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Serf posted:Clearly they had their own advanced civilization in a previous cycle and sent over their own arks to Andromeda. maybe they're actually native to andromeda and made their way to the milky way from there
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Mar 8, 2017 18:34
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Ainsley McTree posted:If Cerberus turns out to be the main bad guys of the andromeda series I'm done i wouldn't put anything beyond bioware at this point
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Mar 8, 2017 18:35
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IcePhoenix posted:maybe they're actually native to andromeda and made their way to the milky way from there 
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Mar 8, 2017 18:37
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Cowcaster posted:i wouldn't put anything beyond bioware at this point Pulling the rug out from under them and going "uhhhhh they're actually all indoctrinated and are the bad guys" was the worst thing that me3 did plotwise, and there's a lot of competition for that honor I don't doubt that they'll pop up in at least a cameo role, since Cora clearly seems to be TIM's daughter but hopefully they at least won't be major players in this one There was no reason for Cerberus to be as much of a thing as they were in the OT
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Mar 8, 2017 18:37
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Mar 8, 2017 18:38
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Ainsley McTree posted:If Cerberus turns out to be the main bad guys of the andromeda series I'm done That would be stupid as poo poo and extremely disappointing, but the idea of a small cell of them working undercover to sabotage and undermine the non-human arks could actually be interesting if done well.
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Arglebargle III posted:What really steams my buns is that we're going to the Andromeda Galaxy when there are dozens of smaller galaxies that are much closer. Tore away my ability to feel human etc. Just got a note back from marketing saying "Mass Effect: Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal" isn't going to fly with our target demo
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Mar 8, 2017 18:39
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i mean i give it a nonzero chance that some of the reapers that were hanging out in the black between galaxies decided it made as much sense to go towards andromeda as it did the milky way as a end game twist nothing is impossible
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FunkMonkey posted:That would be stupid as poo poo and extremely disappointing, but the idea of a small cell of them working undercover to sabotage and undermine the non-human arks could actually be interesting if done well. I would tolerate one, maybe two side missions of this but they really need to forget Cerberus ever happened At least if they do show up, they won't be indoctrinated this time and might actually be interesting?
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Mar 8, 2017 18:40
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Ages posted:Just got a note back from marketing saying "Mass Effect: Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal" isn't going to fly with our target demo loving suits know nothing about hard sci fi
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Mar 8, 2017 18:41
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IcePhoenix posted:maybe they're actually native to andromeda and made their way to the milky way from there Maybe the butterfly was dreaming it was you
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Mar 8, 2017 18:45
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Mar 8, 2017 18:47
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I don't care whether Cerberus is in this. I would play a Mass Effect: Shadowrun Initiative game and do corp runs all day if they let me, using space wizard powers to throw people out of buildings would be good fun. It would make sense to have them be kind of an East India Company in the game. Also wait a sec This game takes place a long time after the events of Mass Effect? But they've been in cryo sleep since around the events of the first three? Maybe even before? I kind of gloss over stuff you guys care about that I don't care about as much. Anyway, if that's the case, maybe Cora's not TIM's daughter. Maybe she's his mother.
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Mar 8, 2017 18:49
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SgtSteel91 posted:Aren't they plants that fly in space until they land on a planet? 2.5 million light years. If thresher maws have a biological FTL capability combined with super hibernation I am...impressed by the environment that evolved those capabilities.
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Mar 8, 2017 18:51
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Ainsley McTree posted:If Cerberus turns out to be the main bad guys of the andromeda series I'm done Looking into it Walters has said this: https://twitter.com/macwalterslives/status/798742467231305728 which doesn't make sense given that the Andromeda Initiative was going on for years and years before Shepherd became a name, but currently we have "not likely" for Cerberus involvement.
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Mar 8, 2017 18:51
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Admiral Ray posted:which doesn't make sense given that the Andromeda Initiative was going on for years and years before Shepherd became a name, but currently we have "not likely" for Cerberus involvement. Not a shock. That Mass Effect timeline makes a ton of no sense. I wouldn't think too hard about it.
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Mar 8, 2017 18:53
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Number Ten Cocks posted:2.5 million light years. If thresher maws have a biological FTL capability combined with super hibernation I am...impressed by the environment that evolved those capabilities. To be fair, one of the major sentient species in the galaxy evolved to be blue spacebabes to every species and live for thousands of years. Mass Effect is about as soft as sci-fi gets.
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Mar 8, 2017 18:54
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Number Ten Cocks posted:2.5 million light years. If thresher maws have a biological FTL capability combined with super hibernation I am...impressed by the environment that evolved those capabilities. Biotic Threasher Maw
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Skippy McPants posted:Not a shock. That Mass Effect timeline makes a ton of no sense. I wouldn't think too hard about it. Yeah, I won't. Makes about as much sense as every other Cerby thing in the games, anyway. "Lol, let's see what happens when we release thesher maws on a special forces unit!" *Everyone dies* "Intriguing!"
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Mar 8, 2017 18:55
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Number Ten Cocks posted:2.5 million light years. If thresher maws have a biological FTL capability combined with super hibernation I am...impressed by the environment that evolved those capabilities. You thought Tuchanka was tough, wait till you see the thresher maw homeworld.
