Rate the Loyalty Missions

Drack's is my favorite.
Then Liam, Vetra, and Jaal's.
Peebee I wanted to strangle her on hers. And Cora's is kinda ruined by the Asari clones.

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

I'm not really a Krogan fan, but Dracks loyalty mission definitely comes out on top for me, in fact it stands out from the others, while I like Cora, her mission came bottom of the list, the whole Sarissa fandom thing was just too cheesy for my taste.

Jaal's mission is second from the top, good depth.
the rest seemed generic.

1. Liam’s: Just so much fun and you can see how Liam’s uneasy and finally getting it that he gotta smarten up from here if we live through it. Plus, Vetra’s “I hate you both” is precious when you are hanging out of the airlock. The banter is the funniest during this mission, and pace is amazing.
2. Jaal’s: Good, solid, would have been way, way, way better if Akksul killed Jaal if you did listen to him. I still think that the “trust me” was way too Disney.
3. Drack’s – not bad, but way too many steps, and relies a little too much on the player already loving Drack to bits. Liam’s LM actually made me like Liam. The sentimental part of Drack not being dispensable, I was not sure where that was coming from, because I did not really got the vibe that Drack felt useless. Anyways…
4. Vetra’s solid mission, cool planet, too bad it has yet another BioWARE’s sister in it. I am tired of helping everyone’s sister in distress.
5. Cora’s: Yep, loved finding that ark, but I am not a big fan of either Asarior of Cora being Asari’s fangirl, so the mission revolving around it was a touch meh. Also, the whole heartbreak around Sarissa choosing everyone else over her PF… not feeling it.
6. Kallo’s: Pretty good, but too much hopping around
7. PeeBee’s: makes me like the character way less, so not a successful one in my books
8. Gil’s: not a mission, but a game of poker was fun
9. Lexi.. what? She had a mission? When?

This sums it up very well.

Drack's mission shows a different side of Krogan life. Plus there are moments for a softer Ryder to show their colors and moment for a hardknucles Ryder to show theirs. Its always a win.

Liam's mission is pretty fun in its mechanisms, too bad that with its premise its really hit or miss depending on how you would have liked your Ryder to react.

Vetra's mission is in line with her personality/story. You see it coming from miles but it fits and you get to meet Sid. Like it more Miranda's story than Jacob's.

Jaal is a nice story-oriented mission, though I would have like a more black or white outcome. like if you dont shoot then Jaal actually gets hurt. So ther wouldbe less of a 'right answer' and more of choice based on your Ryder's personality.

I would place Kallo's STG mission here. The story is good, it just suffers from having to travel thousands of miles to get the next few snippets or let it sit in your log until you have a reason to go that way and half forget what the premise was (is someone trying to impersonate someone else or something ?...)

Cora feels overshadowed by the asari arc in her own mission. Its kinda sad she's the eternal second. So I would have separated that. Let Cora react to the asari arc the way she does.  Then I would have loved for her to have a personal mission after that, so we can see a glimpse of what is important to her once she decides to start a new chapter.

Peebee's mission is a lot like the game, lots of busywork and juvenile writing. The less said the better.
 

They are all kinda good in their own way but it doesn't help the game that they can't die. Or to use Liams words "the steaks are not high enough". You got only 6 squadmates and since they can't die when you do something "wrong". You don't get as attached to them like to the ones in the good old trilogy. You only care about things when there is a chance to lose them. Missed opportunity to make this way too long game time more bearable.

Hmm, this can be taken in a lot of different directions.. So I'm only going to use primary squadmate missions only and not include things like Gil, Kallo or anyone else other than the core six.  Also, I was bored so I decided to go through an analytical breakdown and rank each mission based on a couple different categories.

In terms of Story/Plot Development:

1.) Cora - finding the Asari ark and gaining their Pathfinder is a pretty huge deal to the overall Andromeda Initiative storyline
2.) Drack - exposing corruption within the AI and bringing down a high profile member while learning more about the Krogan's role in the AI
3.) Jaal - learning more about the Angaaran race as well as the roekaar movement and making a decision that impacts that entire organization
4.) Liam - furthering relations with the Angaaran people
5.) Peebee - it deals with Remnant tech.. Other than that it just doesn't have much story heavy content other than fleshing out Peebee
6.) Vetra - pretty much no relation to any story line. Only builds Vetra's character some

In terms of level design

1.) Cora - I enjoy the Hyperion's settings so to have a further look at this setting but as a wrecked battlefield was exciting. In addition, the space walk and scenery during some of the larger fights is superb.
2.) Peebee - I can't actually remember the name of the planet this takes place on off-hand, but it's a very unique, interesting setting that you can only have in this mission. It plays quite nicely and looks great.
3.) Liam - The Kett ship has some fun level design and is great for battles. In addition the changing gravity offered unique gameplay changes with the ship rooms constantly being a different angles.
4.) Drack - This mission design reminded me of ME2's level design at it's best. Tight levels with some good gunplay. I liked the use of the jump-jet and sort of how decrepit everything looked.
5.) Jaal - I wasn't a huge fan of Havarl to begin with, however this mission made slightly better use of it in my opinion. The battles are pretty standard issue in this mission, but at least the buildings make for some interesting atmosphere amongst the shrubbery of Havarl. The final battle is fun.
6.) Vetra - While the actual wreckage of H-047C is something really cool and unique in the game, the actual facility her loyalty mission takes place in pretty boring and run of the mill - Everything about this was reminiscent of a bad ME2 side quest.

