TheErebus. Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 http://www.gamespot.com/articles/mass-effect-4-details-allegedly-leaked-via-online-/1100-6426752/ So we got some interesting info today, the following are the basics behind what Mass effect 4 will be like HOWEVER this is all just rumors: Puttin' it in a spoiler for those who don't wanna see it. NARRATIVE: Premise: Set in the Helius Cluster of the Andromeda Galaxy, removed by time and space from the Mass Effect "Commander Shepard" trilogy and its ending. Play as a "Pathfinder" explorer leading expedition with the aim of establishing new home for humanity. Encounter "savage untamed lands", "cut-throat outlaws", and "warring alien races" in an effort to survive and colonies. Andromeda is home to a mysterious alien race, the Remnants, who've left their vaults and ancient technology throughout. Game Objective: Explore 100s of solar systems (over 4x size of Mass Effect 3) collecting resources, developing your ship, crew, and arsenal, while engaging in diplomacy in order to set up colonies, while discovering the mystery behind the Remnants and racing to secure their technology. New Species: Remnants, an ancient race who've left ruins and technology throughout the galaxy. And Khet, seemingly antagonistic. Squadmates: Same as previous games: make friends, take two with you on missions. Cora is able to generate biotic shields you can fire out of. Drack is a Krogan. Loyalty Missions: Same as previous games: complete to unlock increased loyalty and new skill tree for that character. Example: Krogan colony ship has been stolen by outlaws. Track down the ship and return it to increase loyalty with Drack. Dialogue trees and end game impacted by loyalty status. Dialogue: "Meaningful choices". Deeper control over responses, such as interrupting conversation. Action based choices are physical choices to shape the course of conversation, such as pulling out a weapon and forcing them to open a door instead of attempting to do so purely via conversation. EXPLORATION/CUSTOMISATION Tempest Starship: Pilotable ship to discover 100s of solar systems. Customisable with trophies/loot/photos taken through the galaxy. Transition between flying ship, to landing on planet, to driving Mako, to getting out on foot, all seamless with no loading screens. Mako Vehicle: Upgradeable with turbo boost, shield generator, hostile detector, etc. Customisable paint job. Planets: 100s of surfaces to explore, for discovering places to colonise, and alien vaults/outputs to conquer. Colonies: Build settlements on habitable planets. Able to decide what type of settlement for bonuses. EG: Recon Settlements will clear fog of war on space map and offer more strike team missions, meanwhile Mining Settlements will periodically supply crafting materials. Blueprints: Allow you to craft alien technology using materials for better equipment and weapons, such as a jetpack for jumping, cryo-beam to target enemies, etc. Crew: Customisable skill trees, gear, weapons, etc. MISSIONS TYPES AND MULTIPLAYER: Remnant Vault Raids: Ancient ruins in two variants. Standard: Accessed by finding and activating Remnant Monoliths, explored to find a "powerful artefact". Acquiring artefact triggers defence systems: robots, traps, and restructured layout. Rewards with valuable loot, crafting resources, and Star Keys.Orbital Facilities: Unlocked with Star Keys, provide permanent stat bonuses, and optional higher difficulty vault raids that add Khet patrols and outlaws. Rewards with rare loot and narrative acclaim. Khet Outposts: Optional wave-based combat challenges that reward with XP, reduced Khet power and additional narrative options in the region if destroyed. Strike Team: Spend resources to recruit mercenaries and develop AI controlled strike teams to be deployed on randomly generated, time sensitive missions. Include settlement defence and remnant artefact recovery. Strike Teams return 20 - 30 minutes later with XP, currency, and equipment depending on mission outcome. Spend money/resources to train Strike Team, and buy better equipment, to increase success rate and send on dangerous missions. Active Strike Team: See above, however you can choose to complete the Strike Team mission manually via play using your multiplayer roster of characters. Able to play co-op with friends, more friends increasing difficulty and rewards. Bonus rewards for joining another players strike team mission. XP, loot, and customisation rewards for Strike Team played characters are cohesive with multiplayer specific horde mode. Horde Mode: Similar to Mass Effect 3: four players against waves of enemies with additional objectives such as disabling a bomb or assassinating a target. Similar XP/loot rewards to Mass Effect 3. APEX funds earned to be used in single player. BUTT WEIGHT! DERE IS MOAR! 2 new games have been announced: Death's Gamble and Shadow of the Beast. Death's Gamble: http://www.pcgamer.com/deaths-gambit-is-a-dark-souls-inspired-2d-rpg/ It appears to be a 2D Dark Souls/Shadow of the Colossus-esque game. The trailer looks damn good and I'm quite excited for it. Shadow of the beast: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/shadow-of-the-beast-is-a-barbaric-brawler-born-out/1100-6426714/ It's a gory as all hell brawler that is also a remake of an amiga game by the same name. Currently, it's no-where near completion but I'll be keeping an eye on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sappinmahsentry Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 (edited) SotB is 2.5d. IT'S 2.5D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOO GET ME THE WHISKEY! EDIT: Read the youtube comments, I can't understand the stupidity in them. They act like it's not pre-alpha. Edited April 20, 2015 by sappinmahsentry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheErebus. Posted