I'll be honest, I never understood why everyone complained about the Mako. Its offroad performance is fantastic because it can vary its effective mass and ascend near-vertical slopes. I sadly lost it, but way back in the day, I wrote a mini-strategy guide on how to get the most out of the Mako. How to zig-zag up any mountain, how to follow ridgelines and use them as jumping-off points to reach basically any location, et cetera. I had no problems with it at all. As a matter of fact, each of the 10 or so times I've played the first game, I hundred-percented all the debris, anomalies, and survey sites. The Mako was my baby.
Interesting fact. After the destruction of the SSV Normandy SR1, the main crash cite was in ruins and in the middle was the mako. The only apparent damage being a flat tire
@@phantomwraith1984 ...I enjoyed driving the mako around. The hammerhead was an exercise in rage and frustration... Though that Might have been just level design in the section of the main game of ME2 it shows up in. Perhaps it was better in more reasonable environments...
Having had to redo a Firewalker mission 3 times (despite having successfully completing it the first time and then dying to a glitch in the cutscene at the end and then getting killed over and over because of the crappy armour) I am firmly team Mako
@@laurencefraser I honestly loved the Hammerhead and enjoyed using it far more than the Mako. Sure the Hammerhead can't take hits, but it's incredibly maneuverable and has great health regeneration. My only issue is that we never got to explore planets with it. I was genuinely surprised to learn people didn't like it.
@@jbz4788 You cannot use the Hammerhead the same way you use the Mako. You have to keep moving around and out maneuver enemies in combat rather than just tank the hits.
Fun fact: the _Lair of the Shadow Broker_ DLC has a car chase, and after it's done Liara will say "Still better than the Mako", meaning that Shepard's godawful driving is canon.
@@phantomwraith1984 Judging by his ability to slam down drinks with no ill effects, it's possible that Shepherd spent the entirety of all three games heavily drunk. As it turns out, when Shepherd said he could shoot better drunk, he was somehow right.
@@olefredrikskjegstad5972 And you're immediately good to go as soon as you wake up, even after three shots of the strongest liquor, plus something made for *Krogans.*
Ah, yes, the mako, the IFV that could defy gravity. We have dismissed that rumor. TBH I love that the point of the Mako is to just get throw towards a planet and hope it lands.
To me it was the logical progression of tech in the game. Reduce mass to make landing softer, use jump jets, or to unditch yourself. Increase it in low gravity or when you need traction. Playing with the settings should allow great mobility.
Speaking of cannon shot... I was like on my third playthrough of the first game before I realized it had a fucking cannon and machine gun.. I was always using the machine gun, after I would take down a geth Colossus..I was like damn this thing is underpowered. Takes forever to kill those things...
Takes a bit of practice but once you get the hang of it you can make it pull turns an F1 racer would be proud of. One of my favorite unofficial games was what I liked to call "thresher tag". Basically get as close to a thresher maw as you can without dying
I remember driving one in the Second Mindoir Armored Brigade. I think we destroyed more batarian vehicles with this thing than any other vessel. Felt like this thing could defy gravity with its core though, but we took hits that would've destroyed an asari hovertank. Am proud to have served in one. REMEMBER MINDOIR
You think that’s Alliance SOP for encountering a Collosi? *at the training grounds, with cadet and a trainer in the Mako* “Okay, we’ve covered driving, advanced driving, jumping, shooting, extreme terrain. Now we’re going to do tactics, specifically for a Geth Colossus.” “Wouldn’t we be just be shooting from a distance?” “True, you can, but without cover for your Mako, this will be slow since you’re going to be ducking in and out of cover, and killing it with bug bites. No, SOP for these bastards will be to ram the shit out of them and shoot them while their down. Their gyroscopes will be knocked out by the concussion, giving you time to shoot some shots off without putting yourself in danger.” “Oh nice... when will we learn about Thresher Maws boss?” “Uhmmm...” *PTSD triggered*
@@Akredi Oh in game they’re easy. In the lore, whole squads were wiped out by them and only few have survived an encounter with them. If you take the “Only Survivor” back story, one of your previous drops landed you and your squad in the middle of a nest of them, with only you surviving.
