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[Vazgen]

What bug is this you refer to?

When I pick a mod for an equipped weapon (say, SMG Scope if I'm using an SMG) it doesn't appear. You get stuck with level IV mod until NG+. The workaround is not to have such a weapon equipped.

[GalacticWolf5]

Renegade God complex/power hungry Shepard playthrough

 

Today I went to Tuchanka to cure *winks* the Genophage.

 

Wrex is gonna be so mad

[Melbella]

Grunt is just the cutest little big bundle of wanton destruction ever.

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[Kurt M.]

When I pick a mod for an equipped weapon (say, SMG Scope if I'm using an SMG) it doesn't appear. You get stuck with level IV mod until NG+. The workaround is not to have such a weapon equipped.

 

AFAIK, there's no workaround for that bug. I'm pretty sure the game has skipped upgrades for weapons I hadn't equipped at the moment of the pick-up. And vice-versa (I've picked up mods for weapons I had equipped in that moment). It's just a matter of luck.

 

The only workaround I know is to finish picking them up in a NG+ (or NG++), which are unaffected by that bug.

[fraggle]

Well, well, I finally could bring myself to actually do the Firewalker stuff. And uh... yeah, it is easy when you're not falling into lava But it's still tedious somehow. Anyway, my point still stands: Mako > Hammerhead

 

Death count this time was high, 8 times, ouch. Played through Overlord and started LotSB, nearing the end!

 

Tali, Garrus and I landed on Aite and someone named Dr. Gavin Archer radioed us that the situation required immediate retraction of the transmission dish. We're dealing with a rogue VI and geth... such joy. We retracted the dish and to stop the VI from getting off the planet, we went to take care of the antenna in the dish by taking out capacitors (died twice here thanks to the Geth Prime and squad going down constantly However I then also found out that it doesn't follow you down the stairs, make of that what you will, hehe). The whole thing came down though and we barely made it out.

Once inside the station we got more details from Archer, experiments to link a human mind to a VI in order to communicate with the geth... and they were using his own brother for this. Who would do something like that, isn't family the most important thing? I know mine was...

Anyway, to actually being able to deal with the VI we first had to manually override security from two other stations to gain access to Atlas Station. No trouble there, and we arrived at Atlas Station, proceeding until we reached an elevator to take us to the problem. I accessed some panel and now I'm in some kind of virtual reality?! Such a weird experience, and I had to move on alone. I saw flashbacks of Dr. Archer, and how his brother David tried to communicate with the geth. But I also witnessed how it led to what happened here, not very pleasant. I took another elevator and dealt with the VI (died twice here, geth crept up on me also took 2 from the Geth Prime coming up in the elevator, and one from the Geth Hunter in the virtual world).

What I witnessed here was horrific, David hooked up to the core and tubes and wires everywhere... I felt sick by the sight, only thinking of helping this poor guy.

Dr. Archer arrived and I was ready to say all kinds of bad things to him. He showed remorse, but I will NOT let him near David again. I radioed Joker to make arrangements for him to be transferred to Grissom Academy. Poor kid...

 

With this taken care of I decided we would go see Liara next. Miranda, Mordin and I arrived at her apartment, but met Spectre Tela Vasir instead of Liara. She told us Liara was attacked, and we looked through her apartment to find clues. I saw that Liara kept a part of my old N7 armor... why? Is she that attached, or was it helping her overcome grief? In any case, it's definitely weird to see it sit like a trophy behind glass...

I found a conversation between Liara and a salarian called Sekat, which led us to the Dracon Trade Center.

As soon as we arrived a bomb exploded inside the building, and there were a lot of casualties. I can't help but think that Liara was inside all of this. Really hope she's alright.

We went in from the ground, while Vasir flew to the top to proceed from there. Everything went smooth and we teamed up with Vasir again after fighting through some waves of Shadow Broker agents. We found Sekat, dead, and Liara revealed herself, aiming her gun at Vasir. For a moment I was confused, but Liara claimed it was the Spectre who tried to kill her. I trust her, and Vasir immediately showed that Liara was right. She attacked and fled with the data we needed, while Liara frantically ran after her without us. Taking out more agents along the way we finally met up with her again, taking Miranda and a skycar to follow Vasir. The wild chase ended at the Azure Hotel. After killing more agents (another 2 deaths here, I so hate this section ) we followed Vasir, and her leaving blood stains indicated she was hurt. Can't say I'm sorry about that.

