wesleyshark
Banned
I like the map just fine... Just takes way too long to actually get to where you can scan the planet.I think I may be the only one who really enjoys the new galaxy map.Swooping around from planet to planet.
Lady Krogan
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Mass Effect: Andromeda |OT| Ryders on the Storm
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Freeman76
Member
The face thing is really offputting, dont let people play that down to you, it really is as bad as people make out. However, the game is damn good!! The performance is a mess but that will be patched I expect.
Man Called Aerodynamics
Member
...is perfectly fine.
Exploratory
Banned
I actually didn't feel that way. The reason being everyone in the Initiative is sort of already part of your team. Ryder is the tip of the sword for the entire organization so really anyone he meets is already a team member. So when you meet people and they just hop on the team it makes perfect sense.
My 2 cents.
Anyone know where one can find Beryllium?
Sounds like a female krogan?
If you hover your mouse over the Mining Zone icons on eg. Eos it shows what you can find in that area..
Don't really know more.
BizzyBum
Member
This is exactly one of many points when I say the game is uninspired.
We travel 2 million light years to a new galaxy and both new species we discover in Andromeda (so far for me) are bipedal humanoids? Angara are basically Twi'leks ffs.
Also, how the fuck do we even understand them? Yes, SAM translating is the reason given but how would a Milky Way developed AI translate the language from an alien race 2 million light years away to English instantaneously? Look at a movie like Arrival to see it done right.
Meeting the Angara should be some monumental historic occasion as they are the first friendly aliens we meet outside of the Milky Way and it's treated so "whatever", like a total been there, done that.
Also, how the fuck do we even understand them? Yes, SAM translating is the reason given but how would a Milky Way developed AI translate the language from an alien race 2 million light years away to English instantaneously? Look at a movie like Arrival to see it done right.
Meeting the Angara should be some monumental historic occasion as they are the first friendly aliens we meet outside of the Milky Way and it's treated so "whatever", like a total been there, done that.
They could have avoided giving Kett vehicles wheels for examples ... Ketts' equipment looks very similar to human military (same shade of green and all).
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
I am a bit disappointed they didn't have a design tweak for
female salarians
Landmass is smaller, but it's packed with stuff to do.
Honestly it's not like ME3 had good writing either, when that was the game that introduced the 50k cycle thing. Infact it had an absurd reasoning with "AI destroys life so we created an AI to destroy life every 50k years so that organics don't create AI that destroys them". Mass Effect hasn't had great writing since half of Mass Effect 2 (and it makes sense since Drew left it halfway through), so this is par for the course for what they've had since.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Is Addison delibrately animated and voiced poorly? Her dialog is terrible too
You know she's a female krogan right?
I'm aware. It's still doesn't suit imo, maybe it takes getting used to
Nah
Darkstorne
Member
Mass 1 introduced it, with the phenomenal conversation with Sovereign on Virmire. That game set up so many amazing concepts, and all of the fantastic lore the series has hinged on. It's weird to see Andromeda just... completely ignoring it, and not even tackling these issues like the lack of a 50k extinction timer, or seizing the opportunity to create unique alien species. It's awful writing on top of awful alien design, when they had a clean slate to work from. Bizarre how they sucked so much in this respect.
Also, kind of a weird defence to say "well Mass 3 had bad writing too." I won't deny that it did, but that's not enough to give Andromeda a pass.
How so?
I thought she was fine. Both her and Bakara from ME3 show female krogans can be alot more reasonable sounding than their male counterparts.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Sometimes combat absolutely amazes me. Was doing a vault and used Backlash to throw back nullifier attacks when I noticed I was also deflecting an observer laser onto it.
MAX PAYMENT
Member
I'm watching a stream.
Male ryder isn't Nolan north? Wtf.
Male ryder isn't Nolan north? Wtf.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
I can see that. But I just feel that, what with all the craziness that's happened with the exiles and
those anti AI
RedlineRonin
Member
Another Lance question. How's the range? Can you use it from far out like a sniper rifle, or is it more "mid range"?
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Long range. Great damage good detonator.
KyleOnTheRun
Member
I've never tested it at true "sniper rifle range," but I remember being surprised on occasion that it reached certain enemies who were a good ways away. Somewhere between mid- and long-, I'd say.
RedlineRonin
Member
I like the voice acting better than male Shepherd.
Forceatowulf
G***n S**n*bi
That's a low bar to pass honestly. Male Shep sounded like a computer program 90% of the time (Reaper in disguise?)
But yeah, male Ryder is Nolan as fuck.
BronsonLee
Member
Cause this is his favorite store on the Citadel
RedlineRonin
Member
PeeBee and Drack. Because I like them the most
Yup, Drack here also. So very badly do I just want him to go "Ryder" every time i come up and talk to him, like Grunt.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
PeeBee and Drack. Because I like them the most
Same here, also work best with my kit
The_Inquisitor
Member
Did anyone notice that the giantbombcast had a glaring false criticism this week?
it was stated that the translator works immediately with no fanfare. But the first encounter that happens in the game occurs because the translator doesn't work!
MAX PAYMENT
Member
I am very, very burnt out on Nolan's voice, though.
SRTtoZ
Member
It's Nolan North without the range or charisma. I assume they didn't want to pay the money for a big name voice actor because as you say, it sounds similar at first listen.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
So where does Drack rank among your Krogan squad mates from last ME titles?
Shadow Broker
Banned
Drak because he's Krogan and I love me Krogan's.
Cora/PeeBee or any mandatory squad mate I need for a paticular mission.
I always take the female I intend to romance with me.
Is it true you can do multiple romances or one night stands in this game? (Spoiler tag please)
In Dragon Age Origins I was always able to get the sex scenes with Leliana and Morgan plus sleep around with random people.
My take on all this is if my character is going to have to save the day and deal with all the Bullshit involved with saving the day I want to get him laid as much and as often as possible.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
Krogan and pink space bunny. Just 'cause they're badass.
VenomousCoffee
Member
Just want to point out that wasn't the reasoning in ME3.
DOT DASH DOT
Member
You know what, I expected this game to look like shit quite honestly, and like a snowball its got completely out of control! Yeah the facial animations and animations in general can look pretty dodgy, but in gameplay it looks bloody great! They deserve absolute praise for the HDR implementation, its up there with the very best, looks amazing.
MeisterLeder
Banned
Is it normal that sometimes a lot in the background during cutscenes starts to flicker and pop in? Really annoying and looks awful
The "outside" is actually the other entrance, i.e. the one that you took when you first arrived to the planet. You are probably searching the back entrance.
This game is awesome to me. So damn beautiful too on a beefy PC. Been just exploring Havarl for a long time now as the first one I've been to after Eos and loving it. This is the Mass Effect sequel I've personally been waiting for ever since ME1. Sure presentation and animations with humans are just weird at times but other than that I'm just loving it.
Hope there's a sequel to build on what they've done right in this and fix what went wrong.
Hope there's a sequel to build on what they've done right in this and fix what went wrong.
KyleOnTheRun
Member
I say Voeld. It does a better job communicating the Angaran struggles against the Kett, the whole resistance / rebellion vibe, and gives a little more oomph to the story on Havarl later.