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Any news on whether we will see the new IP in E3? Better not repeat the mistakes of ME:A's marketing...



After the massive success of Overwatch, I wouldn't be surprised. Actually, if Bioware will try a shot at this it will be very interesting... Hero shooter with a deep lore behind the scenes? Sure, why not?

Yup that was the logic behind my guess. they have their fingers in all sorts of pies and want to even "compete with Assassin's Creed series soon" , so they are probably gonna try a "hero shooter" too. they gave up on MOBAs cause even Blizzard couldn't compete with the likes of LoL at this point, which is why Overwatch happened in the first place xD if they can pull it off i am cool with it but for me Dragon Age 4 has the biggest priority honestly.

Meh its just a guess but here is my thought process: Overwatch was supposed to be an MMO first called Titan so it depends on how far they have gone with their secret IP so far and how flexible it is toward such a change.  as for how they knew it was gonna be a success...it is a Blizzard game announced in 2014 and whenever they touched a dead/idle genre, it turned into gold.  Valve didn't care much for TF2, so Blizzard kinda got their "revenge" after the DOTA 2 thing happened. i grew up with the Blizzard community so i know how it is there and it only got worse. by now most of them are like addicts that buy anything with Blizzard's name on it and other companies are aware by now as well so they knew it was gonna be a success since 2014.

As for Dragon Age 4, EA knew what they were releasing with MEA so i doubt it is affected much assuming they even wanted to make one after Inquisition (i know that during development they cut the story in half so i assume they wanted a sequel since then). to me it feels like at some point they just banked on Mass Effect Andromeda selling on name alone while their Bioware veterans were busy with other projects and they may actually sell enough with name alone but even if it does, can't necessarily say the same if they make Andromeda 2.

I doubt they would be able to radically change the nature of the game at this stage. Still, they have a year (Or rather probably more like ten months) so they have time to tweak things. For example, they could look at the complaints about MEA's sidequests and adjust if they have a similar model. Or they could address the dialogue complaints, not a full rewrite but they have time to change some parts, adjust the tone if it has the MEA problem of most of the squadmates speaking in quips and very little tension or conflict.

But a full scale overhaul now would be a tall order. Overwatch may have started conceptually as an MMO, but they started from the ground up when they switched it to a hero shooter. They can't do that now if this is a game of any scale.

My current theory is still that EA nudged Bioware to make something in a similar niche to Destiny and the Division, in an effort to beat out the competition by providing the story experience both those games were criticized for lacking, so we'll see a single player game with a healthy level of coop content.

Not sure about voice work being done, but they can definitely record new lines at any time if they decide it's important. I mean in terms of a lot of MEA's dialogue consisting of jokes that fall flat that totally undermine taking the plot seriously. They tried too hard to make MEA like the Citadel DLC, resulting in a game with a ton of quips that failed to understand that those worked in the Citadel DLC because it was a send off for the trilogy, not because that's what everyone wanted all along. The result is a jarring contrast between the direness of the situation and the tone taken by the characters much of the time.


Maybe, I obviously don't know more than you, but I doubt Bioware will be abandoning their single-player story-dialogue model. So that's why I suspect something in the same line as those games when it comes to more multiplayer.

Has it been officially confirmed that the secret IP is using the frostbite engine?

To tell you the truth I don't think frostbite was really the best choice for Bioware. While I enjoyed the last 2 games with that engine alot of the issues I have with those games stem from the technical side of things due to frostbite.

If it does use frostbite I hope they got all the kinks out of it for the new IP because I think it's been more of a hindrance rather than a benefit.

Believe me I'm not under any illusion that they'll be switching engines. I firmly believe that this will be the main engine until at least 2020. I just hope that they get it working a whole lot better than what they've gotten so far.

Which is why i said it depends on the nature of the game. as for the release date, it is always changeable. i don't even play Overwatch so its not like i am hoping for it. however if the secret IP is confirmed to be offline only, then yea no change will happen most likely. if they want the new IP to succeed big time then yea they do have to pour everything they have into it specially by EA for marketing cause sadly that's a big part of it. i would be glad if it turns out to be a story heavy offline game.

as for MEA, its not about the uproar, its about it's legit issues. with Inquisition people kept looking for flaws as well, but whatever issues it had, they ain't gonna stick out the same way cause technical issues tend to be more noticeable and they objectively count as a flaw (even though they may not matter as much compared to some other flaws). ME IP may survive of course but still Andromeda counts as yet another damage to it. all that being said, we are talking about EA. so i won't be surprised if they now start milking the ME IP even more and then just turn it into a mobile game or put it to rest. they have a history of doing such things. as a matter of fact, as i said in my other reply, the point of my original comment was to make fun of EA for their attitude so i wasn't even looking to turn this into a discussion. EA don't care much so why should we xD which is a shame cause EA wasn't always like this. the likes of Command and Conquerors Generals or Battle for the Middle Earth entertained me for a long time.

Overwatch doesn't really require grinding. All you get are aesthetic bonuses and a ranking number, nothing that affect gameplay.

Now, something like Destiny does require some grinding to get better stuff and raise your light level, which does worry me.

Well, we might know in June. Grinders do have something that it is to the developpers' advantage: they make you want to buy early before the game is dead, and the life-span of multiplayer based games seem to be shortening in the last few years

Except those aren't "new" ways to play with friends. Those are old as dirt. If they just meant and old technique that's new from Bioware, well then that's just a dumb thing to say as a teaser.

My guess is that it's more like the Commander role in Battlefield (which, after all, is a Frostbite game). You can solo the campaign, but your friends can login and help you out, maybe by stepping into the shoes of an NPC guide, or maybe act as your air support for dropping you supplies or dropping bombs on an entrenched enemy mob, or trading gear with you, or even temporarily assisting with combat. Kind of a cross between Dark Souls 3 and Battlefield.