Current Events > I just wanna play Andromeda

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final hour count 87 hours about 6 were in multi...a couple hours of being tabbed out, still a long ass game that didn't feel like it was dragging until about 60 hours as someone doing pretty much every quest that wasn't one of those task. Final mission is great.
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Andromada beat, P5 comes tuesday, *twiddle thumbs* guess i'll do multi
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I got a Widow, which means you better hope no one else is playing infiltrator besides you because you'll be reloading all the time
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do people not understand the disable device mission or are people just especially redacted today?

two times today i've failed because not only am i the only one trying to get divces the rest of my team is on the other half of the map so they aren't even providing cover...or even at least taking the hydra/ascendent/krogans with them.
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been noticing that a lot lately

it's like, I hope you're an engineer or a sentinel so you can set up some form of defense while you solo the devices
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also, krogan engineer makes me sad

she has the same power set as the ME3 MP default engineer (which is better than ME:A's), but she has that huge krogan hitbox which is bad for a lightly armored power based class
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In a year that's already given us RE7, Nier, Horizon, Gravity Rush 2, Nioh, Yakuza 0 etc. etc., you want to play that mess?
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Jamanjax posted...

In a year that's already given us RE7, Nier, Horizon, Gravity Rush 2, Nioh, Yakuza 0 etc. etc., you want to play that mess?

I don't play weeb trash
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chill02 posted...

Jamanjax posted...

In a year that's already given us RE7, Nier, Horizon, Gravity Rush 2, Nioh, Yakuza 0 etc. etc., you want to play that mess?

I don't play weeb trash

Nah you just play unfinished trash
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Jamanjax posted...

chill02 posted...

Jamanjax posted...

In a year that's already given us RE7, Nier, Horizon, Gravity Rush 2, Nioh, Yakuza 0 etc. etc., you want to play that mess?

I don't play weeb trash

Nah you just play unfinished trash

which was more fun than weeb trash, go figure
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I need to give this game another chance, I've only put a couple hours in but so far it hasn't grabbed me.
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second half of the game is way better than the first half
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Been enjoying the game so far, but I keep getting bogged down due to all the million sidequests. I like how quests that can't currently be done (generally) say "on hold" somewhere, so I know not to waste energy searching around.

PS: Drack 4 Lyfe
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Shotgunnova posted...

Been enjoying the game so far, but I keep getting bogged down due to all the million sidequests

it's not as bad as DA:I, but yeah, 80 hours @.@ i'd keep saying, "okay i'll just do this quest and then i'll get back to the main story" from like 60 hours on and kept doing the side quest >_>
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Getting from Nexus to any planet takes forever, so I don't have a "I'll put this menial garbage off for later" mindset. At least some of Eos' quests have been enjoyable, unlike DA:I's fetch-questy nightmare.
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I ignored all of the things under Tasks >_>

Also, yeah, Drack is both the most useful and most interesting companion of the group
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i just started playing the game, and it's pissing me off.

i just got to the part where you meet Peebee, and the game has crashed three times already.
is this a common issue for everyone or just me?
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I had 3 or 4 crashes across the 80 hours. And 2 quest I needed to reload to get working.
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I never had crashes on single player but Peebee's loyalty quest broke for me at some point
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I've had one crash, but I think it was Origin's fault rather than the game's. Origin can get pissy when I alt-tab and do stuff in the background. It's happened with other games too.
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I haven't had any crashes, though I'm only up to Aya. Mostly been focusing on Eos not being a kett-ridden hellscape.
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Shotgunnova posted...

Been enjoying the game so far, but I keep getting bogged down due to all the million sidequests. I like how quests that can't currently be done (generally) say "on hold" somewhere, so I know not to waste energy searching around.

PS: Drack 4 Lyfe

"Finally finished this side quest, oh wait this leads into another 3 hour side quest okay, got that done. Wait, this leads into another side quest? Ok, fine, wait it leads to another etc etc"

It's like Inquisition on steroids.

I'm glad Eos had that radiation thing to coax you into going elsewhere otherwise I probably would have stayed there for 20 hours.
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Shotgunnova posted...

I haven't had any crashes, though I'm only up to Aya. Mostly been focusing on Eos not being a kett-ridden hellscape.

the Kett base assault is very nice
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chill02 posted...

Shotgunnova posted...

I haven't had any crashes, though I'm only up to Aya. Mostly been focusing on Eos not being a kett-ridden hellscape.

the Kett base assault is very nice

Some sidequests are more interesting/exciting than the main quest, I'll give it that.
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the loyalty quests are great (except Peebee's because I never got to that point)
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I like Andromeda a lot more than GOTY winner Dragon Age Inquisition. Game gets a little longish at times, but I have had a lot of fun with it. Don't know where all the "offensively bad writing and characters, what an insult to the series" backlash it has been getting is coming from. The only character that I couldn't fucking stand is Addison. She really was poorly put together. While no one on the Tempest is my favorite ME shipmate, there are no Jacobs or James Vegas here. Jaal and Drack might be up there with the best. This is just Mass Effect with a little more optimism and lightheartedness. I love how the characters just seem to be more...alive than in the other games. They chat with each other on the ship, walk around, have multi-part conversations while exploring with you.
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"Finally finished this side quest, oh wait this leads into another 3 hour side quest okay, got that done. Wait, this leads into another side quest? Ok, fine, wait it leads to another etc etc" It's like Inquisition on steroids.

