10 Mass Effect Trilogy Secrets Many Players Missed - Part 3 

I'd say one secret is rescuing Liara last. When you get there she thinks she's hallucinating and is kind of entertaining to hear her rationalize the conversation. Plus how she reacts on the ship when you know everything already.

Wow, I have known this commando with PTSD for almost a decade now. But never have I discovered the hidden connection.

I wish there was a way to have war assets that would allow at least Joker's sister survive. Like maybe early on you could find Tiptree and scan it for assets that would allow for alliance support to go in and help in the evacuations

Very cool list! I never knew about the Superman reference. More secrets: 1) A hospital employee on the presidium claims to freak out the PTSD Asari because she looks like "the farm girl" (Joker's sister). 2) If Morinth survives the suicide mission she shows up as a Banshee on Earth in ME3. 3) At least in the original ME2 if Thane and Shepard were the only two to board the Normandy at the end of the suicide mission, Thane would stay in the airlock and let Shepard fall. (This was a glitch, not a lack of character on Thane's part.) 4) The annoyed Salarian is voiced by Brandon Keener, Garrus' voice actor. He also plays a Salarian in Andromeda, and the original shopkeeper in ME1 who is bothered by "refund guy".

13:04 If only there was someone aboard the Normandy in Mass effect 2 that has a deep love for animals and isn't ashamed of getting freaky in the bedroom

You could do one video easily on just planet descriptions in ME1. I've just started replaying it, and the craziest one is a description that seems to imply a dead/half built reaper was crashed on a planet. It talks about a leviathan corpse that was genetically engineered, but Batarians took it and now deny any knowledge of such a thing.

Your Mass Effect content is fun it made me want to play through the trilogy again

Those dimensions are interesting, because it translates to Pi, and when divided by pi, it’s 1 x 4 x 9 = consecutive squares. And that same “1 x 4 x 9” configuration are also the dimensions of the Monoliths in Clarke’s 2001.

My brother and I always joke about the Varren thing saying "Dammit Kelly" because of her obvious love for all things Alien

You shouldn't have to feel bad about not giving a spoiler warning before, it should be pretty apparent that a video about different secrets in the games will dive into various plot threads. If someone, somehow, got spoiled by something then its really their own foolishness to blame for watching videos like these before playing the games and experiencing them for themselves first.

you can technically find Dragon Age world Thedas in ME1. From Klendagon's moon Presrop, you can see the famous rift of Klendagon. During Dragon Age origins, if you look at the moon, it has the same rift visible. Naturally it's just recycled element since ME came out before DAO

The game-over message you get from "romancing" Morinth is like a punchline to a bad joke

It's always weird seeing other people's Shepards. Like, it just looks wrong. Those little mysteries in Mass Effect 1 were infuriating. You kept expecting them to have some payoff but they never did. Though, the worst was the mystery of what's his name that lead to encounters with Cerberus. It sounded like it would be important but it just... ended.

This time you got me - this video actually does contain details I missed in mass effect games, thank you.

For #4- there’s a nod to it in ME: Andromeda as well. Similar setup, with them getting annoyed at you pressing a button on Kadara

Wow, I literally just watched the other 2 of these for the first time a few moments ago, and now I get part 3 right away 🙏

The dimensions on Angea are multiplices of pi, i.e., \pi, 4\pi, 9\pi which are actually the proportions of the monolith of Space odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (01:04:09) but for pi-based math

I'm gonna be honest, I piss off that salarian on surkesh in literally every playthrough that I do.

i didn't know the cerberus network had actual news items like that. it would be cool if there was a mod out there to get all that working again. secret 3. joker will talk to the illusive mad after the mission if you decide to do this for some reason.

