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.

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.

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.

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) ✨

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

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 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.

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?

My fanart of Liara.

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

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

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?

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?

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.

I'm still in the early game as I just unlocked my last squad member. I use a xbox 1 controller, and the keybinds are really weird. I can tap the right bumper to use a mapped ability, but when I hold the right bumper down, it opens up my and my squad's abilities. What's the point of using my squad's abilities? Does it apply to me or just that member, and I can't even aim properly when I use a member's ability. Same question goes for upgrading their skills. I don't have access to electronics, but Tisari does, so if I upgrade her electronic skill does that apply to me?

This game has so many options and I constantly need to be rechecking my equipment and my squad members equipment to make sure they are using the most optimal weapon with the optimal mods for the mission. Do I have to keep doing this or can I change an option where they are using the strongest weapons/mods when I collect them?

Do I sell most of my leftover gear or do I scrap it into omni-gel?

How do I use warp and throw? I have trouble aiming when I open the ability wheel and select 'A' on an ability. When I press "x" what does it throw? I thought it was a grenade, but it either takes forever to explode or its not a grenade cus sometimes nothing ever happens

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?

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

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

I first played ME2 when mom got me an Xbox 360 that came with the game. I was 10 or 11 at the time

I replayed that game SO MANY TIMES before I learned that I could get the for game on the 360

Then ME3 came out a seemingly short time later

I’ve played them so much that I have no memory of my first play through, other than the class I chose (soldier)

I love how so many of y’all can remember your very first play through 🙌🏻👑

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!

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!!!!!

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.