10 Mass Effect Trilogy Secrets Many Players Missed - Part 3

[@curlywhites]

I'd say one secret is rescuing Liara last. When you get there she thinks she's hallucinating and is kind of entertaining to hear her rationalize the conversation. Plus how she reacts on the ship when you know everything already.

[@DanielSan1776]

That’s a good name I approve

[@211Shinobu]

Very cool list! I never knew about the Superman reference. More secrets: 1) A hospital employee on the presidium claims to freak out the PTSD Asari because she looks like "the farm girl" (Joker's sister). 2) If Morinth survives the suicide mission she shows up as a Banshee on Earth in ME3. 3) At least in the original ME2 if Thane and Shepard were the only two to board the Normandy at the end of the suicide mission, Thane would stay in the airlock and let Shepard fall. (This was a glitch, not a lack of character on Thane's part.) 4) The annoyed Salarian is voiced by Brandon Keener, Garrus' voice actor. He also plays a Salarian in Andromeda, and the original shopkeeper in ME1 who is bothered by "refund guy".

[@felisasininus1784]

Wow, I have known this commando with PTSD for almost a decade now. But never have I discovered the hidden connection.

[@sherrykathman3309]

It hit me on my second playthrough and I was totally shocked and extremely sad whenever I saw Joker after that.

[@thesinofgreednomore1516]

Your Mass Effect content is fun it made me want to play through the trilogy again

[@isaacfoster1377]

Good enough I might actually finish Andromeda or I'll stop after 3. (Going for the secret/good ending.)

[@gamingloser5909]

I wish there was a way to have war assets that would allow at least Joker's sister survive. Like maybe early on you could find Tiptree and scan it for assets that would allow for alliance support to go in and help in the evacuations

[@hansolowe19]

And if your assets are too low, his dog dies as well.

[@brixan...]

You gotta have some people that you can't save, just like real life

[@NatetheNerdy]

You could do one video easily on just planet descriptions in ME1. I've just started replaying it, and the craziest one is a description that seems to imply a dead/half built reaper was crashed on a planet. It talks about a leviathan corpse that was genetically engineered, but Batarians took it and now deny any knowledge of such a thing.

[@jasonreiyn9311]

That thread is revisited in the ME3 dlc as the Leviathan of Dis

[@nicholasdonin1465]

Batarians are the ones to find Sovereign. That's who Saren got it from. The first mass effect book.

[@TheMelancholicWriter]

If I remember rightly that’s part of why the Batarians are so antagonistic. A lot of their leadership and people were indoctrinated.

[@Tacticaviator7]

I remember the one planet that talks of it's huge canyon/valley that is suspected to have been made by a really powerful gun, in ME2 it turns out the derelict Repaers in the IFF mission was disabled by that same projectile, love that kind of stuff.

[@sherrykathman3309]

@@jasonreiyn9311, It was also mentioned by the Batarian terrorist Balak that the Hegemony fell so fast cause of the Reaper corpse they found. It Indocternated most of the governments highest ranking leaders, generals, and scientists. When the Reapers invaded, the Batarians could not put up any more than a small scale, local resistance cause the government was actively siding with the Reapers.

[@christophergroenewald5847]

13:04 If only there was someone aboard the Normandy in Mass effect 2 that has a deep love for animals and isn't ashamed of getting freaky in the bedroom

[@jled787]

Kelly Chambers...is that you?

[@MrNikkdo]

@@jled787 She does save your fish when you're gone during ME 3, so she is obviously fond of fish. According to codex, warren are nicknamed "fishdogs". I don't wanna think about this any further.

[@terryflopycow2231]

@@MrNikkdo Kelly chambers from Mass Effect 2 got railed and knotted by a Varren

[@aidanmagill6769]

Someone's gotta take care of the fish

[@ideadlift20kg83]

Yeah it is either Kelly or Wrex/Grunt.

[@v12shane]

Wow, I literally just watched the other 2 of these for the first time a few moments ago, and now I get part 3 right away 🙏

[@artursandwich1974]

This time you got me - this video actually does contain details I missed in mass effect games, thank you.

