There'd better be mechs in the next game

Yup, that would be awesome.

Kett-Mechs. Or is it Kett-Tech-Mechs?

Eh, I can understand the gripe about how we shoot too many beings from MW races. I just look at is as a typical gameplay/story segregation issue.

If this story were told in book form, I'm sure the number of Exiles killed by Ryder and crew would likely be 20 or fewer, but for the sake of argument, I could see that being pushed up to around 100. 100 out of approximately 100,000 isn't that many, by a long stretch.

Should game developers be more cognizant of these kinds of situations, and limit or mitigate such story/gameplay disconnect issues? Sure, but I don't take them too seriously. They're basically in just about any game with any sort of combat to 'em, if you look hard enough. Bioware just makes it easier for us to spot 'em.

Well if we are talking about realism, wouldn't be more realistic for the crew on the Tempest to join us on missions rather than just two? And how is it that just three people can take out an entire army?

Yeah, these things need to be overlooked because its part of the gameplay.

Oh, I get that. Not taking it that seriously. Just that I can't think of any other game where the protagonist, most of their allies, and a good portion of their enemies, are all effectively members of endangered species. I think Ryder is technically guilty of genocide, four/five times over, which makes me chuckle. Took Shep three games to even have the opportunity to do it that many times .

Adding some humanoid mechs with guns would at least offer a gameplay-story 'out' for the problem.

I wouldn't mind destroying some Kett ships in Gundam Wing Zero.

Some gameplay/story segregation. Ryder and co probably killed at most hundreds of Milky Wayers, not thousands. APEX probably killed at most thousands, not tens of thousands. Then most colonists are stuck in sleeper pods (to be recovered or not) during MEA, so this is more like a period of relatively intense carnage before everything settles down into some sort of more peaceful order.

That said, a MEA2 with Ryder and with at least any of the hints MEA gives us, will only take place at most years, maybe, I dunno, a decade or two (probably not), after MEA. This means a growing but fragile population.

It doesn't make much sense to have a Milky Wayer/Nexus main enemy faction. Villain, rival, other factions, sure - but not one of the things we'd see in any MP mode.

Kett and Remnant both seem possible but:
-the reaction to Kett is mixed, so we could get anything from them being shuffled off in the next game, to indeed having them return and be reimagined
-the Remnant deal is part of a bigger story, but the 'guard bot' part might be done after MEA; no more vaults, or if there is, that doesn't necessarily mean it'd be a story there about Remnant guard bots

If MEA2 wants to follow any sort of tradition, we'd have a more native faction, a more alien faction, and a machine faction.
-ME1 follows this the least, but it has the various humanoids we fight, weird stuff like Thorian creepers, and the Geth
-ME2 has the mercs in various forms, the Collectors, and the Geth.
-ME3 has Cerberus, Reaper troops, and the Geth.
-MEA has Outlaws, Kett, and Remnant.

I can see two bigger directions:
1)We stick to what might be a more established plan, and we fight Kett affected peoples, an expanded Kett, and the actual militaristic tech of the 'Remnant', all as part of an intertwining story about them all in a larger galaxy instead of just a Helius golden cluster.
2)Bioware gets scared off and we'll have no clue what approach they take, and they minimize the MEA plot focus as much as they reasonably can

Either way, I can see lots of mechs happening. In fact, more than ever. It doesn't mean the mechs are AI like Geth, VI like Remnant. Theoretically, we could get something rather twisty synthesis-y with a pseudo-organic AI race *shrug*.
In any case, there will probably always be something (or 2-3 factions of somethings) with TONS of things to use our guns on.


Its true that MEA was a stretch to believe so many outlaws existed. If the Roekaar had a bigger story in SP, Kadara's relatively isolated gangland had a smaller story, and we got a Roekaar mix in MP (maybe this could happen with a patch though), it'd feel like it made more sense.


I don't think we'll be focusing content on the planets of the Heleus Cluster anyway. Yes, we may visit them in more contained (though maybe detailed) fashion in some story and to see what they've been up to. Yes some very important story events may happen in the cluster and as part of its mysteries. But I highly doubt Bioware will take the same 'roam/drive around these big zones' approach again, at least not to Heleus itself. I anticipate a more crafted experience and one where I won't be asking as much of a question of 'Where did these mooks come from?'.


I agree that its good they didn't make us shoot many krogan. Outlaw krogan were somewhat rare (more common in MP but again, segregate what that means), and Behemoths were mini-bosses. We fought them enough to care about losing them (if we cared about krogan to start), but we didn't fight enough that we would be freaked out about how many exist in antagonistic form already.

I want to use the diving mech again.

I think I may have encountered about a dozen unfriendly Krogan. If so, that's the 1% figure again.

Any sequel is bound to get new factions, but we're still going to be facing MW bad guys, if just from the fact that otherwise the Nexus species do start to look like colonial invader arseholes.

More varied, and localised, animal threats would be welcome, too.

However, a better way would be find another satisfying and challenging gameplay loop on top of shooting stuff. After all, we're a Pathfinder, not a Spectre; we're James Kirk, not James Bond.

I mean, if there were other ground vehicles that actually moved, we could have car chases!   

The NEXUS very well may have industrial capabilities, but before Hyperion arrived, they'd be at best powered down, and at worst not even fully finished yet.  And having those be an excuse for any "renegade" faction to have access to them would be a stretch, 'cause if they're renegades, why would the Nexus give/sell them 'Mechs?

That said, warehouses of mothballed GP mechs could definitely explain the source, if they were stolen or whatnot.  It'd have to have a LEAST a brief mention to make sense, though.  Maybe a short quest to find out why all of these mechs are missing, we find out they were stolen, take out the smuggling ring headquarters, but the damage is already done.  I'd like a side quest like that for next game, for sure.



True, Initiative colonies would be starting up manufacturing, but the same kinda deal applies as does to Nexus based manufacturing. It still wouldn't explain how any renegade faction got their hands on 'em. I'm more than willing to use colonial mfg plants to explain where the mechs came from in the first place, but how a renegade faction got 'em would still need at least a brief explanation.

How long would it take to build ships for combat? Will they be able to deal with the kett?

 The kett are the biggest threat even though Ryder stopped archon. The kett know the location of all outposts. They know the location of Meridian and the Nexus. Hopefully Ryder and the others are aware of that. I don't know how large a force Primus currently has in the cluster, but he most likely will contact the leaders to get advice on what to do. He would probably ask for reinforcements. The leaders would most likely agree by sending a very large force to help Primus to exalt the cluster. Will the colonies/outposts and Initiative be able to handle that? Of course there's know way of knowing how long it would take for more kett to arrive in the cluster. I'm sure they will be in a dlc and possibly the next game. So I'm curious what will happen

It seems Mech's would be made and used eventually, especially if people involved with Cerberus reach Adromada. It would also make sense to use mechs to protect outposts from Remnants. Maybe in a future dlc there will be more arks with more tech from the trilogy.