Re: General thoughts.
: There could have been many ways. When you show up, maybe some of the older
: Prometheans that have been hanging out could have immediately joined your
: assistance in killing the Covenant. Didact awakens, maybe takes some over
: but not others. You realize that those things still have a shred of
: humanity. Maybe show them doing something compassionate in some form or
: another trying to help humans who go down when Infinity gets attacked
: (instead of just fighting and fighting). Then show the Didact turning
: other humans into Prometheans, creating a full understanding of just
: what's going on. Obviously the immediately transformed would be under full
: Didact control. Then the question becomes how long does it take for them
: to regain that understanding of their humanity and their ability to
: resist?
Or perhaps the ability to, with a bit of extra work, not choose to -destroy- a knight but to incapacitate it in some manner that takes it away from Didact control. Later in the game all the effort you expended to take the 'high road' comes back and those you 'saved' end up on your side in some major conflict.
Not really an original idea, but adds a little choice and strategy, especially if the end result is treated like an unexpected reward and not something that 'anybody who plays the game knows you do it this way to win' type of strategy.