Mass Effect Andromeda - Dad Ryder's Final Memory & Audio Logs (Mentions of Shepard, Garrus & Liara)
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I never thought I'd say this, but it's good to hear the noise of a giant fucking Reaper again.
It's like hearing the sound of Godzilla's roar. Yeah, ok, a city is about to die, but damn that thing sounds so cool.
I found it orgasmic
RicoLen1 c
They creepy but cool to hear again
I'd be lying if I said I didn't get a little teary eyed at Liara's message
Kelsie Rodriguez Really well made character
who would not ?
Yeah, I'd be lying too. Liara and Joker were my favourite characters by far
Cried as soon as I heard her voice. Oof...
@@ryanc5572 yeah same here
sucks that they dont know that the milky way survived the reapers
In some playthroughs even that isn't the case if you chose Refuse.
NeatoBurrito pretty much ever players play through is canon?
Which of the four choices are canon
Joe Nesvick Technically all of them. Technically none of them. There is no one single canon ending.
I wonder if they have anything like the dragon age keep for mass Effect in the near future. Obviously Mass Effect Andromeda is made in a way where it won't acknowledge Shepard's choices (obviously ignoring dying at the end of Mass Effect 2, which never happened to me), but I'm sure this isn't the last Mass Effect. Where will the 5th game take us? Anything in Andromeda where the choices of this game changes the outcome of the next game?
I MISS GARRUS SO MUCH UGH, I love that they brought back Garrus' voice actor to play his dad (even though his dad had a different voice actor before).
Dr. Liara T'Soni signing off ;(
FluffyNinjaLlama I'm sure Liara is still alive along with Grunt.
FluffyNinjaLlama we kicked their synthetic asses into oblivion, I know my Shepherd and her crew wouldn't settle for anything else
FluffyNinjaLlama Shes only 700 odd years old
Now we know why there so many people who have relations with people who knew Shepard personally in andromeda but we still don't know the status of the qurian ark unfortunately
we get 1 clue at the end
There is also a little Easter egg about the trilogy on voeld. I believe the mission is "Know Your Enemy" One of the data pads says turians bodies allow for increased "Reach and Flexibility."
Yes! I saw that one too
Gave me a good laugh when I found that!
Anyone else get chills at 8:40? It's been a while since I heard the giant space squids of doom.
BWAAAAAAAAAAP
NewSheo its actually cuttlefish
nuuu it's a headlice
Nazara would say "YOUR WORDS ARE AS EMPTY AS YOUR FUTURE. THIS EXCHANGE IS OVER" ROOAAARRRRRRR
NewSheo I
I'm 100% sure that the "mysterious benefactor" was actually The Illusive Man.
Or The Shadow Broker (the Yahg one).
Maximus4587 No that wouldn't make sense, he wanted to sell the body of Shepard to the reapers, why would he save everyone?
The old Shadow Broker was in fact working on a way to survive the reapers -- but purely for the betterment of his own priorities. It is a point, though, that he was aware of the threat and researching countermeasures years ahead of the Reaper Invasion.
That said, it's totally the Illusive Man I mean c'mon now
@alex hlopek
The Andromeda Initiative left the Milky Way Galaxy before the events of Mass Effect 3, you moron.
+alex hlopek The Andromeda Initiative left the Milky Way Galaxy before the events of Mass Effect 3, you stupid moron.
...Okay that's thrown out the theory that the markings on Turian faces are for family clans but.....
OH MY STARS! GARRUS' DAD! I bounced off the walls.
Vipersword100 least we know where garrus got that lovely voice of his from
This is true. Thank you Daddy Vakarian
And Garrus gets his voice from his dad apparently! They look nothing alike, haha, but you couldn't tell them apart over a voice comm :3
The question is, who passed down the urge to calibrate? :O
The Codex from the first game stated that they represented the colony that they came from. But if that is still true is another story.
So good to hear Shepard's name again...
you sound just like Liara in mass effect game lol
Man, Garrus was the best squad mate. He was one heck of a sniper.
ProjectZBot and the best love interest of femshep.
