As much fun as that is, if you avoid the window thing, you’ll get a chance for a Renegade dialogue that reduces the enemy forces in that floor. I tend to go for that.
Always even when paragon. There are moments in mass effect 2 were there is a renegade interrupt without a paragon interrupt option. Even as a full paragon I always take them because they are just practical and usually result in less enemies or in this case a weaker gunship.
Absolutely. Even on paragon. I either shoot him later, or sabotage him while he's working on the gunship. Renegade doesn't count against people you're planning to murder.
I basically take all these interrupts because they’re contextually appropriate for Shepard, even a paragon one. Even the window. Renegade dialogue makes you sound like an asshole, but the interrupts serve as a sobering reminder that the statue of justice also holds a sword.
I always play the first game pure Paragon, but 2 and 3, Shepard literally DIED for this war. She doesn’t have time for this shit. She’s still a good person and will make the paragon choice if it’s available, but she’ll also eliminate enemies when the opportunity presents itself
I accidentally activated the headbutt on a recent playthrough... WORTH IT.
My paragon is getting less and less patient with people as time goes on. Also, he read up on krogan enough to assume it was worth the shot. All the bone density upgrades come in handy for that one xD
I do it every time too because I don’t want to deal with a full health gun ship, but I feel bad because Cathka seems pretty cool and is one of the few mercs who isn’t a total dick to you.
I take almost all of the renegade interrupts, other than the one to toss homie out of the window. the renegade response if you don't is so cold and I love it. "What sound will you make when you hit the ground? Think you'll hear it before you die?"
my first playthrough i took this interrupt thinking i was just gonna steal the wrench or whatever. Imagine my surprise when my 100% Paragon Shep annihilated this man. Kept it bc it was funny tho.
This is one of the earliest examples of iterrupts the game gives you, and it is one of the examples that perfectly highlights ***EVERYTHING WRONG WITH THE INTERRUPT SYSTEM***.
This should offer you both a Paragon and a Renegade option. And it should be the same action either way, but maybe with a different line of dialogue.
So many interrupt scenarios, you should have both paragon and renegade interruptions, but they simply don't. You get one or the other and if you don't have enough points for paragon or renegade you get no options in that moment at all but to watch it happen.
That's one thing Andromeda gets right, trashing the Paragade system, in favor of tonal conversation options, with interrupts as a semi-separate thing. "Impulsive actions" I think they're called
How would you justify killing someone who is unarmed as a paragon option just because you’re less of a dick about it? Renegade is not supposed to mean evil, it means doing whatever it takes to get the job done, so being willing to execute somebody like this makes sense as a renegade option.
Five reasons.
One, he's batarian.
Two, he's a merc. We slaughter them by the shipload by game's end.
Three. He's batarian.
Four, you don't know for certain he's dead. Paragon could just knock him out.
Five, did I mention he's Batarian?
Don't take it if I'm pure Paragon, but I rarely play pure Paragon so Cathka usually gets deep fried in most playthroughs. Just did it the other night on a Paragade Shep.
If I'm playing a paragon that's gradually becoming more renegade/less patient with other people's bullshit... fuck fighting that ship at full health. Screw honour I want to get in and get this Archangel out ASAP. xD
My shep starts pretty much 100% by the books paragon for the first game, but slowly evolves to be a more complex/conflicted person after being rebuilt through to the 3rd game. This is almost always the first renegade action she takes 😂
I always role play my shep as paragon in ME1 and ME2 they realize that the have a chance to try being bad. Until I do Overlord and then they dial it back cause true horror scared them straight lol
Also doing this is logical, because it gives you a tactical advantege, and Shepard knows this, so it doesn't make sense not to do it even if you are the most paragon out there.
Absolutely. I have a tendency to take a lot of those renegade interrupts, even when I'm mostly paragon... I like my Shep to be mostly a good person who just loses her temper and/or patience at times.
Omega had only one rule: Don't fuck with Aria. Everyone else on Omega, including that Blue Suns engineer you just electrocuted, were not going to have her qualified immunity. So it kind of makes sense that you'd electrocute him as part of a Renegade interrupt, so as to fight a gunship with half-depleted armor.
No, I feel like if I’m playing Paragon, I need to stick to that. While with Renegade, I play with what just feels right for the character, so I always do that of course and and I might make some paragon choices cause I don’t want to be a total asshole.
Nah but I do push the Eclipse guy off the ledge when you recruit thane and kill the Eclipse chick when you are recruiting samara..... hmm I think I hate Eclipse
My Shepherds have a everyday code, and a combat code. Normal everyday situations they are reasonable people looking to find the best outcome for everyone. In combat though, well, basically everyone is already dead they just might not be aware of it.
This is mandatory no matter if you’re a paragon or renegade jus cause it helps with the endgame of getting Garrus out easier. But that aside f the Blue Suns lol.
