Who's still doing playthroughs of ME:Andromeda?

Mine too honestly.  But I think that happen to a lot of games you play a lot of.  My last PT of DA I was even getting long in the tooth and that is my favorite game of all time.  So I have not played DA I in a year or so as a result...going to be doing it again soon.  

I usually have huge gaps between plays so it always feel newish.  And after my first NG+ I wont be doing that again.  The only challenge I've found is really early in the game when you still suck at everything.  Maybe way past level 80 a challenge kicks in or if I focus on powers that I don't like.  But I don't think I'll ever max all 3 trees on the same character like that.

I originally refused to wear N7 armor on the grounds that I "didn't earn it". Then I decided that the whole idea of coming to Andromeda was to leave the past as much in the past as possible. Then I thought about Avitus Rix. His being a Spectre didn't count for much in Andromeda, other than that it probably meant he was a great fighter (which is why I make him become pathfinder regardless of what he wants). Similarly, the only N7 in Andromeda (that we know of) was Alec Ryder and he's dead. What we do know is that Scott and Sara received some informal N7 training from their father, which is why they're more capable than they ought to be given their youth and relatively brief time in the Alliance before Daddy's work on artificial intelligence ruined their careers forever.

Point is, I'm no longer concerned with whether or not it's been "earned". Whichever Ryder you play is the Pathfinder and needs armor that's superior to anything else around, given the types of battles s/he engages in. Nostalgia is a poor reason to go in to battle unprepared.

One thing this playthrough taught me... we need beter team AI and a cover button. I am finally insanity running and I have died waaaaaaay too much. ME2, mostly because of the Collector ship, killed me maybe 100 times. Maybe. This... at least 250. Fuck Jaal’s loyalty mission and Behemoths. Just fuck em.

Love the story and character still... obviously if I’m banging my head up against that tedious wall. How you know a true great from the oretenders... will I suffer tedium to 100 percent you.

Except for one thing.  The Alliance and their military ranking system does not exist in Andromeda.  I just watched Black Panther the other night.  One character is handed some armor to wear but the person she's giving it to says something along the lines of her not being one of the warriors who wears it (meaning it's privileged).  The other person responds with a comment about it being armor and to just put it on.

While I might see your point about the N7 part itself, and I do get that, it's a fault of the game for forcing it.  Therefore, I'm not going to deny Ryder putting it on simply because BioWare decided the symbol needed to be there.

I was never really one for complete armor, especially in ME3. My favorite setup was the Hahne-Kedar mixed with Serrice Council with the only N7 bit being the helmet.

i'm doing a new run as soldier,
Ghost + turbocharge is silly , and that's only a Ghost 1 on Insanity !!

I never craft stuff , i sell everything ! and buy whatever i need/want .
I wore the N7 in a Biotic run. I had read that Bradley says something if you wear the complete armor, but i didn't get that so, whatever.
This time it will be Hyperguardian .

I have started a NG+ recently. Since I dropped MEA June last year, I got a lot of patched weapons and automatic augmentation to go through. Considering I am now lv90, there are also some end game weapons to go for. Here are some of them:

King of anything - automatic Valkyrie X
Automatic bio converter Hesh X
Bio converter Dhan X
2 vintage heat sink Ishray X for switching
Rebalanced field coil Ishray X
Beam emmiter/ tracking plasma Soned X
Sticky grenade launcher Talon X
Eletric conduit PAW X
Automatic Reegar X
Tracking Plasma Piranha X
Automatic/ bio converter Shadow X
Automatic Sweeper X
Battle field assist module Black Widow X
Melee buffing Ruzad with Hpyerguardian chest X
Full set Remnant armour X with all kinetic coils
Head, Hands and Leg Kett Armor X
Full set Maverick armour X(Annoying leg is still bugged)

I am not even half way down the list. There are so many items and research to go for.Probably need 3rd playthrough to get all of them.

If I had one complaint about the Hyperguardian, it's that every dead male we find is wearing it lol. I guess it didn't work out so well for them.

Is the Hyperguardian gear the same as the gear as the outlaws wear?

Not sure.  Others obviously seem to think so.  I don't believe I've played enough to take note.  I first found the MET about two years ago.  A year later, I'd played the ENTIRE TRILOGY more times than I'd played MEA in that same span so I haven't looked at it enough to notice.