WARNING MASS EFFECT 2 ENDING SPOILERS

[Jumplion]

I didn't have anyone die, though Jacob came close (got shot while closing the door or something). Took Tali with me to ensure she would survive. I don't know how you'd lose more than 2 or so people without purposefully trying to get everyone killed.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

I managed to save everyone from my first playthrough with a Paragon Male Shepard without using a guide.

 

[Stevepinto3]

Only person that I had die first time through was Miranda, I sent her to escort the crew back to the ship and she wasn't loyal. Didn't know she would die, I was just tired of her talking. Still was completely OK with it.

I only lost Zaeed.
I had his loyalty, and you think the guy who founded a bloody mercenary group would have been a good fire team leader, but NOOOooo.

I think the reasoning behind this was that he was such a selfish jerk he didn't really work well in a team. Heck, his whole loyalty mission is about him putting his personal desires ahead of the group's. He mentions in conversation that when he took down a Turian frigate he was the only one of the five men to make it out, and he was happy about that.

Garrus, on the other hand, seemed like the obvious choice to me. Hell, even Jacob is an experienced soldier who could probably do it.

 

[teebeeohh]

I misinterpreted the hold the line thing and thought it was about one guy and not a reek leader so I picked Grunt. Stupid me.
I reloaded and lost no one. Except the whole crew but that was intentional because I wanted the mass sergeant to die, racist jackass

 

[Shock and Awe]

Tali got killed mid-fight, thats the only one. If you make sure to get ship upgrades more of your squad lives.

 

[Skratt]

I only lost Thane. He was boring and dying anyway. Win win!

 

[JimmyC99]

everyone lived, despite the fact i didn't have Zaeed's loyalty, but meh he was free DLC and an ass, i used him on 1 mission and that was his loyalty one so i didn't give a shit about him.

 

[Laser Priest]

No one died on any of my playthroughs because I am a perfectionist and a lucky son-of-a-*****.

 

[Subbies]

I only lost Tali and I'm damn happy about it (losing Tali that is).

 

[astrav1]

I sacrificed Tali cause I hated that stupid *****. The cool alien scientist (forgot his name, been months) got sniped out or something. That kinda saddened me. I think everyone else survived.

WHA- Hated Tali!? Blasphemy! OT: Everyone survived.

 

[Dasrufken]

didn't lose anyone on my first playthrough, lost garrus and thane on my second roll, and I'm doin my third one now

 

[Wicky_42]

Was I the only one who found it amusing that Tali's ENVIRONMENTAL suit couldn't handle a little bit of heat in some vents? What the heck was the point of that suit?! I imagine it makes even less sense if you send Legion

Was she not loyal? Because she and Legion are the ones you're SUPPOSED to put through the vents, anyone else has a high chance of death.

Oh, she didn't die, just that what with her wearing a completely sealed, closed environment freaking space suit, I would have thought the bare minimum it could cope with would have been a bit of heat.

Though obviously I didn't send anyone else, so maybe it was a bit hotter in there than I was assuming and anybody else would have been parboiled by the time they got to the first door

Why are you assuming that what is essentially a biohazard suit would protect against high temperatures? They use those to protect their crippled immune systems, not their harmful allergy to fire.

The real question is how the Reapers saw Terminator 2 and why they thought it was a good idea to make a giant T-1000.

Oh, that one's easy - the T-1000 rocks! Able to beat even the later models, given the right circumstances! Of course, they obviously missed the bit in the first film where a measly human manages to off one but hey, even machines make mistakes sometimes That said, maybe the two universes are linked and the Reapers are, in fact, Skynet? 0.o

Ok, maybe not >_>

Oh, and the suits are labelled as 'environmental suits', which I always assumed were capable of maintaining their environment pretty much anywhere, from planet-side to hard vacuum. I mean, they live in them, so presumably they use them for external repairs to the ships and all (though why they bother pressurising the ships if they can't breath the air does confuse me a bit...). Plus, again, the vent she's in wasn't exactly a furnace, was it? I just thought it was an airvent, lol.

 

[Laser Priest]

Was I the only one who found it amusing that Tali's ENVIRONMENTAL suit couldn't handle a little bit of heat in some vents? What the heck was the point of that suit?! I imagine it makes even less sense if you send Legion

Was she not loyal? Because she and Legion are the ones you're SUPPOSED to put through the vents, anyone else has a high chance of death.

Oh, she didn't die, just that what with her wearing a completely sealed, closed environment freaking space suit, I would have thought the bare minimum it could cope with would have been a bit of heat.

Though obviously I didn't send anyone else, so maybe it was a bit hotter in there than I was assuming and anybody else would have been parboiled by the time they got to the first door

The "bit of heat" could kill the robot too. It was likely enough to melt right through the suit and then burn her to death.

