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30 hours in I'm loving in haven't done a single task.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda |OT| Ryders on the Storm
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30 hours in I'm loving in haven't done a single task.
Jasong7777
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I like Cora better than Miranda. Come at me. Lol
I had two different profiles set up
1) Adept Profile - Pull, Throw and Charge/Lance
2) Explorer Profile - Singularity, Lance and Cloak
The reason I use cloak and explorer is because it allows me to use my Blackwidow sniper rifle with maximum damage possible, especially since I also wear the Maverick set for headshot damage.
Mod it with electricity aug and you get auto aim..lol
No one will because she is better than Miranda and Ashley both
Not all Tasks are bad, some are ok actually and they do provide some lore at times
Sir Garbageman
Member
Do I miss anything unique if I don't bring Jaal to the 2nd and 3rd mission planets? Not sure if I like the character and debating leaving him on the ship. Thanks
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Who would lol? She's a far better written character.
You miss a ton of unique stuff. How can you judge him before you even get to know him?
ChackanKun
Member
I just found a fun bug.
On the PS4 version, if I press the Share button to take a screenshot, until the screenshot icon appears on screen whenever I use the dash (circle button) instead of the jetpack sound it does the XMB changing menus sound lol
On the PS4 version, if I press the Share button to take a screenshot, until the screenshot icon appears on screen whenever I use the dash (circle button) instead of the jetpack sound it does the XMB changing menus sound lol
And Suvi is exclusively for FemRyder. But who is the Gay option for Male Ryder? Gill?
You'll always miss some dialogues and exposition if you don't bring someone. I always brought Jaal because it's his native system so he has a lot to comment on...and he also has questions for other members.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
I think I'd enjoy the space travel transitions more if they weren't so low res, static, two-dimensional, etc. It's like, I'm trying hard to ignore the game's many visual flaws, but then they force me to repeatedly zoom in on a horribly muddled/pixelated planet or the galaxy "skybox" and, just, eugh. Please stop.
Yeah. The moment I saw those task quests pop up and did a couple they were an instant skip.
So Angarans are basically cat people right?
But they are not really 2D, you can't have transitions like that with 2D models. Specifically because you can also see all of that from your ship's windows. I think it's the DoF that makes it pixelated
You need to use combos, they do massive damage
But they are not really 2D, you can't have transitions like that with 2D models. Specifically because you can also see all of that from your ship's windows. I think it's the DoF that makes it pixelated
You need to use combos, they do massive damage
Poodlestrike
Banned
Galaxy map really needs a Stop Wasting My Time fix. I'd be down with it if they sped the whole thing up by like 50%.
Same, the small pauses when you start and stop the ship before you can do anything is unnecessary
The take off and landing videos, damn.. wish we could remove them so it would skip playing it. That's be a start...
Durrzerker
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Cora Harper said:
Yeah she's really well-written.
You can spawn it at Forward Stations.
That is one thing I don't believe is really possible, because those are loading screens basically. If not that then you'll stare at a black loading screen. BUT in some cases the game is already loaded by the time you see the ship from the surface and you have to wait for like 3-4 seconds for it to slowly hover and land. In most cases though those are FMV videos obviously masking loading times.
The galaxy map however, that could be sped up considerably and there is no reason for it to be so slow.
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
So do I, by a long way.
Miranda never really gelled with me: I actually preferred Ashley over her even.
From my experience, Adepts aren't particularly good on Insanity; Vanguards do much better for biotics. I think losing Warp hurt them quite a bit, and biotic combos feel very underwhelming on Insanity.
Ashley Williams will always be my Gunnery Chief.
It could be possible, in other games instead of masking the load (and taking longer, when the game is already loaded) it just has a black screen until it's done. You can test loading times from a main menu to the exact same location as landing from space, soooooooo much quicker.
Other games, amazingly let you skip it once the game is loaded.
They fucked up here.
Edit: Holy shit, I actually tried something, spammed space during the movie and it actually skipped it early on, there's just no pop up or anything to say you can.
Diablohead
Member
From what I have watched if you return to your ship you have to take off, you can't just enter it and do stuff then leave again while staying on the planet.
I liked that in ME1, if you wanted to change gear or crew you could return to the normandy and swap stuff out then run back to where you were, it was extremely handy.
Sir Garbageman
Member
Don't really like Jaals design and I'm playing a sniper infiltrator so bringing him a long feels a little redundant.
Poodlestrike
Banned
It is worth noting that you can use the forward stations to swap loadout and I think squaddies. So it's not really *necessary* here.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
I'd say the planets and asteroids/comets are obviously three-dimensional, but not much else is. And when your ship engages it's warp drive, the screen zooms in on the system skybox too close for my liking.
It's all very immersion breaking to me. If you're going to force me to look at something over and over, at least make sure it looks damn good. I'd much rather have gotten loading screens with some nice concept art.
Well there's the thing that going from main menu to game the game does not has to empty the existing level from memory first, now in most cases games will have shared assets so the loading is quicker when going from one area to another but what if you are going from the Tempest to say Elaaden or vice versa? I'm not quite sure how it works though, it probably doesn't even matter.
Yes this is exactly what they should have done, let me skip the stupid animation as soon as its loaded.
The dust and scourge are 3D too, the distant stars are obviously 2D.
Pull/lance/backlash.
That last one have been absolutely essential to playing an adept on Insanity, it's saved my ass so many times.
You can change squadmates, loadout from forward stations. You can also do R&D from the planets itself without going back to the tempest.
The only thing that you can't do outside of The Tempest is change your casual outfit and paint your outfits.
anyone know how to solve the puzzle on H-047c?
the remnant one where you open the doors with the VI and get a console with the glowing light thing behind it. i found four of them, each with 1, 2, 3 and 4 lights behind them. i assume that you need to use the console the same number of times as lights that are behind them, but it only seems right for 1 and 2. when i get to 3 and 4 no matter what order i do it seems to fail.
bloodforge
Member
Anyone else unable to connect to the online on PS4?
Admiral Woofington
Member
*clicks planet*
*ship slowly travels there*
*arrive way too close to planet*
*wait like 3 seconds for it to zoom back out*
JUST WHY.
it is down for me on Xbox.
Diablohead
Member
This is good to know
It's a cool effect and looks pretty but there really should be a skip option for those things.
oh, wow. i'm dumb. thanks
Trickster
Member
Yeah you can hardly hear it most of the time.
The soundtrack is also completely forgetable. I litterally can't remember any of the soundtrack, I finished the game yesterday. But I can sure as hell remember Nier's, which I played before Andromeda
Yeah that puzzle gives you no feedback for your actions. I scoured everything around it before going "it can't be that simple can it?".
Yeah you can hardly hear it most of the time.
The soundtrack is also completely forgetable. I litterally can't remember any of the soundtrack, I finished the game yesterday. But I can sure as hell remember Nier's, which I played before Andromeda
I disagree tho.
Everything I've heard is fucking fantastic. Thats why its a shame the score is underused and so low most of the time. The start menu and galaxy theme both have the punch to be as iconic as the sounds of the OT. I would love that they could patch something around this.
I'm still searching what it did.
Slackbladder
Member
Do you have a mission called Contagious or Contagion? I had that mission and there's a point where you go back to the docking bay because the person you're looking for takes a shuttle. At that point the game always ctd's for me. So I went to a previous save and now I'm not touching that mission. And I have completed Drack's mission too.