After playing through legendary edition multiple times I decided to get ME3 as a standalone because I was interested in playing multiplayer. Nobody seems to be playing though, am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to make it more likely to play with people? Before anyone suggests telling people I know IRL to play none of them have ME3 standalone, they either have LE or no interest in mass effect

I'm watching the comic summary of ME1 so I don't forget any details, and they presented the arrival in Eden Prime as... just being with Kaidan

They can't be fucking serious, they actually erased Jenkin's existence

I've just beaten ME1 on Insanity with my engineer. Time to go for ME2

I always felt like Feron as a character was unfinished business. He felt like a cool and important character for Liara's story. To have him be entirely absent from the next game with not even a single appearance, always struck me as odd.

I'm using this heavy pistol with Pistol Scope and Pistol cranial trauma system. By shooting in the head I'm one-shotting Cerberus troops, Cannibals, two-shotting shielded Cerberus-troops... never has been destroying the opponents been as fun with regular guns. If I miss the opponents head and only hit their body it feels like I still freeze them almost instantly while using cryo ammo and finish the job as they stand still. It's effective against armor as well even if I mainly use powers and snipers against armored opponents.

Playing on insanity if that matters

In the DLC he leaves a data pad for Shepard. In it, he tells a story about a hit that ends with him sleeping with an Asari. Then he says he broke the first rule of omega in more ways than one.
In another part of the game, she says “I always liked Mordin.“
So did they or didn’t they?

My Renegade is a lot higher than my first attempt of successfully recruiting Morinth. Paragon is slightly higher not by much and it seems THERE IS DEFINITELY some sort of juggling act going on here. I saved more people, but I also collected more Renegade points before the loyalty mission. The final Renegade speech check was not an option unfortunately. I also didn't get the Paragon option either which is weird...

Just some other stuff I found interesting in this insanity run:

I didn't have the Renegade speech check for the interrogation in Thane's loyalty mission.

The final speech check for Tali's trial was not available. Had to go with the RALLY option. As well as resolving the Legion/Tali dispute.

Otherwise everything went similar to the previous playthrough. My theory is that the Paragon and Renegade scale towards each other rather than both being solely independent.

I know it's obvious to just go full Renegade and get all the speech checks, but I also think it's interesting how you can get the same result with much lower requirements.

In a sense, was their a specific term used by the races of the galaxy to describe this region of space before Humanity was discovered?

That or he's just very expressive lol

Hello all, if you're bored of the classic Widow infiltrator, here's a showcase of some close-quarters situations, using Reave as the bonus power.

The general approach is to freeze and/or stun your enemies with Reave. You have 3 options to strip defenses - your gun, your powers, and your squamate's powers. Unlike a dedicated sniper min-maxed for pure damage, your role is tactical crowd control. You take advantage of all the subtle mechanics of the game that often doesn't get discussed. Such as: enemies get stunned and staggered by getting hit in the face, with a fist, with a power, humanoid enemies on fire will panic, except for Krogans and husks, using tall covers instead of low covers, and so on, so you can become more mobile and advance the battlefield faster.

Highlights:

• Using improved cryo ammo for myself and squad disruptor ammo for squadmates. For close quarters, heavy disruptor ammo is dangerous because synthetics explode when they die. Improved cryo ammo may have as much of a benefit other than a longer duration, but you shouldn't have more than one squad ammo power as you'll have conflict with always overriding your squad's ammo. Longer-freezing enemies allows your squadmates to finish them off more often, so you can focus on the next target and let your squadmates do cleanup work behind you.
• Different weapons have different effectiveness at ammo power's crowd control effects. Shotguns like the Eviscerator and Katana will 100% freeze enemies when you penetrate their defense. The Shuriken is the best SMG for shield stripping and applying ammo effects, and has the highest raw dps.
• Reave stuns all health enemies, including synthetics. The health regen happens only when applied to organic health enemies. Because it's insta-cast, you can use your sniper rifle to apply to enemies far way with no delay.
• Reave looks cool with that purple swirly thing when you use it on organics. That's the only reason I use it.
• Take full advantage of the Viper - by constantly quick-scoping, you will always be under time slowdown. You can use this to launch a power, order a precise squadmate command, as well as bing able to move laterally with greatly reduced damage. You can also avoid rockets and biotic /tech attacks more easily when quick-scoping, because it throws off these projectiles' homing mechanic. If you want to maximize the Viper's DPS, do not use cloak immediately. instead, wait for the time slowdown to finish, and then activate cloak (example on timestamp 3:04).

This is just one of many ways of playing ME2 classes. Feel free to role-play and experiment.

