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Mass Effect 2

Free Mass Effect 2 Arc Projector Weapon Now Available
Written Tuesday, March 09, 2010 By Dan Webb

Available today for free through the Cerberus Network in Mass Effect 2 is the new Arc Projector weapon.

The heavy weapon "ionizes targets with a non-visible laser to ready them for a high-voltage electrical attack."

The description in-game states that "as the lightning-like bolt hits its first target, a sophisticated auto-targeting system paints succeeding targets with the ionization laser, allowing the electricity to take the path of least resistance and arc between them."

Log into Mass Effect 2 and the Cerberus Network for the latest electrifying heavy weapon. Screens in the gallery or below if you wish to check out what it looks like.

 

User Comments
Comment #2 by JoeyStone
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:02:58 PM

Looks cool, I'll go download it now me thinks!

Comment #3 by Keizaron
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:03:10 PM

Enjoy getting your comment removed. (:

I'm not really a big fan of heavy weapons, for whatever reason. This looks pretty cool, though.

Comment #4 by BuRn It DoWn92
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:03:45 PM

sweeeeeeet! more mass effect

Comment #5 by ajbeck
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:03:50 PM

bilaleepop your the definition of a bitch

Comment #6 by StarmanX22
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:04:47 PM

cool beans. too bad my xbox doesn't work right now :(

Comment #7 by Infomouse
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:09:08 PM

At #1, first ban too.
I can't wait for the Hammerhead DLC, gonna be sweet!

Comment #8 by KennyJive
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:09:54 PM

Downloaded it. Used it. LOVE IT.

Comment #9 by Jmashed
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:11:49 PM

heavy weapons? Use em on bosses anyways, this might not work for that though, ill check it out

Comment #10 by ViolentStCannon
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:12:28 PM

I got it but I haven't tried it out. Looks sweet.

Comment #11 by The Betrayer142
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:12:55 PM

@1 I hope it was worth the shame and stupidity of saying that, because honestly that only pisses people off.

OT, once more DLC comes out that is verified to be good I will buy the cerberus network. If the stuff isn't good then I'll be glad I didn't buy the game :)

Comment #12 by bloodswan
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:15:04 PM

I actually rarely use heavy weapons not that I don't like them or think they are not useful but I just seem to forget about them in the heat of battle. Does look cool though.

Comment #13 by Ricass
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:15:34 PM

Boy, this content looks shocking!

Comment #14 by bloodswan
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:17:20 PM

@11 I think Zaeed's DLC was great and for me personally this is the best game I've played in a long time.

Comment #15 by ShadowKaster
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:17:35 PM

hey guys, just wanted to let you all know ...

12th Comment!!!.... i hate when theres nothing insightful to comments.

I just saw the on the cerberus network a couple hours ago, surprised me since there wasn't any announcements for it. DLed it...but I didn't see it in my weapons list??

Ps. Is it actually any good from anyone thats used it yet?

Comment #16 by Belvik
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:17:42 PM

Free stuff is always nice.

Comment #17 by dark wing
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:18:22 PM

This should make a change from the cryo blaster.

Comment #18 by GrindPantera95
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:19:41 PM

Loving the DLC that comes out! Can't wait for the Hammerhead, just hoping the missions don't go by too fast.

Comment #19 by rapid riot boy
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:19:54 PM

Looks good

Comment #20 by OMG I GOT SHOT
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:22:35 PM

@15
Fail you're not 12.

OT: By the looks of it, it can help in missions where there are swarms of geth and collecters. Looks like insanity can be a bit easier now.

Comment #21 by nemesis3
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:26:53 PM

hope this gun will come in handy for the loyalty mission for the unyet revealed hidden character

Comment #22 by Elit3 m0nkey
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:28:49 PM

I will download but probably won't try it out until the Hammerhead DLC comes out. I have already beat the game 8 times plus I have all the achievements.

Comment #23 by Pooly93
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:32:25 PM

I'll download this when I next go on, I only used like 3 of the heavy weapons after I got the achievement so hopefully it's a good weapon.

Comment #24 by ShadowKaster
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:34:18 PM

@20...
oops. way too slow typing :)
i mean, my finger slipped! typo! my dog jumped on my keyboard! etc.

either way, sarcasm implementation (attempted).

Still trying to figure out why the gun isn't in my weapons locker though, looking for any way to make my insanity run through a little easier :)

Comment #25 by mickjsg
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:36:21 PM

Sounds good, I'm not too impressed with the existing heavy weapons apart from the Cain and the gun with the Terminus gear - I like the option of using it though. :)

Sorry for being nosy, but what was the gist of the deleted comment?
I've never seen one erased on here before, and I've seen some pretty rude ones posted.

