Reyes Vidal - No longer A Mystery (Official Thread)

Yay! This thread is still active!!!

Life in university comes at you fast, but thankfully, I'm free of most of my responsibilities for the time being (yes!)

Can I just say I fucking hope that Ryder returns in Andromeda 2??? It would be really sad to see characters with potential go to the shitter.

Also, I'm back working on my fanfictions- I'm just getting some inspo by replaying Mass Effect again (going for Thane for the first time ever!!) and I'm super stoked. Should probably throw myself into ME3, since Echoes in Neon is set in ME3, but I need to make sure I have that ME2/ME3 gritty feel down. Also as a creature of habit, Reyes will be on his spy shit once again because I'm trash. Also if I can go off topic, I'm dying to iron out my Life is Strange: BTS one shot with Rachel Amber. I've been rewatching Twin Peaks after I finished the finale, and I need more angst T-T. I need to get back in the swing of writing things soon, especially since I'm submitting to a writing contest.

PPS. Can I express my confusion at the fact that Mass Effect DLC is still full priced? Like I've still not played Overlord, Lair of the Shadow Broker, Omega, and Arrival, and I need more Shep and the gang in my life, but why're they so expensive still????

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I honestly feel that Bioware left this game to die after Andromeda belly flopped. Not that I blame them, but I feel that they should've gambled by listening to plater concerns and what we liked and created a bitching DLC. Would it have been risky? Absolutely. But it isn't like Bioware has never done bomb ass DLC that blow it out of the park like Tresspasser and Citadel (I know its fan service, but Grunt's Hangover scene, Garrus's LI scenes, and Uncle Urdnot was worth the price alone.) But I guess EA wasn't going to take chances.

I was able to land an internship, so I won't be back until February and then I'm gone in May again for vacation.

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I'm still hoping- I think they should do something like that- ME1 is beloved, but it's the least favorite of the franchise ME3 ending aside. I could see people encouraging new players to slog through Andromeda especially if Bioware gave EA the middle finger and did a linear game design rather than an open world one. Open World, imo, will always be weak for Mass Effect because it's an intimate game. It's variety comes from player decisions and relationship exploration and not from a fully fueled Nomad. Here's hoping some higher ups at Bioware (looking at you Casey) get that.

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However, I feel like Bioware's future is riding on Anthem being a solid game that sells a lot of copies.. and judging by public opinion rn, that's super fucking concerning.

Good luck to the writing contest, starlord. Somehow the thread manages to live…

It’s insanely rare, but the DLC on Origin go on sale on very rare occasions. It’s funny that a DLC can cost more than the base game itself! But I guess that’s how they figure they’ll make their money (assholes).

If you look at the kiss, the bottle is just about to fall of Reyes’ hand, so I think it ended up rolling of the roof sooner or later. Didn’t look fancy enough to take with him to home and he’s probably not that sentimental. It's somehow fitting to imagine Sloane or Kaetus getting mad at their peons not finding the fancy whiskey later on, and then some guard tripping on the empty bottle the next morning.

It’s funny to think that somebody potentially just stole the bottle for a quick buzz, without a care about it being incredibly expensive, and threw away the gold decorated bottle after the vodka doing its job, right?

Ah a little abatement for Reyes’ demands to have them stay inside the cave for weeks on end. They can ride the crate pulleys up and enjoy the slightly fresher air close to the surface. (Actually this is making Reyes sounds bad, isn’t it )

well it’s not going to be whiskey, then. They need to make a new name for it. Like bourbon isn’t ~proper~ whiskey either. The dextro Turian knows the tricks; he brought a nice personal seed vault from Palaven and is set for several life times. Props to him. Reyes must be jealous af.

I dunno, it again depends on each Ryder, but were I him (Ryder, that is), I'd probs ask for some confirmation that he and Reyes were exclusive, right, and then they'd share their house keys maybe (but better come up with a good password for the terminal lmao). Just the basics like that.

Ha, now imagine playing the game under assumption that Gil is the ONLY OPTION available for you, and after all hope being lost, Reyes suddenly descends from heavens, and can you blame Scott for becoming a little foolishly smitten?

The thing with that is that it’s negating the player choice and the narrative, assuming that that would still happen. It’s meant to be a big blow, and I’m not sure Reyes not getting revealed would be enough to counter all that. It might just go differently, such as some Collective agents not believing that the fake-Charlatan was fake, others being so unimpressed with Reyes’ plan failing that they start to rebel, and so on. In the actual narrative the reveal is of course the biggest blow, of course.

