Least Favorite Squadmate in Andromeda

I found PeeWee annoying with her nerdy voice and eye makeup.

Liam was an okay character. Decent but far from great

Jacob Liam.

I don't dislike any of the squad mates. In fact, I really, really enjoy this cast of squad mates even more than ME1's and definitely more than ME3's. Nothing beats my beloved ME2 squad mates though.

If I had to rank them from favorite to least favorite though, it would go like this:

1. Jaal
2. Cora
3. Vetra
4. Liam
5. Peebee
6. Drack

I don't hate Drack. Krogan are just not my favorite race, and he seems like every other krogan we've ever had as a squad mate or even just met in general. There's not much variation to krogan unfortunately. I like Kesh a lot better than Drack. I wish she was our squad mate.

I will admit during the loyalty mission for Cora. I was getting annoyed at her mentioning the stupid teachings of that asari to the other asari. I did want to say shut up for that.

I actually think I pretty much at least tolerated everyone by the end. Cora was annoying with her asari stuff, but it was obviously meant to set up her loyalty mission where she learned that There Are No Heroes and so on. I just thought her writing was the shoddiest. I have a feeling they were thinking of a DA mage rather than an ME biotic, because she's at least 5 to 10 years younger than Kaidan and doesn't even seem to have the potentially dangerous L2 implant, yet she was soooo discriminated against for being sooooo great. Maybe she could channel some of that immense power that the whole world was afraid of into her suicidal charges in in-game combat.

Also, the fact that you have to comfort and reassure her after

Liam just because he can get annoying at times.. dude would you just shut up already.

- Wolf

This is actually a problem I have with basically all the squad mates. They all seem to be about ONE issue and they shove it down your throat EVERY SINGLE TIME!

So Liam has a story about "one time, in summer camp crisis response..."
Cora is the non0risk-taker who has more daddy issues with Ryder's father then Ryder him/herself
Vetra is the "older sister"(tm) to every-f*ing-one
Peebee is soooo independent and unattached
Jaal is that alien of that race that is so open with their feelings, he cannot tell you enough how open he is with his feelings
Drack still seems to be the most diverse of them because at least his shtick is how he is the old experienced guy who's seen it all already (and that offers some diversity in his stories at least).

These characters don't show their personalities, they tell you about their personalities, they are like self-analyzing psychologists who can now finally explain to Ryder who they really are. That's not good character writing, it clumsy and feels unnatural. The MET characters mostly did not have this problem. You could have conversations with them about different topics and they had more then one personality trait and background to draw from (e.g. Ash in ME1 talks about her family a lot but you also have  conversation about her religious beliefs ro how she fells about aliens. It's all connected of course but it's not always the same song all over again.
Or look at Wrex, at the beginning, you think he's just that rough krogan merc. It's only over time that you realize there is more to him, that he was a leader among his people who wanted to fight the consequences of the genophage but got pushed out and betrayed by his over-conservative father.
He also doesn't outright tell you his persnality traits like the ME:A characters do. he never has a line like "I am rough and tough on the outside because I am Krogan but I am actually a thoughtful guy who like to think problems through before acting decisively. I care deeply about my people, just don't like to show it outright because you know, rough on the outside and all but that's who I am and maybe there is some wisdom in what I propose for the krogan."
You figure that out while talking to him about stuff that actually concerns you, like when he worked with Saren or when you can actually reason with him about the genophage on Virmire. It's show don't tell.
Instead, ME:A gives us Liam's: "I like to feel it, do it and I have to make Andromeda work or this would have been a mistake and I would just feel bad...", Vetras "I know I can be overprotective but it is because I had to care for my sister since we were little, so now I am trying to do it for everyone, yadda yadda" ot Jaal's "We angara like to show our feelings..." (he says that in his first conversation with you by the way, how does he even know that, compared to a species he has no experience with, angara are actually more openly emotional? ahhh, anyway).

This is all tell, not show where it should be the age old rule show, don't tell.

I actually has to say Cora but not because I hate her. It's because she's the one I'm least interested in due to how much of dialogue feels like a rehash of previous conversations with her. She has some good moments of character and interesting bits in her chat but it dosen't feel like the topic of conversation with her changes or progresses like it does with other characters. Unlike Vivienne, it dosen't feel like it is intentional like you're suppose to learn about her primarily from her banter with other characters and her culture.
That's just my opinion, though.

LIAM IT IS 

Nice to see Liam is #1.

It's funny 'cause before the game he was the companion I was most excited to meet. But he is just everything I hoped he wouldn't be: boring, generic, naive, annoying 'nice guy.' Meh. Jacob is better (but Vega is still the worst). Liam is an idealist who does things without thinking about consequences, just playing the hero (like Conrad Verner kind of), and when things go wrong he blames the universe for being 'unfair.' lol. I so wish rivalry was a thing in MEA.

His personal quest and the following fallout was good (though it could have been taken further) and there's been some other nice moments like that, but I don't just care about him really. He doesn't even annoy me, he just... is. Weak character. He sort of reminds me of Corso Riggs. Except Corso had a lot more personality and was actually cool. Perhaps it also has to do with MEA's overall disappointing dialogue and writing. Most of the companions don't most often seem to care about what Ryder does and (unlike SWTOR) there aren't that many different choices or approaches to situations, so that's probably why...