Well the fleets probably are all coming in from different relays so no one relay gets overworked. How ships never crashed into each other is another thing entirely.
If the Reapers built the relays, it's strange they didn't disable them to isolate the races in their sectors and prevent this type of attack. But I think that's explained by the Star Child.
" And so, the Reapers were destroyed by the fleet's combined firepower. Unfortunately, so was the Earth, as every shot that missed a reaper went straight into the planet."
That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, serviceman Hamsterminator, we do not "eyeball it"!
It's all beautiful and emotional until you remember the discussion between the Sargeant and the private in Mass Effect 2, right after we get access to the Citadel
@@meltediron285 Its the discussion where the seargent tell the private to not fire the guns on the ships without proper aim or knowledge of whats the behind the target. Since we don't have air resistance and enough gravity in space, the projectile will keep going until it hit something. It can be anything from a asteroid to a random civilian ship. But in the final battle we have hundreds of those ships firing in random at the Reapers with Earth behind them, so you wonder... where the missed shots landed?
@@yurialexandre2037 While from a design perspective it was probably the desire for a big action shot of everybody blowing their loads in unison, in-universe, um. I guess they'll only hit Earth at 100,000 km/h? That can't do a lot of damage, right? If it wasn't clear my opinion about this changed as I was writing about it.
@@kakroom3407 yeah i'm pretty sure in the second game it's stated specifically that the main gun on, i believe it was an alliance cruiser, hit with the same kinetic energy as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and we saw how fast their weapons were firing so that was thousands of ships, firing shells that hit with a few kilotons of energy. Earth was definitely fucked up by alot of missed shots. though considering it was overrun by reapers, i doubt anyone really cared, though i kinda wished they'd at least acknowledge that, saying something like the reapers intentionally parked themselves right in front of the Earth, so that the united fleets had to fight at reduced effectiveness to avoid missing shots, or something to that affect.
“We are about to partake in a event never before been done… what thousands- possible millions have tried, be today is the day that it succeeds. All ships, OPEN FIRE!”
And it was all totally useless...total waste of time getting them all together...you didn't get to duke it out...you had to pick a color...F that ending forever and ever amen.
@@Daehawk you where right. For a few months. The game is fixed the ending is decent now. It was probably a protest against EA upper management stop crying about this
@@willt2810 “To stand tall and hold back the fall of life, is to give the next a fighting chance. We fight today to give yesterday a meaning and tomorrow a chance… We may fall today. As thousands have… but this ring will break! Over 50,000 years it has stood and they who came before have chipped, chiseled, and crack hammered it. We fight today… to give tomorrow a fighting chance.”
@@Daehawk after all this time I actually ended up really disliking the extended cut as well lol. It's more of a 6/10 ending, still pretty dull but man at least it isnt OG
I can't fucking believe that they never added a Geth Fleet visual. Those bee-looking Geth Dreadnoughts would have given me chills. We saw them jumping in alongside Sovereign to attack the Citadel, it was only fair to see them jump in to help this time. Instead they added a whole bunch of screentime for the Anonymous Marine that nobody gives a fuck about.
I always have a hard time with this. How do you tell the Turian ships from the Alliance ones? They always look a bit similar throughout the games. The others are a bit easier to tell apart.
I really wish we had a part of the cutscenes where you see a reaper get absolutely wrecked. If your war assets are terrible, you get extra scenes seeing our fleets getting destroyed and Shepard commenting about it. I wish if we had at or very near max war assets we got something similar but seeing a reaper get wrecked and Shepard comment something positive like "they're doing it..." or something more bad ass. I had high hopes the LE would add a touch extra but oh well. I'll make my own cutscenes up in my head.
I think there definitely should've been a lot more benefits to having incredibly high war assets - I don't tend to beat on the ending as much as a lot of other people but it still seems absurd to me that you can't avoid the negative consequences when the threshold for the "good" ending is 4000-5000 and I finish the game with 8000. That's not something I'd ever thought of but it would be really awesome to watch a Reaper getting hit from all sides and not being able to focus its attacks enough to escape before it's destroyed.
it makes sense though. you needed the entire arcturus defense fleet to kill just sovereign, and it nearly took that entire fleet out. add to that that the fleets here are all nowhere near their full strength, and that the goal is to distract the reapers and keep them busy as long as possible, not to destroy them because if they focused their fire the way they need to the other reapers would just hack their forces into bits way too fast, and you see why its like this.
@@jenshep1720 True, but it is also worth considering the advancements that happened between 1 and 3 - the prime example being Thanix weapon tech which was developed from salvaged Reaper weapon systems. Not enough for any ship to solo a Reaper capital ship obviously, but arguably enough that, at high war assets, a Reaper being overwhelmed by a group of turian dreadnoughts or something like that isnt entirely unimaginable!
i remember what Shepard said in me1. he wanted the Normandy at head of the fleet going after Saren. This was bittersweet moment for Shepard. alot people who served under Shepard gave their lives for this. My Shepards atleast vowed to make sure they didn't die for nothing.
I would've liked it if your fleets were shown actually doing a significant amount of damage to the Reapers' fleet if your EMS strength was 90% or higher. Seeing the Reapers underestimate your attack and paying the price in lots of Destroyers and some Sovereign-class dreadnoughts turned into scrap metal would've been very cathartic for players.
Agreed, in game the ratio to destroy a Reaper was 6 dreadnought main gun shots per one Sovereign, and that was with the standard guns, not Thanix cannons. Consider the number of ships in Sword fleet and that more than a few were supposed to have both there should have been a lot more Reapers getting shredded in the opening volleys. Probably another thing we can blame EA for because of their ridiculous time schedule for the game's original release, we probably only got to see a quarter of what the devs wanted us to see.
@@id9907 The Destiny Ascension also could have been shown as a significant threat to Sovereign-class Reapers. I highly doubt the even asari would've just sat there twiddling their thumbs in the 3 years since the Battle of the Citadel. They would've had the smarts to upgrade the DA's weapons to include multiple Thanix guns.
The reapers would still win, but I think a great compromise and secret is if you had 100% completion of the series and reject the star child, that you get a cutscene where human’s and some other races come out of cryopods. The implication being that the reapers were given such a challenge that our cycle succeeded where the protheans had failed in staying alive in mass past the extinction event.
I think as-it-is is good for getting the message across. The Reapers have access to technology a BILLION years old. Exterminating the galaxy is practically a job to them, like an exterminator that kills ants. Even the galaxy at maximum power pales in comparison to the Prothean empire, and the Protheans were just the most recent extermination of millions of others. If you enter this cutscene with horrible EMS, you are getting OBLITERATED. What few people are there are either not enough or not really motivated and it shows. But at high EMS, you've rallied nearly the entire galaxy together in spirit and in person. The galaxy still doesn't stand a chance in a straight fight, but you can make it SO hard for them that they have to really try to kill everybody. Ultimately, they still can't be defeated without Shepard getting aboard the Citadel. The difference is whether the galaxy can take a few down with them and survive until Shepard saves them, or whether Shepard saves the galaxy while the fleet gets ripped to shreds as a diversion.
