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BioWare Teases Mass Effect 2 "Arrival" DLC With Screens

It hasn't been announced yet, but now the rumor is being embraced.

It’s hard to tell if BioWare actually wanted details of its final bit of Mass Effect 2 DLC to get out before the studio announced it, but it’s plain that the studio is embracing the “leak.” On Monday, a screenshot of the content, dubbed “Arrival,” appeared on the game’s official Facebook page. A second image has since been shared with the promise of a third to hit this afternoon if it secures 750,000 impressions. Neither image reveals too much, but I’d imagine those numbers on the latter says something meaningful to someone:  
 

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The word on the street is that Arrival has something to do with Shepard answering a distress call during an Alliance and Batarian Hegemony conflict nestled somewhere in the Viper Nebula. Previous entries on the Cerberus Daily News seemingly back this setting up. 

Rumor of Arrival and its content arose from the PS3 version of ME2. Once patched, the game teased the content with three mysterious Arrival trophies. The PC version’s “Alternate Appearance Pack 2” DLC also has some details packed within its TLK files. Destructoid has an awesome post with all the contents of the files, but be warned, there are spoilers inside the various dialogue snippets and codex stuff within.

Since there’s no word on Arrival’s actual existence, I’ve no release date for you. But, if you remember, Cerberus Daily News will end its hiatus for a total of five weeks in 2011, one week of which will “precede a downloadable content” release. If you keep staring at that computer monitor on the game’s main screen, all day, every day, you may just get a heads up before too long.

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@LibraryDues said:

" Would they really put an event as huge in the Mass Effect story as the arrival of the Reapers in a DLC?  Kinda curious about this one. "

Since it's meant to bridge 2 and 3, I'd guess this is where we (as in Shepard and Co.) get confirmation that the Reapers are indeed on the verge of invasion.
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I just hope Ashley/Kaiden will play a part in there somewhere, via the Alliance joining the fray to help save the Doctor.

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I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite store.

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I just wish that Bioware wouldn't have made the main plot so epic...a little to epic for my taste. Otherwise, Mass Effect 2 is a great game. Looking forward to this DLC.

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@pyromaster222 said:
" What is the longest a game has been supplemented with DLC? "
I'm pretty sure Team Fortress 2 would take the crown. Released 2007 and still supported with DLC by Valve.
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Mass Effect 2 is the only game I've bought all the DLC for, still have to do Lair of the Shadow Broker though. Getting some more DLC for this great title can only be a good thing. Even if some of it's DLC was (way too) short.

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@Eoth said:
" Mass Effect 2 is the only game I've bought all the DLC for, still have to do Lair of the Shadow Broker though. Getting some more DLC for this great title can only be a good thing. Even if some of it's DLC was (way too) short. "
Same, I bought all the DLC for it. 
 
The only other game I've done this for is the Assassins Creed series 
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Already got the points; nnow put it on the store....

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@2HeadedNinja said:
" @pyromaster222 said:
" What is the longest a game has been supplemented with DLC? "
I'm pretty sure Team Fortress 2 would take the crown. Released 2007 and still supported with DLC by Valve. "
True, but a lot of the TF2 DLC is shit. Yay a new headband. :S
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304,942 = # of Reapers?

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Man just release ME3... I am kinda done with ME2. I hope this DLC isn't a major story event...

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Am I the only one who got a flier for The Arrival in my copy of Dragon Age 2? Just a little thing that shows a planet (Earth?) on fire, the N7 logo and the words THE ARRIVAL on it.
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@AndyPhifer said:
" Am I the only one who got a flier for The Arrival in my copy of Dragon Age 2? Just a little thing that shows a planet (Earth?) on fire, the N7 logo and the words THE ARRIVAL on it. "
Nope. Came with all DA2 games.
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I want this, i want ME3... now!

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TELL ME ABOUT THE NUMBERS!

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Announced on the Mass Effect 2 Facebook page, with screens- Check it! :D