Mass Effect Trilogy, Biotic bonus power dialogue?

I don't think they do, but I'm unsure.

Shepard is always with biotic potential. He is not necessarily a 'biotic' until he has an implant and uses powers.

Not all children were tracked down for things like BAAT. He likely doesn't have the early exposure to training and such, and so is more of a basic soldier culturally, but you choose whether he utilizes his biotic potential with L3 implants.

As far as I gather, every time I research, I come to the conclusion that Shepard is a natural biotic but the options often have it that he doesn't utilize this potential in order to be recognized as a biotic.

If I'm correct at bonus powers aren't recognized, in-story this can be attributed to Shepard trying out something rather new/rare for themselves, not having some years-long history of being a 'biotic individual'.

We can imagine Shepard doesn't turn to biotics in almost all cutscenes no matter his class, because he is ultimately all about the gun, and not (even as Adept; its all relative?) taking the gamble on doing some biotic move properly. We have RP variance, but ultimately Shepard is a soldier with a gun and armor and is sent/sends himself out to destroy things, and we decide how much of that we embrace and double down on or how much we look for other ways (passively through things like class choice, or active plot decisions).

That was something I liked about the Citadel DLC, finally got to see Kaidan and biotic Shepard using their powers. I like the idea of them two helping each other training their biotics at home...I think I'll just stick with an Adept, or maybe go for Sentinel.

I can't remember when they use their powers in the base game but I'll take your word for it. The most I remember is a few bits of dialogue like in the Thessia monastery, using Biotics to float (Thank you for that Andromeda )

Isn't that why they have amps?

They won't . I'm playing a soldier with a biotic bonus & never get a reference about Shepard beeing a biotic

Biotics can remain hidden until an old age, but if this is the case, they aren't much powerful and don't work good with L2+s (assuming I remember SAM-E's comments on the Home Away guards correctly).

At the other hand, Shepard being naturally biotic in all cases eliminates some minor plothole: I mean, after Cerberus loses Shepard, their top field operative is now Kai Leng. If they fitted him with implants and even gave a new leg, why not give him biotics? The answer in this case is: because it was technically impossible for them.

You mean implants that give biotic potential, or harness it?


Oh shit, this is the first time I learn about bonus powers existing in ME1. Is this a platform thing or I just have some weird version of the game where it's not included?

For some reason, these two are never available when I start a new game but they are on the console later if I want to switch powers. I don't understand why since I am almost always playing while Origin is online, especially to start a new game.

I wish the SP bonus powers were as inventive as the MP ones. We could have had Shadow Strike, Annihilation Field, Snap Freeze. But no, we needed 3 variations of Warp and 2 variations of Throw/Pull. The only ones that really feel unique are Dominate and Stasis, thanks to PC modding we can at least get powers like Annihilation, Biotic Slash, Biotic Sphere etc. but no Shadow Strike

This extends to Andromeda as well but thankfully the MP powers are moddable into SP, been using Avenger Strike a lot ;P

I was only referring to the method of unlocking the bonus talents for ME1 on subsequent characters, though as Red pointed out the exact number is 75.

I hope you don't mind me offering an answer, the Charge/Nova combo does exist in MEA though it's slower and overall it just doesn't feel as effective to me. My personal setup usually involves Annihilation, Pull and Warp with the Adept profile, I'd use Explorer if not for the hit&miss teleport mechanic of the evade. 

(And praise be that Singularity is huge again like it was in ME1.)