I loved it as well... Though it was possible to load a sniper rifle up with HE rounds and rail extensions such that it had greater range, accuracy, And Firepower than the Mako's main gun, so the way to deal with some particularly tough enemies ended up being "hop out, snipe them, get back in the mako before they shoot back, because it can actually get out of the blast radius if the return fire (and survive if it doesn't), repeat. (The same mods to a shotgun, incidentally, resulted in a weapon that overheated in one shot, but would knock back, and down, an entire room such that it would take them longer to recover than it took the gun to cool, while taking out their shields and much of their health. The second shot would put down anything that wasn't in cover for the first one, for good. Anything that Was in cover probably died from the first shot when their cover crushed them against the floor or wall. If not, the third shot was the end of them. Usually from the doorway.)
The Mako is fastest species of shark on record speeding through the water in ways that can appear to defy gravity. The namesake is fitting that something that actually defies gravity and is just as unruly.
I’m sure you guys can all remember Legion’s rare shock at how Garrus defied Legion’s calculations with regards to Calibrations. Now imagine how the Geth felt when they saw the Mako in action.
SAN:So we built carriers but we need a AFV. US Military: I’m thinking Bradley. SAN: No, no it has to be Comfor... US Military: With a 155mm Cannon SAN: We just want a Reconnaissance Vehic.... US Military: and Rocket launchers Top SAN military brass: This is the way SAN: Oh Gawd.
It was a beast to control, but when you got it right, it was a beast of vehicle. Especially its dodging capabilities for unguided projectiles. Good firepower and you can WWE slam infantry for fun. I learned to really like Mako, kinda missed in future games.
Oh ye Gods, the Mako. You could charge right into half the fucking Geth army and annihilate them all in spectacular fashion. You could climb straight up mountains and (With its horizontal boost upgrade in Legendary Edition) go fast enough to turn the Mako into a six-wheeled projectile of death capable of punching through the armor of a goddamn dreadnought. You could bring down fucking dropships and gunships with its main gun given you shoot them enough. And the thing could self repair at a moment's notice whenever the hell you wanted it to. Oh, whats that, want to charge through the Geth equivalent of an armored division to reach the Conduit, and then catapult yourself into the Citadel because Saren needs an Omni-Blade shoved up his ass ASAP? The Hammerhead would shit itself and then proceed to sob in a corner in the fetal position at the mere thought of doing something as ass-rippingly badass as that. For the Mako? No problem. Hell, even thinking about how much of a nightmare the Mako was to its enemies makes the Hammerhead weep in pure shame, knowing it could never reach even a fraction of the glory the Mako had. Hail to the Mako, Chariot of the Shepard, God of Tanks.
Remember using this vehicle back in 07 when the game first came out. Didn't really pay much attention to the tooltips and such and went through my entire first playthrough using only the machinegun rather than the cannon, didn't matter what it was even Thresher Maws died to thousand cuts. Loved the damn thing just exploring worlds and climbing up the steepest cliffs for shits and giggles.
@@JunkPhuJP Not really that long outside of it diving under the ground and popping back up, but its fun to just sit there bunny hopping over its attacks while just unleashing the MG
What I love so much about the M35-MAKO is that it could realistically exist. With the exception of the EZO Core of course. The hydrogen fuel cell could theoretically be used as both a source of power generation for the electric drive system (utilizing atmospheric oxygen for the fuel cell when on planet) and if it carries a contingent supply of Liquid O2 (LOX) you have yourself some rocket fuel to power some standard rocket engines for atmospheric re-entry and to sustain power generation . It could also carry some binary hypergolic propellant in the form of fuel as (Dimethylhydrazine) and the oxidizer (Nitrogen Tetroxide) which auto ignite in each other’s presence to provide boost.
While most vehicle manufacturers struggled to create the perfect "all-terrain" vehicle, the Mako solved this problem by simply removing "terrain" from the equation.
To be honest. This thing was sooo much fun to bounce around in XD Even with it Jelly Suspension and the controls of a Drunken Dump Truck it saved my clueless blundering self in quite a few outdoor combat situations :) It was much more fun than that hovering vehicle.
My one big critique is that the weapons felt underwhelming. they need either more output or endurance. I was able to wrangle its controls, but shooting things until they dropped was a bit of a slog at times.
The Hammerhead can't possibly hope to clean Mako's suspension systems - I'll take the somewhat unwieldy Mako over the wet tissue paper hover"tank" any day of the week.
The lack of weapons on the Nomad is a crime; and I say that as someone who's absolutely fine with the Tempest being unarmed. The Nomad is designed for exploring hostile environments. At the very least it should be able to deal with angry wildlife.
