Mass Effect News Thread

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from the looks of it they are mostly looking for senior level employees. guys with already 5 to 6 years of job experience. so more like graduate than freshman level. 

i wouldn't hold my breath for any info. most of the BW folks that are at PAX West are folks that are not working on MEA right now. Mike Laidlaw, Patrick Weekes, Epler etc. 

Very unlikely. They've said a number of times the plan is to release more information in the fall.

only problem i see is that N7 is so closely intertwined and inseparable form Shepard that they might want to step away from the N7 connection to MEA.

While they may gradually transition to some other marketable designation (like "Ai"), so far N7 has been pretty prominent in MEA's marketing.

Muppet Camel Express ‏Melra_f_lem

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Ai = April 1st? August 1st? 

It seems to be indicating Andromeda initiative.

I wouldn't be opposed to that approach.

Despite the prominence of N7 throughout the series (and mostly its advertising), I never really felt any special connection to the symbol. Looking at the box art before playing the games, I figured there would be some deep meaningful background to being an N7. And I didn't really get that at all? Except for giving some pep talks to Vega in ME3, which I didn't really feel all that invested in due to the aforementioned detachment. It's also why I never particularly care when people talk about why being N7 in Andromeda is so important.

I can see myself becoming much more interested if they focused on Ryder's journey to becoming N7 and the themes behind it.

I believe they did say the protag doesn't start as N7 and we know the N7 character in the video isn't the PC (my guess, he's actually one of the villains/antagonists).

But it wouldn't surprise me to see the PC either become N7 (or just the option to become N7) somewhere down the line.

*dons tinfoil hat* my theory is that the N7 will be the antagonist, who may also possibly be Ryder's sibling/family member. We may work up to our own N7 designation to bring back honor to the family name or something similar. I think N7 is such a part of the brand at this point that I'd be surprised if we never get to achieve it, assuming we start out as non-N7 specialists/explorers or whatever. Ai might just be the name of the ark project, or maybe the name of the group of soldiers and specialists you're working with.

This speculation is probably completely offbase, lol, but who knows.

Yes, I know is for Andromeda Initiative (aka Ark Iniciative). I've just trying to figure out what date would match with those two letters . The letter "i" is like 1 in roman numbers