The assassination targets will start to come up once the actual politics power play begins, among the Initiative and the Angara, it’ll go marvelously. Believe me. 

Maybe the Charlatan feels it would be too vaudeville and thus hurt his dangerous crime boss image? it being extra humiliating for Sloane would help, sure, but she’s gone already, and as we know, Reyes won’t brood on her afterwards anyway, he’s too cool for that. Of course, the Salarian would’ve been right about the box being more unexpected, and neither SAM nor Ryder could’ve ruined the box-drop.

Oh of course, but it can get challenging when the questions gets to “what would suit Ryder’s character”, which of course varies in headcanon even when it doesn’t in the story. Sorry for getting testy. It’s interesting, I feel like ultimately Reyes would’ve lost my previous Ryder already during the “leaving drinks unpaid” scheme, whereas the earlier ones wouldn’t have minded and been all chill about that and most about everything else. Maybe it just comes down to m!Ryder’s VA.

Ah good, it's not as obvious as I thought. But not here, not in this thread.

Raeka was cool, and maybe she’d be chiller if her Ark hadn’t gone through all that. For a sequel, she’d be on the roster among Reyes, potentially escaped-from-prison-and-vengeful Kaetus, ever-plotting Keema, the Turian militia guy whose name I am destined to forget and remember in turns, French Vetra, and… the Moonshine Turian and Mr. Sniper Guy. The rest can get ate by the Black Hole Cthulhu.

Oo-err, are you sure?

That’s the problem, isn’t it? They started with a slow burn, setting up all these actually interesting things for future games, but it just didn’t work out, combined with all the other issues (worst interface in the world, bad writing, dull characters, surprisingly ugly graphics). I’d actually like to go and explore Meridian, rather than the two boring desert planets. Inexplicable!

Back to Reyes, I’m sure he’d want to be on the scene, close to the early explorers, combing over Meridian’s secrets. Conveniently enough, the Pathfinding should have the honor to pick the most interesting places to investigate. Haha, I could see it, that’s why he was burying his nose in his omnitool. Maybe his guys were outside taking all kinds of readings and sending them to Reyes for quick look. He might be, he’s got an adventurous streak. It doesn’t seem to pose an obvious risk, so while he’d be cautious, it would probably be mostly optimism he had. He doesn’t seem the doom and gloom type, as we know.

Something more specific about the fic you're submitting?

I like that new description, it's stylish, especially the ending. But how could Reyes change anything for the worst unless you happen to be a tyrant ganglord?



Work with who, Ryder who hasn't been nice and cooperative enough? That would actually be pretty great and make sense, I thought this was about him sending a surrogate to the duel. Although I can't see it ending in something else than a proper shitstorm if a not-so-friendly Ryder happened to uncover the fact the Charlatan screwed them over. I wonder who'd he pick for such a job, though. It's too important to be handed to just anyone. (MaybeMr. Sniper Guy has one more secret talent?)
Yeah, and then tell you to fuck off when you've displeased them enough
Super-secret datapads don't look like something that would be of interest to your average Outcast, so maybe they could survive like that, though leaving the city till the storm blows over a bit seems like the most rational course of action. But then again, if Reyes himself disappeared, it might cast suspicion on him nobody would probably ever dream of coming up with if he stayed. Maybe he'd really have to sit tight and wait.

To make room for another species, perhaps? They didn't look like they had bigger goals than the creation of a single species. Unless they had a Meridian for every such experiment, that is, in that case they could afford to have this one clogged with thousands of blueprints.

True, but most Ryders will probably be driven by the gameplay mechanics at least a little and thus will take his *wink wink* as a shiny invitation to a new cool location full of Collective guys. Besides, for some Ryders it would make sense to want to know exactly what the Collective is up to.

