Mass Effect News Thread

Which is even more nonsensical. To suggest that there is nothing in the Milky Way or one of the satellite galaxies orbiting it, either the several dwarf galaxies or the two Magellanic Clouds, have any habitable planets akin to what is in the Helius Cluster of Andromeda is objectively stupid. 

Current space exploration is focusing on what is close by first in terms of sending stuff there. If NASA proposed a plan to send a probe to a star on the other end of the Milky Way, yes I would call that nonsense.

No, the mission of Voyager 1 and 2 was to explore the planets in our solar system. It's purpose was never to go to a star or planet on the other side of the galaxy. You are right that NASA is using the circumstances to do something now, which is explore the far reaches of the solar system beyond the Kuiper Belt, but that was not the mission at launch so is not the same. 
And NASA is not using Voyager 1 to explore that star. We'd never get any information from it, both because the trip will take eons and most importantly because Voyager 1 only has about a decade of juice left. Around 2025 Voyager 1's reactor will be depleted and it will be dead in space. 

No, I get why we send people and objects into space. We are just logical in how we do it. Logically, we would not go to another galaxy until we have explored this one fully just like we would not go to another star system until we have explored this one fully. We may talk about it as a someday, but will never actually do it until our curiosity and other desires for what is closer have been sated. There is no logical or even illogical reason to do that until then. 

And no, the people of the MEU do not have the technology to do it. The lore stated that. 

Stop using word "objectively". Again, I stumble upon you using it in order to legitimize your ENTIRELY SUBJECTIVE opinion.

And no - they're NOT suggesting there's nothing; just likely not enough for such a large project, that likely costs colossal money and takes thousands of people across space to land in a new galaxy 600 years later.

I mean, MEA ain't even out yet - and you're deeming things in absolutist way even though we don't yet know all the details. Though it's certainly *objectively accurate* that a whole huge galaxy that is Andromeda likely has way more planetary systems able to suport life. And then there's the in-game fact (that we know for 100%) that there are are alien life forms there, which include some sort of remains of ancient civilization - and we do not yet know if this wasn't a decisive factor to venture there in the first place. Then there's the fact that Andromeda Initiative will at least attempt to establish some sort of route between both galaxies.

And hey, if anything else - it only makes sense for them to try and colonize Andromeda, given that *eventually* both it and Milky Way will be one.

You miss the fact that MEA doesn't happens in OUR world, with OUR level of technology, but something way more advanced. In that universe, humanity has already been traveling on other side of galaxies and exploring space outside of galaxy with far superior technology than ours, together with other civilizations that are way advanced than ours. Disregarding that... well, THAT is nonsense.

Honestly, I'd much rather have a black dude than a quarian dude. Quarians would presumably be more likely found amongst the turians, so all hope is not yet lost for the quarian lovers.

Solas, you asked if he could be a Vanguard. I guess he could be, but that's some serious biotic training for a police officer. Most biotics, especially someone on that level, you'd expect to find in the military. Still, all things are possible. I was thinking Liam would prove to be a bit older and more experienced, and here he's "young and energetic", so what do I know?

And this paves the way to a ton of other stories to be told!

Could he be the one dropped by the Krogan in one of the leaks???

Last thought: upon arriving, things go bad and the first planets tries to kill us.
Isn't this a "first contact war"??
Will the Kett be the new Turians that we will learn to appreciate later? It has been said BioWare designed them in a way that we can sympathize with them...

Yeah, I can see where your coming from but I don't think those will be as big of issues in MEA. Only because of the setting though. DAI suffers, in large part, from it's setting and BioWares odd obsession (ever since ME2-ish) that whatever the main conflict was, dominated the side content so it 'all felt connected' in some misguided hope that it would add weight to those side missions.

Then you get to DAI and literally every possible thing has to do with the baddie of the world. Like everything, no side quest no matter how small could be tied back to dealing with that thing. Plus the thing your getting at with the whole ambiguity of the power currency caused a huge disconnect. I mean it's not that the forces where ready, or the spies where back, it's that you finally delt with them wolves in that one area, or cleared out that one rift so you finally got that little bit of power to 'unlock' the story mission.

Which is basically just a time gate, it's some old open world bullshit. Most open world games have dropped it because of just how irritating it is to have the story deadstop until you complete enough side objectives. Saints Row 2 did it, you'd be going along the story and then you'd just hit a roadblock and it would be all 'DO MORE SIDE STUFF' which basically boiled down to doing there stupid side shit like the sewer truck thing where you shot liquid poo at people for points?

So yeah if MEA has some kinda arbitrary point system that you have to spend to continue main story points then yeah it's gonna suck. Because that created a bullshit disconnect between why you couldn't do a thing up till you could do a thing. Templars wont see you? Better go save some kittens till you've gotten enough 'power', instead of it being like needing to complete story related missions that had something to actually 'do' with getting power for the Templars, no more disconnect...

I'm babbling... point is, the power system and theme of DAI created a lot of nonsensical disconnect. But all the other 'making the world bigger' stuff I think would work out a lot better in Mass Effect then Dragon Age. I mean driving around in the Nomad on a desolate planet sounds a hell of a lot funner then running on foot in a desert because using your slow ass horse means no banter. Especially with the whole no loading screens thing GI confirmed where we pick the planet and 'see it getting closer' while inside our ship then we walk to the bay, get in the Nomad and drive out onto the planet (which is gonna be a canned animation before we get to drive but still).

That shits rad.. and I wont even be pissed theres no NPC's to talk to on that desolate planet.

Michael Gamble ‏@gamblemike
[@abunchofpeople] One thing about Liam...he has really really cool hair.

Maybe he means 'cool' as in Liam gets great air flow over his largely bare scalp?