Mass Effect 3: Killing a Reaper

[@megamanx2056]

This was one of the few things that actually scared me in Mass Effect 3. I was like "No one told me I would have to fight a Reaper on foot!"

[@CactusCowboyDan]

Same here. I kept saying: "How am I suppose to hurt this thing!?"

[@SabbyNeko]

I know, right? You had two and a half games of drilling in that Reapers are fucking unstoppable, and then one just starts moving under your feet. Yeah, it's a baby one, but it's still a fucking Reaper.

[@hutchy1k94]

And then it turns out one guy with a laser pointer and a couple artillery pieces can take one down.

[@SabbyNeko]

Still a baby. There are different classes of Reaper. I believe that one was actually connected to a real Reaper. A lot of their vehicles on the ground aren't actually real sentient Reapers, they're just tools used by the real ones. So essentially, this was a posse managing to overwhelm a fish person with conventional fire arms. Doesn't do shit for their ability to fight Cthulhu.

[@xananymous431]

mega man x and alone....

[@Zeeeemonolith]

Am I alone in admiring that it took an entire fleet to take down a lesser Reaper? And it still kept trying to fight back.

[@Orikon25]

I hate it when people say it was the "entire fleet". No,it wasn't the entire fleet. Up until you see those Quarian Cruisers its been the Normandy who was firing. And when the cutscene did roll,you can see its only 3-4 cruisers. So no,its not the "whole fleet". Because if it was the "whole fleet" then the galaxy might just give up and let the Reapers harvest everyone.

[@Zeeeemonolith]

I suppose if I say it's implied that the entire fleet is firing you'll rant some more, right?

[@Orikon25]

The Amazing El Phantasmo Talk to Traynor afterwards,she'll tell you that "Joker had to pull us through some crazy maneuvers to avoid the Reaper down there."

[@Zeeeemonolith]

I'll just take your word, I liked the game play of ME3, but the story wasn't working for me.

[@Zeeeemonolith]

Cool, I kinda skimmed your reply dude but cool beans!

[@johnnielewis17]

I think it's funny how Commander Shepard has been trying to warn people since the first game and no one listened

[@MykelVB3]

Like Fives from Clone wars about the Jedicide.

[@laowu8024]

@@MykelVB3 yeah, so painful and sad to watch, this shows how beautiful the show is

[@rebel1717]

Let’s be honest, even if the council listened to Shepard and united the fleets against the incoming Reapers, even giving time for the Krogan to populate after the genofage was cured, I still don’t think it would’ve been enough to repel the Reaper invasion, or even leave a significant dent in their forces.

[@wilsthelimit]

Dylan Thobe I mean at least they’d be a bit more prepared, instead of just “Oh f**k, there goes Earth, The Citadel, Fleet Command, the Home Fleet, and numerous other worlds with little resistance”

[@rebel1717]

@@wilsthelimit Granted, but the fight is still doomed. Plus, while Shepard was incarcerated Liara knew the council would do nothing about the Reapers, and she took it open herself to search the Mars archives for the Crucible blueprints. Essentially, the lack of preparation and desperation led to the key of defeating the Reaper.

[@commanderpeepers6938]

When the dinner lobster you throw into the trashcan hunted you down.

[@shimantodragneel3758]

Commander Peepers when you eat too much prawn lobster in one day and you dream this

[@kid_toucher]

when the lobster you keep in your aquarium finds steroids:

[@jefthereaper]

reaper's are a intelligent being "o no, they blasted me in my eye with a powerful laser!" "better keep my eye closed for a second and then open it again instead of just crushing Shepard with my huge body"

[@Reincarny]

+jefthereaper but... lasers!

[@Shepherd.1147]

Ha!

[@rushpan93]

Since he was the only one close enough to target it, it was doing pretty much what you'd do if you had laser eyes and an ant was pointing the one thing at you that could destroy you.

[@aronsz]

Quarian: "...what did we hit?" damn son, that was a no-scope?

[@jeremybk54]

on board the ship a Quarian is saying hey guys im not even going to look, click... hey i hit it

[@jerdasaurusrex557]

They EEEEEEyeballed it.

[@Locust-13]

Remember that gunnery sergeant trying to explain Newton's law of motion at the Citadel? You do not eyeball it, because you're fucking up someone's day :D

[@travismudd3564]

Áron Szőcs That was a blind noscope.

[@MichaelTheRead]

@@Locust-13 That's only if the shot doesn't hit something.

[@CharlieB1989]

It occurs to me that each Reaper you see destroyed is the last remnant of an ancient civilization disappearing from the galaxy forever. I know there's not much choice but the Synthesis ending only makes it that much sadder since the Reapers apparently retain the knowledge and experience of the races they're made from.

[@fl333r]

Yeah but that's kinda like saying a husk is the last remnant of a human. Maybe it's better to put them out of their misery in that regard.

[@sultanmehmoodghaznavi6312]

I chose Synthesis yesterday.....doesn't make sense, I was not satisfied so I destroyed them this morning! Lol

[@cauhscrymdorn2132]

@@sultanmehmoodghaznavi6312 Synthesis doesn't makes sense. It doesn't explain how it solves the chaos aspects of organics. stop them from sex and random mutating exponentially reproduction? Does it cease organic needs of resources?

