What did you do today in ME?

Oct 12, 2016 7:43:14 GMT dmc1001 said:

Jarec Shepard: Forgot to mention that after stopping ED--er, the "rogue VI", I chose Nemesis class.

- Wiped out the geth in the Armstrong Nebula. Along the way killed a thresher maw and found a Prothean ruin. Gave Tali a copy of some data on the geth.

- Went to Xawin to take out some privateers who attacked an Alliance ship. Killed a thresher maw. (Those things are everywhere.) Geth planted a fake distress beacon. They still died.

- Interview with Khalisah al-Jilani. It went reasonably well. I defended the Alliance without throwing the Council under the bus. No mean feat.

- Helena Blake sent me on a mission to kill her syndicate partners so she could take over. I did the first part but then persuaded her to disband.

- Went to "negotiate" with Lord Darius. Hackett denies it, but the mission was to assassinate him. Done.

Nemesis is an advanced class? Cool!

I was so keen on finishing Feros, but I ended up a couple of the neural nodes short of that lofty goal this morning. I've finally properly proved that I am Renegadoman, by telling my local all-girl-fan club, and their counterparts I brought along that no, no, despite any other available options I am deeply committed to shooting everything that moves remotely in my direction. Then I proceeded to do that with glee. So, yep, two or three more neuron nodes, and we'll leave the cleaned out dungeon behind.

In MP, I've (gasp) got a serious bug! Finally! So far, they all were superficial, like corpses floating around or a clone of my teammate floating a few meters ahead of me... but this one was real. It decided that my 20-30K dmg per match is a threat to the leaderboards, so it cut out my damage completely. I thought I was ditzy, but apparently a known issue from 2012. Oh, well. The other games went fine, but Adept is not going my class to go on. Adept is Level 17 now, getting close to his promo, and am going to try a Sentinel next.

Cheers, folks!

Oct 13, 2016 13:46:56 GMT @upupaway95 said:

Vance Shepard (cont'd)

Personal Log: Well, Ash, you might be glad you're not with me now... I'm a fugitive... space pirate, I guess. Udina tried locking down the Normandy to keep me from pursuing Saren through the Mu Relay to Ilos. I can sure see why you hated politicians. Anderson helped by breaking into Udina's computer and we're on our way to Ilos now. Would you have supported me in all this? I miss you.

Mission Log: Well, all's well that ends well, I guess. I seem to be back in Udina and the Council's good graces after my team pursued Saren from Ilos back to the Citadel using the Conduit. Although we were not in time to completely prevent Saren from attacking the Citadel and there has been some heavy damage, we were able to prevent him from opening the mass relays up to the Reapers. Sovereign was destroyed thanks to Joker bringing in the fleet from Arcturus. They even managed to save the Asari dreadnought, Destiny Ascension, which had the Council on board. The Council have opened up a position for a human councillor and Udina and the politicians are deciding who will take the human seat. For me, I'm continuing to pursue geth and working on finding a way to stop the Reapers for good.

This is Commander Vance Shepard, signing off... for now.

Wow, you are just blasting through it! Good going!

In MP, my Adpet hit level 18, and I can see that I consistently aim too low, so I will try to work on that. Had one really cool game where everyone was close enough to me, and another where folks with god-like scores descended into Bronze, and it was silly. Eh, well. Tried buying a Veteran pack a couple of times, meh. It advanced my Asari Vanguard (really?). I put the rest of the credits back into Recruit ones, in hopes of getting those Common mods, b/c that is what I really need now.

I got the date on Revelation's CBT (25th Oct-8 Nov), and I sort of feel like I want to finish ME1 before that so I could get into ME2 after the CBT is done. But, of course I totally slept in, so all Mark had time for was to kill the remaining Thorian's Neural Nodes on Feros, and shoot the unarmed woman that surrendered to him execution style for treason. Which netted 2 Renegade points. Being evil is a hard work!

But right after this Mark got accosted by women that apparently did not mind this sort of chivalrous behavior at all. And, after he told one of them to go cry her eyes out, he's going to take both of them on the next mission. Living on the edge there and packing a triple-reinforced plate on the back of that armor just in case. Citadel and Sidequests clean-up first.

Going to try to play with Garrus and Wrex in place of Tali a couple of times, and will need to start building up Liara for Noveria, because iirc it was a bear of a planet, and I dunno how being heavy on biotics will work out there.

I also obsessively tried to screenshot his domineering nose, but did not capture him in profile when it causes the double-take. But in frontal view I think he passes anaface test.

I've started the Geth portion of ME3SP ... the dreadnaught and fighter squadrons are done. This is the last playthrough that I will do in ME3SP ... all were started in ME, imported into ME2 and then into ME3.

The current and final run is the first "new" run ... started it to see how the ME HD mod and sound patch worked. They did ... but from my perspective, don't really warrant a do-over of the series. Carried over into ME2 to play with the weapons that were once platform-exclusive ... but now that the exclusive agreements have expired, are available to all in ME2 ... same deal, it's nice, but not worth a "re-do" of the game. Then carried over to ME3 ... along with some other runs that I'd never done ... to play out the expanded galaxy mod.

After this, SP will be put aside, once again ... and if I play ME3, it will be only for MP.

It's been fun. Didn't much care for the ending of ME3 ... MEHEM saved that for me and the expanded galaxy mod gave me the motivation to play the rest of my Shepard characters from ME/ME2. I should be done with SP well before N7 day ... at that point, will be gearing up mentally for ME:A and its release.

I'm reminded of the cut scene at the end of the Citadel DLC ... it's been one heck of a ride.  Thanks BioWare.  I may not have liked the ending(s) you created, but the fact that I'm still playing the game ... mostly MP, but still ... 4.5 years after game release ... one heck of a ride.