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Mass Effect: Andromeda |OT| Ryders on the Storm
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And done.
Probably won't replay it, would be open to a sequel.
I'm like 65h in and 60% done...
I'm like 65h in and 60% done...
I did everything possible in the game except 2 tasks: volatile and little mouse.
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Deleted member 752119
Unconfirmed Member
I'm still having fun. 13-14 hours in and messing around on Veold when I called it a night.
RPGCrazied
Member
So, has anyone beat the campaign yet? How's the story compared to the other Mass Effects? If its more like 1/2 I'd enjoy it.
ME2 isn't irrelevant in any way.
It's the calm before the storm of all out war, and a more personal tale that's there to get you invested in your crew so the events of 3 have more impact.
It works perfectly in that regard. It's not 2's fault that 3 fudged things.
If you skip 2 you miss a /lot/.
There's a lot of that in Andromeda. The little details. Just not up to mainline BioWare standards.
I still can't get over how little music there is. I think that has a lot to do with the atmosphere feeling off in this game.
BronsonLee
Member
I'd have to think about this, but gameplay it's definitely better than 1. Story wise it's probably last for me so far, but with the characters, everyone's pretty cool, vs the original trilogy's collection of awesome characters and totally shit characters
Fata1moose
Banned
I thought you could have different weapon loadouts for different profiles. When I equipped a shotgun with my vanguard profile, when I switched back to Adept I still had the shotgun and not my pistol. Am I missing something?
Completely agree. Music is so vital to the atmosphere in ME games and they just botched it badly with this game.
I swear, Allison may be the worst video game character I've ever witnessed. Constantly bitchy even after "proving" yourself, she is just weird as fuck with the strange dialogue that is written for her, her VO delivers said dialogue weirdly as well, and of course that STUPID face of hers as she looks at me with those dead eyes.
At least with characters like Udina they're fun to hate. This character though she is just a terrible character I'd rather not have in the game at all. Should have made that Russian guy in charge of outposts, he's pretty cool.
At least with characters like Udina they're fun to hate. This character though she is just a terrible character I'd rather not have in the game at all. Should have made that Russian guy in charge of outposts, he's pretty cool.
truestatic
Member
Favourites save profile and skill loadout ONLY. Your gear is the same regardless of swaps. If you want an infiltrator sniping profile and a vanguard shotgun profile, you're gonna need to carry both guns.
I really enjoy having Drack & Jaal in my squad, they have some interesting banter with each other. Jaal said something about having a broken heart and then Drack said he understands, then Jaal asks him about it a little later. I thought it was kinda cool to hear two battle hardened soldiers talking about stuff like that.
The Salt Life
Banned
Gotta say, big difference in visuals from going from the Xbox one version to the PS4 Pro version, the depth of field isn't as distracting.
TardisLover
Neo Member
I Must just say that I absolutely Love it,
Love exploring, Love the Graphics, Love the Humour,
34 hours in, Been on just 2 planets (I read everything and go the furthest corners of the map etc.) Should get at 100+ out of it.
Feels like Mass effect to me
I do not like the checkpoint system on the priority missions though
So for all of you who love it, you are not alone !
Love exploring, Love the Graphics, Love the Humour,
34 hours in, Been on just 2 planets (I read everything and go the furthest corners of the map etc.) Should get at 100+ out of it.
Feels like Mass effect to me
I do not like the checkpoint system on the priority missions though
So for all of you who love it, you are not alone !
harriet the spy
Member
Just to check - does this sort of run like ass on pro or is it just me? Apologies if thrrr was a debate already - I try to avoid the thread so as not to spoil myself
Nope, it's completely buggered on the pro. Absolutely no reason for it to be, but something is wrong and you're looking at 20fps in a lot of places.
Fata1moose
Banned
That makes sense. I just misinterpreted the combat video. It'd be too unbalanced to have that cool down bonus with profiles.
50 hours in I still can't even hum you any of the music in this, none of it is memorable.
DeaDPo0L84
Member
Hey there, I crafted the shotgun you mentioned cause I wanted to try something different. In videos before I crafted it looked like it shoots a somewhat long distance shot but mine just shoots a bigger short ranged one. Is there a mod or something to get it to behave the way it appears it should be?
I hate that we can't store stuff, there was this whole idea of choice but you can respec and grind for points (sure I'll get there....eventually). So if I want to have a decent biotic/combat/tech build, I need 3 sets of armour.
Ugh! Oh and I can't believe they made installed augments STILL take up an inventory spot.
4 Weapons, 4 mods each + the Weapons themselves? 20 Slots taken.
As well as the Armor Slots for just one set.
:Z
So finally finished this game 65 hour sin 85% completion. There are issues with the game on micro levels but as a whole...what a game !
I think Bioware did good washing their hands off previous trilogy and starting fresh, there's lore and mystery for further games while at the same time this game has a self contained story with a nice ending.
It's not like any of them. Infact ME1 and ME2 were so different from each other. This game lacks the sense of urgency found in any of those games but it also means you can do side stuff without it feeling disconnected. The "story" in Mass Effect games for me are not just the main missions but the important side missions as they flesh out the main story further and it's the same here. In order to get the full picture you need to do the doing Allies and Heleus side missions and also speak to your crew and other characters at frequent intervals. Not doing so will only tell you half the story and as such will affect your experience. Infact if you think abou tit Mass Effect 2 barely had a main story, it was literally recruit a squad, get an IFF and then go to Omega relay, the meat of the story came from side quests and loyalty missions which were all completely optional and yet affected your experience in the main story.
