History MassEffect3 / TropesLToR

* NoPointsForNeutrality: Averted for the first time in the series; paragon and renegade choices, as well as other neutral actions, all stack [[http://www.gamezone.com/products/mass-effect-3/news/bioware-details-mass-effect-3-s-new-reputation-system into a single reputation meter]]. So, instead of determining ''if'' you can persuade someone by how high your paragon and renegade scores are, they merely determine ''how'' you do it.

*** Worse in the second case, even if you authorize the transfer, the engineer and their superior still go through the whole scene with the briefing and all again. Should make them leave the hallway. [[spoiler:If you looked at consoles in the early Cerberus lab mission with the reaper tech, you find her brother's log notes, before and after indoctrination. You probably killed him there.]]

* LyingCreator: See the [[LyingCreator main page]] for details. To summarise:
** [[http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/02/28/mass-effect-3-mac-walters/ Claiming that the presence of the rachni will have "huge consequences [on] even just the final battle with the Reapers"]] when they actually only appear once in the game and nowhere near Earth.
** Repeatedly stating that completionist players would be able to get a GoldenEnding (actually a {{Stinger}}) without having to invest in multiplayer when the number of war assets in the game (10,000 needed, 7,700 available) made that impossible.
** Reassuring the people who liked the original ending that the Extended Cut DLC would only add to and not change existing content, and then [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFzrRz6Dc0Y&t=9m40s changing]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o43tVHs-Ns&t=8m05s existing content]].

** A particularly excellent example comes from stalker and wannabe hero Conrad Verner, who is surprised when he finds out that they've replaced the old cooling systems from the original Mass Effect with a thermal clip system, pointing out that they might as well go back to ordinary ammunition. He even asks if the guns can, at least, still cool down on their own, and Shepherd (rather uncomfortably) admits that they removed the self-cooling systems in order to make space for the clips. Every player probably asked the same thing, but Shepherd blows him off.

** [[spoiler:On the Citadel, you can hear Rupe Elkoss (the billionaire owner of [[MegaCorp Elkoss Combine]]) lambast the Sanctuary colony on Horizon, advising his conversational partner not to run to that "scam of a place" since he assumes that they are making money off people's desperation. He is right that it is a bad idea to go there, but instead because Sanctuary is a secret Cerberus Cerberus atrocity factory focused on figuring out Indoctrination, using refugees as [[PlayingWithSyringes unwilling test subjects]] and having a secondary function of producing a lot of Cerberus mooks from some of the hapless refugees.]]

** [[spoiler:On the Citadel, you can hear Rupe Elkoss (the billionaire owner of [[MegaCorp Elkoss Combine]]) lambast the Sanctuary colony on Horizon, advising his conversational partner not to run to that "scam of a place" since he assumes that they are making money off people's desperation. He is right that it is a bad idea to go there, but instead because Sanctuary is a secret Cerberus abduction and testing facility.]]

** In the [[ShowWithinAShow Blasto radio drama]], Bubin of C-Sec prefaces everything he says with "Badassfully:".

** In an un-DLC'd game the Javelin, Widow, and Black Widow sniper rifles are all capable of this. Adding the Rifle Piercing mod and every other sniper rifle can pull it off as well.

** [[spoiler:On the Citadel, you can hear Rupe Elkoss (the billionaire owner of Elkoss Combine) lambast the Sanctuary colony on Horizon, advising his conversational partner not to run to that "scam of a place" since he assumes that they are making money off people's desperation. He is right that it is a bad idea to go there, but instead because Sanctuary is a secret Cerberus abduction and testing facility.]]

** The upgrades you bought for the Normandy (Thanix Cannon, Heavy Ship Armor, Multicore Shielding) transfer as a War Asset bonus.

** Against the Collectors, the Scion and the Praetorian have these as well. The Scion [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown repeatedly crushes the player with its]] ArmCanon, and the Praetorian [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice uses all 4 of its very sharp legs, culminating in lodging its beak in the player's head]]. [[{{Squick}} And your poor guy is trying to dislodge himself the whole time]].

** The Locust [=SMG=] got a major damage nerf and is one of the heaviest SMGs.

** It makes a certain amount of sense, though, as the last thing ''anyone'' wants an [[DeathBySex Ardat-Yakshi]] thinking about is romance. Another message in the monastery states that some of them are going to be allowed out briefly on Thessia for a holiday, but not one girl in particular, because she is cunning, manipulative, and "worst of all, a romantic."