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'Shut Up SAM - Exploration' Am I the only one that likes SAM? Lol, this mod is very popular it seems with players. Eh, I don't think he's terrible, just repetitive as hell and could use better, uh... AI. I should go.
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Always a pleasant surprise when you find something you haven't seen before. Found a room on the Remnant Derelict I don't recall seeing before and picked up a minor quest in New Tuchanka I'm not sure I've ever done.
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As I escaped Eos vault, I remembered... there are missable things on your way in and especially on the way out... damned timers! Need time dilation grumble grumble grrr
I did save Greer this time, which was a first, so better job Pathfinding this time than my previous attempt.
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Always a pleasant surprise when you find something you haven't seen before. Found a room on the Remnant Derelict I don't recall seeing before and picked up a minor quest in New Tuchanka I'm not sure I've ever done. Please elaborate on both.
I can't remember encountering a hidden room in the derelict
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Post by Ravenfeeder on Dec 3, 2022 19:49:04 GMT
Always a pleasant surprise when you find something you haven't seen before. Found a room on the Remnant Derelict I don't recall seeing before and picked up a minor quest in New Tuchanka I'm not sure I've ever done. Please elaborate on both.
I can't remember encountering a hidden room in the derelict It's not hidden, I just hadn't noticed it before. When going around the turrets at the beginning there's one turret with a bunch of scavengers attacking it. There's a room to the side there with several loot containers.
The quest is a Krogan sad about his friend the Angara not showing up any more.
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Always a high point in the game. Flophouse carnage.
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Post by melbella on Dec 3, 2022 21:37:50 GMT
The quest is a Krogan sad about his friend the Angara not showing up any more.
That usually triggers by talking to the krogan in New Tuchanka. How does it trigger in the ship? Do you overhear scavengers talking about her?
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Post by Ravenfeeder on Dec 3, 2022 21:42:56 GMT
The quest is a Krogan sad about his friend the Angara not showing up any more.
That usually triggers by talking to the krogan in New Tuchanka. How does it trigger in the ship? Do you overhear scavengers talking about her?
No, that was the quest I picked up in New Tuchanka. The only bit in the ship was the room I hadn't been to before.
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That usually triggers by talking to the krogan in New Tuchanka. How does it trigger in the ship? Do you overhear scavengers talking about her?
No, that was the quest I picked up in New Tuchanka. The only bit in the ship was the room I hadn't been to before. Did you see the Batman Easter Egg in the Remnant Derelict?
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No, that was the quest I picked up in New Tuchanka. The only bit in the ship was the room I hadn't been to before. Did you see the Batman Easter Egg in the Remnant Derelict? Alfred, prepare the Batplane.
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Did you see the Batman Easter Egg in the Remnant Derelict? Alfred, prepare the Batplane.
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Alfred, prepare the Batplane. BatNOMAD
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Got really frustrated by the game. Not sure I'll continue, to be honest.
The lack of polish, the lack of commitment to the title, shows constantly. There are so many oddities, visual distractions, actual visual bugs (flickering in cutscenes), skyboxes where we are actually told "LOOK UP (use L-Alt) and when you do, you see a broken skybox with obvious seams... It is a lot.
The save system is an abomination. So is the map design. The vertical design of the maps is actually worse than ME1, and that is a loud statement I am well-prepared to defend. Voeld in particular, good grief. It is very reminiscent of DAI in how crappy it is, because parts of traversing the map is like hopping up the mountain for a shard. Except this is for mission critical stuff, not a fluff piece of extra content.
I cannot pause when I want to, so I either walk away and miss the banter/scene/whatever because my real life doesn't give a single shit about your artistic integrity.
The nuts and bolts of a good game are there. There are some decent VO performers and performances, and the rest are at least passable. The combat is decent, needs a lot more polish, but it does feel like Mass Effect. The time crunch really shows in how lame the guns feel to me. Yay this one shoots different speed pewpew, sounds a little different... enemy still dies the same way, slowly and spongely.
Sorry for the rant, but this is what I did in Andromeda today. At least 25hrs into this playthrough, I think I've had enough.
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For me to buy the next game, everyone will have to love it. All of you, all of the OT or bust fans. If almost every single person on this forum doesn't gush for next ME game, it is the easiest hard pass ever.
