Bioware General (Mass Effect/Dragon Age/Other)

[UNiT]

The Zalkin is trash even after that change. I'll never use it again after doing it's challenge.

[UNiT]

New Apex Mission

https://youtu.be/I9kHmOipQqE

MATCH MODIFIER: NEW Expanded Waves of Battle – Your team will face its greatest challenge yet as together you fight through the first of its kind: an unprecedented fight where you face 11 waves of enemies – including fighting a major new “Boss” the Kett commander! Bring your best weapons, boosts, and your ability to work together as a team to fight through this challenge and come through it successfully!

[Someone With Mass]

New Apex Mission

MATCH MODIFIER: NEW Expanded Waves of Battle – Your team will face its greatest challenge yet as together you fight through the first of its kind: an unprecedented fight where you face 11 waves of enemies – including fighting a major new “Boss” the Kett commander! Bring your best weapons, boosts, and your ability to work together as a team to fight through this challenge and come through it successfully!

As much as people bitch about this game, I think the multiplayer holds up pretty well. Hell, it works just as it did back when I played ME3. Barely touched the singleplayer, but played the multiplayer like there was no tomorrow.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO41zhJymD0

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak-i3ni7IjM&feature=youtu.be

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjTKLI1mgMo

I would say, in no particular order, my top ten favorite ME missions not including DLC would be: Noveria, Recruiting Garrus on Omega, Geth Dreadnaught, Haestrom, ME3's Priority Tuchanka, Mordin's Loyalty Mission, Tali's Loyalty Mission, Stopping Sovereign & Saren on the Citadel, Virmire, ME2 Suicide Mission

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

Forgot to post this back on the 8th.

Happy late pre-birthday, Anderson.

[magnuskn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak-i3ni7IjM&feature=youtu.be

If he thinks EA/BioWare should own up/address the whole ME:A fiasco, he certainly hasn't been around during the ME3 ending mess. It's just not in their corporate nature to admit mistakes.

[Alienmorph]

Yeah, back then they did the Extended Cut of the ending, and then it was business as usual. Same with Andromeda, they went through those major patches and updates, and that was probably the last we'll ear of them.

[Vol]

May 5th, Cora's VA was recording lines, though the Kotaku piece hit on the May 10th. But people who pay attention to Bioware staff/streams are saying there's a number of vague implications of future content at this point now.

[Riptide]

May 5th, Cora's VA was recording lines, though the Kotaku piece hit on the May 10th. But people who pay attention to Bioware staff/streams are saying there's a number of vague implications of future content at this point now.

If I have to guess, they'll probably do one that at least attempts to put a bow on Andromeda. It'll probably tie up loose ends, since they aren't likely to want to address it all in a sequel.

[Someone With Mass]

May 5th, Cora's VA was recording lines, though the Kotaku piece hit on the May 10th. But people who pay attention to Bioware staff/streams are saying there's a number of vague implications of future content at this point now.

If I have to guess, they'll probably do one that at least attempts to put a bow on Andromeda. It'll probably tie up loose ends, since they aren't likely to want to address it all in a sequel.

If it gets a sequel at all.

[Riptide]

May 5th, Cora's VA was recording lines, though the Kotaku piece hit on the May 10th. But people who pay attention to Bioware staff/streams are saying there's a number of vague implications of future content at this point now.

If I have to guess, they'll probably do one that at least attempts to put a bow on Andromeda. It'll probably tie up loose ends, since they aren't likely to want to address it all in a sequel.

If it gets a sequel at all.

That's what I mean. If there's another game after Andromeda, it's not going to be Andromeda 2, so they need to tie things up now.

[TheodoricFriede]

I really hope we get an Andromeda sequel, because i couldn't give two shits about the Milky Way anymore.

[Alienmorph]

If I were to take an educated guess, we're probably gonna get that Quarian Ark dlc, because thei're gonna have a better chance at selling that to nostalgic fans, than rushing a new story about the second wave of Kett coming, or about the origin of the Remnants.

I guess they could also be doing something like the quarian ark is intercepted by the second wave of Kett, and do both. Would also save them the money and development time necessary to make up some new enemy faction. Which is something that sure as hell they haven't got much of left.

As for sequels... yeah no. Unless some miracle happens Mass Effect is on its death bed. And likely Bioware as an whole too, if Anthem doesn't invert their spiraling down trend.

