I suppose the 1% left is ME3 ending ? Well, as a Mass Effect fan, I shoulnd't say that, but... But... I actually liked the ending (with the extended cut).
I played back through, beginning to end, all DLC, with the Extended cut for the first time recently. I'd not played since I got the original "ending". It was a much more satisfying experience, and I was down with the new endings. I'd been tempted to use the happy ending mod, but decided after this playthrough that it would just cheapen the story of sacrifice if I had.
Some human ships are equipped with reverse engineered reaper weapons called "Thanix Cannons" they can do a fair bit of damage to them, other than that tho it would take a whole fleet of human ships to take one down.
The heros do win in a few lovecraft stories like the dunwitch horror granted thats just the half human spawn of an elder god but about 1% of his stories did end without the hero dead, insane or turned into a monster
A Reaper's main gun would have more firepower than stated in canon. It's firepower is stated as 400kt tnt. The main gun of a reaper fires a stream of meteoric iron liquefied and projected at 'a significant fraction of light speed. (lets say 10%). This is much more powerful than that, as The Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013 had between 400-500 kt of force and was a 20 meter diameter, 12,500 ton stone asteroid traveling at about 41,000 miles per hour. This makes a yield of .036 kt per ton. I do not know how the energy yield of an object changes as it reaches higher speeds but I will assume it's linear. a similar yield given speeds of 10% light-speed would be given by mere ounces given that it would be traveling 16,356 times faster. so if in that gigantic beam of glowing iron there's more than a couple ounces of actual material, the yield is substantially greater than 450 kt. I would think that the firepower could of course be modified, but it is reasonable to believe that a Reaper could output hundreds of megatons of energy through a focused beam in only a few seconds.
You obviously have no idea how projectiles, metal, energy, and meteors work. Since the mass accelerator weapons in Mass Effect don't get things going up to relativistic speeds, you can just use the formula E=(1/2)m*v^2. Increasing mass would increase energy yield linearly, increasing speed increases energy yield exponentially. Since the velocity is squared, doubling the speed quadruples the energy. If I recall correctly, some of the Citadel races' ships shoot 1-2kg slugs at something like 2% the speed of light, so your guess of 10% for the reapers seems on the low side of fair. Math time! 400 kilotons TNT equivalent is 1.674e+15J, so a total of 3.7252kg of iron traveling at 10% the speed of light. The "gigantic beam" just looks big, but is really shooting a few kilograms of iron. It really shouldn't be shooting liquefied iron, as metal needs to be solid to have magnetic properties that allow it to be used in mass accelerators in the first place, but shooting a stream of liquid metal sounds more badass than throwing a bag of iron filings at your enemies. Since it's used in space mostly it shouldn't even be visible, but hey, video games. Like all weapons in Mass Effect, it's actually just shooting very small things traveling very fast. Basically a sand blaster on steroids. Lots of steroids. The fact that the reapers' main gun uses "meteoric iron" just means that they mined the iron from meteors. It has no special properties that make it more powerful. Iron is iron, whether you get it from sand, mountains, meteors, or suck it straight out of a star. The reason meteors blow up when hitting atmosphere is because they're traveling so fast that friction from smashing into the air heats them up so fast they don't have time to melt and boil, so they just explode. It's not a matter of having a certain explosive yield per kilogram of meteor, if that were true any asshole could throw a rock and blow up a building.
Refer the reaper blackstar weapon for a better understanding of how the main weapon works. To put it in layman's terms. The reaper cannon accelerates liquid metal to FTL speeds(thus the beam-like appearance). This places massive amounts of pressure on the weapon's line of fire which ignites everything (even air particles). The weapon causes a fission reaction with explosive results right on everything it hits on a subatomic level causing a nuclear chain reaction. Long story short. You see the red eyes, you ran out of lives.
