From a glance Companion selection seems wierd.

Yes, circumstances leave us as the human pathfinder. But ultimately, the AI is a muti-species project.

I thought that was a deliberate design feature of the AI. The armed forces, so to speak, are integrated even if the populations aren't.

I understand why so many of our squadmates are aliens from a design perspective, but I also wish we had more human companions to choose from.

Ideally, for me at least, we would have 2 or 3 more companions. 1 or 2 would be human, and 1 or 2 would be open for something else.

Although, again, I do understand why we only have 6 companions from a design perspective.

I won't lie that I'm a bit disappointed with only six. Mass Effect 2 really did spoil us with it's wide selection it seems seeing as none of the instalments since have yet to match it's companion roster. Though that might explain why it's still two companions on missions instead of three.

That said has there been any indication from devs that there definitely won't be one or two more companions outside the "starters?"

Probably wrong but while all humans are sleeping like snowmen on the Arks -then the Nexus is not near the Tempest.
As with all ME games all aliens who join player crews are usually the outcasts, shunned, unwanted people of their species looking for a cause to belong to.

I just hope their present is a bit better justified than some of the Squaddies in the OT.

In Mass Effect, most members are justified to be there, but Wrex? Past our dealings with taking down Fisk (was that the name) it seems weird he sticks around.

Mass Effect 3 is good, none of the Squadmembers makes you wonder wtf they're doing there...except Chobot IF there had to be a reporter Emily Wong or even Al-Jilani would've been better.

Mass Effect 2 is the worst offender. The following team members recruitment/involvement make sense to me:

- Jacob and Miranda: they're Cerberus and basically TIMs lackeys.
- Mordin: we recruit him so he can counteract the Seeker swarms
- Grunt: we actually want Okeer who dealt with the Collectors, we get Grunt instead, cool
- Zaeed: a famous merc? Why not?
- Tali: recruiting an old aquaintance just makes sense
- Legion: we find him...duh

Now on to those who don't make much sense:

- Kasumi: she's cool and all...but a thief? Really? Attacking the Collector base ain't exactly a heist.
- Archangel: I know he's Garrus, but technically, we don't know that...we just decide that we should recruit some random guy playing Batman on Omega
- Thane: a hitman, notorious for working alone...sure, he's gonna be a great addition to a team
- Jack: psychotic, bad blood with Cerberus, ticking time bomb...she ticks ALL the "nope" boxes (still love her)
- Samara: basically an Asari version of a Judge who gave up everything to hunt down her murdering daughter and decides to put her life goal on pause because some random human asks her to join their suicide squad.
- Morinth: yeah...no

Ai started out as a human project because it was envisioned by a human. But seeing as they have multispecies arks and a multispecies space station, Ai is a multispecies project because it took multispecies partnerships in order to be completed.

I agree with this, but now it's time for nitpicking.

Wrex joins in ME1 because at that stage he's just looking for a meaningful way to die. At least, that's my interpretation of "Shepard, Wrex" conversations. He's largely given up on his people, he knows that trouble's brewing, and he's looking for a fight. He also had a personal grudge against Saren, who betrayed a krogran crew Wrex was a part of.

For ME2, Archangel makes a bit more sense than the others, since he's obviously good at what he does (combat) and he's a team member/leader. Samara seems OK in theory, in practice I agree she makes little sense. And hiring a loner assassin, loner thief, and a loner insane person for a team-based open warfare mission makes even less sense. Of course, ME2 plot problems run deeper than that -- how do we know that a small group of elite fighters is what we need past the Omega 4 Relay? We don't, because nobody has ever made it through and back, but thankfully TIM read the script.

I agree that all ME3 characters made sense within the constraints of the plot.

FTFY.

Yes, I have same question. Ryder/Alec is Human pathfinder and we travel with Human ship. people around us should be human more than other race.

And why we choose them to joint our "human" pathfinder team? Because other human we have lack of skill? If that the answer, I think you are a bit anti-human bioware.

I ask Dev. why Human pathfinder team have Alien more than human (4 alien /2 human) But they don't answer me.


As far as i know, on the Tempest we have at least 10 NPC we can interact with, 6 squad mate & 4 Crew member. 6 of them are alien... I really hope our 4 Human have quality story/quest equal to the other. Reyes should be our No.5 human on board. but still no confirm at this time.

Gameplay > Logic.

That's all it comes down to really. After all i'm pretty sure there would be many, many more complaints if 90% of your squad was human as they're 'boring'.