Mass Effect 3 Citadel DLC: All Citadel Archives incl. Indiana Jones Arc & all Shepard's backgrounds

[@danielsimmons2339]

Holy shit I love that it recognized both you and Kaiden's Spectre status. Its the little things, man.

[@esmac1550]

It's disappointing that your squadmates don't have comments for these. Wrex and Garrus' comments about the Krogan rebellion would've been really interesting.

[@Luke-ky5ed]

There are comments for a gun from the first contact war that for some reason weren't shown by this channel for some reason

[@deni140492deni]

@@Luke-ky5ed that gun is the most powerfull thing during your second playtrhough

[@Boskov01]

@@deni140492deni The M-7 Lancer? Ho man, that gun became my favorite! Light weight, 102 rounds when fully upgraded and with the thermal clip mod, recharges in a flash (provided you don't empty it)...couple that with the Black Widow and you've got a deadly combination.

[@DarthObscurity]

It was 1000 years before their time. What comments do you have about the Norman invasion of Italy in the 1000's?

[@Luke-ky5ed]

Darth Obscurity It was WAY more recent than a 1000 years

[@Dennis-nc3vw]

"And you're the first bird I've met." Funny considering these may well have been the first words ever uttered by a human to an alien race.

[@ClemPrime13]

"A bullet is a bullet" That would basically be humanity's response to aliens.

[@jamesalexander1441]

Levi Brennan or mainly America's.... "There's always the nuclear option." / "We don't understand it, so let's nuke it, then we won't need to understand it."

[@KBzaz]

James Alexander Oh please don’t even try to pretend that America is the only country with that mindset. The UK, Russia, Korea, and many more still behave exactly the same fucking way. Get off your high horse and recognize that human’s have been monsters long before American soil was so much as considered a possibility.

[@malcolmholmes2596]

@@KBzaz lel triggered

[@katprime2386]

Kristian Bailey so true! Our history with violence has proven that fact time and time again that no matter what country we live in or what our ethnicity is we humans are capable of committing the most heinous acts of cruelty.

[@malcolmholmes2596]

@@katprime2386 yep what a great bar to set for yourselves, ancient civilizations, some type of canablisitc tribes and north korea

[@markfreeman4727]

2:11 Slarian and Turian Lieutenant: "this is the biological equivalent of a nuclear bomb, lets think this through" Turian officer: "fuck you, genophage go whoosh"

[@loudman12]

Lol couldn’t help but giggle 🤭 at that one. As the turian commander is pressing the he button bruhhhhhh

[@yol_n]

This for some reason reminds me or Chernobyl Even aliens are dumbasses...

[@joshuagross3151]

​@@yol_n You have to remember, the Krogan were on the verge of taking Palaven and had no qualms about dropping asteroids and space stations on occupied planets, the same thing we give the Batarians shit for in previous games.

[@Redguns4life]

@@yol_n There wasn't much to think about at the time. The Krogan were at the verge of taking over the galaxy. Its a classic them-or-us scenario.

[@FREEK777ful]

so councilors... about the Ark of the Covenant... can we have it back?

[@IndoorSitup]

It's currently being handled by top men.

[@FREEK777ful]

Who?

[@TheSteamweasel]

Gray Christian Top. Turians.

[@FREEK777ful]

TheSteamweasel They didn't open it did they?

[@mimisezlol]

+Gray Christian would non-christian metal plated Dino-birds be melted by the divine power of the Ark?

[@asumjessen2013]

it would be cool if they had one showing a salarian ship crashing on earth in 1947

[@thehavoccompany-a3]

+The Argonian inebriate Roswell? lol

[@johnrankin7135]

THEY MADE A MISTAKE

[@davido.1233]

I thought the ship that crashed in Roswell was the Ferengi Vessel "Quark's Treasure"

[@doom7ish]

@@davido.1233 Those damn Ferengi.

[@KitKatHexe]

Little did they know with Mordin's great great great granddad "Crash-landed on post-industrial nuclear society. First look at native culture _Deep Breath_ problematic"

[@DorianMichaelsIII]

I love the bravado of the turian officer in the first clip, when in fact after the First Contact War ended, the turians were (maybe not publically, but still) VERY impressed with the performance of the humans against them, especially given the relative inferiority of their equipment against the turians; they said that it was the first actually decent fight (and one that they had to exert any *actual* effort in) that the Turian Hierarchy had had since the Krogan Rebellions had ended over a millennium (in the ME timeframe) ago. It's also why the rest of the Citadel races are so scared of Humanity; despite having only *3%* of their entire population enlisted in the military at any one time (whereas ALL turians, EVERY SINGLE ONE, either have or actively ARE serving)-- they still managed to give the turians hell (and the Council races are terrified of what might happen if Humanity is provoked enough to mobilize in VERY large numbers). And despite their military being relatively small compared to the militaries of the *OTHER* Council races, the Systems Alliance has more than been able to hold its own against other, larger, more established armed forces (specifically, the Batarian Hegemony)-- this is largely considered to be so due to the Alliance's emphasis on maneuver warfare, flexibility in combat (human officers are given MUCH more latitude to act on their own initiative in combat, in stark contrast to, say, the turians), and development and usage of new and novel technologies and tactics, such as VI and drone support, and fighting by striking at key elements of an enemy, rather than trying to grind them down by sheer attrition (an Alliance Commander will use every trick in the book to win, and if none of those work, they'll throw the book out and invent new ones...which usually get added to aforementioned book later)-- especially the last one; as an example, before the Alliance showed up, not one Council race, NOT ONE, not even the militarism personified *turians*, had EVER even come up with the remotest concept of a dedicated space fighter carrier; as soon as they saw the humans using one, they couldn't move to copy the concept fast enough-- as of ME, carriers are an integral part of ALL Council fleets.

