That “shank” is tali’s boot knife! The developers enjoyed that small detail of her character model that has been present in every game and they really wanted an excuse for her to use it at least once. That stab with that knife at that juncture was actually a big “HELL YEAH!” for the teams working on Tali’s arch. I can’t remember where on TH-cam I heard it, but it’s a cool story if you can find it.
Was I the only one who thought it was cool that we finally get to see her use the knife she's been toting around for literally years? I was beginning to think that it was the MEU version of a hydrospanner. :D
Also, Tali stabbing Legion in the back has value if you take into acount that she, as an admiral, tried to avoid a war with the Geth and was open with Shepard and Legion about her friendship with the latter.
Yes, and as a quarian tali knows exactly where to stab legion to instantly deactivate him, much more efficient than using her shotgun and much safer for shepard (as he’s also very close, and it’s a shotgun)
In regards to the car ride in Garrus's loyalty mission, I always find it extra funny if the extra squadmate in the car is Thane. Like it's Garrus and Shepard discussing taking out Sidonis, meanwhile the literal master assassin is just chilling in the back seat saying nothing
@@МаксБурый-р2ю This is why I read novelized versions of the Mass Effect trilogy. A lot of the authors fix a lot of the plot holes of the game and add and removes stuff that either fits or doesn't, like Garrus having nothing to say in Tali's trial, having the rest of your team secure the landing zone where Vigo runs off to to escape during Zaeed's loyalty mission, or having any biotic teammate on your squad save Tarquin from falling to his death in Mass Effect 3
Yeah I’m sorry Dan but Ashley pushing Liara out of the way is definitely her just getting her out of harms way, because Kaiden does the exact same thing
Doesn't Ashley kind of act like an asshole to Liara *literally* right after the Noveria mission where Liara's mom had just died though? I haven't played through ME1 in a while but that really sticks out to me for some reason. If I'm mistaken, feel free to let me know but I swear I remember this genuine feeling of 'WTF Ash!' from that moment that just lodged itself into my memory somehow, idk...
Tali keeps a knife on her boot, which explains where the knife came from. But as for why she uses it, I think it’s more symbolic of legion being stabbed in the back by those he called friends. This means less when raan i the one that does it because raan and legion are acquaintances at best.
Also shooting Legion point blank with a shotgun might've ended up with Shepard also getting some of that molten space buckshot. ESPECIALLY considering Legion already had a huge gaping hole in his body. Raan probably just didn't care as much.
I thought it was an omniblade-like thing, seeing as you can see her omnitool active when she stabs him. Why would she activate her omni tool and stab someone if she wasn't using the blade? Just looked again. It is indeed a physical knife. Still strange her omnitool was on.
When Jack is introduced she gets out of cryo and destroys three big mechs and a wall. Yet in your party she's no where near that powerful, couldn't defeat a mech if her life depends on it.
To be fair the only squadmate in ME2 gameplay that can stand up to a YMIR mech for more than a few seconds without cover like Jack does in the cutscene, is Grunt once you give him Fortification. Garrus can do some damage from longer ranges, but overall most squadmates don't last long without the player managing the mech's aggression. Grunt is just built different though, and he's my favorite squadmate for the Long Walk sequence for that reason.
yeah, it bugs the crap out of me that Jack is hella powerful in her cutscenes (ME3 Citadel DLC Armax fight, too) and yet is INEPT in your party. her character's AI is particularly bad. even if you control her, she's just not that powerful. it's silly
Well those nerfed biotics, especially in ME2 gameplay, were not a smart move after all. You really have to "work" your way through the game as an adept on insanity. I can't even lift a Husk? What are you trying to tell me game? While in ME1 you were that Biotic God who lifts anything. I think they should have utilized the difference between Barriers and Shields for the gameplay. While barriers protect against biotics, shields protect against tech. While Overload shouldn't have any effect on barriers, Warp shouldn't do anything against shields(which is mostly the case for warp with the actual gameplay, making it really unbalanced and difficult for an Adept). With these barrier/shield mechanics, there is no real need for armor(grounded targets) and the different classes could shine more in the game.
Also in in Terminator Resistance (good game) it's a good way to stealth kill a Terminator. Wonder if they got it from ME3 considering Geth's robotic nature.
Something that I've always found strange is that in the opening of Mass effect 2 Miranda is in the Cerberus base talking to the elusive man in person with no holograms. So when we were trying to find out where they were in the third game why couldn't we just ask Miranda
@neo? Maybe Miri was blindfolded when taken to Chronos Station and back so she would not know the exact location. Or it could have been a pilotless shuttle like we see many times in ME2 that picked her up from Lazarus or Minuteman Station and transported her to Chronos Station. I mean she could look out the window but it's not like there are road signs in space and big names plastered to the sides of Mass Relays.
Miranda also confirms herself that she met the illusive man in person only once. Which should mean that we witnessed this one meeting. I think its just an oversight. Sure there are enough stars that look similar enough for the human eye so that Miranda could be clueless where it was despite visiting it once. But I have my doubts that this was really thought through.
as for the #9 entry, we can see at the start of the ME2, that there is forcefield just behind the cockpit, so Joker doesn't technically need helmet. We could assume that ship has several forcefields acting as emergency bulkheads for breaches. Funny thing about ME2 is though, if you look closely, you can see that forward escape pod is behind the forcefield, so Joker has to walk through vacuum for a while. as the Expanse has shown, it can be done, but I bet it still stings
The thing i'd include is that Biotic Shephard almost NEVER uses Biotics during cutscenes and if anything seems confused by them. The best example being when you fall out of a window fighting Tela Vasir during the Shadow Broker DLC. Like, come on Shep, at least try!
Biotic squadmates also could've helped a lot in many cutscenes, but cutscenes are almost always universal for any squadmates, so they don't. Especially if those biotics had practice for decades or even centuries.
Like how a biotic charge would definitely have taken out Kai Leng, or at least stopped his get-away after he stabs Thane, but instead Shepherd chases after him with a pistol.... even though you only have a shotgun equipped
For shields it can be explained away that you need to actually turn them on rather than them always being on, as explained in the opening of LOTSB with Liara having her shields on while at her apartment.
And if we're going by book lore, the shields aren't really hard to overwhelm. The only thing that doesn't make sense is some characters, like Ashley/Kaiden NOT having their shields active while protecting the Council. The Codex states that the shields generate just enough of a mass effect field that it's possible to sit down in a chair without it moving away, so it would have been possible for Ashley/Kaiden to have them already active without harming the Council. Though I do think, considering the attire of some characters, that some choose not to wear any hefty armor or shields for improved mobility. Thane would be a good example, as armor/shields may slow down his speed regarding martial arts and the quick getaways he'd need to make given his assassin work. As opposed to Garrus or James, who are more militaristic and used to wearing armor and shields. Also, I found the excerpt regarding shields/kinetic barriers: "Kinetic barriers are repulsive mass effect fields projected from tiny emitters. These shields safely deflect small objects traveling at rapid velocities. This affords protection from bullets and other dangerous projectiles, but still allows the user to sit down without knocking away their chair."
