Peebee's Loyalty Mission - First 17 min. (IGN) [SPOILERS]

even though he had a massive CD penalty with 4 weapons

Imagine the first scene with a batarian and he just keeps saying 'Baba goofinah shakakan han maboogy' on a continuous loop. 

Sure saves the trouble of coming up with alien languages. Imagine the first scene with a batarian and he just keeps saying 'Baba goofinah shakakan han maboogy' on a continuous loop. 

I feel bad for Sara Ryder.

She always gets the brunt of the facial animation complaints, whether the complaints are valid or not. The problem is we've yet to see Scott in those same scenes, so we don't know if it's just her or just the animations. I lean towards the animations, which probably means any custom character will look about the same.

But mostly I feel bad because of all the comments I've seen where people thought she was talking and it was actually Peebee, and they found Sara (but actually Peebee) very annoying In hindsight, it would have been better to have Scott in this video to avoid voice confusion.

You're kidding, right? Flexibility? We've got 3 skills on a bloody long CDs (one of which has the stupid 2-button binding on pads) and a brain-dead AI. ME3 allowed 1-0 hotkeys for the K+M. ( the skill wheel for the consoles). How is a 3-button setup any more 'flexibile' than that?

It gets worse when you remember that they could use their suits' ME fields to lower their mass when they jump, making it even easier to jet-pack up there. I tolerate some amount of gameplay gimmicks in my games, but at least make them seem plausible rather than "This obstacle you could get over in real life is blocking you, so fight waves and waves of enemies because we want to pad out this mission!"

Speaking of which, I think there were a few too many Remnant drones to fight here. It could get tedious fast. However, I'll be patient making my final opinion in this regard because they said they turned off music to be more cinematic*, so maybe with some fight music to pump me up and superior combat skills to those shown in the video I'll find it less tedious.

*Can't believe they think it would be more cinematic without music. Like... do they know why stories have soundtracks, or...?

Other than that:

I agree with others who have stated there is way too much hand-holding for a mission that should be well past the tutorial stage. Not ideal.

And I dislike Peebee even more now. Not just her cringy banter, but the fact that she lures you into her dorm/escape pod just to jettison it onto a hostile world that she knows full well Kallo doesn't think he can retrieve you from, all for selfish reasons. What the hell?

Yes, I have a big problem with someone who so casually risks other people's lives for her own gain. If this was something she did on a mission with pretty much no danger, it could be seen as funny. But onto a freaking lava planet where even from the cutscene it doesn't look like they should have survived at all, and there's a 50% chance of landing in lava? Nope.

Now, I can live with Ryder keeping a cool, level head and dealing with the present problem, I really hope there is a conversation after this mission where you can get very angry at her for doing that. Or kick her off the ship permanently, since she basically volunteered for that anyway

Ugh. Wish they showed someone else's mission, but at the same time, it might be better not to since I'll likely enjoy them more.

I'm disappointed we still haven't really seen much of the dialogue wheel. In fact, we've only seen it once.

As for gameplay, it looked okay, but was hard to judge since I had the urge to grab a controller and take over from the demo-er the whole time

Lastly, something people will probably yell at me for for being "minor", but it's completely unimmersive for me: At one point, Peebee says "Voila!" In case people are unfamiliar, that's a French word and in this context it basically means "There we go!" or "Got it!".

I find this unimmersive and am once again disappointed because the devs need to remember their own lore, in this case about translators in Mass Effect. Peebee, or Garrus, or Wrex, etc. are not speaking English. They're speaking in their own languages that are then translated. So there is no instance in which we should be hearing a French word come out of Peebee's mouth, because the program would translate whatever she said in an asari language into the closest English approximation. Even if she was literally speaking French, the translator would just translate that, too.

I don't actually like being this negative, but I didn't find a lot in this video to get excited about, sadly. Show us dialogue!

That's because no one cares about Scott. He was voted "Most likely to die Basic AF" in his senior year. 

I hope theres mission opportunities to be stealthy maybe. But yea the activate the terminal and all enemies notice and try to kill you reminds me of Destiny....

If all the loyalty missions add new mechanics i hope there not all hand holding since it takes away from the loyalty missions and will make part of them annoying and less fun imo as for the bad player i expect nothing else from ign.

I feel bad for Sara Ryder.

She always gets the brunt of the facial animation complaints, whether the complaints are valid or not. The problem is we've yet to see Scott in those same scenes, so we don't know if it's just her or just the animations. I lean towards the animations, which probably means any custom character will look about the same.

But mostly I feel bad because of all the comments I've seen where people thought she was talking and it was actually Peebee, and they found Sara (but actually Peebee) very annoying In hindsight, it would have been better to have Scott in this video to avoid voice confusion.