Ah, the Mako. She and I have gone through many skirmishes together. I would give up everything for one more ride with that shitty old APC. **reminisces in Zaeed**
I love how you turn the crazy handling and propensity for user error into variable gravity and a steep learning curve. X) Love the canonization of those memorable bits into proper-sounding lore.
Mako upside down like a turtle in a jagged valley on a planet that eats your space suit in 2 minutes with the Geth shooting at you. Mako Driver: "Its fin'e. We're fine. Happens all the time. It's fine."
The Mako seems to draw design cues from multiple real-world sources. *One may be the 20th century Russian BTR-series of APCs, especially in the turret, body shape and side entry door areas (even though they aren't used in the game, they are visible.) *Another might be the 6x6 variants of the MOWAG Piranha. *Director/Producer Casey Hudson has remarked that the Big Trak toy inspired certain elements of the Mako's design.
Surprisingly good vehicle design and actually very realistic. In future outer planetary warfare, tracked vehicles would almost be not needed in future warfare where they would prove to be too slow and large amounts of armor would be pointless by more powerful guns and weapons. Speed, versatility, utility, and operating in multiple environments, would be more important than anything else. The M35 is a viable and makes sense as an idea.
When you realize this thing is basically a more futuristic Bradley. The mako sexually identifies as everything from a tank to an apc to an all terrain vehicle. Makes sense considering humanity in this universe are near perpetually outgunned and outnumbered.
With the firepower of a tank and an armor of a true armored personnel carrier.... and it handles like a drunk rhino who ate an entire field of wine berries.
Am I the only one who is a surgeon on this vehicle?. Because everyone I read or speak says this vehicle has horrible controls. Yet somehow I know how to drive this vehicle with enough precision to literally bounce from enemy to enemy and avoiding obstacles.
@@monaduran4504 For me by not moving the turret around and just focus forward. The only time that I move it is when I decided to snipe them in a stationary position or fighting thresher maws.
@@dariustiapula oh OK that's a good advice, though I don't think I can keep rely on that since I go into " move in unpredictable movements" mode, especially in chaotic moments or a huge mob of enemies.
I once played a 2d space shooter game with newton like physics with inertia. I understand Newton pretty well, and developed a feel for the controls within minutes. Yet, the handling of spacecraft was seen by many as somewhat clunky and hard. If the game wiki needs to state Newton's second law to explain the controls to noobs, it can be seen as too hard. Those who understand Newton, and can form a feel for the game based on that love it.
I like the Mako, but I absolutely do not believe that three grown adults can fit without all three having to lay down practically on top of each other.
Look in the midsection that’s where the passengers sit, Driver sits just forward of the “troop bay”.. 4-Humans can fit not comfortably but its pretty much like sitting in a any IFV.. No extra anything & your helmet is going to keep you from getting a concussion when the mako hits a bump. Now I can’t imagine how a Turian let alone a Krogan going to fit being both bigger & not as “flexible”.
The SR1 Normandy has the same problem, only way, Way more so, because you actually get interior and shots of it. It's smaller on the outside. This is really just a case of "(probably-not-actually-the-)writers have no sense of scale".
Love it or hate it, you can't help but admit that the Mako was an iconic vehicle built to last a very long time. (Incidentally, I think I might have placed this in the ideas section right after the Systems Alliance Navy video was posted...) Anyway, I'll just wait for the video on the Normandy...
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Make Mountain Climbing Team, sound off like you don't care about gravity.
Gravity be damned. I'm driving up that near 90 degree slope and no one can stop me.
Haha rocket boosters go ebrbbrbrbrbrbrbrbr
Gravity is for chumps
"It's like a bull, It can climb, and climb for days" James Vega
I'll be honest, I never understood why everyone complained about the Mako. Its offroad performance is fantastic because it can vary its effective mass and ascend near-vertical slopes. I sadly lost it, but way back in the day, I wrote a mini-strategy guide on how to get the most out of the Mako. How to zig-zag up any mountain, how to follow ridgelines and use them as jumping-off points to reach basically any location, et cetera. I had no problems with it at all. As a matter of fact, each of the 10 or so times I've played the first game, I hundred-percented all the debris, anomalies, and survey sites. The Mako was my baby.
The Mako, enemies can't figure out where you're going but neither can you
"The reason the American Army does so well in war is because war is chaos and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis." - apocryphal
Interesting fact. After the destruction of the SSV Normandy SR1, the main crash cite was in ruins and in the middle was the mako. The only apparent damage being a flat tire
Proposition, make the armor of the Alliance ships of Makos.
