I can get a god damn Assault Rifle training from this stupid Collectors' Ship. No more wimpy SMG!EDIT: Ahhah, I just had this conversation with Garrus and I can't stop laughing.Shepard: discussing 'sparring' So when should I book the room?Garrus: I'd wait if you're OK with it. Disrupt the crew a little as possible. Take that last chance to find some calm just before the storm.

1. Locust Effect Summary

Morality is measured in Mass Effect games by 'Paragon' and 'Renegade' points. Unlike many contemporary role-playing games, such as BioWare's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, that represent morality as a single sliding scale of good and evil, Mass Effect keeps track of the Paragon and Renegade points on separate scales. It was my favorite weapon from ME2 and ME3, I was hoping to get something like it in MEA but have yet to see it in research or as a drop.

You know me, always like to savor that last shot before popping the heatsink.Shepard gives Garrus a knowing smirkGarrus: Wait. That metaphor just went somewhere horrible.N'aww. Garrus is too adorable sometimes. For Adepts in ME 2 out there! (Insanity tips)Keep Samara, Jack or Jacob in party. Having purchased Dragon Age helps a ton as it gives you access to Blood Dragon Armor which is a pure gem for ability based classes in ME 2.

My prefferred composition was to have Jack and Samara in party with me at all times, well except loyalty missions of course. Get Dominate as bonus power.

(Save before picking morinth, see yourself in the ship where it autosaves, then reload and pick Samara)Samara gets Area Reave, Jack gets Heavy Shockwave and Squad Warp Ammo. Biotics is a bitch in ME series, they form such a good synergy with eachother but fuck up everything else.Samara will rid the enemies from their precious armor, and Jack will keep them in the air for a while with Shockwave. This is your chance to warp and blow stuff up. I think you need 2 points in Throw to be able to get to your own shockwave so keep them there as well. Once Samara reaves groups of husks, any rank of throw will just 1 shot them.Squad Warp Ammo is your key at weapon damage. This setup won't have much against shielded enemies, but once you detonate other ones near them they won't have any shield left anyway.

Besides, Tempest with the upgrade that lets SMG's do double damage to shields chews through even YMIR mechs even on insanity. Heavy warp is also effective against shields as it will do shit ton of damage with Nemesis and Blood Dragon Armor.

(It just won't do double damage, which means it won't take it down in 1 hit. But it will damage it enough to be destroyed with a few secs of SMG fire.)Barriers and Armor won't mean anything to you, and your singularity is your go to defense when Area Reave clears armor off.

Considering Shielded enemies, you should focus your fire on 'Heavy' type mercenaries or Vanguard type mercenaries and then Dominate them. (Heavy type dominate as the CC part of dominate also counts in duration so don't bother with Area version.

Locust Effect Summary

All you need is one guy any way.) They will clear the shields right off before you can say 'Wh.' And will even kill most of the wave before you can finish with '.at'Being clever against collectors will be a blast.

Just get a Guardian or Assasin to low HP and Harbinger will try to save them, after you dominate them ofcourse. He'll blow shit up for 2-3 seconds, which is all you need to get rid of him. Besides, enemies do as much damage to each other as they do to you, so dominating some merc with an assault rifle means he will 2-3 shot other mercs. And they also tend to focus the dominated guy, so this will give you breathing when you need it.Jack can be traded with Miranda with Area Overload if shields are too much for you to handle.

You won't lose much weapon damage. Singularity also staggers an enemy as long as it is active and enemy has a shield, so that means they won't be able to shoot or duck behind cover.If shooting is a problem, Insanity Mode offers you Geth Assault Rifle. After the upgrades, it will have 0 recoil, good damage, and varied fire rate. It also deals bonus damage to shields so it is an overall good weapon for an adept.

Sorry i dont really want to read through the 140 odd pages, so would anyone reccomend this game to someone who has never played Mass effect before? Or would you say get the previous 2 before playing this? I am really interested in trying out the game but buying all 3 is pretty expensiveI personally wouldn't suggest the game to someone who hasn't touched any of the previous Mass Effect games.

