Progressive_Stupidity1 wrote...
And yeah, I think they're supposed to be more half-arsed if you don't do their loyalty missions for whatever reason. Though that seems a little petty considering the stakes.
Indeed. As others have said, not exactly "best of the best" in that case. Though it's worth noting that, at least sans DLC, you only need three loyal squadmates to pull off a no-death Suicide Mission (and only three disloyal to kill everyone), so a sufficiently badass Shepard can fortunately compensate for her team's failure to excel.
If loyalty is in 3 I certainly hope Garrus and Tali don't pull an ME2 and disregard everything I'd already done for them.
Honestly Tali/Garrus loyalty didn't make sense in ME2 to begin with. They're
already loyal. Hell, Tali's willingly living on a Cerberus ship for Shepard's sake. I mean, yes, this doesn't
necessarily actually make any sense, since you could mistreate her and not even recruit him in ME1, but the fact remains that the ME2 premise of Team Dextro is "here for
you, not the mission."
(Which it's why it's so interesting to me that Tali's is the only loyalty you have not just one, but two full opportunities to lose. I do hope that in ME3, conversation between Tali and a Shep who burned her at the trial will account for the liklihood that they actually do still care about each other.)
To bring it back around to topic, it's the kind of thing that would make me think they'd be good s/s candidates, if I thought the aliens would be up for grabs. They're both pretty "LOL RETCON!"-proof, anyway; Garrus doesn't hit on femShep either, so it's not really indicitave of anything that he didn't respond to a dudeShep who simply didn't get the chance, and Tali is already having to overcome the dual taboo of "not quarian" and "commanding officer" in order to admit her affection, if the quarians also have a s/s taboo I can see that being just a little too much to push when femShep doesn't get it.
Also, that LotSB dossier, holy
crap.