Mass Effect: Bring Down the Sky- Balek's Execution

[StAraqiel]

Having the Colonist/Ruthless background, I went Renegade on Balak, except I let him live. Normally, I'd kill his kind of scum, but I couldn't resist spiting him. Whatever the people of Terra Nova did to him, I'm sure it was horrible.

[delta5297]

You'd think there would've been a hell of a lot more security on that rock considering that "asteroid drops" are a tier 1 WMD and the sheer amount of destructive potential involved when asteroids with thrusters go off course.

[Grivahri]

I can never let Balek get away regardless if I play paragon or renegade. In my perfect playthrough I really considered what to do. If you let Balek get away he might and probably will do this again and kill more people, and I can't stand the fought that this was for nothing. Therefore I never save the hostages, unfortunately.

[LastODSTStanding]

If I see this fucker in Mass Effect 3, I'll cap him. And I'll do it with a smile on my face.

[SolarScorpion39]

@LastODSTStanding i'm right with you there, at least in my paragon walkthrough :)

[GhostSnake]

Kinda sucks what happened to them in Arrival and the fact that the Reapers got to their territory first

[Sparks424]

Just played it today was not a bad mission i enjoyed it .

[lilvinnyfufu]

I don't understand. I've never done this side mission. Where do find it?

[Radwar99]

@lilvinnyfufu Bring Down the Sky is a ME1 DLC which is now free. You need to go to EA's support page and do a live chat with someone from support (links are easy to find on their webpage). He/She'll ask you your ME1 CD key and then give you your Bring Down the Sky key in return (don't forget to write it down) and also a link to download the DLC. The procedure took me less than a minute and was really easy. You'll see the destination on your nav map in the Normandy.

[Sparks424]

@Radwar99 Not free cost 80 MSP i just got it today .

[Radwar99]

@Sparks424 Don't know about the Xbox version but on the PC version, it's free. I should know since it didn't cost me a thing.

[Sparks424]

@Radwar99 Oh thats chill then . Its only a $1 on xbox but id rather have free.

[TheLackofattack]

Shep's one sadistic bastard.

[atomicbreaker]

I read this on the Mass effect wiki.

The Terminus Systems are infested with batarian pirate gangs and slaving rings, fueling the stereotype of the batarian thug. It should be noted that these criminals do not represent average citizens, who are forbidden to leave batarian space by their omnipresent and paranoid government.

That makes the Batarian home world totalitarian. Perhaps they are not bad people, they are just led by fools. Balak may have been like that because of all the lies fed to him

[LastODSTStanding]

Cap this motherfucker already!

[minifootyguy]

how do you get out of the area after he gives you the omni tool?

[SickBritKid]

Where's the vid of Shepard's Shut Up speech? Where Balak's all "Who's the REAL terrorist" and Shepard's like "You are. But you're dead!" *BANG*?

[IcelandPride]

I just shot the asshole on sight.

[somekid120]

how are u killing them so fast???

it takes me forever!!!!!!!!1

please tell me

[DarkTemplar40k]

@somekid120 Higher level most likely. I did this on level 60 during my second playtrough. I've just massacred them.

[rocharox]

Since when a Varren is a Batarrian combat beast?

[xDfoox]

Balak... I wonder if thats a throwback to Malak from KOTOR

[Gravy2468]

Batarians are such whiners, they brought themselves into exile after the council didn't give them free planets for no reason, just because they "planned" to colonize them in the future. I'll kill all of those 4 eyed freaks.

[georock123]

@Gravy2468

Genocide is a beautiful thing, isn't it?

[getblunted4life]

is this the batarian attack on terra nova i keep hearing bout in me2? i realize this is old but still...

[ninjaman00]

@getblunted4life No, it's a DLC for the first called Bringing Down the Sky

[ultimatepedrodude330]

makes you wonder why Saren didn't employ someone like Balak. A bunch of terrorists blowing shit up? That'd be useful to Saren lol

[uncaringgenius]

Does anybody know what music plays during the battle against Balak and his batarians? I only hear it when I do this mission, and was wondering what it was?

[akatsukifanboy102]

these people are terrorists nothing more, saren was a misguided soldier these men are scum. willing to kill millions of innocent people to make a point.

[uglybush3]

I took the omni tool at the end it is the shizam

[Ruiner667]

I was hoping to be able to hunt Balek down in ME2 but no such luck

[d21lewis]

I let him live. I had to come back and see the other option!

[Grunklefang]

Lol is this a side quest or something? I've never come across anything like this

[Exeres319]

It's downloaded content, Bring Down the Sky. Look it up for details.

