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[Vazgen]

Tatyana Shepard had him taken into custody. Morwen Shepard killed him. So I managed to capture 2 of the 4 outcomes in my recorded playthroughs. I have also seen the other 2 outcomes in non-recorded playthroughs. In 3 out of the 4 options Balak comes back, twice committing terror acts, once to help his people.

Can you say which video of those?

[cap and gown]

Can you say which video of those?

 

Tatyana Shepard: Bring Down the Sky,(Balak taken into custody) Batarian Access Codes

 

Morwen Shepard: Bring Down the Sky (Balak killed) Batarian Access Codes

[JasonShepard]

1) Release the Rachni,

2) Let Balak go,

3) Grunt out of the Tank,

4) Legion activated,

5) Let Elnora go,

6) Save the workers, Vido goes free,

7) Sidonis lives,

8) Cure the Genophage,

9) Rannoch peace,

10) Ashley gets back on the ship.

 

Pretty much paragon across the board for me. Yes, I'm a naive idealist. So sue me.

[SporkFu]

Interesting replies everyone!

About the rachni queen, we don't really know much about the Rachni Wars, it happened long before humanity first set foot in space. All we have is that the war started when salarians activated the dormant mass relay to their territory and that negotiations were not possible due to having no access to the queens. Interestingly enough, salarians themselves came up with the idea of uplifting the krogan to battle rachni and by stopping one war threw the galaxy into another. As we see on Sur'Kesh, that doesn't stop them from thinking about uplifting other species like Yahg or varren. That's all metagaming though. What we know is that the queen promises not to kill anyone and that she tells you to kill the hostile rachni in the hot labs. I think that confirms her statement that she can't control those. I would probably trust her, destroying whole species on the premise that they might start a war does not sit well with me. I'd probably make a bad Spectre

Yeah, cuz in all the years since first contact, when humanity became part of the galactic community, no one in all of the Alliance or anywhere picked up a history book 

[Dabrikishaw]

Sounds like fun.

 

1) Rachni queen - kill or release: release

2) Balak - kill or let to escape: let to escape

3) Grunt - keep in a jar or release: release

4) Legion - activate, sell or keep for Alliance: activate

5) Elnora - kill or let go: kill

6) Vigo - kill or save the workers: save the workers

7) Garrus LM - kill or spare Sidonis: kill

8) Tuchanka - sabotage or cure: cure

9) Rannoch - geth, quarians or both: both

10) Ash/Kaidan - accept to the crew or send to Hackett: Send Ash to Hackett, Accept Kaiden to crew

[DeinonSlayer]

I'm going to start a new trilogy playthrough with Shepard based off myself and want to know your opinion on some decisions throughout the games. But there is a twist - please, answer what you personally would've done in Shepard's place if faced the same choices.
1) Rachni queen - kill or release
2) Balak - kill or let to escape
3) Grunt - keep in a jar or release
4) Legion - activate, sell or keep for Alliance
5) Elnora - kill or let go
6) Vigo - kill or save the workers
7) Garrus LM - kill or spare Sidonis
8) Tuchanka - sabotage or cure
9) Rannoch - geth, quarians or both
10) Ash/Kaidan - accept to the crew or send to Hackett

I'll probably update the thread with more questions if they arise Gameplay benefits don't matter, I'm simply interested in what you'll choose.

Edit: Vido, not Vigo. It's not Ghostbusters after all

1) Ideally? Leave her bottled up. In-game I generally release her, though.
2) Shot and arrested. The man tried to kill a planet; no way he gets to walk and try it again. Honestly, I'd expect him to remote-detonate the bombs the second he was outside if Shepard opted to let him go.
3) I can see it now: Miranda sarcastically asking on the intercom whether to vent the hold while Shepard is being pounded against the wall. I'd say better precautions should have been taken, but sure, let him out. The one I'd be more apprehensive about recruiting is Jack. I mean, seriously? You don't even know the gender of the biotic murderer you're buying from the supermax prison? Does the Normandy come stocked with spit bags?
4) Activate Legion, but I wouldn't be so quick to drop the barrier and slap a rifle in his hands. They (geth, not heretics) exterminated 99% of the Quarian species and spent centuries killing any organic they encountered afterward on sight. That doesn't go away in a two-minute conversation.
5) Enemy combatant raising a weapon at the squad? Dead.
6) ...I hate to break it to you, but Shepard doesn't know jack about how to put out a refinery fire. Perfect world? Put it out and call in the Normandy to zap Vito's gunship.
7) Different Shepards of mine have gone both ways.
8) *ugh* Gone through just about every permutation. I'd say distribute the cure, hand them a few colonies and quarantine them until their society either stabilizes or destroys itself.
9) Hi, I'm DeinonSlayer. I don't believe we've met.
10) Accept to the crew, assign Liara to Hackett.