Is there a Wiki page for this email? It's... been a while...
It's a shame that they couldn't send a messaged like... "the year is 2187, the galaxy went to hell, and guess who's still standing on top?" said by wrex.
Well, my Shepard lived at the end of the trilogy. But he's dead now I suppose. I romanced Liara to I wonder where my little blue children are since Asari live for hundreds of years
2_Drunk 2_Fuck that would be fucking epic
2_Drunk 2_Fuck I wish lol. But apparently the Arks left the Milky Way between Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3. So it looks like we missed our chance :(
Yeah that would be great to see my little blue children. Maybe in the DLC or next games? Wouldn't be that hard to imagine since they did it with Morrigan's child in DA:I if you romanced her.
If I remember correctly, the Quarian Ark appeared just after the final battle in Mass Effect: Andromeda. It is possible the Quarians will explain on what has happened in the Milky Way galaxy as well as why they were late to appear in the Andromeda galaxy as most of the Migrant Fleet were involved - dependent on your choices - with the final battle against the Reapers...
@@DanielBrongers The Quarian ark, Keelah Si'yah, had problems with a genetically engineered plague that was killing people on board. The matter has since been resolved, but it probably caused some delays.
That chill that goes down your spine when hearing that message... I'm hoping for a possible quarian dlc character or something from the milky way would be awesome
mike adickes Someone said they had an ark, right? RIGHT??!
I heard during my time playing that Quarians, Hanar, Drell etc were on another Ark but it was delayed or something so maybe they will appear via story DLC or some multiplayer characters
it's heavily implied the quarian ark is about to arrive
When you beat the game you'll find out
you don't even have to beat the game, they start implying the quarians will arrive almost as soon as you arrive on the nexus
Man, the feeling of vindication as everyone has to collectively agree that Shepard was right is an amazing feeling.
Awww getting goosebumps hearing this.
the feels..... I'm not crying what are you talking abou
I know it's been 5 years since the first Mass Effect trilogy ended, but I couldn't help but feel giddy when they were referencing the original games, and cried when Liara was signing off. It just gives it a finality, that it's indeed goodbye. We'll miss Commander Shepard, but hello Andromeda!
N7Cloud Closes a door, opens a window... Goodbye Shepard, and welcome Ryder.
Shepard proved humanity's valour when he/she united entire races and sacrificed himself/herself to save Milky Way, his/her deeds will be legendary, and he/she will never be forgotten.
Well, since I chose to destroy the reapers (in which case Shepard survived) I'd like to think that there was actually a decently happy ending for my Shep.
Rick van Logchem MY SHEPARD RETIRED ON RANCH WITH TALI DAMNIT. IT'S THE HAPPIEST ENDING
Andrew Major And mine finally had those blue babies with Liara :D By the way, if you want to make the ending better, install JohnP's Alternate MEHEM mod, I prefer version B. That adds the following: When Shep is lying in that pile of rubble, before they gasp you can hear the crew searching for them. Afterwards, Shep and the LI hug on the Normandy. It only adds some slight changes but their awesome.
That Alliance SOS is word-for-word the email you get early in ME3 :D also glad Brandon Keener cameo'd as Garrus' dad
Fr0st1989 I fucking loved that detail so much. I recognized the words instantly
Insuring humanity's civilization, Well Mr. or Ms. Benefactor you remind me of someone.
Has to be Cerberus
RobinMelons and his daughter would have been the next Human Pathfinder
Cerberus are fucking nazis.
ELDERPALADIN98 they are boring as fuck
Cerberus is the best organization ! I would join them without hesitation.
"tell your children of wonders that was were" are the Ryders the Stargazers?
~mind blown~
Stargazer, pathfinder anyone seeing some similarities here? I mean what if that's what the original name for the pathfinder was?
Itd be fantastic if that end credit was the andromeda settlers but thats not the case as the record keeping device that Liara left was stashed in the Milky Way
@@redwolf1484 could be like star wars was with starkiller and skywalker
Good theory.