[Mazder]

I'm on the fence on if I want an Andromeda sequel or to do something else/return to already trodden ground.
I honestly can't tell if I want this to go the route where we get ME's version of the Star Trek seasons. You know which one we're on about...

[magnuskn]

Yeah, no sequel for me, please. Return to the Milky Way.

[TheodoricFriede]

Yes because there are so much left to do in the smoldering remains of the now peaceful Milky Way.

Maybe they can break new ground and have Liara in the game.

[Someone With Mass]

Maybe they can break new ground and have Liara in the game.

Again.

Edit: I just noticed that the Agent decoy can execute people.

Let me rephrase that: A HOLOGRAM can execute people.

[Alienmorph]

I'm actually kind of amazed at how they managed to write themselves in an even smaller corner.

The only way I could see them continuing things on Andromeda is if the next game is set also quite some time after the last one, and we get another pseudo-reboot, where we're still in Andromeda, but we have an whole new set of characters and with a story that isn't a straigh-up continuation of the Ryder brothers' one.

It's also entirely possible that they just go back to the idea of making a prequel set in the First Contact War, which would be the absolutely least interesting thing they could do.

Kinda wish they would just reboot, but even that would be an hard move. They'd need to change and expand the story and the universe alot, especially if they want to have a universe still usable after the reapers. And it's still the most unlikely of options because EA doesn't like remakes, reboots and remastered.

[Someone With Mass]

I'd rather have them go with what they have instead of trying to flee from their problems yet again and accomplish fuck all in the process.

Really, the biggest reason Andromeda failed was because of the insufferably bad management it had for several years (or when EA involved themselves in any way), not because the concept itself was bad.

[TheodoricFriede]

The only way I could see them continuing things on Andromeda is if the next game is set also quite some time after the last one, and we get another pseudo-reboot, where we're still in Andromeda, but we have an whole new set of characters and with a story that isn't a straigh-up continuation of the Ryder brothers' one.

.

Uh... Why?

There's the threat of Kett, Rokeer, Precursor race, and whatever probably new threat is attacking the quarians.

[TTTX]

Uh... Why?

There's the threat of Kett, Rokeer, Precursor race, and whatever probably new threat is attacking the quarians.

numbers (the races don't have trillions of numbers pull from, so you can't keep having a giant plot where people keep dying in their dozen or even hundreds, the salarians took a pretty big hit enough that their entire race were at risk just as an example), most of the races don't have that many attack ships (even with harvisting of remnant tech the ships it will still takes a lot of time to you know build said weapons and not to mention the research will also take a lot of time even with Sam) and you know the colonies needs time to be build and such, before you can start building all the necessary equipment, weapons all that take resources factories etc and that is only at the beginning of being build.

So yeah if ME:A 2 becomes a thing then it would have to take place at least a decade (and that's being generous) perfyrble more in order to make like a war with the Kett empire a main focus, you can't do a ME2 or ME3 kind of plot like 2-3 years after ME:A, because there isn't a entire galaxy to pull from in ME:A yet.

Right now they are in 1 cluster there isn't that well develop yet as many planets haven't been colonized and so on.

So it's not there isn't enough stuff to deal with, it's just that right now the races and the current colonization level are to low in many ways to deal with any major disaster or threat.

[TheodoricFriede]

...Its like...

...Why would that...

...You're just looking for....

God this group is nightmare sometimes.

[TTTX]

...Its like...

...Why would that...

...You're just looking for....

God this group is nightmare sometimes.

you tend to say that with pretty much anyone who disagrees with you, especially when you don't have any good arguments against what you are arguing for or against.

But Theo you have played ME:A same as me and even you have to agree with the current state the cluster is in we can't have like a giant war with Kett Empire or any plot where a lot people is going to die (and they do in pretty much every BW plot) or giant army to win.

There needs to be a pretty big gap time wise between ME:A to ME:A 2.

[UNiT]

I feel some people lack imagination and forget that this is bioware and handwaivium is very strong over there. If they want something to happen it will happen with a explanation for it. Probably a terrible explanation but it will be something.

[SciFlyBoy]

Again.

Edit: I just noticed that the Agent decoy can execute people.

Let me rephrase that: A HOLOGRAM can execute people.

Tali's combat drone does, too.

