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[andy6915]

What motherf*cking mod deleted my last post?! That took 2 f*cking goddamn hours to type! I will f*cking kill the mod who did that. What the f*ck? I will retype the entire goddamn thing if I have to, you didn't have the right to delete a post that took that much effort. You'd better have some kind of record of the point, or I swear to f*cking god... I have never been more p!ssed at the moderators here in my entire time coming to this site. This is absolute horsrsh!t. I'm only censoring these curses because it will hard censor them otherwise, but I want these curse words known. This... This angers me beyond words. I am f*cking seething.

 

I'm contacting the head admin right now.

[Natureguy85]

First combat deployment of the Thanix-II Particle Lance:

 

 

Is that a mod of some other game? Cool.

 

I said a long time ago that I want a Mass Effect game like XCOM. A mass Effect 4X game with diplomacy, would also be badass. I like Sword of the Stars where it's turn based on the map with real time combat.

[fraggle]

Shore leave at last! I had such a good time with the people around me, lots of fun and drinks, though meeting up with Javik was a little weird... But the best thing was that Jack actually had a little leave herself. She wrote me an e-mail, asking to check out the combat simulator with her, first thing next morning. Sure, you got it. Just like old times, eh? Strange doing this without Miranda in the team, but we managed pretty well on our own. After winning the match I kissed her, and I couldn't wait to do this a lot to her the next few hours. And more. I missed her so much.

In the evening we held Thane's memorial service, which was a real downer of course, but thank f*ck Ash had the best idea. We met up afterwards and just got drunk... like, really drunk. Slept like a damn baby that night.

Next evening I watched a biotiball game with Steve and James, good times. Jack and I had made plans she'd visit after, aaand she had a surprise for me. I thought of something else when she told me to get undressed, naturally. But she tattooed me instead. Kinda cool, huh? A tattoo from my girlfriend. I told her it looks nice, but she didn't do it because of 'nice'. She told me about a bad drop on Palaven, how one of her students almost got killed by a bunch of husks, Jack luckily recognising her just in time. So she'd give me a little ID... it was a vulnerable moment for Jack, and for me, and I understood why this tattoo was important to her. I took her into my arms, and we just stood there for a moment. I don't know what the future will bring, but I know we have to make the best of our time together. I kissed her. Slowly at first, but it got heated pretty fast and I led her to the hot tub, peeling her out of her clothes on the way. It was quite the hazzle trying to keep my tattoo out of the water, but we managed. Jack stayed the night, but had to leave early on. Some errands. And I had to do the same actually. Party day was here, and way too early. Could've done with even more shore leave, but hey, there's a galaxy to save, right?

Even so, I had the best time of my entire life. Surrounded by all my friends and Jack, it was a great night with lots of laughter, drinks, dancing... wish it could've gone on longer. But all good times end, and I woke up with Jack in my arms, kissing her gently. I looked at her and smiled, shaking my head when I realised she wasn't even hungover. Must be nice, huh?

We got up and I checked up on everyone, already smelling James's delicious eggs. You better save me some, Vega.

After everyone was more or less ready, provided with enough caffeine and food, we headed back to the Normandy docking bay. Jack and I stood next to each other and I took her hand, our fingers intertwined. I had a weird feeling about the coming days, and Jack tried hard to keep a positive attitude. Told me that I'm gonna get back from this war, that I'm gonna take her dancing. It was in this moment that I knew I'm gonna do much more than that.

If I survive this, if I have the chance to see Jack again... I will ask her to marry me. If I can survive the Reapers, I can surely survive her reaction to that.

For now, we had to part ways again. I wish she could've come with me, but I'm sure wherever she'll be deployed, it will be safer than with me. At least I hope so.

My crew and I were ready for our final assault on Cerberus, and I couldn't wait to get to the Illusive Man and make him pay for everything he's done. After more preparations, the Normandy was good to go. Alright, let's do this.

 

Screenshots:

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Uh nope, not this time. I'm outta here!

 

Just like back then! Jack staggers, I shoot.

 

Awesome pic!

 

That scene!!! I laughed like an idiot, whoever came up with this kiss right when the Atlas explodes deserves all the chocolate in the world, ahahaha.

 

For Thane's memorial service I liked the Renegade answers sooo much more, so I picked all of them

 

Hilarious line

 

And now I know that Grunt knows nothing about Wrex, haha. Could've been interesting.

