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It looks like my Spectre days might be coming to an end. I've completely enjoyed Mass Effect since I started playing it again this week. But I've come across something that I may not be able to overcome. There are possible Mass Effect Spoilers coming ahead so please be careful when reading.
So to give you a little background. I started playing Mass Effect over two years ago. I was still in school at the time and my finals were coming up. In the midst of my Japanese Final I felt chills coming on. Walking home in the cold rain and ice, I suddenly was overcome by a fever which would leave my Mass Effect pursuits on hold for almost another year. It was fine because I spent a lot of the time wandering around the Citadel taking elevators that were driving me insane. I needed a break.
The next time I picked up Mass Effect it had been a while and Brad had begun living with me. He helped me a little, getting me through the Citadel and letting me know where to find Liara but still the game wasn't doing anything for me. The Blue Alien character that had everyone talking seemed somewhat annoying to me. I couldn't begin to think why any person would be interesting in a character like that. But regardless, I took her along to find her Mother Matriarch Benezia. Before finding her, I would get lost on the Ice Planet and be annoyed by the overwhelmingly powerful Rachni.
Fast forward to this week. Mass Effect 2 is on the verge of coming out. I decided to give the first game another chance in hopes that I will be ready to jump on board when the second comes out in a matter of weeks. I find Matriarch Benezia and I am finally beginning to understand the draw of the character known as Liara. Deep down she's a nerd. A clumsy, numbers crunching, adorable, nerd. I'm not in love with her, but I can see her feminine qualities begin to shine as she opens up to me. I can see other characters beginning to shine as well. The game play is somewhat simple and the game itself is a horrible mess. There are so many technical problems I don't even understand how this game was released. But we are like a family. We trudge on because of the unfolding story. Because we are the only ones who can do anything about it.
Before I go any further. I feel I should have to explain how it is I play games. It's very different than Brad or Nick or Travis or Joseph. To put it simply, I rush through them. This isn't because I don't care about the game. About it's intricacies or it's finer points. I'm not a stop and smell the roses kind of person. It's how I am in person and it transfers into how I play games. The most interesting part about games is always the main story. I could care less about side missions. Also, I'm very simplistic. I find something that works and I stick with it. I don't go out there any experiment with other things. I don't question about other item. I just become ultra skilled at that one purpose. It's a very all or none kind of mentality. All of this has played into how I've played Mass Effect. It directly transfers into how my character is and how I've answered dialogue choices. The character in the game is very me.
So back to Mass Effect. I find that I can't put the game down. I have to find out what happens. I have to save the galaxy. The last few hours I've played Mass Effect, I've completely loved it. Let me point out again, there are TONS of flaws with this game. On multiple occasions I've gotten stuck in the geography. Textures magically appear and disappear. The saving system is borked. The characters during the most dramatic scenes look dumb founded and confused. It's a MESS. But this is all forgivable because the world is rock solid. The galaxy and everyone in it makes sense and gives everything it's purpose.
So I saved the Galaxy. Even with being severely under leveled I found a way to get around the Geth. The Krogan Warlords. The Thorian Infection. My god it was good. When I finally killed Saren, I smiled. Not in a vicious demented killer way. I felt I had earned my place among the Spectre, not just for me, but for humanity. I told myself this is going to be on my Top 20 games of all time. I was just starting to think about where to put it when.....
Saren comes back to life. WHY?!?!?!?!
Why did you have to do this to me?
They bring Saren back to life as a ephemeral being. This time for some reason, I can't do any damage to him. I can barely bring down his shields and in ten plus tries, I haven't been able to damage his true life bar, only bring his shields down a little. It's bullshit that this is happening. Maybe this is divine intervention because I've played the game incorrectly by rushing through it and not leveling up properly. Fuck That! I rushed through this because I was so invested in what was happening. I got caught up in the story and the only thing that mattered was finding out what was trying to save the galaxy and finding out what was going to happen next. I'm not upset that there are problems with the game, I'm pissed that it looks like I might not be able to finish the story, one that I am now really invested in.
