Andromeda Initiative briefings (6/6 Golden Worlds and Settlements)

I'm not saying the Tempest should be a heavy armed combat vessel, but having no guns is not a good. We have absolutely no idea what we will face in Andromeda, therefore the Tempest should be more to the "all around vessel" than a extreme. We are talking about extremely fast and defenseless' x 'very fast and lightly amored', and not 'extremely fas and defenseless' x s'low and heavily amored'.

About speed in particular: "The Reapers' thrusters and FTL drives appear to propel them at more than twice the speed of Citadel ships. Estimates of their location in dark space suggest they can travel nearly 30 light-years in a 24-hour period." So 13 light-years a day is not a big deal. The Tempest is not that fast. And we can't possibly know how slower it would be if it had some armament. But we can safely it improve its odds of survival in a hostile encounter.

And the Tempest is based on the Normandy's design, which is a warship. Not exactly a choice one would make if they want to make the ship not threatening. I mean, the Tempest look as much threatening as the Normandy. Not to mention, we're talking about aliens. How to know what they will find threatening or not?

Again, I'm NOT saying the Tempest should be an heavily armored vessel, only that it should have ways to defend itself. And maybe it does, it only doesn't have a main gun. Which wouldn't be a bad idea as well since the a Thannix cannon is powerful, light, discreet and could probably fit inside the captain's cabin.

Doesn't the Commanding Officer of a Navy ship traditionally have a much larger living space than his subordinates? Maybe the Pathfinder's quarters on the Tempest are larger than necessary but not to the point it's distracting.

Everything looks great. Ever since they anounced that there would be a Salarian pilot i knew that I would love this ship

What are you talking about ME1-3 is what made the franchise popular in the first place. The lore surrounding those three games is what people fell in love with. If they ignore everything the trilogy did, in terms of lore and the backstory of the ME universe, Andromeda might as well wipe Mass Effect out of the title. Fresh and New isn't always a good idea, especially when things like lore have already been established.

It's a major part of the gameplay and something they worked extensively on. I mean, what do you exepect them to do? Treat it like a small feature lol?

Why not? That's what they've been doing with the RPG aspects of this supposed RPG game. 

That's fine. I'm all for exploration... like say if you want to randomly go off in the nomad looking for other points of interest. That's great. 

I'm just hoping it's not like, a staple. Like a mandatory thing. Where you have to do this nomad sequence to advance to the next mission and then almost every nomad sequence is the same thing. I really can't give a better example than Arkham Knight. You'll have a mission to kill 10 drones with the tank and then a few missions later, another mission with the tank and it's the same thing except... kill 20 drones, and then it's the final mission of the game, except kill 100 drones. Do you get what I mean? I feel I'm not explaining it so well. haha

Content that get's annoying, repetitive, and extends the game just for extending the game... by driving... lots and lots of tedious driving. 

For the mandatory bits, I'd like there to be diversity in them so it's not just the same repetitive thing. Like in the final mission of ME1 where you're racing to get to the mass relay in time to stop saren and there's geth enemies everywhere trying to take you out. 

Let's have some chase scenes where you're trying to avoid being eaten by giant sand worms or whatever.

Using the nomad to jump/thrust into a fleeing tempest to make a get away.

Stuff like that.

Not just drive a long ass distance from A to B to get to the next mission. And it's the same boring journey each time with a different paint job (different planet). Don't you love our cool new vehicle guys! pssst... did you know you can paint it different colors!? Woo!

It's not like the Sun will go dark if they ignore one, two or a dozen of old things. Somebody could make angry thread here, but most won't even notice.
Just your daily dose of pragmatism.

I think that Tempest is Armed and it have nice design much better then Normandy but Nomad look like unarmed APC which is very unusual design for exploration APC which is mission to explore un known planets