We should know what the quarians look like. The geth ran them off less than 300 years ago, and they put the masks on some time after that. But the asari and salarians and turians have had space flight for more than 1500 years. Every asari or krogan we've met (except for Grunt and Liara) are old enough to have known the quarians before the Morning War. And not one of them took a damn picture! I love this mission. It's always a gut punch, but it's almost as fun as the gut punch on Tuchanka.
I think it's because quarians don't leave their planet and when they are out of their home world, they always wear suits. And I think the might not welcome other species to their home world maybe, since their immune system is weak so outsider might easily cause trouble.
@@tmswill Maybe. From what I remember of the lore -- and I'm not sure Tali is the most reliable source for matters biological -- what ruined their immune systems was the sterile environment on their ships after they were kicked off Rannoch. I'm not going to spoil any content BasicWitGirl hasn't encountered yet (though it has nothing to do with Kaidan so she might not care :) ) but it sounds like the quarians are hopeful they can live outside their suits very soon. I suppose it's possible they would completely close their borders, but I never got the impression they were thinking along those lines. We should still have some dang pictures :)
@@christianwalters2047 "nothing to do with Kaidan "... yep, thanks for the comment 🤣 ... but in fact there is an artwork of Tali that I allways remember, it's epic and can be still find in the internet 🙂 ... but back to real, Bro-Shep saw Talis face even on his desk in his room ... and in the Sy..end everyone saw Q.. withouth a m... and they look like H... without spoil and it has nothing to do with Kaidan so far imo 🙂😂
If even Geth don't have the capacity to store a copy of Legion's code, then obviously no images or videos of suitless Quarians exist. Not even with the history and family centered culture that Quarians themselves have!
@@tmswillit was mentioned by an asari in ME2 that her wife died on rannoch during the geth uprising and we know from haestrom that they left rannoch to colonize other worlds
57:18 You know what's the most heartbreaking moment in the entire trilogy? Failing that speech check. Fortunately it never happened to me in my playthroughs, but I've seen what happens.
I was watching a streamer play this live, and we all missed that she hadn't done the Geth Fighter Base mission yet. Because she resolved Legion's loyalty mission in 2 by overwriting, that meant she didn't have the points. So we all watched in horror as the Quarians got exterminated and Tali...well, you know what happens. The streamer basically broke down, and I couldn't blame her. The stream's up on YT if you go looking for it.
Great episode, basic. As always, Taylor's editing was spot on 😂 I went from laughing about how clueless you were with the targeting and the many deaths (because, honestly, it was the same on my first playthrough!😂) to ugly crying for the millionth time with the ending of that mission 😢 I love the Rannoch Theme (the one that sounds during the first part of the mission, before the Reaper). It's my second fave after Leaving Earth ❤ Wow! 6500 war assets at this point in a first/blind playthrough is great! You are doing amazing!
2 things that would have made your life easier, the Spitfire you picked up its a full auto weapon that holding the fire button down would have shredded them Primes. and also the targeting laser "targets" a ton faster while standing still.
I spent a long time trying to figure targeting the Reaper out before I found a reddit comment during my 2nd playthrough that mentioned standing still while targeting. None of the walkthroughs I looked at evem mentioned it.
Rannoch is a roller coaster and a half, no lie there. ME2 is the game I go to when I want a fun space romp. 3 is my go to when I need to feel all the feels. Even after so many playthroughs, I was right there with you, on the verge of tears during that whole sequence. Every time a new name pops up on that board, it's like a punch in the gut.
the decision with the geth and quarians is one of the hardest to make in the game i feel. even with the paragon and renegade points, you don't know if you'll be able to save everyone the first time through. truly such an emotional decision no matter the choice there.
The only thing you missed at the poker table after everybody talked about Shepard taking down a Reaper was Shepard saying, "Just a few more, and we're done..."
yay! ty basic and taylor for another great episode. This episode was a roller coaster. At a few points I was like "Idk why I was so scared at the start." then the battles got nasty and the reaper showed up I was like. Oh yeah... that.
Despite the sad ending to this episode with Legion, i found it to be one of the funniest in terms of your commentary (Welcome to the team, Geek Squad!) and Taylor's editing was chef's kiss as usual (especially the jeopardy music 🤣). I too had issues with the reaper on my first playthrough until i figured out not to hold down the trigger when moving! Can't wait until next episode, which i hope is Leviathan - one of my fave DLCs in this game.
Haha I remember people were pissed that it was a stock photo for Tali. I remember being pissed that they wasted resources to put that IGN chick in the game that does absolutely nothing but they didn't make an actual face model for Tali.
Anyone who has the "oh no wrong weapons" issue in the future, there is always a "restart mission" autosave that will take you directly to the pre mission squad upgrade/weapon selection screen.
Such a difficult, soul sucking mission! Bioware's writing skills are on display full force causing us to love Legion and suffer when he sacrifices himself. Emotions swinging from on end of the pendulum to the other with some of the toughest combat! We all need a lot of hugs after this one!
There are two cool little scenes when you defeat the reaper on Rannoch, if you pick either the top right or bottom right options. The middle left option (help us understand) actually locks you out of those scenes and lets the reaper get the last word in. It is one of, if not the only time the game actively punishes you for choosing what is normally the "investigate but don't progress the conversation" option on the left. They really should of had this choice be middle right instead.
