WARNING MASS EFFECT 2 ENDING SPOILERS

[mysecondlife]

I lost Legion, Thane, Miranda and Zaeed on my first try.

2nd try, like most people, kept everyone alive.

 

[Akalistos]

Well I lost Legion, Jacob and Zaeed in what was going to be my transfered Shepard, but I'm going to be doing another one now that I have Kasumi. We'll see how well that one goes, though I imagine it will be pretty good since by now I know most of the ins and outs of why people die in the final mission.

How the hell did you lose that much crew in the final mission. I only lost Jack on my first try and good riddance I say, she was a *****. The Normandy, Characters and most of the crew survived.

Zaeed wasn't loyal to me. So when I sent him as the first fire squad leader, he ended up getting Legion (the hacker) killed. I then used Thane as the bubble during the swarm area and as such Jacob was lost. Finally I lost Zaeed at the hold the line area due to him not being loyal. I'll admit that this wasn't my first time through and I was seeing what would happen if I choose Thane as the bubble (had Samara first time).

All my crew were loyal except for Jack because of that assault on Miranda. I let Legion take the command of the second group with Tali and Grunt while I took Miranda and Thane. I switch Miranda for Samara and use Grunt and Garius for the buble section and again, I left Jack in charge while I took Thane and Miranda against the final boss. Final verdict, the only Character I couldn't stand was kill. The others are Safe and ready for Mass Effect 3.

 

[Offworlder_v1legacy]

I saved them all cos I'm economical like that.

 

[infohippie]

My first two playthroughs, I lost nobody. My third, I didn't quite have enough paragon/renegade points to sort out the argument between Miranda and Jack, so I ended up losing Jack. That was fine with me though, because Jack has always irritated the hell out of me.

 

[Kingsnake661]

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?

I've never lost a single person. I'll admit, that I used a guide to get past the suicide mission. Funny thing is, i'd have prolly gotten past it without losing someone anyways. I always get full ungrades and loyalitys... it's an ocd thing... I've have picked Garus to be my 2nd team leader, i always do, i'd use Tali in the vents, it just makes since, plus them two are my most tursted alies. Samara makes the most since for the biotic part, i'd have picked her, only iffy part of the whole mission would be who i'd send back with my live crew. If i'd have picked someone two powerful, i MIGHT have lost someone on the line... cause my end team would have been tali and garus. basically, if i'd have sent grunt or Zeehed back, i'd have prolly lost mordin... but if i sent nearly anyone else, they'd all live.

*shrug*

 

[jowo96]

First playthrough nobody died.

Second playthrough I hadn't recruited Tali, Grunt or Legion so Thane died on the ship, Garrus was my tech specialist, he died, I sent the crew back to the ship alone, they didn't make it, Zaeed got carried away by the swarm and Jack died holding the line.
But the good thing is that I still have a Krogan in stasis on the Normandy, I'm gonna wait till Mass Effect 3 to open it, or maybe just until I get all the DLC

 

[WolfThomas]

Made it through with no deaths (and no lost crew) without any walkthrough or outside help. I got screwed into being locked in the endgame for the first one with Vrimare and wasn't going to let that happen to me a second time, so I got all the companions and did all of their loyalty missions, fully upgraded the ship and made rational choices in the ending parts. Even then it felt tense, but pulling it felt so good.

 

[Roxor]

I lost the Normandy's crew but everyone else survived the mission. While I can see the Illusive Man's point about the Collector base, I didn't trust him enough to leave it intact, so I'm probably not going to have Cerberus on my side when Mass Effect 3 comes around.

 

[Sarge034]

I got most of my crew and all team members out... Best ending LIKE A BOSS!

 

[Xarran]

Had Jack die on my first playthru, but everybody survived in the second run.

Same here, I was going to do her loyalty quest after Legions, but then my crew got abducted, so it was off to the Collector base.

I delayed my trip thru the omega 4 relay to do Legions quest, unfortunatly that meant most of my crew where turned into goo:/

 

[Vrex360]

I sacrificed Tali cause I hated that stupid *****.

>:O

Anyway... the only one that died for me was Jack - and that was on purpose (I.e. I made sure she didn't have loyalty so that she dies in the holdout when you fight the Human-reaper).

But seriously did anyone else find her as annoying as I did? From the get-go she had a stick up her arse and took it out on everyone else, she was ugly and barely wore anything (Blegh).

Glad I won't be seeing that ***** in ME3.

So, it's okay for you to hate on Jack to your hearts content, but anyone says anything negative about Tali and they earn an angry face?
Double standards sicken me.
Also for what it's worth, Jack is absolutley gorgeous.

Harumph!

EDIT: For the record, I have nothing against you liking Tali. Merely pointing out the double standards.

