I don't get why this game got fire while trash games like PUBG get high praise

Is this a serious question? PUBG filled multiplayer niche, which nobody knew even existed. What did Andromeda do to stand out?

That doesn't mean it is a perfect game, its a game that found an interesting niche.

If places detract marks from Mass Effect: Andromeda because of facial animations they don't like, why should they ignore frame rate drops that make a game unplayable in PUBG or any of the other frequent problems the game has?  That is the problem people are having with some of these reviews for PUBG a strong inconsistency on how they review games and no explanation why and it has less to do with the game itself.

Another example that makes no sense to me was that people said how bad Andromeda's CC was, claiming that they could not create a beautiful character and/or multiple beautiful characters, and saying that FO4 CC was great _in comparison_ because they could port a modded beautiful face. My experience was that even before the overhaul, I could create far more varieties of attractive human faces in Andromeda (and after the overhaul there was even more), while in FO4, I literally had to use a mod to add one or two choices that were "attractive".

I could also never understand how DAI CC is considered a lot better than Andromeda's where the Humans are concerned, given how Andromeda's quality of everything on the character models, particularly any hair, and the variability of the features, and their realism is just so much better.

DAI CC was great because you could change/move almost every part of the face. (change the nose, the eyes, ears, modify the jaw, cheeks, etc...) while in MEA you can tweak a little bit the presets (lacked a lot of DAI's features). (btw, the only bad thing in DAI cc was the hair choice... ugh  )

As for the OP's question.

 The gameplay is pretty different between a SP game and a Massive ARMAII copypaste game. ones soul is the Story and the other one is the clusterfuck intensity of the battle.

Example:
 
I play Battlefield 4 for the big scale conflict and PTFO, and i play ME for the *coughs* "realistic" *coughs* SciFi setting. (and ofc, the epic story)

As for the technical issues, idk what issues may have ARMAII PlayerUnknown's but considering the genre it must be related to Rubberbanding, cheating, etc... (unacceptable, but kinda typical for a new massive shooter)(see the state of BF4 at launch)
 
And Andromeda was the lifeless faces/expressions and the enemies that spawned behind the walls (aside that, *I* didn't have any more issues).

Do you think people are going to judge a no name developer as harsh as a triple A dev in Bioware? There's clear cut reasons why one won't judge the two in the same manner as the circumstances are very different. One should expect a game like PUBG to be a little more of a mess than something like Andromeda as it has less funding to it, developers with no triple A experience and because of everything involved to it. PUBG is big as fuck on the coding, you can also look to Fortnite who happen to be guys who were in the AAA industry (gears of war 1-3, they're what's left of Epic Games) saying their own BR mode is hard to maintain (it is still better on that aspect but one can still clearly see even a high profile dev will have a hard time running a game in that genre). Any other dev that has taken to a battle Royale style has stayed away from 100 players as well as it really isn't easy to maintain a proper functioning game with said amount of players and having everything co-exist with said players.

Regarding scores and percentages: they mean little. PUBG can be below 50% on metacritic yet it's still the most played game in the world and only growing. If andromeda had the impact of PUBG, it'd be the same way. PUBG is riding off its success of igniting the battle Royale genre and is the #1 played thing in the world and only growing. Few games can even hit 1 million concurrent players and this game is nearly to 2 million. The game is a technical mess, but because of what it offers is so rare, players are going to ignore it's issues until something does better than PUBG. Andromedas scenario is different as there are other options to it, hence the comparisons between it and other games, even if those games share some of the same issues. Bethesda puts out buggy games, but it goes ignored cause there's a modding community there to fix a good portion of it (unless you was me when 360 had no modding to it, you got stuck with what Bethesda gave you if you wasn't on pc) and as some would say, they're good enough to overlook the issues, people didn't see it that way with this mass effect game.

Andromeda doesn't even get anything because no one remembers it.

Oh dear god.

Both games get a pretty fair amount of flak, with a lot of legitimate criticism and of course anger and angst too. Hi

I think the OP overestimates the volume of praise for PUBG, while also making a unfitting comparison between two games that are of completely different genres, not to mention respective titular level of previous notoriety.

PUBG is a brand new kid on the block, of course they are getting attention - the game apparently can be decent to play, and I suppose for people that want to play a MP game as their main, it gets a lot of buzz.

I really wouldn't know. I never intended to play multiplayer. Never did with original Star Wars BF or BF2, genuinely enjoyed and got a fair amount of replay out of just killing bots and playing the storylines.

I played Mass Effect 3 because I played Mass Effect 2, and 2 because I played Mass Effect. I played Mass Effect 3 MP, because of shock. I was not at all pleased with the original endings of the game, to the point where I was at a weird crossroads - Do I walk away from Mass Effect completely, and just move on to another game, or do I try the multiplayer? More SP play was not going to happen until DLC release...

So I started soloing Bronze. I really didn't want to play with others.

Now, 128 friends later (which would be many more if we hadn't had to drop old friends for new ones because of the old friend limit :rage ) and probably nearing 2000 hours of 3MP...

It is still the only MP game I play. I tried DAIMP and MEAMP, and frankly in comparison they were and are utter shit. It is the reactivity of the game engine and the effect of network latency in those that make them a failure to me and for a fair portion of our community, with of course several vocal fans and many shades of gray between.

People like different things, and sometimes they like new things more even if they actually aren't very good.

British Knight sneakers were really cool, once, for about 5 minutes. I used to buy all my jeans at County Seat. These brands may be unfamiliar to you, and there is a reason for that.

B.S. Adnromeda is objectively a better game than pubg. Andromeda as of now it plays better and runs better.
Andromeda got flak due otits unreleased state , EA, and Hating andromeda was the meme.
Pubg on the other hand nothing.
Good job gamers.

Sure and i agree that it offered nothing new. But how many AAA games offered something new the past 5 years? why this mattered in Andromeda? 

Horizon - setting/visual. Not a fan myself, but looked fresh.
Witcher - openly men-oriented franchise, something West gamedev wasn't doing for a while.
GTA 5 - it's multiplayer mode
Uncharted 4 - quality of execution. Literally face of PS.
Zelda BotW - another quality of execution example. Impressive scrupulousness in all aspects.

They both have shooting and loot. Sure thing. Spot on comparison.

I think that's a matter of opinion as personally I prefer MEA's MP over ME3's although I don't play either that much. Mostly because I prefer to stick to SP. Although I do play both  solo when I take them on as like you I don't enjoy playing with other's either. I think it's mostly because I find MEA easier to get to grips with than ME3. Not to mention I'm not good at MP either. I've managed to survive a couple of waves of MEA whereas I'm yet to survive one on ME3. I keep trying though in the hopes I get better I think I am slowly but I definitely need more practice

Yes.  Just because it has a smaller budget doesn't mean it gets a free pass.  Besides plenty of indie movies that are made for less then 500k use what limited funds they have to do great things with that money.  They might not look like a CGI fest that Disney releases, but they didn't put the film in upside down either.  I expect a stable game regardless of the level of release, I don't expect the same level of fidelity that is there, but being able to run at a basic level damn straight I expect that from any game released.  Plenty of other smaller releases have been released with far fewer issues then PUBG and I applaud them for it.