Mass Effect 2: Hilarious, Random, or Infuriating Glitches

[RN7]

Just as the title says, what have my fellow escapist come across out of the ordinary, glitch-wise, while playing mass effect 2?

It could just be the computer version, but I've noticed several graphical hiccups or game bugs that have just made the game (for lack of a better word)...bootleg.

The most hilarious has to be the deformation of Commander Shepard. I was killed by a (Scion?) burst and fell backwards. What I noticed next was this. The Commander's arms had twisted together, back behind his head. The hands kind of morphed into one structure, resembling a foot clothed in rubber. It was also long, sinewy and stretchy. It gave me a good laugh.

The most annoying would have to be the contact errors. Sometimes when a crew member (or shepard) passed by an object or a wall or npc, they would proceed to begin levitating and walking in one spot. This tends to happen to me alot, and there's no way to fix it besides dying or restarting, so yeah...

I've also seen several graphical errors like batarians having holes in their heads or krogan vibrating after cutscenes, but there are just too many to name.

 

[Blindrooster]

I play on 360 and i had Grunt get stuck in the cieling..... for an entire level. funny at first, till his stuckness deprived me of a squad mate for a long time.

 

[wrecker77]

samara is un romanceble. Hate these bugs.

 

[RatRace123]

I was talking to a volus (the one on the citadel who accuses the quarian of stealing his credit chit) and after every sentence he moved; up, down, back, forward. It was like talking to William Shatner.

 

[Spaghetti]

I was on the Grunt recruitment mission and went to climb some stairs, I touched the edge of the stairs and floated up to the ceiling and couldn't move. I had to load a save which luckly was just before the stairs.

The other glitch I regularly see is during cutscenes when the camera floats into a Charachter or NPC and you just see their eyes and jaws floating there, really creepy and off putting.

 

[RN7]

that reminds me of time shepard crawled the pipe system of omega only to fall off of the station in an infinite loop.

 

[Sjakie]

i got stuck a few times on a few boxes that you normally shouldn't be able to climb and could not jump off those. This happend on the purgatory and on Illium a few times, that really pissed me off because i just cleared the floor of enemies. In the Normandy research lab there is a spot like that as well, but you can get down from that.

not so much glitches, but the teleporting of your crew members is annoying when they dont keep up and their use of instant-hit-powers while my own first need to travel the distance only to get blocked by cover. not game-breaking, but still annoying.

 

[Amnestic]

This one.

 

[Larmo]

Sometimes during cutsens with dialogue a character gets bumped out of position and the camera moves back to where they last stood, but instead of the character you see empty space with the voice coming out of nowhere or a character of a different species

Once it bugged out and it had Tali's voice while zooming in on a random Krogan guard, freaking funny, but never consistently and never the same place twice.

 

[RN7]

I also consider poor AI a glitch, because even the most pathetic AI should have a bit more common sense than that.

Heavies are a good example. I found a cheap way to kill them was to plant a drone infront of them (I was an engineer at the time) and have them blow themselves to hell. Also, once I ran up to one and took cover, wherein she proceeded to fire a the wall, blow herself all the way across them room, hit a walk and begin jittering, all while leaving a large blood trail to follow.

On a different note, the things you can do with YMIR mechs and a sniper rifle or pyros and overload amused me as well.

 

[LiquidGrape]

This one.

I call your Eclipse Commando and raise you a Blue Sun Mercenary.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Miranda was stuck floating in mid air.

I'm not complaining, I got to ogle her ass for a good 20 mins.

 

[RN7]

UPDATE: I discovered while playing as a soldier, apparently the constant adrenaline hits will cause shepard to start hearing shit; the voices are now almost always half stuck in slow motion

 

[God's Clown]

samara is un romanceble. Hate these bugs.

I agree, that bug was very annoying.

 

[Summerstorm]

Most annoying: Instead of running forward i clipped into the air and flew up... reload neccessary.

Funny: In one dialog - camera on the other dude - my two henchmen... i mean comrades (Garrus and Grunt) were sliding behind him through the scene... but as if they were dragged on skateboards, totaly motionless and expressionless. Left-right-left-right-left-right, while the dialogpartner just stared at me, waiting for an answer. I couldn't stop laughing for a few minutes, too bad i didn't made a video.

 

[Boxmeister]

I got stuck on top of an effing railing and had to reload from my checkpoint. It blew. It blew hard

 

[Theron Julius]

I got 2:

Not seeing Tali's face ever (has to be a bug... it has to be!!!!!!!)

Was doing Grunt's loyalty and a varren got stuck being almost dead. I could still move it with biotics and melee, but it wouldn't die. Didn't have any health left in the health bar. Ended up having to restart the mission. LAME!!

 

[CloakedOne]

pretty sure that's just the computer version.

 

[Composer]

ummm... i lost control of shepard he stood up and from cover and didnt do anything. my controller still worked but nothing would work.....poor suicidal shepard