Maybe there is some sort of technology in Andromeda, that allows super fast travels, similar to the mass relays but also for traveling between galaxies; so a few months (or less) instead of 600 years.
After the war with the Kett and the super enemy of Andromeda that was hinted, the races of Andromeda had peace, evolved and sooner or later discovered or created the galaxy traveling thing. One group of the Andromeda federation (maybe now with Kett being part of them) decides to travel to Andromeda for two reasons:
1) Looking if they won the war against the Reapers
2) IF the Milky Way species survived, the Andromeda species would be sharing/trading technologies and maybe creating a way to connect both galaxies for traveling and other reasons
So no matter what ME3 ending is canon, there will be stories about Shepard and the end of the cycle (even if you refuse) and the Andromeda crew would find them when they’re back at the Milky Way.
Hell, if they would return AND the Reapers won the war, the Andromeda species would have almost 50.000 years to evolve even further. Maybe they are even the ones that kicked the Reapers’ ass in the refuse ending.
It would be the ultimate payback; the “erased” Milky Way species, now with 50.000 years’ time to evolve even further, waiting for the Reapers’ return and then one shooting each and every one of them XD
did u guys felt like me when hearing this? like a sense of worry and scare like if it were real hearing liara talking about whats happening idk thats just me i love it. and just how she says "im with shepard and a brave crew". thats awesome shepard was couple of keters away somewhere on the normandy.
I miss Them :-(
Casey Bradford the best we can do is hope they got their happy ending.
I truly believe they did. I chose the destroy ending, and since Bioware staff have confirmed this as the "shepard lives" ending, I'm pretty sure they got their happy ending.
The only one I don't miss is Traynor, i'm glad to know she's dead
Liara's script and delivery here is heartbreaking, and lightyears better than earlier in the game ("I am young, and asari, and they are getting older, ha ha!") Just like the rest of the game... the quality is all over the place
I hope the Reapers weren't crazy enough to follow the Initiate to Andromeda.
roderickuw well I think the reapers would chase a small amount of humans and other organics
Curtis Showers They wouldn't
They're actually too stupid to do it, because the AI's primary programming makes them regulate only the Milky Way, not the rest of the galaxies.
roderickuw I had a weird theory back when the game was announced that we'd get a full answer on the root of the reapers and where they came from was andromeda
Well they can travel though darkspace and use ftl without relays so ya... We might be having a bit of a problem bigger then the kett since those reapers wouldn't have recieved the signal to stop or selfdestruct as they werent in the milkyway.
Was that Brandon Keener playing Garrus' dad as well?
Yup, it was!
lots of the old VA crew made cameos
Liz Sroka (Tali) voices a female turian on Eos as well as the asari Sentinel in multiplayer, for instance
DLC: Cerberus Ark?
It would be awsome if they had a cerberus expansion. This game is perfect for thier faction.
DLC: Geth Ark?
Tatsu Nguyễn nope they are a horrible faction and are pretty boring.
xxplvb in 3 yes but in 2 they were cool.
Hey you have to get your dose of mad scientists somewhere
8:28 that's from me3 when you meet up with Garrus
As disappointed as I am with this being one big cop out, at least *assuming direct control* at least they put our GLORIOUS MASTERS VOICES IN
Also the benefactor is clearly the illusive man.
The Undying Mr Somewhat well it's not that big of a cop out because it works with in the lore.
The Undying Mr Somewhat ahhh necron i see ?
Daniel Underwood I kinda think it could be the Council - they are represented by the four council races and I don't think Cerberus would have had the resources to fund both the Intiative and Lazarus. Besides, humans don't seem to have too much of a leading role in it, which kinda goes against Cerberus' general goals.
The benefactor isn't the illusive man. That's what I thought at first but the benefactor accompanied the Andromeda Initiative, and will likely be in the next game or a DLC.
