What did you do today in ME?

How about a Barrier Soldier who transitions to a Vanguard in ME2 and ME3?

My question is how on Earth can it be plausible for a Soldier with Barrier in ME1 to become a Vanguard in ME2? One is more passive than the other. A Soldier with Lift or Singularity in ME1 would make more sense, right?


To be honest, I don't know what I want to do, anymore. I just can't seem to experience something without feeling like I've made a mistake midway through.

I'm trying to make a Shepard that will be my canon, my one true Shep forever, so there's a lot of pressure.

I loaded up MELE on my PS5, and did a quick import of my ME1 save into ME2 to see Shep continue Vanguard instead of changing her to a Soldier. It was just a test run, skipping through scenes and avoiding items. I forget how fun and fast-paced Vanguard is in the sequels. She dies and comes back to life, and is still a strong biotic, albeit dazed and confused. She may not have lost most of her biotic methods of combat, but her world is still turned upside down. She was dead for 2 years, and was brought back to life by, of all people, Cerberus. She now has to..cooperate with an enemy faction, in a more lawless side of the Galaxy, and everyone she knew has changed, for better or for worse. The risk and reward of a Vanguard is so fun, and everything in combat is so intense. So, why on Earth am I giving up a fully fledged Vanguard experience spanning all three games for the sake of a f**king headcanon involving her going from a Vanguard to a Soldier in ME2 & an Infiltrator in ME3, both only having one biotic talent. That's no way to have fun. So, whenever I get a chance, I'm restarting MELE, giving Shep a new name, and keeping her as a Vanguard fulltime. Her bonus talent in ME1 will be Singularity. Her bonus talent in ME2 will be Slam (or Reave), and her advanced weapons training will finally be the Claymore. In ME3, she will have Flare as her bonus talent.

Artemis - Personal Journal #2:

I managed to make time for some meditation before arriving at the Citadel. It seems to have helped with my biotics, but I may check in with Doctor Chakwas. As for the visions they still make little sense. It feels like I am missing a point of reference, and my own memories of recently facing the Geth are causing some type of overlap.

The Citadel is nothing like I have ever seen before. It is like a huge mega city with a melting pot of alien cultures. While I have both fought against and worked with other species before when on assignment, the sheer number of different beings on the Citadel is staggering. Over the course of investigating Saren and his betrayal of the Council, I have expanded my team to include a Turian C-Sec Officer(Garrus), a Quarian(Tali) on her pilgrimage, and a Krogan mercenary(Wrex). Garrus' knowledge of Turians and and his experience in investigation will be a big help in tracking down Saren, he is also one of the best marksman I have ever encountered. I may have to challenge him on the gun range sometime to see who is the better shot. Tali's knowledge of the Geth will be critical in facing Saren and his Geth troops. She even impressed Normandy's Chief Engineer, Greg Adams. I do have some reservations with Wrex, but a quick background check using my new Spectre resources showed that he has a history of being loyal to his employer until the end of the contract. I used most the funding the Council provided me as a new Spectre to secure his loyalty in the hunt for Saren. While I am taking a bit of risk with Wrex, he has more experience in hunting down targets than the rest of the team combined.

As for becoming a Spectre, while honored and I don't doubt my own abilities, it felt more like a political move by the Council to appease humanity for Saren's betrayal, and their initial denial of his actions. I was also given command of the Normandy, I don't like seeing Captain Anderson sidelined, but I do feel his history with Saren may blind him to the larger picture. The Captain is adamant that Saren's hatred of humanity is driving him, but I think there is more to it.

We are currently en route to the planet Therum to investigate our first lead, Doctor Liara T'soni, a Prothean expert. She is also the daughter of Saren's co-conspirator, Matriarch Benezia. I am hoping Doctor T'soni can provide intel on the Matriarch and Saren, or the very least help me make sense of the visions. The question is, will the Doctor be friend or foe.

Didn't played today, just finished watching this masterpiece

Then you will enjoy these as well.

Cheers, will try and watch them today. 