This scene still gives me goosebumps and we have expected something like this will happen but still I wish they really showed all races fighting together in ground and space. Just a 5 min scene of mostly human ships doesn't do any justice for our 100 hours of gameplay. All respective leaders of asari, turian even batarian should have said 'we are reporting' and give a little speech instead to motivate. Where's the balak's batarian fleet, volus fleet, elcor fleet, blue sons, eclipse, vorcha, salatian fleet, where's rachni, geth, quarians, asari, turian, krogan fighters all fighting together and take out brutes, banshees. Bioware really missed an opportunity of a lifetime. This is the most important fight in million years yet they just show a 5 min scene for formality and ignore different races for rest 2 hours of gameplay. Any scene of 'all fleets coming' is guaranteed to give us goosebumps, they should have shown different races a little bit more and it might have been the most epic fight of all time.
Yeah, it could have worked like the suicide mission, every war asset and fleet changing the result, hell with 8k + war assets there could be a different ending
@@rodatamx i'm quite appaled they didnt do that...so much time getting those assets, integrating the results from the previous 2 games in the 3rd be it with a cutscene or through missions and making us trully believe what we did matters. even going far beyond the minimum requirements in the hope to kick some reaper ass and it makes no difference watsoever... I especially hate the "destroy" choice in the crucible...so many ships reunited... Waste of assets.
Unfortunate yes, but consider that they were forced by EA to change the entire plot of the game after the story leak. If they didn't do that I think its likely that the game would not have been so rushed
Would it have killed them to include the geth fleet cutscene for the all fleets version of this scene? You'd think it would be easy to patch in for the remaster.
I still cant put into words how this scene makes me feel, everything we went through and all the waiting we did lead to this moment 0:17 When the Normandy fibally wasn't alone
Epic, but then I remember how Marauder Shields tried to save us from the ending and I get teary eyed for another reason entirely. Over ten years ago and the wound is still not healed. Still, despite the ending Mass Effect remains in my top 5 series in gaming alongside Halo 1 to 3, Total War: Warhammer, The Legend of Zelda and The Witcher. It's one of the reasons I still love games even though I've been gaming less and less these past years. Good memories overall from this series!
great scene, but the original game should've given us a better cutscene of the dropships descending into London, dropping off the troops and vehicles of hammer force for the fight, all we see between Shepard destroying the anti air cannon and arriving at the FOB, are troops and vehicles holding off the reaper forces around the base, and the only mention of hammer is that a percentage survived and are scattered, that's it
Yeah, personally i like the ending, but i am very underwhelmed by the priority:earth mission. I feel the final mission shoud have incorporated elements from the suicide mission and actually show us the war assets in action. Spoiler: If your war assets are low enough your two squadmates get vaporized on the run to the beam, so clearly they had some ideas at mind.
I am still fascinated by how many missiles from the first volley miss and are flying towards our beloved planet. "I think we have too many cowboys at the controls" :0
Tbh its kind of sad. Considering how much flack it got at the time. That this was the last true epic sci-fi saga we got in video games. When you take 1, 2, and 3. I don't think we will ever get a space sci-fi epic like this ever again. I know 3 has been improved since its first release.
Wow, I've never seen that exchange between Joker and Shepard before! I've only seen it go as follows: Joker: "Commander. Be careful down there." *salutes Shepard* Shepard: "We'll be fine. Stay focused." *returns salute* Joker: "Aye aye." I much prefer the version seen here. I wonder if this is new, or if a bug was preventing this version from being seen in the original that they fixed for the LE? It seems this version might have been for players who imported from ME1/ME2, since they might have a greater attachment to the characters, or maybe there are some other conditions that need to be met? Strange, I don't see how I didn't encounter this version in my own playthrough way back when, I imported from ME1 and had a great relationship with Joker and did all his side quests/convos. Hope i get to see this in my own playthrough of the LE. Thanks for uploading!
I definitely never saw that version either, only the one you quoted - I think it's either new or it was hidden content that wasnt used originally but got added in for this one. I definitely prefer this version. Joker's been with Shepard longer than literally anyone else on the Normandy - it feels a lot better for them to have a wholesome moment like Shep has with everyone else rather than a "focus on the job" interaction.
I’m so glad that they added this. I got this when I finished my play through and I love this interaction so much more. Joker and Shepard have been through hell and back together and this moment was honestly beautiful
It was probably like the Conrad Verner reaction where regardless of what you said or did to him in ME1, he always says you pointed a gun at him, the correct response was overwritten by another reaction. I bet Joker was supposed to either shake hands or salute based on your replies and relationship with him but had faulty coding in the original.
Always save the council in ME1, even as a renegade. in ME1 you walk past a Volus telling a human about the Ascension (the Asari flagship) and how it alone is powerful enough to rip through the entire Turian fleet. It's the same ship the council flee on in ME1 and the same ship that is specifically zoomed in on in this scene. Makes sense to have that thing on your side.
My first playthrough I was so fed up with the council bs I left them to die. Didn't impact much the ending of ME3 though. Didn't get the ship, but still had enough score for the best ending.
What he actually says is that it has almost as much firepower as the rest of the Asari fleet (and that's probably an exageration) which at least in terms of dreadnoughts is way smaller than the Turian fleet, 37 vs 21. I really don't think it would rip through the Turian fleet.
Tbh, the worth of the Destiny Ascension is proportionate to the possible damages the fleets may receive distributed among them. The true worth when choosing to save the council is saving Valern. Keep in mind Salarians are curious and cautious, so of course he'll make preparations (a specialized fleet) if reapers did invade, unlike his arrogant replacement that just offers the STG as an emergency donation.
@@MefanJert this is a thing i noticed too, at high ems it seems to either outright tank the hit (if i had to guess, we're looking at the space equivalent of a shell ricochet, where the angle was sufficient that the energy was diffused harmlessly as it hit the cruiser, i.e., it hit it at a bad angle and deflected or absorbed the energy) or miss it by micrometers. either they have some coopted reaper tech available to high ems ships, or the crew gets just enough training to react appropriately and survive. on low ems it just gets sliced in half
@@riccardogemme There's a mod that's trying to add them in. It also adds an ending where Shepard gets saved and an Alliance Dreadnaught backs up the Normandy.
@@dreamcore7 Expanded Galaxy Mod. It's on Nexus Mods, free download. Should check it out. It's one of those great examples of Modders going "I hate that certain stuff wasn't added and this ending sucked, i'ma change it."
Yeah I always thought that was funny, especially in ME 1 when they first are the destiny ascension and commenrs "You see those guns?" Im just sitting there like "no?"
Let's pause for a moment an realize just how complex the relays were. Think about it for a moment, we're talking about calculations that dwarf common understanding, repeated several times at the same time with completely different variables across the board as none of the ships (even of the same class) were exactly the same across the board.
Harbinger: What do you mean the combined fleets of the entire fucking galaxy just exited the Sol Relay? ALL REAPERS, RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY! *Every Reaper dreadnought blown to pieces in minutes before they can jump to FTL*
Broooo I always get goosebumps at the constant entrance of all the ships. You really feel like the enter galaxy is coming together for each other it’s awesome
One of the greatest moments in video game history... the moment that all humans should cheris... the moment when everyone is in unity for a common cause...
Realistically, We have about 15 space faring species in this cycle. The reapers make one dreadnaught and the rest of the species are frigates. Each Species only has to destroy one reaper and they pulled out a draw. Each cycle, you only need to take out one more reaper than space faring species have found the citadel.
