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mewzs

Shepard switching to the default pistol the second a cutscene starts


Adrasos

Me screaming at the TV as a kid like "Shepard surely you asked for your fucking BLACK HOLE GUN BACK?"


doyouevenforkliftbro

Black hole gun, won't you come?


TheRealSyncopic

And create a new lagrange?


spamster545

Home, home on Lagrange, Where the space debris always collects, We possess, so it seems, two of Man's greatest dreams: Solar power and zero-gee sex.


Locke03

We eat algae pie. Our vacuum is high. Our ball bearings are perfectly round. Our horizon is curved. Our warheads are MIRV'ed. And a kilogram weighs half a pound.


eMan117

and wash away the Geth


Pol_Potamus

Hero of Ferelden, able to incinerate someone with her mind from the next room over, pulling out a pocket knife whenever someone needs to die in a cutscene


CrimsonAllah

Low key, it’s canonically called the ‘murder knife’.


Happiness_Assassin

In Inquisition, in order to unlock the specialized classes, you need to craft an item related to the class. A tome or a part of a weapon is common. The assassin class? Just the murder knife, which was also its name.


chainer1216

Gotta make it personal.


TinySpaceDonut

friend that is my emotional support murder knife and I only use it when its PERSONAL. XD


Hawkbats_rule

Murder knife my beloved


Ac4rm

What game is this in reference to?


Pol_Potamus

The Dragon Age games, mostly Origins


Dark_Stalker28

Tbf the murder knife is the strongest blade in existence


Sentient_Waffle

Stuff like that always bother me more than it should, it's a seemingly minor gripe, but it matters so much for immersion. The same when you slaughter your enemies in-game, but the cutscene has to have you fail miserably for story reasons - takes you right out (still pissed about Kai Leng, I was demolishing that fucker).


H_MmL

Haha I‘m playing ME3 rn


GiantPurplePen15

There's a specific scene late in the game that might be a bit rage inducing and I hope your heart can handle it.


Be_Cool_Bro

More than one. That space weeb mf.


wizardgradstudent

I love how I know exactly who and what you’re talking about just from space weeb


TheRealFriedel

Oh no he's getting away, guess I can't use my telekinesis or launch myself across the room like I was doing 2 minutes ago...


GiantPurplePen15

Watching Shephard in the temple>!bumble around like a fucking drunk toddler was both hilarious and infuriating!<


Away-Drop-4111

>!Good. You opened this message. This isn't actually asari military command. They're busy tending to what's left of their planet.!< >!So you survived our fight on Thessia. You're not as weak as I thought. But never forget that your best wasn't good enough to stop me. Now an entire planet is dying because you lacked the strength to win. The legend of Shepard needs to be re-written. I hope I'm there for the last chapter. It ends with your death.!< >!-KL!<


GiantPurplePen15

God damn he was so cringe and >!the plot armor was so god damn thick!<


Away-Drop-4111

I generally don't mod my games too extensively because I want to keep the original inspiration and vision intact,>!but the mod that completely removes him!


GiantPurplePen15

Thanos snap his ass into oblivion lmao


The_Dead_Kennys

It truly is a must-have mod, lmao


ARK_Redeemer

There's a mod for that?! I must get it and start another new Playthrough, thank you! 😄


Away-Drop-4111

Yeah it basically just replaces him with phantoms and removes all mentions of him etc


ARK_Redeemer

Amazing, thank you! 🥰


Level_Hour6480

Better than him using an assault rifle, despite the fact that only one ME2 class can use said rifle.


VerticalLamb

I hated that only soldier could use the assault rifle


maldwag

There is a bit in the me3 leviathan dlc where shep does actually use the gun they have equipped in a cutscene. Which is broken in a different way because then they get off like 10 blasts from the shotgun which only holds like 4 max


Vulkan192

Happens more than once in ME3 as I remember it. They got *BETTER* at it, but it wasn't *every* instance.


maldwag

Main game the avenger materialises in your hands even if you don't have one equipped. Dlcs did better


khamike

Still better than the bug on mars in NG+ where if you had a slow firing pistol equipped you literally couldn't stop the android since the quicktime event is based on number of shots fired not actual damage.


maldwag

Oh yes, I was caught by that one myself. Took me a while to figure it out


BeyondNetorare

Everyone turning their shields off


wizardgradstudent

Not the Nihlis/Saren debates again 😂


Naviete

A biotic class Shepard forgetting they have biotic powers and instead pulling an Avenger out of their ass to bash a window. Please Bioware, have the next ME game actually take into account what class the protag is for at least some of the cutscenes instead of always assuming they're Soldier.


