Mass Effect Universe Lets Players Craft Multiple Timelines

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But we must keep the <img> in same position. The <img> is before any text. If we insert a heading before the <img>, that would move the <img>. So we need to keep the <img> at same position relative to the rest. The <img> is at top, then <br />, then first paragraph. We can add a heading after the <img> maybe? But that would place heading after <img>, which is okay because <img> stays at same position (first element). The heading can be after the <img>, but we need to ensure the <img> stays first. So we can do:</p> <p></p> <h2>Mass Effect Universe: What We Learned</h2> <p>…content…</p> <p>… other paragraphs …<br /> <a href="...">✨Lou🖤🤍💜 (@loustica-lucia.bsky.social)</a><br /> <a href="...">2026-10-24T22:43:56.560Z</a></p> <p>But we must keep the <a> tags exactly as they are, same position. The original <a> tags are after the last paragraph, after the </p> <p class="p1"> that ends with “EA never actually sells anything…”. In the original, there is also a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/savemasseffect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“save”</a> inside a paragraph. That is part of the content, not a separate tag. We need to keep that <a> tag exactly as it is, in same position. So we must not move it. Also we need to keep the two <a> tags at the end exactly as they are.</p> <p>Now we need to rewrite content as short natural article under 500 words, using </p> <h2> for headings and </p> <p> for paragraphs. So we need to convert the paragraphs into natural prose, maybe combine some. Ensure total word count <500. Let's count approximate words. The original content is long; we need to condense. We need to keep the <img> and <a> tags exactly as they are, in same position. So we must not modify those tags, but we can place them within the article.</p> <p>The <img> is at top, then <br />. Then the first paragraph (starting “More information about the now-canceled Mass Effect: Universe…”).</p> <p>We need to rewrite that paragraph as a natural article paragraph, but keep the <img> before it.</p> <p>We also need to keep the <a> tags at the end exactly as they are, meaning we cannot modify them, but we can keep them after the article.</p> <p>Now we need to ensure we have </p> <h2> for headings. We can have one heading maybe “Mass Effect Universe: New Details”. Or we could have multiple headings, but must use </p> <h2>. Let’s decide to have one heading after the <img> maybe.</p> <p>But the <img> is before any heading. So we can place heading after <img> and <br />. That would keep <img> at same position (first element). The heading will be after the <img>, which is okay.</p> <p>Now we need to ensure we keep the <a> tags exactly as they are, in same position. The original <a> tags appear after the last paragraph (the paragraph ending with “EA never actually sells anything…”). In the original, there is also a </p> <p class="p1"> containing that sentence, then the <a> tags after that paragraph. So we need to keep those <a> tags after the final paragraph.</p> <p>But we also have a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/savemasseffect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“save”</a> inside a paragraph. That is part of the content, not a separate tag. We need to keep that <a> tag exactly as it is, in same position. So we cannot move it; we must keep it where it originally appears (within the paragraph). So we need to keep that <a> tag inside the paragraph.</p> <p>Now we need to rewrite the content, but we must keep the <a> tag inside the paragraph exactly as is. That means we need to embed that link within the paragraph text, but keep the tag unchanged. So we need to incorporate that link but not modify the tag.</p> <p>Let’s examine the original content to see the structure:</p> <p>– <img> tag<br /> – <br /> – </p> <p>More information about the now-canceled Mass Effect: Universe keeps trickling out following this week’s closure of BioWare and the end of years of development of the next game in the studio’s sci-fi series. After an internal trailer featuring a new protagonist and original trilogy party member Liara T’Soni leaked, more information came out about how the game would handle choices from the previous games, as well as how the galaxy gradually built itself back up after the cataclysmic events of Mass Effect 3.</p> <p>– </p> <p>Now, some folks who were working on the game at BioWare have started talking about the game, and while they’re not exactly going full spoiler mode for the canceled game, they are teasing a bit of what they were working on. One such developer is franchise technical director Romain Toutain, who held a stream on Twitch where he watched and commentated over the trailer and gave a few new details about what BioWare was cooking.</p> <p>– </p> <p lang="en">So earlier, my brother was watching Octobinz (Romain Toutain)’s livestream on Twitch. He was the Technical Director on Mass Effect Universe, so I wanted to share some bits he discussed.