How to have everyone die in the suicide mission except Shepard?

[Deathslice246]

I replaying the entire mass effect trilogy as evil Shepard and right now I'm at the end of mass effect 2 trying to have everyone killed except Shepard and 2 additional squad members that are required for him to survive. The 2 additional squad members that I want to keep alive is Zaeed and Morinth because I can kill Zaeed in his loyalty mission after the suicide mission is finished and Morinth will die in mass effect 3. I already have Morinth's loyalty so if I take her with me to the final battle she will survive. I'm only worried about Zaeed as he is not loyal and will probably if I take him with me to the final battle. How do I ensure Zaeed survives even if he is not loyal?

[AvrorA]

Send Zaeed with survivors back to Normandy. It should save him, theoreticaly.

If you want to kill all your suicide team, you should prepare for it from beginning of the game: don't upgrade Normandy (armor from Jackob, guns from Garrus), make sure Miranda&Jack conflict will fail, same with Thali&Legion. When you on the collectors motherbase do obviously wrong assignments: send to the pipe non hacking "expert", let weak biotic carry the barier, etc.

[AbedsBrother]

I thought if the survivor escort isn't loyal, the escort will die whether or not the survivors make it back to the Normandy.

@Deathslice246 You might get lucky if you leave Zaeed to hold the line, he's second-to-last in order of dying there, ahead of only Grunt (who can die through other means).
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You might get a better answer over on the BSN boards (the unofficial BioWare forums). There are a lot of BioWare forum veterans over there - some users have been around from back when BioWare actually hosted their own forums.
http://bsn.boards.net/board/7/effect-trilogy-quests-general-discussion

[Deathslice246]

I know this is an old post, but I would like to post a screenshot for those who are doing an evil playthough and would like to know what characters to keep alive in the suicide mission and how for maximum douchebaggery. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2738788090

[NecroMaster]

Don’t upgrade the Normandy that’s 3 deaths including jack.

Send Jacob into he ducts he both volunteers and it kills him

The second fire team leader only garrus Miranda and Jacob will survive send someone other than them they’ll die.
(I would kill someone with a survival rating of 1 like legion, thane, Samara, Jacob and Miranda assuming they are unloyal they are worth 1 in toughness.)

Have anyone other than Samara or jack manage the field when passing through the swarm one of the two people you brought with you will get killed.
(I would bring Zaeed and grunt with you they both have a very high toughness rating of 3 even if they are unloyal which will lower your squads overall survivability significantly later on if either dies.)

Once again your picking a fire team leader choose someone other than garrus Miranda or Jacob.
(Whichever didn’t die when passing through the swarm I would kill him here losing two of your 3 toughness squad mates will be beneficial to killing your squad.)

Next you pick someone to escort the squad back any loyal person you pick will survive and any disloyal person you pick will die.
Now for someone trying to raise their average I would recommend sending a 1 cost loyal person.
But for someone trying to kill their squad send a high cost unloyal person.
(If you’ve done everything I said Garrus will be your last 3 cost toughness if he is unloyal and will die escorting the crew assuming every single squadmate is disloyal this should be what you have at this point.

Jack and two random crew mates should be dead from coming in on he Normandy.
Jacob dead from the vents
Determinately Legion thane Samara or Miranda dead from doing first squad
Both grunt and Zaeed dead
Garrus dead

At this point your squad toughness will be absolutely pitiful and we’re going to make it more pitiful.

In this next part we are going to take 2 unloyal 1 cost toughness units into the final boss while everyone who remains holds the door.

You have Mordin, Tali and Kasumi who are worth zero toughness when unloyal
next you want to take 2 of the unloyal 1 toughness squad mates who have survived up until this point.

Taking legion, thane, Samara or Miranda will leave you with a pitiful fighting force consisting 3 zeros and 1 one toughness squadmates.

With your average toughness being this low it’s guarenteed 3 of these people will randomly die though we have no control over who.

The two unloyal squadmates you take to the boss will also die.

If you did everything right this should end with 2 people alive.

[XfoXshoX]

You already found this out but leaving it here for others.

You cannot kill Zaeed in his loyalty mission after the Suicide mission if you only have him and one other squadmate. The game will simply not give you the option of leaving him as it's required you have at least two available squadmates.