There's also an option to make a human-only Council at the end of ME1 which never follows through. Shepard and humanity will get a bad reputation if you do that. If you don't, some random Alliance team does the same job and blows up the system, so might as well give Shepard a terrible reputation (at least among the batarians).
This is because the events of Arrival happen regardless of whether you do it or not.
And ICly you have more enemies to face, though it doesn't make a gameplay difference. They turn on you and helps lower your Military Strength. Pretty self explanatory- hand Legion to them, save the Collector Base, don't do Grissom Academy (so they kidnap Jack and the biotic kids), etc.ĭestroy the Rachni in ME1 > Save the Reaper-Rachni in ME3 Some of the people you lose will probably be Cerberus loyalists, but given the amount of named characters who would help you in ME3 if they survive, it probably does more bad than good. Delay doing all your side missions until your crew is taken and then just waste all your time doing them. It's not a grand galaxy changing choice, but it makes Shepard a really really terrible person.Īfter your crew is kidnapped and you don't go to them immediately, more of them start dying off (I learned that the hard way my first playthrough). Romance Either Tali or the Virmire SurvivorĪnd then be responsible for their death. And since the ending chosen is Destroy, that kills EDI as well. If your Military Strength is low enough, the two companions you take to Earth (James and Liara) will die. That leaves you with just Liara, James and EDI (don't do Eden Prime and though you don't get a message or anything for it, Cerberus will canonically get Javik). Once you lose these three companions in ME3, you have the option of killing the Virmire survivor during the Citadel attack. My work-in-progress plan is to save Morinth, Jack and Tali in the suicide mission (Morinth because she turns into a banshee, Jack because she turns into a Phantom if you don't save the Academy and Tali because if you don't not save the quarians, it's the saddest thing ever). This one's a bit tricky and I haven't tested this out because I hate killing companions. This will cause far more damage to the galaxy than committing genocide, which is the more personally evil choice for Shepard, but has less far reaching consequences.Īnd give the krogan more cause to lash out at the rest of the galaxy. This will put the krogan under the control of the more traditional-krogan Urdnot Wreav, who's definitely going to resume the krogan's conquering ways if you save his people. Save Only the Geth > Choose Destroy EndingĮssentially, you wipe Rannoch clean of life.