Anyone else feel horrible after doing "hunting the archon" and deciding to...

If I have to choose, I'll choose against Krogan. Including even to bring Drack with me in my squad.

Why? I have a friend I play ME with for the story, and she adores Krogan and does everything with them, save for the majority of ME3 now of course.

So I can see the Krogan side of things with her. Helps that I'm not attached to the race as much as many others are.

Salarian it is.

Chose krogans as they lack the population of the salarians. We have about 700 to a 1000 krogan left while we have 15k+ salarians. If i want to have viable population then the krogan have to be saved.

Finally this war with the Kett will be a nasty infantry war and krogan make the best infantry. Another thing to consider is that Kett already have salarian exaltation researched but not the krogan and therefore i rather not give them another race they can exalt.



EDIT: after replaying it i decided to go for the pathfinder. Drack might guilt trip me but i now believe that saving the pathfinder is more important.

When did she "save the Pathfinder's life"? I can't recall this part, for some reason. We aren't talking about the unneeded salarian intervention in that big fight, are we? I was stomping those kett, either way. The squad's claims of "wow, they saved our asses" actually made me chuckle.

This was one of the better choices, if not the best, in the game. I chose the krogan, because I didn't want the Archon getting more practice at exalting their species. Also, three lives to one, and that one is a Pathfinder who chose to risk her life in a daring fashion. It was a tough call.

When those appreciative krogan showed up at the perfect time, late in the game, it made me smile.

Fair enough. Your math is off though; it's not three vs. one. It's three scouts versus a Pathfinder plus the multiple salarians you subsequently help her rescue. 

And, yup, I was referring to Raeka showing up to provide "overwatch" when you get "swarmed" by kett. Gameplay and narrative don't always line up neatly. I tend to default to following the story rather than game mechanics in those situations, ymmv.  Raeka backs you up then and multiple times later in the game. She's a good character, despite her heroic intervention being executed rather poorly. 

I was pretty content with my decision to save Pathfinder Raeka. Although, I was conflicted when the decision came. Considering that the Initiative had lost 3 of the 4 original Pathfinders already, it seemed important to the save the one that I could. Plus after hearing and witnessing salarians being vivisected on the Archon's ship, I was determined to not let another salarian die.

I had either forgotten any mention of missing krogan scouts prior to this or it had never come up. I didn't bring Drack on the mission so perhaps I missed dialogue there. However, after giving Morda the drive core, bringing Spender to justice and exiled, and saving the seed sheep for the New Tuchunka colony, I thought I had done right by the krogan in Andromeda so far. So I was a little irritated by Drack's outrage afterwards, though he seemed to get over it and Kesh was pretty understanding.

Also, I don't think there are any exalted salarians enemies in place of the exalted krogan Behemoths you encounter later on Meridian? I'd like to be wrong about that, however. I'd want to see how fighting them differs.

He had a handful of males, and considering the Kett have no interest in natural reproduction, I really see no risk in leaving him with a few nameless Krogan. Four Krogan versus ten Salarians including the Pathfinder isn't really a hard choice. The Archon had already unraveled enough of the Krogan's DNA to begin exhaltation before you are ever presented with that choice, anyways.

We have more Krogan than the Kett. Beyond altering other species with their own genetic structure as a template, we really don't know the extent of Kett engineering. I don't consider the Kett smarter than the Salarians, and it took them a lot of effort (and experimentation with live tissue) to creature a cure... which was technically a bypass. There's no way they'd cure the genophage or raise an army without taking New Tuchanka.

The moral part of it is the fact that you have Krogan Scouts who went into things knowing there was a risk versus hapless civilians who woke from their cryosleep only to be tortured and vivisected while alive. The logistics of it is the fact that a trained Pathfinder (in a world where every pathfinder is second down the line of command - or even third) is extremely valuable.

I had just made peace with the Krogan Colony and they got their energy source. Drack was my boy so I knew he would eventually understand and forgive.

And I wanted to fight more Krogan behemoths which turned out great.

I did side with Gil over the ship right afterward so the status quo was good

I saved Raeka. Not only she was a leader for her people she also had just saved me on the save mission.

Besides i like her, she is a badass.

And i can make peace with Drack by saving his son-in-law.


ps: loved that decision, it really made me stop and think for a few moments.

Save Raeka. She has something that the Kett should not be allowed to possess.

I didn't figure that out in time in the first play through. In the second, though, I'm planning on letting the scouts die.

The binary choice in that mission was pure shite. Cheap angst. Storytelling bile. Feeble attempt at drama. A wasted opportunity to make having squadmates be in ANY way meaningful to the story.

I could keep going, but I have ranted about this particular mission enough already, meethinks.

I chose the krogans. They get screwed over enough as is. But it was a garbage decision either way. It was the stupid ass equivalent of Stroud versus Hawke in DAI. Atrocious. Lazy writing. Crap. Utter crap. Ridiculous crap.

I don't have enough adjectives or energy to keep going...


Breathe...think of pangolins...sweet, happy pangolins....

My first playthrough, I chose to save the krogans and sincerely believed that was the "right" or "good" decision. Then during my second playthrough, I tried seeing the big picture differently and chose to save the Pathfinder. But jeez, when you make the decision to save the krogans, no one questions your decision at all. The same is not true if you choose Raeka.