@@phantomwraith1984 ...I enjoyed driving the mako around. The hammerhead was an exercise in rage and frustration... Though that Might have been just level design in the section of the main game of ME2 it shows up in. Perhaps it was better in more reasonable environments...
Having had to redo a Firewalker mission 3 times (despite having successfully completing it the first time and then dying to a glitch in the cutscene at the end and then getting killed over and over because of the crappy armour) I am firmly team Mako
@@laurencefraser I honestly loved the Hammerhead and enjoyed using it far more than the Mako. Sure the Hammerhead can't take hits, but it's incredibly maneuverable and has great health regeneration. My only issue is that we never got to explore planets with it. I was genuinely surprised to learn people didn't like it.
@@jbz4788 You cannot use the Hammerhead the same way you use the Mako. You have to keep moving around and out maneuver enemies in combat rather than just tank the hits.
Fun fact: the _Lair of the Shadow Broker_ DLC has a car chase, and after it's done Liara will say "Still better than the Mako", meaning that Shepard's godawful driving is canon.
@@phantomwraith1984 Judging by his ability to slam down drinks with no ill effects, it's possible that Shepherd spent the entirety of all three games heavily drunk. As it turns out, when Shepherd said he could shoot better drunk, he was somehow right.
@@bubbasbigblast8563 the fuck do you mean "no ill effects"??? ME 2 and 3 both feature scenes of Shepard blacking out if you make them drink too much.
@@olefredrikskjegstad5972 And you're immediately good to go as soon as you wake up, even after three shots of the strongest liquor, plus something made for *Krogans.*
@@InForTheLonghaul And after Mass Effect 2, that too may be cannon, seeing as Shepard is cyborg at that point
I don't think that that was meant. I took it to mean that for as bad as the ride itself was, it's still better than riding in the Mako.
The M35 Mako IFV, the vehicle so strong that when the ship it was on was destroyed. Somehow survived.
THE SHIP BROKE BEFORE THE MAKO!
The Mako, otherwise known as the gravity defying all purpose vehicle
The only ATV in the galaxy capable of defying whatever laws of physics it desires.
"All terrain" means "ALL terrain". Mountains are a form of terrain.
Well the game is called Mass Effect...
the makos abandoned in the battlefields of a 100 battles would probably still work due to how damn durable they are
Anything that can be shot through a mass relay or be dropped from orbit and survive relatively intact automatically has my undying respect
@@firestorm165 clearly oldschool nintendo and nokia were brought in as consultants on the vehicle design
Ah, yes, the mako, the IFV that could defy gravity. We have dismissed that rumor.
TBH I love that the point of the Mako is to just get throw towards a planet and hope it lands.
To me it was the logical progression of tech in the game. Reduce mass to make landing softer, use jump jets, or to unditch yourself. Increase it in low gravity or when you need traction. Playing with the settings should allow great mobility.
Don't Care If People Hate this Vehicle, This Vehicle was my Guardian Angel in Mass Effect 1
I abused the crap out of the Mako in ME1. Many times a room was cleared by a well placed cannon shot, saving me a lot of work.
Speaking of cannon shot... I was like on my third playthrough of the first game before I realized it had a fucking cannon and machine gun.. I was always using the machine gun, after I would take down a geth Colossus..I was like damn this thing is underpowered. Takes forever to kill those things...
Pro Tip: The Front Is shaped like a wedge, And it can achieve high speeds
Initially I didin't like Mako. Then I got Hammerhead and changed the opinion of the former.
Takes a bit of practice but once you get the hang of it you can make it pull turns an F1 racer would be proud of. One of my favorite unofficial games was what I liked to call "thresher tag". Basically get as close to a thresher maw as you can without dying
I remember driving one in the Second Mindoir Armored Brigade. I think we destroyed more batarian vehicles with this thing than any other vessel. Felt like this thing could defy gravity with its core though, but we took hits that would've destroyed an asari hovertank. Am proud to have served in one. REMEMBER MINDOIR
Ah the Mako. The mountains you'll climb, no matter the gradient. You'll climb, you'll shoot, but most importantly, you'll ram the Geth to oblivion.
If you aren't ramming the Geth Collosi on Virmire to ragdoll and then shoot them, I don't know what the fuck you are doing with your life.
You think that’s Alliance SOP for encountering a Collosi?