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homullus posted:I don't care whether Cerberus is in this. I would play a Mass Effect: Shadowrun Initiative game and do corp runs all day if they let me, using space wizard powers to throw people out of buildings would be good fun. It would make sense to have them be kind of an East India Company in the game. i'm as much into dismissing the plot details of a bioware game as wholly irrelevant as the next person but considering the basic premise for the entirety of this new series an ignorable detail is pretty impressive
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homullus posted:Also wait a sec The Arcs launch between ME 2 and 3, most likely case is either Cora being TIM's daughter or clone
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Mar 8, 2017 18:56
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SgtSteel91 posted:The Arcs launch between ME 2 and 3, most likely case is either Cora being TIM's daughter or clone Yeah, but that's when they launch. I guess they could wait until T-30 minutes to freeze people, but it's plausible they'd test the tech on people before they hit the big red button.
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Mar 8, 2017 18:59
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CottonWolf posted:You thought Tuchanka was tough, wait till you see the thresher maw homeworld. Their cave art is gorgeous.
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Ryder will harpoon a thresher maw and ryde it to the Kett home world.
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Cowcaster posted:i mean i give it a nonzero chance that some of the reapers that were hanging out in the black between galaxies decided it made as much sense to go towards andromeda as it did the milky way as a end game twist nothing is impossible One of the only things they've been willing to confirm without reservation is no Reapers.
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Can I gently caress a red sand dealer in return for product to feed my habit
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Mar 8, 2017 19:07
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Besides the Catalyst was programmed to preserve all life in the Mikley Way galaxy
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Admiral Ray posted:which doesn't make sense given that the Andromeda Initiative was going on for years and years before Shepherd became a name, but currently we have "not likely" for Cerberus involvement. Well, when you talk to EDI in ME2's endgame she goes over Cerberus' funding and power structure, there aren't that many projects running at once because TIM prefers to be very hands on with what's going on. He probably wouldn't support the Andromeda initiative for several reasons. He wouldn't live to see the outcome, it was too multi-racial, it wasn't actually going to support earth, and by the time the AI launched, he was already probably drinking the blue kool-aid.
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Cowcaster posted:i mean i give it a nonzero chance that some of the reapers that were hanging out in the black between galaxies decided it made as much sense to go towards andromeda as it did the milky way as a end game twist nothing is impossible The entire point of Andromeda is to jettison the toxic elements of Mass Effect (the ending and by extension the Reapers) while keeping the parts everyone loves. They're not gonna bring back the Reapers, period. Cerberus and TIM might be indirectly referenced but that's it.
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homullus posted:Yeah, but that's when they launch. I guess they could wait until T-30 minutes to freeze people, but it's plausible they'd test the tech on people before they hit the big red button. She would have to be like eighty to be his mother
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Mar 8, 2017 19:13
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IcePhoenix posted:She would have to be like eighty to be his mother Maybe she's secretly asari
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Captain Oblivious posted:Yes but not for her historical research, for becoming a crime boss. It remains weird. Not really, because it's not saying she made presentations on reapers to the council itself or taught classes about them or some poo poo in a university. Dadryder has an audio log made by someone very important to research into the reapers. There's a good chance it would have been recovered from the wreck of the original Normandy and added to archives available to researchers once the reapers became real to the rest of the galaxy, especially since Liara would have seemingly disappeared immediately after that. It's not really that weird he'd have it if he needed to be aware of the reapers when they made their exit from the milky way, and the fact that it's readily available on his desk the way we find it kind of says that was the case. Also part of her becoming a crime boss was very few people knew who she was, so that's a weird argument. exquisite tea posted:And I wrote my thesis on 17th century French theatre but world governments aren't calling me up and asking me what I thought about Tartuffe. And when Tartuffe appears to purge the galaxy of all life, maybe they will.
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Pattonesque posted:some more gameplay footage
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IcePhoenix posted:She would have to be like eighty to be his mother Or -- stay with me here -- frozen for a long time.
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It's a flimsy connection because Liara isn't poo poo for most of the timeline this initiative is even being developed, and even when she is, nobody outside of the Normandy crew even knows that she's the Shadow Broker. Nobody gives a poo poo about her research into the Protheans, most of the galaxy isn't even aware of the Reaper threat at all. Regardless of any in-game continuity, the reason for including her VA is "we have no confidence people will like our game without it containing endless references to the original," so brace yourselves for many more tortuous callbacks.
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I didn't even recognize that was Liara's voice. She was always so generic sounding when she wasn't talking about murdering the poo poo out of someone
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exquisite tea posted:It's a flimsy connection because Liara isn't poo poo for most of the timeline this initiative is even being developed, and even when she is, nobody outside of the Normandy crew even knows that she's the Shadow Broker. Nobody gives a poo poo about her research into the Protheans, most of the galaxy isn't even aware of the Reaper threat at all. Regardless of any in-game continuity, the reason for including her VA is "we have no confidence people will like our game without it containing endless references to the original," so brace yourselves for many more tortuous callbacks. I mean, so far as anyone knows pre-Javik a lot of her Prothean research gets validated, yeah? So if you were looking for someone for advice on "dead cultures" she'd probably be a person to consider
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