I played Mass Effect 2 today
-Destroyed Geth Hertics
- Sided with Tali
- Did the SM only Legion died
Hehe, that's exactly what I always do. Saves Quarian lives later on and still gets rid of that pesky little Geth.
I played Mass Effect 2 today
-Destroyed Geth Hertics
- Sided with Tali
- Did the SM only Legion died
had the summit and went to Sur'kesh with Garrus,edi and Wrex
Come to find out if you recruit Wrex after Vimire, he will mention Virmire like he was there and when talking with Kirrahe he will says'your standoff with Wrex is lengendary'. So next time I will just not recruit Wrex or just recruit him when I see him at C-Sec
rescued the female Krogan.
Well, it turns out if you never recruit Wrex at all Kirrahe still says "your standoff with Wrex is legendary." Guess the only way to get around that is to have Kirrahe die. ![]()
Added: Another minor glitch related to not recruiting Wrex: as we were fighting the Atlas on Surkesh and Wreav was telling us to finish it off, Liara says "i don't like him. I'm beginning to miss Wrex." Also, at one point (not sure exactly when) Liara says "I see Wrex was the diplomat."
Well, it turns out if you never recruit Wrex at all Kirrahe still says "your standoff with Wrex is legendary." Guess the only way to get around that is to have Kirrahe die.
Added: Another minor glitch related to not recruiting Wrex: as we were fighting the Atlas on Surkesh and Wreav was telling us to finish it off, Liara says "i don't like him. I'm beginning to miss Wrex." Also, at one point (not sure exactly when) Liara says "I see Wrex was the diplomat."
It seems there is a few things not fixed or glitched when it comes to Virmire, Sur'kesh and Kirrahe as well as Wrex.
Do you know if you don't recruit Garrus in ME1 and you rescue T'soni after Virmire and have Kirrahe alive, the three of them apparently know each other and talk about Virmire.
I do remember that dialogue from Liara when I had not recruit Wrex. I believe you get similiar dialogue from Garrus as well.
Janus Shepard said her goodbyes to Liara, then destroyed the reapers. Now, Andrew Shepard (named after Andrew Wiggin) has become the first human Spectre and begun his journey in tracking down Saren. Step one: Heading to Therum to find the Matriarch's daughter.
Today I went for a walk in the park on a delightful spring day. I also quickly squeezed in this:
















Some interesting things I noted:
Cortez has magic hands:

The Silversun Casino as a level:

The inside of Shep's head:

Tali's face...


I was also going for some wide shots of the fight, but I noticed that the characters on the balcony are rendered in a much lower, blocky quality which was a shame.

