Habitat 7

Not everything has to be a cheesy soap opera where characters are resurected by the numbers. An inhabitable planet with him sacrificing his own life to save his child. I'm content with that, and don't speculate on a Truman Show like reappearance.

*Gasp* That'd actually be such a cool DLC.

If they didn't have his body, why can you ask Harry "How did my dad die?".

This really irks me. I know that the writing demanded his death, but the whole team trained to be explorers of potentially dangerous planets. Alec is a former elite operative. But in both scenes where junior Ryder's helmet breaks they start gasping for air instead of actually holding their breath for a minute or two. Alec could have given them his helmet, held his goddamn breath for a couple minutes (world record for holding breath is a bit over 24 minutes) and calmly fixed the broken helmet with his omni-tool.

Just another example of lazy writing.

During the mission they state that the air isn't breathable. Their scans should have revealed as much as well. I just don't see how that would keep them from holding their breath for a couple minutes. Their training should have covered 'If your helmet shatters on a potentially toxic planet, stop fucking breathing'. If Ryder junior had held their breath, they could have used 'buddy breathing' with Alec's helmet. Even with Alec's kid being a total fuck-up and liberally inhaling toxic atmosphere, he could have given up his helmet and held his breath while fixing the broken helmet.

I just don't understand why they would show us that slapping omni-gel on a visor will fix it and then don't use it again. At this point I really hope that Alec made it out alive with Ryder junior's helmet, going dark in order to track down the MB.

Was anyone else curious what was behind that door in the Kett lab?

Imagine if we had managed to open it, deactivated the forcefield, only to find that the passageway had collapsed in a cave-in. Could have been fun to see Ryder annoyed that after all their effort (and the Kett's) to breach that door, it ended up being completely pointless and an utter waste of time.

Would have liked to have gone back to Habitat 7 at some point in the game to explore more, now the planet wasn't trying to kill us anymore, as well as having SAM to be able to gain access to some of those Remnant structures.

Thought that would eventually happen in my first playthrough, but alas, it wasn't to be.

Activating the Vault wasn't to make Habitat 7 Viable for population. It was just to get the lightning activity to subside so that the shuttle could safely make it off the planet. In future DLC/Entries it could possibly be revisited.