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BioWare release new Mass Effect 5 “Epsilon” trailer while hinting about Mass Effect 3 connections"What about S– nevermind, you get the idea."
“What about S– nevermind, you get the idea.”
Image credit:EA/RockPaperShotgun
Image credit:EA/RockPaperShotgun
Years of anticipation finally became reality last night when a videogame company posted a video of somebody in a sharp trench coat and mirror visor walking down a dim hall, swivelling dramatically to eyeball the viewer, then casually drawing a pistol and walking into a roomful of unfocussed Potential. This isMass Effect 5, actual title possiblyMass Effect: Epsilon - “epsilon” being the Top Secret Codename ofthis hidden page on the Mass Effect website. What does it all mean? I don’t know. It’s a nice coat, though, isn’t it? I like those padded red lapels.
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N7 Day 2023
The above teasers have surfaced as part of EA and BioWare’s “N7 Day” celebrations this week, which have given rise to much gossip and speculation in the fanbase. Take the “N7” logo on the character’s breast pocket - N7 is the special forces designation given to Commander Shepard, protagonist of the original Mass Effect trilogy, which suggests that this might be a direct follow-on to the events ofMass Effect 3.
The Epsilon website page, however, mentionsAndromeda, the setting for the most recent Mass Effect game. “N7” also appears in BioWare’s announcement trailer for the game, published in 2020, which featured an older version of the first game’s Asari heart-throb/crimelord Liara T’soni plus Krogan, Salarian and human characters. Is it safe to say, then, that the fifth Mass EffectRPGwill take place after Andromeda but feature characters from both games and weave their stories together?
“And of course, to those questions, there are answers, but you’ll have to wait to hear them. And anything we do say won’t be easy to find, just like you’ve come to expect from our #N7Day teases.”
You can read a lot more analysis of BioWare’s various teasers in Ollie’sguide to everything we know about Mass Effect 5. Personally I am hoping for a return to the original trilogy’s more contained, linear environments, as somebody who pretty much hated Andromeda, but then, it seems I do not live amongst friends, here - Alice Bell wrote a whole article aboutwhy Andromeda is good, actually, a disgraceful piece of historical revisionism which I will be bringing up at the next Teams meeting unless she kicks me out again.