That. I think this should have been a regular choice at the end of the quest, once it was time to end the chilling on the roof. Too bad Sloane can be dead quite soon after the theft, so it would probably be Keema who'd discover there's something amiss with the bottle. But leaving it on the roof for someone to find and wonder what happened would also be quite lovely. Reyes loves being mysterious, after all

Maybe Reyes managed to keep hold of the bottle somehow, doesn't look empty by that time so that would be quite a waste. I don't think he'd allow that considering how high he seems to be thinking of the whiskey, no Pathfinder is probably worth that loss I wouldn't want to be that guard. I think the empty bottle would quickly get misplaced in that case and no one would ever hear of the find.
Anyway, it would make a pretty fun piece of news for the Heleus news service. "Some of the locals we interviewed suspect it to be the work of the Charlatan"

I like that kind of attitude. It's like the Earth equivalent of the Presidium fish, so decadent. But maybe they just didn't want to bother with the bottle afterwards if they weren't professionals who knew how to fence such a thing.

Poor Reyes, in that case. He's never going to have true whiskey again. Did he ever think of that when leaving for Andromeda? It's no wonder he's searching for the Mt. Milgrom with such zeal. Indeed, he should be jealous and making arrangements. Given that the Turian makes moonshine the krogan can drink, he must have all manner of miracles in that seed vault, and maybe he'd be open to cooperation, leading to taking over Heleus booze market (Or. maybe he discovered a way to interact with the remnant, thus enhancing the potential of his seed vault several times )

True. (Btw, Reyes cheating on Ryder is a rather horrifying thought for some reason) Think house keys are still a thing in ME? If indeed Ryder ends up with a different home than the Tempest?

Well, celibate would be a nice and very appreciated option in that case But I think Reyes didn't descent from heaven, he came regularly through the door. If he came through a hole in the wall it would make for a different kind of entrance altogether

It's not like that never happened if the devs wanted the story to go a different way. But the idea I got from the High noon fail was that the Collective was badly damaged and scrambling to live, but not gone altogether. When Reyes suggests this is not the end in the e-mails, he sounds like he's going to rebuild and take the Port anyway, not really start somewhere else (which would support the theory of the Collective being around like it or not). In the end it may depend on Reyes being persuasive enough to keep the Collective, or at least a part of it, together despite he the blow it took, but the universal Charlatan confusion somehow sounds too funny But yeah, it could happen. I can't even imagine how that would have to frustrate Reyes, though.

Once the power play begins, the Collective is probably going to be busy on all fronts. And probably filthy rich in no time, too. (But still, I wonder if even the angara will use the serviced of the Collective of if they have their own assassins to do the job)

Bah, after the vaudeville he did stage to kill Sloane? No way It must be the inter-Collective power play and the unfair struggle between underrated box Salarian and Mr. Sniper Guy, aka the favorite. If he wanted to be dangerous crime boss, he wouldn't play games, he'd just let Sloane know how bad an idea it was to come as soon as she found herself sufficiently deep inside the cave. See, another advantage of the box. If Ryder happened to spot a box hanging from the ceiling, would their first thought (or SAM's first analysis) be paranoid about it being set up there to kill Sloane? Of course not, Reyes' plan would worker and Ryder would be left with one big "well, shit" And Reyes would just need to change his line to "Boom"

I don't know, in that case I just insert a default "in my opinion" everywhere. Ryder isn't a set character, they can't be discussed as one. The unpaid drinks already? But he even made up for that with a pretty rare expensive whiskey.   The voice acting is just another thing to be omitted when it doesn't fit, just like a line of dialogue. But even taking in account the female VA I could pretty well imagine Ryder starting to steam about it but then immediately chiiling, telling herself she couldn't have expected any better.

I demand Drack be pulled out of the Black Hole Cthulhu maw, he's too old and not pleasing to Cthulhu palate anyway And since the minor characters also count, Bain Massani and that totally inconsequential but cool af Turian girl you pull out of cryo earlier and she tells you where Kett have their supplies in the cluster. They'd make for great future NPCs. Fuck, I think I've forgotten the militia... Kandros. That's the Nexus one.

Which is actually too bad, I wouldn't mind a game that just sets shit up, getting dumped in a working universe is the usual way to go about it and any change in MO is nice. But yeah, a bigger glimpse on the Meridian would've been priceless. They shouldn't have held out on so much interesting stuff in the game.

Aw, Reyes and the Pathfinder, tagging along Meridian discovering stuff and drinking in places nobody has visited since the scourge happened. How cute would that be. Hmm, now I actually really doubt whether his adventure streak would really be all about the dashing rogue adventures. Poking around long since lost mysterious stuff doesn't seem so far fetched for him either. It would be pretty daring of him to smuggle his guys on the Meridian so early on, but he doesn't waste time. (Maybe he could show all those images to Ryder later on, gloating he got them first )

Yes, this is just about the business for them. Although, you can never be 100% sure how it's going to turn out, could have been a hit, they probably saw it as too much as a risk to lose money.