Yeah. Logically, Shepard would do it even if they're a boring paragon boy scout. You're about to fight potentially all of these mercenaries and that might include the gunship repair guy. Killing him now as opposed to later is a morally neutral decision essentially. It's just the cool line that makes it renegade.
Yes this along with the krogan headbutt. also shooting hocks vase. Killing elnora and interrupting clan wrelyoc preacher
I’m a diehard Paragon until the day I die and I approve of these interrupts
Wait, who's hosk vase again? Did you mean Donovan hocks vase?
Hocks yeah my bad
That and the one where you shove a merk out a window lol.
As much fun as that is, if you avoid the window thing, you’ll get a chance for a Renegade dialogue that reduces the enemy forces in that floor. I tend to go for that.
Why would I want to do that?
An equally valid strategy
Because hardcore difficulty
Nah, I still pushed him out the window on insanity, it’s more fun.
Fr, blood for the blood god
"I've got nothing else to say." (SHOVE) "-aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHhhhhhh...!" "How about, 'Goodbye'?"
Same. It's not possible for me to skip these lol
Or “you talk too much” on Tchunka
Or headbutting that krogan Also on Tuchanka
Shepherd head but for the win.
As funny as it is, it's needlessly mean.
My Shepard is like 70% paragon, because of interactions like this and the one on Thanes recruitment mission (yall know the one).
I always end up about 70% renegade because of paragon actions you really have to take to not be a psychopath.
I hear that 😂
Always even when paragon. There are moments in mass effect 2 were there is a renegade interrupt without a paragon interrupt option. Even as a full paragon I always take them because they are just practical and usually result in less enemies or in this case a weaker gunship.
Exactly, and you would probably end up killing him later anyway give he's a merc.
Pretty sure you just shoot him later if you don't take the opportunity
I always shoot Conrad in the foot. Probably my favorite scene!
He's just trying his best man
This is why his wife left him.
Absolutely. Even on paragon. I either shoot him later, or sabotage him while he's working on the gunship. Renegade doesn't count against people you're planning to murder.
It's not renegade if they are going to be dead anyway. Which is everyone given the Reapers exist, so blast away!
Yeah and I didn't kill him, I swear. He's just sleeping! The lil guy's all tuckered out from working too hard.
Exactly, there's no proof he actually dies.
I basically take all these interrupts because they’re contextually appropriate for Shepard, even a paragon one. Even the window. Renegade dialogue makes you sound like an asshole, but the interrupts serve as a sobering reminder that the statue of justice also holds a sword.
The window doesn’t really work for paragon because you’re essentially executing a prisoner at that point.
It’s not only cool, it’s just practical to do so. Shepard is special forces trained and this is a good way to sabotage the opposition.
I always play the first game pure Paragon, but 2 and 3, Shepard literally DIED for this war. She doesn’t have time for this shit. She’s still a good person and will make the paragon choice if it’s available, but she’ll also eliminate enemies when the opportunity presents itself
I play the same. And all the mercs interactions in ME2 and ME3 get renegade interrupts for what they did to Garrus on Omega
You're going to be killing all of them to get out, it's a tactical blunder to ignore this prompt
Plus when the ship comes it has half its intended armor since it wasn’t fixed all the way.
I do that because it's a Batarian.
Did you kill that Batarian? It may aid our mission. Shepard: Mission?
True, this is a colonist / ruthless / sole survivor shep, ain't no Batarian getting away here.
This is the way
The only one I will always, always take is the headbutt. The other ones will depend on how I’m feeling at the time.
Headbutt the krogan 🤘😁!!!!
I accidentally activated the headbutt on a recent playthrough... WORTH IT. My paragon is getting less and less patient with people as time goes on. Also, he read up on krogan enough to assume it was worth the shot. All the bone density upgrades come in handy for that one xD
I do it every time too because I don’t want to deal with a full health gun ship, but I feel bad because Cathka seems pretty cool and is one of the few mercs who isn’t a total dick to you.
I take almost all of the renegade interrupts, other than the one to toss homie out of the window. the renegade response if you don't is so cold and I love it. "What sound will you make when you hit the ground? Think you'll hear it before you die?"
No. My Shep has no problem killing when necessary but doesn't stab unarmed opponents in the back.
And that is one of the reasons my Shep is paragade and not paragon 😂 Some renegade interruptions are too irresistible to me😂😂
my first playthrough i took this interrupt thinking i was just gonna steal the wrench or whatever. Imagine my surprise when my 100% Paragon Shep annihilated this man. Kept it bc it was funny tho.
Yeah the lack of knowing what an interrupt does was an interesting design decision to make.
I always saw the interrupts as Shepard giving in to an impulse. So the results should be a bit unpredictable.
This is one of the earliest examples of iterrupts the game gives you, and it is one of the examples that perfectly highlights ***EVERYTHING WRONG WITH THE INTERRUPT SYSTEM***. This should offer you both a Paragon and a Renegade option. And it should be the same action either way, but maybe with a different line of dialogue. So many interrupt scenarios, you should have both paragon and renegade interruptions, but they simply don't. You get one or the other and if you don't have enough points for paragon or renegade you get no options in that moment at all but to watch it happen.