Some interesting things to cover in a future video: 1) Cerberus News Network gives information on /three/ new species: an unknown race that uploaded their consciousness to quantum computers and have been living inside them for 8,000 years; the kirik (an insectoid race with biotic abilities and intelligence on par with dolphins); and the raloi (a bird-like species that made contact with the asari in 2184, but were known to the elcor for a few generations before then). The raloi are additionally interesting as they were officially welcomed to the Citadel in 2185, impacted by an alien flu virus (meaning they were required to wear environmental suits to avoid getting infected) and then withdrew in 2186, destroying satellites and observation stations around their home planet in the hopes the Reapers would see them as a pre-spaceflight species and move on 2) Lots of planets in ME have unique little details. A few of note include Armeni which has millions of crypts a few metres under the surface, left by the zeioph; Zaherux which has 'seas' of silica dust and all attempts at investigating has resulted in probes being lost and an extranet meme/conspiracy theory that the dust is disassembler robots created millenia ago (before the protheans and more advanced than then) that take apart any attempts to study them; Farcrothu's moons have carvings on them that date back to over half a million years ago; Zayarter has reports of geometric patterns of lights on the dark side of the planet that disappeared when investigated; Klendagon has a huge rift left behind by a mass accelerator weapon about 37 million years ago; Etamis and Atahil both show signs of orbital bombardment occuring 20-40 million years ago and may link to Klendagon's damage as well as others making reference to popular media (Sharblu -> The Fifth Element, Junthor -> Forbidden Planet/ Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias) 3) Special note goes to Klencory whose investigation and excavation was begun by a volus who claimed a vision from a higher being told him to look for the "lost crypts of the beings of light", supposedly created at the dawn of time to protect organic beings from synthetic "machine devils". Waved off as meaningless, it gets more interesting with ME3 and the Reaper invasion 4) In 1 and 2, Earth is the wrong way around. For 1 when viewed from Luna the planet is mirrored (though this was fixed in the Legendary Edition), and in 2 when entering Earth's atmosphere the planet is spinning backwards, making the sun rise in the west 5) If Jenna is alive and you complete Feros: Data Recovery, UNC: Asari Writings, and buy the Elkoss Combine Armory license in Mass Effect 1 then in ME3 not only will Conrad Verner give you his dissertation on dark energy, but it will be upgraded and worth 4 war assets, almost as much as recruiting Diana Allers to the Normandy or using the Paragon interrupt when talking to Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani (5 each) 6) Related to the above, if you never punched al-Jilani you get an extra 5 War Assets to (hopefully) go along with the original 5 for using the Paragon interrupt 7) You can save the Tuchanka: Bomb mission until after the Cerberus Coup if you don't do too many side missions. Have Kaidan/Ashley on the crew for some interesting dialogue, and bring them along on the mission for more

Ah the touching please don't touch thingy. Drove that Salarian into a cosmic sized infuriating rage! 🤣🤣🤣

So many secrets in this trilogy, Andromeda has a fair amount too if you can bare to find them

I will admit... I constantly touched that! 6 was obviously reapers waiting to attack after waking up. 7 is a SCP reference to Jupiter's Eye.

Logan and Ploba intrigued me, I'd to like to see more of these planets with interesting descriptions :D

The lore of this original trilogy.. Well, (for me,) everything proceeding Andromeda is so deep... The Superman reference got me giggling as never heard this till now after how many yrs after the franchise came to public consumption... Thanks Sir... Simply amazing!

Another cool note on the Asari story is when you hear all the dialogue at Huerta hospital go to the spectre office and you can override a message giving the Asari a weapon. If you do you later find out she shoots herself.

Jack's fate if she survived the suicide mission but wasn't loyal is rather disturbing....

I was replaying 1 remaster all day yesterday and a little into today I came across part one a few hours ago and then found out you cranked out 3 in less than 3 weeks thank you the timing is no coincidence Keelah Se'lai

I would think its more likely the scale itch was passed on from someone else off the Normandy whom messed with a varren, and not from the varren directly.

I never knew of the Superman reference as came to the game late. However, hearing you read it out, my first though was that the destruction of the planet was no accident. The description of the technology is enough to highlight that they weren't following the Reaper's planned technical evolution.

