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3.) On any piece of armor, click the upgrade option. On any upgrade, opt to turn it into Omni Gel and then quickly opt out. This should return you back to the upgrades menu. Count down from the bottom of that list the number that you earlier acquired when you counted down on the armor list. Now click on that upgrade and transfer the upgrades by hitting yes.
If you beat the game and choose to replay the game with the same character, your character type will be able to learn some skills he or she would otherwise be unable to learn. For instance, on a second play-through, Adepts can learn to use Shotguns, First Aid, and other skills they were otherwise unable to use the first time through.
What's written above is somewhat accurate, but not completely. You must actually unlock specific achievements associated with weapons and skills for them to be unlocked for all character classes. For instance, for Adepts to be able to learn to use Assault Rifles, you must unlock the achievement that asks you to kill 150 enemies with the Assault Rifle.
Thresher Maws, which are located mostly on uninhabited or barely-inhabited planets, can be pesky foes. The best way to take care of them, as most people know, is to circle their locations as you pound them with machinegun fire and rockets from the Mako. However, Thresher Maws disappear underground and reappear near your location, and can at times reappear underneath you, instantly killing you (or leaving you dangerously close to death).
A great way to avoid this is to drive the Mako over elevated terrain as you fight these foes. Thresher Maws can only burrow underneath flat terrain, so elevated terrain is off limits to them. If you remain on elevated terrain as you fight them, they won't be able to respond to your attacks with attacks of their own.
After completing the game, you're able to restart with your character equipped with everything he had in the prior mission, as well as retaining experience, credits and more. However, there's a strange duplication anomaly present that is worth mentioning. If you take a look at your inventory, you'll notice that there are copies of what you're wearing (armor, weapons, modifications) in your inventory and equipped on you. Nifty!
There are six Prestige Classes in the game, and only two are available to any one class. To unlock Prestige Classes, you must get your character to level twenty. Then, head to the Normandy's Galaxy Map and travel to any system. At this point, Admiral Hackett will contact the ship and ask you to help him with something, unlocking the side quest UNC: Rogue VI. This side quest takes place on the Earth's moon. Complete the side quest to open up the two Prestige Classes available to your character, but choose wisely! Your choice is permanent.
If you're driving around with the Mako on any planetary surface, whether on a side quest or during the game's main missions, you can use the Mako's machinegun and missile launcher to do massive damage to enemies. However, the extra power of the weapons means easier kills, resulting in lower experience points. If you want to get more experience (twice as much, in fact) get out of the Mako to kill enemies. You can weaken them as much as you want with the Mako, run them over, pin them down, and more. But be sure to deliver the killing blow outside of the Mako to maximize how much experience you will earn from the kill.
If you want to repair the Mako but don't want to waste Omni-Gel doing so (or you simply don't have the time to waste waiting for the repairs to process), you can always press X and opt to return to the Normandy. It will inconvenience you since you'll be reinserted in a specific place when you decide to go back to the planet in question, but your Mako will be fully repaired for reinsertion.
We have an "Infinite Credits" cheat here on IGN Cheats, but if you want to collect money rather easily (and honestly), try undertaking one of the five major fetchquests in the game (all UNC): Asari Writings, Locate Signs of Battle, Prothean Data Discs, Turian Insignias, and Valuable Minerals. These missions combined, if you were to collect everything above and beyond the limit provided to complete the side quest, are worth in excess of 5,000,000 credits, more money than you'd really know how to spend in the entire game.
Note: This may be disabled by a subsequent patch! Here's a good way to get infinite Paragon points, if you so desire. Do the side quest entitled UNC: Lost Module. During this side quest, you'll need to find a creature which has the missing module. Search him for it for the first time, and get six Paragon points. You can then continuously search him over and over again for more Paragon points. It's completely unlimited.
Head to the freighter on Feros (in the Zhu's Hope Colony). You'll find a computer terminal here that, when decrypted, will alert you to investigate supply shipments that have diverted course in the Voyager Cluster.
