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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.