 

All aboard the weep train

 

Good there's also some sexual fun scenes

 

The gang. Joker's watching Kasumi's crotch??

 

It's okay. I can take this scene. No problem

 

 

Sigh. I'm loving Jack's romance, a lot. Without Citadel DLC it would be lacking quite a bit, but her scenes in there were amazing and I'm super happy about it.

Oh, and btw, I checked it now. Jack's message unlocks simply after getting her and the Brimstone map, nothing more They still fought elites, but that happens automatically.

[Rascoth]

Commander? Commander? Are you alright?

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*backs off slowly*

Ekhm... A few days ago I started - yet another - replay of my canon. I finished some side quests, got whole team and just got my own apartment from Ahern. Next stop - Feros (or maybe asteroid over Terra Nova...).

[RedCaesar97]

@fraggle: I really like Jack's romance scenes in the Citadel DLC. I only have one Shepard brave psychotic enough to fall in love with her in ME2 though. Also, he wouldn't mind a biotic Varren as a pet. He would probably even give at an Omni Collar that neural shocks passing cats...

 

 

 

DOCTOR BURNSIDE: Tell me about Garrus Vakarian.

NICOLE SHEPARD: What's to tell? He's Turian, former military, former C-Sec officer.

 

BURNSIDE: And he quit C-Sec and joined you on the Normandy when you chasing after Saren, correct?

SHEPARD: Correct.

 

BURNSIDE: And then you helped him track down a Dr. Saleon. And you killed him.

SHEPARD: Yes.

 

BURNSIDE: Why did you kill Dr. Saleon instead of arresting him?

SHEPARD: C-Sec had their chance.

 

BURNSIDE: From what I understand, C-Sec let him go because he had hostages aboard his ship.

SHEPARD: And what ever happened to those hostages?

 

BURNSIDE: ...

SHEPARD: Exactly. At the time of his escape, Dr. Saleon was using people as living test tubes. By the time we had caught up to him, he had graduated into a butcher, transforming and killing people for his twisted definition of science. There was enough evidence aboard his ship to track his recent history, we didn't need him alive. 

 

BURNSIDE: I see. Moving on, you then went to go see a Dr. Wayne, the last surving person of a group of scientists who were being hunted down and killed. What happened?

SHEPARD: He was on a remote base on some uncharted world. No idea what he was doing there. Hiding out maybe? Regardless, when we got to his base, it was already being attacked by mercenaries. We killed the mercs, then found the last merc pointing a gun to Dr. Wayne's head.

 

BURNSIDE: Corporal Toombs.

SHEPARD: Corporal Toombs said his unit had been attacked by Thresher Maws. When he survived the attack, he said Dr. Wayne and the other scientists tortured and experimented on him. He eventually escaped and then hunted them all down.

 

BURNSIDE: According to your mission report, Toombs said the scientists worked for Cerberus.

SHEPARD: Yes.

 

BURNSIDE: And this was the first time you had heard of Cerberus?

SHEPARD: Yes.

 

BURNSIDE: So you had no knowledge of Cerberus before meeting Toombs.

SHEPARD: I did not.

 

BURNSIDE: And you killed Toombs.

SHEPARD: No choice. There was no way I could talk him down. 

 

BURNSIDE: And you arrested Dr. Wayne.

SHEPARD: Yes.

 

BURNSIDE: You killed Dr. Saleon, but you spared Dr. Wayne. Why?

SHEPARD: Because we knew nothing about Dr. Wayne or the organization called Cerberus. The Alliance could use him to get some answers.

 

BURNSIDE: But you knew nothing about Dr. Saleon's recent history.

SHEPARD: We knew enough.

 

JAMES VEGA: Sorry to interrupt, but Anderson and the committee want to meet you straight away, Commander.

 

SHEPARD: Ugh. Fine. Later, doc.

[RedCaesar97]

 

DOCTOR BURNSIDE: I want to ask you about your first encounter with Cerberus.

NICOLE SHEPARD: Oh boy, here we go.

 

BURNSIDE: So Admiral Kahoku asked you to find his missing men.

SHEPARD: Yes. I found them dead in a Thresher Maw nest, next to a distress beacon. They had been lured into the nest and killed by the Thresher Maw.