@@michaelandreipalon359 Well its simple you forget to turn them on when all the chaos is going on. The only like characters who would have the mindset to like leave them on are like robot physical EDI, Leigon, Wrex, Grunt, and Javik. Just About every other character is liable to flat out forget.
@@MJSGamingSanctuary No, no really. Ash and Kaidan are not your goofy type of soldiers, they take that shit seriously, and by that point are Spectres, they would remember.
Has anyone noticed that during Thane's loyalty mission in ME2 that Shepard's mouth moves for both Shepard's and Thane's dialogue while he's on the catwalks? I noticed it accidentally way back in the original and noticed in again in the Legendary edition when you spin the camera around to look at Shepard.
That reminds me, in TES 3 Morrowind when Molag Bal (I think?) speaks to you in your quest to cure vampirism, the developers used the function that is used for player voice lines or something like that. So when you hear his voice, your character's mouth moves.
As Garrus mentioned Tali preffers close range. What can be close than a knife? Also Tali is best geth expert in Universe, perhaprs she knows where to strike geth to make short circuit.
6:05 She didn't shoot Legion because of one of the cardinal rules of firearm safety: Do not point the muzzle at anything you are not willing to destroy. From that angle, the odds of a round penetrating Legion's chassis and hitting Shepard are unreasonably high, hence why she went the melee route.
I'd argue it falls more under "know your target and what's beyond" but either way you're not wrong. Don't shoot at your friends regardless of what's between the two of you lol.
About Liara being the SB and known by everyone, specially TIM: On the surface, Shep was the only one who knew all of that at the start of ME3, but he was working with Cerberus at the time of the SB events took place, and Mordin warned us about the "bugs" put on the SR2 to spy on them almost from the start of ME2, so there is that. Besides there were the reports from Miranda to TIM and that Liara and Shep took someone from the SR2 squad with them for that mission, so everyone in the Normandy should know who the new SB was. Think that's why TIM attacked the SB base in the first place...but hey, I am just filling the EAware blanks here🤷♂️
I mean Cerberus is how Liara got to Shadow Broker in the first place. Well, she actually can do it without TIM's intel if you don't do the DLC, but TIM still has enough info to locate the Broker. And the ship gets destroyed by Cerberus, so you know, they are aware. And Liara had no problems confessing this fact to friends and allies. Or at least she did not try very hard to conceal it. And why would you by that point?
@@steelbear2063 Aaand yes, there is that too, outside game. True, TIM and Miranda were tracking Liara way before ME2 even started. All and all, think that's is why they didnt invited Allers to the party, that must be the only time they thought about it😁...even if there was Traynor tho🤷♂️🤦♂️
I actually thought it was a good thing I mean in no way was Liara seemingly trying to run the "Shadow" Broker buisness like her predecessors. I mean the game should have given her protection, the predecessor had an entire army at his finger tips but what did Liara have? just her Drell friend and a senile drone. I thought maybe transitioning to some kind of LESS secretive organization would provide her... well at least put her on LESS hit lists? I don't know, either way the game should have given her a hand full (at least) of mercs. I'd not played ME3 yet.
if you go back and play the suicide mission and you fight the floating eye beam machine in the armory, you literally see that the ship has 2 holes there that the floating eye goes through. Theres a barrier that you can literally see that keeps it pressurized i assume
The weirdest detail to me, is the namedrop of Paul Grayson in ME3... By the time i played ME3, i had played both ME1 and 2 to 100% several times, and knew pretty much everyones names at that point, so when Anderson just casually drops the line about what Cerberus did to "You (Shepard) and Grayson", i thought i had missed seeing the name somewhere throughout several playthroughs, and it makes absolutely ZERO sense that either a player who hasn't read the books, or even Shepard themselves would have any idea who Grayson is! Grayson was a Cerberus operative who went rogue... It's just so weird to me that they would use a name and plot point from the books as the basis for the Cerberus implants in ME3, when they could just have used the pieces of Sovereign and the Collector base to develope them, instead of using a plot from a book that only a tiny amount of players would have read...
I've played through this series at least 20 times between the original releases and the Legendary Edition, and to this day I always thought it was weird that whenever you import a save from one game to the next and you change either your Shepard's appearence or class (or both) that nobody mentions it... I mean you'd think your best friends, lovers, and allies would notice that right? Right!?!? lol
Technically the in-universe explanation is that you're retconning Shep's appearance when you do this and that is now how they always looked(discounting me1 scars never coming back in the character creator)
@@HunterX05 lol I know, but it would've still been good to throw in a joke line here or there. Like "Is that a new haircut Shepard?" or "I don't remember you using biotics before..." Wasted oppurtunites.
In Saints Row 2, a lot of characters mention how they think the boss' hair has changed from the first game. It's especially funny if you play a female character because in the first game you couldn't play as a woman.
About the “everyone knows that Liara is the Shadow Broker” thing… Of course EDI knows because she was there when it happened, of course Wrex probably knows because he’s friends with Liara and he used to work with the Shadow Broker Liara probably just told him, of course TIM knows because he was the one who gave Shepard the intel of where the SB lived in the first place (he would also notice that the shadow broker is still working and both Shepard and Liara are still alive. Everyone who knows has a perfectly logical reason to know. But lot of other people don’t know, even Barla Von doesn’t know despite the fact that he still works for the broker.
Garrus knows because he's Garrus. He even jokes about the yahg being the broker too. So it's entirely reasonable that either: liara told garrus, or he figured out some other wa
@@sev1120I love the fact he still knows, even if you didn't bring him during the Shadow Broker dlc cause everyone probably talked about it like a true accomplishment. That's real friends there.
I'd assume you don't get spaced because if you look at the end of the game when they are in the hold & Shepard has the data pad & looks out into space, there's an energy field/barrier covering the whole so maybe the ship does that automatically when there is smaller holes
Pretty much what I was gonna say. There's holes in the cargo hold/shuttle bay of the SR-2 which the Oculus drone uses to get in and out of the ship on the approach to the Collector base as well, but they're covered by kinetic barriers holding the atmosphere within it. And they're relatively limited in scale, not a ten or more meter wide, circular hole where the hull has been torn open by several beams from a Collector ship.
Indeed, this field is literally shown in the scene mentioned by the video, where Joker and Shepard are, as it's protecting Joker from some serious swelling due to skin that would otherwise be exposed to space.
I assumed Tail's knife was something she quickly fabricted with her Omni tool, because her tool is active in the clip. You can see Cortez doing something similar when he's working on the Kodiak's thrusters in the shuttle bay. With regards to the Normandy not depressurising, in the final scene of ME2, Shepherd looks out of a hull breech in the hanger bay, which seems to be protected by a kinetic barrier. Edi would have the reaction times necessary to detect the breech and quickly seal it with a barrier before the cabin vented.