HA yeah dude bioware is the king of the cop outs you remember the shit storm over Talie's face? or the supposed updated ending to ME3 that still didint answer jack shit? never expected anything other than a cop out from them at this point
that flash message from the alliance is purely chilling. imagine being one of the ship captains or a military commanding officer and getting handed a datapad by some shaky crewman/soldier and just reading that Sol is, for all intents and purposes, gone. Every person of Earth descent and maybe even your home, is now completely lost to you and everyone else. the even worse part is when you regroup with other alliance forces and fleets only to find out that these reapers blew through 5 entire fleets, wiping out at least one and severely damaging those that escaped, destroyed Arcturus station and killed the entire government then calmly went on with little hesitation and smashed the entirety of Earths primary defense fleet and invaded earth without batting a eye or stopping to wipe away a bead of sweat. The worst part about military communications is for the most part, there purely chilling and unemotional messages that don't sugarcoat it.
hearing that noise again reminds me all the good times and bad times of playing Mass Effect 12 and 3
I feel like they should've split this memory rather than have two bombshells in the one memory. The Reaper reveal feels overshadowed by the reveal of their mother. Ryder doesn't really get the chance to let the idea of a possible Milky Way extinction sink in.
It's good to hear the reapers again I missed those guys especially Harbinger
I am glad the Ryders' mom is still alive
Curtis Showers DLC
Just want to point out that the benefactor is most likely the Shadow Broker AKA Liara T'soni herself. Cerberus would do something like making only a human ark. Think about it. Who else would be able to gather so many resource? Who had recent access to the Mars archives where the technology that was the foundation of the core drives for the arks was found and was at the Mars archives themselves when the events of ME3 occurred? I would also like to point out that Liara was aware of the Andromeda Initiative due to being in contact with Alec Ryder and also the Shadow Broker likes to keep their identity hidden.
Desgax can't be they left before me2 by then liara didn't become the shadow broker yet
The events of ME2 and the year the Andromeda Initiative launched were both the same year of 2185 so it is entirely possible Liara had become the Shadow Broker before the Andromeda Initiative was launched.
But the Benefactor was in touch with Jien Garsen and Alec well before the events of ME2. It can't be Liara. And I find it highly unlikely that Liara would have an agent murder Jien in cold blood. Maybe it's no one that we know?
This is all negated with one simple factor. The Initiative, according to the wikia, was founded in 2176... That throws Liara being the Benefactor completely out the window. That was a decade before she ever became the Shadow Broker.
The Benefactor wasn't involved with the Initiative when the project started, they stepped in at some point during the process, after Garson ran out of funds.
But I don't think it was Liara because she would never have had Garson assassinated, even to prevent the truth about the Initiative coming out. It's just not in her character.
Liara is probably hanging out with Grunt ^-^
WitchMoonstone And Wrex..he was like what 700-900 years old..and we know in the right conditions krogans can live a Long time..like rly long
And EDI.
WitchMoonstone Depending on the ending, the entire crew could still be alive
Wrex was actually 1400-1500 years old.^^
And correct, there is in fact the running theory that Krogan are indeed Biologically Immortal. Meaning they can't die of old age.
AllForFire He has never stated how old he is nor has he said he was in the rebellion like Drack but what we do know is that his father tried to kill him after both the rebellion and genophage..so while he is indeed close to 1k he ain't as old as Drack..let alone older he actually looked pretty young when compared
I got chills like you wouldn't believe
I would like see a dlc where the Quarian, Volus and Hannar Ark finally arrives or several new arks filled with survivors from the Reaper war arrives to Andromeda.
Shadows82 id like to see them arrive and damaged by something hehe
Now we know that the Arks weren't powered by Element Zero. They were powered by love.
Helium-3, actually.
its helium 3. i discovered it in the side mission in remaav. remnant tiller is it?
I think the benefactor is the council makes sense as you have arks for all the major species of the milky way galaxy
when I saw that I immediately thought about the project in Mass effect 3 to the future generations
GARRUS that's garrus' voice actor I bet a sweet Turian ass it is.
That's Garrus's dad. Make sense.
Wait until they find out "WHASSUP, MILKY WAY AINT DEAD BITCH!" once things are better in the milky way since all 3 endings were, well, you guys already know.
