Familienoberhauptvogel
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I thought Voeld was pretty great, 100%ed it right away
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Mass Effect: Andromeda |OT| Ryders on the Storm
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CarbonFire
Member
Man, Green Man Gaming has the PC version for $45.59 now on sale.
I told myself I was going to stay strong and wait for a better sale, but that MP is calling to me. And 25% off with no tax IS a pretty good deal. I can forgive a few more rough edges at that price, but I know better sales are coming.......decisions, decisions.
*hovers over buy button*
With VIP deal and Voucher Code ANDROMEDA5
I told myself I was going to stay strong and wait for a better sale, but that MP is calling to me. And 25% off with no tax IS a pretty good deal. I can forgive a few more rough edges at that price, but I know better sales are coming.......decisions, decisions.
*hovers over buy button*
Sterling's_Gold
Member
I've seen a lot of people complaining about the lengthy galaxy map animations, but they aren't really bothering me. I'm actually much more annoyed by the short, boring, and pointless planet descriptions. I really enjoyed reading most of them in the previous games but here they are all like two sentences without anything interesting to flesh out the setting.
Darkstorne
Member
Yeah I can understand it from a marketing, and even from a game design (easy re-use of animations across all species) perspective. It's just a shame that being a big fan of Mass 1 for the depth involved in the science behind everything, and all that time I spent pouring over the Codex in that game to learn about the concepts of mass effect, space travel, even how medi gel works (!) this new team haven't put in the same level of background work for Andromeda. It doesn't look like any of them thought about how a galaxy without the Reapers harvesting all intelligent life every 50k years for billions of years would have evolved differently, and to me that's a glaring omission. The Reaper's defined EVERYTHING about Milky Way life - even the mass relays determining how and where civilization will spread, and the Citadel determining where it will be ruled from. So while mankind and all other Milky Way civs have only had 50k years to evolve and develop technologically, the Helius Cluster civs have had potentially billions of years. That is a huge subject to explore, and certainly not one they should just ignore.
If they're ignoring all of that in favour of simply creating an almost identical new region, with almost identical new species, just to make sure it "feels like Mass Effect" then... well imo that completely misses the science background that made Mass Effect so special and believable to me.
Durrzerker
Banned
Charge/Nova/Annihilation
Annihilation can be set up to prime everything around you, only increase cooldowns by 20%, and heal 30% shields on kill. Combine with 75% reduced biotic charge cd and nova havingno cd but using shields. Enjoy being an aoe unstoppable nightmare
Freeman76
Member
Too many people entered, so Bioware just let them all voice a character, which is why everybody sounds like its their first try at VA work.
(lol)
Son Of Sparda
Member
I just naturally gained 100% viability on one of the plants. This game is way too fun.
Sterling's_Gold
Member
In the Faroang system, there is an anomaly, "Comet Dawnstar."
The description says "This comet is rich in the empirically useful nephrite, although other elements have complicated exploration. Very bright, but a second orbit is unlikely. Best to mine it for other purposes."
This is totally a Jade Empire reference right? This game stating that JE2 is unlikely is now the most disappointing thing I've found in Andromeda.
The description says "This comet is rich in the empirically useful nephrite, although other elements have complicated exploration. Very bright, but a second orbit is unlikely. Best to mine it for other purposes."
This is totally a Jade Empire reference right? This game stating that JE2 is unlikely is now the most disappointing thing I've found in Andromeda.
BizzyBum
Member
God, it's so atrocious how you interact with NPC's.
Standing still awkwardly behind them as if you're preparing to scare them, they do that terrible slow turn, and when they turn they always end up uncomfortably close to you for a second until the camera resets for the dialogue.
It's small stuff like this that irks me.
Standing still awkwardly behind them as if you're preparing to scare them, they do that terrible slow turn, and when they turn they always end up uncomfortably close to you for a second until the camera resets for the dialogue.
It's small stuff like this that irks me.
Rellik
Member
He's pretty easy to dodge with the jetpack. It's pretty easy to avoid everything now actually because of that.
I'm just happy it's hold triangle to interact after DA:I where they used the jump button to interact and you'd get stuck in the falling animation all the time.
Pretty clear reference yeah. Though I wouldn't say it's much of a shock. They buried Jade Empire with a quickness; it has hardly been mentioned in twelve years.
Sterling's_Gold
Member
Yeah, I'm hardly shocked by it. It's just that in a game (that I'm enjoying btw) full of disappointing elements, this saddened me the most.
I am so severly disappointed. Mass Effect was together with Mirror's Edge my favorite new IPs from last generation. Replayed the original Mass Effect maybe 20 times (no joke). Got all the achievements in 2 including all DLC too. The third game I admitedly only played once because the ending made me a bit mad but in hindsight the game was good, just didn't stick the landing and I was too comitted to forgive at the time.
Now we go from that, to this.
Guess I'll buy NieR instead. After I've finished Horizon and Zelda. Not like we are starving for good games at least.
Now we go from that, to this.
Guess I'll buy NieR instead. After I've finished Horizon and Zelda. Not like we are starving for good games at least.
