why didn't Ryder Snr just use

He was probably using a Biotic profile and forgot to ask SAM to switch to Engineer :'))

Omni-gel was more than a band-aid in ME1. It repaired the Mako, for instance.

Ok. Really, we never knew the actual damage to the Mako, other than that it was on fire and about to explode.

Then, apply the omni-gel, and go kill the hostiles like nothing ever happened.

I am not going to argue the point too far, but it seems like omni-gel should fix a helmet crack.

Yeah. I don't know why they couldn't of just shared the helmet until evac had arrived. It ruins the drama that scene attempts to create. I also don't get why there was no body, and why I couldn't ask where his body was in-game.

Rethinking this, Omnigel could fabricate stuff. But an omnitool is too small to fabricate larger stuff.

So like a huge gaping hole in a helmet.

Or it could be and Ryder Senior just didn't have enough of it.

It also hacked locks.  It was some crazy shit.  However, it did take a few moments to repair the Mako.  Perhaps Ryder would have died before the repair could take place.

The atmosphere was toxic, I think. Trying to share the helmet would have ended up in both of them dying.

Ryder Junior still dies despite getting helmet from Alec. Air on Habitat 7 is extremely hazardous that even short exposure is lethal. SAM just narrowly saves you thanks to Alec naming Ryder Junior the Pathfinder.

An easier solution would of been to keep the oxygen tanks blowing a stream of oxygen past your face so you could still breath to a set degree,in fact i have done this exact thing with EDBA equipment in a smoke filled environment.

So you can fabricate an omniblade in about a second but not a face plate? Also yea oxygen sharing is a thing even divers today do too. So yea ME:A because fuck logic

I'm starting to hate this question. Sorry to OP, but I am.

There's plenty of details of this scenario that make such a thing impossible.

Like I'm feeling like I'm a bit on crazy pills as I read people explaining how its just sooo possible to share the helmet. It isn't.

In a different scenario, sure. But this was a contrivance (that's the part that I think can be subjectively valid to complain about) that made such a thing not possible.

And no, omniblades are a very different thing and if we tried to repair/create a helmet in the same way, it'd sear the face off of Ryder. That's how even the smaller repair was shown to noticeably provide tension. Its super friggin hot.

What do you expect from the Mr Walters and the other writers at Bioware? They could of come up with a bunch of good stories that allowed 'Dad" to sacrifice himself without resorting to a broken helmet. Of course I am NOT surprised at all by the poor writing in this game, as long as Mr Walters is the led that is what we will get.