I don’t think I’ve ever heard that conversation between Tali and Javik. Normally, I go see Tali first, so by the time I get to Javik she’s already drunk when she’s talking to him. It’s so cool to see the other side of it though!!
6:33 the wiki mentions that “if Ann survives the ordeal reluctantly unscathed” and since she’s scripted to survive her own rescue mission it sort of implies that yes: she died from the double interrupt
If you hadn't warned Miranda about Kai Leng, she would have died there, and Tali's drinking scene would have different dialogue - if you play it back, you can see where Tali would have continued to toasting her memory, rather than what she herself couldn't accomplish that Miranda did.
Am Sorry I just watched the episode, I am in Spain a 6 hour difference. But I have to say you jumping from the husk had cracking up, I guess Mass Effect is scary game 😂. Fun episode!!!
I can't find it now but what I recall is that Ann ends up in a coma. That was years ago. It is possible she died. Point being yes, not taking the second interrupt basically ends her, either my death or coma. The nose bleed was the "you better stop now" flag. So, a good defense lawyer can keep you out of jail for a criminal charge of involuntary slaughter. If she is in a coma, you are lucky. There is no family to sue you for personal injury. 😂
This is just an unthinkable horror of a mission to do. Bioware knew how to pull us in and make us feel! Sometimes happy, or sad, or angry and in this case, repulsed! One thing good of this mission is I am glad you got to see another side to Miranda! Not bringing her on your team for the Collector mission means you didn't see her character arc where she finally sees TIM and Cerberus for what they truly are and resigns. She is just another insecure, lost pup like all the rest of the cast
1:19:15 Happy fun time citadel. Keep telling yourself that. Of course if you're reading this you've already played it and know exactly what I mean. Just be glad you're a class with some good powers because you don't bring much into the beginning of the dlc
To put it simply, the Widow is a direct upgrade to the Mantis, with 40% more damage and innate cover penetration. The Black Widow is a massive upgrade to the Viper but with some compromises, it has 125% more damage per shot, but 15% less fire rate, a lot more recoil and reload time, and only 3 shots per clip instead of 6. It also has innate cover penetration. Going deeper: There's only 6 weapons with this innate cover penetration, which also has the bonus of eliminating the 50-30% damage penalty that other weapons suffer when firing through cover or armor plating. So the Cerberus handheld shields become irrelevant, as does the plating on Reaper Brutes or buffed Cannibals and Husks. You can even headshot the Atlas pilot through the window after the shields are down without having to deal enough damage to break it. (The Typhoon you gave Kaidan also has this bonus and is the best assault rifle for squadmates, you can see him demolishing the Banshees in this episode. The other 3 are the Javelin sniper, the Crusader shotgun and the Executioner pistol, all very heavy and very good for squadmates as well) While on lower difficulties the Widows tend to be a bit overkill and might look like sidegrades, the extra damage makes all the difference when it gets harder and enemies have more health, armor and shields. As for the Mantis having more damage than the Black Widow, it does have 20% more damage per shot but with only 1 shot in the clip followed by a ~3 second reload, the Black Widow can fire 2-3 shots before the Mantis has finished reloading, leading to much higher DPS. Keep in mind that with Garrus you were comparing a Mantis with a +25% damage mod against unmodded Widows, that's why it looked competitive. The disadvantage of the Widows is the weight but your squad isn't affected by it so it's only important for Shepard. (They also aren't affected by recoil, accuracy or spare ammo. The stat bars are also misleading, they don't take into account clip capacity, reload time and special firing modes, and damage can go higher than a full bar) Personally, since I always played insanity after the first playthrough, the only sniper I used was the Black Widow, with disruptor ammo it can take out most enemies with one headshot, even if they have shields. Since it's very heavy I had to settle for the Hurricane SMG with weight reduction mod instead of an assault rifle to keep cooldowns low. The Widow is too slow so a miss is too costly and the Viper needs several shots to kill so it's outperformed by a top assault rifle like the Harrier (it's a fully automatic Mattock with more damage, costs 150,000 credits at the Spectre Requisitions). For squadmates, only the Javelin (1 of the 6) can maybe rival the Black Widow for burst damage since they're not affected by its weird firing mechanism, but with only 1 shot they end up spending more time in cover reloading than shooting so I prefer the higher sustained DPS of the Black Widow.
I could never get into the Javelin. I always ran with the Widow on an infiltrator play-through and gave Garrus the Krysae and everyone else an M99 or an Executioner. Everyone else except for Ashley, I never play with her, so it stays a Mantis.
