#we only have the NPC model for the omega build

[wheredreamsareforged]

that moment when your brain has zoomies over one of the objectively Worst characters, but arguably well written and potentially has the best lore in game

i'm totally normal

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Ideas I’d love to see implemented in the next Mass Effect Andromeda game/s.

Some of these are sooo unrealistic, but I can dream right?? :)

CHILDREN: Lots of them, of every race. I’d love to see a Salarian tugging on their mum’s arm because they want to hold their baby sibling who’s swimming around in a fish bowl. Krogan kids running around New Tuchanka and the nexus, getting piggy back rides from their dads. Little Asari and Turians running around playing tag with each other, while one uses her biotics to cheat. Hanar kids teaching humans to swim. Quarian bubbles rolling around all over the place. Drell riding on the backs of their Elcor friends. Baby Batarians being pushed around in futuristic buggies. I need cute little moments like that. Children would add sooo much immersion to the world.

PROTHEANS: They were such an advanced race I’m sure that at least some of them would have come up with the whole leaving the galaxy idea. Maybe they journeyed to a different cluster within Andromeda but passed through Heleus? One of their ships was forced off course after a rouge faction ulterred its course back in Prothean space and crashed on a planet that still remains undiscovered by the kett, angara and the Initiative. The intact stasis pods revived the Protheans within them, but only after they ran out of power? The inhabitants weren’t scientists thus didn’t know how to replicate space faring technology and also fared that the reapers may have followed them, so they abolished star flight all together and made their own nomadic civilization. I’m just hanging out to see more of that race to be honest especially the females.

OUTPOSTS AND AREAS FROM THE FIRST GAME: We spent so long setting up these outposts I’d love to see how they have ended up as well as the other areas we helped mold.

- New Tuchunka. Due to the fact they have the Drive core I’m thinking the outpost would develop quite quickly. I’m imagining three cylindrical districts with deep caves and buildings built into the inside walls of the sinkholes, avoiding the sun. The first as a water storage and farming district with football sized caves carved into the rock with farms inside. The second as a housing and leisure district with apartments and family homes, as well as communal gardens and parks. The third as an entertainment and financial district with bars and shops selling lots of Krogan goods. I’m thinking lots of balconies and overhanging plants etc in all three districts. The original outpost on top is set up as a Krogan historical and science centre making information about the old Krogan and the original Tuchanka accessible to everyone as well as an effort to cure the Genophage. Initiative outpost spreads out further North west up on to the hill.

- The Flophouse. Re purposed as a water treatment center and general eco science facility aimed at supporting and maintaining all the eco systems of the currently occupied worlds and provide water to the whole district.

-  Prodromos. Original site three has been turned into a memorial garden and pond as a testament to those who lost their lives at site 1 and 2. A big art installation where the beacon was originally placed has been erected. Prodromos itself has been moved up to The Sheartop with buildings and balconies overhanging the edge of the settlement overlooking site 3 memorial gardens. Sites 1 and 2 have been re-opened. Site one has been turned into a Krogan refuge as an attempt to bring them back into the initiative and Site two as a remnant research facility spearheaded by Peebee.

-  Taerve Uni. Due the fact there would be so much melting ice I’d love to see a half-submerged outpost. Lots of glass and exposed steel. The Kett base stripped and re purposed as the new Resistance headquarters? Frozen city unearthed and turned into a research facility?

-  Ditaeon. Lots of smaller townships littering the area around the original outpost site, with buildings no taller than 4 stories high. All buildings have gardens of local flora and rock formations atop their roofs. I’d love to see a Hospital run by Dr. Ryota Nakamoto close to the original site. The hospital would aid all Angara and Milky Way soldiers injured in the fight against the Kett plus the development of his penicillin.

- Pelaav research station. Many initiative scientists are sent there to learn more about Havarl itself and a massive collective effort has been put in place to learn more about the Angara and the remnant. No milky way structures are present on the planet as a way to show respect for Havarls heritage. Floating science facility? Science labs in orbit?

