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Mass Effect 2 - News Roundup

by Dhruin, 2010-01-15 20:16:53

I'll collect a handful of Mass Effect 2 items here.

Gametrailers hosts the first part of a Casey Hudson video interview from the show Sci vs Fi.  It runs at around 5 minutes and the topic is "how do you create the illusion of free will with a fixed ending?"

BioWare has kicked up a new desktop wallpaper called "Fight for the Lost".

There's a new Bioblog entry from Christina Norman on equipping squad members, which has been overhauled.  Here's a snip:

With up to 10 squad members, equipping your team in Mass Effect 2 could have been a daunting task. To make this task manageable we’ve made two inventory advancements: squad inventory, and auto-upgrades.

Squad Inventory
Whenever Shepard finds an upgraded weapon he scans it with his omni-tool, uploading detailed data to his ship. Using that data, this ship’s armory can replicate the weapon, making it available to any squad member trained to use that weapon type. For example, if you find a superior shotgun, your armory will fabricate copies, making that shotgun model available to any squad member with shotgun training. This gets rid of tedious inventory management tasks, like unequipping and transferring items between squad members.

...and Joystiq has rumours on the first-day DLC, which they claim will feature a character that was previously cut.  The source is Norwegian and has since been deleted, so it's a bit hard to check the veracity but here's an excerpt:

Norwegian newspaper DagBladet is reporting DLC will likely be available day one or soon thereafter for Mass Effect 2. DagBladet says the usual items like armor and weapons will be available, but also other things, such as an unlockable planet and even a new ally by the name of Zaeed Messani, the grizzled bounty hunter pictured above. The piece also mentions an in-game store for unlocking DLC called "Cerberus Network," which sounds a lot like Dragon Age: Origins' DLC platform.

Information about

Mass Effect 2

SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Sci-Fi
Genre: Shooter-RPG
Platform: PC, Xbox 360
Release: Released


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