Ah yes "reapers", we have dismissed this claim

@zeubersandvitch8882

17 күн бұрын

That bastard made it so hard for me to spare the counsel in ME1. The only credit I can give him is that he's upfront about his dislike of Shepard rather than the feigned hospitality of the Asari or the disinterest of the Salarian.

@spartanq7781

16 күн бұрын

God Mass Effect 2 makes me so mad that line in particular.

@shepardren8006

16 күн бұрын

I read this in his voice...I haven't played this game in a solid five years

@josiahnunley2910

16 күн бұрын

Found this on a Reddit post: “I read an observation about the Turian Councillor that blew my mind. Namely, that the reason Sparatus is so hard on Shepard in Mass Effect 1 is because of his culture. In Turian culture, if you screw up then they put most of the blame on the person who promoted you to your position, because they should have known better than to put someone in a position that they were unqualified for. Everything Shepard does reflects on Sparatus, so no wonder he's extra critical and nit-picky. Which also explains why he's so salty in 2. The person Sparatus promoted to Spectre is palling around with a human supremacist terrorist organisation. The Hierarchs must be tut-tutting behind his back something fierce. I don't know if that's what Bioware intended, but it fits with the lore”

@hendrikgreiner8449

13 күн бұрын

@@josiahnunley2910 That does track and from back then until now i really like the Turian Society with its focus on meritocracy and how its presented with its values in terms of promotion and subsequent responsibility. And that people through sheer merit can rise up in the hierarchy, since we know that up to ME3, Garrus is ranking above generals. Not bad for someone who was a disgraced C-Sec Officer just two and a half years before.

And let's not forget the Reapers' greatest soldier: Marauder Shields

@adrianoippolito1999

16 күн бұрын

No he was actually on Shepards side, he was trying to stop him from seeing the god awful ending

@spartanq7781

16 күн бұрын

@@adrianoippolito1999 The entire game was terribly written not just the ending. I don't know what people are on when they say the ending was the only problem. Or what killing Shepard off in Mass Effect 2 and having work with the people who got their team killed a good thing? Or fighting a threat that came out of nowhere instead of you know finding a way to stop the Reapers? The entire game doesn't advance the story so Mass Effect 3 had to very jarringly go "hey look at what we found." So Shepard doesn't find a way to stop the Reapers and is only told about it yet doesn't understand it. Then Mass Effect 3 has the main antagonists Cerberus whereas the Reapers the trilogy built up are just an afterthought. Nothing Cerberus does in the third game makes any goddamn sense.

@vine237

14 күн бұрын

@@spartanq7781 you’re forgetting that the Illusive Man, in his arrogance and hunger for power, intensely researched and exposed both himself and Cerberus personnel to Reaper technology for extended periods of time. And this is before they even got to the point of implanting themselves with Reaper technology. Indoctrination is the Reapers’ subtlest, yet also their greatest power. And they nudged Cerberus and the IM into hampering any concerted effort by organics to stop them, while also having Cerberus and the IM convinced they were doing the right thing by seeking to control the Reapers for the benefit of humanity, all while knowing it would be impossible for the IM to ever control them. When you remember this, Cerberus actions in ME3 are very consistent with the plot.

@jrr7031

6 күн бұрын

@spartanq7781 well, Cerberus has already been infiltrated with many indoctrinated. So, they were just a destabilization agent. Just like a gene-stealer cult. Or, like the Protheans where Javiik mentioned they had been infiltrated and the downfall came from within by sabotage while fighting the Reapers. I hadnt played 1 or 2, but loved 3. Maybe thats why?

@friendlyreaper9012

5 күн бұрын

@@spartanq7781 exactly. The main story writing took an insane nosedive after mass effect 1. Unfortunately the writing team didn't have a script for the entire trilogy and the main writer left during Me2 development so they were just making things up as they go.

"You exist because we allow it. You will die because we demand it." It was that point in my first playthrough of the first game that I knew we were in for a wild ride!

@spartanq7781

16 күн бұрын

Then Mass Effect 2 and 3 made the Reapers a joke.

@user-ze3sg6ix1u

13 күн бұрын

​@@spartanq7781 lmao yup

@MMFerreiraBruno

11 күн бұрын

Believe it or not, I took that VERY personally... lmao. Thinking to myself " Oh... I'm gonna f you up!!!"🤣🤣🤣

@spartanq7781

11 күн бұрын

@@user-ze3sg6ix1u I wanted Harbinger in ME2 to shut the f*** up. All he does is taunt you like a Xbox live teenager from back then. Then in Mass Effect 3 the real threat was Cerberus instead of the enemy built up throughout the trilogy. Ever since Cerberus took hold of the story starting in ME2 things went downhill.