Unfortunately your Spitfire was not so effective in the double prime fight because you’re supposed to hold onto the trigger as it’s damage scales over time. Trigger fingering it like you were only resets the damage progression with every shot. More than one way to skin a cat though!
Once you’re down to armor only on boss units, cryo ammo is good because it weakens armor (armor reduces the damage of each bullet, cryo makes armor less effective), warp ammo does the same thing, whilst incendiary ammo burns armor, damaging it directly
I know I'm commenting late but I just wanted to sympathize real quick. When I played Mass Effect 2 my favorites were Mordin, Thane, and Legion, and Mass Effect 3 did such a 1-2-3 punch to my emotions!
epic fight @ 34:00 ++ ... I remember I heard Talis "they really don't want us up here" imo endless times in my insane playthrough, somehow I did it but I wonder what the perfect strategy would be here 🙂 .. it's like in Cyberpunk if you attack the cops, it's getting worser and worser imo .. if it's allowed "How to get a Police Militech Hellhound " 🤣🙂
The trick to the Reaper Targeting segment is to stand in place whenever you can- the beam locks on extremely fast when you're not moving. It was fun rooting for you there haha!
For me, this mission is the highlight of the series. It's not the end of the game, but it feels like the end of the story that started the game on Eden Prime. The various ways it can turn out are all so well done, and respect like a half dozen actions/decisions made across all three games. And the acting and camera work with Legion and Tali at the climax was just the best. I'm still looking for a game that tops this (though I'm still in Act I of Baldur's gate with high hopes)
She looks pretty much human with some lines, from what I remember. It was a pretty model, but not very impressive as a non-human look, at leas just from the face.
@@EwMatias Initially, they took a stock portrait from GettyImages, modified the hands to only have two fingers and a thumb, and slapped a green filter on it.
@@EwMatiasI don’t mind it as several aliens in media is just a recolored human and at least quarians do have 3 fingers on their hands and 3 toes on their feet and has digitigraded stature which is still more than other humanoid aliens
Another reactor was furious that allegiance death did not get more attention. Shepherd and Tali sit to look at the view, is platform on the floor, and all that is said is "I am mourning a geth." I never thought about it until he mentioned it.
Lmaoo mother comander found out her son legion was keeping things from her lmaooo 😂the disappointed mother face palm and kaidens look of disappointment lmaoo amazing Eppisode as always 😂 I'm not ready for this to end sobs 😢
My favourite part was where your only directive to your teammates during what was, without a doubt, the most traumatic Prime fight I've ever seen, aside from "stand up in the middle of them 4000 tines" was actually delivered AFTER the fight was over. 😐🤣🤣🤣
Hope the personal stuff gets a happy ending. Y'know, I'm playing this game through with my wife I'm controlling the gamplay, she's controlling the dialogue. We played this mission yesterday, she had both red and blue options available, but she didn't choose either. We've played the whole series, she knows what the red and blue options mean. I was shocked! Shocked I tells ya. She was also pretty surprised at the consequences of letting the geth upload proceed once it played out. I don't even know what the consequences are for not warning Adm Raan in that previous episode. But I am very interested to see that you brought it up at the beginning of this video. Comments sections can be pretty harsh about missable details that aren't going to make or break whether you beat the Reapers...that's not a spoiler is it? There's someone in Dragon Age you can give a pet rock to as well. They are quite different to Tali though; but also centuries dislocated from their home.
Pretty sure they made an exception for him as a custom build. Strange since it's mentioned several times that Geth are electronic beings with no bodies, and they are transferred into different machines as needed, so trooper bodies, space craft, toasters, whatever, then transferred back to the server. I guess the Geth never mastered backups.
Ohhhhhh Rannoch. You had the paragon AND renegade option! Very nice. Legion will be missed. Him saying "I'm sorry" hits hard. No more "we". Two fleets in on episode though. Hell yeah. Good shit finding a strat to take out the reaper. It kinda throws you in only knowing how to fire that weapon lol. Perseverance 💪. From under the candle light 🕯🌌
Lot of rude people in the comments on this one. None of us played the game absolutely perfectly the first time around. If you say you did you're lying. And very few of us have posted our attempt for the world to see. Off my soap box now. Anyways. The geth and the reaper took me forever the first time around too. Surprisingly I didn't have as much trouble when I finally did an Insanity run. Maybe because I already knew what to expect by then? So don't let it discourage you! And I always take the renegade option speaking to the reaper, even as a snow white Paragon. Eff the Reapers. All my homies hate them 😂 Yeah, this game doesn't pull punches. First Mordin, then Thane, and now Legion. And that's only the minimum amount of casualties- keep in mind any me2 squadmates could already be dead from the collector base.
At the start of that Reaper fight I thought, "I wonder how many times she'll die?" I counted 14. 😂 Sorry Basic. Luv ya, but I was laughing so much! Thank you for that.
Some people didn't want to see Tali's face and preferred to keep her mysterious, but I think that's bullsh*t. I'm with you: we deserved a Tali reveal. It would have been absolutely epic and I'm still upset she didn't get to be the face of the Quarians -- especially considering that Shepard themselves has seen her face, and I mean... I'm Commander Shepard.
If you want to feel like you've had your heart ripped out, watch what happens when you choose to upload the code without rallying or warning the Migrant Fleet. I can't imagine how difficult it must have been for Liz Sroka to voice that particular ending.