James Walton feels like Andromeda is the real ending
the ending of mass effect 3 makes sense the storyteller/child of the shepard in that galaxy
So that Turian was Garrus' father? I can see the resemblance. You also realize there was another cameo for Garrus, right?
It's actually really weird, but interesting, to hear about Shepard and his crew from the viewpoint of someone else also experiencing the craziness of the threat of the Reapers.
Congratulations on the Great News. Hope you get your Mom
Everyone keeps saying the mysterious benefactor is the illusive man, but why then would he send other arks filled with other races? And since you clearly leave in 2185-86, then the illusive man would already be under the effects of indoctrination. Why do anything to attempt to save anyone from the reapers when his intent was to "control them"? It just doesnt fit.
No, the mysterious benefactor is probably someone we know; if it wasnt then the reveal would be less powerful. But its probably not someone from the original trilogy unless they are also now in andromeda and we dont know about them. After all the benefactor said "We will need a new home. We'er going to be all thats left of civilization." She/he is obviously onboard an ark or the nexus. If it was the illusive man, why stay behind? why leave all of cerberus behind and send some random variables into the furthest reaches of the unknown? No, its someone else...
Imagine how petrifying would it be for Ryder to hear that SOS. Some galaxy wide immense force was making whole galaxy scream in terror as they flew away barely escaping the invasion. How could they show that in the game and just shrug that away as if Ryder just heard this and said "Phew, thank god, I owe 10 bucks to that guy back on Omega, I guess im safe now". Fuck. That. Shit.
And that warning message that warns about some "reapers" instead of describing the danger. Like someone would hear the message nad wonder why bunch of farmers with scythes are such a threath to everyone.
Well most people knew what the Reaper were due to Shepard,but they ignored it out of convenience
This is basically the new EA-Bioware declaring to the fans that they were done with the Shepard's trilogy & wanted a sequel for Andromeda, but that didn't exactly pan out the way they intended.
You are correct, but thanks to the backlash Andromeda was getting the next Mass Effect will be once again take place in the Milky Way galaxy. On one hand I am thrilled, on the other; I am kinda curious what is next for Ryder and his crew. But perhaps the Quarian Ark that appeared shortly after the final battle in Andromeda will have some answers/connections in regards to the Milky Way galaxy...
@@DanielBrongers IMO Ryder & their cardboard cut-out crew should be turned into side characters & the trilogy should continue with Shepard's asari daughter / human descendant / alien protege as the new lead.
The new mass effect is a sequel to both Mass effect 3 and Mass effect andromeda, they are going to have to set up a service like Dragon age keep for Mass effect so you don't alienate touch of the fan base.
@@mathewwilkins1613 That would be for the best.
It'd be an amazing twist if they made The Illusive Man the benefactor.
Except it wouldn't work....the benefactor travelled to andromeda with the initiative (they murdered Gien Garston) and the illusive man died on the Crucible.
honestly, my favorite memroy is the voiced alliance emergency transmission. The Reaper invasion beginning was fucking amazing.
Aaaaaaa papa Garrus!
DLC is going to be Arks of secondary races that are probably hijacked by Cerberus sleeper agents.
Betting benefactor is TIM and he wants Cerberus in Andromeda
Just watched this on mine and broke into spontaneous tears. Could not handle my feelings
Hmmm... I just realized something: the stated game timeline might be slightly off. It's sounding more like the Andromeda Initiative took off immediately after Mass Effect 2, probably finished building the arks around the same time that the Arrival DLC took place. I'm saying that because, as I was reading things in the old trilogy, Garrus didn't tell his father about the Reapers until after Normandy got locked down. Maybe I'm wrong, but it would explain certain things, including the whole Cerberus situation.
The Turian, Asari, Human and Salarian arks left just after Commander Shepard was killed by the Collectors (I believe the death of Shepard is one of the biggest points that scared the Benefactor into leaving early) . I believe the Quarian ark left post Shepard revival.
The fact there's no message from Tali kills me more inside. I just need a message about ship maintenance or something. The ending with her as a romance killed me inside more than it should have.
Please BioWare, pleeease.
dad?