[@heomji7216]

@@cauhscrymdorn2132 Personally I took the destroy ending because if I was Shepard, and took the control of the Reapers, my moral and ethics would've made me protect the galaxy, but at one moment I'll stop watching organics killing each other, and begin the cycle again because it's a useless solution, but the most logical option. Synthesis is like reaching the final step if evolution, but it sounds too perfect. You can seek for perfection but you can't reach it. If you can, it's not perfection and there is better. I think the civilisations can rise, but then they must collapse. Like the cycle, but naturally. So I prefer to let Sir Charles Darwin do the work on the civilisations growth. And John Shepard lived in my destroy ending ! :)

[@mikayari185]

@@heomji7216 Well, the Shepard isn't actually Shepard, just a new consciousness that is under the influence of Shepard himself. Also I'm plenty sure that it's etched into the Shepard that "the cycle is wrong" and the Control Shepard will always consider the cycle as a bad thing; perhaps only stuck on the idea that if something else that attacked the Milky Way like let's say the Kett from Andromeda, the Reapers under Shepard will come to their rescue.

[@ghostsouls2654]

Admit it, You were about to piss yourself when the Reaper was right in your face!

[@TheSonic1685]

Marcus West no I wasn't its about as scary as kittens

[@ImAyeGuest]

Actually i was excited to fight the reaper.

[@roslinanimosity6781]

+TheSonic1685 and then everyone relised that this is not the youtubers acount

[@Lunk42]

+Rads Per Second lol go fight it on insanity and then say that.

[@zolere_08]

Marcus Lonewolf265 yep..

[@jasonlee4562]

Am I the only one who took a little bit of satisfaction shooting the turret at the reaper even though it doesn't do any damage?

[@rushpan93]

You also get a Saving Private Ryan moment if you time it right. The equivalent of shooting from a revolver at a tank to then have the final shot blow it up courtesy a bomber drop.

[@connorbrown2161]

The noise the reaper makes is a " oh crap!" sound

[@TheSonic1685]

to be honest its not scary let alone dose it look scery after coping the design of steven spilburgs tripods you'd think they could do better but they fucked up big time

[@shawnabraham7740]

That’s the anti bear garbage bins for ya.

[@ApexOrSomething]

* high pitched * Oohhh * low pitched * Ccrrraaappp!! * wow it does

[@Leothefoxr7]

I hear it too 😂

[@terryprice1691]

@@TheSonic1685Yeah you probably wouldn’t be saying that if it appeared outside your house. Get real. That thing is terrifying lol

[@shadowslayer205]

This reaper's vague explanation of the cycle is actually more coherent than the ending.

[@lunchbox997]

+shadowslayer205 The Star Child parroted this reaper, and added a whole bunch of words and plot that made no consistent sense.

[@raexrockstar]

+shadowslayer205 omg fuck your icon. I am running on very little sleep due to studying for exams and when i scrolled down it looked like the spider moved and I had a mild heart attack and smacked my screen. Thanks. I'm guessing this is what you wanted.

[@shadowslayer205]

raexrockstar Yep.

[@217adaptiveperspective]

They probably should have kept it vague, every Reaper telling you that their goal is uncomprehendable when someone can explain it to you in a few minutes, I couldn't help but feel a little heated when Archon in MEA said the exact same "You cannot Comprehend" thing...when his goal is much smaller in scale.

[@UltraCasualPenguin]

Then you never played the game with Extended Cut installed.

[@SocialistSkeptic]

Whole fight could have been ended if the reaper swept the beam from side to side instead of from bottom to top. What a stupid reaper.

[@FrostBytematty]

If you play at higher difficulty it will

[@mlscrow4817]

I used to love Halo. Rated it as my #1 game "series" of all time. Then I played ME and realized that Halo was such child's play compared to this series. Greatest, most intelligent, most compelling game series of all time, hands down, belongs to ME.

[@SocialistSkeptic]

MLSCrow I remember when everyone was hyped about what a great online multiplayer game Halo was supposed to be. So I picked up Halo 3 and played it. I was not impressed. I had already played Starsiege Tribes, and it was superior in every way. Tribes Ascend was a huge letdown for Starsiege Tribes fans, but it's still better than Halo.

[@BOLPutube]

MLSCrow Then Mass Effect 3 came in and ruined the story. Imo Halo 1-3 and Mass Effect 1-2 are equally good.

[@gabrielclark1425]

Concussion? I mean their brains are still organic and all. It also wasn't telling us about the futility of our existence.

[@adamfreeman9493]

“Finish your war. We... will be waiting.” That line is so chilling, especially given that those are the Reaper’s last words, as if, it knows that the other Reapers will succeed.

[@xenosmoke8915]

I’ll always love how the screen shudders and blurs as the Reaper speaks. So much power.

[@iTzNikkitty]

This is why I really wanted to stop the fighting between the geth and the quarians. Killing a reaper is one thing, but proving one wrong is just something in itself.

[@TheAuron32]

Mecha Giant Squid: "THE BATTLE FOR RANOCH, DISPROVES YOUR ASSUMPTION" Me, a fleshling: "Wanna bet squid boy?"

[@allature]

I remember feeling so mad that the reaper died before I could rub the Rannoch peace route in his face.

[@thekaboominator1]

love how they take down the geth at 0:48 with teamwork. Shepard charges through, distracting it > Tali knocks it down > Ashley shoots it. What works? TEAM WORK!

[@noahsturgis3633]

There's a bloody Reaper on screen, and you focus on the one geth?! LOL.

[@BassGosple]

"FINISH IT OFF YOU GIBBERING OAF!"

[@batman_2004]

One of greatest moment in Mass effect series. Chased by reaper and destroying it with the whole damn fleet firing at it. Just pure awesomeness!

[@Kalenz1234]

"It is not a thing you could comprehend" "I heard you don't wanna be destroyed by machines so I build machines that destroy you so you wont be destroyed by machines." ... Yeah you're right.. I couldn't possible smoke enough weed to find this logic comprehensible.

