Mass Effect 2 - Arrival DLC Ending (Paragon)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 มิ.ย. 2012
- This is the ending for the "Arrival" DLC. Commander Shepard talks with Harbinger and is picked up by the Normandy moments before the asteroid slams into the Alpha Mass Relay, destroying an entire solar system and killing more than 300 thousand Batarian colonists in the process.
If you want to see this same part, but from a Renegade point of view, check this video • Mass Effect 2 - Arriva... .
From Mass Effect 2, the 2010 game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts. - เกม
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“You have become an annoyance..” greatest compliment ever... coming from a cosmic threat
Nop "you have become a threat" is the greatest compliment ever... coming fron a cosmic threat
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@@suserano7566 Nope “I’ve come to respect you” would be the greatest compliment from a cosmic threat.
@@josephmoffatt4696 Lame
ME1:Sovereign warned Shepard to be ready for reapers : They didnt listen.
ME2: Harbinger Warned Shepard to say others to be ready for them : They didnt listen again ( Ah yes reapers )
ME3: Shepard youre the only one who can save us please go and solve the fucking impossible.
Nope , I'll go underwater and stay with Leviathan until smarter cycle begins. Fuck that.
God I wish that was option and could play into a hypothetical ME4
@@samsmith4242 That’d be cool!
vibing with levaithan
Hackett was using so much self restraint
I like to save Arrival for the end of my playthrough. For me, it's both the end of ME2 and the beginning of ME3.
Well, according to developers, this DLC was supposed to serve as somewhat of a "bridge" between ME2 and ME3. Just like Lair of the Shadow Broker.
Same here.
Same here
@@romanrhodes815 Doesn’t really work though because it’s too out of character for Shepard to ignore this mission for so long after receiving it pretty early
@@criert135 I think that's more of a complaint about when the Developers made the mission available rather than when the mission is supposed to take place.
*All I know is that I sent you out there to break Amanda Kenson out of prison,*
*and now an entire system is destroyed.*
(paraphrised) I hope you fill logic between these two events.
I don't know whether I should be laughing or I should be nervous on that line.
That was so funny
@@e.gretel3381 dont worry I found it funny as well
“Thank god you destroyed that system Shepard, the Reapers were almost here!”
Shepard- “Wait, Reapers..?”
Harbinger: Prepare yourself for the Arrival.
Shepard: Get ready for reception.
anyway that poor mass relay couldnt transport that asteroid :( so sad :(
I give it an A for effort. Poor thing tried its hardest.
This is so sad. Alexa play Despacito
Asari:Nobody can destroy a mass relay...
Humans:Are you sure about that?
Asari can be arrogant snobs. They don't know everything.
To be fair, no one really wanted to try. Kenson even says as much. Kenson and her crew were spooked enough by the Reaper Artifact to try. Unfortunately, by the time it was up and running, they'd all been Indoctrinated.
Either the Mu relay was just built different, this relay was just not feeling it at that point in time, or someone forgot that the Asari weren't pulling that out of their ass.
Because surely someone during the Rachni Wars would have figured out the idea of throwing a big rock at the relay the bugs were coming out of if it was that easy.
I love how when Harbinger “materializes,” its eyes appear first.
Nice spot
Harbinger's voice sounds too human. Sovereign sounded much more cold and robotic.
No he isn't. He's a full Reaper, but has communicated with you through a collector earlier.
Thats probably because he is oldest Reaper, and as such he may be more developed one
Sovereign sounded more bone chilling than Harbinger
cuz Harbinger is a grandpa
@i hate anime@
Very true, but ME 3 more than made up for it with the reaper horns, and banshees. Hearing them for the first time definitely was imposing to say the least.
Harbinger: "KNOW THIS AS YOU DIE IN VAIN. YOUR TIME WILL-"
Sheppard: "I should go" *walks away*
Harbinger: "?!?!"
