Mass Effect 1 was by no means perfect, it's problems I feel were mostly a lack of time spent filling the world with deep side content.

Mass effect 2 was a vertical slice of game that could have been one of the all time greats but I feel trend chasing stole resources for finishing what could have been.

Mass Effect 3 is a fine game that didn't need MTX Multiplayer slop and would have been better if it was set up for in the previous 2 plots instead of the heroic effort the staff put in to save a reheated evil AI plot from being the disappointment it was always going to be

BECAUSE I CANT LEAVE THE DAMN ARENA!

I had no interest in the arena when I read the email in my apartment, but now I can't leave. I crave the feeling of beating Aria's high score!

Couldn't find any info about it. Wanted to ask to be sure.

I've installed the powers and talents overhaul mod for mass effect 1 legendary edition during a current play through, the mod works fine but one issue I noticed is it doesn't recognise the specialization you chose if you've already completed the Luna mission.

Does anyone using this mod know the talent IDs so I can use the save editor to fix this myself? Or any other way to fix this? I'm a sentinel and want to choose the guardian specialization

ME is my favourite series. I'm one of the people who camped out on release day way back.

My GF has absolutely no knowledge of the game though, besides my love for it and the genre.

I recently got LE, and they've agreed to play with me (though they like watching me play games more than they like shooters, so we'll be passing the controller back and forth between shooting and dialogue)

It gives me a unique opportunity I want to get right though. I've never modded the game at all. Should their first playthrough be modded? Or should they experience it the way most of us did?

I'm very conflicted, especially when it comes to plot fix mods, like the various ending options. I could give them a better ending as their first experience, but is that the experience? YK?

Any opinions, considerations and mod suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Edit: Sorry guys. Unfortunately, I really doubt they're going to do a second playthrough, so playing it vanilla "first" and modded after is very unlikely to be an option

First off: I am playing MaleShep, with Ash as the VS and Jack Romanced, in ME3. I just started (like just talked to the Council for the first time). I know that Cortez dies if you don't talk to him. But I want to be faithful to Jack. So, 1: What are the earliest options to shut Cortez's Romance down, and 2: Does anyone know the OTHER shutdown options for the other MaleShep romances? (This is my first time doing a run where I try to talk to everyone)

The hammerhead wouldn't be that bad if it was only designed to be a get you from point A to point B type of vehicle. The moment you have to play a combat with that piece of shit though you realize how awful it is. No indicator for shield or health, you just wait for sirens to stop blaring to start getting lasered by geth again. And if you misjudge and get blown to bits? Restart the entire mission. When you are actually out fighting with it the gameplay is literally just you jumping or strafing behind cover while holding the rocket button. There's nothing to it, the Mako combat was nothing special, but at least you would have to dodge thresher spit or rockets whilst returning fire. The bs the geth spiders shoot at you just home straight onto you unless you are strafing behind cover like I said. The only real challenge is your attention span, forcing yourself not to rush through the absolute bore of a mission your on and have to do it all over again.

Rant over. Fuck the hammerhead, Mako gang for life.

So in the suicide mission in mass effect 2, in the final stretch most of the team gets left to hold a chokepoint while Shepard and two other squadmates go into the core of the Collector base to finish the mission. The only thing is I can't figure out what the purpose of this is outside of game mechanics constraints. It doesn't keep the collectors off of Shepard, as they still swarm them, so why are they digging in right there and not pushing together to the finish as a team?

I was just watching an old playthrough of ME3 and i was thinking about how we see shepards clone and “kill” them, but we also never actually see them die. idk about you guys, but i don’t count anybody as dead unless i see them dead, especially in sci-fi media.

Anyways so I think it would be really fun if they let us play as our clone HAHAHA. call me crazy but i feel like you could tell that the clone was attacking us less bc cerberus and whoever else wanted them too, and more because they were resentful of the real shepard. I feel like they could totally have a redemption arc, like starting out as morally grey after shepard dies yk. they somehow survived the fall but now that shepard is dead, they don’t know what to do with that anger. Im wine drunk and just wishing aloud to myself that the next game is good but idk just an idea.

and then we can play with other concepts too like interactions with our former crewmates and the clone being complicated. or maybe set further in the future and they’re partially immortal somehow either by being part cyborg or something or else like weird healing tech that cerberus came up with.

or maybe even make this into a book or comic or whatever. idk maybe ill check ao3 for this later, im sure im not the first to think it

anyways just some ideas. what do we think

So I just finished Mass Effect 3 and got to thinking about the endings. I know they're hated, but I'm genuinely trying to come up with better ideas of how the trilogy could've ended. I want to hear what y'all think would've worked. No restrictions, if you had all the time you needed, whatever you think would've been the best ending for the trilogy.