@user-ze3sg6ix1u

11 күн бұрын

@@spartanq7781 yea I agree. No idea what the point of the collectors really were, they disappeared after. Then ME3 came along and introduced starchild, it was so absurd

The reaper main gun is one of my favorite pieces of science fiction technology ever. Liquefies metal then projects it into a near light speed jet of molten metal. It's so fucking sick.

@desolation2438

17 күн бұрын

You could say it's....."Metal"?

@seancarter1275

17 күн бұрын

Sounds like your basic shaped charge, just much bigger and faster.

@ivanjason1863

16 күн бұрын

Hmm Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosion Munitions (MAHEM)

@lonanderson5740

16 күн бұрын

@seancarter1275 okay calm down sapper

@Friedrich687

16 күн бұрын

Realistically it would be useless and ineffective. However, every sci fi franchise has gotta have their unique weapon

Reaper? A label created by the Protheans to give voice to their destruction. In the end, what they chose to call us is irrelevant. We simply... are.

Lliara: "Commander, we need to stop the Reapers." Shepard: "We can. But first... Grunt." Grunt: "SHePAaaaard!" Shepard: "Wrex..." Wrex: "SHepard, Shepard, Shepard." Grunt: "Shhhheparrrd!" Wrex: "Shepaaaard!" Shepard: "Grunt. Wrex...."

@CHRAXY

12 күн бұрын

😂😂

Your recent videos have made me play through the Mass Effect trilogy... AGAIN. lol

@johntaylor9096

17 күн бұрын

U me to on the PS5 went and got it on mass effect 2 now games so good we will never see games made like this again I don't think

The writing was strong in the trilogy, whoever wrote the characters in Andromeda must have been 5

@mayapilkey3577

6 күн бұрын

The game was given to a small studio that was understaffed and had never made a game before and bioware cut costs for the game

My favourite part of pretty much any fictional world is the reaper roar, something about it just makes me smile

@Muppetmonkee

16 күн бұрын

Not sure I'd say it makes me smile but it's heckin iconic and I reckon it would be scary as hell if you were presented with it

@Nergal8621

16 күн бұрын

@@Muppetmonkee Very iconic, also guaranteed to rip you out of a dead sleep which is why it is my alarm on my phone.

@AdmiralPrestonJColeTheGigaChad

15 күн бұрын

Uh oh....sounds like he's indoctrinated.

I always loved all the noises the Reapers made

@Nergal8621

16 күн бұрын

Me too, I use one as my alarm sound on my phone.

@LORD_PINKY_DINKS

3 күн бұрын

@@Nergal8621 i use the reaper horn as my alarm as well scares me awake

Gods even years later...that piano sound still bring back chills, memories, fear, excitement and awe.

When Sovereign said you exist because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it!

“We impose order upon the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it.” - Sovereign from Mass Effect 1 on Virmire. “Know this as you die in vein. Your time will come. Your species will fall. Prepare yourselves for the arrival.” - Harbinger from Mass Effect 2 The Arrival DLC.

@spartanq7781

16 күн бұрын

Sovereign is infinitely superior to the boring as hell Harbinger. Sovereign was actually terrifying but Harbinger is just a pathetic Saturday morning cartoon villain.

@uoriwoh

14 күн бұрын

These quotes give me chills every time. It’s not real, but something feels absolutely eerie about it.

@jrr7031

6 күн бұрын

Spoken like a true machine. Sound like something out of the Matrix machine wars.

@vonneely1977

6 күн бұрын

"die in vain"

@nothingbutlove4886

6 күн бұрын

"our numbers will darken the sky of every world"

The ME3 music draws tears from me every time like a Pavlovian response

@fobbitoperator3620

3 күн бұрын

Ruff feels there, brah...

@HeWhoComments

2 күн бұрын

@@fobbitoperator3620 made me giggle like I’m barking mad hahahaha

@fobbitoperator3620

2 күн бұрын

@@HeWhoComments WWOOOOFFF!!!

After reading the Three Body Problem series, I just cannot see a group of alien races coming together and forming an embassy… I look at Mass Effect and Star Trek very differently now after 3BP. That series scarred me for life. So seeing this Reaper invasion on the galaxy doesn’t bother me as much now compared to a Dark Forest strike… the Dark Forest theory fkn scares the shit out of me.

