You wake up in the Terminus system

>>716039070 (OP)
tongue my ring

>>716039070 (OP)
i leave my omega apartment and get gangraped by batarians

>>716039070 (OP)
Aren't humans one of the newest species, if so why do they control so much space?

>>716039356
humans have a race of udinas that can be deported to millions of different colonies

>>716039356
(((humans)))

>>716039070 (OP)
Why is the attican traverse so long ?

>>716039356
and you are wondering why everyone hates humans?

>>716039070 (OP)
At least I'm not in the African Traverse.

>>716039356
It's just 2d slice of 3d galaxy, my man. Other races have shit ton of everything "deeper" and humans maybe have only all that we see.

>>716039070 (OP)
TOTAL BATARIAN DEATH

maybe the turians were right about humans?

>>716039356
Humans have a military that is near comparable to the Council races' military, and thankfully, humans are willing to play ball. The Council throws the Alliance a bone by granting them sizable territory and pussyfooting around putting them on the Council.
This ensures a few things, primarily that the humans will not try to challenge the Council militarily and remains in good allegiance politically, and two, that the territory assigned to Earth by the Council comes largely from B*t*rian space and the Alliance will essentially colonize those sectors for the Council without them having to lift a finger.

>>716042721
If I remember right, the first game at least makes it clear that the Turians would clap humanity if it came to an all out war.

>>716039356
the council uses human space as a buffer zone to deal with undesirables for them.
play the fucking game.

>hey new kid, you say you want some territory?
>sure, you can have the that area over there. just gotta clear out the drug addicts and thieves, but im sure you'll figure it out.

>There could be vorcha here

what is the best class in the games

>I told them it was theirs and they went and cleared it out the absolute madmen

>>716039070 (OP)
why the fuck does earth hold that much space

>>716043545
Vanguard and Adept are pretty damn fun in ME1
In ME2 I always went Vanguard, but I tried Sentinel this time and tech armor is GOATed. Not as flashy as vanguard charge, but it similarly lets you become a nigh-invincible tank that can rush up to people and beat the shit out of people instead of worrying about cover mechanics.

Only played ME3 once at launch as vanguard, which was even better than in ME2. After my current playthrough we'll see how sentinel performs in that game I guess.

>>716039070 (OP)
crashing a warship into batarian population centers

>>716042721
there are treaties in place to make sure the various races dont get into costly arms races with each other. turians are far stronger than humanity.

>>716043545
for pure damage output, then soldier is the best in all three games. for fun its probably vanguard or infiltrator depending on what you like. the first game is so easy even on the hardest difficulty that it doesnt really matter what you do, but I imagne vanguards might have trouble on insanity in games 2 and 3. not sure.

>>716042921
That was during the first contact war, and even then the Humans surprised the Turians with how capable they were.
With many years and more advanced arms under their employ now, the Alliance is probably nearing Turian level (basically 90% or Council military).

>>716043870
I don't know about "far" stronger. Like you said, there are treaties on numbers of ships and whatnot.

As detailed as ME's worldbuilding is, there's still a ton of stuff that doesn't really make any sense. The main council races have been around for a couple thousand years. They should have already colonized pretty much every last inch of accessible space. Instead, the majority of the galaxy, even near main mass relays, is presented as the wild west, as if ALL the races have only recently discovered FTL.

Another aspect of this that kinda irks me is how planetary populations in ME rarely make any sense. For instance, Ilium only has 85 million people. For a whole planet that's an idealistic garden world where we see a giant coruscant-tier megalopolis, that's fucking ridiculous. What, this planet has this one single super technological city cramped with people and the rest of the planet is completely unpopulated despite being a paradise?

Many such cases. Earth only has 11 billion people. That planet that's literally just a giant landmind (the one you recruit Grunt) has a population of 4 billion. Eden Prime is described as one of the first human colonies and yet only has 3-4 million total, absolutely nothing.

>>716044167
people struggle with understanding large numbers and the vastness of space. more news at 11.

i agree, but it is to be expected.

>>716044167
>Earth only has 11 billion people

I remember a codex entry saying that sea levels have risen a full 2 meters and the weather is crazy due to climate change by the time of the first game. It is only recently that new advanced tech has allowed humanity to get climate change sorta under control.

>>716043457
>e85 1.79
>regular 2.24
grim

>>716044167
still better than starfield's galactic capital of a few people

>>716039070 (OP)
why is ME2 so comfy, bros...

>>716039356
Aliens just can't resist BHC. think how Spain conquered an entire unknown civilization with just sailors and priests.

>>716044167
mass effect writing has some pretty stupid gaps and I think it's because the writers just winged it and didn't really collaborate or attempt to maintain consistency across entries, thinking 99% of players wouldn't give a shit about the codex in their space TPS dating sim (spoiler: they were right)

>>716044912
>still better than starfield
That's not a high bar, anon.

>>716045486
>Spain conquered an entire unknown civilization with just sailors and priests.
It's less those sailors and priests being Übermensch, and more that they rallied the native tribes who hated the ruling empire and gave them military support, but still.

>>716039356
Bioware is retarded

>>716044071
Humanity only has eight dreadnoughts with just as many fleets while the Turians have nearly forty big fucking ships with probably that many fleets, and that's not even counting the other two council races.

