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[onelifecrisis]

I'm replaying ME1 and I'm wondering what's the best order to do the first four main quests (Feros, Noveria, Liara and Virmire). It's been a while since I played ME1 but IIRC the dialogue can go a bit fubar if you do these missions in the wrong order and I hate that. Can someone refresh my memory on the best order please? Thanks!

[m00nsh1ne]

I always started with Therum (Liara), than Feros, Noveria, and Virmire. That seemed to work the best for me. I always started with Liara cause it was the easiest main mission and you get your full squad allotment right away. I always ended with Virmire because that is when the game really picked up and I wanted to hold onto that excitement until the end. Noveria and Feros you could probably switch around depending on your mood.

[Christmas Ape]

Personally speaking?

We start with Therum, because Dr. T'Soni is a free agent with license to travel and could leave the Artemis Tau cluster at any time (to our knowledge). Best to get a hold of her as soon as possible, especially if she's working with Saren.

Feros is next; a colony going dark could be communications failure, or it could be something far worse, but colonies are big places and it should be okay for long enough to grab the good doctor.

Then Noveria; Virmire is new information, an STG team should be okay for a while, and the planet itself is pretty far from the rest of the operation. Might as well wrap up our business in the Verge first.

Virmire also -feels- most appropriate at the end, with both the Revelation and the Sacrifice occurring there.

[Rezear]

I usually go to noveria first and complete it up to lorik quin (to get full paragon/renegade early in the game), after that I go to therum to get liara and then back to noveria to finish it. When I'm done with noveria I complete as much side quests as possible. Feros is up next when I'm done with the side quests. After Feros I complete the remaining sidequests. Virmire's next and then Ilos.

Modifié par Rezear, 08 novembre 2010 - 03:48 .

[Nerevar-as]

Feros - communications black out + geth = trouble. Would have been nice having consequences if you kept leaving it for later, as with Liara´s different dialogue when she´s left for last. Going Feros first means it´s kind of impossible to persuade Jeong to back down (is there any other 12 level persuade in the game? On the other side, leaving Feros after Noveria works much better than confronting Benezia knowing about indoctrination... and not changing anything.



Therum, time to pick the expert now the colony is dealt with.



Noveria



Virmire- for me it works better here. Only problem is the timing with the Council telling you to keep working and immediately going to the Citadel.

[DragonRageGT]

I deleted my old profile to have a fresh start with a new Shepard (Jane) while my old one (John) reached lvl 60, had most of the achievements and was imported into ME2 for a few runs there as well.



I was just wondering if there is any advantage in skipping all side quests and going for the main quests ASAP to keep developing the new Shepard up to 60 then importing her into ME2 for a few more runs. (and gaining back all those achievements I had in ME1 in the process, of course!)



When I did it with John on ME1, I went for 100% completion on all playthroughs and that takes a while. heh

[Onyx Jaguar]

Well you can get through the main campaign fairly quickly. That is pretty much how I did my 60 run and I guess you aren't missing much outside of items that you may get but that doesn't carry over anyway and you'll probably get the better ones just through standard play.

[Cornelian]

Best order is your order onelifecrisis, i think.



My personnal best order is :

- Feros first part (saving outpost)

- Therum (to find Liara)

- Noveria first part (port Hanshan)

- Feros second part

- Virmire

- Noveria second part (Benezia fight)

[Pacifien]

Most of my playthroughs follow a Feros -> Therum -> Virmire -> Noveria order. I have both gameplay and storyline reasons for this order.

I go to Feros first because it's a colony that's been attacked by geth and have fallen out of contact. People in trouble and discovering more about what Saren is doing sounds good to me. However, a friend of mine pointed out that if you go to Feros or Noveria, you're simply following in Saren's footsteps. He said going to Therum made more sense as a lead where you could possibly get the jump on Saren. Doesn't turn out that way, but from a roleplay perspective, made sense.

However, my major reason for doing Feros first is simply because it's a very long mission that allows me to levelup quickly. Usually, by the time I've left Feros, I'm going to get the Luna mission soon after as I've hit level 20.

