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Mass-Effect-3-Manuals MASS EFFECT TM 3 MANUAL 1 CONTROL SCHEME 2 SINGLE PLAYER 17 MuLTIPLAYER 26 TIPS AND HELP CONTROL SCHEME Movement Click: 90˚ Cover Turn Camera Click: Navigation Weapon Tap: Reload Hold: Switch Tap: Use, Take Cover Tap Twice: Quick Vault Hold: Storm Melee Mapped Power Tap: Mapped Power Hold: Power Wheel Shoot Mission Computer Quick Save Tap: Mapped Power Hold: Weapon Wheel Tight Aim Squad Attack Squadmate 1 Move/Attack Rally Squadmate 2 Move/Attack 1 SINGLE PLAYER The Main Menu The main menu contains the following items the first time you play. X New Game X Multiplayer X Downloadable Content X Extras After you’ve started a game, this menu will also include the Resume and Load Game options. Resume loads your most recently saved game. New Game Choose from four options when starting a new game: Male Start fresh with a new male character. Female Start fresh with a new female character. Import ME2 Character Import Commander Shepard from Mass Effect TM 2, maintaining your old character’s level as well as the decisions you made that impact Mass Effect 3’s story. Import ME3 Character Unlocks after completing Mass Effect TM 3. This allows you to start a new game while keeping your Commander Shepard’s class, level, weapons, and modifications intact. Load Game After starting a Mass Effect TM career, select LOAD GAME to continue your game, replay from an earlier save point, or switch to another active career. Careers are created each time you start a new game or import an old one. Within each career you will find: Restart Mission Restart your current mission. Autosave Resume your game from the latest checkpoint. Autosave is updated as you progress through the game and cross checkpoints. Saves/Quick Saves Numbered saves are created when you manually save the game. You can also resume your game by selecting RESUME on the game’s opening screen. This will load your most recently saved game. Multiplayer Select MultiPlayer to fight coop missions with up to three friends. Please see the multiplayer section of this manual for additional instructions. 2 Extras The Extras menu contains the following: Accomplishments View medals you’ve been awarded for accomplishing set goals. Options Set gameplay, controls, graphics, sound, and online options. Credits Watch the game’s credits. Game Manual Read this manual! Downloadable Content Select DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT on the main menu to purchase new Mass Effect 3 content. Starting a New Game The Story So Far With the discovery of a network of ancient cosmic relays in the 21st century, humanity was thrust into a universe teeming with alien life. At its heart lay the Citadel, the galactic capital for all space-faring races. It had once been inhabited by a species known as the Protheans, who mysteriously vanished 50,000 years ago, leaving behind warnings of a godlike race of machines that had destroyed them. This enemy had a name—the Reapers—and the warnings claimed they would return again to harvest organic life in a never-ending cycle of destruction. One soldier chose to heed those warnings. In 2183, Commander Shepard, captain of the Alliance warship Normandy, destroyed the vanguard of the next Reaper invasion in a fierce battle for the Citadel. But Shepard’s victory was only temporary. A vast Reaper armada remained, patiently waiting in the voids of dark space to launch their next attack. Two years later, Shepard was mortally wounded on a routine mission. Cerberus, a pro-human terrorist organization, recovered and resurrected Shepard. Led by the shadowy Illusive Man, Cerberus recognized that the Reapers would soon threaten humanity. Enlisting Shepard’s help, along with a colorful crew of scientists, soldiers, and outlaws, the Normandy launched a suicide mission beyond the fabled Omega 4 relay to once again confront the Reaper menace. Yet even this triumph was only a delaying action in a much bigger war—a war that was about to engulf the entire Milky Way… ME3 Experience Type There are three ways to play Mass Effect 3. You must select one of the following options when starting a new game, but you can also adjust combat difficulty and conversation mode in the options menu after starting a game. Action Mode An experience that focuses on combat. Conversations play as cutscenes automatically. Role-Playing Mode The core Mass Effect experience with full narrative choice and challenging combat. Story Mode An experience that focuses on narrative. Combat helps tell the story but does not offer a significant challenge. 