[Alienmorph]

But Theo you have played ME:A same as me and even you have to agree with the current state the cluster is in we can't have like a giant war with Kett Empire or any plot where a lot people is going to die (and they do in pretty much every BW plot) or giant army to win.

There needs to be a pretty big gap time wise between ME:A to ME:A 2.

It's not even a matter of having giant wars. I don't really feel the need for one. Mass Effect 3 proved that galaxy-wide conflicts are not to right way to do this kind of games, in my opinion.

But still... you have a pocket of colonist, one local species, and a cluster full of worlds that are habitable and/or full of resources. Not to mention the Remnants tech that allows to terraform more. Not to mention that without the Relays, going to any other star cluster will require months, or even years.

Plot-wise ME:A could really just work as a one-shot story. You secured humanity (and some alien races) a new home in another galaxy. The end. It's done.

Doing a straight-up sequel means you're gonna spend MORE time on barren worlds looking for resources or alien macguffins, there's no real reason or real mean to travel afar from Helius, and if we're supposed to believe that the Kett are to remain the big bad guys of the story... well... yawn.

And again... they could easily have the Kett being the ones that attacked the quarian ark. They're not gonna introduce an whole new faction in a DlC for a dying game. And I sure hope they don't do something stupid like having some villain from the old games showing up and trying to use the quarians to get a bridgehead in Andromeda. That would reek of stupid and desperation.

[TTTX]

I feel some people lack imagination and forget that this is bioware and handwaivium is very strong over there. If they want something to happen it will happen with a explanation for it. Probably a terrible explanation but it will be something.

Not even BW can pull there are now millions of people living in the cluster (that can fight and so on) in a matter of a few years.

[UNiT]

I feel some people lack imagination and forget that this is bioware and handwaivium is very strong over there. If they want something to happen it will happen with a explanation for it. Probably a terrible explanation but it will be something.

Not even BW can pull there are now millions of people living in the cluster (that can fight and so on) in a matter of a few years.

Sure they can. We have Angara cannon fodder there's billions of them. There's even undiscovered worlds of them still out there. Then there's the remnant. You can go all Quarian and make killer robots fight your wars for you. That's just the stuff of the top of my head. You can always go the the enemy of my enemy is my friend route and find some other factions that are fighting kett and ally with them. Basically there's plenty of things that can happen you just can't quite imagine it.

[Mazder]

Uh... Why?

There's the threat of Kett, Rokeer, Precursor race, and whatever probably new threat is attacking the quarians.

numbers (the races don't have trillions of numbers pull from, so you can't keep having a giant plot where people keep dying in their dozen or even hundreds, the salarians took a pretty big hit enough that their entire race were at risk just as an example), most of the races don't have that many attack ships (even with harvisting of remnant tech the ships it will still takes a lot of time to you know build said weapons and not to mention the research will also take a lot of time even with Sam) and you know the colonies needs time to be build and such, before you can start building all the necessary equipment, weapons all that take resources factories etc and that is only at the beginning of being build.

So yeah if ME:A 2 becomes a thing then it would have to take place at least a decade (and that's being generous) perfyrble more in order to make like a war with the Kett empire a main focus, you can't do a ME2 or ME3 kind of plot like 2-3 years after ME:A, because there isn't a entire galaxy to pull from in ME:A yet.

Right now they are in 1 cluster there isn't that well develop yet as many planets haven't been colonized and so on.

So it's not there isn't enough stuff to deal with, it's just that right now the races and the current colonization level are to low in many ways to deal with any major disaster or threat.

Well to play devil's advocate the fact that we don't have literally trillions to call on makes any story automatically more dire and dramatic in Andromeda.

We're not expecting a war with the Kett but an annihilation threat. There are many solutions than "we literally wipe out the enemy". We could sue for piece. The more info gained makes us learn more about the Kett and could help us, we don't know. But nipping the chance in the bud because "no armies can happen" is just silly.
We'd never have things similar to Star Trek with that attitude, and we wouldn't have Mass Effect to begin with.

And there are plenty of things to "deal with".
It might not be a "mile a minute, grab your bootstraps and charge" type of game but it may be slower.
I mean not including the 4 Theo already mentioned (Roekar, Kett, Precursors and Quarian attackers) we have;
- The massive spacial anomaly that surrounds the sector and cleaning that up.
- Potential diplomatic unrests as colonies grow and nations start to build (Krogan are colonizing more and the old wounds opening there)
- New races being discovered and first contact with them
- The Jien Garson Mystery
- The Ryder Family cure

So that's five, and they're all brought up in ME:A that's not without inventing new stuff.
If all of that is not enough for DLC's or a new game than I am sorry but you're honestly just being greedy.