@@nonnonsence It's the firing delay on the Javelin that makes it weird to use, but that doesn't affect squadmates. It does have the highest cover penetration at 1 meter (for reference, the Black Widow and the Typhoon have 0.25 meters and the other 3 have 0.5 meters). Without mods it will go through most walls while the others might not, but you'll probably be using High-Velocity Barrel (adds 0.5-1.1 meters) and/or Piercing Mod (adds 0.75-1.35 meters) for up to 2.45 meters from the mods alone so that difference is not as relevant when everything is upgraded, which proportionally favors the Black Widow. Squadmates tend to hit each other or obstructions when enemies hide but with this much penetration in these 6 weapons it doesn't matter, each bullet hits every enemy in its path at full force until the penetration distance of each obstruction adds up the gun's total. That's why they're so effective, apart from their great stats, they can turn a miss into a multi-kill. The Krysae is an interesting choice, incapable of headshots or penetration, but with AoE explosive shots and +50% damage to armor. Squadmates don't attempt headshots anyway so I can see it being competitive in situations where enemies bunch up, not so much when everyone is in cover. The M-99 Saber is ineffective for squadmates, they don't make good use of the fire rate. If I wanted to avoid the Typhoon (for being too OP in their hands) I tended to go with the Particle Rifle for a similar experience but toned down, or the Lancer or Revenant for the most reliably high DPS. For shotguns it's the Crusader all the way, it's pretty much a sniper rifle in the shotgun slot and they use it that away, great if you don't want them dying all the time for rushing the enemies like with normal shotguns. Those who can only use small weapons are left with the Executioner and Suppressor pistols, and the Hurricane and Punisher SMGs. They are all evenly matched in the hands of squadmates (while the Executioner and Punisher have a higher ceiling when things go right, especially against armor, the Suppressor and Hurricane are more reliable), so it's pretty much down to taste.
@@thamned I completely disagree with the DPS argument for the M-99. On higher difficulties, your team spends most of their time in cover. They will pop up for 2 or 3 seconds and drop back down. You need the most stopping power for those seconds. The Revenant can't hit anything, and the Typhoon takes too long to spin up. M-99 is just a sniper classified as a rifle. If I was smart I would give Garrus the Javelin, but I can't stand to see him with Geth weaponry. It's a cosmetic choice but to each their own.
@@nonnonsence I agree with you in theory, but in practice the squad behaves very differently depending on the weapon they're using, they use the Saber almost like a single shot sniper so they're always ducking for cover as if they needed to reload. With the Typhoon, Lancer, Particle Rifle and Revenant they just keep blasting until they run out of ammo or enemies and aren't too affected by whatever limits their performance in the hands of Shepard, be that spin up, recoil, accuracy or overheating. The Typhoon is even more bonkers with its +50% bonus damage against every defense and its disregard for cover with good armor piercing, Kaidan even wants to start shooting through the wall at 36:10 but there's not enough penetration in his build. Look at how he took down the Banshees at 36:25 and 51:00, their barriers are gone before Basique gets a shot and the second one is killed while Garrus is down and Basique is running away. Get 2 squadmates with a level X Typhoon, level V mods, good AR damage bonus and Armor-Piercing Ammo and Insanity will look easier than this playthrough, it's just broken. The Particle Rifle with Incendiary Ammo is also broken, it's always triggering the rank 6 explosions. The Lancer and the Revenant are more normal, but the squad shoots for so long with them that they're just better than the rest, with the Lancer not even needing reloads (It's also a great weapon for Shepard if the Harrier's low ammo count is a problem, it doesn't need ammo). Apart from these 4, I'd rather have Garrus using snipers like the 2 Widows, Javelin, and even the Viper and your Krysae, which are better utilized than every other assault rifle. I'd give the edge to the Black Widow when fully upgraded, at lower levels it's probably more even, but these are all viable and this is a game to have fun so I also changed it up for role playing reasons, these are just my findings when trying to min/max it.
Great episode, Basic and Taylor! After the Sanctuary mission, I also though: "Just burn Horizon to the ground" 😅😅😅 Loved your face while watching Tali and Garrus flirt 😂 You only needed the popcorn hahahaha. I'm not 100% sure since I have only done Garrus' romance once and it was a long time ago, but I think those kind of flirty conversations happened even if you were romancing him 😂😂😂😂 (Damn, Kaidan is so hot when he's so serious and all business 😍😍😍) Anyway, can't believe next episode is already the Citadel DLC! It gives me a bittersweet feeling because I know we are in for a great time, but it also means we are only a couple episodes away from the end and even if I'm super hyped for a DA playthrough, I will really miss Basique, her boyfriend and all the crew 😭❤️ See you on thursday!
