22:12- LC. SHEPARD: Evening, crew. Gonna be on a special ops mission for the Aliiance for the next few days. Don’t wreck my ship.
22:12- URD. GRUNT: where are you going battlemaster? i Will come and fight with you
22:12- LC. SHEPARD: Thanks, Grunt. Hackett’s order’s to get in and out quietly. Cant bring backup.
22:12- CHF. ZORAH: he chose you… for an infiltration op?
22:12- LC. SHEPARD: got something to say, Miss Vas Normandy?
22:12- FLT. MOREAU: you’ve gotta be kidding me
22:12- GO. VAKARIAN: id say there’s a 99.9% chance this mission goes south
22:13- LC. SHEPARD: y’all think i cant be sneaky?
22:13- FLT. MOREAU: actually we KNOW you can’t be sneaky
22:13- XO. LAWSON: When were you going to tell me about this mission, Commander?
21:13- LC. SHEPARD: now
21:13- GO. VAKARIAN: shepard you’re about as subtle as a krogan in an antique shop
21:13- LC. SHEPARD: that’s what you think
21:13- SPEC. JACK: Shepard, most of your ops end in a big fucking explosion. it’s one of my favourite things about you
21:14- LC. SHEPARD: im blushing
21:14- DR. SOLUS: detonation most likely outcome. will be prepared for return.
21:14- SPEC. KRIOS: Commander, I would be happy to accompany you.
21:14- XO. LAWSON: Good idea. Take Krios.
21:14- SPEC. GRUNT: whats a anitqueu
21:15- XO. LAWSON: Commander?
21:16- FLT. MOREAU: yeah, she’s gone. if she dies the last words she will have ever said to me are “you only live once”. so depressing when she tries to be funny
I think a lot about Shepard’s fish tank wipeout in the Citadel DLC.
The entire DLC is this lighthearted love letter to Mass Effect, and it’s beautiful. But then there’s THIS moment. When Shepard falls through a fish tank.
The entire way down, they desperately try to arrest their fall. They have no shields. No combat armor. There is no one to catch them. It feels like this is one of the few times there is ever fear. And they don’t land gently. And the cut scene lingers on it. There is no levity in this moment. Shepard is on the ground, groaning in pain, slow to get up, clutching their ribs. First instinct before they try to get to their feet? Reach for the gun. Have that first. Then see if you can stand.
And I think the only reason we can have this moment, where Shepard is vulnerable, injured, and in trouble, is because there is no one there to see. The moment Brooks gets on the comm, they crack a joke. “Yup. Feeling good.” While unable to stand up straight.
We get this at the end of the game, too, but that’s when the stakes are at their highest. That’s when it’s supposed to be hard. It’s no less magnificent then, but now, in this moment? When everything was happy and fun and silly? MAN.
And afterward, everyone jokes about it. Every single member of your squad makes a crack about the sushi place. And Shepard plays along. Haha, yeah, fell right through it, while trying to change the subject.
No one knows what that fall was like. No one saw Shepard lying on the ground in the bowls of the Silversun Strip, water dripping off them, struggling to get to their feet.
That one Delamain car that V needs to drive back to the garage slowly and everyone that knows what a reckless driver V is be like “When did V start driving like a grandma?”
Cyberpunk’s expansion will supposedly overhaul the original game
Police system is reworked and depending on your wanted level, you’ll have multiple tiers of NCPD/mercs chasing you in vehicles. It’ll be possible to have lvl 5 Maxtac chasing you and a bossfight against them
Perks and skills have been overhauled, no longer just passive stat boosts, but more active abilities like different melee finishers, dashing, and the ability to deflect bullets with melee weapons
A new 6th skill tree for adding new abilities to your cyberware
Loot tiers are reworked
More variety in enemy combat encounters
Installing cyberware now has an effect on V’s body and too much will inflict cyberpsychosis
Installing cyberware now has a first person cutscene animation added to it
