The disreputably extensive elevator series in Mass Effect were a mode for BioWare to avoid loading screens. However, at a Comic-Con panel back in this year, managerial Mass Effect 2 producer Casey Hudson joked, "We have the best elevators in the industry." "The elevators were completed in ME1 so we didn't have to illustrate boring loading screens," wrote connect programmer Thomas Roy in recent ME2 authorized message board post.