OT: Anyway, I had quite a bit of time before I actually got to play Mass Effect 2, so I did quite well. I had obsessively studied and planned out the best possible solution and no one died.
In short, it worked perfectly and everyone lived. And I felt pretty awesome for it... although now that I've done it several times over I wonder if I haven't found a game breaker or if the Suicide mission is just that easy.

 

[KingofallCosmos]

I actually really only wanted to save Kelly. She's the only female character that didn't irritate me. Well maybe Morinth..
Right now I'm trying to keep Thane, Garrus, Mordin, Morinth and Legion. The rest can go to reaper hell.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

I'd heard about that deal before I got to the end, so I followed a walkthrough to keep them all alive.

Hey, you'll argue that doing so spoiled the "experience", but I would have hated the ending if anyone had died. Like, ragequit hate.

 

[Aphex Demon]

Every fucker died.
Everyone.

(Pic unrelated)

 

[Super Toast]

On my first playthrough, Jack, Mordin, Thane and Legion died. On my second playthrough, Jack died (Again!). On my third playthough everyone survived, but Miranda hated my guts. Oh well, you can't win 'em all.

 

[Vrex360]

On my first playthrough, Jack, Mordin, Thane and Legion died. On my second playthrough, Jack died (Again!). On my third playthough everyone survived, but Miranda hated my guts. Oh well, you can't win 'em all.

You know I have yet to do a playthrough where Miranda and I were ever on good terms. I always side with Jack in the confrontation. Partly it's because I had sympathy for Jack due to her hardships on the Teltin facility, partly it's because I just liked Jack more than Miranda, partly it was because I had plans to romance Jack (this was only for one playthrough, every other playthrough I just stuck with Ashley) and partly it was because I didn't want the biotic super human death machine to have a reason to dislike me.

So Miranda remains cold to me all the time, but as it turns out she's the best one to keep disloyal because she is really hard to get killed off. Seriously, disloyal Miranda can survive all but one scenario... being with Shepard at the final battle. Otherwise she can recover from everything, even the seeker swarms bizarrely.

But yeah, Miranda and Shepard... in my case, not great friends.

 

[OriginalError]

I lost nobody... because I'm one of those weird freaky completionists that does all the side quests and upgrades the ship 100%

 

[Super Toast]

On my first playthrough, Jack, Mordin, Thane and Legion died. On my second playthrough, Jack died (Again!). On my third playthough everyone survived, but Miranda hated my guts. Oh well, you can't win 'em all.

You know I have yet to do a playthrough where Miranda and I were ever on good terms. I always side with Jack in the confrontation. Partly it's because I had sympathy for Jack due to her hardships on the Teltin facility, partly it's because I just liked Jack more than Miranda, partly it was because I had plans to romance Jack (this was only for one playthrough, every other playthrough I just stuck with Ashley) and partly it was because I didn't want the biotic super human death machine to have a reason to dislike me.

So Miranda remains cold to me all the time, but as it turns out she's the best one to keep disloyal because she is really hard to get killed off. Seriously, disloyal Miranda can survive all but one scenario... being with Shepard at the final battle. Otherwise she can recover from everything, even the seeker swarms bizarrely.

But yeah, Miranda and Shepard... in my case, not great friends.

I actually used to romance her, but I stopped that once I looked past that nice body and realised she was one of the most unlikeable characters in the game. I was still determined to make sure everyone survived the final assault, so I looked up the suicide mission walkthrough on the Mass Effect wiki. Hooray for corner cutting!

 

[Yassen]

I did pretty well on my first try, only lost Mordin as he has the highest probability of dying if you leave him to defend. Oh and I also lost half the crew because I bought some final upgrades on the Citadel after they were abducted. Apparently that kills half of them... woops >.>

But to be honest I find it harder to completely fuck up that final mission than save everyone. I even did a playthrough attempting just that and at least one of my squad still survived. But then, I suppose this is Bioware making sure we can import into ME3 with as many variables as possible.

As for the collector base, I destroyed it. Consider, a single piece of Reaper tech was capable of disabling the Normandy and almost killed everyone on the ship. Now imagine taking an enormous base of Reaper tech and designing our entire offensive and defensive capabilities around it... yeah, not smart. I just wish Shepard's reason to blow it up wasn't so idiotic. There are dozens of logical reasons to destroy the base but he chooses the one that makes him sound like a blind idiot. Well done.

 

[Crazy_Man_42]

I saved everyone but Miranda mainly because I sided with Jack in their argument. Which is strange because I put her as the second team's leader while I was fighting the human reaper and she still died on me.

It's pretty easy to save most of them, the only reason I lost Miranda was because I didn't have enough Paragon points to go for the neutrel option during their fight.

Well at least I had enough for Tali's and Legion's fight, those two are my favorite characters in the game.