What did you do today in ME?

Today, Renegade Selina Shepard demonstrated zero tolerance for crazies (when she killed Major Kyle) and terrorists (when she killed Balak - after purposefully wounding him).

Also, this happened.

Laura Shepard, Sole Survivor, Colonist

With the Collectors defeated and their base destroyed, Shepard had time to look into a matter for Hackett. A scientist needed rescuing from a batarian prison, and the admiral needed Shepard to go in solo.


Sneaking into the prison was easy enough, even for an engineer, and it took little time for Shepard to find and free Dr. Kenson. 


After fighting out of the prison, Shepard quickly learned that Kenson really did plan to crash an asteroid into the system's mass relay, for one reason that chilled Shepard to the core: in a little over two days, the reapers would be arriving through the relay to begin their invasion of the Milky Way.


It turned out to be a trap. Kenson led Shepard to the artifact and pulled a weapon on her. Shepard fought off waves of security without dying (this time!) but was nonetheless captured and kept sedated.


For a while, at least. More than a few indoctrinated peons probably shit themselves when she woke up.


Shepard made it to the control area, where she learned that the cost of destroying the mass relay would be the deaths of over 300,000 people. I'm so glad that I have a job that will never require me to decide the fates of thousands of people with the push of a button, all based on a vision and the ravings of a madwoman. You have less than two hours, Shepard, and the decision falls solely to you. 


Because nothing ever goes as planned for Shepard, Kenson interrupted her attempt to warn the batarians and initiated a core meltdown that would destroy the asteroid. Kenson was renegaded to death, but not before triggering an explosion that knocked Shepard out for another 40 minutes or so.


As Shepard ran to the comm tower, desperately trying to raise the Normandy for a pickup, Harbinger showed up via hologram just to fuck with her a little bit more.


The Normandy scooped up Shepard in the nick of time, and the system was destroyed.


Hackett showed up to debrief in person. While he seemed to support Shepard personally, he made it clear that others would be happy to use her as a scapegoat. I really wanted to tell him off, but that wouldn't have been in character for my girl scout, who still respects him.

Still, at least he believes her. Too little, too late?


Next time...ME3!

I know how it works.  You just open the console and change "gender=1" to "gender=0" which transforms FemShep into BroShep.  So you've got a male Shepard who speaks in the voice of Mark Meers but everyone acts like you're a woman.  This is mostly fixed in ME2 and ME3 (silent dialogue you have to read when it references that past romance and I think the email from Kaidan in ME2 calls you a woman) but otherwise those games will treat you exclusively as a male.  There's a certain level of sweetness when taking either route but part of my likes the idea of Kaidan and Shepard together from the start.

I've decided I'm doing an NG+ of soldier class Shepard.  He's going to have to be celibate, though I might use the Gibbed Save Game Editor for ME2 to alter things so that Shepard romanced Kaidan.  It still won't get me him until ME3 but at least some ME2 dialogue will acknowledge the relationship.  Though Genesis will cut itself off when it gets to the romance decision.  No loss there.

To be honest I have never really seen or modded ME1 myself with the gender swap (I'm on PS3 anyway), but I have done the m/m romance with Kaidan in ME3 and I loved it because they're friends first and it makes for some great story because of all their "missed chances". I wish more romances would use this buildup and I'd take this over romancing Kaidan already in ME1 even if he'd be an option for MShep. I guess it all comes down to what you prefer though

Thinking of returning to the trilogy. Wondering if I should finish off my soldier run in ME 3 or start up and adept run with a femshep in ME 1. It's been forever since I played as an adept or a femshep for that matter.

Same.  MShenko all the way.  Sorry Steve.

I have an ME2 Adept currently in Limbo as I revisit Soldier in ME1.  I might go back to it depending on when DLC for MEA comes out.  Right now I'm stalled a bit on that game so loving being back in the trilogy.

