BioWare keen on more Mass Effect DLC

By Robert Purchese Published 11 August, 2008

Zeschuk drops hints like he drops rats.

BioWare "is looking at" more downloadable content for Mass Effect, according to final boss Greg Zeschuk.

"We're also looking at some other post-release content," Zeschuk told MTV Multiplayer. "We're working away. BioWare's pretty busy these days.

"We're talking about that. You know how we are," he added, when asked directly about DLC.

"We're always very circumspect until we can go 'Aha! There it is!' With everything we build now, we want to have this long-term relationship with the customer and always have something for them to try. So we're definitely looking at that for Mass Effect."

Bring Down The Sky, the first downloadable addition for Mass Effect, offered an optional side quest for 400 Microsoft Points (GBP 3.40 / EUR 4.80), but failed to impress when it came out in March.

Bring Down The Sky was also recently released free for the PC version of Mass Effect.

BioWare is, of course, hard at work on (so far) PC-exclusive role-playing game Dragon Age, as well as a second instalment in the Mass Effect trilogy. Busy bees.

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Comments (19) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Xerx3s #1 4 years ago

    ME2 and that new DLC better be a shitload better than that first pos that they produced under EA or they are going to have a problem.

  • Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #2 4 years ago

    Mass Effect was really good, although not quite the masterpiece we'd all been expecting (bit too much running around, not enough adventuring). Bring Down... was alright, but nothing special, and not really anything we didn't get in the main game. Hopefully the new DLC would be a lot bigger, and hopefully ME2 will rectify the problems with the first game. Such as the lifts ;-)

  • Xerx3s #3 4 years ago

    I'll be having an eye out for DA. It should be an indicator of what we can expect from bioware from now on.

  • Retroid #4 4 years ago

    I loved Mass Effect despite its flaws (indenti-kit side missions) because it just got SO MUCH right with getting a sci-fi universe which felt complete and very well-realised. Hell, the end hour or so of ME is one of the best game endings I've ever seen!

    If they can fix the minor issues with the sequel (and provide more good DLC for the first) I'd be more than happy with it.

  • menage #5 4 years ago

    @Retrod

    I agree, that ending is fantastic.

    ME2 with HD install should fix a lot of issues, my major issue being having to buy another HD:p

    @Xerxes

    You mean the pos that's bringing down the sky or the whole game?

    having just completed BDTS last week (after reading revelation and getting the vibe again) I must say I had fun, but it
    was a bit uneventful.
    Edited by 1 at 11/08/08 @ 10:34

  • Jabbaa #6 4 years ago

    Mass Effect definately needed more individual locations for the side missions. Why is it always the same cargo ship or mineshaft with different crates. They should have done it like oblivion where they had bits like corridors and rooms that were all generic but could be combined in different ways (like space hulk or hero quest), made it a lot more varied looking. Just minor thing tho, still enjoyed the game, looking forward to the neext 1, hope its not years and years till it shows up.

  • penhalion #7 4 years ago

    The side missions should have been meaningful to the main game. Instead they were a collection of random planets with bases that contained nothing useful. It should have been stuff like say picking up a distress signal and getting a new crew member as a reward or coming to a colonies aid only to have your ship hijacked etc. etc.


    I guess what I'm saying is there should have been some imagination to the missions.

  • dustrat #8 4 years ago

    Can't wait for ME2! Reading Mass Effect: Ascension right now, great so far.

  • DrR0b3rts #9 4 years ago

    I'd love a micro-DLC for Mass Effect which would let me fart in the lifts when I pressed A.

  • Widge #10 4 years ago

    Hah, one thing I noticed about Mass Effect as I was playing it was the sheer amount of flogging about in the citadel after the opening section talking to people etc... a serious amount of time doing that, and while that was going on, my mind flicked back to the nigh on a million comments from people bemoaning MGS4 and its cut scenes....

  • muscleblade #11 4 years ago

    @Widge

    You dont need to talk to so many people if you dont feel like it - its possible to do the intro citadel part in under an hour.

  • Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #12 4 years ago

    Yeah, I bypassed the majority of the Citadel sort of by accident, and therefore never got the Completionist achievement :-(

    Least there are incentives for completing it more than once...

  • CreepinJesus #13 4 years ago

    "...and hopefully ME2 will rectify the problems with the first game. Such as the lifts ;-) "

    And the strange sense of deja-vu whenever you're exploring side-quest planets...

  • metalangel #14 4 years ago

    Rather than another DLC, how about a patch to fix the numerous game-ruining bugs and glitches (such as the elevator on Feros, or getting stuck in the floor during the boss fight on Noveria) first?

    The Citadel reminded me of Taris in KoTOR - a huge, pointless giant city where ultimately you squandered hours of the beginning of the game for very little reward.

    And how come every box on every planet contains three guns? And why does each arms manufacturer make ten marginally better versions of the same gun?

  • JediMasterMalik #15 4 years ago

    BDTS was a massive dissappointment considering some paid for it, if they do more it better be of a higher quality.

  • Silvervein #16 4 years ago

    Perhaps it's just me, but I was disapointed with mass effect. I expected a story based game, and what I received was shooter with bare bones of narrative, serving only as justification to slay endless stream of enemies. Characters, both on player team as well as others were introduced in sketchy manner, and it was hard to develop any sort of attachement to them. While not at the level of npc squad mates from Half life 2, it wasn't much better.
    Strangely, the element I did like was planet exploration. Planets were believable and offered enough variety to keep me interested in exploration.

    All in all...I finished the game twice, put it on the shelf and I don't think I'll be coming back to it. I'd rather play kotor or kotor 2.
    All this downloadable content and long term relationship with consumer reeks of money grabbing attitude of EA, and remains in stark contrast to much less PR talk and games offering much more fun from times before bioware joined EA.

  • dacicus #17 4 years ago

    I'd rather have them to solve the bugs introduced in patch 1.01a. As for DLC, I'd rather give the modding tools to the community. They've proved more imaginative than the devs.

  • Sorbicol #18 4 years ago

    Having also just finished playing ME for the first time, I was also left with the distinct impression there was a phenomenal game in there somewhere, but it wasn't the game I was playing.

    I felt that the main story was excellent and the running length spot on, but doing the same side mission, and exploring the same planet 30 times really let it down. As did imagination in the weapon department. Didn't really have a problem with the lifts though, I just thought they were a bit pointless!

    Hopefully ME2 will keep the emphasis on the main story but work a lot harder on the side missions. I liked the premise behind bring down the sky but it added nothing to over all story arch and was a lot of slog for little reward. Ditto with the plant exploration. Fewer, longer more meaningful side missions would have made it a superb game rather than just a pretty good one.

  • metalangel #19 4 years ago

    The elevator bug basically means your party becomes trapped in a 'placeholder' elevator that doesn't go anywhere (and the button just sends you to the loading screen forever). Some people have lost everything and had to restart - myself, 12 hours of play; others on other forums, up to 40 hours worth (they did the story bits last). Bioware have known about it for the best part of a year and have done NOTHING apart from put a tiny note on their website warning you not to save you game in or near elevators as this minimises the chance of it happening (though the game autosaved me in the elevator hence I was screwed!)

    I just finished BDTS, not worth the money - making you traipse all over the planet hunting stuff down is padding, pure and simple. I'm also slogging through the last few 'normal' missions before I head for the endgame. After each planet I find myself having to spend another 20 minutes at the requisitions officer selling the dozens of worthless items and guns I've found... except even that is pointless now, as I've sold so many I've reached the maximum amount of money.

    Never mind a DLC, just concentrate on making the sequel less risible.