Comment #26 by daninthemix
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:41:35 PM

No cheeve no buy

Comment #27 by VanZarko
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:42:23 PM

Does anyone know the name of that armor that it shows on the top picture?

Comment #28 by TristanValendro
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:45:15 PM

The armor looks new..

Comment #29 by nicky6314
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:45:49 PM

@26, you know it's free if you bought the game new right?

need to try this out, only really used the collector particle beam, maybe this will change that

Comment #30 by cheeta prime
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:46:35 PM

already used the gun at its not bad when fighting husk

Comment #31 by AzmoFortex
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:52:18 PM

they should release a gun that replaces planet scanning with the mako planet scanning... sorry, still cheesed about that...

Comment #32 by Jim Auh Thee
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:59:20 PM

lookin good

Comment #33 by SorahartsKairi
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 05:11:38 PM

@26

There always has to be a douche like you hidden away somewhere to ruin everything.. hasn't there?

Comment #34 by ThrustfulSteve
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 05:24:22 PM

yeah what was the deleted comment? we're all adults here and if not tough shit, how hideous do you have to be to get deleted? im almost tempted to try.

the heavy weapons were dissapointing for me, not quite heavy enough, and with 2 play throughs i still havent worked out the nuke type one, highest i had it was 75% and it didnt work, do you have to get all the heavy ammo in the game for one shot or something?

Comment #35 by Grossmesser
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 05:25:58 PM

@22
Well aren't we special....want a cookie?

Comment #36 by strawberry
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 05:31:19 PM

Not going to lie, Bioware is taking good care of their cerberus network users

Comment #37 by ChocoDK
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 05:39:57 PM

Yay, a new Heavy Weapon. I am happy with any new content and maybe it will make killing husks a bit easier.

Comment #38 by Jor-El
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 05:45:57 PM

Holy smokes. What a cool weapon. I'm lovin all this free Mas Effect 2 DLC. Bring on the Hammerhead pack!!!

Comment #39 by xPacking Heat
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 05:47:55 PM

This is a tasty sandwich.

Comment #40 by tjmunn
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 05:52:20 PM

Really linking the incentives for those that bought the game. I'll take all the free dlc I can get cheeves or no. Can't wait for Hammerhead.

Comment #41 by Mighty Goliath89
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 05:59:54 PM

love how when I have finally strugled my way through the hordes of husks and geth on insanity completed it and got all the cheevos the release a gun that looks like it would of made my life alot eaiser when fighting those bloody husks :P lol

Comment #42 by MachineHero
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 06:20:17 PM

while it's nice there's so much stuff, I'll be busy with FFXIII, GoW 3 and probably Borderlands to play this. Maybe once my backlog's finished

Comment #43 by Nightfire36
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 06:29:17 PM

@8. Your sentence isn't parallel. I'm just saying.

Comment #44 by dementedlullaby
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 06:37:47 PM

I love what I've played but haven't got far :( too many good games to catch up on and not a lot of time lately.

Comment #45 by ADenton109
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 07:30:33 PM

Freebies yey!

Comment #46 by ShadowMonkey987
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 07:37:02 PM

yea that armour is new

looks like dlc armour is on the way as well and this time it might be in pieces

unlike the other armours of the game (aka blood dragon or terminus) (i would like a option to remove the helmets and then i would use the blood dragon armour)

Comment #47 by Devil Sora
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 07:43:15 PM

Nice!

Comment #48 by Kaldo
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 07:56:27 PM

Aww.. what'd #1 say?? I feel like I missed out since it's now been removed ;)

Comment #49 by TAXI DRIVER 420
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 08:35:01 PM

@48 right they should post in some where in here like hey dunce cap on this fool. Then maybe peopl will stop posting things like im first or what have you.

Comment #50 by DustinEC
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 08:53:00 PM

To be honest, I haven't played Mass Effect since I got the last achievement for it. And that was like, a week after the game came out.

Comment #51 by DENAz666
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 08:56:08 PM

Is it permanently free? or just today?

Comment #52 by Elit3 m0nkey
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 09:06:43 PM

@35 please... just kidding

didn't mean to offend anyone with that post, sorry.

Comment #53 by Allan Caesar
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 09:18:47 PM

Man they just keep dropping free stuff on us. i love it. XD

Comment #54 by ViNyLek
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 09:24:29 PM

Looks awesome. Still waiting for new story content to come out to use new toys they are releasing for free^^

Comment #55 by RoguexNinja
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 09:38:28 PM

Keep bringing the DLC! Great new weapon. Now if we can only get some more customizable armor pieces...

