I fully agree with your points here, but I feel obliged to point out that the squad selection screen scales, so they could DLC character us to death, if they so wanted.
Yyyyeah... The 22 minute "indoctrination theory" video is what I'll cling to if they don't actually do anything to the ending, but I realise the odds are it's just me being in denial.
You kill a metric ass ton of people and get a couple of decent weapons. Probably just a cut area they repurposed into a minor encounter, also shows that you've become rather impressively powerful when you can just kill an army.
Also shows general reactions to Bhaalspawn, I guess.
My bar was completely full of both Paragorn and Renegade, more or less half-n-half and I had access to both of those choices and
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That's strange, I was nearly full-on paragon and didn't get either of the choices.
Spoilers Raither, spoilers
I know we've been getting a bit loose with them, including myself, but Humanoid just reminded me that not all of us have played it yet.
I believe this has been confirmed as fixed in the first patch.
I also pretty much agree with you on what the crucial problem with the ending is.
IIRC it's been long suspected that NSA took occasional looks into, say, Airbus tenders and passed that information onto Boeing. Might not be limited to China, at any rate.
(Only read Gorth's post after that, yes, it's related to Echelon).
If I tell you that finding out that my new watch was -2 seconds from the beginning of December until the European DLS change last weekend was the best thing that's happened to me all year, it probably puts things in perspective.
Also, got my teeth scraped by the dental hygienist. Feel reincarnated.
Mmh, more like they think gamers are stupid. So we get the annual COD, and then when someone ****s up they can just say "oh, but you can't appreciate art!".
Arrogant ****.