Oblarg wrote...
Cheese Elemental wrote...
Oblarg wrote...
Cheese Elemental wrote...
It's a suicide mission because all the odds are stacked against you. You're outnumbered, outgunned, and don't have any backup. It's just you and your squad.
Making it a super-organised operation would have removed all sense of desperation. It would have been like filing paperwork or something like that.
The odds wouldn't be stacked against you if the course of action you took weren't so goddamn stupid.
Stupid? How so?
1. Shepard is pressed for time, so it's no wonder he/she is rushing things.
2. You hardly know anything about the Collector base. EDI could only gather so much information from the Collector ship.
Well, ignoring the fact that there's absolutely no urgency if you pay attention to the plot and realize that the Collectors could never succeed in the first place, there's still nothing that can justify strapping the IFF directly onto the Normandy and blindly flying through the relay solo. That's just about the dumbest thing you could possibly do. Why not duplicate the IFF and send probes through the relay to gather recon? Why not send a fleet through the relay? Anything but sending your best guy through the relay alone, with no intel, in a ship designed for stealth, not combat, with the intention of stopping the collectors is completely moronic.
Probes would be destroyed by the Oculi. Alliance doesn't care about human colonists in the Terminus Systems, they're basically like "You chose to live outside our jurisdiction, you're screwed." The Council feels the same way if you let them live. These colonists chose to swim with sharks (Blue Suns, Blood Pack, Collectors, pirates, and geth) and they're getting bit.
What about in
Retribution, when Anderson and Sanders assembled that turian strike team? Cerberus was an enemy they recognized (like Saren/geth). Plus, TIM would never allow it. The turians would not keep the base.
Abduction of the crew. So many people hate this because they don't like the prospect of being punished for ignoring the plot and traipsing off to backwater worlds doing their own thing. Well you should be. Exploring worlds for hidden treasure troves after escaping the Citadel Lockdown is stupid, stopping Saren should be your raison detre at that point, and players should have been punished for forgetting about that. But for those that would ask, how can the
Normandy run without a crew? Check out
Star Trek: The Search for Spock. Having stolen the Enterprise after an event similar to Citadel Lockdown, Kirk didn't have the normal large crew compliment the Enterprise usually depends on. But Scotty compensated by setting up an automated system. The hitch was that it wasn't designed for combat; they weren't expecting any because the Alpha Quadrant governments had tentatively agreed to only send in science vessels, so they did end up getting schooled by a Klingon ship they could've taken under normal circumstances. But it stands to reason that EDI could run the ship similar to Scotty's automation system, and not miss a beat. I suppose it also raises the question of why the Collectors didn't try boarding and abduction the crew of the first Normandy instead of destroying it, but maybe they didn't have as much intel then. Plus the fact that Shepard, Ashley, and Liara were on board, and they would have put up more of a fight than Joker did. But any complaint that amounts to "stupid plot urgency, you're spoiling my immersion" is just as idiotic as people who are ****ing about Kirk's father being dead in the new
Star Trek continuity.
The only hole I see is the Reaper larva. Why bother with shooting the injection tubes? They were going to blow up the base, the explosion (or neutron purge if TIM gets his way) would "take it out." If Shep's squad had left it alone, the tubes would still be confining it to one place, like a chained dog. Instead, destroying the feeding tubes woke it up, and gave it the freedom to circle around you spitting its dragon breath at you. It would've made better sense if it was either just kept in the background while you fought a different boss, or Harbinger enacting some security protocol that would wake it up and free it to fight you. (They could've also gone with a better design, something that truly did look like a hybrid as opposed to a giant T-800, but that's another story).
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players like doing extra missions anyway to get extra experience points and thus extra levels.