When we finally caught up with the asari, she grabbed a woman as a hostage. We dropped our ammo and she released her, then it was time to finish her off. She retreated from time to time, sending in reinforcements. They didn't stand a chance though, and neither did Vasir. Liara got the data and I listened to her going on about the Shadow Broker. She's deep into this whole thing, and pressed on to get to Feron right away. It's thanks to him and Liara I am standing here today, so I can only return the favor. We plotted course for the Broker's ship immediately.

[RedCaesar97]

Mako is better than the Hammerhead only when it comes to shooting, since you can actually hit what you are aiming at. Hammerhead beats the Mako in every other category.

 

 

 

Also, still no idea which ending I am going to pick for Dahlia Shepard (Flare Infiltrator). Originally I was planning on choosing Destroy, but then I thought that Refuse would make a better ending for her. Basically she is constantly haunted by her past failures throughout ME3 -- along with a few new ones -- and then screws up and makes the ultimate failure.

 

But now I am thinking that Synthesis would be better for her. Make her last act achieve peace throughout the galaxy.

 

 

 

(For the record, I think all the endings are failure states, but... whatever. Fiction, right?)

[birefringent]

But now I am thinking that Synthesis would be better for her. Make her last act achieve peace throughout the galaxy.

 

 

 

(For the record, I think all the endings are failure states, but... whatever. Fiction, right?)

Let her ascend to the eternal sleep. She earned her rest 

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[themikefest]

Karen Shepard

 

Left Earth to do a bunch of stuff and ended up destroying the reapers. She is currently waiting for someone to remove the big piece of rubble off her chest so she can join the celebration 

[Vazgen]

AFAIK, there's no workaround for that bug. I'm pretty sure the game has skipped upgrades for weapons I hadn't equipped at the moment of the pick-up. And vice-versa (I've picked up mods for weapons I had equipped in that moment). It's just a matter of luck.

 

The only workaround I know is to finish picking them up in a NG+ (or NG++), which are unaffected by that bug.

Well, it works for me. Might be because I use Change Loadout when picking up the first gun.

[themikefest]

Kate Shepard

 

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me: What do you think Aria?

Aria: I can't believe this has been hidden. The busts are not asari. They're Prothean. I'm very curious of how many others know about this? I am starting to see the reason.

Samara: I have to agree. Something's not right. 

me: Suggestions on what to do?

Aria: I don't know. The councilor has a lot to answer for. Its too bad you couldn't get here earlier. Wait. Who's that?

unknown: Don't fire. My name is Wile E. Coyote

me: What do you want?

Wile: I came to tell you that TIM took the information that was in the beacon. Something about it knowing what the catalyst is.

me: When did he get here?

Wile: It was a few days ago. I've been hiding since away from those creatures.

me: A few days......just after the commandos attacked Kasumi.

Samara: What are you saying?

me: Hold on. Why didn't you go back with TIM?

Wile: I'm a failure. He left me for dead. After Warner Bros. fired me for not catching the Road Runner, I joined Cerberus so I could do something right. Apparently I can't. Warner Bros. hired some guy named Kai Leng to take my place. Not sure how well that's working out.

me: Would you like to work for me?

Wile: Sure. Its better than being here

 

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Petrovosky: I got Oscar here to fill in details for you

Oscar: My two field agents returned with some startling information. The main building is huge. Looking at it from outside its about 500 000 square feet, but it goes 200 feet underground to some tunnels. The tunnels lead to some very giant plants. Here's an image

me: Thorian. How many?

Oscar: They saw 5. There's another thing. The workers are duplicates. It seems one asari is kept in a pod and the plant copies it to create more. They have thousands

Aria: Now I see how she made her fortune. Keep the credits for herself without having to pay clones to do the work

Oscar: Anyways. This image has us worried. Its some kind of ship. The size is ju--

Javik: Its a Prothean ship. We used those in my time to transport soldiers to where they needed. From the looks of it, that is the largest carrier we had. Depending on how it was  loaded, it could carry up to 100 000 troops. The ship is massive. I suspect the asari got the plans from a beacon somewhere

Oscar: Would that ship have weapons?

