Near the end of the game, Tali and Legion are in a "heated discussion" and you have to choose who to support, assuming you don't have enough Paragon or Renegade points. I always support Legion, and Tali always dies in the suicide mission. I don't really mind, but I would like to see her in Mass Effect 3. People online say that they keep everyone alive, and most of them are even loyal. How do I do this with Tali? I never selected her as a specialist for the final assault, but she still manages to die. How do I keep her alive without taking her side?

Build your Paragon/Renegade higher and solve the argument for both of them. It's better to save Tali, by the way. She has a real part in ME3 rather than a small part in two missions like Legion.

Also, I just like Tali way more.

Save Tali. EA BioWare were lazy with Legion in ME3, as they were with most of that game.

Disloyal Tali is a pain to keep alive. You could try having her hold the line with loyal Grunt, Garrus and Zaeed, this might outweight her squishiness.

Tali is hot, Legion is not.

Nice figure yes, not sure about the face though! LOL

That stock photo they lazily used as her face looks pretty good.

Butterfaces are the best.

Ugh!

Did you get them mixed up?

You can convince Tali and Legion they have to work together and start to trust each other.

The timing can be harder to get enough paragon points to keep Jack and Miranda both loyal.

I always send Mordin back with the rescued crew, Garrus is always my strike team leader, Samara as the biotic protection, although Jack can do it too.

You mean the "glass fencing mask"?

Explain.

I just remembered how stupid that was.

In Mass Effect 3 you get a glimpse at her face if you romanced her. She is hot. Like Human-ish hot though. Her face basically looks human.

Not in the least.

Yeah, that was pretty lazy lol.

She gives you a picture of her face if hou romance her in thr second and third games. Theres a flare on it to keep things mysterious, but you can get the idea.

Oh. I thought it was an "ugh, she's ugly" reaction.

If youve topped out your Paragon you can break up the argument with Tali and Legion and Miranda and Jack and have none of them have any animosity against you and they all survive the last mission. And yes Tali plays a large part in ME 3 and you really need to keep her and Legion, a good scene on Rannoch.

Damn, I was far too interested in Miranda to know about this. Once I put her in the black jumpsuit I had tunnel vision!LOL

That's what I was saying, make it so that both are happy.

That's a great scene, any way that it plays out.

"Does this unit have a soul?"

Bah! Screw Tali! An insignificant annoyance, like the rest of her inferior race that got their asses handed to them by their own creations.

But in all seriousness, usually if a squadmate ends up not loyal to the cause, they end up dead. Not sure if there really is a way to outweigh that depending on the squadmates you leave them with when holding the line. What concerns me is why you don't have full paragon or renegade? That's basically your pass through all of the consequences in the game. You should really work on that.

But concerning how it ends up in Mass Effect 3 and if you can't keep them both alive, I would have kept Legion alive if I were you. Not because I am a Geth enthusiast by any means (if the username isn't a hint enough), but I find that the situation that ends up going on in Mass Effect 3 with Legion and Tali is much better with Legion being alive, because what you get if he dies in ME2 is pretty lame, unlike Tali, in which the character that takes her place in the story is still a good one. The only con being, Tali is a squadmate in ME3, and you'll be a squadmate short. Not that she is all that useful anyway. I found her useless in ME2 and in ME3 against anything that isn't synthetic. And you're not fighting many synthetics in ME2 or ME3 as you are in ME1. Although her major role in ME3 does involve fighting the Geth. Either way, so long as you at least have Garrus, you're in good hands.

But overall, it IS best to just have both of them on your side and to keep everyone alive.

I would have much rather left her face a mystery for the player to imagine on their own, rather than that crap Bioware pulled off. So lame.

If I had to choose, I'd pick Tali.

But whenever I get up to that part of the game I am able to keep both loyal.

I am able to keep both loyal when that time comes, Jack and Miranda is harder without that mask that raises your Para/Reg score. But if I had to chose ,I'll go Legion. He's downright adorable in his conversations with Shepard *Voice cracks* "There was a hole"

while we are on the subject of Mass Effect, am I the only one who actually enjoyed ME3?

sure the ending wasn't great, but the game as a whole I would say it was better than ME2.. although, from a story perspective ME1 was far above both IMO..

Loved it, but ME2 was the best in my opinion.