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

Sure, but you usually could find clues without it too... it just was harder. Only a hand full of quests actually required you to use it.

Ian S. Frazier @tibermoon
To those who've asked: SAM is a bit more talkative than usual in this mission, because we introduce some new mechanics here & must explain.

Good...would have gotten annoying real quick if this was present throughout the whole game

Sadly, that is playing it "well" for a journalist.  Just try not to miss any details you might be too interested in because you can't help but to roll your eyes when they take 5 seconds to react to the situation.

The Good: The game looks beautiful, and the gameplay seems fun. Drack wrecking enemies in charges. Although Peebee seems like she's going to be an acquired taste, I like that squadmates seem to comment often during exploration. That's a big change from DA:I, where it tended to get quiet outside Skyhold.

The Bad: Enemies that are bullet sponges. I hope that isn't the case with all mooks and mobs. Not a lot of story content or character interaction for a loyalty mission, though it sounds as if that is just to due to editing to avoid spoilers.

The Ugly: Facial animations. Those are most certainly going to be bad at release.

We'll see as somehow I'm not straight-out buying that an optional loyalty mission is where they introduce core gameplay mechanics

Voicing this concern for you.  

Petroshenko it's been answered


SomebodyOfNobody‏ @of_somebody
One concern though. This is a loyalty mission. Why are mechanics just getting introduced here?

Ian S. Frazier @tibermoon
 Because we like to make Loyalty missions unique and memorable! With narrative twists, gameplay twists, or both.

Damn, I was hoping that the scan function would work like in Metroid Primes, it doesn't appear so.

Also, am I the only one that can't stand SAM's voice ?

Otherwise combats looks fun but I don't understand why they decided to edit out music and dialogue choices. We've seen enough of the combat.

...yea, you tell yourself that.

3 - 4 shots with the right ammo and gun totally wipes most enemy units. Seems just about like the previous Mass Effect Trilogy.

Bullet sponges are truly existent in The Division, this is heaven.

You are right, she did develop into a better character unlike Sera.  But that first scene in the belly of the ship where she starts hoppin up on things like a 6 year old talking about being a pirate.  Shudder.

Brad Muse‏ @its_BradM
 Is that unique to the early build you gave for press purposes? So the mission/dialog is slightly diff in final build?

Ian S. Frazier‏ @tibermoon
No. I mean that the game has worked like X for many hours, then you get to that mission and it suddenly works like Y, so some >

Ian S. Frazier‏ @tibermoon
 degree of exposition is necessary, or it doesn't make sense.