The reason why I think it's a bug is because when anyone else temporarily joins the party, they don't keep the items you put on them. This one guy behaves differently.

When the PC's mother died I got all the gear shewas wearing back in my inventory after the cutscene.

I didn't know to strip that darn circle mage before lighting the signal early in the game in Ostagar. He had a lot of my good items on him but I didn't notice until I got another magician in my party (Morrigan) much later.

It's hard to find the commands I need online because some of the items were DLC. He had the Memory Ring and Dalish Ring.

Also if anyone can remember what items he might have been likely to wear, I want them all back. Notably he had a good had and robe. The hat would be much better for Morrigan than the apprentice version she's now forced to wear.

Please help

PS the loss of those items has to be a bug. Any idea if a patch or mod is on the way to fix it for next time I play?

SometimesI hear ppl talk about cheat codes related to this game but I cna't work out how to use them bc there doesn't seem to be a console with it. Idk.

Anyways.... I wanted to import an ultimate ME1 profile... by that I mean one with all the choices I'd make if I were really Shepard PLUS I used those two morality cheats to get max Paragon and Renegade. (Click the space monkey repeatedly on Elantia for Paragon points and talk to the SI boss on Noveria repeatedly for renegade). This meant I had full morality bars at the end of ME1 and I also made doubly sure by fully upgrading my Charm and Intimidate skills with the points I earned.

When I got to Me2 import... thegame ruddy well decided FOR me! UNGH! I'm a flipping Paragon. I DO NOT WANT TO LICK ALIEN BUTHOLE.

Please can someone tell me if i can open a save file and change some entry from 1 to 0 or true to false or something to make the game not see me as bloody paragon.

Yeah well you're all freaking wrong because I can answer my own question now and I'm not freaking happy!

On starting ME2 I had NO game to import. I had to make a copy of my ME1 save file and drop it in a file in ME2 saves... luckily I guessed the folder should be called ME1 or I'd be stuffed but that's an issue for another day. Anyway... on import it said a bunch of things in my psyche profile like Wrex lived on Virmire, Ashley died etc. IT ALSO FREAKING WELL SAID I HAVE A GODDAMN PARAGON PSYCHE PROFILE!!!!! I DON"T WANT TO BE EFFING PARA EFFING GON!!!!

I know this game has cheats but I don't believe it has a console for easy use of those. Could someone please tell me if there is a way to edit some file or other to make me Renegade/

Also can I 'earn' red eyes in the game or do I need to start off as Renegade to have those?

And why are my scars so wimpy? I've seen a male Renegade Shepard with awesome effed up facial scars and red eyes. I'm female shep, apparently paragon with blue eyes and barely seeable scars. Pfft.

Please don't post in this thread if you dislike the game or want to talk about the flaws in the writing. There's a really funny thread you can Google under "If you were Shepard" which will definately make you LOL if you like finding holes in the story.

In ME1, on Vermire, the Sovereign interface tells you that the Reapers have no beginning and are eternal, when you ask who made them (since they are machines after all). Does anyone have a theory on this? Ignoring Mass Effect 2, where you realise not allGeth are bad, I'm thinking theReapers are really like the Geth. Imagine a giant network of hive mindedsemi machines (I say semi since ME2 shows the reapers break organics down and use the minerals from their bodies to form the metal of new reaper bodies). Surely thatnetwork, which seesnew machines created and old ones terminate, would believe that 'time' began with the network's beginning and also that without the network, there is nothing. My theory is some race, notunlike humans, built the reapers to help them establish universal supremacy and the project was definately made of fail.

Thoughts?

I have two additional thoughts which have always peed me off.

1. While the big bang theory is acceptable to me as beginning the universe, what was there before the big bang? Especially as many scientists say that the universe has ALWAYS been there (no time). How tf can their be no time? Imagine time as a piece of string? No matter how long you make that string, it still has to have a beginning and an end. Even if you place that string in a circle shape, it still has to have a join or an original beginning!

2. It is widely believed that the universe goes on forever. How tf can anything go on forever? Imagine the universe as a big sphere... but it's bigger than that since it goes on forever... so imagine it bigger... and bigger... and as big as forever. It's still a darned sphere and as such has an outside edge. So what's outside that? If the blackness ends, is it white? No, it can't be as there has to be light for it to be white, but it can't be black or it would still be part of your sphere (just without stars in it). Grrr.

Is my human sized brain too small or is something really wrong with scientific understanding of the universe and time?

I recently read that if you do that quest were you have to kill all the biotic extremists ( I think this is the Paragon 75% unlocked quest but not sure) and have to watch out for drugged scientists walking around, it could be a affected by a bug in ME2. Apparently in ME2, the Sirta foundation is shown to be the agency the scentists at that lab worked for and a message goes out over the news that "Sirta foundation never recovered from an attack by biotic extremists 2 years ago and will shortly close down". Apparenly you still get this message whether you killed lots of the doped scientists or whether you saved every single scientist's life.

I thikn I just discoverd that this 'bug' effects ME1 also. I went up and down in a lift to hear all the newscasts after doing all the uncharted quests. I didn't let one single scientist die (and this was recognised by a message box and by Hackett over comms,but a message went over the newscast that bascially said all the scientists were killed. WTF?

Anyone else seen this?

The game will not run and you will be presented with an alternative title for your enjoyment, introduced with the music from "Paint your Wagon" too!

biggest_loser

You might not carry the whole bar across but I have read the various 'official' and 'unofficial' lists of decisive changes/factors in the game. Those lists say that ME2 gameplay is impacted by whether or not you have a morality bar at 75% or more (making you start the game as Paragon or Renegade). What I'm asking is whether you start the game with BOTH sides of the same acheivement met, you will get BOTH alterations to the game. In ME1 there are 2 quests that can only be unlocked if you have 75% of either morality. The game gave me both those quests. Will ME2 be able to cope with the imported data from both?

Also, I have seen on YouTube that a mostly Renegade Shepard gets red eyes/irises unless you use a mod to get rid of them. I got my Shepard to 75% Renegade, but never got red eyes, even though I didn't use the mod to get rid of my scars because I liked them. The people who did have red eyes were prolific gamers who probably all imported games.

I've gone back to play ME1, making sure to pick all the choices I'd like to carry over, given they effect the next game. I also wanted to keep ALL my options open so I decided to exploit the Eletania (space monkey) cheat for max Paragon points and the Noveria cheat for max Renegade.

I'm almost finished ME1 now but I'm having doubts about whether ME2 will cope with both bars being full on import, since it is not meat to be possible to fill both bars from a single playthrough of ME1. Will the game crash, freak out or will it simply decide for me 'which' bar to read as filled & ignore the other?

I wonder if the men prefer the character to be more extreme. I was neutral leaning heavily to good and I found 0 men in B.S. that would marry me. As I've become more true neutral the women have been telling me to 'clean myself up because they want me to look better' (before we're even a couple, us women aren't that nagging & despite me wearing only hair/tattoos/clothes that enhance attractiveness!)

In my true neutral state I found so far only 1 man! I've tried them all! He was actually living with a woman in a house in Oaktown, with a kid!

Maybe the programmers though g_y men preferred more extreme good 'pretty boy' types or evil 'bondage master' types (hey straight people like that too sometimes) LOL

Has anyone noticed more men get lovehearts (c'mon guys, even if you're not interested in playing the game that way) if you're good, bad or at least one way either?