I think it would've been cool if leaving the Council to die in ME1 did result in humanity taking charge, and thus assembling of the fleets in a shorter time (to guard the race who's in charge of the galaxy) for ME3, but at the cost of lower numbers (because humanity fails to manage that many races and they don't trust humanity enough to give it all to save us)
@blueshit199 well I actually thought that was what was going to happen. I was praising Drew Karpyshyn and told him that I was very excited to see this triumvirate between Shepard, Anderson and Udina in the renegade ending. Unfortunately they didn't go with that and even a 'human controlled' council was largely unremarkable from the regular council. Idk... could we have had something a little darker than jackass renegade Shep running around being an ass...?
@@serpenthydra yeah :/ imagine sparing the Collector Base likewise in ME2, and then having husks on your side in ME3, or something fucked up like that, too
@@varric Well, I'll rephrase. It's fantastic that you can tell a player's choices, of two games ago, based simply on the presence of one ship (Destiny Ascension)!
One of the best scenes in the trilogy, the popping of all those ships coming through the relay. So cool. And when the first giant Reaper charging that beam. Fun fact: ist molten metal im not sure what kind and the Reapers can fire them in velocetis up to 99% the speed of light
As awesome as this scene is, I do have to question the in-game feasibility of thousands of ships exiting the relay with no issue. It's stated in game that ships exit the relay at a random point (sometimes thousands of kilometers away from the relay itself, with Joker being complimented on his ability to bring the Normandy through with only 1.5km of "drift") so how a fleet is able to come through in perfect formation is questionable at most.
just another one of Mass Effect 3's nonsensical gratuitous scenes that were not properly thought out. It seems to me like the majority of scenes in ME3 was drawn up by some EA marketing department, and then the game devs stitched together these scenes, which is why ME3's whole plot is such a disjointed mess full of plotholes
@@shriramvenu They make a huge point that each shot of a big ship have the power of a nuke, and then shower earth with fire in this scene, lol, they probably killed more people than the reapers at this point
@@shriramvenu Not nonsensical if you think that the Normandy had a Reaper IFF that make the ship have more accurate exits from the relay. Acording to one War Asset, the Salarians get the schematics of the Normandy's stealth systems and the algorithms behind the Normandy SR-2's Reaper IFF signal and installed them in their Dreadnoughts. It's not hard to think that everyone had a Reaper IFF installed in their ships at this point.
U know no matter whats the outcome. Reapers have lost many of their ships. One ship is one cycle. And theyve never lost that much before. Theyre completely exposed.
Most likely because the reapers, had since they started building/using mass relays as a means to control the development of Galactic civilization , never really fought conventional war. Even with Protheans they used the citadel to deactivate the relays to split up the Prothean empire
@@captianzitroneneis9562 I mean this time they didnt even shock and awe. Reapers were slow to adapt on counter tactics. Their only tactics were overwhelming force. If they couldnt beat a race on the ground theyd orbitally attack there. Turians were mopping the floor with reaper ass before theyre overwhelmed. I mean it was a good war. Got Catalyst think when it saw organics and synthetics were fighting together against its solution
Sok év eltelt már, mind a három részt végigjátszottam anno, de ettől a jelenettől még most is kiráz a hideg. Az egyik legjobb játék ami valaha készült!
Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred.
This was the scene , THE scene that battle of exegol was meant to be on the cinematic screen. Two very similar storylines where the good guys fight an extraordinary evil for the very fate of the galaxy . Yet a decade old game can nail it and a current movie with a millions in budget can't even come close. Think about what we lost. I doubt we will ever see anything similar in scale and grandiose on the movie screen in our lifetimes.
there is nothing similar about these stories beyond there being a big threat in space LOL dont compare mass effects exceptional writing to the diareah at disney
The issue here is that the Turian fleet has already been in full frontal combat vs the Reapers over Palaven for about 3 months before this battle. They probably had only 50% at most of their entire armada left
@@jamesxiaolong2199 not really. It's everything all the non Human races can spare+ the alliance forces. Remember, fighting is happening in most other homeworlds and the bulk of their forces are there.
The ending with the salute and the handshake: Joker never cared for military protocols, when Shepard did care very much for them. Being in the face of the end, both of them made concessions in order to please each other. This scene is more powerful than people noticed!
If you think about it, and follow the story..... No one in the Victory Fleet expected to SURVIVE. THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE FLEET WAS TO GO DOWN IN A BLAZE OF GLORY AND TAKE AS MANY REAPERS (which a quick lore, the Reapers often fought a subtle, Blitzkrieg War, going in quick, mopping up opposition quick then Creating either One New Reaper or one New Reaper Per Species Per Cycle. If you listen to Javik, the Protheans gave the Reapers hell, reducing the reaper numbers till they were betrayer, yeah the Protheans lost, but halving their fleet that they have trouble replacing, helped future cycles have a chance of finally defeating them) if you follow the reapers in this battle, they behave generally suprised that something attacked them. In defeat at this battle, if the Victory fleet had Halfed the reaper forces, the total host of a forth their origional strength, would have to hit, the Geth, the turian, the Aasari, the Salarian remnants, the krogan, and the Quarians. The Reapers were done, its just robots do not see impacts of the fights on its statistics.
If I could make a couple DLCs to this game, it would involve the humans of Alpha Centauri tangling with Cerberus, and it would involve protecting the Andromeda Initiative vessels from the Collectors. The Alpha Centauri humans would have stumbled upon an Inusannon warning beacon, that would tell them about the Reaper invasion; with their knowledge galvanizing the Alpha humans to start building an armada tailor-made to combat these Reapers. After several decades, they manage to successfully construct one ship, capable of going toe-to-toe with a Sovereign-class Reaper and triumphing. The initial goal would be to send a whole fleet of these into Dark Space, but they only manage to complete the one by the time the Reapers invade. And the Illusive Man catches wind of this, and seeks to use this prototype vessel for his own ends. The other would involve the flotilla of Andromeda sleeper ships being detected by the Collectors, with Shepard and a group of Alliance Corsairs fending them off in order for the fleet to escape the Milky Way.
- Sir, I think there's a problem with our tactics. - What is it? From my point of view it's perfect. - We are in space. - So? - So maybe instead of, you know, putting Earth on the firing line with the Reapers we should flank them so they can't concentrate their forces in one plase and make them scatter, making it easier to defeat? They also have like big shiny weak spot in their design... - THROW THAT BASTARD INTO THE AIRLOCK! HE'S INDOCTRINATED!
As a huge Mass effect fan which probably is my favorite franchise game of all time.. they seem a piece of the Indian is a great cutsie but it could have been so much more badass... When I first played Mass effect 3 I really thought that when you collect the war assets that you actually seen him in a cutscene... For example like let's say you saved Jack and her students.. you will see them on Earth doing airstrikes on the reapers are protecting you with a bear or if you got the blue Suns and the other gangs and you see aria leading them into battle where they can cover you.. or see volus bombers dropping bombs on the reapers or see the game destroying reapers on Earth so they can carve you a path that makes it much easier.... Because I collected all the war assets and I was thinking that it's going to be a badass Indian to see all those war access and I was really disappointed 😞.... Because Mass effect it's supposed to be one of those games that your choices matter and has a effect at the ending throughout the all three games.... I think it would have been a awesome ending where you had a choose your crew or your romance partner and if you don't have a romantic partner than Anderson will be that person and you will have to choose between them and you will have to sacrifice one of them in order save the other but let's say you did all the missions and you have a very high score when it comes to war assets then you can save both of them... Or if you had a decent war assets then maybe you can sacrifice yourself to see them both.... Hopefully Mass effect 4 it will knock out of park.
