New Shot of Tempest (as in, not a trailer screenshot or whatever) on PS4 Pro Website

I agree. It would've been nice to see Samantha move around. Even have a scene with her on the Citadel

Each crewmember having his/her own quarters would take up a lot of space. I don't see that happening. I can see having crew quarters similiar to what is seen on the SR2

If it has shields, something's gotta be firing at it, if something's firing at it, you've gotta have a way to fire back.

It's an awesome shot, yes, but I can't say I'm a fan of how... squished the Tempest looks. Like someone put it in a waffle-maker The underbelly does look rather odd, I agree. Be nice to see it from some other angles, preferably in a video, to get a better sense of it.

Oh no, it's going to be like DA:I's awkward odd "relaxed" animations again, isn't it? Hoping it's just a pose for the picture.

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The shields may just be for defense against the local fauna. The Mako, Bio posted so far, shows no offensive weapons.

That's all well and good, but if I can't fire back, then the mako is useless for defending itself. If it has weapons, it can defend itself and if it gets overwhelmed, it can call the tempest to come in and give cover fire for the mako to get to a safe area. As fast as it moves, it might be able to get out of trouble faster then it got into trouble, but what if it can't? That's where having weapons to defend itself can make a difference

Basically, it brought back an issue from ME1. ME3 and to some extent ME2 were criticized for having no exploring like ME1. You can't really do that if you're dropped on top of enemy strongholds with a shuttle and you simply leave when you've cleared it out. That the original Mako had a weapon didn't really change the fact that we often had to traverse a lot of terrain unnecessarily, because we got dropped off really far from the objectives. 

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Agreed.

Bio's decision to design the Mako stripped of offensive weapons is puzzling.

Later doesn't help if under attack before that upgrade is available

If it doesn't have any weapons to begin with, that's bad.

It doesn't have to have a cannon as I said in this thread. It can have a gatling gun  like the one I mentioned. If they have that, it would have to be able to rotate  360°. The same if the player is able to upgrade to a cannon.

Theoretically, mounts did that in DAI. There were still bears to deal with. What do we do about landscape mobs? Get out of the Mako to fight them??? Like we dismounted to fight mobs? Can't be. There has to be some kind of weapons system. It'd be ridiculous to have an exploratory vehicle in a frontier setting with no weaponry. Maybe you don't start with it. They've said in other presentations that you can customize the Mako, after all. But you have to be able to have it at some point.

Ughhh don't remind me of those guys...


Well I hope the equivalent in ME:A isn't as annoying...

I suspect that the lack of weaponry on the Mako emphasizes the point that this is not a military expedition. I reckon we have limited access to any kind of advanced military vehicles or equipment. It's all about exploration and colonization. Even the Tempest, as I understand it, is not a Warship.

Obviously it's going to be a shooter which implies there will be a lot of combat but I guess we need to build on our combat ability. We aren't an elite squad of N7 quality fighters fighting on the front line of a Galactic war with all the latest advanced weaponry at our beck and call.

It's a different mindset and an unarmed Mako is part of that.