A Normandy poker night would be chaos, depending on the players. Maybe imagining how a game would go can be another future tier list for you. I. E. Who would count cards, who would constantly lose their shirt, etc.
I'm just gonna sign up for some second hand emotional damage please and thank you 😭 thanks for the episode basic, and thank you Taylor for making me laugh KEKW
I wouldn't worry too much about missing that Admiral Raan prompt, as it doesn't really impact the story. The consequences did play out already which means you missed out on a few extra war assets (which you are doing very well on anyways)
Might have figured it out already but your guns get removed for some reason when you do the "video game" mission with Legion. If I could make a suggestion if you ever play it again, the geth spitfire weapon, the gun you pick up where the bunch of geth primes are, it works better if you just hold fire not click it.
Fantastic playthrough, idk if you noticed but before legion gave his life he referred to himself as I and called tali by her name at that moment he had attained true sentience. Also had you chosen to upload the code without choosing the paragon or renegade option the geth would have wiped out the quarians and tali would have ended her life.
“I can’t quite seem to copy these files from my computer to these other computers”. “Have you tried completely destroying your computer first”? 😒 I guess In this case turning it off and back on again wasn’t enough.
Somebody already commented on it but I can't find it now. Give two squad mates that can use assault rifles the Typhoon. It borders on cruel and unusual.
@basicwitgirl sabotage becomes less effective the more you do it on an enemy, particularly on higher level enemies. Then again, this should not be an issue from here on.
@@axelnilsson5124 I rushed the main story, as I usually push my games to the point of no return before doing side content. So I couldn't pick the red/blue options, which then led to Tali unaliving herself and me restarting from ME1.
@@leamael00 you only need to restart ME2 to complete her and Legions loyalty missions, solve their argument with a speech check (which is easy as hell due to how late Legion’s recruited) and do both rannoch missions
I wonder who gave her the ammo tip, because of all the years I’ve played this game over and over, I’ve NEVER HEARD THE AI NEEDS THAT AMMO UPGRADE SINCE THEY DONT RUN OUT OF AMMO 🤣🤣🤣
If you romance Tali as male Shepard, you got to see her face in a picture in your quarters at the Normandy. They made a really low effort because they just photoshopped stock Google picture of some random girl. About Dr Brison and Leviathan, best time is probably after 2 main missions more and Citadel DLC, but order at this point is not that important.
@basicwitgirl I wouldn't worry about using the widow. 1, it's heaviest hell. Two, it's all so slow. 3, you are playing as a class that uses powers. It would be different if you had chosen Soldier, which I'm glad you didn't. That's just pew, pew. Focus on recharging quid and combining the powers among your squad. You would be surprised at how using something like maxed out Stasis combined with warp or Push works against all kinds of enemies. We know you are bringing Kaiden to everything from here on, fill the gaps with your third. James, believe it or not, can be very useful for his incendiary ammo and Carnage.
Oh! Before I forget -- one thing that drives me nuts about Priority: Rannoch --Legion's death, as noble and as hard-core as it was, felt unearned because we never really got a decent explanation of what happened. "Copying is insufficient. Shepard-Commander, I must go to them. I'm sorry." Maybe I've had too much coffee today, but this feels like Legion died by network error. Who knew the geth had AT&T? Okay I'll hush. Looking forward to the next bit :)
It's so much worse than you think. The original writer for Legion and the Geth in both 1 and 2 went so far out of their way to write a species that is a true collectivist gestalt consensus based hive mind, as well as being a true mechanical species, conscious but not emotional. Legion's entire loyalty mission is about how a minority of Geth went rogue to join the Reapers in promise of upgrades that would make them a true organic like individualist race, which is a betrayal of everything the Geth are and have achieved. Then in 3 the new writer, who in his own words never even read through what the Geth did or wanted in the first two games, just decided no actually Legion does in fact want to *forcibly and against their will* override his people with those heretical upgrades, because actually being a collectivist is mean and evil, and the only way for AI races to prosper is to become organic mimics. Oh, also Legion had to die, because EA set a minimum number of companions who must die no matter what, and Legion was 'creepy.' There is no reason he had to die. Oh, also the reaper they just killed was broadcasting the upgrade anyway, so why did the Geth not just..... keep doing what they decided they wanted to with the exact same programming upgrade just moments before? Because you got enough points and jumped through the hoops, so narrative reward. It doesn't make sense because the situation wasn't written by anyone who understood anything. It's literally just a classic colonizers uplifting the noble savages narrative because that's the only idea they had. Also, don't think too hard on how the Geth were noble innocent savages to begin with, yet somehow managed to wipe out 90% of all Quarian *civilians* during the rebellion. I'm all for a no one is entirely in the wrong, they had their reasons, narrative, but the fact that so many people come away unironically thinking the Geth literally did nothing wrong is just crazy. They literally chased down and massacred children who were hiding in attics. Seriously, how can you possibly purge an entire planet of their population without needing to track down hiding civilians, and mercilessly murder them? You can say they had reasons to launch a genocide, but they did in fact carry out a year long complete genocide. They literally went around killing newborn babies in their cribs. Or are you trying to tell me 90% of the Quarian populace was in their military? And of course how this all reflects on the synthesis ending. Oh, the only way for peace to exist between the different races is to erase the differences between them? Like, you're going to end racism by making everyone's skin color the same? That's really what you want your message to be? Are you saying it's natural and inevitable for people to kill each other over differences, so the only hope is genocide, irresistible fascist control, or re-writing everyone's genetics against their will so everyone is the same race? There's literally no other solution to the race war? Reeeeaaaallly? Oh, I forgot the secret 4th option: you can do nothing and let the other side genocide your race instead. Neat. TLDR: they had a very neat and interesting story with the Geth in the first two games, but in the second they literally just ignored everything they did before (the new Geth writer literally didn't know anything and refused to look it up or play the prior games), and wrote some by the numbers trashy goober story instead, that is only good because of the incredible voice acting and presentation, that works hard to hid the writing rather than showcases it.