[@summushieremiasclarkson4700]

You have to remember the reapers only engage in controlled destruction of the advanced species. It makes sense, destroy some of the life so that all of the life isn't killed by synthetics that the advanced species invented and couldn't control.

[@iamsovereign2612]

They don’t destroy people. They preserve them so they live forever. It’s just the end of individuality.

[@cr820]

@@iamsovereign2612 They do kill rather a lot of people to accomplish said preservation, no? One doesn't preserve things with a canon that fires molten metal at a fraction of the speed of light, not living things at least.

[@user-oo3oi9ki2j]

@@cr820 They kept all their memories. Its a perverted form of conservation, similar to the Flood in Halo

[@rushpan93]

I find it funny that people are so eager to gobble up Thanos's "kill half the universe" logic but find the Reapers' programming suspend their disbelief.

[@AMCrayfish]

When i played this mission, this was an incredibly epic, yet extremely imbalanced battle that took many attempts to finish. I mean its a reaper whose main weapon is a face-mounted shoop da whoop cannon!

[@rion7088]

It’s either blarrrgh or be blarrrgh

[@leonardorolingstella8554]

@@rion7088 yes

[@Legendendear]

Its incredible easy to dodge the laser once you noticed the pattern. Keep aiming your laser and move in one direction. As soon as the laser is coming your way do a dodge roll in the other direction and keep moving in that direction. If you do it that way you dodge the reaper laser 100% of the time. You dont even have to stop aiming, as you can do the dodge roll without releasing the dodge button.

[@poundsofslothcigars]

this fight will always be in my head rent free as one of the most amazing scenes in gaming

[@xenosmoke8915]

This whole sequence was done so well!! The line delivery was breathtaking! Harbinger and Sovereign has some good lines but this... THIS is the one we remember. The screen shakes and blurs when it speaks, your eyes literally sting. So, so good.

[@SabbyNeko]

"Pull over" I actually did a double take when that happened.

[@DEADtoRISE08]

Send this to Turian council and he will still deny it

[@sumgue4964]

4:28 when that reaper gets reaped. Love it. One of the best mass effect moments.

[@AlphalanceVO]

Looks like someone was terrified to have a close call with the Reaper Laser

[@Mrstealth93]

You do realize that if you stand still, it means a instakill from the reaper. That's why he keeps dodging when the laser gets too close.

[@Yuu_Takasaki]

I mean why would you stand still in a freaking death ray right?

[@LuanRNunes-zb9pg]

when shepard was close to the reaper in ground, the reaper could easily shoot the laser at him, but he prefered to talk... nice ass reaper.

[@cyberguy3376]

well I belive reapers aren't evil, they just want to stop a cycle in the only way that know possible.

[@commanderpeepers6938]

+cyberguy33 Stop making excuses for the Reapers. if that Reaper shot his laser at Shepherd instead of talking, they could've got something out of the way and continue the cycle.

[@cyberguy3376]

+Commander Peepers maybe the reapers have taken control of my mind and I'm trying to brainwash all of you into thinking they are the true gods!!!!!..... I mean...

[@LuanRNunes-zb9pg]

hahaha maybe...

[@imperialknight3286]

The reaper was probably too badly damaged to fire it's laser

[@AntonyTheGod]

In the epilogue when the kid asks for a story of "The Shepard", I like to think this is what's told

[@MrJoserobo]

Took whole fleet to bring down babbie reaper ... we're all fucked!!!

[@BojackatronHorsemaniac]

Harbinger alone could have probably destroyed the entire Quarian & Geth fleets combined.

[@olknoxlo]

Jesus Christ I'd argue that he has the firepower and armor for it to be possible, however he's facing a large about of opposition. In a battle of attrition, I give edge mainly to geth.

[@waitingforyouatthedoe2267]

+Don't pay the Troll Toll ! I see your point, but remember, Sovereign was able to control the geth because they worshipped him as a god. Harbinger was able to directly control a race of altered protheans from deep space, I feel like harbinger himself would render a war of attrition inert if it were to come down to a fight between the Quarians and Geth because of how reliant on technology they are.

[@tennoshenaniganizer9234]

Joel Ovalle no, just 4 frigates

[@heomji7216]

That scene was just beautiful. I ended my first playthrough last week, and I romanced Tali. When Shepard said that he would go alone in front of a fcking reaper, and Tali told him, even if they were connected by radio to the rest of the Quarian fleet, "I love you". And then Shepard answers "Keelah Se'lai". Just beautiful. My favourite games. The best games ever made. Mass Effect.

[@Noctazar]

"We are each a nation. Independent." "Free of all weakness." Me: *targets their laser-eye when it's priming* Me: No. No, you are not.

[@anonymousrex5207]

Amazing Shepard can move so fast with balls that big. Love that part where he says "no, pull over" and just decides to go toe to toe with this thing like its no big deal.

[@YoungBlaze]

*Damn Reaper.......You Scary*

[@Handlethis81637]

I see what you did there, family guy fan

[@natsudragneel9554]

Ha

[@Southern_Crusader]

Really? That is the equivalent of a glorified Covenant Scarab that can't even properly glass a planet. Halo is way more hardcore.

[@Dxwill10]

lol nice. Oh wait, were you serious? I can't actually tell. Please tell me that was sarcasm

[@jamiekrutzfeldt3522]

Killer Joy 40k is way more hardcore

[@TamasTothOfficial]

I died around 20 times. I have to watch this video...omg -.-

[@tennoshenaniganizer9234]

Tommy Tee You died 20 times in the easiest fight in the game? Damn, you take noob to a new level

[@andreastheshadow]

ReapingPhant0m this isn't even close to the easiest fight, the roll has a massive delay on it so you either don't roll at all or roll too late and get vapourized, and the lack of checkpoints make it infuriating, and if you make a decision you didn't like, you have to do it again.

