[SPOILERS] Contagion, Poorly Designed Mission or As It Should Be?

completely agree here.

This mission was the one I got in the middle of it and simply stopped reading dialogues because it was so damn bizarre and illogical. I was in a perpetual state of: Yeah, yeah, whatever! And simply wanted this thing off my quest log. And that shuttle detonation only made things feel much worse executed. It brought a deja vu feeling of us always being beat to the point by Cerberus on ME3, but then, there was logic, there was that resourceful villain pulling the strings to get there before you ... ah, well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

P.S.: I feel like the shrug guy will come often whenever I expect something from MEA.

Its simply annoying. You have to run around in the nexus from the habitation deck to cryo - then to docks then to operations - back to docks finding out she became crazy and stole a shuttle. After you cant just land on Kadara, or travel to the system to find that "hey its the shuttle's trail it leads to Kadara", you have to scan all the systems. She crashes, then survives and gets captured even, scanning footprints a bonus but in this playthrough i went straight to the roekaar base. And if you are still not angry enough hoping you kill her the moment you find her, you have the option to let the roekaar to escape with a bio weapon that might have an impact in the future. 

I was angry enough

I let her to die

I would do it again

and again

and again.

The shuttle chase only makes sense if she has a big head start, like if some beaurocratic so-and-so refused to authorize the Tempest for emergency departure.

As for the Rocaar knowing about the virus, either aunty tries to warn them away for their own good, or the Nexus leaks information like a sieve via a bunch of shady individuals with shadier connections (which is not a problem the Nexus has, right?)

actually the head start could be explained by the tempest's check list if it's anything like the normandy check list that ship is not going anywhere for 30 minutes to an hour and i doubt kallo would rush the check list and hurt his baby :D

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@ViViD_Prime wrote:

actually the head start could be explained by the tempest's check list if it's anything like the normandy check list that ship is not going anywhere for 30 minutes to an hour and i doubt kallo would rush the check list and hurt his baby :D

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Best part of Citadel DLC

Shepard: We always have to do all these pre-flight checks and stuff. You're telling me he can just go?

Yes and unfortunately it's not the only poorly designed mission in MEA.

Ummm....  I can't believe this is even a question.  There is only one answer:

HORRIBLE MISSION

This was written by some sadistic individual who thought it would be funny to make us miserable.  My kids could write better stuff than this *.

it was most likely written by the same hack writter that wrote Mass failure 3 :D

what would you guys think about adding a game mechanic that... in theory, combines the careful positioning of your team members, and their skills to alter such situations, assuming it's possible? it would be mostly based on common sense.

for example: you place jaal in an obvious & specific vantage point, where he'd be able to see into the room through the door once opened, you let that roekaar (or however that's spelled) go, and as he starts walking out jaal snipes him?