I'm loving these Mass Effect Videos easily one of my favorite games that I've played

You will leave Zaeed behind anyway if you don't pass the Paragon check.

Oh hell yeah part 3! Keep em coming

thanks for filling in the gapes and making me understand mass effect better,

Loving these Mass Effect videos!

Dang that’s kinda cool how they reference the dang asari reaper things

Finally! Yo upload more Mass Effect content!

more mass effect secrets pleaaase im absolutely addicted to this series!

this series has been very cool so far

because of your videos I'm definitely going to replay the whole trilogy

Love the uncharted worlds bios, like Logan. I always read all the bios when looking for side quests. I actually like how you don't get to go down to get answers. The unknown is often more frightening.

I wanted the first and second. This third one made me subscribe, i love these specially about mass effect. So good and such good videos, keep it coming

i really enjoy these ME videos even tho i a big ME nerd myself and know a lot about it i still find it really interesting to watch videos explaining it

Number 7 does remind me a lot of the very pulse of the machine featured in love death and robots, maybe they had a similar influence?

So wait... There's a fuckin Kryptonian in Mass Effect? In the Mass Effect lore? The Reapers should have been screwed in the no choice ending. I mean, damn, a Kryptonian being brought up in a time of war would probably leave all life in galaxy at risk. Imagine Superman going on a killing spree because he's a psychopath. Could that be the plot of Mass Effect 4? Fighting a near invincible being? Probably not, but hey!

Thank you muchly for this here video. I missed every secret on this list except for the explanation of what happened to Joker's sister, and the scaly itch.

Really enjoying these videos! Some of the things I know about but a lot I don’t as I’ve only played the trilogy once and it was last year when the Legendary Edition came out, so I’ve missed some details along the way. Do you have any Fable secrets to share? I’ve just finished Anniversary for the first time and really enjoyed it.

yessss I was waiting for this

#10 is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing that.

My favorite easter egg is in me2 (maybe me1 or 3 too) drinking causes the Asari (bar only?) to become more glamorizing .

I always suspected the description for planet Logan was a reference to the events in the story of (Arthur C. Clarke's) 2010.

There's a similar salarian in Andromeda on Kadara who gets mad if you keep interacting with a button, quite cringeworthy as well 😅

It’s actually funny how useless the Asari are they are supposed to be the elite race but were overrun probably the quickest out of all the races and the humans are the ones who actually save the universe

Maybe those two gas giants with solid objects in them are two reaper hiding spots where afew reapers didn't get through the relays back to deep space so chose to hide in gas giants

It sounds like the planet Logan retracted its claws.

Oh thanks, I expected to hear something like "Hey, apparently there's a little red crab that says hi if you find it in The Normandy", not "Joker's dad and sister were killed during the war, so here's the recounting of it from a traumatized Asari"

Here's one. Thane doesn't have to be killed by kai-lang! I found this by accident when I forgot to visit thane In the hospital in me3. Then when the time come, Lang will kill commander kreehie instead (don't know how to spell his name.. the "hold the line guy, from ME1)

thank you for more mass effect

The Superman secret is dope af, didn’t catch that when I played

I know it's a stretch, but what if Logan planet with retractable structures is a small reference to the Wolverine and his claws?

Missed a couple of these myself!

I need more of this 😂

I LOVE this series

i never knew about the superman one, thats dope

Do you like dragon age origins? It’s personally my favourite game of all time. It would be cool if you did a play-through or some content on it! :)

It appeared to me that Logan was home to some form of gas-borne organism similar to whales on earth. When they sensed the ships arriving, they must’ve interpreted it as a threat and scattered, as shoals of fish often do when a shark swims through them. Interesting concept, that; a gas giant home to organic life, not _intelligent_ life, but life all the same, as we would understand it.

