Bioware General (Mass Effect/Dragon Age/Other)

[Someone With Mass]

Sidenote:



Jetpack Salarian. I want it, now.

Is that official?

[Spartanburger]

Jetpack Salarian.

On second thought, it might just be heavily armored Salarian.

Is that official?

yes

[Mazder]

So ESA are letting some civvies to Astronaut stuff as a marketing thing for ME:A.
Col, even if half the stuff they'd be doing would be outdated by ME standards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6npEsoBGrk

[SciFlyBoy]

https://www.masseffect.com/news/esa
This was interesting. 6 Europeans got picked to do space training with the ESA and the Andromeda Initiative.

[Dragaros]

Jetpack Salarian. I want it, now.

I do enjoy a good jetpack.

That Asari Huntress' armor is an improvement. And she's carrying a sword.

[Dragaros]

Mass Effect: Andromeda will have 'meaningful' sidequests akin to The Witcher, says game producer

Info from PC Gamer (UK) March issue

[Mazder]

https://www.masseffect.com/news/esa
This was interesting. 6 Europeans got picked to do space training with the ESA and the Andromeda Initiative.

HA I BEAT YA TO THE PUNCH THIS TIME!!!

[Someone With Mass]

Info from PC Gamer (UK) March issue

"Some of the Initiative apparently 'broke off and formed factions'"

This is something I find to be very, very, VERY stupid. Like, aggravatingly stupid.

The fuck are those kind of people doing on the Arks to begin with? If their motivations are clashing with their leaders' believes and directions that hard, then they shouldn't have had the chance to board the damn ship from the start.

[SciFlyBoy]

HA I BEAT YA TO THE PUNCH THIS TIME!!!

You may be 8 hours ahead of me, but I'm only 2 minutes behind you.

[Someone With Mass]

"Instead of rolling you use a dash attack and cover is automatic"

Oh no...

[TheodoricFriede]

"Instead of rolling you use a dash attack and cover is automatic"

Oh no...

...So Mass Effect 1?

[Someone With Mass]

"Instead of rolling you use a dash attack and cover is automatic"

Oh no...

...So Mass Effect 1?

Where you'd get glued to cover when trying to run away in a panic? Yeah.

[TheodoricFriede]

Where you'd get glued to cover when trying to run away in a panic? Yeah.

Well, if they bring back abilities like Mass Effect 1 Barrier, or Immunity, i dont need cover at all.

[Mazder]

Where you'd get glued to cover when trying to run away in a panic? Yeah.

Well, if they bring back abilities like Mass Effect 1 Barrier, or Immunity, i dont need cover at all.

Well if you can make a minigun like in ME1 you won't need cover or abilities, just DAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKA!!

[Someone With Mass]

I'm having Nam flashbacks where I'd get stuck to every nearest cover instead of running away from the Banshee.

[Zero Suit Rosalina]

Hmm I never had much of a problem with the cover system. Definitely after learning how to slide over things.

Mass Effect: Andromeda will have 'meaningful' sidequests akin to The Witcher, says game producer

It fucking better.
The quest in DA:I were so pointless and boring. Even if I'm doing quest for followers that I really like. Most of them were very mindless go fetch/kill quest.

[DarkStorm]

I mean they couldnt, Witcher 3 set the bar if they dont get even close to it they will get shit on and compared to it.

[Dragaros]

"Some of the Initiative apparently 'broke off and formed factions'"

This is something I find to be very, very, VERY stupid. Like, aggravatingly stupid.

The fuck are those kind of people doing on the Arks to begin with? If their motivations are clashing with their leaders' believes and directions that hard, then they shouldn't have had the chance to board the damn ship from the start.

The Initiative apparently has a truly abysmal selection and vetting process.

Or maybe they broke off for a good reason. Like if the Initative was lying the whole time and has some sinister, machiavellian plans afoot that threatens everyone not in the upper echelons of power and authority on the Nexus.

I wonder if Jien Garson will go full Andrew Ryan in an attempt to bring her Initiative back under control.

Jien Garson: There is indeed a season for all things and now that I see you flesh-to-flesh and blood-to-blood I know I cannot raise my hand against you, Ryder. But know this, you are my greatest disappointment. Does your father hear me? Alec! You can kill me, but you will never have my Initiative. My strength is not in steel and fire, that is what the parasites will never understand. A season for all things! A time to live and a time to die, a time to build... and a time to destroy!

[Spartanburger]

Well, if they bring back abilities like Mass Effect 1 Barrier, or Immunity, i dont need cover at all.

I'd have to go through it frame by frame, but I'm fairly sure one of the latest trailers showed two instances of creaing your own shielding. One was a sort of deployable chest-high-wall, and the other was tech-based character pushing a shield in front of them as if it were a medieval shield to prevent shots.

Given the dev statements about the game "not being a corridor shooter" and the open-world nature of it, I suspect your sentiment is correct and that there will be a number of tank/shield based abilities in the game.

[MeaslyBinkie]

For a second there I thought that the Human in the foreground was carrying a Mattock, only to realise it was the weeaboo Asari's Locust. What a shame.

"Instead of rolling you use a dash attack and cover is automatic"

Oh no...

