Not so Wild a Theory

a- Not confirmed anywhere.
b- Also not confirmed anywhere.
c- That doesn't mean they are part of the Tempest crew or that they receive orders from the player protagonist.
d and e- armor possibily can be changed like in all other mass effect games. So it doesn't mean much.
f- How you go from that to saying the male protagonist send his dad and sister on a mission? O_o


Also as stated above by fireandblood.

Now that is a more likely hypothesis.

What makes you think he is old? Also referring to whatever the female character is wearing as "combat armor" is very generous.

Sorry too lazy to read all posts to see if mentioned. But if you bring the picture of all three bsn.boards.net/attachment/download/334 you can see the woman's face and part of the guy's, through their visors. Also, I'm using a PS4 which I can zoom in with, that's how I found out.

The armours of the companions in the tech demo doesn't rapresent the armours they'll have in the game. They give a kind of generic look on purpose.

They haven't talked yet about armour customization for squadmates. All I know is that the tech demo as some features cut off (like squadmates walking with you, orthe Remnants not attacking when you got too close), as well as the two squadmates being in a generic armour.

I feel like I remember hearing about the undersuit thing somewhere before, too... Hmm. I think I could rock the Asuka 'hoodie/jacket over the top' look, at least for a while...



But it'd definitely get a little samey if every outfit had to incorporate the suit somehow, even if you could change bits of it. I guess the Spartan IVs did wear combat trousers over theirs:



So that's another option?

I'm still holding out hope that we'll get to actually buy clothes in shops this time around, like we've always been able to with armour--so for the sake of variety, I'd definitely prefer it if we could skip the undersuit, at least under some circumstances.

Maybe we're stuck with it - and whatever changes we can make to it/stuff we can put over the top of it - while on Tempest, but when we're on shore leave/off-duty in a place we can reasonably expect to be safe - a Citadel equivalent - we can wear more casual clothes?

(Yeah, probably overthinking the clothing system a whole bunch... But I do love playing dress up with my RPG protags.)

Is this the Comic Con panel you mean? I'd completely forgotten about it.

They don't explicitly confirm that the undersuit's going to be part of/an option for our casual clothes, but it would make sense. Most of the talk seems to revolve around how their philosophy for armour customisation in Andromeda is based on the idea of a flexible undersuit, onto which the player can attach a variety of different pieces--from - presumably - whole chest plates to little bandoliers and such.

I mean, there's functionally no difference between an undersuit with attached armour plates that we can swap around, and the gear we've always worn in Mass Effect - which was clearly made up of an undersuit with attached armour plates - and that's always been deemed sufficient for use in a vacuum.

Since ME2 characters could walk wherever they want with a breather mask instead of an helmet and clothes. It's not exactly a news.
As long as I'll have the option to cover every characters in propert armours and helmets I'll be happy.

I imagine it's more to keep us guessing about squad mates than anything else.