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Post by RedCaesar97 on Oct 9, 2019 12:32:10 GMT
I bought new batteries, and that seems to have worked. So Dimitri Shepard investigated the Geth presence in the Armstrong Cluster, and took out three Geth outposts.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Oct 8, 2019 23:37:27 GMT
Dimitri Shepard went to answer a distress call, only it turned out to be a Geth trap. (The Geth were now trapped with an angry Dimitri Shepard.) The evil robots were eliminated with extreme prejudice. My controller/batteries kept dying. I am not sure if it was because my controllers are old and not contacting the batteries well, or if I have recharged the batteries to the point of uselessness. I guess I have to buy more batteries to find out. what kind of controller do you use? Default Xbox 360 controller. I play single player on the Xbox 360 console.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Oct 6, 2019 23:45:20 GMT
Dimitri Shepard went to answer a distress call, only it turned out to be a Geth trap. (The Geth were now trapped with an angry Dimitri Shepard.) The evil robots were eliminated with extreme prejudice.
My controller/batteries kept dying. I am not sure if it was because my controllers are old and not contacting the batteries well, or if I have recharged the batteries to the point of uselessness. I guess I have to buy more batteries to find out.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Oct 5, 2019 20:58:23 GMT
After listening to the new evidence, the Citadel Council revoked Saren's Spectre Status. And as a bonus, they made Dimitri Shepard a Spectre. His first assignment: track down Saren and bring him to justice.
Then Dimitri Shepard wandered around the Citadel doing some odd favors for people.
Anderson stepped down as commanding officer of the Normandy, transferring command to Shepard. Dimitri then took it into space to start finding Saren.
First stop: a merchant freighter that contained a brain-dead man on life support. the ship's logs indicated that the guy lost a battle to some disease, then the guy's girlfriend lost her mind and killed the crew in a misguided attempt to save her boyfriend. The girlfriend then attacked Dimitri, but she was no match for him and died fairly quickly.
Next stop: looking for Admiral Kahoku's missing men. Dimitri found them, right next to a thresher maw nest. It took a little time, but Dimitri killed the Thresher Maw. Seems like the men were lured into a trap by a false distress beacon.
Now Dimitri is deciding where to go next. He plans to find Liara T'Soni -- Matriarch Benezia's daughter -- but there is a little matter of a Geth Incursion into the Armstrong Cluster that seems a little urgent.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Oct 3, 2019 0:01:21 GMT
Dimitri Shepard arrived at the Citadel and met with Councilor Udina. Things immediately went sour they presented their evidence against Saren to the Citadel Council. The evidence was flimsy at best, and the council reject the evidence.
At the suggestion of Captain Anderson, Dimitri visited Barla Von, an agent of the Shadow Broker. As luck would have it, the Shadow Broker was not too happy with Saren, and pointed him in the direction of a Krogan mercenary named Wrex who could help. Wrex told Dimitri that a club owner named Fist -- who was also an agent of the Shadow Broker -- had made a deal with a Quarian who had evidence against Saren. However, Fist apparently had also betrayed the Shadow Broker and was working with Saren. Wrex made Dimitri a deal: help him kill Fist and he would join up to take down Saren. Dimitri took the deal.
Dimitri took a quick stop to see Dr. Michel, who was currently being accosted by some of Fist's thugs. A Turian C-Sec Agent named Garrus was also there, and he helped them take down the thugs. Garrus asked to join, and Dimitri accepted. After a brief fight with some of Fist's goons, Dimitri cornered Fist in his office. Fist surrendered and told them he had set up an ambush to kill the Quarian under the guise of a meeting. Wrex killed Fist, then they rescued the Quarian who was named Tali.
As thanks, Tali offered her evidence to Udina, which proved Saren masterminded the attack on Eden Prime. Udina then rushed to the Citadel Council to present the new evidence. Tali asked to join and Dimitri let her join.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Oct 1, 2019 1:40:49 GMT
Dimitri Shepard was just told he was being considered as a candidate for the Spectres, when an emergency message came in from Eden Prime. Eden Prime was under attack from unknown assailants. Things went from bad to worse soon after they landed. Corporal Jenkins was killed almost immediately by a drone, and they soon discovered the assailants were Geth, a synthetic 'species' not seen in almost 300 years.