[@tennoshenaniganizer9234]

*****​ what do you mean the rolls are delayed? They were instant for me. Just 2 rolls to the side and I was out of the way

[@KAMIKAZEKITTIES]

Was my game bugged? I just had to strafe left and right while locking on.

[@gabgame300]

Don't move when you lock.

[@ViSylVs]

This was one of the best moments in videogame history

[@munmunmurmur4920]

Lowkey want a strategy game with the reapers vs all life in the galaxy.

[@Y0G0FU]

well the Reapers would always win unless you have the Crucible :P

[@patm407]

The music at 1:29 is perfect

[@Blasphemyfrompast]

Talking with a Sovereig in ME1 was much, much, much more chilling moment then this one. That's just me.

[@lalas3590]

That's probably because this Reaper was lesser in power and was almost dead by the time he had started talking to Shepard.

[@TheAresMysterium]

La Las Have to agree... When the reaper was taken down to the ground, it was already dying in power. Sovereign was completely alive in the time being. ME3 is such a great story, but the Cerberus Idea would be a lot more appropriate in another story. The story had begun with how the leviathan technology turned against them, so it caused the reapers to begin the cycle after Harbringer was reborn. They were basically around when the Universe began, making them a very ancient race... The ME1 was chilling to talk to Sovereign and all, but I didn't like that one too much. ME2 was a great story, following roleplay, good point, and other characteristics. ME3 is an astonishing tale, just like ME2, but Sovereign and the reaper collectors were dead, making the plot not as good as the first two... No offense but I didn't 'hate' the games, but I can't understand some of it due to not playing ME1. So, I understand the 4/5 of the plot of the movie. The main story is in ME3: It began on Earth with the following allies of Commander Shepherd and Cerberus during the 'Arrival.' In the opening moments it is revealed that Earth has recently lost contact with its solar assets and is hastily preparing for the Reaper arrival. The assault comes moments later, and all of Earth's defenses are overwhelmed by the forces. Shepard escapes a burning Vancouver on the Normandy with the help of Admiral Anderson and either Kaidan Alenko or Ashley Williams (which also depends on who survived the vimire), and leaves to gather help from other species while Anderson coordinates human resistance on Earth. Before leaving the SOL System, Shepard is ordered to a base on the planet Mars by Admiral Hackett, who claims that researchers have uncovered something that may give humanity a chance against the Reapers. There, Shepard battles Cerberus forces and encounters former squad-mate Liara T'Soni, who has discovered plans for a Prothean superweapon that may be capable of defeating the Reapers. Before leaving the facility, Shepard speaks with an Illusive Man, who claims he wants to use the Prothean weapon to take control of the Reapers. The Illusive man was already hostile... Using an advanced Cerberus AI codenamed "Eva", he attempts to steal the data. Shepard, Liara, and Ashley/Kaidan manage to stop Eva, but Ashley/Kaidan are badly injured and are sent to a hospital on the Citadel. Shepard pleads for help from the Council, but they are reluctant to do so due to their own preoccupations and unwillingness to bet everything on the untested devices. Shepard realizes that the only way to gain other species' assistance will be to help them in their own wars against the Reapers, while at the same time gathering war assets to be used against the Reapers in battle. Eventually, Hackett begins construction on the Prothean weapon and dubs it "The Crucible". After rescuing the turian primarch from a battle on one of Palaven's small moons, Shepard convenes a war summit, consisting of Shepard, the primarch, and representatives for the salarians and the krogan. The primarch promises Shepard their support for Earth, but only if the krogan agree to help defend Palaven. The summit goes badly at first, with Wreav withholding all krogan support until a cure for the genophage is able to be created and established. The cure is being developed on Sur'Kesh by Mordin Solus (if he survived the events of Mass Effect 2) and a team of scientists. After a series of battles on Tuchanka, Shepard can either cure the genophage or trick Wrex or Wreav into believing it has been successfully cured. If Shepard decides to go forward with the cure, Mordin sacrifices his life at the last moment to counteract a sabotage to it. If Shepard decides not to use the cure, they are forced to shoot Mordin to prevent him from fixing the sabotage-unless Shepard can convince him that it would be best to leave it uncured. Once krogan and turian support is attained, Shepard learns that Cerberus has launched an assault on the Citadel. Shepard moves to save the councilor of Salarian race, who reveals that Donnel Udina, humanity's councilor, created the attack. Shepard also encounters Kai Leng, a notorious Cerberus assassin, and prevents him from assassinating thecouncilor with the help of Thane Krios or Captain Kirrahe, who are fatally wounded in the attempt. Shepard then moves to stop Udina, who is planning to hand off the two following councilors to Cerberus, and being guarded by Kaidan or Ashley, who has been made a Spectre. Depending on previous choices made during the game, such as visiting them in the hospital, Kaidan or Ashley can side with Shepard and help Shepard take Udina down, or side against Shepard and be killed. Either way, Udina is stopped. To meet with the admirals of the quarian flotilla, Shepard travels to the Far Rim and discovers that the quarians have gone to war with the geth to reclaim their homeworld, Rannoch. With Tali'Zorah nar Rayya, Shepard boards a geth dreadnought that is broadcasting a short-range Reaper code to the geth. Shepard destroys it and finds Legion (or an identical geth VI, also dependent on the suicide mission), who tells Shepard that the geth, losing the war with the quarians, turned to the Reapers in desperation and were greatly enhanced at the cost of their independent thought, while Legion/the geth VI remains independent due to its unusual amount of active programs. With Legion/the geth VI's help, the geth are pushed back to a Reaper base which is projecting another Reaper signal. The source of the signal is discovered to be an actual Reaper, and with the help of an orbital strike from the quarian fleet, Shepard destroys it. With the Reaper control gone but the superior upgrades still viable, Shepard must choose either to allow the geth to upgrade and become fully individualized and free, in which case they retaliate against the quarian flotilla, annihilating it and causing Tali to commit suicide, or to shut down the geth consensus, which in turn allows the quarians to destroy the geth fleet and end them as a race. Alternatively, depending on past decisions, Shepard can allow the geth to upgrade while convincing the quarians that the geth do not want to fight them, making peace between the two and gaining support for Earth from both sides. The asari councilor informs Shepard of a Prothean artifact on the asari homeworld, Thessia, which may be the key to finishing the Crucible. However, when the Normandy arrives on Thessia, the planet is already under heavy Reaper attack. Shepard must defend Thessia while simultaneously gathering information on the "Catalyst", an essential tool for the Crucible's effectiveness. The artifact the asari councilor referred to is revealed to be a Prothean beacon housing a VI called Vendetta. As it is about to reveal information regarding the Catalyst, Kai Leng arrives and steals the VI program. Deciding to take the fight to the Illusive Man, Shepard follows Leng to the Sanctuary research facility on the human colony Horizon, which Cerberus has been using to research methods of controlling the Reapers. There, Shepard saves Miranda Lawson (or her sister Oriana, if Miranda is dead) from her father and Leng in the research