Tali's shank .. is not really a knife it's a army tool that can use as a staffing weapon.. Commander Shepard if you choose a certain class like shoulder you can do a melee attack it's the same thing and when you kill Lang.. you use the same weapon
The last point about shields is why any scifi writer should be hesitant about adding that level of defensive technology to their universe. It makes quick kills break internal logic for the sake of expediency and/or plot. Like starship shields suddenly not protecting ships in Deep Space Nine whenever its a big battle.
5:57 Um Tali always has a dagger in a sheath located on her right leg, it's there in all 3 games and that moment is the only time you will see her use it. Surprised you didn't notice that one. Geth weaponry uses Plasma other than the shotgun and SMG which has it in its name the assault rifle and sniper rifle do as well which probably screws with shields more than other weapons used in the galaxy. The first game they had not encounted the Geth until Eden Prime and the shields were not designed to withstand Geth Weaponry hits. Mass Effect 2 and 3 they developed shields with those weapons in mind.
I've totally seen all of these before, but it's nice to see someone else witness them too! Strangely enough though, I've played through moments in the original trilogy where I've killed off Wrex in ME 1 and didn't recruit Garrus & Tali and ACTUALLY managed to only have Tali with me on the Virmire mission. Plus, I've had Mordin die on me in ME 2 during the final mission without getting his loyalty, but he's alive on the ship and able to do his loyalty mission afterwards; unfortunately, the records will show him as dead in ME 2 & ME 3.
I saw on a reddit post that apparently if you revive a fallen squad member with unity while Harbinger is "assuming direct control" of a nearby collector, it'll have unique comments for each member/race. I think that could make for great content for another "Things you probably didn't know video. " I know I haven't heard them in my countless playthroughs.
Also: tali’s knife makes sense when you consider 1) she’d know exactly where to stab him since she can even remove memory cores before the geth can fry them, and 2) using a gun can cause the round to go through legion and hit Shepard.
I don't get your point about the Normandy getting damaged and getting spaced point The Normandy took far more damage in the opening of ME2 rather than the collector base attack where you don't upgrade any ship stuff, so it stands to reason the ship in the lather scenario could use some shields to patch some holes and leave the life support systems in the cockpit functioning, rather than the former scenario where half the roof of the Normandy is missing...
I thought it was interesting how early in ME3 you see advertisements for Sanctuary. You see it on the monitors of various computers during the Mars mission right in the beginning.
On Rannoch, Tali says "our bodies carried the seeds that spread the desert grass." This means either Quarians are actually a bit fluffy, carrying the seeds in their fur; or Quarians eat grass, and tend to defecate outside. At least, that's all I can think of. I prefer to think that Quarians are fluffy.
Where on earth did Tali get that knife that’s she’s had baked into her default character design in plain sight for three games!? Oh how I have no idea where this knife that has been clearly blatantly visible on her right on her freak’n knee in every single cutscene in all three games came from!
IIRC, there is a codex entry in ME1 that describes spaceship combat, and it mentions something like "The scenes in movies of people holding onto something to prevent being sucked into space when there is a hull rupture are pure fiction. Either the hole is big enough to be instantaneous, or small enough to be immediately patched by damage control systems." (I'm paraphrasing) Also, the shield thing is probably just for narrative ease. I wouldn't want to watch poor Jenkins getting shot for an additional 10 seconds to wear down his shields, lol
One weird thing is that Shepard almost never meet/interract with a female alien (apart from Asari). Only female salarian is the dalatrace in ME3 and female Turian is only seen on a dlc. They totally forgot the female in their universe and only gave an explanation for the Krogan females.
4:37 ….that doesn’t make any sense. If Ashley really didn’t like Liara, why would she help her walk over to the shuttle in the first place? Anyone with two brain cells can see that Ashley is pushing Liara out of harms way. And if you’ve been paying any attention, you’ll notice that Ashley changes over the course of the games. She had her reasons to not trust the aliens in ME1. She then sees them as family and mates in the 3rd gane. It’s called character growth. Google it. That whole “aShLeY iS a rAciSt” is short sighted and just not true
I believed that many more people know about Liara's new job because 2 main reasons: 1. Liara and Shepard were the first to find the SB Ship but that means other could do it too or were close who knows. 2. She putting all efforts on the war meant she couldn't keep her secret as well as previous SB. Liara keeping tabs and helping the crucible narrows the possibilities of who could be the SB
It gets even weirder when you see some krogan getting killed by a tiny pistol firing a single bullet when their entire plot is having tough skin and high regeneration
I might have an answer for number 9: Cerberus knows how the sr1 was destroyed, so they will have built the sr2 with that in mind. But as Gabby and Ken point out, they don’t care much for the safety of individual crew mates, as long as the entire ship doesn’t blow up. So if you don’t upgrade, the ship does the bare minimum to withstand the blast, and someone dies.
The worst offenders when it comes to the shields not working are krogans, especially Wrex’s betrayal. There’s a handful of time they just get 1 shot in cutscenes despite’s their multiple organs constantly being hyped in the lore 😆
@@soaringraven0it took one shotgun blast to take him down on virmire and multiple just to make sure he stays dead while it took like 3 gun shots to make him drenched in blood even though it takes significantly more to take down a krogan when fighting them
The answer to number 9 is that small hull breaches are shielded and sealed. You see this a lot in the Citadel DLC mission when fighting clone shep inside the Normandy.
Normandy SR2 was probably upgraded with internal forcefields and airtight bulkheads to limit casualties in the event of a hull breach. SR1 may have had similar safeties which were just overwhelmed by the severity of the damage.
I think the whole shadow broker business can be explained by everyone you interact with who knows is either already a close friend to Liara, or they were involved in some way with the mission to take down the old broker.
I see Tali's "shanking" as her making a decisive deadly strike. After all she is *the* geth expert at this point, it would make sense that she knows exactly the spot to stab to kill a geth.
3:32 the illusive man knowing is the only plausible one, because at the time you were working with him, he maybe ran some files or maybe put 2 and 2 together from a mission report
When you're pushing the drones out of the Normandy's hangar, during the initial approach to the Collector base, the holes in the hull are covered by something like a barrier field. I don't know what it is, but maybe that's why Shepard doesn't get sucked out into space when they go to defend the ship?
A month late, but the series “Borderlands” has the same exact cutscene lorebreak with shields. One of the main characters “Marcus” gets absolutely obliterated in one pistol shot straight through shield.
And one more thing to add: At the beginning of the Feros mission, some guy named "David" tells you to speak to Fi-Dan but gets killed shortly You can save him by using the "Sabotage" ability prior to speaking to him, be sure to launch it a distance behind him That way the Geth that are supposed to spawn in and kill him, cannot fire their weapons Take'em all out and enjoy a Clueless npc just standing there wondering why the hell he's not dead yet.
