Mass Effect News Thread

Devs said Mass Effect Andromeda is a clean slate so I think Bioware probably did destroy Cerberus (yes the idea too     )
Anyways Bioware has had enough characters with daddy issues. Hope Cora is her own person.

Yeah that's kindof what I'm hoping that Cora joined the AI to get away from her father in the same way that Miranda joined Cerberus to get away from hers

I feel I've mentioned it as many times as you'll hear the words "Witcher 3" by now but Resident Evil 6 was in my opinion a game where I totally enjoyed my usual habits of video games whilist playing the entire thing with a stranger. I specifically want no voice-chat and I turn off player names in the menus so I get the illusion that the other player is a real character in the world that is assisting me, but I find some kind of joy in knowing that there's a human being on the other end of the line, and being a campaign-co-op game he can't really get in my way unless he's a bad player. Fortunately I found one stranger and played the entire thing with him and we posted reactions over PSN messages afterwards and then talking about about the game, much like we'd do here on a board. I really fucking liked that experience. It reminded me of when I was a kid and I still had friends that wanted to look at me playing a single player game or vice versa instead of the competitive MP games that I have never found enjoyment in.

I'm thinking that the RE6-type game is the overall approach BioWare is going for but maybe in a semi-MMO setting. I actually liked SWTOR for the way it integrated the social aspect and it worked fine whenever I played and only focused on questing and story as well as one flashpoint or two. It feels cool to enter another player's ship and travel to a distant freighter to oversee his character's story missions before you return to whatever you were doing, and it's never overly "social" where you have to chat or be bros and shit. I find myself wanting to "introvert" when I play video games too and I felt both RE6 and SWTOR let me do that while still technically playing with other people. That's all I need.

However, I hope the new IP doesn't feel too dumbed down. I expect more than a RE6-type rollercoaster experience from BioWare. I've come to expect branching paths and freedom of choice to some degree -- they'd better not drop that now that it isn't an "RPG" anymore.

Fair enough, but if they introduce that sort of conflict in the game to add more conflict then I just hope it's not Cerberus. They've had their fun. Let some other organization/group/individual come in and make this game feel like a new game separate from the trilogy like the devs have been constantly saying it is rather than just shoving Cerberus into the plot.
Right now I think humanity overall is more concerned with finding places to live, not trying to dominate the galaxy. There will be some humans who might act biased towards other species, but it doesn't have to be an organized conflict to be present in the game (if this human supremacy idea is present).

We'll see in 49 days. 

Jacob Bergen ‏@jacob_bergen
Frazier Commander, last month the odds were "good" for MP beta news. This unit requires calculated odds for the current month.

Ian S. Frazier @tibermoon
Since I was clearly wrong last month, I shall refrain from providing further calculations for this unit. Sorry!

You know I am kind of glad they are waiting for the MP, given all their tweets they have been making about how the rest of the game is doing, and given that we still do not know much about the MP, it indicates its the after thought it should be and not a main attraction.

49 days is foreveeeerrrr! I want it now. I'm not a patient person.

Don't get salty! You know what happens.

Indeed we don't want any bad eggs do we?

Julien Adriano ‏@bwjulien
@gamblemike Best part in all this is how a Dev from BF1 spotted this tweet and sent us a fix, as the same bug was found during their dev.

Fabrice Condominas @faburisu

@bwjulien @gamblemike We are crowdfixing the bugs thru twitter


(Looks like using the frostbite engine is benefiting them  )