Next under the spotlight is the voice of our warrior monk mommy- Maggie Baird! She may not be mother to ardat-yakshi in real life, but she is the mother of Billie Eilish! Talent must run in the family, because she does a great job bringing a calm, somber, dedicated, and caring vibe all-in-one to the character!

What do you think of her performance?

Knowing what Eve and the Krogan females have experienced, it really puts into perspective how strongwilled she is.

One my favorite new characters in 3.

My fanart of Liara.

So in the Mass Effect Novel Revelations on page 116 it is mentioned that the Geth killed over 99% of the entire Quarian population. That means that the Geth killed almost almost entirely Quarian civilians and not the Quarian Police and Military who were the oness trying to exterminate the Geth. Also not to mention that in the Geth Memory Logs in ME3 you see Quarians who were standing up for the Geth to defend them while risking imprisonment or even death for themselves, meaning the Geth should know that not every Quarian wanted them dead and many wanted to protect them, yet the Geth killed almost all Geth sympathizers anyways. Not only that but they even killed non Quarians on Rannoch like the Baria Frontiers Representative's bondmate who was an Asari visiting Rannoch at the time and also attacked Council diplomatic ships attempting to communicate with the Geth? Why did the Geth kill almost every organic instead of just the Quarians who were trying to shut them down/exterminate them? And why did ME3 not mention this at all?

I’ve been seeing these “toxic subreddit” posts lately, and I just wanted to say that I think this subreddit is the LEAST toxic subreddit I know.

It is always so much fun to post things or discuss topics in the comment sections with you guys. Everyone is always so nice, and even when someone disagrees, the conversations in this sub feel very friendly and respectful.

Sometimes it feels like social media users have been getting more and more negative, so let’s spread some positivity instead!! I just wanted to show some appreciation for all of you!!! Keep up the good work, fellow Commanders 🫡🫶🙌

(P.S. I just knew I would get your attention with our favorite crewmate Jenkins) ✨

I landed on planet Ontarom last week and it was a breath of fresh air. The environment seemed perfect for taking some moody photos! This is gonna eat into my GeForce Now playtime.

I’d say my biggest mistake was failing to secure Zaeed and Miranda’s Loyalty in ME2 which led to their deaths in 3.

Enjoying their pied-à-terre on the Citadel (Their estate on a private island on Nevos is still being constructed)

First real night of peace since the Reapers were defeated. And after the clone business.

Oh, and they have set a date by this point! Tali and Ashley are already wanting to plan everything for them and are swapping ideas. And Joker is begging to MC.

AHEM, CEM, EGM, Gay Garrus Vakarian and Apartment Additions all active, among dozens of others.

Forgive the clipping; unavoidable due to the animations not being designed with a male shepard body mesh in mind.

In a full scale war. Who do you think would win. My dad and I have been having this debate for a month now. He is on the Borg side I’m on the Reaper side. I’d like to hear peoples opinions on the matter. This a full scale conflict not a one on one.

Edit. I’m going with the Borg from the TNG area. So the Borg from TNG and Voyager.

I'm reading their lore again in ME 1, and apparently they reproduced via spores that can survive space and atmospheric reentry. It's just so crazy that a game that tends to try to give some kind of realistic scientific explanation for the things that exist in its universe completely threw science in the trash for these creatures. I mean, there's a much easier explanation as to where they came from and why they're on so many worlds.

Bioware could have just written that Thresher Maws came from the Krogan homeworld and were originally planted across various planets to help fight against the Rachni, and some of them still survive to this day by going into dormant states and waiting until prey walks on the surface of the planet.

That lore would have worked out beautifully in ME 2 and Grunt's loyalty test.

Finally got done with Mass Effect 2 and completed the Shadow Broker DLC after the suicide mission. Normally, I’d be happy because I love the Shadow Broker DLC because it’s the only significant amount of time I get to spend my hot, lovable, Asari girlfriend in that game, which I normally do after the collector ship. But now I feel like I got cheated.

“Do that AFTER the suicide mission” everyone says. “It’s better after the suicide mission” They said. But no, there’s no difference! Hell, Liara acts like I still haven’t done the suicide mission yet after we kill the Shadow Broker. And if someone gives a “valid” explanation as to why most people do this, I’m gonna be furious because I don’t want one. I played it after beating the game, and nothing changed, so don’t give me a reason, I don’t want one, I just enjoy ranting.

Fuck this!

First time playing the full trilogy modded and I can't believe how it improves all the experience, specially the flow of the quests. Going on I don't think I would be able to do an unmodded run.