[@editorrbr2107]

Those dimensions are interesting, because it translates to Pi, and when divided by pi, it’s 1 x 4 x 9 = consecutive squares. And that same “1 x 4 x 9” configuration are also the dimensions of the Monoliths in Clarke’s 2001.

[@aidanmagill6769]

I didn't understand any of that but I can tell it's cool.

[@majorgear1021]

This went so far over my head that it hit the space shuttle.

[@Anvilshock]

Except it's also measured in meters. A completely arbitrary unit introduced and formalized on Earth in the comparatively recent Napoleonic years and still fought tooth and nail by certain brouhaha countries today. The creators of those coffins would have to have known the definition of a meter to come up with those absolute numerical figures, otherwise the only telling thing would be the series of consecutive squares which would work with _any_ positive numerical multiplier.

[@Jay_428]

You shouldn't have to feel bad about not giving a spoiler warning before, it should be pretty apparent that a video about different secrets in the games will dive into various plot threads. If someone, somehow, got spoiled by something then its really their own foolishness to blame for watching videos like these before playing the games and experiencing them for themselves first.

[@Thor-js2rb]

Also these games are old by now

[@afnewyorker8965]

The game-over message you get from "romancing" Morinth is like a punchline to a bad joke

[@archiev1976]

you can technically find Dragon Age world Thedas in ME1. From Klendagon's moon Presrop, you can see the famous rift of Klendagon. During Dragon Age origins, if you look at the moon, it has the same rift visible. Naturally it's just recycled element since ME came out before DAO

[@drewtheunspoken3988]

But there was also the Ogre statue in ME2's Kasumi loyalty mission. It had to come from somewhere.

[@Th4t1badgamer]

My brother and I always joke about the Varren thing saying "Dammit Kelly" because of her obvious love for all things Alien

[@chriscepec1655]

I always blamed joker cause he couldn't run away fast enough

[@dr.chocolates2630]

Krogans eat Varren meat.

[@glrasshopper]

I never knew of the Superman reference as came to the game late. However, hearing you read it out, my first though was that the destruction of the planet was no accident. The description of the technology is enough to highlight that they weren't following the Reaper's planned technical evolution.

[@magicpyroninja]

Having been over all three of those games in Galaxy multiple times, I could tell you there are quite a few planets that I would love to know more about

[@PragmaticOptimist_N7]

The lore of this original trilogy.. Well, (for me,) everything proceeding Andromeda is so deep... The Superman reference got me giggling as never heard this till now after how many yrs after the franchise came to public consumption... Thanks Sir... Simply amazing!

[@isaacfoster1377]

That's what happens when you switch from a learnt and experienced devs who grew with the game to a new branch.

[@Tacticaviator7]

Andromeda has great lore too, but only if you're masochistic enough to play throught 100% of it.

[@SuperGeorgeGreek]

Jack's fate if she survived the suicide mission but wasn't loyal is rather disturbing....

[@Blazieth]

If you're referring to her fate in 3, her Loyalty status is actually irrelevant, only her survival of the Suicide Mission. So long as you do the Grissom Academy mission before it expires, she'll be fine. But if you skip that one... hoo boy.

[@Zoroth3Demon]

What happens

[@Zoroth3Demon]

Oh wait don’t you have to fight her later when she’s indoctrinated?

[@JAYDOG1337A]

I'm gonna be honest, I piss off that salarian on surkesh in literally every playthrough that I do.

[@Fizhy]

Same. Can’t stop touching things

[@abhiramboralkar5782]

@@Fizhy Nice. Very subtle of you.

[@Nerdles15]

For #4- there’s a nod to it in ME: Andromeda as well. Similar setup, with them getting annoyed at you pressing a button on Kadara

[@aarontrupiano9328]

i didn't know the cerberus network had actual news items like that. it would be cool if there was a mod out there to get all that working again. secret 3. joker will talk to the illusive mad after the mission if you decide to do this for some reason.

