Don't expect a big Mass Effect reveal this week: BioWare says N7 Day will be 'quieter' than previous years

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Commander Shepard in Mass Effect 3.

We know BioWare is working on a new Mass Effect game: It’s been teasing it sinceat least 2021with cryptic tweets and video clips that, for some of us, have led more to aggravation than anticipation. Given all that, and the fact thatDragon Age: The Veilguardis now out in the wild, some fans are no doubt hoping that the next N7 Day, which is now nearly upon us, will serve up some sort of proper reveal. Alas, it almost certainly will not.

“We hope everyone is enjoying their time in Dragon Age: The Veilguard,” BioWare posted onX. “It’s only a few days until N7 Day and this year will be quieter because of launch. Be sure to check back then for a little fun, though!”

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We hope everyone is enjoying their time in #DragonAge: The Veilguard. It’s only a few days until #N7Day and this year will be quieter because of launch. Be sure to check back then for a little fun, though!

N7 Day, for those not hip to the lingo, is an annual celebration of all things Mass Effect that occurs on November 7, named after the top-tierN7 rankfor special forces in the Systems Alliance military. N7 is the only N-school (more formally the Interplanetary Combatives Training (ICT) program) designation allowed on uniforms, which is why Commander Shepard gets to run around with it plastered on their armor but you don’t see any N6 or N3 types anywhere on the scene.

N7 Day was a pretty big deal back when Mass Effect was also a big deal, but it’s been a relatively quiet affair since Mass Effect: Andromedapulled a genophageon the whole thing. In the years since, BioWare has mainly used the day to remind people that Mass Effectstill exists, and frankly it’s become a little awkward: Sooner or later you have to pull that gun off the wall and shoot someone, and BioWare’s failure to do so after so many years, as senior editor Robin Valentine wrote after 2023’s non-reveal, reflects an undeservedarrogance: “The studio is acting like it’s on a victory lap, when it should still be on its apology tour.”

(Casey Hudson dropped what could be considered thefirst teasefor a new Mass Effect on N7 Day in 2018, but then he left the studio in 2020 and is now working on his own bigsci-fi adventure, so I don’t think it counts anymore.)

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