Things you feel "Mass Effect: Andromeda" does well

I save them for two reasons. I figure that the exaltation of each MW species is inevitable, but I’m in no hurry to let the Kett perfect Krogan integration. Secondly, Raeka chose to face poor odds in an effort to save a few more of her people. I think she’s awesome, and she sounds like a Salarian Alec— a brilliant badass. Still, I saved the bulk of the Salarians and had to interfere with that Krogan exaltation.

Drack first mentions the scouts in the mess/kitchen conversation. He says he sent them out to find suitable land-grabs. He talks about them quite a bit throughout the game; but it’s easy to miss since it’s mostly via banter. It requires he be in the party; triggered BS not override his banter; SAM to STFU; etc... Easy to miss, and hardly a focal point before Tafeno.

Bradley would definitely be my second choice. I’d not pick the others, other than to see the result. Pathfinders need to do that job, and MEA Morda is scary. She, like Sloane, was a bit different in the novel. That novel Morda was pretty cool, but still terrifying and Krogan.

I agree to some extent, but all the things that went wrong would be close to the minimum of what I'd expect the normal result of the journey to be.  That people acted surprised anything went wrong, which kind of stole the adventurous spirit idea from their characters.  We do show up a year late so I get some loss of spirit after a year of failure, but at the same time it was just one year of failure for setting up a entirely new civilization.  Being at the giving up point seemed totally off.  Like I said hopefully in MEA2 they will do something to expand on this.

There were some data modules where I thought, that person has some moxie.  But overall I thought they were wusses who gave up quick.

I think I enjoy the theme of all of the current Pathfinders being replacements for the ones that died, so to that end Raeka always dies in my playthroughs.

My reasons for saving the Krogan scouts are the same as yours.  The kett seem closest to exalting the krogan and I want to prevent or delay that event.  Raeka made a choice and acknowledged she had made a mistake.  She was not asking for a rescue nor was she expecting Ryder to rescue the salarians with her.  It is likely she had prepared them to die.  My third reason for saving the Krogan scouts is, within Andromeda, they are clearly the species most at risk for extinction.  The entire population of Krogan came to Andromeda aboard the Nexus (that is, they had no ark of their own).  We know from Garson that the entire AI population is 100,000 ("Now they are sending 100,000 of us to Andromeda.")  We know that each of the 4 arks have initial populations of 20,000 each and we have another ark out there that possibly accounts for another 20,000... leaving no room for much of a population aboard the Nexus.  Even divided equally among 5 species, the total population of Krogan is very, very small; and even with their genetic therapy, the expected birthrate is not that high compared to the other species.  Even with a significant number of salarian stasis pods missing, it is highly likely that saving their ark will still give them a starting population in Andromeda that is far greater than the Krogan.  In addition, I figure my chances of escaping the Archon's ship in one piece are quite a bit higher with a number of Krogan scouts (who at least have some merc background) fighting along side me instead of a few salarian civilians who may have been severely weakened by being brutally interrogated and/or tortured.

In his defense, Ryder is unable to use all squadmates.  Just like in the MET, only two squadmates are available at a time.

Yes, but that's a flaw of MEA not Ryder, who is unable to choose more than two squadmates. My issue is that you're blaming a character for limitations of the game.

You do realize that this argument is not to be taken seriously, right? (Sometimes I can't tell with you.) If the rookie had been allowed to make those choices, then the difficulty of the problem would have simply been scaled up to leave her with the same choice.

The problem is that your statement was false. There's an untrue implicit assumption which I'll add below, just to be helpful.



The bolded wasn't the case, because the situation existed to present the choice.

You have a tendency to post nonsense about what's going on in the game, and I'm having trouble interpreting the nonsense.

Ok enough guys this is going off topic. Let’s not argue about plot points and stay on topic.

I felt Andromeda did quite a bit well. The combat was a huge improvement over the trilogy. I thought the open world was a big improvement as well. The VA, the romances the Nomad there are many more.

That's right... It's all the game mechanic of setting up the decisions within the framework of there being two squad members. 

The ME2 incident where they broke from it (outside the SM) is so completely lame - Shepard taking everyone just because they can fit in a shuttle so that he/she can decide who to take on the mission a little later?  A rookie-ish mistake suddenly being made by a non-rookie for not apparent real reason.  It makes no sense at all. 

As I said, at least Ryder made the squad decision within the framework of it being an infiltration mission involving going through a teather cable... and then having the mission parameters change more than once.