[@ericisreal776]

I was replaying 1 remaster all day yesterday and a little into today I came across part one a few hours ago and then found out you cranked out 3 in less than 3 weeks thank you the timing is no coincidence Keelah Se'lai

[@Skully_the_Skull]

The dimensions on Angea are multiplices of pi, i.e., \pi, 4\pi, 9\pi which are actually the proportions of the monolith of Space odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (01:04:09) but for pi-based math

[@Anvilshock]

But only if you measure them in meters, a unit of completely arbitrary definition. Now explain to me how whoever made those objects knew how much a meter was. We can't even get Americans of today to know it, and those live on the same planet as, well, the rest of mankind.

[@drewtheunspoken3988]

It's always weird seeing other people's Shepards. Like, it just looks wrong. Those little mysteries in Mass Effect 1 were infuriating. You kept expecting them to have some payoff but they never did. Though, the worst was the mystery of what's his name that lead to encounters with Cerberus. It sounded like it would be important but it just... ended.

[@aidanmagill6769]

Mysteries which remain mysterious are the best kind.

[@majorgear1021]

My Shephard is the only legitimate Shephard.

[@drewtheunspoken3988]

@@majorgear1021 I don't care which ending BioWare chooses to build off of. As long as it's the one I got.

[@drewtheunspoken3988]

@aidanmagill6769 I was thinking of Armistan Banes. He is supposed to be dead, but that was a ruse. He's suspected to be working with Cerberus, but there's never any closure. You start the quest and get Admiral Kohoku involved. There's some shady stuff going on. Kohoku investigates on his own and ends up dead. So the central mystery is never solved, and it doesn't come up again. I thought he would be revealed to be the Illusive Man, but no.

[@Cancoillotteman]

@@drewtheunspoken3988 I'll admit it'd have been very satisfying to get the fine word on that, even if only in ME2. AND have the possibility to shoot him point-blank, no matter for TIM or Cerberus (taking the senario Banes ain't the illusive man) for killing those marines and Kahoku. Like for instance an interrupt only available if you had the lone survivor background, because using Thresher Maws on marines kinda triggers you.

[@TankMarion]

Logan and Ploba intrigued me, I'd to like to see more of these planets with interesting descriptions :D

[@JobeStroud]

I will admit... I constantly touched that! 6 was obviously reapers waiting to attack after waking up. 7 is a SCP reference to Jupiter's Eye.

[@darren5777]

So many secrets in this trilogy, Andromeda has a fair amount too if you can bare to find them

[@Fyrehart97]

Has anyone even finished Andromeda? I've tried multiple times and I get bored once I finish all the explorable planets.

[@TheAncientAstronomer]

Ah the touching please don't touch thingy. Drove that Salarian into a cosmic sized infuriating rage! 🤣🤣🤣

[@walker3808]

thanks for filling in the gapes and making me understand mass effect better,

[@ianmelville4071]

Another cool note on the Asari story is when you hear all the dialogue at Huerta hospital go to the spectre office and you can override a message giving the Asari a weapon. If you do you later find out she shoots herself.

[@rocknroadley8440]

Love the uncharted worlds bios, like Logan. I always read all the bios when looking for side quests. I actually like how you don't get to go down to get answers. The unknown is often more frightening.

[@TheGreenmanOfStonershire]

Also thought Mordlin was refering Jack with the Verran disease she did have messed up background Cerberus and all doing experiments and being a messed up faction too.

[@OfficalHamtaro]

I'm loving these Mass Effect Videos easily one of my favorite games that I've played

[@chadwarden593]

I would think its more likely the scale itch was passed on from someone else off the Normandy whom messed with a varren, and not from the varren directly.

[@tyronarmstrong6883]

It sounds like the planet Logan retracted its claws.

[@Rednova08]

You will leave Zaeed behind anyway if you don't pass the Paragon check.

[@george-o1018]

Oh hell yeah part 3! Keep em coming

[@yeetin_yeti69]

Dang that’s kinda cool how they reference the dang asari reaper things

[@abhiramboralkar5782]

Finally! Yo upload more Mass Effect content!

[@Nathan-ip5dd]

because of your videos I'm definitely going to replay the whole trilogy

[@Cancoillotteman]

Damn that music. Hits the feels everytime. I really wanted a longer conversation with Anderson.