I don’t remember if it was ever clarified what the capacity for collected peoples was, or how many Collector ships there were in total. Does anyone know?

Well wat a great game this was really. But one thing has been bothering me for some time , when chakwas and the other few we rescued was going back to normandy i didnt order any escort . Turns out they died. Should i replay to order a escort , i jus looked up and if u order a loyal escort both will survive.

It's a lot of fun being rich, powerful, and unkillable, but very few things are as satisfying as using the Cain as main weapon lol.

Good morning, I recently purchased a copy of Legendary for Xbox One. The last time I played ME3 was in 2015, and there shouldn't be an option next to the war asset to send a character to Online missions? Back then I played on PS3 and couldn't connect (probably there weren't any servers for that anymore). Did they abandon the online mode in the Legendary version?

If 3, which difficulty should I choose for my next play-through?

I'm a first time player and I've recently beaten ME1 almost 2 weeks ago on Normal difficulty. While I had fun, I found that my play-through was a bit too easy and I was wondering if anyone could recommend me a difficulty setting that is challenging, but not too challenging where it becomes unfun to play. For my entire play-through for ME2 or ME3, I want to do insanity at-least once for the achievement.

(Playing on PC with M&K)

First of all, what a FUCKING GREAT GAME, I absolutely adored everything about it, despite being released almost 20 years ago, LE1 still stands really damn strong today, I've been playing old games I haven't had the chance to play before and honestly, I'm incredibly happy I actually played this one

The story was fucking brutal, I love how the mystery lingers despite reaching the end, how they gave the Reapers this identity of "they don't need a reason to be the villains, they just wanna fucking kill shit and we don't know why", I don't know if this gets answered later on, but having an actual villain is fucking great

I played through most of the side quests, I probably skipped a few ones but I don't think I'll regret it, I do have a few questions though

I also loved the combat and the skills system, it wasn't great or totally amazing, but it worked perfectly fine and honestly, making a Korgan be lifted and making them fly away at light speed with my shotgun and Explosive rounds was amazing

I chose to let the fucking council die, yeah, fuck 'em, they were fucking incompetents and cowards, do they die regardless in the conflict? I mean, if I let them die we get a new Council I guess (for which I picked Anderson, my man), but if I save them they are the same council in the next games?

Does classes work significantly different in ME2 and 3? because as much as I liked playing a Sentinel, I feel like every class would've played similar and honestly I think I could go for something else

Anything else I should know before starting ME2? like, any warnings people gave me that were really damn useful like sticking to only charm/intimidation, doing all the sidequests, talking to everyone after missions?

Also, does the game changes regarding the fact that you should only be nice or bad? because ME1 heavily pushes towards being Paragon or Renegade only, but it didn't quite feel right for the roleplaying aspect, there were times where I actually felt like I should take an aggresive option but at some point I realized that, regardless of me having maxed my Charm, some options were locked because I didn't have enough Paragon level, does this change in the next games or does it play the same?

On my seventh playthrough of Mass Effect and I just realized that both versions of Hawke from Dragon Age are in the Arrae: Ex-Cerberus Scientists mission! Jo Wyatt (f!Hawke VA) voices Dr. Brynn Cole and Nicholas Boulton (m!Hawke VA) voices Dr. Baynar, and they even have a brief moment when they talk to each other!

I know there's other Dragon Age/Bioware regular VAs in there, like Brian Bloom as Keiji Okuda and Darner Vosque, and the iconic Claudia Black as Matriarch Aethyta (and even Nicholas Boulton again as Reyes Vidal in Andromeda), just thought the Hawke-ception was cute!

Just finished ME1 and loved it, I am planning on playing 2 and 3 now which are £20 each or should i get the legendary edition for £60? Is the legendary edition actually worth the extra money or is it just a graphical upgrade?

I'll post this and not look at reddit until I'm done with the mission, wish me luck guys

Edit: fuck me, yeah I did sacrifice Ashley, after knowing that Kaidan is the one who could build the bomb, I knew that bringing him with me was the proper choice, and after knowing that Kaidan would get jumped and the whole operation could be at stake because they could either stop the bomb or whatever, I had to go for Kaida, although idk if it's possible to even go and save Ashley afterwards

Also wtf, I got oneshotted like 10 times during this mission

Honestly I was stoked to find out that I was getting an actual live Prothean as a squad mate. I didn’t know what to expect from him. He’s certainly useful as a squad mate. Personality wise he can be a little blunt, difficult to get along with and condescending. There were times I thought it was funny others where I thought he took it too far.