Alright, so after recently discovering that Garrus will return as a squad member in Mass Effect 3, I was devastated. Why? Because he died on my first (and main) playthrough of Mass Effect 2. I couldn't be bothered to complete the game for the fourth time, but Garrus is one of the best characters in the Mass Effect trilogy and I had to have him in ME3. So I downloaded gibbed's save game editor for Mass Effect 2 (PC version). I changed the flags so that Garrus survived and, while I was at it, I also changed them so that Jack survived since she was the only other character that died on my playthrough.
Just in case the save game would be corrupted or something like that, I made a back-up version of it. Anyway, so I launched the game to test the save file (the saved game I edited was after the main missions) to see if the squad mates I mentioned were avilable, and they were. I went around the Normandy to talk to both of them and Garrus had normal, endgame dialogue. Yay! On the other hand, Jack (who was the only character that wasn't loyal to me, but I had to change her status to loyal because if I remember correctly, all the characters had to be loyal if you wanted them to survive) simply told me to "**** off!" whenever I tried to talk to her... literally. Yeah... that stayed the same as it was before the final mission. :lol:
So now I'm worried for two reasons: will Garrus be avilable as a squad member in Mass Effect 3, even though I edited the save game after he died? And will the save game be readable by ME3, even though it was edited? Thanks in advance to anyone who comes up with answers. :)
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