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If there are combat mission on the Nexus, I can see why we could shoot, and it is something I want. Though even in this case, I don't understand the big deal of not be able to shoot when we're not in combat areas of the Nexus.

It's not a big deal either, just a preference. In ME2 there were zero combat encounters inside the available free-roam areas of the Citadel, and I thought that made it feel predictable after a couple of hours, and you'd only be able to shoot stuff and meet bad guys in special areas, essnetially levels, unlocked for loyalty missions gated behind loading screens with no seamless transitions.

I'm fond of those moments in ME1 when you go into a room and you can see three dudes with guns facing your entrance and then after a brief cutscene you've either persuaded them to settle their matter peacefully or you're in a gunfight with them. Neither Omega, Illium nor The Citadel had that in ME2 and in ME3 there was nothing either except the Coup which was just a Citadel Themed level.

I want the sense of immediacy and seamlessness of ME1 back and not just for open-world areas, but for the hubs as well. Obviously we'll be wearing casual clothes aboard the Tempest but on the Nexus and wherever I'd really like a chance of combat encounters within those hubs and being able to draw the gun whenever just adds to the sense that stuff could happen in an emergent way, which I like.

It also comes down to the fact that I want to know we can encounter bad guys within the good-guy zones. I want conflict and infighting to happen eventually aboard the arks, either interspecies conflicts or the encounter of corruption like bandits, or thieves, so it's not all just "shoot some Kett cuz they're the baddies or shoot some random alien animals"

I just don't care for it if they create some new enemy MW faction and then say that "Planet Placeholder is important because Andromeda Initiative rogues have started making their own settlements, complete some quests there and do some War Terminal objectives to clear them out" and then each planet has some enemies to populate it just to justify making a lot of shootouts that never really forward the story, but only makes it seem like it. It would be more interesting to have deserters on special space stations out elsewhere IMO.

IDK, maybe resources grow thin at some point (probably not in this first game though) and trouble starts brewing across the arks and suddenly you have Krogan spy infiltrators on Hyperion stealing fuel tanks or something, you know? I get such massive Battlestar Galactica vibes from some of the design of the Arks, and the concept is basically the same except these people voluntarily left their home permanently rather than being evacuated, but still, it is a perfect setting for inter-relational infighting because you're all on bought time if you can't settle down in Andromeda fast enough or feasibly.