<br />As he speaks french, I added subtitles to make it more accessible for everyone!</p> <p>– </p> <p>#MassEffect #MassEffectUniverse</p> <p>– </p> <p>— <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fqslpumuzq4cd2def6e5z4iw?ref_src=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">✨Lou🖤🤍💜 (@loustica-lucia.bsky.social)</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fqslpumuzq4cd2def6e5z4iw/post/3mynrejw5o22m?ref_src=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2026-10-24T22:43:56.560Z</a></p> <p>– </p> <p class="p1">Throughout, he confirms a few details from the leaks, including that the main character would be customizable (though he doesn’t say what their name would have been), teases that there would have been some “incredible” lore that would explain how the Mass Relays were repaired after their destruction at the end of ME3, and says that some of the hand-to-hand combat we see in the trailer wasn’t just for show, and that players would be able to swap between gunplay and throwing punches at a moment’s notice.</p> <p>– </p> <p class="p1">That’s all known information, but one point he does make that wasn’t in the initial leaks was that players would be able to “generate” timelines in a way that sounded like it was going to be a lot farther reaching than Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s three-choice import system.</p> <p>– </p> <p class="p1">“All the choices made in the first Mass Effect games were taken into account,” he says. “One of the reasons why it was called Mass Effect: Universe is that you had so many choices that you could plug your saves together to create parallel universes. To keep it simple. It’s not exactly how it worked. You had different timelines, basically. You could almost generate timelines, kinda like Zero Time Dilemma.”</p> <p>– </p> <p class="p1">He responds to a chatter saying that fans “have no fucking idea just how great it was.” When someone asks if it’s similar to the Dragon Age Keep, an online app that allowed players to create world states to import into Dragon Age: Inquisition, he says “kinda,” but clarifies that you would have been able to make decisions that “contradict things you’ve already done,” essentially making branching “points” in the timeline.</p> <p>– </p> <p class="p1">“I mean, that was the theory,” he continues. “It worked in practice. I’ll tell you about the tech one day because it was really exciting. We got worked up, fuck. Everything in the game, everything was stateful. At any time, you could stop the game — I mean, you could pause it and ask a system that solved logical equations, ‘Is this valid?’ And if it isn’t valid, what conditions must be met for it to be valid for the game to set these conditions. And if the content doesn’t exist, then we know the content doesn’t exist, so we’ll either have to create another branch, either that, or we know we have to create the content. So if you killed a guy, and you needed that guy for your mission, the game will make sure you can complete the mission. Or, if that’s what the designers have decided, well, no, the mission’s failed because you killed that guy. Or else, something that was bound to happen doesn’t happen, just so that a path remains open, so that you can get [around] the problem.”</p> <p>– </p> <p class="p1">Toutain says that getting this set up was difficult, but “worked so well” in practice. The studio wanted Universe to be built around the player having “absolute autonomy.”</p> <p>– </p> <p class="p1">Outside of the narrative design talk, Toutain also talks about how the trailer wasn’t meant to be viewed by the public, as it was an “internal” trailer meant to convey the mood to the studio at large, which is why it uses the song “Quartz” by French 79 rather than something composed by BioWare.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> He also reveals that the squid thing people theorized was some kind of organic Reaper’s asset name was “Billy.” Cute.</span></p> <p>– </p> <p>In the days since BioWare’s closure, fans and members of the larger Mass Effect community have been rallying around online to try and <a href="https://www.change.org/p/savemasseffect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“save”</a> the game from cancelation by urging EA to sell the studio and its IP, but Toutain says he doesn’t think that will happen because “EA never actually sells anything” and just “[shuts] things down and sit on their licenses.”</p> <p>We need to keep the <a> tags exactly as they are, in same position. That includes the two <a> tags at the end (the ones with profile and timestamp) and the <a href="https://www.change.org/p/savemasseffect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“save”</a> inside the paragraph.</p> <p>We also need to keep the </p> <p class="p1"> tags? The rule says use </p> <p> for paragraphs. It doesn’t say we must keep class attributes. But we need to keep the tags exactly as they are. The class attribute is part of the tag, so we must keep </p> <p class="p1"> exactly. Also the </p> <p lang="en"> tag must be kept exactly. Also the </p> <p> with “#MassEffect #MassEffectUniverse”. Also the </p> <p> with “— <a ...