Constructive Criticism of Andromeda.

Screw that, moar XP, always. 

The Mako handles like a drunken elephant, it's also more fun to jump out and kill stuff with the squad instead of handling that poorly-sighted primitive boom stick on top of the drunk elephant. 

I'm really glad the Nomad didn't have guns because if it had guns the devs would have inevitably created situations for which you were required to use them. Personally I just prefer to get out and fight. Shooting enemies w/ the Mako is both boring/repetitive and annoying. Hammerhead was so supremely annoying to handle in every way; I almost didn't play Overlord (a great DLC, imo) because of it.. The Nomad is the best by far, especially after you upgrade it for hills.

While I agree that this post isn't exactly constructive, why is it considered bait when the "Andromeda is Awesome!!!" thread, which is also not constructive, is not? They represent two different extremes, and yet for some reason, people seem to go after only one of them.

Well things also die if I run it over in the mako, I can't even kill kett in the Nomad unless I run it over 5+ times. Nomad travels better but I still prefer the mako.

But why would you waste xp? *is confused*

I know it's not the same but why not buy this instead eh?

There were places too steep to climb in the Mako as well and you had to climb all the time in a drunken elephant. 

As for the gear shift, I like it. It's also handy when one is losing control at some high speed hijinks, you can "lower the gear" and get control again. It's just pressing a button. You're complaining about pushing a button. 

Are soldiers actually professional in this sense?

There is the argument that a) the Nomad is a (rejected) military design and a Pathfinder team ground transport would presumably need to be armed for the same reason the team is armed. IIRC the codex implies that the Nomad and Mako were competing designs.

Having said that, I agree the tech argument doesn't make sense. 

The Nomad doesn't waste my time like the Mako did. It's faster and can actually climb things; the amount of time i wasted in ME1 trying to climb a slope probably added 4 times to the game length, and just wasn't fun.
The Nomad, especially fully upgraded with its boost, is vastly superior.

I mean fair enough, no, you didn't literally have to use the Mako, but there were many combat sections for various missions designed specifically with using the Mako in mind. Some Mako missions were fine without Mako fighting, but others had lots of Armatures and Collosuses easily killed by the cannon (in addition to Destroyers, Juggernauts, rocket bombers....), so it is a little more trouble than it's worth to get out and kill them "by hand," especially if you're Biotic or Sentinel. It's not impossible, but.... (You did have to use the Hammerhead for Overlord, though.) If they could find a way to make the combat in the vehicle satisfying and dynamic, instead of so pew-pew-pew, I probably wouldn't mind guns on the next vehicle... since they've finally made a drivable one...