*at the training grounds, with cadet and a trainer in the Mako* “Okay, we’ve covered driving, advanced driving, jumping, shooting, extreme terrain. Now we’re going to do tactics, specifically for a Geth Colossus.”
“Wouldn’t we be just be shooting from a distance?”
“True, you can, but without cover for your Mako, this will be slow since you’re going to be ducking in and out of cover, and killing it with bug bites. No, SOP for these bastards will be to ram the shit out of them and shoot them while their down. Their gyroscopes will be knocked out by the concussion, giving you time to shoot some shots off without putting yourself in danger.”
“Oh nice... when will we learn about Thresher Maws boss?”
“Uhmmm...” *PTSD triggered*
@@JunkPhuJP "Thresher Maws ? Just drive around them at full speed just out of reach of their claws and blast them to oblivion with the main gun."
@@Akredi Oh in game they’re easy. In the lore, whole squads were wiped out by them and only few have survived an encounter with them. If you take the “Only Survivor” back story, one of your previous drops landed you and your squad in the middle of a nest of them, with only you surviving.
@@JunkPhuJP Yeah but those squads died fighting them on foot, not in a Mako.
Actual Narration: While the M-35 Mako had a steep learning curve--OH MY GOD HELP ME WE'RE UPSIDE DOWN AND THE GETH ARE SHOOTING AT US!
hehe, exactly. Was going to mark that phrase also : "Criticized for its steep learning curve" wink wink :P.
Doesn't help it did not come with a manual or labels.
I hear a B1 battle droid voice when reading that.
Why are there six pedals if there are only four directions?
Hahahaha
Reminded me of the SNL skit where Will Farrell was a pilot with the call sign “Clown Penis”
"Just them good 'ole boys. Never meanin' no harm..."
Can take the beating of a Baneblade while also deliver a similar killing power, but it handles like a drunk rhino.
XD
It should have that much firepower, but it doesn't feel like it.
The M35 Mako; a superb example of how the bizarre & aberrant tactics of Humanity surprise everyone else by actually working.
Humanity - Orks of the Mass Effect universe. Everything working just because we think it will.
The Mako, the Marmite or vegimite of tanks. You either love it or hate it.
I love it. The ram shoot tactic never gets old.
Hah yeah I felt so smart when I first realised you could knock down Armatures and light them up. Always fealt a bit like bullying though
I figured out another tactic it can be used for. Use the jump jets and just squish things, not very practical but oh so fun.
I loved it as well... Though it was possible to load a sniper rifle up with HE rounds and rail extensions such that it had greater range, accuracy, And Firepower than the Mako's main gun, so the way to deal with some particularly tough enemies ended up being "hop out, snipe them, get back in the mako before they shoot back, because it can actually get out of the blast radius if the return fire (and survive if it doesn't), repeat.
(The same mods to a shotgun, incidentally, resulted in a weapon that overheated in one shot, but would knock back, and down, an entire room such that it would take them longer to recover than it took the gun to cool, while taking out their shields and much of their health. The second shot would put down anything that wasn't in cover for the first one, for good. Anything that Was in cover probably died from the first shot when their cover crushed them against the floor or wall. If not, the third shot was the end of them. Usually from the doorway.)
@@laurencefraser yeah i'd pop out and finish big geth with my guns for the xp. And using the shotty as a grenade laucher was always a blast.
Run and cover was fun. Lava wasn't in the old games
The Mako is fastest species of shark on record speeding through the water in ways that can appear to defy gravity. The namesake is fitting that something that actually defies gravity and is just as unruly.
Just what humanity needed, A wheeled vehicle with jump jet..
*Star Fox's Landmaster:* and I took that personally
@@xxvaltielxx1789 Don’t take it personally, at least your not human, foxman .. That immediately makes you better than humanity. 👍
Well yeah, the designers clearly played Moon Patrol in their formative years too.
"The greatest struggle in human history."
Fighting off the Reapers, or getting a Mako to drive in a straight line?
I’m sure you guys can all remember Legion’s rare shock at how Garrus defied Legion’s calculations with regards to Calibrations. Now imagine how the Geth felt when they saw the Mako in action.
The M35 Mako is as iconic as the Halo warthog imo.
Enemies of the Systems Alliance will fear the might of the Tactical Bunnyhop.
SAN:So we built carriers but we need a AFV.
US Military: I’m thinking Bradley.
SAN: No, no it has to be Comfor...
US Military: With a 155mm Cannon
SAN: We just want a Reconnaissance Vehic....