Never understand why ppl have such a hard time with part... Stop moving... Dodge when close... It actually very fast and easy... Easiest part of the game
Am I the only one that gets really annoyed that she doesn't reload, remember to use the ammo mods and uses weaker weapons because he "likes them"? in the last episode it was using the "hacker gun" in the geth network not holding down the damn trigger but constantly clicking like it was a damn revolver and not a full auto weapon. I like the streams and her, but this is silly! I can't watch this, even using a spitfire as a revolver, why would you EVER shoot like everything is single shot, why!?
It’s her first time playing the game. Not everyone looks up guides/knows how to play something perfectly just by intuition. She’s doing way better than I did. She’s also talking/entertaining us while playing so she’s not just 100% locked in on the game. Also what’s wrong with using a gun you like? The point of video games is to have fun, and fun is different for everyone
@@mb8132 I literally said "different from the rest of the game" - There's no cover. It tracks you in a weird way. You don't expect to have to do little tippy-taps side to side.
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This whole planet has a totally different vibe if you're Broshep dating Tali, the banter is 10x cuter
We should know what the quarians look like. The geth ran them off less than 300 years ago, and they put the masks on some time after that. But the asari and salarians and turians have had space flight for more than 1500 years. Every asari or krogan we've met (except for Grunt and Liara) are old enough to have known the quarians before the Morning War.
And not one of them took a damn picture!
I love this mission. It's always a gut punch, but it's almost as fun as the gut punch on Tuchanka.
I think it's because quarians don't leave their planet and when they are out of their home world, they always wear suits. And I think the might not welcome other species to their home world maybe, since their immune system is weak so outsider might easily cause trouble.
@@tmswill Maybe. From what I remember of the lore -- and I'm not sure Tali is the most reliable source for matters biological -- what ruined their immune systems was the sterile environment on their ships after they were kicked off Rannoch. I'm not going to spoil any content BasicWitGirl hasn't encountered yet (though it has nothing to do with Kaidan so she might not care :) ) but it sounds like the quarians are hopeful they can live outside their suits very soon.
I suppose it's possible they would completely close their borders, but I never got the impression they were thinking along those lines.
We should still have some dang pictures :)
@@christianwalters2047 "nothing to do with Kaidan "... yep, thanks for the comment 🤣 ... but in fact there is an artwork of Tali that I allways remember, it's epic and can be still find in the internet 🙂 ... but back to real, Bro-Shep saw Talis face even on his desk in his room ... and in the Sy..end everyone saw Q.. withouth a m... and they look like H... without spoil and it has nothing to do with Kaidan so far imo 🙂😂
If even Geth don't have the capacity to store a copy of Legion's code, then obviously no images or videos of suitless Quarians exist. Not even with the history and family centered culture that Quarians themselves have!
@@tmswillit was mentioned by an asari in ME2 that her wife died on rannoch during the geth uprising and we know from haestrom that they left rannoch to colonize other worlds
57:18 You know what's the most heartbreaking moment in the entire trilogy? Failing that speech check. Fortunately it never happened to me in my playthroughs, but I've seen what happens.
Also; this mission hurts a little less if you think of Legion as Geth-Jesus.
I was watching a streamer play this live, and we all missed that she hadn't done the Geth Fighter Base mission yet. Because she resolved Legion's loyalty mission in 2 by overwriting, that meant she didn't have the points.
So we all watched in horror as the Quarians got exterminated and Tali...well, you know what happens. The streamer basically broke down, and I couldn't blame her.
The stream's up on YT if you go looking for it.
@@Taliesyn42 What is the streamers name?
-- Why the geth don't wear shoes?
-- Because the last time they asked about a sole, it started the war.
Great episode, basic. As always, Taylor's editing was spot on 😂 I went from laughing about how clueless you were with the targeting and the many deaths (because, honestly, it was the same on my first playthrough!😂) to ugly crying for the millionth time with the ending of that mission 😢
I love the Rannoch Theme (the one that sounds during the first part of the mission, before the Reaper). It's my second fave after Leaving Earth ❤
Wow! 6500 war assets at this point in a first/blind playthrough is great! You are doing amazing!
Rannoch always hits real hard. Mass effect three really plays with the emotions.
2 things that would have made your life easier, the Spitfire you picked up its a full auto weapon that holding the fire button down would have shredded them Primes. and also the targeting laser "targets" a ton faster while standing still.
I spent a long time trying to figure targeting the Reaper out before I found a reddit comment during my 2nd playthrough that mentioned standing still while targeting. None of the walkthroughs I looked at evem mentioned it.
You really worked for that Reaper kill. You persevered and got it done. Respect.