A lot of things had to happen to have Miranda survive that mission. Good job! The reason Tali is drunk is because I believe in canon Miranda died there.
Javik's past is really awful, immagine the normandy getting captured and you had to kill Garrus or Liara. I think after all i can understand Javik's cold and brutal attitude 😢
The worst part is that if you encourage him to use/keep the echo shard he commits suicide after the reapers… he moves on after if you prevent him from it
It took me awhile to remember, but my favorite AR (while the mattok is good) is the Saber. It is just a smidge slower, but it is FANTASTIC! Just throwing it out there.
Oh horizon. Nothing good there when Shepard shows up. Nice little colony out in the terminus systems my ass haha. Cerberus is so icky. Carve "deez nuts" into TIM's skull while you're at it. The tone of Kaidan's voice was so angry, but sultry in a way. A little bit of renegade coming out of him real quick. EDI really seems to love the crew now. Love to see it. Welcome to the squad for real. I'm not ready for this playthrough to be... over... I am ready to see the Citadel dlc though. It's so damn good. My favorite dlc on the citadel. Leviathan and shadow broker are close, but not quite. I'm looking foward to seeing what happens with Kaidan. Can't say I've seen much of it myself. From under the normandy LED 🫡
The biggest plot hole is in this episode. "Before Kai Leng took off, I planted a tracer on him. If you act fast, you'll track him right to the Illusive Man" -Miranda. But why the hell would Miranda need to plant a tracer on Kai for that ?... At the beginning of Mass Effect 2, during the intro, the first few minutes of the game, Miranda is literally walking around TIM in his base. None of them is a hologram. Which means, she KNOWS his exact location since ( at least ) the beginning of ME2, since she met him personally and walked around in his base. So just tell us where he's hiding, Miranda. We could've solved the TIM problem much earlier if she had told us where to find him from the start... Her needing to plant a tracer on Kai to find where TIM is hiding makes absolutely no sense at all, she already knows where TIM hiding. 😭 This plot hole infuriates me every time I get to this point of the game. Anyway... Congrats on saving Miranda. When playing as male Shep, we have like a 95% chance that she dies, no matter what we did or said up until this point. She's almost impossible to keep alive when playing as male Shep. It's easier to save her as fem Shep, but even then, there's no guarantee she'll live. The Tali drunk scene doesn't really make sense when Miranda lives though. 😅
Maybe the station can move. And saving Miranda with male Shepard is the same as with female Shepard, the only factor that can make a difference is if you had a romance with Miranda in Mass Effect 2 and then you break up with her in Mass Effect 3, in that case it is impossible to save her. But if you didn't have a romance with Miranda, it's exactly the same as if you played as a female Shepard.
TIM’s station moves, which is a good ides since he’s basically #1 Enemy after the Reapers. Plus, the guy loves to keep people guessing. It tracks that his station’s location would be mysterious. Two, saving Miranda as MShep is just as easy as saving her as FShep if your MShep did not romance her in ME2. If he did romance her in ME2 and you want to resume the romance, same thing: it’s easy to save her. You follow the exact same steps (listening to her at the dock, warning her about KL and giving her access to Alliance’s intel) Now, if your MShep did romance her in ME2 but you don’t want to continue in ME3, you’ll have to take extra steps to make sure she’ll survive but again that doesn’t mean that we’ve got only 5% chances of her surviving. The easiest solution is to dump her in ME2 after completing the game. When importing your save, ME3 will consider that your MShep is single. Easy-peasy 😊
Can someone tell me what is the version of the N7 official hoodie she wears in every episode? BioWare’s site only has the one with the giant red bungee drawstrings and I wonder if I need to hunt on Poshmark or wait the official store out on this one 👀😅🤔
See, I’m in the minority about Citadel and now I can tell you why because I know you completed ME3, so I won’t spoil anything by accident. I believe that only the Party needs to be postponed right before the point of non retourn, everything else can (and should IMO) be played before. See, Citadel has a very light-hearted, positive and comical atmosphere and when compared to the base game’s tone, I feel that the change is super jarring. So, I like to do the DLC in several stages, spread out over the 2nd part of ME3 - Citadel’s story/main mission: after Citadeli II if Tali died in ME2 or after Rannoch if Tali survives ME2 - Citadel’s exploration and meetings with friends: between the base game’s main missions, side missions and Leviathan’s missions. I figure that every time Shepard dock to the Citadel, they take the opportunity to spend mini shore leaves on Silversun Strip( 1-2 days in my canon) - The Party: right before the endgame. Once again, it’s my way of playing. I’m not saying it’s the _only right way_ of playing: there is no such thing when playing Mass Effect. It works really well for me and I guess I wanted to share in case somebody wanted to play the DLC in a different way 😊 Anyways, yep, Horizon is another tough one. Discovering what happens behind these walls is awful especially when you’re remembering: - at the beginning of ME3, the Turian Engineer asking his wife to go to Sanctuary with their girls - speaking of this… the datapad you found in a room a few moment earlier where it said that 85% of the _children_ are processed. How can you do this to kids and say that you’re saving Humanity? How? Also, losing Kal’Reegar is bad enough but I’ll never forgive the writers to kill him off screen! That badass Quarian deserved more than us learning about his death via email! Oh and fun thing to try on your next playthrough: go talk to Tali BEFORE talking to Javik. In that case, the dialogue between Tali and Javik is hilariously different 😂
Question. Remember in ME2, when they were emphasising Miranda's genetically enhanced intelligence, and her father's incredible wealth and his network of professional minions, murderers and spies? How come he couldn't find Miranda? SHE LITERALLY NEVER EVEN CHANGED HER NAME. They are both unfeasably dumb. 😂
Before ME2, Miranda runs away and joins Cerberus to hide from her Father. The Illusive Man hides her. He is forced to work with Eclipse in ME2 to find Oriana. He was never looking for Miranda, he wanted Oriana. In ME3 Miranda is trying to find Henry, not the other way around. This time TIM was hiding him.
