Mass Effect 2

[SoxFan01605]

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Huh? I used warp on shielded enemies all of the time, to great effect. That's beside the point, I couldn't move or shoot. Even after directing my squadmates to win the battle, nothing.

As for determining the outcome of the final mission, I guess I just took too long. If what goh says is correct, it is impossible to carry both Miranda and Jack into the final mission with loyalty.

Well, only if you don't have your character at or near max paragon/renegade (I think it's 80% or higher...might be full though). If you are a full paragon or renegade character you can save it (I think you can intimidate with a full renegade, I know you can persuade with a full paragon).

[Whitesox]

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Well, only if you don't have your character at or near max paragon/renegade. If you are a full paragon or renegade character you can save it (I think you can intimidate with a full renegade, I know you can persuade with a full paragon).

Ah, I suppose that's correct.

[SoxFan01605]

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Ah, I suppose that's correct.

Also, if you are looking to find a workaround I know plenty of people were discussing this way back when. There were some combinations used at the end that supposedly allowed everyone to survive if not all members were loyal (not sure of the accuracy of any of them though). You might want to look around to see if you can find one (if you are trying to grab the achievement or just want to get the "good" ending).

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As I recall, the key thing is to not make non-loyal members leaders or have them in your party in the final sequence. I'm sure there's more to it though.

[Whitesox]

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Also, if you are looking to find a workaround I know plenty of people were discussing this way back when. There were some combinations used at the end that supposedly allowed everyone to survive if not all members were loyal (not sure of the accuracy of any of them though). You might want to look around to see if you can find one (if you are trying to grab the achievement or just want to get the "good" ending).

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As I recall, the key thing is to not make non-loyal members leaders or have them in your party in the final sequence. I'm sure there's more to it though.

Eh, that's alright. I'd prefer to carry over my "true" experience if that makes sense.

[SoxFan01605]

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Eh, that's alright. I'd prefer to carry over my "true" experience if that makes sense.

Yup...totally understand, I just know a lot of people are achievement monkeys is all.

I'm like you though....just want a good experience. After talking up the game a few posts back, I'm playing again (it'll be my second playthrough on my "real" character). We'll see how it goes (I tend to lean towards trying to keep everyone around though, so I can see what becomes of them in the next game).

[goh]

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Huh? I used warp on shielded enemies all of the time, to great effect. That's beside the point, I couldn't move or shoot. Even after directing my squadmates to win the battle, nothing.

As for determining the outcome of the final mission, I guess I just took too long. If what goh says is correct, it is impossible to carry both Miranda and Jack into the final mission with loyalty.

Well maybe it wasn't warp. I thought that was for barriers. Well it'll show up as greyed out if you try to use the barrier thing on a shield. You can still use it of course but it won't be effective,unless you're playing on easy,then it doesn't really matter much.

No it's perfectly possible. Stop the initial situation or have 100% later and you can earn their loyalty back.

[Cyros]

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You can lose loyalty that way? I guess thats what did it, then. I chose Miranda. I did do the loyalty mission (you'd have to be crazy not to), the conflict happened right after. I didn't have the paragon points to quell the situation, unfortunately.

Concerning Miranda/Jack & Tali/Legion loyalty:

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If you go into the incident between the two without enough paragon/renegade points you have to pick a side, and thus losing the loyalty of the one you went against. However, you can go back to that person later on if you've built up your paragon/renegade score and talk to them to regain their loyalty.

It may ruin romance options, but you'll still have everybody's loyalty.

[Whitesox]

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Concerning Miranda/Jack & Tali/Legion loyalty:

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If you go into the incident between the two without enough paragon/renegade points you have to pick a side, and thus losing the loyalty of the one you went against. However, you can go back to that person later on if you've built up your paragon/renegade score and talk to them to regain their loyalty.

It may ruin romance options, but you'll still have everybody's loyalty.

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Another option I forgot about. Though that seems less viable, as I had enough paragon points to resolve the Tali/Legion issue as it came, but even at the end of the game I tried get Jack back talking, to no avail, as I was interested in her post-mission dialogue.

[goh]

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Need 100% if you're doing it later. I think it's 60% for the first thing (might be low as 40% but I'm not sure) and 80% for the second.

[Blaxican8504]

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I love this game. I need to go buy the first one and play through it again. I didn't fully grasp the depth of the series until ME2.

[jmood88]

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This might not be new to everyone but I finally found out who did the music for the launch trailer

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[Gocanada]

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I got this game for Christmas and I must say I'm having a blast

I'm a little past the mission where you explore the collector ship (I really wanna kill the Illusive man). If I just keep ploughing through only the main story (which I don't do) how long will it take to finish the game?
Also, just so I know, if you die at all through actually doing the suicide mission, is that why you die? Or is it through a badass cutscene?

[BlueNGold]

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I got this game for Christmas and I must say I'm having a blast

[ spoiler ] [ /spoiler]

is how you use the spoiler tags. Minus the spaces of course.

[Gocanada]

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Thanks :d, I'll edit that in now

Did it work?

[goh]

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No it didn't work.

Story only takes about 20 hours. That's with not even loyalty missions but that was also on the hard difficulty.

It's a cutscene.