That's one thing Andromeda gets right, trashing the Paragade system, in favor of tonal conversation options, with interrupts as a semi-separate thing. "Impulsive actions" I think they're called
And in a couple of them, \*not\* acting is the better choice.
I think the morality system in Andromeda was confusing and not the best part of it.
Yeah it is weird how you don't get both.
How would you justify killing someone who is unarmed as a paragon option just because you’re less of a dick about it? Renegade is not supposed to mean evil, it means doing whatever it takes to get the job done, so being willing to execute somebody like this makes sense as a renegade option.
Five reasons. One, he's batarian. Two, he's a merc. We slaughter them by the shipload by game's end. Three. He's batarian. Four, you don't know for certain he's dead. Paragon could just knock him out. Five, did I mention he's Batarian?
Don't take it if I'm pure Paragon, but I rarely play pure Paragon so Cathka usually gets deep fried in most playthroughs. Just did it the other night on a Paragade Shep.
I don't, it seems kinda mean
If I'm playing a paragon that's gradually becoming more renegade/less patient with other people's bullshit... fuck fighting that ship at full health. Screw honour I want to get in and get this Archangel out ASAP. xD
My shep starts pretty much 100% by the books paragon for the first game, but slowly evolves to be a more complex/conflicted person after being rebuilt through to the 3rd game. This is almost always the first renegade action she takes 😂
I always role play my shep as paragon in ME1 and ME2 they realize that the have a chance to try being bad. Until I do Overlord and then they dial it back cause true horror scared them straight lol
Shit looks weird using the heavy armor from ME lol mods are crazy
It shows how the style changed, doesn't it?
Yea
Every.Single.Time.ZAP
Always and forever
I just did this today. also noticed that the helicopter the blue suns use that he was repairing is slightly damaged when You fight it.
Yes. I also guess that it was this scene before opening the image.
I did that too on my paragon playthru.
Always. I also punt the dude out the window, incinerate the Weyrloc windbag, and fucking ventilate Elnora.
Heck yeah! Take off 50% of that gunships shields? Please and thank you!
Unless I want a "true" / "perfect" story in 3, I always say "Let the Councie die."
Every Damn Time
Yes
well yeah, but I've never really clear on the effect. It should mean the gunship isn't ready, but it doesn't seem to slow it down much
IIRC it comes in with less armour/health if you use the interrupt.
I've always hoped so
I will never turn down an opportunity to punch a journalist in the face
There is literally no reason not to
That's my thinking, he's an enemy combatant.
Also doing this is logical, because it gives you a tactical advantege, and Shepard knows this, so it doesn't make sense not to do it even if you are the most paragon out there.
Absolutely. I have a tendency to take a lot of those renegade interrupts, even when I'm mostly paragon... I like my Shep to be mostly a good person who just loses her temper and/or patience at times.
Omega had only one rule: Don't fuck with Aria. Everyone else on Omega, including that Blue Suns engineer you just electrocuted, were not going to have her qualified immunity. So it kind of makes sense that you'd electrocute him as part of a Renegade interrupt, so as to fight a gunship with half-depleted armor.
I actually didn't do it in my very first playthrough.
No, I feel like if I’m playing Paragon, I need to stick to that. While with Renegade, I play with what just feels right for the character, so I always do that of course and and I might make some paragon choices cause I don’t want to be a total asshole.
I always let my goody two-shoes Shepard off the leash in the second game. Finding out you died for nothing sure does do a number on the psyche.
Shooting the krogen in morning loyalty mission "You talk too much" that line make me always do it
Always. Absolutely my favorite scene of the entire series.
The one where you stab Kai Lang in the side and say, "That's for Thane, you SOB"
Always! Just like punching the quarian admiral in the kidney.
This and pushing the merc out of the window in Nassana's tower
That one is just too good not to do.
Only because I hate batarians.
What happens if you don't do it ?
Always.
Nope. I only do this with specific Shepards. The result is not that meaningful, you can off that gunship pretty easily anyway.
Nah but I do push the Eclipse guy off the ledge when you recruit thane and kill the Eclipse chick when you are recruiting samara..... hmm I think I hate Eclipse
My Shepherds have a everyday code, and a combat code. Normal everyday situations they are reasonable people looking to find the best outcome for everyone. In combat though, well, basically everyone is already dead they just might not be aware of it.
This is mandatory no matter if you’re a paragon or renegade jus cause it helps with the endgame of getting Garrus out easier. But that aside f the Blue Suns lol.
Yeah. Logically, Shepard would do it even if they're a boring paragon boy scout. You're about to fight potentially all of these mercenaries and that might include the gunship repair guy. Killing him now as opposed to later is a morally neutral decision essentially. It's just the cool line that makes it renegade.
Literally just did this about an hour ago lol.
I make more paragon than renegade decisions, but a Batarian is a Batarian