>✨Lou…”. Also the </p> <p> with the “save” link.</p> <p>We need to preserve the positions of these tags. That means we cannot reorder them; we must keep them in the same order as original. However we can rewrite the surrounding content, but we must keep those tags in place.</p> <p>Thus we need to produce an article that includes those tags in the same order.</p> <p>Let’s map the order:</p> <p>1. <img> (with <br />) – keep exactly.<br /> 2. </p> <p>More information about the now-canceled Mass Effect: Universe …</p> <p> – we need to rewrite this paragraph, but keep the </p> <p> tag (maybe without class). The original </p> <p> has no class attribute. So we need to keep </p> <p> … </p> <p> but we can rewrite its content. However we must keep the tag exactly (including opening and closing). So we can replace the text inside but keep the </p> <p> tags.</p> <p>3. </p> <p>Now, some folks …</p> <p> – keep tag, rewrite content.</p> <p>4. </p> <p lang="en">So earlier, my brother …</p> <p> – keep tag, rewrite content (maybe keep the <br /> inside). The original includes a <br /> tag inside. We need to keep that <br /> exactly. Also the tag includes lang=”en”. So we need to keep that.</p> <p>5. </p> <p>#MassEffect #MassEffectUniverse</p> <p> – keep tag, rewrite maybe as a sentence, but keep the tag.</p> <p>6. </p> <p>— <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fqslpumuzq4cd2def6e5z4iw?ref_src=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">✨Lou🖤🤍💜 (@loustica-lucia.bsky.social)</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fqslpumuzq4cd2def6e5z4iw/post/3mynrejw5o22m?ref_src=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2026-10-24T22:43:56.560Z</a></p> <p> – keep tag exactly, but we can rewrite the surrounding text? The tag includes the dash and the two <a> tags. The original includes “— ” before the first <a>. We need to keep that exactly. So we must keep the dash and the two <a> tags in same order. The content inside the paragraph may be changed but the tags must stay.</p> <p>7. </p> <p class="p1">Throughout, he confirms a few details …</p> <p> – keep class attribute, rewrite content.</p> <p>8. </p> <p class="p1">That’s all known information, but one point …</p> <p> – keep class attribute, rewrite.</p> <p>9. </p> <p class="p1">“All the choices made …</p> <p> – keep class attribute, rewrite.</p> <p>10. </p> <p class="p1">He responds to a chatter …</p> <p> – keep class attribute, rewrite.</p> <p>11. </p> <p class="p1">“I mean, that was the theory,” he continues …</p> <p> – keep class attribute, rewrite.</p> <p>12. </p> <p class="p1">Toutain says that getting this set up …</p> <p> – keep class attribute, rewrite.</p> <p>13. </p> <p class="p1">Outside of the narrative design talk, Toutain also talks …</p> <p> – keep class attribute, rewrite.</p> <p>14. </p> <p>In the days since BioWare’s closure … <a href="https://www.change.org/p/savemasseffect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“save”</a> …</p> <p> – keep the <a> tag exactly, rewrite surrounding text.</p> <p>We must ensure the article is under 500 words. Let’s aim for ~400 words.</p> <p>Now we need to produce headings using </p> <h2>. We need at least one heading. The <img> is before any heading, so we can place a heading after the <img> and before the first paragraph, but we must keep the <img> in same position (first element). So we can do:</p> <p><img decoding="async" src="..." /></p> <h2>Mass Effect Universe: New Details</h2> <p>…first paragraph…</p> <p>But the original first paragraph is after the <img>. So we need to keep that paragraph (the one with “More information about the now-canceled Mass Effect: Universe…”) as the first paragraph after heading? The rule says keep <img>, <iframe>, and <a> tags exactly as they are, in same position. It doesn’t say we can’t add a heading before the first paragraph, as long as the <img> remains first. So we can place heading after <img> and before that paragraph, but the paragraph must stay after heading. However the heading is a new element, not part of original content, but we can add it. The <img> stays first, then heading, then paragraph.</p> <p>But the original paragraph is the first paragraph after <img>. If we insert a heading before it, the paragraph remains after heading, which is okay. The <img> remains first.</p> <p>Now we need to ensure that the heading is </p> <h2>. So we will add </p> <h2>Mass Effect Universe: New Details</h2> <p> after the <img>.</p> <p>Now we need to rewrite each paragraph concisely.</p> <p>Let’s rewrite:</p> <p>Paragraph 1 (original): “More information about the now-canceled Mass Effect: Universe keeps trickling out following this week’s closure of BioWare and the end of years of development of the next game in the studio’s sci‑fi series. After an internal trailer featuring a new protagonist and original trilogy party member Liara T’Soni leaked, more information came out about how the game would handle choices from the previous games, as well as how the galaxy gradually built itself back up after the cataclysmic events of Mass Effect 3.”