Ouch, Shepard. I guess dying isn't so bad when you're doing it for the second time.
All right, everyone gather in the conference room and let's figure out what we're going to do.
I redrew the conference room. The table now has an angle. I'm assuming Juliard will call with my honorary doctorate momentarily.
Okay, so, the game asks you to make several choices at this point. The idea is that you've got to pick the right person for the right job, otherwise the game will permakill the character.
Two rules apply to all of the choices. One, whoever you send must be loyal, as in, you've done their loyalty mission and you didn't fuck it up. We've done them all, we're totally good there.
Two, for whatever reason, it is next to impossible to kill Miranda. I don't know, just a little trivia for you. I mean, you can, you're just really going to have to know what you're doing.
Anyway, Miranda's asking us what tech expert to toss in the vents, right? The game will give you several options, and you should use Thane because he fucking loves vents but the only ones that won't eat it are Legion, Kasumi and Tali. Pick anyone you want. What do I always do?
WELL? Lie to me, tell me I'm wrong.
The game will toss you quite a few of these "Who's going to lead the second group through bad guys?" scenarios. You can go look up shit and do very serious math about who will get killed and who won't, but seriously, there's a very fast way to go through these:
For whatever reason, Garrus never eats it in these scenarios. He's not Miranda, but he's very durable.
So says the wiki, Miranda or Jacob would work well here too. Anyone else will die.
Really I pick Garrus a lot because it's easier than going into the wiki every time and actually reading. But shit, this is MSPixel, I can make up something more poetic for you all, can't I.
Okay! Let's go infiltrate that Collector Base!
Once inside the base, whoever you asked to go ventin' will come across doors in the vents every few yards, and ask Shepard to hit a switch. The switch then brings the doors down, and our vent buddy can continue, pretty standard video game stuff.
Except for one thing: this is the Collector Base, can you guess which one of our old buddies pops up?
Legion, quit being a dick.
Speaking of Legion, that motherfucker tears through the vents, seriously. He's always bitching that the vent doors aren't open. To make it better, if you leave him hanging while you deal with Harbinger et all, he dies and you get a game over.
So what do you do?
VANGUARD
I never have any time to take out any enemies between switches, I just charge, switch, charge, switch, charge, so on, and hope that my squadmates can clean up. I have no idea how you do this if you're not a vanguard.
Eventually, Shepard flips the last switch, allowing Legion to exit the vents and meet up with Garrus and pals.
NEXT TIME: the collectors have discovered a way to deliver genetic material through a liquid that they shoot through a tube, because this is the horniest damn game.
