What did you do today in ME?

Finished bunch of side quests. Started methodical cluster by cluster cleanup like I always do. It's so annoying that we can't fight Thresher Maw on foot anymore.

I haven't played ME since April 2023. I've been wanting to do a playthrough with my Shepard, the one in my signature, for a long time. I clicked on the mod manager to see a lot of updates I needed. For the last few days, I updated the mods. All-in-all over 20gb's worth of updates. I also downloaded a few new mods. The last two days, I've been loading saves in ME2/3 to make sure the mods work. One mod requires to start a new game to get the full effect. I'm still playing around making sure there's no hiccups before starting my playthrough. Anyways. Here's some screenshots I took.

All side quests done last night. Now to finish DLC and Virmire.

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While doing more checking to see all mods are working after all the updates, I went in the AI core finding a Sam node from the mod I downloaded. I was able to choose an implant.


Had a conference with Alliance brass about rescuing asari from Thessia. Even got a cool scene of the SR2 flying.


Edi has a new outfit


Took Miranda on the Cronos mission. She has dialogue when Shepard accesses the logs about her/his reconstruction. Make's a couple of comments when seeing the proto reaper. Has dialogue when encountering TIM. It's too bad the mod doesn't have Miranda being the one to stab Leng. Oh yeah. Edi has some new armor.


Since Miranda is able to go on Priority Earth, I will playthrough that to see what is added having her on the squad.

I have two existing characters in the Legendary Edition that are still waiting to finish the trilogy, so...

1. Briefly checked out Karen Shepard in ME1, saw that I had finished the game and that she had a full Renegade bar with a lot of Paragon as well (because I guess I saved a bunch of the colonists on Feros I guess). Loaded up ME2 and saw that I had no save file for Karen. Imported Karen and briefly checked her history. Ashley, Wrex, and the Council were dead. I forgot to check the romance status so I have no idea or care. I think she is supposed to be single but I do not remember.

2. The Normandy got attacked and was destroyed. Karen woke up two years later, really pissed off. The place where she woke up was under attack, which did not help her mood. Fought her way out and picked up some new squadmates along the way. Met the Illusive Man, who pointed her at a colony to investigate.

3. Met Tali at the colony. Discovered the Collectors were behind vanishing human colonies. The Collectors just became her number one target.

4. Recruited more crew members (Kasumi and Zaeed). Did some shopping. Punched a reporter for the second time.

5. Recruited Mordin from Omega and cured a plague. Recovered some dog tags and placed a memorial at the Normandy Crash Site. Rescued an old friend Garrus from Omega and killed a whole lot or mercs. Did some planet scanning.

I need to do some more planet scanning, then recruit Jack and Grunt. Not sure if I will wake Grunt; Karen will be an Assault Sentinel, so I kind of want the extra shotgun damage mod from Grunt's loyalty mission (plus shop discount), so I may wake him. Not sure who I want to live or die, so I need to decide that before I recruit anyone post-Horizon.

Played through Priority Earth with Miranda as a squadmate. She has a few lines of dialogue. None at the FOB. Isn't seen in the memorial scene. To get the full benefit of the mod, I would romance her. I'm sure there are more lines of dialogue, and of course be seen in the memorial scene.


I have a mod that let's the player see Tali's face.

Karen Shepard (Sentinel, ME2 LE):
1. Interrupted a Collector attack on Horizon. Argued with Kaiden.

2. Took a tour of Illium, did some quests. Apparently Karen romanced Liara in ME1. Forgot about that. (Or maybe I ninjamanced by Liara in ME1, but kicked Liara out of the cabin pre-Ilos. I forget. I assume I did the proper ME1 romance since I do not remember anymore).

3. Saved a ship from crashing into a colony. Took out some Geth on a foggy planet, and recovered some data. Destroyed a Blood Pack weapons facility.

4. Went to sunny (and radioactive) Tuchanka. Shot some pyjacks and did some shopping.

5. Saved Tali from the Geth on Haestrom. Kal-Reegar survived (without the Paragon interrupt).

6. Took the Hammerhead to a really cold planet and recovered some data before everyone froze to death.

7. TIM sent Karen to a disabled Collector ship. It was a trap. The Collectors barely survived and managed to escape before Karen and her crew tore the ship apart.

8. More shopping.

Karen Shepard (Sentinel, ME2 LE):
1. Went to go visit Liara, only to find her apartment was now a crime scene. Met another Spectre named Tela Vasir. Tracked Liara down to a trade center, which was promptly bombed. Fought a bunch of mercs, found Liara, then found out Vasir was working with the Shadow Broker.

2. Chased down Vasir and killed her.

3. Hunted down the Shadow Broker and killed him. Installed Liara as the new Shadow Broker.

4. Saved 20 crates, downloaded logs from a crashed ship, then used the Hammerhead to recover some artifacts from the Geth.

I recommend switching from Power Armor to Assault Armor instead. Assault Armor gives you a vastly larger detonation radius, and essentially more shields than Power Armor. Power Armor gives you +100% shields, but leaves you at health after breaking. Assault Armor gives you +75% shields, but then gives you +50% shields after breaking (so essentially +125% shields before enemy fire hits your health.

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Yeah, but that depends on weapon choice. If I pick up AR Guardian/Power Armor is better combo for lets say "support", for Shotgun Assault Armor/Raider is the best.