I prefer Virmire before Noveria. When you meet Saren at the Citadel, he mentions having been given a few upgrades since you last met, giving me the impression that quite a bit of time has passed. But most of all, it makes Benezia's comment that she sent Saren the coordinates to the Mu Relay seem that much more urgent.

Because really, by the time you've gone to Noveria, Saren's already had access to the Virmire beacon, the Eden Prime beacon, received the cipher on Feros, and apparently figured out the Conduit is on Ilos by himself. All the seriously needs is the location of the Mu Relay, so why wouldn't he make for the relay the second Benezia gave him the coordinates?

Only if you do Noveria earlier in the game, seems like he was just sitting on his butt waiting for just the right time to go through the relay for some reaosn.

[Praetor Knight]

Pacifien wrote...

Most of my playthroughs follow a Feros -> Therum -> Virmire -> Noveria order. I have both gameplay and storyline reasons for this order.

This is how I went my very first time, I was shocked when I lost Wrex and then scrambled to find out how to resolve that confontration with him alive.

After that I've tended to save Virmire for last, with a mix order for the rest.

I once saved Therum for the very last to get the funny dialogue and avoid all of the mind melding if you get Liara early, the dialogue is certainly very interesting (at least for me) with Therum last.

[hong]

Therum, the easiest? That gawddamn krogan killed me a dozen times on my first playthrough!

[Moondoggie]

Therum first. Simply because i find it the most boring and like to get it over with just to pick up Liara. She seems quite essential for the storyline of the visions and i picked her up first in my original playthrough so i just repeat that. (Plus i died like a zillion times on my first playthrough so i generally hate the whole mission)



After that i do Feros. I quite like this mission but it feels really long so i prefer to get it out the way.



Noveria next. On my first playtyhrough this felt REALLY long but after i knew what to do it's pretty short and it's a goood mission.



Then Virmire since it's the only one left and it feels like a natural progression to do this last although from a roleplaying point of view it feels more urgant when you get the call about it i can never bring myself to do it before Noveria.

[huntrrz]

I actually have a spreadsheet mapping out all quests and side missions in 'optimum' order. One of my goals was to maximize charm bonuses before taking a couple of missions. The first strategy is to do as much at the Citadel as possible then avoid it until you have enough charm to handle the admiral's inspection. The second is to delay Feros until you have enough charm to resolve the situation with ExoGeni peacefully (it's an incredible piece of fast-talking, and sets the precedent for all the 'upper-left-blue=WIN' resolutions in ME2).

So, Therum, Noveria, Feros, Virmire.

Modifié par huntrrz, 10 novembre 2010 - 11:59 .

[onelifecrisis]

I wasn't expecting so many different answers, but thanks anyway.

I'm not so much interested in gameplay advantages (I play Veteran so I don't really need them) I just wanted the dialogue to not break too much. IIRC if you play those missions in the "wrong" order then characters can say things that are a bit screwed up e.g. reference things that haven't happened yet, or say something and then repeat it again, or say something and then contradict it five seconds later.

I played Feros -> Liara -> Virmire -> Novaria and the dialogue only broke once (after Virmire - Liara repeated the same spiel about Dr. Chakwas as she'd given on the previous mission) so I was pleased with that. Thanks again for the tips!

Modifié par onelifecrisis, 11 novembre 2010 - 02:16 .

[The Grey Ranger]

If you haven't done so before, at least one time leave Therum for last. I find the changes in Liara's conversation rather amusing.

[huntrrz]

The Grey Ranger wrote...

If you haven't done so before, at least one time leave Therum for last. I find the changes in Liara's conversation rather amusing.

Yeah, but if I recall there's a continuity break in the dialog if you do that.  Shepard says "You want to link minds again..." at the briefing (so they can identify Ilos), but they've only just met.

[The Grey Ranger]

There may be. It's probably been 6 or 8 months since I've don a full play through. I still think it's worth doing one time just for fun.

[Evelinessa]

I always do Therum-Feros-Noveria-Virmire but I never have enough points to talk down Jeong(or however it's spelled).