2:00 You know the lesson that a sergeant gives to his squad in the citadel about not firing recklessly into space because the proyectile wont stop until collides with some poor sod planet in the future?, well clearly the fleets didnt gave shit about that lmao, i think that bombarment alone made more damage to earth than the reapers
Whenever I see the part where Shepard says "Fire!", I remember the bit in ME2 of two grunts getting their asses chewed out by their superior, the first time you go to the Citadel. About what happens if you don't check your firing solutions, etc. Imagine all those shots at around 1:50...how many of them would not hit their targets, and so impact Earth (with the force of a 38KT b0mb). Edit: I see I'm not the only one..
Ah yes, the battle with no tactics or even ship formations. Just take that big gaggle of ships and charge in until the enemy and your side are all jumbled together so your more likely to hit a friendly than the enemy. Oh, and lets not forget any rail gun shot that misses a Reaper is going to keep going and hit the Earth.
To be fair once a battle gets to a big enough size, formations are going to be very limited in usefulness just bcause of the density of ships/fighters and such moving around. Plus remember we're not the fleet commander we just give the order to open fire. We never get to learn about what tactics anyone uses in space in Mass Effect because we're always on the ground.
The scene is really cool, however I just noticed how unnecessary / unrealistic it is for Shepard to give the WHOLE fleet and ALL fighters the signal when to engage, shoot and whatnot.
Fun fact: Those bullets that those ships fire are so tiny and look like they will not do that much damage but remember, Space is HUGE, and those bullets are all RAILGUN rounds.
Their pellets compare to what the UNSC use, they fire heavier & faster rounds. A single MAC would most likely rip a reaper's kinetic barriers clean off.
@@tristanbackup2536 Halo weapons don't really make much sense, logic dictates the heavier a projectile the slower it will move for a given amount of energy. So either Halo MAC's have so much energy that their ships would probably recoil backwards out of a solar system, or their slugs move at relatively slow speeds. You also end up with issues where if we use canon numbers for ship and MAC projectile weights, something like 30% of the ship is MAC ammunition.
@@ThatZenoGuy Or maybe they are using something like a Mass Effect field to negative the projectile's mass, so it's like firing small ammunition. Still, as soon as it leaves, the barrel effect field disappears, becoming heavy again without losing kinetic energy.
@@GyanPrakash Halo doesn't have any weird magical elements like Mass Effect does. Make no mistake I love Halo, but from a lore-perspective it is 100% smoothbrained.
ME 1 : "The Quarian fleet is so big it takes several days to travel through a relay."
ME 3 : *Teleports the whole galaxy in 5 minutes*
"Reaper IFF"
Who says this is 5 minutes? For all we know it took several days between the jump and the arrival at earth.
Well the fleets probably are all coming in from different relays so no one relay gets overworked. How ships never crashed into each other is another thing entirely.
Yet allows multiple reapers to cross simultaneously as well.
If the Reapers built the relays, it's strange they didn't disable them to isolate the races in their sectors and prevent this type of attack. But I think that's explained by the Star Child.
" And so, the Reapers were destroyed by the fleet's combined firepower. Unfortunately, so was the Earth, as every shot that missed a reaper went straight into the planet."
Lol every time I watch this, I think that…. The kinetic weapons strikes alone would sterilize half the planet’s surface
Eh, burns in the atmosphere
@@edhay4594 very far from half, but still plenty
That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, serviceman Hamsterminator, we do not "eyeball it"!
А сколько обломков упало. А один упавший разрушенный корабль, это экологическая катастрофа.
It's all beautiful and emotional until you remember the discussion between the Sargeant and the private in Mass Effect 2, right after we get access to the Citadel
SIR ISAAC NEWTON IS THE DEADLIEST SON OF A BITCH IN SPACE
What are you referring to?
@@meltediron285 Its the discussion where the seargent tell the private to not fire the guns on the ships without proper aim or knowledge of whats the behind the target. Since we don't have air resistance and enough gravity in space, the projectile will keep going until it hit something. It can be anything from a asteroid to a random civilian ship. But in the final battle we have hundreds of those ships firing in random at the Reapers with Earth behind them, so you wonder... where the missed shots landed?
@@yurialexandre2037 While from a design perspective it was probably the desire for a big action shot of everybody blowing their loads in unison, in-universe, um. I guess they'll only hit Earth at 100,000 km/h? That can't do a lot of damage, right?
If it wasn't clear my opinion about this changed as I was writing about it.
@@kakroom3407 yeah i'm pretty sure in the second game it's stated specifically that the main gun on, i believe it was an alliance cruiser, hit with the same kinetic energy as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and we saw how fast their weapons were firing so that was thousands of ships, firing shells that hit with a few kilotons of energy. Earth was definitely fucked up by alot of missed shots. though considering it was overrun by reapers, i doubt anyone really cared, though i kinda wished they'd at least acknowledge that, saying something like the reapers intentionally parked themselves right in front of the Earth, so that the united fleets had to fight at reduced effectiveness to avoid missing shots, or something to that affect.
“We are about to partake in a event never before been done… what thousands- possible millions have tried, be today is the day that it succeeds. All ships, OPEN FIRE!”
And it was all totally useless...total waste of time getting them all together...you didn't get to duke it out...you had to pick a color...F that ending forever and ever amen.
@@Daehawk you where right. For a few months.
The game is fixed the ending is decent now. It was probably a protest against EA upper management stop crying about this
All to find out it was all worthless, they never had a fighting chance none of it mattered and the final charge meant nothing.
@@willt2810
“To stand tall and hold back the fall of life, is to give the next a fighting chance. We fight today to give yesterday a meaning and tomorrow a chance… We may fall today. As thousands have… but this ring will break! Over 50,000 years it has stood and they who came before have chipped, chiseled, and crack hammered it. We fight today… to give tomorrow a fighting chance.”
@@Daehawk after all this time I actually ended up really disliking the extended cut as well lol. It's more of a 6/10 ending, still pretty dull but man at least it isnt OG
0:31 - Fucking chills when the Destiny Ascension and the other Asari dreadnaughts enter realspace.
That steadily building whine of the engine as it moves past the camera is still so awesome.
Gets me everytime!
@@lukassbenavides4375 The way the Asari cruisers groan as they accelerate, you can just hear how big they are.
And the music fits perfectly
I like how near it there is another Asari cruiser and with it, you have the scale to see just how ENORMOUS the Destiny Ascension is.
this is basically what it feels like in Stellaris when all of space combines their fleets to take down the end-game crisis.
Literally playing Stellaris as I read this. Endgame's in about 25 years.
I can't fucking believe that they never added a Geth Fleet visual. Those bee-looking Geth Dreadnoughts would have given me chills. We saw them jumping in alongside Sovereign to attack the Citadel, it was only fair to see them jump in to help this time. Instead they added a whole bunch of screentime for the Anonymous Marine that nobody gives a fuck about.
the alliance marines are cool though so your opinion is invalid
There is one! You just need to pick the Geth in the final conflict, you can even meet some friendly primes on the surface
I woulda put a shot of one of the big quarian liveships escorted by dozens of geth ships.
They should have arrived with the quarians now that their 300 year old dispute is over
Only just noticed this; I like how its the turians right in the vanguard of the fleet, the first enemy humanity fought, now fighting side by side.