And again... they could easily have the Kett being the ones that attacked the quarian ark. They're not gonna introduce an whole new faction in a DlC for a dying game. And I sure hope they don't do something stupid like having some villain from the old games showing up and trying to use the quarians to get a bridgehead in Andromeda. That would reek of stupid and desperation.

If it is the Kett doing that it's probably either another sect/denomination of their religion under another Archon (something tell's me he's less a Pope-like figure and more of a Deacon), or it's the main force they found.

I do hope it's not a bloody Reaper.
I'm sick of those things.
They stay dead less than Prime and Megatron!

[Alienmorph]

I do hope it's not a bloody Reaper.
I'm sick of those things.
They stay dead less than Prime and Megatron!

I'm also kinda worried that it could be Geth sneaking oboard the Ark and trying to prove their makers thei're not evil incarnate. Really don't want that either... doing a smaller version of the Rannoch story with less fucks to give would annoy me a great deal.

[TTTX]

Sure they can. We have Angara cannon fodder there's billions of them. There's even undiscovered worlds of them still out there. Then there's the remnant. You can go all Quarian and make killer robots fight your wars for you. That's just the stuff of the top of my head. You can always go the the enemy of my enemy is my friend route and find some other factions that are fighting kett and ally with them. Basically there's plenty of things that can happen you just can't quite imagine it.

you still need productions center, kolonis who harvest resources, not to mention the time build weapons, ships (even with Remnant tech that still going to be researched for a few years before being able to replicate everything they can do, even with a SAM that's going to take some time) and of course train people (not everyone is a soldier after all).

Also those angara were getting their asses handed to them before the A.I showed up, the only reason they were still around was basically because of the Kett belief system about making all "chosen" into Kett and that force was just a scouting party and the Archon wasting a lot of time and resources researching Remnant tech, if the Kett empire came in force (and that will probably also take some years) well I doubt the cluster can handle it at least not without pulling another super weapon or something other thing out their asses (which is like the third time for the series) and that would be lazy writing (and using that a top of other things, we are basically repeating ME3 all over again and let's not do that).

Well to play devil's advocate the fact that we don't have literally trillions to call on makes any story automatically more dire and dramatic in Andromeda.

We're not expecting a war with the Kett but an annihilation threat. There are many solutions than "we literally wipe out the enemy". We could sue for piece. The more info gained makes us learn more about the Kett and could help us, we don't know. But nipping the chance in the bud because "no armies can happen" is just silly.
We'd never have things similar to Star Trek with that attitude, and we wouldn't have Mass Effect to begin with.

And there are plenty of things to "deal with".
It might not be a "mile a minute, grab your bootstraps and charge" type of game but it may be slower.
I mean not including the 4 Theo already mentioned (Roekar, Kett, Precursors and Quarian attackers) we have;
- The massive spacial anomaly that surrounds the sector and cleaning that up.
- Potential diplomatic unrests as colonies grow and nations start to build (Krogan are colonizing more and the old wounds opening there)
- New races being discovered and first contact with them
- The Jien Garson Mystery
- The Ryder Family cure

So that's five, and they're all brought up in ME:A that's not without inventing new stuff.
If all of that is not enough for DLC's or a new game than I am sorry but you're honestly just being greedy.

I think peace with the Kett is very unlikely, they are willing to make deals, but I fail to see what the Cluster can offer enough for the Kett to leave in peace after all multiple species to turn into Kett, not to mention the remnant tech, multiple planets to use, etc. that's a lot of stuff for the Kett to give up for the sake of some deal.
Not to mention the Kett is an empire (we have no idea how big, but it's probably a dozen clusters at the very least considering the Archon in ME:A had 1000 species genetically in his body) so I don't see them play ball if they believe they have the upper hand, after all 1 cluster against an empire, the odds are in their favor giving the current state of the cluster (and you still need an army to hold them off to buy time and such).

I was talking about time in game about when ME:A 2 should take place (if it should happen), not if there was enough material to a sequel or DLC (and there is more then enough for DLC and even a sequel).
I don't see ME:A 2 take place like 2-3 years after ME:A if we are going to deal with the Kett or other giant threat that kill everyone at anytime but don't because the plot demands it.