Regarding the shields point, here's my theory: The shield boost skill in mass effect 1 implies that shields can be actively turned on and off. The one you used to emphasise the pistol had Ashley, a former member of Shepard's crew. It's likely she didn't think that Shepard would actually shoot her, hence the reason why the shield didn't block the shot. She didn't activate it
Regarding the detail with getting spaced, Mass Effect engines are used to seal holes on ships for something small like a small laserbeam from an Oculus drone. A beam from a dreadnought or a destroyer would obliterate that ship and make the seal irrelevant
The Liara "shove" was hardly a shove. At this point in ME3 she really isn't xenophobic. During dialog in ME2A, she exclaims something along the lines of "I might not love aliens, but cerberus takes it too far." She very clearly becomes more open to the idea, and by ME3 it could very easily be argued she has, at least, a neutral disposition towards alien or at most, a friendly one, depending how dialog had with shep
It seems like characters almost never have armor or shields in cutscenes. For example, there are numerous times where you see krogan (who are supposed to be incredibly tough) go down from a single pistol shot in a cutscene. One exception is on Virmire, when Shepard tries to shoot Saren and it bounces off his shields.
Legion held Shepard in front of him, but Tali stood behind his back. So any use of firearm could hurt or even kill Shepard as collateral damage, since bullets could possibly get through Legion right into Shepard. So use of cold weapon, especially when she had a chance of attack from the back, was simply the best solution. PS. Regarding, where shank came from. I'm replaying ME2 right now, and in Tali loyalty mission Shepard asks Tali about delivered parts from Haestrom - (something like) How do you managed to get these parts from Haestrom, it was warzone? To which Tali replies - that their suits have more pockets, than Shepard can imagine (thou it doesn't sound legitimate, because those suits are wery snug)
2:13 and it still makes me wonder what happens if Wrex weren’t recruited anyways like will it just be Shepard and Tali in the final part of the mission?
In mass effect 1 anytime you enter a mine with water on the floor you’ll encounter a tunnel down with water running. The water always goes up and not down like you’d think. Around 4 feet till the end or near the middle of the tunnel you can see the mess connecting and a small amount of water actually doing what gravity would make it do and go down the tunnel
The shields fail according to the plot? 🤣 I remember a random mission in ME1 where a guy shoots Shepard and the shields protect him and I was like 🤨 mmm, it was a clean shot.
The Krogan get it the worst, virtually impossible to kill with a single shot as they have multiples of each organ and failsafes on top of that. Unless it's a cutscene, then they're dead in one shot or just knocked on their ass by a single punch.
Well Jenkins was cut down by Geth Drones that had rapid fire and there were two of them. Where as in both Shepard's and Saren's case there were 1-3 slower shots. I remember a tip about rapid fire weapons being better for stripping shields.
I found out Shepard hanging up on council in first game is cannon 😂 only noticed on my 'good' play through where I didn't do it once but joker still mentions it in mass effect 3
Tali probably knew exactly what part to hit to make Legion let go, she is the foremost expert on the Geth, it's a lot safer than a shotgun blast at close range when you have a friendly in the line of fire
Of course, TIM would know Cerberus gave Shepard the info on where to track the Shadow Broker down and in turn he/she gave it to Liara. TIM did this to plug a data leak on Cerberus, probably linked to the Cerberus mission in Mass Effect 1. But I doubt he released the info without knowing what it was but gave it to Liara so she would do their dirty work for them. But was unable to seize the Shadow Broker's ship and equipment within as Liara took off with it and sent the ship on a collision course with their cruiser. But most of the squadmates and former squadmates keep it to themselves for her safety.
This Tali's shank may be her boot knife, but also may suggest that, her loyality mission wasn't her first court hearing, but first when Shepard was around to persuade the judge. Definitely not canonical, but interesting idea to explore just for fun.
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That “shank” is tali’s boot knife! The developers enjoyed that small detail of her character model that has been present in every game and they really wanted an excuse for her to use it at least once. That stab with that knife at that juncture was actually a big “HELL YEAH!” for the teams working on Tali’s arch. I can’t remember where on TH-cam I heard it, but it’s a cool story if you can find it.
Woah, did I teach big Dan something about Mass Effect?….I should go.
Was I the only one who thought it was cool that we finally get to see her use the knife she's been toting around for literally years? I was beginning to think that it was the MEU version of a hydrospanner. :D
Also, Tali stabbing Legion in the back has value if you take into acount that she, as an admiral, tried to avoid a war with the Geth and was open with Shepard and Legion about her friendship with the latter.
Yes, and as a quarian tali knows exactly where to stab legion to instantly deactivate him, much more efficient than using her shotgun and much safer for shepard (as he’s also very close, and it’s a shotgun)
Big Dan out here noticing Mordin's face tattoo, but never noticing Tali's boot knife she had for the past ever
In regards to the car ride in Garrus's loyalty mission, I always find it extra funny if the extra squadmate in the car is Thane. Like it's Garrus and Shepard discussing taking out Sidonis, meanwhile the literal master assassin is just chilling in the back seat saying nothing
Does your gun give it's opinion how how to kill that one bloke? No, it doesn't. And so Thane isn't responsible for it either.
Or something IDK.
He's probably maniacally laughing to himself as he listens, picking apart their plan and plotting ways to do it better 😂
"alright, so let's mount a sniper and shoot him."
thane: "no, too loud. Get a silencer or poison him; crowded areas are too loud. Isolate him."
Loyalty missions are kinda awkward in general for the other teammate
They always just stand there
@@МаксБурый-р2ю This is why I read novelized versions of the Mass Effect trilogy. A lot of the authors fix a lot of the plot holes of the game and add and removes stuff that either fits or doesn't, like Garrus having nothing to say in Tali's trial, having the rest of your team secure the landing zone where Vigo runs off to to escape during Zaeed's loyalty mission, or having any biotic teammate on your squad save Tarquin from falling to his death in Mass Effect 3
Yeah I’m sorry Dan but Ashley pushing Liara out of the way is definitely her just getting her out of harms way, because Kaiden does the exact same thing
Besides they never argue in the game
Ashley's comments towards Liara always struck more as coming from jealousy then anything else.
@@AxeGaijin More likely mistrust.
@@AxeGaijin Don't forget that in the first Mass Effect Ashley is very open about her anti-alien mindset too.
Doesn't Ashley kind of act like an asshole to Liara *literally* right after the Noveria mission where Liara's mom had just died though? I haven't played through ME1 in a while but that really sticks out to me for some reason.
If I'm mistaken, feel free to let me know but I swear I remember this genuine feeling of 'WTF Ash!' from that moment that just lodged itself into my memory somehow, idk...
Tali keeps a knife on her boot, which explains where the knife came from. But as for why she uses it, I think it’s more symbolic of legion being stabbed in the back by those he called friends. This means less when raan i the one that does it because raan and legion are acquaintances at best.
"Et tu, Brute?"
Also shooting Legion point blank with a shotgun might've ended up with Shepard also getting some of that molten space buckshot. ESPECIALLY considering Legion already had a huge gaping hole in his body. Raan probably just didn't care as much.
I thought it was an omniblade-like thing, seeing as you can see her omnitool active when she stabs him. Why would she activate her omni tool and stab someone if she wasn't using the blade?
