Sloane standoff then vs now

I suppose

In regards to honor...

What honor did Sloane have? She was supposed to protect folks on the Nexus as head of security, and she turned traitor. And even IF she was a noble traitor, protecting the weak against Tann and his cronies, she turned into a total space pirate who beats, tortures, and exiles folks who can't meet her demands or pay for her protection. From the moment I met her in the game, I vowed that I would take her out no matter how I had to do it. And if that meant siding with a cunning scumbag, so be it.  A life without honor = a death without honor.

Wow...I sound so hard core!

In regards to the clip, I have just started my play-though as a casual/emotional type. I am kinda dreading this scene, as it is stupid as hell with the interrupt. I may go logical again on this particular scene, as it is a little more realistic (and has a good bit of smart-assness to it).

Not to mention sloane went from being newly packaged black cabbage patch kid to black cabbage patch kid after being bought by a toddler with a new set of Crayons

Yeah that's the second one I mentioned where the audiolog shows some guy screaming bc the Collective is snapping off an Outcast's fingers for info. In that case, the Collective was torturing Outcast agents. No big. I didn't meet a single Outcast I liked.

I just want to know why they did what they did to her face going from the preview up until launch.

I just don't understand how anyone could think those eyes and that tattoo looked better. Actually, bioware have no ideas what a good tattoo looks like at all. Every single option in the character creator is absolutely dreadful if you want one.

I think a lot of folks forget that part about Sloane. She was not only head of security but a decorated soldier from the sounds of it. Sloane did the worst thing a person of that background could do, betray those who trusted her to do her job. Loyalty, something it is said by numerous NPCs that she holds above all else she did not exhibit. Then she goes straight pirate. Has people beaten, thrown in the unforgiving badlands to die and generally speaking is just a example of a bad soldier. That said, she did establish the Outcasts, and create stability. She cares about her people now, which makes you wonder what happened with the Nexus? I know there is some comic relating to do that or story but have not read it.

Reyes does lie to you, and work from the shadows. And believe me I was not cool with how the stand off goes down and for a while I sat there trying to decide which of the two were the less of two evils. Decided on Reyes because he has a good sales pitch, I guess. He seems to be a guy doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. That said, I am curious to see how far this opportunistic will go in the next game. I suspect either him or Keatus(SP?) will be out for revenge. 

It just another plotline that shows that not everything is going to be black and white in this series, which is a good thing and it fits the theme in Kadara where a lot of plots will leaves you biting your bottom lip. 

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Back to the topic... Yeah, the disarm is pretty weak, like the turian has zero effort put into his grip and just lets it go. Hardened space pirate? I think not. Like a lot of the animations it did not get 'fixed' or tweaked. Something went wrong with the process, that is for sure with plenty of videos made by more knowledgeable folks stating as such. I hoping Bioware fixes that as did some of the early game scenes which looks to have been touched up by hand rather than generated by adjusting values in their system. Maybe it will be fixed, one can only hope. I plan to play through it again if they do. 

I can't speak for other people, but when I say honor, I'm not talking about Reyes or Sloane, I'm talking about Ryder.  Sara thought it was cowardly and without any sort or honor even among adversaries, or in street terms, it was a bitch move.  Reyes called her there and wanted to settle in one on one.  That's what should have happened, mano e mano.

I went in fully intending to let her die if the opportunity presented itself. From Ryder's perspective, Sloane came off as little more than a glorified mob boss living in an acidic hellhole that forced people to pay to live there or they'd be booted out into the wilds (like that girl who almost became cannibal chow), and didn't seem like the type of person who would be particularly cooperative if I wanted to establish a settlement somewhere on Kadara. To ensure the Initiative's success, I would have permitted much worse for her and her lot. It's why I didn't feel bad about that turian Reyes puts in a cell either. 

But as bad as Sloane was, I always knew where I stood with her.  It was kind of like Katniss and Snow in the Hungar Games, where he would always say I thought we agreed never to lie to each other, so if anything she could believe what he was telling her.  I always knew exactly where I stood with Sloane.  Reyes on the other hand, I had just literally two minutes earlier lost any trust I had in him.  He lied to you, used you for his ow agenda, and proved himself completely untrustworthy.  You don't know what you were going to get from him at that point.  If it just came down picking one at that point I would have chosen Sloane, "better the devil you know, than the devil you don't".

No, I'll choose someone who I know what I'm getting from over someone I don't.  Not even talking about the fight anymore, just in general.  If I've just found out you've been lying to me from pretty much the moment we met, why would I take your word on anything you say you'll do for me in the future.

This is my exact point though.  It boils down to do you believe that if you pay Sloane a portion of your what you make that the people you bring down will be in a protected, Kett free area.  If so, which I did, I'd pick her.  You need a safe place for people urgently, and this was one, even if it was just for the short term.  With Reyes however, you don't know what you'll get once you bring people down because my Ryder couldn't trust a word he said anymore.