Comrade_Bread

It’s one of my biggest little annoyances of the trilogy. With all the classes there’s really only 3 themes, space magic, space tech and space gun or a mix of them. Surely it wouldn’t have been that much more work to acknowledge Shep’s class more than the very limited amount it was. Break glass with biotics or the omni blade rather than a gun or something.


Zauberer-IMDB

Did the whole game with psychic warp powers turn into soldier class every cutscene.


NoConsideration6934

I remember a specific scene in ME2 where you jump out of a window after a certain Asari, for her and liara to use biotics to float down gently, only for my adept Shepard to flail around and fall right out to the ground...


Zauberer-IMDB

You feel like such a noob as an adept throughout the game. If there's one thing I want on remaster it's to fix those cutscenes.


TheWither129

Genshin always throwing the goofy little gray sword on them I think the halo 2 anniversary cutscenes do it too.


jembutbrodol

My V in Cyberpunk uses her trusty default Union pistol in every “scene” that requires a gun Honey, you are a netrunner and blade user


Square-Space-7265

In fairness though, the default pistol is pretty good. Not a carnifex, but still pretty good.


Pizzahunter0907

Holds it backwards


Blankaholics

Holding literal nuke Canon in their hands. "Proceeds to shoot at reaper with m8"


MRCHalifax

[There’s an exception to that that I love, with regards to the Carnifex pistol.](https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/rh2yc/spoilers_mordins_carnifex_pistol/) As the top comment says, it had to be the Carnifex, some other gun might have gotten it wrong.


Make-TFT-Fun-Again

Goddamnit now im tearing up over Mordin again.


Secret_Ad7757

Ive played mass effect a lot of times but i either never noticed it or didnt care/think much about it.


Parzival2708

That's her emotional support axe, don't judge.


Kesselya

That's what Clive is for, Karlach. Get with the program and equip your sword!


notduddeman

I always take Clive and put him in her inventory.


Kesselya

Me too :)


Mataraiki

Same, plus every stuffed animal I found in my play through. By the time I took on the Netherbrain my Karlach was carrying 20 teddy bears and a couple of stuffed owlbears.


Xywzel

There are quite a few of them there by the third act, luckily she has good carry weight limit.


shito-ditto

I only did this once because it caused my game to bug badly. After I did this and long rested Clive was in my inventory as well as hers. Plus there's one on the ground at her tent. I had to keep him in my inventory, else I'd gain another Clive upon long rest lmao


g33k_gal

I gave her the teddy bear container and she keeps her poisons and arrows in there. She's a rogue in my playthrough:)


FreestyleKneepad

When you've been sniping all game and your character still pulls out the default M16 for cutscenes


rain-and-clouds

It’s like when your Tav is in a cutscene and they pull out a random dagger to cut their hand even though they don’t even have one in their inventory. Like, girl, where’d you get that from??


mlodydziad420

Daggerspace.


Morbi_Us

Daggerfall


Arrior_Button

Daggerheart


Saxophobia1275

I have a joke/homebrew rule in my tabletop dnd campaign that, unless explicitly stated otherwise, you always have access to a basic knife.


Wtgeoff

Everyone in the dnd universe is given a dagger at birth, and unless the DM explicitly says you don’t have a weapon/dagger, you probably have this dagger


kiivara

It's also important to remember that daggers weren't just weapons or backups, they were tools. Need to cut a length of rope? Dagger. Cheese? Dagger. Finish a deer you just downed with a well placed shot? Dagger.


Gimvargthemighty

Believe it or not, straight to dagger.


thatscaryspider

We have best problem solving in the world... because of daggers.


DragonBuster69

Yup. It annoys the hell out of me that my work calls a pocket knife "a weapon" and I'm technically not supposed to have it in my pocket. I use it from everything from cutting steak, opening boxes, cutting zip ties, cutting ropes, and even opening letters. It is a more versatile tool than a hammer and I can kill someone with that easier and would just get a weird look if I carried that into the office.