[SciFlyBoy]

Man, I love lining up my Cobra RPG and hitting two Remnant Destroyers in one shot. Did my first silver APEX mission last night.

[UNiT]

you still need productions center, kolonis who harvest resources, not to mention the time build weapons, ships (even with Remnant tech that still going to be researched for a few years before being able to replicate everything they can do, even with a SAM that's going to take some time) and of course train people (not everyone is a soldier after all).

Also those angara were getting their asses handed to them before the A.I showed up, the only reason they were still around was basically because of the Kett belief system about making all "chosen" into Kett and that force was just a scouting party and the Archon wasting a lot of time and resources researching Remnant tech, if the Kett empire came in force (and that will probably also take some years)

Again there's plenty of cannon fodder to go around milkyway species not even included. There's not enough of them period unless you give 100+ years for the to develop they are only there for spec ops and research and basically protagonists. Doesn't matter if angara where geting their asses kicked back then doesn't mean it will happen again. It's all for plot sake anyway and the kett can't use same tricks on them again.

well I doubt the cluster can handle it at least not without pulling another super weapon or something other thing out their asses (which is like the third time for the series) and that would be lazy writing (and using that a top of other things, we are basically repeating ME3 all over again and let's not do that).

There is already such a thing in andromeda. It is called Meridian. It can do basically anything bioware decides they want it to do even build warships and shit. You already have the fuel for the ships because remnant tiller, and basically what companies game are you playing that you expect anything else really. This is bioware we are talking about. Ofc they will reuse same old plot since forever because they can't think of anything more impressive. And tbh it's not like the plot differs from many games anyway so it's pretty moot atleast for me.

[Dragaros]

Here's the rundown:

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Quarian scientist Shio'Leth was regarded as a naive idiot back in his days with the Migrant Fleet, for thinking he could use his pilgrimage to make friends with the geth. He returned to the Fleet claiming he had spent time with a Heretic enclave that said they'd show him a way to find a new homeworld beyond were anyone else was looking. No one believed him. He was caught trying to enter coordinates into a quarian ship's navigational computers and was exiled. Shio later joined up with the Initiative, and was instrumental in getting the geth data to look at the Andromeda galaxy in relatively real time. But he got mixed up in something sinister, and now he's got a murderous salarian merc on his tail. His quarian husband Viegle smuggled him out before getting killed by the salarian merc. Shio is currently hiding on Omega.

Confusion: The Heretic geth were the ones that were pro-Reaper. Why would they offer help to a quarian?

[TTTX]

Again there's plenty of cannon fodder to go around milkyway species not even included. There's not enough of them period unless you give 100+ years for the to develop they are only there for spec ops and research and basically protagonists. Doesn't matter if angara where geting their asses kicked back then doesn't mean it will happen again. It's all for plot sake anyway and the kett can't use same tricks on them again.

Only the Angara, the Remnant isn't under control (after all the ships Ryder used in the final battle left on their own accord to somewhere) and no one wants build a geth kind of army, because history and such.
I doubt the Kett will act so nicely as when the Archon did things in the cluster and his resources was limited if the Kett empire came in force with the really big ships and firepower well those odd aren't going to be in the clusters favor, even with Remnant ships the cluster had problems beating the Archon's ships, they had to use the scourge to help beat the Kett.

There is already such a thing in andromeda. It is called Meridian. It can do basically anything bioware decides they want it to do even build warships and shit. You already have the fuel for the ships because remnant tiller, and basically what companies game are you playing that you expect anything else really. This is bioware we are talking about. Ofc they will reuse same old plot since forever because they can't think of anything more impressive. And tbh it's not like the plot differs from many games anyway so it's pretty moot atleast for me.

As far as we know Meridian can only activate the vaults and as far as we know all it's functions centers around making, maintaining life (or destroy it) on the various planets, not making weapons, other remnant bases is another matter though.

The ships Ryder used in the final battle was basically left behind when the Jaardaan left the cluster which they did a with a lot of stuff and the remnant tech kinda follow their programming and do whatever there programming and not follow whatever orders you throw at them most of the time (people haven't figured out to reprogram the tech in the cluster, yet and that's going to take some time even with SAM, even with important find that you can get in Peebee's loyalty mission it's going to take a while, because programming is a bitch).

