Mass Effect 2 most horrible bug 1: airlift

[Blín D'ñero]

The only problems i have with this game are the bugs. No tech problems. Performance-wise, game runs flawlessly. See system specs in signature.

"Top 3" because these are the most frequent. The rest in list 4 is just as frustrating though.

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Mass Effect 2 (v 1.01) suffers 3 horrible bugs:

1. Sudden airlift of Shepard (squad follows) with no escape. Under attack this makes Shepard an easy target, dead. Also stuck between crates with no way out. Only solution: reload savegame.
2. Cover standup: during crossfire, Shepard when ducking for cover often stands up again! so you have to duck twice! The frequency differs per situation, at some places it never happens, sometimes it is 1 out of 10 but may also happen 9 out of 10 times. Under fire, when Shepard's health is almost lost > quickly duck > she stands up > quickly duck again. Often she dies by standing up and receiving a fatal rocketblast right in the face.
3. Custom Female Shepard has no eyelids; only the lashes blink. It's a flaw in the face customization tool. This ruins her (otherwise superbly done) face.
4. And a lot more Mass Effect 2 bugs that didn't make top 3, and other flaws

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Sudden airlift of Shepard (squad follows) with no escape. Under attack this makes Shepard an easy target, dead. Also stuck between crates with no way out. Only solution: reload savegame.

ALL THESE SUDDEN AIRLIFTS ARE GAME-STOPPING.
It completely ruins that recommended feature "Take cover to regain health" by lifting Shepard up and exposing her to be killed, or at least getting Shepard stuck with no escape except 'Reload (Auto-/Quick-) save'.
Happens completely unsuspected and ruins everything.

• Start of "Horizon".
  Next to a tall crate. While taking cover against it and aiming at an enemy, Shepard is suddenly airlifted ontop of the crate, no escape. Easy target. Dead.
  
  
  
  
  "Take cover to regain health"...
  
  
  

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• Recruit Grunt mission.
  Airlift again. While walking alongside a set of crates, lifted up in the air.
  (It should be possible to manipulate yourself down again, otherwise reload savegame).
  
  

[Blín D'ñero]

• Recruit Grunt mission.
  Right after talking to the Krogan. No way to escape. Only solution: reload savegame.
  It starts where the crosshair aims at:
  
  
  
  While aiming at the approaching enemy down the road, some force lifts Shepard into the air and hop, she's caught between the wires:
  
  
  
  My squad kills the enemies while Shepard is being stuck, hmmm... easy.

[Blín D'ñero]

• Archangel (Recruit Garrus mission).
  On the bridge, walking along the left side, sudden airlift and no escape down. While Archangel's health is diminishing i and my squad can't do anything about it. Reload savegame.
  
  
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• Help Jacob mission.
  
  • After having helped the first female survivor (who's talking uncohesively), and killed the group of mercs. Walking down the road alongside the base of the rocks, sudden airlift to the crowns of the palmtrees. Reload savegame.
    
    
    
    
    
    
  • Again at same spot. This time i actually managed to find a way down, before Mordin Solus realised he was alone:
    
    
    (btw, notice how poor the game can look (despite all graphics settings maximized): no reflection or shadow for the large object in the brightly lit water)
    
    
    
    
    
    
  • A third time same spot, less high:
    
    
    
    
    
    After LOTS of manipulation with direction and camera, i managed to get down:
    
    
    
    
    Mordin seems to prefer standing higher than the rest anyway...
    
    

[Blín D'ñero]

• Help Jacob mission.
  
  • Right after the section where the 'passage' bomb explodes: proceeding, Shepard and crew rise up in the air, Shepard can even walk through the treetrunk. After lots of manipulative movement (with direction and camera together), luckily there is a way down.
    
    
    
    Jacob joined me into the tree
    
    
    
    Mordin joined the party
    
    
    
    Shepard disappeared into the tree:
    
    
    
    
  • Next section, again (easy way down though, i made no pictures).
  • Next section: again. From covering standpoint behind crates, killing the last remaining enemies. With lots of manipulation (with direction and camera together), luckily a way down.
    
    
    
    

[Blín D'ñero]

• Help Grunt mission
  
  • EARLY ACCESS TO FINAL LOCATION, LAZY SURVIVING !
    During the battle with the Giant Earthworm ("Thresher Maw"), running from its poisonous blast, Shepard suddenly is lifted over the stairs' armrest into the air above the top of the stairs.
    
    
    
    
    This is a location she is not supposed to be yet; at the bottom of the stairs this is still a locked area. From the airborne position, it is quite easy to hit the Earthworm without getting poisonous blasts in return.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    As soon as the squad arrives at the location too (as they are programmed to follow Shepard everywhere), Shepard lands on solid ground. A bit boring to keep standing there shooting the Worm (its shield decreases too slowly, it's a little over halfway down), why not look around a bit while surviving. And yes there is access to another open space, ammo to pick up, and you can see the monster's "hostile target frame" through the wall:
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Just when i thought about returning to kill it off, the timer reached 00.00. I survived, and that was the task. Hmm, that was easy. Too bad i wasted all my heavy ammo on that Worm. For nothing.
    And the final scene started (which actually happens at this location we already had been walking around in, looting of pickups).

[Blín D'ñero]

• Disable Collector Vessel mission:
  Shooting at the Praetorian, while standing for cover against a high pillar Shepard is suddenly airlifted to and beyond its top, half through the ceiling textures. Deadly beams cannot reach her there, but so can't she aim or shoot anything else nor descend or escape in any way. Reload savegame.
  
  This area.
  
  
  
  The pillar.
  
  
  
  The middle line (standing against it) is where it starts:
  
  
  
  Shepard already rising. The way of no return has commenced:
  
  
  
  ...on top of the world...
  
  
  
  ... and looking around.
  
  

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• Help Miranda mission.
  
  • Last shootout, after the meeting with Niket. During the battle, from covering standpoint, Shepard is suddenly airlifted onto the top of the tallest crate she was taking cover behind. Easy target, dead.
    Forgot to take pictures.
    
  • And a second time, near the same place, this time airlifted to the height of the smaller crate, but next to it in the air. Easy target, dead.
    
    
    
    
  • And a third time. The same bug: sudden airlift, at the same crate again!
    

[Blín D'ñero]

"Recruit Tali" mission.

• Next place after the video contact with Tali. During the flying drones attack, sudden airlift up alongside tall concrete block.
  
  It happens on this small block...
  
  
  
  this tall pillar...
  
  
  
  and this tall pillar:
  
  
  
  Up...
  
  
  
  ...and up...
  
  
  
  ... and no escape...
  
  
  
  
  ...except Reload Savegame.