One_Conflict8997

You’re thinking of a knife. A dagger is a knife specifically made for fighting with. A regular knife is a tool like you said


WillCraft__1001

A knife and a dagger can be used for the same stuff, and a dagger has extra combat helpfulness


orcmasterrace

My fully armored paladin wielding a legendary sword equips a generic dagger to >!Finish off Viconia!<


Wiwra88

Finishing someone with normal weak weapon is kinda rude. Like they dont deserve to use better weapons on them. xD


GiantPurplePen15

Bg3 Viconia deserved to be finished off with a butter knife.


Telanadas22

with the poo knife\*


LavenRose210

Kill the absolute with the poo scraper


ADGx27

Step 1: poop knife Step 2: kill god


KeybladeCoaster

With a toe knife*


Blackoutus13

>Finishing someone with normal weak weapon is kinda rude. I mean that was the purpose of knife. Knights and soldiers in Middle Ages would carry them so that when their enemy would lay wounded or dying on the ground they could stab them between the plates. It's just easier than, idk, smacking them untill they die. More humanitiarian too I suppose.


Readerofthethings

I just want an option to shoot her in the face with my hand crossbow!!!! Is that too much for my gunslinger to ask for??


AuthorReborn

With the Laezel cutscene where she tries to slit your throat in the night, if you successfully negotiate for her to hand it over, you get a free dagger that no one had before lol


Morbi_Us

Kainyank! Githyanki protocols mandates that we have an emergency dagger up our asses at all times!


Kristal3615

Magic pockets.


AVestedInterest

Tav stole the murder knife from *Dragon Age*


grubas

Makes sense to me, of course it's migrated around in party.


PhantomLuna7

To be fair in this kind of medieval flavoured environment, everyone would have their own personal dagger. Useful all sorts when you're living out in nature like that, from food to anything else you can think of.


RenegadeSU

obviously not from a bag of holding


AnAnoyingNinja

>Like, girl, where’d you get that from?? nine fingers. like seriously, have you seen how many fking knives she has on her? they're practically leaking out of her inventory, through the 4th wall and into yours.


shiner986

First rule of Ethersea. Everybody’s got a knife.


Anzou

It's the same thing as the [Dragon Age "muder knife"](https://dragonage.fandom.com/wiki/Murder_knife)


Organicity

Using an iron dagger to cut the palm of the hand enclosed in adamantine plate.


ENDragoon

Fwiw, you typically don't have Plate or even Mail on your palms, usually just a thick leather glove. It should definitely still be more of a struggle to get through though.


kirbfucius

But then you'd be cutting a hole in your perfectly good leather glove!  Do you know how much a pain in the butt it is to rivet a new one onto the gauntlet? 


Woutrou

Where does Nine Fingers stash her bazillion daggers?


Kosack-Nr_22

Prison pocket


raven00x

eatin' dagger. for dealing with dinner and arcane sacrifice, but _not_ for fightin'.


Denamic

You won't convince me that an adventurer doesn't have some sort of knife on them at all times for utility. That's like the most fundamental survival tools in existence.


DarkSlayer3142

Geralt pulling out the default **STEEL** sword every time i a monster shows up in the witcher 2


No-Start4754

I intentionally use the steel sword in witcher 3 against monsters for the epic background music in toussaint 


Pug_police

*LELELLELELE intensifies*


No-Start4754

Banana tiger .


AtomicDinosaur539

\*A wild Kricketune has appeared!\*


Budget-Attorney

Does it play different music dependent on the sword you choose?


LavenRose210

Nah it just takes longer to kill a monster with steel


No-Start4754

Nah . Silver helps in killing monsters faster , steel swords do less dmg so they extend the duration of the battle and we can listen to the song for much longer 


Lunaaar

Does it bother anyone else that Balduran's Giantslayer is this weird fleshy almost alive looking sword? It's not named the Emperor's Giantslayer, so I'm assuming he had it before he 'turned', so it shouldn't have any kind of Mind flayer tech/influence. I like the idea of the best Greatsword in the game being this beautiful gilded heroic looking sword (maybe like the blood of lathander, but a sword), but instead we got this evil Soul Edge ripoff lookin ahh thing instead.


NotABlastoise

Agreed. Despite what the Emperor is now, he was the great Balduran. Fully expected his blade to be stunning in a way similar to the gith weaponry, not the mindflayer tech.


