HELP MEEEEE

Yeah I just can't stand to play any more, SAM being one of the reasons. I'll just go play a Ludicrous map in GalCiv for the next however long it takes to get a decent patched game out. I'll probably still be on that same map.

ITS MAKING BABIES!!

I should add that I was actually laughing my ass off when I wrote that. I had just gotten the mail error right after the AVP error and thought this fucking SAM AI is bloody awful. A basic computer program gets it right more often than SAM does. And my character is stuck with it in his head.

Some of the recorded lines don't even make sense. Why he has to tell me about temperature changes? We have a pretty clear hazard-meter on our screens, mining is also hinted every time on the screen like a tutorial.
People complained about him being too talkative in one of the prerelease videos (Pebee's mission I think), and Bio's response was on the lines of "don't worry, that's just kind of like a tutorial, he's not always like that" . Sure thing, he's even more annoying.

SAM was one of the worst handled thing in the game IMO. Not only for how annoying his "warnings" are, but also by how everything and every quests involves him. They took this AI thing from being helpful to pretty much guiding you through everything as a demigod of sorts. He knows everything, he has the solution to all the problems in the galaxy, Ryder always asks for his help in pretty much every situation.

Prometheus: "The trick, Potter, is not minding it hurts." I like SAM but yes, it would be nice to be able to turn off the repetitive messages at least. I just zone it out.

SAM apparently thinks people have no ability to survive without him which is actually quite disconcerting. There are actually a few hints that he could evolve into full on reaper brand logic if you pay attention. I can't remember which ones they were but a few things he said and then how he always tells you what to do as if you can't figure it out on your own, it's rather scary if you think of it. That at some point he will turn that tiny corner and decide that it is best for all races/people if he is in all their heads controlling all of  them. He already killed Ryder to save them. Lexi has no idea just how dangerous that logic is. I mean, she does, clearly to a degree, but she didn't see the reapers land and cull millions of people because they were trying to save them.

Sure, we were written into a corner and that trick has been used more than a few times in tv and movies (stargate atlantis is my most  recent  memory of it) but that they even pulled that shit without even realizing they just encroached on reaper logic is pretty horrifying at best. I mean, SAM determined the only way to save Ryder was to fucking kill him. Now where have we  heard  that before? Good thing he isn't backed by an Army of AI or they might be building mass relays and setting up control systems on the NEXUS. Pappa Ryder just recreated the very thing he tried to escape. Good job dad. Well done. 

At least with Kelly you only had to listen to her when you went to the Galaxy map.  There is just NO getting away from SAM. I am sure Mr Walters is very happy with forcing this synthases on everyone.

I really do not get why they did that, it would be a lot better to turn on tutorials and put a writing pop up.

there will be a patch tomorrow, maybe it fixes this

Oh, thank fuck, I'm not the only one who does that. I do that way, way too often even though I know better.