>>716043679
According to the lore, the other races expanded in accordance to their military capabilities.
Earth expanded as far as they could.
Which is why when, in ME2, the fringe SA colonies were hit, the Council treated it as a SA matter, because humanity expanded too far, too fast, and couldn't defend themselves.

>>716046612
I disagree. I think people did care, but liked the franchise in spite of these issues.
Then Bioware blew everything up, erased all of the franchise's agency, dumped it to some talentless hacks, failed to create a new IP, and now they're left with a dating sim that retired its waifus.

>>716039356
anthropocentrism is based and the council races besides turians are cucked sissies

>>716039070 (OP)
"Could be worse. At least I'm not Human."

>>716039070 (OP)
how many batarian slaves do i get?

>>716039070 (OP)
I thought this was the helldivers map

>>716050535
>tfw this image is older than most of /v/ nowadays

Good. You opened this post.

>>716043801
>me1
>adept is for spamming 10 different cc spells
>me2
>2 spells only also you need to get enemies to 1/2 or 1/3 hp to stun them
still mad

>>716039070 (OP)
>Terminus was implied to be made up of different races and government than council space
>Terminus in ME2 was just more Turians/Asari etc, but edgier

>>716053548
small indie studio, please understand

>>716050381
I think they did a good job don't get me wrong. I just think there's very little cohesion with some of the codex entries that maybe show little inconsistencies across entries, like the timeline of Asaris discovering the relays etc. Little shit that the average player wouldn't even know unless they were looking for it.

The other major issue I have with the world is how vanilla all the race designs feel and that one is clearly remediable since they were previously limited by the models and animations leading to most races being colored humanoids. I wish they could just hit reset and give us the full tentacles Asaris and four-legged Turians, giant Krogans, etc. And fix the ending while they're at it.

>>716043545
I played Adept for my first playthrough, and then the stealthy sniper class for my 2nd. Space wizard is cool, but sneaky breeky was stronger. Especially in 2. Holy fuck, Adept in 2 could be pure agony, especially in solo missions where you can't use a teammate's abilities to delete shields/armor. It was a ton of fun yoinking dudes off cliffs, though. I'm butthurt that the projectile tracking for Adept skills got nerfed into the ground in 3, so you can no longer curve your projectile's trajectory as much to throw dudes perpendicular to your facing angle.

does ME 5(4?) have any chance of being good?

>>716055821
It can be a 7/10.
Not an IGN 7/10, but an actual 7/10 game.
That being said, a 7/10 isn't the kind of game that can save Bioware.
It's Greedfall tier.
They can sell a million copies, maybe?
That's not keeping the lights on.
What's most likely, though, is EA slowly starving the game out, until it's not possible to keep working on the game anymore.

*hides a vital piece of lore on an obscure planet*

>>716039070 (OP)
>"Probing Uranus..."

>>716054726
Biotics got shafted hard in ME2. Vanguard charge is the only decent one. That and warp, but warp is fucking boring anyway. For everything else, what does it matter what cool effects the powers do if the enemy needs to be totally unarmored/unshielded for it to do anything? And at that point you might as well just kill them the normal way with guns

>>716055821
unlikely
too many pitfalls
>bringing back Liara
>too much nostalgia
>not enough nostalgia
>can't write protagonist outside of Shepard ubermensch mold
>can't move plot past reapers
>stakes too high or too low etc
I will give them this though, the gameplay is almost guaranteed to be better than 3, and if it has a horde mode like 3's I will buy it for that alone.

>>716056853
you went from third person dark messiah to impotently crawling on the ground while your ai squadmates did 90% of the work
they should have just not let you play adept in 2 and 3

>>716055821
LOL
LMAO

>>716056853
You say that like Biotics (Adept) weren't the weakest option in ME1 also.

>>716055821
lol
lmao even

>>716039356
We kicked the Turians asses during the first contact war when we knew what we were up against before the council stepped in and stopped the war.

Humanity just because it's new to the Galaxy isn't some pussyfooted species that suck council dick 24/7 for protection (like the Elcor or Volus) we have a sizeable population and fleet and can wave our military cocks around plenty to get what we want AND have been shown willing to colonise in dangerous far border regions of the galaxy.

Also due to the councils rules/bans on powering up newly discovered Mas Effect relays just because we "own" a large chunk of the galaxy on a map doesn't mean we've "unlocked" all the planets and lands there as fully ours

It's likely humanities control of key relay hubs basically boosted our 2D borders but not a lot of actually impressive planets in those sectors that are worth a shit for mass colonization

Humans basically try to be a jack of all trades civ while the council races min max a few tech/culture trees and as a result are heavily reliant on humanity to pick up the slack when they faulter in their specalised areas.


TL:DR Humanity rules and Aliens are faggots

>>716058232
Why the fuck did those other species allow the humans to develop their technology to that degree?

>>716057552
Is this a joke? Adept in me1 was destroying everything with throw/pull/singularity and barrier was GOATed

>>716055821
Probably not. The magic in mass effect was discovering this fleshed out world for the first time and soaking it all in. With the trilogy concluded, there just really is not the option to regain that sense of discovery.

The shame of it is that Andromeda's premise of having colony ships going to.a brand new galaxy COULD HAVE allowed for this same sense of wonder and awe, but they completely dropped the ball anyway

>>716058232
>We
which part of the armada were you in?

>>716039070 (OP)
Can I get a personal Miranda clone?

>>716058590
>allow
humans found a protean beacon on mars and hid it from everybody else. the asari did the same thing with one on thessia