'Mass Effect Andromeda' release date news: Protagonist's father takes center stage in new trailer; launch delay possible

Days before the N7 Day, Bioware released a new trailer for "Mass Effect Andromeda," which once again focuses on the father of the main protagonist Ryder in the game.

However, this morsel of detail was not revealed immediately as the information emerged only after creative director Mac Walters was asked by a fan on Twitter.

"The time has come to prepare ourselves for a future beyond the Milky Way; a future that begins 600 years from where we stand, in a time and a place among unknown stars and unseen dangers," Ryder's father said in the "Mass Effect Andromeda" trailer.

As revealed before, the protagonists of the game will be inexperienced explorers, but their father appears to know his way around explorations like this and might be of help to Ryder at some point in the game. What the "600 years" remark meant is still something that Bioware is not ready to explain just yet.

More details about "Mass Effect Andromeda" should be revealed at the N7 Day on Nov. 7. Some of the information expected to come out from there includes the release date, the names and background of the protagonists and the father and what the game is actually all about.

With regards to the release date, "Mass Effect Andromeda" is currently slated for a March 2017 release, but Electronic Arts (EA) says that this could be pushed back if needed.

EA CFO Blake Jorgensen said via PlayStation Lifestyle during the company's most recent earnings call that they can delay the game if it will cater to its improvement.

"We're willing to make moves in launch dates if we feel that it's necessary to deliver the right player experience. Our guidance assumes that Mass Effect continues to be in this [fiscal] year, but it gives us some flexibility that we might choose to move it either a week or three, or four, or five months if we have to, based on what we want to make sure in terms of delivering the right experience to the players," Jorgensen said.

"So no news on Mass Effect other that we continue to have it in our guidance and the moment that changes we'll certainly let everyone know," he continued.