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Jaal will be one of the Andromedean peeps from a race we haven't seen yet.

What manner of insanity convinced them to ditch Sam Hulick in favor of this no-name composer?

It has to do with those markets and how they conduct business. It's complicated. 

You mention more will be known about the squadmates. For me, I rather know more about the crew that will be posted on the tempest

The area I think everyone can agree that BioWare has never let us down is the music. I've never been not wowed by their selection

Eh, the first two DA games didn't really wow me on their music. I was shocked to find out the DA2 composer later did Game of Thrones and Westworld, because none of that came through at all for me--but he did later say he was incredibly rushed at that time, so I guess I can't really blame him.

I do agree that I like to see the crew move around. Chakwas did move around a couple of times in ME3 talking with Adams. I like for my Ryder to talk with them. Ask them about why they joined the project, learn about what they do on the ship. I wouldn't complain if my Ryder offered her/his help replacing a part with an engineer.  Even while walking around, sits down with them in the mess hall to make small talk.

It would be nice to have one of them on a mission that requires them for whatever reason. The squadmates provides protection while the crewmate does whatever. That could be a loyalty mission for the crewmate.

Good work, once again

So my Jaal prediction is that he's a male (romanceable!) alien squadmate. And a quarian! (No, that's totally not just the wishful thinking of a quarian fan. It's because of his name! And, also... stuff!) *mutter*Though I guess he might be Andromedan*mutter* Actually, I'd be alright with that too - particularly if it were a Kett. A rebel Kett willing to join our cause would be very awesome.

The character I'm most looking forward to meeting is Kallo. I love salarians, and he sounded very cool from his briefing narration.

For multiplayer, I'm hoping it'll be fun to do by myself... I've never actually played multiplayer anything before, and though I'm willing to try it out this time around, my gaming time is my not having to deal with real people time so I imagine I'll mostly solo it if possible. Hopefully it's still enjoyable to do so - I don't care so much about the XP or even the potential gear rewards, but since it does sound like it ties in with the larger narrative a bit I'll want to participate in those missions at least sometimes.

What a surprise MEA releases in the UK and the rest of Europe at the same time.

They've never jumped the shark if that's what you mean, but I don't think DA2 or ME3 were that good. Not bad, just, it was very much in the background most of the game and I personally found the Clint Mansell stuff ill-fitting to the established style, as did I with the Krogan DA:O music.

Bioware wise I'm not sure. I only ever got ME3 day one but I know that was a Friday. Not sure about the rest of Europe though.