
All assignments are optional, but they help advance the story and provide the opportunity for additional rewards and items. Assignments described as N7 Assignments usually involve squad deployments and combat-effectively small missions-and provide experience, credits, and other rewards.

You will also have the opportunity to perform various assignments-some are available on Omega, some on the Citadel, and others you can discover during the process of Planet Scanning. Note that the order in which squadmates are recruited during Act 1 is entirely up to Shepard and will not affect how events play out in any way. Any other missions and assignments not completed during Act 1 can still be completed during Act 2. Stop the Collectors - Master mission for the rest of the game Act 1Īct 1 begins when Shepard receives the Stop the Collectors master mission along with command of the Normandy SR-2 and continues until the mission to Horizon, which is activated as soon as Shepard has recruited all four of Mordin, Garrus, Jack, and Grunt. Prologue: Awakening - Create your Shepard, Tutorialįreedom's Progress - First mission with Miranda and Jacob At the end of the prologue Shepard receives command of the Normandy SR-2 and is free to explore both the ship and the galaxy. Prologue missions take place at the beginning of the game, in mandatory progression. Prologue For a summary of when various NPC allies become available to join Shepard's crew and an overview of their capabilities, see Squad Members Guide (Mass Effect 2).

Legendary Edition does feature many changes to the original Mass Effect 2, including changes to how certain equipment is obtained. Legendary Edition: If you are playing Mass Effect Legendary Edition, all content that was previously available only from Downloadable Content (DLC) is now included by default, but overall requirements and prerequisites for the missions and characters only available from DLC in the original game remain largely the same. For a comprehensive introduction to the mechanics of the actual fighting the player must engage in on most missions, see the combat page. Major changes in the gameplay from Mass Effect are listed in the main Mass Effect 2 page, while the effects of importing a saved game from Mass Effect are listed in the Save File Transfer page. This page contains a walkthrough for the main missions of Mass Effect 2. For a walkthrough of Mass Effect: Andromeda, see Mass Effect: Andromeda Guide. For a walkthrough of Mass Effect 3, see Mass Effect 3 Guide. For a walkthrough of the first game, see Mass Effect Guide.
