If bioware makes a sequel with ryder as the main character again do you want the same squadmates or

Drack is getting up there in years and losing more and more redundant organs to the point the remaining ones aren't so redundant anymore.

I'd be fine with meeting back up with him in MEA 2 settling into retirement or something vaguely resembling that for a krogan anyway. You can only do the "I'm getting too old for this shit" thing for so long with a character before it no longer has any meaning. He's one of the better characters and could probably do a lot more for the series outside of the Tempest (Wrex didn't become an amazing character until long after he was no longer a squadmate)

I could do without Liam, but that's just my personal problems with the overall character. I'd hate to force a LI off the roster when there might be plenty of people who love his character and their relationship with him. He was by far the weakest of the crew, but that just means they have an opportunity to let him grow up in the sequel (Garrus wasn't my best friend until ME2, in ME1 he was just kind of uptight and singleminded)

Vetra was always pretty pleasant to be around, but I never felt like there was that much going on for her character. She was very inoffensive to me, but if you asked me to describe her all I could really come up with is that she was/is a smuggler and she loves/is over-protective of her sister. She never really had that chance to shine or stand out. She could use more development but what she could potentially add to the game seems minimal.

Cora is a big ? for me on whether they are really determined to keep her around or not. I think Bioware would have intended to keep her on for more than one game, but she's become something of a punchline about asari cultural appropriation and could easily see them wanting to Ash/Miranda her now.

Jaal is our first new alien and our main connection to the angaara, it's possible that this gives him enough plot relevance that they keep him with the crew. He already received the offer to have his own crew and turned them down to remain on the Tempest so they'd have to think of a pretty good reason for him to leave at this point.

Peebee could easily have the most plot relevance going forward if they want to continue to the development of the Remnant. Add to that she's a romance character for both Scott and Sara Ryder, that tells me she's more than likely here to stay.


So right now it's hard to peg if any of them are really on the chopping block. Bioware hasn't ever really had a consistent model for this kind of thing...popular characters can leave the roster only to end up with an awesome subplot in the next game (Mordin) or can be deeply unpopular and basically get really shitty treatment from the writers (Jacob) Really the only thing that gives any of them a real strong chance of coming back is that none of them can die. That's the number one reason none of the ME2 cast came back as squadmates accept for fan-favorites and ME1 veterans Tali and Garrus.

If I had a choice, I'd say keep them all and work on whatever was a problem with them in MEA 1...Some of my favorites in the OT had a rough start and they just needed some love poured into their writing to make them work...then I'd follow that up with introducing two new squadmates that preferably are from any new clusters we might discover in the second game.