April 20, 2015 Author Share Posted April 20, 2015 SotB is 2.5d. IT'S 2.5D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOO GET ME THE WHISKEY! *gets the vodka* Wait... WHISKEY?! *blood vessel pops* I ONLY HAVE VODKA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urlan Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Very interesting, hope your rumors prove correct, too bad the franchise is still under EA's wing. Still I have friends that still enjoyed playing the series, it will give me something to talk about with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sappinmahsentry Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Very interesting, hope your rumors prove correct, too bad the franchise is still under EA's wing. Still I have friends that still enjoyed playing the series, it will give me something to talk about with them. ME4, now with a color wheel to set your explosion color! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Grihaly Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Sounds like 'Mass Effect 4: Borderlands!' But hell yeah to the Mako coming back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sappinmahsentry Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Sounds like 'Mass Effect 4: Borderlands!' But hell yeah to the Mako coming back. Borderlands! Now with colored explosions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheErebus. Posted April 20, 2015 Author Share Posted April 20, 2015 Borderlands! Now with colored explosions! Borderlands! NOW WITH COLORED ENDINGS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Grihaly Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Borderlands! Now with colored explosions! EXPLOSIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEW TASK, BLOW UP THE OCEAN!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcl_Blue Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 This Shadow of the Beast really caught my attention. Until I saw it would be PS4 exclusive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhrekr Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Borderlands! NOW WITH COLORED ENDINGS! We don't talk about THAT. Anyway, very nice finds! :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kestral9999 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Everything about ME4 sounds great. First game that you linked looks awesome. Second one... Not so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tymerc Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Shepard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheErebus. Posted April 20, 2015 Author Share Posted April 20, 2015 Shepard. Shepard-Commander. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rakosta_Kai Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I wonder how multiplayer ME4 will be this time. If it's the same type of multiplayer as last time I'll still enjoy it but not as much as I would if it was seamless. Regardless, exploration and a story would be good stuff. I still wish Bioware would take the ME IP into hybrid shooter/MMO country though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheErebus. Posted April 20, 2015 Author Share Posted April 20, 2015 Second one... Not so much. Well it is in a very early stage of development. So forgive it for not looking that good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kestral9999 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Well it is in a very early stage of development. So forgive it for not looking that good. It's less that it doesn't look good and more that it looks repetitive to play. But it is pre alpha so I'll give it fair judgement when it's closer to release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sappinmahsentry Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 It's less that it doesn't look good and more that it looks repetitive to play. But it is pre alpha so I'll give it fair judgement when it's closer to release. I hope that it's a brawler/platformer, both mixed perfectly between eachother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gr33hn Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I forgot, is Mako the rolling APC from the first game or the hovering one from the later games? Very interesting, hope your rumors prove correct, too bad the franchise is still under EA's wing. Unfortunately, which means I will not play it. ME4, now with a color wheel to set your explosion color! OK, this made me lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheErebus. Posted April 20, 2015 Author Share Posted April 20, 2015 I forgot, is Mako the rolling APC from the first game or the hovering one from the later games? http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/M35_Mako The APC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)Grihaly Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 I just re-read that.... HORDE MODE?! SERIOUSLY? THEY COULDN'T MAKE AN ORIGINAL NAME FOR IT?! So now it's Gears of Effect 4: Borderlands The Unrelated Sequel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheErebus. Posted April 20, 2015 Author Share Posted April 20, 2015 I just re-read that.... HORDE MODE?! SERIOUSLY? THEY COULDN'T MAKE AN ORIGINAL NAME FOR IT?! So now it's Gears of Effect 4: Borderlands The Unrelated Sequel. Horde mode is the name for that kind of mission type, it's not just Gears of War and such. Killing Floor 1 and 2 is all basically a horde mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sappinmahsentry Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Horde mode is the name for that kind of mission type, it's not just Gears of War and such. Killing Floor 1 and 2 is all basically a horde mode. But a better horde mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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