The best of bros always beat the shit out of each other first
I noticed that too. Gave me chills.
I always have a hard time with this. How do you tell the Turian ships from the Alliance ones? They always look a bit similar throughout the games. The others are a bit easier to tell apart.
@@AdeptKingthe Turian ships have red stripes and wings poking out while the human ships are blue and the hull is smooth without wings
I really wish we had a part of the cutscenes where you see a reaper get absolutely wrecked. If your war assets are terrible, you get extra scenes seeing our fleets getting destroyed and Shepard commenting about it. I wish if we had at or very near max war assets we got something similar but seeing a reaper get wrecked and Shepard comment something positive like "they're doing it..." or something more bad ass. I had high hopes the LE would add a touch extra but oh well. I'll make my own cutscenes up in my head.
I think there definitely should've been a lot more benefits to having incredibly high war assets - I don't tend to beat on the ending as much as a lot of other people but it still seems absurd to me that you can't avoid the negative consequences when the threshold for the "good" ending is 4000-5000 and I finish the game with 8000.
That's not something I'd ever thought of but it would be really awesome to watch a Reaper getting hit from all sides and not being able to focus its attacks enough to escape before it's destroyed.
@@Brandonatron711 similar to sovereign. It was so satisfying seeing it get absolutely pummeled no matter how many times I see it.
it makes sense though. you needed the entire arcturus defense fleet to kill just sovereign, and it nearly took that entire fleet out. add to that that the fleets here are all nowhere near their full strength, and that the goal is to distract the reapers and keep them busy as long as possible, not to destroy them because if they focused their fire the way they need to the other reapers would just hack their forces into bits way too fast, and you see why its like this.
@@jenshep1720 True, but it is also worth considering the advancements that happened between 1 and 3 - the prime example being Thanix weapon tech which was developed from salvaged Reaper weapon systems. Not enough for any ship to solo a Reaper capital ship obviously, but arguably enough that, at high war assets, a Reaper being overwhelmed by a group of turian dreadnoughts or something like that isnt entirely unimaginable!
@@Brandonatron711 good point!
Watching the Normandy lead the charge makes me tear up. Best thing I've ever seen
i remember what Shepard said in me1. he wanted the Normandy at head of the fleet going after Saren. This was bittersweet moment for Shepard. alot people who served under Shepard gave their lives for this. My Shepards atleast vowed to make sure they didn't die for nothing.
Yeah,it's like the Millennium Falcon leading the rebel fleet in Rotj!!!
I would've liked it if your fleets were shown actually doing a significant amount of damage to the Reapers' fleet if your EMS strength was 90% or higher. Seeing the Reapers underestimate your attack and paying the price in lots of Destroyers and some Sovereign-class dreadnoughts turned into scrap metal would've been very cathartic for players.
Agreed, in game the ratio to destroy a Reaper was 6 dreadnought main gun shots per one Sovereign, and that was with the standard guns, not Thanix cannons. Consider the number of ships in Sword fleet and that more than a few were supposed to have both there should have been a lot more Reapers getting shredded in the opening volleys. Probably another thing we can blame EA for because of their ridiculous time schedule for the game's original release, we probably only got to see a quarter of what the devs wanted us to see.
@@id9907 The Destiny Ascension also could have been shown as a significant threat to Sovereign-class Reapers. I highly doubt the even asari would've just sat there twiddling their thumbs in the 3 years since the Battle of the Citadel. They would've had the smarts to upgrade the DA's weapons to include multiple Thanix guns.
@@mower2008imagine the whole thing only has Thanix main guns the entire battle field is just dead reapers
The reapers would still win, but I think a great compromise and secret is if you had 100% completion of the series and reject the star child, that you get a cutscene where human’s and some other races come out of cryopods. The implication being that the reapers were given such a challenge that our cycle succeeded where the protheans had failed in staying alive in mass past the extinction event.
I think as-it-is is good for getting the message across. The Reapers have access to technology a BILLION years old. Exterminating the galaxy is practically a job to them, like an exterminator that kills ants. Even the galaxy at maximum power pales in comparison to the Prothean empire, and the Protheans were just the most recent extermination of millions of others. If you enter this cutscene with horrible EMS, you are getting OBLITERATED. What few people are there are either not enough or not really motivated and it shows. But at high EMS, you've rallied nearly the entire galaxy together in spirit and in person. The galaxy still doesn't stand a chance in a straight fight, but you can make it SO hard for them that they have to really try to kill everybody.
Ultimately, they still can't be defeated without Shepard getting aboard the Citadel. The difference is whether the galaxy can take a few down with them and survive until Shepard saves them, or whether Shepard saves the galaxy while the fleet gets ripped to shreds as a diversion.
This scene still gives me goosebumps and we have expected something like this will happen but still I wish they really showed all races fighting together in ground and space. Just a 5 min scene of mostly human ships doesn't do any justice for our 100 hours of gameplay. All respective leaders of asari, turian even batarian should have said 'we are reporting' and give a little speech instead to motivate. Where's the balak's batarian fleet, volus fleet, elcor fleet, blue sons, eclipse, vorcha, salatian fleet, where's rachni, geth, quarians, asari, turian, krogan fighters all fighting together and take out brutes, banshees.
Bioware really missed an opportunity of a lifetime. This is the most important fight in million years yet they just show a 5 min scene for formality and ignore different races for rest 2 hours of gameplay. Any scene of 'all fleets coming' is guaranteed to give us goosebumps, they should have shown different races a little bit more and it might have been the most epic fight of all time.
Yeah, it could have worked like the suicide mission, every war asset and fleet changing the result, hell with 8k + war assets there could be a different ending
I found a mod that adds something like that
@@rodatamx i'm quite appaled they didnt do that...so much time getting those assets, integrating the results from the previous 2 games in the 3rd be it with a cutscene or through missions and making us trully believe what we did matters. even going far beyond the minimum requirements in the hope to kick some reaper ass and it makes no difference watsoever...
I especially hate the "destroy" choice in the crucible...so many ships reunited... Waste of assets.
Unfortunate yes, but consider that they were forced by EA to change the entire plot of the game after the story leak. If they didn't do that I think its likely that the game would not have been so rushed
@@kieranhurst8543 yeah... I forgot that... But still... They could have done so much better...
One of most epic scenes in the history of gaming.
This is the true Endgame
Would it have killed them to include the geth fleet cutscene for the all fleets version of this scene? You'd think it would be easy to patch in for the remaster.
i know man, the shouldve include every single fleet or force in the final battle from every race ever encountered, even volus's vessels,
@@davidocampo8997 "Solemnly: Elcor fleet reporting in."
It’s a bug, the scene was supposed to be in the game.
@@empirednw6624 doubtful
@@empirednw6624press X to doubt
I still cant put into words how this scene makes me feel, everything we went through and all the waiting we did lead to this moment 0:17
When the Normandy fibally wasn't alone
Epic, but then I remember how Marauder Shields tried to save us from the ending and I get teary eyed for another reason entirely. Over ten years ago and the wound is still not healed.
Still, despite the ending Mass Effect remains in my top 5 series in gaming alongside Halo 1 to 3, Total War: Warhammer, The Legend of Zelda and The Witcher. It's one of the reasons I still love games even though I've been gaming less and less these past years.
