The only problems i have with this game are the bugs. No tech problems. See system specs in signature. Performance-wise, game runs flawlessly.
The game is riddled with bugs and flaws: game-stopping bugs, half of the playtime goes into repeating the same sections because of being killed despite hiding to recover, being shot through solid material, being stuck ontop or between crates, Shepard standing up by herself instead of staying ducked, not ducking when she should (disobeying controls), ducking for cover against the wrong side of crate / rock / block / fence because of only one key (spacebar) for run / use / draw weapon / take cover / vault and in that order, and your freedom to explore is endangered by the bug that lifts you up without warning keeping you stuck on the spot, a bug lurking at most unsuspected places...
A miracle that the game has been released in this state.
Mass Effect 2 most horrible bug 1: sudden airlift at numerous places
Mass Effect 2 most horrible bug 2: cover standup, so you have to duck twice
Mass Effect 2 most horrible bug 3: face customization tool flaw: no eyelids on female Shepard
"Top 3" because these are the most frequent. The rest i've called List 4 is just as frustrating though:
"List 4". Other buggy phenomenae.
These are the ones that didn't make it into the top 3 of Mass Effect 2 bugs, but not less annoying.
Mass Effect 2 (v 1.01)
- BAD SPACE LAYOUT
[update: as the screenshots show this was on my old CRT (4:3 - 1600 x 1200) monitor. The issue is somewhat less disturbing on my new widescreen LCD (16:10 - 1900 x 1200), but still there.]
- The layout of space to travel is messy: buttons appear behind the flags! I can assume what the button says ("Enter Orbit"), but that's no excuse. Starting a New Game (my 3d now), the Sahrabarik flag seen in this picture is even larger (because of more options on it, missions not yet done), covering the button underneath entirely.
Now what?
Where is my ship? Where is it?....:
Ahh... there's something:
Where's the system? And what's it called??? Moving both ways, doesn't help....
What does it say on the button??? Ahh...move to the right to read it: "Enter System". Which System again?
"Un" behind a flag...:
Also, a complete Orbit hidden behind another flag (Century's location completely hidden behind Chandrasekar's flag), i have to guess where it is, at the cost of some fuel.
Planet (Agnin) behind Dranen flag:
- The layout of space to travel is messy: buttons appear behind the flags! I can assume what the button says ("Enter Orbit"), but that's no excuse. Starting a New Game (my 3d now), the Sahrabarik flag seen in this picture is even larger (because of more options on it, missions not yet done), covering the button underneath entirely.