People should not try to compare Ryder to Shepard. Ryder wasn't a N7 marine, so their lack of confidence and weakness is fitting and actually more of a breath of air and more human to me. I liked that change, we also have no idea how they would of developed Ryder, since they got shut down. Not every protagonist can just grit, eat rocks and "get over" the death of their father and only remaining family at the time.
Can't save him unless you really screw the Krogans.
Yes, play it.
It is a great game, but don't go into it thinking it will be a continuation of the original ME trilogy. The character interactions didn't draw me in as much as the original, but one thing I loved of ME was the combat system, gun play and powers and all that. Definitely worth it in you loved those elements of the series.
Plus...if you paid for it, might was well play it haha
Any DLC missions, outside the Loyalty missions don't impact survival of members, so you can wait and keep those up till post Suicide Mission, but the Loyalty missions usually have inter-character dialogue and interactions which are the best in the game, so kind of sucks they did this.
If you don't care about the crew, you can just wait it out. I did that the very first time I played the game. Which is a shame you can't really use him on most of the base game if you want everyone to survive and save all the crew.
Just go full Morality and pull rank on him, scream at him and he'll fall in line lol
Scion or anything using Shockwave. I need that cover since I play a Cloak Sniper lol
I mean other character's missions or those story missions without having to sacrifice the crew by avoiding them and going right for Legion and then letting the Collectors capture the crew.
Literally do everything before IFF. If you have a lot of missions left, if might take 4 or so before it triggers, but it won't be enough to gain all the loyalty and assignments without sacrificing all the crew. I only held off on Tali's just to get the lol rage reactions from the Fleet as I am playing Renegade.
Which is a shame that the countdown happens, cause Legion is literally my favorite character and would of loved to hear more of his interactions but I also had to go for trophies and had 99% of the game completed before I got him.