Lionheart1827
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Gemüsepizza;235467607 said:
I dont think they affect anything much. I stopped caring about em when I noticed getting shit rewards for them.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda |OT| Ryders on the Storm
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I dont think they affect anything much. I stopped caring about em when I noticed getting shit rewards for them.
Sir Garbageman
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Is there anything of value related to the Aid Apex quest? Just dawned on me haven't really been scanning enemies.
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Deleted member 752119
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Gemüsepizza;235467607 said:
They affect nothing story wise. Just do the story missions, loyalty missions and Heleus quests (many of those are worthless too, but many are good and some affect things).
Gemüsepizza;235467607 said:
I am pretty sure they don't have any effect at all, and I think most or all of them can be completed after the main narrative, should you care to (prediction: you won't). Just bail on them - I enjoyed maybe 5% of the content in those quests, and by the end of the game I was totally burned out, which caused me to skip some other sidequests that are apparently pretty good.
Gemüsepizza
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Ok thanks guys. I hope the next game will have less, but better quests, many of them are just so boring lol.
Scrotum Phillips
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Gemüsepizza;235467607 said:
I really don't believe so, and if(?) there were, don't feel they were worth it in my playthrough where I did basically everything (finished with 98%).
For anyone starting or playing this game currently - I'd STRONGLY recommend ignoring basically everything found in this category. It's basically all meaningless fluff that just pads the length of the game with basically no meaningul reward/story. Also had the negative effect of me going tens of hours without touching on a story path thus forgetting aspects of the "meat" of this game.
I think it was the "allies/relationships" category(?), do all of those. I enjoyed most of the main story and characters. Just a bummer that there's so much stuff in this game that waters down what I think is a solid game at its core.
Sounds like Lukas Kristjanson is way past his prime.
Gemüsepizza;235467607 said:
Having read around, most things you do in the game don't affect the ending or story greatly (that at least seemed to be the general consensus). I wrote recently about feelings of disappointment with the game. One of the facets of that was how the elements of the game didn't seem particularly connected together. I'm starting to think that is intentional, and that there is an implicit 'correct' way to play through the game. E.g. focusing on the main mission, doing planets in a particular order, delving into some of the party-member character stuff for your faves, lightly dabbling in viability stuff, but leaving the majority of non-main stuff until *after* the main mission (ME:A's version of tooling around in the open world after beating the campaign).
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Deleted member 752119
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Gemüsepizza;235469149 said:
Yep. I really hope they go back to the ME 1-3 formula of having WAY fewer side quests of higher quality. ME games don't need to be as long and stuffed full of quests as ME:A is.
The old games were better too me than most WRPGs precisely because of being tighter and more focused and not full of boring bloat just to pad length.
They should scrap the open worlds as well. ME2 and 3 are my favorite WRPGs ever due to being tight, action packed and story focused with minimal time wasted on traversal and exploration and fetch quests.
Nope. Don't think I got anything beyond XP. Honestly they additional tasks are so useless, glitched or buggy, just no point until they fix a lot. Maybe they'll have impact later on in future games. Easily the most disappointing aspect of the game. Imagine if scanning plants got you a new area of hydroponics and codex entries and a display. Scanning planets got you a holographic Heleus cluster similar to the galaxy view in some area of the Nexus. Aiding APEX got you a wing dedicated to enemies and things like armor and weapons etc. Something that is dynamic, changes the world, gives you more incentive.
Yup, that's how I feel too. Mass Effect 1's synth heavy soundtrack brough a sense of mystery and uniqueness to the Mass Effect series. ME3 even reverted more to that style again.
Hopefully they bring back Sam Hulick for the next game.
prag16
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I don't think that was an additional task, if you're talking about the one I'm thinking of
(Primus plotting against the Archon)
I think you discover that quest on a Voeld/ Heleus assignment and it becomes a new quest in the companion/personal quest folder.
InsaneFandom
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Has anyone replayed the game as your brother/sister?
I finished it a couple weeks ago & have been thinking about my next playthrough. I'm tempted to basically recreate my Ryders but switch them around so that I play as Scott instead. Like an alternate timeline.
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As for skipping side content - all the stuff that comes up in the 'Additional tasks' is safe to skip afaik. I did a good chunk of them because I liked exploring the planets but if you're getting bored than drop them.
In fact I'd say the only side content you 'need' to do are the ones involved in setting up each outpost & all the quests that come up in the 'allies and relationships' folder or whatever it's called (you could skip a couple of these but they do all have some payoff in terms of character or world building)
For everything else just do it if you happen to be nearby or you want to explore. Don't feel obliged to do everything if you aren't enjoying it, that's a sure way to burn yourself out.
I finished it a couple weeks ago & have been thinking about my next playthrough. I'm tempted to basically recreate my Ryders but switch them around so that I play as Scott instead. Like an alternate timeline.
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As for skipping side content - all the stuff that comes up in the 'Additional tasks' is safe to skip afaik. I did a good chunk of them because I liked exploring the planets but if you're getting bored than drop them.
In fact I'd say the only side content you 'need' to do are the ones involved in setting up each outpost & all the quests that come up in the 'allies and relationships' folder or whatever it's called (you could skip a couple of these but they do all have some payoff in terms of character or world building)
For everything else just do it if you happen to be nearby or you want to explore. Don't feel obliged to do everything if you aren't enjoying it, that's a sure way to burn yourself out.
harriet the spy
Member
Really wish it was possible to drop quests. Like send a text message and say 'sorry i changed my mind I don't really want to scan all those fucking rocks for you.'