I'm not going to start the game over or beat someone else's story. This is my character and I played the story like it was my own. This is my life as a Spectre and as a example for all of humanity. Because of this, I don't see myself playing Mass Effect 2 either. I wouldn't want to start a new character leaving the world I shaped behind. That would be ridiculous. All I can do is go back and try again. Keep doing what I've done. I'm leaving for Japan in 3 days. If I can't beat Saren before then, I don't know how I'll ever be able to pick this game back up again.
If anyone has some suggestions, I'm open to them. I'm at the final Saren battle. I know he is synthetic so I've equipped upgrades to reflect that. I've watched videos of people online beating him, but it's all because they're on a completely different level than I am. Saren constantly overheats my weapons. With my are Wrex and Garrus. They have a shotgun and sniper rifle equipped. I have full medi-gel but the problem is doing damage to him. If you're suggesting going back to an earlier save, that's out of the questions. There aren't any far back enough to go back and level up.
Ellie Shepard.
Out.
Comments
14 years, 10 months ago
. . . More to come?
14 years, 10 months ago
what
14 years, 10 months ago
well Level up dammit!
14 years, 10 months ago
If you're fighting Saren when he's being controlled by Sovereign, what I found was useful (If you have a biotic around) Is to use Warp and throw on him. You can also use the radial menu a lot to see where he's jumping for when he's running around and throw a grenade in that specific landing point before hand. When he's shooting at you, obviously you're just gonna have to run around and dodge. And if he's shooting at a squad member, take the chance to just shoot the fuck out of him and damage him. Make sure to keep taking his shields down too.
That's all I can say. :V I'm sure other people will have better advice. :C
14 years, 10 months ago
The game is short you could just do the whole game over again there's only 4 main missions that you have to do i think. I'm sure there's only a few missions. And if you don't wanna do that try popping out of cover shooting then going back into cover and try to make your team mates do most of the shooting so siren shoots at them more then you. Good luck!
14 years, 10 months ago
try using buffs on your shields. Use you weapons' powers like marks for pistol and overkill for shotgun. Use your tech powers if you have any to debuff his shields, use biotics to kick him around. always watch your shiellds. Use your biotic lift power on him and shoot the hell out of him.
14 years, 10 months ago
Altair, he can't. No saves are past the "point of no return"
14 years, 10 months ago
Always keep your sheilds up and keep on stocking up on med kits.
14 years, 10 months ago
Since you can't go back and level up at this point, the only thing I can think of, without knowing what skills you have available at this point, is lowering the difficulty. In most Bioware games you can lower the game difficulty at anytime, increasing the damage you do, and reducing the damage you take. They put this option in specifically so that people who care more about the story then leveling up don't get stuck. If you're already at lowest difficulty, then you're probably screwed.
14 years, 10 months ago
Garrus has an Overload, the ability that dose major damage to shields and Wrex has a couple biotic abilities and the ability Immunity that cuts down on damage.
Do you have any other Ammo upgrades, maybe disruptor ammo?
14 years, 10 months ago
Yeah sucks, cause I've gotten into Wrex and Garrus
So no Liara
14 years, 10 months ago
hm , ok David so if your line up consist of Wrex and Garrus what biotic does wrex have?? i just finished the game as a soldier and am half way through as a infiltrator
My ending level was 48 I'm guessing your around 32 maybe? what you should do David is began the second saren fight with weapons you dont normally use that way when saren overheats your weapon it only effect the one you suck in and that will help you deal more damage to him. Also do you have spectre weapons that have 200+ damage and 80+ accuracy i beat him with all of my guys with those guns each different i had an assault rifle Garrus had sniper and liaria had pistol but if you don't that could make it easier. I suggest with the boitic power have singularity do draw saren toward you and stop his movement which is the worst part about the fight also try to use the ability unity if your allies die also do you have first aid points that really helps with liaira she can heal up to 250 health which is full on even the biggest tank wrex. I hope this help david all i can say is try to avoid his attack and dont worry he isnt invicble
14 years, 10 months ago
what class are you? i used that drain shield ability a lot and used my allies to warp him or stasis him, make sure to use synthetic ammo and use that stability accuracy ability to steady the aim, and use grenades if you could.
