Mass Effect 2 : LP Complete, Releasing Control.

[RK47]

So Shepard was incapacitated. Captured by the indoctrinated station inhabitants of the Project, his fate, as well as the whole galaxy hangs in the balance.

Can our hero escape captivity and stop the Reapers in time?

Or has the Indoctrination taken effect, robbing our EXTREME hero of his free will, much like the fate of his once-arch-nemesis, Saren Arturius?

No.

:america-fuck-yeah:

No armor. Trapped in a force fielded cell.

We've got to hurry.

Kenson's a lost cause. I need to escape and initiate the Project before it's too late. This mech controls might be the key in getting out of here.

Assuming control.

The remote controlled mech dispatched the scientist effortlessly.

Time to find a way out.

Uh oh, multiple mechs.. Our's outnumbered, but the console allowed us to reactivate additional mech as needed. With the threat dealt with, we blast a nearby power conduit outside to power down the barrier.

Back in business.

So it's all come down to this.

Just Shepard.

And a whole station full of indoctrinated humans.

How much time do we have left?

You have got to be kidding me. Shepard was down for more than 40 hours and the Reaper artifact failed to indoctrinate him?

EXTREME.

Weapons free. Dead guards follow. With the tight one way corridors, they no longer hold any tactical advantage.

Male voice: The Reapers are coming, she says. But I'm not sure if I'm hearing fear or hope in her voice.

The whole station's gone.

Yeah, life goes on. But you're dead. You call that living? The weak-willed will never survive.

Has that ever stopped me before? Delaying their arrival will save more, if not millions of people out there. If they are given the time...surely.

They will hate me for it. They may damn me for it. But they're not the one standing before the jaws of defeat. By my hand, I shall snatch victory from the depths of despair.

No matter the cost.

There we go.

The Project engines roared to life.

I've won, for now, Reapers.

Huh...tough choice. Shepard to batarian colonies:

Deal with it.

Shit. Something's jamming the communications -

Her.

You should've killed me when you had the chance, woman.

You can't stop me, Doctor.

I will not be defeated.

 

[abnaxus]

Apart from the sedatives "not working", no one but a lone scientist being near Shepard, they didn't even put restraints on Shepard? Haha, oh wow.

This universe of morons deserves to be purged by the Reapers.

 

[RK47]

Well, he was sedated for 40 hours+ ....it boggles the mind how fucked up Bioware writing can get in this DLC...so...maybe they thought it's safe to un-restrain him.. If we nitpick the whole story, it'll simply disintegrate any integrity it had left to carry the story.

 

[Coboney]

Maybe Shepherd for some reason is immune to indoctrination (Maybe because he's had several short exposures to it? a DNA Defect?) and thats why the Reapers want him captured?


Or... just don't think about it is probably better.

 

[Mrowak]

My brain almost melted when I learned they confined you in a room with the terminal granting you full access to, and complete control over motherfucking killing robots. Mind boggles.

 

[Brother None]

Oh cool, so now Shepard is a terrorist based on some vague and mostly unproven supposition based on a single vision, the source of which is the guys you're fighting...

Excellent.

I still fail to see how this is any worse that main ME2 plot LOL TEH GALAXY IN DANGER, let's babysit every moron with family problems.

The plot outline is about equal. ME2's story's actual content is a lot better than this nonsense though.

 

[lightbane]

Maybe I'm nitpicking here but was really necessary to put subtitles for that?

Luckily for him, Shepard's cyberesurrection gave him not only partial immunity to indoctrination, but also the ability of being able to knock down with his bare hands a random grunt wearing combat armor like it was nothing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plz-bhcHryc

Why is that a choice? I mean, until now we've seen that all batarians are irremediable evil pirates/criminals/whatever so no-one will miss their deaths.

 

[Mrowak]

Why is that a choice? I mean, until now we've seen that all batarians are irremediable evil pirates/criminals/whatever so no-one will miss their deaths.

I'd sooner ask: "Why's that a choice? You can do both things, right?"

 

[Brother None]

Maybe I'm nitpicking here but was really necessary to put subtitles for that?

Deaf and hard of hearing bro.

 

[Sceptic]

My brain almost melted when I learned they confined you in a room with the terminal granting you full access to, and complete control over motherfucking killing robots. Mind boggles.

Well just before this they ignore the little warning that says Shepard is coming out of sedation, and they had him there unrestrained to begin with.