Something to note is that the exact size of a magnetohydrodynamic cannon is never specified. However, according to a kinetic energy calculator, in orders for a projectile traveling at 10% the speed of light to impact with a force of 457 kt, it would only need to weigh 4.5 kg. The reason it probably looks larger is due to the glow of the liquid metal. Something to consider, however is that the Normandy's main gun, which, according to my own estimations, has a yield of around 20 kt is capable of destroying the Collector Cruiser is 2 shots According to Ingame models the Collector Cruiser was actually 3x larger than a Dreadnought, which it's needs a minimum of 35 kt just to penetrate the shields. The reason the Normandy did it was down to penetration. A 20 kg mass accelerator slug would have a diameter I think somewhere between 100 to 150 mm. Compared to a several meter long 4.5 kg bolt from a Thanix cannon which would have a diameter in the double or even single digit millimeters. Granting a ridiculous amount of penetration
Have you ever thought about doing videos on anime spaceships like Gundam or Macross? I'd be interested to see your analysis of the Macross Quarter from Macross Frontier.
great video, loved the detail you went into on this ship. I also loved the battlezone 2 music that you used for the video. brings back alot of fun memories. thank you! Would be fun to see the Normandy or the Turian battle cruiser.
The Reapers began harvesting races 1 billion years ago.It means there were 20 000 cycles.There are approximately 10 races in each cycle.If every race is then transformed into a Reaper then there are around 200 000 Reaper ships.That is one of the biggest if not the biggest fleet in any space fantasy
The Confederacy of Independent System had at least hundreds of fleets composed at most 4,000 warships So they could outnumber the reaper fleet at best 4 times or even more
Be interesting to see. But how about a reaper against a Berserker (Fred Saberhagen). It seems that reapers are loosely based on Berserkers in function.
Likely Mutually Assured Destruction. The Reaper would carve up the SSD but not before the SSD battered the Reaper to pieces. The remaining Oculus drones, after sweeping the TIEs under the rug, would finish off the SSD.
marsm9 I'd say the Borg cube would destroy the reaper because it destroyed so many ships before and they are all a lot more advanced than current ME ships. The reaper would do some heavy damage but the borg will disable and assimilate reaper tech and become unstoppable.... Until the reaper indoctrinates the borg and becomes a god.
My suggestions for future videos: Star Trek: Romulan D'Deridex class Warbird The Expanse: The Rocinante / MCRN Tachi Warhammer 40k: Tau Empire Custodian class carrier
Why is it, when you want to watch something, spoilers... Thanks for the video, but alas I am going through Mass Effect so I will have to watch later. Like already left though as I know it will be good. Keep em coming and kudos to you.
Vorlon Plant killer from Babylon 5, Lexx from the tv show lexx, The egg shaped drop ship from battletech, Also some mecha for you, Cherno alpha from Pacific Rim, and the U.S robot from Robot Jox
Are there more types of reaper ? I mean I haven't played the game but from the cutscenes it feels like there's the 5 clawed normal kind and there are also smaller ones ?
There are 2 types. There is: The Sovereign-class - The 2km squid like capital ships seen here. These are the center of the Reaper Armada The Destroyer-class - Dispite what spacedock said, these actually outnumber the Sovereign-class 10 to 1. These are typically 150m to 200m tall and are the preferred ground attack ship. Their destinctive features are that they resemble more like crabs standing on 4 large legs. In space combat these attack ships of cruiser weight and below by typically clinging to their hulls and using their main gun(which is forward facing) to breach the hull There are also processers and transports but these aren't sentient There is also harbinger - The Reaper General and the oldest reaper. It resembles the Sovereign-class exept for 2 destinations. Harbinger has 4 tendrils instead of 5 and has 2 main guns instead of 1. Harbinger was also the reaper seen in the picture when spacedock showed the stats onscreen
Kerrigen and by extension her swarm were made to resist a similar control from the overmind and Amon (literal god by SC lore). The leviathan can withstand 5 nukes in quick succession and can be instantly healed with sufficient support. Its estimated at 10 km long. The primal zerg swarm is 100's of billions strong. Not really clear by lore contrast if the repears would make husks out of the zerg or if the zerg would infest the repears but either would make it one sided. Then Kerrigen becomes a literal god in the last expansion.
Who else wants to see Borgified Reapers? The Indoctrination Field would be perfect for the Borg to eliminate resistance- possibly goading a species to develop technology for thousands of years to become worthy of assimilation...
The mind-control you mention explains the existence of the Blue Oyster Cult song "Don't Fear The Reaper". Also, the Reapers' lifecycle makes no goddamn sense whatsoever. You don't need to harvest intelligent beings for biomass to build a starship; that is the most inefficient way imaginable to collect the necessary resources.
