My biggest complain for the Council is not their ‘passive’ approach to the Reaper issue, but the fact it doesn’t really matter whether you saved them or not. Citadel Council is mostly irrelevant in the plot of Mass Effect 2. Thus the arguably most important choice from Mass Effect 1 is rendered moot. Unless Mass Effect 3 rectifies that I’ll be severely disappointed. Then again it’s pretty obvious Mass Effect 3 will resolve around ‘Gondor Calls for Aid’, so we might still see Ascension kicking major ass.On the topic of the Citadel Council members... I'll admit, I'm just as frustrated as any other fan out there about this disbelieving behavior as it concerned/concerns the Reapers.
That’s the other matter that bugs me. We’ve got this epic battle and we went for the sacrifice option. Total human losses? 8 Cruisers, conveniently listed in one of my screenshots above, not even 1000 personnel dead. Shouldn’t it be significantly more?I figured that keeping that big ship around might've been strategically worth throwing a few smaller Alliance ships to protect it.
I was thinking more along the lines of technical capability. The Quarians are shown to be one of the most tech savvy species in the galaxy. Give them a place to stay and a decent budget with a goal that consists of "Find ways to kill Geth....and everything else really"
When it comes to Quarians in the Alliance, I kinda felt that we wouldn't really see a visual influence from them. I mean, they've had to make due with whatever ships and tech they can acquire for centuries. Would they really still have a visual style (other than what we see in the containment suits) by that point? But that also doesn't mean that you won't notice Quarian influence on a ship. The ship systems would probably end up more efficient and easier to repair. Plus, many Quarians would likely end up as ship engineers.
Vanguard always seemed a strange class for me due to its Charge ability. Unless enemies are very spread out or it’s just few of them are left Charging into combat is a suicide. When enemies are spread out or not numerous you don’t need Charge anyway, so all in all it seems kind of pointless. Or it could be because I never learned to use Charge properly. :D (Above assumes Insanity difficulty.)So what's everyone's favorite class?
I like Vanguard and Infiltrator myself.
Very interesting ideas there, especially with the mini-relay. If a ship could have its own mini-relay... well, possibilities are endless.I actually pulled the super-dreadnought idea from an ME AU plot bunny I had back in April. But that baby would've also had the MHW-style weapons rather than MACs. Also, feasibility studies of figuring out if it's possible to place a mini-relay into the ship so it can be its unit's own mass relay. But nothing was expected from the project until at least the 2190s.
I enjoy finding cooler/more powerful ways to blow stuff up. Like having spinal MHW fore and aft on dreadnoughts, because no one expects to take a spinal round to the face when you're behind a dreadnought.... I'm still utterly blown away that you've thought of this concept. Truly, I can only imagine just how galaxy breaking this would be for the Mass Effect Universe is humanity actually invented this, and kept the information secret. The other races would be screwed on a level they wouldn't even be able to comprehend.
I point you to the ME wiki's Mass Relay entry. The gist is that mass relay travel is instantaneous travel between two relays. Using FTL, crossing that same distance could take years or decades. As a result, I don't think races generally sent ships out to locate and explore star clusters using FTL instead of relays. Exploring systems within a cluster, sure. But not travel from one cluster to another. And Council space explorers never opened a primary relay without knowing exactly where the other end of it was (primary relays are a pair - each relay only goes to the other part of the pair) due to the rachni war. Charon Relay is probably a primary relay. It leads to Arcturus, which has three other mass relays in addition to the other part of the pair.And you have to wonder if humanity was REALLY all that far out of their view in that case. I mean, look at the galaxy map in ME2. The Local Cluster where we're located isn't too far out (by Mass Relay standards) from Tuchanka. Surely someone would've noticed the sentient race evolved from primates beginning to tinker around with the idea of rockets. Then again... I suppose the only Mass Relay into our system was currently acting as Pluto's moon... so I suppose us being hidden away from the rest of the galaxy wouldn't be too far fetched.
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