Hopefully nu-Bioware will at the very least take notes from Ghost Recon: Wildlands' cover system if they're going down the road of not having a dedicated button for entering cover. Can't really understand why they're basically dumping the system, since imo they did cover-based shooting better than Gears of War and I very much doubt ME:A will be the new Vanquish.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGF74G-CyXA

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

[SciFlyBoy]

"If you choose to create your own Ryder," I didn't know if they were going down that route. I guess I just assumed you could only have the model they chose for you. Glad that's still an option.

[Deano]

[Riptide]

You know, considering Vetra's armor is supposed to be kind of defining for her, given her favored power is based around it and it's supposed to be something she's proudly customized...

It looks painfully generic and lame.

[Someone With Mass]

You know, considering Vetra's armor is supposed to be kind of defining for her, given her favored power is based around it and it's supposed to be something she's proudly customized...

It looks painfully generic and lame.

I bet that the dark colors aren't helping.

[Riptide]

Should of gone like, Clone Commando with it or something. Or at least Boba Fett, if she's supposed to be an underworld type.

[Alienmorph]

I don't mind too much the outfit design... but the colors sure do nothing to make it stand out.

[Someone With Mass]

Also, there's already an awful lot of blue colors. Mix in some red or orange.

[TheodoricFriede]

I actually like her armor.

[Alienmorph]

It's not bad, but its colors don't make much sense, nor help highlight its details. Either make it properly mimetic, if you're going for a realistic approach, or use some more vivid colors otherwise. As it is it's just stuck halfway between the two, and it's just more grey, silver and blue.

[Someone With Mass]

I actually like her armor.

I like it too, but it has a tad too familiar feeling. Like there's next to nothing new about it. Much like what Rip said, it should have been a tad more personalized for someone who's been living in the gritty underground parts of every planet she's been on. Kind of like Zaeed.

[Alienmorph]

Especially since the team also has PeeBee in, who's another "street-wise" character. And she sure as hell doesn't wear a military grade outfit with a more standardized look.

[Someone With Mass]

Especially since the team also has PeeBee in, who's another "street-wise" character. And she sure as hell doesn't wear a military grade outfit with a more standardized look.

Her outfit confuses me. She wears what looks like a rather heavily padded jacket, but it's unbuttoned at the midriff. Like...are you cold or are you not?

[TheodoricFriede]

I question how "streetwise" she really is. Pelesaria seems to have that covered.

Im wondering if that's Bioware marketing peak for "shes good at being a soldier".

[Riptide]

Going by everything they've shown up there, it seems she's less of a soldier and more like a smuggler, or some kind of broker.

[TheodoricFriede]

Hard to say at this point. I imagine we will find out next week.

[TTTX]

Especially since the team also has PeeBee in, who's another "street-wise" character. And she sure as hell doesn't wear a military grade outfit with a more standardized look.

Peebee better have an option to wear armor or she can stay on the ship in the corner looking at a wall.

Going by everything they've shown up there, it seems she's less of a soldier and more like a smuggler, or some kind of broker.

Maybe she worked for the blue suns at one point and decided that she liked their armor design and colors.

[Alienmorph]

Peebee better have an option to wear armor or she can stay on the ship in the corner looking at a wall.
Maybe she worked for the blue suns at one point and decided that she liked their armor design and colors.

Considering whe've already enstablished she doesn't have a proper helmet, but just another of those guddamn idiotic breathing masks, I'm already not interested into taking her much around.

[TheodoricFriede]

Pelessaria is staying on the ship.

And yes, i have taken to calling her by her full name, because i like to pretend she really dislikes it.

[Alienmorph]

She probably does, so good call!

[Dragaros]

[Zero Suit Rosalina]

Pretty cool but I was looking around on best buy and learned ME:A comes with a sexy ass looking steelbook When you pre-order. I don't know how I never knew about this as I really wanted one. Looks better than the official CE case that comes with the dumb RC car bundle. It also matches previous cases from ME2&3.

That being said, it convinced me to pre-order.
I'll go sit at table of looked down upon now.

[Someone With Mass]

Pretty cool but I was looking around on best buy and learned ME:A comes with a sexy ass looking steelbook When you pre-order. I don't know how I never knew about this as I really wanted one. Looks better than the official CE case that comes with the dumb RC car bundle. It also matches previous cases from ME2&3.

That being said, it convinced me to pre-order.
I'll go sit at table of looked down upon now.

This steelbook?

[Zero Suit Rosalina]

Yeah that one. It's not awful or anything. I just don't like it all that much.
Here is the one that best buy has.

[SciFlyBoy]

The digital steel box that came with my digital copy looks nice too.....

[Zero Suit Rosalina]

The digital steel box that came with my digital copy looks nice too.....

Ha!
Well, at least you get to play it early.

Kinda want this in physical format because of collection sake.

[SciFlyBoy]

Ha!
Well, at least you get to play it early.

Kinda want this in physical format because of collection sake.

I don't know if I want to play it early, at least not on the 16th when early access begins. I don't know if I'm eager to scream at bugs and glitches and pace the room waiting for updates to load because I've only ever played games well after they were completely finished.

There is something to holding a game in your hands though.

[Dragaros]