Mass Effect 5 would have let players generate alternate timelines based on their choices in previous games, according to the series' technical director

The more information that dribbles out from BioWare's cancelled Mass Effect game, the sadder I feel about the whole sorry situation. We've already seen an in-engine trailer that introduced a new protagonist and reintroduced Liara T'Soni, and we've heard that the game was set in a 'galactic Cold War' that combined all three of Mass Effect 3 's possible endings. Now, it seems the new Mass Effect would also have had a sophisticated system for dealing with the choices players made in the original trilogy.

This is according to Mass Effect's Franchise Technical Director Romain Toutain, who ran a Twitch stream during which he provided commentary on the recently leaked trailer, offering some insight into the game that trailer was supposed to reveal (via Kotaku). Although the stream was in French, a clip was posted on Bluesky by user @loustica-lucia, who added English subtitles to Toutain's commentary.

During his stream, Toutain mentions that BioWare was working on a novel way …