What did you do today in ME?

Mass Effect 2:Legendary Edition

Only played a little bit tonight. Finished the Project Overlord dlc, the last Cerberus based dlc before going after the IFF. Anyway what Cerberus and Gavin did to Davide was horrible. Shepard smacked Gavin with his gun and took David.

My Shepard is mostly Paragon, but there are some moments he goes Renegade.  Like in Thane's LM interrogating the guy who ordered the hit.  My Shepard had no trouble beating a confession out of him.

Mass Effect 2: Legendary Edition

Recovered the Reaper IFF. That mission in my opinion is the toughest in the game, and if you're not careful the Husks can quickly swarm you. Recruited Legion and decided to activate him/them. Did his Loyalty mission and did a rewrite of the heretics.

Mass Effect 2: Legendary Edition

Completed the 'Lair of the Shadowbroker' dlc. Though I feel I should have done Hackett's mission first. Oh well it's too late. All I have left is the Hackett dlc. Then I will move onto Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition. Which will have a few mods like the alternate ending mod and the Citadel dlc after destroying the Reapers. After that Mass Effect: Andromeda.

Finished up:



Was a Renegon run, romancing Ash in Me1, Jack and Miranda in 2, then Traynor, Jack and Miranda in 3 (via mods and save game fun). The citadel dlc was a lot of fun like that.

Wrex didn't make it off the beach, Jacob volunteered for the ducts but everything else was fairly standard. Happy ending mod ending though, as i aint got no time for the original now.

Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition

Went back to the planet where my Mass Effect journey first began. Eden Prime. Hackett had gotten word that Cerberus was on the planet looking for a Prothean artifact. The artifact turned out to be a living Prothean. Not a Collector, but the real deal. He was not what Liara was expecting. She wanted to speak to a fellow scientist from the Prothean's golden age. Instead she got a soldier who was born during the twilight years of the Prothean Empire. Suffice to say he was not too pleased when he saw Shepard, Liara, and James. Shepard brought him on board and along with Liara questioned him. His name is Javik he is a soldier in the final days of the Prothean Empire. Next stop Palaven and rescue the Primarch.

Edit:  Forgot to mention I am using the Dreams Remade mod, and Shepard got his first dream when he boarded the Normandy after the Citadel, and so far I really enjoy it.

Played some ME2 tonight with my Infiltrator. Reverted to an old save and restarted LoTSB. I think I've found what's likely close to my ideal way to play Infiltrator. With my current playstyle, Neural Shock fits nicely.

I encountered three pretty funny glitches:

1. I had a merc literally turn invincible after I used Neural Shock on him while he was at minuscule health (when enemies have no health bar visible but still need another shot to finish them off.) After he got up, I shot at him, used Heavy Incinerate on him, had Liara set up a Singularity on him and had Thane Warp it. Nothing. Didn't survive that segment for too long, so don't know what would've happened if the mission continued, unfortunately.

2. Sometime after that, my Shepard froze in some contorted position in mid-air after getting up from cover, almost as if Liara used Stasis on them. This never stopped and Shep ended up dead.

3. During the fight with Vasir, she fell out of Stasis and was unresponsive indefinitely. She even called out that she was going to leave the battlefield but stayed lying on the map until the game just blipped her out of existence.

ME2 LE

One thing I forgot to mention yesterday regarding Stealing Memory. For the most part in that mission I like to level Kasumi to Rapid Shadow Strike which both helps her survive and entertains me when we tag team enemies. But the downside of doing this is that it takes longer to get her to Improved Flashbang with no retrain available.

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Did some more scanning to boost minerals. The cosmetic surgery upgrade was expensive, but I think the pec implants will pay dividends when it is time to fight the Collectors.

Jumped to the Osun system and docked with Purgatory. Learned about their extortion scheme. Got some positive karma for convincing the guards to stop beating a convict. Was feeling good until the Warden said we were more valuable as prisoners than customers. Downside of the pec implants, turns out the Warden could get major cash for me from a male strip club on Omega.

But some random prison guards were no match for a well trained Alliance-Cerberus-CSec/Vigilante squad. Released Jack, and all biotic hell broke loose.

Lost karma killing nearly everyone on the ship. Was impressed by the Warden's trigger discipline and accuracy with the Revenant against some prisoners. But he got what was coming to him, at hypervelocity. The mission played a lot like I remembered and wasn't so bad.

Met up with Jack, who was not impressed with us. There was some tension between Jack and Miri for some reason, who Jack thinks is a cheerleader. I am pretty sure Miranda was actually in the band and not a cheerleader. But I digress.