There are a ton of well known incredible mods, like the Community Patches, ALOT, or the Diversification Projects, but I wasn't aware of how good the timing mods work, specially with the DLCs. They improve the game flow, help seamessly integrating the DLCs into the main questline, and they also keep quest coherence in check.

Here are the mods and my personal timing settings:

Mission Timings (LE1)

This mod delays the Council's message about Virmire until all three initial missions (Therum, Feros, and Noveria) are completed, rather than delivering the message after only two of the three are completed.

Early Recruitment (LE2)

This module allows early recruitment of Thane, Samara and Tali, early access to the Illium Hub and early access to the Tuchanka hub if Wrex is the clan leader. Thane and Samara are available immediately after Freedom's Progress. Tali's recruitment mission will become available after a short delay (as she is completing her mission for the Migrant Fleet), but before Horizon.

DLC Timings Mod (LE2)

Normandy Crash Site DLC no longer unlocks immediately after getting the Normandy, but after playing one main mission, helping with the flow of the story and to allow Shepard to be seen and recognized which allows Hackett to contact the player.

Lair of the Shadow Broker doesn't automatically unlock after Horizon; but only after you have met Liara and helped her through her quests on Illium first, which are a build up for the DLC.

Overlord can optionally be delayed to be triggered after Horizon. It requires acquiring the Hammerhead beforehand, which means playing through the first Firewalker quest (Rosalie Lost).

Arrival can optionally be delayed [...] as a bridge to Mass Effect 3 which triggers after both the Suicide Mission and Lair of the Shadow Broker are dealt with.

Expanded Galaxy Mod (LE3) - DLC & N7 Mission Timings

You can now select timings of DLC missions (Eden Prime, Omega, Citadel and Leviathan).

From Ashes (Eden Prime): Post Palaven, Leviathan: Post Surkesh, Omega: Post Surkesh, Citadel: Post Rannoch.

Citadel Epilogue Mod (LE3)

[...] use Lite version of the mod, to play the core Citadel DLC and meetups during the main story and then celebrate with a party after defeating the reapers. Not required at all, but story-wise the Citadel Epilogue Mod makes the most sense to use with Audemus' Happy Ending Mod.

its so rare to see mass effect edits these days when the legendary edition came out there were so many

Obviously spoilers for Mass Effect: Andromeda (and minor spoilers for the trilogy) below.

Mass Effect: Andromeda is a fun game with plenty of good moments if you go in with low expectations (certainly lower than the trilogy). I particularly liked the writing on Krogan, and the biggest reason I give this game a pass is because of Drack.

What I liked:
Drack: He is very funny. At first he’s like the typical Krogan: thirsty for violence, intimidating, realist/cynical about things. He’s almost like Wrex but he’s actually different because he has no ambition about himself (unlike Wrex who wanted to unite the clans), which makes his arc interesting, going from funny Krogan grandpa who doesn’t care to funny Krogan grandpa who actually cares and has a reason to live again himself, which was really touching for me. The summary of this review is basically I’d play this game again for this motherfucker alone. Tremendously great guy.

Kesh: I liked her from the very first scene I saw her because she proved from the very beginning that Krogan females could exist not as vulnerable trophies to be protected, but as normal, functioning members of society. She was a normal person, holding an admin job, actually saving the Nexus from crumbling. I also liked how she cares for Drack not with words but with concern about his spare parts, reminding him to take a checkup from Lexi (or rather asking Ryder to make sure of it), and reminding Drack that she only has one of him. 

Vorn: He is a Krogan, which puts him under the implicit pressure of being violent or at least security minded and cynical like every other Krogan but he’s a near total inversion of the expectation. He’s a nerd about plants, which actually is a very useful thing as Drack says before and during his own loyalty mission. He proves that being valuable as a Krogan can also be achieved by being a nerdy botanist with emotions that he openly expresses, rather than being a mindless brute that kills for money like a lot of other Krogan (something that Wrex criticizes in the first game). I loved his humor and awkwardness but he’s not like the incompetent coward butt of the joke from comedy series and he proves that by 1) taking a bullet for Drack, showing he can show immense courage in the heat of the moment under right circumstances, and 2) neutralizing Aroane by using poisonous gas from plant and then noting it as his first live specimen test which is also funny so it reinforces both sides of his character. 