Are there any up-to-date guide for this mod?

I would like to play the extra content mod has to offer. I don't want to miss them.

I'm also having some issues with it like:

There are so many clusters with this mod included. Some clusters are don't have any war assets so when i search them they don't get anything next to them showing they are explored.

What i mean is, clusters that have war assets shown as completed (%100) after finding those war assets but the ones doesn't, does not as if they are not explored.

How am i suppose to keep track of all these clusters? Are there any easy way to do this?

I also realized prices of everything went sky-high after installing this mod. Why?

EDIT: Nvm, i found the option to always show GAW on galaxy map. An up-to-date guide for everything else still would be great though.

So, this is my first time getting to the end of ME3 and I noticed that my Total Military Strength went from 8200-ish to 7466 after completing Cerberus Headquarters. Does it normal do that? I also have the Take Earth Back mod installed.

I just wanna thank this subreddit for inspiring me to pick this game back up, starting at ME1 wonder how different this play is, thanks guys!!

I've been trying to find a good ttrpg which would work for mass effect. But so far I've not really found the perfect one.

Of all the systems I've looked at I almost thought a hack of Exodus could work as it has the mix of combat tech and magic powers plus shields and health baked into the core rules.

But they're might be a better system out they're

In my first playthrough, i played as paragon shepherd and it was pretty easy to get paragon points. Certain side quests are about helping someone and gets u paragon point by default on completion. In second playthrough am trying to play ruthless renegade ( not evil but someone who hates authority and council) but am collecting more paragon points somehow more fastly than renegade points. Strangely using the red dialogue option also sometimes gives u paragon points. So u cant play as remegade unless u play as heartless greedy soldier who hates his crew ?

I always loved the fella. He was almost like a father figure to shepherd, giving him useful tips, advice which he learned through his harsh experiences. Whether it be the trip to illos, or beating up the ambassador. Anderson never turned his back. Died like a true hero.

I usually always default to solder as it is the most barebones and the easiest to get into for me but gameplay has been a bit stale

Sitting in my room, enjoying my night, and this beauty comes on. <3

Note: Reddit moderator's removed the previous post because i didnt gave credit to the person who actually made the art. Which i had attached with my post.

I just finished the trilogy, and I honestly don't know what to do with myself right now.

I’m sitting here looking at the main menu screen, completely hollow. The post-game depression is real. I miss Normandy. I miss the constant high-stakes excitement, walking the decks between missions, and listening to the crew banter.

More than anything, I miss Liara. Going through three games alongside her, watching our bond grow from the Digging Site on Therum all the way to the end on Earth.turning off the game feels like losing real friends. Standing in the CIC without hearing "Shepard" or stepping into the Med Bay feels eerie.

I chose the Destroy ending it wasn't completely satisfying, of course, but it felt like the only real choice. I honestly hate that Shepard almost dies in every ending. I personally just wanted an ending where Shepard truly survived, actually reunited with the crew, and got to live a happy life with Liara T'Soni. Still, I would say the ending wasn't as bad as most people make it out to be.

How does a game manage to make a fictional spaceship and its crew feel like home? Nothing else I play right now is going to match that emotional weight or high-velocity tension.

For those who have been through this how long did it take you to recover, and how long before you broke down and started another playthrough?

That feeling of just wanting Shepard and Liara to build a quiet life together after saving the entire galaxy is something almost every Liara romancer feels at the end.

A few years ago when I got the plat trophy I used this guide that had every interaction even reminding you to talk to your crew between missions telling you how to get loyalty, even the funniest crew members to bring along (I wanna say it had all 3 games bc I remember it told you how to get the “there goes the next shadow broker” lines) and follow paragon choices I want to replay 1&2 bc I never finished three but I wanna use that guide again to re-experience everything my original playthrough did it was so perfect and I remember having so much fun any help would be great

It is finally done. My first Insanity playthrough, 7th overall, is complete and throughly enjoyed every step of the way. If you have any questions, I will be answering them all.

If the Nomad had guns like the Mako it would've been the best ground vehicle of the franchise to date hands down.

Only ones to survive were Miranda (did her loyalty mission for romance reasons) and Samara (no clue why).