mcz117chief
Member
multiplayer is a blast, 10/10 game and I don't even need to touch the singleplayer. Mass Effect became my new Call of Duty.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda |OT| Ryders on the Storm
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KingParappa
Neo Member
I saw the message on the board and laughed then walked around the ship and saw him with it and nearly died.
HelloNewman
Member
I tweeted the lead dev for multiplayer about the lack of connection bars to the host he said their looking into adding them.
Try using Annihilation upgraded for shields returned on enemy killed inside the field, along with Lance upgraded to use shields without a cooldown, then upgrade Barrier (I think) for even more shields returned on kill. This way you can detonate enemies inside the field every second or so and still have barriers left when you are done.
shitty host
yankeehater
Member
You have to put points into the category that increases health and shields.
I have put in just over 6 hours and 'beat' Eos and I'm kinda sad. It reminds me of dating a new person after you broke up with someone, and you are doing the same kinda things.. like going to the same restaurant you used to go to.. and while it's still ok, everything just feels like it was better before. It could just be genre burnout, and Mass Effect has always been 'Go do mission -> go back to ship and talk to people -> go do mission' but it never has felt so obvious until this version. And of course, the dead animation and awful lip sync mean i'm just reading the subtitles more than watching the conversations.
I'm on most nights and my friend plays late like me as well. I'll keep an eye out for you. I know you were playing sp so I didn't interrupt you. You can also always jump in the xbl party / message if you want in. Right now we are feeling out some characters and testing some guns. It will be nice to move onto silver missions soon enough. I'll keep an eye out later for you
RedlineRonin
Member
How far in are you?
About 30 hours in so far. I'm on
doing the mission
. Considering taking a break from the critical path to get some side stuff in, but wanted to know from people ahead of me how close I am in terms of progression. I haven't completed any loyalty missions or found any
yet.
Kadara
Hunting the Archon
arks
The game really reminds me of ME1 of how slowly it starts. Not feeling the combat at all, it doesn't have any of the tightness ME2 had. The weapons are also too weak, at least in the beginning.
Voice acting is ok, but not winning any awards. Lip sync is pretty awful.
I don't understand why Bioware (and Bethesda) want to force family relations in their games. I really really don't connect with these strangers that are supposed to be your family at all.
But I just got to the Exodus for the first time and it starts to feel like a Mass Effect game at last.
Voice acting is ok, but not winning any awards. Lip sync is pretty awful.
I don't understand why Bioware (and Bethesda) want to force family relations in their games. I really really don't connect with these strangers that are supposed to be your family at all.
But I just got to the Exodus for the first time and it starts to feel like a Mass Effect game at last.
TheWorthyEdge
Member
Wow. This is actually a great analogy of how I think I feel.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I'm having a tough time figuring out damage numbers I crafted an inferno sniper rifle and added charging plasma and electricity to it and it does no damage at all. Crafted another one with no changing augmentations and gonna see how good it is.
Am I mistaken or Kinetic Coil the single best augmentation?
Probably about a good 12 hours. It's just Mass Effect and firmly has it's hooks in me in the same way the old games did. Having a squad, traveling the stars, uncovering mysteries, exploring planets, fighting for a cause and trying to prove yourself. All of that is just more substantial in terms of fun for me.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
The
Ark mission was splendid. Vistas, story, locale are great only the boss encounters are still quite bad but in regards to missions Andromeda might be the best in the series.
Asari
Royal_Phalanx
Member
Sara trailer is out, a small amount of romance spoilers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2jGJt-CFdM
I feel bad for the marketing people lol, they tried to find the good stuff said by reviewers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2jGJt-CFdM
I feel bad for the marketing people lol, they tried to find the good stuff said by reviewers
Inceptional
Member
Yea I was real high on it as well, proclaiming it not only my favorite game of 2017 but of all-time after TLOU and UC2. But I'm actually way more engrossed in Nier and Andromeda than I ever was with Horizon...so strange.
At lvl 13 I got 1 point in team support and 4 in combat fitness so I have been. My stats are still lower then all my crew.
Ryder 543 health 291 shield
Cora 672 health 700 shield
Drack 644 health 588 shield
BronsonLee
Member
Yeah but I think you can swap in the pause/skills menu anytime
RedlineRonin
Member
Interesting. I just finished Horizon and adored it. and ME2 is likely my favorite game of all time, for all the reasons you just mentioned above.
Oddly though, As I play more (I just picked up Jaal, as an idea for how far in i am), it just makes me very nostalgic for those older games. Enough has been written that I don't need to add to about ME:A characters being "re-skinned" from 1-3 that i mostly agree with, but yet, I'm still with you. I think even a "bad" (or whatever) ME game, is still an ME game, and there just isn't anything else out there doing sci fi like it.
I was blown away by Horizon though; it does so many things so well, and has what seems like fresher, newer gameplay mechanics. ME:A seems like a tps. a really good one, that's hands down the best the formula has been, but still a tps.
I like it plenty so far, for the same reasons you do I think, but Horizon just struck me in a way no game has in quite some time.
I'm hoping I'll love ME:A even more as i keep playing through.
MegaSackman
Member
I'm barely five to six hours into the game but am I going to ever replace Cora and Vetra as companions (not counting loyalty missions of course)? Because I don't see how I would want to. Afro guy looks uninteresting but mostly I left him behind Vetra because he was always the first to die.
I know that there are at least three other characters, I've just met Peebe and no, won't be my first choice ever. That leaves the most horrible alien I have ever seen (not met him yet) and the new Krogan who could have a chance... maybe.
I know that there are at least three other characters, I've just met Peebe and no, won't be my first choice ever. That leaves the most horrible alien I have ever seen (not met him yet) and the new Krogan who could have a chance... maybe.