Comment #56 by PuttyGod
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 10:00:34 PM

Awesome. I love how Bioware keeps dropping us tidbits. They're small, but it shows that they care. Most devs don't.

Comment #57 by ufcmike1
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 11:08:38 PM

Damn that looks cool. Just downloaded it.

Comment #58 by FuriousAli007
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 11:17:26 PM

I love Bioware.

Comment #59 by Koabel
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 11:24:05 PM

looks like that could help me through Insanity

Comment #60 by doomedtolive
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 11:32:11 PM

w00t! definitely gonna help when i go after legion on insane. those husks are freakin annoying.

Comment #61 by FamilyGuyGary
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 01:38:57 AM

If you're having trouble with Husks, and you have the biotic ability 'Lift' if you use that one them it's an insta-kill.

Comment #62 by halofan1989
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 02:14:38 AM

Just sold this shit today for FFXIII.

Oh well, cause 7 heavy weapons weren't enough.

Comment #63 by MakoBallistic
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 02:16:11 AM

Nothing compares to the Collector Particle Beam! But this new one does look cool.

And @60 - The Husks are literally no problem if you have Biotic Shockwave, its basically a gravitational bowling ball, pushes them all of the edge most of the time for an instant kill. I think its only a 6 second recharge when maxed out aswell.

Comment #64 by Phenoviral
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 02:21:57 AM

This is staying free? 'cause I can't get on the Xbox 'till the weekend..

Comment #65 by doomedtolive
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 02:28:40 AM

Thnx for the tips. Ill make sure to bring a biotic with me. Still. They need to release some other guns. Heavy guns are fun and showy, but ultimately unneeded.

Comment #66 by dylanmannen
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 02:41:40 AM

I have the game. have just not played it so much. mayby 2 hours or something. play bioshock 2 insted. x) but will pick this up. and I will start playing it soon :P

Comment #67 by Vigor
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 04:16:40 AM

I can't be arsed with this game anymore, after 4 times the challenge and fun were gone.

Comment #68 by Trikke
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 07:39:12 AM

Not sure if posted before and frankly, I don't care.

I've finished the game 1015/1015G. worth getting this download or not?

Comment #69 by Opiate42
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 07:51:44 AM

It's a nice toy, great for crowds of organics. Worth getting if you'll be replaying the game, I have 1015 too but will likely be replaying it again at least once when the Hammerhead comes out.

@#65 - I agree, some other non-heavy weapons would be cool that the squad can use, the heavies are fun but normally very slow to fire so not always as accurate as one would like. The Arc tho, never missed a shot.

Comment #70 by Wreckon Dracgon
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 09:48:52 AM

I'll have to give Final Fantasy a pause and go check this out just for the fun of it, as I already have my 1015. This Arc Projector would have to be highly effective and not just a pretty light show to make me put down my Singularity Cannon.

Comment #71 by MLG=Most Likely Gay
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 11:50:50 AM

cant top the MCain.

Comment #72 by Doominatorx6
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 12:43:03 PM

@71
Agreed. Nukes > ALL

Comment #73 by rustybeamer
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 01:29:09 PM

Sounds like it has a similar effect to the Wonderwaffe from COD5 zombies. Should be useful against those hordes of Husks.

Comment #74 by Atarii
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 01:46:34 PM

chain lightning! makes me want to go back and play my Shaman :)

Comment #75 by Rodeo Legend
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 01:48:44 PM

used it. it's pretty decent. i like the idea of jumping from one enemy to another. @12 i don't use heavy weapons much either. they are kinda a hassle, but this one is probably my favorite.

Comment #76 by Kouglopf
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 03:38:47 PM

A bit too late ,already finish the game,so...

Maybe on some DLC but its really annoying that i have to pay the Cerberus thing too enjoy the rest of the game.

Comment #77 by Acid Mother
Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 12:13:06 AM

#76 That's why you buy the game new so you don't have to pay 1200 for Cerberus Network. You buy it new, it comes with a code for it free.

Comment #78 by Phenoviral
Sunday, March 21, 2010 @ 12:00:35 PM

I'd love for them to put up some new, better SMGs..

Comment #79 by Phenoviral
Sunday, March 21, 2010 @ 12:01:38 PM

That is, I went out of my way for the Collector assault rifle, only to find out that I can't use it unless I'm a Soldier class.

I don't like the Soldier class.. ¬¬


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Developer:
BioWare

Publisher:
Electronic Arts

Genre:
RPG

Release:

US: January 26, 2010
Europe: January 29, 2010

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