I won't pretend there aren't some dumb quests (like the one to find 16 unscanned rocks), but since forward bases are instant fast travel and refill all your ammo, it's not as hectic after most of the map's explored. That one boring-sounding mission to crack the water tables where you end up fighting a huge-ass Remnant Architect was pretty sweet.
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hockeybub89 posted...

They chat with each other on the ship, walk around, have multi-part conversations while exploring with you.

That's one thing I really appreciate about Andromeda. Squadmates actually talking to each other during exploration was very nice, something I did wish was done in the OT (tho ME3 did have them talking to each other on the Normandy)
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Shotgunnova posted...

I won't pretend there aren't some dumb quests (like the one to find 16 unscanned rocks

That's a task, which is where most of the dull mmo quest go. And they separate them as task so you know they aren't really story relevant
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Why did it take me this long to start experimenting with Pull's secondary fire? Throwing enemies off the map is wicked fun.
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I usually don't give a damn about biotics and stuff, but all my other techniques are capped by power cell limits, so I might switch over. =|
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I wonder how viable would it be to play a soldier that relies on non-cooldown based powers and guns

I'm thinking frag grenade, sticky grenade, and barricade?
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Not every encampment resupplies power cells, so as someone who ran Barricade/Frag Grenade/Trip Mine all this time, it's not a super amazing loadout. On the bright side, you can carry as many weapons as you want, since the power cooldown penalty doesn't apply. Barricade is amazing, though...I'll probably keep that for surprise flanking.
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it has its uses when playing a human sentinel online, especially during hacking segments
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LOL @ A Trail of Hope quest when you get given two crappy decisions for hostages, so you can just do the "save everyone" option than shoot the kett Cardinal anyway. I don't know if the weapon is randomized, but I had a shotgun out and it was hilarious. This game could use more sudden renegade actions.
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Ivynn posted...

hockeybub89 posted...

They chat with each other on the ship, walk around, have multi-part conversations while exploring with you.

That's one thing I really appreciate about Andromeda. Squadmates actually talking to each other during exploration was very nice, something I did wish was done in the OT (tho ME3 did have them talking to each other on the Normandy)

Mine will say one liners, but I haven't had multi part conversations while out exploring a planet. :\
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Shotgunnova posted...

LOL @ A Trail of Hope quest when you get given two crappy decisions for hostages, so you can just do the "save everyone" option than shoot the kett Cardinal anyway. I don't know if the weapon is randomized, but I had a shotgun out and it was hilarious. This game could use more sudden renegade actions.

I saved the hostages, then noticed I had the chance to shoot that kett in the face and took it. Shame I had the Revenant out so it had a bit less oomph
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I wasn't paying attention and missed the prompt.
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spanky1 posted...

Ivynn posted...

hockeybub89 posted...

They chat with each other on the ship, walk around, have multi-part conversations while exploring with you.

That's one thing I really appreciate about Andromeda. Squadmates actually talking to each other during exploration was very nice, something I did wish was done in the OT (tho ME3 did have them talking to each other on the Normandy)

Mine will say one liners, but I haven't had multi part conversations while out exploring a planet. :\

They probably aren't more than 3 parts or so, but if I was out there long enough, voice lines would carry out in a certain logical order over time and actually sound like a conversation with a beginning and end. I think each squad pairing probably had a couple and I'm not sure if they would repeat if concluded. They were cool human-like bonding moments.
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A lot of random crew chatter when driving around is just one-liners about a subject trying to seem organically composed. It's very noticeable due to the oft-repeated order of speaking. For me, I'd get some okay convos, but it's always in Vetra-Ryder-Drack order, so the interchangable nature is pretty obvious. Not saying it's terrible or anything. Some convos are normal in a DA:I chit-chat way.
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hockeybub89 posted...

They probably aren't more than 3 parts or so, but if I was out there long enough, voice lines would carry out in a certain logical order over time and actually sound like a conversation with a beginning and end. I think each squad pairing probably had a couple and I'm not sure if they would repeat if concluded. They were cool human-like bonding moments

Yeah drak and vetra have a conversation about her daddy issues that took place in between me killing Kett on the sand planet
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I remember that convo. The tail end was something like:

Vetra: "I wish you could've raised us, old man"
Drack: "You would have turned out so much worse. Might be a better shot, though."
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Fuck sudoku
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just put the squiggly thing under the z like thing
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I didn't travel 600 years in an ice cube tray to play sudoku garbage.
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i've come across the Sudoku thing once so far.

is that gonna be used a lot?
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ROBANN_88 posted...

i've come across the Sudoku thing once so far.

is that gonna be used a lot?

Yes

Let me put it this way - they're literally patching in the ability to readily buy the item that lets you skip it entirely due to fan backlash
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There's like 12 of them and only one that is of any difficulty.
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it's probably the only in game puzzle I've ever had fun with and I normally hate them >_>

stuff like "connect the points" thing from ME2 or the Fallout "word hacking", though? screw that
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Or lock picking...
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