Javik: It can. There was one that did. In test firing it destroyed a small moon. Unfortunately, the reapers destroy it before the ship was ready for combat

Oscar: That is troubling. You need to go  ASAP Shepard and find out whats going on. If you feel its necessary to destroy the building and ship, 

then you are authorized to do so. I will speak with you after the mission

Petrovosky: Do you need anything before you head to the planet Shepard?

me: No. I got everyone I need. I will talk with you in a few days. Shepard out.

 

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me: So what do you think?

Aria: It sounds like the councilor knew about the reapers for a long time, created her company as a front to build that ship. For what? I don't know.

Javik: Most likely it was to save as many asari as possible and then head to darkspace until the reapers leave.

me: Mmmm. I still don't understand why she just didn't use the catalyst to build the microphone to destroy the reapers before they came here

Javik: She wanted the asari to remain in power by saving her species or at least the few she can while the rest were harvested

Samara: It makes sense though I find it hard to believe she would do that. 

Aria: We need to get to that planet Shepard. Depending on what we find and learn, depends on what happens to the councilor. 

me: Is it possible she is working with TIM?

Aria: I don't know. I like to know how he was able to get that information from the beacon. If she is working with TIM, she needs to die.

me: Snoppy? Take us to the planet Toyous in the Thedas system

[fraggle]

Ok, this will be a lot, I progressed much further than I had anticipated (finished ME2 ).

 

The shuttle brought us to the exterior of the Broker's ship. It's huge and impressive, hiding itself in the storm. We proceeded until we reached the door leading to the interior. While we waited for the door to open, we fought off more Broker forces (died thanks to Miranda ).

We could finally get inside and reached the prison area soon enough. And there was Feron, shackled and being tortured, so we hurried to get him out of there.

And then we finally confronted the Shadow Broker. He... it... is a yahg. Liara made the Broker really angry and Miranda was knocked unconscious.

Liara and I defeated the Broker (that fight is so ridiculous with the melee part, always a good laugh Oh, and I also died once, but it's easy once I knew where to go, haha. Last time it was cool because I could constantly distract the SB with my Engineer drone).

It was done. Liara answered the incoming calls from the Broker's contacts, and... became the new Shadow Broker. I hugged her to calm her down. Then I had a chat with Feron to see how he was holding up. I also pried a bit into the lives of my squadmates and it was an interesting read, but I also learned some things that were very private and I felt nosy, I shouldn't have seen these.

With this done it was time to get the Reaper IFF. Miranda, Mordin and I boarded the derelict Reaper. Strange to be inside one. Through some video logs we found out what happened to the Cerberus crew here and I really want to get out as soon as possible.

To our great luck the ship activated a barrier, trapping us inside. So we needed to destroy the mass effect core, but that would mean the Reaper would fall as soon as we do so. Joker, I'm counting on you.

Then something unbelievable happened. A geth helped us by taking out husks with its sniper rifle. And not only that, it knows my name... what the hell. But no time to wait around for answers, enemies came at us in waves.

We managed to get the Reaper IFF and headed to the core. The geth was already inside, tampering with some panel, shooting husks. It was eventually overwhelmed and I shot the core (the Cain rules Also: NO DEATH, woooo!), and we took the inactive geth and made it to the Normandy.

A debate with Miranda and Jacob broke out. No way I'll let Cerberus have the geth. I'd rather check it out myself, but maybe later. I haven't really made up my mind, but it'd probably be way too dangerous to activate it, even though it seemed friendly (sucks we don't have an option for simply saying we don't want to activate it...).

While we waited for the installation, EDI advised us to take off with the shuttle and squadmates, and Miranda notified everyone.

Upon returning, the Collectors had taken the whole crew and Joker had unshackled EDI so she could gain control over the Normandy again. Miranda was mad, and I had my concerns about the AI as well, but Joker did the right thing. We still have the ship.

I returned to the CIC to set course to the Omega 4 relay. I looked around me and it was strange to see everybody gone. I'm the only one left here right now.