Talked to the crew some more, researched a lot of junk. Realized I wouldn't be able to do Firewalker before Horizon. Ah well.

The Illusive Man^TM called and forced the trip to Horizon. Fortunately Mordin had finished working on the reinforced codpiece countermeasure to the seeker swarms.

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Dropped on Horizon after hallucinating a dream of Ash talking to a colonial VIP named Lilith. Mordin assured me the countermeasure worked "in theory." Garrus not impressed.

On a serious note here, I was at level 13 with 4 or 5 points. Build looked like this:

Hardened Adrenaline Rush 4
Concussive Shot 1
Disruptor Ammo 2
Incendiary Ammo 1
Combat Mastery 3
AP Ammo 1

I had trouble deciding whether I would go for Cryo Ammo 1 or just max passive to Commando or Shock Trooper. I ended up deciding to do passive this time, and to Shock Trooper. This is somewhat contrary to what my own advice might be here, and I somewhat regretted it at the end.

But anyway, the mission wasn't so bad where the Mattock smooths over a lot wrinkles anyway. Met a cowardly mechanic. For some reason he had the the good idea to bash Collectors in the head with his wrench, but then refused to do it. Can't believe the Alliance was helping these yokels.

Now the final fight seemed different in a few ways. First being the spawns seemed a little different, and the second was that the Scion shockwave seemed wider. That could be down to imperfect memory, and also just being too rusty at dodging the blasts. But in any case it was pretty rough. Although the health bonus from passive 4 is nice, Cryo Ammo 1 should have allowed me to kill husks faster (two Carnifex shots IIRC). I also couldn't tell if the Praetorians smash AOE attack was improved a bit. Ah well, I had enough of this colony.

Ash showed up and set the mechanic straight when he was complaining about my effectiveness. Must have lost some mojo because only statement I could muster was "It's been too long..." That seemed to piss her off. Plus she probably assumed Miranda was the most recent table dancing tart to try and hop atop the Sheptrain. She called me a traitor, at which point I had more than enough of this colony.

At least The Illusive Man^TM was supportive. Said I didn't need to worry about Ash because I would probably be killed attacking the Collector "homeworld." Thanks space dad. Plus he is wrong. Don't see how I could get killed, planned to just attach some fusion torches to an asteroid and remote it in. Easy peasy.

Completed ME1:LE and started ME2:LE.

Yes, after finishing Tuchanka you will get a call from the salarian councillor to meet at the Citadel.

ME2 LE

I didn't update the other night, but basically went to Illium to see what all the fuss was about. Ran into a lot of beautiful people, even if some turned green. Also ran into Conrad Verner. Conrad's plight and description of what he does to be like Shepard made me reflect about in game life choices...

Liara was threatening to flay people with her mind. Laughed out loud and told the guy she'd probably get stuck in some force field trap and need rescuing. Had nothing better to do so helped her figure out her assistant was a spy. Wondered if the statement that she was a good information broker was sarcasm.

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For some reason I decided to do Firewalker next, which may have been a stupid idea. Well in part because I wasn't thinking about the five mission timer. Er, I mean DCC is always soooo easy I just wanted it to be more annoying. Hammerhead felt pretty weird to pilot. Maybe it was too much Ryncol.

Anyway The Illusive Man^TM called and said a Collector ship had been disabled and that it totally wasn't a trap. The narrator said "It was a trap."

Was Level 14, I had 1 spare point and put it in Cryo Ammo 1. Garrus and Miri tagged along. Reassured Miri, saying "there are worse things than death, like being test subjects for twisted aliens." That did the trick. Found out the shocking truth about the Protheans: they were racists. But also they got turned into the Collectors. I then grabbed the Revenant and could say "Now I have a machinegun. Ho Ho Ho"

Pushed some random buttons on a console. Caused the floor to fly around a bit. Had to fight the bugs on the platforms.

Wished I would have done a couple real missions to maybe get the Viper, or another AR upgrade to unlock the AR accuracy when I did the platforms. Still wonder if I am way rusty or if Scion shockwave attack was improved a little?

EDI confirmed that the trap was in fact a trap. Told the crew not to jump to conclusions. TIM being known for honesty and openness wouldn't have knowingly sent us into a trap.

Eventually made it out just in the nick of time. Lucky. TIM confirmed he knew it was a trap. Couldn't believe it.

Kelly let me know how worried she was. After striking out previously with Ash, Shiala, Gianna, Liara, the Blue Rose of Illium, the Rachni messenger, Nyxerus, and the Concierge the streak was broken.