#SAVETHEQUARIANS - DLC Support Hub

Yeah, the Quarians should look like Tali. It's been established in ME3, we don't need to have massive retcons. Retcons generally suck ass.

I don't really mind, so long as they respect what we already know regarding quarian faces (i.e. eyes largely being milky-white and apparently missing irises and pupils altogether, roughly equivalent-to-human upper facial proportions, human-like protruding nose).

Tbh the biggest solid difference I can see above is the hair. I would assume hair (or something similar) is more likely than not given that female quarians tend to use headscarf things alongside the helmets while males do not, implying a similar breakdown in hairstyles over gender to humans.

The only actual canon description of a maskless/suitless quarian is in one of the Mass Effect novels (Deception, I think). It doesn't really say anything about how they look.

If that was used in the game, a bunch of people would've complained about "space elves," nevermind that pretty much any bipedal humanoid gets thrown into the "elves" junk-drawer, no matter how consistent or effective the design actually is.

Partially serious rant incoming:

You know, the more I think about the lore reasons behind the Quarian Ark's predicament the more I shake my head at the utter incompetence on part of the Andromeda Initiative. At first I thought that the biggest sin of the program was thinking that sending thousands upon thousands of people into unknown, and likely hostile, space without any form of defensive armament for their vehicles was a good idea, but now that I look back and take into account all the info surrounding the Quarian Ark the more I see that the rampant stupidity surrounding that former decision was actually the least of the group's problems.

So instead of sending the two dextro species on the same Ark, the Initiative leads thought it a good idea to not only separate the only two species who can eat each other's food onto separate ships, but to also have the one immune-weakened dextro-based species share a very limited amount of space with at least four other alien species. These other alien races not only can't eat the same food that the Quarians can, but one has to have high pressure ammonia-based atmosphere to survive, another is an aquatic species, and another requires a completely separate level of gravity to function properly. And that's not even counting additional species that could have been crammed on this "everyone else" Ark; it's a long shot but hey, if we're bringing the whole gang over I hope to see the Rachni too. Now if that's not criminal levels of oversight, or some deliberate act of racism on some analyst's part I don't know what is.

What's more, every other species gets their own separate ark as well as space on the Nexus. So much space in fact that despite them losing contact with the other arks, they had enough of a population for each of the other species to split into civil war and still have enough left after that to establish separate colonies. Honestly, even if the Salarian, Turian, Asari, or Human arks were lost, with only Ryder & Co surviving, there is enough people on the Nexus to carry on each respective species. So what? Couldn't spare a few cryo-bays for a small population of Volus or Elcor? They'd rather have the Hanar and the Drell ride the "short bus" of the Initiative as their one and only shot at survival in a new galaxy? Were the Quarians so undesirable that they didn't even get a few freezers at HQ in case of an emergency? Seriously, the Council and their: Ah yes 'Reapers' schtick are veritable saints compared to this level of brain dead.

You know what, screw the Humans and Asari, and to hell with the Turians and Salarians, the passengers of the Quarian Ark are the true underdogs of Andromeda.

They are human-like from what we saw of Tali's face and one of the epilogue images from the Extended Cut.

Now the real question (assuming there is DLC) is if bioware will finally show something or it will just be the same old masks.

What about the lack of Quarians, Elcor, Volus, etc. on the Nexus then? Everyone else has enough of a population on that "Not-Citadel" to maintain a viable population even after losing contact with their primary ark and breaking down into waring factions with the formation of the Outlaws. Heck, you could go through Heleus and completely ignore the other arks and still run across hundreds of Humans, Turians, Asari and Salarians, both as initiative members, as well as marauding pirates that Ryder & Co murder by the dozens. 

Seems a little elitist on behalf of the Andromeda Initiative that all the other species basically get a back up plan in extra population, whereas the passengers of the Quarian ark are left twisting in the wind. I mean, even the Krogan, who in-universe are seen as little more than rampaging brutes compared to the engineering proficient Quarians and economic minded Volus, are given a free ride on the Nexus and have an ample supply of people to establish a colony as well as go join the outlaws. 

Either the Initiative's leadership is so moronic that it's a miracle they didn't all swallow their own tongues before Ryder showed up and solved everyone's problems. Or, they are intentionally leaving specific species vulnerable to total extinction in Andromeda in favor of others. 

Tbh I think you're reading way too much into it. Quarians, Elcor, Hanar and Volus all require very specific environments that differ significantly from both each other and of all the existing Nexus species, who can comfortably co-exist in the same environment.

Given the various resource constraints and risks taken by the Nexus itself (being the first to arrive and also only 50% complete), I find it far more likely that a decision was taken to postpone these facilities into the next 50% of the station rather than some weird, institutionalised racism going on against all non-Human/Asari/Salarian/Turians. It makes no sense at all to place members of species that require these facilities before they're actually built, particularly when there's limited cryo space. I mean, what would the purpose be?

The Krogan are a bit of special case as they're not occupying any real leadership role in the project - they bartered their way onto it by trading their muscle for a chance to make a fresh start. And, of course, of all the species involved in the AI, they require the least environmental considerations.

I remember reading a tweet from a while ago (though I can't remember who from, Ian maybe) saying ME:A's plan hadn't changed it has just had to be rearranged a little.

Yea, thats the only good thing about Season Passes. Publishers and Devlopers have to be transparent about what there working on. Instead you'll just get this awkward responses anytime you ask a dev on the state of dlc.

So i was just doing planet exploration. Found an anomaly, pretty casual and such. But what cought my eye, among all the junk, got listed from this ship, there was a quarian processor of some sort. I dont know, if it was there all along or they added it recently, i just dont pay attention, in general. Can comeone confirm, that quarian junk is scattered across the Helious cluster right from the very launch?

Thanks.