Rachni NPC to Player Character

It is an animation nightmare for a 3PP game. The clipping, good grief.

So no, absolutely not. Have a Ruby Bliels and chill.

Spit is one of many abilities he can upgrade with. Also Rachni can have many biotic, Tech and Rachni unique abilities for the player to play with.  Also How you deal with the Krogan is be important. This Rachni will have reasons to help or hinder the Krogan due to their shared history.



Due to the Black Talon organization, there are many Krogans within their ranks. So it is perfectly alright for Rachni to go to town on them. 

Well he does start out as a squadmate and how he evolves into a proper Player Character leading his own squad. he has a grim dark personality that is fitting of the Warhammer 40K and overtime he befriends humans and other aliens. 


If I was going to use tvtropes, He would be the creepy good for being a Rachni and then upgrade to a Reaper Ravager. Thru his rage, he overcome Reaper Indoctrination on his own and he leads joint forces of Freed Rachni Ravagers and Rachni and like within my original post, they fend off an massive attack by a New Reaper Faction. So you can influence Humans and other aliens to have a more positive influence. So a Pro Human Rachni is do-able. So Pro-Any species Rachni is equally do-able. 


Barney, One of the Geth Engineers(same geth engineer that I use in ME3 Mp) can become friends with this Rachni.

Rachni and Geths are interesting races/factions at ME. They add diversity in this universe. Insect like specie is not very original, like originals rachnis role wasnt original --> be the ennemy. The originality is to have make later Rachnis neutral to friendly.

Geth is an other matter. Geths from the start are not the ennemy looking for total hegemony and global extermination, like usual the skynet, reflecting a societal fear against technology. Geths are even, here, more the victims and discriminated parias than something else.
At the end of ME3 geths are the rising/emerging faction who just acceeded full conscience. There is imo an opportunity here.

From a marketing point of view however, I m not sure that allow players to play a geth or a rachni would be a good idea. These two factions have in common a poor individualism and no sexuality. It is a bit far from usual players s standards.

So all humans are the ennemies because Cerberus have turn people in into husks at the sanctuary. that s not friendly.

Geths didnt brought Quarians to extinction. Stubborn militarist Quarians themself brought themself near extinctions refusing to leave and assume their defeat.

With your argumentation I can easilly accuse the allies and USA during the WW2 to be responsable for millions of germans death, forgetting by the way who is the first responsable of the slaughter.

Once Quarians were defeated and acted accordyingly by retreating, Geths didnt try to genocide remaining Quarians, which would probably had been a rather easy task. They didnt, despite quarians war goal was (is ?) a Geth total extermination.


Accordying previous games, a ME4 universe without Geth is possible, like a universe without Quarians and without Rachnis. My opinion is it would not be a good things. However there is precedent in Mass effect licence of decisions that dont make much sense.

My main msg about the geths, dmc1001, is ; ME licences have the possibility to do with synthetics, here the geths, something else than the usual stubborn ennemy that have for only goal the destructions of all humans/organics and achieve hegemonic control. It is possible to have a bit of originality, and to not reproduce Skynet scheme, or may be HAL or the cyclons, the xenons ect ...

It is imo especially interresting because at the end of ME3 Geth become full conscious AI, but we dont know what it imply, nor what effect it will have on geths themself or geths organisations / society. Everything remains to be done ... if ME4 allows geths to survive.

Dmc1001, video games amd movies are not that different. Goal is, usually to sell dream and happy end to customers.
Point, that usually there is no heretic for a long time in my games ; they are healed.

Now ; Imagine star war trilogy, but at the end Luke prove to have a too weak will. He kill is father, become the new dark Vador, and to prove his loyalty bring back to Palpatine (victorious crusher of the the rebelion) Ian and his sister head. I m not sure the trilogy would have been such a success. Made prequel is posible, but probably less customers would be interrested. For sequels it would be complicated.

What I want to say is most peoples, which are also most customers, like happy end. For injustice, unfairness we have real life. Entertenaiment propose something else. That s why for most customers/Players, I presume, Both quarians and geths are saved and in peace, geths become good guys. Rachnis s queen keep its promise, and may be the pink unicorm will become her idol.

You can laught of course, but it is like that things works.

In a world where geth and quarians are at peace, and both survive, addition to ME5 of an emergent Civilisation of fully Conscient geth AI is imo rich of opportunities whatever could be later the geths politics depending of events.

Now it is fairly possible to have a producer or a scenarist who decid he will be smarter or more original than any others, and that make him a genius. Happy end is not necessary. May be also such arrogance can turn in ME3 ends mess.

From stat I have most people prefer to achieve peace between geths and Quarians. When they cant, they chose to save geths by a slight margins (and despite Tali)






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Isnt Geths a mystery by now ? In the most consensual world legion should had disolve to give all Geth a conscience, or technically to allow all of them to be full independant AI. Of course we can imagine, in a renegade end, all Geth had been sacrified in a destroy ending, so following have no importance. Geth fate is already a challenge. However from time legion disolve in the consensus to the final battle, we know nothing about the Geths, except they detected the reapers as a threat and join the confederation/alliance (if we assume they survived). Except that we know about nothing about them.
of course they seems rather friendly, at least with Quarians but all is to write in a way or an other. Geths before and after Legion are not the sames.

hey do you want me to make a thread that is dedicated to Geth and potential ideas that bioware could use?

Play as a Rachni? Absolutely.

The rachni are one of my favourite aliens in mass effect so I'd welcome one as a squadmate (Preferably alongside a Volus engineer in a jet pack).

And a game with a rachni protagonist would be fascinating if done well.

But I don't want any squadmate to become the player character, regardless of their race, because that would mean they come with a pre-existing personality and history which are things i like to create and roleplay myself within a video games limitations.