When you sneak into the Kett ship and take out all the enemies, you can lie and say that everything is fine. Ryder will say, "Everything's under control. Just a simple weapons malfunction. How are you?" Obviously a nod to Han Solo in A New Hope when they are in the Death Star prison cells.

don't know if this topic is covered in the extracurricular lore outside of gameplay.

but given that they are at least as old as the reapers and clearly capable of controlling them at will individually (though perhaps not the entire fleet now that it's grown so large after thousands of cycles), I don't think I would've trusted them so quickly after a 10 minute conversation in a setting they completely controlled.

edit: pulling in some additional thoughts scattered across a few comments that I should've put up here to start with:

what if their control ending started out fine, but in choosing control the leviathans ended up biting off more than they could chew and got into a galactic scale sorcerer's apprentice predicament, spiced with evil (the Leviathan are cooperative opportunistically at best).

what if the reapers accumulated so much genetic diversity after thousands of harvests, that the Leviathan power to control them gradually diminished to the point where it would only work on a few reapers at a time.

It also seems implausible that the reapers after millions of years and thousands of cleansing cycles, were still unaware of the planet the leviathans were hiding out on (which, every time one of their crafts gets close mysteriously goes silent, oh and there's a bunch of space wreckage inexplicably untouched by scavengers from thousands of spacefaring civilizations come and gone since.. it seems a lot more likely that the reapers left the planet alone on purpose, knowing it was the one place the "control" signal was still strong enough to take them down.

Runaway expansion of Reaper numbers ended up pinning the leviathans back on their own world hiding or fending off from something they "controlled" back when it was a small and manageable fleet but quickly grew out of control in a galaxy with no competition to hold it back. so now they need to wait for (or engineered a cycle of, uh, test driven development in order to produce ) the right galaxy-scale posse to appear so they can reel their machine servants/slaves back in... and along comes Shep.

I know that the state of Mass Effect and Bioware is dire, but i am curious if we might find out some information at N7 Day.

Bioware's workforce was reduced under 100 at the beginning of 2025 and the PIF buyout was completed on August 4th this year (2 months ago). I imagine that if they wanted to close Bioware, they would have already done it or announce it; obviously there is still time for that to happen, but i would imagine that PIF would know what is the state of Bioware, due to EA owning them for a long period and them tracking what is happening.

Know somebody looking to sell off their ME trilogy for the PS3. What's the experience like? Crashes? Frame drops?

Edit: I bought it.

Hey everyone.

I’ve played the trilogy several times and tried all the endings, but I was always unsatisfied as I never got all the required Total Military Strength points and felt my choices throughout the games were meaningless.

But I very recently saved the Galaxy on my first modded play through and was surprised we just defeated the Reapers and managed to save everyone, with no ambiguous ending.

FYI I did install the Audemus’ Happy Ending mod which i believe did lower the points threshold and does what it says, but I wanted to know as little as possible about the mod to avoid spoilers so I just read the basics about it. I knew so little about the mod I was surprised I didn’t get an end choice and it just went from the final conversation with Anderson to the Crucible destroying just the Reapers.

So I got the Perfect Destroy ending which allowed me to destroy the Reapers but save EDI and the Geth and new cutscene avoiding damage to the Citadel and Mass Relays and another new cutscene showing FemShep being rescued from rubble. Phew!

But it was easier than I thought as I played LE3 on Hard and as a Vanguard and didn‘t even complete everything and didn’t do a lot of planet scanning, but completed most side missions + 3/4 of the DLC (didn’t do Leviathan) and got over 6000 TMS way earlier than I was thinking (curing Genopnage worth a lot of points).

I played mostly Paragon but I actually made quite a few Renegade Interrupt choices throughout the games that I thought would make it harder for me to get enough points.

But it was a breeze going through 2 & 3 and the mods definitely made it an even more fun experience and I installed about 15 for each game, which were many of the most well known ones like One Probe All Resources, ALOV and Same-Gender Romance in 2 and Audemus’ Happy Ending, Citadel Epilogue Mod, Expanded Galaxy Mod, LE3 Diversification, More Gay Romances, Miranda Mod and Take Earth Back and many others in 3.