14 years, 10 months ago
its because you havent been using your biotics your party has. at all. but a lot of people stopped recommending it when you ignored chat and took on benezia a dozen times.
lift. warp. carnage. barrier. adrenaline. repeat. profit.
14 years, 10 months ago
Exocel has the right idea. I'm on my 14th, yes 14th, play through of Mass Effect and I've run into the same problem as you David.
Honestly, I don't know why so many people prefer the Garrus+Wrex combo. I hated both of them. They weren't focused enough in their abilities for me, so they ended up being poopy teammates. But that's beside the point; just lower the difficulty and use biotics and buffs to your advantage. Saren will overheat your weapons no matter what, so just make sure you can take as little damage as possible while they cool off. Use Wrex's warp and throw biotics to deal some damage, and then use Garrus to take down Saren's shields and unload on him, rinse and repeat.
14 years, 10 months ago
This pissed me off too. It took me a while, but I hid behind the wall that you're facing when you first start, and granted it takes about half an hour to do so, I would just pop out to hit him with a shotgun blast or two and jump back behind the wall. For some reason he doesn't follow you and he can't get a shot off. Not really strategy, but its the only damn thing that worked for me.
14 years, 10 months ago
What everyone else says: use teammate biotic/tech abilities, or set the options so they use it on their own.
Are you having trouble landing hits on him as he jumps around all over the place? Trick: as he leaps out of your view, open up the radial menu and get your sights on where he landed. When you exit the menu you'll be staring right at him, ready to keep the pressure on.
14 years, 10 months ago
Well I sure hope you learned your lesson.
Also, I never had any problems with saving. If you're talking about not being able to save during fights, well, it's there for a reason.
What's dumb about that feature is that you can't save even if there's a single enemy in the vicinity, because it counts as if you're fighting it.
14 years, 10 months ago
It REALLY depends on the difficulty at this point. Although it is possible to go through the game without doing any of the sidequests that help you level up, as I said it depends on what difficulty you play it on. When I played this game on Insanity (the game's hardest difficulty), it was so damn HARD. I realized that I couldn't hope to beat the game without going through every inch of Mass Effect.
That said, the only real suggestion I could give out is to lower the difficulty in the options menu. If you have an earlier save before you went to Ilos, I would also suggest you do a few sidequests and level up your characters before tackling the end of the game. The Wrex/Garrus combo is also a good choice as well so stick with them. Hopefully this advice will help. It would be disappointing if you decided never to play Mass Effect 2. From what I understand, it improves on alot of the first game's flaws. :]
14 years, 10 months ago
Already did. I beat it last night. HAHA
14 years, 10 months ago
Grats David.
Anyways, talking about strategy, since you have Wrex (good with shotguns) and Garrus (Engineer-ish) you can have Garrus use his overload or whatever abilities to instantly disable Saren's shields lock up and skills for a bit, and follow up with Wrex's shotgun talent, Carnage for massive dmg.
If you have Carnage as well, use it too.
If you look Liara, Singularity is a beast.
A lot of it involves pausing the game and queuing up commands, which I didn't like, but found necessary to properly plan strategy.
13 years, 10 months ago
What difficulty are you on? Because if it's anything but Insanity...I'd hate to break it to you...but you have a voodoo curse on you if that is the one fight in the entire game you actually have problems with. I've beaten it as canon Shepard on Normal, a custom full Engineer Shepard on Hardcore, and am currently playing it as a full Adept Shepard on Insanity.
Both times I beat it, I was completely disappointed by how easy Saren was. He was, quite frankly, more annoying on his little hoverboard than in his final form.
Oh, and this isn't the sort of level to really whine about levels. Bosses mostly reflect whatever level you're at anyways. Partner choice might be a semi-issue. Garrus kinda sucks, but Wrex is a tank...who also happens to have decent biotics.
You want to see bullshit, you should play Insanity as an Adept.