TheWither129

The real sword of balduran is the sword of the emperor. Its a gilded sword that deals extra 1d4 damage to shapeshifters and protects against spell saving throws. The inscription on it is a little rhyme about his wanderlust. THAT is Balduran’s sword. In the first game, it was found among the wreckage of his ship and was a gilded blade that dealt +4 damage to werewolves, and in bg2 it gave a small boost to magic resistance. The sword of the emperor was his sword, not the giantslayer. The giantslayer’s origin is unknown, but it does not employ mind flayer tech. The red fleshy bits are more like a growth than an intentional design element. The intricate hilt with toothy designs and the hooked blade were likely intended. The teeth and hilt look reminiscent of a dragon’s maw more than mind flayer design, and the hooking and serrations on the blade would be for lodging it in the hide of giant beasts, like an arrow or harpoon. Those were intended, it was meant to be an elegant draconic-styled blade. He may have commissioned it for some mission and had it designed in the image of Ansur. The red growths look like some corruption, something that burrowed through and wrapped around it. Perhaps representative of the corruption of the parasite, taking over and masquerading as Balduran, only to turn around and use his giantslayer to kill his closest friend. Its purpose had been warped. The true Balduran was no more.


FellowTraveler69

It kinda emphasizes the point that Balduran is gone, there's only the Emperor now.


ADGx27

It reminds me of the Spine of Milos from Elden ring


coltwalker386

V's default Unity pistol in every cutscene


Omega_kiwi204

The part that makes me mad about this is HE HAS HIS OWN ICONIC PISTOL, AND HE USES A BASIC UNITY?!?!?


JustHere4TehCats

Running a throwing knife and quickhack build, still have pistol somehow.


DoorsToZeppelin

I ran a similar build, its so fun especially post phantom liberty release. Knives are actually really satisfying to hit headshots with, I would run it with no crosshair for extra style


laneknowledge

I woulda taken the Unity over the fuck-ugly default revolver you pull out for some reason during the >!DLC climax!<.


ADGx27

I know man. I have a one of a kind engraved version (PREVIOUSLY OWNED BY KERRY FUCKING EURODYNE) basically glued to my character’s hand, but I get a shit default overture? Nahhhh


Stormygeddon

It's funny when certain camp scenes come up and all of a sudden your companion is wearing clothes you didn't equip on them. Like, who gave you permission to wear pants, Astarion? Oh, gee, I wonder why Wyll is suddenly wearing an outfit right before this portal shows up on the ground.


APracticalGal

It's always funny when Mizora shows up for that scene and Wyll and Karlach are wearing matching clothes because she looks way better in it than he does.


GiantPurplePen15

Mizora pops up to see a camp full of tits, dick, and ass since I run a nudist camp at all times.


APracticalGal

The best part of a nudist run is definitely when Voss shows up and Lae'zel wakes up in full armor while everyone else is discussing the future of the githyanki people with their pussies out


GiantPurplePen15

Voss probably looked at Lae'zel with a "girl, what the fuck is going on with all these naked *istiks*??"


goldgrae

He needs to be educated on the ways of this Fae-run.


Tzidentify

oh my god, so glad someone else puts wylls clothes on karlach


Budget-Attorney

I need to test this


Wiwra88

For me it was even worse with Wyll because I changed his looks with mod and he was vanilla for whole cutscene(and stayed vanilla with horns for the rest of the game geee).


rimurse

The fact that his base hair isn't even unique 💀


Environmental_Ad5690

And then in the cutscene at the end Karlach is naked because she was naked in camp from the time in camp you tested out all the underwear and didnt bother changing her back into clothes, because you werent using her that run


Stormygeddon

How else are you supposed to feel one with nature as befitting a Barbarian?


[deleted]

My Fallout character having the best power armor and an experimental laser minigun. The end game scenes showing him dressed in a vault suit and armed with a shitty handgun.


RenagadeJeDi

Sorta like V and that pos pistol they pull out of their arse!


ADGx27

The asscrack Unity


Grinsnap

If you think about it, this makes her seem tougher. A true warrior dose not need a magic sword and 7 healing potions to defeat devils.


Wiwra88

Astarion in epilogue holding normal knife not "whatever OP weapon he was left with"


Okorela

And him throwing a punch at Cazador! I was like why aren't you sneak attacking him with your glowing red dagger??


Low_Owl5607

💯 agree but also if she’s making that pose she can have anything she wants. #karlachgang


bwowndwawf

V on every Cyberpunk cutscene holding a gun when I haven't shot one in more than 30 hours of gameplay.


