New Mass Effect Teaser Trailer

Hadn't considered that.
I just wish they'd come out and tell us. Not in great detail but something like 'Game is set 5yrs/500yrs after ME3. Shepard's alive but won't be playable/dead. Some/one/none of the original ME3 crew return. There's a link to Andromeda'. They should know at least this much, even if they don't have anything fleshed out. The teasing just seems childish and turns me off.

Shepard is not the only N7 in the galaxy my man. It literally means nothing. N7 is literally just the logo for the franchise at this point.

N7 is THE symbol of Mass Effect. Could be nothing more than a reason to show that it's a ME game, and to show Liara as well.

Cause she's reminiscent  of shepard? This trailer is vague after all. I hope michael says something so we can know, but that'll be long ways off.

I would have believed that Liara was there to meet with the mudskipper's crew for one reason or another, with the N7 piece being something she finds along the way.

Either way, it's a fucking teaser for a game that's 4-5 years away at best, with some hints that point to a potential post-ME3 Milky Way setting. Nothing more.

Going into hypothetical nitty-gritty in-universe justifications for what we've seen is an exercise in futility, and I would've thought it to be obvious.

Liara is an archeologist turned information broker. Both her jobs have been about finding things in weird places that nobody else cares about.

She also into "Shepard collectibles", like Legion, going by Lair of the Shadowbroker DLC....

All I can see now is Liara's face superimposed on baby Yoda. Little guy is 50 years old and isn't even capable of articulated speech.


I don't think people are saying it's 600 years later for the Andromeda setting. It would be in the time frame for Andromeda and 600 years in the future for the Milky Way. Ryder and co would still be alive in this case.


Shepard took a breath on the Citadel, which was above Earth, not a planet with 3 moons. I'm pretty sure that's where Liara is in the teaser, considering the Mudskipper is also there.


N7 was a prominent part of the marketing for MEA, too, but it had no connection to Shepard. At this point, like Little Bengel said, N7 is the symbol of the franchise. I am not holding out hope Shepard is coming back as a protagonist.

N7 taken off from ice ppl. N7 is not on ice anymore! Thats what it means, there will be another ME game.

Ok I'll go to sleep then...

Ok, I'll admit that slipped my mind. With so much talk about the galaxy linking relay, my brain went there without realizing. So, Liara would get on an ark towards Andromeda after 600-ish years. Why not sooner? If the MW hasn't recovered in that time technologically, how did they build a new ark? If she does get on an ark sooner (say after ME3), why would she appear to be as old as many people think she is? Why wouldn't she go into stasis? Sure, she's long lived but why would she think wasting 600 years of her life on a space Uber is a good idea? No other long lived species from the previous arks did the same.

I don't remember that we knew the N7 guy was Ryder senior from the start. We didn't know in the teaser with him and Jien Garson on the Moon. We didn't know in the teaser that ended with him unholstering a pistol and walking towards the camera. The second one, I'll give it to you, because I think it was the one narrated by Jenifer Hale, so for that one we knew N7 guy wasn't gonna be Shepard, but we didn't know for the first one.

Ahem. It took 600 years for the Ai to reach Andromeda, and they were in cryo pods during the trip. If Liara is 600 years older than she was at the end of ME3, Ryder & crew are just arriving in Andromeda and coming out of their cryo pods.

That's probably why people are quoting the 600 year figure, and talking about some sort of intergalactic relay.

Yes but that still would not make sense because either Liara is older in this case as the time period is when they landed in Andromeda (600 years past 2186) but then to get back it would be another 600 years since they don't have FTL travel in Andromeda. I actually agree that N7 is a huge part of marketing for ME in general but I also don't think it's a coincidence that she was walking up a Reaper and finding it. It could be symbolic of Shepard instead of finding him in a recent time frame post ME3 endings but it wouldn't surprise me if he/she is still alive.

Don't have FTL travel in Andromeda? I presume that means something more like " don't have a relay linkbetween Andromeda and the MW," but it's awfully sloppy.