"New" infos: Grey morality and crafting...

That's actually new. In last month after Walter's interview we assumed they can't die.

I tried to come up with some pun, but failed. So I'll just say that they'd better make me care about these "choose your favorite type of bastards" choices.

Need to make the top-of-the-line pathfinder armor. Collect 20 Andromeda iron ore. Collect 5 flying dragon leather. Collect 1 fiend heart. Collect circuitry from destroyed looking giant mech.

Fabrice is a boss. Everytime he talks about the game I'm filled with confidence about how it will turn out.

The thing he says about "shading" and not always knowing which choice you'd made led to the outcome really speaks to me. That's what I liked about The Witcher 2, that unpredictability when you make a dialogue choice and not knowing if that might potentially create some sort of consequence later on. In Witcher 2 there are choices you make in act 1 that come back to haunt you later in a way that fits with the causality of plot. DA:I had it a little bit when you pick templars and then the companion who was with mages comes at your doorstep to warn you about the mages or vice versa, but that was immediately after the previous main plot point.

The interviewers are mostly careless in this regard. Sometimes I don't think they've even turned their brainpower on. In the Gameinformer interview one of the chosen fan-questions that they asked Mac was "will we see more alien planets in Andromeda" or something to that effect... and it's like, what planet ISN'T alien in Andromeda?
But DA:I is still a really good basis for a crafting system. They need to tighten its balancing and maybe have a bit more weapon/armor variety in terms of visuals but darn, I would spent several hour just crafting in DA:I just to create the most stylish as well as powerful gear for every companion. I really liked the tinting options or how different metal materials changed the design.

I can't wait to craft cool helmets in Andromeda.

The answer Mac gave baffled me even more there, to be honest... I mean, what good is a new setting with new, alien planets when your design philosophy remains "rooted in reality"?

It's going to be Virmire 2.0.


And honestly, that worked well enough so not only do they not have a reason to change it, I don't have a reason to want them to. Though I suppose they could also take a slice from the SM- you didn't upgrade the shields? Guess this companion's going bye-bye.


I'd be fine with the choice to kill x or y being transparent and on the spot if past decisions influenced how they felt about it. Like if you never talked to them they'd just go "pfft, figures" or if you romanced them they'd call you out on it. Hell if you save your romance the one you doom should call you out on it. And your responses should vary from "I'm sorry" to "but he/she's really hot, alright?"

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^^ Considering what Mac did with ME3's plot, that is make the antagonist a literal Saren and his Geth 2.0 scenario, I'm not so confident, but I actually feel ME:A is going to be closer to a Halo 4 2.0 because Schlerf has written the backbone of the plot that's still in place. It's more likely we'll have some Didact-esque bad-guy who leads an army of angry Kett to do something about the promethian-- I mean the Remnant and that our protagonist will have some closely related character who is dying until they get an emotional payoff at the end (like Dad) or maybe SAM AI will go rampant over the course of the game IDK.

Seriously though, I have a feeling they're going for an approach where the companions aren't ever at risk of permadeath due to the plot, but the non-companion main characters could be, if the game has something akin to the advisors of DA:I maybe. Maybe even Dad. I have hopes that the Ryder family mystery is self-contained for Andromeda 1 so whatever happens this arc is resolved by the end of the game and dad or anyone else except the twin who's got a stake in this subplot will be able to die without BioWare having to worry how they're going to re-introduce them in the plot later; they can just resort to having them in the story but not crucial like Anderson in ME2 and then instead of backpedaling on the choice later, they find a way so they're guaranteed to stick with whether said character is dead or alive in future Andromeda games.

Could be... meh, I never thought I'd miss the Elkor, Hanar and Volus.

As I said: It was conjecture on the part of the interviewer, there is NO confirmation from BioWare's side in there!

Don't wanna spread false rumors here...