I started playing from Mass Effect 2, but since I had some Cerberus-pack attached to my game I got the hang of what had happened via the interactive background story. I did purchase ME1 later on and I've played through it too. There's just so much characters and little twists you miss out if you're not familiar with the universe at all. Though I have to say I've only played ME3 with an imported ME2 memory so I'm not aware if and how well the previous events are explained for someone who starts a whole new ME3 game. Sorry i dont really want to read through the 140 odd pages, so would anyone reccomend this game to someone who has never played Mass effect before? Or would you say get the previous 2 before playing this?

I am really interested in trying out the game but buying all 3 is pretty expensiveThere is a 50% sale in Origin right now, so if you buy digital copies you should be able land the first two game very cheap.Other than that, ME3 is good by itself, and you will be wrapped in the story tightly until the last 10 minutes, which means you shouldn't skip this game because of that. Besides they are working on it.

So it might be a good time to catch up on the first two games.There is a world of difference between playing the game on default and having your own save game though. Sorry i dont really want to read through the 140 odd pages, so would anyone reccomend this game to someone who has never played Mass effect before? Or would you say get the previous 2 before playing this? I am really interested in trying out the game but buying all 3 is pretty expensiveWhat system you thinking of getting it on?

I defo recomend it its a great series.Id definatly start with 1 im sure you can find it pretty cheap, they have changed the sytle of combat between 1 and 2.couldnt yu possibly check out a demo somewhere? Wow, wasn't expecting that many replies so quick:Pi am pretty interested in the sotry as someone asked, so i guess that means i will have to buy the previous onesi want them on xbox so they're probably about £15 each on Amazon (could probably find them cheaper some where else)i guess i will get buying then. And thanks AnthonyUK, i will see if there is some demos available on Xbox, i didn't think of demos- Post added 2012-03-23 at 02:31 PM -damn, on xbox there are demos for ME2 and 3, but none for ME1.

Sorry i dont really want to read through the 140 odd pages, so would anyone reccomend this game to someone who has never played Mass effect before? Or would you say get the previous 2 before playing this? I am really interested in trying out the game but buying all 3 is pretty expensiveIf you want to get into the story, yes I suggest you to buy all three games.

As someone else has said, Mass Effect 1, is a lot more RPG based. There's sockets in your armor where you can add upgrades, & the same thing for weapons. There's a large amount of points you can put in for your skills. Which in the second & third there's a lot less skill builds & less customization for Weapons & Armor.The action aspect of Mass Effect 2 & 3 is greater than the first.Although in my opinion the first Mass Effect has less impactin' effects into the other games in the series. Wow, wasn't expecting that many replies so quick:Pi am pretty interested in the sotry as someone asked, so i guess that means i will have to buy the previous onesi want them on xbox so they're probably about £15 each on Amazon (could probably find them cheaper some where else)i guess i will get buying then. And thanks AnthonyUK, i will see if there is some demos available on Xbox, i didn't think of demos I paid 15 euros for my copy of Mass Effect 1, which is roughly 12,45 pounds.There's just something about playing through all the games with one character. And if you're interested in the story then you definitely should start from Mass Effect 1 but even starting from Mass Effect 2 it's fairly doable.

You'll get a lot more out of the story if you play through them all and it's nice to see how some little things you've done affect things in the future.

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If you plan on getting assault rifle training, then the tempest is a better choice as a rapid fire short range weapon where accuracy doesn't count as much. If you plan on getting shotgun or picking up the Widow sniper rifle then the Locust is a good assault rifle replacement for middle range fighting with it's better accuracy.Really you can't go wrong with either. Even the shruiken has it's place, if you feather the trigger it has a higher rate of fire than the tempest.DO give the tempest to squad mates though, they have ridiculous accuracy with it and pretty much just eat anyone up with it.