[TheodoricFriede]

I have never met a less creative group of people in my entire life.

Why the hell would it need to be another war story?

[Alienmorph]

I have never met a less creative group of people in my entire life.

Why the hell would it need to be another war story?

It wouldn't need. But let's be honest, BW has been doing the same storyarc over and over again throught most of their series. You start out with a small bunch of character adventuring around, then they discover the existance of a big ancestral evil, and eventually things escale into full war or in some end of days scenario. They've been doing that since Baldur's Gate. It's not lack of imagination, is being aware of patterns.

[Vol]

Here's the rundown:

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Quarian scientist Shio'Leth was regarded as a naive idiot back in his days with the Migrant Fleet, for thinking he could use his pilgrimage to make friends with the geth. He returned to the Fleet claiming he had spent time with a Heretic enclave that said they'd show him a way to find a new homeworld beyond were anyone else was looking. No one believed him. He was caught trying to enter coordinates into a quarian ship's navigational computers and was exiled. Shio later joined up with the Initiative, and was instrumental in getting the geth data to look at the Andromeda galaxy in relatively real time. But he got mixed up in something sinister, and now he's got a murderous salarian merc on his tail. His quarian husband Viegle smuggled him out before getting killed by the salarian merc. Shio is currently hiding on Omega.

Confusion: The Heretic geth were the ones that were pro-Reaper. Why would they offer help to a quarian?

I'm grateful for the update, if for no other reason than to get a real clear picture of how the ark DLC, if it comes, should play out.

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So sassy quarian pilgrim makes friends with the proactively genocidal faction of geth, the ones controlled by Sovereign, he then gets rightly exiled for trying to use whatever information they gave him, he finds time during all this to meet another exiled quarian man to marry, which I suppose at least tells us quarians do have marriage, and our third iteration of the "super-duper-biotic human woman" is a middle-aged lady who's having a wizard battle with a very angry looking salarian.

I'm not sure how much of all that is the comic writer fucking up, or an actual long-term dupe by the geth/Reapers to send a "poison pill" ark with whatever's going on with the quarian ark. I'm assuming Shio'Yiannopoulos will be on it, and I'll win part of the bet with Theo if he's romanceable. If it is a Reaper plot, seems like we're getting geth and husks or something. Or their SAM goes SHODAN because other AI on board is a real and present danger, or some combination.

I can't imagine we'll get the Pinocchio story yet again, and in ME4, the narrative is pretty clearly set for pro-AI sentiments anyway. So given Daddy Ryder's recordings, I could see this as the catalyst for the Reapers becoming known.

[TheodoricFriede]

and I'll win part of the bet with Theo if he's romanceable. [/spoil]

Wasnt that on my side of the bet?

Im pretty sure I was the one convinced of a gay romancable quarian.

[TTTX]

I have never met a less creative group of people in my entire life.

Why the hell would it need to be another war story?

Because ME:A hints at the Kett will return and they'll probably be more powerful then when the Archon ran things (because Kett Empire and all that).

Because BW tend to write world ending stories, the only exception was DA2.

[Vol]

@Theo: I'll dig it up as we get closer to whatever launch date, but I believe my bet was that if there is a romanceable quarian, he'd be m/m only. Whereas you were saying there'd be one, but also other options.

[TheodoricFriede]

@Theo: I'll dig it up as we get closer to whatever launch date, but I believe my bet was that if there is a romanceable quarian, he'd be m/m only. Whereas you were saying there'd be one, but also other options.

I know I 100% believe that there would be a male quarian romance option who was gay, but its entirely possibly that i gave you that side of the bet.

the only thing I remember for sure is i bet on either a quarian redesign, or not seeing their face at all.

[Vol]

Huh. Then I might've said there'd be none? That's also possible, though Bioware does enjoy the grieving widowed husband angle.

For faces tho, I know I said it'd be a male's or nothing. And then I must have said there'd be no significant redesign.

[Someone With Mass]

Man, I love lining up my Cobra RPG and hitting two Remnant Destroyers in one shot. Did my first silver APEX mission last night.

I can never manage to make that work consistently. Either I kill both of them, kill one and severely damage the other or just damage both. Even when they're practically nuzzling and I score a hit right in one's stupid mouth, it feels like it's a matter of luck if I kill them both. Feels damn good when it happens the right way, though.

