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I didn't lose EMS (I think it only ever happened once in this playthrough). I went from 8188 before Priority: Cerberus Headquarters to 8288 after. Not that there's any dialog which changes at this point.

Since Garrus was dead, his voice did appear in the dream sequence.

Tali was in the Main Battery on the Normandy. I wasn't expecting that she would miss him, but she would have a chance to get to know him during ME2, and perhaps better without the ME1 elevator conversations where he insults her. She says that she wanted some of his confidence and Garrus would have been angry that we were finishing the war without him. She also quoted his, "Scoped and dropped," combat bark from ME2.

At the Forward Operating Base, Garrus is replaced by two turians talking about getting to die heroes in this war. The final change for Garrus being dead is that he is remembered by EDI during the Synthesis ending sequence (after Legion and before the Alliance soldier helmet in my case).

Oh and Shepard's last thought was about Jack. But, she's not there on the Normandy to memorialize Shepard and hug EDI, so Liara did that.

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Sanctuary with James and Kaidan wasn't that different, other than James' usual dialog after sounds less in-line with his reaction on the ground and Kaidan sounds much angrier.

The high energy party without Garrus has a line from Tali I hadn't heard before about her environmental suit being responsible for keeping her upright. That seems way more inline with the rumors in ME1 about quarians being part-robot, which I thought ME2 did a good job of dispelling. I guess trying to bring it back in the Citadel DLC sort of fits with the ME3 themes, but it's just so sudden. Also, Jack wasn't any different with Miranda, but was attracted to Tali.

I saved just before turning in the final war asset update, the Cerberus ciphers. Maybe that will allow me to keep the 8,000+ Effective Military Strength going into Priority: Cerberus Headquarters. It does so often fall from 100% to 50% despite my PS3 not having a network connection for years.

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I took James during Priority: Thessia. I didn't predict his interaction with Liara being so similar to Javik. Also, he must have updated dialog with the From Ashes DLC (I suppose everyone would, but it's been too long for me to remember before installing that).

Since I didn't have Garrus, Tali instead is talking over the intercom with Samantha Traynor about Liara's mood after the mission. Instead of referencing Palaven, it's Earth's Reaper occupation and Samantha also brings up that Tali has known her longer.

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I've completed most of the DLC. I went through the quiet version of the party once to hear, "Omni-tat. Omni-too." Sure, if my Shepard were a good infiltrator being quiet would be important, but that doesn't seem to fit Jack. At least I got to see what happens without Garrus or Miranda. But, I loaded the save again before it so I can go through the energetic party later, after Horizon.

Anyway, I did Leviathan and Omega. Only noteworthy thing I did in Omega was getting to pilot the Atlas just before Gozu district. The conversation with Aria about Mordin didn't trigger either, I guess I would have needed to start after Priority: Tuchanka. Leviathan... well, I took James and Kaidan to get some different dialog but it wasn't that much different. Although, Kaidan had a nice line on the Normandy about wondering about what else is in the galaxy and really reacts to banshee cries. James was... fine. Had one new line about nobody needing to go through what Ann does.

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I've done a large portion of the Armax Arsenal Arena, but this is the first time I had Jack's romance and went to blow up Cerberus with her. Usually, her conversation goes back to her students but this time it was all about... well, frankly, it seems like exhibitionism when you consider the AAA missions which explicitly tell Shepard that everything is recorded. There was once again a Paragon interrupt, so that was unexpected.

I also did Priority: Eden Prime. It's been long enough that I forgot that Liara is required, but it makes sense. Kaidan is also rather under-animated during the pre-mission conversation. I got the impression he was supposed to look lost in memories or wipe his eyes instead of blankly staring.

I didn't realize before looking it up on the wiki, but one of the DLC weapon mods cannot reach rank V in one playthrough. I just always assumed I missed a pickup in a mission, or didn't check the procurement terminals often enough, but the Fandom wiki says the pistol ultralight materials requires importing an ME3 character for the chance to get it's final rank.