Just looked again. It is indeed a physical knife. Still strange her omnitool was on.
When Jack is introduced she gets out of cryo and destroys three big mechs and a wall.
Yet in your party she's no where near that powerful, couldn't defeat a mech if her life depends on it.
To be fair the only squadmate in ME2 gameplay that can stand up to a YMIR mech for more than a few seconds without cover like Jack does in the cutscene, is Grunt once you give him Fortification.
Garrus can do some damage from longer ranges, but overall most squadmates don't last long without the player managing the mech's aggression. Grunt is just built different though, and he's my favorite squadmate for the Long Walk sequence for that reason.
Jack can hold the barrier, Miri not.
yeah, it bugs the crap out of me that Jack is hella powerful in her cutscenes (ME3 Citadel DLC Armax fight, too) and yet is INEPT in your party. her character's AI is particularly bad. even if you control her, she's just not that powerful. it's silly
It's called retarded cutscene logic where 'plot can happen'.
Well those nerfed biotics, especially in ME2 gameplay, were not a smart move after all. You really have to "work" your way through the game as an adept on insanity. I can't even lift a Husk? What are you trying to tell me game? While in ME1 you were that Biotic God who lifts anything.
I think they should have utilized the difference between Barriers and Shields for the gameplay. While barriers protect against biotics, shields protect against tech.
While Overload shouldn't have any effect on barriers, Warp shouldn't do anything against shields(which is mostly the case for warp with the actual gameplay, making it really unbalanced and difficult for an Adept).
With these barrier/shield mechanics, there is no real need for armor(grounded targets) and the different classes could shine more in the game.
With Tali I think they wanted to demonstrate how well she knows the Geth - jam a utility knife just so and…
Also in in Terminator Resistance (good game) it's a good way to stealth kill a Terminator. Wonder if they got it from ME3 considering Geth's robotic nature.
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No, they got it from Terminator Salvation, and possibly previous movies too
Something that I've always found strange is that in the opening of Mass effect 2 Miranda is in the Cerberus base talking to the elusive man in person with no holograms. So when we were trying to find out where they were in the third game why couldn't we just ask Miranda
Not hard to imagine he can move the station around since every ME2 ending gets a different sun
@neo? Maybe Miri was blindfolded when taken to Chronos Station and back so she would not know the exact location.
Or it could have been a pilotless shuttle like we see many times in ME2 that picked her up from Lazarus or Minuteman Station and transported her to Chronos Station. I mean she could look out the window but it's not like there are road signs in space and big names plastered to the sides of Mass Relays.
@neo? There's billions of stars out there man
@neo? Knowing about some SCPs, you know that blindfold transport IS a thing.
Miranda also confirms herself that she met the illusive man in person only once.
Which should mean that we witnessed this one meeting.
I think its just an oversight. Sure there are enough stars that look similar enough for the human eye so that Miranda could be clueless where it was despite visiting it once. But I have my doubts that this was really thought through.
as for the #9 entry, we can see at the start of the ME2, that there is forcefield just behind the cockpit, so Joker doesn't technically need helmet. We could assume that ship has several forcefields acting as emergency bulkheads for breaches. Funny thing about ME2 is though, if you look closely, you can see that forward escape pod is behind the forcefield, so Joker has to walk through vacuum for a while. as the Expanse has shown, it can be done, but I bet it still stings
The thing i'd include is that Biotic Shephard almost NEVER uses Biotics during cutscenes and if anything seems confused by them. The best example being when you fall out of a window fighting Tela Vasir during the Shadow Broker DLC. Like, come on Shep, at least try!
Same in Andromeda, why rider can' t use his/her biotics against the Missles in Cora loyalty mission?
Biotic squadmates also could've helped a lot in many cutscenes, but cutscenes are almost always universal for any squadmates, so they don't.
Especially if those biotics had practice for decades or even centuries.
Like how a biotic charge would definitely have taken out Kai Leng, or at least stopped his get-away after he stabs Thane, but instead Shepherd chases after him with a pistol.... even though you only have a shotgun equipped
What makes it worse is they teased class specific outcomes with omega giving engineers an alt choice.
Or like why can't the biotic specialist during the suicide mission get help from the other biotic(s) you can have in your squad
For shields it can be explained away that you need to actually turn them on rather than them always being on, as explained in the opening of LOTSB with Liara having her shields on while at her apartment.
But who doesn't turn on shields in already obvious warzones?! (Looking at you, Virmire Survivor on the Cerberus coup.)
And if we're going by book lore, the shields aren't really hard to overwhelm. The only thing that doesn't make sense is some characters, like Ashley/Kaiden NOT having their shields active while protecting the Council. The Codex states that the shields generate just enough of a mass effect field that it's possible to sit down in a chair without it moving away, so it would have been possible for Ashley/Kaiden to have them already active without harming the Council. Though I do think, considering the attire of some characters, that some choose not to wear any hefty armor or shields for improved mobility. Thane would be a good example, as armor/shields may slow down his speed regarding martial arts and the quick getaways he'd need to make given his assassin work. As opposed to Garrus or James, who are more militaristic and used to wearing armor and shields.
Also, I found the excerpt regarding shields/kinetic barriers: "Kinetic barriers are repulsive mass effect fields projected from tiny emitters. These shields safely deflect small objects traveling at rapid velocities. This affords protection from bullets and other dangerous projectiles, but still allows the user to sit down without knocking away their chair."
@@dweller132 if I had to guess the shield emitters are likely those glowing lights on the back of armor in mass effect.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Well its simple you forget to turn them on when all the chaos is going on. The only like characters who would have the mindset to like leave them on are like robot physical EDI, Leigon, Wrex, Grunt, and Javik. Just About every other character is liable to flat out forget.
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No, no really. Ash and Kaidan are not your goofy type of soldiers, they take that shit seriously, and by that point are Spectres, they would remember.
Has anyone noticed that during Thane's loyalty mission in ME2 that Shepard's mouth moves for both Shepard's and Thane's dialogue while he's on the catwalks? I noticed it accidentally way back in the original and noticed in again in the Legendary edition when you spin the camera around to look at Shepard.
That reminds me, in TES 3 Morrowind when Molag Bal (I think?) speaks to you in your quest to cure vampirism, the developers used the function that is used for player voice lines or something like that. So when you hear his voice, your character's mouth moves.
@@cjnf11 That makes sense, Bethesda's engine requires dialogue to come from an NPC
I was watching a playthrough of that mission recently; the subtitles were on and one of Thane's lines was attributed to Shepard to
As Garrus mentioned Tali preffers close range. What can be close than a knife? Also Tali is best geth expert in Universe, perhaprs she knows where to strike geth to make short circuit.
That’s my thought.
6:05 She didn't shoot Legion because of one of the cardinal rules of firearm safety: Do not point the muzzle at anything you are not willing to destroy. From that angle, the odds of a round penetrating Legion's chassis and hitting Shepard are unreasonably high, hence why she went the melee route.
