The Little Things 2.0

It took me three playthroughs to learn the bathroom even existed. Don't worry about it.

Makes sense. The first e-mail you get when taking control of the Normandy is Anderson's saying "rumours you are alive" and that's just after Freedom's Progress where no one actually saw you.

But then again, I think TIM didn't start leaking info you were alive at that point yet.

Oh, and one thing that always bothered me is how you can hear news report on the Citadel saying that Shepard was reportedly seen on Omega, even if you never set foot there

Am I the only one that found it on my first one?

Figured it was a normal thing. The bathroom door does stand out after all. Plus, there's that space in the Map. 

Oh, and you can also flush the toilet.

And can we mention the fact that in ME3, Shepard's bathroom is full of Heavy Weapon Ammo Crates?

If you do the murder mystery sidequest on the Nexus...

If you never talks with Traynor, she's too shy to reveal about her idea of tracking down Kai Lang. Edi do it for her instead.
If you only talks with James really late in the game, he asks if you got lost, or something like that, but still get to spar with him.
If you never meets with Liara in the cabin and citadel, she doesn't offer to meld with you in the end.

Today I tried to compute what my cooldown for Sabotage should be and came up with 21.4 seconds. (9 points in Decryption + 1 point in Engineer + 2 points in Hacking + Nexus III omni-tool + Quarian Ally achievement = 40 x 0.96 x 0.94 x 0.66 x 0.9). But when I measured it with a stopwatch I got 25.1 seconds. Not quite 4 seconds difference but enough to pique my interest.

Turns out the base recharge times for ME1 tech skills are a bit longer than advertised (I tested this on PC). With a completely clean slate (no achievements) an engineer with Basic Sabotage must wait 65 seconds for the power to cool down, not 60. Similarly, Advanced Sabotage has a base of about 54.2 seconds and Master Sabotage has a base of 43.5 seconds, not 40.

The bonuses from Hacking, Engineer/Operative, armor upgrades, and the quarian ally achievement appear to be applied correctly to this base.

However, the tech cooldown bonus from the equipped omni-tool is off too. A Nexus III which shows a 34% bonus is actually closer to 29.5%. The 50% bonus of the Savant X is closer to 40%.

The differences aren't enough that I ever noticed before.

I am also curious about the biotic cooldowns; I want to see if the biotic amp is similarly gimped like the omni-tool. I will repeat these tests with a Bastion Adept when I get the chance.

It occurs to me that the Bastion Sentinel gets a 24% biotic cooldown bonus from the Sentinel/Bastion tree but only 10% for tech. Not as balanced as I would expect from this class, though as you say, I don't recall it ever feeling imbalanced while playing.

I knew you could damage the shields, but not the Mako itself. Wow.

Yup. In one playthrough I did that two or three times in a row before I figured out what was going on.

Come to think of it, the main story of ME2 is pretty lame and hard to digest. The collector ship travels everywhere however the attacked colonies can not identify its unique signature. Also, the collectors disrupt communications whenever they are about to attack, but will not scramble cameras. its a wonder the surveillance cameras took 2 years to finally record them in flagrante delicto.

Not sure what triggered this:

Today, when planning the attack on the Collector base in ME2, and Miranda says she'll take command of the second fire team, Garrus interrupted her and said, "Not so fast. Half the people here don't trust you." Wtf Garrus, in front of everybody, that's cold.

Never had him do this before. This is a a straight-up Renegade run, both their loyalty missions had been completed with renegade resolutions where possible (let Garrus kill Sidonis, Miranda does not approach her sister).

That's incredible that BioWare put that much thought into it. Jack was indeed dead, never thought that would be a conversation trigger.