Retcons or contradictions that you have noticed

The explanation seems dumb and we can probably have a valid opinion that its dumb until/unless Bioware releases content that delves much deeper into it and how it was done and what other things it has to do with.

In itself, its like, 'wow that happened...... moving on'.

Dude, I thought it was satire, too.

The AI thing is solved once you figure out who is behind the Initiative. As mentioned repeatedly, the Council has nothing to do with it and would be against most of what they're doing. It's all Space Elon Musk's doing.

Their supertech is due to Alec Ryder being behind the whole, "We need AI to do this" and them breaking many many laws to do it.

Alec Ryder is nicely retconned in as probably the guy behind the Moon VI (I.e. EDI) since he all but states the argument they gave for making it. Which nicely explains why they kicked him off the project and why EDI is so damned friendly.

A female Salarian Dock Worker is only weird if you assume that EVERY Salarian female decides to go the career path chosen for her.

I really don't think being inclusive is what's killing Mass effect some days I nearly agree with Bioware...that is damn sad.

Good point with the Patriarch conversation in ME2, but it's an interesting choice. Asari are a mono-sex species, but mono-gendered seems weird if you consider that Asari can take different roles in reproduction, which would have implied some would gravitated more towards one side of that or the other, which in turn would have probably given rise to different societal - and gender - roles, yeah? They could have had it like "Oh, the 'female' gender has become the default to non-Asari, based on the roles an alien and Asari would take in reproduction, with the Asari always being the mother by default and most Asari we've encountered have luckily ID'd as 'female', or just used to the mis-gendering due to cultural differences and rolled with it". A bit like how they tried to cough and pretend female Turians had always been in the games, just 'over there'. But that dialogue does sort of cement a one-gendered society so they missed that boat and this is indeed a retcon. They should explore the gender dynamics of the Asari though: A one-gender race is an interesting idea.

Alec Ryder is literally a man who violated one of the most important laws in the universe regarding AI research.

The equivalent to constructing a nuclear weapon in his backyard.

You're calling him to task for not returning his old armor?

Just pointing out, when you leave the Military, they don't let you keep your kit.  But, I get you.

The Archon's ambush early in the game.

According to Mass Effect lore, any ship to ship engagement in space is effectively over once one opponent disengages and flees at FTL speed because it's impossible to track and follow them. This was one of the defenses of the Tempest lacking any guns, plus Kallo claimed in a trailer that it would be really hard to find.

Yet the Archon manages to place an entire fleet into the Tempest's path while it is engaged in FTL flight to another star system, something that strikes me as way harder to do than just following a ship that is moving around. How the hell did he do that? Space is a huge black void without any "highways" for ships to move along, so the Tempest could have been anywhere. At FTL speed. WTF?

Add O'keer the genius trying to cure the genophage to my earlier project overlord comment.

I.....

I always took it as an attempt to continue a pointless tradition concerning the asari. See, the asari were conceptualized as the Green Alien Women trope of Mass Effect but in-universe, they were suppose to be a mono-gender race that didn't have a real concept of gender to apply to themselves. Likely because of what they were conceptualized as, this probably caused a presentation conflict that made the asari wound up being presented as completely female in everything down to every individual using female pronouns.

Liara in the first game and Aethyta's conversations in the third both feature attempts to try and present the asari as more of a gender neutral race but as I said, because of how the asari have always presented, it comes off as pointless. In this game, it comes off as inconsistent.

I'd rather they try to give up and create an actual gender neutral race instead.

Not liking something does not make it a retcon people.

I'll just leave my nitpicks before this thread degrades into asari pronouns completely.

Galaxy map inconsistencies/not-my-job/whatever:
Planets and their descriptions - I've stopped counting how many times I've encountered planets like "...would be good for colonization, but there is no water" *70% ocean planet in the background*. "...atmosphere pressure 0.00" *clouds one the screen*.
"Tempests is equipped with smaller version of ODSY drive" - route between two points has all systems in between. Why? What are we doing there? Visit drive-throughs?
And what's the deal with He-3 rush? I've counted at least five gas giants marked for future extraction + pretty big quest on one planet dedicated to it. Just how many gas giants do you need to fill the needs of 100k people?

Same on planets:
Patches of solid rock on top of remnant structures, how did they get there exactly?
Minerals lying on top of sand dunes? Sand, how does it work?
Same planet, everyone is struggling from lack of water. That's some harsh planet we got here. Except the fact that nearby moon has breathable atmosphere and it rains there. Okay then.
Same planet again. Modified Kett warbeasts are apparently part of local wildlife there. Got lost probably.

On lore (spoilerish):


Also, can someone explain me Nexus layout? Nexus is supposed to arrive with only one arm finished (judging by briefing), but Command Center is apparently in middle section. Did they have to build it on arrival or what? Also how did they manage to build most of the second arm without single functioning colony?