Laura Shepard, Colonist, Sole Survivor

True to her word, Shepard turned herself in for the deaths of the batarians and was kept in custody on Earth. She was kept physically comfortable, but was allowed no communication with her former crew or her lover.

Of course, the morons in charge finally figured out that all of Shepard's yelling about the reapers should possibly be looked into, maybe.

I do love the whole opening sequence to this game, although it doesn't give me much opportunity for humor or unfunny jokes. Meeting Vega, watching Anderson poke Shepard in the belly, seeing Kaidan Ashley again and having a somewhat civil conversation with her...

It doesn't matter that people believe Shepard now, of course. The reapers have arrived.

This expression seems awfully mild for what you are watching, Shepard. Although, I guess I can understand feeling numb, watching your worst nightmare come true after spending years trying in vain to get people to pay attention.

These people didn't get to live long enough to regret ignoring all the warnings, though.

Shepard and Anderson, in the smoldering ruins of the conference room, places somewhat reversed. Thanks for the reminder of what's coming at the end of the game, BioWare.

Here's Shepard trying to save --ok, I know he becomes Starbrat, but right now, he's just a little boy. The catalyst is a goddamn asshole for using a dead kid as his avatar. The catalyst is an asshole for a lot of other reasons, too.

Why, oh why, couldn't we have Anderson as a squadmate? I know he outranks Shepard so it wouldn't make sense, but it's not as if that would be the only handwaved explanation in the entire game, right?

As one of the few high-ranking officials in the galaxy with any goddamn brains, Anderson reinstates Shepard before sending her off to find allies.

This part hit me in the feels the first time, and it did so again this time. Shepard watches from the Normandy as several shuttles pick up people to evacuate them. The boy climbs into one of the shuttles at the last minute and they lift off, only to be blown right out of the sky.

Shepard forced herself away, knowing she had to follow Anderson's orders. Unfortunately, she had a mini revolt on her hands, as James did not want to leave Earth behind. I got so used to liking him that I actually forgot that he started the game a bit...difficult? At least Ashley was nicer than expected. She was skeptical, distrustful...but not cruel or disrespectful.

The Normandy's first stop was Mars, to recover Prothean data from a dig site that had gone silent. There, Liara joined the crew, with a hello that was uncomfortably flirty. Liara, Shepard is with Garrus now. As the Shadow Broker, you should know this. Stop embarrassing yourself.

Ashley thought this would be a good time to bring up Cerberus and her distrust for Shepard again. You have shit timing, Ashley. You can't save it for after the mission? I mean, if Shepard means you harm, then bringing it up now is hardly going to help you.

Speaking of bad timing, TIM decided to show his ugly mug, too! I missed the charm dialogue option here, because I forgot to use the investigate one first before answering him. I can't remember how much leeway I get with TIM for that scene at the end of the game. I guess we'll see.

With Liara, Ashley, and EDI's future mobile platform safely (or...very bruisedly) aboard the ship, Shepard heads off to the Citadel to talk to the dingbats running the place.

I like this screenshot. The three of them just look so...lost? Tired? "Ugh...what now?"

Shepard's first stop was to visit Ashley at the hospital and see how she was doing. Even if Ashley still can't trust her, Shepard is not ready to give up on the friendship, and doesn't really think that Ashley wants to, either. On her way in, she was surprised to see Dr. Chakwas, and convinced her to return to service on the Normandy.

Shepard meets Liara at the Council chambers and tries her best to convince them to help. To the surprise of absolutely no one, they refuse. But...the turian councilor comes to her later with a plan: get the krogan to help out on Palaven, and the turians would agree to help with Earth. It was something Shepard could work with, at least. I'm curious to see how differently this will go with Wrex in charge instead of Wreav.

Shepard makes nice with two reporters. I'm looking forward to punching this woman, or something, when I someday play a renegade Shepard.

Even though this dream features Starbrat, it still hit me just like it did the first time. Mostly because I feel bad for Shepard, and how this boy's death (more accurately, everything the boy's death represents) has tormented her.

