Post by Unicephalon 40-D on Nov 7, 2018 17:23:49 GMT
Damn that MEA starmap music and MEA theme Also thanks Casey and Gamble
(older ME games look very very dark there though..)
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Yeah, I guess that's something.
Have you seen the rear of the ship in that video as it goes FTL? That's the Tempest.
I can't exactly put my finger on that scene. Maybe the combination of "What it's future holds" and that scene popping up at the same time?
I don't know. I wish I saw it the same way.
Oh well. Just deliver DA4 and then we'll start seriously talking about MEA2, ok.
It's a clip from one of the Andromeda initiative briefing I believe. The one 0talking about Golden worlds with Suvi. I only remember that as I watched those vids again recently on youtube.
Maybe a different take than some (most?) … not trying to be Pollyannaish … but also not willing to drop into cynicism.
Andromeda support was "done" … no more patches, no DLC, no other updates beyond some balancing in MP and "celebratory" missions.
Today, a patch dropped which effects a version of the Xbox console. I don't have either an Xbox or a PS4, so a console patch does nothing for me. Anthem was "done" … yet BioWare somehow convinced EA that creating a patch for a version of Xbox was a good use of resources, while BioWare was in crunch time for Anthem. It's not a multi-platform DLC, it's not the Quarian Ark DLC, it's not a patch to fix some of the annoying bugs that still live in SP and the many that live in MP. But it is a patch. BioWare still cares about the game.
Now maybe the patch is trivial and required almost no dev resources to put together. Perhaps BioWare does not have to pay Microsoft anything for deploying a patch … either of those could be true … or neither. But BioWare did it.
Is this going to make them a bunch of money? Not directly and if the population potentially affected by the patch is as small as it seems, not indirectly either. Maybe they did it because it was a cool thing to do, though it might have been an exercise in further developing their capabilities on Frostbite, at least with respect to upgraded visuals on certain platforms. So it could be something a bit removed from altruism or generosity … but for whatever reason they did it. I think part of it (based on comments by BioWare today) is that ME still lives, they still care and stuff is still happening, even if at a low level of effort.
Do I wish there was more? Of course. But ME is not dead. The timeline for MEA2 (if that is what the next installment is), will be longer than I would like. MEAnext is not even in the same galaxy as SoonTM. But there is still a Mass Effect universe and for that, I'm grateful.
OBTW … thanks ME3 modders on N7 day … downloaded an updated EGM … though will wait a bit for further refinement of the Spectre mod.
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This is actually a better N7 Day for me than last year or the year before. Why?
Well, I'm usually actually kind of cynical about the day. Sell some merch, say some nice things, any otherwise usually not have that much going on.
Wait, that sounds like this year too. What makes this year special?
2016 I could wave it off as them wanting to promote Mass Effect: Andromeda. 2017 I could wave it off as them wanting to not scare people off of buying stuff in MEA MP.
What's happening this year? Surely the MEA MP can't be that important with Anthem coming up. Surely they can't be relying that much on merch. My worse expectations were less than a blog post - but nearly nothing save for a couple nice tweets.
But what happened? -upgrade to Xbox graphics, an upgrade that didn't need to happen but was a bone to relevant players -a focused video, with people seeming genuinely in good spirits about the series -implications and near-statements of more games to come, from Casey Hudson -the book actually happened, and it's all a sort of setup to the future -merch can annoy me, but the idea that they seem to be ramping up/adding to merch is interesting -the idea that both MET and MEA treated as equal or near equal arcs in perhaps the larger vision, continues -they still have a MP guy that can still do his events and tweaks
In 2018. If this was a dying franchise, not even half of these things would happen. Are most of these things interesting to me? Not really or not much. But I'm inspired by this N7 Day because the narrative seems clear to me - more Mass Effect is intended for as soon as they can get to it. Bioware is really pushing expanding Edmonton capabilities, and I wouldn't be shocked if they outright decide for the 2020s to have large Anthem, Dragon Age, AND Mass Effect divisions so there's always production instead of too many shifting priorities.
I didn't get much this year.. except hope. I'll take hope.
At best, if production gets faster and easier through Frostbyte engineering, we see teasing as soon as next year, though I still doubt that.
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I know they currently disseminate merch thru various partners they have linked on there. but are they still planning on bringing back the bioware store with updates or whatever it was they said that time?
OBTW … thanks ME3 modders on N7 day … downloaded an updated EGM … though will wait a bit for further refinement of the Spectre mod.
Thank you so much for the kind words, we worked our socks off for it and we're glad that the fans enjoyed our work. Spectre v0.8 is out now, I released it an hour or two ago, so I hope you give it a try. I'll keep working on it though, still got to reach v1.0
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I assume that the conditions contain something along the lines of "You're not from the Czech Republic because EA doesn't even have that particular language mutation for Origin anymore"?
After time adrift among open stars, past tides of light, and through shoals of dust, I will return to where I began.
Post by Unicephalon 40-D on Nov 7, 2018 19:55:26 GMT
Had some amazing games on N7 day in MEAMP. I led some newbies (again today plenty of those too, and plenty of veterans online! ) on bronze and silver also, helped carrying them. They stayed for many games. Hope you guys had a blast like I did
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Jos Hendriks @sjosz Happy N7 day to all you Commanders out there. Personally, N7 is the reason that I ended up moving to Canada, and working on the Mass Effect games. It's always wonderful to see that N7 has had a positive impact on people's lives.
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