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No we just see him kill a few then push one off a cliff. From that point until Grunt shows up we don't know what happens. How ever we do know those little swarmers are canon and not just a game play mechanic.  And given the regeneration and multiple residencies of Krogan anatomy I don't think it would be so one sided. 50/50 chance I'd say.

We do know however that Grunt's off-brand replacement, should he not make it through ME 2, actually does die from that same group of Ravengers in the caves. So from that common element, we can infer that a large chunk of the 'damage' Grunt, and/or his second-rate replacement received, was indeed from that one group.

All of which points back to my original observation that: for all the martial prowess and sheer beserker fury we are lead to believe the Krogan possess, (Grunt more so, what with him supposedly being the 'Perfect Krogan' and all) are still nearly killed by a group of armless, teeth-less zombies; completely ill-suited for any form of close quarters combat.

And if your Krogan super solider faired that badly against those aforementioned and quite frankly lopsided odds, then there is little chance that he would survive against actual Rachni Brood Warriors. Rachni, who's claws are capable of penetrating modern day amor, and who's exoskeletons are capable of standing up to modern day weapons would have turned Grunt into red mist before he finished bellowing his peoples' war cry.

Mass Effect modern day. Shepard could unload an entire clip of an assault rife (essentially an auto fire rail gun) into one during the events at Peak 15 and they wouldn't even flinch. What's more those same bugs are able to take a swipe at Shepard and remove large chunks of his health in a single attack, despite him/her wearing modern day combat armor.


In other words a Krogan trying to bare knuckle brawl an actual Rachni is going to die a very painful death, doubly so if the Rachni in question is a Brood Warrior and not one of the run of the mill soldiers.

Thin ice or not, it doesn't change the fact that we are told over and over again how impressive the Krogan are in combat, how we need the Battletoads if we are to have any hope in deafeating the Reapers. Yet here we have a genetically engineered super solider of their species nearly killed by zombie Rachni repeatedly bumping into him...

Yes bumping into him before going off a cliff.  With the implication that Grunt was drawing off all the Ravagers and any remaining Reaper troops to allow Shepard to escape.  There is a time gap that you can't account for.

I can agree with this. That feeling you got when the Normandy flew off into the distance and M4 Pt. 2 started playing... Amazing, simply amazing.

Ok, so I played all ME3 missions (except for the last one) with every possible combination and read all in-game text and I have to say..
Successful sabotage of the cure with suspicious Urdnot Wreav makes no sense. It just works, yeah. If Shepard is remorseless about deleting Maelon' data, Wreav (like Wrex) repeatedly shows his distrust.
I'm already taking a risk by letting you handle it.
Don't insult me, Shepard. The only reason we're even talking is because you're useful to me.
And I'll be watching you, Shepard.
Just make sure those reasons include a cure for the genophage.
[You'll be caught in a vicious cycle if you try to avenge the genophage.] Isn't that why you destroyed Maelon's research, Shepard?
Just remember who's side you're on.
Wreav is not that dumb.
If only the Dalatrass bargain was treated like a real deal and Bioware had guts to penalize Shepard for refusing that deal. Just like they unceremoniously penalized you for not going along with Wrex's grandiose plans. Instead it's treated like an ~evil flavour~ and "fine, have those pathetic 150 points and few lines from Hackett and Vakarian, but know that you are horrible, horrible."
Javik is essential for the Tuchanka missions. It's quite peculiar that Dombrow wrote him and was lead writer of the Tuchanka arc...
BTW, Wrex has much more interesting and subtle dynamic with Shepard who deleted Maelon' data.
TBC...

I get that we all like what we like.  I prefer to save as many as I can because there's more content that way.

Gameplay-wise, the suicide mission is pretty much the same as the rest of ME2. Running up the Citadel tower towards Sovereign's fingers easily beats shooting bug people in a gold-brown cave.

The boss battle against Saren was a letdown, but so was ME2's Terminator.

While I don't completely agree, I think I get where you're coming from when one compares ME2 with ME3.  On the higher difficulty levels, much of ME2 tends to reduce to "stay sheltered behind chest-high walls waiting for a momentary break in the insane volume of automatic gunfire".

Definitely if you're an Adept.

After becoming a good ME3 multiplayer player, I find the combat in ME2 to be a bit stiff but more strategic. I certainly felt this way with the Engineer run I just did. As you said, some classes are a bit more fun for the story in ME2. I definitely agreed with Engineer and Sentinel. Adept in ME2 is really annoying to play as and infiltrator is just way too easy in ME2. But in ME3, the story mode is way too easy even on insanity because of how over powered Shepard is. And while I was originally a huge fan of Vanguard, it is a very buggy and annoying class at times. Its dropped considerably for me. But for ME3, I really am liking Engineer. I may even replay my female as an Infiltrator and spec her with a shotgun instead of using snipers.

But multiplayer in ME3 is by far the most fun the series is combat wise. There is just so much diversity.