[TheJazzman44]

it's a dlc you can download it, and if you bought the platinum hits edition like I did you got it on a bonus disc

[bigpoppa1234]

Hmm, I took the Quarian Armour :)

[lmvalle]

I did this mission both ways - renegade first, then paragon. Idk... Renegade was awesome, but I felt really happy after saving the engineers with the Paragon ending.

[gofojibwas]

Really? haha i was more satisfied having put a round in that fucker's head

[Ghostwolfalpha]

That is why I always pick the paragon way, the renegade way is just too evil for my liking.

[Jaistar2k22]

Renegade is pretty natural for me. I couldn't see myself letting that guy go, I wounded but didn't kill him, then left him for the alliance to pick up. Figure they might use a little "enhanced" interrogation. That's how I roll, punishment no matter the cost.

[Shakduhn]

ye, saving a few hostages today but letting him live, may cause the deaths of hundreds of hostages tomorrow, balak was too dangerous to be left alive.

look at garrus' personal mission with doctor saleon, they let him escape to save the lives of his hostages, see what good did that do, the hostages were turned into monsters and hundreds more suffered because of him.

letting the bad guy go IS NEVER a good solution. regardless of the cost.

[TheJazzman44]

well not necessarily, the bad guy may do more damage later, but when you're working with a large number of agents you're pretty much in the clear, and he was working with the spectres and the alliance fleet by informing them that this incident took place, that would automatically make them aware of it and track every batarian out there it's like the fbi and what they do with criminals the moment any move is made bam taken down, your way is a good philosophy but shouldn't be the first choice

[FarthingFury]

Yep, they know now and they can do somthing.

'All that is nessiary for evil to succed is for good men to do nothing'

[Kaweebo]

You never know. You let that one chick go when you tell her to shut her illegal company down, and in the second game she's a law enforcement officer on Omega. But yeah, most of the time you should just kill the bad guy.

[gun844]

I cant start this fucking bring down the sky.

I T was a hungarian version.How ever it must have the smae activation procedure....Fucking mass effect i alwasy have just the problems.

[1Nacforsale]

i saved the hostages. i've got a feeling that this wont be the last we hear of Balak....

[johnnybrottin]

7:58

Pure Evil.

[TheAnonymouz]

I chose this even though I was a Paragon. I wasn't letting that asshole get away so that he can kill more people. I'd rather sacrifice three lives to save the ones he would kill in the future.

[Ragedhard]

I'VE LOST SHIELDS

[autopilot40008000]

I done that too

[Kni7es]

Who's to say if you had let Balak go that he wouldn't have killed the hostages anyway? Game theory, guys.

[IcyScythe]

I let the hostages go, what happens when you take Balak back to the council or whatever?

[SolAurum]

Yessss, make him suffer. Non-human scum.

[internettrollsunited]

This really brings out your character's dark side if you have the Colonist/Ruthless background.

[Gunganbuster]

Personally I'd say Balak was WAY worse than Saren. While Saren did do terrible things, in the end he did have a noble (albeit naïve) goal and was willing to kill himself to do the right thing. Balak on the other hand is a punk who only wants to make people suffer for the Hell of it cause he's got some jealousy issues.

[internettrollsunited]

Saren was just as bad as Balak. Keep in mind that he sought to destroy the entire colony on Eden Prime which had a population of 3.7 million. But at least Saren was more methodical and disciplined than Balak. Balak had a noble cause as he believed that he was doing this for the Batarians as a fight for freedom similar to modern religioius fundamentalists who would do ill acts but be justified in them.

[uadfa]

@Gunganbuster Saren was a crazed, and needlessly ruthless bastard. He was the ultimate douchebag, but not a villian. Balak on the other hand, wanted to kill millions of innocent people. It's easy to tell which one is worse.

[ffinfinity1]

@Gunganbuster If you read mass effect revelation, then you might be inclined to believe saren is the bigger evil. In the book Saren says he follows two rules

1. Never Kill anyone without a reason

2. and you can always find a reason to kill someone.

