Overpowered biotics [Cora's loyalty mission spoilers]

Waste of a good ship, they could have cast a massive stasis field and disabled everyone on it. Then opened all the airlocks one by one with a toothbrush. = Credits.

I have watched teh scene.  Several times.  Observe:




The missiles hit the barrier, do a tight 180 turn, and launch themselves back at the cruiser!  One of them even appears to pause and rotate rather than turn!

See...the thing is this.

Those missiles had a momentum headed towards the Asari Ark.  To get them to stop, on a dime, would require much more accelerative force than it took to get them to that speed in the first place.  (Edit:  Since Force = mass times acceleration, the force required would have been exponetially higher to change their vector while keeping the same speed) To then turn them back around and head towards the Kett ship at an equivalent speed would require even MORE force than that.  If you tapped the head of the missle "down," it would have deflected "down."  Tap 'em hard enough for the missile to be facing away from the Asari Ark, they would have been still headed TOWARDS THE ARK, but with an acceleration in the opposite direction.  It would take time to slow down, stop, then accelerate towards the Kett ship again.  That's not what we see here.

We see missiles hitting the shield, pulling a hard high-g turn, AND KEEPING THEIR SPEED back towards the Kett ship.  That suggests a massive force from the barrier to do that.  And to do that without exploding the warheads is another thing entirely.  The fact that "only" six of the missiles hit the Kett ship is irrelevant to the fact that none of this makes any sort of sense.  And yes, this is a game about space magic, so some things require a suspension of disbelief.  This, however, goes past that suspension of disbelief amongst (what appears to be) a large group of players.

Also, please stop bringing up Thessia as support for this argument.  It's completely irrelevant.  The shield the commandos put up there stopped the missiles' blast from penetrating it (which fits with lore, since barriers are known to stop incoming damage) but this one acts completely differently.  That is the crux of why I don't like the scene, and simply cannot, and will not, think it anything more than a complete "facepalm" moment.

This has gotten to the point of useless and beyond. None of the reasons you list make sense enough for me to find this scene believable. None of the reasons I list are enough to make the scene UNbelievable for you. Time to agree to disagree and move on.

Well sarrisa is supposed to be an insanely powerful and very skilled biotic. And cora is obscenly strong as well. I think having them throw it back was a bit much but stopping it was possible.

Frankly this scene, besides the *roll of eyes* / facepalm moment, only made me more irate with the writers because it's another Cora-only-human-to-run-with-asari-commandos pie (right in the face); emphasis on unique, super duper human biotic. The asari pathfinder specifically asked for her and ignored the rest. Appreciate Cora's prowess because she had proven it. Nope, not happening dear writers, this is just another blatant disregard of the lore.

were you agreeing with me or trying to say I was wrong?

Well, I wasn't trying to say you were wrong since, without a verifiable factual basis, opinions can't be correct or incorrect objectively.

If you agree that the missiles being turned around is too far over the line of believability for suspension of disbelief to cover it, we agree.  If not, we disagree.  But, hey, put 3 people in a room, you get 6 opinions.  I won't pretend to like the scene here, but if people disagree I'm not gonna fault 'em for it. 

This human understands

I'd have swallowed them stopping the missiles. OK, fine, it was a powerful burst of barriers from two highly skilled Biotics, Sarissa especially is said to be particularly adept at them.

Redirecting them was just stupid. As was my Vanguard Ryder sitting there and watching.

FTR it was originly posted in the General section and moved after VonUber posted.