Mass Effect News Thread

Q. Mac, I remember you speaking to Game Informer and mentioning a squadmate that was cut in development. From the races represented I’m going to make an educated guess and say they were salarian. Can you say anything more about why he didn’t make it and if we might ever see him again?

Mac Walters: You know game development is a constant series of decisions - there’s always going to be some scope reductions. Because we decided to do loyalty missions that meant every squad member had their own special mission plus a significant amount of relationship dialogue. Ultimately, the only reason we chose to cut was because of that. It wasn’t that we didn’t like the character - I believe at the time it was just which ones were furthest along. As for whether we’d see them again in the future - it is possible. I think a lot of people like the idea for the character. But you never know - sometimes what we do is instead of coming back to it in the game he’ll come back in a book or comic or something like that.

Q. Mordin is my favourite character so, as a salarian fan, I hope we see him again.

Mac Walters: [laughs] Part of it too was we’re playing up the Tempest crew members much more and we have a salarian on the crew. We put a lot of investment in that character.

Q. He’s the pilot, right?

Mac Walters: Exactly.