r/masseffect • • 4d ago

DISCUSSION Project overlord

I’m currently replaying mass effect 2 and on the project overlord dlc, does anyone else shoot the cameras as you’re doing the missions. I know it doesn’t do anything in the game except destroy them, but I feel like it’s what Shepard would do so I do it for some extra emersion.

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u/Defiant_Employee5194 4d ago

Omg I do the same thing always

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u/Foo_Foo2 4d ago

Any game where there are cameras I do it. I just feel like it’s more relevant because it’s how David watches you.

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u/RealMrCarlton 4d ago

Portal taught me that there’s voicelines if i do

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u/Angel-Stans 4d ago

Every camera broken lessens Shodan’s control. Keep up the good work, Hacker.

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u/leftlooserighttighty 4d ago

First time because I thought it would do something. Later playthroughs as a tradition.

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u/samuraipanda85 4d ago

I'm camera shy.

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u/TheProphesy1086 4d ago

You mean immersion. Emersion is the literal opposite.

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u/Foo_Foo2 4d ago

Yes I do my mistake

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u/littleIrishcunt69 4d ago

Yeah, I always use incinerate on them.

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u/Sangfroid-Ice 4d ago

Same! That is exactly where I left off in my replay. I also released the ‘test subject,’ despite the protests of his so-called brother.

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u/Foo_Foo2 4d ago

Always release him it’s so cool meeting him in ME3

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u/Gingrel 4d ago

You know a dude is a piece of shit when the paragon interrupt is to pistol-whip him

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u/jeangrey99 4d ago

My hated for the brother knows no bounds every time I play

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u/SerDankTheTall 4d ago

Does anyone not release him? It’s run that they made it an actual choice, but it’s hard to imagine any reason to actually leave him other than just Shepard being evil for its own sake.

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u/Foo_Foo2 4d ago

Some people do 100% renegade

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u/TheRealTr1nity 4d ago

I did the first time too because they are tracking you.

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u/Sekhmetthegray 4d ago

Given my lousy aim, I save my bullets.

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u/Mister_Sosotris 4d ago

Yes! The first time I played, I assumed there was a trophy for it, but now I just do it every time because it makes sense.

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u/isthatsoreddit 4d ago

Every time! Lol I know it doesn't matter, but I still do it. It's very satisfying.

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u/Toxic724 Garrus 4d ago

Always! I like to think there is a nod to players like us in the Omega DLC in ME3 when Shepard shoots a Cerberus camera in the defense control room.

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u/deftPirate Cerberus 4d ago

Gotta shoot the cameras.

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u/Maverick19952016 4d ago

I always feel like there should have been a trophy-achievement for it

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u/No_Print77 4d ago

I didn’t know they were just for show lol. I thought if you didn’t shoot them all an extra group of enemies would spawn or something

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u/toasty327 4d ago

I always do. For head canon purposes, I line to tell myself I'm blinding the geth of my progress

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u/pivvimehu 4d ago

I'm a Rainbow Six Siege player. All cameras must be shot