[Praetor Knight]

Evelinessa wrote...

I always do Therum-Feros-Noveria-Virmire but I never have enough points to talk down Jeong(or however it's spelled).

I've only talked Jeong down once and it was a funny and awkward dialogue, but it takes like 12 points, full bar, in either meter!
I did it with max Paragon, and I was like       <_<, I was left thinking to myself shoulda just shot 'um.

[Katamariguy]

Christmas Ape wrote...

Feros is next; a colony going dark could be communications failure, or it could be something far worse, but colonies are big places and it should be okay for long enough to grab the good doctor.

Okay for long enough that there are only 30 or so survivors out of 1,000 colonists.

[Gokuthegrate]

For my first time playing I went to see what info Liara might of had.-Therum
Went to see what Saren was up to.-Noveria
Then I decided the colonist might actually need help.-Feros
Finally I had to leave someone on Virmire:crying:

[Exile Isan]

Pacifien wrote...

Most of my playthroughs follow a Feros -> Therum -> Virmire -> Noveria order. I have both gameplay and storyline reasons for this order.

<snip>

This is almost how I play it (only I switch Feros and Therum) but I do Virmire and Noveria in the same order and for pretty much the same reasons.

Liara always seemed like the logical starting point storywise and Feros is my favorite story planet in the game.

If Virmire is done last, and Saren has the information from the beacon on Eden Prime, and the one of Virmire, along with the cipher and the location of the Mu Relay what the heck is Saren sitting around twiddling his thumbs on Virmire for? I mean did he just want to see Shepard's lovely face again or what? Yeah, so I always do Virmire before Noveria.

[Kronner]

I usually go Therum, Feros, Noveria (best mission in the game IMHO).



But it is fun to do Therum last and tell Liara that while she was trapped, Shepard found out nearly everything about the Reapers, Protheans and Mu-Relay. All she does is tell you to go to Ilos lol.

[The Grey Ranger]

Kronner wrote...

I usually go Therum, Feros, Noveria (best mission in the game IMHO).

But it is fun to do Therum last and tell Liara that while she was trapped, Shepard found out nearly everything about the Reapers, Protheans and Mu-Relay. All she does is tell you to go to Ilos lol.

And have a bit of a tantrum.

[e-ver]

Sorry for re-awakening (it's been 11 days, so I guess it not a resurrection yet) this thread, but I wanted to recommend the following sequence, because it offers a very natural dialogue flow in the post-mission debriefings with the crew on the Normandy.

1. Noveria, this way, you'll also get an extra bit of dialogue with Khalisah al-Jilani about the destruction of Peak 15
2. Feros
3. Therum
4. Virmire

Of course, doing the missions in this order has some drawbacks (no Liara when meeting Benezia, Noveria seems the least urgent, so it requires some metagaming to go there first, Saren not rushing to Ilos after learning the location of the Mu Relay).

On the other hand there are a handful of advantages:
- it makes sense that you don't know about indoctrination when talking with Benezia (I always find it quite strange that, when going to Noveria after Feros, I can't tell Benezia that I already know about indoctrination; but it works fine the other way round, Benezia and indoctrination can be mentioned to Shiala)
- it makes Shiala's story more believable and thus gives you more reason to spare her (if you want that), while Benezia can't be saved in any case; also, since Benezia is already dead and Shiala followed her, not Saren, Shepard doesn't have to worry that shes lying and will return to Benezia if spared
- going for Liara, the expert on Protheans after getting all that prothean knowledge transferred into your mind on Feros seems quite logical for me; even though you learn about Virmire at that point and the Council makes it sound quite urgent, I can see Shepard looking for help to interpret the cypher first
- I also think that it makes the most sense for Liara to be able to identify Ilos after the second beacon on Virmire, if Noveria is the last mission, she'll only realize it because of the relay and that makes her a less able archeologist in my eyes. (I'm probably the only one feeling like this though)

Modifié par Allerleihrau, 04 décembre 2010 - 08:47 .