facility. Either of the sisters gives Shepard the location of Cerberus headquarters, which, with the help of Admiral Hackett and an Alliance fleet, Shepard assaults, killing Leng in the process but failing to capture the Illusive Man. After reacquiring Vendetta, Shepard learns that the Citadel itself is in fact the Catalyst, and that the Illusive Man has now become fully indoctrinated by the Reapers. Because of his indoctrination, the Illusive Man has informed the Reapers of the Citadel's pivotal function in the activation of the Crucible. In response, the Reapers capture the Citadel and move it to a defensible position above Earth, massing their fleets around it. Under Hackett and Shepard's leadership, the combined fleets of all the races of the galaxy launch a massive final attack on the Reaper forces above Earth and on its surface in a last-ditch effort to retake the Citadel and use it to activate the Crucible. After landing, Shepard assists in an assault on London, at the center of which there is a beam that connects to the orbiting Citadel. Reunited with Anderson, Shepard eventually begins the final push to the Citadel beam, but the attack force is decimated by Harbinger, the oldest and most powerful of the Reapers. During the charge, Shepard's squadmates are injured and evacuated. Shepard continues the charge alone, but is severely wounded in a blast from Harbinger, barely making it to the beam. Once on the Citadel, Shepard hears from Anderson, who also made it to the beam. Finding Anderson under the influence of the indoctrinated Illusive Man, Shepard succeeds in stopping the Cerberus leader, but Anderson is fatally wounded in the process. After opening the Citadel arms so that the Crucible can dock Shepard is transported to the pinnacle of the Citadel. A childlike AI appears proclaiming it is the Catalyst, and the creator of the Reapers. It reveals that the Reaper cycle is an attempt to prevent organic life from destroying itself by creating synthetic life. The Catalyst believes that synthetic lifeforms would inevitably destroy all organic life if allowed to develop, so those species that have attained the capacity to develop synthetic life must be selectively culled for the good of all organic life. The Catalyst characterizes the harvest as an ascendance, wherein advanced organic races are preserved in Reaper form and the opportunity is created for more primitive species to rise, evolve, and advance. In every cycle, the Catalyst studies the evolution of these organic species as well as their technological progression, with the ultimate goal of finding a solution to the conflict between synthetic and organic life. Having lost faith in the Reapers' ability to achieve this purpose and, as now altered by the Crucible, the Catalyst gives Shepard three options of defeating them: control the Reapers, destroy the Reapers and all synthetic life, or synthesize all organic and synthetic life. Each choice results in Shepard's apparent death and the destruction of the entire mass relay network. London suffers varying degrees of damage and the Normandy crash lands on an alien planet. If the player's Effective Military Strength is high enough and Shepard chooses to destroy the Reapers, the game ends with a cutscene of Shepard taking a gasping breath from within a pile of rubble, hinting at survival. In a post-credits cutscene, an old man known as the "Stargazer" tells Shepard's story to a young boy, implying that Shepard's legacy lives on far into the future. Extended Cut The Extended Cut adds a scene with Shepard's squad being critically wounded by Harbinger during the push to beam, forcing Shepard to call in the Normandy to extract them before pushing on and also being injured. It also shows the mass relays as being heavily damaged by the Crucible's firing instead of being destroyed as per the original ending. Additional scenes and dialogue have been added to clarify events and resolve perceived plot holes. The flashbacks of characters after Shepard's decision have also been fixed so now the first will be that of Joker, the second someone who died over the course of the game, and the third whoever was Shepard's love interest. The three original ending choices have been modified to include a varying narration provided by Admiral Hackett (Destroy), a Reaper artificial intelligence modeled after Shepard (Control), or EDI (Synthesis) along with slides showing the impact the player's choices have had upon the galaxy, as well as the fate of surviving characters. If the player has a sufficiently high ems score, the surviving crew of the Normandy is shown holding a memorial service for Shepard before repairing the damage from the crash and launching into space. If the player chose to destroy the Reapers and survived the Crucible's blast, a squadmate or love interest will refrain from putting their name up on the Normandy Memorial Wall and will instead smile hopefully. The Extended Cut also provides a fourth ending, triggered by either refusing the Catalyst's choices, or attempting to kill it when the player resumes control of Shepard. Consequently, the Crucible is not fired and the war ends with the systematic destruction of all space-faring civilizations, and the continuation of the Reaper cycle. The scene then shifts to an unknown garden world in the future where one of Liara's beacons has been discovered. Dialogue in the post-credits scene reveals that the knowledge gained from the beacon ultimately led to the next cycle's victory over the Reapers. Here's some information regarding sizes of Reapers: Harbinger: The first Reaper ever created, Harbinger appears to be of a unique subtype; AI identifies it as being the largest Reaper in the Reaper race, and its design differs notably from the Capital Ship subtype, having only four main legs and multiple glowing "eyes". Exactly how much more powerful it is than a normal Reaper capital ship is unknown in the game Capital Ship: Also known as Sovereign-class, the two-kilometer-long Ships are the most well-known Reaper subtype. Their main weapon is a spinal mounted "magnetohydrodynamic" cannon with a yield of 152 to 450 kilotons of TNT, which dwarfs the main gun of an Everest-class Alliance dreadnought. No known ship, not even a dreadnought, has been known to survive a hit from this weapon. Capital Ships are also armed with multiple cannons in their "tendrils" capable of shearing through most opposing vessels in a single hit, a point defense system (similar to the GARDIAN systems favored by organics) for anti-fighter and anti-projectile purposes, and are capable of unleashing swarms of Reaper Oculi Drones to counter-attack against fighter-sized craft. They are extremely durable, capable of taking the continuous and simultaneous fire of up to five dreadnoughts before they start to lose their kinetic barriers. Troop Transport: Troop Transports vary in length between 200 meters and one kilometer and are used to transport husks to unconquered worlds and bring the victims of a homeworld to Reaper Processing Centers. Processor: Centers for massive DNA harvesting. Like the Troop Transports, Processors lack sentience and are controlled remotely by their actual creators: The Reapers. Destroyer: Destroyers are only 160 meters in height, but possess a formidable capacity for destruction despite their reduced stature, with their main gun easily capable of destroying cruisers in seconds. Unlike Capital Ships, they have four main legs, along with five jointed appendages encircling their "head". The frontal plates of a Destroyer can fold to the sides, exposing a powerful beam weapon. They are used to escort the capital ships, destroying smaller targets such as frigates. On the ground, they are capable of unfolding their legs and walking to support the husks, becoming extremely powerful heavy walkers. They are nigh-immune to ground vehicle fire and not at all fragile in space, but a cruiser is noted to be able to take out a Destroyer fairly quickly. If any of you like my writen story, leave a like below... OR a +1

