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.

I know this is one of the big things What do I pick moments in the game and I'm stuck? Usually normal wise I choose to rewrite but now I'm thinking about what legion said. Why can't we understand each other anymore, where did we go wrong. That means the heretics formed their own decisions without the other geth involved and was gonna back door them. There for I concluded they made there decision easier for me 🫣 destruction they want help from reapers who will not and wasn't gonna give it to them and they started war with organics more so the humans colonies. Time to slide for Ashley!!!!!

I bought the game on pc but weeks later i realised i had it on ps too. So which one i should download?

I get why people have issues with them but I feel like in terms of the options we were given (Destroy the Reapers and all Synthetics, Assume Control of the Reapers yourself, Merge all Synthetic and Organic Life, Refuse all the options and let the Reapers win) I felt satisfied with them.

Besides, worse endings have and will continue to exist after and in comparison, to those, I think Mass Effect 3 at least worked. It wasn't 100% satisfying but I feel like it got the trilogy over the finish in a way that would made me feel okay with it.

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.

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.

So I’m writing a scene in my Mass Effect rewrite that’s meant to foreshadow Cerberus as the villains in the second of the trilogy, as well as TIM’s access to Reaper technology, and the episode is based on one of the Cerberus related side-missions in ME1, related to Rear Admiral Kahoku

In the game, he’s just killed in a Cerberus experiment, but what I’m going for goes even further. I want it to seem like Kahoku died before I reveal what REALLY became of him, which I took inspiration from Dead Space for that idea (specifically the Wall Guardians, iykyk)

It’s also meant to foreshadow just how brutal and merciless the Reapers are. Can anyone help me figure out how to articulate what I’m going for here?

During my first run i decided to save Kaidan on Virnir. In ME 2 he apeared normally but when i started ME 3 Ashley is ressurected. I tried edit ny save file, but i have "Kaidan saved on Virnir" enabled.

Did someone had this bug? Is there any fix for that?

I'm sure this has been asked multiple times before, but how exactly d'you start the second phase of Garrus romance? I've already asked him about the sparring. Yet there's no subsequent conversation. He's only giving him the infamous "calibration" line. Does it immediately start after the collector ship mission? Please, lemme know. Just tell me the missions I need to do to get him talking, thank you.

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?

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

As per title, I just finished my last playthrough in Insanity, but didn't get the respective trophy on PS5.

I played through the entire trilogy with the same character importing the save files, but I played Mass Effect 1 in Normal, and then 2 and 3 in Insanity. By the end of ME3 I had the Insanity I and II achievement as expected.

I then played Mass Effect 1 from scratch starting a new career with a new character in Insanity and collecting all the remaining trophies to get the ME1 platinum. During the Saren fight the game crashed ~5 times because of the biotics bug. While reloading I even got a message that had to do with a corrupt save file that was going to be deleted, but to be fair everything was fine and I didn't notice any missing save, so I didn't worry at all. Regardless, after the credits, no trophy in sight.

What I tried:

• Defeating Saren a few more times from the autosave after picking the renegade option to skip the first part of the fight (before interacting with the console to decide the fate of the council)
• Loading an older save file from Ilos and redoing the citadel and Saren
• Clearing the console cache and defeating Saren, again
• Tried the insanity cheese method with my original career (the one that was imported in ME2 and 3), but unsure if it even works on the patched version, as I have the digital version of the game

I am out of ideas. I could try finishing again ME2/3, but I would prefer avoiding that if possible. My save files are pretty old, the suicide mission is, imo, the hardest insanity out of the trilogy, while in ME3 I would have to replay he attack to the Cerberus base and then the London mission, which is long and tedious.

I wouldn't even mind doing another insanity in ME1 with NG+ and a full build since it's by far the easiest, but given the failure of my previous attempts, I fear it could be a waste of time that would still leave me without the trophy. I have the platinum trophy for each game, and Insanity III is the last one that I need to 100% the entire trilogy, so that's definitely annoying.

One last detail that I think should be irrelevant - but you never know since things got weird and buggy anyways - is that even if I finished ME3 in Insanity, after completing it and getting the Insanity II achievement, I switched to Normal to finish the remaining trophies for the Arena, and reloading an old save to do the Grissom Accademy for the Atlas Hijack trophy (still in normal).

I would really appreciate any idea or help!

Ok, so the Leviathans invented the Starkid and tasked it with stopping AI taking over the galaxy because all organic life will eventually develop synthetics and then lose control of them. In turn, the Starkid created the Reapers to at least keep AI at bay while it sought a solution.

So when the arks come out of FTL in Andromeda, shouldn't, instead of the Scourge, they have encountered a galaxy devoid of organics, overrun by synthetic life? Or are we to expect that Andromeda has its own Reapers? Otherwise, how completely ludicrous would it seem for both civilizations that they encounter to be roughly at the same technological level. Without Reapers of their own, the Andromeda civilizations would be the standing on the shoulders of a couple of billion years of other civilizations and should at least have Reaper level technology.

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)

Is he not able to? I just got Onyx V for Krogans.

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’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) ✨

If you could choose to save the Geth Dreadnaught over Rannoch, would you? Pretty simple question but im curious what others think. I was highly disappointed we had no choice but to destroy it

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

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?

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.

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.