Will not forgive Bioware for making both Miranda and Tali straight-locked romances. Tell me Miranda and fem!Shep or Tali and fem!Shep wouldn't make COMPLETE sense for their characters?
It wouldn't have happened with Tali anyway. Her VA was uncomfortable reading romance lines to other women, so she remained straight only because of that.
Jack and Miranda were both intended as either gender romances. IIRC jack's VA didn't even know they'd removed the ability to romance Jack as Femshep until after the game had launched.
Maybe this is just a nuance, but decision you made during the talk with Javik (showing him the memory card) affects his post-war plans. And unfortunately you picked arguably worse scenario. :x
@@basicwitgirl I'm so sorry, I didn't think about it that way! :c I was talking about just one optional conversation with Javik, which is very easy to miss. Anyway, have a great Citadel experience, this is def the peak of Mass Effect
@@dr.herbertwest4453 but Miranda’s wounded which only happens if you missed one of her additional conversations where she’s not warned about Kai Leng and her being wounded will result with her dying after Henry
lol, its a role playing game. There's no wrong way to play, just different outcomes that result in different scenes. We all have our favorite outcomes, but its cool to see them all play out. (for the record, she didn't)
In this installment, Basique reads the Reapers their Miranda rights
😂
Nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk...
“Nothing good ever came out of reaper tech” -Garrus “keep the collector base” Vakarian.
In his defence, most of characters will actually say this (if i remember right, only Miranda will actually try to convince you to destroy base)...
@@tralalalalatralalalala3958 - In general, one will say 'keep', the other 'destroy'. Miranda has a better 'no' dialog set tho (imo)
The home stretch 😢 can’t believe our space adventure is wrapping up soon 😭I’m not ready to gooooo
Saaaaaaame.... But on the bright side, we get to see what new game serves up the yearnsday content!
Tali's drunken scene makes more sense if Miranda actually dies (which she does, when you don't fully support her).
Tali’s drunk because she’s depressed that Miranda managed to do something Tali never got the chance to do which was standing up against her father
I don’t think I’ve ever heard that conversation between Tali and Javik. Normally, I go see Tali first, so by the time I get to Javik she’s already drunk when she’s talking to him. It’s so cool to see the other side of it though!!
If you didnt warn Miranda about Kai Leng earlier, she would have died here.
also if you didn't gain her loyalty in ME2, you can still warn her about Lang but she'll still die. Assuming she survives the suicide mission.
6:33 the wiki mentions that “if Ann survives the ordeal reluctantly unscathed” and since she’s scripted to survive her own rescue mission it sort of implies that yes: she died from the double interrupt
The ship name for Garrus/Tali is Talibrations, fyi 😂
And I dislike that ship so much that in my playthrough to get the paramour III achievement I’ll get Garrus killed
@@axelnilsson5124 lemme guess, you dislike it because you’re a diehard Talimancer and you can’t handle different outcomes?
@@MillyDel that and because I feel it’s too underdeveloped for my taste
A few of the Scientists you hear the illusion man talking about are actually references to the Mass Effect books!
If you hadn't warned Miranda about Kai Leng, she would have died there, and Tali's drinking scene would have different dialogue - if you play it back, you can see where Tali would have continued to toasting her memory, rather than what she herself couldn't accomplish that Miranda did.
