Things that makes no sense in Andromeda

- without to be noticed by the council? But I guess that organisations like STG or the Turian Military seem to know about the Ai. On this way I have understood the Salarian Parthfinder and Vetra who said that she was not on the Natanus because she and Sid are not part of the Turian hierarchy. But on the whole I agree with you. It makes less sense. Especially, this thing with SAM. (I am very angry about that fact Bioware will not deliver us more answers about Ryder and SAM...-.-)

- the last logs from Alec are revealing that the mother is still alive, on some way. The memories says the cryo capsule keeps her alive. Why does Parthfinder suggest to open the cryo capsule? coma Ryder, ok, makes not alot sense, but Parthfinder Ryders makes no sense. 

Why did they bring the sibling's pod into the medbay? Why not open it in the same area where Ryder, the one the player is playing? 

When the machinery breaks down, why is it Ryder has a scanner and not maintenance?
Bob: What's wrong Jeff?
Jeff: The generator went offline. I don't have a scanner.
Bob: I see. Want to go to the breakroom to play cards while you wait for Ryder to return?

On the shuttle, Liam introduces himself to Ryder. Why?  It would make sense for the pathfinder team to have been waken up a short time before arriving in Andromeda so they get familiar with each other, check all equipment to make sure everything is good to go, and to go over any scenarios of what to do in case things don't work out.

Liam falls from the shuttle just a second before Ryder falls. Its amazing that after Ryder fixes her/his helmet that Liam shows up a few moments later.

Why did Kirkland and Greer separate? 

Liam being a cop, I found it uncop like to shoot a body that's already dead. I get he's upset that Kirkland is dead, but shooting a dead corpse is.......unnecessary.

Why wasn't there an option for Ryder to ask to see her/his father's body? Better question would be, did they recover Alec's and Kirkland's bodies? It seemed like Bioware wanted to rush the player through all that so you can get to the Nexus and the ship that Ryder will be using to find a path.

When Ryder asks Carlye how his/her father died, he will say 'like a hero'. So like a hero is a cause of death? Why couldn't he say the truth? When asked, would Bioware's answer be, 'you do not need to know, and there's not enough time to explain'?

The asari on Eos. When Ryder arrives at the artifact, the console can't be activated until glyphs are scanned. Why didn't the asari show up at that time? I would guess she was in the shuttle the whole time watching. Why show up the second time Ryder is at the console?

Why isn't there an option for Ryder to say something to the asari for being knocked down?

The asari says she likes doing things on her own. So why is she a squadmate? If you're not a team player , why should you be on the roster?

When meeting Drack, he wants nothing to do with Ryder and others, but after fighting a few kett, he joins. 

Why is Suvi on the bridge? She is a scientist who studies rocks and other things. 

The tempest. The interior is poorly designed. It doesn't make sense having a krogan in the kitchen and an asari where the escape pod is. 

Archies ship. What plan did Ryder have for entering Archies ship? It was dumb luck that the salarian ship was there to give them access to the kett ship. I'm surprised they didn't notice the guns aimed at the ship until after being on the kett ship. At the time of their arrival and waking up the salarian pathfinder, I would guess the kett had not detected them. So why not call for a couple of strike teams to help? Tann would approve. Have them carry backpacks filled with explosives to be placed throughout the ship and then to be detonated after escaping the ship. I would also include all squadmates.

When Archie has Ryder trapped in the immobilization field, why not fire on the salarian ship destroying it and possibly the tempest as well. Eventually Archie will know about the sam implant.

When the decision to choose between the krogan or salarian, Drack or one of the other squadmates will mention krogan scouts. What scouts? Up to that point, I never heard any dialogue mentioning Drack's scouts. I had to go on youtube to hear it. Either way, I chose the salarian.

Archie learns about the sam thing and see's Ryder's memories. Ryder learns Archie knows about that. Why wouldn't she/he alert Tann or Kandros about that? I would guess that security and safety are at the bottom of Ryder's list. 

The escape pod incident. Why was the stowaway in such a rush? Did she know something Ryder didn't know? Maybe she knew her girlfriend would show up? Before using the pod, she will say Kallo won't land on the planet. That is incorrect. He said it will take a while to find a place to land.

If Ryder chooses not to shoot the kalinda asari, the stowaway will say to scan everything that her girlfriend sends to her. Wait a minute. Why wasn't the robot scanned after it was recovered on Eladden? 

In the case of what the cop and stowaway did, I'm surprised there wasn't an option to remove them from the roster. 

When Archie goes after the sam thing on the Hyperion, why didn't he leave some of his forces with the Nexus while the rest with the Hyperion? It would be interesting if Ryder had to choose between saving the Nexus or saving the Hyperion and getting Meridian.

Alec's memories. The player learns that mom is a popsicle on the Hyperion. Both siblings are surprised. So what happened? Was there a fake funeral for mom? Did dad have her cremated and had an urn filled with dirt letting the kids believe they were mom's ashes? Is there a tombstone back on Earth with her name on it with an empty casket buried?

Liara. The last time her and Alec corresponded was years ago. Why would she tell him about what's happening in the Milky Way? Wouldn't she inform the asari ship instead/as well?