I'd argue it falls more under "know your target and what's beyond" but either way you're not wrong. Don't shoot at your friends regardless of what's between the two of you lol.
but shepard has shields.
@@Blox117 But it’s a cutscene so they were probably gone.
Even more reasons why Tali best girl
Especially seeing as how Legion has that huge gaping hole in his body
About Liara being the SB and known by everyone, specially TIM: On the surface, Shep was the only one who knew all of that at the start of ME3, but he was working with Cerberus at the time of the SB events took place, and Mordin warned us about the "bugs" put on the SR2 to spy on them almost from the start of ME2, so there is that. Besides there were the reports from Miranda to TIM and that Liara and Shep took someone from the SR2 squad with them for that mission, so everyone in the Normandy should know who the new SB was. Think that's why TIM attacked the SB base in the first place...but hey, I am just filling the EAware blanks here🤷♂️
I mean Cerberus is how Liara got to Shadow Broker in the first place. Well, she actually can do it without TIM's intel if you don't do the DLC, but TIM still has enough info to locate the Broker. And the ship gets destroyed by Cerberus, so you know, they are aware. And Liara had no problems confessing this fact to friends and allies. Or at least she did not try very hard to conceal it. And why would you by that point?
@@steelbear2063 Aaand yes, there is that too, outside game. True, TIM and Miranda were tracking Liara way before ME2 even started. All and all, think that's is why they didnt invited Allers to the party, that must be the only time they thought about it😁...even if there was Traynor tho🤷♂️🤦♂️
I actually thought it was a good thing I mean in no way was Liara seemingly trying to run the "Shadow" Broker buisness like her predecessors. I mean the game should have given her protection, the predecessor had an entire army at his finger tips but what did Liara have? just her Drell friend and a senile drone. I thought maybe transitioning to some kind of LESS secretive organization would provide her... well at least put her on LESS hit lists? I don't know, either way the game should have given her a hand full (at least) of mercs. I'd not played ME3 yet.
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Liara does command a shitload of mercs actually.
@@steelbear2063 that actually makes me feel better somehow lol (since she's a fictional character) thanks!
if you go back and play the suicide mission and you fight the floating eye beam machine in the armory, you literally see that the ship has 2 holes there that the floating eye goes through. Theres a barrier that you can literally see that keeps it pressurized i assume
The weirdest detail to me, is the namedrop of Paul Grayson in ME3...
By the time i played ME3, i had played both ME1 and 2 to 100% several times, and knew pretty much everyones names at that point, so when Anderson just casually drops the line about what Cerberus did to "You (Shepard) and Grayson", i thought i had missed seeing the name somewhere throughout several playthroughs, and it makes absolutely ZERO sense that either a player who hasn't read the books, or even Shepard themselves would have any idea who Grayson is! Grayson was a Cerberus operative who went rogue...
It's just so weird to me that they would use a name and plot point from the books as the basis for the Cerberus implants in ME3, when they could just have used the pieces of Sovereign and the Collector base to develope them, instead of using a plot from a book that only a tiny amount of players would have read...
You’ll want to avoid any 343 Halo games. They expect you to read two novels and a comic series between games.
I've played through this series at least 20 times between the original releases and the Legendary Edition, and to this day I always thought it was weird that whenever you import a save from one game to the next and you change either your Shepard's appearence or class (or both) that nobody mentions it... I mean you'd think your best friends, lovers, and allies would notice that right? Right!?!? lol
Technically the in-universe explanation is that you're retconning Shep's appearance when you do this and that is now how they always looked(discounting me1 scars never coming back in the character creator)
@@HunterX05 lol I know, but it would've still been good to throw in a joke line here or there. Like "Is that a new haircut Shepard?" or "I don't remember you using biotics before..." Wasted oppurtunites.
Yer just shifting over to an alternate universe/timeline where everything is the same except now shep is a red head or an infiltrator or whatever.
@@loonyman83 that word "WaStEd OpPuRtUniTiEs" is so overused.
In Saints Row 2, a lot of characters mention how they think the boss' hair has changed from the first game. It's especially funny if you play a female character because in the first game you couldn't play as a woman.
About the “everyone knows that Liara is the Shadow Broker” thing… Of course EDI knows because she was there when it happened, of course Wrex probably knows because he’s friends with Liara and he used to work with the Shadow Broker Liara probably just told him, of course TIM knows because he was the one who gave Shepard the intel of where the SB lived in the first place (he would also notice that the shadow broker is still working and both Shepard and Liara are still alive. Everyone who knows has a perfectly logical reason to know.
But lot of other people don’t know, even Barla Von doesn’t know despite the fact that he still works for the broker.
Garrus knows because he's Garrus. He even jokes about the yahg being the broker too. So it's entirely reasonable that either: liara told garrus, or he figured out some other wa
@@sev1120I love the fact he still knows, even if you didn't bring him during the Shadow Broker dlc cause everyone probably talked about it like a true accomplishment. That's real friends there.
I'd assume you don't get spaced because if you look at the end of the game when they are in the hold & Shepard has the data pad & looks out into space, there's an energy field/barrier covering the whole so maybe the ship does that automatically when there is smaller holes
Pretty much what I was gonna say. There's holes in the cargo hold/shuttle bay of the SR-2 which the Oculus drone uses to get in and out of the ship on the approach to the Collector base as well, but they're covered by kinetic barriers holding the atmosphere within it. And they're relatively limited in scale, not a ten or more meter wide, circular hole where the hull has been torn open by several beams from a Collector ship.
Indeed, this field is literally shown in the scene mentioned by the video, where Joker and Shepard are, as it's protecting Joker from some serious swelling due to skin that would otherwise be exposed to space.
Doesn't Tali carry a small knife attached to her leg?
I assumed Tail's knife was something she quickly fabricted with her Omni tool, because her tool is active in the clip. You can see Cortez doing something similar when he's working on the Kodiak's thrusters in the shuttle bay. With regards to the Normandy not depressurising, in the final scene of ME2, Shepherd looks out of a hull breech in the hanger bay, which seems to be protected by a kinetic barrier. Edi would have the reaction times necessary to detect the breech and quickly seal it with a barrier before the cabin vented.
Tali's shank .. is not really a knife it's a army tool that can use as a staffing weapon.. Commander Shepard if you choose a certain class like shoulder you can do a melee attack it's the same thing and when you kill Lang.. you use the same weapon
The last point about shields is why any scifi writer should be hesitant about adding that level of defensive technology to their universe. It makes quick kills break internal logic for the sake of expediency and/or plot. Like starship shields suddenly not protecting ships in Deep Space Nine whenever its a big battle.
5:57 Um Tali always has a dagger in a sheath located on her right leg, it's there in all 3 games and that moment is the only time you will see her use it. Surprised you didn't notice that one. Geth weaponry uses Plasma other than the shotgun and SMG which has it in its name the assault rifle and sniper rifle do as well which probably screws with shields more than other weapons used in the galaxy. The first game they had not encounted the Geth until Eden Prime and the shields were not designed to withstand Geth Weaponry hits. Mass Effect 2 and 3 they developed shields with those weapons in mind.
he doesn't know anything about tali. He's an idiot.