[@D3sol4t3Dyn4sty]

Number 7 does remind me a lot of the very pulse of the machine featured in love death and robots, maybe they had a similar influence?

[@HajimeNoDamien]

Dude,dude you can’t drop a nuke on me like that and have it be the first fact and here I thought I was a real mass effect fan. Joker deserved better than this and I’m really hoping my ending with mixing non organic and organic coding together is canon cause if it ain’t jokers got a really tragic life, bad legs, no family and possibly no e.d.i 😢

[@shirinak.1701]

I wanted the first and second. This third one made me subscribe, i love these specially about mass effect. So good and such good videos, keep it coming

[@Fizhy]

[@icanhasutoobz]

I always suspected the description for planet Logan was a reference to the events in the story of (Arthur C. Clarke's) 2010.

[@gamerboy6787]

Thank you muchly for this here video. I missed every secret on this list except for the explanation of what happened to Joker's sister, and the scaly itch.

[@isaacfoster1377]

My favorite easter egg is in me2 (maybe me1 or 3 too) drinking causes the Asari (bar only?) to become more glamorizing .

[@neotokyo5154]

I know it's a stretch, but what if Logan planet with retractable structures is a small reference to the Wolverine and his claws?

[@shootdang8618]

Im not the only one who thought that!

[@FreelancerCZ]

There's a similar salarian in Andromeda on Kadara who gets mad if you keep interacting with a button, quite cringeworthy as well 😅

[@brokenbiscuit3609]

Oh thanks, I expected to hear something like "Hey, apparently there's a little red crab that says hi if you find it in The Normandy", not "Joker's dad and sister were killed during the war, so here's the recounting of it from a traumatized Asari"

[@Fyrehart97]

So wait... There's a fuckin Kryptonian in Mass Effect? In the Mass Effect lore? The Reapers should have been screwed in the no choice ending. I mean, damn, a Kryptonian being brought up in a time of war would probably leave all life in galaxy at risk. Imagine Superman going on a killing spree because he's a psychopath. Could that be the plot of Mass Effect 4? Fighting a near invincible being? Probably not, but hey!

[@Gingerboi2010]

Maybe those two gas giants with solid objects in them are two reaper hiding spots where afew reapers didn't get through the relays back to deep space so chose to hide in gas giants

[@TheFuchsiaRosa]

i really enjoy these ME videos even tho i a big ME nerd myself and know a lot about it i still find it really interesting to watch videos explaining it

[@Crimsin19937]

Here's one. Thane doesn't have to be killed by kai-lang! I found this by accident when I forgot to visit thane In the hospital in me3. Then when the time come, Lang will kill commander kreehie instead (don't know how to spell his name.. the "hold the line guy, from ME1)

[@weaselwolf8425]

Damn that's pretty interesting but I'm not gonna let Captain Kirrahe (commander Ig) die, Thane is dying anyways.

[@TheMelancholicWriter]

@@weaselwolf8425 You only get this if Thane dies on the Suicide Run.

[@thehiddenone8892]

It’s actually funny how useless the Asari are they are supposed to be the elite race but were overrun probably the quickest out of all the races and the humans are the ones who actually save the universe

[@shootdang8618]

I wonder if the reapers knew this and saw value in them (the banshees) and hit them first with full force.

[@thehiddenone8892]

@@shootdang8618 Yeah I’m not saying that Asari Commandos aren’t elite I just found it funny the Asari were supposed to be the strongest as well as being the most intelligent race they were also stuck up and confident and wasn’t Earth the first planet hit by the Reapers

[@shootdang8618]

Thats a good question im not sure. Yeah it is... ironic hahaha

[@weaselwolf8425]

FR. Biotics and all yet they still got overwhelmed and had to be saved by mankind

[@lxginventorymanagement1859]

yessss I was waiting for this

[@positronixartandlife4545]