Am Sorry I just watched the episode, I am in Spain a 6 hour difference. But I have to say you jumping from the husk had cracking up, I guess Mass Effect is scary game 😂. Fun episode!!!
Where in Spain?
@@fergie3204 Valencia
@@fergie3204 Valencia and Sagunto
@@joshuacordero8163 I lived on the military base in Rota for a couple years. It was quite the experience.
Post Horizon Kaidan is Scary Kaidan!
I can't find it now but what I recall is that Ann ends up in a coma. That was years ago. It is possible she died. Point being yes, not taking the second interrupt basically ends her, either my death or coma. The nose bleed was the "you better stop now" flag.
So, a good defense lawyer can keep you out of jail for a criminal charge of involuntary slaughter. If she is in a coma, you are lucky. There is no family to sue you for personal injury. 😂
@@hubtal and… Shep is a Spectre
@@chiraakitteh4091 LMAO. I mean basic herself
the poor refugees were transformed and are now jumping @ 30:52 WAAA the fuck ... against the window pane🤣
This is just an unthinkable horror of a mission to do. Bioware knew how to pull us in and make us feel! Sometimes happy, or sad, or angry and in this case, repulsed!
One thing good of this mission is I am glad you got to see another side to Miranda! Not bringing her on your team for the Collector mission means you didn't see her character arc where she finally sees TIM and Cerberus for what they truly are and resigns. She is just another insecure, lost pup like all the rest of the cast
1:19:15 Happy fun time citadel. Keep telling yourself that. Of course if you're reading this you've already played it and know exactly what I mean. Just be glad you're a class with some good powers because you don't bring much into the beginning of the dlc
Mass effect gets its darkest and at that point ... drunk tali brings a little light.
The dog lays down when you block him by accident. He'll be back up! (Or she)
To put it simply, the Widow is a direct upgrade to the Mantis, with 40% more damage and innate cover penetration.
The Black Widow is a massive upgrade to the Viper but with some compromises, it has 125% more damage per shot, but 15% less fire rate, a lot more recoil and reload time, and only 3 shots per clip instead of 6. It also has innate cover penetration.
Going deeper:
There's only 6 weapons with this innate cover penetration, which also has the bonus of eliminating the 50-30% damage penalty that other weapons suffer when firing through cover or armor plating. So the Cerberus handheld shields become irrelevant, as does the plating on Reaper Brutes or buffed Cannibals and Husks. You can even headshot the Atlas pilot through the window after the shields are down without having to deal enough damage to break it.
(The Typhoon you gave Kaidan also has this bonus and is the best assault rifle for squadmates, you can see him demolishing the Banshees in this episode. The other 3 are the Javelin sniper, the Crusader shotgun and the Executioner pistol, all very heavy and very good for squadmates as well)
While on lower difficulties the Widows tend to be a bit overkill and might look like sidegrades, the extra damage makes all the difference when it gets harder and enemies have more health, armor and shields.
As for the Mantis having more damage than the Black Widow, it does have 20% more damage per shot but with only 1 shot in the clip followed by a ~3 second reload, the Black Widow can fire 2-3 shots before the Mantis has finished reloading, leading to much higher DPS.
Keep in mind that with Garrus you were comparing a Mantis with a +25% damage mod against unmodded Widows, that's why it looked competitive. The disadvantage of the Widows is the weight but your squad isn't affected by it so it's only important for Shepard. (They also aren't affected by recoil, accuracy or spare ammo. The stat bars are also misleading, they don't take into account clip capacity, reload time and special firing modes, and damage can go higher than a full bar)
Personally, since I always played insanity after the first playthrough, the only sniper I used was the Black Widow, with disruptor ammo it can take out most enemies with one headshot, even if they have shields. Since it's very heavy I had to settle for the Hurricane SMG with weight reduction mod instead of an assault rifle to keep cooldowns low. The Widow is too slow so a miss is too costly and the Viper needs several shots to kill so it's outperformed by a top assault rifle like the Harrier (it's a fully automatic Mattock with more damage, costs 150,000 credits at the Spectre Requisitions).
For squadmates, only the Javelin (1 of the 6) can maybe rival the Black Widow for burst damage since they're not affected by its weird firing mechanism, but with only 1 shot they end up spending more time in cover reloading than shooting so I prefer the higher sustained DPS of the Black Widow.
I could never get into the Javelin. I always ran with the Widow on an infiltrator play-through and gave Garrus the Krysae and everyone else an M99 or an Executioner. Everyone else except for Ashley, I never play with her, so it stays a Mantis.