And then drop the coresponding markers which clutter the map
And then drop the coresponding markers which clutter the map
That's the one, though it's started
when Morda contacts you about two Kett ships crashing on Elaaden
I wonder if Bioware will do anything with that thread. There is that extra little scene at the end
foreshadowing the Primus taking power.
In terms of previous Bioware work, Neil Pollner wrote the Sith Warrior class for SWTOR and apparently also contributed to ME3 and its DLC. Joanna Berry seems to be responsible for Jedi Consular in SWTOR and Samson/Calpernia in Dragon Age Inquisition.
Is there any decent way of recovering life support, other than finding a safe area? I'm trying to explore Voeld, and it's really annoying that my life support just gradually degrades, allowing me to only deal with 1-3 enemy bases before I have to visit a heater or forward station.
Sitting in the Nomad seems to only bring it back up to 50%
The backup life support consumable isn't really clear about what it does, but it doesn't restore anything. If it makes it drain more slowly, it's not by much
I'd spend a whole lot of resources to craft some kind of life support upgrade if I could...
Sitting in the Nomad seems to only bring it back up to 50%
The backup life support consumable isn't really clear about what it does, but it doesn't restore anything. If it makes it drain more slowly, it's not by much
I'd spend a whole lot of resources to craft some kind of life support upgrade if I could...
InsaneFandom
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Yeah it comes up in 'allies and relationships' section IIRC
It does initially seem like one of the additional tasks though since you're running about from site to site
I think they will - I get the impression the
kett threat
archon wasn't the overall leader of the kett & there's a whole lot more of them still out there spread across the galaxy (& maybe other galaxies) going about their lovely exaltation business
InsaneFandom
Member
I don't think so, I assumed that's what those consumables did but I never actually used them.
Kett camps/bases usually have heat lamps that put you to 100% btw, there's also certain remnant sites & buildings scattered about
I explored a lot but life support only got very low a few times & I usually found a heater at the next place I came across so it never bothered me much
except for that bloody architect fight
That fight was actually no problem for me in terms of life support, since there were plenty of heaters and indoor areas
What really sucks is when there's a big fight of like 15 kett around a small crash site in the middle of a frozen lake, no heaters in sight, and life support already below 3/4
Lukas K was pretty involved with BG2's plot iirc. I rather like Calpernia though, shame most people will never see that charcter.
things like this is why I just started off finding all the landing pods first. After that you just warp around the map with them and usually have plenty of life support at all times.
dreamer3kx
Member
Yea I hated Havarl, thought it was a mess, people seem to like this planet.
On the plus side, it has no life support hazard, and there are minerals and containers every 10 feet if you like getting lots of loot
CharmingCharlie
Member
Nope that is the latest patch the one released over a month ago. There is no news on any new patch other than the month old statement of "we are gonna be patching the game over the next couple of months".
General expectation is that there will be a patch this month and by "General Expectation" I mean people will be burning down Bioware Headquarters if they don't release a patch this month ........ Actually come to think of it the general feeling I get is that people just don't care about the game anymore.
That's another of those quests that I just had to break up into parts. I think she was the last of the loyalty missions I ended up being able to finish, because I completed every other one in between lol
100% viability on all planets. Elaaden was the best planet by far, it's pretty much Eos but a thousand times better. Cool to explore, great to look at, just what I wanted. I absolutely love big large empty spaces.
Still need to do 3 loyalty missions, two main missions and a handful of sidequests.
It's true that the biggest problem this game has is being too long. I'm at 84hours already, I never asked for this. I love Mass Effect, and even love this one most of the time, but it should have been much shorter ans much better.
I wish they would release an update, like right now, so that I finish the game with it. I'd like more markers for additional tasks, and of course bug corrections because I already have two quests I can't complete.
Still need to do 3 loyalty missions, two main missions and a handful of sidequests.
It's true that the biggest problem this game has is being too long. I'm at 84hours already, I never asked for this. I love Mass Effect, and even love this one most of the time, but it should have been much shorter ans much better.
I wish they would release an update, like right now, so that I finish the game with it. I'd like more markers for additional tasks, and of course bug corrections because I already have two quests I can't complete.
I would imagine the next one drops any day now, it's been a month since the last one.
Nope.
Wait, there's a difference? I thought the worm was the Architect. If they're different things, it's possible I didn't even see the "worm."
Are- are they not the same thing.
I am going to check on Youtube later but for the Architect fight on Voeld,at the start there's like a mission update that tells you to disable 3 things...this didnt happen on Eos,are those 3 things the usual legs or something else...? it sure would be nice to not have the cold damage during this...I got it to
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fly away on my last try but lost track of it,couldnt find my Nomad which I had left nearby and got killed by a continuous electric charge or something...then you have to restart all over....they should checkpoint at that point lol
MrTroubleMaker
Member
yeah they are different. I guess this might be something for the DLC?
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Architect
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Abyssal
Yep.
And I think the worm was just a sort of throwback to Tuchanka and the Thresher Maw. Leave it to Krogans to find a new homeworld with another giant worm.
Could be a throwback to Dune, Tremors etc. Halo 5 has an easter egg on one of the multiplayer maps Rig where there is a giant sandworm. Maybe this will be something we revisit in the future in a return to New Tuchanka on Elaaden.
We're still waiting for our 2nd patch. 1st one being the one that came out one month ago.
Any day now...