Things got worse when Nihlus -- the Turian Spectre that was also assigned to the Normandy -- was found dead, presumably from another Turian (also a Spectre) named Saren according to a Dock worker. Dimitri managed to destroy the remaining Geth and disarm the bombs they left behind, but a Prothean beacon exploded knocking Dimitri unconscious.
Anderson: Shepard, where did you get your new armor and weapons? Shepard: I found them, sir. Anderson: You found them? Shepard: In crates, sir. They were better than the armor and weapons I had. I got the pistol from a smuggler. Anderson: And the Turian armor? Shepard: I also found it in a crate. I am going to keep it. Anderson: Keep it? Shepard: Just in case I meet another Turian, sir. You can never be too careful.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Oct 1, 2019 1:28:02 GMT
So yesterday I go the hankering to play some Soldier in ME2. So I did the "logical" thing: I started a new character in ME1! (Because re-importing an existing ME1 save would be too hard or something?)
Dimitri Shepard was born on Earth. He ran away from an abusive home in his early teenage years and survived on the streets before enlisting into the Alliance Navy to avoid prison. The Alliance Navy set him on the straight and narrow, and he soon pushed himself towards a new goal: become an N7.
As Dimitri Shepard climbed through the ranks, he earned the reputation as a competent leader. Eventually the Alliance called on Shepard whenever they needed someone to lead their most dangerous operations. One of those operations required Shepard to take out some Batarian pirates and slavers. The Batarians had staged numerous raids on human colonies, and were heavily fortified on Torfan. It was a long night, and with the Batarians dug in deep, Dimitri Shepard ended up sending many Alliance soldiers to their deaths to take out the Batarians. The battle earned Dimitri the reputation of "ruthless" and "brutal". He even overheard someone call him "The Butcher of Torfan". He hated those labels.
Eventually, Dimitri Shepard was assigned under Captain David Anderson to oversee the Alliance's new advanced warship, the Normandy SR-1.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Sept 15, 2019 0:32:31 GMT
I popped in ME3 and played around with some old save files: - Soldier with Kirshock
- Infiltrator with Venom, Infiltrator with Claymore
- Charge-Nova Vanguard with Claymore
That was the only real gameplay. I loaded up a few other save files to poke around, see what and where I had saved. I am not really feeling the itch right now to do a full trilogy playthrough, but I am thinking of redo-ing my ME3 Claymore Soldier. I played it before some of the really big changes that occurred in patches. I was also still learning the game at the time, and I do not think I ever properly played through the DLC with it. So I might re-import into ME3 and do it again.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Sept 14, 2019 1:42:37 GMT
i m gonna look into that (and hoping to be able to get things working) cuz i feel too lazy to re-make my entire ME1 run It is not about being lazy. It is about saving around 20+ hours of your life (assuming you would want to do everything in ME1).
