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Rudi von Starnberg

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Yeah. From a purely functional point of view, Shadow Broker gives you stuff that can be useful during a playthrough, but narratively I feel it works best after the ending.

The rest of the DLC is inventory tat but I do recommend the Firepower pack anyway, simply because it contains one of the best weapons (the Mattock Assault Rifle) and a pretty cool one (the Phalanx pistol). Oh and don't forget to activate the Cerberus Network stuff if you've not done that yet.

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Finally got around to finishing this off tonight. Now just enough time to play through Shadow Broker before ME3 is out!

Wish I'd have done the whole Mass Effect thing sooner then I could have played through the game a few times, but there's no way I can start another play through now owing 3 is so close...

Can't wait!

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I've also just completed this tonight. I played ME1 ages ago and have reformatted my pc since so I didn't bring a save in but I wasn't too upset, the defaults seemed fairly close to what I did anyway.

For some reason I didn't manage to get my filthy femshep hands down any pants on this playthrough. Bit of flirting but as is my way I messed them all up. Never mind.

I doubt I have enough interest to play through the DLC, I'm involved in the main story but that's enough for me.

Quick thoughts: better combat, less epic story. You can probably blow through it quite quickly if you don't collect the whole crew or do the loyalty missions but then you'd be missing the point.

It still is a standout title in terms of quality and effort. It blows my mind how teams of developers can make stuff like this.

I probably won't play ME3 for a while as I already have a massive backlog including the Vita so I'm going to back up my save and uninstall.

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Crhis

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Damn Mass Effect.

As I said, completed it earlier today and then didn't do much except break up with Jacob, did a Firewalker mission, and sent Kelly up to my room. Saw it auto-saving and didn't think anything of it.

So I downloaded Lair and then loaded up my game and 'new message at your private terminal!' was all well and good so I went to the galaxy map and saw 'Acquire *something something*' What's this!? So I went along and it was the earlier mission and bleurgh, but it sometimes loads you an old save so I went to the menu... nothing! The most recent save I have is at the start of the final mission a good hour or so before I finished it. I made several manual saves (that I used today to resume my play) all along that mission too, but they seem to be gone as well :/

Annoying thing is I guess I can't just leave it and enjoy Lair on its own either because I want a perfect save to import and now don't have one. Ai ai ai.

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Vaya.

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Important question, guys: can I start playing ME2 now and then install Lair and Kasumi halfway through when I want to play them? I'm on the PC version.

Lair doesn't become active until 1/2 way through the game so should be fine.

I've just installed kasumi myself so i'll let you know tonight.

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Sprite Machine

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I'm getting the Mass Effect itch again. I don't intend to pick up ME3 until a price drop (or wait to see what DLC emerges in time), but I'm tempted to grab some DLC for ME2 now. I've previously completed the game, but I gather I can still play any of the extra content at any time.

I just had a look at the Bioware DLC page and added up the points I'd need for the main story DLC (I'm not interested in weapon upgrades or costume packs) and it comes in at 2480 Bioware points. To add points to my account I have to add in multiples of no smaller than 800, which means I can either get 80 points short of having enough, or 720 points too many.

Fucking shit!

I know that's precisely the point, to make you spend more than you'd like, but it's just putting me off. What the hell else am I going to spend Bioware points on? I don't want to "stock up" on them. Can I not buy with real money through Origin, or is it not configured to work with ME2? How will ME3 content work? It's really frustrating.

For the time being, then, I'll drop one of the DLC. Which is the least worthwhile, in the forum's opinion?

Also, when I buy with Bioware points, does it just download an installer file? Can I redownload previously bought content? Any DRM on that , limited uses, etc.? Really starting to wish I'd gone for the console versions now, but I'm not losing my Shepard, damn it!

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The only DLC worth buying IMO are Shadow Broker, Overlord and Kasumi. You'll have Zaeed and the Crash Site from your Cerberus code.

Oh, and as far as the PC goes you basically get a link to the installer download for the DLC. I don't know if it tracks your login details from the game back to the DLC servers mind. I imagine it does so it'll work on any machine you use.

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Rudi von Starnberg

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Important question, guys: can I start playing ME2 now and then install Lair and Kasumi halfway through when I want to play them? I'm on the PC version.

Yep. All the DLC adds on whenever. No need to start a new game.

And as for Arrival, it's mediocre at best and has literally no voice acting from anyone in your squad or crew (Joker is notably mute in his appearances, for instance). It also has next to no bearing on the beginning of ME3, assuming the demo hasn't cut bits out (and it doesn't seem to have done so).

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Also, when I buy with Bioware points, does it just download an installer file? Can I redownload previously bought content? Any DRM on that , limited uses, etc.? Really starting to wish I'd gone for the console versions now, but I'm not losing my Shepard, damn it!

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You can download the installer files as many times as you want, and from any PC, as long as you log into the Bioware Social site.

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Which website are you on getting those prices? it's £12.38 for 1600 BP on my side

https://masseffect2....kout/showOffers

Yeah, 1600 is £12.38, 800 is £6.19 and 1200 is also £6.19. So you can get 2400 for the price of 1600. I am confused.

You can download the installer files as many times as you want, and from any PC, as long as you log into the Bioware Social site.

Huh, how do they stop people from sharing the installer files? I guess I have to be "logged in" to ME2 for the content to function?

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Corporal Flashback

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^How/where?

Also, to anyone wondering, I usually refuse to buy DLC on principle but, despite its shortness, I though Shadow Broker was bloody ace (in fact, considering the character growth I do wonder if it should have been DLC at all).

QUESTION: I'm staying as dark as possible about ME3, I know ZERO about it and that's why I'm posting here. What exactly, in spoiler-free detail, do you get in the CE, and would you say it's worth it?

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It's an optional crewmember and mission associated with them, which will be available on day 1 anyway for 800 spacebucks. Actually works out cheaper to get the standard edition and DLC if that's all you want.

There are some bonus things like a robot dog, hoodie for Shep and N7 weapons but I think they're definitely not worth it.

Edit- Also the digital OST download and digital artbook, but you can always get them by other means.

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