 

[binvjoh]

Everyone lived.

I was rather happy about it, too.

So shepard looked like your avatar after that

I had Legion and Miranda die, I love LEgion, Dont care about her though.

Actually that's more the look on my face the first time I saw Miranda's "assets".

 

[Sunrider]

Legion and Mordin died on my first playthrough, in battle. Second playthrough, everyone lived.

I plan to make sure they all live on my next playthrough too. (I need one more, because I lost my saves ;_

 

[Wicky_42]

Was I the only one who found it amusing that Tali's ENVIRONMENTAL suit couldn't handle a little bit of heat in some vents? What the heck was the point of that suit?! I imagine it makes even less sense if you send Legion

Was she not loyal? Because she and Legion are the ones you're SUPPOSED to put through the vents, anyone else has a high chance of death.

Oh, she didn't die, just that what with her wearing a completely sealed, closed environment freaking space suit, I would have thought the bare minimum it could cope with would have been a bit of heat.

Though obviously I didn't send anyone else, so maybe it was a bit hotter in there than I was assuming and anybody else would have been parboiled by the time they got to the first door

The "bit of heat" could kill the robot too. It was likely enough to melt right through the suit and then burn her to death.

Yeah, only done it with Tali, so no point of comparison. If you send anyone else, do they just spontaneously combust or something? Does Mordin even have a helmet?!

 

[Roland07]

Four playthroughs, tried to save as many people as I could each time. The first three times Mordin died holding off the collector's the fourth time I sent him to escort my crew out instead of Grunt and everyone lived.

Used Legion for the tech stuff, Samara for the shield, and Garrus as the secondary leader. Mass Effect 2 is just about the only game where I actually liked every single character for one reason or another, so I really didn't want anyone to die.

 

[Jumplion]

Lost nobody (the second time, lost Mordin the first) and destroyed the Collector Base.

Call it blind idealism all you want, The Illusive Man cannot be trusted.

I decided to keep the Collector's base as a "fuck you" to BioWare because I had gone through the game doing nothing but Paragon choices and I was sick of it. It was hardly "moral choice", it was just blindly picking the Paragon choice for "+4 Paragon", so I chose the thing that made sense to me which was to keep the Collector's base and see what we could learn from it.

But noooooooo, everyone at the ship was like "That wasn't a good thing to do! But you're our commander, so I trust you." Even the loyal Cerberus recruits (Jacob, Miranda, etc...) went "The Illusive Man can't be trusted," which I thought was supreme BS.

EDIT: Oh, and I only got "+7 Renegade" points for keeping the base. I really have to wonder how much of an impact it's going to have in Mass Effect 3.

 

[Laser Priest]

Was I the only one who found it amusing that Tali's ENVIRONMENTAL suit couldn't handle a little bit of heat in some vents? What the heck was the point of that suit?! I imagine it makes even less sense if you send Legion

Was she not loyal? Because she and Legion are the ones you're SUPPOSED to put through the vents, anyone else has a high chance of death.

Oh, she didn't die, just that what with her wearing a completely sealed, closed environment freaking space suit, I would have thought the bare minimum it could cope with would have been a bit of heat.

Though obviously I didn't send anyone else, so maybe it was a bit hotter in there than I was assuming and anybody else would have been parboiled by the time they got to the first door

The "bit of heat" could kill the robot too. It was likely enough to melt right through the suit and then burn her to death.

Yeah, only done it with Tali, so no point of comparison. If you send anyone else, do they just spontaneously combust or something? Does Mordin even have a helmet?!

They'd probably have a heat stroke or something while their insides slowly boil.

 

[Donttazemehbro]

I completed Mass Effect 2 today and I've lost 4 members of my team. Tali, Legion, Thane and Jack. Three died on ship while Tali died during mid fight. What's your experience?

YOu didn't upgrade your ship, most people werent loyal and you picked the wrong people for the wrong thing. Ive beaten the game over 16-17 times. You need to do EVERY SINGLE LOYALTY MISSION and then upgrade every possible upgrade for your ship (which is 3, shields, armor and the thaxis weapon cannon thing). ANd for the specalist tasks during the suicide mission, you need Legion as the tech guy who opens the doors, you need miranda leading the other team both times, Samara as your biotic escort/specialist and moridin to take your crew you rescued back. Sometimes the doctor will die for no reason so you just send him back when you find Dr Chakwas (spelling) Oh and do all of the loyalty missions, please!

edit, stick to one side paragon or renegade so you can get the loyalty of both miranda and jack and legion and tali. If you dont have enough, pick one and talk to the other later and persuade/intimade them to get them loayl, that will usually work.