The Reapers are another example of a group writing themselves into a corner. An enemy so powerful you have to invent a McGuffin FOR another McGuffin just to end it.

@therealfakeAlphabet

5 күн бұрын

The Reaper motivation and background fluff i.e. "breaking the cycle", "harvesting organics to preserve them" collapses the moment anyone spends more than a minute thinking about it. It is terrible writing dressed up in highfalutin sounding concepts.

@Cailus3542

5 күн бұрын

​@@therealfakeAlphabet I have read fanfic that portrays the Reapers as actually protecting the galaxy, and several others, from an even greater threat. The Reapers are steadily building up their numbers for a cataclysmic war. They also ensure that the organic species never develop technology that would attract the attention of that threat before the Reapers are ready. It makes much more sense to me

@sup1602

3 күн бұрын

Well I think originally the reapers were not supposed to attack the galaxy in ME3 because in the the first game Virgil clearly says that the reapers were trapped in dark space and the only way for them to enter the milky way was though the citadel. Which is why Sovereign tried to reactivate the citadel relay and this theory gives a very good reason why they were trying to build a reaper in me 2; they still needed one to let them out of dark space. Only Arrival and towards the end of ME 2 (Drew Karpyshyn probably ended up leaving after the development of ME 2 which is why the ending sequel bait is sort of out of place) retconned everything. I kinda like this train of thought because it can explain the quite frankly dumb motivations they had in the third game, bioware didn't get that far in the writing process because their main writer leaving the project and EA wanted a big bad for the third game.

Yes! More Mass effect lore

I'm Cjdent90, and this is my favourite video on KZread. Mass Effect is my favourite series. Love this!

Humanity and Covenant lets say 2540... vs Reapers in a total war....

@the_chav

16 күн бұрын

It would be a deep dive in the lore of halo at 2540...

@spartantraveler7251

16 күн бұрын

The Covenant will win. The Reapers are just too weak and too small. There's an animation about Reapers vs a covenant carrier and the Covvies absolutely obliterated the Reapers. I believe that animation is accurate. The energy shields of the Covenant are too strong and the Reapers' Thanix cannons are too weak, even weaker than Cruiser MACs.

@admiralalbion2279

16 күн бұрын

@@spartantraveler7251no the reapers would wing bc of sheer numbers and bc they number in the billions and the cannon on the Normandy is far weaker than the cannon used by the reapers

@warlock64c

16 күн бұрын

​@@admiralalbion2279Cannon numbers of reapers are actually in the few thousands of my memory is correct. Also reaper shield tech simply does not protect against covenant weaponry. The reapers wouldn't stand a chance

@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem

16 күн бұрын

​@admiralalbion2279 No. A Reaper would be about equal to a Covenant frigate or cruiser in about all aspects, except that ME shields are useless against energy weapons (hmmm, wonder if that'll matter) and the shields are much weaker in general. There is an order of magnitude more Covie ships in those classes than every single Reaper, nevermind the far larger and more powerful Covenant ships.

do my eyes deceive me demon is this the helictical mass effect I've heard grunts talking about in the slums. love mass effect happy to see it on your channel now i have new stuff to watch tomorrow at work i cant wait you just made my day 00

The reapers will destroy all organic civs to prevent them from destroying themselves... Wait... What?

@theduke9292

13 күн бұрын

But they preserve them. Their collective knowledge and culture is uploaded into a gestalt consciousness that forms each reaper. Basically whilst they may be removed from the galaxy as a whole they “survive” as their knowledge, and experience is lived on by their reaper form This can be seen as preferable when the alternative is them being driven extinct and forgotten about in their entirety. Through their preservation as a reaper they endure forever

@JohannesDichtmann

7 күн бұрын

I don't think it's necessarily about preservation, but more about preventing a technological singularity. Keep in mind that only advanced civilizations are harvested, but not any lesser or just animals. By ensuring no advanced organic species reaches the ability to create synthethics that will outright delete ALL organic life from existence they still achieve their main goal, which is why even the Leviathans state that they were not a failure and still serve their purpose. Imagine some synthethics on Reaper power level, but without any restains which for some reason decide that organic life must perish - the cycles are probably too short for such a fast development, thus it will never happen. That is their current solution. And then the preservation aspect kicks in, as the Reapers themselves are hybrids of organic and synthetic life. With this solution they make sure they themselves will never be surpassed.