Is Alec the only one that has a terminal that was able to pick up the SOS from the turians and Alliance? Wouldn't Captain Dunn have a terminal as well? Did the Nexus hear the SOS? Did the other ships receive the SOS?

The Nexus not having a sam node and pathfinder

All Initative's QEC transmitters were destroyed on MW end, without them all communications are impossible.

As much as we needed Nyreen's brother, Conrad's sister and Okeer's assistant.

Nobody liked the guy, so they just dumped him where he died. Honestly, no idea, either they forgot in writing rush or planned some plot twist.




Council (and other governments) was more interested in why the hell someone would spend such money on one-way trip.

I agree with themikefest about Liam introducing himself. That was just weird. There would have been no way the pathfinder team wouldn't have at least been introduced to each other before cryo. Was there no pathfinder team training at all before they left? They just froze a bunch of strangers and expect them to work together as a team in a new galaxy. It bugged me.

Going with what you posted, why not wake up the team a few days before arriving so everyone can get familiar with everyone, make sure all equipment is in working order and go over any scenarios they might encounter on the planet?

Liam never claimed to have been a good  cop.

"Aaand after two years and a dozen suspensions, I took a 'lateral promotion' out of the force. Being a cop just didn't fit. But crisis response? Digging people out of trouble? That worked."
During your first encounter with Drack, he flat-out tells us what it'd take for him to join up;

Vetra: You know Drack, we could use someone with your... skills.
Drack: Tempting as that is, Vetra, I'm a little too old to be carrying humans through a fight. Besides, the day I help the Nexus again is the day the clouds part and the Kett keel over.

So Ryder proceeded to do just that. That's how they managed to impress Drack enough to make him reconsider the offer, even despite it going against his own better judgement;

Drack: You can really handle yourselves, kid. And I hear you're the one to thank for clearing up the sky. Had your number all wrong.
Ryder: So, the clouds parted and these Kett look pretty keeled over. Maybe us humans can pull our weight after all.
Drack: Well, you can, clearly. But there's a lot to do before I'd be that smug about it.
Vetra: That almost sounds like a compliment. What do you say, wanna help us do some good?
Drack: You know what, I'm going to ignore my gut and join up. This fight was good and we could do it again.

Why did Alec want Liam on the team?  The answer is right there - crises response... digging people out of trouble.  Policing was less likely a skill to be needed since the pathfinder team was never large enough to go in and "police" another culture... but finding imaginative ways to dig small groups of people out of trouble was a skill Alec could have easily anticipated needing.  Liam's asset was thinking unconventionally even though it meant he'd be a "difficult" member of the team.  Also, we never really get to see how Liam interacted with Alec.  It could have been quite a different than how he interacted with the younger Ryder.

As for Drack, I think he was just being stubborn the first time... old and set in his solitary ways.  He's also overly confident in his ability to fight off all the kett in the galaxy alone.  The second time, Drack's in trouble and actually needed Ryder's help to get out of that scrape.  I think he was a bit "humbled" by that realization, but a krogan would never admit such a weakness openly.  So, when Ryder makes the quip he does, throwing Drack's own words back at him in a playful way and in a manner that doesn't imply that Drack is weak in any way, Drack decides he likes Ryder enough to join up.

Anyone else think that in a general sense, it felt like more than a year and a half had passed between the Nexus's arrival and the start of the game? Mostly I'm thinking about how Sloane Kelly and the Nakmor matriarch seem pretty well established in the territories they've carved out, and in Kelly's case, there is even an opposition movement that's sprung up and is itself fairly capable.

I think sometimes Bioware underestimates how long it can take for both formal and informal societal structures to form and solidify. The Shepard trilogy similarly felt more like a galaxy where humans have been involved in interplanetary politics and culture for, say, 100 years, rather than only about 30 or however long it was. Similarly, in the Omega DLC, the Talons sprung up, established themselves as one of the top merc groups, and came under Nyreen's leadership all in the space of time between ME2 and ME3? I don't quite buy the notion that Garrus's and Mordin's recruitment missions drastically thinned out their ranks - if they did, then they can't have been that powerful in the first place and should have already been pushed out by somebody else.

Was it? If so, why isn't the player given the option for Ryder to ask to see his body after learning he died? It could give Ryder some closure.

How hard would it  have been to say he died of suffocation because of how toxic the air was?

I don't care what the asari didn't expect. Why didn't Ryder scan the thing to make sure there were no tracers on it?

I shoot the kalinda asari as well. She was trying to kill me, so I return the favor.

 It's obvious she doesn't care about anyone. She put everyone in danger with her nonsense.  Its too bad there isn't an option to have Ryder turn her over to Nexus security for her to explain why she did what she did. Me personally, I would leave her on the planet.

Kosta is a piece of crap. Like the asari, I would have Ryder turn him over to Nexus security so he can explain why he did what he did. For me, after talking with Bradley, I would turn around and shoot Kosta dead where he stands. 

Apparently that caring stuff went out the window the moment she thought it would be a good idea to use the escape pod, right?

Whether or not she learned from her stupidity, I would still have her removed from the roster for what she did. Let Nexus security deal with her.