04-05-2012, 12:19 PM
Obligatory spoiler warnings.
We actually have no idea how much time passed due to two events: Shepard passing through the conduit and waking up on the Citadel, and Shepard passing out after Hackett's last order before waking up next to the Catalyst. The space battle outside seemed to have died down significantly in both scenes where it should be obvious (Shepard and Anderson admiring the view after offing TIM and the Catalyst's long infodump), so it's likely that the whole battle had been written off. The alien fleets are unlikely to remain holding a line when they could just return to their own home systems and prepare for the Reaper counteroffensive with only the Systems Alliance ships remaining in the Local Cluster trying to salvage something out of the poor situation. As for why the Normandy was speeding away from the Local Cluster? Well, Joker has been shown to be fiercely loyal to Shepard and probably took a hell of a lot of convincing to abandon Sol and Shep; the Normandy was probably one of the final few ships in the Mass Relay network when it collapsed.
Considering this, the endings as they are seem a little happier. Quite a lot of folks made it home when the network imploded.
(04-02-2012, 03:00 AM)Pesmerga Wrote: Eh, go figure. I had no particular issue with the ending. Sure, I would have liked it explained who my squadmate from the last mission got on the ship,I pretty sure that your squadmates don't actually accompany you with the assault on the conduit; I sure as hell didn't see Garrus and James among the soldiers during the suicide run, just Anderson and a bunch of mooks. Likely when all things went to hell it's unlikely that they'd remain to guard a rear line in a warzone so they returned to the Normandy at the soonest opportunity.
We actually have no idea how much time passed due to two events: Shepard passing through the conduit and waking up on the Citadel, and Shepard passing out after Hackett's last order before waking up next to the Catalyst. The space battle outside seemed to have died down significantly in both scenes where it should be obvious (Shepard and Anderson admiring the view after offing TIM and the Catalyst's long infodump), so it's likely that the whole battle had been written off. The alien fleets are unlikely to remain holding a line when they could just return to their own home systems and prepare for the Reaper counteroffensive with only the Systems Alliance ships remaining in the Local Cluster trying to salvage something out of the poor situation. As for why the Normandy was speeding away from the Local Cluster? Well, Joker has been shown to be fiercely loyal to Shepard and probably took a hell of a lot of convincing to abandon Sol and Shep; the Normandy was probably one of the final few ships in the Mass Relay network when it collapsed.
Considering this, the endings as they are seem a little happier. Quite a lot of folks made it home when the network imploded.
Quote:Or my Shepard to have survived.Shepard can survive, at least in the Destruction ending but it's not easy; you either need a flat EMS rating of 5,000 (War Assets x Galactic Readiness%, and maxing out on War Assets only nudges you over 6,000 if you're lucky) or a rating of 4,000 and have successfully threatened/charmed TIMmy in the final encounter; pull either of these off and you're treated to a scene of Shepard breathing in a mass of debris. Shepard dies in the Synthesis and Control endings regardless though.