@@nonnonsence It's the firing delay on the Javelin that makes it weird to use, but that doesn't affect squadmates. It does have the highest cover penetration at 1 meter (for reference, the Black Widow and the Typhoon have 0.25 meters and the other 3 have 0.5 meters). Without mods it will go through most walls while the others might not, but you'll probably be using High-Velocity Barrel (adds 0.5-1.1 meters) and/or Piercing Mod (adds 0.75-1.35 meters) for up to 2.45 meters from the mods alone so that difference is not as relevant when everything is upgraded, which proportionally favors the Black Widow.
Squadmates tend to hit each other or obstructions when enemies hide but with this much penetration in these 6 weapons it doesn't matter, each bullet hits every enemy in its path at full force until the penetration distance of each obstruction adds up the gun's total. That's why they're so effective, apart from their great stats, they can turn a miss into a multi-kill.
The Krysae is an interesting choice, incapable of headshots or penetration, but with AoE explosive shots and +50% damage to armor. Squadmates don't attempt headshots anyway so I can see it being competitive in situations where enemies bunch up, not so much when everyone is in cover.
The M-99 Saber is ineffective for squadmates, they don't make good use of the fire rate. If I wanted to avoid the Typhoon (for being too OP in their hands) I tended to go with the Particle Rifle for a similar experience but toned down, or the Lancer or Revenant for the most reliably high DPS.
For shotguns it's the Crusader all the way, it's pretty much a sniper rifle in the shotgun slot and they use it that away, great if you don't want them dying all the time for rushing the enemies like with normal shotguns.
Those who can only use small weapons are left with the Executioner and Suppressor pistols, and the Hurricane and Punisher SMGs. They are all evenly matched in the hands of squadmates (while the Executioner and Punisher have a higher ceiling when things go right, especially against armor, the Suppressor and Hurricane are more reliable), so it's pretty much down to taste.
@@thamned I completely disagree with the DPS argument for the M-99. On higher difficulties, your team spends most of their time in cover. They will pop up for 2 or 3 seconds and drop back down. You need the most stopping power for those seconds. The Revenant can't hit anything, and the Typhoon takes too long to spin up. M-99 is just a sniper classified as a rifle. If I was smart I would give Garrus the Javelin, but I can't stand to see him with Geth weaponry. It's a cosmetic choice but to each their own.
@@nonnonsence I agree with you in theory, but in practice the squad behaves very differently depending on the weapon they're using, they use the Saber almost like a single shot sniper so they're always ducking for cover as if they needed to reload. With the Typhoon, Lancer, Particle Rifle and Revenant they just keep blasting until they run out of ammo or enemies and aren't too affected by whatever limits their performance in the hands of Shepard, be that spin up, recoil, accuracy or overheating.
The Typhoon is even more bonkers with its +50% bonus damage against every defense and its disregard for cover with good armor piercing, Kaidan even wants to start shooting through the wall at 36:10 but there's not enough penetration in his build. Look at how he took down the Banshees at 36:25 and 51:00, their barriers are gone before Basique gets a shot and the second one is killed while Garrus is down and Basique is running away. Get 2 squadmates with a level X Typhoon, level V mods, good AR damage bonus and Armor-Piercing Ammo and Insanity will look easier than this playthrough, it's just broken.
The Particle Rifle with Incendiary Ammo is also broken, it's always triggering the rank 6 explosions. The Lancer and the Revenant are more normal, but the squad shoots for so long with them that they're just better than the rest, with the Lancer not even needing reloads (It's also a great weapon for Shepard if the Harrier's low ammo count is a problem, it doesn't need ammo).
Apart from these 4, I'd rather have Garrus using snipers like the 2 Widows, Javelin, and even the Viper and your Krysae, which are better utilized than every other assault rifle. I'd give the edge to the Black Widow when fully upgraded, at lower levels it's probably more even, but these are all viable and this is a game to have fun so I also changed it up for role playing reasons, these are just my findings when trying to min/max it.
Great episode, Basic and Taylor!
After the Sanctuary mission, I also though: "Just burn Horizon to the ground" 😅😅😅
Loved your face while watching Tali and Garrus flirt 😂 You only needed the popcorn hahahaha. I'm not 100% sure since I have only done Garrus' romance once and it was a long time ago, but I think those kind of flirty conversations happened even if you were romancing him 😂😂😂😂
(Damn, Kaidan is so hot when he's so serious and all business 😍😍😍)
Anyway, can't believe next episode is already the Citadel DLC! It gives me a bittersweet feeling because I know we are in for a great time, but it also means we are only a couple episodes away from the end and even if I'm super hyped for a DA playthrough, I will really miss Basique, her boyfriend and all the crew 😭❤️
See you on thursday!