Saren may have had a noble goal but he would gladly sacrifice or enslave billions or even trillions to stop the reapers

[LoryuoRaioneru]

@ffinfinity1 He does what it takes in order to get results. Not evil, just chaotic good

[DanKC22]

i cant play bring down the sky it crashes my game Dx

[JamboRanger]

Mines crashes only it is with the Simulator Add on

[23rakshasa23]

you should have left him to die

[usernameistheshit]

love the way Shepard smiles when hes going yo shoot Balak

[usernameistheshit]

going to

[xXelmarcoCFCXx]

oh yeah the second time i let him go and saved the guys

[xXelmarcoCFCXx]

yeh the first time i completed this i chose to kill him and i shot him on the spot he asked me whos the terriost now i said "You. But youre dead" *gunshot* it was shepard that said that btw

[retardstupidass]

haha you start shooting at tali

[BombdiggidyTV]

Where and how do u get this quest???

[zgenstru]

You can download it from the xbox live marketplace.

[Shinchibi]

When I played this, I wounded Balek then lifted him off the ground with my Shep's biotics...then let gravity do it's work. Landed right on a railing.

[silverswake222]

completely awsome i do hope Balak is in the next game if you let him live that would be interesting as i would kill him. This whole mission was hard to decide what to do i wanted to kill balak so badly, and destroy every one of them, but he had to hide behind hostages like a coward

[ThisIsMadness91]

A coward is exactly what he is, as well as a hypocrite. Whenever I try to convince him that there is no just reason for what he's doing, he just ends the discussion and acts like he's won.

[420Balance]

I hope Balek returns in ME2 if you decide to let him to to save the hostages, decisions like that would make the Mass Effect trilogy stand out from any other game series.

For my paragon character I let him get away so I could rescue the hostages, but for my renegade character I was amazed at how much you can torture Balek if you decide to kill him rather than save the hostages, as I remember you can choose to shoot him 4 times then either execute him or leave him to die slowly. Very brutal.

[legoman44]

probably. nassana (another unc character) was featured in a leaked critical mission cutscene for the sequel so it's a pretty good chance Balek could return as well.

[PossiblyJames]

Man, I felt hell shit about myself after Kate got powned, so I made sure to make Balak suffer.

[stirfryman1]

hey tri link... what was your first choice when you did this?

Honestly I hated the Batarians after hearing about all the horrors they commited. Plus he kills the hostages with mercy, but after you wound him a couple of times and I see him dying I couldnt help but feel pity for him. I guess its because he looked so vulnerable.

[gelatinax28]

hey !! what level is that !?

i never went there !!! O.o

help please !!!

[mysteryskater48]

dlc bro

[dja9891721]

the level is additional content u get it by xbox live download or by pc with sumtin.

[kilIershrimp]

dang man i saved Kate...

[kitzlaihel]

does he live if you play paragon?

[BumperSticker95]

Yes, you save the hostages instead.

[Ph3L1z14n0]

Are you a vanguard with maxed out Assault Rifle and Shotgun ?

[uglyfatfuck]

My guess would be a shock trooper, though he didn't use many powers. Mostly a run and gun style of play that I can appreciate.

[xS1D3xK1CKx]

wow he had a evil look when he killed him

[shaneclone15]

alien should have some special powers

[jaredlocke]

are you going through this on easy.....cause i mean when i did this on a higher difficulty i took wayyyy longer and i couldnt run through like you did.

[commandershadereturn]

This game is fake! Everyone knows that the alien would of kicked that human's ass.

[lavalavahotgay]

6:20 Ooooh.....ball finish!

[flashzero92]

they changed the layout pattern in the buidlings

[Maverz290]

*Terrible* sorry

[Maverz290]

Thats terribe aiming at times lol

[supdude2567]

i hope shepard or ash or garrus or wrex or liara or tali or even joker does not die in mass effect 2 and i hope you can do playthrough again with all your stats like the first mass effect

[kraid117]

Ash will because she can be your romantic partner, same as Liara and Kadan (if you sacrificed kadan or ash they won't come back) As for Wrex and Garus. They have a huge fan base so they will be back for sure (as long as you did not kill Wrex) As for Tali, she will probably come back, but not as a party member.

[Ubergynormousmullet]

Well, the next game is supposed to have a large involvement with the Geth so perhaps there is a possible way that she rescues you :D I think that would open up a humorous dialogue between Shepard and her.

[supdude2567]

hey were di you get the colossus medium armor i cant find it anywhere.

[dozzer182]

i got it and the heavy amour on the bring down..when ur turning off the fusion torches but i was on level 47

[leamanjjj]

did you have it on an easy difficulty cos you killed em pritty quick

[LostOddity]

why did Shepard just stare at Balek while he detonated the bomb. should've shot the ugly little bugger^^

it's good to see how the renegade options play out seeing as i always lose my nerve and pick the paragon options, even if Shepard's meant to be ruthless.