 

BURNSIDE: And later Kahoku told you that it was an organization called Cerberus that had lured his men. He also told you that Cerberus was now after him, and he gave you the location of some Cerberus bases.

SHEPARD: Yes. Then I went and killed all Cerberus personnel in those bases. They were studying the Rachni and Thorian Creepers.

 

BURNSIDE: Do you know how they managed to get a hold of Rachni and Thorian Creepers?

SHEPARD: Not really. I believe some people on Noveria and Feros sent them samples. Benezia said the Rachni was Saren's project, but I don't think Cerberus was working for Saren. And Exogeni was studying the Thorian. We later found out they were experimenting on some of the Thorian Creepers, but it seemed isolated. Either Cerberus had operatives on the inside, or some people were looking to make a lot of extra credits and Cerberus just happened to be the buyer.

 

BURNSIDE: You also found Kahoku dead.

SHEPARD: We did. Then we found the location of another base, and killed everyone there, too. We even managed to download some files.

 

BURNSIDE: Which you then gave to the Shadow Broker.

SHEPARD: Kakoku had made a deal with the Shadow Broker: the location of the bases for any data he found on Cerberus. I honored that deal.

 

BURNSIDE: Weren't those files considered Alliance property? Isn't that treason to send those files to the Shadow Broker.

SHEPARD: I still gave the Alliance a copy of the files. And no, they were never Alliance property. Admiral Kahoku went to the Shadow Broker for intel, he then made a deal with the Shadow Broker to give him the files. The deal -- and the mission -- was never an Alliance mission so the files were never officially Alliance propery.

 

BURNSIDE: And if the Shadow Broker sold those files back to Cerberus?

SHEPARD: Not my problem. I don't know what the Shadow Broker did with those files and I don't really care either. The Shadow Broker got the files he asked for, and the Alliance got a copy of the those files. Everybody wins.

 

BURNSIDE: But that was not your only encounter with Cerberus? You met them again.

SHEPARD: No I did not.

 

BURNSIDE: But your file says you tracked down some Rachni shipments to some remote planets and then wiped them out. You then tracked those shipments to a cargo ship run by Cerberus.

SHEPARD: But Cerberus was not on the ship. We found messages from a Cerberus cell, but no Cerberus personnel. We have no way of knowing if the Cerberus personnel that were on the ship were killed when I attacked their bases or if they escaped.

 

BURNSIDE: So Cerberus captured and tortured Corporal Toombs, captured and kill an Alliance Admiral, experimented on Rachni and Thorian Creepers, unleashed Rachni on remote planets for study--

SHEPARD: Shut up. I know where this is going. I never sympathized with Cerberus. I do not condone Cerberus' actions in the past. I worked for Cerberus, but never joined Cerberus! Get that through your thick skull!

 

BURNSIDE: Shepard, please, you must understand--

SHEPARD: I understand perfectly. The Alliance does not trust me until they need something dangerous done, then it's all "Shepard go over there and take care of that for us." The only reason I am here is because the Alliance needs to prepare to fight the Reapers and they can't do that if they are fighting the Batarians! I turned myself in to appease the Batarians and press the Alliance into preparing for the Reapers. And what has the Alliance done? Pretty much squandered it while they drag their feet in indecision. Hell, apart from Anderson and maybe Admiral Hackett, most of the Alliance brass still thinks the Reapers are myth, despite all evidence I presented.

 

BURNSIDE: They dispute the evidence because your past actions depict someone slowly losing grip on reality.

SHEPARD: Oh for the love of---

 

BURNSIDE: Shepard, my goal is to prove that you are either telling the truth and that you are sane and in full control of your mind, or to prove otherwise. It would be in your best intereests to continue to cooperate with me with these sessions as we explore your past.

SHEPARD: I think it would be in my best interest to go bang my head against a wall. It would hurt and be pointless but at least it would take up less of my time.

 

BURNSIDE: Ms. Shepard...

SHEPARD: Stuff it, doc. We're done for today.

[MASSEFFECTfanforlife101]

Around two, or three o'clock in the morning last night, I was watching a video about the Garrus Romance for the Citadel DLC (mostly watching the dance seen). Something must hit me like a bolt of lightning! I decided "Screw it!," started ME1, and recreated my FemShep! My FemShep is BACK! This time starting properly with ME1! That's right! I decided to put aside my MaleShep for awhile, and focus on my FemShep, who will have a relationship with Garrus! 