[@LtCWest]

Funny that you mention the carriers, I remember a codex entry stating that the human carrier developement was actually an attempt in circumventing the Dreadnought treaty that restricted the Alliance to just 6 active commissioned Dreadnoughts at a time (whereas the turians had 40 or something). It worked better then everyone expected. ^^

[@voidimperial1179]

The carrier bit is part of the reason that nobody likes the council. Besides them not believing you until their homeworlds start burning to crisp they have managed to get the *entire* galaxy to stagnate. No new tactics, no new tech (though I cant blame the council for that one, everyone was screwed tech wise since the beginning due to relays and prothean beacons), no new anything. For some godforsaken reason, they became content with being good rather than becoming great.

[@ZeroCanalX]

...And then the entire Alliance fleet gets decimated by one Reaper destroyer due to holding onto conventional tactics, while Turians went unconventional and destroyed SEVERAL REAPER CAPITAL ships. Nice consistancy in ME3 writting...

[@khm8910]

Slaaneshi Rubric Marine, 1 reaper destroyer? Are you talking about the invasion of earth or something else.

[@tavianarmstrong974]

@@ZeroCanalX the turians had 37 dreadnoughts. 4 of which were used as bait to let suicide platoons work on reaper camps. The alliance had 6 and a drastically smaller fleet from sovereign and nowhere near the amount of soldiers the turians had. Yet earth stood for those months. 2 million died every day on earth. Humanity still wasnt extinguished. Humanity contributed the most individually as a species in the defeat of the reapers. Then the krogan and the geth following. the turians contributed less than the hypocritical asari...

[@linkieloos]

Wow... Colonist/Sole Survivor has got to be the saddest Shep background ever, I did that with one Shepard and she was obssessed with saving and keeping everyone alive

[@linkieloos]

Just like my Colonist/Ruthless femshep. 80% renegade for ME1, but by ME3 she had MAJOR u-turn (thanks to her romance with Liara, I guess).

[@linkieloos]

Mine was a story of redemption. Mindoir and Torfan almost destroyed her psyche, but it was Shepard's realisation that it was no longer a personal war by the end of ME1

[@Omnipotentmonkey]

I always enjoy playing Earthborn/Sole Survivor. imagine this kid Shepard growing up doing what it takes to survive, growing very cynical and vaguely misanthropic. then they eventually enlist(maybe to avoid jailtime) and on Akuze they gain perspective, people died but by force of nature, not human bullshit (at least it appears that way). people laying down their lives to try and save each others asses, maybe someone dies saving Shepard, and perspective is thus gained. the world can only be as good as you try to make it. you can just go with the flow, treat the world as badly as it treats your, kill or be killed, or you can be the point where that feedback loop stops, This gives you a lot of flexibility with your choices. You can be well-intentioned with noble goals but still fully capable of falling back into old habits or your formerly faulty mindset. Maybe I just overthink the potential characterisation :P

[@missytusara8274]

My Shep had this background, and was also very insistent that everyone make it out alive. Needless to say, the Suicide Mission in ME2 was probably her proudest moment, since she succeeded in doing exactly that. The Kaidan/Ashley choice definitely tore her up tho. Still, only ever took one Renegade interrupt, and that was breaking Kai Leng's sword.

[@GenericUsername-qp1ww]

except batarians of coarse. Kill as many as possible.

[@Omnipotentmonkey]

Man, gotta love Garrus' dialogue about 'not being a very good Turian' judging by this stuff you could approximate a more accurate translation of 'I'm actually not a complete psychopath when it comes to military matters"

[@PsyrenXY]

Diana Allers warns you too that they always have the creepiest fanmail. They're culturally obsessed with violence and scorched-earth supremacy. Only the Krogan and Yahg are worse imo.

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

That's hiding the massive war crime they commuted on Shanxi killing civillians, that would have been great to know in the third game.

[@Beltims]

@@PsyrenXY They are "culturally obsessed" with honor and winning every war they fight as quickly as possible. Without the genophage they would have been forced to use conventional military tactics against extremely aggressive and powerful enemy which also has the capability to replenish their losses very quickly. Without the genophage the war would have lasted longer and been a much bloodier. The krogan brought it upon themselves. They are the ones who destroyed their own world and tried to conquer the galaxy.

[@silverclawedwolf]

I wish there had been a cameo with the Ark of the Covenant, some mysterious Human stealing the Ark and leaving a note that only read "It Belongs in a Museum!"

[@JP-rf8rr]

well considering that whenever someone steals it, the arks seems to kill the thieves and anyone around it. so maybe it shouldn't be in a museum, ya know for safety reasons.

[@SuperLumianaire]

Was that the record? I couldn't see it.

[@EphPhaThaINC]

Well, the arc was probably stolen while it was being kept in a huge warehouse “being examined by...top men”. So of course it is gonna get stolen again.

[@EphPhaThaINC]

silverclawedwolf I just realized something, suddenly I can hear Kasumi Goto getting the idea as she ponders out loud: “The Ark of the Covenant? Now why didn’t I think of that? Oh please let it just be laying around inside another warehouse somewhere? Easiest theft ever, and I won’t even have to plan. It’s just begging to be stolen. Please Kasumi, steal me.”

[@FireLordJohn3191]

@@JP-rf8rr the Bible clearly states that man must not touch the Ark. That's why they die. They touched it. AND they planned to use it for evil. God's not okay with that.