Some interesting things to cover in a future video: 1) Cerberus News Network gives information on /three/ new species: an unknown race that uploaded their consciousness to quantum computers and have been living inside them for 8,000 years; the kirik (an insectoid race with biotic abilities and intelligence on par with dolphins); and the raloi (a bird-like species that made contact with the asari in 2184, but were known to the elcor for a few generations before then). The raloi are additionally interesting as they were officially welcomed to the Citadel in 2185, impacted by an alien flu virus (meaning they were required to wear environmental suits to avoid getting infected) and then withdrew in 2186, destroying satellites and observation stations around their home planet in the hopes the Reapers would see them as a pre-spaceflight species and move on 2) Lots of planets in ME have unique little details. A few of note include Armeni which has millions of crypts a few metres under the surface, left by the zeioph; Zaherux which has 'seas' of silica dust and all attempts at investigating has resulted in probes being lost and an extranet meme/conspiracy theory that the dust is disassembler robots created millenia ago (before the protheans and more advanced than then) that take apart any attempts to study them; Farcrothu's moons have carvings on them that date back to over half a million years ago; Zayarter has reports of geometric patterns of lights on the dark side of the planet that disappeared when investigated; Klendagon has a huge rift left behind by a mass accelerator weapon about 37 million years ago; Etamis and Atahil both show signs of orbital bombardment occuring 20-40 million years ago and may link to Klendagon's damage as well as others making reference to popular media (Sharblu -> The Fifth Element, Junthor -> Forbidden Planet/ Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias) 3) Special note goes to Klencory whose investigation and excavation was begun by a volus who claimed a vision from a higher being told him to look for the "lost crypts of the beings of light", supposedly created at the dawn of time to protect organic beings from synthetic "machine devils". Waved off as meaningless, it gets more interesting with ME3 and the Reaper invasion 4) In 1 and 2, Earth is the wrong way around. For 1 when viewed from Luna the planet is mirrored (though this was fixed in the Legendary Edition), and in 2 when entering Earth's atmosphere the planet is spinning backwards, making the sun rise in the west 5) If Jenna is alive and you complete Feros: Data Recovery, UNC: Asari Writings, and buy the Elkoss Combine Armory license in Mass Effect 1 then in ME3 not only will Conrad Verner give you his dissertation on dark energy, but it will be upgraded and worth 4 war assets, almost as much as recruiting Diana Allers to the Normandy or using the Paragon interrupt when talking to Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani (5 each) 6) Related to the above, if you never punched al-Jilani you get an extra 5 War Assets to (hopefully) go along with the original 5 for using the Paragon interrupt 7) You can save the Tuchanka: Bomb mission until after the Cerberus Coup if you don't do too many side missions. Have Kaidan/Ashley on the crew for some interesting dialogue, and bring them along on the mission for more

[@therealguy4110]

The Superman secret is dope af, didn’t catch that when I played

[@maroccomo]

#10 is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing that.

[@davidbondy2250]

Loving these Mass Effect videos!

[@ahzidaljun]

this series has been very cool so far

[@prickly10000]

Mess Sergeant Rupert Gardner is the one with Scale Itch infecting the food and that why he doesn't return in Mass effect 3.

[@aidanmagill6769]

ME2 caught me off guard with the IFF triggering the timer, I lost a lot of people but hey, fortuitously, I went into the suicide mission with Legion loyal. Still, it's a shame you don't get him earlier because he's effin' cool. I mean, he's no HK-47 but he'll do.

[@witchywoman2008]

Really enjoying these videos! Some of the things I know about but a lot I don’t as I’ve only played the trilogy once and it was last year when the Legendary Edition came out, so I’ve missed some details along the way. Do you have any Fable secrets to share? I’ve just finished Anniversary for the first time and really enjoyed it.

[@TheCorrodedMan]

It appeared to me that Logan was home to some form of gas-borne organism similar to whales on earth. When they sensed the ships arriving, they must’ve interpreted it as a threat and scattered, as shoals of fish often do when a shark swims through them. Interesting concept, that; a gas giant home to organic life, not _intelligent_ life, but life all the same, as we would understand it.

[@magicpyroninja]

Oh 100% having relations with morinth will change your life for the deader😅

[@Kapolio]

I wonder if the flavor text for logan was some kind of hint towards the leviathans

[@nachoyoutube2732]

I need more of this 😂

[@thehiddenone8892]

You can make Mass Effect secret videos for months theirs so much

[@AdrianGell]

10:50 Wait... you can complete loyalty missions *after* the suicide mission? I would never have considered.

