Ah cool, I never noticed that... or don't remember noticing, heh. But he's got Fortification, too. That helps.
It's why Grunt is the best person to bring to that mission. Every other party member can't take the heat, but Grunt? He'll charge right out into the sunlight and fight in it like it ain't a thing. A little strong sunlight isn't going to bother him. Other species are just so soft...
It's why Grunt is the best person to bring to that mission. Every other party member can't take the heat, but Grunt? He'll charge right out into the sunlight and fight in it like it ain't a thing. A little strong sunlight isn't going to bother him. Other species are just so soft...
Krogan are supposed to be able to survive in harsh environments. Shouldn't be a surprise Grunt does that.
Krogan are supposed to be able to survive in harsh environments. Shouldn't be a surprise Grunt does that.
My point is, Grunt's a badass. I've had him singlehandedly kill Uvenk and his entire krant, I purposely made Grunt do most of the work seeing as it's his trial. And Grunt took down the entire krant by himself. That Krogan is more monster than he is Krogan. I'm not surprised he survives the Rachni in ME3. Oh, and about that, notice how he was still sane when he stumbles out all bloody? That means he wasn't in blood rage, meaning the Rachni didn't even push him to his limit. He was still relatively uninjured to the point where he didn't even switch to blood rage mode.
Freaking super Krogan. I swear if Okeer had given him biotics on top of it all, Grunt would probably be the strongest thing on 2 legs in all of Mass Effect.
The batcave has waterfalls. ;-)
And it would have me in it. Apocalypse is one hell of a demotivator.
It sure is. Writing poetry about waterfalls isn't so bad either.
For some reason I read the thread title as, "how would you hide the reapers?" I found this amusing. Hide Yo Reapers.
Hiding in the countryside worked fairly well, least ssuming there is an end to the war.
Unless you find yourself in this particular countryside 
According to the mass effect lore, the mass accelerators require careful calculations to end up properly at the far end.
So what you do, is you calculate your coordinates HORRIBLY. Like, TERRIBLY, TERRIBLY BADLY. Mess them up in every way possible. Drop out of the beam halfway through and a hundred light years to the side.
Suddenly, you're in the middle of deep space with no ion trail or any other way of being tracked. Then you just use a solar sail to cruise to a likely garden world(so you don't have any emissions) and bury your ship under a couple hundred tons of rock and under an ocean. No way emissions will get out through that.
Have your people go into sequential hibernations, with 99% of them asleep and 1% awake for 5 year periods. After all of them have been awake for five years, the reapers will be done with their harvest and will have returned to dark space. Oh, and did I mention, you've been mining using conventional equipment for all that time? Now you have a massive accumulation of resources, absolutely no competition, and the entire galaxy ahead of you for 50000 years. Of course, you have to lay low and avoid watchers like Sovereign, but a single ship simply cannot expect to locate a civilization that's focusing on being hidden, especially if you're multiple years away from any mass effect gate.
So you spend the next 50000 years building enough weapons to cover the surface of every planet you colonize. You enact laws that make every building have to have a centralized mass accelerator. You excavate hundred mile long tunnels through moons from all directions and build mass accelerators through them pointing in every direction, so you can fire without the problems of having to turn.
Finally, you fail to be quiet. The reapers show up with a light expeditionary force.
They are instantly annihilated by a million mass accelerator projectiles moving at 99.9% the speed of light. They arrive only moments after their light does, giving them no chance to react, and the energy released would be sufficient to reduce the reapers to their constituent atoms. No warning would escape.
Several years later, a larger force arrives. It contains several dozen Harbinger-class Reapers, as well as hundreds of smaller class reapers and millions of ground assault troops. Their cargo is irrelevant; there are thousands of mass accelerators pointed at them, capable of unleashing a destructive force powerful enough to match the energy output of the sun. At this point, it would be no surprise if it IS the energy output of the sun; 50000 years is plenty of time to construct a Dyson Sphere. The entirety of the Reaper Forces could attack at once and it would make no difference; the collateral damage via energy released from the destruction of the first ship would be so great that it would almost certainly cause the destruction of the others.
Of course, this is all assuming the reapers even find you at all. Given the 50000 year window, you could easily build a complete dyson sphere and start regular mass-energy conversion to build any type of matter you want. By the time they return from their sleep, what once was a hot sun is now a cold grey sphere hurtling through interstellar space. Inside has enough surface area to support every sapient creature in the galaxy for years without ever seeing another living soul.