[Livi14]

1) Rachni queen - kill or release: release
2) Balak - kill or let to escape: let to escape
3) Grunt - keep in a jar or release: release
4) Legion - activate, sell or keep for Alliance: activate
5) Elnora - kill or let go: let go
6) Vigo - kill or save the workers: save the workers
7) Garrus LM - kill or spare Sidonis: kill
8) Tuchanka - sabotage or cure: cure/Wrex
9) Rannoch - geth, quarians or both: geth
10) Ash/Kaidan - accept to the crew or send to Hackett: Send Ashley to Hackett

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Please, answer what you personally would've done in Shepard's place if faced the same choices.

 

1) Rachni queen - release
2) Balak - kill - look at what he did. look at what he was going to do.
3) Grunt - release
4) Legion - keep for Alliance. Geth shot at me. Geth nearly wiped out the Quarians. I won't sell it to Cerberus, but I'll give it to the Alliance.
5) Elnora - kill
6) Vido - kill - NOTE: I worked in a lab for an oil company. I have no clue as to how to put out a refinery fire. They are dangerous as hell. Unless you're specially trained you get as far away as you can. This is not a moral issue.
7) Garrus LM - let Garrus kill Sidonis
8) Tuchanka - sabotage or cure - Wrex: cure; Wreav: sabotage
9) Rannoch - quarians
10) Ash/Kaidan - accept to the crew

[Vazgen]

Yeah, cuz in all the years since first contact, when humanity became part of the galactic community, no one in all of the Alliance or anywhere picked up a history book  

History books tell you what is in codex and it reflects the PoV of victors. What I'm saying is that we don't know what happened to those salarian explorers and how did the war start. 

What I find interesting is that salarians are mixed in two of three major conflicts that happened in ME universe. And they continue their practices, even after the disaster with krogan. Ironically, Mordin, who was so against the uplifting of krogan works in the facility where salarians discuss possibilities of uplifting the Yahg and the varren. 

 

6) Vido - kill - NOTE: I worked in a lab for an oil company. I have no clue as to how to put out a refinery fire. They are dangerous as hell. Unless you're specially trained you get as far away as you can. This is not a moral issue.

6) ...I hate to break it to you, but Shepard doesn't know jack about how to put out a refinery fire. Perfect world? Put it out and call in the Normandy to zap Vito's gunship.

The worker that runs out and asks for help tells you that they simply can't reach the gas valves. Surely operating those valves should not require much technical knowledge?

[SporkFu]

History books tell you what is in codex and it reflects the PoV of victors. What I'm saying is that we don't know what happened to those salarian explorers and how did the war start.
What I find interesting is that salarians are mixed in two of three major conflicts that happened in ME universe. And they continue their practices, even after the disaster with krogan. Ironically, Mordin, who was so against the uplifting of krogan works in the facility where salarians discuss possibilities of uplifting the Yahg and the varren.

If you're standing there, with the future of a species --that by rights should be extinct already -- hinging on your decision, do you really care how the war started? Let the politicians debate that. All I need to know is the rachni nearly wiped everyone else once.

[Vazgen]

If you're standing there, with the future of a species --that by rights should be extinct already -- hinging on your decision, do you really care how the war started? Let the politicians debate that. All I need to know is the rachni nearly wiped everyone else once.

That's why I ask for people's opinion  

On one hand, I know that rachni nearly wiped out everyone back then. On the other hand, it's in your power to grant her a second chance. Call me an idealist, but I don't believe that intelligent species can't peacefully coexist in this huge galaxy. I would probably let her live, I have a problem with cold-blooded kills, kill or save options in games usually end up with me choosing save.

[DeinonSlayer]

That's why I ask for people's opinion
On one hand, I know that rachni nearly wiped out everyone back then. On the other hand, it's in your power to grant her a second chance. Call me an idealist, but I don't believe that intelligent species can't peacefully coexist in this huge galaxy. I would probably let her live, I have a problem with cold-blooded kills, kill or save options in games usually end up with me choosing save.

Think what kind of message Ender's Game would have sent had he smashed the last queen's egg in the end.

[Vazgen]

Think what kind of message Ender's Game would have sent had he smashed the last queen's egg in the end.

It would've received quite poor reviews if that was the case

[Valmar]

It would've received quite poor reviews if that was the case

 

On the plus side it likely wouldn't had generated the sequels. lol

[Darks1d3]

I'm going to start a new trilogy playthrough with Shepard based off myself and want to know your opinion on some decisions throughout the games. But there is a twist - please, answer what you personally would've done in Shepard's place if faced the same choices.
1) Rachni queen - kill or release
2) Balak - kill or let to escape
3) Grunt - keep in a jar or release
4) Legion - activate, sell or keep for Alliance
5) Elnora - kill or let go
6) Vigo - kill or save the workers
7) Garrus LM - kill or spare Sidonis
8) Tuchanka - sabotage or cure
9) Rannoch - geth, quarians or both
10) Ash/Kaidan - accept to the crew or send to Hackett

I'll probably update the thread with more questions if they arise Gameplay benefits don't matter, I'm simply interested in what you'll choose.

