This video should help explain things:

There’s four ark ships, plus the Nexus. One for humans, one for Turians, one for Asari, and one for Salarians.

The Tempest - the new Normandy, more or less - doesn’t actually have guns on it. :P

Ah, fair enough.

... You know, I think I’m just gonna go rewatch Zootopia instead, now.

It’s not a generation ship—they spent the trip in cryostasis. Cora served with the Commandos back in the Milky Way, before they left. These briefing videos are actually supposed to be in-universe recruitment ads/training briefings for the Andromeda Initiative, so they were all ‘recorded’ before the Arks left.

1. She technically isn’t in the military anymore. The Andromeda Initiative’s a civilian organisation.

I mainly feel for all the poor, risk-averse souls who were like, ‘Ah, Andromeda... It’ll be an adventure, but travelling to another galaxy sounds way too dangerous to me! I’ll just hang out here, nice and safe, on Earth(/Palaven/Thessia).’

Full controller support’s been confirmed, if that helps.

They left at some point between the start of Mass Effect 2 and the start of Mass Effect 3—but definitely before the Reapers show up in force. The trip takes 600 years, as you surmised.

The whole reason I even started reading that article on the Polish faction from a while back - not much of a Civ player, so I generally don’t follow the coverage - was because I was super impressed by Jadwiga’s animations in the header .gif

I thought the next Octodad sequel was called Mass Effect: Andromeda?

I just discovered that there are actual Taco Bell locations in my country. I was not prepared for this knowledge.

I won’t be the same, of course, but I’ve been getting oddly heavy Vanquish vibes from the Mass Effect: Andromeda combat gameplay they’ve put out so far.

Yup! I’ve never really been interested in the actual Infinity game, but I loved the figures—it’s such a bummer they gave up on it.

They’re already going for a ridiculous mark up, sadly. Ah well—I know it’s probably blasphemous to admit, but I was actually more excited about the other Black Series figure to come out of that fan competition... Which I now have:

... So, you think they’ll still be doing localisation work two days from release? Huh.

All this stuff, basically. Between the magazine articles, interviews and videos/trailers, they’ve actually released quite a lot—it’s just been really fragmentary, so only people who’ve been following the game’s development closely have noticed most of it.

Cheers!

What’s the battery life like? I know you can’t really expect much out of something this powerful, but since the capacity’s about as high as they could’ve possibly made it, I’m curious.