Mass Effect: Andromeda

They did show a snapshot of the new, sportier MAKO in the main trailer, so I think there's an open element. Now if they improve on what ME 1 had (Actual hubs, rather than just a few scattered buildings) then even more awesome.

Also, I find the Krogan quite amusing in that - more Toad like and also the way it keeps holding its arms up as it turns like "Uh, my hands are up... is he down yet or do I need to keep standing like this? juuuust checking in case you're still standing up."

Looks interesting so here's hoping it's real and they definitely have a more exploration vibe.

Sorry if this was discussed, but I wonder how they're going to handle a galaxy without Reapers. Andromeda's civilizations might be massive, dwarfing everything the Milky Way ever possessed.

Or maybe they went through space version of nuclear war or something

Maybe whatever happened was already explained in interviews.

edited 5th Jun '16 9:38:11 PM by SilentColossus

Or maybe they'll basically be the Protheans, a galaxy-spanning empire that has every other race under its thumb, and the plot of the games is fighting to free them.

Wow, that's nice. Our first contact with a new galaxy and we cause a revolution XD

Nothing like delivering some good ol' fashioned freedom to them poor oppressed aliens, eh?

edited 5th Jun '16 9:38:22 PM by TheAirman

Sure, but the Protheans wouldn't really compare.

The only real issue is no Mass Effect relays, but with no Reapers, the native inhabitants could build their own. They had millions if not billions to do so.

Edit: Basically, the Reapers are Mass Effect's answer to the Fermi paradox.

edited 5th Jun '16 9:44:06 PM by SilentColossus

Yeah, I'm wondering how we'll get around the new galaxy unless in the time between the two series we've somehow managed to create mass relays that we use as FTL travel?

The Reapers did it.

Generation ships like the one that visits Andromeda. Those generation ships build relay-like structures throughout the galaxy. It would take a long time to make it easy to move across the galaxy, but the Reapers did it, and did so millions of years ago.

You guys do have heard leaks info about Remnants and such right? .-. Though yeah that could be outdated

Yeah, but I just think it would be cool to see Andromeda not suffering from frequent extinction like the Milky Way. The Reapers have been wiping out species every 50,000 years for about one billion years. Hence why the Milky Way isn't filled to the brim with potentially tens of thousands of intelligent species. But unless Andromeda does have their own Reaper-like group, then they wouldn't suffer from this.

Which means that someone has to be, like the Reapers, wiping out space-faring species. For billions of years. It would also mean that same genocidal civilization lacks colonies, population, economy, and infrastructure, if something were to show up and start wiping them out. Because good luck doing that if they settle the galaxy like they do in the Milky Way - again, they should have their own versions of relays by now. And unlike the Milky Way, one that is not tailor made to suit the needs of the genocidal Reapers.

Don't think Protheans. That is much, much, much too small.

edited 10th Jun '16 2:31:25 AM by SilentColossus

Inb4 they all got wiped out by synthetics.

Looks like we're finally going to get some info on Sunday at 1PM PST.

Why assume any of that? The universe is kinda really fucking huge; the odds of spacefaring civilizations first developing a couple billion years later in one galaxy than in another approach 1.

edited 10th Jun '16 6:16:28 AM by TheAirman

Andromeda presumably does not go through a galactic purge every 50,000 years. I find it unlikely that species manage to become space-faring every 50,000 years in one galaxy for about 1 billion years, but no one does until recently in another. Especially in a bigger galaxy with more stars.

edited 10th Jun '16 12:55:50 PM by SilentColossus

Same. The possibility of much more advanced cultures that didn't develop along a pre-determined path like the Milky Way races is a very nice prospect to deal with.

Ooooh that's gonna be really fun. I hope we get awesome new alien species especially as teammates.

I wonder if we'll get any races that go "Wait, you guys still use projectiles? You don't have lasers?"

At which point I will shoot them with my Prothean Assault Rifle.

I wonder if theres something more brutal & volatile than the Yahg.

In other sci-fi series there is a precedent for various races eventually falling apart and being wiped out, with galactic empires having existed at different points at different multiples of 50,000 years. Star Trek had loads of advanced alien species having existed and then wiped out for whatever reason. The most notable one was the T'Kon empire, which left behind a portal network and fueling the plots of a grand total of two episodes. There was at least another dozen episodes on similar ancient empires.

It could be speculated that the reason the Harvest occurred in the Mass Effect universe is because there was a single, uber-powerful empire that dominated the entire galaxy. Under the Star Trek model there could be loads of fallen galactic civilizations that destroyed each other over billions of years. That could be part of the plot of Andromeda.

Yeah, if I remember right the Bajora from TNG used to command a powerful and advanced empire before humans were even standing upright.

Now they're basically space Romani

Bajor was space faring before a lot of the other major players such as several members of the Federation (read humans) or the Cardassians. Possibly the Ferengi as well since they explicitly purchased Warp Drive. There weren't a major empire like the Iconinans for example though, mostly because they never really went expansionist.

And while they technically had FTL capability, that was due in part to a couple of anomalies in their system not related to the Wormhole (that we no of) that would allow a ship without a Warp Drive to reach Cardassia but it's not known if they had warp drive or some equivalent.

I doubt that Bioware's writers are thinking that deeply about the plot and the potential ramifications of our galaxy constantly being stunted, whereas the rest wasn't. Would be damn awesome if the next game does though.

This game is pretty much the only thing that's preventing me from calling the Mass Effect series Deader Than Disco. I so hope that it turn out good.

edited 11th Jun '16 11:41:55 PM by LDragon2