Wyatt Shepard wrote...
BleedingUranium wrote...
paxxton wrote...
Hello! My opinion on Reaper fights is that they were made simple for gameplay reasons. It's unfortunate because there are so many other ways you can fight a Reaper, not only with guns but also with hacking or planting a computer virus, or like during the IFF mission in ME2 - getting inside and destroying the core. The Reapers are oversimplified in ME3.
Was I the only one that found it odd that destroying the eezo core was a great way to destroy the reaper, but it's never ever used or mentioned again? Not in the main plot, not talked about, hell, not even in those emails and secondary codex entries on various battles.
I assume this is because that was a dead Reaper. A live one would know you were sneaking around in its guts and
use its indoctrination powers to turn you into a turnip.
Exactly and as for hacking or planting viruses...that dosent work on the Geth, at least not in the long term (except when there Reaper technology involved in making said hack or virus) so what in the blazes would make us think we can hack the Reapers in any way?
Shepard even asks Tali if that Neural Flasbang thing they invented against the Geth would work against the Reapers to which Tali says no and for comparision it took the Quarians 300 years to invent a viable electronic weapon against the race they created themselves, but a few upgrades from the Reapers made the weapon useless...or the fact that not a single cycle before has succeded in making such a weapon against the Reapers...yeah, we really stand a chance at making a electronic warfare weapon against the Reapers.
It is part of what also makes the Control ending so impossible in my eyes. Nothing tells us the Reapers can be controlled, nothing.
As for getting inside a Reaper to destroy, unless it specifically opens its chassis to let you in, you will need to break through its armor and shields first at which point it becomes pretty pointless considering the firepower needed to break through.
Though the Turians and Krogans did managed to destroy a few Reapers in this way by getting nukes on board the Reapers when tehy opened their chasis to allow political leaders inside (for indoctrination) but I dont think any Reaper is gonna let Shepard and crew climb inside it unless it is planning to Indoctrinate them.