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HotSauceBoy
5 years ago

BUG - Mass Effect 2 Legendary Edition - Arrival DLC - Enemy waves don't spawn

I have played the ME2 Arrival "DLC" mission in Legendary Edition twice now, with two different characters, and both times most of the waves of enemies failed to spawn during the "Object Rho" battle that's supposed to be 5 waves long. I am on Windows 10 PC. The first time I played it, only the first wave and the YMIR wave spawned. The second time I played it, with a different character, ONLY the first wave spawned. When a wave failed to spawn I'd still get the Kenson voiceover and the Object Rho voiceover, but no enemies spawned. The battle completed successfully and progressed, but I didn't get to fight all the enemies -- I realize you don't *have* to beat this battle to progress, but it's one of my favorite battles in the series both for challenge and for aesthetics. Both times I was playing an Engineer (different ones), but I wasn't using the Combat Drone in any weird/abusive way -- just on fairly nearby targets in normal Engineer sorts of tactics.

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  • Mrgaby95's avatar
    Mrgaby95
    5 years ago
    @HotSauceBoy I am playing as well on PC Windows 10 and i finished the legendary Edition 4 times and i did not heave this problem. I Play the game as it is no mods if you heave mods i advice you to try doing it with a clean game no mods.
  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
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    5 years ago

    @HotSauceBoy 

    Additional to @Mrgaby95 try to repair the game.

    (Origin > Game Library > right click MELE > Repair)
    (Steam > Game Library > right click at MELE > Properties > Local Files > Verify integrity of game files.)

    (Mods will be purged by this.)

  • HotSauceBoy's avatar
    HotSauceBoy
    5 years ago

    Thanks, but just to be clear I have no mods at all -- it's a clean install of Legendary Edition from Steam.

  • Jaciraptor's avatar
    Jaciraptor
    5 years ago

    Same issue here - clean install and playing as engineer (added power dominate). I either sit waiting for a wave or the mech wave doesn’t appear. Clean install , steam, and no mods.

  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
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    5 years ago

    @HotSauceBoy @Jaciraptor 

    The repair is not about mods but about to make sure that there are no game files corrupted.

    Please run the repair, if you have the game on Steam run it in Steam and in Origin.  

  • HotSauceBoy's avatar
    HotSauceBoy
    4 years ago

    Okay I have now run the repair on both Steam and Origin.

    I then worked my way back to this mission with a new character (still Engineer), and played this fight 6-7 times to test things out.

    Here is what I found:

    ⚽ If I completely refrain from using the Combat Drone, ALL WAVES SPAWN CORRECTLY.

    🏈 If I use the Combat Drone like I normally would, then waves tend to stop spawning.

    🏀 If I use it super-sparingly at the beginning, only against the guys that start right near me, then it doesn't seem to cause any problems.

    (4) But as soon as the drone starts zooming around back near the door where the enemies spawn, then that usually means I don't tend to get more waves to spawn.

    (5) *Sometimes* one of the later waves randomly spawns even though I've been using the combat drone (and even though several waves failed to spawn)

    What I can't say for sure is whether or not this bug actually existed in the *original* Mass Effect 2 (i.e. is this engineer-related wave-spawning bug "new" with Legendary Edition or has it always been there from the original ME2 DLC).

    Hope this helps!

    p.s. Boy is doing this battle all the way through on Insanity as an Engineer w/o using Combat Drone a bit of a challenge :D

  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
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    4 years ago

    @HotSauceBoy 

    HotSauceBoy wrote:

    p.s. Boy is doing this battle all the way through on Insanity as an Engineer w/o using Combat Drone a bit of a challenge :D

    You see, Bioware just wants to challenge you. 😜

    But seriously, I pass this on.

  • DragonsALaMode's avatar
    DragonsALaMode
    4 years ago

    This happened to me with my engineer, too! I was using my combat drone throughout the fight (because of course I would). I spawned it again just as I heard the announcement indicating the YMIR wave was about to drop, and it never came. I ended up having to sit there until Object Rho knocked Shepard out.

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