3 Character Creation After selecting Commander Shepard’s gender and the Role-Playing or Story experience types, you enter the Alliance Headquarters Active Duty Reactivation Protocol. From here, you can choose between default options or customize the following: X First Name X Appearance X Military Class X Personal History X Service History X Combat Losses Until you confirm your selections on the Review screen, you can return to the previous screens to change Shepard’s characteristics. Choosing the Action experience type jumps you straight into the game, skipping these screens. By default, Shepard was born on Earth, was the sole survivor of a failed mission years ago, and takes the default appearance. Importing an ME2 Character Importing Commander Shepard from Mass Effect 2 maintains your old character’s level as well as the decisions you made that impact Mass Effect 3’s story. If you have completed Mass Effect 2, your old career will be available to import after selecting IMPOrt ME2 CHARACTER. The Mission Computer The Mission Computer is the in-game menu. To access the Mission Computer, press after gaining full control of Commander Shepard in the game. Exit the Mission Computer and return to the game by pressing . Select a menu option in the Mission Computer by highlighting it and pressing . NOTE: All controls listed in this manual are based on the default control setting. To change your controls, go to Options under the Extras menu and select to adjust the Xbox 360 Controller. Squad Screen Select SQUAD on the Mission Computer to review the powers available to Commander Shepard and squadmates. As you level up and gain points, you can spend them here to upgrade your powers. Journal Menu Go to the Journal menu to view your progress, review your mission’s objectives, and read codex entries about the Mass Effect universe. For more information on the Journal, see The Game Journal. 4 Map Menu The map is accessible on the Normandy or Citadel to help guide Shepard when not on a critical mission. This option will be grayed out in the Mission Computer when in areas where a map is not available. Press to access the map while playing. Options Menu Customize your Mass Effect 3 experience in the Options menu. Gameplay Adjust difficulty, auto level-up, squadmate power use, autosaves, hints, and action icons. Narrative Adjust conversation mode, subtitles, and other options. Controls Adjust and customize how you control the game. Graphics Adjust video settings. Sound Adjust music, sound effect, and dialog settings. Online Adjust online options. Other Menus There are four other options available on the Mission Computer. Save Save your progress at your current position. This will be grayed out in areas where saving the game is not possible. Load Load a previously saved game. Main Menu Quit your current game and return to Mass Effect 3’s main menu. Game Manual Read this manual! The Squad Screen Select SQUAD on the Mission Computer to review the powers available to Commander Shepard and squadmates. As you level up and gain points, you can spend them here to upgrade your powers. Squadmate Powers View the powers of the squadmates currently active in your party by pressing or . 5 Navigating Powers Use and or / to select an unlocked power and press to start spending points in the power’s tree. Your points are tallied on the top-right of the screen. Powers available for upgrade are in blue. Grayed-out powers are locked until Shepard or the selected squadmate reaches a higher level. Press to have powers automatically upgraded for you. Permanently set automatic power upgrades by adjusting the Auto Level-Up setting in the Options/Gameplay menu off the Mission Computer. Purchasing and Evolving Powers Upgrade a power by highlighting the leftmost icon and pressing . Everything to the right of the leftmost icon (Rank 1) are upgrades and can also be evolved with the points tallied on the top-right of the screen. The Rank 2 upgrade costs two points, Rank 3 costs three, and so on. If you have enough points, you can evolve multiple upgrades at once. Each upgrade must be evolved in order from left to right, but at Rank 4, the chain splits in two. From here, you can only choose one upgrade per rank, so review your options carefully before locking in a choice. Undo your changes at any point before leaving the Squad screen by pressing . Returning to the Mission Computer by pressing twice locks in your choices. Reputation Indicator The bar on the left-hand side of the main Squad screen shows Shepard’s reputation. When the reputation bar reaches certain thresholds, new dialog options are unlocked. As you choose Renegade (red) or Paragon (blue) actions in dialog, the reputation bar grows. You need not stick to one or the other to earn reputation points. A Paragon Shepard tends to be compassionate and heroic, and a Renegade Shepard tends toward calculated and ruthless behavior. 6 The Game Journal Select the Journal on the Mission Computer to check your progress, review your mission summary and objectives, and learn about the Mass Effect universe.
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