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I never use subtitles. They ruin my immersion. I read the subtitles instead of watching the characters.

I generally use subtitles until I'm familiar enough with a game that I don't feel like I'll miss something important if I don't use them. Especially in MEA where the sound from people standing behind you is so awful that you can barely tell they're talking at all. It also helps to distinguish who is saying what when multiple people are present. For MEA, it is otherwise impossible to tell when SAM is speaking on the private channel rather than to everyone. Kind of an oversight, if you ask me, but maybe if I turn off subtitles I'll be able to hear a different tone or something?

That makes sense. I play on PS4 Pro with a surround sound system. I hadn't considered all of the directional sound issues. That stuff has really added to my experience, over the years. Locating enemies by sound, whether from movement or bullet paths, is second nature for me.

MEA has incredible sound. I do notice my sound system finally beginning to show some age. MEA's output was, at times, uneven. I believe it's because the newer tech isn't 100% compatible with my older equipment. I tried to buy a very high-end UHD wireless surround sound system, recently; but the seller backed out like a chump.

And with no quick save, it's not like you can easily go back and replay it. Still annoyed about no quick save, btw, even after 5 PTs. I totally abused quick save playing Original Sin, just because I could.

Stay in the Nomad and just drive around the area to explode them. Then drive away. Mission complete.

You don't have to explode them all....just enough to get away clean.

Yeaah, and I also get the sound bug where the subtitle shows waay before the converstaion starts, so I know when to slow down the Nomad or my pace while on foot to not go on a trigger area so that I don't interrupt the banter.
 Plus, English is not my native language. As much as I feel confident playing without subtitles on, I guess I kinda got used to it and it feels now part of what Mass Effect is to me

Yeah, I suffer from the "Where is the character that is speaking" syndrome. I usually go out to look for them and find another conversation and it scrambles all the subtitles.

Look at Nexus Cultural Exchange. It's a mess, as much as I appreciate ambient dialogue. You have at least five different conversations if you pass through everyone. I don't need to hear that someone is deciding if he's shipping out to Eos or some other world again and again everytime I come aboard the station. They could mute if they have nothing more to say or stop talking after our character goes to another area. It's frustating to me to go to the Cultural Exchange and the subtitles are showing something of strawberries from another conversation that is happening IDK where while they are talking (Almost not hearing sound) about some differences between Angara and Milky Way Species.

As much as I love this game, I have to say that this was done poorly. Hoped to see patched, but hope next ME or Bioware Title will keep in mind those things. We can't have five or more dialogues playing at the same time!

And about SAM, I do hear a different tone. It's somewhat more deep and quiet, while general-speaking SAM has that relaxed and not so synthetic voice. But I get your point. It really is hard to notice that in your first playthroughs, even with no subtitle on.  

That and Liam chewing and spitting his words. "wiv gut ta mak it namal!" (We've got to make it normal.)

I don't have it word for word, but when Taavos says something about Zorai discovering/observing "the watchers", the team starts to speculate about the Jardaan watching their creation, to guide/uplift them and that Zorai was so special, because she was somewhat immune against the side-effects from using Remnant tech. Hm, I think I have to replay that part at some point again to get all the little information.

Anyway, I just thought it was nice, that the team used what it discovered in Khi Tasira to make more sense of Taavos words, but it doesn't reveal anything major.

Psst....you don't need to use the Nomad to get to that cache. You can jump/evade forward and make it to both rocks. The first one is the tougher jump.

I just drive straight out of that minefield. Even on Insanity, it's not a big deal. If your shields are getting depleted, just sit still for a moment as they recharge.