Nicole Shepard:
1. Visited Anderson's apartment on the Citadel. He called and gave it to her. She is not sure she has the funds to pay the rent.
2. Got a message from Joker. Went to see him for sushi. Got ambushed by an unknown merc band. Survived a long drop, then survived a long (and painful) game of cat-and-mouse. Got to safety, then buggered out on a shuttle.
3. Tracked down a casino owner who knew something. Went to the casino. Snuck into the panic room to talk to him, but found him dead.
4. Tracked the mercs down to the Citadel Archives. Found out her clone was trying to kill her. Ended up getting trapped in a vault by the clone. Got out with some help from Glyph.
5. Raced to the Normandy before the clone took off with it. Boarded the Normandy before it took off with some help from Traynor. Fought a few mercs in the CIC.
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Leaving the clone fight for later. I always seem to have trouble with the Engineer clone because I am never fighting it with a proper Engineer it seems. If you fight it with Overload + Incinerate (+ Sabotage), it goes pretty well. I have exactly one Engineer that fits that description. Nicole is not that Engineer. She is an honorary Female Quarian Engineer (Sentry Turret + Cryo Blast + Incinerate, with AP Ammo and the Claymore). I am going to die a lot I think.
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Ambush statistics:
Number of swear words uttered: 3+
Number of deaths: I lost count
Number of controllers thrown: 1
Number of times I thought I broke my controller: 1
Number of times I cursed this mission: I lost count
Seriously. I hate ambush. I hate the ambush. I hate the ambush. I hate ambush. I hate the ambush. I hate the ambush. I hate ambush. I hate the ambush. I hate the ambush. I hate ambush. I hate the ambush. I hate the ambush. I hate ambush. I hate the ambush. I hate the ambush. I hate ambush. I hate the ambush. I hate the ambush.
It probably is not as bad on PC as on console, but I play the single player exclusively on console. Aim assist is a huge detriment on the ambush mission. So many times I tried shooting a guy only to hit some drone instead.
So. Many. Drones.
Too. Much. Bad. Cover.
Fake Suppressor is terrible.
So. Many. Drones.
Too much enemy rolling: Get shot once, roll! Cast a power, roll! Roll roll roll!!!
Drones and grenades and rolling and terrible gun and aim 'assist' and AAAAAAH!!!
SCREW. THE. AMBUSH!!!