I've totally seen all of these before, but it's nice to see someone else witness them too! Strangely enough though, I've played through moments in the original trilogy where I've killed off Wrex in ME 1 and didn't recruit Garrus & Tali and ACTUALLY managed to only have Tali with me on the Virmire mission. Plus, I've had Mordin die on me in ME 2 during the final mission without getting his loyalty, but he's alive on the ship and able to do his loyalty mission afterwards; unfortunately, the records will show him as dead in ME 2 & ME 3.
I saw on a reddit post that apparently if you revive a fallen squad member with unity while Harbinger is "assuming direct control" of a nearby collector, it'll have unique comments for each member/race. I think that could make for great content for another "Things you probably didn't know video. " I know I haven't heard them in my countless playthroughs.
Also: tali’s knife makes sense when you consider 1) she’d know exactly where to stab him since she can even remove memory cores before the geth can fry them, and 2) using a gun can cause the round to go through legion and hit Shepard.
I don't get your point about the Normandy getting damaged and getting spaced point
The Normandy took far more damage in the opening of ME2 rather than the collector base attack where you don't upgrade any ship stuff, so it stands to reason the ship in the lather scenario could use some shields to patch some holes and leave the life support systems in the cockpit functioning, rather than the former scenario where half the roof of the Normandy is missing...
I thought it was interesting how early in ME3 you see advertisements for Sanctuary. You see it on the monitors of various computers during the Mars mission right in the beginning.
Samara is voiced by Billie Eillish's mom. Imagine that.
On Rannoch, Tali says "our bodies carried the seeds that spread the desert grass." This means either Quarians are actually a bit fluffy, carrying the seeds in their fur; or Quarians eat grass, and tend to defecate outside. At least, that's all I can think of. I prefer to think that Quarians are fluffy.
My big take away is that Quarians are pollinators. That just gets me for some reason.
Fluffy Tali :з
Well, it's canon that quarians have hair like humans, and have a very similar facial structure. Who's to say they're not fluffy?
Tali used the knife attached to her boot that has, until that specific moment, never been used in the game.
And then it continues to never be used again
So, can we all just agree to just call The Illusive Man just Tim. This is Tim, he wants to overtake the Galaxy using the Reapers.
This is Tim, short for Time for him to get indoctrinated
6:04 it's the knife strapped to Tali's boot. She's had it since ME 1
The depressurizing Normandy: remember the blue veil you had to enter to get to joker during the prologue?
There you go buddy! :p
I genuinely love getting to the end of your videos and hearing "Until next time this has been Big Dan I should go". The delivery is so smooth.
Shields stuff? Forget that. How can you kill Krogans with one single bullet in some cutscenes?
Where on earth did Tali get that knife that’s she’s had baked into her default character design in plain sight for three games!? Oh how I have no idea where this knife that has been clearly blatantly visible on her right on her freak’n knee in every single cutscene in all three games came from!
IIRC, there is a codex entry in ME1 that describes spaceship combat, and it mentions something like "The scenes in movies of people holding onto something to prevent being sucked into space when there is a hull rupture are pure fiction. Either the hole is big enough to be instantaneous, or small enough to be immediately patched by damage control systems." (I'm paraphrasing)
Also, the shield thing is probably just for narrative ease. I wouldn't want to watch poor Jenkins getting shot for an additional 10 seconds to wear down his shields, lol
The knife/shank was definitely also to emphasize the whole "backstabbing"/getting stabbed in the back feel.
One weird thing is that Shepard almost never meet/interract with a female alien (apart from Asari). Only female salarian is the dalatrace in ME3 and female Turian is only seen on a dlc. They totally forgot the female in their universe and only gave an explanation for the Krogan females.
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….that doesn’t make any sense. If Ashley really didn’t like Liara, why would she help her walk over to the shuttle in the first place?
Anyone with two brain cells can see that Ashley is pushing Liara out of harms way. And if you’ve been paying any attention, you’ll notice that Ashley changes over the course of the games. She had her reasons to not trust the aliens in ME1. She then sees them as family and mates in the 3rd gane. It’s called character growth. Google it. That whole “aShLeY iS a rAciSt” is short sighted and just not true
6:54 - Well, in the ending we see that the holes in the ship are covered with barriers. I think the OG Normandy didnt have those.
I’d love to see a video on all the possible interactions in the Afterlife VIP section during Samara’s loyalty mission
I believed that many more people know about Liara's new job because 2 main reasons:
1. Liara and Shepard were the first to find the SB Ship but that means other could do it too or were close who knows.
2. She putting all efforts on the war meant she couldn't keep her secret as well as previous SB. Liara keeping tabs and helping the crucible narrows the possibilities of who could be the SB
It gets even weirder when you see some krogan getting killed by a tiny pistol firing a single bullet when their entire plot is having tough skin and high regeneration
Tali said somewhere that quarians have a lot of pokets in their outfit. I think that's the reason for hidden knife
Her knife isn’t hidden it’s strapped on her boot since ME2
Bro starts with Joker and TIM being tunnel bros tho… priceless!
"Plot Shields". Only there when the story needs them.
I might have an answer for number 9: Cerberus knows how the sr1 was destroyed, so they will have built the sr2 with that in mind. But as Gabby and Ken point out, they don’t care much for the safety of individual crew mates, as long as the entire ship doesn’t blow up. So if you don’t upgrade, the ship does the bare minimum to withstand the blast, and someone dies.
The worst offenders when it comes to the shields not working are krogans, especially Wrex’s betrayal. There’s a handful of time they just get 1 shot in cutscenes despite’s their multiple organs constantly being hyped in the lore 😆
didn't Wrex take like either multiple shotgun rounds on Virmire or multiple pistol shots in the citadel to die?
@@soaringraven0it took one shotgun blast to take him down on virmire and multiple just to make sure he stays dead while it took like 3 gun shots to make him drenched in blood even though it takes significantly more to take down a krogan when fighting them
#2 made me die of laughter, thankfully resurrections is a thing. Thank you Hawke, and this whole list made me smile.
The inconsistency of personal shields is something I noticed in my first playthrough of the original ME1 release. 🤣
Ya, They even have a scene in mass effect one where like you get shot at in a cut scene and shepherd's shield deflect it.
Tali shanking a bitch with a shiv makes her even more adorable.
"Emergency induction port".
Tali had that knife on her calf for 3 games. Think Chekhov's gun.
Funny thing is that in some cutscenes shields are shown, and the characters just ignore 1 or 2 bullets, except when its time to die
The answer to number 9 is that small hull breaches are shielded and sealed. You see this a lot in the Citadel DLC mission when fighting clone shep inside the Normandy.
To the Shield thing: maybe you can talk to your gun like in Judge Dread: "hey gun, I am shooting Ash now" (overloading noise)
Surprised that after your 1000+ hours of gameplay you never noticed Tali's boot knife. It is present in every game after all
Billy Eilish is an ardak yakshi is not what I had in my 2023 bingo.
