The Nomad (Official Thread)

Well.. I liked Mako mostly for combat purposes, I hated driving it :/

It feels a little strange that such great advanced vehicle will only be for driving.. Well at least I hope it will be good for driving this time 

Don't count on it unless you consider the static environments we saw in DAI "alive."  Sure they were initially pretty, but given the lack of dynamic day/night/weather, they grew stale very quickly.  None of the screenshots of the various worlds presented thus far, nor the actual gameplay, made me feel like I was seeing a distinctly alien or dynamic world.  Everything look rather barren and stagnant.

They said we'll be able to fast travel from certain points of the map, after you found them and stabilized a station/outpost. Maybe the one we saw in the trailer that let us change armour pieces.

I don't think it's something necessarily related to recent days. Open world generally have a fast travel system, it's not exactly a new thing.

Hey, I'm not "counting on" anything... I'm just not speculating things as negatively as other people around here who seem to be hell bent on "counting on" ME:A being a bad game and like to suck any little bit of optimism other people have out of them. 

From what I've seen, the worlds are not nearly as barren and stagnant as ME1... where hazards constituted a hazard meter bar that cancelled automatically when inside the mako and one could always stop completely simply by wearing the "right" sort of armor.  There are at least some things moving about in the backgrounds on most of them.

It's not like combat in the mako was a big thing either.  On the side planets, you might get a thresher maw that was usually tucked away in a far corner of the map not on a critical path to the main objective and three sniper purchases or turrets at the main objective... completely predictable.  On the main mission planets, you'd get a long linear drive interspersed with a few groups of geth standing around... also very predictable.  There was no road warrior style vehicle to vehicle combat in the the trilogy.  The closest they came was with the car chase in the LOtSB DLC.

There are things that can make driving a vehicle interesting beyond shooting at largely stationary enemies and you don't need "dynamic weather" either to have some interactive hazards.

Personally, I found shooting at turrets with endless ammo in ME1, especially from inside the mako, to be one of the most boring things about the entire game... which had a lot of boring stuff to it despite the tendency of people here to put it up on a pedestal above the other two ME Trilogy games... which I personally found ME2 and 3 to be far superior in many respects from the first.  I think people's hatred for Mac Walters causes them to put on rose-tinted glasses when talking about anything ME1 and to trash ME3 unfairly in a lot of different ways.

I'm with Laughing Man... the changes to how they are implementing the power wheel are a much greater "concern" to me.  SP combat in ME:A is, I think, going to feel much different than in the Trilogy... but what I'm most likely to miss the most is certainly NOT the guns on the mako.  For combat interest, Bioware seem to be counting on their adding a vertical element (the jetpacks) to make the game fresh and interesting.  The nomad seems to be more of "just a nod" to the old mako lovers in the group.  The lack of guns is their "twist" to make it different.  What they'll do to try to make it interesting remains to be seen.

Ohhh shit, this is SO last decade

Yep. If my Rdyer is jamming to some Zeppelin, Iron Maiden or AC/DC, she/he will want to take the scenic route. My Ryder may even jump out of the car and start playing some air guitar.

The mako is your horse.

I think an unarmed vehicle in an absolutley unknown galaxy is a NO GO!

There could be any Kind of Monster behind the next rock, including the two legged ones with missle launcher and you are travelling with an unarmed vehicle in an dangerous area? If you want a kick, make para jumping, it´s safer.

No one says, that you need heavy artillery. A Little guntower with a Maschine gun would be enough. That wouldn´t be more firepower than your whole Team has and your vehicle is a bigger target than a human who can dodge behind a rock.

The other Thing is scanning. Can we scan something from the inside of the Nomad? Or must we leave the vehicle to scan something? A guntower that you can turn into every direction like the Tower of the Mako would be good. You could then use on mouse button for the weapon and the other to scan what is in the target cross.

The Nomad has no guns, but it doesn't mean you can't run over enemies with it. That's how I killed most things not named Thresher Maw in ME1 with the Mako.

Although, going by the gameplay trailer, the Nomad is mostly a mean of transportation and for depleting planets of resources.

If I'm not mistaken, customization on the nomad will be paint job and environmental upgrades.