@trentmorgan5600

6 күн бұрын

@@theduke9292 As Shepard stated, we'd rather keep our own forms. simply preserving a civilizations knowledge and culture is not surviving nor is it living, living is experiencing love, sadness, fear, happiness, and death. being stripped of those things makes you nothing more than a machine, if I were given the choice between keeping my form or reaper form, I would keep my form and fight so others can keep theirs's as well. that is why the reapers must be destroyed

@theduke9292

6 күн бұрын

@@trentmorgan5600 oh 100% but your thinking from a “selfish” “shortsighted” organic POV the reapers think in terms of centuries, eons, and view it as a small sacrifice to pay Let’s use an example of an early harvest civilization from millions of years ago. This civilization well call them the JohnDoeians were a widespread civilization similar to the protheans. By the modern setting of mass effect the JohnDoeians would’ve long since been rendered extinct simply through natural factors and every aspect of their culture and history lost to time But because they were harvested their culture, history, and knowledge was preserved and remembered within their reaper body. In the twisted logic of a machine is that not preferable? Again it’s not something I agree with but your thinking of it from a personal point of view not a cosmological point of view

@whocaresguy

3 күн бұрын

​@@trentmorgan5600 Stop arguing about it. It's been long known that because of a leak writers changed the reapers storyline, their motives and explanation for what they do, the ending. What the original ending was is not officially reveled, but if it was what I believe it was it would have made perfect sense. My theory was that Mass Effect technology which uses dark energy was meant to have long term side effects. Leviathans found out about it and therefore created Reapers to find a solution. The side-effects for the overuse of dark energy were causing something like a heart strain (for a lack of a better analogy) to Milky Way, if left without treatment it could cause permanent damage and eventually kill you, destroy all of life in Milky Way. Remember in ME2 Tali's mission the storyline about the early dying star, their theory was that it's some dark energy anomaly that's causing it's death. If the currently advanced civilizations were allowed to continue to use dark energy technology, these dark energy anomalies would have developed in other places, destroyed other stars, whole systems and eventually all life. That's why reapers created a harvesting cycle. For two reasons: 1st: They harvested civilizations to gain knowledge, hopefully find something that could help reapers to find a permanent fix to this problem. 2nd: They had to control and destroy civilizations to decrease the use of dark energy technology for another few thousands of years, which would help the galaxy to recover from the strain before it leads to permanent damage. When I played Mass Effect Andromeda and learned about the scourge, which was believed to be an effect of some dark energy based weapon, I had a different theory. That it was possibly a leftover from the original franchise's ending. That scourge is the final form of the dark energy's anomalies that caused the death of the sun in Tali's mission. If there were no reapers to control the use of dark energy technology in Milky Way, then dark energy anomalies would develop into the scourge and destroy everything in it's touch like it was happening in Andromeda galaxy which had no reapers to prevent that from happening.

The sound the Reapers make always give me chills. I remember when I completed 'Mass Effect: Andromeda' there’s an audio log you can listen to. It’s set around the time Shepherd was looking for Primarch Fedorian during 'Mass Effect 3'. One of the Turrian commanders was giving a report when a Reaper attacked. Hearing that ominous sound brought a big smile to my face.

You could delve into the lore of any universe and I'd be here for it.

Impressive as always, getting to know that the Reapers are the equivalent to an invasive Species, or one of the Variants to the "Fermi's Paradox".

Good breakdown, thank you my friend, cheers!

Never been this early in my life and I’m here for it.

One of the greatest villains of all time. That infamous 'bwoom' still gives me shivers whenever I hear it. There's a mission level in Deep Rock Galactic that has whispers of the Reaper theme & it gave me PTSD.

Awesome video man! Really enjoyed it, would love to see more! Your channel is so interesting too. I’m looking forward to seeing more work from you!

Amazing content (and Host) as always!

Amazing as always. Thank you!

YES! I am so happy you did a reaper deep dive!

Awesome video 00!

You deserve waaaay more subs. Your channel is underrated imo.❤️✨

This is the Dark Forest theory. Never made the connection before because I hadn't heard of the Three Body Problem series.

i hope ppl continue to support u brother. there is only so many Halo lore u can cover. ur a great writer. I'll support u till the end.

I have been waiting for this. Let's go

one of the best repear walk through i find so far.

Yes keep the mass effect coming

Love the multiverse stuff you do! Keep going please!

GREAT VIDEO!