 

Edit: Vido, not Vigo. It's not Ghostbusters after all

1. I have to say, of all the choices in the ME series, this one still gives me trouble. I'd leave her in her glass prison in RL and let the Council decide. But If I had to choose between killing her and releasing her? Again,...that's a tough one for me to answer. On one hand, I do not like the idea of causing an entire species to go extinct. On the other hand, they were extremely dangerous when the Salarians first encountered them over "2000 years ago." Realistically, I'd regretfully kill her. However, I let her go in my Canon play-through(where I let Shepard be my personal avatar). The main reasons behind this were two-fold; how Bioware presented the Queen's character and Shepard's general disposition towards the Queen when you decide to kill her. The Queen was presented as a friendly and rational being, and Shepard pretty much became a sadistic ******* while deciding to kill her. It was pretty clear that Bioware was not-so-subtly trying to say that letting the Racni Queen go would have no negative consequences, and that only an evil bastard would kill her off(which is something I hope they avoid in ME:N, but that's a whole other issue).

2. I don't like the idea of sacrificing the hostages, but there is no way I'd let this a**hole go. He is too dangerous. I do not kill him in my Canon play-through however. I let the Alliance take him in for the slim possibility of gaining some intelligence on the Batarian Hegemony so something like the hijacking of the Asteroid over Terra Nova does not happen again.

3. Release. No point in wasting a possible resource. However, I would not release him in a cramped room that offers no mobility. Of course, you're not given a choice in the matter.

4. Activate. If it wanted Shepard dead, then it would have shot him when it had Shepard in it's sights. I'd want to know why it decided to help and possibly gain some insight on the Geth.

5. If given the choice, I'd incapacitate her rather then kill her. But since I'm not given that choice, I'd kill her. It's generally not a good idea to hesitate when a mercenary draws a gun on you.

6. Let go. I constantly see Vigo being compared to Balak. Yet Balak and the hegemony are a certifiable threat to the Alliance and humanity in general. The Blue Suns are a possible threat, but not a direct threat. They're a mercenary group, and mercenaries can be useful. Besides, killing Vigo doesn't accomplish anything. The Blue Suns are not going to crumble without his leadership, especially since Solem Dal'Serah was placed by Vigo as the acting "head of operations" anyways. Sacrificing the refinery and the workers in it just to kill Vigo is a complete waste.

7. Spare. Not for Sidonis' sake(I could give a rip about him), but for Garrus'.

8. Pretty much what Deinon Slayer said.

9. If I can, I go for peace(I'm not going to say no to acquiring two fleets if I can help it). If I can't, I spare the Quarians. Even though the Geth would prove to be more useful against the Reapers, I'm not going to sacrifice an organic species for a synthetic species. Besides, the Geth allied with the Reapers twice now. I acknowledge that there is still a risk of them siding with the Reapers if I choose to broker a peace agreement between the Geth and Quarians, but the prospect of gaining two fleets for the price of one offsets that risk.

10. Accept to the crew. I can always use a trustworthy and talented Soldier on my crew.

[Daemul]

1) Rachni queen - Call the council. Shepard has absolutely no business making this decision.
2) Balak - Kill. The dude is a terrorist with the capability to send asteroids into planets, he needs to go.
3) Grunt - I would never have opened his tank.
4) Legion - Activate. He saved my life, I want to know why.
5) Elnora - The moment Zaeed pointed out she was wearing the Eclipse uniform, she was dead.
6) Vigo - It's Zaeed mission, so I follow his lead. Also, Vido is a complete psycho, the dude needs to be removed asap.
7) Garrus LM - Garrus' mission, I follow his lead. No more sleepless nights Sidonis.
8) Tuchanka - Sabotage. Bioware's appeal to emotion and strawmaning might have worked on most people, but I saw right through it. Two people can't control a race of billions, no matter what Bioware tries to tell you.

I would also have told Hackett what had transpired, since as my superior he should be in the know. Why we never get a chance to tell him but we can tell fricken Garrus is beyond me.

9) Rannoch - There is only room for one order of consciousness in the galaxy, the chaos of the organics, or the perfection of the machines. I choose perfection. I choose the Geth.
10) Ash/Kaidan - They always rejoin the crew.

[DeinonSlayer]

@Daemul - Your perfection is doing a lovely dance right now. Next they'll serve refreshments.

[Darks1d3]

 

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