#thresher maws

[my-hot-awkward-turian-boyfriend]

sole survivor Shep by mass effect 3, probably definitely: I have had it with these motherfucking maws on these motherfucking planets

[urdnotcadash]

You know, Shepard could of had the reaper war over with faster than the council could deny their existence if they just let thresher maws at them.

[garrus-appreciation]

A survivor of Akuze Shepard having to deal with so many thresher maws throughout the trilogy is so funny

Shepard, lured by a fake distress signal only to come across a thresher maw nest: are you fucking kidding me

Shepard having to kill a thresher maw as part of Grunt's rite of passage: are you fucking kidding me

Shepard luring Kalros, mother of all thresher maws, to attack a reaper: are you FUCKING KIDDING ME

[sbeep]

Unfortunate news: Eden Shepard is british. 

[tarysande]

[soggy-frites]

My girl.

Yes, that’s a Thresher Maw tattoo around her thigh.

[galasgamingcorner]

Mass Effect | Thresher Maw vs. Reaper

[lavellaned]

With Elgar’nan being freed and all I really hope we get a scene of Mythal just ripping him to shreds

[mjwproductionsandfilm]

Working some more in Blender while I have some time off from work, so I recreated an epic scene from ME3!

Behold, Kalros in all her might!

Was hoping to offer prints, but deviantART no longer does that if you're not a core user (read: spends money). Debating putting it on Gumroad as a downloadable 4kwallpaper.

[for-the-love-of-starwars]

You know I did the survivor background for my first play through. Never thought I’d ever cheer for a Thresher Maw.

[meatbag-status]

[spookyvalentine]

Since the thresher maw is like some spore fungal thing I love the idea of sole survivor shep being able to sense the presence of one when they’re exploring planets and like maybe there’s some memory

[bagog]

N7 Month, 2023 - Day 23: Thresher Maw

It's Grunt's rite on Tuchanka in Mass Effect 2.

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“Now all Krogan bear the genophage, our reward, our curse. It is a fight where the only goal… is survival.”

“Feel that?” Grunt rumbled, “The ground’s shaking. I’m ready.”

Out of the ground, 300 meters or more off, a blue tendril rose up, dotted with white feelers. Shepard saw it at once and paled. Before he could say anything, Grunt had taken aim and shot the tendril. It retreated below ground and the ground began shaking again. Shepard heard a tell-tale hiss and groan.

“Shepard, appraisal of situation?” Mordin was breathing heavily, standing at Shepard’s side.

“It’s a thresher-maw,” Shepard answered, listlessly.

“A thresher-maw!” Grunt turned back in glee. Just then, the maw burst up where the tendril had risen a moment ago. It wheeled back, lurched forward, and the barely subsonic glob of viscous acid hurtled into one of the columns the fire team was standing next to, causing it to immediately crumble to the ground. The thresher roared.

Grunt and Mordin scattered, trying to find cover the thresher could not immediately destroy. Shepard stood his ground, oddly impassive, though his eyebrows were sternly furrowed.

“No,” He said at last, simply, as the acidic blob burned into the ground, sputtering and hissing. “No, no, no. Fuck this. No.”

He holstered his weapon, reached behind his back, and hoisted the M-920 Cain into his arms. The weapon telescoped to its full size and Shepard took aim.

There was a flash, a wash of radiant heat against Shepard’s face, then the blast. Where the tresher maw had been, there was now a mushroom cloud. The maw’s burnt and obliterated corpse was laid out on the glassed sands.

Grunt looked back at him, looking somewhat impressed. Shepard set the overheated Cain on the ground. Walked briskly to the keystone. Before anyone could say anything, Shepard, turned over his shoulder.

“They killed my whole unit. I fucking hate thresher maws.”

He punched the keystone and they waited in awkward silence while the trucks came to retrieve them.

[jbk405]

I have to say, fighting the Thresher Maws is probably my single least favorite part of the original Mass Effect. It's not that the fights are hard (Not even on Insanity) it's that they're not fun.

Without any questions of using cover, or using powers, all you do is hold down the trigger as the life of Maw slowly drains down. Very slowly. And then hopping the Mako in a regular pattern to avoid its acid attacks.

It's boring.

I often use the same shoot-and-hop technique against Geth Armatures and Colossi as well, but they've got a fraction of the health that a Maw has. A 20 second encounter is a whole different experience than 5 minutes of just waiting for the enemy to fall over. Plus sometimes getting multiples Armatures, or additional Geth infantry, gives those battles a unique edge.

The Thresher Maws are just the exact same fight over and over again.

At least their appearances in ME2 and ME3 give something new.

[sophiasartandgaming]

Splotch Summer entry #2: Blasto and Thresher Maw vs Reapers. Splotch template by @pandakong

[nowandthane]