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Sept 12, 2019 11:53:44 GMT
since the previous PC (containing the save files of my run of ME1) died (and has been sent-back, repaired, and re-got, but all files lost, so, like a brand new PC), i would like to know if there is a way to create a new save from scratch, and to edit it with something, in order to input directly the "choices" i ve made during my ME1 run, in order to be able to directly begin my let's play on ME2 with the consequences of my ME1 run's choices? or if i have to re-do an entire ME1 run with all the choices? (i don't care for my levels, just for the scenario choices, because i would like to keep consistance beetween my ME let's play) Best thing you can do is start a new game in ME2 and then edit the save, or download a save file from www.masseffectsaves.com and import it into ME2. You can find some information about modding from these pages: I believe the ME2 Gibbed Editor is what you need for modding save files. Use your favorite search engine to find information about modding ME2 save files. I do not think that information is on this site (if it ever was). A lot of good information was lost when BioWare shut down the old BSN forums; some of the information was copied to these forums, but a lot of information is still located on other sites. I hope that gets you started at least.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Sept 5, 2019 0:29:28 GMT
It does not. The time required to charge a shot appears to be a static value that is not affected by Marksman. I had Marksman evolved to give a +70% rate-of-fire bonus, but it does not appear to affect the charge time at all. I play on Xbox 360, but I no longer have a video capture device to record gameplay so I could actually perform more empirical tests, but a 70% increase should be noticeable, but the charge time did not noticeably decrease when Marksman was active. I suspect all -- or perhaps most -- weapons with a similar charge mechanic would not benefit from Marksman. Perhaps weapons that have a built-in charge for all shots would benefit from Marksman, but weapons with a secondary charge fire mechanic would not. After further testing, I am confident that Marksman's rate-of-fire bonus does not apply to any weapon charges. I went to the Citadel fire range and tested all the guns that had a charge mechanic: Venom, Geth Plasma Shotgun, Graal, Acolyte, Arc Pistol, Chakram Launcher, Javelin, Kirschok. Marksman's rate-of-fire bonus did not improve the charge time on these weapons at all. The charge time appears to be a static number that cannot be improved by Marksman's rate-of-fire bonus.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Sept 4, 2019 0:18:00 GMT
"Why was I using the Venom shotgun with a Marksman bonus power on this Infiltrator quick save?" (I think I was testing to see if Marksman decreased the time it took to charge a shot?) Does it? It does not. The time required to charge a shot appears to be a static value that is not affected by Marksman. I had Marksman evolved to give a +70% rate-of-fire bonus, but it does not appear to affect the charge time at all. I play on Xbox 360, but I no longer have a video capture device to record gameplay so I could actually perform more empirical tests, but a 70% increase should be noticeable, but the charge time did not noticeably decrease when Marksman was active. I suspect all -- or perhaps most -- weapons with a similar charge mechanic would not benefit from Marksman. Perhaps weapons that have a built-in charge for all shots would benefit from Marksman, but weapons with a secondary charge fire mechanic would not. * By "secondary charge fire mechanic", I mean weapons that allow you hold the trigger to increase damage on a single shot. Venom, Geth Plasma Shotgun, and Arc Pistol have this ability. They allow you to fire normal shots, but you can hold the trigger for a more powerful shot.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Sept 2, 2019 16:03:42 GMT
For funsies, I decided to pop in Mass Effect 3 and look at some old saves. Hoo boy, that was a little bit of an adventure.
"Who was Ahmed Shepard?" (He was a ME3MP Drell Adept-style Shepard apparently)
"Who was Nicole Shepard? Why do I have two playthroughs with her? Why do I have all these games saves?" (She was my ME3MP Female Quarian Engineer-style Shepard. I guess I played through the game with her twice? I have no clue why I had so many game saves with her.)
"Why was I using the Venom shotgun with a Marksman bonus power on this Infiltrator quick save?" (I think I was testing to see if Marksman decreased the time it took to charge a shot?)
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Aug 12, 2019 21:12:41 GMT
Shawna Shepard threw a party. It got a little out of control. Javik better keep his mouth shut.
The Alliance attacked Cerberus HQ. Steve did his best James Vega impersonation and crashed the shuttle into the HQ, letting Shawna, EDI, and Garrus infiltrate the space station (but certainly not stealthfully). A whole lot of Cerberus mooks were scoped and dropped. Kai Leng made the mistake of trapping himself in a room with Shawna; he got shot, then stabbed.
It was off to Earth to rid the galaxy of Reapers. First stop, destroying a Hades Cannon. Then it was off on a quick trek through No Man's Land to get to some tanks. Team Javelin defended the tanks while EDI re-calibrated the software, then everyone that was still alive killed a Reaper Destroyer.
Next, everyone raced to a beam that would take them to the Citadel. Harbinger decided to ruin the race by dropping in and lasering everyone. Shawna survived and went up through the beam, where she and Captain Anderson met a huskified Illusive Man. After a brief chat, Mr. Illusive shot Anderson, then Shawna shot Illusive. Then things got weird.
Shawna talked with an ancient AI that was controlling Reaper cycles. The AI offered her a bunch of choices, but she decided to kill all the robots. Everything exploded. You probably know the rest.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Aug 11, 2019 23:41:22 GMT
Shawna Shepard went to Thessia to go pick up the Prothean artifact. Maybe it would have been easier if she had not wasted time on the Citadel chasing after her clone, but better late than never, right? Well probably not, considering Kai Leng got involved and ended up stealing the artifact -- which turned out to be a Prothean VI by the way -- although Kai Leng cheated by using a gunship.