Looks like there will be no more calibrations to be made
0:37
Holy hell, that echo. @_@
It kind of sounds like Brandon Keener (do I have the name right?), but put enough distortion into any audio and it can sound like anything.
So it's canon that garrus survived the suicide mission
Funny thing to note that Liara is probably still alive in ME Andromeda. Too bad we're not able to see her, after 600 years
We may still! The new Mass effect that's coming out has concept pictures of an older looking asari that Bioware haven't identified but aren't denying fan speculation of an older Liara (which would fit as the new game is a sequel to both Mass effect 3 and Andromeda)
can't wait for you to upload the conversation with Drack in the Med-Bay
So, since Liara says she's on the Normandy with Shepard, obviously playing this game after a Mass Effect 2 where Shepard dies doesn't fit
The andromeda initiative left the Milky way just after Shepard is killed by the Collectors. That message from Liara on the Normandy would of been sent when the Hyperion crew
was in stasis during the Reaper war.
@@mathewwilkins1613 replying four years later? The fact a message was recorded during the events of Mass Effect 3 means Shepard survived the events of the second game in Andromeda's canon
Plot twist the ark is a super relay that lets you travel to different galaxies quicker then normal once fully built like the citadel 🤔
Why do i have a strong feeling theres going to be a reaper ark or a cerberus ark thats coming?
Dracongard
Play Mass Effect 3
And prove the point i clearly am not able to speak of.
Due to the fact this comment irritates me far too much.
Dracongard mass effect 3 happened, no more reapers. that was Shepards legacy so to speak.
Cerberus ark is possible, reaper ark not so much. The reapers are only responsible for the milky way thanks to the leviathans. Unless they somehow change.
There is no proof that we got any ending that anyone wanted. Hell bioware couldve went with the fight to the death scenario.
Dracongard doesn't matter about the ending; the reapers were shepards mission. I highly doubt they'll go back to it. Shepard got rid of em; with any ending.
Fulcrum was also the code name for Ashoka in the star wars universe.
haha OMG Fulcrum ahsoka tano!
Fulcrum got fucked by Thrawn *-*
If you're pulling up Star Wars, Fulcrum agents are actually a codename, something along the lines of double-oh agents in James Bond. So there are several Fulcrums, unlike Andromeda, where there is only one thing y that codename mentioned.
dlc including the "benefactor"?
Jagd tiger Benefactor is Illusive man
If its the illusive man who funded the project why bring the other species. He was always humanity first. Its the one element that dose not fit.
as a cover
makes more sense if it was the shadow broker
*Spoiler*
the benefactor being the illusive man is likely but what bothers me is who killed Jien Garson? I've looked a bit but the trail seems to end after the mission.
It always gets me on the wrong side how this makes the game's flaws more apparent. It renders the motivation for Alec turning his child into a Pathfinder mere nepotism, while reminding that Shepard was a proven hero that had to fight his way up. It reminds us of an epic space opera filled with an estabilished universe and characters overflowing with stories and possibilities. Then expects us to go back to much lower stakes game that hasn't anything unique to it.
Even the atmospheric immersion and presentation are inferior when you start to think of the previous games. The Shadow Broker, per example, was a figured to be reckoned and his appearances even in audio gave him that aura. The hologram talks on the Normandy also blended really well how advanced your ship and setting were and every character looked like someone with story on their backs. Meanwhile, you see the benefactors on a black laptop screen. You are reminded that everyone with proper experience was either left in charge in the Milky Way or died in Andromeda, Alec being the first we saw.
That isn't even getting to the fact that there is no proper reason why people in Andromeda couldn't talk with the Milky Way during the voyage to keep their technology and knowledge up to date. No reasons aside from BioWare being unable to adapt previous games' writting and RGB choices into the game. They took a sledgehammer approach to something they couldn't write in, just be glad you got this pieces of the Milky Way and now say goodbye.