Good memories overall from this series!
great scene, but the original game should've given us a better cutscene of the dropships descending into London, dropping off the troops and vehicles of hammer force for the fight, all we see between Shepard destroying the anti air cannon and arriving at the FOB, are troops and vehicles holding off the reaper forces around the base, and the only mention of hammer is that a percentage survived and are scattered, that's it
Yeah, personally i like the ending, but i am very underwhelmed by the priority:earth mission. I feel the final mission shoud have incorporated elements from the suicide mission and actually show us the war assets in action.
Spoiler:
If your war assets are low enough your two squadmates get vaporized on the run to the beam, so clearly they had some ideas at mind.
I am still fascinated by how many missiles from the first volley miss and are flying towards our beloved planet. "I think we have too many cowboys at the controls" :0
This always gives me goosebumps. My favourite scene in Mass Effect 3.
Tbh its kind of sad. Considering how much flack it got at the time. That this was the last true epic sci-fi saga we got in video games. When you take 1, 2, and 3. I don't think we will ever get a space sci-fi epic like this ever again. I know 3 has been improved since its first release.
Wow, I've never seen that exchange between Joker and Shepard before! I've only seen it go as follows:
Joker: "Commander. Be careful down there." *salutes Shepard*
Shepard: "We'll be fine. Stay focused." *returns salute*
Joker: "Aye aye."
I much prefer the version seen here. I wonder if this is new, or if a bug was preventing this version from being seen in the original that they fixed for the LE? It seems this version might have been for players who imported from ME1/ME2, since they might have a greater attachment to the characters, or maybe there are some other conditions that need to be met? Strange, I don't see how I didn't encounter this version in my own playthrough way back when, I imported from ME1 and had a great relationship with Joker and did all his side quests/convos. Hope i get to see this in my own playthrough of the LE. Thanks for uploading!
I definitely never saw that version either, only the one you quoted - I think it's either new or it was hidden content that wasnt used originally but got added in for this one.
I definitely prefer this version. Joker's been with Shepard longer than literally anyone else on the Normandy - it feels a lot better for them to have a wholesome moment like Shep has with everyone else rather than a "focus on the job" interaction.
I’m so glad that they added this. I got this when I finished my play through and I love this interaction so much more. Joker and Shepard have been through hell and back together and this moment was honestly beautiful
I think you have to finish his me3 """loyalty quest""" (I dont know how the in game mechanic is called)
It was probably like the Conrad Verner reaction where regardless of what you said or did to him in ME1, he always says you pointed a gun at him, the correct response was overwritten by another reaction. I bet Joker was supposed to either shake hands or salute based on your replies and relationship with him but had faulty coding in the original.
Space battles are bad ass.
especially when theyre an earned moment that started with rolling around in the mako and built up to this LOLOL
The fleet was never supposed to destroy all the Reapers. It was there to buy Shepard enough time to activate the Crucible.
0:32 the only reason I ever save the council
Always save the council in ME1, even as a renegade. in ME1 you walk past a Volus telling a human about the Ascension (the Asari flagship) and how it alone is powerful enough to rip through the entire Turian fleet. It's the same ship the council flee on in ME1 and the same ship that is specifically zoomed in on in this scene. Makes sense to have that thing on your side.
My first playthrough I was so fed up with the council bs I left them to die. Didn't impact much the ending of ME3 though. Didn't get the ship, but still had enough score for the best ending.
What he actually says is that it has almost as much firepower as the rest of the Asari fleet (and that's probably an exageration) which at least in terms of dreadnoughts is way smaller than the Turian fleet, 37 vs 21.
I really don't think it would rip through the Turian fleet.
Tbh, the worth of the Destiny Ascension is proportionate to the possible damages the fleets may receive distributed among them. The true worth when choosing to save the council is saving Valern. Keep in mind Salarians are curious and cautious, so of course he'll make preparations (a specialized fleet) if reapers did invade, unlike his arrogant replacement that just offers the STG as an emergency donation.
Nope. Turians have the strongest fleet bar none. A single ship won't rip through the entire thing, he was bullshitting.
02:56 - Chance of hit: 95%
"Critical Miss".
necropost, but reaper with small EMS hitting that poor cruiser. Why hes not hitting him on high one, is a question
@@MefanJert this is a thing i noticed too, at high ems it seems to either outright tank the hit (if i had to guess, we're looking at the space equivalent of a shell ricochet, where the angle was sufficient that the energy was diffused harmlessly as it hit the cruiser, i.e., it hit it at a bad angle and deflected or absorbed the energy) or miss it by micrometers.
either they have some coopted reaper tech available to high ems ships, or the crew gets just enough training to react appropriately and survive.
on low ems it just gets sliced in half
@@iMajoraGaming iirc in very-very high EMS, i frgot which one, allied fleet gone wild as hell
Endgame Avengers assemble scene < Mass Effect 3 assault on earth
I beg to differ on that. I'd tie them personally
It’s not fair they’re equally epic
No respect for The Elcor Fleet.
Yeah, plus I really wanted to see the Elcor troops. When the Elcor ambassador talks about them they sound incredibly fun to see.
@@riccardogemme There's a mod that's trying to add them in. It also adds an ending where Shepard gets saved and an Alliance Dreadnaught backs up the Normandy.
@@michaelgreenwood3413 What mod?
@@dreamcore7 Expanded Galaxy Mod. It's on Nexus Mods, free download. Should check it out. It's one of those great examples of Modders going "I hate that certain stuff wasn't added and this ending sucked, i'ma change it."
yeah but tbh most elcor ships are transporters
I love how they never actually show how asari ships fire their weapons. Their design makes no sense
Yeah I always thought that was funny, especially in ME 1 when they first are the destiny ascension and commenrs "You see those guns?" Im just sitting there like "no?"
The damn things look like futuristic hair dryers. Can‘t take them seriously.
It's the noise of them all arriving...
This is probably the most epic scene I experienced in a videogame!! Even today, this gives me chills! 👏👏
Let's pause for a moment an realize just how complex the relays were. Think about it for a moment, we're talking about calculations that dwarf common understanding, repeated several times at the same time with completely different variables across the board as none of the ships (even of the same class) were exactly the same across the board.
00:31 goosebumps everytime
I really have to wonder if the Reapers, even for a second, we’re like; “Damn that’s a lot of ships.”
*"BRRRRRRRR!!!* and by that i mean were fucked!"
Harbinger: What do you mean the combined fleets of the entire fucking galaxy just exited the Sol Relay?
ALL REAPERS, RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!
*Every Reaper dreadnought blown to pieces in minutes before they can jump to FTL*
Reapers: great! You just saved us some time by bringing them all to us!
Broooo I always get goosebumps at the constant entrance of all the ships. You really feel like the enter galaxy is coming together for each other it’s awesome
One of the greatest moments in video game history... the moment that all humans should cheris... the moment when everyone is in unity for a common cause...
2:07 I see that reaper still explodes without anything actually hitting it lol
well michael bay wanted to help fight the reapers.
@@Softpaw1996 underrated comment
@@MangoMayhem1785 heh, thanks.
Realistically, We have about 15 space faring species in this cycle. The reapers make one dreadnaught and the rest of the species are frigates. Each Species only has to destroy one reaper and they pulled out a draw.
Each cycle, you only need to take out one more reaper than space faring species have found the citadel.
It's fantastic that you can tell a player's choices based simply on the presence of one ship (Destiny Ascension)!