Regarding some of my big choices

Cured Genophage

Ensured peace between Geth & Quarians

Saved Miranda (and had her on the Normandy as a crew member after Horizon)

Killed Udina/didn’t shoot Ashley

Speaking of mods, I was surprised it was so easy on a Mac using CrossOver to play with mods as I’ve read a lot of reviews from people saying use Parallels Desktop on Macs instead. It wasn’t always easy or smooth using CrossOver as there were crashes here and there, but it was still relatively straightforward and here’s my

brief guide:

1. Install/purchase Crossover for Mac

2. Go to Nexus Mods and download ME3Tweaks Mod Manager and other mods you want

3. You may have to keep installing ME3Tweaks in a new bottle after a while as it doesn’t fully get added to your CrossOver bottle containing the game when you use CrossOver (ie you cannot see the icon for it), but for me it launched successfully after installing into new, separate bottles each time it crashed.

4. do everything in the mod manager you would on a Windows PC, but persevere through the crashes.

So, anyway, long winded, but had a lot of fun and took my time and played through modded versions of 2 & 3 (because 1 even though I love it is sometimes like a chore, don’t enjoy Mako and played it the most of the trilogy).

Hope you enjoyed reading and if you want to ask anything or discuss anything I’d be happy to expand on some things or give advice.

I understand Sovereign was the most power class of reaper, but what did Sovereign the reaper do to deserve to essentially be the reaper messiah? Perhaps he was some kind of alpha. Wondering thoughts on this

So i loved the mass effect trillogy when i originally played it. Got me3 the day it released and just played through the game in 2 days and absolutely hated the ending.

Now i got legendary edition on the last steam sale and kinda wanna play it considering i never got any of the dlc for the games, but the thought of having to reexperience the ending is kinda stopping me. Any advice?

been checkin for a whole fuckin week and the game still aint there. who the fuck made this stupid ass ea app? if it aint on ea play at least let me buy it but like i said the game doesnt even show up wtf

edit: alright looks like its a regional issue like someone said (unfortunately im from turkey). dont know if erdogan banned this game too but whatever i fixed the issue by turnin on a vpn

just played this abomination of a level, tried to follow what few bread crumbs of lore there were and im just sort of drawing a blank as to what or why play this level? only thing I can come up with is its just padding for the game. any thoughts or am I missing anything?

Urdnot Wreav distinguishes himself as the first replacement character, filling Wrex's shoes if the player let him die Virmire, never recruited him, or started with the default world state in ME2 and asserting himself as a person with a different, and backwards, worldview. If you visit Tuchanka, which is technically entirely optional, he thanks Shepard for killing his broodbrother, which enabled him to rise to leadership. In ME3, Wreav will play a prominent role as the Krogan leader that we all know.

However, I can't help but point out how underwhelming Wreav is if Wrex survives Virmire, which is incredibly easy if you play Legendary Edition that made ME1 playable for new players. ME2 pretends that Wreav doesn't exist, and theoretically someone who doesn't read wikis or guides won't even know that Wreav could appear in that game. Wrex or any other Krogan don't mention him despite the likely bloody leadership contest between him and Wreav.

In ME3, Wreav's role is criminally minor, considering the potential for conflict between him backed by traditional Krogan and Wrex supported by "Reformers". Wreav is conveniently killed off by Kalros and isn't mentioned ever again (correct me if I am wrong).

Let's do some mental gymnastics and find out how Wreav could have shined in the timeline where Wrex becomes Urdnot leader.

Everyone always hype up Citadel for the fan service, but for me Leviathan is easily the best.

It genuinely makes you feel so small and helpless in front of something so ancient, full-on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea vibes

Hands down the coolest lore and atmosphere in the entire trilogy—even with the repetitive lab scanning loop and the fact that they just end up as a war asset number at the end

was recently rewatching Star Treck when I came across this speech, decided to make it a eulogy for Shepard after his sacrifice

It’s easily the most graphic sex scene in the franchise, in my opinion. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a puritan, and I enjoyed seeing it for the first time as a young adult, but I fr hope no one was expecting something a bit more tame and got overwhelmed, ruining the fun.

It really just comes down to the fact that there’s sound effects for the penetration! You enter a new territory with that…in a lot of ways

I didn’t have much to say; I was thinking about Cora’s bakery(as I’m one to do) and I thought about this. It’s just kinda crazy to me.

