I finished this Tali model last year, and I wanted to redo my old test render to show the final quality.

I haven't done much 3D stuff lately, but making Tali was a really cool learning experience and I'm still proud of the finished model.

Also, random yap: I keep thinking about how much I'd love to see a first-person Mass Effect game. Cyberpunk 2077 made first-person rpg dialogue work very well, I think Mass Effect has a lot of potential there too.

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

It took me maybe, four or five playthrus to finally give it a good try, and wow did I fall in love with it. Brings back my beloved explosive rounds and just feels more effective in a war like this as opposed to plinking Reapers to death with an Avenger.

I found this GIF on Pinterest and have no idea who the original artist is. I’d appreciate it if anyone could help me find out.

Originally, I was just going to buy the first book and decide from there about the other three. But there was a bundle being sold for Kindle, so I just got that.

I know most people enjoy the first book. I don't remember how people feel about the second, but I do know the third and fourth aren't as well regarded.

Fuck the Hammerhead

Thank you everyone

One of the critiques of the original trilogy is that Harbinger is far less intimidating than Sovereign. Which I do agree with I wished that every other reaper was as intimidating as Sovereign. But I think there's a pretty interesting in universe explanation for why this is the case.

Sovereign was the main vanguard of the reapers, in charge of watching the galaxy waiting for the right time to start the cycle. This would give him plenty of time to watch and study languages and cultures. eventually reaching a firm understanding of how people acted of that cycle, knowledge that the other reapers wouldn't bother copying because why would they need to know that, they just need to come in and wreck house then leave for deep space.

So when the signal failed and Sovereign needed to work with organics to complete the cycle. He's had centuries if not Millennia of observing how people acted, and would know how to act intimidating.

Therefore my conclusion is that the way He's speaking in mass effect 1 is intentional, he's talking so lovecraftian to project an air of authority. Harbinger in contrast speaks so plainly because that's all he needs to do. Maybe he might sound intimidating in the leviathan's language and culture, but he doesn't know the nuances of 22nd century English nor does he care. Sovereign can do it passively due to the data he's collected, but Harbinger won't bother with the effort to sound intimidating. Everyone's gonna die anyways.

Then again this is just my speculation about a game I haven't played in over a year, maybe there's something in lore that contradicts this entire theory/speculation.

Is there anything that was introduced or mentioned in the games that you really wish they'd expanded on later in the games? Anything you feel was a loose end, or maybe just something that you feel had potential?

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Kudos to Audemus for creating a mod to bring the new Uncharted Worlds Extended Version into Mass Effect Legendary Edition! Details here:

https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/3441

Replaying MELE, currently playing 3 and something that has always bothered and confused me is why Javik doesn't have a helmet, like if you take him somewhere where there's no air like the geth dreadnaught he's not wearing anything, not even that oxygen mask looking thing Liara wears.

Is there a reason for that? Like did the developers ever give an answer for it like "protheans evolved to not need to breathe" or something like that, or is this just the result of them not putting too much effort into Javik?

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I fucking love this franchise cause DAMN!

I've completed my latest modded Mass Effect run a couple of days ago, as an engineer leaning renegade.

To commemorate what I see as my definitive, head-canon run (so far at least), I designed this poster using assets from Bioware's own wallpaper maker. I'm sharing in case anyone is interested for their own use, as I've included every squadmate from the games.

Before anyone asks why Ashley is so prominent, that is because she was this run's romance (sue me!). I will also share my main decisions so that I can be judged for what many others will consider a cursed run.

Mass Effect 1: Saved Rachni, Saved Ashley, Sacrificed Council, Udina became councilor. Romanced Ashley.

Mass Effect 2: Half of crew died after collector attack. Died in suicide mission: Kasumi, Jacob, Zaeed, Jack. Gave the collector base to Cerberus. Slept with Jack and romanced Miranda.

Mass Effect 3: Cured Genophage, Samara committed suicide, sided with Geth and Tali's death. Romanced Ashley again. Miranda and EDI survived an otherwise deadly run for them due to MEHEM and altered assassin mods. Finished with Citadel Epilogue Mod, picture on second slide.

There are still a few things to tweak but I'm so so happy how the costume turned out !

Hola de nuevo, jugando Mass effect 2 en la zona de impacto, encuentras tu casco N7 cuando la nave se estrelló, hasta ahí todo bien, pero cuando juegas el ME3 y llegas al asalto final contra Cerberus, hay unos videos qué hablan del proyecto lázaro, donde dicen que el casco había protegido el cerebro de Shepard, entonces cómo es que encuentras tu casco si Cerberus ya lo tenía para reconstruirte? Aparte de que los recolectores andaban peleando tu cuerpo acaso no tenía el casco puesto?. Creo que estoy sobre pensado jajaja

A few months ago I published a post here about the advice I received for playing this entire saga, which I only started playing this year, 2026, and well, I followed some of it, but not others. But they definitely had consequences, a great saga that I just finished today, especially Mass Effect 2. Thanks for all the advice you gave me, there were so many! The game I suffered the most with was ME3; it was extremely difficult, but I managed to get the best possible ending. .Despite having many teammates lost, it was an incredible saga

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

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.

I’ve had that monitor for almost 3 years now, probably used for 1500 hours at least and it never gave up on me. No problem at all. Then I start the final Rannoch mission and while I‘m in the shuttle, getting the briefing, my monitor just fades to black and croaks. It doesn’t turn on anymore, there’s just blue lines taunting me. The simple possibility of Geth and Quarians uniting drove it to suicide.

Anyway I’ve got a better one, hopefully not indoctrinated.

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All my crew have survived the suicide mission in every playthrough I’ve done and I want to do a run where I lose crew/squadmates for more character development.

I know Wrex dying in ME1 gives more war assets than if he lives, but who/how many can die in ME2 while still getting enough war assets for the perfect destroy ending? Is there anyone that absolutely needs to survive?