Allnamestakenlol
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That's pretty much where I'm at right now. Unless it's someone or something on the way, I'm full on "ain't nobody got time for that."
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Mass Effect: Andromeda |OT| Ryders on the Storm
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That's pretty much where I'm at right now. Unless it's someone or something on the way, I'm full on "ain't nobody got time for that."
Just spent a good while hanging around (location spoiler)
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This is what I'm talking about. Interacting
The (Mission 3 end spoilers, kind of a big one so don't click if you're not sure)
Aya
This is what I'm talking about. Interacting
in the city with a new race of aliens. Getting scanned by one of their scientists because they're just that curious about me.
The (Mission 3 end spoilers, kind of a big one so don't click if you're not sure)
reveal about what the Kett were doing to them was kind of a neat twist. Probably should have seen that coming but I didn't.
Would have liked to have a conversation with the Cardinal since I spared her. Did not like Ryder's 'Wellllll that's what makes us humans soooooo much more awesome. Dur.' line to her as she was turning away. Ugh.
Would have liked to have a conversation with the Cardinal since I spared her. Did not like Ryder's 'Wellllll that's what makes us humans soooooo much more awesome. Dur.' line to her as she was turning away. Ugh.
Thank him for funding Mass Effect 5.
On second thought, have a long talk with him or something man.
Yeah. You know what else is great? The community email feature. Love the crew commenting on each other's posts.
FaintDeftone
Junior Member
I've put 6 hours into this game and I can't take any more of it. The game is a slog to play through. Exploring these planets bore me to tears, the side missions are bland and driving this slow ass ATV around frustrates the hell out of me. I thought the story was intriguing when it first started and that first planet was a lot of fun, but it all goes down hill from there. I don't like a single character in this game either. Bioware throws so much shit at you without explaining any of it that I constantly feel overwhelmed, like I'm not playing the game properly or something.
I adore the ME trilogy and ME2 is my second favorite game from the entire last generation (right behind Dark Souls), but this game is awful. It's a huge shame because the combat feels really good, but everything else isn't fun at all. Even the multiplayer did nothing for me and I played the hell out of ME3's multiplayer. What a huge disappointment.
I adore the ME trilogy and ME2 is my second favorite game from the entire last generation (right behind Dark Souls), but this game is awful. It's a huge shame because the combat feels really good, but everything else isn't fun at all. Even the multiplayer did nothing for me and I played the hell out of ME3's multiplayer. What a huge disappointment.
UncleMeat
Member
Ya it's not great. Seems too costly to experiment with different weapons as well.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
I didn't think I'd say this but... Well, after 26 hours I can now safely say that Andromeda is the best BioWare game since Mass Effect 3 for me. And I'm damn serious. The game is a blast to play especially after shitty and boring to death DAI which I simply and rightfully so hate for a shit ton of reasons.
Performance is not so great though even with 4790K @4,4 GHz, 16 GB RAM DDR3 @1600 MHz and GTX 1070 OC @1905 Core, 8108 VRAM. Can't get stable 60 FPS with a mix of High and Ultra settings because of the stuttering here and there and FPS drops for no good reason. Fix this shit BioWare and fast!
Performance is not so great though even with 4790K @4,4 GHz, 16 GB RAM DDR3 @1600 MHz and GTX 1070 OC @1905 Core, 8108 VRAM. Can't get stable 60 FPS with a mix of High and Ultra settings because of the stuttering here and there and FPS drops for no good reason. Fix this shit BioWare and fast!
Freezasaurus
Member
Usually take a biotic and a tech. I prefer using Cora or Peebee along with Vetra.
UncleMeat
Member
I take Drack if I don't feel like trying very much.
CommandThrower
Member
I always have Drack in my party, and I usually rotate out Vetra and Jaal as the second party member. Drack is just an absolute powerhouse, he wrecks enemy forces. Jaal's grenade and teleporting stab are good, and Vetra can be almost as tanky as Drack.
I've been recreating my Mass Effect 1 team with Drack and Cora aka new Wrex and new Ashley.
I still don't like the fact that I can;t directly control their powers but I like seeing Drack bloodrage and tank into enemies while Cora does her nova/charge biotic stuff.