Billions of years ago the Leviathans ruled the galaxy and every species served them but issues arose when the Leviathans noticed a cycle. Enthralled races would build machines to improve their lives and these machines would ultimately rise up and wipe them out. Tribute does not come from a dead race. The Leviathans then created and intelegence with the sole purpose of finding a solution to the problem. The intelligence concluded that the Leviathans were part of the problem and killed them(The irony). Their bodies and minds were then preserved as another entity. The entity that would later became known as Harbinger. Created in the image of the Leviathans. For billions of years the intelegence searched for a solution but in the meantime the temporary solution was to do the same thing that it did to the Leviathans. Harvest all advanced life in the galaxy every 50k years and preserve their bodies and minds in the form of bio-synthetic constructs created in Harbinger's image. These constructs would later be known as reapers
Shadows win. :D Shadow battlecrabs can phase in and out easily and are highly manoeuvrable compared to Reapers. Now, Reaper fleet vs Shadow fleet, that would be interesting! The Shadow planet killer is great vs fleets, too.
I will argue only one point and that is that the shadow has no manoeuvrability advantage. in ME1 joker at one point tells shepard that Sovereign just pulled off a turn that would tear an alliance cruiser in half. so they manoeuvrable to an absurd degree.
That is not a good point. It's only comparing ME Sovereign with ME Alliance, not Sovereign to Shadows. And "absurd degree" Shadows can fly backwards if they want. Now, if you can find footage of the Reaper having equivalent agility, great! I'd love to see it, actually.
No, mine is actually a very good point while yours is completely invalid. The first reason being that we are comparing a ship from a TV show that is centered around space and space combat to a ship from a game that is centered around ground combat. While the one's abilities are very well represented on film, the few space battle scenes that we get in mass effect do little to showcase ME's ship's capabilities; it's very much like halo in that respect. When we want to know what a ship can do, we need to go to the codex or one of the novels or the wiki or just go by in game descriptions give by the characters. What we do see in the videos is that the reapers drives are basically Omni directional. The other thing is the actual science behind it all. All the ships used in Mass Effect have a tech that reduces the mass of an object without reducing any other attributes. If you know anything about the science of space flight then you know that while impossible, if you could do it than that would reduce the amount of stress on the frame and make more violent maneuvers possible. In all probability, even the white star is unlikely to match most ME ship in this department; and Sovereign is more maneuverable by several orders of magnitude.
No, your point was invalid. Here's why: You were comparing something that is good for its setting (Reaper) with something completely outside its experience and thus not a sound basis for comparison. You acknowledge that these settings are different but failed to work that through to the conclusion that relative comparisons within a setting do not and can not apply outside of that setting. By your reasoning, you could claim that the Reaper is bigger than any human vessel in Babylon 5 because it's bigger than human vessels in Mass Effect. A Reaper is far smaller than the explorer vessels, in fact, because we do know the sizes of each. Thus, we know this reasoning is flawed. As for the tech, also a non-argument, you ignored that the Shadow ships use a gravitic drive which also inherently reduces or even eliminates the stress on the frame and make more violent manoeuvres possible. All of the "older races" use artificial gravity for that purpose, encompassing their ships in the field of effect of their drives as they manoeuvre which means the ships have almost no stress to resist while the drive works. There is no "in all probability" in this case because your assumptions are flawed. So let's go back to evidence. Films, books, wherever we can get numbers on their capabilities, that's what we need. Otherwise, the default is that the Shadow ship is more manoeuvrable, because we have evidence of its agility including stopping in seconds and doing a 180 degree turn while little or none for the Reapers according to you. This is highly unsatisfying, a win by forfeit instead of an actual contest. We need more information. Especially if you want to make the huge claim "Sovereign is more maneuverable by several orders of magnitude."
The only thing more intimidating than a reaper in mass effect is playing mass effect with Sarens voice set to French. Give it a shot you won’t be disappointed.
Awesome video! Now I'm sacred, those things are created through genocide? Far out. Also, another Elite: Dangerous ship would be AWSOME please! Maby the Asp explorer of another of Lakon Spaceway's ships?
@@soldovah9649 I wanna see farscape fights tho as that series never gets any attention. for example the Scimitar would be less than a snack for the budong.