 

It wasn't easy, I had to look at low res screenshots of my FemShep (from ME2 and ME3) from a few years, plus it was very late at night. Buy the time she arrived at the Citadel, it was dawn. Anyway, she's back! Quorra Shepard has returned!

[fraggle]

@fraggle: I really like Jack's romance scenes in the Citadel DLC. I only have one Shepard brave psychotic enough to fall in love with her in ME2 though. Also, he wouldn't mind a biotic Varren as a pet. He would probably even give at an Omni Collar that neural shocks passing cats...

 

Yeah, they're pretty amazing and show how far their relationship has come. It's beautiful to see Jack like that (though I also enjoyed their ME2 content a lot!). I always loved her, but now even more I think Idan is the only one to romance Jack for me as well. I actually quite enjoy having some romances exclusively tied to one character.

[Jallard]

As my character is a heroic female adept, while I love Liara, Kelly Chambers and Samantha Traynor, I truly enjoy the banter between my Femshep and Traynor. That being said however, it is to bad that Gabby cannot be romanced. I love her character. As Jack is heterosexual in ME I can only romance her through her actors voice in Fallout 4.

[RedCaesar97]

Just scored 302 kills in a Hunt mission (Hunt: Subterranean) at Pinnacle Station with a freaking Engineer, on Insanity. (My personal best record is 328, also in Subterranean).

 

This is not meant to be a brag post, but rather a showing about how freaking broken Pinnacle Station can be sometimes. Meanwhile, I have to drop the difficulty on Hunt: Volcanic to barely get first place on the leaderboard. Personally, I agree with Vidinos: I think Bryant cheated.

[fraggle]

It's done... we raided the Cerberus headquarters. Kai Leng is dead. We recovered the Prothean VI we met on Thessia, and this time we could get the information we needed. The Catalyst is the Citadel... so close the entire time. Almost feels like a joke.

The Illusive Man is still alive unfortunately, fled to the Citadel to warn the Reapers about the our plans. I never should've given him the base, never should've trusted him with that. It's too late now, but I hope I can still correct my mistake. Will be a little hard though since the Reapers now moved the Citadel to Earth. Nothing is ever easy, huh.

Well... I don't know whether I'll have the opportunity to keep records of what happens next. We're about to head back to Earth, into the unknown. Anything could happen from here on.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous. I'm scared sh*tless. Scared I lose anyone I care about, scared about not even making it to the Citadel in time, scared about whether we can actually deploy the Crucible. If it works.

Too many unknowns at this point. I just hope... this ends soon, one way or another.

 

Jack... If you ever read all this... I love you. Never forget that.

 

Picture time!

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Yeah, Jeff. He does know

 

The Atlas shield drops pretty fast with the Supressor

 

Used a different approach on this mission, with lots of Disruptor ammo and Overload. Quite fun. Bzzzt.

 

That frigging guy on the right was a little suicidal, haha.

 

Sometimes Cerberus just likes to hang around

 

Goddamn turrets...

 

...and phantoms

 

Good dialogue line for my Shepard

 

Got a little heated in there...

 

Bye bye, Lengie-boy.

 

Oh man, this mission went not exactly great, because... I somehow didn't see Ash is on the sniper even though I checked the weapons at the beginning. D'uh. Then I forgot to also activate her Disruptor Ammo. And, worst of it all, I died at the Kai Leng fight - twice Well, first time it was a Phantom, then I somehow screwed up my buttons when that little scene was playing where he is getting way too close for my taste. Geez. Maybe I shouldn't play in the middle of the night, but then I'm not good during the day either However, it's good it's done now! Earth is up next, and finally I can finish up this Shepard after dying 100 times at M.Shields, it's been going on way too long (iirc I started in OCTOBER!! ).

[RedCaesar97]

Just died on Ahern's special mission (Mass Effect 1, Pinnacle Station DLC) with 10-15 seconds left. Got hit by a rocket I did not see coming or something.

 

I hate the ME1 Engineer

I hate the ME1 Engineer

I hate the ME1 Engineer

I hate the ME1 Engineer

I hate the ME1 Engineer

I hate the ME1 Engineer

I hate the ME1 Engineer

I hate the ME1 Engineer

I hate the ME1 Engineer

I hate the ME1 Engineer

I hate the ME1 Engineer

I hate the ME1 Engineer...

