Andromeda Initiative briefings (6/6 Golden Worlds and Settlements)

Didn't some dev implied on twitter that both were two distinct things some time ago, or am i wrong?

She doesn't, it's the same thing happened in ME2 and ME3, and Miranda and Jack special abilities didn't make them more suited to survive toxic environments then normal humans. 
As for the armour not changing, I disageee. Ashley first appearance and concept art in ME3 shown her without an armour, which was shown later in the marketing stage, so the asari can follow on the same steps. 

As much as I'd like this, I think it's more likely we'll have ours answers later and not on Monday. Though she might be the perfect candidate to show different types of outfits/amours or a squadmate customization similar to DAI (considering the leak was mostly true and it mentioned a deep customization/crafting system, it's possible we'll get it for the squadmates as well).

All I care about is getting a Venom in my first Commendation pack.

1. Reasoned criticism - even emotionally-charged reasoned criticism - is, of course, absolutely fine--fantastic, even. I don't think anyone would disagree with that. But I can't ignore what came along with that criticism of ME3's ending, nor the fact that comments like this:
 
Read far more like circling the wagons, preparing for an attack, than they do, 'Hey, let's get ready to offer reasoned criticism of this game'. And tend to come from people with attitudes like this:

That's someone quite literally saying that they want the devs to fear for their lives, because they think it might make their games better. And it's not hyperbole, not bluster - or, at least, it might as well not be - because people actually do that shit. There's a fucking epidemic of it in the modern video game fandom. It feels like we can't go more than a few months without the next great round of death threats, doxxing and hell over fucking video games. No Man's Sky's gonna get delayed: death threats, to the person who reported the news, and then to the devs once it's confirmed. No Man's Sky's disappointing: death threats all round, again. People are pissed about localisation changes made to some games: find a Nintendo employee to scapegoat, then death threats, rape threats, doxxing and, ultimately, she gets fired. Someone releases a game about a subject you don't like: drum up some charges of collusion with the gaming press, then death threats, rape threats, and doxxing. Someone says something about a game that you don't agree with: death threats, rape threats, again.

It keeps. fucking. happening. I'm all for reasoned criticism of games. I'm all for fans getting excited. But I can't just ignore this shit.

Back when Mass Effect 3 came out, I was certainly part of that heartbroken group - after I finished ME3 for the first time, I didn't play Mass Effect, any Mass Effect, again until this year - but when I look back on that whole thing, I do see the death threats, and the dev harassment, more than anything else--because, with the benefit of hindsight, they were the one of the first signs of this fucking cancer of online hatred that's so engulfed the video game community in the years since. A person's right to live their life, to do their job, without dealing with this sort of shit, is more important than the quality of a thousand video games! And I say that as someone who's been playing games for longer than I've been able to write my damn name!

Again, reasoned criticism is fine. Excitement, disappointment, and even anger are all fine--but outright fucking hatred, the sort of shit Aetius endorses? It can fuck right off.

Anyways, I don't wanna keep going off-topic--this is more the sort of thing that should have its own thread, or be conducted through DMs, I think. On a happier note:

2. Yeah, I'm not massively keen on the random triangle thingy either - maybe they're some auxiliary hose-attachment points, for connecting to an emergency O2 supply, or something? - but I like the rest of it enough that I don't mind. And the N7 armour from the Game Informer cover, too! That's at least two non-bulky, cool-looking suits of armour with no boob-moulding! 

On the alternately-placed N7 emblem and random flap--I actually like them, but only 'cause this:





I just hope N7 Dad's gear - and maybe ours, eventually, going by that cover? - proves a mite tougher:



(Oh, shit, now that I think about it, with my Ryder's name, it might be best if I avoid wearing anything with the flap: there'll be no Q to save me!)

I honestly don't get the subtitle. Not because of the human centric focus (that is already clear based on previous interviews), but the saving humanity thing seems a bit off compared to what they said about the focus on the exploration/colonization. 

Probably the ones you wrote about the asari in the last post on the previous page.

Yeah, though that is only one thing I was referring to. There is also things like the Asari's outfit, the floating rocks that defy physics, etc.

Not really.

I disagree. She could still wear a full space suit/armor and still be iconic. Bioware has done it before. Characters like Garrus, Tali, James, and the other companions who had a full suit/armor still had it be unique to them and capture their character. Even in MEA we see that with the unnamed Krogan, who has decorated their armor with what appear to be bones or something like that. They's be able to do the same for this Asari.