Last posting before bedtime (European here):
Vegos wrote...
There's what I consider a mistake in the first chapter, surely you meant if Therum mission is not completed before Chapter 3, not Noveria.
You can skip one of three missions on purpose or on accident when finishing Virmire in chapter 2. In case you never met Liara, she'll be added to your team in chapter 3 to give Shepard the idea about the conduit and Ilos.
I think it works so far.
Also, if you have Liara she's forced into your party for Noveria, that makes sense, but maybe actually tie some dialogue/romance options with her to how you treated her mother? Like, if you tried to resolve it peacefully and make Benezia see the error of her ways (which you couldn't know that she's subconsciously aware of, of course), Liara will come to you with thanks afterwards, but if you went straight down the "Now you die" path, her next conversation would be more along the lines of "What the hell, you could have at least tried to talk". Not that any of the two would clsoe off the romance possibility, but it would just play out a bit differently.
There is a minor story arc I have in my mind dealing with Benezia: if you do the Noveria mission without Liara, you'll have to take down Benezia.
If you have Liara with you that fight will be much easier and you can paragonize Benezia to give up. However, she will not survive.
If you skip Noveria, Benezia will re-appear in the finale mission and get killed by Saren who believes she's the reason why Shepard is still on his trail.
(I didn't add this to the story overview to keep it organized - at least a bit. It's already a mess with all those decisions).
Special events, they are unclear that they only happen as long as the missions aren't completed in Chapter 1 OR 2, it looks as if they depend on Chapter 1 so maybe clarify that. Also for the Special Event on Rachni Queen, add another option, saying "I'm going to leave you right here and let the Council deal with you", then depending on what you tell the Council, they either free her, or imprison/kill her. If imprisoned she's, for all intents and purposes, out of commission and the story plays out the same way as if you killed her. If freed by Council, she's free but not friendly to Shepard.
I think I did that already - but just in case: special events ONLY happen if that particular mission was skipped. Means if you do all three mission, NONE of the special events will happen. If you skipped Noveria, the Noveria special event will happen. If you skipped Therum, then the Therum special event will happen. Since you can skip only one mission only one special event can happen in Chapter 3.
About the Rachni Queen - that additonal option seems to be fine to me. However, you still need to do the Noveria mission AND pick that decision. If you skip the entire mission, the Queen will somehow escape and she won't be friendly towards mankind or Shepard.
Chapter 2 seems a little dicey; the fact that Mars tech seems to have more impact at the ending of ME1, and Venus tech at the beginning of ME 2 is quite a risky thing to put in. I wouldn't be straight out against it, but it needs work. Also, are we having a case of Schrödinger's gun there, with Saren having been at exactly the same base you picked? Or exactly the other? Or will he be at either one, or the other no matter what you pick and you'll run into him, but not catch him, if you picked the "right" one?
Saren was in the base the player picks, but you won't face him. Yes, I'm pulling "Schrödinger's gun" here (I thought it was a cat?!) - but that doesn't really matter for the storyline.
I like the idea you have some decisions that will change the outcome of certain situations later. Lets say you go for Mars Tech - it offers you two options to save the Council instead of only one. So if don't wanna go "paragon" you can pick the neutral option and still save the Council.
Venus Tech offers protection which won't alter the Citadel fight in any way. I like the idea you can avoid Shepard's death in ME2 somehow and take an entirely different route to the same goal - defeating the Collectors.
So lets say if you want to ensure your Shepard does NOT die in ME2 intro, you need to pick Venus Tech. It's also the "paragon" solution - Shepard can go through ME and ME2 as Spectre, Alliance Soldier and paragon person if you want. You also don't get penalized for picking renegade options or an overall neutral path. And if you truly want to become renegade, let Shepard die and do the Cerberus story arc in ME2.
I like the general idea behind Chapter 2, but it needs polishing. The possibility of the alliance between Cerberus and Saren is far-fetched. It also makes the Cerberus arc of ME2 much harder to justify, because, even if they resurrected Shepard, (s)he's not likely to forgive them for having allied with Saren in the first game. Nor can (s)he trust them that they're actually trying to work against the Collectors/Reapers.
Well, Chapter 3 is straight forward, not much to do there.
Yeah, that could need some additional work - true. It's just an overview. I don't have time to make it as detailled as the full ME experience with dialogues, side story arcs and such ... 'though. Hey, there were guys working months and years to make ME happen. I can't do that within 2 days.
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