Andromeda's Little Things you've just discovered

Does anyone know....
If you clear the Flophouse you get a datapad with the keycode to the door where the drive core is hidden. If you go there before visiting the remnant ship to learn the drive core is missing, is it still in the cave or does it only spawn once you're on the hunt for it?

This is the case. The entrance is locked and you cannot interact with it. I always check it out, because that's what Ryder would do. (What does that say about me? 😉)

Hey melbella I just went to the Flophouse and the Drive Core room is definitely locked.

No actually I forgot about that, where is it?

I thought you got that during the Remnant Derelict mission which I haven't done but just about to.

If there is one in the flophouse I am confident I picked it up as I am pretty thorough and go back through it after clearing the scavengers. I went straight to the door afterwards  and it was locked and couldn't be accessed. 

There's Heleus Flora (mushrooms) growing in one of the open areas of Hydroponics on the Nexus (just behind the glass case with the mushrooms in it. You can scan it if you get up close. The description says it contains agents that could be used to enhance medi-gel's pain-reducing capabilities. Playthrough 5 and this is the first time I noticed it.

I'm finding there's a ton of stuff on Tempest, Nexus and even Eos that I just haven't thought to try scanning in the past... and I guess I just never walked close enough to initiate the signals to scan.  Learning lots of new stuff this time around.  I'm doing a playthrough on insanity starting with a PC at Level 0... and I'm playing offline so no strike teams this time around either.  I'm going to need all those research points, so I'm really making an effort to scan stuff.  The additional codex entries and information are a real bonus.

On Elaaden there is a quest to retrieve a thruster for an initiative woman stuck in a sink hole. There is a building you go to where a guy is hiding in an upstairs room, if you scan the room you'll find bottles/containers of some home made alcohol, the ingredients are "interesting" and SAM's response to Ryder's query is funny. Have you found that?

I think I have posted it earlier in this thread.

You go to the scavengers hideout who supposedly have the thruster and SAM tells you there is someone hiding inside the upstairs room. They are on the floor in that room 

This is the first ME game I have cared about combat and so in the past have just never bothered with doing anything other than play on normal. Before I played MEA I played The Division whichwas also a third person cover based shooter with a bit of RPG thrown in. It was designed to plat co-op and I played it solo all the way through and that was the most brutal combat I have done and I just wasn't used to dying all the time so there was a bit of raging and it wasn't good for the BP  But I learnt a lot about armor and weapon builds so it carried over nicely to MEA. Hearing of your starting a Level 0 insanity run intrigues me almost to try it but I just don't think I want to put myself through it. Some of the battles are challenging enough even on NG+ and armed with Cobras, so I think 'll just enjoy the "mild" adrenaline rush of NG+ Insanity but I am intrigued!!!! 

There is an achievement for reviving squad mates 20 times or something, until hardcore play through (number 8) I'd played on normal or casual to start with and had a total of 2 squad mates die in that time. On hardcore I think they died maybe 3 or 4 times but on Insanity they have died at least 10 so there is enough of a difference for me 

Yeah I have heard the Biotic/Vanguard path is easier using Charge and Nova in particular, its never really been my style in ME but I should probably give it a go.

You may have seen elementzero and I talking he convinced me to try Turbocharge and Tactical Cloak, they may be a big help. TC lets you move round the field of battle to find ammo and better cover and to get out of sticky situations. It also lets you revive squad mates unmolested. Turbocharge is really helpful in taking down higher level characters faster, I pretty much took out a destroyer by myself with an assault rifle using turbocharge 3 or 4 times.

Wow what a wall of text, sorry and good luck with the current PT