Considering particle entanglament, they needed only one proper connection to talk regardless of distance. If not, they could leave comm buoys like Hansel and Gretel across the voyage. There would be delay, but they wouldn't be in complete dark. And the moment they received tech for FTL comm like in ME3, they could access all the tech developed in the Milky Way during their 40.000 year travel. They would likely need to send some new information as payment but that is rather simple, after all they just arrived at this new unexplored galaxy and still hold first hand knowledge of a bygone era.
Then again, take a galaxy where Shepard united every race, including the Geth, and took control of the Reapers. They could likely use that time to develop their technology into a K3 civilization and send a ship into Andromeda *BEFORE* the Hiperium arrived. Even a devasted galaxy could likely develop tech and population sizes where the Hiperium would be just the first to arrive, shortly followed by faster ships that launched later but took less time, while carrying more people and better techniques.
Is the benefactors voice Miranda?
Hhhmmm I was thinking that she does come from money
Couldn't have Liara sent another message after them? Like, she could've sent a message right after the war to update people on what happened. Hyperion is already a year late, and the war was about a year long. If it takes just as long for a message to reach them as it took them to reach Andromeda, then... shouldn't the update have come already?
Well in all ME3 ending the mass relay are under repair so it would take years before a working communication would be possible. They may not live long enough for it to become fully working.
I haven't played the game yet, but do they not have ANY QECs linking back to the Milky Way? Or did they handwave that away by saying the ones left behind must've been destroyed or lost? I could tolerate that, but if they just plain didn't have any? QECs offer instantaneous real-time communication, regardless of distance - they should work even across the galaxies - so... I'd have to seriously question the intelligence of the Initiative designers if no one thought to set any of those up.
they probably did it to avoid having to decide on a canon ending, of course the silence from the Milky Way also implies Shepard lost the fight against the Reapers
or that so much of their tech was damaged, that they're focusing on more important things.
Out of range for traditional message probably, no QEC connection (damaged on milky way side) and more Important things to worry about with a post reaper war
benefactor is illusive man 100%
Nope
Wasn't Fulcrum the code in Star Wars rebels?
At least there's no Cerberus on the Initiative attack and Screw Illusive Man
This was possibly teasing the arrival of reapers in andromeda.
If it happens the mistakes in Andromeda, one of the DLC‘s would have for curing her, I bet
Always love Giant purple squid make a Blaaah sounds.
This is really all they could do? I know they wanted this to be as seperate of a story from the Milky Way and the Reapers, but why does Ryder have no reaction to this? No crys, sighs, or anything even though she just learned that everything she ever knew before Andromeda is destroyed? Lazy.
Because the lines and the acting in Mass Effect: Andromeda are extremely sub par compared to the old games.
I love how everyones sorta running around yelling and pointing at the benefactor going 'ITS TIM EVERYBODY ITS TIM' like it'd fit his character to a point more so with the shit fucking up the other Arks but like I can just see Bioware going 'They got that too quickly...lets make it not TIM now because we can'
maybe Bioware wanted the ending that the Reapers are still waging war againts the Milky Way species for 600 years and the Reapers have almost completed the harvest but there are still few Milky Way species left that went hiding and went to stasis. Heck we might even see Shepard and all his crew maybe went to stasis too so who knows but that would be very unlikely. The mysterious benefactor could've made possible contact with the Jaardan and knew that their tech would help rebuild Milky Way civilization. The Jaardan could've been much bigger than we tought they could be the only ones capable of challenging the reapers toe to toe and that they went to hiding because they are preparing for a total war with the reapers in the future. So there we go Reapers vs Jaardan with both opposite idealogies from different galaxies.
So the only reason adramada and milkyway can't communicate or reach each other because of the relays were destroyed? After the events of ME3 so if this is 500 600 years after ME3 how come no new relays have been built? Or any communication has been made I'm hella lost on that part
I wonder if there is a working hypothesis about Mr.Lawson actually being the Benefactor. Not much is known about him, but he's stupendously rich, apparently involved in all sorts of scientific projects, starting with one his own daughters. He might've been the driving force behind the initial design of the Normandy, obviously staying away from the project officially as he was bound to know about Cerberus and be wary of TIM and SB - because who actually needs a stealth exploration frigate for the cost of dozens of ships its size and capability?
