Requesting Admiral Hackett be promoted forthwith
Hey,
I figured this is the best way to get in contact with someone in the Alliance Brass who cares, there seems to have been a huge miscommunication. It seems though admiral Steven Hackett has an exemplary service record and holds more than dozen of commendations, he's been demoted for seemingly no reason.
It's not at all appropriate and if this doesn't get corrected, I'm going to have to bring this up with the Human ambassador to see it is corrected.
In all seriousness though, I've noticed mismatches with his uniforms that weren't in Mass Effect 3 previously, but show up in ME3's Legendary Edition version. List of images to follow:
Note the (officer's?) shoulder bars. Hackett has four in ME3 but is taken down to three in MELE. This does not apply in pre-rendered cutscenes where even in MELE, he retains his four bars, whereas in-game model displays three. Both of the following images are from MELE and show this inconsistency back to back in the same sequence:
Yes, this is a little detail that likely might bypass many but... I can't unsee after catching it.
Additionally, Anderson holds the rank of admiral, but in his formal uniform only holds three bars, while his tactical wear later on he's shown with four throughout. I'll chalk that up for an oversight as it was so in original ME3 as well, but this Hackett thing with MELE is new. Should be four bars, not three.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
EDIT: I've added Anderson's inconsistency with the officer's bars as well in images below.