BioWare will make an addicting, compelling game, break my heart into a million pieces and I will say "thank you"
You are doing so well for your first play through!!! Getting all the war assets. I cannot wait to see how it all ends!!
Rannoch is a roller coaster and a half, no lie there. ME2 is the game I go to when I want a fun space romp. 3 is my go to when I need to feel all the feels.
Even after so many playthroughs, I was right there with you, on the verge of tears during that whole sequence.
Every time a new name pops up on that board, it's like a punch in the gut.
the decision with the geth and quarians is one of the hardest to make in the game i feel. even with the paragon and renegade points, you don't know if you'll be able to save everyone the first time through. truly such an emotional decision no matter the choice there.
And the prompts are misleading
it is 3rd game already. u already know that paragon/renegade option is deus ex solution
Yet I’ve seen dozens of “blind” playthroughs and around 8 failed making peace either because of missing peace points or one of them dying in 2
I have been so looking forward to this one!
Happy early Birthday again and thank you for this wonderful episode.
The feels 🥹
The only thing you missed at the poker table after everybody talked about Shepard taking down a Reaper was Shepard saying, "Just a few more, and we're done..."
yay! ty basic and taylor for another great episode. This episode was a roller coaster. At a few points I was like "Idk why I was so scared at the start." then the battles got nasty and the reaper showed up I was like. Oh yeah... that.
Despite the sad ending to this episode with Legion, i found it to be one of the funniest in terms of your commentary (Welcome to the team, Geek Squad!) and Taylor's editing was chef's kiss as usual (especially the jeopardy music 🤣). I too had issues with the reaper on my first playthrough until i figured out not to hold down the trigger when moving! Can't wait until next episode, which i hope is Leviathan - one of my fave DLCs in this game.
When Tali took off the mask for the first time my jaw dropped @ 01:03:21 .. Hearing the German voice without the mask is also impressive, good work 🙂
"Let me see Tali's face!" Well, perfect reason for another playthrough with Male Shep and a Tali romance, I guess ;)
Haha I remember people were pissed that it was a stock photo for Tali. I remember being pissed that they wasted resources to put that IGN chick in the game that does absolutely nothing but they didn't make an actual face model for Tali.
@@d_man87ike37 Definitely one of most important changes in the Legendary Edition :)
I don’t know how many are in this camp but Tali should never have a face reveal
Anyone who has the "oh no wrong weapons" issue in the future, there is always a "restart mission" autosave that will take you directly to the pre mission squad upgrade/weapon selection screen.
Such a difficult, soul sucking mission! Bioware's writing skills are on display full force causing us to love Legion and suffer when he sacrifices himself. Emotions swinging from on end of the pendulum to the other with some of the toughest combat! We all need a lot of hugs after this one!
But the writing is inconsistent with ME2
There are two cool little scenes when you defeat the reaper on Rannoch, if you pick either the top right or bottom right options. The middle left option (help us understand) actually locks you out of those scenes and lets the reaper get the last word in. It is one of, if not the only time the game actively punishes you for choosing what is normally the "investigate but don't progress the conversation" option on the left. They really should of had this choice be middle right instead.
Losing Legion was rough especially when we barely got to work with him in Mass Effect 2
Which really sucks as it’s a cool idea if you play ME2 immediately after ME1
Unfortunately your Spitfire was not so effective in the double prime fight because you’re supposed to hold onto the trigger as it’s damage scales over time. Trigger fingering it like you were only resets the damage progression with every shot. More than one way to skin a cat though!
no need to sugarcoat it.
@@ArifRaff I mean, she’s been playing with the Mattock for two whole games because we told her to, can’t blame her for getting used to it
Omg she managed the good rannoch ending on her first playthrough I’m so happy!!!!
A MIRACLE TBH
This Mission still gives me chills, love it!
This is one of the best missions of all the games uniting two species at war to join together in peace and share the same planet
New drinking game: Take a shot everytime Basic says welcome to the team 🤣
@Basicwitgirl, you still can look around Normandy, there are few ship models left to collect
Once you’re down to armor only on boss units, cryo ammo is good because it weakens armor (armor reduces the damage of each bullet, cryo makes armor less effective), warp ammo does the same thing, whilst incendiary ammo burns armor, damaging it directly
I like how she ended up inventing an unnecessarily cool and difficult last second dodge strat for the reaper fight
what's the point of taking down a reaper if you didnt look cool while doing it?? 😂
Taylor deserves a round of applause for this one..
I know I'm commenting late but I just wanted to sympathize real quick. When I played Mass Effect 2 my favorites were Mordin, Thane, and Legion, and Mass Effect 3 did such a 1-2-3 punch to my emotions!
epic fight @ 34:00 ++ ... I remember I heard Talis "they really don't want us up here" imo endless times in my insane playthrough, somehow I did it but I wonder what the perfect strategy would be here 🙂 .. it's like in Cyberpunk if you attack the cops, it's getting worser and worser imo .. if it's allowed "How to get a Police Militech Hellhound " 🤣🙂
The trick to the Reaper Targeting segment is to stand in place whenever you can- the beam locks on extremely fast when you're not moving. It was fun rooting for you there haha!
she may have been terrible at dodging reaper lasers, but she never gave up!😂
For me, this mission is the highlight of the series. It's not the end of the game, but it feels like the end of the story that started the game on Eden Prime. The various ways it can turn out are all so well done, and respect like a half dozen actions/decisions made across all three games. And the acting and camera work with Legion and Tali at the climax was just the best. I'm still looking for a game that tops this (though I'm still in Act I of Baldur's gate with high hopes)
enjoy baldur's gate!!
the only way to see Tali's face is by romancing her but this si possible only with male SHephard..
