Mass Effect, Insanity mode?

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bandit390

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I just beat the game at 22 hours and level 46. If I start over at new career and choose existing career. I get to play the whole game over again, but keep my level, upgrades, weapons. So does this mean i'm on hardcore or insanity mode? (I never saw a place to choose difficulty level)

Also, is there any weapons/upgrades above level VX?
 
The difficulty setting is in the options. To get Insanity mode, you must first beat the game on Hardcore (I think). Make sure you set the difficulty before the incident with the beacon. That's when the game "starts", and don't change the difficulty once you get going or you won't get the achievement.
 
Thanks, I see that now.

Also, looks like you have to unlock hardcore by beating it on Vet.
 
I beat it on Vet and only made it to level 58
I'll be hitting the Insanity mode this summer and shoot for 60

It was noticbly tougher on Vet but still doable.
I imagine it'll take even longer on Insanity.
 
gigabyte1024 said:
I beat it on Vet and only made it to level 58
I'll be hitting the Insanity mode this summer and shoot for 60

It was noticbly tougher on Vet but still doable.
I imagine it'll take even longer on Insanity.
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Did you do (m)any of the side quests on the 2nd trip through the game? I ask because once you know what to do, you can pretty much go from Therum to Noveria to Virmire, to Ilos.
Pretty short game if you don't do the side quests.
I'm thinking of going through the game again with the same character, but I don't want to botch my "final save" with a 2nd trip through in which I didn't do anything.
 
Domingo said:
Did you do (m)any of the side quests on the 2nd trip through the game? I ask because once you know what to do, you can pretty much go from Therum to Noveria to Virmire, to Ilos.
Pretty short game if you don't do the side quests.
I'm thinking of going through the game again with the same character, but I don't want to botch my "final save" with a 2nd trip through in which I didn't do anything.
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wouldnt hurt. everytime you beat the game, doesnt matter which # of playthroughs, the game saves an un-deletable profile for you to start another playthrough with the same character. so, your 'final save' can be any playthroughs with any characters.

now thats assuming if ME2 can scan ME1's savefiles, and assuming that it'll let you choose which playthrough to scan from. pretty dumb if it'll scan but wont let you choose, in my opinion.
 
^ That's kinda what I was concerned about. I wasn't sure if they over-wrote or maybe if you couldn't select which one you wanted. I really would like to play through the game again and hit level 60...but I have *NO* desire to do any of those side missions involving the same 3-4 building layouts 50 times. I would just skip them, but many are connected to the Shadow Broker side-plot which will almost certainly be in #2.

I think I might just pick that character back up once ME#2 is closer to fruition. By then I'll have forgotten how tedious all of those missions are :)
 
Smititty said:
The difficulty setting is in the options. To get Insanity mode, you must first beat the game on Hardcore (I think). Make sure you set the difficulty before the incident with the beacon. That's when the game "starts", and don't change the difficulty once you get going or you won't get the achievement.
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that's good news. I was worried about the "do not change the difficulty setting part" because when i start a new career and use an existing playthrough, I landed on eden prime with my difficulty set to "hardcore". thought it had to do with my xbox default preferences only going up to "hard".
 
Just make sure you chance the difficulty before you even get off the Normandy for the first time.

Also, to get to level 60 you NEED to complete the side quests, or else you chance not getting to the highest level. The last few levels are about a hundred thousand xp apart. Each 3 play throughs I completed I esed the different allies for the achievements, and each progressive difficulty that I unlocked. I had to complete the side quests for the ally achievements and on my last play-through on insanity, I got to level 60 about 65-70% through the game.

Insanity isn't really hard, you just have to sit there and shoot each enemy for what seems like 2 minutes. Geth are easy, but the human enemies and krogan all have invincibility powers and is really annoying. Make sure you use either kaiden or liara on insanity, their powers make it way easier (unless you of course are a biotic)
 
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