RedlineRonin
Member
I've loved "the most horrible alien you've ever seen" in my very brief time with him. He's really entertaining.
Also, I bring Drack, probably mostly because I miss Grunt =/
Don't get me wrong, I still love Horizon to death and think Aloy is one of the best characters to come around in a long time. Mass Effect just does more for me on the whole with the formula I listed and will be far more replayable for those reasons as well. But that's just me.
FrontalMonk
Banned
Yeah, this is definitely true. The openings in ME games were always ones that tried to introduce you to the world and giving you some mysteries to uncover as the game went on, but the stakes were so much higher in 2 and 3 that trying to come back down from "shit's fucked yo" to "oh, this is interesting. this is intriguing. I wonder where they're going with this?" is a big step down in terms of short term investment into the game. IMO I don't think this is bad, necessarily, it just doesn't have the same kind of extreme tension off the bat that the other ME games went for (and arguably hit or missed, depending).
And the combat is one of those things, I noticed, that has always been a sticking point in the early game throughout the series. Until you unlock more and better powers, and until you get something more interesting than the starter pistol and the starter assault rifle, the combat in ME:A has sucked as bad as the combat in the beginning of every ME game has sucked.
Just dropping in to say that Jaal is one of my favorite Mass Effect squadmates.
I was driving in the Nomad with him and Cora, and they had a conversation about her biotics.
The Nomad banter is pretty great in general from what I've seen.
I was driving in the Nomad with him and Cora, and they had a conversation about her biotics.
He asked if it hurt when she used biotics. She said that when she uses her full strength, it feels like a really powerful sneeze. Jaal asked what a sneeze was.
The Nomad banter is pretty great in general from what I've seen.
They 'removed' that feature for this game (my guess: they didn't have time to implement it like so many other features in the game)
I'm enjoying the game so far, but then again I'm a huge Mass Effect fan. ME2 is my favorite video game of all time. I wish character creation was more detailed. Gameplay is fun though.
Also, I'm not sure if it was posted but there's an Risitas parody on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF8iLeDbJvQ
Also, I'm not sure if it was posted but there's an Risitas parody on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF8iLeDbJvQ
RedlineRonin
Member
This is exactly why I love Jaal. I'm excited for the rest of the story with him alongside.
Shadow Broker
Banned
How fast can I do the Ark missions? I want to find the Asari Ark but don't know if the missions needs to be unlocked or I find it by luck.
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
I'm in the same boat, Horizon is beautiful and a great story, but I'm just enjoying Andromeda more.
I'm 38 hours into ME:A, spent 45 hours (that I really loved) with Horizon and awesome Aloy.
I enjoyed Horizon far more personally, and I'm a longtime ME fan. I'm enjoying Andromeda, but the side quests aren't really doing anything for me. In Horizon I sought after every quest and piece of content I could find because I was just having such a blast. I put in 65 hours into Horizon + platinumed + 100% completion and I still wanted to play more.
RAIDEN1
Member
I think this is the first time where a game I was looking forward to getting, I'm now holding out on till there is a stability patch! As some have mentioned about completing some side quests but the game not recognising that you have done so!
There should be a time-frame as to when these will be sorted, instead the patch released doesn't even address half the issues that need looking at!
There should be a time-frame as to when these will be sorted, instead the patch released doesn't even address half the issues that need looking at!
I haven't played Horizon but I feel the same about this game. Absolutely loving it about 16 hours in and I'm hesitant to say before I finish it but it might end up being my favorite ME game. I really like ME1 and ME2 was really great but took the series in a different direction than I personally was looking for after the first. ME:A brings exactly what I wanted which was a lot more exploration that is good and it's improved combat is a lot of fun, so far the overall story is interesting too because of it not being such an urgent save the world scenario.
I got Nier: Automata at the same time and while that game has been great I've been drawn to playing Andromeda a lot more. Going between the two has been gaming bliss though.
arts&crafts
Member
So I chose my first Viability perk and it was the one that said it locates caches near those Pods you place. I went to my next planet and I did not notice anything different. What is this perk supposed to do? Do the caches show up on my map? Do they glow?
One thing I appreciate about this game is the sense of real companionship with the Tempest crew. As good as the old games were, none of the party members, except for maybe in 3, interacted with each other outside of missions. They each stayed in their corners of the ship until Shepard came to talk.
It's something I really noticed in my recent replay of Mass Effect 2. As large and as great as that cast is, absolutely none of them (except Miranda/Jack and Tali/Legion in maybe two instances) talk to one another. They don't pal around, send emails, anything. You can ask Jack what she thinks of Thane or Samara, but you can never actually see that worked out in the narrative.
It's something I really noticed in my recent replay of Mass Effect 2. As large and as great as that cast is, absolutely none of them (except Miranda/Jack and Tali/Legion in maybe two instances) talk to one another. They don't pal around, send emails, anything. You can ask Jack what she thinks of Thane or Samara, but you can never actually see that worked out in the narrative.
I think that is also a result of the lighthearted nature of this game too though. Original trilogy was a mad dash to stop the Reapers, so the crew was more focused. In ME:A, they're more laid back because they're just exploring the galaxy looking for new habitats to colonize. At least, that's my interpretation of it.
truestatic
Member
I really wish favourites was more incentivized. The cooldown incurred by favourite swapping is punishing enough that I barely ever swap between my two existing favourites schemes, and have zero motivation to build additional ones.
arts&crafts
Member
Krogan guy appears to be really good. I put all his skills into melee and his melee move and he is doing lots of damage and not dying. I am trying Jaal now too as I just got him we will see.
MegaSackman
Member
Ok, couldn't have long sessions of gaming yet due to work but I have a three days weekend starting tomorrow so, time to shine.