[@wickedred3695]

i never knew about the superman one, thats dope

[@jsingleton3142]

Most of these are just being observant while playing the game. That said #5 was a surprise to me. I always completed all side content before the suicide mission.

[@the_dropbear4392]

For the varren STD one, wasn't necessarily someone on the normandy. One of the crewmembers could have slept with someone not on the Normandy who had it.

[@ericbencusmagnusfabricius3499]

Once I found a star system called Pamyat I think... explored by the russians. Like a CCCP reference made me chuckle up for a sec, but it had some nice lore and some great codex entries maybe it could make a good spinoff even... I really miss the russians from modern syfy stories xd

[@Bacadami]

Do you like dragon age origins? It’s personally my favourite game of all time. It would be cool if you did a play-through or some content on it! :)

[@chazclark86]

Missed a couple of these myself!

[@Blackbird0098]

Fr tho I know the whole meme about Kelly fking a Varren is hilarious but I honestly think it was Grunt. I mean, we go to Tuchanka for his loyalty mission, which has an abundance of Varren and c’mon, Grunt’s a lab-grown Krogan who‘s only been alive for a couple of weeks at that point and is speed-running through puberty. Krogan. Puberty. That mf screwed a space dog.

[@M45terizBak]

i think it was Jack because in ME3 she has a pet varren just saying

[@nataliesammy8446]

That asari ptsd story is so chilling

[@byzantiphile7630]

I still think the Asari joke is hilarious.

[@anteplibela]

thank you for more mass effect

[@est.cforthepeople9822]

I LOVE this series

[@scottprickett7687]

Never seen anybody mention that the mom on the video message during Talis loyalty mission has a kid with the same name as Dorn, while rescuing Korris. Did the kid lose both parents?

[@fancybluepen3489]

Yeah I think it's implied they were both little Jonah's parents

[@DS-wl5pk]

If you play a game without even looking a little bit for the extra things and secrets…. Y are you even playing games. Isn’t the point to experience what’s in the game…..

[@orarinnsnorrason4614]

Maybe not a secret but still not very noticeable until you "see" it. Mordin's head tattoo is reaper.

[@hawkwood9257]

60 playthroughs of ME2 and I never knew about N. 5 edit: I didn't know about 6... or 7.... or 9.... or 10

[@gameingwiki]

13:55 I can't stop laughing

[@GRH_Roadhouse]

Part 4 question mark Roadhouse

[@kerringtonshields3909]

If a little girl can kill husks with a stick, why did the asari huntress have to kill her in order to stay hidden???

[@yeetin_yeti69]

Damn that’s sick as fuck that the asari had to kill jokers sister

[@JyujinPlus]

_Hang on,_ Superman just _exists_ in the Mass Effect universe and no one is talking about this? I mean I know he’s just a baby rn but I can’t believe we didn’t try to salvage any Kryptonian technology to fight the Reapers.

[@VitoRafiie]

well joker, I be the people of tiptree wish they had fewer farmers and more commandos right about now huh

[@FabledThunder]

I wish BioWare kept the Cerberus daily news

[@davebradburryjr5084]

Your # 4 if you play andromeda and go to I think it's the outcast base you can do the same thing they really allow you to play with one of the consoles and you'll have another Solarium doing the same damn thing so actually there's a lot of jokes in this game that actually translate over to Mass Effect Andromeda why they never gave it the legendary and why we never got our DLCs I'll never know but if you play these three games about 50% of these games actually carry over into Andromeda I have no idea why they didn't do it there's always hope for the future

[@ANGLO-GERMAN96]

Leviathans on Logan?

[@Tucher97]

The Varren STD, is it possible that no one was fucking around wiht a Varren but was pissed on as in real life, there are animals that can transmit STD via golden shower..... Yea uh who teh fuck got pissed on by a Varren?

[@angelenerose6515]

This guy sounds like Fizhy lol

[@Ozcogger]

More please

[@XtraOrdinar-y]

You sound like a KZbinr I know his name is fizhy

[@justagreekguywithaspacesui9084]

Dont touch that