What did you do today in ME?

Jane Shepard went to Feros, where she killed some Geth. Then she took a tank, and killed some Geth. Then she entered a building, and killed some Geth. Then she dislodged a Geth ship from the building, which killed some Geth. Then she headed back to the main colony, and killed some Geth along the way. When she finally made it back to the colony, she found some zombies. She killed the zombies. There was a lot of zombies. She also knocked out a bunch of crazy colonists that were trying to shoot her. Then she went underground to go chop down a big plant.

And then I shut the game off because the next part was going to take way too long and I wanted to get to bed. (I am playing on Insanity and Thorian Creepers can take an insane amount of bullets.

Laura Shepard, Colonist, Sole Survivor

After getting one of my corrupted Shadow Broker saves to work, Obvious Asari Villain captured a nearby human as a hostage, but Shepard distracted her long enough for Liara to hit her with a table.
I tried to get a nice shot of the table flying, but all I managed to catch was Asari Villain Butt, so I'll spare you.

After defeating her second rogue spectre, Shepard tried to talk to Liara, again. Unfortunately, Liara didn't want to talk about "us" yet. She was still too obsessed with trying to find the Shadow Broker, so off they went to Planet Perpetual Cyclone.

I kind of liked the atmosphere of SB's base, like I could get blown off the top of that ship at any second. Nothing really remarkable about the rest of the mission, except that Liara seemed more concerned about her drell friend than she ever did about Shepard. Who DIED. So, maybe I won't do her romance on my next run after all. I don't know. It feels kind of like dating a self-involved 19-year-old (which is what Liara is, I suppose). Which is fine if you're also 19, but not so nice when you're in your 30s.

Does Shepard always grab Liara like this after the fight? Or is it a romance thing?

After Liara helped her up, Shepard looked mildly disgusted and stomped off to help Garrus, who'd been knocked out in the cutscene before the fight.

I tried three different versions of the breakup after that, including choosing the angriest options, but that made Shepard feel way too hurt and I don't want Garrus to be the rebound guy. He is her true love, after all So Shepard and Liara broke up amicably and said goodbye with a hug...

...even though Shepard still looked sad and lonely (and like a scary mannequin??) after she left.

Next came a few minor quests and Jack's loyalty mission. Shepard learned a lot about Jack, and a lot about Cerberus. I wish there were some angrier dialogue options on this mission, but I still enjoyed it this time as I did last time. Shepard convinced Jack to spare her fellow torture subject.


Back on Ilium, Shepard ran into an asari emissary of the rachni queen, who had a message to deliv-- holy shit. Why BioWare why?

And then the asari went back to normal. And hit on Shepard, I think. 

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Yes, the scene always happens like that, even if Shepard's current LI is the other party member. It's one reason a lot of people don't like Liara.

I must resist accessing that part of the forum where ME:A is discussed. 23rd March is so close... I. MUST. RESIST.
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Meantime, Lilith Shepard took some baby steps in her fight against the reapers. She chased and found Leviathan and convinced the big bastard to join the fight against the reapers. Ann Bryson was a bit "damaged" in the process. And Lilith (and James) stole a new decoration for Shepard's cabin. Poor space hamster.

Lilith Shepard is in her cabin now, trying to survive the hell of a headache got as a present from Leviathan. And she is concerned about future: assuming they all survive and reapers are destroyed, what about this new evil she unleashed upon the world? As if hordes of violent, bloodthirsty krogans weren't enough?



I had to reload the last part several times. It looks like all the companions I tried have priority in front of Garrus in being concerned about Shepard and running to save her. For me it works only with Javik.
Citadel meet-ups and party now.
The end is near.

So last night I fired up my xbox one to see if I had early access to MEA and it turns that I did. Who knew. Well safe to say I played that sucker until 4 am when I hit the limit for how far it will let me go in the story until release day. I still have time to mess around with it if I want but I will wait until release day. So today it was back to ME 3 for me and Nathan Shepard supposedly "cured" the genophage or at least Wreav believes he did. Funny thing is Nathan did manage to get Salarian support even though the genophage had been "cured". Either way the Salarian councilor now wants to meet with Nathan on the Citadel. Apparently Udina might be corrupt.

When we last left our heroine Jane Shepard (Vanguard), she was ready to go chop down a giant plant. Well...

She killed a lot of zombies and an Asari clone, then shot a root. Then she repeated this ritual until the plant fell into a giant hole. As a reward, a real Asari popped out and gave her The Cipher. It was as lame as it sounds.

