Mass Effect: Andromeda trailer shows off New Earth and some bad guys
With 20,000 people depending on them, the Pathfinders go out and explore.
"I don't need an army. I have a Krogan."
BioWare and EA have released the promised story trailer for Mass Effect Andromeda, and while we get little in-game play, we do get a look at New Earth, a planet that hopefully would serve as "safe harbor" for a ship of 20,000 stranded in unfirendly space. And speaking of friendly, we meet the bad guys - The Archons - who like to throw around intimidating statements like "Surrender or burn."
It's an interesting and inviting look at the new direction the franchise is taking, along with having the familiarity of some of the previous races. The Pathfinder team sets out to expore the unknown space around New Earth - also known as Habitat 7 - and their encounter with the Archons leads to the fun lead-in line above.
There is also an Andromeda Initative briefing video where players getto meet the Pathfinder team of from Ark Hyperion, including Pathfinder Alec Ryder, his children Scott and Sarah Ryder, Crisis Responder Liam Kosta and Operations Specialist Cora Harper, who together will lead humanity’s discovery of new worlds in the Andromeda Galaxy
Only a couple more months until we can get our hands on the game, which comes out on PS4, Xbox One and PC on March 21.
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I loved most of ME2's cast.
DAI had some fun ones too (I liked Sera, Vivienne, and the gay mage whose name I can't remember).
Really, it's just ME3's characters that were mostly duds, IMO. -
Varric is my bro.
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It sounds like they have multiple ark ships, each with its own pathfinder, scouting out it's own little part of Andromeda. So if this game works out for Bioware, maybe we get to see other ark ships and their own stories.
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I just watched the Cora Harper video below again and there are 7 "habitat" sites. And she says she's 2nd in command in the Human pathfinder team. So looks like there are 7 arks and 7 pathfinder teams and her team is headed for habitat 3.
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Not to me either, I'm just piggy backing on parts of the comments with some interesting points we've seen so far.
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I really hope the Michael Bay-ish tone of this trailer isn't representative of the game.
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Here's the new initiative video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqZvYgn35K4-
There are some speculations that Cora Harper in this video might be related to the Illusive Man, who real name is Jack Harper.
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Fucking Harper is fucking shit up in the future, as well.
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Some interesting points in the video:
"Every Ark has its own Pathfinder" meaning they sent out multiple Ark teams.
And Cora is second command, yet somehow one of the Ryder twins jumped over her to become Pathfinder when Alec Ryder is incapacitated.
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I don't care what anyone says, I'm ready for more Mass Effect.
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I'm really excited for this. Mass Effect is my favorite original new Sci-Fi universe in years. I'd love to someday see movies and/or TV series set in the ME universe. In the meantime, I'll pretty much play any game they put out in that setting.
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I dream of a PvE Mass Effect game similar to Destiny and The Division.
The game would take place before the trilogy and you play as a non-human Spectre working on behalf of the council taking out bad guys and all that.
It'd have the exploration aspect of the first game by letting you visit hubs and outposts on the various planets. And then you can coop it up with a squad like the multiplayer in ME3.-
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The world of Mass Effect is way more interesting than the ones in Destiny and The Division. I think it'd be great if they can create a living version of Mass Effect one can play in without having to deal with the human political drama and Reapers from the campaign.
The combat and multiplayer in ME3 was great and I played the crap out of it. But the problem with ME3 is that it was limited in scope because the Reapers were already there. But if you can set it up in a normal ME galaxy where you can fight merc groups like Blue Suns or gangs in the Terminus systems, I think it'd be fun. Open up the vendors to spend credits in on hub worlds like Noveria and the like.
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That got me super pumped up! I am glad to finally get a better picture of what the story will be. Even though the story lines seem pretty similar to ME, I am so ready to dive back into this universe that I really don't care.
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