Since Shepard was up anyway, she decided that now would be a good time to make sure Liara understood that they were over. Liara looked sad. Maybe I will do her romance at some point, for real. There, there, Liara.

More importantly, it was time to go get Garrus the Primarch.

On the way to Palaven, James and Shepard had a sparring match and a good talk. Shepard received her nickname, Lola, which she decided he could get away with, for now, "because you're cute."

I won't lie, I circled the turian camp a few times looking for Garrus, before I gave up and talked to one of the generals. I forgot that he shows up during the cutscene.

This robot parakeet dropped some stuff on us that we had to fight off.

EDI has great timing just like Ashley, so she decided to wait until Shepard was in the middle of a war zone to take over the captive mobile platform and cause all sorts of havoc on the ship.

Ever the gracious host, Shepard went to the battery to check on her turian guest as soon as it was determined that EDI was not about to vent the Normandy's atmosphere and kill them all. Shepard assured Garrus that she still liked him, and gave him a kiss hello.


Next time, Javik and Jack!



Now, I'm curious. How many people actually looked at all those screenshots?

Greetings! First post on this thread. I've been into the Dragon Age series since 2014 but bought the ME Trilogy last year to try something different. I finally started a serious PT of ME 1 several days ago and am enjoying it quite a bit despite the old school graphics. (Not sure why they made all the humans rather homely, however.)

Anyhow, I'm playing as a Paragon Fem-Shep Sentinel. Her background is as a war hero. I figured that would work best with Paragon. The colonist and Earther backgrounds seem more tied to a Renegade approach.

In the main plot, Jane went to Noveria and ultimately confronted Benezia. She decided to let the Rachni Queen go, convinced that the Queen would prevent the reborn Rachni from running amuck again. She also went to Virmire in search of Saren and found out about the plot to clone a Krogan army.

Gamer Note: I was annoyed there was no option to save the cure for the genophage. Shep can save the Rachni but not the Krogan? Fortunately, Jane's charm was high enough to keep Wrex in line. This turned out to be even more important when Jane was suddenly forced to choose between Ashley and Kaiden. (Given that Kaiden's powers mirrored those of a Sentinel more or less, I chose to save Ashley.)

After Virmire, I began to focus on the secondary missions. Jane just finished defeating the Geth in the Armstrong Cluster. The only secondary missions left are the collection missions - Prothean data disks, Asari matriarch writings etc. - and the ones on the training station.

Again, this is my first PT, so I do have a couple of questions:

(1) I believe I've scanned all the Keepers except for the one that's guarded by the VI terminal. How do you get past "Uvina'?

(2) Is there any way to buy Omni Gel direct? I hate destroying sell-able equipment just to make it.

(3) Are there any DLC to ME 1? If so, how do your purchase them?

That's it for now....beginning to nod off...

1) Just scan the Keeper regardless.  It's not like Avina can do anything.  She's just an information VI.  This may not be the one you're missing, though.  It's 21 in all.

2) No.  Trust me, you'll find plenty of worthless junk to destroy.  You can only carry so much and plenty of things will end up being of so low value that it's just as well to convert it to omni-gel than to sell it.

3) Bring Down the Sky and Pinnacle Station.  Depending on where you bought the trilogy you may already have them.  They aren't available for sale.   It's possible to get Bring Down the Sky separately but not Pinnacle Station.  Bring Down the Sky is referenced in a minor way in ME3 but Pinnacle Station doesn't add much of anything.

Cool, I have both of those.  I just noticed them on the space map and visited them without getting any mission assignment.  Does Pinnacle Station help you level up?  I read in the Wikia that it's better to do Bring Down the Sky after level 50 to get the highest level gift.  (Colossus armor?)  I'm currently Level 40.  Other than Pinnacle Station, the only quests left are main plot quests.

Same! It's always nice to connect a face to all the stories