The 2nd Bioware Games Thread - Andromeda Done

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Spoilers for post Eos main mission
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What did you do with the protestors? I agreed with them but idk if this is gonna bite me in the « Mr.Gourmet's hat » or not. I just can't handle people hating me despite my pragmatism XD
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Dark Angel wrote:Spoilers for post Eos main mission
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What did you do with the protestors? I agreed with them but idk if this is gonna bite me in the « Mr.Gourmet's hat » or not. I just can't handle people hating me despite my pragmatism XD
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I got the people out of cyro for them even though it might bite me in the butt later (maybe later games if there are any) because Kandros said it like teaches them that protesting works... but like, families man, I still feel good about my decision.
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Dark Angel wrote:Spoilers for post Eos main mission
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What did you do with the protestors? I agreed with them but idk if this is gonna bite me in the « Mr.Gourmet's hat » or not. I just can't handle people hating me despite my pragmatism XD
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I didn't take their families out of cryo. I felt like things are way too unstable to just thaw people out for the heck of it and they're not the only ones missing their families. They gave up pretty calmly, it didn't really feel like it made a big difference? Who knows, maybe they'll try to assassinate me later!
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For protest mission
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apparently only difference/effect later on is that if u take them out early apparently there is a cameo/shout out later or something.

Doesn't matter much in terms of consequences outside if that
In other news I am in love with both Reyes and Gil and need to start my gay broryder file soon but now im stuck with who to romance. Reyes is more exciting but...orange. Gil is more "safe" but from what I've seen/heard his romance sounds very cute/promising.

On a side note, im super hella thirsty for some male turians. Avitus and Kandros are killing meeee
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(also kandros' relation to nyreen breaks my heart, i loved her...
Vetra is definitely gonna be my main LI for my first play through. What a babe. /swoons

Her conversations with drack are really heartwarming. ALSO HER AND KESH. Sid is great.
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For protest mission
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I got them out of cryo. I know there are others who are waiting on their families, but I might as well try to appease everyone.
I'm liking all these characters, they're growing on me.

I really want to romance all of these characters. I'm stuck on Peebee because I haven't gotten her loyalty mission yet. Got everyone else's and I finished Jaal's last night. Made me wish I was romancing him in this file. But no, I need to finish Peebee's and Keri's romance. Even Avela is interesting me even though I'm not a fan of the female angara design.

Kadara spoilers. Probably important to romance Reyes fully.
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I did mess up with Reyes though. I saved Sloane Kelly's life and now he's underground. Let the sniper take the shot if you're planning on romancing Reyes!
Oh, there is a way to increase your inventory: spend AVP in the last tab. I've done it twice and now I can hold 80 items
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For protest mission
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Because I knew it didn't have many implications I decided to get them out, in reality, I would have refused them because like tann (or whomever it is) said, protesting will only happen more in the future.
Also there have been a few decisions made where I felt it was an unnecessary tension and things could have been resolved with a little thinking for both sides...
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I do exclude the kallo/gil one from this cause that one was resolved later on
Yeah the batch of characters are amazing and hilarious, bioware did a really good job with the characters this turn around, even peebee. Ironically mass effect andromeda feels like what I expected dragon age inquisition advertisement would feel like (still less consequences than they probably should have implemented), but overall the quests and stuff feel a lot like what was promised in DAI (especially the vault things, I wonder sometimes if they removed that from dragon age inquisition to put into adromeda)
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ARGH! These choices man! Main story spoilers
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SO I managed to track the Archon's ship, which has the salarian ark and the choice at the end is to choose between the salarians with their pathfinder and krogans. I chose the krogan mainly because I took Drack with me, but I WISH I COULD HAVE SAVED THEM BOTH! ARGH! ANDROMEDA!
Edit: Main story-ish spoilers
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THEY PUT IN GARRUS'S FATHER!
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Started my gaybroryder file. He's not nearly as cute as my sisryder but ill live. Kind of regret going with "Scott" tho. Just feels off.

Gotta say both VAs are good tho. Altho biased towards sisryders.
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So I got ME:A a couple of days ago and I'm enjoying it so far :) Having only played the first 3 games a couple of months ago it's definitely different playing ME as a new release when everything's "fresh" and there aren't guides that tell you how every little thing affects everything across games lol.
The hardest part for me right now is going from one shooterish game (Horizon:Zero Dawn) to another. I keep pressing L1 to change my weapon and I end up wasting my skill ;^;

Right now I'm on Havarl/Voeld and here's a couple things that amuse me so far (minor spoilers maybe?)
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-This isn't even that funny and idk why but I love the Assemblers' legs. Those robo gams are hilarious to me :lol:.
-I have way too much fun driving through Kett bases with the nomad.
-The turret is so great especially since you can throw it in the middle of enemies and kinda behind their cover. Flamethrower is also really good for enemies that try to get in your face.
-if you use your scanner while being escorted on Aya the guards point their weapons at you and yell to put in away. Idk if they'll actually do anything but I thought it was a nice little touch.
-The space nightmare whales (I can't remember what they're actually called rn) under the ice on Voeld are really cool and another cool touch.
-Right now my team is Jaal and Peebee. During one of their banters he asked if Asari believe in the reincarnation because an Asari said she was a dancer in the afterlife. Peebee goes "lol, no it's a bar, although after she left she probably felt reborn." What made that funnier to my is that I haven't been to Nexus with him yet and unless there's more background Asari in the Tempest Lexi and Peebee are the only ones he's met soooooo...
Surprisingly I'm using a lot more tech skills that I expected. So to start a discussion: what skills are everyone else using the most?
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I just saw Peebee's love scene for myself and I love it, but why do I have a feeling she's going to be my least favorite romance option? After choosing Blackwall first in Inquisition it's just how I feel about choosing Peebee right now.