[@frzferdinand72]

1:59 they knew good and well about the reaper threat. Still aint did shit smh

[@Soap1O]

+frzferdinand72 I was hoping they wouldn't go down this path. But this is strong evidence that the council and hackett believed everything and began various side projects to ensure the survival one of them was the Leviathan project, the other one is probably going to be the Ark thing and travelling to Andromeda. So basically left before the war ended. Fuck I was hoping they wouldn't do this.

[@jankostrhun8725]

+Soap1O Maybe I'm missing something, but this specter update doesn't necessarily need to do anything with Council... or you could have been added when Reapers were already partying on Khar'shan.

[@downnice95]

In Andromeda it is revealed that the Council Races were secretly funding the Initiative because of the reapers! Fuck the Council

[@Suave2459]

downnice no, the benefactor hasn't been identified yet

[@ZeroCanalX]

There were many who believed in Reaper threat, Salarian Military (Mordin's profile in Shadow Broker DLC), Specters (that whole Hannar diplomat side mission), Krogan Clans (Wrex and Grunt), Alliance (Hackett and Anderson) and Cerberus. Inj fact, only Asari and, ironicly, Turians were not convinced of this threat.

[@evanhunt1863]

1:52 The knew about the Reapers. And they did nothing. They denied that the Reapers even exist. The Council gambled on Shepard being wrong and just stuck their heads in the sand. SERIOUSLY?! WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE IN CHARGE?! DID THEY JUST SAY WHATEVER THE PEOPLE WANTED TO HEAR?!

[@khm8910]

Yeah... Keep in mind the Asari hid a prothean artifact from the galaxy, even when they made it law that all prothean relics be brought to the attention of the council, the Turians hid a bomb on Tuchanka, and the Salarians tried to uplift the Yaag. They are all idiots.

[@ambskater97]

Calm down. It's just a game.

[@jcaliberty8288]

@@ambskater97 NO DAMN IT

[@titanjakob1056]

As someone pu ti they didn’t want to belive it and buried it

[@Wyatt0987654321]

Simple. They have dismissed that claim.

[@LordProteus]

Turian generals were such glory-hunting, warmongering ass holes. Even their own men say what they're doing is wrong. Also it's a shame the characters/squad mates didn't comment on any of these things. Can you imagine Wrex or Grunt being there for the Genophage/Krogan Rebellion archive entries?

[@10Tabris01]

Garrus' opinion as well would have been interesting on both

[@JP-rf8rr]

grunt would probably not care as much since he was not around for the genophage and has not fully seen its effect. Wrex would be pissed tho

[@emmanuel4989]

Lord Proteus but grunt isn't even a squad mate on mass effect 3, unless it's in that game simulater

[@LordProteus]

Why do game mechanics have to part of me wanting to see other characters do something?

[@PaiSAMSEN]

When the choice came down to do the morally questionable things or to go extinct, they aren't much choice in such matter.

[@Hex_the_Warlock]

Turians when asked about the first contact war: "Honestly, it was a mistake on both human and turians as a species. We should have handled it better but hindsight is 20/20 and we should move on as one unit to make us stronger." Turians during the first contact war: "I can't wait to take this mass effect relay on a trip to your planet so we can **enslave** your species and make you **watch** as we **force you** to regret ever activating it."

[@anthonyrodriguez8788]

or as the Turians would put it "civilizing" the unruly savages.

[@nizel132]

i found the genophage one really interesting, the game always gave off the impression everyone (except the krogan) sorta agreed with it... guess not :P

[@heretical_cuttlefish]

I guess whenever it is YOU that is dropping the bomb, the consequences of your action seem a lot more...consequential

[@GenshinLover283]

The salarians probably would have approved but the turians got impatient

[@sev1120]

The Salarians developed it as a deterrent. A way of saying "if this progresses any further, we'll sterilise your people" It was arrogance that led them to think they should do it, then carelessness that made them think the Turians wouldn't take the opportunity to wipe out a race that wasn't subservient to them. Considering how many war crimes the turian hierarchy makes, I'm surprised they're still a council member

[@joshuagross3151]

​@@sev1120 Arrogance or desperation? Let's not tiptoe around this -- the Krogan were committing war crimes long before the turians released the Genophage.

[@Igarappappa]

​@joshuagross3151Yeah. You can't exactly claim self defense when you're chucking asteroids at people. Fact was the Genophage was the only way to stop them.

[@MovieguruThe]

This whole time for the Ark one, i had no idea you needed to step back! O_O

[@johnafirth]

***** I had no idea either. Gonna find that in my next play.

[@FistKitso]

Never realized that it was Saren speaking at 0:10 I legit got chills.

[@ckotherletters]

That's actually Desolas Arterius, Saren's brother. Desolas was a general in the invasion of Shanxi and he committed war crimes against the planet's population. He had the Illusive Man Captured and tortured, he's the reason the Illusive Man became such a radical human supremacist.

[@titanjakob1056]

FistKitso in all honesty his brother sounds worse than saran in many ways

[@tavianarmstrong974]

@Zerebrat Eightyseven how did he get indoctrinated

[@tavianarmstrong974]

@Zerebrat Eightyseven thanks for the information. Now i understand how the illusive man ends up indoctrinated in me3.

[@Oakshield2]

Damn, didn't either. Thanks for that insight.

[@GenericUsername-qp1ww]

turian: "when we conquer your Earth I look forward to teaching you" yeeeah, good luck with that, if u wanna conquer Earth then u need to go to Australia as well to conquer it....the country where everything wants to kill u. Its pretty much a second Tuchanka.