Giving him access to the robot kinda makes sense in this context.

I'd sooner ask: "Why's that a choice? You can do both things, right?"

If you really must know, it's a typical Biowarian choice, meaning you get the interference regardless. And you never do get to warn the Batarians.

I think they were trying to make a mirror image to Bring Down The Sky, but it autofails thanks to idiotic plot elements and abysmal writing.

 

[RK47]

It's quite obvious at this point that the writer's team really can't be bothered how the DLC will turn out, it's probably the last ME2 engine DLC, so they scripted the end movie and lets some secondary DLC team fill up the rest.

I'll tie this up over the weekend. Got class tonight.

 

[RK47]

The Tyranny of Choice.

Stop now, Kenson. Hackett's friend or not, I will kill you.

You're forcing my hand, Shepard. You know that.

And yours to mine, as well.

I'm not interested in Redemption. Victory is all the vindication I need.

Must I be interrupted at every turn?!

Good luck with that.

That fool is attempting to destroy the asteroid!

We have to do something about it. Let's ask the station VI...

How do I stabilize the reactor core?

I've got to reach the cooling rod B as well.

Keep trying.

Yeah, like this will stop me.

This is Williams. I've got Shepard locked in the maintenance area. Requesting backup.

Sorry, Willy. No one's there to save you. Removing lockdown.

Those two mounted meaningless resistance.

Coolant Rod B activated.

Keep talking. It lets me know where to shoot.

Turn around. Now!

You've taken them away from me. I will never see the Reapers' arrival.

You can always wait till next year, you dumb bitch!

Fuck.

-Click-

It's over, Kenson.

Victory is...

..mine?

Oh shi-

SHEPPPPPPPPPPPPERRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSSSSSS!

 

[Esquilax]

Don't leave us hanging, bro!

 

[RK47]

Sorry bout the short one, I got home late that night. Let's wrap things up at the station.

Oh, great. This will be my final shoot out sequence in the ME2 engine.

They didn't put anything special here. It's obvious they ran out of ideas and just sprinkle the encounters with cloned guards over and over again.

They left us here!

Damnit! I have to get to the comm tower. Hope the Normandy's listening.

Just to make it slightly harder, the game tosses a YMIR mech. I killed all the guards...and thought I could run past it...

But when I got to the comm relay station, the hacking mini-game triggered and the mech killed me while I was hacking.

Sigh. The time limit is very generous here, so might as well blow it up.

And that will be the last enemy I kill in this LP.

Getting closer to the Relay. Let's get Normandy to pick up. Strangely, when the YMIR Mech is down, the relay will not have a hacking mini game when activated. WTF?

We'll be ready for you.

The Alpha Relay is activated for the last time.

Farewell, batarians. Your sacrifices will not be in vain.

The Project's impact was sufficient.

Detonation of Alpha Relay confirmed.

Blast radius expanding...

....throughout the whole system.

There was nothing left of that system.

Mission Accomplished.

We have successfully delayed the Arrival.

 

[Coboney]

So... is that the end?

That was pretty bad and as far as bridges go it was pretty awful. I mean ME2 is a shooter with a silly story on the whole but Arrival... just seems like it lost any minor redeeming glimmers inside it.

 

[RK47]

We still have debrief. I'll update tonight. I'm off to work.

 

[Multiple Sarcasm]

Wow, could they make Reapers any more pathetic? For something supposedly "incomprehensible", "timeless" and "inevitable", they sure like to let us know how pointless our actions are every time some "doomed" "insignificant" "dust struggling against cosmic winds" shoves his BBC up their cornholes.
Seriously, whoever you are, if you call yourself a writer while producing that piss, please, get cancer. Leukaemia will do just fine.

Also, if relays are so fragile, how come they haven't all been wiped out by comets, asteroids and meteors flying all over the galaxy?

And these "villain escaping from your gunpoint with you just standing there, scratching you arse" is... aw, fuck it.

 

[RK47]

Wow, could they make Reapers any more pathetic? For something supposedly "incomprehensible", "timeless" and "inevitable", they sure like to let us know how pointless our actions are every time some "doomed" "insignificant" "dust struggling against cosmic winds" shoves his BBC up their cornholes.
Seriously, whoever you are, if you call yourself a writer while producing that piss, please, get cancer. Leukaemia will do just fine.