Also I am so going to have to do a Tali romance playthrough (even if it means suffering Manshep's voice, urghghhg)
Milos Shepard arrested Jacob's dad and then went off to Pragia to help Jack get over her Cerberus demons. BUT while we were arriving, the damn Collectors disabled the Normandy and kidnapped the whole crew except for Joker. Scrapped the mission on Pragia and took off for the Omega-4 relay.
Once through we fought some sort of robot ships before destroying that Collector ship that's had it out for Milos for the last few years and then crashed on the Collector base itself.
Sent Kasumi solo on a trip to ensure that the other two teams made it through to the central area (Garrus led the other team), and found our crew in time to keep them all from getting liquified. Sent the crew back to the Normandy with Zaeed, then had Jack make some kind of super-barrier to hold off the Seeker Swarms while Garrus led team 2 again. Turns out Milos probably should have done that mission on Pragia to get Jack's head straight, because she crapped out just as we reached the door, and Grunt (GRUNT!) got carried off by the swarm. Garrus took a bullet while coming through door, but he seems to be fine.
Took Miranda and Milos' sweetie, Tali with to the final objective. Miranda tendered her resignation from Cerberus to TIM, and Milos couldn't have been more surprised AND pleased. Destroyed some sort of proto-Reaper before lighting up the base itself. Came to just in time to race back to the Normandy before the base exploded. Apparently Jack still couldn't get it together, and she died while fighting Collectors trying to break through our exit point.
Back aboard the Normandy with the mission accomplished, Milos is thinking about all of the Cerberus info stored in the databanks and how many facilities he could take down. This one called "Project Overlord" sounds like a prime candidate. . .
Sent the crew back to the Normandy with Zaeed, then had Jack make some kind of super-barrier to hold off the Seeker Swarms while Garrus led team 2 again. Turns out Milos probably should have done that mission on Pragia to get Jack's head straight, because she crapped out just as we reached the door, and Grunt (GRUNT!) got carried off by the swarm. Garrus took a bullet while coming through door, but he seems to be fine.
I had to go look up the death order for this part and was surprised how far up the list is. Garrus is even further up. Kind of a reverse HTL order.
I had to go look up the death order for this part and was surprised how far up the list is. Garrus is even further up. Kind of a reverse HTL order.
I think it is supposed to be that counterintuitive. The only requirement for this playthrough that I was looking for was that Tali (Milos' LI) survive. Had to look up who I could take with along with her and the non-loyal Jack to make sure she didn't get carried off. I was considering Thane all the way up until I went with Grunt. THAT is just a kick in the quad.
Victory in the war against the Reapers was assured today when Commander Shepard obtained a dissertation on ancient technology and dark energy integration from Conrad Verner. With the key to stopping the Reapers now unlocked, Commander Shepard decided to go out for some drinks and some wild dancing. Too bad Doran isn't around. He made such a great dance partner!
Finally went off and did that thing for Zaeed. Bloody psycopath. Blow up a whole refinery to get one man? Not on my watch. We saved the civiliians, but Zaeed's target got away. Doesn't look like he's going to be joining the Shepard Fan Club any time soon. Truth be told, I was tempted to just leave him to die. An explosion dropped a pillar on him, and I had half a mind to just walk away. But that's not me. I think I made enough of an impression that Zaeed will follow the lead. Still, had Tali triple-encrypt my cabin door. Just in case.
Found a new fighting vehicle, apparently a Cerberus design. M-44 Hammerhead. I love this thing. Way more maneuverable than a Mako. The only potential issue I see for now is the lack of an anti-personnel machine gun, but you can't have everything. I'm looking forward to putting it through its paces.
Took care of some more merc bases. These guys are popping up all over the place. Feels like I'm playing a really deadly game of whack-a-mole.
Handed the Cerberus intel on the Shadow Broker over to Liara. Things promptly got very interesting. Someone tried to take a shot at Liara, and an asari Spectre asked me to sign her chestplate. Though I'm not entirely sure she meant her armor. Shame she turned out to be evil. Well, misguided. Maybe. She's the one who tried to shoot Liara, then planted a bomb that took out three floors of an office complex just to make sure. Even bleeding to death, she put up one hell of a fight. The intel we recovered from her led us to the Shadow Broker, on a technological marvel of a ship that sticks to the stormy terminator of possibly the most unpleasant planet I've come across so far, and I've been to some pretty awful places.
Yahg. There's a species I hope I don't meet again. Though if things go badly enough with the Reapers, we may have to pull a krogan part two and shove these guys into service. Though they might actually be worse than the Reapers, if the Shadow Broker is any indication of their baseline intelligence. Seems wrong, putting that much smarts into that big a body.
Liara's taken over as the new Shadow Broker, and almost no one knows. Guess that's the downside of total anonymity. . . none of your people can tell when your assassin is sitting at your desk. She uncovered a lot of useful data already, and I have to remember to check back to see what else she turns up.
Recruited Thane today. Liked him until our first chat on the Normandy. Don't think I'll talk to him again, except for his loyalty mission. Still one of my favorite missions though. I love that climb through Dantius Towers. They're fun fights.
After that, got an urgent message from TIM. Turns out the collector ship that killed shep (ok found that out later) was disabled by a turian patrol ship (HA!), and it's the perfect opportunity to find a way through the Omega 4 relay. Jeez, since shep became the ship's counselor I almost forgot we're going after the collectors.
Another fun mission. Took Thane and Miranda, and spammed warp on everything I could. Used singularity where possible for those nice explosions. Shep learned how to use an assault rifle, so she was able to contribute to the shooting-everything-in-between-biotic-attacks. Praetorians, bah. Still, only variance in the combat strategy was running from cover to cover every time he switched on god-mode and got too close to the team.
Since then, been doing a few side missions on my way back to Ilium to give a salarian some family history data or something. Been debating whether to do LotSB at the same time. Have always done it after the suicide mission in the past.
Rescued a quarian, ran through some fog. Wanted to yell at Garrus that he wasn't in charge; dude kept running ahead and getting lost.
Rescued a doctor named Liara T'Soni on Therum, she's the daughter of the Matriarch heard on the recording that Tali'Zorah had. Barely made it out of the collapsing ruin T'Soni was in. Claims to not know about her mother working for Saren. Will ask her more in private, see if she can provide any intel.

In lighter news, got to ride several elevators with Wrex and Garrus. Good times.