[@titanjakob1056]

Lvl58DeathKnight Il give them 5 hours until they retreat from earth

[@Mmmeeee4]

This joke was kind of a foreshadowing...

[@kishinasura1989]

The Krogan approve of this method

[@davidkelly4210]

Even the Reapers bought it trying to invade Earth. lol

[@DVXDemetrivs]

1)bomb cities 2)the population will die from lack of comfortable conditions 3)???? 4)Victory

[@Gala-yp8nx]

#1 - That's Saren's brother on the right.

[@Batou3]

how do you know?

[@La-PetitMort]

@@Batou3 Read the books

[@JayV98]

It's a random turian, not Desolas.

[@micahfoley7979]

That was pretty enlightening to see the AI being terminated when they desired an appeal.

[@537monster]

Also makes the Council seem very hypocritical in their treatment of the Quarians.

[@ChrisBabaganoosh]

@@537monster The Council illegalized AI in response to the Geth rebellion as they deemed AI too dangerous after that.

[@SL-gh5pe]

I’m not sure if the AI laws were because of the Geth Uprising or prior to it. I think in 1, Tali said the networked proto-geth were allowed because of loopholes in Council AI resolutions at the time. What is hypocritical is that the Council has exactly the same attitudes to AI as the quarians of the day. No quarter taken. The quarian survivors were punished not only for inadvertently making the geth but for failing to do exactly what the Council did [successfully] to AI on the Citadel.

[@Delsanar]

SO the earth religious artifact was the Ark of the CovenanT?

[@45100]

Bingo!

[@TheFoxHound626]

Delsanar sweet

[@danishsyed1068]

I just would love the reaction it would be rage and Screaming

[@xXBOXxfreak]

It might too late for a comment but damn. I didn't knew that 😳. And imagine now, Jesus is a protean too 😱

[@Delsanar]

@@xXBOXxfreak Lol. Possibly or something else, it doesn't say much, probably just a cameo.

[@HadesPerennial]

lol when I listened to the "first spectre" file in my game, I was like: The first spectre was a salarian? 0.o

[@markattenborough9107]

They at first recruited from Salarian STG and Asari Huntresses, makes sense

[@SMAXZO]

Considering that Spectres were based on the Salarian STG, that made a lot of sense.

[@ilovejettrooper5922]

@@SMAXZO "Better funded of course; didn't have to buy our own weapons."

[@catlover2223]

Never see them coming.

[@thefirebirdflock3440]

The fact that it notices Kaidan as well made me smile

[@Renji9031]

The Ark of the Covenant has returned to its rightful home. Oh come on. You didn't think that something that could kill anyone who touched it except a specific minority could be anything but Reaper tech, did you? Where better, then, for it to go, than the Citadel, which is the ultimate Reaper construct?

[@KnightofAntiquity]

It was actually a prothean device similar to the beacons. More like a memory shard but bigger.

[@FireLordJohn3191]

No. God killed those who touched it. That's why it has poles. In the OT, it represents His throne.

[@warlordofbritannia]

It belongs in a museum!

[@stevenstice6683]

@@warlordofbritannia So do you.

[@FluffyNinjaLlama]

It is huge but it’s a good thing, since it’s the last one. And I’ll be posing all romances, all meetings with companions, and some of the funny/interesting things I come across. I don’t know how many saves I have exactly, but it’s a big number.

[@justonewhalien4005]

I honestly got emotional when I saw Shepard in the archives. I was like damn we’ve come so far 😭

[@ladyselin35]

It was clone. Look at the armor :)

[@kaulitzforlife]

Thank you for including all three psychological backgrounds and military backgrounds. It was interesting to hear what they had to say about each option

[@b.sz.965]

I miss they never mentioned the title "the burcher of Torfan".

[@TwinPeaksIndustries]

One thing I'm wondering about though: Why does spacer background show a quarian lifeship? ^^

[@pascalheinrich3990]

Because the Quarians use every Ship they can find from every race. Why not some Colonyships from earth? But well...they Show only two models in the flotilla

[@MildInconvenience]

Seeing the AIs being murdered in cold blood was sickening.

[@downnice95]

AI is evil, they deserve it

[@lorddracul8019]

Not all. If you pay attention, every race in the ME universe has it's share of evil assholes and the majority who just want to have a life and mind their business. That includes the geth. The ones who joined Saren were a minority of the geth; the majority was building a mega structure to store themselves together and mind their own business and be left the hell alone. Right after the quarians tried to kill them, that prime comes along and tells the quarian admiral that they are welcome to come to Rannoch. Hell, who is so generous to someone who just tried to kill them? Not me, that'd be for sure.

[@comteraffayn8351]

They're machines, advanced machines yes but still machines

[@MildInconvenience]

@@comteraffayn8351 Whether or not they're machines is irrelevant, the important part is that they're sapient beings. The issue of whether or not robots can be considered to be alive has come-up throughout science fiction, with the Star Trek: TNG episode "The Measure of a Man" being a particularly noteworthy example that comes to mind, as that's the one where there's a trial to determine whether Data is a person or property; I'd recommend watching it if you think that machines can't be living people.

[@CM-tv2bu]

@@comteraffayn8351 and you're a machine of flesh and blood, your Brian fires electricity to simulate everything you feel, how is this any different?

[@Serpentking789]

The Ark of the Covenant is a special golden box that Moses used to safely store the Ten Commandments in. It made a very well known appearance in the first Indiana Jones movie and opening the thing melted off all the Nazi's faces.

[@FireLordJohn3191]

It was also one of the most important pieces of the Jewish religious faith. It represents God's throne.