Lol
@@JCsChannel "millions year old machine left in confusion at the sheer audacity of Shephard"- cnn (citadel news network) ME 2
"& SO I TOOK THAT PERSONALLY"- harbinger ME 3
One of the biggest moments for me was finally seeing Admiral Hackett in person
"Prepare yoursleves for the Arrival" just chills me out every single time I hear it.
That music was a masterpiece. It rised your heartbeat and adrenaline while trying to fight your way out of that base before time runs out. Truly epic!!
harbinger : you fight against inevitability.Dust strug....
shepard : we'll bang okay ?
i don't like sand it's coarse and rough and it gets everywhere...
Imagine being responsible for the death of 300,000 batarians. Shepard definitely got revenge for the colonist background lol.
Shit man - wear that number like a medal
They deserved it, spent all of ME3 making sure batarians went extinct.
Am I the only one gets goosebumps from the epic music as the asteroid crashes into the Mass Relay?
No, that explosion is the reason we keep coming back.
really caught me off guard first time I played through this cause I didn't believe the DLC would actually end this way
I destroyed the system to kill Batarians. Delaying the Reapers was just a bonus.
Would have been smarter to time the asteroid to hit the relay at the moment the reapers are closing in on it, might take out a big chunk of their fleet with that explosion
Not a terrible idea, but their Mass Effect Field Technology is unparalleled. There would have been no guarantee that would have worked. This really was the best possible scenario.
@@divisiondude2011 Reapers created the mass effects. I am pretty sure they have mass effects fields stronger than the mass relays.
Based.
I didnt even know this DLC was a thing until my buddy told me the other day. Explains a lot. I was introduced to the series when 3 came out and I started them all and played through them and all the DLC that I knew of so that I would understand 3. Somehow I skipped this one. So I always assumed that Shepard was under Alliance surveillance just because of his ties to Cerberus. I thought that when Anderson told him he was lucky to dodge a court martial and dishonorable discharge, it was just because of that and not because he was responsible. In fact I could have sworn that in ME3 the game told me that an Alliance fleet destroyed the relay to delay the reapers from entering Alliance space earlier. I dont even know anymore lol.
If you don't complete this DLC, it happens exactly as you remember: the Alliance destroys the relay, and Shepard is called back to Earth because of his ties with Cerberus.
If you don’t do this DLC, it’ll be explained in your war assets that the Alliance 103rd Marine Division went in to save Dr. Kenson instead. They find out the reapers are coming and destroy the astroid but the entire division dies and you lose 50 points of war assets. Shepard is instead brought in for their ties to Cerberus.
@@frgtnchl1349 I like the implication that Shepard alone is worth an entire division of elite special forces marines.
@@Kai-fb1ol Well there’s a reason the Reapers are so aware of Shepard lol
I always reimagined this scene. I imagined Shepard recalibrated the engines to strike the relay at the exact moment the Reapers arrived via their FTL drives and therefore when the asteroid did hit the relay it took out several reaper capital ships. Hell even if it took out 5 percent of the reaper forces, I’d consider that a valuable trade.
good idea but too risky
And then? The surviving reapers would start destroying everyone. Just look at what 1 reaper did in ME1
@@criert135 I mean, that's what happen in canon. The asteroid destroyed the relay and then the reapers arrived, without the relay they had to use their standard ftl to reach the rest of the galaxy, delaying the destruction of the relay to take out a few of them doesn't make things worse.
This DLC was so hard for me the first time I played it
That's because you're not allowed to bring any squadmates.
Overlord DLC:
Gavin: If my work can save a million mothers from mourning the loss of a million sons, my conscience will rest easy.
Shepard: So you'll sacrifice your brother's happiness for your own ambition!?
Arrival DLC:
Admiral Hackett: There were over 300,000 batarians in that system. All dead.
Shepard: They died to save trillions of lives.
Project Overlord was a simple case of exploitation and torture. All to gain an edge for fighting future geth. Gavin's vision of the future was a Cerberus outlook. Not fact.
The reaper threat and the alpha relay was a last minute choice fight for time. The reaper fleets would have harvested every one of the colonists anyway. Destroying the system delayed the reapers by several months. It's a shame the galaxy let that time pass without preparing.
