Mass Effect '5' speculation (Official Thread)

My hope is TOR will finish its slow death soon and Bioware Austin will get to play with Mass Effect.

I have to say, my preference is to go forward with Andromeda. It's there, just build on it and make sure it's done well. However, if returning to the MW were to become a thing, I'd still rather we have MEA2 but that it somehow ties into a return to the MW based on the ending of MEA2.

Still, like I said, I'd prefer MEA2 and further exploration of the vast, uncharted (to the AI) galaxy that awaits. It would be interesting to see how the AI handles getting around the galaxy without mass relays. Could somehow have come along who studied the relays and thinks they could be built in Andromeda? Sure, it would be a slow process, but potentially interesting.

It's been some time since I posted in this thread. I think at this point Andromeda is still a blank slate. Even with one game behind it, how many decisions need to carry over? Five? With a sequel they can do anything, again. It'd be easier than a post ME3 milky way setting, though as I've said before they could just push a ME4 far enough into the future to negate the endings and will probably omit refusal.

Still, another game set in Andromeda could take place 3 years later or twenty. Stay with Ryder or have us create a new main character. They have three races in Andromeda mentioned but not seen, and they could add more to that. I kind of want to see a race that's taken the remnant and fused it with their flesh, that'd be cool.

Will we be at war with the Kett, or have an uneasy peace where we still fight rogue elements who are probably secretly supported by their senate, but publicly chastised?

MEA2 is quite possible and wouldn't require a lot of carry over. They made the archives, but like DA some of that can just be there to remind you of certain decisions you made rather than have a story impact.

Four races? I know the Jardaan but who else?

I think minimal decisions will carry over based on MEA. I wouldn't mind an echo of ME2 that would allow squadmates to potentially die or just not be recruited at all. This way, if you really think Liam and Peebee can't be trusted, they're expendable. Or if you like them you can keep them around.

This isn't intended to be hyperbole but does MEA allow you to make any meaningful choices that need to be carried over?  I'm trying to think about any choice that could impact a direct sequel, but nothing really comes to mind.  Maybe if you make the deal with Archon's second to avoid fighting at the end...could result in some change of dialogue in a sequel but otherwise seems superficial.  I don't know.

None that weren't retconned away. The human Council never made any sense in the first place, so good riddance.

I wouldn’t say all the decisions were retconned. You could argue the Rachni one was but definitely the Human Council one. That was clearly designed to be the biggest dick move possible and play into ME2 but I would argue that they were simply disbanded.

Yeah you can even say “that’s not why I did this” but it doesn’t matter. Still not a big deal to me.

Additionals:

1) Any of the council candidates selected could have an impact.  For example, if you pick Bradley, you're likely pulling him away from being able to run the outpost on Eos, which could be written up as a significant change depending on the personality of the person who takes over from him.  If you select Morda, then whoever takes her position over could have an impact.
2) Did you allow the Outcasts to keep the formula for Oblivion or return it to Dr. Nakamoto?
3) Did you do the Remnant Tiller quest to ensure a H-3 Helium fuel supply for the Initiative?
4) Did you allow the Angaran scientist to continue her studies on the Yevara?
5) Did you destroy the Angaran AI, give it to the Angara, or keep it for the Initiative?
6) Did you rescue both the Turian and Asari arks, or rescue either one of them, or not rescue either of them.
7) Did you kill Kalinda and recover the Remnant device or let PeeBee rescue her and let the Remnant device fall into the lava?... or did you not do the quest at all?
8) Did you let Mashal continue interrogating the Kett in order to find her family (any apparently minor character can be written into a more "important" role in a future game... and Bioware has done that before... for example, the reappearance made by Conrad Verner and Jenna in ME3).

Akksul, or more specifically the Roekaar could be a good one to follow.  That one could be tied together with selecting the Moshae or not in how much animosity develops between the AI races and the Angaran.  The Krogan colony would fall into the same sort of thing.  Both have longer term ramifications so if Bio timeskipped ahead both threads could still effect stability and overall relations.

I mentioned earlier about something related to new mass relays built in Andromeda. Just got to the part where Suvi explains we knew about the planets in Andromeda because the geth rebuilt a relay into a telescope. We don't know why they did it but apparently they shared that information with the AI. What if the tech for relays was also shared? Could be a way to have them in Andromeda.