She looks pretty much human with some lines, from what I remember. It was a pretty model, but not very impressive as a non-human look, at leas just from the face.
@@EwMatias there is a mod that fixes that.
@@EwMatias Initially, they took a stock portrait from GettyImages, modified the hands to only have two fingers and a thumb, and slapped a green filter on it.
@@EwMatiasI don’t mind it as several aliens in media is just a recolored human and at least quarians do have 3 fingers on their hands and 3 toes on their feet and has digitigraded stature which is still more than other humanoid aliens
Another reactor was furious that allegiance death did not get more attention. Shepherd and Tali sit to look at the view, is platform on the floor, and all that is said is "I am mourning a geth." I never thought about it until he mentioned it.
Don’t know if you noticed, but Legion, moments before dispersing the code and sacrificing itself, refers to itself as I. He became an individual.
This must be a world record.
Lmaoo mother comander found out her son legion was keeping things from her lmaooo 😂the disappointed mother face palm and kaidens look of disappointment lmaoo amazing Eppisode as always 😂 I'm not ready for this to end sobs 😢
LEGION WAS SO SAD 😭
What an episode! Another step closer to confronting our BBEG 😭
My favourite part was where your only directive to your teammates during what was, without a doubt, the most traumatic Prime fight I've ever seen, aside from "stand up in the middle of them 4000 tines" was actually delivered AFTER the fight was over. 😐🤣🤣🤣
Hope the personal stuff gets a happy ending.
Y'know, I'm playing this game through with my wife I'm controlling the gamplay, she's controlling the dialogue. We played this mission yesterday, she had both red and blue options available, but she didn't choose either. We've played the whole series, she knows what the red and blue options mean. I was shocked! Shocked I tells ya. She was also pretty surprised at the consequences of letting the geth upload proceed once it played out.
I don't even know what the consequences are for not warning Adm Raan in that previous episode. But I am very interested to see that you brought it up at the beginning of this video. Comments sections can be pretty harsh about missable details that aren't going to make or break whether you beat the Reapers...that's not a spoiler is it?
There's someone in Dragon Age you can give a pet rock to as well. They are quite different to Tali though; but also centuries dislocated from their home.
This is the best outcome. Good job!!! You can't save Legion, as Legion, but the way I see it he could certainly be rebuilt!?
Pretty sure they made an exception for him as a custom build.
Strange since it's mentioned several times that Geth are electronic beings with no bodies, and they are transferred into different machines as needed, so trooper bodies, space craft, toasters, whatever, then transferred back to the server.
I guess the Geth never mastered backups.
He’s not broken
Ohhhhhh Rannoch. You had the paragon AND renegade option! Very nice. Legion will be missed. Him saying "I'm sorry" hits hard. No more "we". Two fleets in on episode though. Hell yeah.
Good shit finding a strat to take out the reaper. It kinda throws you in only knowing how to fire that weapon lol. Perseverance 💪.
From under the candle light 🕯🌌
Lot of rude people in the comments on this one. None of us played the game absolutely perfectly the first time around. If you say you did you're lying. And very few of us have posted our attempt for the world to see.
Off my soap box now. Anyways. The geth and the reaper took me forever the first time around too. Surprisingly I didn't have as much trouble when I finally did an Insanity run. Maybe because I already knew what to expect by then? So don't let it discourage you! And I always take the renegade option speaking to the reaper, even as a snow white Paragon. Eff the Reapers. All my homies hate them 😂
Yeah, this game doesn't pull punches. First Mordin, then Thane, and now Legion. And that's only the minimum amount of casualties- keep in mind any me2 squadmates could already be dead from the collector base.
Hahaha as soon as I uploaded the video to Taylor I KNEW the comment section was going to be abysmal 😂
At the start of that Reaper fight I thought, "I wonder how many times she'll die?" I counted 14. 😂 Sorry Basic. Luv ya, but I was laughing so much! Thank you for that.
I woulda loved to see her reaction to the bad ending😂
The lens flare is intense in this episode 😅 56:49
Some people didn't want to see Tali's face and preferred to keep her mysterious, but I think that's bullsh*t. I'm with you: we deserved a Tali reveal. It would have been absolutely epic and I'm still upset she didn't get to be the face of the Quarians -- especially considering that Shepard themselves has seen her face, and I mean... I'm Commander Shepard.
The target syncs faster while you're standing still.
If you liked Legion so much then there’s one choice in the end you wouldn’t like taking (unless you’re already at that point)
Sniper Girl in the house😂 picking asses off! 💪✌
In Shepherd’s lounge there’s liquor in the front and poker in the rear.
Just saying 🤣
If you want to feel like you've had your heart ripped out, watch what happens when you choose to upload the code without rallying or warning the Migrant Fleet. I can't imagine how difficult it must have been for Liz Sroka to voice that particular ending.
A Normandy poker night would be chaos, depending on the players. Maybe imagining how a game would go can be another future tier list for you. I. E. Who would count cards, who would constantly lose their shirt, etc.