RenShep strikes again! Ann who? Time to party at the Citadel! 😎
ANN IS PROBABLY FINE!!! ☺
A lot of things had to happen to have Miranda survive that mission. Good job! The reason Tali is drunk is because I believe in canon Miranda died there.
I had no idea it was so difficult to save her!
Javik's past is really awful, immagine the normandy getting captured and you had to kill Garrus or Liara. I think after all i can understand Javik's cold and brutal attitude 😢
The worst part is that if you encourage him to use/keep the echo shard he commits suicide after the reapers… he moves on after if you prevent him from it
There is no time to waste we have to go after the Illusive man ASAP...wait a minute let's just pop into the citadel for some Netflix and chill.
Armor piecing… just shoot those Cerberus snipers thru their cover.
It took me awhile to remember, but my favorite AR (while the mattok is good) is the Saber. It is just a smidge slower, but it is FANTASTIC! Just throwing it out there.
1:10:30
Well, damn...
Omg amazing episode as always!!! I don't want me3 to end I'm not ready sobs 😢
emerrrgency induction port
I know Horizon is rough, but when Kaidan reacts like that... He really is so hot when he's mad.
THAT WAS SO SEXY AND FOR WHY?????
Emergency Induction Port
I wonder what other games make her "happy" 1:18:58
Oh horizon. Nothing good there when Shepard shows up. Nice little colony out in the terminus systems my ass haha. Cerberus is so icky. Carve "deez nuts" into TIM's skull while you're at it. The tone of Kaidan's voice was so angry, but sultry in a way. A little bit of renegade coming out of him real quick. EDI really seems to love the crew now. Love to see it. Welcome to the squad for real.
I'm not ready for this playthrough to be... over... I am ready to see the Citadel dlc though. It's so damn good. My favorite dlc on the citadel. Leviathan and shadow broker are close, but not quite. I'm looking foward to seeing what happens with Kaidan. Can't say I've seen much of it myself.
From under the normandy LED 🫡
Great shot on the corps lol
The biggest plot hole is in this episode. "Before Kai Leng took off, I planted a tracer on him. If you act fast, you'll track him right to the Illusive Man" -Miranda.
But why the hell would Miranda need to plant a tracer on Kai for that ?...
At the beginning of Mass Effect 2, during the intro, the first few minutes of the game, Miranda is literally walking around TIM in his base. None of them is a hologram.
Which means, she KNOWS his exact location since ( at least ) the beginning of ME2, since she met him personally and walked around in his base. So just tell us where he's hiding, Miranda. We could've solved the TIM problem much earlier if she had told us where to find him from the start...
Her needing to plant a tracer on Kai to find where TIM is hiding makes absolutely no sense at all, she already knows where TIM hiding. 😭
This plot hole infuriates me every time I get to this point of the game.
Anyway... Congrats on saving Miranda.
When playing as male Shep, we have like a 95% chance that she dies, no matter what we did or said up until this point. She's almost impossible to keep alive when playing as male Shep. It's easier to save her as fem Shep, but even then, there's no guarantee she'll live.
The Tali drunk scene doesn't really make sense when Miranda lives though. 😅
Maybe the station can move. And saving Miranda with male Shepard is the same as with female Shepard, the only factor that can make a difference is if you had a romance with Miranda in Mass Effect 2 and then you break up with her in Mass Effect 3, in that case it is impossible to save her. But if you didn't have a romance with Miranda, it's exactly the same as if you played as a female Shepard.
TIM’s station moves, which is a good ides since he’s basically #1 Enemy after the Reapers. Plus, the guy loves to keep people guessing. It tracks that his station’s location would be mysterious.
Two, saving Miranda as MShep is just as easy as saving her as FShep if your MShep did not romance her in ME2.
If he did romance her in ME2 and you want to resume the romance, same thing: it’s easy to save her. You follow the exact same steps (listening to her at the dock, warning her about KL and giving her access to Alliance’s intel)
Now, if your MShep did romance her in ME2 but you don’t want to continue in ME3, you’ll have to take extra steps to make sure she’ll survive but again that doesn’t mean that we’ve got only 5% chances of her surviving.
The easiest solution is to dump her in ME2 after completing the game. When importing your save, ME3 will consider that your MShep is single. Easy-peasy 😊
Can someone tell me what is the version of the N7 official hoodie she wears in every episode? BioWare’s site only has the one with the giant red bungee drawstrings and I wonder if I need to hunt on Poshmark or wait the official store out on this one 👀😅🤔
this one was just an amazon find!!
@@basicwitgirl thanks girlie ❤️🤍
Raegar is my 2nd favourite Quarian. A distant 2nd, but still my 2nd.
