The Nomad (Official Thread)

If areas wouldn't be empty you wouldn't need to skip them on Nomad. It's entirely relevant to Nomad, because it's only purpose is to move. It's a horse basically.

1. You could fight on horse there.
2. It can be used to get from one quest point to another. Guess what was between them. Nothing, except random ghouls/bandits which you could get rid off without stepping on foot.

It's space, of course there is going to be empty ehh, space. And I mean on planet/moons. If we land on a moon and it's cram pack full of monsters all over then fuck that. I want it to be actual goddamn space, not a shooting gallery. Nomad having guns or not doesn't change that. This isn't DAI, it's Mass Effect, it's in fucking space (heh, space fucking, we'll bang ok?).

Point is it's a different setting, with different expectations. If we get into a linear story mission and there is a long ass stretch of pure nothingness to drive through it better be atmospheric as all hell but the open world areas (like landing on a moon or whatever). I dunno, whine more I guess? I'm happy to just drive around and look at all the space at that point.

edit: Might point out in ME1 we had long stretchs of driving in ME1, which had 'combat' which was pretty pointless. With the Nomad being less combat oriented those sequences would of most likely not of happened at all (which would of been nice). The Mako sequence on Noveria, for instance may of been shorter and just involved going from point A to point B quickly with some audio briefing on what your gonna have to do as you get there and frankly I'd of preferred that.

Don't get me wrong I liked the Mako, I liked the guns on em, but the combat during that sequence wasn't exactly thrilling.

Oh yeah I agree. One of my biggest issues with the original Mass Effect was just that. The side stuff is whatever, happy to have it be mostly desolate blah blah. It was the story mission points we did that kinda irked me. I liked them, mind you, but this was coming off KotOR. When the game told me I had 3 main planets to hit up and 2 of them where a colony and a settlement I was 'expecting' hub areas. The liara one I wasn't, I was like 'ok 2 main things +getting a person'.

That's where it bummed me out the most, get to Noveria and your like yeeeah second hub area and there's 1 side quest involving delivering a goddamn package. It was just a glorified linear mission. Where as if that was KotOR it would of been a hub area with multiple side missions along with it's main overarching story mission. Sadly Citadel was the only place with that in ME1.

That is exactly what I am praying is different in MEA, and that is definitely also in relation to DAI. DAI lacked any major hub areas as well. Every area you went to, for the most part, was just some random place screwed over by demons. They couldn't even be bothered to put in functional towns with quests you kept going back to like in past games.

So yeah I agree, some planets should definitely have more stuff then DAI, or any of the past ME games for that matter. I love my linear with choice story missions but gimmie a few hub worlds dang it. Lemmy sink my time into a few of em. And you know, also have those desolate planet/moons I can drive around on and explore.

The last time I had some "vehicle" experience in ME3 was using emplacement guns (shuttle, Palaven moon). Compared to the character combat gameplay, they were inferior. I'm OK if they leave out a not so good vehicle combat and concentrate on character combat gameplay. For the giggles I bet there will be roadkill opportunities along the way.

That's how I feel. I understand the reasoning from a gameplay perspective but from a story is not really great.

Hostiles weren't the thing lacking in DAI's open world though.

Indeed, it was rather the other way around, too many hostiles for the little amount of common folks you met to actually interact with.

Well, it is either that or a very boring walk that would be just as repetitive. We will see how they implement it.

If it can't be used to fire at enemies, perhaps it will serve as cover?  Also running over enemies

I dunno... if the maps are big enough for a fast transport vehicle to be useful, than it'll be fine, I guess. The problem with the Mako in ME1 was the fact that it was your primary means of planetary gameplay, period. For that, it was far to clunky and boring to use.

I hope they have a trophy called "Its Evel Knievel in Andromeda." Make a jump over 500m in the Nomad

Looking forward to driving the thing and running over anything that's in the way.