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Friday, 12 August 2011 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eighthphaseWas playing me some Lair of the Shadow Broker earlier (I would be still, but my mum called and said she was leaving work so we could go buy the few things I still need for my trip). I finally finished the stupid car chase (thank you, checkpoints) and now I'm on the Broker ship. Which is full of scenery porn. The ship's in... orbit? atmosphere? anyway, it's nearby - this one planet where the seas boil during the day and flash-freeze within ten minutes of sunset. The ship follows the sunset, so it stays nearly undetectable - because there are these huge lightning storms where the heat of the day meets the cold of the night.
You spend a lot of time on the exterior of the ship, where you can see the storms. They're really pretty. They must be; I took 29 screenshots and I think half of them are the background.
So, before you find out where the Broker ship is, you have to fight Vasir. There's some pretty awesome dialogue before you do that ("I sacrificed hundreds of lives to save the Destiny Ascension. I unleashed the Rachi on the galaxy. So I hope your escape plan doesn't hinge on me being unwilling to shoot a hostage!" - and that's the paragon option! Idk what the renegade option is, I didn't have enough angry points to find out.) and Liara brains her with a table, which was pretty cool, and then you fight. She's got a barrier and armour. I didn't have any ammo that could cut through a barrier, so that took a while! So once I got through it I tried to find something that could easily take down armour.
Incendiary ammo burns through armour.
I'd never used incendiary ammunition before that fight. I think I like it.
Also, after the Vasir fight there's a scene where you talk to Liara, and Vigil's theme is playing through it (the title theme in ME1). I hit all the paragon interrupts in that one, so those + that music were pretty epic, in a heartwarming kind of way. (Well, the kind of heartwarming that Garrus's romance path is. Which is really more heartbreaking than heartwarming, but still.)
You spend a lot of time on the exterior of the ship, where you can see the storms. They're really pretty. They must be; I took 29 screenshots and I think half of them are the background.
So, before you find out where the Broker ship is, you have to fight Vasir. There's some pretty awesome dialogue before you do that ("I sacrificed hundreds of lives to save the Destiny Ascension. I unleashed the Rachi on the galaxy. So I hope your escape plan doesn't hinge on me being unwilling to shoot a hostage!" - and that's the paragon option! Idk what the renegade option is, I didn't have enough angry points to find out.) and Liara brains her with a table, which was pretty cool, and then you fight. She's got a barrier and armour. I didn't have any ammo that could cut through a barrier, so that took a while! So once I got through it I tried to find something that could easily take down armour.
Incendiary ammo burns through armour.
I'd never used incendiary ammunition before that fight. I think I like it.
Also, after the Vasir fight there's a scene where you talk to Liara, and Vigil's theme is playing through it (the title theme in ME1). I hit all the paragon interrupts in that one, so those + that music were pretty epic, in a heartwarming kind of way. (Well, the kind of heartwarming that Garrus's romance path is. Which is really more heartbreaking than heartwarming, but still.)