New Mass Effect Teaser Trailer

I liked her well enough in ME1, being an awkward science type out of her element. I even forgive her thinking Shepard is romantically interested in her if you don't pursue anything with her because she isn't a people person and she could interpret some signals wrongly.
But in ME2 and ME3 she basically became Commando Tough Chick and lost a lot of her initial quirky charm and the dynamic she brought to the team in the first game.
Also, it doesn't help that ME3 made her and Shepard super touchy feely in a non-platonic implied way. Cherry on top was Aethyta telling my Shepard that her and Liara's panties were on fire for each other when my Shepard was a Garrus-mancer since ME2 and didn't romance anyone in ME1 because she was saving herself for that hot piece of turian carapace.

I'm not sure it's possible to check the pulse of someone who was vaporised by a reaper beam 

It might be the same way Liara was in Andromeda -- just a long distance voicemail from Ryder and nothing more. That technically counts as being back, but not as the protagonist.

First Inky, now Ryder.
Not to mention those already proven to be ruined: Revan and Hawke.

See? She wasn't even there. How could you possibly know she's dead then. Rumours of her death were largely exaggerated.

Gotta say some comments on here are concerning.

Look, I get that Andromeda somehow managed to grow close to many of you here (certainly not me). But, lets say they merge the two galaxies, which is possible given the hint in the teaser. What do you expect to happen? I really doubt Andromeda will have much sway in the story, certainly not over that of the Milky Way story and characters. Already in this teaser, it was 99.5% Milky Way with .5% Andromeda due to a mention of an ark.

The Milky Way species just overcame an obstacle unlike any other and now have reaper technology to traverse dark space and improve their living standards and military tech ten fold. Any reports coming in from Andromeda will express hostilities with the kett. The most involvement with Andromeda I can fathom at the moment is the Milky Way species immediately sending in military force to protect Milky Way species' interests in Andromeda (which is what now that the war is won?). This probably will result in a brief and swift war with the kett, who won't stand a chance against Milky Way/Reaper tech. Milky Way also has the element of surprise because the kett won't anticipate reinforcements at all in the next 600 years. That is if the Milky Way doesn't pull out of Andromeda entirely as there's literally no point in being there.


What I'm trying to say in a nutshell is that the things you managed to like in Andromeda likely won't be returning and at most, events in Andromeda will probably get a handful of mentions but that's about it. Maybe Ryder and his/her squad (hopefully a lot more matured...) will make some cutscenes. But if I were you, I'd start managing expectations quick on future Andromeda games.

I mean, the Remaster is for a ME5 in the Milky Way. Not in Andromeda.

The fallout of making Liara the canon romance would be of a similar scale to the ME3 ending controversy 

Personally, I'm having a right proper giggle at the thought that people believe Casey returned in 2017 to direct games when he was the GM for Bioware as a whole. Sure, he could have given some advice on Mass Effect, but that would be the extent of it, to be honest.

Michael Gamble has always been the man in charge of this new game, for as long as I can remember. Mac Walters is in charge of LE.

And there are a few good names in the team, confirmed by Gamble himself: Derek Watts, Parrish Ley, Brenon Holmes, Dusty Everman. And it's possible Preston Watamaniuk may be working on this game as well, considering his Twitter header is the N7 Day concept art and his bio says "Game Director".

Matriach Liara
Ark 6

I think someone is running off to Andromeda and that might be the next game plot: leaving the Milky Way and once in Andromeda finding the Initiative.

Hmm, that whole sending reinforcements to protect our interests thing brings to mind something that you see often in military themed media. The people in charge of the reinforcements take over from the initial leadership, the initial leadership doesn't like it but are forced to accept, the local population (Angara) don't like it because they've grown to trust the AI after they fought together and the MW reinforcements have no reason to play nice with anyone because of the 600 year gap of connection. This could lead to a nice civil war/splintering story that hasn't been done in the ME universe, yet (at least not in the games, I didn't read any of the comics or novels). Liara could even play a role on the side of the AI, given she's a scientist at heart and not military minded, give her some of the personable charm she lost along the way in the trilogy.

*disgusted noise* 

Personal side bar, I was hoping for that Evfra romance I kept clinging to in my mind but I might finally have to accept it's not gonna happen. 

To be clear, I didn’t say making a canon LI would be a good move, or that it won’t generate a controversy...just not something on the ME3 endings’ level.

To anyone that has tried to contact me, or quote me and wants an answer, if I didn't answer you wasn't on purpose, I just ... I got a little swamped so I may have missed you. Feel free to ask me again, or give it a little more time. It's not on purpose.


Doesn't look like it. Looks like Milky Way tech has regressed, as none of the space debris have been salvaged. It looks like the Milky Way's inability to restart Reaper tech, judging by the abandoned Relays, has led them to develop other technologies, to compensate for that. Which was the symbolic point of having the Relays and all other Reaper tech go off. To finally free the galaxy from Reaper influence. As retarded an idea as that is.