I think it would've been cool if leaving the Council to die in ME1 did result in humanity taking charge, and thus assembling of the fleets in a shorter time (to guard the race who's in charge of the galaxy) for ME3, but at the cost of lower numbers (because humanity fails to manage that many races and they don't trust humanity enough to give it all to save us)
@blueshit199 well I actually thought that was what was going to happen.
I was praising Drew Karpyshyn and told him that I was very excited to see this triumvirate between Shepard, Anderson and Udina in the renegade ending. Unfortunately they didn't go with that and even a 'human controlled' council was largely unremarkable from the regular council. Idk... could we have had something a little darker than jackass renegade Shep running around being an ass...?
@@serpenthydra yeah :/ imagine sparing the Collector Base likewise in ME2, and then having husks on your side in ME3, or something fucked up like that, too
Also, the Quarian Fleet presence and the Geth Fleet mention.
@@varric Well, I'll rephrase.
It's fantastic that you can tell a player's choices, of two games ago, based simply on the presence of one ship (Destiny Ascension)!
One of the best scenes in the trilogy, the popping of all those ships coming through the relay. So cool. And when the first giant Reaper charging that beam. Fun fact: ist molten metal im not sure what kind and the Reapers can fire them in velocetis up to 99% the speed of light
I can’t stop rewatching the jumps it’s even more rewarding when you do it yourself
I used the same tactic against a Fallen Empire during a Stellaris gameplay.
Tears were just pouring out my eyes and I could barely see what is going on as I was playing lol. Thanks for the 'vid'
I can't belive ME3 came out in 2012 😭
This always bring tears to my eyes
My jaw dropped when the Destiny Ascension jumped in. I wasn’t expecting it
As awesome as this scene is, I do have to question the in-game feasibility of thousands of ships exiting the relay with no issue. It's stated in game that ships exit the relay at a random point (sometimes thousands of kilometers away from the relay itself, with Joker being complimented on his ability to bring the Normandy through with only 1.5km of "drift") so how a fleet is able to come through in perfect formation is questionable at most.
Bruh, you know how small ''thousands of kilometers'' away is in space?
@@NederlandBall the ships are still in a tight formation. Not even 30 miles apart
just another one of Mass Effect 3's nonsensical gratuitous scenes that were not properly thought out. It seems to me like the majority of scenes in ME3 was drawn up by some EA marketing department, and then the game devs stitched together these scenes, which is why ME3's whole plot is such a disjointed mess full of plotholes
@@shriramvenu They make a huge point that each shot of a big ship have the power of a nuke, and then shower earth with fire in this scene, lol, they probably killed more people than the reapers at this point
@@shriramvenu Not nonsensical if you think that the Normandy had a Reaper IFF that make the ship have more accurate exits from the relay. Acording to one War Asset, the Salarians get the schematics of the Normandy's stealth systems and the algorithms behind the Normandy SR-2's Reaper IFF signal and installed them in their Dreadnoughts. It's not hard to think that everyone had a Reaper IFF installed in their ships at this point.
The Thunder from the ships breaking from witchspace is *Chefs kiss*
0:20 The culmination of remembering that humans aren't the only race in the galaxy.
Now thats how you do a massive fleet arrival and space battle. You taking notes Disney? No. Of course you're not...
How they did in the MCU was cool too they just had to consider individuals rather than ships (even though there were some wakandian ships)
@@axelnilsson5124 Was referring to Star Wars...
@@DyspareEmbodied I realized afterwards but you get the confusion
U know no matter whats the outcome. Reapers have lost many of their ships. One ship is one cycle. And theyve never lost that much before. Theyre completely exposed.
Most likely because the reapers, had since they started building/using mass relays as a means to control the development of Galactic civilization , never really fought conventional war.
Even with Protheans they used the citadel to deactivate the relays to split up the Prothean empire
@@captianzitroneneis9562 I mean this time they didnt even shock and awe. Reapers were slow to adapt on counter tactics. Their only tactics were overwhelming force. If they couldnt beat a race on the ground theyd orbitally attack there. Turians were mopping the floor with reaper ass before theyre overwhelmed. I mean it was a good war. Got Catalyst think when it saw organics and synthetics were fighting together against its solution
Sok év eltelt már, mind a három részt végigjátszottam anno, de ettől a jelenettől még most is kiráz a hideg. Az egyik legjobb játék ami valaha készült!
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.
This was the scene , THE scene that battle of exegol was meant to be on the cinematic screen. Two very similar storylines where the good guys fight an extraordinary evil for the very fate of the galaxy .
Yet a decade old game can nail it and a current movie with a millions in budget can't even come close.
Think about what we lost. I doubt we will ever see anything similar in scale and grandiose on the movie screen in our lifetimes.
there is nothing similar about these stories beyond there being a big threat in space LOL dont compare mass effects exceptional writing to the diareah at disney
Not the people on earth at home getting orbitally bombarded by the entire galaxys navy 😂
The issue here is that the Turian fleet has already been in full frontal combat vs the Reapers over Palaven for about 3 months before this battle. They probably had only 50% at most of their entire armada left
It isn't the whole turian fleet
@@user-my4lf4bx6vthis is an all or nothing battle, nearly every ship able to fight is here.
@@jamesxiaolong2199 not really. It's everything all the non Human races can spare+ the alliance forces. Remember, fighting is happening in most other homeworlds and the bulk of their forces are there.
@@user-my4lf4bx6v bulk of their ground forces are there I can concede but considering the stakes the fleets would be here if they could.
The ending with the salute and the handshake: Joker never cared for military protocols, when Shepard did care very much for them. Being in the face of the end, both of them made concessions in order to please each other. This scene is more powerful than people noticed!
"Ship master it the reapers. They outnumber us 3/1"
Ship master: "then it an even fight"
Honestly, I wish me3 had included more missions like in Halo 2,3 or reach, to showcase more of the actual war against the reapers on the major fronts.
If you think about it, and follow the story.....
No one in the Victory Fleet expected to SURVIVE.
THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE FLEET WAS TO GO DOWN IN A BLAZE OF GLORY AND TAKE AS MANY REAPERS (which a quick lore, the Reapers often fought a subtle, Blitzkrieg War, going in quick, mopping up opposition quick then Creating either One New Reaper or one New Reaper Per Species Per Cycle. If you listen to Javik, the Protheans gave the Reapers hell, reducing the reaper numbers till they were betrayer, yeah the Protheans lost, but halving their fleet that they have trouble replacing, helped future cycles have a chance of finally defeating them) if you follow the reapers in this battle, they behave generally suprised that something attacked them. In defeat at this battle, if the Victory fleet had Halfed the reaper forces, the total host of a forth their origional strength, would have to hit, the Geth, the turian, the Aasari, the Salarian remnants, the krogan, and the Quarians.
The Reapers were done, its just robots do not see impacts of the fights on its statistics.
oh boy imagine if the geth dreadnought hadn't been destroyed and then used in this battle. I imagine it could kill a reaper or two.
If I could make a couple DLCs to this game, it would involve the humans of Alpha Centauri tangling with Cerberus, and it would involve protecting the Andromeda Initiative vessels from the Collectors.
The Alpha Centauri humans would have stumbled upon an Inusannon warning beacon, that would tell them about the Reaper invasion; with their knowledge galvanizing the Alpha humans to start building an armada tailor-made to combat these Reapers.