I think Bioware did good washing their hands off previous trilogy and starting fresh, there's lore and mystery for further games while at the same time this game has a self contained story with a nice ending.
It's not like any of them. Infact ME1 and ME2 were so different from each other. This game lacks the sense of urgency found in any of those games but it also means you can do side stuff without it feeling disconnected. The "story" in Mass Effect games for me are not just the main missions but the important side missions as they flesh out the main story further and it's the same here. In order to get the full picture you need to do the doing Allies and Heleus side missions and also speak to your crew and other characters at frequent intervals. Not doing so will only tell you half the story and as such will affect your experience. Infact if you think abou tit Mass Effect 2 barely had a main story, it was literally recruit a squad, get an IFF and then go to Omega relay, the meat of the story came from side quests and loyalty missions which were all completely optional and yet affected your experience in the main story.
Turdburger
Member
20 minutes into a multiplayer match on extraction wave only for the servers to crash haha what a fantastic game, loving this garbage
I believe it's supposed to slow the rate of life support decay.
Slackbladder
Member
Oh for fucks sake. Getting a repeatable ctd on the Contagion quest. Yes, bugs happen but there are so many it's not a good reflection on Bioware at all.
Is it better to go to Havald before Voeld if that's the case? I wouldn't mind stocking up on resources as early as possible, but I've been leaning toward going to Voeld first since the talk of this Kett conflict interests me more.
Voeld is longer and better than Havral so do the worse one first.
Slackbladder
Member
Yeah, don't do the Contagion quest on the Nexus as it's bugged and breaks the game. I get CtD's all the time whilst trying to get to the marker. It also means I can't get off the Nexus. Others have also mentioned this on the EA bug thread. I have to go back to an earlier save. Lost about 30 minutes I guess.
Yeah first visit to Eos doesn't have much good side stuff. Veold does though.
If its a task its fairly safe to ignore as a minor quest with not much to it. Judt focus on quests in the Assignments tab.
Royal_Phalanx
Member
Hardest decision in the game right here...look at his face,
How could you do that to him? He looks like a sad cat. Well, he kinda is a cat.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Can't beat the kett base encounter because of this bullshit graphical issue.
And at the very end of the lengthy wave based fight it just keeps crashing to desktop. I either have to turn around and not bother with the quest at all or keep gambling on it maybe working. I've tried it five times now to no luck.
Fuck this.
And at the very end of the lengthy wave based fight it just keeps crashing to desktop. I either have to turn around and not bother with the quest at all or keep gambling on it maybe working. I've tried it five times now to no luck.
Fuck this.
LightofRohan
Member
This is all probably my biggest disappointment with the game so far. This whole handling of the Angara people is a mess... they had such an opportunity to give such an intense unique mood, but you just land and they are like "Ello Govna! Wat can I do for yaaa?", I just talked to an Angara with a australlian accent. What a piss poor job they did with this... also this was their chance to go into the translation issues ect. I understand now wanting to get hung up with it in me1/2/3 but we are in a new galaxy now, it would be super interesting.
Even just a throwaway quest line that deals with it or some dialogue about how their translations are synced. Bahhhhh.
Can't beat the kett base encounter because of this bullshit graphical issue.
And at the very end of the lengthy wave based fight it just keeps crashing to desktop. I either have to turn around and not bother with the quest at all or keep gambling on it maybe working. I've tried it five times now to no luck.
Fuck this.
Must be the Archon trying to thwart your efforts. But seriously, I would be irate.
yankeehater
Member
I hope they patch the MP for parties soon. My wife and myself played 5 hours last night setting up custom games and one time 2 people joined and we got to extract every other match it was just the 2 of us. Grrrr
Make sense to me. Off to Havarl I go.
Can't beat the kett base encounter because of this bullshit graphical issue.
And at the very end of the lengthy wave based fight it just keeps crashing to desktop. I either have to turn around and not bother with the quest at all or keep gambling on it maybe working. I've tried it five times now to no luck.
Fuck this.
I've not encountered many bugs but I did encounter one where I had to defend this point while enemies attacked and tried to disable the terminal I was defending. The first time I defended it until 10 seconds until someone disabled the terminal, so I restarted the encounter (didn't have to reload or anything), but this time onwards every enemy that came was invisible...lol I had to reload the save but I didn't lose anything as there was an autosave from right when the encounter started.
That's about the only bug I can say that I've came across which prevented me from doing anything, I've ran into 2-3 visual glitches where there'd be some banding and clipping near the corner of walls but those were easy to ignore.
Again that wasn't the first time an Angaran was speaking to a human, they've been doing it for a year. The exiles have been living, trading and working with them since then, but they didn't have a diplomatic relationship nor did the Angarans trust the exiles. They didn't know there was a difference between the exiles and Initiative. They DID go into saying that the translators have not been working properly recently, which is why you hear snippets of alien dialogues or words during that point in the game.
I think I broke Voeld, I was driving around at max speed in the nomad and crashed into a heater. NOMAD did crazy flips and went through the floor Abit. After that I spend the rest of the planet without the hazard meter. Clearing out the vault and kett without having to worry about hazards was easy.
Durrzerker
Banned
You're looking for the plasma tracking mod! Or something like that. It's under Kett tech.
It should fire projectiles like this, twitch video of me fighting an architect with my build [albeit lower level]:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/130325268