[R0bE0]

Finished ME1 again with my Ruthless/Earthborn Renegade: Gil Shepard.

 

Completed Virmire- leaving Kaidan to die, and also managing to save Captain Kirrahe. (I know, I know, Paragon action and all that. But I really like his character.)

 

Clued up my romance with Liara, and went to Ilos. Kicked some Geth ass on the Citadel, while leaving the Council to their fates. Managed to talk Saren into commiting suicide rather than duking it out with him. Kicked his Reaper-ified ass. Then kicked Sovereign's ass.

 

Lots of ass kicking.

 

Gil put Udina forward as the Chairman of the new Council. (Only if because in my Paragon PT I always put forward Anderson.)

 

Will probably start ME2 with her tomorrow.

[andy6915]

Just died on Ahern's special mission (Mass Effect 1, Pinnacle Station DLC) with 10-15 seconds left. Got hit by a rocket I did not see coming or something.
 
I hate the ME1 Engineer
I hate the ME1 Engineer

I hate the ME1 Engineer

I hate the ME1 Engineer

You think that's bad? Imagine how it is for me, using Onyx armor because it's the canon armor. Engineer+insanity+worst armor in the game=this is gonna suck.

But yeah, engineer is probably the hardest class in ME1. No immunity, no barrier, really fragile, only have access to debuffs, and Krogan are basically a death sentence since they kill me literally in a single hit (especially for my sorry ass since I focused entirely on tech and never leveled medicine, meaning no neural shock to stop charging Krogan). Plus side, I gave her a sniper rifle as a bonus power. So at least I can take enemies at long range, before they get close enough to own me. Most of the time. Killing a Krogan on insanity with a sniper rifle when they're going at charge speed is nearly impossible. I basically need a biotic party member at all times, I need throw or lift or something to get enemies off me fast.

At least engineers are amazing in ME2 and ME3, probably one of my favorite classes.

[RedCaesar97]

Engineer+insanity+worst armor in the game=this is gonna suck.

But yeah, engineer is probably the hardest class in ME1. No immunity, no barrier, really fragile, only have access to debuffs, and Krogan are basically a death sentence since they kill me literally in a single hit (especially for my sorry ass since I focused entirely on tech and never leveled medicine, meaning no neural shock to stop charging Krogan). Plus side, I gave her a sniper rifle as a bonus power. So at least I can take enemies at long range, before they get close enough to own me. Most of the time. Killing a Krogan on insanity with a sniper rifle when they're going at charge speed is nearly impossible. I basically need a biotic party member at all times, I need throw or lift or something to get enemies off me fast.

At least engineers are amazing in ME2 and ME3, probably one of my favorite classes.

 

Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes. Yes to the whole thing.

 

And Engineer debuffs aren't even very good to begin with.

• As powers, Overload is mostly useless. 
• Sabotage is okay-ish, but a death sentence if you hit a Krogan or a large bipedal Geth unit since they will immediately charge you and melee you to death. Also, it only overheats weapons on the next shot, so you can still die from gunfire, like sniper shots.
• Damping only works against Tech and biotics, but I don't think it works as written. It is supposed to prevent enemies from using tech and biotic powers, but I think it only increases their cooldown once they use a power. Pretty sure I have used Damping in the past on enemies only for them to immediately use a biotic or tech power almost immediately afterwords.
• AI Hacking is situational and can actually be harmful if you are too close to a Geth unit since they will attack you anyway. for example, crazy-fast charging Destroyer.
• Neural Shock is single-target only and has an extremely low duration (1 second at Basic? Are you kidding me?).

[Jukaga]

Is that a mod of some other game? Cool.

 

I said a long time ago that I want a Mass Effect game like XCOM. A mass Effect 4X game with diplomacy, would also be badass. I like Sword of the Stars where it's turn based on the map with real time combat.

 

Yeah, it's a mod for the Paradox grand strategy/4x game Stellaris.