In all honesty the galaxy's chances of survival could have been much better had they used the two years during Sheppard's death wisely. Shore up defenses on every colonised planet. Bunkers for citizens in the capital cities. Assemble a defensive fleet to guard the races' homeworld.
Anti ship cannons and GUARDIAN lasers waiting for when the reapers enter the atmosphere.... but no.
They had to see a reaper for their own eyes to then do something about it. Soveriegn was all the proof they needed.
MattVCapture and THANIX CANNONS Why does nobody used those
This is such an apples to oranges comparison
@@thegreyeyedcat9142 How?
@@MattCollectorControl Okay, then this DLC's ending was a simple case of mass murder. Are you arguing that killing 1 to save 1000 is okay, but only if you are 100% sure you are saving 100? Not if you're 50% sure? Or 99% sure? When is life ever 100% sure? Plus, you can play this DLC before encountering Legion, in which case it's Shepard's perspective the galaxy is already at war with all the geth.
In my fantasy of ME ending perfectly. My Shepard using simple math (he relied on EDI) slowed down/accelerated the asteroid to time it perfectly for when the reapers arrived. Not destroying them entirely. But doing enough damage to make them panic.
How the hell a simple math slowdown a giant asteroid but damn that is a good idea.
Meaning as the reapers were nearing the relay. The asteroid hit the relay. And the explosion causing major damage to the reaper fleet. Thus buying more time and giving us more of a chance at beating the reapers in ME3
@@TheZombie2415I’ve come back to reply after all this time.
Math wasn’t even needed. We had the countdown timer to know when they would arrive, simply slow the speed of the asteroid to match that. He does re-engage the thrusters, so I imagine he would’ve had the ability to alter the speed. EDI being the advanced AI she is would’ve been able to calculate the speed.
Sounds like a lot of plot convenience? Well this trilogy had a lot of that.
I rewatch this explosion a lot.
Something about the music as you watch planets getting wiped out..
Scene that mass relay getting closer is really badass
The weight on Shepards shoulders man. Having to sacrifice a system to stall the enemy.
Lmao why is Shepard pretending to be upset. I jumped for joy when the death toll was revealed. That’s for Elysium, bitches!
The music is def some of the best I’ve ever heard
I’ve never played this dlc, but based on the tiny amount I know, it was epic
It's fucking garbage man lmfao. 30 minutes of pure plotholes and shotty writting
Thank you.
69 Ammo in your beacon, calculated lol
jerkopatrik Those jokes at this point are getting old to be honest.
The scene.. Epic!
05:26
Based Hackett. Hates batarians as much as I do.
Hardest choice ive ever made in this game
ikr. 😢
whats there to choose
And this is a paragon ending?
With Arrival, there is no true Paragon ending. The only difference is what Shepard says to Harbinger.
What Shepard did was very much dirty business, but as he notes, if he didn’t kill those hundreds of thousands, they all would’ve died alongside trillions
This is paragon on account of Shepard being willing to cooperate and accept blame in spite of that though
@@breezingby2611if Shepard didn’t kill those hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of batarians would be alive😢.
Whattt.. I didn't get Harbinger on that saying that, i had a 'collector general'?
You probably played it before the collector base, which I did when playing this dlc for the first time.
I couldn't tell if ive done that mission before or after but you may be right!
You didn't blow up the collector base that's why
You're playing this DLC before the Suicide Mission. Collector General is under control of the Harbinger.
Well knowing that the collector general is indoctrinated by the Harbinger, yes it was still Harbinger you were talking to.
I didn't do this dlc to delay the reapers. I just don't like batarians
I hope the world has reached some kind of positive peak by 2186 because right now in 2020; I would highly suggest keep the Alpha Relay intact so the Reapers can come and do us a favour.
No kidding. I'd almost be willing to take a Reaper Invasion over the current bullshit going on.
I kind of want to know using mods if you can go back into that star system and the planets are still there
I don't think there's a "Paragon" ending since you can't save the 300,000 batarians in that system tho
You just saved them a death from the Reapers. Mass Relay explosion or Reapers harvesting you and hunting your entire species down? I'll take the Mass Relay.
