What did you do today in ME?

Still waiting as of ME2...and ME3, I believe.

It's such a little thing but fun to watch it progress through all three games.

Owen Shepard:

Went to talk to Mouse who might be able to give us a lead on Thane's son. Turns out Thane had used him and others as spies when they were children. I don't dislike Krios, despite his career, but he was putting innocents in danger. In any case, I assured Mouse no one would know he'd talked to us and he put us on the trail of Elias Kelham.


Convinced Bailey to bring Kelham in so we could interrogate him. We played good cop/bad cop and boy was I happy to be the bad cop. Every time he thought he was untouchable I punched him in the face. Finally, I pinned his throat down and he talked before passing out. He had hired Thane's son to assassinate someone and we got the name of the would-be victim.


The target with Joram Talid, a turian politician promising to end crime in the Wards, mixing in some anti-human propaganda along the way. I saw him talking with turians, salarians and krogan, though he did pass right on by that hanar. Then I saw his krogan bodyguard do a shakedown of a human shopkeeper. A human bartender got the same treatment. Politics aside, he was obviously a criminal himself. Finally caught sight of Thane's son. He drew a gun on Talid and followed him into the turian's apartment. We followed, with C-Sec right behind us. I was able to disarm the boy before he harmed Talid. Mind you, I wouldn't have minded a bullet in that asshole's head but I doubt we could cover up a murder.


Thane and Kolyat talked. Kolyat was angry, something Thane understood. He said he wasn't there to make peace with himself before he died but to grant Kolyat that peace before it was too late. Thane told me that it wasn't going to be easy but they were talking. Bailey managed to cover up everything, giving him community service for attempted murder. I have to admit I liked this mission. It was the kind that made me feel good when it was over.


[OK, weird glitch. Back on the Normandy I talked to Thane. Then got an extreme closeup and found I couldn't move, talk or even see anything but the top half of Thane's head.]

I think this issue has something to do with being able to go to the Presidium before going through those scans. (I wouldn't say cut content, since it's still there, in the game. You have to edit the Booleans, I think.)

Here's what happens if you've gone through the Presidium first and then tried to go through the scans:




This also reveals that Chellick became the Executor, since Pallin died. But since this dialogue doesn't trigger under normal circunstances, it's considered non-Canon, and thus, all of the events of ME:Inquisition happened.

So today William killed 300,000+ Batarians, why let me tell you a story, about a lovely lady who was indoctrinated!!!!!

Anyway Shepard headed off to rescue Amanda Kenson from the Batarians for Admiral Hackett. Getting in was straight forward and Shepard soon found her and proceeded to get her out, again without any dramas. She offered to take Shepard to the base where the object proving the Reapers were coming was, William was pretty sure there was something a "bit off" with Kenson but went a long for the ride. Arriving at the base, things just felt wrong and when Kenso showed him the device and that it wasn't shielded William knew that things were about to turn bad.

Anyway he fought through a heap of soldiers and a heavy mech but in the end got taken down by the artefact itself. When William awoke he busted himself out of medical by hacking a mech and then went on a killing spree. Kenson was rigging the reactor to overload so Shepard set about reactivating the cooling systems, one down and then my daughter sneezed and that apparently is a vocal command that makes Arrival freeze your PC.

Seriously the synch with my daughter sneezing and the game freezing my whole PC could not have been choreographed better!!!!!

Anywa a feew hrs later when I had the chance to play again I had to redo the first cooling system and then kill my way through guards again. Note: I didn't notice it too much in the main game but there are a lot of shitty things in this DLC. Flame throwers that do damage even when you are in cover that they couldn't possibly touch you. I am not sure the designers know how a Flashbang works, I was getting blinded even when I had moved into a different room, behind cover and facing the other way. Anyway William finally confronted Kenson and shot her without hesitation, when he came to he made a beeline for the comm's tower but of course there were more guards to kill and of course another heavy mech. That done off to the tower to call the Normandy however Harbinger got on the blower first and told William what a useless gnat he ws and that'd he'd be dead soon regardless of blowing up the Alpha Relay. William wished Joker was there so he could hang up on Harbinger but instead he told him humans: "shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender"

So ME2, I started this game with real enthusiasm and enjoyment but by the end I felt a bit worn down. It has some really good parts and some bad parts and yeah it sets ME3 up in terms of squad mates having history, but by the end I was glad for it to be finished. Especially Arrival, other than the Harbinger scene it doesn't really do anything for me.

So currently installing ME3 and looking forward to it, more so because then I will play MEA again.

So some pics:

Should have left you there



Ooops forgot to warn the bad guys we were taking off



Yep you are an indoctrinated nut job



Nice view for now



Yeah, yeah, we get it we are all going to die



Bang



Thanks for the mission Hackett!!!!

Well done, damned if I could keep them alive!!!!! 

LOL that's hysterical, if only you had video!!!!!!