They were all supposed to be unique, as seen at the end of Mass Effect 2. But EA skimped out so they could focus on carving the game into DLC, because of course they fucking would.
does anyone know why Sovereign class reapers don't just collapse enemies into singularities? they made an infantry weapon that did it, so why couldn't a full sized reaper with a massive E-Z core?
The mass effect. Remember in canon ships bigger then a frigate have a hard time landing on worlds. Sovereign class Repears are literally larger then any Dreadnought the Citadel races have. It's likely they sacrificed such a thing because the weight of their Eezo core would collapse themselves.
Is that 400kt damage per second or something? It's a constant beam that seems devastating at even a glancing blow- you'd think a sustained beam on a single target would be far more powerful. At 400kt, most sci fi shields could take the full brunt of the blast- even the rebooted Galactica! Not sure where that 450kt figure comes from, but it sounds pretty low- particularly for a species so old.
It is low. The thing to remember is that canonically a Dreadnought Alliance ship fire its main gun with I remember from the ranting guy ten times the force of a nuclear bomb we dropped on Japan. Naturally the shields are like6able yo take a hit or two from such things without failing. A single Sovereign class Repear is supposedly about to take a prolonged bombardment from several Dreadnoughts and hit with enough firepower from the liquid metal lance to cut through the shields and the Dreadnought.
Were the shields of Mass Effect able to stop energy based weapons, like the lasers the Sovereigns had on their tentacles? Or were they only able to stop Kinect based weaponry?
DrakeMarvell only kinetic. that was the reapers goal to give them an advantage in war. Everyone builds their shields to defend against kinetic attacks while the reapers use thermal weaponry
The reaper gun isn't a laser it's a jet of molten metal fired via gravity based mass accelerator. Lasers are only ever shown to be used as point defence by pretty much everyone in mass effect including the reapers. The only real directed energy weapon used in ship to ship combat was the partical beam the collector cruiser used. But the molten metals heat does cause thermal damage in addition to the impact limiting the effectiveness of the barriers not that it matters since the impact alone is still more than any none reaper ship can take.
Even the smaller turbolaser batteries on the surface of the deathstar or on the star destroyers are hundres of thousands of times more powerfull the the reapers main gun
A retroactively armed transport termed pirate ship or local planetary milita fleet in Star Wars could take one. The reapers baring indoctrination are so far out tuned it's not even funny
There's an error in your databank entry. It says (an carry organic passengers). I think you wanted "can". I hate to be that guy, but I know that if it were me, I'd want to know
Reapers are cool and fun, but they cant hold a candle to the REAL villain that inspired Bioware, which is The Shivans from Freespace, who are arguably even more terrifying. You should do more videos on Freespace, like the one you did about Orion.
Well considering it is THEIR tech in the first place, yes. All mass effect based technology stem from the Relays, and the Reapers left those there intentionally for organics to copy so that they won't accidentally invented superior technologies than the Reapers.
Reapers can achieve FTL speeds of 30 light years per day which is about double the speed of an average citadel ship. Before I start seeing comments about that being slow let me just say that mass effect is more of a hard sifi setting and those speeds are mind blowing by today's standards
ram64man a couple of months late but are you sure you’re not thinking of Harbinger? The reaper capital ships are specifically referred to as Sovereign-class in the codex, it is Harbinger that is older, bigger and more heavily armed (as well as having two fewer legs) than the later Sovereign-class
President Xi Delete This Channel yep however me2 the heavy reaper orbiting the planet is of harbinger class craft me2 simply referred this craft as a massive reaper. Hence the reason I spec that there was two class of capital ships but didn’t make it to the codex, since the codex is based on sovereign that attack the citadel
Austin Walker Well, in the mass effect trilogy, humanity have been shown to be victorious against all the odds. They killed sovereign and blew up the collector base. They have shown to the reapers that they can do anything in such a short time not like the asari that can live for centuries with their heads up their asses doing nothing at all. Also i think the collector general in mass effect 2 said "your species have caught the attention of those infinitely greater than you". So in other words, we managed to impress the reapers.
@Osama Hassan they picked humanity before the events of mass effect 2... the collector base you destroy in ME2 was where you found the human core sovereign class reaper in construction
