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Presidents Play Mass Effect 2 Episode 5
🕑 Added 2025-12-10 17:52:07 +0000 UTCThe infamous Collector Vessel episode.
This episode has drew a little bit of controversy in regard to the death count. A lot of people believe Joe's death at the end of Miranda's loyalty mission shouldn't count but the death wasn't a result of a bug like what happened on Therum, he just fumbled the redo.
Some people also said that because Obama needed to redo the final Kai Leng fight, Joe's death shouldn't count, but Obama didn't die fighting Kai Leng. Had he, the deaths obviously would've counted.
Having said that, the death following the reset was not staged anyway, so in everyway it was legitimate. I had hoped I'd be able to get Joe to have 0 deaths leading into the Collector Vessel to increase tension, but I think it worked out either way.
Speaking of the Collector Vessel, you'll remember the Praetorian fight was originally cut out of the episode, that was simply because I struggled to come up with dialogue during the battle. Though enough viewers seemed to think something was awry so I added it back in for the Supercut of 2.
In other news:
I originally asked if I should do the multiplayer classes tier list individually or all at once, and most of you suggested it be done individually. After recording things and planning it out, I'm going to have the classes covered in two videos, 3 classes each all on one tierlist, you know like the old Squadmate/Characters tierlist.
First will be the Adept, Soldier, and Engineer classes followed by Sentinel, Infiltrator, and Vanguard. This is mainly because I don't want to stretch this project over 6 weeks when I could realistically do it in 4.
After multiplayer classes tier list, maybe I'll go back around for Weapons and Maps in the future. I've wanted to redo weapons for some time, and it might as well be done in the context of the multiplayer.
Regardless, once the multiplayer classes tier list is done that'll be the last thing I was committed to doing before Andromeda, so I'll most likely start recording that in earnest soon.
Comments
dozerthebold
Joe's finest hour.
Tuwl
This, in my eyes is another contender for an S tier episode. Even without the Collector Vessel I love Trump's dialog about Jack being a toxic teammate (and the general Jack banter). That being said, at the time I was slightly annoyed at the Shadow of the Erd Tree spoilers, but got over it pretty quick so no harm no foul.
Prime Radiant
Difficulty will come into play, but won't be the entire reason classes are placed. On some level classes will be placed based on how the Presidents would prefer them in character, Donald will overbearingly insist the Vanguard classes be rated highly, as you might guess. For the most part when I've played it has been on gold difficulty.
ShepardTheN7
For the Multiplayer tier list, will you be judging them based on difficulty? Cause some characters, especially the starter ones, straight up struggle or need strong boosters/gear to survive. Gold is tough, but Platinum is a true test of your skill.
Nathan Watrous
Thanks for these little BTS blurbs about each episode. Awesome to see the thought and creativity behind them all