The whole family problems with Miranda and Oriana might have been a decoy to put her into position to get recruited by TIM, seeing how the man is driven, highly capable, but shortsighted, use Cerberus resources instead of his own to rebuild and redesign Normandy SR-2, and Miranda definitely could have stolen the blueprints.
Why would he start the whole Initiative is even more speculative, but not entirely unfounded. With his vast funds and numerous projects, he might've come across some alien information on the Reapers way before Nazara/Souvereign started scouting and preparation (I presume he had dealings with asari, who had one of the beacons intact for thousands of years, and are no strangers to working in shadows), and still not be a suspect for Cerberus or anyone else to investigate, because unlike with TIM who's all about full secrecy, Mr.Lawson might've been of the opinion that the best place to hide is in plain sight.
The Benefactor's voice might've actually been Miranda herself - or probably Oriana, when she got off the Cerberus radar and were of no apparent use or significance to TIM.
And as for the Jean Garson's murder... it might've been done on the orders of Miranda's, who learned methods of secrecy largely at the TIM's heel, not from her father.
Lawson was a cerberus agent any activity he undertook would have been a cerberus project and probably wouldn't include aliens
it always hurt to say goodbye
8:40 I msised that sound
The benefactor is clearly Conrad Verner
every N7 soldier has a vakarian
dlc ideal you get kidnapped your mother gets better and now shes on the hunt to get her babies back
I find it intriguing that The Benefactor's voice sounds exactly like Foster Addison's. Hmmm . . .
I still think the benefactor was The Illusive Man, since I believe the arks left around ME2. This would be before TIM was indoctrinated. I truly believe he was trying to do what he thought was right, despite his questionable methods. He lost it though after the Collector base mission.
YEEAAAAHHH they brought Brandon Keener back
receiving the milky way transmissions is kinda lore breaking. The Andromeda galaxy is 2.537 million lightyears away from us. To reach there in 600 years means that the arks would have to be travelling at ~4228x faster than lightspeed. In ME, it has already been explained that FTL communication depends on a network of comm buoys that function like mini mass relays for the transport of information. So how can the transmissions from the milky way reach them so quickly? it's not possible.
Not to mention how the arks can travel at such high FTL speeds for so long without discharging their drive cores? or refueling? or well they'd need a mass effect generator far bigger than anything ever built so far, including the Normandy SR2 which already had one of the largest ever on a ship to date...
The Arks were launched in 2185, one year before the Reaper invasion. They probably just left the milky way and been traveling in dark space for only a year, not impossible for them to still pick up a transmission from back home, which was stored and played back by Alec after arriving at Andromeda, nobody said it was a transmission in real time. Then again, they never did specify the theorical limit of QEC, whether if it can cross galaxies
It's exactly because no ships can refuel conventionally in dark space that the Initiative developed the ODSY drive, which recycles static energy generated (basically it makes it's own power indefinitely) as well as using the ram-scopes to collect hydrogen particles in space to convert as fuel
Mysterious benefactors eh? Assuming you don't already confront them in the base game, I smell a potential dlc. :)
Only thing that confuses me...why does Castis' have different markings than Garrus? I thought they were based on colonies?
Maybe Castis was born on a different colony and moved to the colony where garrus was born.
I mentioned this in another comment, depending on where you look it's either family markings or colony markings. So we know Garrus grew up on Palaven so he could have Palaven's markings while his dad has the markings from the colony he was born on or if its family markings Garrus could have just taken his Mum's family markings instead of his dad's.
Um, how would Shepard take after Ryder? Was he Shepard's trainer?
Nufufufu I wonder if shepherd and garrus had a turian-human child (destroy ending shep survives)
0:17 is that her tongue clipping though her upper lip?
that was a bit chilling hearing there despair
thx for the spolier warning
I'm still holding out hope that some of our crew made it into a different ark the ones that still haven't arrived. Liara signing off made me cry. I'm currently replaying ME3 and I can only hope that somehow one of liaras project boxes mages it to andromeda or someone that knew Shepard. Like Liara lol
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