After Sur'kesh went back to the Citadel and saw Kaidan in the hospital
Went down to the Presidium and convinced Liara to talk with dear old dad giving me some war assets
Said hello to Miranda where she told me about her sister. I wanted to tell her to come back on the ship, but that option never came up.
Did some sightseeing with Cortez while talking with him.
Went to Grissom Academy and met Jack and kick Cerberus backside with her help and the students help
Rescued LT. Victus and told him to get his soldiers in gear to not let Cerberus detonate the bomb
Sabotaged the genophage by shooting Mordin in the back
Had a second dream and watched the kid burn. I wanted to roast some marshmellows
Got back to the Citadel and find out Cerberus is trying to control of the station.
Watch Kai Leng stab Thane
femshep: How bad is it?
Thane: What do you think you dumba**? I just got impaled.
Kai Leng stabs my car(poor car)
Killed a few morons carrying swords. What a bunch of losers
Made Kaidan stand down and shot Udina. Why wasn' there an option to shoot him in the arm or shoulder?
Visited Thane and watched him die.
Helped Officer Noles and gained some Batarian war assets by convincing Balak to join the war effort
Went to Pugatory and did the Shepard shuffle while Jack was dancing.
Saw Steve a seconded time
Talked with Anderson and Hackett.
Approached by T'soni asking to ckeck out a monestary that asari Commandos are having trouble with
Spoke to Garrus at the memorial wall.
Talked with Kaidan where he mentioned he heard from his mother aand that his father is MIA and presumed dead. With a renegade interrupt I told Kaidan to use that frustration and anger against the reapers
romanced Samantha
talked to Vega about his previous mission involving the collectors
Went to Eden Prime with T'soni and Kaidan while talking about Saren and the loss of Jenkins. Brought Javik onboard the Normandy
After talking with Javik found out the bomb on Tuchanka went boom. Oh well, lose some, win some. Wrex will have something to say about that when I see him on the Citadel before I go to Thessia.
Wiped out some geth outposts with Liara and Wrex. Found some kind of data cache and gave it to Tali, said it could contain important info about the geth for her people. Plus, it will come in handy for her pilgrimage.
So I played a bit more of my latest ME3 run, romancing Miranda, total Renegade. Recruited Javik, did Menae and some scanning. Talked to Atheta, recruited the 3 merc bands and started Omega ( I like to do Omega before the phage arc. Wrex and Victus will just have to wait in the war room till I'm done.) then saved and quit.
UNC: Derelict Freighter
Noveria (helped Gianna Parasini, helped Mallene Callis, spared the rachni queen). I learn something new every playthrough. I never knew Shep could use the tank (not the Mako) to fight the geth in the Port Hanshan garage.
I never knew Shep could use the tank (not the Mako) to fight the geth in the Port Hanshan garage.
I'm not sure but I think that thing is called Mako as well.
UNC: Derelict Freighter
Noveria (helped Gianna Parasini, helped Mallene Callis, spared the rachni queen). I learn something new every playthrough. I never knew Shep could use the tank (not the Mako) to fight the geth in the Port Hanshan garage.
It surprised me as well. Although it is a terrible method for dealing with the Geth on Insanity.
Today I went for a run, cooked some smoked salmon and tortellini and made a brew for the other half. I also did this:























It amused me to imagine Tali and Wrex lsitening to Council secrets on the war against a.i. and the Genophage.
Regarding your last comment, that was actually something I was a little disappointed with when I stormed the Citadel Vault. I hoped that Wrex would have some comments about that Krogan "Ambassador" assaulting the council right before the Rebellions. Or even the vault that showed the Turian general releasing the Genophage.
Erata.
Before the cutscene where everybody fires, if you stay on the gantry and fight it out (i.e. don't rush in and trigger the cutscene) then you can kill the squadmates:

However when the cutscene triggers seconds later they are magically healed:

A few more views of Wrex and I punching an Atlas to death (as there were no Banshees around). I like the one with Tali's arse in full view.




During the cutscene where Brookes says she is hurt and runs off, she actually just carries on running on the spot in a dead end corridoor:

Another view of the fight on the docking bay:

And another gratuitous Traynor shot:

Regarding your last comment, that was actually something I was a little disappointed with when I stormed the Citadel Vault. I hoped that Wrex would have some comments about that Krogan "Ambassador" assaulting the council right before the Rebellions. Or even the vault that showed the Turian general releasing the Genophage.
Yeah the lack of commentary on that is disapointing given all the other snippets they snuck in.