[Someone With Mass]

Here's the rundown:

"His (the quarian) husband"

Of course he has a husband. Is the salarian a closet drag queen too?

Can't BioWare beat me more over the head with those rainbow-colored, not-so-subliminal messages?

Not trying to gay-bash or anything, it's more of the "yes, I fucking get it" feeling.

[Mazder]

I'm also kinda worried that it could be Geth sneaking oboard the Ark and trying to prove their makers thei're not evil incarnate. Really don't want that either... doing a smaller version of the Rannoch story with less fucks to give would annoy me a great deal.

Yeah, that'd suck too.

I think peace with the Kett is very unlikely, they are willing to make deals, but I fail to see what the Cluster can offer enough for the Kett to leave in peace after all multiple species to turn into Kett, not to mention the remnant tech, multiple planets to use, etc. that's a lot of stuff for the Kett to give up for the sake of some deal.
Not to mention the Kett is an empire (we have no idea how big, but it's probably a dozen clusters at the very least considering the Archon in ME:A had 1000 species genetically in his body) so I don't see them play ball if they believe they have the upper hand, after all 1 cluster against an empire, the odds are in their favor giving the current state of the cluster (and you still need an army to hold them off to buy time and such).

I was talking about time in game about when ME:A 2 should take place (if it should happen), not if there was enough material to a sequel or DLC (and there is more then enough for DLC and even a sequel).
I don't see ME:A 2 take place like 2-3 years after ME:A if we are going to deal with the Kett or other giant threat that kill everyone at anytime but don't because the plot demands it.

Unlikely given current knowledge.
What if we hold all the remnant tech and could map the genomes of all absorbed races and revert them back? That'd probably make the kett think twice. But a plot device like that could never exist because it couldn't ever be given a chance.

Well if ME:A doesn't get many DLC's there is still plenty to work with.
The trouble is you lack imagination when it comes to Mass Effect.
You want to return to MW because you can't think of anything brand new.
ME:A presented a fresh canvas and we've just placed down our compositions and light observations and now you want us to put this fresh canvas down and go paint over the Sistine Chapel.

"His (the quarian) husband"

Of course he has a husband. Is the salarian a closet drag queen too?

Can't BioWare beat me more over the head with those rainbow-colored, not-so-subliminal messages?

Not trying to gay-bash or anything, it's more of the "yes, I fucking get it" feeling.

Um that's been the tamest inclusion they've ever had and the most well handled thus far. It's not mentioned tot he point of hammering it in, it's a plain image of them existing. You don't even get them holding hands in those image for crying out loud.

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Only the Angara, the Remnant isn't under control (after all the ships Ryder used in the final battle left on their own accord to somewhere) and no one wants build a geth kind of army, because history and such.
I doubt the Kett will act so nicely as when the Archon did things in the cluster and his resources was limited if the Kett empire came in force with the really big ships and firepower well those odd aren't going to be in the clusters favor, even with Remnant ships the cluster had problems beating the Archon's ships, they had to use the scourge to help beat the Kett.

Who's to say there aren't more remnant ships? Yeah, the remnant left but who's to say that they didn't go to the jardaan and if they won't be another ally in this coming conflict. Also we are talknig about a VI robot army not AI robots that can be used for the fights also when your desperate to win something you won't really care about past mistakes so no building murderbots to fight kett isn't out of the question.
Anyway your missing the point. The point is we have the advantage of knowing so they can't surprise us anymore, furthermore helius is a god damned minefield a perfect place for attrition warfare. You don't even need a big fleet because the bigger it is the bigger the risk of it getting caught in the scourge. You don't have to beat the kett just make it so it's not worth the effort to exalt the sector.

As far as we know Meridian can only activate the vaults and as far as we know all it's functions centers around making, maintaining life (or destroy it) on the various planets, not making weapons, other remnant bases is another matter though.

The ships Ryder used in the final battle was basically left behind when the Jaardaan left the cluster which they did a with a lot of stuff and the remnant tech kinda follow their programming and do whatever there programming and not follow whatever orders you throw at them most of the time (people haven't figured out to reprogram the tech in the cluster, yet and that's going to take some time even with SAM, even with important find that you can get in Peebee's loyalty mission it's going to take a while, because programming is a bitch).

Keyword AFAIK. Bioware can spin it any way they know.