IGN Video: Mass Effect Andromeda: Driving and Upgrading The Nomad

Oooh been waiting for this! Wow I'm going to be busy in this game! Geez...

Please this. Does anyone know if we can add racing decals and underglow? Maybe lower the suspension?

Check the quest at the beginning.
"Know your enemy" -- and it seems a very bring back creature research materials.

CONFIRMED: DAI in space
CONFIRMED: Tranquill in Andromeda
CONFIRMED: Minaeve's secret mission was to join the Andromeda Initiative

Wait, are those freakin' cattle horns on Drack's helmet? 'Cause that'll be the first thing I put on him if that's the case.

I like the way it moves, still wish it had a cannon. A less superior version of the almighty Mako.

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I'm very torn. On one hand, as a game it looks just fine. On the other... there's like several new things in this video that reaffirms the "DA:I in space-ness" that I don't want to play... not from a BioWare game. For one, the quest objectives is the second row of "do x amount of things" we've seen just like Inquisition and you can already tell those objectives are arbitrary gameplay goals with some tacked on story-relevance. In essence all gameplay objectives are, but games that do storytelling well hide these things and keep you engaged in why you're doing it instead of thinking "Oh I gotta collect the quest thing". This is shitty, and not Mass Effect-esque.

Another minor thing is that the map is ripped straight from DA:I and reskinned. The way it moves, zooms and has that layering you can swap with the triggers. Sometimes I worry that this game wasn't originally on schedule to be like DA:I but due to complications with development they simply brought in the DA:I team to get the bare minimum and passable experience ready just so the game won't suck from a mainstream perspective.

The Companion AI when they're idle moves exactly the same way as in DA:I. If you stand still they come walking towards you and when they stop, they turn around and move backwards a bit and they have the same sense of weight and I just know they'll get in the way because of their pathfinding being sucky.

Eh. Let's look at the positives though. The mining from ME2 is back but mixed into the exploration which is good, so instead of just looking at a UI while your arbitrary mouse cursor is scanning on a planet you now see the scanning fluctuations as part of the HUD while you're in the Nomad. I like it because it makes it seem like it's part of the vehicle's functionality and it makes scanning a more active process and unlike DA:I I don't think there's some counter that goes up every time you scan like "Power" or "Influence". Minerals are simply items you get, that you may need sometimes for quests and otherwise simply for your own needs.

I was literally just playing ME2 after testing out my mod in Samara's mission before I logged on and saw this new video so I can't help but notice the difference between what Mass Effect used to be vs this. We get a lot of Far Cry game design as a tradeoff for weaker facial animations, so-so visual consistency, probably a weaker story and eh... I love freedom but not if it's like an Ubisoft game which is what DA:I was and what this is shaping up to be. The point of exploration should not be to exhaust content by quantity but to do things the game draws you to do so you're sucked into the game experience. There's a cheap way of doing it and there's a good way to do it. This is the cheap one where everywhere is littered with arbitrary objectives so you have to play for 80 hours to run out of stuff to do. Compared to ME2's narrative focus and also Zelda which I'm playing it's just not very exciting.

But, it'll be good enough if that's anything to sing praises about.

Shuttle = ME3-style missions where you're dropped off in a linear area to complete an action level. No thanks.

I was under the impression that he meant a better Hammerhead instead of the Nomad. Maybe I'm wrong.

"These mining pods are damn near indestructable!"
"Not against necroplasm!!"
"THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT."
"... Oooooooooooh."

The real question is how many planets can we land on that will let us use the Nomad? A "handful" of worlds is very vague.