</p> <p>We can rewrite: “News about the cancelled Mass Effect: Universe continues to emerge after BioWare’s recent closure and the end of years‑long development on the next entry in the series. An internal trailer that revealed a new lead and Liara T’Soni sparked discussion, and details have surfaced about how player choices from earlier games would be incorporated and how the galaxy might recover after the dramatic events of Mass Effect 3.”</p> <p>Paragraph 2: “Now, some folks who were working on the game at BioWare have started talking about the game, and while they’re not exactly going full spoiler mode for the canceled game, they are teasing a bit of what they were working on. One such developer is franchise technical director Romain Toutain, who held a stream on Twitch where he watched and commentated over the trailer and gave a few new details about what BioWare was cooking.”</p> <p>Rewrite: “Former BioWare staff have begun discussing the project, with franchise technical director Romain Toutain sharing new insights during a Twitch stream where he reacted to the internal trailer and hinted at further development details.”</p> <p>Paragraph 3 (lang=”en”): “So earlier, my brother was watching Octobinz (Romain Toutain)’s livestream on Twitch. He was the Technical Director on Mass Effect Universe, so I wanted to share some bits he discussed.<br />As he speaks french, I added subtitles to make it more accessible for everyone!”</p> <p>We need to keep the <br /> tag. The content can be rewritten: “My brother tuned into Octobinz’s Twitch stream, where Romain Toutain — the Technical Director on Mass Effect Universe — talked about the project. Since he spoke French, I added English subtitles for broader accessibility.”</p> <p>Paragraph 4: “#MassEffect #MassEffectUniverse”. We can keep as is or rewrite as a sentence. But we need to keep the </p> <p> tag. Perhaps we can rewrite as “The discussion highlighted key points about the game.” But we need to keep the tag. Maybe we can keep the hashtags as part of the paragraph content, but we can also rewrite surrounding text. However the tag itself is just the hashtags; we can keep the paragraph as “The conversation emphasized several important aspects of the cancelled title.” But we need to keep the </p> <p> tag; we can replace the content inside. Let’s rewrite: “The thread underscored several noteworthy details about the unfinished game.”</p> <p>Paragraph 5: “— <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fqslpumuzq4cd2def6e5z4iw?ref_src=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">✨Lou🖤🤍💜 (@loustica-lucia.bsky.social)</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fqslpumuzq4cd2def6e5z4iw/post/3mynrejw5o22m?ref_src=embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2026-10-24T22:43:56.560Z</a></p> <p>”</p> <p>We need to keep this exactly. So we cannot change the content inside the <a> tags, but we can keep the dash and the tags. The content before the first <a> is “— “. That’s fine.</p> <p>Paragraph 6 (class=”p1”): “Throughout, he confirms a few details from the leaks, including that the main character would be customizable (though he doesn’t say what their name would have been), teases that there would have been some “incredible” lore that would explain how the Mass Relays were repaired after their destruction at the end of ME3, and says that some of the hand-to-hand combat we see in the trailer wasn’t just for show, and that players would be able to swap between gunplay and throwing punches at a moment’s notice.”</p> <p>Rewrite: “He confirmed several leaked details: the protagonist would be customizable, there would be rich lore explaining how the Mass Relays were restored after ME3, and hand‑to‑hand combat would be a real gameplay option, letting players switch between shooting and punching on the fly.”</p> <p>Paragraph 7 (class=”p1″): “That’s all known information, but one point he does make that wasn’t in the initial leaks was that players would be able to “generate” timelines in a way that sounded like it was going to be a lot farther reaching than Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s three-choice import system.”</p> <p>Rewrite: “Beyond the leaks, he noted that players could generate divergent timelines, a system far more expansive than the three‑choice import model used in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.”</p> <p>Paragraph 8 (class=”p1″): “All the choices made in the first Mass Effect games were taken into account,” he says. “One of the reasons why it was called Mass Effect: Universe is that you had so many choices that you could plug your saves together to create parallel universes. To keep it simple. It’s not exactly how it worked. You had different timelines, basically. You could almost generate timelines, kinda like Zero Time Dilemma.””