Mike Gamble is now Project Director at BioWare - What could he be in charge of?

Spooky action at a distance, though, could happen. You'd, practically, need only 1 relay constructed into deep space and you could, theoretically, shoot enough to create a mini relay, like the Conduit. The problem posed would be shooting the particles blindly into dark space and, well, stopping them. Oh, but you wouldn't have to, would you? You could just build a conduit out of quantum entangled particles, then cheat into shooting it around , through Mass Relays, till the other quantum entangled one has traversed enough into Dark Space to fit your quota. A pretty uninspired solution, though, isn't it?

The yes-no part is much more important than the extent: ME1 had a feasible explanation for the Reapers' success: QE communication does not exist, everything relies on the comm buoys, which rely on the mass relays in return. By sacking the Citadel, the Reapers cut all interstellar communications; everything goes dark and then they go system-by-system, always by surprise, destroying everything they want without substantial losses. The Protheans were more advanced and created a sort of interstellar communication that doesn't need the relays – that's why the Eden Prime finding was so important. Using this, they managed to at least piece together some resistance and this is why Ilos knew to stay silent. Since ME2, there's no good explanation for how the Reapers succeed if one planetary cannon hit can kill a capital ship. This is much more important than whether Cerberus has one QEC or tens of them.

The "limited bandwith" part is pretty much bullshit, one qubit stores as much information as any finite number of them. There could be an issue with preparing quantum states with arbitrary precision but it's far-fetched.

That's a 50/50 chance for the final mission to deliver the Crucible succeeding, isn't it?

Is it for the crucible?

Yet when the odds are much lower, the result is still the same, the reapers are defeated.

Sure. What's your point? It's not like the game is going to actually roll dice behind the scenes and have us lose the battle in a cutscene, just like Saren's never going to beat Shepard to the Conduit by enough time to win ME1 outright.

If you think that the game was trying to tell you that beating the Reapers in a straight-up fight was doable, you are very confused.

Mass Relays are not just composed of a ray or quota of subatomic particles.  They are massive and complex structures.  The Conduit was first built on Ilos and then, at some point before the Reaper attack, it was placed on the Citadel as a prototype.  According to Vigil, it was then used by the scientists after the attack to gain access to the Citadel (to alter the keeper signal), but it was a one-way trip.

That doesn't mean it isn't doable, though, in that way, just incredibly complex, at least for the MW tech. Perhaps not as complex for the Reapers.

You never played Trespasser, and didn't like hearing that Solas ended up as an adversary at the end of Trespasser?

OK, but... where did you think that Solas was going to end up? After you found out that Solas was Fen'Harel, and had been lying to everyone about everything the whole time, you still thought that your Inquisitor's relationship with him could be trusted?

I'm also not particularly comfortable with the idea that DLCs can't do anything interesting or important, plot-wise.

So you were angry about not seeing some reveals about a character you didn't care about?

And it isn't critical. Everything critical for DA4 will be in DA4, everything critical for DAI was in DAI. 

All game content is paywalled, in one place or another. You seem to be saying that DLCs can't do anything interesting because someone might not buy them. But that's true for full games as well; someone might not buy every game in a series. What's the difference?

I found it absurd, basically. If that makes me angry, sure. I just wish Solas was left out, completely. I wish he'd fuck off to somewhere, never to be seen again. Shit, I don't even know what Fen'Harel is, or why should I care about him. Especially since its Solas.


I'd expect game and sequel critical content to be in the base game. Trespasser, which is admittedly the real ending to DA:I, I'd have expected it to be in DA:I, not paywalled into some DLC.

Indeed.  I don't mind "soft" scifi.  What I care about is that the rules, whatever they are, be applied consistently.