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[Melbella]

Shepard was ready to deal with Cerberus when Hackett asked him to locate 25-year-old probe that had just signaled the Alliance. Apparently it was booby-trapped with a nuclear warhead. How much more complicated could this get?
 
A lot more complicated apparently. First, someone had moved the probe into a mine. Second, that someone was named Haliat, the person responsible for attacking Elysium all those years ago. Haliat was pleased to see that he had captured Shepard, the person responsible for the heroic holding action on Elysium. Bruno Shepard, normally a nice and reserved individual, was less than pleased at hearing Haliat was responsible for The Blitz. He vowed to kill Haliat. Haliat merely laughed him off.
 
After quickly disabling the bomb, Shepard and his squad made it out of the mine and found they were overlooking Haliat and his men... and the Mako which Haliat apparently stole. That was the final insult. Shepard took sweet vengeance on Haliat for both The Blitz and his stolen vehicle.

 

Am the only one who thinks Haliat should have been a batarian? Instead, he's sorta-but-not-quite human. Did they (Bioware) not know what batarians looked like yet?

[Natureguy85]

Am the only one who thinks Haliat should have been a batarian? Instead, he's sorta-but-not-quite human. Did they (Bioware) not know what batarians looked like yet?

 

No, you're not. I've heard Batarian and Turian. Batarian would make the most sense if I remember the events correctly. You might be right. No Batarians are in Mass Effect unless you play Bring Down the Sky. I don't know if they had a codex picture though.

[cap and gown]

After tearing through dozens of Eclipse mercenaries and even throwing one of them out of a window, Tatyana Shepard was totally flummoxed when faced with a scared, Shuriken weilding Salarian. Needless to say, she did not follow him.

 

Spoiler

[iM3GTR]

  Today, my Femshep infiltrator fixed the VI landlines and the He-3 fuel lines, and travelled to Rift Station. It was cold, so Shepard ran around and climbed over the seats, while Liara and Garrus looked on silently (I think they're depressed because their home planets are warm) _.

  After eventually arriving at the station, the team met a heavily armed ventriloquist (Though he had left his dummy behind). Then they proceeded to shoot two Rachni who for some reason decided to climb up an air vent. The ventriloquist thanked Shepard so she went down to the medical bay, and found out about an experiment gone wrong (What do you expect, creating lethal bio-weapons?).

  Dr. Cohen, the lazy man he is, made Shepard make the cure (Fortunately, the instructions were easy, as if the scientists were expecting a random soldier to do it instead). Not so easy, however was taking down a commando and a disgruntled Huntress, but Shepard managed it. A "sane" Volus, named Han Olar, decided to speak some more riddles, and a scientist made a funny joke about two Hydrogen atoms. 

  Next, a crazy Russian doctor told Shepard and Co. about some Rachni and a neutron purge, which zapped the stupid insects into dust. Shepard left the hallway full of flash-boiled bugs and returned to the surface, only to be betrayed by Ventralis and his cronies. Some gunshots and explosions sorted them out.

  Benezia was in one of the hot labs, and bleated on about  motherhood, only to fall to the ground, begging for mercy. Fortunately for her, she had some coordinates Shepard wanted, in order to find the Mu relay. Yet again she betrayed Shepard, only to die anyway. Liara was sad. Then the Rachni queen wanted to be set free. However, thousands of Krogan died to get rid of the Rachni, and helping them back would put their sacrifice to waste. The queen melted away, corroded by the acid, and faded into history.

Shepard found some yellow armour in a locker, and rode off into the sunset, ready to stop an asteroid attack.

[von uber]

Started Samara's recruitment mission.. but then ran out of steam.

[RedCaesar97]

Am the only one who thinks Haliat should have been a batarian? Instead, he's sorta-but-not-quite human. Did they (Bioware) not know what batarians looked like yet?

 

 

No, you're not. I've heard Batarian and Turian. Batarian would make the most sense if I remember the events correctly. You might be right. No Batarians are in Mass Effect unless you play Bring Down the Sky. I don't know if they had a codex picture though.

 

Yes, I think Haliat should have been Batarian.

 

I am 95% certain that the codex entry on Batarians had a picture of a Batarian before the Bring Down the Sky DLC was released. (I am on Xbox and bought Mass Effect when it first came out.) There is a 5% chance that I am misremembering things.

[RedCaesar97]

Bruce Shepard tracked down the last Cerberus based on the data he had retrieved from Admiral Kahoku's body. So he landed on the planet, killed a Thresher Maw, then eliminated the Cerberus troops with extreme prejudice. He then grabbed some files from a terminal. 