I spent the last few hours in my cabin and made some final checks. Everything seemed in order and I've taken care of the loose ends for everyone. Except mine. I looked at Kaidan's picture. I've read his e-mail over and over again. But now... I need to get rid of it. It probably won't matter anyway, who knows what will wait for us behind the Omega 4 relay. I'm ready. I'll get this done or I'll die trying, there's no other option. With a sigh I deleted (head-canon ) Kaidan's e-mail, I won't need it anymore.

As soon as we went through the Omega 4 relay, something breached our cargo hull, so Mordin, Miranda and I took care of it. After some hassle we landed on the Collector base, but... we had lost Jack, Kasumi and Thane in the process. Sh*t.

We split up our team and I sent Tali through the ventilation shaft, while Garrus led the other team. He has leadership experience and I know he can do it.

Miranda, Mordin and I helped Tali along the way so she could proceed smoothly. Everyone met at the rendezvous point unharmed. Then we were in for a surprise as we discovered colonists and our crew in those pods! We helped them out immediately and Dr. Chakwas explained that the humans are being processed and pumped through tubes. This is where we have to go. Joker said he can pick up our crew and Miranda argued that we took a lot of casualties already and can't spare anyone to accompany the crew. I considered it for a moment, but decided to send Zaeed along with them. We didn't just rescue the crew to send them to their death.

To get through the Seeker swarms, Samara created a barrier with her biotics, her experience made her the perfect choice for this. I let Garrus lead the second team again and he kept us updated until we reached the second rendezvous point. So far, so good.

While Garrus, Tali, Jacob and Samara stayed behind covering us, Miranda, Mordin and I proceeded to the last destination. I couldn't believe what I saw. A Reaper in humanoid form. EDI provided some information, and seeing the remains of humans pumped through the tubes into this... thing, it made me sick. We need to kill it.

Shooting at the feeding tubes proved effective and the Reaper fell (died once here because flanked by Collectors, meh). The Illusive Man contacted us and tried to talk me into keeping the base. If he thinks I will preserve this abomination he has learned nothing about me. Even Miranda's loyalty to Cerberus is over, and she cut him off. With every intend to blow this place to bits I took care of this, but unfortunately the human Reaper had survived and now it's looming over us. We fired everything we got at this thing, and eventually took it down for good (while dying twice in the process I'll never leave the middle platform again! I had found a nice cover spot on the right, but I had forgotten about the platforms being gradually destroyed, so I was shoved onto the next platform with the Reaper behind me, the Collectors in front of me and no good cover. That sucked.).

The place collapsed and the three of us were buried under rubble. I got out and helped Mordin, but my attempt to help Miranda was futile... she died in my arms.

But no time to dwell on it right now, everyone knew the risks and we need to get out of here now immediately. Mordin and I made it to the Normandy safely, and inside the other survivors were waiting. We actually did it...

 

That was a Suicide Mission alright! I got all excited this time because I didn't know how everything would play out if I don't upgrade the ship at all!

RIP Jack, Kasumi, Thane, Zaeed and Miranda.

Will play Arrival tomorrow (probably not on Insanity though, wanna get through as fast as possible ).

 

Ah, and Hannah's look in ME2:

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[Hazegurl]

Renegade Sheploo just read an email from Kaidan after their fight at Horizon

[gottaloveme]

Which email is that one?

[Hazegurl]

The one calling him(Sheploo) a woman.

[gottaloveme]

I tried wiki but can't find it - have you got a link?

[fraggle]

Weird. So I didn't romance anyone in ME1 this time, but Liara shows up in the ME2 intro as the ship is burning. Is this normal for PS3?

 

Hopefully I didn't get ninjamanced. I don't need any sappy hand-holding cutscenes.

 

I think that was a bug on PS3 if you were in a romance with someone, but if you haven't romanced anyone Liara is the default from what I know.

But no worries, it's just the "friendship" path, hahaha (I had the same last time I didn't romance anyone in ME1).

[Vazgen]

Weird. So I didn't romance anyone in ME1 this time, but Liara shows up in the ME2 intro as the ship is burning. Is this normal for PS3?

 

Hopefully I didn't get ninjamanced. I don't need any sappy hand-holding cutscenes.

Funny thing, they all wear Phoenix armor I usually give a set to Liara in ME1 purely for that reason. Good thing I don't use her in my squad in ME1