Yeah I think I’m gonna have to start manual saving after certain quests. But no, I’m not using any mods. Ended up rolling to a save I had backed up way back, lot of lost progress but it is what it is.
I’m gonna edit the post to add what I think was the thing that started this bug.
you can have more than one save per character and it seems that going back to a WAY old save fixed it, kinda ashamed that I didn’t even think of this before lol but man it sucks that save was like 100hrs old and I reverted back by 20+ hours
edit: Also thanks for reminding me to rollback at least it’s not a complete loss for this character.
Considering I’m in my umpteenth play through; I feel like Mass Effect fits into this. Humans and other aliens are more or less on the same technological level.
There’s a little more depth to it but it’s something you can find out more while playing. There’s also some comics about it.