Also, for the love of God, keep your sprocking head down.

That's in the second game. In the first one, one must admit that sniper rifles are of frustratingly limited apocalypticality.

--G.
I HAVE MADE A WORD
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zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

Yeah, I was gonna say in the first game, sniper rifles are pretty useless up til about mid-game, unless you make them your primary weapon.

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject

Yeah, this. In 2 and 3? Go nuts. In 1, however, the pistol is an unstoppable death machine. Invest in the Spectre version as soon as you can afford it, mod it with polonium rounds and watch your enemies dissolve into radioactive slime.

Damn it, now I want to play ME1. AGAIN.

Oh, yeah, speaking of which, important tip for ME2 if you decide to go on with the rest of the series. I'll try to frame this without spoiling anything.

Oh hey, I know, I'll set it up so you have to highlight it to read it. Guys, if anyone quotes this back, please preserve the font color="white" tag so it isn't inadvertently revealed.

OK, you know how BioWare always gives you all the leisure you want to get all your secondary objectives done, however much the flavor text for the main quest pitches everything as a desperate race against time? I suspect they did that in all their games prior to ME2 specifically to train people to end up with the Less Satisfactory ending of ME2. When the decision gate arrives that asks, "do you want to go do $SUPERIMPORTANTTHING right now or work on some more preparations?", every BioWare-trained instinct you have will tell you, "Ah, no worries; let's go do some more mining." DO NOT DO THAT. Get all your crap done BEFORE that decision point arrives. It'll be fairly obvious when you get the hook for the mission that will trigger it.

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

-- Slider Da Feral (NYAR!)
_{That pistol upgrade wasn't worth it, was it?}

Oh man, flashbacks. Venkman in Ghostbusters: The Video Game is the worst ever for that. I lost track of the number of times he either got himself zapped or, worse, tried to cross my stream.

--G.
"Ow? That was OW, there... "
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

Ebony the Black Dragon

"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."

And yet, how you'll yearn for it back when you experience ME2's anemic, inaccurate, flimsy hovertank.

--G.
"please move the vehicle away from the:" "ACID."
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

I honestly cannot conceive of a vehicle mode in a game worse than what I encountered in ME1, though I have the lurking dread that somehow you're right.

Light, the new avatar of chaos

And could take more than two hits before it became scrap...and had a turret that could move...and a coaxial gun to shoot individual units...and controls that made some measure of sense...

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CdrMike, Overwatch Reject

-Droken