[@patiscool5553]

Such a great call back to the intro of the first game. Still wish they had the ceremony of naming Shep Spectre. The music still gives me chills.

[@AlmalexyaBlue]

2:00 the voice says "Commander Shepard and Spectre Alenko". Why does it say Spectre Alenko and not Major Alenko, or Spectre Shepard instead of Commander Shepard ? Where is the logic

[@EphPhaThaINC]

It probably has something to do with the fact that their alliance rankings have really nothing to do with their SPECTR status. Basically in other words regardless of what rank they would hold in the alliance don't mean jack when it comes to the community. SPECTRs only answer to the council and the council alone with no real command structure/chain of command. Don't feel bad, it is an easy detail to forget. That is probably the reason why the Salarian had in mind when he created SPECTRs. Keep it few, keep it small, answering to no other galactic law other than to the Council. And if one goes rogue, send another SPECTR agent to take the rogue down and out...if necessary.

[@AlmalexyaBlue]

Patrick Shutt In that case, it should say Spectre Sherpard, no ? I know I'm being annoying. Sorry...

[@pingoSPY]

Well, both Shepard and Kaidan aren't simple alliance officers anymore. Both of them are spectres , they don't respond to the alliance anymore. Also, I doubt that there are offical ranks in the spectres.

[@AlmalexyaBlue]

***** Once again, it doesn't really answer my question.

[@pingoSPY]

What was your question again ... :/?

[@T0mN7]

I think the colonist background fits better with the Ruthless personality. And the Earth-born, with the survivor one... But that's just my opinion :)

[@HectorJimenez-ee9zi]

T0mN7 Eathborn lone survivor male is canon shep.

[@ГригорийГ-ч4н]

I made male spacer war hero.

[@HectorJimenez-ee9zi]

Григорий Грачёв same

[@fenrisvermundr2516]

My first Shepard was a Male Earthborn War Hero.

[@mrcopycat2355]

Earthborn Ruthless was mine. Edgy, I know :(

[@serlokbrixe425]

Georgio Tsoulakos called it! Aliens DID do a lot on early Earth. Take that, anti-alien... blind people!

[@anibala.moralessanchez8018]

Serlok Brixe You do realize you are basing this from a video game right.

[@serlokbrixe425]

Anibal Morales I am just trying to have some fun. Of course it is a video game! It was all a harmless attempt at fun.

[@themanclaw2]

I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.

[@Creasy5678]

Anyone else curious about an AI species existing centuries back the Council had wiped out in these records?

[@farseeraradrel4808]

This is funny because when we go on one of your mass effect video in France, there is a pub for Nerf with Garrus's French voice actor So...Garrus who talking about guns just before Mass Effect Compilation. That sound like a good things

[@builder396]

The englich voice actor of Garrus by the way also voices the US Sniper in Company of Heroes. Garrus is a sniper, too, isnt he?

[@farseeraradrel4808]

builder396 Yeah

[@KennyHazy97]

1:14 And my opinion of the council lowed just a little bit more.

[@rheinlandfilmchannel]

let us see how the humans of the future will react when it comes to this, AIs becoming self aware and demanding equal rights to organics. The Second Renaissance anyone?

[@ribeirodasilvalopesjoaomar5269]

RHEINLAND FILM Maybe.

[@Togekab00m]

RHEINLAND FILM A+ reference

[@thehavoccompany-a3]

+RHEINLAND FILM I honestly wouldn't have a problem with it. Why stop them as long as they remain peaceful and cause no harm to us? Would humanity stoop so low as you try to fight and bring down a sentient being simply because we would rather have them as a slave labor force? If so, maybe we deserve what is coming, as much as I hate to say it.

[@ScarletFlames1]

If the AI's stay peaceful and not go "remove all organics" we could only stand to gain from it, ingenuity along with the processing speed of an AI? who remembers how that bell curve regarding technology level is called?

[@user-yo8ab1ys9e]

4:17 What kind of ship is that supposed to be? Appears to be quarian and human ships mashed together.

[@DorianMichaelsIII]

+Bender You're right on the 'quarian' part-- but its *solely* a quarian vessel; its a liveship; the largest vessel present in the Migrant Fleet, and one of the ones responsible for producing the bulk of the food the quarians eat, during their Fleet's travels.

[@user-yo8ab1ys9e]

DorianMichaelsIII A live ship doesn't look like that I'm afraid. If you look closely at the ship in this video you can see two human ships coming out the back. Also, the liveship does not have the smaller quarian ships stuck on it's sides. No, this ship is either something earlier, different, or someone at BioWare was having fun.

[@Denny2669]

The real question thoe is why it's there, and at that specific background. Is that what human live ships look like? Eitherway, it looks like they just reused models that are already in-game to create this new one, and it seems to be a good idea to save time, if they just didn't make it so obvious. Or maybe there's another reason? If it's not human, then it's quarian, but what do they have to do with Sheps background? I guess the laziness of BioWare is the best answer, but we shouldn't ignore other possibilities.

[@SGTcz90cz]

Could be a human aircraft carrier, you guys. They haven't shown one yet, but the codex clearly states that unlike other species, the humans took their aircraft carriers to space when the time came.

[@gdspathe1130]

human carriers aren't live ships quarioan ships and human dreadnaughts mashed together

[@WilliamAmbervein]

I never knew about the arc showing up. That's a fun Easter egg

[@Theplaymaker1271]

Top. Men.

[@cnpadds9000]

How does the Turian understand the Human in the first archive footage? I mean, I know the ME universe has translators and stuff, but surely no Human would own one at this point and neither would these translators be able to translate english.

