I didn't know assault rifles were that bad in ME1. I used a shotgun (untrained) with high explosive rounds on my Adept and it was a great panic button. Sure, it'd overheat after one shot, but that one shot would get a creeper from "in my face, spitting acid" to "raining down the neighbourhood in bite sized chunks, and the chunks are also on fire". Saved my life several times during those levels where I couldn't stay far, far away from the creepy plant zombies and snipe them in the head...
There's a "hovertank" in ME2 and you get five small missions in the original dlc, which is free if you have the Cerberus network thingy, and it makes an appearance in Overlord as well. It's very fast, very agile, has homing rockets and catches on fire if enemies so much as look at it funny. The combat is either A, being sane and rational and shooting rockets at things while staying so far away that they can't shoot back, or B, being insane and ramming everything while hoping they don't hit you too many times. I strongly prefer option B, but that may be because I'm a complete moron.
...I'm hoping ME3 will combine all the best stuff from the first two. Not expecting it to happen, but hoping.
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I didn't know assault rifles were that bad in ME1. I used a shotgun (untrained) with high explosive rounds on my Adept and it was a great panic button. Sure, it'd overheat after one shot, but that one shot would get a creeper from "in my face, spitting acid" to "raining down the neighbourhood in bite sized chunks, and the chunks are also on fire". Saved my life several times during those levels where I couldn't stay far, far away from the creepy plant zombies and snipe them in the head...
There's a "hovertank" in ME2 and you get five small missions in the original dlc, which is free if you have the Cerberus network thingy, and it makes an appearance in Overlord as well. It's very fast, very agile, has homing rockets and catches on fire if enemies so much as look at it funny. The combat is either A, being sane and rational and shooting rockets at things while staying so far away that they can't shoot back, or B, being insane and ramming everything while hoping they don't hit you too many times. I strongly prefer option B, but that may be because I'm a complete moron.
...I'm hoping ME3 will combine all the best stuff from the first two. Not expecting it to happen, but hoping.