The Reapers have been on my mind for a few weeks now. Major spoilers for the story "The Beginning After the End" are below. I highly recommend the story. It is just that good. . . .. Ok, So the Asuras of Tbate have always remained on top in their separate dimension that was once part of the planet. But in the story, we know that an ancient race was subject to an Asuran genocide and that all known knowledge was wiped out of their existence and the Genocide as well. thousands of years later that secret is uncovered and a splinter group of Asura (Basilisk) gets exiled because they dared question the ruling clan of Dragon Asuras. The exiled Basilisks expanded and ruled an entire continent that they experimented with and breaded for an eventual showdown with the remaining Asura clans. What remained free from the Basilisks' grasp is a single continent where our Main character is born. That is the setting of the story. The implications are clear. The Genocided race, the Djinn as they are called are the Protheoans. Now we know from Mass effect that the Protheoans were the latest in a long line of Genocided races and this gets revealed in a frankly horrific and chilling scene in the last portions of Volume 11. The dragons have been culling the planet in "fear" of a singularity. They have destroyed thousands of races for millions of years. And the world is slowly dying as a result. Kinda reminds me of the Silmarillion as well where the last war reshaped the lands of Baleriend, toppled mountains and rerouted rivers. Volume 11 has just ended and it will be an extremely tense last volume as we finally confront the Genocidal dragons.

Really good video can't wait for more mass effect videos would love to see if the mass effect universe can live through flood invasion

There has not been a more terrifying foe in any gaming space since the reapers. Change my mind.

I would want more reaper videos for sure!

You are one of my favorite KZreadrs❤❤❤

Holy hell! Installation00 covering Mass Effect! All ears.

Would absolutely love to see more about the Reapers and Mass Effect in general. Omni shields or Tech Armor would be amazing to see

This was by far the greatest trilogy in gaming it had everything that I always wanted in a video game

Praise the Arrival of the Omnissiah Kalamarius!

I love the fact that you litterly speaking like the Collector commander under the Suicide mission song at 12:30

I think a cool lore discussion would be what are the 'pawns' that the catalyst used to kill the Leviathans and where are they now. They are presumably even more powerful then reapers as they were used to kill the Leviathans who can mentally destroy even a Sovereign-class reaper in groups of 3. If this is the case why does the catalyst no longer use them? In addition, another cool theory is if the Leviathans even used Eezo tech or rather used alternate tech in addition to eezo based tech as we know the reapers made the relays and yet prior to this the Leviathans were able to control and travel the whole galaxy seemingly with no problem. Also, backing this up is the quote "Lasers are not blocked by the kinetic barriers of capital ships (bar the ones employed by the Reapers, whose barriers are capable of blocking them to an extent)" which shows that we might have not seen the peak of Eezo based tech as they are not designed to stop laser weapons as far as we know.

@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim

9 күн бұрын

Part of your post here follows a bit of Fanon misunderstanding. You do not _require_ Mass Relays to travel the galaxy. With sufficient time, resources, and proper planning, a standard Eezo FTL core can cross the entire galaxy without ever touching a Relay. It's just really slow and impractical by modern Drive Standards for anyone who isn't an Asari or Krogan. The Relays are nothing more than a convenience. For example, you can totally cross North America from the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic Coast without ever getting on the Interstate. But it's significantly faster if you take the interstate.

@gono4806

9 күн бұрын

@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim I think you underestimate how useful relays are, the primary ones can propel ships thousands of light years and secondary ones hundreds of light years. The citadel races speculate that the reapers who are supposedly at the peak of technological evolution can only travel at 30 light years in a 24 hour period, so I just don't see how the Leviathans could of obtained and maintained galactic dominance while traveling at such slow speeds. For example, if there was a rebellion either organic or synthetic in nature roughly 3,000 light years away from the closet Leviathan ship it would take them 100 days to get there while a primary relay would probably get you there in one trip. Now would they be so far from the world in question? probably not but this is just to show that it would be extremely difficult to maintain a galactic empire with such slow FTL speeds especially when we know there was plenty of synthetic uprisings at the time. Regardless thank you for the comment.

@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim

9 күн бұрын

@@gono4806 I'm not underestimating anything, I just stated a fact. Their use is, ultimately, one of convenience. My comparison was to try and show that, tho I suppose a better comparison would have been Flying vs Driving, but I digress. EDIT: Keep in mind that Leviathan has mind control powers, similar to Indoctrination, and can influence an organic mind through their artifacts from the other end of the galaxy.

@gono4806

9 күн бұрын

@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim In regards to the edit that is only so helpful when dealing with synthetics.

