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[LPPrince]

Some more information about our Local Group(including Andromeda)

 

[Zeppex]

On the Science channel on one of their space shows it was stated that supposedly the Andromeda and Milky Way are on a collision course.  Maybe we will have to prevent that from happening.

[LPPrince]

On the Science channel on one of their space shows it was stated that supposedly the Andromeda and Milky Way are on a collision course.  Maybe we will have to prevent that from happening.

 

Not likely. The Andromeda/Milky Way collision is to occur close to 4 billion years from now. Only way there's a plot to prevent it is if something in-game hastens it and it means doom for the Helios cluster.

[A Clever Name]

Looking at these pictures really reminds you of how far technology has come in such a short time.

 

Here's a picture of the Andromeda Galaxy taken in 1995.

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Now compare it to this one from 2015.

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The sheer amount of detail just blows me away.  Even the photograph from 1995 is fairly crisp!  You can make out a lot of the dust lanes, but it's harder to see the individual star clusters on the older image.  Today, though, we can discover so much more.

 

Putting in my vote that this "Helios Cluster" is NGC 206.  It's the brightest cluster of stars located in the Andromeda Galaxy that you can see from Earth.  Fitting for our trailer, it is also located in the southwestern region of M31.  Space cowboys indeed.  

 

Some obligatory pic spam of NGC 206 since I mentioned it, and the OP was generous enough to share beautiful photographs I could add to my space folder.

 

NGC 206 is located dead center in this photograph.

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This one points out several open and globular star clusters within the vicinity.

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Last one, I swear!

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[LPPrince]

I'd love to know if this image from the trailer tells us anything(probably doesn't).

 

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[LightningPoodle]

I'd love to know if this image from the trailer tells us anything(probably doesn't).

 

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Purple! Purple is my favourite colour!

[LPPrince]

Purple! Purple is my favourite colour!

 

I've got color correction on my notebook so I don't even know what the actual color's supposed to be till morning. lol

[In Exile]

I'd love to know if this image from the trailer tells us anything(probably doesn't).

 

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Purple is obviously a reaper. Well, either that or two bears high-fiving, 

[LPPrince]

Purple is obviously a reaper. Well, either that or two bears high-fiving, 

 

You missed a potential Ursa Major/Ursa Minor joke.

[In Exile]

You missed a potential Ursa Major/Ursa Minor joke.

 

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[LPPrince]

/Astronomy lulz

[Lonely Heart Poet]

Suddenly I DON'T want to go to Andromeda to shoot things, just to enjoy its beauty.
I used to stand on the planets in Me1 and just watch the stars and nearby planets. Like... everyone... else. 

I am now confirmed that Andromeda is a perfect galaxy for us to visit and not just an sexy name for a new game.

[LPPrince]

Suddenly I DON'T want to go to Andromeda to shoot things, just to enjoy its beauty.
I used to stand on the planets in Me1 and just watch the stars and nearby planets. Like... everyone... else. 

I am now confirmed that Andromeda is a perfect galaxy for us to visit and not just an sexy name for a new game.

 

Goddamn, I miss the original Mass Effect's uncharted worlds solely for their vistas. I did the same thing;I'd stand there and look out into the starry night sky, admiring the color and vastness of it all.

 

Mesmerizing stuff. Best part is, its not entirely fictional;if you look for it, space can be just as beautiful as those marvelous scenes in the original game.

[In Exile]

Goddamn, I miss the original Mass Effect's uncharted worlds solely for their vistas. I did the same thing;I'd stand there and look out into the starry night sky, admiring the color and vastness of it all.

 

Mesmerizing stuff. Best part is, its not entirely fictional;if you look for it, space can be just as beautiful as those marvelous scenes in the original game.

 

I liked the concept of those vistas... but I hate, hate, hate barren worlds. Just hate. It's not that I want them to be populated - but when it's literally a lifeless rock, I don't like it. I felt the ME:A concept worlds really captured this sense of... impressive alien scale, without being generic barren rock. 

 

"Alien words" should be a license for artists and level designers to go absolutely hog wild.