ME2 caught me off guard with the IFF triggering the timer, I lost a lot of people but hey, fortuitously, I went into the suicide mission with Legion loyal. Still, it's a shame you don't get him earlier because he's effin' cool. I mean, he's no HK-47 but he'll do.

That asari ptsd story is so chilling

I'd greatly appreciate it if you made some videos like this for Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West. There's a lot of info and details in those games people can miss and a lot of mysteries.

I wonder if the flavor text for logan was some kind of hint towards the leviathans

You can make Mass Effect secret videos for months theirs so much

Once I found a star system called Pamyat I think... explored by the russians. Like a CCCP reference made me chuckle up for a sec, but it had some nice lore and some great codex entries maybe it could make a good spinoff even... I really miss the russians from modern syfy stories xd

10:50 Wait... you can complete loyalty missions *after* the suicide mission? I would never have considered.

Fr tho I know the whole meme about Kelly fking a Varren is hilarious but I honestly think it was Grunt. I mean, we go to Tuchanka for his loyalty mission, which has an abundance of Varren and c’mon, Grunt’s a lab-grown Krogan who‘s only been alive for a couple of weeks at that point and is speed-running through puberty. Krogan. Puberty. That mf screwed a space dog.

Mess Sergeant Rupert Gardner is the one with Scale Itch infecting the food and that why he doesn't return in Mass effect 3.

For the varren STD one, wasn't necessarily someone on the normandy. One of the crewmembers could have slept with someone not on the Normandy who had it.

Dude,dude you can’t drop a nuke on me like that and have it be the first fact and here I thought I was a real mass effect fan. Joker deserved better than this and I’m really hoping my ending with mixing non organic and organic coding together is canon cause if it ain’t jokers got a really tragic life, bad legs, no family and possibly no e.d.i 😢

13:55 I can't stop laughing

I still think the Asari joke is hilarious.

Most of these are just being observant while playing the game. That said #5 was a surprise to me. I always completed all side content before the suicide mission.

Maybe not a secret but still not very noticeable until you "see" it. Mordin's head tattoo is reaper.

Never seen anybody mention that the mom on the video message during Talis loyalty mission has a kid with the same name as Dorn, while rescuing Korris. Did the kid lose both parents?

_Hang on,_ Superman just _exists_ in the Mass Effect universe and no one is talking about this? I mean I know he’s just a baby rn but I can’t believe we didn’t try to salvage any Kryptonian technology to fight the Reapers.

More please

Part 4 question mark Roadhouse

well joker, I be the people of tiptree wish they had fewer farmers and more commandos right about now huh

I wish BioWare kept the Cerberus daily news

If you play a game without even looking a little bit for the extra things and secrets…. Y are you even playing games. Isn’t the point to experience what’s in the game…..

Damn that’s sick as fuck that the asari had to kill jokers sister

60 playthroughs of ME2 and I never knew about N. 5 edit: I didn't know about 6... or 7.... or 9.... or 10

i think it was Jack because in ME3 she has a pet varren just saying

The Varren STD, is it possible that no one was fucking around wiht a Varren but was pissed on as in real life, there are animals that can transmit STD via golden shower..... Yea uh who teh fuck got pissed on by a Varren?

Only missed the last one 😅

Some reddead content would be cool.

Leviathans on Logan?

A secret many missed in mass effect 3 is that to get the best possible ending you must beat the game twice not knowing what went wrong only to find out your 100 war points shy and now you have to replay the last mission again after going through each system 10 times over

Your # 4 if you play andromeda and go to I think it's the outcast base you can do the same thing they really allow you to play with one of the consoles and you'll have another Solarium doing the same damn thing so actually there's a lot of jokes in this game that actually translate over to Mass Effect Andromeda why they never gave it the legendary and why we never got our DLCs I'll never know but if you play these three games about 50% of these games actually carry over into Andromeda I have no idea why they didn't do it there's always hope for the future

Dont touch that

This guy sounds like Fizhy lol

Talk about ac marige