@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim

9 күн бұрын

@@gono4806 Well, we see the Leviathan capable of shutting down a whole planet, but I think you might have found why the Leviathans made the Catalyst in the first place. :P

Yes please. All mass effect lore videos.

nice, love me some mass effect lore

I love these mass effect videos.

Each reaper was meant to be totally unique, a robot gozilla form of whatever species was havested, but 3 was under a time and budget crunch.

YESSSS! I’m so happy you’re covering the Reapers from ME. They are the staple for Cosmic Level threats within Syfi.

I LOVE MASS EFFECT! So yes please more Mass Effect videos PLEASE!!!

Adding my voice in support of more Mass Effect lore vids from you!

Hearing lore on the Geth would be awesome

@spartanq7781

16 күн бұрын

The geth are really interesting. I really rather have fought them in the second game instead of the boring as hell out of place Collecters.

@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem

16 күн бұрын

​@@spartanq7781 Out of place? Esthetically, sure, but I think it makes sense for the Reapers to keep some modified members of a species from the previous cycle to act in the galaxy should they be needed. Then again, the Reapers are shown to be rather inflexible in their plans. When the Citadel relay doesn't open, they end up fighting a conventional war throughout the galaxy, allowing the galaxy's species enough time for the Crucible and all that. So it is a little out of character for them to have a back up plan in the Collectors.

@spartanq7781

16 күн бұрын

@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem That's just the writers badly writing them. You can tell the Mass Effect 1 writers were long gone by two and three which is why they don't feel like Mass Effect to me.

@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem

16 күн бұрын

@@spartanq7781 Not really. Even in 1, the Reapers were portrayed as extremely arrogant, which they did earn to be fair, and it ended up costing them the easy win there as well. It is a consistent character flaw from the beginning.

@spartanq7781

16 күн бұрын

@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem I'm not talking arrogance I'm talking intelligence everything they were organizing in ME1 was clandestine. If not for Shepard no one would have saw Sovereign coming. Then in Mass Effect 2 they now always had the Collecters yet didn't have them help. The Collecters only exists because of the suicide mission stupidly put in the middle of the trilogy. The plot of Mass Effect 2 doesn't go anywhere because that kind of plot can't be followed up on. So many of the things Mass Effect 1 set up were tossed aside for a action drama narrative that like I said goes nowhere. Then Mass Effect 3 largely ingores Mass Effect 2 and finally puts the Reapers in the limelight. Only not really we actually fight the boring as hell ill-defined Cerberus more than the enemy we waited three games to stop. Mass Effect 2 stonewalled the series and Mass Effect 3 only dug the whole in deeper long before the ending. It's such a shame because Mass Effect was so masterfully written with a clear path fir the trilogy that Mass Effect 2 ingored. I would love another three game long story but they need to stick to the story and gameplay elements of one another because I can't deal with another nonsensical ending that has no prior buildup.

I have yet to get into the mass effect games. bought the trilogy, played for a while and stopped. This might just be the catalyst that gets me to play through it all :) really love learning about these new universes other than Halo through you, even if Halo is my pride and joy. Thanks 00, love you.

Do you know how much damage different Halo energy shields can take? They can probably easily tank the Reaper Thanix beams but i don't know how much as Halopedia doesn't state how much energy a ship's energy shields can withstand. I'm writing a large cross universe fanfic that has my OC going across the void to the Mass Effect galaxy to collect and research tech to save humanity and will have to fight the Reapers. Also have you read the Catalyst of Revenge on Ao3? It's a really good fanfic about humanity becoming Reapers and taking vengeance on the Galaxy.

@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem

16 күн бұрын

This won't give anything close to an exact answer, but the super MACs are stated to be able to destroy 2 and damage a 3rd Covie capital ship (most likely the CCS-class battlecruiser) in a single shot. The super MACs fire a 2,000 ton projectile at 4% of light speed, far larger and faster than any dreadnaught in ME by multiple orders of magnitude (given number for the Alliance Everest class is 20 kg at 1.3% of light speed, for reference). A CAS-class assault carrier's shields are noted to be able to tank at least one super MAC round to the nose. Thanix cannons would be more powerful than they would seem from the numbers alone against shields due to the heat of the thanix projectile, similar to plasma weapons, but not as much due to lower temperatures.

@spartantraveler7251

15 күн бұрын

@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem thanks Allmind, good luck with the Release Project.

@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem

15 күн бұрын

@@spartantraveler7251 The project proceeds as planned.