Technically, this is about as close to a Paragon ending as you can get with this DLC.
Effectively, what makes it Paragon is that Shepard is willing to take the fall to prevent a war with the Batarians, since this DLC shows that the Reapers are at the Galaxy's edge.
@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim That's a fair point!
I'm very late right now. But can someone tell me why it's the Harbinger talking to Shepard and not the Collector Leader thing? In my playthrough, it was the Collector general/leader.
I think it depends if you do this before of after the suicide mission.
HOw do you get this to trigger? I got to the end of the platform but nothing happens the pointer just points me in circles?
Honestly, destroying Batarians in that trilogy is so satisfying 🙂
Harbinger: This is pointless you can't stop me.
Shepard: Yeah your right I can't but I can keep doing what I've been doing sense I figured out you were a lying edit for TH-cam (Person) I can buy us a little more time.
Is that the one incident with Shepard killing 300,000 batarians for escaping the asteroid impact
Yes, and one of the greatest game explosions ever.
Definitely bro. I sometimes wonder if humanity will see this as normal when we all reach interstellar travel
@@keltin.watkinsyfp8065 We're not there yet, far from, it won't be that simple.
Nah killing 300.000 thousand innocent batarians to save the galaxy is not something paragon shepard would do. I mean it is the same game where he is crying like a baby about genophage. :D
It looks more like a false flag Reaper operation to me to psychgology trick shepard to kill the system. :S :D
The whole storyline was weird as fuck. :D
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
I think it’s a reasonable thing to do, but there also isn’t another choice. You destroy that relay now or the galaxy gets fucked one more time. I really liked this outcome, showed that even my paragon Shep couldn’t always get what she wanted
Literally a rock and a hard place.
Honestly I think the cannon ending for ME 3 should've been Shepard failing to stop the invasion. Because no one listen to you through out the ME series and barely came together in time to do anything. I think thats why the unofficial indoctrination ending theory sounds so plausible and good.
I was worried beyond belief for Shepard at the end of this. Blew up a mass relay, killing billions of Batarians in the process, and all he has in his defense is an incoming Reaper invasion, which the council still foolishly believes is just Geth warships.
It's a just 300k, not billions.
Besides if you play default Shep that ain't much of a problem.
Let's just say that my character - Ruthless Colonist Infiltrator Femshep Renegon - had a way harder time justifying the destruction of the Bahak system wasn't a hate crime.
Since that particular Shep does have a lot of reasons to hate them. For Mindoir first. Then she proved she was ruthless and dirty on Torfan ...
Yeah, pretty sure had that court at the beginning of ME3 actually managed to start a serious hearing she would have been convicted for war crimes.
Funny ending to this though. In the end, Bahak had survived ME1 (she had left him to die of his wounds), and they ended up collaborating to kill the Reapers.
Very very fitting way to come full circle.
Well.... yes and no.
The whole "Geth Warship" thing is actually a front. According to both the Cerberus Network and the Citadel DLC in ME3, they did believe Shepard and were putting Citadel Space in debt to try and prepare......
A lot of good that did.
Hell... Wasn't aware that playing a paragon is such hell of a cancer.
An expanded version of the Arrival DLC should* have been the actual main plot of ME2.
Shepard vows at the end of ME1 to find more about the reapers, then this is continued with Shepard finding out that the Citadel was only Plan A, and ME2 is about stopping their next point of arrival and gathering as much info on the Reapers, instead of whatever collector side-mission of a game we got.
Don’t get me wrong, I still like ME2, but only for reasons completely separate from its main plot.
How many people actually praise the collector plot vs. the actual characters? The main plot is the worst part of the story. Being forced to sacrifice a star system and the moral qualms that come with it would be much more impactful - and *more importantly* , much more directly connected to ME1 - than what we got. Honestly have no idea what they were thinking with wiping all the buildup for the collector plot. They could have had an interesting main story and side stories, since they are not mutually exclusive.
Your game sucks TBH.