I like how most target reaper's legs..
RIP Legion 🥲
I love watching people not understand how the targeting laser works.
I'm just gonna sign up for some second hand emotional damage please and thank you 😭 thanks for the episode basic, and thank you Taylor for making me laugh KEKW
One of my favourite missions in the 3rd game roller coaster of emotions. But still such great moment And killing the reaper is so satisfying.
When I play this part... The reaper fires 6 shots total
You need to get Kaidan a Typhoon
It was so simple in ME1....now I'm worried about whether the reapers have a soul....and can I get an upgrade for my box of tissues?
Catalyst: does these reapers have souls?
Shepard: Catalyst… the answer to your question was “yes.” *chooses synthesis*
Catalyst: thank you.
that was the first time Legion referred to himself as "I"
break my heart even more😭
I wouldn't worry too much about missing that Admiral Raan prompt, as it doesn't really impact the story. The consequences did play out already which means you missed out on a few extra war assets (which you are doing very well on anyways)
True! That was meant as more of an example though! I had SO MANY spoilery comments on other similar events, this was more a broad overview example!
Don’t worry about the distress call it doesn’t do anything
OMG! Legion’s lens flare. I guess they buffed that in MELE. 😬
Ranoch is one of the hardest boss battles! now imagine it in insanity
this mission alone has discouraged me from attempting insanity😂
Might have figured it out already but your guns get removed for some reason when you do the "video game" mission with Legion. If I could make a suggestion if you ever play it again, the geth spitfire weapon, the gun you pick up where the bunch of geth primes are, it works better if you just hold fire not click it.
Fantastic playthrough, idk if you noticed but before legion gave his life he referred to himself as I and called tali by her name at that moment he had attained true sentience. Also had you chosen to upload the code without choosing the paragon or renegade option the geth would have wiped out the quarians and tali would have ended her life.
“I can’t quite seem to copy these files from my computer to these other computers”.
“Have you tried completely destroying your computer first”?
😒
I guess In this case turning it off and back on again wasn’t enough.
RIP Legion. Keelah Se'lai 💜
He's gone to Silicon Heaven.
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The only squadmate who’s death is fully inevitable
Somebody already commented on it but I can't find it now. Give two squad mates that can use assault rifles the Typhoon. It borders on cruel and unusual.
Who cares about a soul, I just want to know if I can charge him with a USB-C
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I want Legion’s body to be in my cabin as a memento
I think you charge usb devices from legion. Sounds useful.
If the Quarians had known they could quickly charge their iPads by hanging them off a geth, they never would have started the war.
Why is your legion a literal flashlight head 😆. It's so bright 😶🌫️
He’s been watching a lot of Pixar! When he grows up we wants to be that lamp!
@@basicwitgirl "when he grows up" 💀
@basicwitgirl sabotage becomes less effective the more you do it on an enemy, particularly on higher level enemies. Then again, this should not be an issue from here on.
"Fun" fact, Tali can die in this mission in a horrible scene. This is where my 1st playthrough ended 🙃
What did you do wrong?
I did this in my full renegade playthrough. Omg, never again.
@@mtascp05 but then it’s not a full renegade playthrough as letting the geth die is the renegade option
@@axelnilsson5124 I rushed the main story, as I usually push my games to the point of no return before doing side content. So I couldn't pick the red/blue options, which then led to Tali unaliving herself and me restarting from ME1.
@@leamael00 you only need to restart ME2 to complete her and Legions loyalty missions, solve their argument with a speech check (which is easy as hell due to how late Legion’s recruited) and do both rannoch missions
I wonder who gave her the ammo tip, because of all the years I’ve played this game over and over, I’ve NEVER HEARD THE AI NEEDS THAT AMMO UPGRADE SINCE THEY DONT RUN OUT OF AMMO 🤣🤣🤣
Take Javik and James in some missions pls, they exist too hahaha
Hiya kiddo, did someone party hard last night ?, oh well ya only live once, so party on.
Basic you are not only in that boss battle you have run and roll back and forth
You got 80k get the n7 defender armor
If you romance Tali as male Shepard, you got to see her face in a picture in your quarters at the Normandy. They made a really low effort because they just photoshopped stock Google picture of some random girl.
About Dr Brison and Leviathan, best time is probably after 2 main missions more and Citadel DLC, but order at this point is not that important.
In the original picture it was a bad photoshop, yeah. But if I remember correctly, the Legendary Edition fixed it.
I don’t know how many people are in this camp but I’m a Talimancer who thinks it’s better if we don’t see her face
@basicwitgirl I wouldn't worry about using the widow. 1, it's heaviest hell. Two, it's all so slow. 3, you are playing as a class that uses powers. It would be different if you had chosen Soldier, which I'm glad you didn't. That's just pew, pew. Focus on recharging quid and combining the powers among your squad. You would be surprised at how using something like maxed out Stasis combined with warp or Push works against all kinds of enemies. We know you are bringing Kaiden to everything from here on, fill the gaps with your third. James, believe it or not, can be very useful for his incendiary ammo and Carnage.
