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What you've read. They lost Vyn IP to one of the former devs who filed a claim, and because of how German IP law works he got it (other devs, current SureAI included, weren't even notified about the proceedings).
Agreed, but not because its a blatant rip-off of Mass Effect 3 but because the whole twist hinges on the idea that you the player got played by the higher ones but then you are at no point in the game given any chance to even attempt not getting played. Not even once are you given the chance to say "wait a minute maybe we should...". At no point are you allowed to take any action against Sharim or Natara even though the second one could not be signaling its betrayal harder if she was named Tra' Itor. Its the same problem as with Spec Ops the line tying your hands behind your back and then criticizing you for not waving back.
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Well ultimately its a community mod so some level of incoherence is a given, so you kind of have to cut them some slack. Macro concepts like eventualities or certain characters are often just... well cool ideas that get used/name dropped because its cool and not much else. A very real possibility is also that they are left overs from one modder who left midway through and another guy just sort of jerry-rigged them into his own narrative.
To be perfectly honest that could very well be a intentional misdirect. The cycle is going as planned but the High Ones simply try to gaslight you into believing that its not to stop you from digging too deep and potentially stopping them. But considering how everything else is handled that is perhaps a bit too charitable of an interpretation on my end.
How could you even come to that conclusion?
The ending is almost the opposite of Mass Effect. In ME3, the ending really makes almost all previous choices irrelevant as everything except Earth gets annihilated anyway.
All those planets visited / saved, the choices made on them? Doesn't matter one inch, all gone now and nobody will ever see em again.
In Enderal, on the other hand....
Your choice at the end actually makes sure that (almost) everything you achieved DOES matter, as there's still a world around for all the consequences of your actions to matter in.
Unless of course you pick the other ending and everything just dies
But it can be safely assumed that's not canon.
What you do is the equivalent of stopping the Reapers before they destroy most of the galaxy.
Again, you DO save the realm, or at the very least, you give it more time to figure something out.How could you even come to that conclusion?
The ending is almost the opposite of Mass Effect. In ME3, the ending really makes almost all previous choices irrelevant as everything except Earth gets annihilated anyway.
All those planets visited / saved, the choices made on them? Doesn't matter one inch, all gone now and nobody will ever see em again.
In Enderal, on the other hand....
Your choice at the end actually makes sure that (almost) everything you achieved DOES matter, as there's still a world around for all the consequences of your actions to matter in.
Unless of course you pick the other ending and everything just dies
But it can be safely assumed that's not canon.
What you do is the equivalent of stopping the Reapers before they destroy most of the galaxy.
Hey sorry for the very late reply, my disappointment for the ending is that no matter what the continent of enderal is goners. you spent dozens of hours exploring/solving quests and for what? at least in mass effect 3 you can save earth/the galaxy depending on choices/war assets.
At least give me a choice of allowing to save via evacuation/magical barrier/whatever some of the population.
Not, even that really because you have to gamble at your companion convincing the rest of the world to deal(or rather not deal) with the high ones. Its a dice roll that you are likely to lose.
Mass Effect 2 at least had the decency to not have its twist essentially boil down to "muhehe we tricked your dumb ass" without ever giving the player the chance to not get tricked. There are so many points in both the main quest and the side quests that seem to have been made with the intention of giving the player hints or ways to avoid the trap the high ones are setting up but then they just choose to not follow up on it.
Rhalata genuinely feel like the original main quest that was simply relegated to a side quest. As they are in the game they are essentially a weird plothole that makes little to no sense. They should be the most relevant faction in the game considering their focus and expertise in transcending the physical but instead they barely seem to notice the high ones causing havoc in the world. I do not even think you can tell them or even attempt to involve them in the main quest line and the whole temple ascension temple existing and the black libra alone clash so violently with the main quest its not even funny.
