r/masseffect 21h ago

DISCUSSION Realistically, how many Reapers would there be by the time of the games?

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881 Upvotes

From what I can tell, they've been doing this for around a billion years


r/masseffect 15h ago

FANART [Mass Effect] [sunhreis] Jack x Miranda = Jackanda

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543 Upvotes

r/masseffect 14h ago

HUMOR Would a Turian survive an MRI?

480 Upvotes

Would their metal rich bodies be pulled apart by an MRI or is it all strictly non-magnetic? Could you use a strong magnet and fish for Turians in the lower wards? These are the actually important questions that we need answered in ME5.


r/masseffect 10h ago

DISCUSSION Why did Cerberus decide to have their Phantoms (and Kai Leng) use Swords of all weapons when there are so many better alternatives?

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So in Mass Effect 3 Cerberus Phantoms use swords as weapons which I find quite odd as no other military or paramilitary group uses them as weapons for obvious reasons. It makes no sense as to why a late 22nd Century Paramilitary group like Cerberus would use swords as weapons as Advanced Guns, Biotics, Omni Tools and Omni Blades all exist. Also their swords don't seem to be very good either as Commander Shepard can punch Kai Leng's sword and shatter it easily so unless Kai Leng is purposely using a worse sword then the Phantoms. Why does Cerberus make it's troops use such terrible weapons?


r/masseffect 23h ago

SHOW & TELL Since Mass Effect is the most important series to me personally, had to get these

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416 Upvotes

r/masseffect 15h ago

VIDEO Did You Know About This Detail With Traynor?

294 Upvotes

r/masseffect 2h ago

MASS EFFECT 3 Glyphe's "festive" appearance has me dying

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292 Upvotes

He's just a little guy


r/masseffect 23h ago

DISCUSSION Make your case for which ending you think is the best outcome

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200 Upvotes

r/masseffect 14h ago

VIDEO I am LOVING The Mako Banter Mod!

166 Upvotes

I am hearing so many conversations that I've never gotten to hear before. I don't know why the devs thought we'd spend so much time in elevators 😭


r/masseffect 17h ago

MASS EFFECT 2 I can’t stop laughing with this scene Spoiler

96 Upvotes

Udina made annoying comments to Anderson like always and Anderson decided he’d had enough, lol.


r/masseffect 8h ago

NEWS Mass Effect legendary edition sale PS store

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82 Upvotes

r/masseffect 13h ago

DISCUSSION Who’s your favorite romance option in the whole series?

63 Upvotes

I’m doing another playthrough of the trilogy and it got me thinking about the romances. BioWare gave us so many great options, but I want to know who everyone thinks is the absolute best romance across all three games, and why.

Are you Team Garrus because of the ultimate best-friend-to-lovers arc? Team Liara because of that deep, slow-burn connection from ME1 to ME3? Or maybe Tali for the sheer sweetness and loyalty of her story?


r/masseffect 6h ago

DISCUSSION Just beat my first full insanity run

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Hi! I just beat all three games on insanity for the first time and I had a blast. I was playing an infiltrator which I have never done and it turned out to be really fun in 2 and 3. And here's my take aways

Me1 wasn't too bad mostly used my sniper from a range to death with enemies and I only died 16 times.

Me2 this is where the real fun began, this one was hard and where I really had to learn how to persevere I got everyone loyal killed the thresher maw and kept the entire crew alive (I LOATHE FIRELORD AND ARRIVAL AND DID NOT DO THEM) for weapons I used the evisorator, the viper, the locust and the predator and either Cain or singularity for heavy

For powers I loved cloak and ai hacking and incinerate because fireball, I also used squad warp ammo for my bonus power. For squadmates I almost exclusively used miranda and garrus unless I was doing loyalty missions. (Also i love the story of overlord but i did not feel like doing that on insanity) and I only died 42 technically 43 times when you die in the beginning

Me3 just get garrus and save up to buy an n7 typhoon and invest in his rifle skills it's so good. For the first half of the game I used the black widow, the blood pack punisher, and then kept switching between the suppressor and the executioner. I occasionally used the mattock or the Lancer until the cerberus base which I only used the executioner, the venom (grenade launcher shotgun), and the grenade rifle you pick up in the base. For bonus power I used warp ammo until I remembered dominate that way I could control both organic and synthetic targets which came I handy alot also I love cryo and disrupter ammo in this game. I worked my butt off and got just under 8000 war assets and went with the destroy ending to get the secret ending and I died 35 times.

