Need Comfort: Andromeda won't be a Grinder, right?

For a minute there i read that as Grindr

Uh, I don't know what to say, but it looks like crafting will be involved.

There were was a certain element of grinding in the ME3 multiplayer though to be fair, if you wanted to get the better powers and also to get more packs, thus better weapons, characters etc and to play the harder, more challenging difficulties.

Maybe because I don't hang around the MP threads, but I haven't heard anyone complain about this?

I'm sure if its like this as well with Andromeda, it shouldn't be a problem. Its as to how important the crafting elements are and how necessary there are in conjunction to everything else in order to get better gear and stuff.

tbh I think crafting your gear is just one way of getting and using what you need. In fact one of the best mage armours in DAI for example is actually not got through crafting you find it by killing one of the dragons in the Emprise du Lion the Highland ravager if I recall. Although it is only a tier 3 armour it's probably strong enough to see you through till the end of the game even the DLC levels if you wish. You don't necessarily have to find or buy tier 4 armour even though it exists becauase it's not really that much stronger tbh and it's just there as an extra option. It largely depends on what you want. Obviously the better equipment you have the easier the game becomes in the latter stages but you don't necessarily need to get top tier stuff to beat it. It's also in part dependent on how you've configured your hero as well and the powers you've chosen to unlock so it's not all about the equipment because if you manage to configure your heroes well enough you might not need to rely too much on you equipment

I think the only hope is that MEA is by definition a moddable game, so people can cheat in resources from SP, and I doubt they will put resources in keeping it clean. So, they cannot allow easy cheating to disturb mp balance. Still, Ryder in MP really gets me worried on the account of gear interdependency.

TBH, if they do put it on the grind rails for both modes, I will cheat in whatever they dole out in sp, and grind mp, because it's fast and fun. I have not touched the code and mods since playing with RC in kOTor 2, and fixing a bug mod in Awakening, but I will fall back on my dishonourable modding background to get what I want.

I do prefer to stay clean, because over the years I came to see the amount of control modding gave me as essentially detrimental to my enjoyment of the game.

Where was it ever said that MEA will be 100 hours long?

One of the tweets said that while they cannot divulge the estimated playtime, it will be satisfying length. 100 hours long was quoted in the question that prompted that answer.

In almost every game I have ever played grinding is totally optional. 'But I want all the best stuff!' Well in that case you are voluntarily grinding.

I read it as Grindr too!   Horny minds think alike   Umm... wait a minute... no... Great minds... GREAT minds think alike 


I'm fine with crafting. The DAI system was a bit... sluggish, but not too bad. One thing that would have made me happier would have been the posibility to use "unique skins" with crafted items (though not that many unique skins to begin with, but as a concept).

We will only know how well crafting and resource gathering are implemented in the game when we play it.

We don't know enough to say for sure either way, and I highly doubt we'll know enough to come up with a concrete answer until we play the game ourselves. Any response in here is going to be an opinion based on what we've seen so far (including this post, somewhat ironically).

I THINK WE ALL KNOW THE ANSWER!!!

The way I understood the intersection between SP and MP was that in SP there is a specific portion that you can link to another person's SP campaign, and engage in a closed MP activity. But it is entirely separate from the full MP mode. Like... you're not going to have a group of a few people in an MP lobby who are going to pull in someone playing through their SP campaign. The only reason you can choose between your MP character or your Ryder for the Campaign MP mode is because one character is probably going to be more optimal than another. Or you want to earn that XP with one more than the other. It may be a good way to boost your MP characters if you play mostly SP but dabble in MP occasionally and don't want to be too far behind.

Again I don't think gear as rewards are really going to happen, or if they do they're not going to be anything better than you can get if you do one of those things full time. Your MP character wouldn't get gear in SP mode that would be any better than what someone could earn just doing MP all the time.

I'll admit it's mostly just speculation... but this is how I choose to interpret it.

None of the Mass Effect games (regardless of them having armor customization) have every required you to change up your armor to beat the game.

Then again, you really didn't "Craft" the armor in those games... you just found them.