What did you do today in ME?

pssst, look who I found in another universe. The mod is just too irresistible. I also put in the Shepard voices for both female and male.

I still didn't discovered the mechanic behind even to this day, but after the coup attempt private Westmoreland lines change depending of what happened in previous games.
Most of the time she say he made a deal with the devil, but other times she say he was trying to help humanity, so he wasn't entirelly guilty of all the mess created.

But how to achieve one line or the other? Not a clue.


Interesting enough, this is what I did today:




I still need to do Zaeed's mission, but he will die, so no worries.
With the exception of Grunt every single one of the remain squadmates you see above can or will die in ME3.
Without too much effort.

Bioware made sure "war is cruel, war is cruelty".

Jeph Shepard:

- As we headed to Thessia, Javik said he needed to come on this mission. Wasn't sure I liked the idea but it seemed important to him. Maybe he knew something. Didn't like not having Kaidan watch my six, especially with Liara also insistent on going, but I'd deal with it. Liara did say the coordinates we got were for an ancient Temple of Athame which happened to also have classified government funding. The asari holding the area for us were dying in droves and were about to pull out. Javik touched the commander, did his thing and convinced her to find her resolve. When I said the artifact we were seeking was for a Prothean weapon that could win the war, she was all in again. Liara had a hard time facing banshees because they were her people but she'd never given much thought to what humans had been feeling for years when fighting husks.
- A lot of asari died here. A LOT. And all I could think was the self-righteous superiority of the asari councilor who wouldn't enter into an alliance because it offended some stupid dalatrass. Now we were all paying the price. We finally did make it to the temple. There was a large statue of Athame and many artifacts around it. Javik said it aloud but even I could see that some of the smaller statues and images looked like Protheans. When I got to the statue I sensed something. It was a Prothean beacon. Explained why the asari were technologically superior, because they had knowledge they hadn't shared with the other races, something required to do by Council law. We had to unlock some connections using other artifacts in order to reveal the beacon. When done, the statue fell apart and revealed the beacon. What came out was a Prothean VI named Vendetta that was based on the mind of the Prothean overseer of the Crucible project. Looked like we might have hit the jackpot. Learned the Crucible design was begun millions of years ago and improved upon in each cycle. Vendetta mentioned interfacing with the Crucible to unlock the Catalyst but then went dormant when it sensed on indoctrinated presence: Asshole #1 on the menu.

- He had a holo of TIM who seemed pleased to have found a way to control the Reapers. He talked about the Reapers not really wanting us dead, just wanting to control us. It was like Saren saying that the Reapers would make us servants. All lies, which Javik and countless cycles before us could attest to. Indoctrination was funny like that. Even though TIM thought he was trying to save humanity he was actually causing a lethal division that prevented us from defending ourselves. Ridiculous that he couldn't see it. He couldn't be reasoned with and order Kai Leng to take the artifact. Kai Leng isn't especially tough but he had some kind of barrier armor like nothing I'd never seen. Given the force fields on Omega I supposed it made sense to a Reaper indoctrinated agent to have special tech. We couldn't take him with the gunship firing on us, he escaped with the beacon data and the last of the asari defenses in the area were taken down by the Reapers themselves. This was a shit show if I ever saw one. I wished Kaidan had my six.

- I wanted to rage at the asari councilor for being so stupid but I didn't have the heart. Thessia was hit hard and yelling wasn't going to fix that. She told me she'd lost all contact with Thessia and I told her we'd failed. All asari forces retreated from their area. There was no hope without a working Crucible. Based on what Vendetta said, something like this happened in every cycle.
- Traynor had managed to track Kai Leng's shuttle. It was the system that contained Sanctuary, the supposed safe haven from the Reapers. That was also where Horizon was and Kaidan said I was the only Cerberus presence there when he was stationed there. Still, that didn't mean they hadn't come. An anti-Alliance colony getting support from Cerberus didn't sound strange to me.

- Had to make a detour to regain control of a communications array from Cerberus. No communications in this area without it. Our only contact with a comm specialist named Grace Sato who was not a fighting and in hiding. She had to give us coordinates that would allow us to hack our way back into control. She was very afraid but I spoke like this is the mission and we're doing it. She finally gave us the last coordinates and Cortez made a run to save her. Mission success and a Cerberus loss.

- Visited Ann Bryson in her father's lab. We talked and it seemed likely we could trace Leviathan, but only when it was actively controlling someone. Ann volunteered. I didn't like the idea but didn't see another choice. Leviathan did take control of her and we got a partial lock before we shielded the artifact again. Couldn't risk her dying. It meant we'd have to check out a few systems but that was okay. It wasn't happening right now anyway since Sanctuary was my next destination. Oh, and EDI pretended to be on a treadmill.


That's all the time I've got for now. Next stop: Horizon!

Ahmed Shepard talked with Primarch Victus and asked him about the problem he mentioned earlier. Victus explained that a Turian ship had crashed on Tuchanka and he wanted Shepard to rescue any men still alive. Ahmed asked for more details, but Victus refused to answer, stating that it was classified. Ahmed understood the nature of classified missions, so he declined to press Victus any further.

On the way to Tuchanka, it was revealed the Turian platoon was commanded by Tarquin victus, the Primarch's son. Something was starting to stink about this mission, but Ahmed had a job to do and he did it. After rescuing all the Turians still left alive, Tarquin told him more about their assignment: they were after a big bomb controlled by Cerberus. He did not say any more about it, but it seemed serious.