SMALL NOTE: The Widow did not appear where it was supposed to be. I had upgraded it to VII, so that it would upgrade to X after I picked it up. Turns out, that I have upgraded it to VII which had then correctly removed it from the weapon upgrade terminal, but then I purchased the Black Widow from the Spectre Terminal, which in turn caused the Widow to appear back into the Weapon upgrade terminal and prevent it from appearing on Thessia. So if I had waited to purchase the Black Widow until after Thessia, I would not had needed to spend more money unnecessarily to upgrade thw Widow to X.)
So since Cerberus had the artifact needed to complete the Crucible, Shawna needed to first find Cerberus to get it back. Luckily Traynor managed to track Kai Leng to Horizon, home of Sanctuary. Shawna did one better by actually finding Cerberus HQ, but EDI refused to land the ship, so Shawna went to Horizon. They found a secret Cerberus lab below Sanctuary that was being used to turn refugees into husks and study indoctrination and how to control the Reapers. Shawna rescued Oriana Lawson and killed her father Henry Lawson.
Now shawna could attack Cerberus HQ, but decided to go rescue a researcher from an Alliance Communications Hub that was being controlled by Cerberus. Now all that is left is to throw a big party, then Shawna can go attack Cerberus HQ.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Aug 10, 2019 16:02:04 GMT
Someone used Shawna Shepard's access codes to break in to the Citadel Archives, so Shawna took the whole squad to deal with the threat. Turns out a Cerberus-created clone of Shawna Shepard was behind the whole mess. (So Joker is off the hook... for now.)
Shawna chased the clone throughout the archives. Brooks turned out to be a traitor, and she and the clone trapped Shawna and her team in Iridium vaults for a few minutes while they went to go steal the Normandy. Shawna vowed to mount their heads on spikes in the Normandy CIC.
Team Javelin managed to board the Normandy before it took off. A brief fight later, and the clone was a smear on the pavement and Shawna mounted Brooks' head in the Normandy CIC.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Aug 7, 2019 3:06:22 GMT
Shawna Shepard finally check out Anderson's apartment. Anderson then called and gifted her the apartment. Personally, Shawna prefers her old place on Inta'sei because it had grenades.
Shawna got invited out for sushi by Joker, but it turns out it was a setup by an unknown backer (but it could be Joker; not ruling it out for the time being). Shawna survived thanks to Tactical Cloak, melee grabs, and a garbage pistol she snatched from one of the mercs. Also, she met an Alliance officer named Brooks who seemed willing to help.
Liara tracked the gun back to a gun dealer and casino owner named Elijah Kahn. Shawna went with Brooks and Ashley to the casino to have a chat with Kahn, but Kahn was already dead. Shawna used Kahns computer to trace back his calls and called the guy who ordered the hit. The man was using an ID disguiser so it was impossible to know for sure who it was (could by Joker; not ruling it out).
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Aug 5, 2019 15:43:56 GMT
Shawna Shepard went looking for Dr. Garneau. She found his corpse.
New lead in trying to find Leviathan: Dr. Bryson's daughter Ann. Ann was at a dig site being attacked by Reapers. Shawna rescued Ann.
Ann had the bright idea to use an artifact to locate Leviathan. Ann died in the process -- or maybe just slipped into a coma; it is really unclear -- but they located Leviathan's exact location. Shawna went to the other locations anyway because of the potential credits.
Leviathan was located somewhere in an ocean on some backwater planet. Some pulse knocked Shawna's shuttle out of the sky, so she took a mech down down to find Leviathan instead. She found Leviathan and convinced it to help fight the Reapers.
