Everything Wrong With Mass Effect: Andromeda

Would that actually work? The swapped helmet would be full of unbreathable air after the swap. How long until it's breathable?

As for the video.... 27 minutes?  I've seen worse, but is it worth the time?

Swapping a vacuum sealed space helmet doesn't seem the least bit feasible to me. It's not a scuba rebreather. How much atmo is lost with each decompression and swap? This argument has always seemed willfully obtuse to me.

Sure... if you've already got two lungs full of good air. Ryder doesn't. The problem with helmet swapping is that Ryder will have to wait a while before actually breathing again, OTOH, that leaves Alec, who could theoretically have held his breath for the required time without swapping.

It's kind of trivial anyway. If Alec can hold his breath for X minutes, then the shuttle needs to take X+5 minutes to get there. All we'll ever get from this line of inquiry is that Cora should have been given a bigger number to say.

Wait a minute. How did the scene make you think that it was possible? That it isn't possible is literally the point of the scene, so how did the scene end up communicating to you the opposite of what it was supposed to convey.

The fact that Alec was still able to partially breath and talk with his helmet off. Is it really that hard to believe that it was possible to pull this off? Or are you just busting my balls for the hell of it?

Well, there was still air present to carry the sound of his voice, just not air that wouldn't poison him.

A lot of this stuff is extreme nitpicking, which he admits. But some of the things are the same issues I had with the story.

- Why no Pathfinders on the Nexus, makes no sense. Every ship should have been able to operate independently in case it was the only one that made it. WHich would include Pathfinders.

- How can exiles in limited number, with limited resources, not only colonize but drive the enemy from a planet, but the AI with more people and resources have failed at every attempt to colonize a world. Even the Angarans are struggling with the Kett, but some exiles drive them off a planet and put their heads up on spikes as trophies.

- They tell Ryder that he/she has to raise the viability planets, but the only way to do it is through vaults that no one knows exist, there's no other way to accomplish the task. It's like they wrote the story backwards. We need planets to be viable so we're going to use these vaults > only Ryder and activate vaults > Ryder can only activate vaults with advanced SAM > Ryder gets advanced SAM by becoming Pathfinder after Alec's Death.

The video is pretty funny though.

Also that Omni gel is literally a goop you program with your omnitool to make it into whatever you need and apparently all the suits come with a stock. All you need to have is a quick second of Ryder trying to program his omnigel, Dad going "oh no i'm out" or asking his God level AI "hey got some?" and the scene works a whole lot better.

Except he was caught. That's why the family had to go to Andromeda. He destroyed any future they might have had in the Milky Way.

Right, Alec's response to his child being poisoned by the atmosphere is to burn his child's face off.

But how toxic were the gasses you were being exposed to? How much had you been exposed to already? How long did you have to wait before you could breath normal air again?

I can accept that Alec needed to sacrifice himself because Scott/Sara had already been exposed to enough toxic air that it took SAM's intervention to save them even with the helmet. So it's easy for me to believe that the extra exposure they would have needed to receive to keep Alec alive would have prevented SAM from saving them.

That's a gameplay mechanic. They aren't actually physically there.