[LPPrince]

I liked the concept of those vistas... but I hate, hate, hate barren worlds. Just hate. It's not that I want them to be populated - but when it's literally a lifeless rock, I don't like it. I felt the ME:A concept worlds really captured this sense of... impressive alien scale, without being generic barren rock. 

 

"Alien words" should be a license for artists and level designers to go absolutely hog wild.

 

To be fair, they were uncharted worlds. Makes sense they weren't populated or filled with life. Though I get where you're coming from.

 

Would be nice to see some Europa type stuff in Andromeda. Worlds/Satellites with the potential for life, and you get to be the one to find out if its there or not.

[In Exile]

To be fair, they were uncharted worlds. Makes sense they weren't populated or filled with life. Though I get where you're coming from.

 

Would be nice to see some Europa type stuff in Andromeda. Worlds/Satellites with the potential for life, and you get to be the one to find out if its there or not.

It's not just the lack of population... it's that they were barren rock. For example, these a barren world with fascinating rock formations. ME1 just never managed to capture this feeling for me, because of how much of the world was just either flat space to drive the Mako or basically unclimable cliffside. Basically, it's the colour and the variety in the protruding cliffs alongside the vista of space that really sells it for me. 

 

 

[LPPrince]

I don't think Andromeda will have that problem. Learning from the past and all that. As for the real Andromeda, we don't have a bloody clue. 

[Lonely Heart Poet]

My favorite part of ME1 was the Luna mission where the AI had gone rogue. Never ever felt that alone or somehow scared before (ok I did have two silent comrades with me).  I was alone in the space with a mad computer who had killed everyone around her.
And it felt right, like a real scenario, something what would really happen in the near future if we discover big things and take too long steps too fast, create unreliable and untested technic for the sake of our security in an alien enviroment.

That was the moment when the enviroment and the mission felt whole. In a reasonable way. I´m waiting something like that to happen in Andromeda. That the missions makes sense in a historical  and realistical way. That we really need to survive in a new world. That we have to trust unknown and take big risks in the wilderness. And sense the loneliness.

( I´m sorry my horrible english. Hopefully it gets better when I get used to it here.)

[Duelist]

It's not just the lack of population... it's that they were barren rock. For example, these a barren world with fascinating rock formations. ME1 just never managed to capture this feeling for me, because of how much of the world was just either flat space to drive the Mako or basically unclimable cliffside. Basically, it's the colour and the variety in the protruding cliffs alongside the vista of space that really sells it for me.

While I agree completely about ME1's planets, the one thing I did like about them was that they were great for sniping (even if the shooting mechanics were s***.)

I'm hoping for more high spots where I can pick fools off.

[shepskisaac]

Nobody cares about Triangulum(M33). lol

It's just as cool as attention-whoring MW and Andromeda!

[Undead Han]

It's not just the lack of population... it's that they were barren rock. For example, these a barren world with fascinating rock formations. ME1 just never managed to capture this feeling for me, because of how much of the world was just either flat space to drive the Mako or basically unclimable cliffside. Basically, it's the colour and the variety in the protruding cliffs alongside the vista of space that really sells it for me. 

 

 

 

 

 

Hopefully with this next game that won't be an issue. It would be awesome if for example the game sent you to some lifeless frozen world, but off in the distance there was an active cryovolcano.

 

Besides interesting rock or ice formations, there is lots of cool and weird stuff in space that could make the barren worlds interesting.

[daveliam]

As a former high school science teacher, I approve this thread!

 

[Catastrophy]

It's.. it's full of stars!

[Catastrophy]

 

Hopefully with this next game that won't be an issue. It would be awesome if for example the game sent you to some lifeless frozen world, but off in the distance there was an active cryovolcano.

 

Besides interesting rock or ice formations, there is lots of cool and weird stuff in space that could make the barren worlds interesting.

Indeed, with a bit of imagination you can create the weirdest stuff about ice world's - not just ice and snowflakes.

 

I'd like to see a planetary ice ring in decaying orbit where part of it has already begun to deorbit into atmosphere.

[LPPrince]

It's just as cool as attention-whoring MW and Andromeda!

 

NUH UH