After you've triggered drunk tali convo, you should head back to Javik. Its worth it.
did you talk to cortez hes by the shuttle
I live for these reactions!! 1:08:23
Javik did NOT hold back😂
See, I’m in the minority about Citadel and now I can tell you why because I know you completed ME3, so I won’t spoil anything by accident.
I believe that only the Party needs to be postponed right before the point of non retourn, everything else can (and should IMO) be played before.
See, Citadel has a very light-hearted, positive and comical atmosphere and when compared to the base game’s tone, I feel that the change is super jarring. So, I like to do the DLC in several stages, spread out over the 2nd part of ME3
- Citadel’s story/main mission: after Citadeli II if Tali died in ME2 or after Rannoch if Tali survives ME2
- Citadel’s exploration and meetings with friends: between the base game’s main missions, side missions and Leviathan’s missions. I figure that every time Shepard dock to the Citadel, they take the opportunity to spend mini shore leaves on Silversun Strip( 1-2 days in my canon)
- The Party: right before the endgame.
Once again, it’s my way of playing. I’m not saying it’s the _only right way_ of playing: there is no such thing when playing Mass Effect. It works really well for me and I guess I wanted to share in case somebody wanted to play the DLC in a different way 😊
Anyways, yep, Horizon is another tough one. Discovering what happens behind these walls is awful especially when you’re remembering:
- at the beginning of ME3, the Turian Engineer asking his wife to go to Sanctuary with their girls
- speaking of this… the datapad you found in a room a few moment earlier where it said that 85% of the _children_ are processed. How can you do this to kids and say that you’re saving Humanity? How?
Also, losing Kal’Reegar is bad enough but I’ll never forgive the writers to kill him off screen! That badass Quarian deserved more than us learning about his death via email!
Oh and fun thing to try on your next playthrough: go talk to Tali BEFORE talking to Javik. In that case, the dialogue between Tali and Javik is hilariously different 😂
Nah, you killed Bryson. If you do not sever the connection asap, she's worm food. 😉
You kept forgetting to mod Kaidan's gun lol
Question.
Remember in ME2, when they were emphasising Miranda's genetically enhanced intelligence, and her father's incredible wealth and his network of professional minions, murderers and spies?
How come he couldn't find Miranda? SHE LITERALLY NEVER EVEN CHANGED HER NAME.
They are both unfeasably dumb. 😂
Before ME2, Miranda runs away and joins Cerberus to hide from her Father. The Illusive Man hides her. He is forced to work with Eclipse in ME2 to find Oriana.
He was never looking for Miranda, he wanted Oriana. In ME3 Miranda is trying to find Henry, not the other way around. This time TIM was hiding him.
Will not forgive Bioware for making both Miranda and Tali straight-locked romances. Tell me Miranda and fem!Shep or Tali and fem!Shep wouldn't make COMPLETE sense for their characters?
How does that make sense?
It wouldn't have happened with Tali anyway. Her VA was uncomfortable reading romance lines to other women, so she remained straight only because of that.
@@axelnilsson5124 I am probably just bi-projecting tbh 🤣 still sad
Jack and Miranda were both intended as either gender romances. IIRC jack's VA didn't even know they'd removed the ability to romance Jack as Femshep until after the game had launched.
RIP Javik
Maybe this is just a nuance, but decision you made during the talk with Javik (showing him the memory card) affects his post-war plans. And unfortunately you picked arguably worse scenario. :x
thanks for the spoilers :)
@@basicwitgirl oh i thought this is a spoiler free statement :c
@@dusknoir667 alluding to a characters ending before I've experienced it for myself kinda ruins the reactions.... so yeah, def a spoiler :/
@@basicwitgirl I'm so sorry, I didn't think about it that way! :c I was talking about just one optional conversation with Javik, which is very easy to miss. Anyway, have a great Citadel experience, this is def the peak of Mass Effect
I can just see from the thumbnail that you f**ked up with her quest line
Nah, she didn't. Check ep 16. Thumbnail is almost certainly a reaction to 'what's happening on Horizon'.
Basic knows what she's doing.
@@dr.herbertwest4453 but Miranda’s wounded which only happens if you missed one of her additional conversations where she’s not warned about Kai Leng and her being wounded will result with her dying after Henry
@@axelnilsson5124 It's bugged in legendary. She has that blood in mouth look regardless. Seen it myself. I think the fan patch fixes this.
@@dr.herbertwest4453 I must have missed that when I played
lol, its a role playing game. There's no wrong way to play, just different outcomes that result in different scenes. We all have our favorite outcomes, but its cool to see them all play out. (for the record, she didn't)
my gosh kaidan is the most boring character of the saga how could you have romanced him...ohhh because he is cuteee :)