Next cycle comes, you send out scout ships to collect all the species that want to join your group. Many join you, and after a few cycles pass, you can show conclusive proof that staying on their homeworlds will result in their destruction. For several cycles the Reapers return, only to be confused by a galaxy already long empty. Finally they find you; through thousands of years of enforced peace, your people have slowly integrated themselves with each other, striving for the goal the Reapers could never achieve; true peace. Eventually even minds are linked together, forming one great collective consciousness, all while you modify your fleshy bodies with implants. Wishing for mobility, you've created new ships, in the model of your home sphere as well as in ergonomically pleasing cubes. Finally, you rename yourself, choosing a name more fitting to the amalgamation of races, cultures, and thoughts that is your people. Soon the time comes; time for the lost sheep to return to the fold. Time to reclaim the Reapers. And at last, watching as their ships are annihilated in seconds while your uncounted trillions of minds compensate for their attacks in instants, the Reapers ask you what you are. And as one, you reply;
"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and techniological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to serve us. You will be assimilated. Resistance is Futile."
Unless you find yourself in this particular countryside
They should have put Kaidan instead. Ashley with FemShep is just... awkward. Their chemistry with on another is just awkward.
Unless you find yourself in this particular countryside
Oh man, it's been far too long since I saw that video. That was cool! Made the reapers look menacing for a change 
but... maybe I'm just used to them. Anyone else notice the hammerheads flying in formation with the makos?
Oh man, it's been far too long since I saw that video. That was cool! Made the reapers look menacing for a change
It's exactly how Taking Earth should have been like. Jumping on Brutes and stabbing their vital point behind the turian head. "Heh...much point. Ah, never mind."
It kind of irks me to think what the final battle would've been like if more time and care was put into setting it all up.
It kind of irks me to think what the final battle would've been like if more time and care was put into setting it all up.
Time probably being the biggest factor. Why couldn't they have done the final battle first, and then worked backwards?
It kind of irks me to think what the final battle would've been like if more time and care was put into setting it all up.
If ME3 came out this year, maybe we would have gotten a less disappointing ME3 that wouldn't need an Extended Cut.
Time probably being the biggest factor. Why couldn't they have done the final battle first, and then worked backwards?
Not to mention that the original script sounded a little better in certain points like Omega and From Ashes being a vanilla part of the game. Also, there was another Spectre in ME3 too that was taken out in the final script.
Not to mention that the original script sounded a little better in certain points like Omega and From Ashes being a vanilla part of the game. Also, there was another Spectre in ME3 too that was taken out in the final script.
Ah well, it's a shame...but, can't really do anything about it. I'm not gonna get depressed about the game we did get. I won't. I won't.
Ah well, it's a shame...but, can't really do anything about it. I'm not gonna get depressed about the game we did get. I won't. I won't.
The last "I won't" seems to add doubt... Does that add spice or sugar?
The last "I won't" seems to add doubt... Does that add spice or sugar?
Nah, despite their faults I love these games too much to get depressed about them. I'm playing through the citadel DLC right now, and it's blast as always, but wow do I ever miss the missing squadmates. No Garrus, Tali, Wrex, Ash. Hell I took Javik with me to infiltrate the casino. 
Nah, despite their faults I love these games too much to get depressed about them. I'm playing through the citadel DLC right now, and it's blast as always, but wow do I ever miss the missing squadmates. No Garrus, Tali, Wrex, Ash. Hell I took Javik with me to infiltrate the casino.
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Good thing you romanced Traynor, or else it's gonna be this: "I've woken up with a prothean next to me." That would contradict Javik's answer. 
Good thing you romanced Traynor, or else it's gonna be this: "I've woken up with a prothean next to me." That would contradict Javik's answer.
Well, as a femshep in this playthrough, my only options are Sam or Liara. I mean, I was planning on a Traynor romance anyway, but... all the other possible LIs for femshep are dead.
Well, as a femshep in this playthrough, my only options are Sam or Liara. I mean, I was planning on a Traynor romance anyway, but... all the other possible LIs for femshep are dead.
That party's gonna be pretty empty then. I have tried the party with just the vanilla crew. $15 bucks for that is not enough for me to want to get the Citadel DLC, and I'm pretty sure that a lot of new ME3 players that start on ME3 and bought Citadel DLC would be quite disappointed.
How long after the citadel DLC did they release the trilogy as a set?
How long after the citadel DLC did they release the trilogy as a set?
Uh, they released the Trilogy set before the Citadel DLC. The Mass Effect: Trilogy set was released in December of 2012. I started the Mass Effect series in September of 2012 before ME1 existed on PS3.
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