Hi!

As an international fleet I would appreciate that real life time will alway additional be announced in UTC...

My time zone is MET (PST+9), so it will be 3:30 am *yawn*

I think I heard something about pre-ordering where Origin will 'pre-download' it or summat so you can start to play it right when it's released.

EU release: 23 March, 2017
NA release: 21 March, 2017

Whelp, small question about the release date. According to Origin, it is released at the 23rd of March at 12.00 AM for me. Does that mean midnight on the night from Wednesday to Thursday or midnight on the night from Thursday to Friday?

It will take some time before the data collection, analysis, and write-up are complete, but I'll try to work up a summary and post it here. :) If for some reason it escapes me, just drop me a note!

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Fantastic. Thank you! :)

That is 3.30 in the morning for me. If I'm still awake by then, I'll join :D

yes, it's in Pacific time, sorry.

Pacific time?
I might actually be able to make that!

LLAP Fleetie Darlings,

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Completed the questionnaire here too.  Hope it helps!

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Done. If you have any questions/clarifications re what I put in, feel free to PM.

Tbh, as much as I enjoy ME games and 3's multiplayer, how massively unbalanced it is between new players and established ones ruin the fun. So I'll probably give multiplayer a miss on Andromeda.

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I just found out this pc probably can run MEA decently. I immediately pre-ordered that shit! :P
Anyone care for some multiplayer once we've completed the singleplayer campaign once?

They're giving away Mass Effect 2 on Origin right now as part of their "On the House" promo. I already have Mass Effect 3 on there. Might as well have the whole series in one place.

Yeah, the Deluxe version looks like the best value to me. Only $10 more than Standard and you're only missing out on those bonus packs that seem to be for coop.

Origin is required, but, the pre-order packs with "exclusives" will be available up to the Friday after launch. So if you're one of the "I don't pre-order" or "because of Battlefront (2015) I refuse to pre-order from EA until Battlefront 2 releases" (like me) camps, then you can still buy one of those packs and not have it count as a pre-order.

I was looking at the packs anyway, and it seems like the only real difference between the second and third tiers are multiplayer "boosts". Which from what I've seen, seems to be the packages you buy in the store during Mass Effect 3's multiplayer AKA loot crates. So if that's worth an extra thirty quid to you, then go for it.

I played through all three games in December after I went through some surgery and was recovering, just to get ready for Andromeda.

Ive got my EA access membership already for the Xbox (the real and original birthplace M.E) to play my 10 hours on the 16th.
but Im mighty peed off that the European & UK (are we still in Europe?) full game comes out 2 days after America. GRRRRR!!

EA will push everything on Origin agreed, they are tight fisted.. like Google is to Microsoft

#Andromeda

Side note.. im running Mass effect 3 again just to get my juices flowing for the release.