ScientificPizza
Banned
Is there a way to change your loadout without leaving orbit? It's frustrating getting new weapons and having to go through so much just to test them
The Tempest needs a shooting range tbh
The Tempest needs a shooting range tbh
You can change your loadout at every forward station, and in the room next to the bridge on the Tempest.
texhnolyze
Banned
I'm a soldier/infiltrator hybrid so I rarely bring Liam and Jaal with me. I bring Drack in most missions and usually switch between Peebee or Cora for biotics. I bring Vetra every now and then.
Have people been using the profiles midfight much?
Maybe it's just the split I went for but I haven't done a whole lot. Mainly a vanguard just using a shotgun but I have an infiltrator, since the gun doesn't change I need to basically just change it all at a forward station when I want to try other stuff since I like to use that with a sniper.
It's still nice seeing just how many skillpoints you get. I do have a ton of options at my fingers so I like seeing that as much as I liked vanguarding around that I can totally shift how I play within the same character.
Maybe it's just the split I went for but I haven't done a whole lot. Mainly a vanguard just using a shotgun but I have an infiltrator, since the gun doesn't change I need to basically just change it all at a forward station when I want to try other stuff since I like to use that with a sniper.
It's still nice seeing just how many skillpoints you get. I do have a ton of options at my fingers so I like seeing that as much as I liked vanguarding around that I can totally shift how I play within the same character.
When I heard about that, I thought "that's going to be awesome, I'll use that a lot," but with the setup I have, I have no reason to change anything... I can handle any situation well with incinerate+energy drain+overload.
There are several good sidequests I've come across. What exactly is bad about them? They have narrative, character interaction and decision making unlike something like DAI or FFXV. Yeah the scan 10 of these or collect 10 of that ones suck but that isn't all there is here.
Exploratory
Banned
If you use a shotgun bring Jaal. If you use a sniper bring Drack. If you love comedy bring both.
texhnolyze
Banned
Yeah, so far it's best to just buy stuff instead of crafting them, especially for armors.
Crafting in DAI was pretty great, not sure how they fucked it up in Andromeda.
I pretty much use Drack and Jaal exclusively. Drack because he seems to be the best overall for combat. Jaal is also good, and he tends to have interesting commentary on things as an angaran. It also feels appropriate narratively to bring him along for most missions.
Once you have access to powerful augmentations, crafting is better. You should have more resources by then as well.
Only thing I feel is lacking is Milky Way resources. Far fewer than other resources since you spend a lot of time exploring the environments of a brand new galaxy than anything touched by the Milky Way. However, getting the research cyro pod perk to get Milky Way research every so often (100 points), I've been able to manage. As for minerals, you really start racking them in by your second planet. Other minerals you lack can be bought with credits from vendors, and credits come in like candy from salvage. I have up to 30000 credits and over 1500 research points for both Heleus and Remnant.
As for the squad I roll with, I have Cora with me at all times for her nice support abilities and as a biotic primer to compliment my Adept build, and switching between Vetra and Jaal for my other needs. Although I think I'm using Jaal mostly for the sake of the story.
Also, that armor augmentation that allows you to regain your shields with every kill is the bee's knees. Definitely a reason to craft armor.
Not at all. Quite frankly, I'm quite content with just Pull + Throw + Singularity. Although I think its a worse system than the original ME games.
DeadlyParasite
Member
Sheeeeeit. The conclusion to finding all of the memories of alec ryder was pretty good. I'm sure someone will disagree but I think it was well handled. Curious what it means going forward though.
texhnolyze
Banned
Looking at the augmentations, I thought so too, but it'll be too late. I've already been using tier IV stuff and crafting is still not a viable option for me. It shoudn't have been a problem if they give more platinum/titanium earlier to us.
MegaKungFuRadio
Member
Driving around with Cora and Peebee is like going on a road trip with a weeb and person who moved out of Japan and never looked back.
ScientificPizza
Banned
Is the only way to track side missions on the map? I only have a list for priority ops
Platinum and Titanium is all over Harvarl. And I'd say that's just a little over the early game.
Yeah, I quite liked it. Made going through the work of collecting all of the memories worth it.