US Military: and Rocket launchers
Top SAN military brass: This is the way
SAN: Oh Gawd.
That whole movie was a lie.
Spookston has an excellent video talking about it, if you're interested.
@@mumiwhy where?
It was a beast to control, but when you got it right, it was a beast of vehicle. Especially its dodging capabilities for unguided projectiles. Good firepower and you can WWE slam infantry for fun. I learned to really like Mako, kinda missed in future games.
Oh ye Gods, the Mako.
You could charge right into half the fucking Geth army and annihilate them all in spectacular fashion. You could climb straight up mountains and (With its horizontal boost upgrade in Legendary Edition) go fast enough to turn the Mako into a six-wheeled projectile of death capable of punching through the armor of a goddamn dreadnought. You could bring down fucking dropships and gunships with its main gun given you shoot them enough. And the thing could self repair at a moment's notice whenever the hell you wanted it to.
Oh, whats that, want to charge through the Geth equivalent of an armored division to reach the Conduit, and then catapult yourself into the Citadel because Saren needs an Omni-Blade shoved up his ass ASAP? The Hammerhead would shit itself and then proceed to sob in a corner in the fetal position at the mere thought of doing something as ass-rippingly badass as that. For the Mako? No problem. Hell, even thinking about how much of a nightmare the Mako was to its enemies makes the Hammerhead weep in pure shame, knowing it could never reach even a fraction of the glory the Mako had.
Hail to the Mako, Chariot of the Shepard, God of Tanks.
Remember using this vehicle back in 07 when the game first came out. Didn't really pay much attention to the tooltips and such and went through my entire first playthrough using only the machinegun rather than the cannon, didn't matter what it was even Thresher Maws died to thousand cuts. Loved the damn thing just exploring worlds and climbing up the steepest cliffs for shits and giggles.
How long did it take to kill the Maw with just the MG?!?
@@JunkPhuJP Not really that long outside of it diving under the ground and popping back up, but its fun to just sit there bunny hopping over its attacks while just unleashing the MG
She might handle like a drunk rhino, but she's OUR drunk rhino!
If the Alliance used it in theme parks as a roller coaster, it would have a bigger GDP than the Asari republics
I love this jank tank so much. I'm almost done with my current playthrough of Mass Effect 1 and I'm definitely going to miss it.
You forgot to mention that its ability to climb is due to its vertically aligned Mass Effect core.
"Greatest Struggle In Human History" - any Mako Mission
What I love so much about the M35-MAKO is that it could realistically exist. With the exception of the EZO Core of course. The hydrogen fuel cell could theoretically be used as both a source of power generation for the electric drive system (utilizing atmospheric oxygen for the fuel cell when on planet) and if it carries a contingent supply of Liquid O2 (LOX) you have yourself some rocket fuel to power some standard rocket engines for atmospheric re-entry and to sustain power generation . It could also carry some binary hypergolic propellant in the form of fuel as (Dimethylhydrazine) and the oxidizer (Nitrogen Tetroxide) which auto ignite in each other’s presence to provide boost.
While most vehicle manufacturers struggled to create the perfect "all-terrain" vehicle, the Mako solved this problem by simply removing "terrain" from the equation.
FUCK YEAH MORE MASS EFFECT
Love the orange-dark UI
Edit:
"... a triumph over the impossible"
*wipes tear*
To be honest. This thing was sooo much fun to bounce around in XD
Even with it Jelly Suspension and the controls of a Drunken Dump Truck it
saved my clueless blundering self in quite a few outdoor combat situations :)
It was much more fun than that hovering vehicle.
My one big critique is that the weapons felt underwhelming. they need either more output or endurance.
I was able to wrangle its controls, but shooting things until they dropped was a bit of a slog at times.
The Hammerhead can't possibly hope to clean Mako's suspension systems - I'll take the somewhat unwieldy Mako over the wet tissue paper hover"tank" any day of the week.
And how. It is a shitty tank that gets torn apart by small arms fire.
Honestly I wish that we got to see something like a hybrid of the Nomad and the Mako. The Nomad was so much fun to drive around in Andromeda.
The Nomad is a fabulous vehicle
The lack of weapons on the Nomad is a crime; and I say that as someone who's absolutely fine with the Tempest being unarmed.
The Nomad is designed for exploring hostile environments. At the very least it should be able to deal with angry wildlife.
@@cass7448 I mean being able to ram them is an option.
