WARNING MASS EFFECT 2 ENDING SPOILERS

[TheRealGoochman]

*MENTIONING SPOILERS........even though the subject title says "MASS EFFECT 2 SPOILERS" better safe than sorry*


I was actually debating between Legion's loyalty mission and a random mission after activating the IFF.....I chose legion (thankfully) because right when my crew got abducted I was like "awwww shiz, *sigh* I guess I will go get 'em right away" (I am glad I did that too, or else I would of had to feed my own fish apparently.

 

[Xarran]

Had Jack die on my first playthru, but everybody survived in the second run.

yeah. but zaeed died on my first run as well. i just could not settle the jack-miranda fight without taking sides, so i decided i didnt like jack as much. hell, i still couldnt settle it on my second run, she just didnt die because i left all the heavy hitters as meat shields to hold off the guys while i killed the reaper

I had loyalty of all, and had the Miranda - Jack fight setteled(Miranda was already loyal at the time so sided with Jack i believe). I chose Jack for fireteam leader(or was it in the vents as tech expert) wich I think is the reason she died for me. Didn't like her anyways heh

 

[thephich]

My first time Jacob and Garrus died. So I did it again & only Jack died.

 

[Herianden78]

Everyone survived on my first playthrough. Never used a guide, just didn't skip important things. Keeping everyone alive is easy.

 

[Undead Dragon King]

Since so many people did such a good job keeping everyone alive through the suicide run, let's take a look at how it could have also ended up...

 

[Tim_Buoy]

everyone survived and i did it the first time with no guides

 

[Shrubery]

On my first playtrough i lost miranda and on the second one ( insanity ) everyone survived .

 

[icame]

I've never let anyone die, never needed a guide either. Its pretty easy, you just upgrade your ship and don;t make retarded choices on who to do certain jobs.

 

[jad4400]

Had Jack die on my first playthru, but everybody survived in the second run.

Same here, I was going to do her loyalty quest after Legions, but then my crew got abducted, so it was off to the Collector base.

 

[cystemic]

On sentinel i didn't lose anyone, on adept i lost mordin grunt and tali

 

[Roland07]

Lost nobody (the second time, lost Mordin the first) and destroyed the Collector Base.

Call it blind idealism all you want, The Illusive Man cannot be trusted.

I decided to keep the Collector's base as a "fuck you" to BioWare because I had gone through the game doing nothing but Paragon choices and I was sick of it. It was hardly "moral choice", it was just blindly picking the Paragon choice for "+4 Paragon", so I chose the thing that made sense to me which was to keep the Collector's base and see what we could learn from it.

But noooooooo, everyone at the ship was like "That wasn't a good thing to do! But you're our commander, so I trust you." Even the loyal Cerberus recruits (Jacob, Miranda, etc...) went "The Illusive Man can't be trusted," which I thought was supreme BS.

EDIT: Oh, and I only got "+7 Renegade" points for keeping the base. I really have to wonder how much of an impact it's going to have in Mass Effect 3.

I don't particularity mind any of the Illusive Man's methods, but I'm pro-alien, and I don't really care if 99% of human life is wiped out so long the majority of sentient life can be saved by the sacrifice. The Illusive Man directly states all he cares about is human interests. Given the option, I think he'd use the Collector base to conquer and subjugate all other alien races once the reapers are dealt with (if the reapers are dealt with). That being said, I did hand it over in two of my games, so we'll see.

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

Everyone survived with me. Do your loyalty missions next time. I did lose Kelly, though. It was either lose her or do Legion's loyalty mission.

 

[CliveMurdoc626]

Mordin died even though I completed his loyalty mission but survived if I brought him with me for the final fight.

 

[The Night Shade]

First time:Legion and Jack
Second time:Jack and thane
Third time:Tali and Grunt

 

[Huupertti]

everyone survived on my first try..

 

[michiehoward]

My very first playthrough I lost no one.
My second, Tali and Mordrin.

This is how you don't lose ppl.

First, upgrade your ship.

Second, complete all loyalty missions.

Third, while picking teams and secondary leaders, make sure you have group with offensive and defensive. Don't take your two best offensive teammates to the final boss because the rest of your team will need them as they are trying to hold the line.

When the game asks you to pick secondary leaders pick teammates that have actual leader experience.

I thought since I breezed through it the first time I could piddle around the second time, dumb ass move since I will have to make a master Shepard for 1,2, to bring into 3.

 

[michiehoward]

Mordin died even though I completed his loyalty mission but survived if I brought him with me for the final fight.

Send him with the survivors back to the ship.

Since so many people did such a good job keeping everyone alive through the suicide run, let's take a look at how it could have also ended up...

Now see that should get a achievement the "EPIC FUCKING FAILURE" achievement seems appropriate.

 

[Banzai_Kitty]

Playing on the PC through the final battle to get things "right" and have everyone survive, each time after defeating the reaper there seems to be a glimpse of The Illusive Man as a window closes in front of him as if he was watching from somewhere above. Looking around, there didn't seem to be anywhere for this window to be. Is this some weird glitch or does it happen?

 

[Flig]

First run I lost Mordin(I was pissed) because of that whole armor rating nonsense. Second run I didn't lose anybody. Third run, I fixed it(via some digging on the internet) so that only Kasumi and Morinth survived. Heh, the universe if screwed on that character.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Everybody lived. In fact nobody has ever died on a suicide mission with me. Why? Because I make probability my *****.