I think I'm almost done with Keri's romance as well. I feel bad for cheating on Peebee with her, but this shouldn't get back to Peebee.

Also, I'm almost done with the main story and I believe I have enough time to do a new game + before Persona 5 comes out. Problem being that I was so sure I was going to romance Vetra next, but all these characters are just so good I'm unsure if I'm going for Vetra next or not.

Edit: Yeah, Keri's romance is...well, let me compare it to Shi'ira, Kelly, Samara, Morinth, James and Javik. All of those romances are much better than Keri's whether combined or separate.
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Katgirl wrote:So I got ME:A a couple of days ago and I'm enjoying it so far :) Having only played the first 3 games a couple of months ago it's definitely different playing ME as a new release when everything's "fresh" and there aren't guides that tell you how every little thing affects everything across games lol.
The hardest part for me right now is going from one shooterish game (Horizon:Zero Dawn) to another. I keep pressing L1 to change my weapon and I end up wasting my skill ;^;

Right now I'm on Havarl/Voeld and here's a couple things that amuse me so far (minor spoilers maybe?)
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-This isn't even that funny and idk why but I love the Assemblers' legs. Those robo gams are hilarious to me :lol:.
-I have way too much fun driving through Kett bases with the nomad.
-The turret is so great especially since you can throw it in the middle of enemies and kinda behind their cover. Flamethrower is also really good for enemies that try to get in your face.
-if you use your scanner while being escorted on Aya the guards point their weapons at you and yell to put in away. Idk if they'll actually do anything but I thought it was a nice little touch.
-The space nightmare whales (I can't remember what they're actually called rn) under the ice on Voeld are really cool and another cool touch.
-Right now my team is Jaal and Peebee. During one of their banters he asked if Asari believe in the reincarnation because an Asari said she was a dancer in the afterlife. Peebee goes "lol, no it's a bar, although after she left she probably felt reborn." What made that funnier to my is that I haven't been to Nexus with him yet and unless there's more background Asari in the Tempest Lexi and Peebee are the only ones he's met soooooo...
Surprisingly I'm using a lot more tech skills that I expected. So to start a discussion: what skills are everyone else using the most?
@ regarding voeld stuff mentioned
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Do they actually show the yevara/ice space whales at any point? Cause I wanted to see them but they never seemed to show them off (out of the ice, obv).
I did mainly biotic for my female ryder, but going with a more tech approach in dude file. Trying to also mix around some abilities and get a better grip on the battle mechanics. Overload in particular is especially helpful with the remnant, which I've been struggling with for awhile in my gal file.

Also yesss. I think the way the Assemblers waddle/stuff is so cute. They're designs are really cute, I hate having to shoot them.
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@Brose
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Yup you can actually see them! I saw one by the Angara settlement thing (I think it's called Techiix). I think I heard them before I actually saw one, but just hang around out there while looking through the ice and you should see one pass by. You can only really see their silhouette, but you'll know it when you see it.
I'll probably put more points into biotic if only to get to barrier, but I have such horrible aim I usually leave throw/pull/nova to squadmates lol. And I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes the leg machines lol. They're my favorite enemy so far <3
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I've been using Charge, Nova, and Lance. I breeze through most fights (playing on normal) but some things are really not friendly for characters that get up close so I might get some more ranged skills so that I'm not counting on squad mates who can barely hit anything unless they're throwing grenades at it. 1-hit kills with no chance to break out of them suck and force me to play more cautiously than I usually would.

I locked in Liam's romance because I'm dedicated to my pre-release choices no matter how much I want to bang the aliens and it's... cute so far. It kind of feels like many of the romances in the previous games that were nice but as you're playing through them you can tell they weren't a priority.

Also ran into a bug during a Reyes' mission where he turned invisible and I couldn't talk to him. Good thing I save every 10 minutes.

Do any of you experience the game locking up at random for like a second? Playing on PS4 and it kept happening to me in one of the Veold settlements and sometimes when I'm driving.
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Panda Parfait wrote:Do any of you experience the game locking up at random for like a second? Playing on PS4 and it kept happening to me in one of the Veold settlements and sometimes when I'm driving.
I do and I noticed it's when it's auto-saving. It does the same thing when I talk to someone on the Tempest and try to talk to them again.

I'm on the final mission, guys.
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It's SO satisfying to see everyone you've saved help you in the final battle. I recognize some faces and voices that are helping! It benefits to do almost everything before the final mission!
Ending spoilers
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Oh man, they're talking about a council and Ryder gets to support an intern ambassador. Choices are Moshae, August Bradly, Nakmor Morda and the Salarian Pathfinder. I'm choosing Moshae this playthrough, but I'm curious about giving krogan a say in power.
And with that, I'm setting up my Bro!Ryder in new game +. For those wondering about it (Spoilering just in case)
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When choosing new game +, you just select a file and it brings you back to the character customization. You can change everything and anything you want. I believe everything carries over, your strike teams, your research and your spent and unspent points as well as anything in your inventory. I don't like that my backpack reset to 50 from 80, but, then again, I don't have AVP unlocked.
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Cool that you beat the game Ronin! Glad you liked it?

How many hours did it take you? Are there many story missions? Do you have to do too much exploring/side content in order to move the plot along? I think I'm picking up the game again this week but kinda wanna do things as fast as possible, just doing the main things and the character missions. Didn't adapt well to PC so dropped the game little after the prologue, but still very curious about it.
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