@opaapo7089

5 күн бұрын

May i ask have you published it? If so can you please give the name? It sounds interesting

I still think Mass Effect could make such an incredible film/tv franchise in the same vein as Star Trek and Star Wars

Ive seen people saying the reapers would stand no chance against halo weaponry because of plasma, forgetting that the protheans main weapons were plamsa weapons on both ship and rifle alike and the reapers demolished them.

@Installation00

14 күн бұрын

I love Halo, but the Reapers are strikingly more powerful than people give them credit for.

@jarivuorinen3878

10 күн бұрын

It's also quite misleading to compare guns agaisnt guns between these two game series because the universes and politics are widely different. Main point of Mass Effect is the collaboration that will beat the Reapers, and the loss caused by discord and distrust amongst those who came before. And the things that drives this distrust is both biological, and also induced by Reapers in form of indoctrination. In Halo there's something similar with great schism in the Covenant, but stakes are very different. Their hegemony is endangered by the discord, but existence is threatened by Flood and Halo array. In Mass Effect Reapers serve both functions.

You should do some deep dives on warhammer 40k space marine armor, would be very interesting.

@NaderVaderYT

17 күн бұрын

YESSIR! that would be sick!

@voomvoom4522

17 күн бұрын

And the augmentations as well.

"We had a good ride" "The best"

Man, youd be amazing at telling scary stories around the campfire

Letsssss gooooooo finally aomething i can get behind and note take upon

Im loving all the mass effect content so far lol its my second favorite space opera type sci fi after halo

Yes please do more Mass Effect videos

I envisioned an outcome for the next cycle if the Resist ending happened, and the new dominant Species that came across Liara's data vaults would build an Expeditionary Fleet with reverse engineered Reaper weaponry, activated the Citadel Relay and traveled to Dark Space to destroy the Reapers during their hibernation. Just imagine it, a glorious Turkey shoot.

@andrewbeehler579

17 күн бұрын

The Great Void Turkey Shoot!

@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim

9 күн бұрын

Unfortunately, Bioware already established an ending for the next cycle. Basically, either Shepard uses the Crucible or the next cycle does.

I miss you everyday Tali’Zorah Vas Normandy. 😔

Something that I only just now thought of: I know the codex and game have told us that the Reapers hibernate between cycles, but I'm thinking that Harbinger doesn't. It's well established that Harbinger, being the very first Reaper and likely the most powerful as it's created from the Leviathans themselves, is unique from the rest. It's also established the Collectors have existed since the Prothean harvest 50,000 years ago. Unless the indoctrinated "queen" was acting on their own, it's likely Harbinger has been directing the Collectors for over 50,000 years. What if Harbinger, again owing to its uniqueness, doesn't sleep?

The ME3 sad song intro still hits hard today

"Millions of years after your civilization has been eradicated and forgotten, we will endure."

I wanna see the reapers as a threat But the fact that a megaton nuke is all you need to kill one explains why they made sure no race foolishly had no nukes x.x

@christophergroenewald5847

16 күн бұрын

Firstly, I don't believe your original statement here is correct. You are confusing "It takes 4 Dreadnoughts to penetrate a Reaper's shields" with "it takes for shots from a Dreadnought to penetrate a Reaper's shields." When that's never been stated. A Dreadnought has over twice the fire rate of a Reaper (1 round/2s compared to the Reapers' 1 round/5s). Though a direct shot from a Reaper would be an instakill for any ship, including a Dreadnought. Assuming that the Dreadnoughts coordinated their fire and that everyone fired as soon as they had the opportunity, four Dreadnoughts would be able to get off a combined 24 rounds before the Reaper could destroy all of them. The exact power of a Dreadnought's main gun can vary, but can generally range from around 35 to 50 kt per shot. This would mean that a Reaper capital ship would need to tank between 900 kt and 1.2 Mt before dropping it's shields (and that's just the shields). Additionally, all this damage will be concentrated on a surface area around 12cm (5 inches) in diameter, whereas the force of a megaton nuke would be distributed across the entire hull surface. As for your second point regarding the lack of nukes, that's simply down to cost vs practically. Mass Effect ships are surrounded by an extensive array of laser point-defence systems that render all missiles based weapons ineffective unless fired in large numbers at ranges so close that you would probably get caught in the blast yourself. And if it does survive the treacherous journey through the field of lasers, there's a chance that it might not even hit it's target. As elegantly demonstrated in mass effect Andromeda, missiles do in fact bounce off of kinetic barriers. Which would result in 2 problems. The first are the stray nukes now whizzing around the battlespace in random directions without a target (talk about hazards). The second is that as space is a vacuum, there is no medium to carry the energy given off by a nuke so it would have to practically touch it's target before detonating. And even then, the energy would dissipate so fast that it won't deal nearly as much damage as it would in atmosphere. TLDR: Four Dreadnoughts deal way more damage than you realize and it's just safer, simpler and more cost effective to use relatively weaker cannons in space combat rather than nukes.

