Sloane Kelly (Official Thread)

Never let to rule a tyrant too long time. Unhealthy. Easily to grow insolent. I let the sharpshooter eliminate her. This always a good choice. Who will the next?

Sloane just cares about people, who loyal to her, and give a shit to others, and kills, who disagree. It should not be that people would believe these bastards shall be inviolable. No matter running the business or not, the long-term corruption is never good.

We can certainly agree or disagree, I just happen to personally disagree with her angle.
I definitely think Sloane is more interesting now that I've read more of her backstory - I feel like the in-game content game made her more of a cartoonish mob boss, so I like that there's more nuance to her story.

As for Reyes, I assume he's unkillable because there are future plans for him (I'm assuming in DLC, although maybe in a sequel) and they don't want to have to spend double the money on writing and voice acting by setting up a Virmire situation where we could have one character versus another.

I hate it when they try to force the fanfic book, comics, etc stories and characters on the game. Thankfully ingame Sloane has enough personality and interactions to make her likeable. Number8 and the leadership clearly beeped up the situation. She and my Ryders always become friends in the end. Freeing the angara from her prison and sassing her when it's possible adds a great dynamic to their relationship. Officially she won't return to the AI but through the friendship with Ryder they can be part of the envisioned future.

Really? I actually liked our crew. I still don't know what to think of Liam, he's too chaotic imo, just like Sera, but the rest? Love them. Sloane is hated by a lot of people, so there it is. I don't think she would fit as our companion, but damn, it would be fun as fuck to have her. I love her reactions when my FemRyder is all sassy.
It's literally... "It's not that I like you... baka!" I'm not much into japanese stuff, but tsundere describes her pretty well towards Ryder

Yeah, I would be livid if they force us to work with and support Reyes especially if they force him on us as a squadmate. 

Did Sloane's turian boyfriend get to watch?

I have a lot of laughs when my Ryder talk to her so I saved her, it was an impulse but in next playtrought I'm going to let her die. 

I don't think they would have four different stories. I think they'd have some new crisis on Kadara, Sloane would get killed off in the introduction, and you'd be forced to work with Reyes either way. Some of the dialogue would be different if he were an enemy, but if the story was action-driven a lot of that would be the same (like working with the different relationships with Legion in ME3).

It's definitely not worse than Virmire, since there they needed to both account for two sets of relationships with each character plus recording all of the dialogue twice with two separate voice actors. Even if they went all out and made four or five sets of unique dialogue, it's still just one body to use in cutscenes and one voice actor to record it all.

That's a shame for anyone who wants to see more of Sloane (or who just likes replaying scenarios with different characters to see how they play out), but from a resource perspective I think it's clearly an easier path.

My FemRyder would tap that, too

More likely they'll just have a common threat, external or internal, hit Kadara and Sloane and Reyes have a Virmire situation where the one you chose is a temporary squadmate. That'd work better than just forcing choices. Each could have a couple dialogue differences, for example Sloane would have differences depending on if you stayed out of the whole side quest chain or if you sided with her during High Noon, and Reyes would have differences depending on if you are in a romance or not. 

I think if they couldn't make it work with separate starting point they'll just pick a 'destroy everything' route. When the cats return they'll hit the colonies with full force. On Eladeen it opens up the option for a save the krogan take 2. Bonus if you have an outpost, "okay, you can help us nexus" if you don't. Kadara is always a loss - if Sloane is in charge they're killed, if Reyes is the boss he sells out the colony and the port to the kett so he can escape. It would give the chance for the similar outcomes-starting point, with Sloane being dead and Reyes on the run.

I would prefer she live though, she's awesome. I just love sassing her and in her own hostile way she cares about Ryder.