Mass Effect 2 - Platform: XBox 360 Prequel bonuses: ---------------- Have a saved game file from the original Mass Effect on your hard drive, and use that profile in Mass Effect 2 to get the following bonuses: 100,000 credits: Mass Effect character with the "Rich" achievement 30,000 credits: Level 50 Mass Effect character 2,000 experience points: Level 50 Mass Effect character 5,000 of each resource: Level 50 Mass Effect character 50,000 credits: Level 60 Mass Effect character 4,000 experience points: Level 60 Mass Effect character 10,000 of each resource: Level 60 Mass Effect character Dr. Pepper bonuses: ------------------- Use the following steps to get the bonus Dr. Pepper bonus items. Go to http://www.drpepper.com/promotions/easignin, and register for an account. Note: You can register three different accounts to redeem three different codes and get each bonus item. After creating an account, enter one of the following redemption codes, and select the "No Purchase" option: CBEEAAA41NWH CBEEAAAE4L9N CBEEAAAFQG9J CBEEAAAE98ZV Select the "Redeem" button to get a login for an EA account. Log in with your EA account information that is linked to Mass Effect 2. Select Mass Effect 2 from the game list, and choose the desired bonus item. Repeat the steps with a new drpepper.com account to get the other bonus items. Completion bonuses: ------------------- Successfully complete the game. Then, start a new game with the cleared saved game file to start with the following bonuses: choose Loyalty Bonus Skill at the start; retain Skill Points from first playthrough; retain level and experience points from first playthrough; +25% experience bonus for all characters; 200,000 credits, 50,000 of each resource; Renegade and Paragon points reset to neutral; and your weapons and armor (but no upgrades) from first playthrough. Loyalty mission bonuses: ------------------------ Successfully complete the indicated party member's Loyalty mission to unlock the corresponding skill for Shepard, alternate colors for their costumes, and increase the chance for surviving the suicide mission. Note: Successfully complete the Advanced Training research upgrade for your ship to be able to select the skills. Armor Piercing Ammo: Archangel's Loyalty mission Biotic Barrier: Jacob's Loyalty mission Dominate: Kill Samara during her Loyalty mission, and have Morinth replace her. Fortification: Grunt's Loyalty mission. Geth Shield Boost: Legion's Loyalty mission Inferno Grenade: Zaeed's Loyalty mission Neural Shock: Mordin Solus's Loyalty mission Reave: Samara's Loyalty mission Shield Drain: Tali's Loyalty mission Slam: Miranda's Loyalty mission Warp Ammo: Jack's Loyalty mission Extra Paragon and Renegade points: ---------------------------------- During conversations, look carefully for a prompt at the top left area of the screen. Quickly press LT when the wings appear for extra Paragon points. Quickly press RT when the star appears for extra Renegade points. Easy max skills: ---------------- Have at least four available skill points and a skill ready to be evolved to its fourth form. While evolving a skill from level 3 to level 4 at the squad menu, press A + X to regain all spent squad points and keep the skill evolution. This works best if you level a skill from 0 to 4 (10 points) at the same time. Repeat this process to fill every line of your and your crew's skill tree. Note: You cannot do this trick in the patched version of the game. You can delete all patches for the game by using the "Clear hard drive cache" code for the Xbox 360 Easy materials: --------------- To find some easy mining planets, go to the Micah system in the Vallhallan Threshold, and look for the three planets hidden in the asteroids. They are all "Rich" planets with a lot of materials on them to help with your upgrades. Planet scanning: ---------------- After scanning a planet and pressing Y, the planet information screen on the right reveals if the planet is "Rich", "Moderate", or "Poor". Rich planets give approximately 10+ good scan for ores. Ore yields vary from 1,500 to 3,000. Moderate planets give approximately 8+ good scans, but around 35% to 55% yield compared to rich planets. Poor planets give approximately 5+ scans with yields 5% to 25% compared to rich planets. Note: If there is an anomaly on the planet (typically a rich planet) and you land before you scan, usually the Star Map on the Normandy will put you in a strange location away from the anomaly planet. You must then go back and rescan to get your ores. Easy Geth Pulse Rifle: ---------------------- Change the difficulty to Hardcore before you land on the planet. Successfully complete Tali'Zora's recruitment mission to find the Geth Pulse Rifle in the room where you find Tali. You can then change the difficulty back to its original setting. Cryo Bomb: ---------- This trick requires any Biotic that lifts your enemy off the ground and the Cryo Bomb tech. Use the Biotic to lift the enemy off the ground, then hit him or her with the Cryo Bomb while they are still under the Biotic's effect. This will cause him or her to be stuck in a permanent falling state, where they are not capable of causing any damage. This is very helpful when trying to prevent the deployment of Harbinger, as once he enters the glitched body he cannot move. Thus, you can kill him at the end of a fight to prevent him from jumping into another body.