First time in Andromeda

I wish god was alive to see this. Science bless you, Mad.

It can be difficult to use the abilities without pause but most of the abilities do auto target the person you've got in your crosshairs so it's not too bad. The only tricky fights are with the boss type eenemies like Architects, Kett Ascendants and Fiends/Eirochs really. But in most of those cases if you keep  your distance from them and pick them off you should be fine.

I have spent so much time watching this game build shaders. How inefficient is this engine?


I used to pause to aim every shot.

It's a big deal.

I haven't had much trouble with this now, but i do admit the game runs a lot better now on my pc than during the first few weeks after release.

I started another playthrough recently, cause N7 day got me all nostalgic and shit. v1.10. 

-The conversation stuff is mostly superficial imho. There is no real impact for any of it 99% of time, and its more exposition than anything. You can't talk your way into/out of things like you can in some other games (other than romances ). Story is on the cute side overall. 

-The open world material is FAR different from any of the corridor shooter stuff in previous ME's. I like it, but it does bias gameplay towards longer range combat.

-If you think the combat UI is bad, wait till you see the crafting UI! It's an utter clusterfuck. Complete mess-disorganized, jumbled, incoherent. I don't mind that they divorced research and crafting, but it's ugly. 

-The bugs are a plenty in ME:A, graphical and otherwise. That never stops.  ME:2's QC is lightyears ahead of ME:A's. 

I say ME2 > ME3 > ME:A ~ ME:1.

yeah it wasn't easy for me either but I think because you'er limited to 3 active powers at any given time does help a little bit. The key thing is remembering to fight smart because in general the combalt still  plays much like the trilogy does. The only difference there is you had moer active powers to manage so I think pause to aim was probably necessary there.

The options aren't as varied as you'd think, I fear.

Yeah, the UI is pretty terrible. I was actively frustrated with for the first 10-20 hours of play. Weapon and Armor inventory vs. upgrades vs. augmentations vs. consumables was overwhelming ... AT FIRST.

But you know what? Around hour 25 or so, it started to click and then I had it mastered. Just like that. I can't remember any game that took that long to master the UI, even DAI, with it's relatively complex crafting UI, but once mastered, it was no big deal.  Whereas ME1's inventory was awful because it was too simple and stayed awful the whole game.

So, yes, steep learning curve (or, more accurately, very shallow learning curve), but once you are over it, it's fine.

One thing that helped was making analogies to DAI. They aren't perfect -- for example, weapon upgrades can be swapped at loadout time in MEA, but only at a crafting table in DAI -- but I found it helped accelerate my learning process.

MEA / DAI

Armor augmentations / Armor Sigils

Consumables / Potions + Tonics + Grenades

Weapon upgrades / Weapon upgrades -- except MEA upgrades are swappable at loadout time

Armor upgrades / Armor upgrades -- meaning, you can mix and match legs and arms with different chest pieces, you don't have to put N7 arms on N7 chest, etc., just like DAI

Given I like to role play in my role playing games, I don't see why I should. It's as important to me as a UI.

It was my opinion. Duh. I thought I made that clear.

Sylvius may not agree with me. That's his perogative.

But you're the one who decided to come and sh*t on my post.

tell that to Kalinda or Aroane or Morda or Slone or even Tann and Addison.