The only time I didn't cure the genophage was with a no import game where Wrex wasn't around. I've killed off the quarians a couple of times and I think I killed off the geth once. I don't remember, actually. It's frustrating to broker peace and then pick Destroy at the end so the geth are killed anyway, at least in vanilla game with no ending mod.

I had some fun with this one. I took some liberties with the timing of in-game dialogue, and also to fill in gaps with my own head canon.
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Artemis - Personal Journal #3:

The mission to retrieve, Liara was a success other than causing the destruction of a Prothean ruin. I may have left out the detail of using a mining laser, and let the Council believe the Geth were responsible. Liara's research affirms what little I can understand of the visions. The Protheans were wiped out by the Reapers, and according to Liara it is a cycle that seems to repeat roughly every 50,000 years.

I also made a bit of a fool of myself and it will likely spread through the ship quickly. As we were fleeing with the ruins coming down on our heads Liara had fallen behind, I slowed up and encouraged her to move quickly. I didn't even realize what I had said until Wrex called me on it while stowing our gear in the armory. Thankfully Liara had already been escorted to the med bay due to dehydration. Wrex asked, "Really Shepard? Move your cute blue ass?", and Ashley was right there helping me remove my gear. It took me a second to recall exactly what I said, as Ashley followed Wrex's question with one of her own, "Should we ask Liara about Asari sexual practices?". Do you know how times I have used "Move your ass" to motivate a Boot new to the unit, though without cute or blue attached. I will admit Liara is cute, and how could I not notice what was staring me in the face however briefly. It was right at eye level when I was releasing Liara from a Prothean security field she had been trapped in. Can't a girl appreciate a nice tush? Normally in my case it is attached to a human of the male persuasion.

I had hope Liara didn't catch what I had said in all the chaos, and I would be spared some embarrassment. But given our conversation after the mission debriefing, I wasn't even granted that mercy. I can't tell if Liara has a great deadpan delivery or if she was entirely serious when she briefly talked about her parents and weaved in details about Asari mating. It almost seems as if Ashley put her up to it.

Nothing like ribbing the CO to keep up morale.

We are currently on our way back to the Citadel for resupply, and for Liara to get some range time with the team before she joins us on an op. Having a powerful biotic on our side of a firefight will be a welcome addition. I need to check in with Chakwas before we reach the Citadel, something is up with my biotics. My barrier is stronger. I took a Geth fired rocket to the chest, and my barrier held. Previously that would have depleted my barrier and maybe even knocked me off my feet.

Recently I started a new trilogy playthrough that aims to leave the galaxy in a terrible place at the end of ME3, have as many bad outcomes and squad deaths along the way.

So far I'm on ME1 and have found something out I didn't know before. I'm trying to kill Wrex on Virmire but he's just rolling over and accepting whatever dialogue choices I make. After looking at the wiki this is because I haven't recruited either Liara or Garrus. If you go this path you can't kill him. Seems like an odd choice to me since you'd still have the VS and Tali at the end of the mission. Maybe there is some dialogue during the squad meetings that absolutely must have more than two squadmates present that I can't think of at the moment.

I wasn't going to recruit Garrus in ME1 and I wanted to have Liara be hallucinating from having been in the security bubble for so long. But now I'll have to load up my save before landing on Virmire and go get Liara I guess. Then I can kill Wrex in ME1.

In this playthrough I've also:

Killed Fist
Punched Al-Jilani
Returned Bhatias' body (For increased Alliance casualties)
Killed everyone during UNC: Major Kyle and UNC: Hostage
Killed Finch
Set up Anoleis and Parasini to kill each other
Set up the security guards to kill everyone on Peak 17 as well as killing the Rachni Queen myself
Killed all the colonist as well as Jeong and Shiala
Not completing Bring Down the Sky (So Terra Nova is destroyed)
Not completing any quests that can help like UNC: Geth Incursions

At one point on Virmire, one human squadmate is with the Salarians and the other human squadmate is guarding the bomb. With the exception of a brief moment on Eden Prime, ME1 requires that you have two squadmates at all times. So that means you need any two of Tali, Liara, Wrex, and Garrus. Since you have not recruited Liara or Garrus, that leaves Tali and Wrex and so the game needs to have Wrex stand down so you can fill that second squadmate slot.

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