But you'd think the designers would realize that car-fu isn't the best course of action.
I never understood why they went with the nomad over the mako. Everything the nomad can do the mako can do just as well or better
@@firestorm165 Nomad is a civilian jeep, Mako is a military vehicle. Now, they could've *smuggled* Mako, like turians smuggled their fighters...
I really liked the original Mako in ME 1. Way more than the later hammerhead
The Mako, an absolute terror in the battlefield...to which side is the question
That shot of the old mako at the Normandy SR-1 wreck... You're bringing back some old feelings.
The Mako is what would happen if a vehicle got bit by a radioactive spider instead of Peter Parker.
“You ever hear of ‘Evil Knievel’?”
*I never saw Star Wars*
Ahh yes, my favorite BMP/lunar rover hybrid
Love the Mako. I have a signed limited edition lithograph of the artwork at 4:46 framed on my wall.
Ah, the Mako. She and I have gone through many skirmishes together. I would give up everything for one more ride with that shitty old APC. **reminisces in Zaeed**
You forgot to add that this thing was so durable it survived FTL through a mass relay unassisted.
I love how you turn the crazy handling and propensity for user error into variable gravity and a steep learning curve. X) Love the canonization of those memorable bits into proper-sounding lore.
My brother was amazed when I explained to him this thing canonically has a bigger gun than a scorpion tank
Not much of an achievement. All modern MBTs do.
@@bthsr7113 comparing the stats of a scorpion tank to an m1 Abrams makes me laugh more than it should
Mako upside down like a turtle in a jagged valley on a planet that eats your space suit in 2 minutes with the Geth shooting at you.
Mako Driver: "Its fin'e. We're fine. Happens all the time. It's fine."
The mako was certainly interesting to drive. Looking forward to you eventually covering the battlestar. 🖖
Even a bane blade couldn’t stand up to this beast
Warhammer 40k design is sometime both really advanced and really outdated at the same time---
I will pick Meko over Bane blade most of the time.
@@DOSFS So you have chosen death.
*laugh in bane cannon, demolisher cannon, twin Lascannon, double twin heavy bolter*
@@M1lza 3 twin linked heavy bolters 😏 and you forgot the autocannon
Maybe a stormlord could?
Love it. Please do more from the ME universe ❤️
I loved driving this around. ❤️ Great video. Thanks.
Great episode as always, good job. I love the recent focus on the mass effect universe!
The Mako, AKA the "Barftub"
The Mako seems to draw design cues from multiple real-world sources.
*One may be the 20th century Russian BTR-series of APCs, especially in the turret, body shape and side entry door areas (even though they aren't used in the game, they are visible.)
*Another might be the 6x6 variants of the MOWAG Piranha.
*Director/Producer Casey Hudson has remarked that the Big Trak toy inspired certain elements of the Mako's design.
Goddamn I LOVE THIS VEHICLE!
Surprisingly good vehicle design and actually very realistic. In future outer planetary warfare, tracked vehicles would almost be not needed in future warfare where they would prove to be too slow and large amounts of armor would be pointless by more powerful guns and weapons. Speed, versatility, utility, and operating in multiple environments, would be more important than anything else. The M35 is a viable and makes sense as an idea.
One of the most recognizable IFVs of all time.
It's the Wild Wacky Action Bike of infantry vehicles.
This video came out just I finished download the legendary collection. Perfect appetizer.
Wow you guys have come a long way since I last ran into one of your videos (Chimera) good for you! I got some catching up to do it would seem
Still surprises me that this lovable truck has a bigger cannon then the Abrams I drive
The vehicle equivalent of a difficult friend. “Yeah he’s an asshole but he’s our asshole”
True the nerdiest channel ever made, title sealed by this great video about the beloved Mako.
Ah yes, the M-35, replaced by the advanced and agile M-44, arguably worse in every field imaginable, except for cheese
Ah the RC tumbler... Those Procedurally generated worlds never stood a chance!
Who else didnt know that Mass Effect had a cartoon/tv series? 😮
Not a series. It’s a movie called Paragon Lost. Takes place during Mass Effect 2 and has James Vega as the main character.
@@Nidhogg13 oh OK thank you. I will definitely check it out 👍🏿
Me playing ME1 : "uuuhm, physic ?"
Mako : *"We don't do that here"*
When you realize this thing is basically a more futuristic Bradley. The mako sexually identifies as everything from a tank to an apc to an all terrain vehicle. Makes sense considering humanity in this universe are near perpetually outgunned and outnumbered.