Shawna then rescued some ex-Cerberus scientists from Cerberus forces.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Aug 5, 2019 12:08:49 GMT
Shawna Shepard helped Aria retake Omega from Cerberus. Aria rewarded Shepard with a kiss. Shawna does not particularly like Asari (or anyone for that matter) but sure, let's roll with it.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Aug 4, 2019 23:16:34 GMT
Shawna Shepard: 1. It was time to head to the Geth Base on Rannoch to destroy the Reaper signal. With Tali forced to come along, Shawna sidelined Garrus but still brought Ashley for an extra Javelin. Lots of robots got turned into scrap metal. Turns out the Reaper signal was coming from a Reaper Destroyer. Shawna was prepared to take it head on with just her Javelin, but the Quarian fleet decided to help by firing at it until it stopped functioning.
Legion then decided it was a great time to upload the Reaper code to all Geth so they could become true AI. Shawna managed to end the war by yelling at the Quarians until they stopped firing, and somehow the two sides brokered peace. Shawna made a mental note to kill both races after the war was over (it was the only way to be sure they would not start another war.)
2. Shawna went back to Tuchanka to go rescue the Turian platoon the Primarch mentioned, assuming they were still alive at this point. Luckily for her, there were still survivors. Their leader was Tarquin Victus, the Primarch's son. He mentioned they were sent to destroy a Cerberus bomb. Shepard volunteered to help them destroy it.
3. So it turned out that the Cerberus bomb was actually a Turian bomb planted at the end of Krogan Rebellions, and Cerberus was planning to use it because why the heck not at this point. Team Javelin sniped their way through waves of Cerberus cannon fodder and one Atlas Mech. Victus managed to disarm the bomb but sacrificed himself in the process.
4. Some Fuel Reactor was not working, so Shawna went to go help. Some N7 named Captain Riley was overseeing the operation. Shawna helped restart the Reactor while Reaper forces attacked. Riley died because she could not handle a few Reapers. Pathetic.
5. While Garrus made some calibrations, Shawna took Ashley and Liara to go pick up a Prothean artifact that was uncovered on Eden Prime. Liara was ecstatic when the artifact turned out to be a Prothean in stasis, but Joker was disappointed it was not Prothean porn. Cerberus troops tried to stop them from unthawing the Prothean. Shawna stopped the Cerberus troops from living by firing high-velocity rounds into their meat-covered skeletons. Prothy the Prothean was less than happy to be revived by 'primitives', and even less happy to be called Prothy the Prothean.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Aug 4, 2019 3:01:08 GMT
Shawna Shepard finally met up with the Quarian Admirals, who immediately wanted her to help them win a war against the Geth. Eager to kill more Geth, Shawna agreed and set off to go board a Geth Dreadnaught to take it down from the inside. Unfortunately, Tali was forced onto the squad so Shawna replaced Ashley with Tali.
Shawna boarded the dreadnaught, killed a whole bunch of Geth, and ran into Legion who was being used to boost a Reaper signal into the Geth. She freed Legion, and Legion disabled the dreadnaught's drive core. With the drive core disabled, Admiral Gerrel attacked the dreadnaught before Shepard, Tali, and Garrus left. This made Shawna very salty, so after barely escaping an exploding dreadnaught, she made sure to punch Gerrel when she returned to the Normandy.
Next stop: landing on Rannoch to go find Admiral Korris who had been shot down. As a bonus, Shawna got her Javelin upgraded to level X. Team Javelin (Shepard, Ash, and Garrus) disabled some AA towers, located Korris, and rescued him from the Geth.
Next, Team Javelin went to a Geth server. Shawna used a virtual reality-like device to go into the server and shut it down. She shut the server down, but was displeased when she found out Legion had downloaded some of the Geth into Prime platforms. The Geth wanted to help -- which was nice -- but she did not like Legion going behind her back; especially since the Geth could have turned on them instead of joining them. She would need to keep a closer eye on Legion in the future, maybe give it to Admiral Xen for study if she had to.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Aug 1, 2019 3:10:37 GMT
After the attempted coup, Shawna Shepard spent some time on the Citadel. (Way too much time; gosh that was a slog.) Invited Ashley back to the Normandy so she could become part of Team Javelin (Shepard, Garrus, and Ashley). Then it was time to scan the galaxy... then back to the Citadel for more stuff.