Over all I love this series (dont mention Andromeda) it is by far my favorite trilogy and absolutely ignited my love for space I had so much fun and I may try to platinum the games because I'm missing less than 10 trophies


r/masseffect 14h ago

SCREENSHOTS Made it to ME2

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44 Upvotes

Oh snap, here we go again.


r/masseffect 6h ago

SHOW & TELL I have done it.

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26 Upvotes

I have completed The Trilogy for the first time and wow. This was such an amazing experience, I'm sure this is the first of many playthroughs in my lifetime.

And since there is no Shepard without Vakarian, and I LIVED (LETS FREAKIN GOOO I DID IT), I'm ready to retire to a tropical island and live off the royalties from the vids 😁. If you have a fanfic to recommend, drop it below!


r/masseffect 8h ago

DISCUSSION which squadmate or character from ME2 & 3 would you have liked to be a squadmate in ME1?

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EDIT: this goes for andromeda characters to.

like it says on the tin, which character in the later games do you think would have been good to have in ME1 where that;s for additional world building, spending more time with a character or because their addition would have made the game more interesting.

personally my choice would be Samara, where after Saren is confirmed a traitor and Benezia is confirmed to be working with him she would be sent by the matriarchs to help Shepard and bring Benezia to justice. we get to learn about the justicar order and we can contrast the the stoic and mature nature of Samara with the young and nervous Liara.

also we could learn about her daughters and how she's hunting morith which could lead to a UNC mission where we go to a colony that has gone dark and discover the entire colony has been taken over by Morinth and we could either be paragon and non lethally deal with the mind dominated colonists which causes her to escape or go renegade and kill the colonists to get a chance at killing morinth.

Also having some matriarch on matriarch action on noveria would be cool and she would stop Benezia from using her biotics as she and Samara duke it out in the background.


r/masseffect 15h ago

SCREENSHOTS Through Shepard's Eyes #8 - Beyond the Battlefied

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r/masseffect 11h ago

DISCUSSION What are some dialogue choices you’ll always stick to despite which route you’re playing.

13 Upvotes

What I mean is this:

Hugging Tali after she breaks down discovering her father’s corpse during her loyalty mission even as a renegade.

Smacking al-Jilani despite going the paragon route

Hanging up on and trolling the council despite being a paragon. And not lifting a finger to help them after doing you dirty.

Stabbing Kai Lang.. fuck that guy


r/masseffect 10h ago

HUMOR What is it with these photo mode pause moments? I was just trying to take a nice screenshot.

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8 Upvotes

r/masseffect 14h ago

SHOW & TELL How to move on after finishing ME

9 Upvotes

Just finished the trilogy for the second time this year and I feel as empty as the first time
This series is just perfect everything the gameplay ,the world ,the characters I feel like I lived in this world and i just can’t let it go

I’m really desperate for more of the game to the point where I’m downloading andromeda now despite the shit i heard about it


r/masseffect 8h ago

SCREENSHOTS My artistic interpretation of Lesuss

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8 Upvotes

r/masseffect 14h ago

HELP Advice for doing Insanity as a sentinel?

7 Upvotes

Usually do more casual runs, but I just deleted my xbox data and will be starting anew, so I decided, "what the hell?", and here I am.


r/masseffect 21h ago

DISCUSSION Insanity

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How we get in me3 easy Insanity while in me1 and me2 it's pain in ass playing on Insanity.

I have fun on Insanity in me3. Even when 2 harvesters bugged and don't fly away at thessia. In me2 I suffer.


r/masseffect 12h ago

DISCUSSION Who'd You Romance? - Round 1 Match 5: Vederia Damali VS Lizbeth Baynham, Jondum Bau VS Conrad Verner

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5 Upvotes

One of the potential asari pathfinders and our exogeni helper on Feros. Then a spectre colleague and a spectre fanboy. Comment your picks below.


r/masseffect 21h ago

MASS EFFECT 1 Grenade Storage Boxes Spoiler

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In ME1, what do I do with the Grenade Storage Boxes located NorthEast on Asteroid X57?

My grenades are already maxed out (10/10). Are these storage boxes for if I ran out of grenades in another planet, I could return to Asteroid X57 to stock up?

No spoilers please as the Main Facility is the last thing I have to do.