After several decades, they manage to successfully construct one ship, capable of going toe-to-toe with a Sovereign-class Reaper and triumphing. The initial goal would be to send a whole fleet of these into Dark Space, but they only manage to complete the one by the time the Reapers invade. And the Illusive Man catches wind of this, and seeks to use this prototype vessel for his own ends.
The other would involve the flotilla of Andromeda sleeper ships being detected by the Collectors, with Shepard and a group of Alliance Corsairs fending them off in order for the fleet to escape the Milky Way.
My fleets in stellaris be like
- Sir, I think there's a problem with our tactics.
- What is it? From my point of view it's perfect.
- We are in space.
- So?
- So maybe instead of, you know, putting Earth on the firing line with the Reapers we should flank them so they can't concentrate their forces in one plase and make them scatter, making it easier to defeat? They also have like big shiny weak spot in their design...
- THROW THAT BASTARD INTO THE AIRLOCK! HE'S INDOCTRINATED!
I mean the guys wrote "be ready on my signal... fire", they clearly weren't trying very hard at that point.
Shepard brought the full force of the galaxy upon they asses!
Imagine if with the lowest EMS Shepard just popped here with the normandy and charge while yelling "Richaaaaaard Jeeeeeeenkiiiis!"
Where are all the scenes of the asari, geth, turian, etc. They only show the quarian bridge crew.
"Alliance fleet reporting...…all fleets reporting in sir"
I really wish we’d seen the Volus/Elcor/Hanar etc ships if you recruited them.
I feel proud that in my very first play through I obtained all of the fleets without spoiling the game.
I’m convinced that kylo ren’s lightsaber design was partially inspired by the asari ships
Easily in my top ten cutscenes of all time
As a huge Mass effect fan which probably is my favorite franchise game of all time.. they seem a piece of the Indian is a great cutsie but it could have been so much more badass... When I first played Mass effect 3 I really thought that when you collect the war assets that you actually seen him in a cutscene... For example like let's say you saved Jack and her students.. you will see them on Earth doing airstrikes on the reapers are protecting you with a bear or if you got the blue Suns and the other gangs and you see aria leading them into battle where they can cover you.. or see volus bombers dropping bombs on the reapers or see the game destroying reapers on Earth so they can carve you a path that makes it much easier.... Because I collected all the war assets and I was thinking that it's going to be a badass Indian to see all those war access and I was really disappointed 😞.... Because Mass effect it's supposed to be one of those games that your choices matter and has a effect at the ending throughout the all three games.... I think it would have been a awesome ending where you had a choose your crew or your romance partner and if you don't have a romantic partner than Anderson will be that person and you will have to choose between them and you will have to sacrifice one of them in order save the other but let's say you did all the missions and you have a very high score when it comes to war assets then you can save both of them... Or if you had a decent war assets then maybe you can sacrifice yourself to see them both.... Hopefully Mass effect 4 it will knock out of park.
i wouldnt hold my breath, all these newer games tend to be basic af sadly
If you have the expanded galaxy mod you can fly around all the ship assets you’ve collected just before Priority: Earth on the Galaxy Map
Imagine if the cybertronians and the republic found out about the reapers and arrived to help the fleets fight.
Yeah just have Unicron come out of nowhere and take on the Reapers single handed.
@@HappyKratos725that would save like 80 percent of the sword fleet.
2:00 You know the lesson that a sergeant gives to his squad in the citadel about not firing recklessly into space because the proyectile wont stop until collides with some poor sod planet in the future?, well clearly the fleets didnt gave shit about that lmao, i think that bombarment alone made more damage to earth than the reapers
How did they reach earth so quickly?
Isn't mass relay on Sol like very far away from the sun ?
Yeah, but they wanted it to actually be exciting
"REAPER IFF"
-writers, probably.
Whenever I see the part where Shepard says "Fire!", I remember the bit in ME2 of two grunts getting their asses chewed out by their superior, the first time you go to the Citadel. About what happens if you don't check your firing solutions, etc. Imagine all those shots at around 1:50...how many of them would not hit their targets, and so impact Earth (with the force of a 38KT b0mb).
Edit: I see I'm not the only one..
On your left, Commander.
Tons of sovereign class reapers should have been blown to bits in that opening salvo…
It took yhe entirely of the Arcturus fleet to kill Sovereign alone. They can take a hell of a beating before they finally crack
@@phantomwraith1984 thanix cannons, and many more ships were there this time around.
I remember that i almost die from hype in this scene.
Who's here after the newest Destiny 2: The Final Shape trailer?
Im gonna be blasting the music as soon as that scene happens
Ah yes, the battle with no tactics or even ship formations. Just take that big gaggle of ships and charge in until the enemy and your side are all jumbled together so your more likely to hit a friendly than the enemy. Oh, and lets not forget any rail gun shot that misses a Reaper is going to keep going and hit the Earth.
To be fair once a battle gets to a big enough size, formations are going to be very limited in usefulness just bcause of the density of ships/fighters and such moving around. Plus remember we're not the fleet commander we just give the order to open fire. We never get to learn about what tactics anyone uses in space in Mass Effect because we're always on the ground.
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the original endgame avengers assemble
You got 5 fleets and mine is one missing was geth.
it's sad they didn't presente all the fleet that can be a good congratulation
Gah dammit now I have to replay the series all over again for the 6th time
is this where the writers for the rise of skywalker were taking notes?
The Destiny Ascension is soo beautifull.
Just think of all the rounds that missed and slammed into Earth. Did they forget their own doctrine of missed shots?
This cutscene goes so hard
the gun at 3:22 🔥
With the Death Mask!
" Target practice for the Reapers "
Shepard: I bring back every Fleet I can find.
Then this Scene
Anderson: Well i am Glad He is Not my Enemy^_^
I thought there would be more fleets in the Mass Effect universe
How did you get the 'you too, Joker' part? I didn't get that...
Renegade vs paragon
But where are the Salar- oh yeah, that's right...
Did they redo this scene for LE? Looks different than I remember from the old ME3
Nope
The scene is really cool, however I just noticed how unnecessary / unrealistic it is for Shepard to give the WHOLE fleet and ALL fighters the signal when to engage, shoot and whatnot.
Would have made more sense for Hackett to give the orders
Fun fact: Those bullets that those ships fire are so tiny and look like they will not do that much damage but remember, Space is HUGE, and those bullets are all RAILGUN rounds.
Their pellets compare to what the UNSC use, they fire heavier & faster rounds. A single MAC would most likely rip a reaper's kinetic barriers clean off.
@@tristanbackup2536 Or Turian built THANIX CANNON can easily take out a Reaper or at least immobilise it 👌🤗
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Halo weapons don't really make much sense, logic dictates the heavier a projectile the slower it will move for a given amount of energy.
So either Halo MAC's have so much energy that their ships would probably recoil backwards out of a solar system, or their slugs move at relatively slow speeds.
You also end up with issues where if we use canon numbers for ship and MAC projectile weights, something like 30% of the ship is MAC ammunition.
@@ThatZenoGuy Or maybe they are using something like a Mass Effect field to negative the projectile's mass, so it's like firing small ammunition. Still, as soon as it leaves, the barrel effect field disappears, becoming heavy again without losing kinetic energy.
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Halo doesn't have any weird magical elements like Mass Effect does.
Make no mistake I love Halo, but from a lore-perspective it is 100% smoothbrained.
Helldivers going to liberate the Creek