

Feron remarks playfully about her actions while she accuses him of being a triple agent. Armed and ready, the mercs run into Liara who manages to defeat all of them herself. The Shadow Broker's hired men become suspicious when the Broker's command channel gives off nothing but static. BioWare project director Michael Gamble made that much clear in a tweet thread following the Game Awards teaser outlining some of the original Mass Effect team that rejoined BioWare for the new game.“I said get back!” - Spoilers for Mass Effect: Redemption follow. Series veterans are returning to develop the new gameįrom the get-go, BioWare is making it clear that the next Mass Effect game is in good hands. This strengthens the game's connection to Andromeda and suggests the next Mass Effect will embrace that game's setting to some degree. That's particularly interesting considering Jaal is an Angara, a race only seen in Andromeda. The chap next to them also looks like Mass Effect Andromeda's Jaal. As the post above by ggo665 points out, the silhouettes standing by the ship are recognizable portraits of Thane and Mordin from Mass Effect 2. Since we're pretty sure the next Mass Effect will be some sort of follow-up to the original trilogy, it now makes more sense that the concept art shared back in November 2020 included character art seemingly ripped from the old games. Who else is returning? Fun fact: The Drell and Salarian silhouettes in the new artwork are just flipped versions of Thane and Mordin from the ME2 squad selection menu from r/masseffect

No need to panic yet that Hillis is being replaced in the role: it's likely that the game is still much too early to be recording voice lines.

Meanwhile, Liara's voice actor Ali Hillis said that Liara's return is news to her. We only had to speculate briefly, because Liara's face model Jillian Murray confirmed on Twitter (opens in new tab) that she'd be returning for the next Mass Effect game. How did we know it was Liara? She's the only Asari seen in the series with eyebrows and freckles. As the teaser dropped during The Game Awards, we initially began speculating that the mystery Asari is indeed Liara, one of Commander Shepard's companions in the first three games (and the Shadow Broker, via a fantastic bit of Mass Effect 2 DLC).
