Rumours of Mass Effect Trilogy Trilogy Remaster: What would you like to see?

They have no idea where the reapers go in darkspace. So how would the fleets find them? Use the Citadel relay. How much damage did it take when the crucible fired causing the reapers to lose their shields/barriers? Don't know. I will assume it caused some power outages around the station. I would have the council select engineers and scientists to search the Citadel to find this signal that the prothean scientists were able to alter to reverse what they did. While that happens, investigate any of the destroyed reapers for any clues where in darkspace they are. Since the derelict reaper in ME2 has an IFF, I would say that is needed to use the Citadel relay. Why I say that? Why would it need the IFF if was for the Omega 4 relay? Was the Omega 4 relay around 37 million years ago? At the same time the navigation systems are searched on the reapers for more clues. How would it take before using the Citadel relay? No idea. Lets say 6 months. I would send as many ships through the relay as possible to deal with the reapers. Of course before using the relay I would send recon drones through first to get an idea of what the fleets might encounter.

Too late to alert anyone about reapers attacking for them to put up any counterattack. Look at ME3. Had the signal not been altered, the galaxy would have been harvested long before Shepard showed up when Sovereign first tried to use the Citadel relay. The relay trap works. Once the reapers come through, they wipe out what species is occupying it without giving them a chance to inform anyone of the invasion. It also gives the reapers control of the relay network cutting off each system from helping each other. Look at ME3. The reapers suffered x number of casualties. Read the codex to get an idea of how many they might have suffered. This cycle also is able to use the relays. If the reapers came through the Citadel, and then taking control of the relay network, how long would it take for the SR2 to travel to the Citadel from Mars? To Palaven? The other homeworlds? The only reason this cycle knew about the reapers was because of the prothean scientists, with help from plot, altering the signal delaying the invasion. No matter how powerful one is, you want to have as few casualties as possible.

While true, it would have been easier to just travel to the Milky Way when Sovereign failed to open the relay. Of course thing could have done something since it is part of the Citadel. Oh that's right. It never existed until the final 10 minutes of ME3.

That was before the extended cut was released, was it not?

I don't agree with that. The fight with the reaper was lame. After the reaper lost it's defenses, it still wasn't taking any damage when it was being fired at. It wasn't until the itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie frigate, SR1, with a fighter on each side, to damage and destroy the reaper. The whole thing was setup for the SR1 to destroy the reaper. Look at ME3. When firing at the reapers above Earth, and ems is above 2300, an Alliance ship is seen firing two shots destroying two legs on a capital ship. Why didn't that happen in ME1 when fighting Sovereign?

Entire fleet? No. Just because Shepard says the entire fleet doesn't mean the entire fleet was firing at the reaper. If anything, it was about 5-6 ships that fired at the reaper. If it was the entire fleet, you would have seen many, many more rounds hitting the reaper.

I think the game is caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to establishing an actual reaper war. As a game and for sake of retaining some signature hub zone, they want the Citadel to be an intact location for most of it. There’s Omega, but unfortunately it’s just a shithole slum on an asteroid and would probably not be a suitable locale to have all the important stuff happen. The only reasonable alternative then is a new location, a big space station that’s hidden where the Alliance fleets could coordinate their efforts with other races. Regardless, the problem with taking the Citadel first is that it stops any effort to fight the reapers dead in their tracks. Even if it was like, 5 reapers that invaded the galaxy, losing the galactic superhighway system kneecaps all of the galactic forces. 

I think maybe it would’ve been better to play up the indoctrinated forces angle more. Not just have it be Cerberus doing everything, or maybe Cerberus shouldn’t have been an enemy faction at all. Maybe even have the entire batarian race become thralls of the reapers, similarly to the Collectors, and other assorted agents that try to sabotage efforts to fight the reapers. I would have much preferred the reapers still be more in the background throughout more of the game, and just let the reapers attempt to let everyone tear themselves apart in in-fighting while they gather strength as a result of their having to take the long route to the galaxy.  

The reapers’ power always felt arbitrary, like their scaling depended on whatever the plot required at any given time. In ME1, there was at least some implied vulnerability on their part that the Prothean sabotage exposed them to if they wanted to keep this harvest going, which is why Sovereign futzed about with Saren and the geth for so long doing these little errands rather than just attack everyone directly. But then suddenly it’s so powerful it can just bumrush the Citadel and sit there tanking all this damage, only to get put in a coma because it stupidly decided it wanted to fight Shepard on their puny level even when it technically didn’t have to. The thing that’s so odd about that scene is that Shepard didn’t really have a way to stop Sovereign’s tentacle porn hijacking of the Citadel. There was no button or control panel to fight over at that point. So other than to have that last boss fight, why even bother? 

Heck, the barriers didn’t just go down. It got knocked out like a Pokemon once Superhopper Saren got taken out. I like how Harbinger was totally immune to this every time you took out a flaming Collector. 

What if the reapers aren't able to get into the Milky Way without using the Citadel relay? Virgil says the reapers are hibernating. So let them. Until the Citadel relay is activated, they remain in darkspace. What could happen is in ME1, Sovereign isn't destroyed, but leaves the battle after suffering damage. ME2 would play out the same except it's Sovereign controlling the collectors to see if they can activate the Citadel relay. ME3 could be about reversing the signal to go to darkspace. Of course it would activate the relay causing the reapers to wake up. What if in the process of reversing the signal, it's adjusted enough that it won't wake up the reapers? Because of some techno blah.blah, they were able to do that. Once in darkspace, they see x number of reapers in sleep mode. Shepard finds the central hub, downloads whatever information he/she can. While that is happening, all squadmates will be carrying rucksacks filled with explosives to be planted throughout the facility and then detonated as they leave. To make things interesting, Harbinger wakes up as the explosions are happening and follows the SR2 back into the Milky Way leading to a final boss fight. I would add that while the signal is being reversed, Shepard hunts for Sovereign. Once found, the reaper is no match for the SR2 and a few other ships. Because of the damage it suffered from the battle in ME1, it is destroyed fairly quickly.

I'm in the same boat. Nothing about the Reapers can't be taken seriously, hell even doing crossover stories with them in it gives me a headache.

All because Hudson wanted to follow the Rule of Kool. 😒

The problem is that the MET leans on it too much. Then the story arc starts to fall apart because it needs the Rule of Cool to progress it.

And the end result? You get Starkid and it's multi coloured flavours of Derp.

Personally, that's way I think that the MET needs a rewrite, to fix these problems it has. But, that'll never happen.

So, we're stuck with Starkid and it's multi coloured flavours of Derp.

I’m kind of surprised that ME3 is the one called out on this one, since I found that NPC’s probably had the most to say in that game’s expansions than in the other 2 games, that is to say, they didn’t say anything at all. Heck, I’d rather that investment go toward having my companions comment during Bring Down the Sky, and have the third companion actually say something in Lair of the Shadow Broker, particularly Garrus if you take him with you.