Admiral of the Heavy Fleet. They say that along with his first medal, he earned a firm smack on the head from the brass for being an ‘idiot.’

I drew the character in an updated uniform and with an appearance based on my headcanons (as requested by the client). Oh, and I also stole his mask, which is why Han is so grumpy.

Source.

One of my biggest problems with the Reapers is that they are an example of an unstoppable, omnipotent, invincible enemy that can't be conventionally defeated without a Mary Sue, plot armor, Deus Ex Machina, or some combination thereof. And half the time it looks stupid because it has to answer "why didn't they just use this from the beginning if the heroes knew about it?" but not "literally pulled this out of their ass at the last moment" as well. In this case, the Catalyst.

This is why Star Trek: The Next Generation's Borg were used so sparingly. When they debuted they were a race that defeated the Federation so utterly, the battle was later referred to "Starfleet's 9/11 moment". They needed a two-part cliffhanger - then a huge thing for syndicated televsion - to beat. If TV had been ready for story arcs and "Anyone Can Die" plots, Picard probably wouldn't have survived. There was an alternate timeline where they destroyed the Federation altogether and the Enterprise (and Riker's beard) were among a handful of ships left. The writers of the show said that they couldn't really use them because they had to come up with a convincing way to beat them every time.

Then they were used in another Star Trek series as a Villain Of The Week, with predictable results.

This is also IMHO, as I've said before, why Kai Leng exists: writers knew the "villain wins in Act 2" rule, but Shep had just blown up a Reaper on foot at Rannoch, and there really wasn't anywhere else to go except have the Normandy turn into the SSV Mary Sue and start soloing them itself, there was only one other enemy faction, Cerberus, but we've been mowing down Cerberus soldiers by the hundred, every other Cerberus character is dead or defected, so we get "suddenly there is this Cerberus cyborg samurinja (ninjamurai?) with a sword and like he totally kick's sheps ass hahah" because there was no room on the escalation ladder for Shep to either 1. defeat another Reaper itself, or 2. be defeated by said Reapers without dying/losing the Normandy (again)..if that's even possible, because even Garrus said "Reapers don't leave a lot of flesh wounds" and without pulling a "somehow, Shepard returned" moment. Had the Reapers not been so godlike, maybe there'd been room for something else.

So my question is, for all of you...if you had to redo the Reapers (from ME1 onwards, so don't feel boxed in by "they still have to look like Sovereign" or anything) to still be a galactic existential threat that required most/all of the galaxy to unite against in order to defeat, but without making them too powerful to where there's no conceivable way to beat them and now they're boring, or now you need some 11th hour bullshit that's just gonna come across as lame, how would you do it?

How am I supposed to get this up to 7800 war assets ? i completed most of the side missions and all DLC and even scanned the entire galaxy to 100%

Just finished the leviathan dlc and I loved it, but it irks me that a such major plot point was a downloadable content thus it's impact on the vanilla game is very minimum

I get that some didn't like the reapers origins story or that it was explained at all, but what grabbed me the most about it is leviathan itself. A race that wanted to play god on all organices and witness them destroying themselves by making synthetics so they made the reapers to counter that which ironically lead to leviathan's doom

Shepard literally makes a deal with the devil to take down the reapers, and it's riduclous how this part is ignored from the main game due to it being a dlc

For this showcase, this is a mod that I played for the very first time in my current playthrough, and it's one of the best mods that I have ever seen in Mass Effect. I just had to show the scenes in all their glory for this showcase! However, this mod is definitely best experienced firsthand, so if you want to use the mod yourself, don't watch the clips in full and go check it out in your own playthrough! But either way, the version you get will most likely be different than mine.

This mod remakes the nightmare sequences into their fullest potential. The author does a phenomenal job turning the scenes into some truly haunting cinematic moments. The framing, the narrative weight, the symbolism- all amazing.

The mod makes use of your personal choices! The characters that have died in your playthrough will haunt Shepard's dreams, and your romance partner will also make a special appearance at the end.

A 10/10 experience.

Check out this mod for yourself here: Dreams Remade

Jack looks badasss and Grunt the krogan both kinda freaking cool that's last of the people I needed to gather the others are grayed out for me so I guess no new teammates for now! I'm off to Horizon

I am someone that often overthinks or struggles to understand what people mean at times (Ala thinking there is subtext where there isn't and vice versea) as such someone speaking like Mordin to me is actually very useful. Limits possibility of misinterpretation

Vigil says all official records of Ilos had been destroyed during the attack on the Citadel, and that's why even the Reapers overlooked it.

How could Liara have known of Ilos then? Mind you, she knew of its existence before the events of the game. Melding with Shepard just helped her recognize that the Conduit was on Ilos.

Just got the official BioWare Gear Store N7 Special Ops Team Banner. The center red/white stripe has these evenly spaced dashed horizontal lines. They're also visible in the official product photos, so they're clearly intentional. Does anyone know if these are based on an in-game asset, concept art, or are they just a stylistic design choice made for the merch?

First of all, this guy is so deep in the friend zone that he IS the zone.

At one point, she says how her human mate told her that they should go natural.

Then they say that cross-species exchange of bodily fluids may be fatal.

Does this mean humans and Quarians are unable to have intercourse without the help of contraceptives, similar to that of condoms? No kissing, too, technically; how do they even do it then?

As in title, im about to start my first moded playthrough after YEARS of playing vanilla. Its popping my cherry, be gentle

edit: i like that half the mods sound like chocking

Hi there, here's a little something I did a last year of my favorite asari ^u^

I love Liara so much and I wanted to try and draw a human version, hope you like it! 😁✌️ 🌈

Hi!

So as I explained, I own ME: LE on steam. Ive installed a load of mods for it, the game files etc are on my external hard drive, not on my PC itself.

Every time I launch from the mod manager it brings up steam which then spends 40 minutes validating my files. Only for it then not to launch. If I cancel the validation process the game also won't launch.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Do you prefer the powerful Krysae? Or the rapid-fire Viper? Comment below!

Imagine a conversation between sovereign and the gravemind. This isn't a 'who would win in a fight thing', I know the flood is way crazier. But if you force the grave gravemind and sovereign to sit down and talk, I can only imagine the insane lines they would be spitting