 

(Side note: The game says that the files are probably encrypted, but you have time to crack them. Sure I do, if I have a quantum computer. Unless Cerberus encrypted the files with quantum computing then I am equally screwed. Did Shepard at least try to grab the private key from the terminal while he was there? No? Then he could be in for a loooooong wait.)

 

Then Bruno Shepard sold a bunch of equipment because he was getting close to the 150 item limit. Then he bought some gear from Alliance Quartermaster. Then he talked to the crew and got some new quests from Wrex and Garrus.

 

Then it was off to find Dr. Saleon to finish Garrus's unique quest. They found Dr. Saleon on board a freighter with a bunch of test subjects which are totally not Thorian Creepers. Bruce Shepard was going to arrest Dr. Saleon, but after thinking about all that paperwork -- plus Garrus gave him those sad puppy dog eyes and begged like a small child -- he let Garrus kill him instead. 

 

Then Hackett called to tell Shepard to go retrieve some data module from a crashed probe before the geth find it. So Bruce landed on Eletania, found a use for the trinket he received from The Consort, then went looking for a monkey in a mine. Two years from now, Bruce will learn the monkey is actually called a pyjak, and he will punch one in the face and blow a few dozen up with defense turrets for a store discount. He grabbed the data module from a monkey, then destroyed a bunch of geth on his way out of the mine. 

 

Bruce is hoping that he will be done with mines (spoiler: he won't).

[iM3GTR]

In Haliat's mission, you can sometimes see an eyepiece like Garrus' on him, so I think he was going to be a Turian.

 

"Someone up there needs my boot up his ass." What a great line.

[RedCaesar97]

What I am currently doing:

 

Bruce Shepard is on the planet Xawin (Mass Effect 1) to look for Garoth's brother. I am at the 'fun' part where I am trying to kill four turrets and a bunch of snipers on foot in a level 1 cold hazard (with no Devlon Industries armor) on foot for max XP. It is a lot of hit and run with the Mako followed by long stretches of waiting for the Mako shields to recharge. Should be a 'fun' hour. 

[fraggle]

I fired up ME3 and denied James to call me Lola in order to prepare more dialogue variations with him for the N7 talk and the DLC "romance", haha. Did Tuchanka and Citadel Coup, plus a couple of side missions, all on Insanity because why the hell not. I consider it practice I've become fond of Kaidan's Cryo Blast and my Shep's Throw... nice.

Now I'm waiting for Vega's e-mail Guess I need to progress some more in the story, so likely Geth Dreadnought is up next. Tali is dead in this pseudo playthrough, should be interesting.

[Melbella]

What I am currently doing:
 
Bruce Shepard is on the planet Xawin (Mass Effect 1) to look for Garoth's brother. I am at the 'fun' part where I am trying to kill four turrets and a bunch of snipers on foot in a level 1 cold hazard (with no Devlon Industries armor) on foot for max XP. It is a lot of hit and run with the Mako followed by long stretches of waiting for the Mako shields to recharge. Should be a 'fun' hour.

 

If engineers got a bonus to Mako shield recharge time, I'd never play any other class. Which is probably why they didn't do it.  I'm sure I've wasted hours waiting for them to get back to full strength.

[RedCaesar97]

Okay, so Bruno Shepard managed to take out all the pirates that killed Garoth's brother, and then found the man's dead body. Also on that planet: a Geth trap. Destroyed a bunch of Armatures that dropped in.

 

The Bruno went to go meet Helena Blake, and he managed to convince her to disband the gang.

 

Then it was off to go find Wrex's family armor. I took Wrex along for the little extra dialogue. I did not miss Kaidan all that much. The Tonn Actus fight is usually one of the toughest fights for me, but this fight was not too bad for some reason. Wrex was nearly useless as he usually is, but he did provide some decent support.

 

 

Okay, so next up for Bruno Shepard is to go stop a Geth incursion into the Armstrong Cluster. Hopefully I can finish that tomorrow night. And then I can finally go back to playing actual plot missions. 

[cap and gown]

Yes, I think Haliat should have been Batarian.

 

I am 95% certain that the codex entry on Batarians had a picture of a Batarian before the Bring Down the Sky DLC was released. (I am on Xbox and bought Mass Effect when it first came out.) There is a 5% chance that I am misremembering things.

 

Tell me where to find a codex on entry on Batarians and I will look into this. I have started up a new Shepard with BDtS uninstalled to investigate this issue. I have been running around that Citadel collecting codex entries by talking to Avina's, ambassadors, and others folk but still don't have any entry on Batarians.

