I installed MEA and I am looking for tips.

Don't expect to play Shepard, tackling galactic problems with a crew formed in 3 games.
Your Character and most everyone around are still wet behind the ears and 'new'.

Save every now and then (when that is possible outside of story missions). There sadly is no quicksave, and while the autosave is pretty decent, you might want to replay a bit or experiment at a specific point without loosing all progress made before due to the autosave slots being reused.

Sometime between levels 10 and 20 or so, enemies will probably feel incredibly strong. Don't let that dis-encourage you! Once you settled on your main powers, skills, and weapons and developed those a bit more, enemies will be no match for your char again.

Personally, I had the most fun when doing almost only the story missions in the beginning, and only started exploring the available planets after the squad was complete.
That said, you can fully explore most planets on the first go, but will return to most a second or even more times for various side missions. So stick to whatever you like best in any situation: Neither main story nor side mission, or exploring the planets have a time limit*. And you can come back after you finished the story line.

*There is exactly one assignment that needs to be done before the final story mission.

If you play Sara, make her mouth a little bit lower than you want to -- in cut scenes it tends to get scrunched up too close to the nose. Tone down the makeup and scars -- they seem to be more intense in the game than they are in the character creator.

I suggest keeping default dad -- he's the least weird looking father. My Asian Sara had default dad and brother -- she's an IVF baby.

Keep the default name because people will call you by it instead of just saying "Ryder" all the time.

Skip the cryo pod perks that show you more mining zones and hidden chests -- you will get icon fatigue and the chests aren't worth the time. Get the chests only if getting up there amuses you, otherwise skip it. Get the perk that increases your inventory space at least once.

If you see dudes fighting animals or enemies jumping out of shuttles by the side of the road, only fight them if you find it enjoyable, otherwise drive past without stopping. They'll still be there later if you regret not shooting them.

Spend most of your time on priority missions and loyalty missions with sidequests sprinkled in. Only do tasks if you enjoy them for roleplaying reasons. Suppress your completionist tendencies.

Don't spend a lot of time scanning. You'll see [G] or hear a "do wip" noise when scanning is useful. Wandering around slowly with your scanner on all the time gets tedious and it's not necessary.

Read the datapads.

Don't forget to check in with the crew after missions.

I know it sounds as though I'm telling you to skip most of the game -- playing this way yields a 30-40 hour story heavy game rather than the 120 hour "I picked up all the rocks and only got this lousy T-shirt" playthrough. I did a completionist playthrough first and didn't love it. Now I skip most of the stuff I don't enjoy and it's a lot more fun. Do you want a gallon of weak soup or a cup of gravy?

If your squaddies charge into combat and die a lot, you can respec them so they can't use their "charge" power.

If you hate your face you can give yourself plastic surgery in the medbay.

You don't have to pick up all the rocks.

Buy the upgrades to make the Nomad drive faster and boost more as soon as you can.

Don't have your heart set on playing a Renegade equivalent. Ryder can do several ruthless things during the game if you choose, but s/he never has that renegade swagger.

If you're finding Ryder boring, try sprinkling more casual responses into the mix. I found logical/professional dull, logical/casual more fun, and emotional/casual when interacting with non-crew NPCs coupled with logical/professional with the crew really amusing. This does make Ryder sort of immature and mouthy, but Tom Taylorson's delivery is gold.

Talk to your sibling. The twins have good chemistry.

Take everyone in the nomad at least once, even if you don't want to use them in a fight. They have good conversations.

The only tip is to play at your own speed. In the end, you will be the one who decides if you like the game or not. I will say a couple of things I did like. Speedruns and fighting the kett in a bubble. It was different from just firing enough rounds into the baddie to defeat them.

So happy to be back there \o/



Also www.nexusmods.com/masseffectandromeda/mods/455?tab=description makes Asari look different, very nice.. by mostly removing the blackness around eyes and adding new textures. Recommended

yeah that is the one where i get could not open archive could be damaged.  Maybe my free unzip tool just sucks.