Then Jane headed to the moon to shut down a VI program. She entered a base, destroyed some drones, then blew up some computer nodes. Then she entered a second base, destroyed some drones, and blew up some computer nodes. Then she entered a third base, destroyed some drones, and blew some computer nodes. Then she became a Shock Trooper Vanguard.

Next, Jane headed to Noveria. She traded a smuggled package to the administrator in exchange for a garage pass. She entered the garage and killed some Geth. Then she took a Mako and killed some more Geth. Then she entered Peak 15, killed a Geth Juggernaut and some Krogan. She ventured further into the structure, killed some more Geth, then killed some giant bugs, and finally repaired the facility VI.

I am trying to test damage protection formula for good old ME1 since it looks like there may have been irregularities. Reading memory to try and get relatively precise numbers.

Running into a really annoying issue though (unless I just flat out am not remembering how to test correctly, which is possible). It looks like if you have any health regen in ME1 it will tick all the time... so printing health changes gives me a bunch of extraneous crap like this:

At Timediff: 0.014 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.013 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.013 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.012 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.010 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.013 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.011 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.010 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.009 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.014 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.014 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.014 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.014 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.013 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.013 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.013 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.014 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.014 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.014 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.014 Health Damage : -0.016
At Timediff: 0.013 Health Damage : -0.016
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Today Karan attended an academic lecture at Grissom Academy and got a tour through the Sur-Kesh labs. Explosions were involved. Also the Vindicator was dropped for the Mattock. Dislike that those two refuse to shoot in streams, but still, Karan will endure.
He might also have saved the Hanar Homeworld with Kasumi. There were some minor explosions involved. Also listened to Avina for the first time (I think). She had interesting things to say, so that was nice.
The game was quite glitchy today. Guardian shields made short appearances between saves and Liara decided to stand in front of the camera during some cutscenes. But no getting stuck on walls, so I'm fine with it. Also learned that I'm way more fond of Wreav than Wrex.

Current plan is to skip N7 missions until Tali is on board. Wondering if I can do the bomb stuff with her, but pretty sure the answer is no (since I'm keeping the Rachni stuff until after she's on board. Spider shrieks are the best shrieks after all). If I'm lucky I might be able to get Ash on the ground team at least.
Plan for next session is to do a chat sweep of the Normandy, finish all planned talks on the Citadel and then start plowing through the main quest. Also need to remember to feed the fish, because Karan is poor and can't afford to employ robot Kelly just yet. But he did give the fleshy one a big hug today and gave her some stylistic tips to survive in this futuristic world. So all in all it was a slightly productive day for Karan and company. 

Ian Shepard:

- Cleared out a terrorist base, one civilian casualty. Killed a thresher maw.
- Another thresher maw down. Found an ExoGeni mine where everyone had been turned into husks by an artifact they had found. Disabled a transmitter that was causing satellites to crash.
- Took out a Syndicate hideout.
- Second Syndicate base down.
- Found a man in a coma on the MSV Worthington and a woman who killed everyone to prevent him from being taken off life support. Killed her when she attacked and put the guy to rest.
- Cleared a pirate base and randomly found Wrex's grandfather's armor - which I only knew because I randomly had Wrex with me. Third pyramid.
- Concluded my business with Helena Blake and made a tidy sum.
- Landed on Noveria, found out Benezia was at the Peak 15 facility and had to jump through some serious hoops to get permission to go there.
- Encountered those bugs again at Peak 15 and learned they're called Rachni. Supposed to be extinct.

Today I infiltrated a geth dreadnaught and then saved a quarian admiral.

I would love to, but there is this concept called 'time' and I do not have enough of it.

I just love ME3! I wasn't able to import my Shepard's face unfortunately and the CC was just horrific. I was ready to give up on my first and only f!Shep playthrough until I noticed that the default f!Shep looks remarkably similar to my custom so I decided to go with that and haven't regretted it one bit.

Today I tried to get the council to save earth but they're typically not interested in humanity (why did I save them again? They either have short memories or no gratitude). Nice to see Udina hasn't changed one bit, though. His first and foremost priority has seemingly always been humanity's advancement and that I can respect. He never was the typical corrupted, lazy and greedy politician, not in my mind.

So finally returned to Normandy. Annoyed by everyone mentioning "welcome back to the Alliance" like it's a big deal and something they need to constantly remind Shepard of. Even more annoying to hear Anderson was planning to use my Normandy as his mobile battlestation (or whatever). Pffft. I gave him the councilor's job and he couldn't even do that. Well, at least I don't have to deal with him.