More explorable planets in new ME,or a liniar touch like in ME2?

Definitely would like more planets to explore, but would like to do it in a Nomad. Best vehicle so far compared to Mako and Hammerhead (ugh, that thing was horrible). Don't think the Mudskipper will be a ground vehicle. Looks more like our new ship.

I think there will be a good chance to explore more planets, because that was already planned for MEA, but they ran into technical problems trying to create those procedurally.

Mudskipper doesn't really looks like a interstellar spaceship,looks more like a recognisance ship,which can explore only a solar system.Maybe its a part from a bigger ship.Now,coming to the subject,I really really want to see a more alien planets.In ME1 we had planets with 2 suns,moons,etc,the ME2 planets were earth like,in ME3 the same.In ME:A,i didn't feel that alien vibe worlds.For example,in the next ME,i want to explore a moon of a gaz giant ring world,like Saturn,or planets with two suns,etc.Remember,exploration,and alien world,are part in ME universe,so BW,dont dissapoint again.

Prefer linear but along the lines of main quest planets from ME1 that involved use of a vehicle at certain parts.

Have we not learned yet with Inqusition, Andromeda, and Anthem that BW open worlds are dull with nothing to do in them. If you're going to make an open world game, the world has to be engaging. They need to go back to making linear worlds and hub areas.

I agree the mudskipper is more along the lines of a Kodiak … for point to point travel, say for going from a hub to an outpost.

For exploration, the Nomad makes more sense to examine those areas in between.

And a ship like the Tempest, for traveling from planet to planet and between systems.

And of course, once you get to an interesting location, you get out and walk around …

Hopefully in full protection suits when in hostile environs … and in full armor, when there is risk of armed encounters.

PeeBee hardest hit.

Explorable planets, I'm a big fan of ranged combat and things like the minefield approach in BDtS or the shootout with geth turrets on the Citadel turn me on. Planet exploration enables those things and I had actual fun exchanging fire with geth Colossi from behind hills on the Moon or clearing enemy posts with my trusty Valiant on Eos. I want more.

I’m leaning toward avoiding as much open world as possible, unless BioWare’s willing to put in the time and effort in creating engaging environments and content that actively rewards exploration. Andromeda’s brand of open world fails because it’s a lot of mindless traversal, interrupted by random bits of combat, but so little in terms of stories to find and practically nothing in the way of environmental storytelling. This is made more egregious in that the Remnant vaults don’t have their own story to tell, about the technology or the people that built it. There’s no clues to hint at what happened or why it’s abandoned. You just unlock it and move on. I judge an exploration system by how willing I am to take advantage of its fast travel system, and in Andromeda, I end up doing that a lot because I know that the only thing I’ll come across is more annoying wildlife or a random pocket of baddies to kill, and I’ll just want to get objectives completed without having to constantly go in the shade or go near a heat lamp because of the annoying hazardous environmental conditions that enemies seem to be immune to.

I’d much rather scale it back to something similar to ME1, just minus the roving vehicle, which was always just a pointless way to pad time in that game anyway. I want to find derelicts in orbit, perhaps have an unexpected quest that allows me to decide how it turns out inside. I want to be able to talk to people to resolve a quest peacefully rather than just clear bases, like Major Kyle, or the Exogeni scientists. BioWare’s mostly treated its open worlds like a free-roam xp farm and that’s not very satisfying.

Vastly prefer me2 approach.

Bioware can't make interesting and engaging open worlds as they have shown. I prefer they keep things locked tight, with certain zones, buildings etc we can go into, explore, engage. I prefer a few interesting dialogues to an "open world" consisting of 5 square miles with enemies every 30 yards just standing around, waiting for you to walk by

I much prefer more linear, tightly-controlled mission structure, similar to ME2 or ME3. Some of the better bits of Mass Effect Andromeda to me were the one-and-done linear missions like that (story-based missions, loyalty missions). Even some of the more slightly-open but linear missions that worked for me were the vaults and opening Habitat 7 mission, where there was still a linear goal, but some more wide open areas or some non-linear paths.

Having more "corridors and rooms" instead of big wide-open worlds allows the developers to craft a better combat experience, at least in my view. With more open-world elements, you need to either pack more stuff into that world -- which means more busy-work, or a one-and-done exploration experience like ME1 uncharted worlds.

Do not get me wrong. I like what the uncharted worlds managed to do in ME1, and I actually did enjoy some of the open-world stuff in Mass Effect Andromeda. The problem was that most of it ended up feeling like filler, busy-work, or just an XP grind, that took caused the main story to take a back seat.

I don't think so. The mudskipper looks like it's around 8 meters high. And while that is smaller than the Tempest (13 meters) it's still higher than for example the Millenium Falcon (6 meters), so it's not THAT small if it's the vessel for a small crew. A Kodiak shuttle is way smaller and the Mudskipper surely doesn't look like our new ground vehicle. But, we'll see what kind of role that vessel plays. I could imagine it being our main vessel, while the organization we work for has a way bigger base ship where we can dock with the Mudskipper.