Exactly
When I saw the word "mako" I SWEAR I thought this was from Final Fantasy.
Somewhere out there, a fanfic writer is furiously writing about Cloud being infused with the energy of a space tank.
@@CorimKnight Great. Like dealing with Sephiroth following him into Smash Bros isn't enough.
I miss the OG Mako
The Mako is the perfect vehicle there is nothing wrong with it is perfect in every way
An ideal vehicle for driving on the LA Highway system. Talk about road rage!!!
Mass Effect 5: Somehow the Mako returned.
With the firepower of a tank and an armor of a true armored personnel carrier.... and it handles like a drunk rhino who ate an entire field of wine berries.
My God. The Alliance ground forces are basically the VDV.
Am I the only one who is a surgeon on this vehicle?. Because everyone I read or speak says this vehicle has horrible controls. Yet somehow I know how to drive this vehicle with enough precision to literally bounce from enemy to enemy and avoiding obstacles.
I wasn't quite that good, but my experience was certainly closer to yours than to most of those who complain about it.
Dude how?
I used the mako a lot, but could not fully control it, I often get stuck in certain terrains, I crash it a lot.
@@monaduran4504 For me by not moving the turret around and just focus forward. The only time that I move it is when I decided to snipe them in a stationary position or fighting thresher maws.
@@dariustiapula oh OK that's a good advice, though I don't think I can keep rely on that since I go into " move in unpredictable movements" mode, especially in chaotic moments or a huge mob of enemies.
I once played a 2d space shooter game with newton like physics with inertia. I understand Newton pretty well, and developed a feel for the controls within minutes. Yet, the handling of spacecraft was seen by many as somewhat clunky and hard.
If the game wiki needs to state Newton's second law to explain the controls to noobs, it can be seen as too hard. Those who understand Newton, and can form a feel for the game based on that love it.
Loving this Mass Effect content. 👍
To say it handles like a fridge is an insult to those limber appliances.
The design concept reminds me of that of the Bradley armored fighting vehicle.
Interesting fact: The M35 Mako drew inspiration from the Russian BTR-80 APC series.
Absolute peak content
Great vehicle. It's an important part of every thresher maw's balanced diet. lol
I like the Mako, but I absolutely do not believe that three grown adults can fit without all three having to lay down practically on top of each other.
Look in the midsection that’s where the passengers sit, Driver sits just forward of the “troop bay”.. 4-Humans can fit not comfortably but its pretty much like sitting in a any IFV.. No extra anything & your helmet is going to keep you from getting a concussion when the mako hits a bump.
Now I can’t imagine how a Turian let alone a Krogan going to fit being both bigger & not as “flexible”.
Well, this is Mass Effect, pretty much every one is banging each other
@@ravager2-636 Well I give you the krogan, but turians are known for their reach and flexibility.
The SR1 Normandy has the same problem, only way, Way more so, because you actually get interior and shots of it. It's smaller on the outside. This is really just a case of "(probably-not-actually-the-)writers have no sense of scale".
@@laurencefraser Tempest has that problem even worse, since you can climb on top of it. Makes it clear it is made from TARDISium.
Thank you the English subtitle.
The dislikes are from the vehicle operators who couldn't get over the steep learning curve.
Any vehicle that can be dropped out of a perfectly fine aircraft and still work when it lands. Is great as far as i am concerned. 😄
The templin institute is the KND.
This video was great! I loved it and want to see more Mass Effect content, maybe do the M-44 Hammerhead next!
Love it or hate it, you can't help but admit that the Mako was an iconic vehicle built to last a very long time.
(Incidentally, I think I might have placed this in the ideas section right after the Systems Alliance Navy video was posted...)
Anyway, I'll just wait for the video on the Normandy...
My stupid spacetruck finally getting the recognition it deserves
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Thaaatttt looks like Forerunner architecture. And a Pelican.
O M35 Mako of the lake, what is your wisdom?
Gravity cold and hard. Defying it is warm and soft.
If you put your nose behind a wall or other cover, you cannot be damaged.
I dont think the hammerhead was ever going to replace the MAKO for millitary goals. That's like replacing a tank for a nifty electric scooter.
You forgot to put the M12 warthog in the arsenal playlist
Float like Styrofoam, sting like a Panzer
Please do the LASGUN next. I very much enjoy these videos.
Mako Inaros! Mako Inaros!