Sloane standoff then vs now

Knowing what I am going to get is exactly why I let Sloane die.  Continued hostilities, perhaps even all out war.  Allowing a dictator to continue oppressing those who live under her control.

If Sloane had shown me any redeemable quality I would have saved her.  If at any point she had said "look things were bad on the Nexus, we did what we had to do, but if you are really changing things for the better maybe we can work together" and showed some remorse for the way she forced the people of Kadara to live "we don't have much choice, to maintain order and safety from the Kett blah blah blah" just something in her worthy of keeping around. 

I didn't see any of that though.  The only real choice one has to move forward with the AI on Kadara and to make the lives of people on Kadara better is to have her removed.

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. 

You snipe kett away from hills and hide in cover while shooting an Architect's leg while your squadmates get reamed in the ass by Architect beams, yet somehow Reyes is the coward.

I half wish I could've shot Sloane then and there.

You snipe kett away from hills and hide in cover while shooting an Architect's leg while your squadmates get reamed in the ass by Architect beams, yet somehow Reyes is the coward.

When you want to assassinate someone under a parley, you are not smart, its undermining everything you stand for before, and actually give me all more the reason to see Sloan in a different light, and Reyas as a coward, sneaky bastard that cant be trusted at all. Sloan has her flaws but still some kind of honour, Reyas has non after the failed assassination attempt.

You snipe kett away from hills and hide in cover while shooting an Architect's leg while your squadmates get reamed in the ass by Architect beams, yet somehow Reyes is the coward.

That's scarring from exposure to the Scourge. SAM mentions something about a helmet in game, and you bump into other folk with similar scarring, but I mainly got this info from the Nexus Uprising book, FYI.

Half? I truly wish I could (and I don't want to replace her with that other dude who sets her up to be fucking killed by a sniper! I want to POLICE Kadara and either return it to the Angara or take it over myself! I don't want to work with all those criminals there (I'd give the honest people a chance, but the criminals? I'd love to kill them all or at least slap some explosive collars on them and put them to work!)...or at least drag her out of there in chains (I'd love to take a full compliment of militia along to Kadara so that after landing (and while I distract the guards etc.) we can quickly put an end to Sloan Kelly and her thugs!