Bioware Is Handling Things By The Book
Andromeda, to say the very least, was met with mixed reception from fans. It was an epic melting pot of legitimate disappointment, uncalled aggression and justified criticism. That being said, fans were still quite eager to see what they were going to get out of the DLC that was teased at the end of the main campaign.
From the sounds of it, Ryder and company would be pursuing the missing Quarian ark in the hope of finding the survivors. Sounds like quite an appealing premise since every Mass Effect fan worth their salt adores the Quarians!
We waited, and we waited, and we waited, yet still nothing. In fact there were rumors that there wouldn’t even be single-player DLC. However, according to a recent article on Gamespot, we found out that we will finally find out what happened to the Quarians…but it will be in the form of a novel.
This year’s Mass Effect: Andromeda wasn’t a hit in the same way that its predecessors were, and its commercial performance has resulted in changes to both its developer BioWare Montreal and the series itself. Plans for new games have reportedly been put on hold, but that doesn’t mean the entire franchise is on hiatus.
BioWare today shared some new details about the next Mass Effect novel. As previously announced, it’s called Mass Effect: Annihilation, and it “chronicles the journey of the Keelah Si’yah as it carries 20,000 drell, elcor, batarian, and quarian colonists to Andromeda.” The status of the Keelah Si’yah is an important matter in Andromeda; it did not leave at the same time as the other arks, which explains the absence of the species aboard.
The description of the book continues, “A pathogen is discovered aboard the ark after many drell are found dead in their cryo pods. As the pathogen jumps species, the ship’s systems begin to fail, making it clear this is no accident.”
Annihilation is the first Mass Effect book to be written by Catherynne M. Valente, whose previous work includes The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making and The Orphan’s Tales series. Annihilation was previously scheduled to launch this summer and was to be followed by a third book, Mass Effect: Initiation. It’s now instead slated for release in the US, UK, and Canada on June 26, 2018 (August 28, 2018 in Australia).
While we’re sure many will find the whole thing to be an interesting read, for the die-hard fans who were hoping for an actual game experience, this might be the straw that broke the space camel’s back.
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