Also, if relays are so fragile, how come they haven't all been wiped out by comets, asteroids and meteors flying all over the galaxy?

And these "villain escaping from your gunpoint with you just standing there, scratching you arse" is... aw, fuck it.

You can ask this guy as well.

GOTCHA AVATAR. NOW ...I'LL....THROW YOU INTO THE OCEAN! MUUU-HA HA HA HA! POOOR POOOOOOOOR AVATAR.

 

[abnaxus]

So the Omega Relay survived a supernova while this one is wiped out by a puny asteroid?

You'd think that the Reapers' backdoor into the galaxy would be a bit more sturdy.

 

[lightbane]

Kudos for the lp RK! Looking forward to ME3, that promises that somehow it'll be even more dumbed down.

 

[RK47]

So the Omega Relay survived a supernova while this one is wiped out by a puny asteroid?

You'd think that the Reapers' backdoor into the galaxy would be a bit more sturdy.

I'd like to say that a direct impact with sufficient firepower of any kind will destroy the Mass Relay. No exceptions. The Omega Relay did not take a direct hit, merely the shockwave of the Collector Base alone would not be sufficient, I feel.

This is the end guys. Debriefing follows... It's been fun.

No more visions, if that's what you mean. I wasn't expecting to see you here.

You went out there as a favor to me. I decided to debrief you in person. That was before the mass relay exploded and destroyed an entire batarian system.

I went with the left option first.

Have you received any intel about what happened?

All I know is that I sent you to break Amanda Kenson out of prison, and now an entire system is destroyed. I hope you could fill the leap of logic between those two events.

She wasn't willing to stop the invasion. So I did what had to be done.

Sounds like Amanda was indoctrinated. Well. That's...a damn shame.

Look me in the eye, damn it!

Still a trace of doubt?! Even after what I've done?!

I'm sure all the details are in your report. I won't lie to you, Shepard: the batarians will want blood, and there's just enough evidence for a witch hunt. And we don't want war with the batarians. Not with the Reapers at the galaxy's edge.

Can't make wine without crushing grapes.

What are you saying?

I happen to agree with you. I'm sorry those batarians lost their lives, but someone has to make the difficult decisions that get people killed. Unfortunately, not everyone will see it that way.

So what do you suggest?

Evidence against you will be shoddy, at best. But at some point, you'll have to go to Earth to face the music. I can't stop it...but I can and will make them fight for it.

I didn't expect you aboard a Cerberus vessel.

I don't like Cerberus or the way they do things. But they brought you back to life, and they're actually doing something about the state of the galaxy.

Is the Alliance concerned about the batarians' response to this incident?

Very. The batarians have been looking for an excuse to wage war on us since we showed up in the galaxy. If the Reapers invade, we will need the galaxy to work together. If we're at war with the batarians, the other races will be hesitant to give aid to either side.

So we beat the batarian first, then deal with the Reapers. Simple.

Is the Alliance prepared for a Reaper invasion?

That's hard to say. It took multiple fleets - and the Destiny Ascension - to bring Sovereign down. And that was just one Reaper. If the Reapers come in force ... we're just not ready.

I stop a Reaper invasion, and they want to put me up on charges?

It's not a matter of preference, Shepard. You'll be a convenient scapegoat for avoiding open war.

They can try.

Do whatever you have to do out there. But when Earth calls, you make sure you're there with your dress blues on, ready to take the hit. In the mean time...you keep this. *returns the report* I don't need to see your report to know you did the right thing.

Yes, sir.

You've done a hell of a thing, Commander.

Hackett leaves the room....Shepard ponders what is next for him.

The rest of his crew will stand by him when the Reapers arrive. But it won't be enough. Alliances will have to be forged and conflicts suppressed. The task will be made harder, with a destruction of an entire system rests on his shoulders. He will deal with that when the time comes.

In a year's time, perhaps.

 

[Mrowak]

Great work RK47 Thanks to you I played the game and enjoyed it(s derp) thoroughly. Looking forward to seeing EXTREME Shepard again...

Now if you could upload that save for posterity

 

[RK47]

You mean the Autosave.pcsav?

 

[Mrowak]

You mean the Autosave.pcsav?

If that's the latest one, then yes.

You wouldn't mind uploading your save from ME1, as well?

 

[RK47]

Here you go.

Final Autosave