[@BOSHKOB]

Well yeah, because back in ME1 you know absolutely about them and his voice just sounds so cold and emoitionless :D

[@lalas3590]

CerberusXShockwaveWarfare X-Com Wtf is this comment? O.o

[@TheAresMysterium]

La Las It took me about an hour to research and put it in my words...

[@CenobiteBeldar]

Imagine having a sick sound system in your car and you're playing this in your car with bass all the way up and it plays the sound of Reaper every time.

[@jeremybk54]

i don't remember which dialogue prompt it is, but there is one that lets u get renegade by interrupting it with the targeting laser and firing one final orbital strike on it

[@St_AngusYoung]

That final strike on the Reaper especially at that range would've killed Shepard aswell. Good thing it's only a game.

[@tallaw]

I never realized i had to move to the side on the last one

[@nextgentvreborn5187]

Tallawesomesk8er if you speed enought you dont need To do it

[@aiosquadron]

The reaper: Go to the organic's planet they said, it will be fun, they said.

[@Spikezx7]

I second that feeling. I had shivers down my spine for this scene and the mission on tuchuncka. This was a beautiful game. Then that damn ending came and pissed all over it.

[@Jaceblue04]

Not too many people can take on the equivalent of Mecha-Godzilla and survive, but Shepard does so no less than 3 times.

[@barrylyndon5552]

I fell a bit sorry for this Reaper. Its not Harbinger or Sovereign, its clearly less intelligent and more dogmatic. The thing doesn't seem to have a choice in its own beliefs, its so monotone and hazy on the details it seems that its lack of explanation is more likely because it itself doesn't know. Like a drone ant, it died sadly because it couldn't comprehend why Shepard fought it, it just thought it was doing the right thing.

[@LIONtib]

Tentons O'fun Was it though? Sovereign said each Reaper was a nation, independent.

[@the_dropbear4392]

Tiberiu Marian This is a reaper destroyer not a full on big reaper like sovereign

[@ngovancuong95]

Nice comment !!! Your mind is deep !!! Like you !!

[@emiralikarahan695]

you seem indoctrinated

[@6611nitro]

I guess whatever species it came from must not have been up to the usual standards.

At 4:28 ,even though sound doesn't travel in space , i absolutely love the sound of the ballistic weaponry. İt's awesome.

[@ShawndaPrawn]

Bear in mind, this was a Reaper Destroyer, not a Capital Reaper like Sovereign. In other words, this Reaper was one of the smaller ones!

[@blueshit199]

one of baby reapers introduces for story/gameplay convenience

[@AveryBlueRemix]

The set pieces is this game were fucking breathtaking

[@boomstix]

ME3's the first time i played in the ME series and this is hands down my favorite part, I picked the renegade option (laser tag him) just to give the reapers the giant finger

[@KRGraphicsCG]

Now this was a TRUE boss fight!! I just love the sound work, especially the music

[@FellishBeast]

Wow. In all the ending drama I forgot how amazing some moments in this game are.

