought it might have been a glitch, but everytime I (re)visited the situation (by save game) the frame rate tanked likely to due to the sheer number of enemies present. Input was so delayed that almost died. Anyone else experience this ? -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_confused.gif --
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</blockquote>I've had a couple of framerate drops. <br><br>To solve that puzzle, just stay in the room with the VI, and let the enemy come to you. Make sure to tell your teammates to shoot at your target to kill the enemy fast.
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</blockquote>I've had a couple of framerate drops. <br><br>To solve that puzzle, just stay in the room with the VI, and let the enemy come to you. Make sure to tell your teammates to shoot at your target to kill the enemy fast.
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<br>Oh come on ... who needs the instruction manual? -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif --
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<br>Oh come on ... who needs the instruction manual? -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif --
Thanks for the help! It was the one Keeper behind the Emporium that I didn't get, I just wandered off after the AI was disabled.<BR><BR>The levelled loot is awesome too, I'm pushing up level 45 now and I'm getting things like Inferno VIII rounds and Snowblinds. They're both just ultimate bullets of death.<BR><BR>As for the neutron purge slowdown, yes, I've had that too, and I also got it once or twice when attacked by a dozen or so Thorian Creepers. Best way is just to spam in a few grenades or go overkill and nuke them with a spray of assault rifle rounds while running.<BR><BR>Still not found these X variants of the Spectre weapons though, but I've not even hit level 50 yet so they might not appear until then.<BR><BR>I also noticed that your sniper rifle has a limited range, and the enemies don't. I was killing one of the crime bosses in the Dis system and I was trying to snipe from the Legion Of One point, using the Mako as cover, and even though my cursor was directly on the enemy my rounds did nothing - hit him a good 20-30 times just to make sure it wasn't my aim that was rubbish. In the end I got in my Mako and used the cannon to demolish the camps defences.
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<br><br>Pssh... they gave you a fricking mobile sniper cannon and you tried to use yours instead? -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif --<br><br>Hoping to get some playtime in this evening. Didn't get to last night as it was Grey Cup and I had homework due.<br><br>I'm just wondering here, but did anybody else play on 'Hardened' on their first time through or was it just me that's doing it so far?
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<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by WhiskeyOscar:<br><br>I also noticed that your sniper rifle has a limited range, and the enemies don't. I was killing one of the crime bosses in the Dis system and I was trying to snipe from the Legion Of One point, using the Mako as cover, and even though my cursor was directly on the enemy my rounds did nothing - hit him a good 20-30 times just to make sure it wasn't my aim that was rubbish. In the end I got in my Mako and used the cannon to demolish the camps defences. </div>
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<br><br>Pssh... they gave you a fricking mobile sniper cannon and you tried to use yours instead? -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif --<br><br>Hoping to get some playtime in this evening. Didn't get to last night as it was Grey Cup and I had homework due.<br><br>I'm just wondering here, but did anybody else play on 'Hardened' on their first time through or was it just me that's doing it so far?
I don't think the sniper rifle has a limited range. Rather, the collision bodies for low Level-of-detail terrain differ from their graphic bodies. <BR><BR>I distinctly recall crouching on the peaks of mountains and sniping the blurry pixel tall enemies impossibly far away (I was really impressed that I was able to do this, and it made me forgive the blandness of the explorable planets a little bit.) At another point in the game, I died because an enemy sniper (one of those dangerous red laser scope guys) blasted me right through some terrain. The collision/graphics body discrepancy is something I have personally worked on on game projects, and so there is no doubt in my mind that that is what is going on here.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Any recommendations on a character class? I'm going through on Soldier, but am thinking about starting over so I can get a character class that has more alternative skills beyond Guns. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>You could always start a dummy adept/engineer and get an achievement for singularity/lift or electronics and then apply it to a new soldier file. This would give you all the benefits of the soldier plus a biotic/electronics power.<BR><BR>Vanguard is also very fun with a maxed shotgun. Use a heatsink with the shotgun for nonstop firing.<BR><BR>I beat noveria yesterday. It's a little annoying that once you fight the boss you can't go back into the rest of the compound. I probably missed out on some bonus loot through that.<BR><BR>Edit: I finally went to that stupid "pitch black" planet with the enormous mountains. What a pain in the ass. Some of the planets sure look cool though.
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<br><br>Thanks. -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif -- <br><br>However, I also indicated that I already completed the game. That was the only section where I had a problem and it seemed the likely culprit was that there was what seemed to be around 50+ enemies on radar at once (in one room). -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif --<br><br>At least it seems, that others have experienced too. -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_cool.gif --
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<br><br>Thanks. -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif -- <br><br>However, I also indicated that I already completed the game. That was the only section where I had a problem and it seemed the likely culprit was that there was what seemed to be around 50+ enemies on radar at once (in one room). -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif --<br><br>At least it seems, that others have experienced too. -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_cool.gif --
So there is special Spectre Armor? How do you get it? Do you have to go through a second time with the same character?
Where do you earn credits? Or is that a leveled thing? I just started really, level 10 and just left the citadel on my own for first time, but I have like no $$, to get cool weapons/armor, does that increase ever?<BR>When people say leveled loot, do you mean stuff found in chests, or are you supposed to search bodies when you kill them (like oblivion)? <BR>How the hell do I use omni gel?? I cant select it anywhere that I can see.<BR><BR>P.S I love this game. I had stopped playing last night, then read where the last two keepers were that I missed, (in the citadel) so I fired it up about 9pm to get them done. I shoved off in the Normandy at 1am! Too hard to put down.
Just go through the game and scan the planets for minerals and stuff. You'll be rolling in the dough in no time.
I don't even know what you are supposed to spend money on. The stuff you find from killing guys is better than what you can buy. I think I have about 1.5M credits now and I'm about 22hrs into the game. <BR><BR>I gave a few hundred credits to that one alien so he could preach in the Citadel courtyard....having trouble remembering anything else that I have used credits for.
1.5 million? How the hell! I have I think 3,800! weeeeeak.<BR>How do you find stuff from killing guys? Everytime I kill someone they disappear, I never see any loot left behind...<BR><BR>Is it better to tackle some of the side quests in the galaxy map first, not Feros or whatever?
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