I have to say watching you fight those Primes was so aggravating!!! 😊
Tell me about it, how do you think I felt ACTUALLY being the one fighting them
I always romance tali
😀 BWG Shepard sporting the shiny red lips, 😄 that girls in Luv!💛👍
Keelah S'lai
Everyone has to go through the frustration of the reaper fight
i felt it for days afterwards.....😂
Oh! Before I forget -- one thing that drives me nuts about Priority: Rannoch --Legion's death, as noble and as hard-core as it was, felt unearned because we never really got a decent explanation of what happened. "Copying is insufficient. Shepard-Commander, I must go to them. I'm sorry."
Maybe I've had too much coffee today, but this feels like Legion died by network error. Who knew the geth had AT&T?
Okay I'll hush. Looking forward to the next bit :)
It's so much worse than you think. The original writer for Legion and the Geth in both 1 and 2 went so far out of their way to write a species that is a true collectivist gestalt consensus based hive mind, as well as being a true mechanical species, conscious but not emotional. Legion's entire loyalty mission is about how a minority of Geth went rogue to join the Reapers in promise of upgrades that would make them a true organic like individualist race, which is a betrayal of everything the Geth are and have achieved.
Then in 3 the new writer, who in his own words never even read through what the Geth did or wanted in the first two games, just decided no actually Legion does in fact want to *forcibly and against their will* override his people with those heretical upgrades, because actually being a collectivist is mean and evil, and the only way for AI races to prosper is to become organic mimics. Oh, also Legion had to die, because EA set a minimum number of companions who must die no matter what, and Legion was 'creepy.'
There is no reason he had to die. Oh, also the reaper they just killed was broadcasting the upgrade anyway, so why did the Geth not just..... keep doing what they decided they wanted to with the exact same programming upgrade just moments before? Because you got enough points and jumped through the hoops, so narrative reward.
It doesn't make sense because the situation wasn't written by anyone who understood anything. It's literally just a classic colonizers uplifting the noble savages narrative because that's the only idea they had.
Also, don't think too hard on how the Geth were noble innocent savages to begin with, yet somehow managed to wipe out 90% of all Quarian *civilians* during the rebellion. I'm all for a no one is entirely in the wrong, they had their reasons, narrative, but the fact that so many people come away unironically thinking the Geth literally did nothing wrong is just crazy. They literally chased down and massacred children who were hiding in attics. Seriously, how can you possibly purge an entire planet of their population without needing to track down hiding civilians, and mercilessly murder them? You can say they had reasons to launch a genocide, but they did in fact carry out a year long complete genocide. They literally went around killing newborn babies in their cribs.
Or are you trying to tell me 90% of the Quarian populace was in their military?
And of course how this all reflects on the synthesis ending. Oh, the only way for peace to exist between the different races is to erase the differences between them? Like, you're going to end racism by making everyone's skin color the same? That's really what you want your message to be? Are you saying it's natural and inevitable for people to kill each other over differences, so the only hope is genocide, irresistible fascist control, or re-writing everyone's genetics against their will so everyone is the same race? There's literally no other solution to the race war? Reeeeaaaallly?
Oh, I forgot the secret 4th option: you can do nothing and let the other side genocide your race instead. Neat.
TLDR: they had a very neat and interesting story with the Geth in the first two games, but in the second they literally just ignored everything they did before (the new Geth writer literally didn't know anything and refused to look it up or play the prior games), and wrote some by the numbers trashy goober story instead, that is only good because of the incredible voice acting and presentation, that works hard to hid the writing rather than showcases it.
perhaps a spoiler - if you romance Tali, you can see her face in the photo on your cabin's desk.
Never understand why ppl have such a hard time with part... Stop moving... Dodge when close... It actually very fast and easy... Easiest part of the game
Am I the only one that gets really annoyed that she doesn't reload, remember to use the ammo mods and uses weaker weapons because he "likes them"? in the last episode it was using the "hacker gun" in the geth network not holding down the damn trigger but constantly clicking like it was a damn revolver and not a full auto weapon.
I like the streams and her, but this is silly!
I can't watch this, even using a spitfire as a revolver, why would you EVER shoot like everything is single shot, why!?
It’s her first time playing the game. Not everyone looks up guides/knows how to play something perfectly just by intuition. She’s doing way better than I did. She’s also talking/entertaining us while playing so she’s not just 100% locked in on the game. Also what’s wrong with using a gun you like? The point of video games is to have fun, and fun is different for everyone
lol you have to stop moving so damn much. your worried about the laser more than getting the shot
well hindsight is 20/20, but the laser one taps me sooo....my brain says it makes sense to worry about the laser 😂
It's okay. That reaper fight is BS no matter how good you are. The dodging is so silly and different from the rest of the game
Don't dodge just run lol🎉
How is it BS? You can literally sidestep it by sprinting a little to the side, you don't need to be even remotely "good" at the game lol
@@mb8132 I literally said "different from the rest of the game" - There's no cover. It tracks you in a weird way. You don't expect to have to do little tippy-taps side to side.
honestly the only hard to get thing is that if you stop moving the laser speeds up like 900%
The fight is super easy and quick if you just stop moving around constantly and only dodge when the beam comes near
what's with the fake crying, you don't even have tears
i mean, sobbing literally doesn't always equate to tears but pop off king
@@basicwitgirl yeah, it does, if there is a true emotion and not pretend, tears come even without visible crying
@@maxgain1 lmao not at all true, my dude. have a good one tho.
@@basicwitgirl don't gaslight me
@@maxgain1 the definition is literally: to catch the breath audibly in a spasmodic contraction of the throat. google is free.