May you do well in the contest. And I like the title "Echoes in Neon". Sounds kinda cyberpunky.


It was high time for that, been too long. You left a breadcrump that spoiled your presence so I had a hunch it would happen.


Nah, they only kiss one time and he holds it fast^^. He should have had time to set it down next to him. It's treasure after all, or so he say. Yes, it looks so plain, they should have made it golden like the one from the news . Lol, yes maybe she wanted to make a toast (to her "great leadership" ) with it but then it was nowhere to be found. I wonder where they got it. If someone took it with them when they left the Nexus (yes, they took provisions but that, hehe) or stole it later.


Yes^^. they can have their breaks up there. (A bit lol, but he runs a gang, it's to be expected the boss is not nice all the time.)


Yes and in turn the whole AI. Hehe, yes, that's why he should keep it a secret. Well, it must be someone who is very loyal to Reyes and somewhat charismatic. I think it also depends on how they want to play it. Whether the person plays the fake Charlatan or says they're only a representative because the boss won't deal with people directly. They can have multiple people in this case.
Yes, I think so. He can also spy a bit on the Outcasts' activities this way. He just needs to hang out in the bars and listen.


They can add rooms, or build other stations. I don't know if they have so many of them there. I think they have goals we don't know about. They might have created all the animals as well and who knows what lives in the other clusters.

I would definitely have mine take a look. But it could be that you can tell Christmas from the outpost to settle in a different direction.


Actually, he came in through the wall a secret door (you can hardly see it here but in the very beginning he has this toothy smile on his face).



And he was nice enough to teach Ryder how to use it.

I think that depends on the Ryder. I always roleplayed mine as extremely wary of him, but at the same time quite taken with the way he carries himself. She knows he is too well informed about some things, too interested in others, and generally scoffs at him quite a lot yet during the Roekaar quest (the height of this comes with her reflection upon the issue when he claims he's good at getting people to talk. She clearly sees she might have fallen for it too and isn't happy about it) yet eventually goes with it because she's not as good at being all time responsible dutiful Pathfinder person as her father would have been, and unsuspecting Reyes' agenda would go as far as him being the Charlatan, she's glad to have a little off the record adventure. But good point about the Shepard part, now I'm quite curious how he'll actually end up proving his usefulness in the story, given that Shepard already has a trusty information provider.

I don't know how it would make her unrealistic if you go about it right, and as far as I know characters without flaws are Mary Sues and no way realistic, so why not, really.

Hmm, I see how that might work, but wouldn't it be the very opposite of rationalizing?

Yeah, definitely. I was getting to feel too safe without the ever present threat of being ninja'd every time I'm writing a post

Depends on who would get to deal with him, I think. The AI might as well not be all that interested in who the Charlatan is, as long as the partnership stayed profitable. Unless of course Ryder got so pissed off they'd ruin the Collective's prospects with the whole AI somehow. Sure, let's hope Reyes has suitable people at his disposal, though. No matter whether the person pretends to be the Charlatan or just the go-to Charlatan agent, the Collective needs good representation. Multiple people would be good too when the business starts flowing, a bit like the Shadow broker agents.
Hehe, that would surely give him no trouble. He's already proved that skill when he lookd up the information about the Collective.

Yeah, the station looked like it could probably be infinitely expanded. For all we know they might have created everything in whole Andromeda, or on the other hand never get further than the angara due to the opposition (whoever it was) cutting all their life form creation experiment short.

I think Reyes would be disappointed otherwise But the Christmas thing makes sense, the Collective can probably entertain only so many visitors and the factins need to play nice.

No fucking way!!! Reyes can pass through walls like a pro (so no wonder he's smiling, who wouldn't be?). Suddenly the whole "Charlatan is a boogeyman" thing makes even more sense. I wonder where he learned that.

