Rumor: Fans uncover Mass Effect 3 single-player DLC plans

A partial script purportedly hidden in the new "Extended Cut" DLC seems to indicate another piece of single-player content coming, focusing on saving a scientist from a Reaper colony.

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So far, the vast majority of Mass Effect 3 downloadable content has been for the multiplayer. But in a primarily single-player game, it only makes sense that BioWare had plans to produce new story content too. That may have been put to the side to focus on the recently released Extended Cut ending, but now that it's out of the way fans seem to have uncovered plans for a new story mission. Spoilers follow.

A partial script was uncovered in the Extended Cut download, by a user on the BioWare forums (via Eurogamer). The rumored content is called "Leviathan," and has Shepard rescuing a scientist named Ann Brynson from a mining facility. The facility is controlled by a Reaper named Leviathan, a defector from the Reaper group who killed one of its own kind. It also mentions the Reapers' creators, a clear call-back to the ending. Shepard's actions can save Brynson's life, and seemingly bring Leviathan to join in the fight against the Reapers as a War Asset.

The name "Leviathan" has come up as a presumably derelict ship in the first Mass Effect, and then was said to be inadvertently reactivated by batarians. You know those batarians, always reawakening sentient killer spaceships.

As Eurogamer points out, producer Mike Gamble hinted at more DLC to come last night with a tweet that read, "As i've said before,we do this for you! EC was our gift to the fans.Hope you enjoyed. Also...keep your ears open over the next little while."

An EA representative told Shacknews, "We don't comment on rumors or speculation."

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    June 27, 2012 8:30 AM

    Steve Watts posted a new article, Rumor: Fans uncover Mass Effect 3 single-player DLC plans.

    A partial script purportedly hidden in the new "Extended Cut" DLC seems to indicate another piece of single-player content coming, focusing on saving a scientist from a Reaper colony.

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      June 27, 2012 10:19 AM

      Ah yes, "reapers". We have dismissed that claim.

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      June 27, 2012 10:25 AM

      Ah, Batarians. The fugly butt-monkeys of Mass Effect that nobody cries for.

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      June 27, 2012 10:31 AM

      Bolo Santosi is going to make an appearance? AWESOME.

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      June 27, 2012 10:31 AM

      Story question, what's the point after the endings? I mean who wants to play a DLC where you save some insignificant guy when the universe basically resets with the endings.

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      June 27, 2012 10:56 AM

      I would play this.

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      June 27, 2012 11:44 AM

      Would rather have more multiplayer mode maps instead of a one-and-done story DLC, but...more Mass Effect is always good.

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      June 27, 2012 12:28 PM

      I bet one of the other DLCs will have you playing as Coats as he fights through London.

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