Then finally some fun stuff: going to a monastery to kill some Reapers. Unfortunately the fun was short lived as everyone died quickly. No survivors. ("But I am not going to turn into one of them" she said. "I'm not taking any chances" I said.) For the record, no Samara, so that means she either died on the Suicide Mission or she was never recruited.
Back to the Citadel because some of the squad wanted to spend some down time with Shepard. Shawna hated every second of it. She beat Garrus in a sniping contest, at least.
Then it was off to Noveria to a take a fighter base off of Cerberus's hands. They were reluctant to part with it, but Team Javelin can be very persuasive.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Jul 29, 2019 1:16:45 GMT
More Shawna Shepard: 1. Met with diplomats. Wreav was representing the Krogan. Apparently Wrex ate a bullet (or five) on Virmire. The diplomats made a deal: the Krogan would help the Turians in exchange for a genophage cure. Also, fertile female Krogans were being treated on Sur'Kesh. Who knew?
2. Apparently Mordin knew (he is alive, but not for long) and he was Wreav's inside source. Cerberus attacked, which gave Shawna lots of target practice with her Javelin.
3. Then it was off to Tuchanka to go investigate what Cerberus was doing with a ancient krogan ground-to-space cannon. More target practice. Shawna even ran out of thermal clips at one point, but there were plenty lying around in boxes.
4. Went to go investigate why some Krogan scouts went missing. Met Grunt, found Reaper-enhanced Rachni. Discovered Reaper-bred queen. Left the queen and Grunt to die. Grunt survived, the plucky bastard.
5. Cerberus was abducting and attacking people on Benning. Cerberus stopped their activity shortly after Shawna arrived, probably because she killed them all.
6. Went to go cure the genophage. The Dalatrass called and offered a better solution. Managed to take down a Reaper Destroyer with some help from Turian pilots and the Mother of all Thresher Maws. Eve died due to complications, and with Wreav in charge, Shawna was able to convince Mordin to only make the Krogan believe they cured the genophage. Whew!
7. One nightmare later (can you call it a nightmare if a bratty kid gets what he deserves?), it was back to the Citadel. Only this time, Shawna arrived in the middle of a hostile Cerberus takeover. Shawna made short work of that attempt, and even managed to kill traitorous Udina in the process. Ashley survived the encounter.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Jul 28, 2019 21:04:32 GMT
After a few days off, I picked up Shawna Shepard again and started the slog through the not-so-fun parts of early Mass Effect 3: 1. walking around the Citadel 2. eavesdropping on the Citadel 3. talking on the Citadel 4. scanning 5. more Citadel
Then finally with all that out of the way, Shawna took her Javelin to a Cerberus Lab and exterminated all the Cerberus-clad rats.
Then it was off to Grissom Academy where she took out more Cerberus mooks. I even managed a few single-shot double kills. Those were satisfying.
I cannot remember the choices I originally made in the trilogy with Shawna, but apparently Jack and the Normandy crew died during the ME2 suicide mission (Prangley was in charge at Grissom, and I did not have the option to pardon and recruit Ken and Gabby). Chakwas and Kasumi lived, though.
And Ashley became a Spectre, an obvious political appointment by Udina.
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Post by RedCaesar97 on Jul 24, 2019 2:18:56 GMT
After a few days of thinking about it, I popped in ME3 to play some sniper infiltrator.
I started a New Game+ with Shawna Shepard. I cannot remember what she started as in her first playthrough, but I remember ending it as a Javelin Infiltrator. So I decided to take her back in and snipe everything that moves (and a bunch of things that do not move when I inevitably miss). I started her this playthrough with mostly Paragon conversation choices until I finally got full control of her and saw she had been vastly Renegade in her previous playthrough. Whoops.
Anyway, she got off Earth, then went to Mars. Several Cerberus heads exploded. Then it was off to the Citadel for talking, back to the Normandy for a bad dream and more talking. Then some space exploration, researched a store discount, and upgraded some weapons.
Then finally made it Menae (a shame it was not Palaven) where Reaper troops took Javelin shots to the ribs, legs, brains, or wherever. It toots, I shoots. (That last sentence made no sense).
I can hardly wait (sarcasm) for the next part where I spend a bunch more time talking and scanning.
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