I never thought I'd say this, but it's good to hear the noise of a giant fucking Reaper again.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't get a little teary eyed at Liara's message

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 ;(

sucks that they dont know that the milky way survived the reapers

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."

Anyone else get chills at 8:40? It's been a while since I heard the giant space squids of doom.

So good to hear Shepard's name again...

I'm 100% sure that the "mysterious benefactor" was actually The Illusive Man.

...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.

Man, Garrus was the best squad mate. He was one heck of a sniper.

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.

Man, the feeling of vindication as everyone has to collectively agree that Shepard was right is an amazing feeling.

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

Awww getting goosebumps hearing this.

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

That Alliance SOS is word-for-word the email you get early in ME3 :D also glad Brandon Keener cameo'd as Garrus' dad

"tell your children of wonders that was were" are the Ryders the Stargazers?

Insuring humanity's civilization, Well Mr. or Ms. Benefactor you remind me of someone.

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!

I miss Them :-(

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.

8:28 that's from me3 when you meet up with Garrus

I hope the Reapers weren't crazy enough to follow the Initiate to Andromeda.

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

Was that Brandon Keener playing Garrus' dad as well?

DLC: Cerberus Ark?

hearing that noise again reminds me all the good times and bad times of playing Mass Effect 12 and 3

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.

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.

I am glad the Ryders' mom is still alive

It's good to hear the reapers again I missed those guys especially Harbinger

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.

Liara is probably hanging out with Grunt ^-^

I got chills like you wouldn't believe

I think the benefactor is the council makes sense as you have arks for all the major species of the milky way galaxy

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.

Now we know that the Arks weren't powered by Element Zero. They were powered by love.

when I saw that I immediately thought about the project in Mass effect 3 to the future generations

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.

GARRUS that's garrus' voice actor I bet a sweet Turian ass it is.

the ending of mass effect 3 makes sense the storyteller/child of the shepard in that galaxy

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.

can't wait for you to upload the conversation with Drack in the Med-Bay

So that Turian was Garrus' father? I can see the resemblance. You also realize there was another cameo for Garrus, right?

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.

honestly, my favorite memroy is the voiced alliance emergency transmission. The Reaper invasion beginning was fucking amazing.

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.

Congratulations on the Great News. Hope you get your Mom

Just watched this on mine and broke into spontaneous tears. Could not handle my feelings

Aaaaaaa papa Garrus!

DLC is going to be Arks of secondary races that are probably hijacked by Cerberus sleeper agents.

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.

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.

Betting benefactor is TIM and he wants Cerberus in Andromeda

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...

Looks like there will be no more calibrations to be made

It'd be an amazing twist if they made The Illusive Man the benefactor.

it always hurt to say goodbye

Wasn't Fulcrum the code in Star Wars rebels?

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.

Fulcrum was also the code name for Ashoka in the star wars universe.

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.

Plot twist the ark is a super relay that lets you travel to different galaxies quicker then normal once fully built like the citadel 🤔

0:17 is that her tongue clipping though her upper lip?

This was possibly teasing the arrival of reapers in andromeda.

So it's canon that garrus survived the suicide mission

I find it intriguing that The Benefactor's voice sounds exactly like Foster Addison's. Hmmm . . .

dad?

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

Anyone else noticed Ryder's mouth glitches at around 0:17-0:18?

Always love Giant purple squid make a Blaaah sounds.

haha OMG Fulcrum ahsoka tano!

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.

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

that was a bit chilling hearing there despair

Um, how would Shepard take after Ryder? Was he Shepard's trainer?

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.

thx for the spolier warning

8:40 I msised that sound

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'

YEEAAAAHHH they brought Brandon Keener back

Is the benefactors voice Miranda?

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

0:18 WHOA WHAT WAS THAT

Mysterious benefactors eh? Assuming you don't already confront them in the base game, I smell a potential dlc. :)

Chillz when heard reaper noise

If it happens the mistakes in Andromeda, one of the DLC‘s would have for curing her, I bet

dlc including the "benefactor"?

The benefactor is TJ Laser.

Why do i have a strong feeling theres going to be a reaper ark or a cerberus ark thats coming?

I just realized, there's no reason they couldn't keep contact with the milky way since quantum entanglement has unlimited range. Or is there some loophole in the lore

At least there's no Cerberus on the Initiative attack and Screw Illusive Man

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

Ryder's eyeballs about to pop outta her skull

every N7 soldier has a vakarian

Only thing that confuses me...why does Castis' have different markings than Garrus? I thought they were based on colonies?

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.

dlc ideal you get kidnapped your mother gets better and now shes on the hunt to get her babies back

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?