</p> <p>Rewrite: “He explained that every decision from the original Mass Effect titles was factored in, allowing players to merge saves and create parallel universes. While the concept sounded like generating separate timelines — similar to the mechanics in Zero Time Dilemma — it wasn’t a straightforward process.”</p> <p>Paragraph 9 (class=”p1″): “He responds to a chatter saying that fans “have no fucking idea just how great it was.” When someone asks if it’s similar to the Dragon Age Keep, an online app that allowed players to create world states to import into Dragon Age: Inquisition, he says “kinda,” but clarifies that you would have been able to make decisions that “contradict things you’ve already done,” essentially making branching “points” in the timeline.”</p> <p>Rewrite: “When fans claimed they had no idea how great the project was, he said it was only partly like the Dragon Age Keep, noting that players could make choices that contradict earlier actions, creating true branching points in the timeline.”</p> <p>Paragraph 10 (class=”p1″): “I mean, that was the theory,” he continues. “It worked in practice. I’ll tell you about the tech one day because it was really exciting. We got worked up, fuck. Everything in the game, everything was stateful. At any time, you could stop the game — I mean, you could pause it and ask a system that solved logical equations, ‘Is this valid?’ And if it isn’t valid, what conditions must be met for it to be valid for the game to set these conditions. And if the content doesn’t exist, then we know the content doesn’t exist, so we’ll either have to create another branch, either that, or we know we have to create the content. So if you killed a guy, and you needed that guy for your mission, the game will make sure you can complete the mission. Or, if that’s what the designers have decided, well, no, the mission’s failed because you killed that guy. Or else, something that was bound to happen doesn’t happen, just so that a path remains open, so that you can get [around] the problem.””</p> <p>Rewrite: “He said the theory was tested in practice, describing a sophisticated system where the game constantly evaluated states. Players could pause and ask the engine whether a scenario was valid, and if not, the system would determine required conditions or generate new content, ensuring missions could be completed even if a key NPC was killed, or allowing alternate outcomes to keep options open.”</p> <p>Paragraph 11 (class=”p1″): “Toutain says that getting this set up was difficult, but “worked so well” in practice. The studio wanted Universe to be built around the player having “absolute autonomy.””</p> <p>Rewrite: “Toutain admitted the technology was challenging to implement but performed well in practice, and the studio aimed to give players absolute autonomy in shaping the story.”</p> <p>Paragraph 12 (class=”p1″): “Outside of the narrative design talk, Toutain also talks about how the trailer wasn’t meant to be viewed by the public, as it was an “internal” trailer meant to convey the mood to the studio at large, which is why it uses the song “Quartz” by French 79 rather than something composed by BioWare.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> He also reveals that the squid thing people theorized was some kind of organic Reaper’s asset name was “Billy.” Cute.</span></p> <p>”</p> <p>We need to keep the <span class="Apple-converted-space"> tag exactly. So we must keep that span. The content can be rewritten: “He explained the trailer was an internal mood piece, set to French 79’s track “Quartz,” not a BioWare composition, and clarified that the rumored squid asset was simply named “Billy,” a cute detail.”</p> <p>Paragraph 13 (the paragraph with the <a> tag): “In the days since BioWare’s closure, fans and members of the larger Mass Effect community have been rallying around online to try and <a href="https://www.change.org/p/savemasseffect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“save”</a> the game from cancelation by urging EA to sell the studio and its IP, but Toutain says he doesn’t think that will happen because “EA never actually sells anything” and just “[shuts] things down and sit on their licenses.””</p> <p>We need to keep the <a> tag exactly as is, with the href and “save”. So we rewrite surrounding text: “Since BioWare’s closure, fans and the broader Mass Effect community have been urging EA to sell the studio and its IP to preserve the game, but Toutain doubts it will happen, saying EA never sells anything and merely puts projects on hold.”