Rolling Flame wrote...
Just thought I'd add my two cents on the Liara/SB situation.
Personally, it doesn't bother me, because I know Liara is focused on helping build the Crucible, which is the most important operation of the war. Naturally, the reason Traynor finds Grissom Academy/Sanctuary/Cerberus Scientists is so she actually is relevant to the story, otherwise she'd be a nothing character in a ManShep playthough, and the token lesbian in a FemShep one.
One of the things that does bother me is when people use Wrex to point out that Liara wasn't doing her job. They fail to acknowledge that Mordin/Wiks leaked it directly to him. How would Liara, or anyone else for that matter, known about it if that was the case.
As for Cerberus, I don't think people are thinking things through fully here. The old Broker knew a helluva lot about the organisation because he had many agents infiltrating its ranks. Then, Cerberus decides to actively use Reaper tech to not only enhance the effectiveness of its soldiers, but to ensure their loyalty, through indoctrination and conditioning. Naturally, any Broker agent in Cerberus who chose to be integrated would become an fanatical Cerberus trooper, while any that tried to resist would either be killed, or forced to run, and could not be used by Liara in any furhter operations against Cerberus, as they keep records on who abandons them.
Besides, there are already enough people whinging about how much screen time Liara got. Could you imagine how much worse it would be if she had Traynor's role, as well?
Good points, with which I agree.
Another thing is that very little of what Liara does as the Shadow Broker actually affects Shepard personally. She uses agents to report on reaper activities in the wider theatres of war and assists with material and people the Crucible's contruction. She aslo helps and reports on evacuations and (would be my guess) uses her connections to keeps peace and alliances behind the scenes. And that is with her network being chewed through by the reapers.
None of which are things that Shepard is personally involved in.
One would also have to cut her some slack about how much she is physically able to do, she has to handle the single largest information network in the galaxy as well as accompanying Shepard on ground operations (which in my playthroughs is rather often), she even does a "pesonal project" that involves giving the future a chance should the current races fail here, if she does not have time to personally analyse some data about Grissom academy etc. I wouldn't take that out on her.
Traynor dosen's have anything else to do than analyse data sent to the Normandy (and inform Shepard about new messages, as if I couldn't check that myself...) so if she finds something interesting so much the better for Sheaprd.
Of course I would have prefered that the info came from Liara but I can accept the way it is.
Though the new extra non-squad characters like Traynor and Cortez were nice enough they don't really do anything for me.
Though I certainly agrees with Lizardviking and Aristobulus that we don't really get the impression of how much she actually does.
Edit: but to be perfectly honest I don't really need to see what she does to trust that she is deoing a splendid job, While I ould like to see more of her Shadow Brokeirng I am actually not that bothered with what we have. It just rubs me the wrong way when people start accusing her of being bad at her work (even if they are haters who word has abo****ely zero credebility in my eyes).
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