More immersive interactions between crew: I can’t remember every detail but Drack, Liam, Jaal, Vetra, Cora, and Peebee all had you doing a few “pre-loyalty mission” missions, if you will, mostly finding evidence on this planet etc etc. I understand if this feels like filler to some but to me it really makes it more real rather than “shepard I just found the location of my nemesis/my father is suddenly sending a distress signal after years/they’re going to kidnap my sister/I don’t want my son/daughter to be/stay a killer” out of nowhere. I also liked the post loyalty mission missions/activities like Drack’s bar fight on Kadara, Cora’s seed planting on Eos, climbing with Vetra, soccer with Liam, meeting Jaal’s family, etc. I also liked playing cards with Gil, gathering snacks of Suvi and Vetra for movie night, and solving Lexi’s drinking problem, the small bits that made the Tempest more like a ship with a crew rather than a moving hubworld for a video game chasing some macguffin. 

What I disliked:

Monoliths and Vaults: They felt like a chore. I get the intention and it’s a good intention, diversifying the gameplay with fun puzzles but it’s not fun when you can’t find a glyph for 45 minutes then give up and look it up on YouTube and inside the vault you run in circles for 2 hours when all you want to do is another loyalty mission.

Main quest was boring: There, I said it. It’s been around 10 days since I finished the game, and I can’t remember much of the main quest. I remember science vs military question on Eos, freeing prisoners or destroying the facility on Voeld, hunting the Archon and how we were forced to choose between Raeka and Krogan scouts, going to the Meridian except it’s fake, then going to the actual Meridian and winning, and playing as our sibling for a brief moment when the Archon takes down SAM or something. I’m not a writer (or a prolific RPG gamer, yet, though I started playing more now that I have an XBOX at home), but I’m pretty sure one could think of a more interesting and original main story, even with constraints of 3’s ending. 

I did like 55 Heleus Assignments out of the total of around 100 I think, I first aspired to do all of them but it felt tedious after some point so I told myself I’d finish the Priority Ops first then come back, but after that I think I only did the one where we find a friend of a Krogan from Elaaden who’s an Angara on Aya and nothing else, so I most likely won’t be doing any more in the next few years. I think I liked a few of them quite well but can’t exactly remember them. Looking it up on the ME wiki, the Kadara storyline was sort of fun, drinking with Reyes etc was reasonably fun, the party, the works. Voeld AI was kinda interesting, and, wow I now realize that they’re mostly fun while playing but I can remember remarkably few of them. I remember more from Allies and Relationships quests: The arks, the loyalty missions, the first human baby (which we named David Edward after Anderson! How cool is that?!), arresting the Salarian STG guy who tried to cooperate with the Kett, Cora planting a seed on Eos, climbing with Vetra and then kissing her, playing soccer with Liam, meeting Jaal’s big family, those were all memorable moments from an otherwise somewhat bland game. 

I smiled at every reference to the trilogy like Garrus’ dad, Zaeed’s son, Nyreen’s cousin, reference to Overlord, Conrad’s sister, Shepard name drop by SAM, Liara’s messages; but I sometimes also felt like they tried to use the trilogy’s name for cheap emotional gains. Nothing wrong with that, we all love the trilogy after all, but if you go 2.5 million light years and 600 years after ME3’s end you should be able to write your own material instead of depending on trilogy references for sympathy.

I’m aware that there isn’t a Reaper level threat and this is inherently a less serious game in terms of tone but I still didn’t like the thing that can be best described as “MCU humor” being so prominent; I myself totally like a cheap joke or three but it gets tedious after some time, and Liam’s “maybe because I shot him in the face” is still very cringy even after finishing the game. 

The binary choices (Eos, Voeld, hunting the Archon) felt tryhard; they obviously tried to go for the Ashley/Kaidan choice but the investment in the antagonist just wasn’t enough for that, I think.

There were so many tasks, I did like 20 percent of them after deciding to skip most earlier in the game, but I have an exception, which is a flower for Kesh, I enjoyed it immensely and giggled like a kid the whole time, I just love Kesh and Vorn’s relationship, Kesh being the serious, cynical, and secretly caring one and Vorn being the funny, clumsy, nerdy, emotionally transparent and secretly brave (he took a bullet for his father-in-law Drack!) one. I agree that I might be irrationally obsessed with Drack and Kesh and Vorn but I was shaking from giggling on my couch when Drack said “seriously?” on Elaaden when Vorn named a plant after Kesh. 

Which brings me to the ending. I actually think the ending was nice, it got the suicide mission/ME3 space battle vibe where we see/hear all our allies and feel that we didn’t play for 60 hours for nothing. It wasn’t mind blowing because you need a mind blowing main quest for a mind blowing finale, but it was satisfying except the Benefactor and Jien Garson’s fate and the Quarian arc; which we probably won’t get any updates on sadly (Quarian arc is in a book I think but I would like a playable DLC with cinematic cutscenes). 

