'I definitely wouldn't call Andromeda an open-world game' (Xbox Magazine info)

Yeah all that butt kissing is not that great. I'd like some to have issues with me because we simply don't see eye-to-eye. Like the rival relationships in DA2, but more realistic.

Everything I've just read pushes my buttons in all the right ways, especially the multi stage loyalty missions! Always found it a little strange that they were a one and done thing in the past.

Xbox: The Official Magazine (UK) also had a Mass Effect: Andromeda cover story. No new screenshots. There is some speculation in it, so I only mention what they actually bring as facts. Not much new stuff.

* Crafting is entirely optional, not important to the story

YES!

* Based upon your dialogue choices, there can be tensions in the team

I really hope that we can have a variety of different types of relationships and not have to befriend every squadmate just to get their personal mission. Maybe their personal quest has different dialogue or outcomes depending on their approval level. or maybe a different mission entirely...

* 'Interrupts' are not paragon/renegade, but 'disarm' for example (it's a strategic choice, not a moral)

Like this

* You'll be able to understand the Kett motivations, they're more nuanced as an enemy

I hope that means they will be more empathetic like Saren and less Mwuhaha like Corypheus

* There's a whole seperate storyline besides the Kett

Excellent! I'm assuming this is the Ryder family mystery the devs have hinted at..

* The Kett were originally designed to be completely nude, but it was akward in cutscenes

Wut?! I'm thinking maybe the Kett will be genderless/monogendered/androgynous and truly alien compared to a lot of the Milky Way species

* All squad members have a loyalty mission (they seem to be 'a string of objectives' rather than one single mission)

Objectives, eh? like fetch quest..? Hope not

* The loyalty missions will explain the squad members' motivation for leaving the Milky Way

Coolness

* Michael Gamble: 'I definitely wouldn't call Andromeda an open-world game. We like to use the term exploration-based game. Sometimes that happens in open spaces, but not always. You can cruise around some of these planets in the Nomad, but it's not the traditional sandbox-type game.'

Still sounds like DA:I actually

* You don't have to fuel the Tempest
Yay!

* Side quests will be 'more varied and interesting than ever', says BioWare
Hopeful


Info from the Play (UK) and GamesMaster magazine

Info from the PC Gamer (UK) issue

All the Game Informer info from last year

With the amount of complaints that DAI got for having a world that was too empty and vast with nothing really happening, it's probably a good idea that they made it smaller for MEA.

I disagree entirely when we have the Nomad and it's space exploration.  Besides the already established homeworlds of the new races, it should be wide open planets like ME1 but with a lot more side quests and random events to take part in.  But It needs to be fairly large to enjoy going 130 km in the Nomad for more than a minute of two before hitting a map barrier.  Dragon age already has an established lived in world, this should feel more like the wild west.  Just get it right like Rockstar did in Red Dead Redemption

 
Best Mass Effect Video ever IMO.  You get those wild West feels

I figured we are the Ghost "Ryders" but it seems like it could very well be the Kett or Remnants or something else entirely.  Regardless I like the Space Cowboys theme here.  I'll be rocking a revolver and shotgun mostly 

Isn't the idea of loyalty missions in itself a rehash of ME2? Haven't we already done this?