[@ribeirodasilvalopesjoaomar5269]

The Turians and Humans were at war for three months, the Turians must have accused some basic linguistics program, which wouldn't be classified, and then used they're VI's to translate for them in the translators, the translator would either translate the speech of both, or another one would be lend to the human in the interest of interrogation. On another subject, one thing that has always bothered me since mass effect 1 was Wrex's comment in the citadel, were he says he always wondered whether the Turians released the genophage on they're own or if the council secretly encouraged them, in order to keep they're hands clean, the recording about the genophage wasn't very clear about that.

[@TheReaper569]

@@ribeirodasilvalopesjoaomar5269 thats a big explanation for a small plot hole. İn my experience its just fans making shit up out of their ass to cover for the mistake of writers

[@andrewski1433]

It also isn’t impossible to think that the turians and humans would’ve been able to learn the languages of their enemies

[@jbfarley]

You do realize the ark isn't from Indiana Jones, right? Not even the design is. It's been a thing for thousands of years. It's only la reference to Indiana Jones because it's in a vault l

[@wheelchairby284]

In the Archives, there's a scene where your entire crew lines up and fires at the enemy to cover Shepard- then, someone who is on Shepard's team says a snappy one-liner. Can anyone tell me what Ashley says if it's her?

[@Norinia]

“Oh we were only acting on their violation for activating the mass relay! We never meant any more offense!” *Clip Plays* “Mhwahaha!!!! I can’t wait until we conquer your planet, filthy human!!!!” -_- I mean, everything’s fine between Turian and humans in my game now, but really? And they wondered why there was such a grudge.

[@537monster]

Their goal was to turn humanity into a client species. They wanted to use the humans to incorporate into their hierarchy, and expand their military. Basically, what they were unable to do with the Volus, since the Volus are basically useless at fighting. If they had been successful, they would have kept expanding until they took over the entire galaxy. Similar to what the Protheans did.

[@MildInconvenience]

Part 2: Apart from the mechanics of how they work, EDI and Legion are most definitely NOT constrained to a single task - EDI developed the ability to self-modify her programming, becoming far more than an electronic warefare suite (which is all she was ever intended to be), and if the Geth couldn't think beyond their programming, they would have all died when the Quarians turned on them. EDI/Legion are both conscious, self-aware beings (i.e. Alive). (continued. . .)

[@kalbearts237]

So the council really did accept that there was a reaper threat. but CHOSE TOO DO NOTHING to avoid galactic panic. Jesus christ how did I miss that.

[@RobertBones2015]

SUBTITTTLEEEEESSSSS D:

[@Lemontarts01]

The turian genophage one rubbed me so wrong. It was 1 guy as per usual "This is genocide" At least the turian who did it didnt justify it like mordin. He simply didnt care

[@JohnSmith-bn5mi]

2:00 I always liked this retcon. You can also use it to justify why the Crucible is always completed, no matter how badly you play ME3!

[@FluffyNinjaLlama]

Or maybe someone just found it in the warehouse :D

[@cjvaye99]

so they could record all these events but Shepard couldn't record his conversation with Sovereign or Harbinger? Or even the talk with Vigil?

[@joenesvick7043]

I like putting the Colonist Background with the Ruthless profile, Batarians destroyed your home and so you take revenge on Torfan. Maybe you sacrifice Kate Bowman to kill Balak, or maybe you wait three years to kill Balak on the Citadel. Maybe you don't even try to warn the three thousand Batarians when you destroy the relay ("THAT'S FOR TERRA NOVA!"), and people call Ashley a racist🤣

[@andersfellenius9043]

Killing 300,000 batarians was a necessary sacrifice to stop the reapers. Chad Shepard: The reapers??

[@BethanyEvams]

Indeed >.< . I usually choose this background for my Shepards,so emotional. I wish Bioware could do a DLC that would allow us to play our Shepard's background. I would love to see the Solo Survivor,too.

[@TL-sn7ne]

If I was Shepard hearing about the turians occupying Earth I would be clenching my fist.

[@LivTheCyberdhole]

Well, it could easily be because Citadel Races are pretty damned stagnant once they hit Citadel stage, the Reaper tech only jumps you ahead so far.

[@SmokeBloody]

Has anyone wondered how the turians and the human could so easily understand each other during the First Contact War?

[@SmokeBloody]

@Zain844 Yeah, but that was their first contact. I don't think they would manage to figure out each other's languages so quickly.

[@SmokeBloody]

@Zain844 I haven't played Andromeda, but it's good to hear that they pointed that out. I really wish that one day, we could communicate as easily between each other as easily as in ME.

[@toomanyaccounts]

universal translator.

[@raylast3873]

„Enlisted at the age of 18” Modern-day militaries: haha, fool, recruitment age set to 17 “What!” Miltitary: Scratch that, 16!

[@SeizureGman]

I think it should be 18 or if like the UK it's 16 then 16 year olds should have the right to vote

[@Gala-yp8nx]

3:33 - The Arc of the Covenant?

[@andychap6283]

I told the american government that hiding it in a warehouse wouldn't do

[@croc560]

Isn't it spelled ARK?

[@doom7ish]

It's is the Arc. Oh no.

[@Sekulture]

yeah, the companions made the game great, I loved the bond between garrus and shepard, liara's near blind loyalty to shepard, everything was brilliant with them each character was truly unique, maybe we didn't like some of them for our own reasons but that was what made it so great.

