DA fan gives ME:A a second chance (Text Based Let's Play)

I find it hilarious that a bar was "force created". It's like if Quark hadn't intended to build a bar. There better be dancing

Teh real question is...how do I get out of this Docking area...

These Asari look rather alike but...to be honest, I'm not sure I thought the Asari looked very different in the Original Trilogy.

Alright Avena, how the heck do I get off this Dock? I swear I've walked everywhere and still haven't found a hallway to the place I arrived at.--- ah, she didn't help...maybe I clicked on the wrong part of the ship. Go back to the Tempest? Where's a tram/elevator when you need one?-- Nope. There is just the docking bay to click on. OMG, I'm lost on the nexus.

Edit Add: And then immediately found the Tram after I posted. 

Wow. These politics are super weird. I honestly feel like Tann and Addison are trying to... I don't know...oust each other. Tann is just shady as hell. And all he had to do was call himself my "patron." It'd be like if Lel were trying to get me to go behind Cullen's back. This is not a healthy working environment!

Tann: The History of the Initiative cannot show that we were bested by a cloud. --- I dunno, the delivery of the word cloud made me laugh.

Gee willikers. I never did see battle today. The Tempest is Large, then dwarfed by the Hyperion, then dwarfed even more by the Nexus. Then, of course, there are entire planets to contend with.

Speaking of distances; is there special dialogue you can only have with the companions when they are at their alternative spots on the Nexus/Hyperion? Or can I just ignore them there and talk to them on the Tempest?

On one hand, I want to speed things up to get Jaal, then come back and do everything with him to hear random commentary. On the other, by the time you find him, you kinda have this whole "Kett are destroying our people" thing going on, so, to narratively bring your Angaran Contact to go do Initiative work seems weird. I dunno. What do you guys think?

Because I'm curious about the Mutiny/Murder/Power Grab story and why the Nexus essentially sent people out to die on Eos- are peoples' bitterness about their lack of support warranted? Eos had a sad story that I was picking up on and that @upupaway95 hinted at that I want to explore.

Or does Jaal stay silent on it anyway so it doesn't matter?

Off to bed with me.

I think in this instance though, it really isn't the end of the world until you get to a certain mission. And even then, you still have reason to delay. Setting up outposts is a big priority and there's a lot of grunt work to do on each planet before they are viable.

It does depend where you are at in the game, but if you make a habit of going back to the ship between some of the more minor missions on the planet, you can space out the conversations, just do a few of the squad and then go back to the planet, so some minor fighting, etc.  There is a quite a long section when you're doing Havarl and Voeld where the NPCs run out of new dialogue to say.  Their dialogue generally changes 1) when you do a main mission sequence that changes over a priority op 2) when you do a step in their personal loyalty missions (i.e. that changes over a mission listed under Allies and Relationships).  Most frequently, you will find that they go back to their original hidey holes on the ship for these important dialogues.

Timing pressures.  In this game, it really depends on what "accidental" order you do the planets in and/or how much bouncing back and forth between planets you want to do.  The dialogues will change with the order... and some of those pressures just don't come across as intense than iif you happen to use a different order.  This is a general improvement over the MET, imo (i.e. Bioware have been working on their writing to improve on this.)

Still, you can safely main line it and then decide you want to come back even after the ending and cleain up other missions.  What you lose then is just some of the connectiveness of the little backstories to the main one.

I don't have the quote handy, but Jaal says that the Kett only showed up about 70 to 90 years earlier.  I think Angara reproduce fairly rapidly (evidenced by their large families).  They seem somewhat cat-like in that respect... born in litters.  The only means of reproduction for the kett appears to be exaltation, so the angara are set up as an unending "supply" of new kett even as it is the angara resistance killing off the old Kett.  I'm pretty sure Bioware set the whole thing up to be an iteration of a difference sort of "symbiotic relationship" (SAM and Ryder being an example of another).

Ya, I did haha in retrospect, I considered it out of character for my Ryder, but since it was a priority mission, there is no saving and going back to a repeat point.

I blame the fact that options for Ryder to do something off script are rare, so I'm very likely to use the interrupts just to have some control of the character.

One of the Angara (Jaal?) I think explains it with Angara starting to take death over being captured. It sounds like initially, kett almost tried for almost a volountary union, with establishing contact etc. Then they had to build up the military presence, which probably took a while moving forces from out of the cluster, probably with conflicting military priorities. Then adapting their tactics to take Angara alive. They probably are outstretched, seeing how replacing procreation with conquest and high tech transformation is not particularly prolific way to grow a race.

Sorry then, I'll try to be more careful about inserting stuff in spoilers regardless of whether or not I think you should already know about them.  Pitfall of an open world - everybody can find different things out at different points in the game.

P.S. - A lot of the Angaran history is found during the "A Trail of Hope" mission sequence, which can be tackled in a number of different ways.  The most revealing one is when you Save the Moshae on Veold (and combined with a lot of the smaller Veold missions, it really reveals a lot about the Angara and the Kett).  I honestly did not think you could get to the main part of Liam's LM without having saved the Moshae.  Also, be aware that Liam's LM is also a multi-part mission (as most of the LMs are), so now I'm wondering if you've even gone as far in that as I was thinking you have.

Also, be aware that a number of the more major missions (including some of the more major optional side missions) have "secret" areas with additional datapads that can easily be missed/overlooked and the missions still complete successfully.  In those cases, you may also find yourself missing different bits of information that might come up in discussions.  Just saying... with the open-world format, discussion here could easily get a little touchy.  I think I'll just read from here on in.

Related to the Let's Play-- thinking, since I cant play at work.

Now that I've seen the "First Meeting on the Tempest" twice, I decided Cora's crap comment about the Krogan is actually an info dump of Krogan history. It still makes her look like a bitch though.

I don't have the conversation memorized, but it was out of place aggressive to a new companion. It also makes the Krogan look dumb when the situation regarding the destruction of their homeworld was quite more complicated than that. And involved the Rachni, the Turians ,and the Salarians. It's a pretty ham fisted way of informing new players about Krogan history and specifically in a very non complimentary light.