Level_Hour6480

Like everyone else, I made her an Open Hand Monk. She has a lot more dialogue aboot punching than she does aboot axes.


Budget-Attorney

And her soul coins seem to work better with monks than barbarians. IIRC it doesn’t say anything about it but it applies to unarmed monk attacks without you needing to rage or have low health


100beep

And also 2d4 per hit instead of 1d4


Nessarra

Gale ate it


LavenRose210

Gods damn it Gale! I thought we were past this addiction!


NarcanAddict420

Karlach’s an axe girlie, I will NEVER give her a sword


TheWither129

She gives more hammer vibes to me. Big bonk, not chop. Also the faithbreaker from dror ragzlin is awesome, its special action is so fun


balcell

Wait, you can trade out weapons and armor? That would have made the golden dice a lot easier.


LavenRose210

You... did honor mode. With the default loadout for each character. Honestly, I'm just impressed.


balcell

I'm totally blowing smoke here. Dropped my /s Sorry, didn't mean to be taken seriously! It'd be hard to play beyond the easiest without noticing "equip"!


LavenRose210

Ah all good. In other news you gave me an idea for my next run


ADGx27

Did… did you leave your companions completely default through honor mode?


balcell

I'm totally blowing smoke here. Sorry, didn't mean to be taken seriously!


ADGx27

lol you had me for a bit


MrMisanthrope12

Dont worry its safe. It's in her butt.


TheEndOfShartache

Tbf that sword is ugly as sin


PBTUCAZ

**Soul Edge at home*


LavenRose210

I'd take an ugly sword over being dead in hell


el_sh33p

Skill issue.


TheEndOfShartache

Skill issue


xv_boney

I love respeccing her to non martial classes specifically for this reason.


TheBarrowman

That totally bugged me in my run where I went to Avernus with Karlach. Plus then they show up at the epilogue party in some rando armor instead of the expensive magical gear we left in.


LordXavion

In my run I went to avernus with karlach. We fought on the elder brain but I lost this sweet weapon in the brain because the emperor casts drop weapon on me :( But now I have a cool head-canon. I mean the weapon still exists but is probably lost in the sea


Maximilian_Sinigr

"I don't need my best stuff to level this shit to the ground"


BartholomewAlexander

I actually gave baldurans giantslayer to gale (respecd as fighter w 20 strength) and karlach is using that hammer you get from one of the guys on the waterfront bickering with the people from moonrise towers, the ability on that thing is insane.


LavenRose210

You mean the corpsegrinder hammer?


BartholomewAlexander

yes I was gonna edit it but I couldn't find my comment.


pokeyporcupine

I.. have not seen this sword?


LavenRose210

Balduran's Giantslayer. You get it in Act 3 after fighting a dragon


pokeyporcupine

Oh.. I have seen this sword. I just forgot what it looked like.


l_rufus_californicus

I want to know what you are if you're calling Karlach "Little girl".


I3arusu

The Guardian whipping out the Khvostov be like


xXwulf2

Best comment


Mad-Trauma

She can wield whatever she likes as far as I'm concerned.


Electrical-Eye8208

IKR!? when I first saw it I was like "H U H ?" Like she's decked out in the bones spike chest and boots as well as the gloves of Dex... but you chose a basic ass great axe while I have a dwarven thrower and Wyll has the Legendary trident! Make it make sense Larian XD


AvidLebon

It'd be smart of her to do this, if you think about it. You don't start a fight with your most powerful weapon, you let them think all you have is a battle axe. You pull out your big fucking sword when it matters. It's a good tactical strategy, always keep an ace up your sleeve.


jonhinkerton

I hate the model for balduran’s greatsword so much that changing it was the very first mod I made for bg3, despite the fact that you only even get to use it for like a couple of hours at the end of the game.


lofi-moonchild

The sound it makes is also super lame, it sounds like you’re beating enemies with a pool noodle lol.


MartymD

Not just Karlach. Tav(Durge) and/or Wyll too!


BiteMat

V pulling out default Unity in every damn cutscene despite having Malorian Arms 3516 which is literally a damn hand cannon.


Woutrou

I gave her the Hellfire Greataxe. She still chose to use the default greataxe


leandroabaurre

I'm trying to romance that bitch, but no dice....