[@Jdne199311]

Finish your war, we will be wating, Idk why this is the creepiest thing a reaper has said, its like the battle for Rannoch is a small side note to them.

[@Kat1kafka]

what was the point of that turret

[@yoursonisold8743]

To show you how useless it is. And that's not a passive aggressive remark. It symbolizes their desperation and how hard it is to kill Reapers.

[@Kat1kafka]

Yourson Isold and also why all the turrets look alike

[@yoursonisold8743]

katsupoi24 This is like one of two you ever see in the games so... guess they are the same brand?

[@nerad1994]

Yourson Isold man this makes me want to play the trilogy before andromeda again

[@yoursonisold8743]

Deeken Wheeler I already am! :)

[@IrmoTheStarstrider]

Shepard: I HAVE HAD IT WITH THIS MOTHERFUCKING REAPER ON THIS MOTHERFUCKING PLANET!!!

[@teomamalos]

it might be a short fight but i always enjoy it!!!

[@madmanjoe1002]

I love how at 04:53 it still stands up to fight and tries to locate who is attacking it. Then just gets a full devasting salvo right In the face!

[@EGrahamBass]

This was so much fun and on insanity difficulty it's so damn hard, but incredibly satisfying when you do beat it :)

[@journey95far49]

Man Mass Effect 3 was epic

[@rebel1717]

I'm just gonna say, when comparing the voices of all the Reaper types, Harbinger has to be the least imposing. Granted the Reapers are supposed to be a mix of synthetic and organic creation, but when I think of a race of near indestructible machines that have obliterated the Milky Way for thousands of cycles, I'd say Sovereign and the Ranch Reaper (this one) sound like they fit that description. Their voices can practically make the ground shake, and every word coming out of their mouths...well, voice modules, is to not be taken lightly, not even by Shepard.

[@xxshad0wqueenxx]

aw man that music! It fits so well!

[@NinjasUseGlocks]

There's an easier way, sidestep in one direction and when it gets bear you sidestep in the other direction

[@samulimoisio720]

And that was a Destroyer, imagine if it would have been a Capital Ship

[@iTubeYourDadsMinge]

The first Mass Effect trilogy was SO good. The story and moral dilemma's with the Reapers were excellent. I still haven't finished Andromeda but 20 hours in, I really think the the series has gone past its peak. Hopefully I'm wrong by the time I reach the end of Andromeda but I'm not optimistic. So far, Andromeda couldn't possibly be further away from the greatness of ME1, 2 and 3. It's an all-out borefest and the dialogue and character relationships couldn't possibly be more boring if they tried. A big low point for what was previously an incredible franchise.

[@EmergencyInductionPort]

iTubeYourDadsMinge I've so tried to get into Andromeda but I just can't 🙁 I can't stand the character you play... I'm so disappointed because I've played the trilogy at least 6-7 times over and absolutely love it!

[@meatballg8655]

reapers are my favourite sci-fi death prawn spaceships ever

[@MyLandmasterAlt2]

I prefer kill it the renegade way

[@GloriousGe0rge]

Tell Harbinger I'm coming... *BOOM* Nevermind, I'll tell him myself.

[@kevo300]

Idc about the ending this game was amazing

[@RagingLycanBRO]

*GLORIOUS 60 FPS*

[@Kilox1000]

I love the music when the reapers appear. it really suits them perfectly

[@UntoTheBreach24]

As the Reaper fell, I only had one thought: "Yes. This will look nice in our living room, Tali."

[@batman_2004]

That was so awesome when all the goddamn fleet fired together. I screamed HELL YEAH!

[@Colemanian91]

What the hell am I doing wrong!

[@Daggy5]

Nothing. I died there so much until I got it. It's with the light, in my version I could not see when the Laser was ready. You've only got seconds to react, you have to be very quick and careful It's not the worst part of the game (I had a situation where I had fo fight against 6 Banshees, 3 Brutes and those f*cking turian reapers... that's where it really gets ugly) Just keep going

[@Colemanian91]

Daggy5 yea your right there is worse than this. . Thanks

[@jasonlee4562]

I only died three times in the entirity of mass effect 3... each time on insanity that was when I did this battle when we had to stall for time on earth while fighting tons of banshees while a destroyer is shooting you and on earth when you're nearly dead, just before that final marauder, when three husks run at you, I didn't know there were three husks going to attack

[@juree555]

When Destroyer starts to shoot (except for the first time), strafe one side and then change the direction while aiming the laser. You will avoid his line of fire, and when you are not moving, you will aim faster as well. Repeat this process until he gets really close - then just stand and aim. You will shoot faster than he do and ultimately kill him :) This is a little tricky at first, but don't get frustrated.

[@trippa3553]

Lets be honest, we all came here for the epic sounds

[@cleba76]

That was such a fucking badass scene. Will never forget it.

[@hojdnatir]

Reaper: "The Cycle must continue. There is no alternative." ---- later ---- *hooks up Crucible to Catalyst* Catalyst: "Oh, THAT'S the alternative!" Reapers: *facepalm*

[@rainell8246]

This once again shows how powerful Reapers are. If you need an pretty large fleet to destroy just one destroyer type Reaper.

[@ashishbhatt3467]

This was the most nervous i had ever been in my life while playing a game. It was legit scary

[@rajumies]

Damn those things are tough, it did fall after the first precision strike which was a bit odd. But after it recovered, it took half a dozen hits to the firing chamber and could stand against orbital bombardment from the whole Quarian fleet (or maybe just the heavy fleet, anyways) before falling over. It even talked to Shepard in great length after all that. And that thing was only a destroyer.