I like Jaal and Vetra. I regularly rotate Jaal out for Liam . These are mostly the characters I like based on their looks and personality. Also Vetra and Liam's commentary is funny
Trickster
Member
For me it's the complete opposite, I feel it's busted because I almost never had to spend any resources. At the end of the game I had several thousand research points for each of the 3 tech categories, plenty of crafting resources (except for eezo for the nomad upgrades), and at least 60k credits.
Crafting resources was not an issue, so I stopped bothering with planet mining before being done with Eos, simple because it felt like a pointless waste of my time.
I can see it being an issue if you keep wanting to craft new weapons. But I don't see the point of that at all. It's clear just from the stats what weapons are good or bad, and the level scaling is so small that there's not much difference between a tier 1 and 5 version of the same weapon or armor.
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
Anyone know what the level cap is?
Trickster
Member
I would imagine it's 99. I know there is item tiers up to level 80 at least.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
There is none afaik but skills would max out at 120 something IIRC.
I usually roll with Cora & Vetra their cryo and disruptor ammo are awesome for almost non stop combos. Cora is my romance target and my biotic combo buddy and I really like Vetra a lot she has some really funny dialogue throughout and she can jack some fools up.
I just unlocked the third audio file, shit's definitely gonna go down. Gives me OG Trilogy vibes though, and still doesnt really make sense. Looking forward to the reveal
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Okay... what the FUCK at these framerates on PS4Pro. It's the first level too... why did I not hear about this?
People making fun of animations and glitches, but this fps affects gameplay, significantly. I don't understand, this is really bad.
People making fun of animations and glitches, but this fps affects gameplay, significantly. I don't understand, this is really bad.
If you plow through nothing but the bare minimum I think you can do it in roughly 20 hours. I have 60+ hours in and I have a little over 60% completion there is a ton of content there if you want it...
It's a Mass Effect game, if you only do the main story you'll have a baaaaaad time. Main story you can knock out quickly but it wont be much fun and you wont enjoy the game. I'd count on spending at least 30 on it, minimum. Probably more like 50+ if you're actually gonna play the game fully.
On that note, does the game track played time somewhere? I tried to find it in the ingame statistics but cant see it, and the save file also isnt tracking it...
Freeman76
Member
It gets worse too. Im playing real slow as i expect a patch for this asap. DAI looks about the same detail/size wise and runs twice as smooth on the base ps4.
OK, this was more in line with what I was expecting. Thanks guys. I have only finished the first planet and am now doing a bunch of side missions on the Nexus. I'm already at like 12 hours haha.
It's a great game though, I'm having a blast
Edit: playtime is tracked for me when I go to load up a save file in the setting. Sometimes it takes a second to load up though.
It's not necessarily the storylines themselves it's the way they do it. So much back and forth on a giant ass planet gets so fucking boring. I think the spaces are way too damn big. Everything repeats itself too......hey look a kett crew in guessing I need to scan an object which starts a quest to scan 1 more object and then destroy 2. After which will lead me to a smaller vault with loot at the bottom.
Drack has a permanent slot as he seems to be the only guy who makes fights easier.
Mossybrew
Member
Yeah, it sucks.
Every time I see an Angara, especially the females, it just breaks my suspension of disbelief. They just look like rubber toys, the models are atrociously bad.
There are things about the game I like that hit my "sweet spot" - crafting, getting better weapons, combat is pretty good, I actually generally like the male Ryder VO, but so much of this game is just so fucking tedious. I don't know how else to describe it, just so. fucking. tedious.
I feel like I gave the game every benefit of the doubt. I love Mass Effect. I enjoy the game enough to keep playing. But I've really had to admit to myself it's overall a huge disappointment.
Yep yep yep, and aside from the back and forth on individual planets, the endless back and forth of quests sending you among planets/nexus.
Yup. Not just Asari but humans too even the Turians aside from Vetra look remarkably similar. I know people are saying it isn't so bad. But this game had alkost as much dev time as the time between Mass Effect 1 launching to ME3 launching. There is little things that add up like this.
Mossybrew
Member
In my experience it makes absolutely no difference who you bring with. Though I am playing on the default difficulty, maybe these things have significance at higher levels.
Yep, completely agreed.
At this point I kind of feel like a cult member who has finally seen the light of day.