I think Jacob is the only LI who ever cheated on the PC. It’s just not done. Maybe the thought is horrifying, because it’s something that might actually happen? Reyes certainly isn’t fawning over Ryder and it seems clear he might dump Ryder if their interests conflicted too much, or if Ryder became preachy maybe. He’s also dishonorable. Even though that’s not IMO enough to brand him a potential cheater, it wouldn’t be inconceivable either. He’s well-written enough that we can’t just assume him to sit there pretty, ready to serve on Ryder’s whim. Still, ultimately I think he's not the type to go that far, because of the reservation he showed in wanting to wait until Ryder knew about the Charlatan business before committing - he has certain principles. At most, I think he could meet another person, fall for them and maybe even fuck them, but then he'd break up with Ryder immediately afterwards. I don't see him carrying another affair behind Ryder's back (or am I being too starry-eyes again? )

House keys figuratively, if you’ll graciously allow it. The Tempest is just a work place as far as I’m concerned, which may be because of my adverse reaction to the attempts at forced camaradie. Daddy’s old quarters on the human ark are Ryder’s home, except they have to share that with the sibling. But if Peebee can afford quarters of her own, probably Ryder can get such accommodation as well. I don't know why you’re being literal about everything, but I can’t muster the energy to be cute about it today.

That’s his intention, but for the sake of choices mattering, hopefully not successful.

I don’t think you did that, actually. Stiffing the bill is a pretty bad sign, yeah, most people IRL would probably balk at that. I don’t act in the best interest of my player characters, so they have to deal. If the bad impression gets made at that point, however, it’s hard for any future amend to patch things up. The stolen whisky isn’t a considerate gesture for the date either; Ryder merely gets to share the spoils by the virtue of being present, so it wouldn’t do much if they ever get there in the first place.

As for voice acting, single line said the wrong way can be ignored, but if the direction of the voice acting for the entire character gives certain air, it’s that much harder to act against it. At least for me it is, since voices affect me strongly. The French f!Ryder came across as professional and knowing her self-worth (+ dressed in hexagons), so she has her standards set higher than getting left with the bill by a low-life. Although I guess it would've been fun to test that - with english!Reyes I probably would've...

Drack was passable, but not actually good by his own merits. I’d leave him a peripheral character, while stocking the squad with better people. I don’t understand why people like Bain Massani. He was a forced reference, much like Conrad’s sister, only worse because Bain was apparently intended to live up to Zaeed’s badassery. Easter Eggs ought to be discreet IMO.

Not if you look at the flycam, it’s all but falling off. In the narrative, yeah, he probably took it with him without any further incidents, sure.

Makes sense, otherwise he’d be T-posing in midst of the other customers before the cutscene started. Is there an invisible room behind the wall where he disappeared, to store the model?

I mean... it would be darkly hilarious to have a My Immortal type dialogue/romance between the two 2.5 seconds after Thane is put to rest.

(I am a terrible, terrible human)

Fic is going well- with my internship, things are slowing down, but I think I'll have a good editing session for it soon and it should be up! I'll drop the link here

2.5 seconds? I mean, she wouldn't even have time to rush out of the door. I'm not sure how even someone like Reyes would react to such a development, but what the hell, I'm way too much into dark comedy not to appreciate this, I'm afraid. _{And maybe I'm just the tiniest bit reminded of my first pt of ME3. "He's dead. Aw, that's terrible. That's heartbreaking. *RPing poor devastated Shepard breaking down over it*  Am I actually feeling teary because of a game character dying? Can I romance Garrus now?"}


I still think the only interesting thing about Jacob was his transformation from a boring guy into an utter ass Thane on the other hand was great, too bad Garrus still wins hands down. Since not everyone is into experiments, I guess we should be glad we got these at least. Agreed with the Reyes stuff, plus it's interesting to have a romance tied to a specific plot arc, possibly a future power player, not a squad or crewmate all the time. Another experiment that went quite well, as far as I'm concerned.

It was mostly because he was a NPC that came out of nowhere in the middle of the game to give a bit of info and assist in a quest. This kind of thing has never lead anywhere in any game I've played, so of course I was skeptical Besides, he somehow didn't seem as romance material due to that "cheaty" impression (as in that he probably says this to all the Pathfinders but just in a way of teasing, not really being all that interested. No "potential cheater" brand). As far as fist impressions go, this is pretty interesting, though, since we've agreed that Reyes actually can't have had that many lovers in Andromeda and approaches the whole thing with caution. So, a pretty false first impression, then? (But there were avowals of no more secrets, mind you. who knows what we could expect from Reyes in the future )