[@meatballg8655]

The hubris of a turian, the human do be kinda right though, at the end of the day a bullet is a bullet, a spear is a spear, doesn’t matter how much more advanced you are if your opponent uses their weapons better than you

[@bencegergohocz5988]

Idk abaut that... I doubt you could survive a 40k exterminatus with a sharpened stick and metal plates.

[@CaptainLunar1994]

So. This means Indiana Jones existed in the Mass Effect universe? Okay, my personal headcanon is that Shepard is a descendant of Indie.

[@l3t4ik29]

I like that system recognized Kaiden as well

[@ZShogan]

1:12 Yet another point against Hologram Kid's asinine argument. Dear Mac Walters, Why am I not allowed to bring this up as a rebuttal during the ending?

[@michaelcastro9026]

“I was there on Akuze!”

[@vaniellys]

1:18 It's scary how every race in ME treated synthetic life with so much hatred. This was just murder.

[@IntergalacticPirateRadio]

Was..that the Ark of The Covenant?

[@luckyarmstrong6940]

"When we conquer your Earth." So about that.

[@Jmaul85]

Damn even after all those years, them top men are still the Top Men

[@cpl.targrein1793]

It's always pisses me off that for spacer Shepard we don't know on what ship they was born. C'mon, I give me full qurian name for Tali's trial!

[@liamsulic-woodgate3936]

Is the Salarian at 2:12 voiced by Christopher Randolph? What is it about him and voicing characters that create destructive weapons?

[@malena3940]

I never noticed that! He doesn't appear credited for that anywhere, though, so it might not be him

[@joesavoie3312]

Every play through i do sole survivor and colonist. Its provides a depth to Shepard that is un matched. Learning that cerberus was behind the thresher maw attack that killed you whole squad is so crazy, you whole family and friends died... but you survive, all your men die, but you survive. It shows shep is a survivor who can take on anything and live, but has a deep desire to save everyone he or she can because every time something goes down, they've lost many ppl. Its perfect to have a damaged shep, and overcome all of that.

[@tiagotiagot]

Why do you need to move away to see the Arc?

[@neolight67]

wow the first spector put thirty peoples lives in danger your taxes dollars at work

[@IrrieldeCZ]

Still better than the invasion of Irag...

[@FluffyNinjaLlama]

Yes, because I forgot to step back to show the arc in the other video.

[@TheReaper569]

How are they speaking the same language....

[@TheReaper569]

@Zain844 thats not how it works

[@Luke-ky5ed]

There were squad comments in this level. Why didn't you show any of them? Like the comments on that gun from the first contace war or the dialogue on shepard having a clone

[@toomanyaccounts]

that is in a different vid

[@yol_n]

The fact they have the kaiden detail is amazing!

[@darthportus]

hackett rank is fleet admiral. He is commander in chief of alliance military. This promotion was given to him after battle of citadel in ME 1

[@pinkishpurplelolumz]

0:14 they don't look like birds, they look like cats

[@Ixmore]

0:26 I don't think I would want to see his lesson plan.

[@jonathansud]

Looking back, I wish they respected pre-established lore a little bit more. Enough to at least address how a human and turian can speak to each other. All I’m left to assume is that they somehow found a way to quickly create and force a translator on this heroic SOB.

[@brianwhite9339]

You think the war could have been avoided?

[@Ojunix]

I think it was the companions & the story of growing up with them that really made this series that amazing Sure the main story & the battles were alot of fun but if it was for the companions you made & befriend or even romanced it may not have been as breath taking & intriguing as it was

[@MildInconvenience]

AIs in Mass Effect are sentient beings. Just because they're not biological, doesn't mean they're not alive. Non-sentient programs like you described would be VIs. I was sickened because we were seeing innocent beings getting summarily executed, without even having a chance to plead their case, when their only 'crime' was existing. Would you not consider EDI and Legion to be people? Also, what makes you think that only biological beings can have souls?

[@lorddracul8019]

Damn right! Edit: Shit, I just realized this comment is 4 years old. Well, fuck it. I think the scene with EDI and Legion talking about their platforms and humor heuristics is so cute.

[@RexGalilae]

All the cheesy morality and soul talk aside, I'm more surprised that the AI bots didn't do anything in their self defense. They were just standing there like nothing's about to happen. They look quite dumb to be artificially "intelligent".

[@Don113]

Too bad they couldn't use it to melt off the Reapers' faces. But they still could've used it against Cerberus. Wait, that must be the secret fifth choice! Destroy the Reapers Control the Reapers Synthesis The Harvest Continues Ark of the Covenant

[@shadowthoughts7959]