Important Decision - Making

1.) Cora - Deciding the fate of the Asari as well as making a major decision on the Pathfinder
2.) Jaal - A major decision that affects your relationship with a squadmate as well as the fate of a major antagonist organization
3.) Liam - Making a decision that impacts your relationship with a squadmate as well as relations with the Angaara
4.) Peebee - The decision might make a difference in future games (if there are any) but doesn't change you relationship with Peebee at all. It can affect someone showing up at the final battle as a cameo so that, combined with the extreme moral ambiguity of the choice edges it out for number 4 over Drack
5.) Drack - A morally black and white decision at the end that doesn't really impact the ending of the quest or the charges laid against who you are investigating. It's basically just a flavor of whether you support murder or justice.
6.) Vetra - As far as I know, nothing of any value happens.

Crew Interactions

1.) Drack - Drack's lines are fantastic in this story and we get a deep look at him as a character. It furthers development with his relationship with Ryder
2.) Cora - We get to see a more emotionally fragile state for Cora and see her coming to a realization that her pedestal view of
3.) Liam - You probably will either love or hate this mission. The lead up shows Liam as a bit of a buffoon (quite a bit actually) but the mission itself is meant to be quite humorous with homages to other sci-fi franchises. The jokes landed for me and it expanded Liam as a character in my opinion.
4.) Jaal - You don't really interact all that much with Jaal, I didn't think and are more a witness to his story. It's interesting involving his family, beliefs and the roekaar and gives us more insight in to the Angaaran people.
5.) Vetra - We see a more emotional side to Vetra that focuses more on her sister than Vetra as a character.
6.) Peebee - logically, she should be in much more severe trouble for the stunts she pulled in this mission but you can't really offer that up in dialogue. Ryder can't even, by dialogue limitations, express all that much anger with her.




TL;DR
OVERALL - based on my breakdowns and overall opinions of the missions

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

Nope. Got one word for you. It's Liara.. You need to try REALLY hard to kill her off (go for the 'magical low TMS destroy' - bad enough to have the squad shot dead, but not bad enough to wipe the planet). I'd call her anything but 'unpopular'. While the most 'mortal' characters (Kaidan and Ashley) don't have much loving (much less than deserved if you ask me).

I agree that 'plot-immunity' can hurt the overall storytelling, though. Jaal is the worst case, imo. I had to replay the scene just to understand what was I looking at. And no one even comments on that, like taking a point-blank headshot is ok and nothing really to talk about. Same true for his siblings - they all live, I did not expect the 'happy ever after' as an outcome of the mission.

Talking about the level design, Liam's mission is the top-best one. Among the LMs it was the ONLY attempt to bring some variations to the linear 'run the corridor from point A to point B'.Yes, technically it's still a linear corridor-based mission, but at the very least it pretends to be something else, and the very idea of playing with the level geometry was great. Mission fits his character, and I also like the idea of characters making (and admitting) a mistake.

Cora's one has some design ideas and the right mood, but we should keep in mind that it's essentially reusing the same ark map (which had also been reused for the rest of the alien arks). Character-wise - Cora looks and acts like a starstruck teen, not like Alecs's 'second in command', but it's good that they gave her a chance to deal with her issues and become more 'herself'. Asari are overrated (as usually), up to the point where it stops making sense - so they were cool enough to steal the secret plans and get Ketts' attention, but they had never reached or contacted Hyperion\Nexus? And don't even remind me about biotic shielding against the spaceship cannon.

Jaal's mission has decent writing and some nice visuals, but it's simple and plain as hell. Also - the worst case of a plot-armour (see above).

Vetra - yet-another 'save the sister' corridor runner. Honestly, BW, I'm tired of saving siblings, parents and kids. Can we possibly stop doing that? Pretty please with sugar on top?.. Guess not. Well, at the very least don't make the stupid 'hostage choices' with the total plot-immunity. The only good thing about it? The planet itself.

Drack. The overall Spender\corruption arc was good, but the mission itself was dull and boring. Literally, nothing to remember about it. Could have had fewer stages too.

Peebee. It's bad. All of it. Every tiny bit. Corridor lava level, Scanner, being unable to kick her out of tempest. Liam at the very least was trying to do some good to people without calculating all the risks, but she was just 'Me wants it NOW, so I'll just drop the pod with PF and the other teammate into lava'. No excuses for that. And no remorse too - she seems to care about her personal issues with her ex- more than about what she had really done.

Kallo - I had never actually considered that mission as his 'LM', more like a part of the main story. Wish it had fewer stages, it's too much flying around.

The shot comes straight into his head. Then we see some 'biotic' glow around Jaal. And...that's it. It's like he had 'soaked' the charge. I guess it has something to do with that Angaran 'electricity field' (some local version of biotics, I take it), but no direct explanations are provided and Ryder does not even have an option to say 'WTF?!'.

There is also a close-up on Akksul where you can sort of see his hand shaking if you want, so you can interpret him as actually being one hell of a shot to graze Jaal's cheek to say that I could have blown your brain out. But if that's the case, it's not nearly prominent enough, and Angara overal come across as unable to use firearms in close quarters, because Jaal's sister also misses to kill her brother and he actually jokes about it. 

whatever the case, this is my single least favorite moment, and I always shoot Akksul from now on to avoid the idiocy. 

What i I want to know though is how to really destroy their holy place and alienate Angara completely. I hoped to do it in my second pt but I did not find the way.

Oh, I thought you could antagonize Angara enough to not show up when you storm Meridian? That's what I what I wanted.

I destroyed AI and I took it for myself. Angaran were at Meridian both times.

Liked:
- Drack
- Vetra
- Cora (although seems like it should've just been part of main quest)

OK:
- Peebee
- Jaal

Didn't care for:
- Liam