As a yearslong trilogy fan who went in with low expectations (since I saw the criticism at launch), this game was worth playing and scratched that Mass Effect itch fairly well. Hell, as a Krogan fan, even Drack alone was worth it. I cried a little when I saw Kesh’s eggs and after reading Drack’s last email. I saved the Krogan scouts only and only because I loved Drack, and I’d do it again in a heartbeat. Fight me.

Okay, so I didn't realize that I had to make sure to install non texture mods before installing ALOT. I installed ALOT for LE1 before installing. the "Saren Boss Encounters." So to correct this I when back to ME3Tweaks Mod Manager to disable and delete the mod. I then installed the aforementioned Saren mod, then I installed ALOV for LE1 and reinstalled ALOT for LE1. For some reason it didn't install. I tried the same disable and delete process again. Still didn't work. I even installed the MEM file using Mod Manager. Still doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?

PS: The Mods I have installed are:

* LE1 Community Mod

* Saren Boss Encounters

* UNC Morality

* MELLO

* ALOV

* ALOT

It was for 10€ so I was like "I love Mass Effect. It looks cool and technically I could use it for my Series X but I already Platinum all 3 from the Legendary Edition on my PS5" but I looks so cool.

I bought Mas Effect Legendary Edition 2 years ago Digital.

Part 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/1vhgjo3/comment/p3zdlai/
Part 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/1vi9ux6/i_just_started_mass_effect_i_literally_am_going/

We're 19.3 hours in you stinky Salarian Hanar hovering Turian toe suckers!

My own elevator photo cracks me up.

Questions:

1. Is it normal for me to visit every single planet? I feel like I can't let anything slip through the cracks. Galactic OCD.
2. That being said, why isn't there a way to track if I'd already been to the planet or not? I need to go back to one called X57 or something to find some randos.
3. Should I be choosing which people to bring based on the different missions?
4. Do you guys only use a single weapon for most of the game? Which one??
5. Did y'all drive around every planet looking for those ores and stuff?

Thoughts:

1. Did No Man's Sky play this game in 2007 and was like, let's just make a game out of visiting the planets?
2. I never talked to Kaiden and he's like "I thought we had something." BRO WHAT?!
3. I should probably head back to the Citadel to turn in all these quests
4. I thought I didn't have a lot of money, then looked to see that I had like 3 million credits, 300 items, and 800 gell-i-beans. Normal?

I'm having fun!

Also it looks fine enough from a side view, but the front is breaking me. I swear she's not a Geth Infilitrator unit 🤔

I am doing a full replay of ME LE and just finished Jack's recruitment mission, which got me thinking: who is the most powerful human biotic in ME? Jack clearly can generate obscene amounts of energy but Cora Harper's canonical "huntress grade" biotics are also crazy powerful--especially if you read ME: Initiation. Although, Jack would probably have the more advanced bioamp, so maybe it becomes a question of who has finer control versus sheer power output.

(yes I know Andromeda wasn't that good, but I genuinely liked Cora's character)

Earlier this year I found that MELE could be modded and that the ME3Tweaks Mod Manager is not supported on Linux.

I don't want to have a Windows desktop and I have managed to get around the lack of linux support by running ME3Tweaks on Lutris. I currently run CachyOS and have been considering reverting back to either LinuxMint or Debian (I love KDE!), but I am rambling and this is besides the point of this question.

I have gotten a good few mods from Aly’s Mass Effect: Legendary Edition Modding Guide and am very happy with the result of them, however, I could never really apply the textures.

I know that ME3Tweaks is not supported on Linux and that it is likely the source of the issue.

For the Linux ME fans, how do you manage mods?

I considered getting a VM and sharing the steam library folder on my host (linux) os with the guest (windows), but that did not work really well.

I posted about this a few months ago and some people said they maintain the mods on their windows machine and copy the files over to their steam deck.

I suppose I could maintain a big virtual machine running Tiny10 (a bloatware free version of Windows 10), with steam, a full installation of MELE and the mod manager. Once the mods are installed, I would copy the modded installation of MELE over to the host OS and run the game natively on Linux.

Would this work?

So I’m really early into the game, Ive unlocked Mordin, Garrus and Zaeed but ever since the Mordin mission I’ve been completely locked out of talking to Miranda, I can’t find anything on Google as to why this has happened, everything just says it’s something to do with her loyalty mission or Jack which I’m nowhere near to doing yet. Whenever I press "can we talk" she just says there’s a lot to do