- Port Meridian. Opened up for Angaran settlement. Those wanting to live on Aya can now bring their families to live on meridian. Large human settlement around the crash site of the Hyperion. Libraries, science facilities, lounges and other forms of human entertainment. Peebee lives there and spends 24 hours a day studying remnant?

- Ryder-1. Alec Ryder memorial. Large cave settlements?

- Nexus. Fully realized. Heleus plants now grow on it. Moshae Sjefa now lives on it. All races including the Krogan now have a place in its arms. Morda has a home there as she is the interim ambassador to the Nexus in my save game. Nexus is moved periodically to keep it away from the Kett.

- Arks. All except the Hyperion are repaired and docked on the nexus. They travel between the nexus and the golden worlds when needed. OR the Natanus is over run by what’s left of the Outcasts after the nexus rescues all other surviving Turians. Becomes the new Omega station?

TWIN GAME PLAY: I loved the scene where you get to play as your sibling I think that’s a really cool dynamic. Working as part of a family team. It would be cool if your main Ryder did the pathfinder thing while the other sibling did minor missions throughout your story. Let’s say your pathfinder is set off on a mission to go and help a newly found Angaran settlement. On your way to the system instead of it being a loading screen you now play as your sibling on a visit to one of the old outposts from the first game, or you’re asked to help out a Salarian on the nexus. Or you can request your sibling to help you with things via vidcom. Ring them up and request they visit a certain area then bam!! you’re there doing the work, playing as them helping the initiative.

MORE SQUAD MATES:

I’m thinking ME2 amount of squad mates.

MORE ALIEN ROMANCE OPTIONS: Give me a serious Krogan romance option. If Rorik is anything to go by not all Krogan are alien hating brutes. Let me bang a Batarian, snuggle with a Hanar and make out with Drell. I play Mass Effect games for the Aliens, not the humans. If you can’t give me more alien love, then let me see it through NPC’s. A kick ass lesbian Krogan couple would be PERFECT!!

MORE KETT INFO: Origins of the other exalted races. Were they from Andromeda or from further away? Where is Sarhesen?

WHAT DO THE JARDAAN LOOK LIKE, REMNANT MASS RELAYS: Did they have a galaxy wide network? Are they just AI?

CULTURAL DEFERENCES IN MILKY WAY RACES: I think Andromeda presents Bioware with a real opportunity to expand on the narrative of the different races. I don’t believe for second that all Batartians are the same when there are billions of them! I feel like these outliers would be the ones who would want to travel to Andromeda so please show me some. They don’t have to abide by their race rules anymore. Even if all Batarians are the same, some must realise they don’t need to be anymore? That goes for all races too.

MORE RACE VI’s IN THE CULTURAL EXCHANGE: Show me a Quarian VI, one that’s so unsure of itself because Quarian’s aren’t meant to like virtual intelligence and it knows that. An Elcor VI that recites Shakespeare. A Vorcha VI that just insults you or a broken Volus VI that just breathes in.

NORMAL CLOTHES, SKIN: Krogan in Singlets. Krogan in shorts. Krogan in flip flops. The Bioware team did a good job with the facial textures for the Alien races I’d love to see the rest of them. Some of them must have time out of their armour and full body suites. An example would be A turian working on a space ship in the hot sun with no shirt on, a merchant in New Tuchanka with more exposed clothing to combat the heat or a Batarian going for a swim.

A SECRET TERMINUS SYSTEMS ARK: I just like the idea that the government of one of the Terminus and or annexed races found out about the Initiative and sent their own custom ark made from stolen specs. Raoli, Virtual Aliens, Yahg, Vorcha and Rachni. I just loved those races and selfishly want them back.

SMALLER THINGS: - More then one face model for Asari and Angara. Like I mean seriously? - Better writing… - Depth to settlements, growth not just WHAM and there is a settlement. - Characters from Annihilation