X360 - New Mass effect Screenshots

[Blank]

Originally Posted by Menion

Don't feel bad it took me a mission or two with the Mako to realize you can double zoom by pushing the right stick.

Don't feel bad, I beat the game and I never knew that until now...

[Soriak]

When you get to some planets, you have the chance to "survey" and find the occasional item... I've found some rare material, but is this used for something? (chances are yes, but I didn't seem to get exp, an item or an update)
Some surveying to be done on planets as well, at least those give exp - but again not sure if there's something beyond that?

Also a note to self: don't explore the galaxy farthest away from where you should go, chances are the enemies in there are tough as hell. Getting swarmed by 10 geth = not fun

[Menion]

You get money and XP for finding minerals on planets.

Speaking of money I have 750k and I am only level 24 every time I go to a vendor their gear for sale is inferior to what I am ready wearing. Hopefully this changes later on in the game otherwise money is pretty pointless.

[Pasteton]

i actually got a 360 because of tihs game, and so far the biggest issue im having is the goddamn controller. anyone have any good basic strat for encounters, even beginning ones, that someone with zero hand-eye coordination/aiming skills can use? so far most of the time i end up winning battles is by spamming medi gel while constantly turning around in circles attempting to aim at anything, and letting my teammates do the killing.

[Nakilos]

Uhh I think you can change the settings to get aim help by lowering the difficulty or something like that.

That or go buy Halo or something, play that for a couple of days to get used to playing an FPS. This plays like pretty much any console FPS I've played in the last few years.

[Soriak]

Hit one of the bumpers (the buttons above the gun-like triggers) and the game pauses. Gives you time to look around, assess the situation and run for cover

[The Noble Savage]

Originally Posted by Menion

Speaking of money I have 750k and I am only level 24 every time I go to a vendor their gear for sale is inferior to what I am ready wearing. Hopefully this changes later on in the game otherwise money is pretty pointless.

The best stuff comes from vendors way later in the game. With the exception of the medical gel and bomb upgrades the only items I bought were armor for Wrex, Garuss, an uber Bionics upgrade and the master specter gear. I ended the game, first play through, with well over a billion credits.

Edit:
Oh and Licenses.

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Originally Posted by The Noble Savage

The best stuff comes from vendors way later in the game. With the exception of the medical gel and bomb upgrades the only items I bought were armor for Wrex, Garuss, an uber Bionics upgrade and the master specter gear. I ended the game, first play through, with well over a billion credits.

Edit:
Oh and Licenses.

The best weapons in your first playthrough are usually the spectre stuff (IIRC, need the "Rich" achievement for it). Everything else, you'll find better just exploring/leveling up. When you get 50+, you'll start finding weapons that are better than the spectre stuff too.

Money cap is 9,999,999... but money is basically worthless in this game. Just try and hit 1 mil for the achievement and pimp out weapons early on. After that, you can pretty much gel everything you find that isn't an upgrade... not that gel is useful either :\

BTW, I think there's a bug or something with certain system explorations. Sometimes the XP stuff will update for minerals and shit and sometimes it won't. I dunno if I'm getting XP or not but meh. You basically get nothing but XP/credits from doing it anyway.

[faithdies]

I use Ashley and Lelia pretty much exclusively. Unfortunately that leaves me with nobody with decryption skills. Luckily I have pretty awesome gear. Selling weapon upgrades makes you so much money.

Do you get anything worthwhile from crates and computer consoles that need to be decrypted?

[Blank]

Originally Posted by faithdies

I use Ashley and Lelia pretty much exclusively. Unfortunately that leaves me with nobody with decryption skills. Luckily I have pretty awesome gear. Selling weapon upgrades makes you so much money.

Do you get anything worthwhile from crates and computer consoles that need to be decrypted?

Quests and items IIRC. Mostly items.

[The Noble Savage]

Yeah, should of stipulated. For the most part vendors carry the exact same stuff that drops, with the exception of the master specter weapons that were just far superior than anything that dropped for me up to level 50. Not sure post 50. But my initial play through all armor that dropped was crap. The Normandy vendor sold me colossus IX (I think, too lazy to check) heavy human armor that was so much better than the crap I had on it was sad.

[Sean]

Not quite true - the X level Spectre items are better than anything else. The VII's get outclassed but once you can buy the X's there's nothing better.

Sadly Colossus armor is refusing to show up for me, only have Tali's so far. I do have Predator armor for Shepard/Ashely/Wrex/Garrus though which is the second best.

[The Noble Savage]

Is the specter X stuff post 50?

And I just read a tip to get your team outfitted in colossus gear. Save in front of the normandy vendor and check his stock, then just reload. Loading the game resets his inventory instead of having to warp to another location. Nothing fancy, but gets the job done.

[Sean]

I think X level stuff can start showing up post 45, but doesn't reliably show up until you're past 50.

[Sean]

Reloading the game is totally not flipping the stock for me.