[introverted_assassin]

been breezing through Sparks ME3 run...hell I'm on the Citadel DLC now.

i didn't change much in this run through...Samara is dead because I missed the paragon interrupt...Sparks originally wasn't going to cure the genophage...she never told Wrex or Bakara about the sabatoge...but Mordin changed her mind..."I don't know if I fully trust the Krogan...but I trust you." No...I'm not crying at all. ( never saw that scene before either)

those about it...I'm actually leaning toward a Synthesis ending with this Shepard though it is not my favorite.

[MASSEFFECTfanforlife101]

I officially named my FemShep my "Canon" Shep!

 

....Also convinced Major Kyle to turn himself in, killed a few Thresher Maw on foot, etc.

[fraggle]

Hey...

I... finally had the guts to come here. Hope you're alright, wherever you are. Don't really know what to say... it's kinda weird not talking to... you. The real you I mean. Not just some stupid stone with your name on it.

Well, sh*t. I still don't know how exactly you did it, but you saved me. Saved us. All of us. Those Reaper f*cks are dead. Couldn't believe it when I saw them dropping to the ground right in front of us. I'm not sure how long we could've held out.

Rebuilding is going well. As well as it can be I guess... Grissom is going on again for a while now. I get to teach a bunch of new kids in addition to mine. Even younger. You'd like them. Kinda funny, thinking back. Never would've imagined someone like me would be teaching kids. Be a person to trust in. It's a nice feeling. Knowing I'm needed, and loved. Accepted. I owe that to you. And so much more. I wish we could... Kahlee gave me your datapad some while ago. The Alliance had forwarded it to her, with regards from Joker. I would've said Yes, you dumba*s.

Sh*t. I miss you. I know what you did helped everyone, but it's... it's just so f*cking unfair, you know that? You promised me you'd come back. You... you were supposed to take me out dancing. You were mine. You still are. In a way. And I will never forget you. I... sh*t, I have thought over and over what I'm gonna tell you, and now that I'm here I just... I have no idea. Everything sounds stupid when I say it out loud and you're not here with your ugly mug to laugh at me.

It's not the same anymore.

Sh*t. I guess I just still need some more time. I will be back, but... I can't right now. Love you. And don't you dare banging some hot ladies in that new world of yours while I'm away, you hear me? See you around...

 

 

So... yup. Idan Shepard is dead. And I killed him I had planned it from the beginning, but damn, it was so tough to do it in the end, I really loved playing this guy. I would never have thought that I'd end up being so attached to him. This is all Jack's fault, and now I'm crying because I did that horrible thing to her To counter the grief, I will start my next Shepard tomorrow, that's always the best idea

Some last screenshots of Idan's adventures:

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First time I almost got killed in the shuttle. That is pretty annoying and I'm sorry for everyone who had that happen before.

 

I was quite disappointed with Ash's FOB scene. It was... pretty shortish and dull? Kaidan's is a lot better, and while I didn't hate Ash in ME3, Kaidan is a lot better than her in general

 

Wish you would've listened to her, Shep

 

Javik goes living with the hanar, yay!

 

Wow, Tali! You look different

 

Bzzzzt.

 

Shooting the helpless in the face. Yup. Gladly

 

Gooooo, go for iiiiiit!

 

Picked Ash first because I was curious if she'd be the wounded one, or the most used (Liara).

 

Only died once! I couldn't believe it Finished him with a nice headshot. That felt REALLY good!

 

I love that pic. Great tone.

 

[andy6915]

Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes. Yes to the whole thing.
 
And Engineer debuffs aren't even very good to begin with.

• As powers, Overload is mostly useless. 
• Sabotage is okay-ish, but a death sentence if you hit a Krogan or a large bipedal Geth unit since they will immediately charge you and melee you to death. Also, it only overheats weapons on the next shot, so you can still die from gunfire, like sniper shots.
• Damping only works against Tech and biotics, but I don't think it works as written. It is supposed to prevent enemies from using tech and biotic powers, but I think it only increases their cooldown once they use a power. Pretty sure I have used Damping in the past on enemies only for them to immediately use a biotic or tech power almost immediately afterwords.
• AI Hacking is situational and can actually be harmful if you are too close to a Geth unit since they will attack you anyway. for example, crazy-fast charging Destroyer.
• Neural Shock is single-target only and has an extremely low duration (1 second at Basic? Are you kidding me?).

Overload is indeed useless, mostly. I think it does do a slight damage over time burn similar to warp after the initial damage... But not as good.