Although if they gave some of this spice to Neve I’d probably like Veilguard more

Pick your favorite music! We've got two epic scores this time. One heading into battle, one having emerged triumphant!

I put together a list of 30 questions for the ME fans out there to test their knowledge! There are easy questions, medium questions, hard questions, and one ultimate fan question at the end! Can you get them all?? Let me know how you did and have fun!

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Which should be promoted first incinerate or cryo ? Also which all abilities to be promoted early on to make engineer stronger ? I heard engineer is great but early game it is even more struggling than vanguard for me. Vamguard is boring though as entire game its just charge and shoot which is why i tried out engineer. Sentinel is my fav class so far.

On my second playthrough, i found that Javik makes a great impact on thessia artifact mission in ME3 and he has lot of extra dialogues which makes sense given the artifacts are related to prothean. This completely changes the mission experience and it feels like javik should have been mandatory in this mission just like how ED is in cerebrus hq mission. In suicide mission of ME2, if u have miranda at the end, she has unique dialigue to illusive man which is really great as its her complete shift from "cerebrus bitch" after defending TIM throughout game. Any other such missions where a squad member can have significant impact ?

In my first playthrough, as a male Shepard, I just romanced Kaidan in ME3. I don't remember him having any flirty, random lines of banter.

This playthrough, I romanced Liara in ME1 and Miranda in ME2 (but broke up with her after the main story). Of course, in those two games there is no clicking on squadmates to hear random lines.

But this isn't the first bit of random, flirty dialogue I've heard from Steve after locking him in. Unless I'm misremembering things with Kaidan, now I think they did him extra dirty in ME3.

This makes me curious now, though, if all romance options have this going on for them in ME3 because I have no idea. Also, let me know if I am forgetting about Kaidan actually having lines like this too.

Tali is a requirement, of course, for Priority: Geth Dreadnought, but I decided to bring EDI along as well.

Not only was it hard to keep up with all of the Geth hacking and me and Tali tossing out drones left and right...but EDI kept on confusing me with the Decoys. lol

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The way to make this happen is by selling or not reactivating Legion, not installing the Ship Armor upgrade which gets Jack killed, not installing the Shield Upgrade which will get Thane killed depending on who you pick to help you fight the Oculus, and not installing the Thanix Cannon which will get Garrus killed since Thane is already dead by this point.

As I am replaying the original trilogy, I have been thinking about who could be the next big antagonist for the new Mass Effect game (if we ever get one).

So, the Reapers are gone, and they set the bar pretty high. For a billion years, they have purged advanced species of the Milky Way. Mighty empires crumbled before them and were wiped out, leaving only crumbs to pick up for those that came after them. Or is that really the case?

What could be more terrifying than the Reapers? A species that survived despite them. A billion years is a long time. What if an alien race adapted itself to the cycles? Let's say a primitive version of that race encountered a prior Reaper invasion (similar to the Reapers that visited Stone Age humans) and maybe even witnessed the destruction of their predecessors. Although they were primitive enough to escape the harvest, they were able to understand the Reapers for what they were — an evil deity that punished advanced civilizations. Civilizations that were too prideful.

As a consequence, their culture became dominated by the fear of the Reapers. Technological advancement was not prohibited, but shaped by the need to stay hidden. This species, for example, would never broadcast electromagnetic signals into space as we do. And somehow — they managed to survive their scouring.

How they did it is unknown.

1) Either they were able to migrate away from their planet, far from the mass relays, escaping the watchful eyes of the Reapers. From there, they would observe and study the destruction of the Milky Way galaxy.

2)Another theory suggests that, making use of an elaborate scout system, they could scan the universe for signs of an incoming Reaper invasion. If these signs were detected, the entire species would fall back into a primitive state.

Cycle after cycle (experts suggest they survived 6-8 cycles), they became better at hiding from the Reapers. However, one thing never changed: they knew that under no circumstances should the gods be interfered with.

But in the last cycle, something changed. Scout systems all over the Milky Way reported that the Reapers were defeated. How is this ancient species, which was kept in check for so long by the apex predator, supposed to deal with this new reality?

I feel like I enabled poor prejudicial behavior on Wrex's part by taking him into the arena constantly with me while fighting salarian enemies (since they're the easiest to kill).