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    Mass Effect first play through

    What kind of toon should I make.

    I made a bionic/tech with the idea of using them to just unlock the bionic achievements. Can you just spam the skill even if there is no enemy? Is it worth it?
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    From my experience playing through it on 360 the soldier is by far the best. The AI isn't good enough to be efficient DPS and guns are practically the only way to do decent damage. You will get tons of support character to add to your party.
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    I used a tech first time through.

    I am playing a solider now. Want to try and unlock a few more of the additional skills for a 2nd/3rd playthrough of the same character to up make them more versatile.

    For what it's worth, my first playthrough with a tech, despite being restricted to pistols, was cake. I did more damage than the AI did, and I usually had heavy hitters (machine gun and shotgun) with me.

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    the combo classes don't get access to all the abilities that the specialized classes do individually.

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    I made a Vanguard character. I'm having a hard time controlling my AI teammates with the inability to see them. I'm only on the train at the beginning and not really enjoying the firefights..I can't hit crap.
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    I used soldier on my playthrough, the AI teammates really didn't figure in till later on with Sarin. Pretty much a run and gun game most of the way through when it came to firefights. My advice to you Astro is the restart with the soldier class, so that you can get the riffle, pistols, sniper riffle and shotgun. You haven't even started the game really so nothing lost.
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    I agree, solider class is a good one to pick.

    I'm playing through it now, got my spectre status now time to get the sniper rifle skills up so I steady my aim.

    Sniper rifle in this game rules.

    How long should it take to play all the way through?
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    If I go soldier, can I still unlock bionics and talents by having my squad use them?
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    Quote Originally Posted by taggart6 View Post
    If I go soldier, can I still unlock bionics and talents by having my squad use them?
    I think so?

    I need to go back and retry my second playthrough, because I thought you also unlocked a lot of specialty classes after meeting certain acheivements the first time through.

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    Yea i'm my second play through, at 4 hours now (I don't get much time to game) first mission heading towards peak 15 only 38 more hours to go (last time it took me 42 hours then I lost my save file)
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    I think my first play through on the 360 had me around 20 hours, but I am replaying it on the pc and finding that I missed a few things so this might take longer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tituswolf View Post
    I think my first play through on the 360 had me around 20 hours, but I am replaying it on the pc and finding that I missed a few things so this might take longer.
    If you beat the 1st in 20 hours you missed more than a few things lol.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fastitocalon View Post
    If you beat the 1st in 20 hours you missed more than a few things lol.
    I let a friend burrow my copy when I get it back I will have to have a look and see just how long it was, I did skip allot of the non-essential stuff.
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    I let a friend burrow my copy when I get it back I will have to have a look and see just how long it was, I did skip allot of the non-essential stuff.
    Yup 42 hours of of me exploring a lot, and enjoying pieces here and there of info and doing all side quests.
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    I did just about everything on 360 in 33 hours. Was kind of disappointing in length.
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