[@johnetanneso5095]

So epic ... i must buy mass effect trilogy again ... so bad the ps4 is not retrocompactible ..

[@kostyam.5072]

Miel Parlant, he is very similar to the aliens from the film, "The War of the Worlds"

[@GamesCooky]

Yea, the mass effect trilogy is one of my all time favorites. I don't know how many times i've played through all three games now. The story is just that good

[@LunarEntity]

@Zer0nite Originally the story involved the expansion of Dark Energy. The first race created the Reaper (Harbinger being the first race) in order to reduce the expansion of Dark Energy by processing each successive cycle at their peak. This can be seen with the urgency of Sovereign to begin the cycle in Mass Effect and Tali confused on why the sun was dying so rapidly in Mass Effect 2. The synthetic garbage was tossed in because Mass Effect 3 was supposed to be entinction of all or human reaper.

[@Southern_Crusader]

That thing is the equivalent of a glorified Scarab that barely glasses planets. Halo is way more hardcore.

[@LIONtib]

Killer Joy Halo is much more technologically advanced. A UNSC super MAC or even the Infinity could annihilate any Reaper in one shot. The Covenant fleets are much deadlier.

[@ghostsquadgaming2896]

Tiberiu Marian lol no, Dreadnoughts in ME fire slugs that are 4× the power of hiroshima every 60 seconds. Reapers take dozens of hits from those until their is even a dent in their kinetic barriers. This reaper destroyer here just took 3 concentrated hits from an entire species' thousands of ships, a destroyer is the smallest type of reaper. Capital ships are 2km long.

[@ryanarchuleta6231]

Ghost Squad Gaming Mass Effect mass accelerator rounds are actually relatively weak. They only deal a few kilotons of force. Standard MAC rounds in Halo deal several megatons of force. Super MACS deal like 50 Gigatons. One Halo super MAC is literally more powerful than thousands of Mass Accelerator rounds from Mass effect.

[@bzmyronix6788]

Toute les 2 seconde pas 60 seconde ​@@ghostsquadgaming2896

[@DrBananaKing7000]

The visuals of Mass Effect 3 are stunning.

[@zhugzug]

The dialog in the end reminds me of the Borg, "We bring order to chaos" (Borg Queen said that). And "It is inevitable" = "Resistance is Futile".

[@pinheadman665]

The second part I agree with you on. For example, look at Majora's Mask. We never did find out why the mask (or the entity inside it) enjoyed causing so much suffering, and we most likely will never find out. But it makes the villain more intriguing/disturbing in a way. Sovereign pretty much explains their reasons, however, by saying this: "WE IMPOSE ORDER ON THE CHAOS OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION." That hinted that they are meant to keep organic civilizations in check.

[@ThePsychedelicsnake]

At the conclusion of playing through this scene, I was the ultimate badass.

[@KiraKiraSekai1]

I felt like a god during this part

[@Manilaphoenix]

Not popular to say, but I liked the ending. The only right choice is still wrong.

[@blablabla9401]

I loved the endind as well. I was pretty sure there was no ideal utopia ending where everyone survived. I personally relly liked the "detroy" ending where Shepard somehwat survives. (although the Geth and Edi die *sniff*)

[@batman_2004]

This is one of the epic moment of mass effect series!!

[@OrionsBelt2002]

The reapers kinda remind me of tripods from war of the worlds idk why

[@oddgbmo3036]

Just came from a video comparing their sounds

[@blobcity3591]

thanks for the video i'm a dumbass played ALL the way until this part and didn't realize i had to run towards the hovercraft. was in death loop.

[@Raynsideways]

-> Shells could have had casing or mass effect fields to prevent ignition in orbit -> You can calculate how gravity will affect the trajectory and aim accordingly. Orbital bombardment /IS/ possible. Look up tungsten rod orbital bombardment. You can produce a nuclear-scale explosion using a solid chunk of metal moving fast enough.

[@M4PAT]

Yo this scene was so flipping epic, everyone teaming up, shepherd's squad bombing that reaper from space, great battle.

[@E-101-Beta]

The original ending was way better than the one we got.

[@darkpaladin.]

Did anyone get a nostalgic memory of metal gear solid 1 vehicle scene at 1:08 when playing this for the first time?

[@sage-ry9dp]

I love the little ding before the laser fires lol

[@saveggg7141]

the most epic moment in Mass Effect trilogy

[@Biohazard92578]

Would've been nice to have two phases to this fight, the first being to maybe slow it down so it won't get to you by shooting and breaking its legs when you are on the geth craft, while you wait for the Migrant fleet to get a lock onto the Reaper. The second phase being the fight we have in the game.

[@jamiemiller1482]

I love this level so much, I just yelled at the TV at the last part smile you son of a bitch… I watch too many movies

[@heavyarms01h]

It's definitely something that makes your mind boggle, isn't it? You're so used to seeing these squid-like mechanical monsters and then you have to take a mental step back and realize that they're space vessels too. Usually when I think "Starship" I picture Enterprise, Defiant, Executor, Swordbreaker, Yamato, Normandy or even the TARDIS, but the Reapers definitely takes your idea of what a space ship is and twists it. =)

[@bROLLY35]

@GZilla311 Also there is a short storyline to unlock only in the dlc version that everytime that Reapers come to our galaxy there is always a new heroe that reborns to fight and defeat the Reapers time to time, since the past 30 millions years, But it's not everyy single 50.000 he has the faith lucky on his side, once he reborns in different races, probably the creator of the Reapers, just like Legion was the first geth being created and smartest and gave all the knowledge to the free Geth.