[Natureguy85]

Tell me where to find a codex on entry on Batarians and I will look into this. I have started up a new Shepard with BDtS uninstalled to investigate this issue. I have been running around that Citadel collecting codex entries by talking to Avina's, ambassadors, and others folk but still don't have any entry on Batarians.

 

I don't know where you get the codex entry, but the wiki says that if you don't have BDtS installed, it will have this concept art.

 

http://masseffect.wi...an_original.png

[fraggle]

If engineers got a bonus to Mako shield recharge time, I'd never play any other class. Which is probably why they didn't do it.  I'm sure I've wasted hours waiting for them to get back to full strength.

 

I'm not sure if it's the same for PC/XBox, but in case you need your Mako shields restored, drive away from the enemies a bit so that when you get out of the Mako with your squad, they are not visible on the map anymore. Then you can save and reload, and the Mako is as good as new. That worked for me on the PS3. The only downside of that was the horrible loading time (I think this is not a problem for either PC or XBox though, PS3 is terrible in this regard), but even that was faster than waiting for the Mako to get ready again

 

 

As for the batarian codex, found this while googling, so I'm not sure how accurate it is, but it might be worth checking out if you guys wanna find out more. The first is tied to the Colonist background (don't know which background you selected, cap ):

-When you return to the Citadel for the first time enter the C-Sec accademy you will be contacted Marine about a girl who was found that
was taken by slavers on Mindoir. As soon as you are contacted about this quest it is added to the Codex. (Assignment - Citadel: I Remember Me)
-Alternate: Talk to the Captain about his past with Saren

[cap and gown]

OK, I just talked to Anderson about Saren and unlocked a codex entry on Batarians. The picture that accompanies the codex entry is the one that Natureguy85 linked to in his post. It is not the same as you would see if you have BDtS installed.

[Mlady]

I beat ME3 for the first time last night. I actually liked the ending though I was shedding tears so badly. My Shepard chose the Destroy option, and her last thought was of her lover Thane, so that was a nice touch. After that Kaiden (who was in love with her, but she never romanced) refused to place her name on the memorial, and watching everyone cheer over the Reapers death was really satisfying. I regret losing EDI and the Geth, but except for them, Anderson, Mordin, Thane and Legion, everyone else lived and that's pretty damn satisfying for me. I plan to play the trilogy again and try new things, but for my first experience, I was smiling.

[KotorEffect3]

Considering that I am 500 miles south of my xbox right now no Mass Effect at least until Saturday.  Though I have some pics and progressed for a few missions since I last updated my progress in this thread.  So I might post those if I have time in the next couple of days.

[RedCaesar97]

I completed 3/5 of the Geth Incursion with Bruce Shepard. I hate Antibaar so much.

[iM3GTR]

Antibaar lags like a PS1 game. 

[KotorEffect3]

Antibaar has always been brutal, blinding blizzard, a colussus as well as fortified snipers and rocket troopers, sure you can try to take them out at a distance with the mako but make sure you have plenty of onmi gel on hand, then after you take out the colussus and the fortified geth then you got to deal with a second wave of troopers supplemented by a couple of primes.

[Excella Gionne]

I beat ME3 for the first time last night. I actually liked the ending though I was shedding tears so badly. My Shepard chose the Destroy option, and her last thought was of her lover Thane, so that was a nice touch. After that Kaiden (who was in love with her, but she never romanced) refused to place her name on the memorial, and watching everyone cheer over the Reapers death was really satisfying. I regret losing EDI and the Geth, but except for them, Anderson, Mordin, Thane and Legion, everyone else lived and that's pretty damn satisfying for me. I plan to play the trilogy again and try new things, but for my first experience, I was smiling.

My first ending was Control, and so, I have soft spot for that ending. I was in tears the whole time, and I still cry a bit every time. #ICryEveryTime

[Mlady]

My first ending was Control, and so, I have soft spot for that ending. I was in tears the whole time, and I still cry a bit every time. #ICryEveryTime

 

I'm going to try that one next, and then synthesis. I like making Shepard's suited to each choice, but the tears always come no matter what lol it's amazing how attached I became to that universe and its characters.

[KotorEffect3]

I don't know what I will do with Sandra,  it will either be control or synthesis.  I have done all three endings with different characters I know she won't pick destroy (she is more AI sympathetic than Tyson was) but I am not sure what fits her personality more.

[Natureguy85]

I was ready to cry at how bad the ending was, but I'm glad you liked it.