[wtffy]

i want to get this for pc and i already have it for the 360 lol

[zelda1ftw1imo]

you should've left him to die,would've been more badass

[CaptainRockNRoll]

i gotta get a new video card...i so want to play this.

[THEDEVIL1992]

what gear is that you got on

[Ghostsofthefuture]

Jesus christ! what do you have loaded? you ripped through these guys.

[timpaniman10]

well worth my money, and the armor looks cool

[TriLink12]

I think 90 minutes is the time Bioware gave.

[BlackWolfessUSCM]

Ya 90 minutes they said, but it only took me 45 minutes to complete the storyline for Bring Down The Sky. Although, I'm a pretty good run and gunner and I think I did this at max level on my second play through. It's interesting to see if Bioware will bring them back using the "let them escape" option. I saved the hostages and let him get away. Would love to see them put that in for the next DLC Expansion.

[x2432615184x]

Pause at 7:37 xD

[x2432615184x]

Batarians and their..their..uglyness

[superconnor5]

lol i play like a mad man but not like this guy i occasionally use cover

[AScann3rDarkly]

5:58 point blank carnage! Ouch!

[RazorPrime]

you go on the galaxy map and go down to the one marked x57 around the noveria mission, its also in the asgard system, enjoy it!!!i sure did

[seemorebutts5]

Right question... Im assuming this mission can be Downloaded for Xbox360? If im correct how can i go about doing this, cause ive got a level 57 Vangaurd that might be a bit eager to get in on this mission :P if anyone could reply that would be helpful thanks

[Jinte]

Yes you can, but it costs MS Points.

Just load in Mass Effect, and go to the Extras Section.

[darkwonder80]

Man this mission was kinda a pain... But at the end i got a nice 50g achievement unlock! :)

[RobbyL9]

I wouldn't kill him immediately. I'd have left him to die a slow and agonizing demise after having both his kneecaps shot off. That's how much I feel for Katie!

[patrickbatemon]

hey what armour is that?

[Metmike27]

how exactly does this dc work? do u have to start a new career with your old character and then travel to some planet?

[manisajurk]

you have a GREAT rifle... I wish i had that one... =[

[SHattre]

Where'd you get that armor? :P

[bandofbrothersmovie]

i wish i could buy the song that plays during this mission

[grazort]

that one machine gun that shoot the red blasts look really powerful

[paperluigi64]

i let him die slowly

[exodinereborn]

Why didn't Shepard just blast Balek before he detonated the bomb?

[Redux626]

you know ive always wondered that, i was thinking the same thing when he killed wrex like, OH hes able to knock this dude down and shoot him 3 times with a shotgun but not the batarian

[FrontJourney]

Yeah, atleast save the hostages before he detonates the bomb..

[padawanmage71]

I tortured Balek a little...but in the end gave him up to the authorities...darn paragonness...

[yodogthatswhack]

tali and kaiden? those are like the only two characters i NEVER used

[DarkenedPsycho]

Is there any chance that this expansion will become free?

[FBDMatt]

on pc

[DarkenedPsycho]

What about the one on 360?

[TriLink12]

It's only five bucks. Geez...

[naruot123456789]

Stupid question, but I just got the game and I would like to know where and how can you do this missin. Please reply.

[c0nman101]

you need to download the "Bring Down the Sky" downloadable content

[bandofbrothersmovie]

you need to be in command of the normandy and the asteroid is marked like Virmire or Noveria on the galaxy map, so it should be easy to find

[FBDMatt]

probably when they add another expansion pack. i think they have a couple planned. like when the halo maps became free when they released the newer maps. but it's only five bucks. i'd pay fifty for it, i just love it that much.

[123conman]

I was rlly happy when i got this exp pack cuz i rlly wanted 2 fight Batarians-they seemed so important 2 the story but u couldnt see them in the origional game.

This game is sooo EZ when u put it on hard the Final Saren(last bossbattle is a little Challlenging but the game is just rlly EZ and addicting

[greatdare23]

finishing shot was right on the crotch!!!! lol rofl

[caboose122]

i would poke each of its eyes until it bleeds lol then shoot him

[cm97]

uugh i want this dlc

[Mandalore738]

why kill him?

don't hold back on what you started

[deltasworder1x]

damn that would've felt good to shoot him .

[tow34511]

man i would have glaze then wounded him and then i would have let the allience deal with it. although bio ware would probably realease another mission that's all like "Sheperd balek has escaped and got another meteor somehow...go kill stuff and make hard desicions! hackett out"

[iamalhabib]

woot first comment nice shooting by that way