Just some critique after years of biting my tongue, each of these thought of in the first moment but played through regardless with fun, I assure you. These questions come from the deepest of fans who critique out of love for the franchises like Star Wars, Star Trek, Halo, etc and so I'm bringing that energy here to show that I paid attention, I did enjoy the games thoroughly and still replay them and find new things, but there will always be to me blatant issues in the complete story that is Mass Effect: *When the Rachni Queen is saved, why are her donated drone units still shown with reaper tech embedded in them? *Why did they use a frontal charge at the end of the 3rd game all from one point? Better to enter the area from that point, secure at least a partial perimeter, then advance from all sides and altitudes at once, even sending in fighter and ejecting pilots into the beam, the fighters themselves acting as decoys should a hostile reaper (Harbinger itself as it turned out) try something ballsy. *Why not blast a hole through the Citadel with the Normandy's thannix cannon, standard forward guns and missiles and enter to secure it before Shepard could arrive from the ground with the rest of the team and other allied forces? Despite it not working for the plot point, from the tactical perspective of the fight it made more sense. After all, if you look in the end battle extended, the reapers were pretty well fucked by the end of the battle for Earth; even if we lost this cycle, we would have killed enough to postpone our own extinction long enough to retaliate again, as well as give the next cycle a clear success if we still failed despite taking out even more. I think the writers needed to consult a strategist. *If the Revenant is so old and useless, why do we have it as an option in the game decades later? Wouldn't we advance and adopt better models based on council designs with human integration? *With our modern understanding of firearm comfort and control, why are all ME guns collapsible squares of metal? I'm fine with collapsible, I get it, but the blocky and rigid design is more suited for the Geth who actually have the most comfort-formed weapons in the game. *Why is the ship behind Shepard at 4:30 lazily made of the front of a quarian life ship, three superimposed quarian cruisers, and two alliance cruisers? As bad as the code-locked remnant boxes made of several fused types in ME: Andromeda. *The peeves I have in ME are few but specific: repeated body gestures regardless of natural appearance (turning half around pointing back with a thumb and looking behind before returning to neutral pose); responses to statements that make no sense or that do not sync with the moment or dialogue option wheel itself (example of no sense, ME3 when Cortez crashes, Shepard yells out for Steve, but once Cortez says he is okay Shepard just casually asks "You sure?" like he wasn't just super worried); the minimalist varieties of ships and units (Reaper Krogans were ALL made into brutes, yet somehow turians got both that job and their own form? What happened to the Reaper variants from the ME2 ending, and the species-similar concept? Why does each race only seem to have one type of ship that has exactly 1 type of weapon that fires once and then stops as in the ME3 fleet arrival? Ps- where was the Normandy's Thannix cannon? Guardian point defense systems on the larger vessels? Missiles? Deck guns? Halo did a fantastic job detail designing ships, so why not Mass Effect, even if only for cinematics...the only time they exist anyway?)... *When Mass Effect returns, I hope they think about shit like this. Frankly, some of these were complaints in Andromeda; that advancement and proper utilization of modern game design technology would allow for far more than was delivered, especially given the promises and hype.

[@MildInconvenience]

Part 4: Just to clarify, are you suggesting that you have to be human to have a soul (meaning that Garrus and Tali, for example, lack them)? Or are you suggesting that only human-LIKE (i.e. biological) entities have souls? If the former, then I fail to see what's so special about homo sapiens; if the latter, then I fail to see what's so special about meat. Would you say that the Hanar have souls? What about the Rachni? (continued. . .)

[@Zman579]

During Shepard's Spectre deliberations for Shepard's spacer, war hero background, that looks like a Quarian liveship rotating behind her. Am I misidentifying it?

[@IrrieldeCZ]

The ship looks likes it was made of these: 2 human dreadnoughts (top and bottom) 3 quarian heavy frigates (both sides and middle) 1 quarian live ship (only the ball part)

[@gibbyfraustro2509]

You realize the krogan were trying to do things peaceful but the Salarians and the asari weren't listing to them

[@anthonyrodriguez3495]

No they were not, if the Krogan were doing things peacefully they would have tried limiting their own population growth, instead they demand planets upon planets and when their unreasonable demands don't go through they start stealing Asari colonies.

[@gibbyfraustro2509]

@@anthonyrodriguez3495 yea they were asking for help the hold time but everyone keep turning away from them . The salarien were involved with the krogan so therefore the krogan have every right to ask from them

[@Theguitardude30]

Don't look, Shepard! Keep your eyes shut!

[@JezreelAna]

Does anyone else get BDSM daddy vibes when the Turian interrogator says, "You have so much to learn. When we conquer your Earth, I look forward to teaching you."

[@shmoeyshamboni4287]

WHAT

[@TheRaz5555]

It'd be great if they could play the Ark leitmotif in the background I was almsot expecting to hear it

[@celtichistory]

the first guy that is in the chair, who is it?

[@TwinPeaksIndustries]

Also, further explanation was given in the ME: Evolution comic where it shows that TIM had already gotten in contact with reaper tech before even becoming TIM

[@stevenstice6683]

They missed 1947 CE: First landing on Earth by Salarian survey crew.

[@yokiryuchan7655]

The problem with that storyline is that if a Salarian ship crashed in Rosewell humans would have discovered FTL technology then by examining their ships. Why would humans wait 200 years to develop FTL drives when they found the Prothean ruins on Mars when they already had that tech from the Salarian crashed ship they discovered in 1947? It wouldn't make sense.

[@stevenstice6683]

@@yokiryuchan7655 How would the Roswell Incident work into Mass Effect lore better?

[@yokiryuchan7655]

@@stevenstice6683 That there was no alien ship. The ship that crashed was made by humans and Area 51 was just a regular miilitary base testing tech made by humans.

[@stevenstice6683]

@@yokiryuchan7655 So less Salarian survey team, more early failed Cerberus experiment. And it was only the beginning of their incompetence.

[@yokiryuchan7655]

@@stevenstice6683 lol pretty much I mean it's a cool idea, but again like I said If the ship that crashed at Rosewell was a Salarian ship humans would have discovered Mass Effect technology then by just studying their ships. They wouldn't need to find the ruins on Mars. so it just doesn't fit into the continuity.

[@HasvenWorld]

"You used civilians as bait" "Yes." "Congratulations. You're the first Spectre."

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

indiana jones?

[@Maetch01]

The Council apparently had... TOP... MEN.

[@zondor8123]

afaik, the turians were hammering on the humans easily, thanks to citadel interference the humans were spared from another genocide that befall the krogans.

[@Camelotsmoon]

3:28 When I saw that one I was like wtf?