Sabotage is actually pretty good. Yeah, there's 2 enemies that will kill you if you hit them with it. But being able to make it so Colossus and Geth Primes and even turrets can't fire at you is extremely useful, more so than even biotics. Biotics can't shut a turret's instant kill missiles off without stasis (and even then you have to make Shepard a rank 12 adept bastion to actually damage them through the stasis, no one else can damage through it), sabotage can.

Damping has always worked exactly as advertised to me. I used damping=enemy can't use tech or biotics for at least 20 seconds or more. It does a 60% increase to enemy cooldowns and also resets them all first, so it resets everything and then makes them take far longer to come back. You can experience this yourself if you fight anything with damping, like Hopper Saren or Batarian engineers in Bring Down the Sky. It really REALLY sucks to be hit with damping, for your enemies too. You sure they hadn't already begun to cast it before the damping explosion hit them? Because nothing else makes sense.

 

Yeah, AI hacking basically just erases their friend-foe identify system, meaning they just see everything as a threat... Which still includes you. It just make them attack everything instead of just you. So yeah, this power has some bad mechanics to it.

 

I wouldn't know. Only experience I have with it is making Kaidan use it. As I said, my engineer never had it. Hell, my sentinel never had it. MY SENTINEL! I clearly just didn't care about first aid or medicine. Why should I? Medical Exoskeletons make first aid useless except for emergency healing like dropping down to low HP instantly or something. I also gave my sentinel warp with their bonus power. I turned them into basically an adept without singularity, and some situationally useful tech powers. Honestly, they were weaker than my adepts. So I'll take your word on neural shock, I've never used it myself. Kinda funny that it's also the most useless bonus power in ME2 also. Before ME3, neural shock was just destined to suck. Then it got turned into an upgrade in the overload tree, and suddenly became one of the best powers in the series. Heh .

 

And yeah, I've made a Shepard of every single class at this point. Done a full playthrough of every class. Well, for ME1. Never did do a trilogy run with a sentinel, have with every other. My sentinel I talked about? Yeah, wasn't feeling ME2 sentinel... So I turned them into a vanguard. I don't like changing classes, but at least it was a biotic class to another biotic class.

 

edit (9 hours later): I forgot that sentinels can be Bastions too, not just adepts. My ME1 sentinel actually became that, and part of his style was frequently putting things into stasis and then shooting the hell out of them. Point still stands though, only Shepard can even damage through a stasis, and you have to be a specific class and specialty class within that class to do so.

[RedCaesar97]

@fraggle: 

 

Great story from Jack's point of view. Really touching,

[RedCaesar97]

 So I'll take your word on neural shock, I've never used it myself. Kinda funny that it's also the most useless bonus power in ME2 also. 

 

 

Neural Shock is actually a really good bonus power in ME2, one of the three 1-point wonders (Stasis and Slam being the other two). I usually take it as a bonus power on Engineers and infiltrators.

[andy6915]

Neural Shock is actually a really good bonus power in ME2, one of the three 1-point wonders (Stasis and Slam being the other two). I usually take it as a bonus power on Engineers and infiltrators.

Not damping? Sorry, I mean flashbang grenade? That's what it is. No, even better, it's a sabotage and damping combo. It's perfect for an engineer, it's two ME1 tech powers rolled into one. It's also the best bonus power in the game, makes Harbinger literally harmless. All his attacks are biotic, which damping shuts down entirely. Hell, I don't even call it flashbang grenade. It's damping, no question. Damping was even a grenade in ME1, it was just fired instead of thrown. I could see Shepard turning it into a manually thrown grenade for the tactical ability to arc it over cover.

[xassantex]

 my 80% renegade Sentinel Mshep helped Aria out on Omega and managed to beat her at being an *******.

Told Harrot he has better things to do than looking for furniture. 

 

After he let her kill Petrovsky she tells him she never thought she'd enjoy having a partner as much she did and kissed him on the spot. 

..after which she went on with her BS speech to Omega .

hmm, Shep got a so so chessboard in souvenir, might give it to Traynor.  

[MASSEFFECTfanforlife101]

My FemShep Completed the "Geth Incursion" missions. Also, after killing two Geth Primes, she received the Geth Pulse Rifle! She finished Pinnacle Station with flying colors! 

 

 

Wrex glows in the dark!