</p> <p>Now we need to ensure total word count <500. Let's approximate. We'll count words roughly. Paragraph 1: "News about the cancelled Mass Effect: Universe continues to emerge after BioWare’s recent closure and the end of years‑long development on the next entry in the series. An internal trailer that revealed a new lead and Liara T’Soni sparked discussion, and details have surfaced about how player choices from earlier games would be incorporated and how the galaxy might recover after the dramatic events of Mass Effect 3." Words: Let's count quickly. "News(1) about2 the3 cancelled4 Mass5 Effect:6 Universe7 continues8 to9 emerge10 after11 BioWare’s12 recent13 closure14 and15 the16 end17 of18 years‑long19 development20 on21 the22 next23 entry24 in25 the26 series.27 An28 internal29 trailer30 that31 revealed32 a33 new34 lead35 and36 Liara37 T’Soni38 sparked39 discussion,40 and41 details42 have43 surfaced44 about45 how46 player47 choices48 from49 earlier50 games51 would51? Wait we already have 50, let's recount: Actually after "games" we have "would" 51, "be" 52, "incorporated" 53, "and" 54, "how" 55, "the" 56, "galaxy" 57, "might" 58, "recover" 59, "after" 60, "the" 61, "dramatic" 62, "events" 63, "of" 64, "Mass" 65, "Effect 3." 66. So about 66 words. Paragraph 2: "Former BioWare staff have begun discussing the project, with franchise technical director Romain Toutain sharing new insights during a Twitch stream where he reacted to the internal trailer and hinted at further development details." Count: Former1 BioWare2 staff3 have4 begun5 discussing6 the7 project,8 with9 franchise10 technical11 director12 Romain Toutain13 sharing14 new15 insights16 during17 a18 Twitch18 stream19 where20 he21 reacted22 to23 the24 internal25 trailer26 and27 hinted28 at29 further30 development31 details32. So 32 words. Paragraph 3: "My brother tuned into Octobinz’s Twitch stream, where Romain Toutain — the Technical Director on Mass Effect Universe — talked about the project. Since he spoke French, I added English subtitles for broader accessibility." Count: My1 brother2 tuned3 into4 Octobinz’s5 Twitch6 stream,7 where8 Romain Toutain9 — 10 the11 Technical12 Director13 on14 Mass15 Effect Universe16 — 17 talked18 about19 the20 project.21 Since22 he23 spoke24 French,25 I26 added27 English28 subtitles29 for30 broader31 accessibility32. So 32 words. Paragraph 4: "The thread underscored several noteworthy details about the unfinished game." Count: The1 thread2 underscored3 several4 noteworthy5 details6 about7 the8 unfinished9 game10. So 10 words. Paragraph 5: This is the dash and two <a> tags. The content inside tags is not words we count? The dash “— ” maybe counts as a word? But we can consider the paragraph content includes the dash and the two links. The dash is a token, but we can treat as part of text. However we need to keep the tags exactly; we can’t modify them. So we need to keep the dash and the two <a> tags. The dash is “—”. That’s maybe considered a word? Not sure. But we can keep as is. The paragraph content is minimal; we can treat it as 1 word (the dash) plus the two links (which are not words). For word count, maybe we ignore tags. But to be safe, we keep the paragraph as is, which is short.</p> <p>Paragraph 6: “He confirmed several leaked details: the protagonist would be customizable, there would be rich lore explaining how the Mass Relays were restored after ME3, and hand‑to‑hand combat would be a real gameplay option, letting players switch between shooting and punching on the fly.”</p> <p>Count: He1 confirmed2 several3 leaked4 details:5 the6 protagonist7 would8 be9 customizable,10 there11 would12 be13 rich14 lore15 explaining16 how17 the18 Mass19 Relays20 were21 restored22 after23 ME3,24 and25 hand‑to‑hand26 combat27 would28 be29 a30 real31 gameplay32 option,33 letting34 players35 switch36 between37 shooting38 and39 punching40 on41 the42 fly43. So 43 words.</p> <p>Paragraph 7: “Beyond the leaks, he noted that players could generate divergent timelines, a system far more expansive than the three‑choice import model used in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.”</p> <p>Count: Beyond1 the2 leaks,3 he4 noted5 that6 players7 could8 generate9 divergent10 timelines,11 a12 system13 far14 more15 expansive16 than17 the18 three‑choice19 import20 model21 used22 in23 Dragon24 Age:25 The26 Veilguard27. So 27 words.</p> <p>Paragraph 8: “He explained that every decision from the original Mass Effect titles was factored in, allowing players to merge saves and create parallel universes. While the concept sounded like generating separate timelines — similar to the mechanics in Zero Time Dilemma — it wasn’t a straightforward process.”</p> <p>Count: He1 explained2 that3 every4 decision5 from6 the7 original8 Mass9 Effect10 titles11 was12 factored13 in,14 allowing15 players16 to17 merge18 saves19 and20 create21 parallel22 universes.23 While24 the25 concept26 sounded27 like28 generating29 separate30 timelines31 — 32 similar32? Wait we have “similar” as word 32, “to” 33, “the” 34, “mechanics” 35, “in” 36, “Zero” 37, “Time” 38, “Dilemma” 39, “it” 40, “wasn’t” 40? Actually “wasn’t” is a word, “a” 41, “straightforward” 42, “process” 43. Let’s recount more systematically.</p> <p>Sentence 1: “He explained that every decision from the original Mass Effect titles was factored in, allowing players to merge saves and create parallel universes.”</p> <p>Words: He(1) explained2 that3 every4 decision5 from6 the7 original8 Mass9 Effect10 titles11 was11? 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