@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim

9 күн бұрын

First, they are a threat. Second, the only stats we are specifically given are for a human Warship. Designed before the First Contact War. This is just the Biggatons argument phrased differently.

Let's see more 😊

Well, I guess I know what I’m doing after work. Time to dust off my renegade Shepherd save and save the galaxy again.

i feel like im being stalked... i literally just started replaying the entire ME series this week

I never accepted the Reapers come back every 50 thousand years. The development of species is never consistent it could have been faster or slower or some species die out without ever reaching the Citadel it could have been as short as 10,000 years or well over 200,000at times.

@christophergroenewald5847

17 күн бұрын

The 50,000 years statement isn't entirely accurate. All we really know for sure is that the last harvest was roughly 48,000 years ago and it's believed to be the same for every cycle but is never confirmed in universe. What we do know is that based on this current cycle, it appears that the Reapers leave behind a sentinel (like Sovereign) to monitor organic evolution in their absence and once satisfied that organic life was at it's peak, it would inform the rest of it's kind and prepare for the harvest.

@cjmunnee3356

16 күн бұрын

​@christophergroenewald5847 Yep. The Cycle is usually started by the Keepers, so that would allow for plenty of leeway on the timescale of individual Reaper invasions. Sovereign, or another like it, stick around and keep an eye on things in case something goes wrong with the Keepers.

@Jarsia

16 күн бұрын

That's why there's a vanguard like Sovereign. If the cake ain't baked, he hits the snooze button for the other reapers.

@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem

16 күн бұрын

In addition to what the others said, the Reapers leave enough ruins and tech from the harvested species that new ones reverse-engineer that tech, which generally leads the various cycles down the same paths at around the same speed as each other, as pointed out by Sovereign and Legion.

This is a great story. Hope they make this into a game or something.

Yes more please

MOAR!

About danged time

I wonder if the new mass effect will see the reapers being correct seeing that the geth may be the main antagonist this time around

O O O YES

More reapers!

I need that mass effect content uploaded asap sir.

Great video! A more deep dive would be cool like the origin the names Harbinger and Sovereign, do they name themselves? , Why Sovereign called itself Nazara to the Geth, was that the name of its harvested species? Do the reapers function as an Ai or something else? "We Are Each a Nation independent" but then the star child says he controls them, so like what a General or in another way? Do the Reapers have their own personality, like when the Rannoch Reaper said "Shepherd, Harbinger speaks of you" and he said he said Shepherd was annoying? Does the star child use a "logic plague" to control the Reapers? Legion said there are many programs inside Nazara/Sovereign, would they be partly organic or is it just a bunch of Ai programs holding onto a big Dna sample to justify the star child's twisted vision? Vigil said Sovereign may have been maneuvering for a few hundred years Legion says a millennia bring us to the point of ME1 after the keeper signal went unanswered, but we learn it only took the Reapers a few years travelling at FTL speeds to fly into the galaxy, so why bother with his whole take the Citadel plan? Was Sovereign only able to send a signal to the Reaper fleet when he was at the Citadel? What were the collectors planning on doing with the human Reaper? Were they learning about humanity or just getting a head start on the next cycle?

Hey Baby wake up Installation00 has a new video out.

I like to think of the reapers as what would happen if the flood went galactic. Just organic in nature.

Sweetness.

The legendary edition

Ah damn.. One of my faveourite trilogies ever made.. besides ofc Halo

2 questions... 1) Are you just moving stuff over from the MultiCore channel? 2) Can you do a breakdown on the M7/8 Lancer?

Ah yes, more Mass Effect. Since, just to quote Cortez from the Citadel DLC: "Hell, ride long enough with us and you learn about knives, ropes, bombs, Thresher Maws..."

Jesus christ. I thought their main gun was a laser. I didn't know it was a stream of near light speed molten metal

Please do not disturb the keepers

Patrolling the mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

Yes, more mass effect

The leviathans really went: "You stupid lesser races, constantly wiping yourselves out with AI. THIS is how it's done!" **Creates an AI that immediately wipes them out**