Mass Effect Andromeda Ditches Mass Effect 3 Ending Decisions; “It’s A New Story” Says Bioware

Bioware has confirmed that personal ending decisions from Mass Result 3 won't bear over to the upcoming Mass Effect: Andromeda.

While in previous Mass Effect titles, ane could comport over their game saves, this won't be the case in Andromeda. Bioware's vice president, Aaryn Flynn, and creative managing director, Mac Walter, confirmed this in a contempo interview with Eurogamer.

Eurogamer defenseless up with Flynn and Walters following Mass Effect Andromeda's new E3 trailer, and asked in what way the original Mass Effect trilogy would touch on Andromeda's storyline.

In order to ensure that players will accept a fresh start in Andromeda, personal decisions made in Mass Effect 3 won't affect Andromeda.

"We best-selling it in the endings of Mass Effect 3 and I retrieve that's where we want to leave it for at present," Flynn explained.

"We desire this to be a new story and information technology would be very hard to say it's a new story but likewise that you lot need to understand how [the past trilogy] ended."

Mass Effect Andromeda a fresh start only lore won't be forgotten

Flynn added that although decisions fabricated will remain intact in the canon of the universe, Andromeda will allow for a new story to begin without being affected by previous decisions.

"We've done it in such a style that allows all of those decisions you lot fabricated to remain intact in the canon of the universe, only likewise allows a new story to begin," Flynn said.

Mass Effect: Andromeda will exist a fresh start, but luckily for hardcore Mass Effect fans, the original Mass Effect lore won't exist totally forgotten.

"It'south of import for the states to have elements from the Trilogy for fans to have in the groundwork," creative director, Mac Walters, explained. "Ultimately this is intended to be a fresh story, but we want to have things for people to observe and get 'oh, I remember that character'.

"There's a coalition [of Milky Way races]," he added. "We needed to observe a manner to make sure certain species you're familiar with come along with yous on your journeying to see new ones. Every bit in the tradition of Mass Upshot, there will be certain people working together happily, and certain people working together less happily".

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