Hey, maybe Ryder's comment just sparked his vanity like that, you never know I think I've objected a bit in this case, and I still do. It's Ryder's dating options that  aren't stellar, but Reyes has whole Kadara and maybe Elaaden to pick from for all we know. Thus, more options. None of them may still be as handsome, flashy, powerful and good for business as the Pathfinder, but the feeling of a LI coming in times of complete despair must still be lessened by it. Unless of course Reyes absolutely requires those qualities, period. Maybe that ultimately depends on how mature they manage to be about it and how much of a slight that hookup actually is. (Buut, I'd still think it funny to have Ryder give Reyes shit for shagging some random Tartarus broad and threatening it will have consequences for the Collective/Nexus alliance)

Oh, I never intended to hint at Reyes taking the Port as effortlessly anyway, even though that's the kind of choice negation that would probably happen, maybe even would be foreshadowed in the ending slides if they mentioned how things look future-wise for them. I'd expect casualties, shitstorm, no Keema and not as smooth transition by a long shot, maybe some results from the Outcasts fucking the place up too. I don't know if it was about the Port, but there had better be some reason. Wouldn't putting a plot armor on a character that's bound to become irrelevant and die in some dark corner of the cluster never to be heard of again, and making a tease-interrupt to show it off, be a rather odd decision? Especially if you consider they must've known there would be people who just want to kill him and be done with it at that point.

Point taken, but his not being a dependable type might well mean nothing at that specific point, then, unless it would also convince Ryder not to work with him further at all, not even on those quests (thus causing them to never make it to the end of the arc, yep)

Who knows what else he was planning to steal in the storage before Ryder interrupted him But yeah, you're very likely right. Poor Mr. Sniper guy isn't special enough, though? . I wonder how the quest would proceed if Ryder didn't look for him (hm, wouldn't it actually be interesting if there was such an option? )

Yay, you know, I can come up with a few characters not only in MEA where I'd love such an option to bits. Not like all their dialogue weren't "blah, blah, blah" anyway. And it would be fun. The best thing about it is that subs can be switched off pretty easily, so no extra work (_{something world-shattering approaches?})

Maybe. But Ryder at that point can hardly have done that much math on it, and who knows what Reyes did back in MW. (He’s gonna lie again lmao. But hopefully not on the big stuff.)

Well, Zia was beautiful but not much else. Lol at the bolded. But hey, why not play Ryder as the pettiest brat, were it allowed? Imagine the game giving that much width to RP Ryder.

That outlook can go both ways, aka him anyway losing or even giving away the Port - in order to set up something more lucrative at a secret haven found within the heart of the black hole, maybe? Ultimately what I’d like would be the costliest method, e.g. fully branched alternative Ports (like in Tyranny, a location can be altered significantly based on what you decide in the intro deciding your char’s history in the campaign).

At that specific point it would merely give a strong first impression, which would immediately arise to mind were she later on tempted by him otherwise. But I dunno, since I didn’t really get past that point with this particular Ryder. Who knows what she might have done, maybe grown a mind of her own and eloped with Liam, lol.

Yeah, that’s what I’ve been saying. He totally snooped at their computers and planted a listening bug or two, and left a whoopee cushion on Kaetus’ chair. The Mt. Milgrom was just coup de grâce. Nah, Reyes is impulsive and adventurous, surely he’ll rather share the drink with his latest conquest than spend another evening with the ol’ uncle. They probs have their own fun pastimes anyway.

I tried that with one of my Ryders. I thought that what if Ryder was upset at being neglected and left the party, waiting nearby at some other bar or eatery to see if Reyes would later on try to call him all panicked... But the game wouldn’t let me leave, of course.

Or not. I personally have probably said most the things I’ve had to say about Reyes, as fun as it has been (not that I’ve solemnly decided to abandon the thread or anything either lol).

Since you’re so dogged about this, use that energy to browse the thread until you find that one screenshot (possibly by BloodOfShiagur) where the bottle is seriously just about to fall down. Hadn’t seen that angle before, but he’s at the same position at another timestamp, I guess his model gets pushed backwards which caused that to happen.

Unfortunately I can’t really see what’s happening in that video, but I’ll take your word for it. Thnks for looking it up!

That way lies the Kotor 1 & 2 approach of repetitious pig Latin phrases from aliens, which rarely were any pleasure to listen to. Unless the devs constructed several pseudo-authentic languages or a least grammars and believable sentence structures, which they wouldn’t.