Normandy SR2 was probably upgraded with internal forcefields and airtight bulkheads to limit casualties in the event of a hull breach.
SR1 may have had similar safeties which were just overwhelmed by the severity of the damage.
I think the whole shadow broker business can be explained by everyone you interact with who knows is either already a close friend to Liara, or they were involved in some way with the mission to take down the old broker.
That’s a lot of hours for us thank you man
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One thing that urks me is that Shep takes Joker into the escape pod OUTSIDE THE BARRIER.
What do you mean "where did Tali get a knife", she has one strapped to her leg the whole trilogy!
The one thing I found weird is when Kai Leng jumps on the sky car because all Shepard has to do is knock him off by using the walkway on the Citadel.
I see Tali's "shanking" as her making a decisive deadly strike. After all she is *the* geth expert at this point, it would make sense that she knows exactly the spot to stab to kill a geth.
Shep's bullets are plot armor piercing, duh.
Tali actually does have a knife holster on her boot, a detail I only noticed when I was looking at my figure of her.
Ashley pushing liara isnt unique. Kaidan does the same thing. Also tali shank is her boot knife.
Also smash that like button like how doctor Eva smashes Ashley's face in. 🤣
the same thing about shield can be said about Krogans getting killed by a few bullets in a cut scenes
Tali be like, "I stay strapped!"
The akward silence hapends in several missions. Like in Zaeed loyalty mission. I had Garrus silently processing Zaeed was the founder od the Blue Suns
3:32 the illusive man knowing is the only plausible one, because at the time you were working with him, he maybe ran some files or maybe put 2 and 2 together from a mission report
When you're pushing the drones out of the Normandy's hangar, during the initial approach to the Collector base, the holes in the hull are covered by something like a barrier field. I don't know what it is, but maybe that's why Shepard doesn't get sucked out into space when they go to defend the ship?
A month late, but the series “Borderlands” has the same exact cutscene lorebreak with shields. One of the main characters “Marcus” gets absolutely obliterated in one pistol shot straight through shield.
And one more thing to add:
At the beginning of the Feros mission, some guy named "David" tells you to speak to Fi-Dan but gets killed shortly
You can save him by using the "Sabotage" ability prior to speaking to him, be sure to launch it a distance behind him
That way the Geth that are supposed to spawn in and kill him, cannot fire their weapons
Take'em all out and enjoy a Clueless npc just standing there wondering why the hell he's not dead yet.
Pretty sure both Kaidan and Ashley will push Liara out the way, don’t think the latter’s relationship with her makes a difference.
Star Wars has the same shield issue too- they save they have it, but ships go down in one or two hits
Regarding the shields point, here's my theory:
The shield boost skill in mass effect 1 implies that shields can be actively turned on and off. The one you used to emphasise the pistol had Ashley, a former member of Shepard's crew. It's likely she didn't think that Shepard would actually shoot her, hence the reason why the shield didn't block the shot. She didn't activate it
I love Big Dan's gangsta narrative😂
Regarding the detail with getting spaced, Mass Effect engines are used to seal holes on ships for something small like a small laserbeam from an Oculus drone. A beam from a dreadnought or a destroyer would obliterate that ship and make the seal irrelevant
The Liara "shove" was hardly a shove. At this point in ME3 she really isn't xenophobic. During dialog in ME2A, she exclaims something along the lines of "I might not love aliens, but cerberus takes it too far." She very clearly becomes more open to the idea, and by ME3 it could very easily be argued she has, at least, a neutral disposition towards alien or at most, a friendly one, depending how dialog had with shep
'got seconds'? 'Eskimo brothers'? Yeah I think I've seen enough
It seems like characters almost never have armor or shields in cutscenes. For example, there are numerous times where you see krogan (who are supposed to be incredibly tough) go down from a single pistol shot in a cutscene. One exception is on Virmire, when Shepard tries to shoot Saren and it bounces off his shields.
Does this unit have a soul?
No, it has a hard drive
Legion held Shepard in front of him, but Tali stood behind his back. So any use of firearm could hurt or even kill Shepard as collateral damage, since bullets could possibly get through Legion right into Shepard. So use of cold weapon, especially when she had a chance of attack from the back, was simply the best solution.
PS. Regarding, where shank came from. I'm replaying ME2 right now, and in Tali loyalty mission Shepard asks Tali about delivered parts from Haestrom - (something like) How do you managed to get these parts from Haestrom, it was warzone? To which Tali replies - that their suits have more pockets, than Shepard can imagine (thou it doesn't sound legitimate, because those suits are wery snug)
2:13 and it still makes me wonder what happens if Wrex weren’t recruited anyways like will it just be Shepard and Tali in the final part of the mission?
So.... that explains Billie's beautiful killer nature. Hmmmmm.
#9 kinetic shields? Possibly upgraded something billion credit ship?
In mass effect 1 anytime you enter a mine with water on the floor you’ll encounter a tunnel down with water running. The water always goes up and not down like you’d think. Around 4 feet till the end or near the middle of the tunnel you can see the mess connecting and a small amount of water actually doing what gravity would make it do and go down the tunnel
5:07 that sentence is going on r/ThanksIHateIt
Billie Eillish the Ardok-Yakshi makes too much sense lol
The shields fail according to the plot? 🤣 I remember a random mission in ME1 where a guy shoots Shepard and the shields protect him and I was like 🤨 mmm, it was a clean shot.
The Krogan get it the worst, virtually impossible to kill with a single shot as they have multiples of each organ and failsafes on top of that. Unless it's a cutscene, then they're dead in one shot or just knocked on their ass by a single punch.
Well Jenkins was cut down by Geth Drones that had rapid fire and there were two of them. Where as in both Shepard's and Saren's case there were 1-3 slower shots.
I remember a tip about rapid fire weapons being better for stripping shields.
I like the details. If you talk to Kaiden on the Presidium (ME1) near the conduit, he can hear the hum it's making.
I found out Shepard hanging up on council in first game is cannon 😂 only noticed on my 'good' play through where I didn't do it once but joker still mentions it in mass effect 3
Tali probably knew exactly what part to hit to make Legion let go, she is the foremost expert on the Geth, it's a lot safer than a shotgun blast at close range when you have a friendly in the line of fire
Of course, TIM would know Cerberus gave Shepard the info on where to track the Shadow Broker down and in turn he/she gave it to Liara. TIM did this to plug a data leak on Cerberus, probably linked to the Cerberus mission in Mass Effect 1. But I doubt he released the info without knowing what it was but gave it to Liara so she would do their dirty work for them. But was unable to seize the Shadow Broker's ship and equipment within as Liara took off with it and sent the ship on a collision course with their cruiser. But most of the squadmates and former squadmates keep it to themselves for her safety.
This Tali's shank may be her boot knife, but also may suggest that, her loyality mission wasn't her first court hearing, but first when Shepard was around to persuade the judge. Definitely not canonical, but interesting idea to explore just for fun.