What do you not like about the game? Just curious.
spazchicken
Member
I find it funny that they go out of their way to put females first in the game as if they are default, while the male lead is in every official marketing piece I've seen so far.
I don't have an issue with it of course, but they are trying way too hard, while also not trying hard enough, if that makes any sense.
I don't have an issue with it of course, but they are trying way too hard, while also not trying hard enough, if that makes any sense.
BizzyBum
Member
Probably.
This game has a lot of small glitches. I have a completed mission in the folder called "Outlaw Crafting" with no text. I assume I developed an outlaw weapon before getting some sort of quest related to it and the game just triggered that the quest was over. Best part is there's a permanent exclamation point next to it so my quest tab always looks like I have a new quest. lol
Well that sucks, I just deconstructed the rank 1 and I can still onyl craft rank 2... looks like this quest is now impossible to complete -_-
There's seven levels. Levels 1/3/5/7 give you extra armor tints/patterns. Levels 2/4/6 give you extra skill points. I think those levels each give you 4 skill points.
Watching TB's video about the MP and i'm actually pretty excited to try this out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOvg--BNXyQ
Gameplay feels like the more realized aspect of this game so far...going to finally try the game tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOvg--BNXyQ
Gameplay feels like the more realized aspect of this game so far...going to finally try the game tonight
Watching TB's video about the MP and i'm actually pretty excited to try this out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOvg--BNXyQ
Gameplay feels like the more realized aspect of this game so far...going to finally try the game tonight
The combat is very fluid and very fun. Bioware finally realised global cooldowns had to go.
publicpwnerer
Member
For those playing "Insanity" difficulty. What powers / profiles have you found to be most beneficial?
Sodding_Gamer
Member
Ok cool, Thanks for the info.
SchrodingerC
Member
Damn it
! Even a galaxy away
still manages to appear in the game one way or another.
Liara
she
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
any pathfinder chest completes the task
wesleyshark
Banned
Did that quest on Eos last night.
Needed to craft a I, but I was already wearing a II. So I checked my blueprints, and there was a III. Crafted the III and it counted and completed the quest.
Ah, sorry. Unfortunately, I didn't save the sliders.
The head that I used was Preset 9 though. Hopefully, that helps a little.I mainlined the campaign and beat it in 13 hours.
I play on Pro and sometimes, I have framerate drops (25fps I think) and normally I don't see those drops when I play videogames ...
And there isn't optionnal graphics settings like Horizon where you can choose Performance over Resolution ...
Played 24 hours so far. Probably half of it in the multiplayer. Really happy how it turned out. I was a bit worried after DAI's mp but this feels just right and like ME3 just with improved movement.
I still miss the Quarian though. They need to add them with one of the expansions.
Singleplayer is a bit of a surprise for me. None of the footage before release was especially exciting. Even though I love Mass Effect I wasn't really hyped for Andromeda. Primarily bought it for the multiplayer.
But so far I'm enjoying it a lot.
The tone in this game is really very different compared to Shepard's story. Just finished the first planet and with the debriefing and then talking with some of my crew the game somehow reminded me a lot more of Saints Row. It's way more light hearted and goofy and I love how I can just try to flirt with almost everyone on the ship and the awkward and funny reactions.
Not exactly what I expected and I can see why people might not like the writing.
Besides that the open world at least on the first planet fortunately doesn't feel bloated like DAI's hinterland so I'm ok with that and combat is really fun.
If there isn't a sudden drop in quality going forward I think I will have a great time with this game. So far I like it a lot.
I still miss the Quarian though. They need to add them with one of the expansions.
Singleplayer is a bit of a surprise for me. None of the footage before release was especially exciting. Even though I love Mass Effect I wasn't really hyped for Andromeda. Primarily bought it for the multiplayer.
But so far I'm enjoying it a lot.
The tone in this game is really very different compared to Shepard's story. Just finished the first planet and with the debriefing and then talking with some of my crew the game somehow reminded me a lot more of Saints Row. It's way more light hearted and goofy and I love how I can just try to flirt with almost everyone on the ship and the awkward and funny reactions.
Not exactly what I expected and I can see why people might not like the writing.
Besides that the open world at least on the first planet fortunately doesn't feel bloated like DAI's hinterland so I'm ok with that and combat is really fun.
If there isn't a sudden drop in quality going forward I think I will have a great time with this game. So far I like it a lot.
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
OMG, this needs to be a mod ASAP!!
Driving around with the ME:T + DA + BG soundtracks..oh and KotOR for good measure
CommandThrower
Member
I'm loving this APEX HQ phone app. I won't be able to put any serious play time into Andromeda until next week, and this app is allowing me to get in game loot in the meantime.
Yep except the rems, they have flying dogs.
truestatic
Member
Doing the sidequest
on Eos and
On insanity
Making an Impression
fighting the Architect quest boss.
this is kind of dumb. It's not especially difficult, but the health bar is hilariously enormous, and after a 15 minute grind he just randomly one shot me while flying above me whiel I was pursuing him after destroying his second leg.
I have the same bug. :/