It’s been ten years since the release of Mass Effect 3 but it’s only now that players can finally navigate their way to the elusive Mars rover Easter egg. That’s courtesy of the specific developer who himself put it there. Former BioWare designer Richard Boisvert recently popped in on Reddit to reveal the exact path of how to get to the Mars rover Easter egg.
Interestingly, it had taken 9 years for the Easter egg to get discovered in the first place. A Reddit user had employed a free camera mod to find it. But now, anyone playing Mass Effect 3 can follow the simple map outlined by Boisvert to get to the rover. And finding it through this method is a bonus since the rover will drive towards you, look up and nod.
“10 years ago I put an easter egg in the mars mission of ME3, and as far as I know no one ever stumbled upon it. At the beginning of the mars mission, feel free to walk through the nearby solar panel array in the following way to see it,” Boisvert wrote in this Reddit post.
A user by the name of Tuskin38 was able to confirm this sometime later by posting a gallery worth of screenshots. “There’s a little rover over behind some rocks, when you walk that path, it drives over to the edge of the cliff, looks up and nods at you,” they wrote.
Mass Effect 3 was released in 2013 and acted as an end to the much-loved trilogy. It was followed up by a standalone sequel, Mass Effect: Andromeda which didn’t receive as much love as the earlier games. The main trilogy was recently released as part of a remastered version called Mass Effect: Legendary Edition.