Thank you for taking the time to download and try the savegame. Yeah, I figured the save is somehow corrupt. However, starting from an earlier save, about midgame, doesn't seem to help either - it ends up the same way once I reach this point. I haven't started the game all the way from beginning, but whatever corruption or bug has ruined my game, it has been there early on.
Just a few days ago I actually discovered there are savegame editors for these games. I tried marking Legion as loyal, but as expected, it didn't fix the problem. And of course I had to start toying around with my ME3 saves (after backing them up first), since I have saves for the game from beginning to the end. 🙂 A fun tool, indeed.
Now that I think about it, while I don't remember encountering many bugs in ME1, ME2 was actually the buggiest of the trilogy. In fact, even the installation program didn't work from the original DVD. That's when I ended up letting Origin download the games with my CD-key overnight. But after Origin successfully installed ME2, it didn't start. I had to rename MassEffect2.exe as MassEffect2Launcher.exe and ME2Game.exe as MassEffect2.exe. After this the game finally started. But I find it hard to believe this obscure fix would corrupt my savegames. I also encountered disappearing sound during the Shadow Broker DLC (sky car chase), scripted cutscenes not triggering at first during the Overlord DLC (final base), worst graphics glitches of the trilogy and Thane seems to be still sad about
even though I saved him and got his loyalty.
In ME3, the worst bugs were getting stuck in Normandy's cockpit (every single time in the PC version) and the scripted cutscenes after beating
not triggering in the Wii U version (forced me to beat him almost 10 times, since I was stuck in the room with nothing to do). Other than these, the other glitches I encountered involved Shepard facing in the wrong direction while speaking with Liara and similar, more funny than game-breaking stuff.
Oh well, these are massive games and have provided me with more than 100 hours of entertainment. It's hard to complain. If anyone has a ME2 savegame to post just before the
I'd be grateful. I don't think I can fix my own game.