Quite simply, if you then save your game, and subsequently reload it, you'll be able to decrypt the computer again for the same information you just got. This is a slow, slow process, but it is a real way to have access to infinite experience points. If you have the patience to do it, give it a go.
Note: This may be disabled by a subsequent patch! Here's an effective and foolproof way to score infinite Renegade points. When you get to the part of the game where Lorik Quinn is going to testify against Anoleis, speak to Lorik Quinn and convince him to testify. This will give you twenty-five Renegade poionts. Then, walk away from him, return to him, and ask him something unrelated to the case. You'll then be given the option to "Answer another question", at which point you'll be able to convince him to testify again, for another twenty-five Renegade points. You can repeat this indefinitely until you score the amount of points you want.
You can get Paragon points using the method as well, just as easily as you can get Renegade points. Just select the blue-colored (Paragon) option instead of the red-colored (Renegade) option, and as before, you can do this over and over again as desired.
So, my Shepard been romancing Liara since ME1, and after taking a brief detour with Thane in ME2 I told her at the beginning of ME3 that it was over and I wanted to focus on a relationship with her exclusively. (I have always played a FemShep btw.) I guess she couldn't really blame me for having a fling with Thane; I mean, the man WAS dying and all...Plus, she was too chicken to join our little suicide mission in ME2, so I was left with no other appealing options.
Now, unfortunately for Liara (and later, me), my yeoman Samantha Traynor sent Shepard an email asking to come up to her cabin for what I thought was going to to be a friendly game of chess. Someone this promptly took a turn for the unexpected and I soon found myself watching the two potential chess-mates having weird lesbian shower sex. "Hmm..." I thought. What happened to the chess game?
So, after this little affair, I immediately went down to talk to Liara in the crew quarters; I guess I was feeling guilty? But really, I was just checking to see if I pissed her off and if I had ruined my relationship chances with her. She gave me a canned response like "Hello Shepard" or something like that, so I went on my way thinking everything was fine. I had gotten away with my little affair. So, I continued on with the task at hand, which at the time was to go to the Citadel and talk to the Salarian councilor, etc, etc..Well, after that went through, I again, went to talk to Liara just to be absolutely sure I was still okay. Another canned response. So it seemed I really was going to get away with it. The computer is too dumb to know that I cheated on my romancing choice, I thought. Next, I continued to do some misc missions.
Seven and a half hours and several missions later, I go down to talk to Liara like I normally do for all crew members after a mission. She greets me with this: "I heard about you and Samatha, Shepard." "Oh fudge!" I'm thinking. She then says something about how she isn't interested in games anymore and that it is effectively over between us. Shepard mutters something inconsequential, and I'm just sitting there slack-jawed, cursing myself in my head. I just wasted 7 and a half hours of game play all because I had lesbian shower sex with my yeoman during what was supposed to be a fun filled night of chess!
So, now I'm re-playing through these seven and half hours again, constantly thinking to myself how stupid I was. I guess i should have known better. I mean, she IS the Shadow Broker. She was bound to have found out. Long story short, and some advice to Shepard's with wandering eye's: Don't cheat on your main romance partner. It only leads to heartache.
I also find this strange, because I was able to cheat on Thane in ME2 with my other yeoman at the time, Kelly Chambers. I was also able to do some necking with him in ME3 when he first shows up in the hospital, which Liara never found out about. Unless I learn 22 hours down the line that she does in-fact find out about that and I'll have to basically restart the whole game. I guess Bioware figured out that we were having flings with our yeoman and put a stop to it in ME3. Time that should have been spent writing a better ending, from what I gather. (No spoilers please, I still haven't finished 3...I'm too busy cheating of my partners and finding out that they don't like that and having to replay massive segments of game play.)
I thought I was choosing chess. I don't exactly remember what the options were, but I do remember them being pretty damn ambiguous about it and was unexpectedly greeted with weird polygonal shower sex.
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