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 So you don't like beautiful women with body paint?

Nothing beautiful about the asari.

Technology is technology, but there are different types of technology. Toasters and cars are both technology, But you can't turn a toaster into a car engine. By "flicking a switch, you are screwing with something attached to a human nervous system as well as outside technology, getting it perform radically different features and interact with said nervous system and outside technology in radically different ways.

And of course, like discharge-proof ships, none of this was used in the Reaper War




Yo know what, for the sake of argument, I will stipulate that the Ryders are, canonically, biotic. It's terrible for role-play purposes, but that's been a secondary concern for Bioware for years now, so I can believe it.

As for the biotic implants, sure there are others throughout the nervous system. As are the eezo nodules. But the "L-class" ones are in the brain. And Kaidan was reluctant to have a surgeon rooting around in his.

Of course, a mere two years after that conversation, apparently new implants are available that could be completely reconfigured with "resources"

And the military, the one human institution which actively recruits biotics, isn't all over this tech

So thus far we have:

Four bigger-than-dreadnought sized ships (and one mobile space station/miniCitadel) designed to carry tens of thousands of people on a 600+year trip
Discharge-proof engines that can run for centuries with minimal maintenance
Biotic/tech hybrid implants that can be reconfigured to do pretty much anything you want at will

All constructed with "resources" that were mysteriously unavailable a year later.

This story is looking cr*ppier and cr*ppier by the minute. They must have been truly desperate to find a new setting weren't they?

In ME1, Kaidan (if not romanced) will imply that Shepard is a biotic regardless of Shepard's class when talking about his L2 implants:  He says:  "They spike higher than L3s, except for you, of course."

It was likely a glitch.

I remember the good old days when you could choose how to allocate your stats and abilities. That was nice. I guess I should have expected this after DA:I with its slot-limit and lack of attribute allocation, but apparently my confidence in them was too high; they didn't listen to the crazy amount of negative feedback about those things.

But allocating RPG stats has never, ever, been a part of the Mass Effect franchise from the beginning.  Its been something only limited to DA 1 and 2. 

We're probably meant to mumble something about mass effect fields and accept this. To be fair as getting this far this presumes we've accepted the concept of that ship successfully reaching a planet in the first place we'd already have serious form for suspending critical faculties.

I wasn't suggesting that as a good explanation. I mean I'm assuming it's not the explanation for the spaceship either, which looks to be defying laws of physics they even quoted in earlier games. Okay, I probably won't like the answer, but tell me anyway. Does the lore imply that bloody asteroid slalom can be explained by mass effect fields?

Actually, the asteroid slalom I think does work in the Mass Effect universe or rather it is never said it couldn't like the not protecting you from environmental hazards thing. We see the Normandy SR1 do a maneuver more extreme than that in ME1 during the fight with Sovereign, and that was the game where they actually cared about the lore they set up. Chances are only smaller ships can do it, but since the Tempest is a small ship even smaller than the SR1 it may work with the lore. Now why the pilot did it I have no idea, since that is incredibly dangerous when you can simply go around the rings and only lose a few minutes at most. 

The operative word is "properly". You couldn't aim for shit with an assault rifle as an Adept in ME1; that makes no sense whatsoever.