Back on the Normandy, Ahmed angrily confronted the Primarch. Primarch doubled-down on his refusal to say anything more about the mission. As an N7, Ahmed was used to classified assignments, but he hated being in the dark on details. Knowing the details about a mission was important, or at very least, be fed enough plausible lies.

While Primarch Victus was not forthcoming on details, his son spilled the beans while they were on route to recover the bomb. The bomb was originally of Turian design, planted on Tuchanka after the Krogan rebellions in case the Krogan started another uprising. Now Cerberus had uncovered the bomb and was preparing to detonate it, which would cause war between the Krogan and Turians.

Ahmed and his squad ran interference for the younger Victus while he worked to disarm the bomb. Victus managed to disarm the bomb, but died shortly after. Back on the Normandy, Wrex and the Primarch got into a shouting match. Ahmed, now completely furious at everyone, yelled at both of them until they both backed down. Ahmed then ripped into Victus some more for not coming clean about the mission details. Ahmed is not really a people person.



Ahmed decided to take all of his frustrations out on Cerberus. Cerberus was accused of abducting and killing colonists on a planet called Benning. So Ahmed went to Benning and kicked every Cerberus ass he could find while the civilians evacuated.

So I've been playing again after a long hiatus after playing through Andromeda. ME:A wasn't bad, but it wasn't that great either. Some great scenery graphics and locations but the characters fell flat and I felt the setting was far too explored and settled already to justify calling myself a 'Pathfinder'. I also felt the controls felt less 'organic' and smooth as the ME3 controls. That said, back to the original trilogy for me, specifically ME2 in my case.

I've rolled up my classic femshep Renegade once again, ME2 is just so much more fun being a ruthless badass. Haven't gotten far in this run yet, intimidated Tali and sent Veetor to Cerberus, pulled Garrus out of his jam, picked up Mordin after curing the Omega plague and then collected Jack from prison. For the first time I bluffed Jack about getting access to Cerberus files but she just went ahead and pulled them anyways. Maybe I need to talk to EDI and Miranda about beefing up our opsec?

Side quest-wise I recovered Agent Rawling's files for The Illusive Man and raised an ugly monument at the Normandy Crash Site, for the first time at the bridge terminal, not the main hull site where I usually put it. Currently half-way through Korlus, I had to save and call it quits last night before I could finish it. It's good to be back.

I'm dying to try the new XCOM 2 "DLC", but unfortunately I have little free time in my hands right now.
I will try to play a little this weekend.

And Firaxis is crazy, calling the expansion/second chapter a DLC is offensive. Highly offensive.

Ah... if only all other DLCs were like this one, hun?

I saw the DLC gameplay on Twitch. It's impressive.   Not getting it any time soon however; need a sale! 

Just added Mordin Solus. Aria got unlucky in a tough mission. There was a funny moment when a floating robotic thing with wings (forgot name) got behind her during the turn over. The reaction was priceless; *gasp* what's this behind me?!  I mean, she jumped.   I pulled her back but she got whacked pretty bad, her confidence and will also took a dent. 

But she got it back just now and improved; I took a gamble that the supply raid mission wouldn't be too tough. 

Both Shepards made captain. FemShep got 30 kills; leading the pack.

So I am beginning to burn out on Dragon Age and I have not done a full play through of the trilogy since MEA came out. That said while I like MEA well enough I feel the trilogy is Mass Effect and I am ready for another run. The only problem for me right now is I am not sure what class I want to play. My two most recent trilogy playthroughs consisted of one vanguard and one soldier so I don't want to do either. I was going to go adept but I don't think I want to play a pure biotic. That leaves engineer, sentinel, and infiltrator. Also this will be a paragon femshep. As far as the rest of her background goes I have not decided yet (I like to incorporate backgrounds into why I pick what class I pick for roleplaying purposes). Thoughts?

Yeah I am leaning towards engineer.  It's not a class I have played a ton but it is a damn good one.  Though I will pick up the assault rifle training.  I need at least one big gun and yes I know the pistol is super powerful in ME 1  but I need something big lol.

My suggestion is to go Infiltrator, since in ME1 it has the best of both Soldier and Engineer. You can take AI Hacking as a bonus power and play it like an Engineer, or take assault rifles or shotguns as a bonus and play it like a Soldier that can unlock stuff on its own. (I am assuming of course that you have all those powers unlocked).

And then in ME2, you can keep it as an Infiltrator or switch it to either Soldier or Engineer.

My recommendation would be to go Infiltrator in ME1 and then switch to Engineer in ME2. You can them keep Engineer in ME3 or switch it back to Infiltrator. ME3 Infiltrator with Sabotage, Incineration, and Energy Drain (as bonus power) plays almost like an ME3 Engineer, but with an added bonus of cryo ammo, and/or disruptor ammo, and/or sniper time dilation if you want sniper rifles.

With the Infiltrator in ME1, you already have a second weapon, but if you want to use shotguns or assault rifles you can and still play it like an Engineer if you are so inclined. You still have Damping. Or for bonus power, you can switch in Neural Shock instead of AI Hacking or a weapon and still be Engineer-like.

(What I am saying is, ME1 Engineer is trash)

lol well it looks like I will be stuck with the engineer in ME 1 anyway.  I don't mind.  In ME 1 the class differences are minimal anyway.  They took the three base classes and chopped them in half then smashed the halves together to make the hybrids anyway.  So some of the classes play almost the same way anyway.  In ME 1 the engineer is like a squishy infiltrator.

Either way I am just glad to be playing defined classes again.  No gimped profiles here.