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Got really frustrated by the game. Not sure I'll continue, to be honest. The lack of polish, the lack of commitment to the title, shows constantly. There are so many oddities, visual distractions, actual visual bugs (flickering in cutscenes), skyboxes where we are actually told "LOOK UP (use L-Alt) and when you do, you see a broken skybox with obvious seams... It is a lot. The save system is an abomination. So is the map design. The vertical design of the maps is actually worse than ME1, and that is a loud statement I am well-prepared to defend. Voeld in particular, good grief. It is very reminiscent of DAI in how crappy it is, because parts of traversing the map is like hopping up the mountain for a shard. Except this is for mission critical stuff, not a fluff piece of extra content. I cannot pause when I want to, so I either walk away and miss the banter/scene/whatever because my real life doesn't give a single shit about your artistic integrity. The nuts and bolts of a good game are there. There are some decent VO performers and performances, and the rest are at least passable. The combat is decent, needs a lot more polish, but it does feel like Mass Effect. The time crunch really shows in how lame the guns feel to me. Yay this one shoots different speed pewpew, sounds a little different... enemy still dies the same way, slowly and spongely. Sorry for the rant, but this is what I did in Andromeda today. At least 25hrs into this playthrough, I think I've had enough. ... For me to buy the next game, everyone will have to love it. All of you, all of the OT or bust fans. If almost every single person on this forum doesn't gush for next ME game, it is the easiest hard pass ever. I really disagree with a lot of what you are saying. The "Visual Distractions" "Visual Bugs" you are talking about I don't think I have experienced more than 5 times in 22 PT's and I am not even sure what you are referencing with the "Sky Box" thing as I don't ever remember seeing something like it. The save system is stupid in that you can't just hit F5 but really all you have to do is hit escape and double click on SAVE. The map design is not user friendly I agree but compared to so many games I have played it isn't the worst I have experienced. Why was Voeld so difficult to traverse, I really do not understand this comment. Get in the Nomad and Drive pretty much anywhere you want. Not sure what you mean you cannot pause whenever you want, you can just hit escape if RL demands something. I think the combat I MEA is some of the most fun I have ever played and the use of jump jets makes it even more fun. The ability to flip profiles is great and I think the weapons are great. The menus for everything are a debacle. Even playing on Insanity with the right abilities and weapon builds even the boss fights are spongy IMO. Sure the game has it's faults it was rushed and dev's were stolen to work on that complete failure whose name I cannot remember. Each to their own of course but as a huge fan of MET I also really enjoy MEA and off the top of my head without too much though I think it does things like combat and travel etc far better than MET. Graphically (how the environments look) it is far superior compare Noveria to Voeld for example. Traversing any of the planets in The Nomad is infinitely better than traversing MET planets in the Mako or the Hammerhead. Anyway sorry for my rant, nothing personal but I just don't support your criticism of MEA but maybe I am just biased because it is a game I really enjoy.
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Post by hulluliini on Dec 5, 2022 9:21:33 GMT
The map of Voeld is bad, not the traversing per se when not using a map. Same goes for Havarl if you go to Mithrava.
I think I noticed some graphical issues with the skyboxes and landing cutscenes but it's not something I really care about. I also don't care about how guns feel. But SAM without the shut-up mod and all the numerous other fixes you can only have through mods are what I care about and really bother me. Like having Asari clones. Even with all the mods in place, I can't help but feel disappointment with certain issues that nobody can mod away. There's plenty to criticise about the game and I certainly will be pissed if the next ME has the same level of quality after being years in development and after what happened with Anthem. They can't drop the ball, again.
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Post by Ravenfeeder on Dec 5, 2022 11:49:46 GMT
The save system is an abomination. This was one of the main reasons I ditched the game when it first came out. It was so annoying. It still can be annoying, but I've learned to live with it. The autosave system actually works OK! Very surprising for a Bioware game (or any game really). I'm not sure I agree that the verticality of the maps is worse than ME1, but that might be more individual ways of playing than anything else. I found I got used to it and learned what was good and what wasn't, although occasionally I still get frustrated on Kadara.
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Post by Ravenfeeder on Dec 5, 2022 20:25:33 GMT
Sorted out the Kadara situation. Sided with the Collective because whilst I dislike Reyes (a lot), Sloane and Kaetus are just horrible people. All Colony Bases now done, time to do Companion missions starting with Drack. I may have become somewhat blasé about the water on Kadara:
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The save system is an abomination. This was one of the main reasons I ditched the game when it first came out. It was so annoying. It still can be annoying, but I've learned to live with it. The autosave system actually works OK! Very surprising for a Bioware game (or any game really). I'm not sure I agree that the verticality of the maps is worse than ME1, but that might be more individual ways of playing than anything else. I found I got used to it and learned what was good and what wasn't, although occasionally I still get frustrated on Kadara. Oh yeah the Kadara map situation is an abomination in terms of doing the shuffle through the port etc.
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Post by dazk on Dec 5, 2022 22:24:20 GMT
The map of Voeld is bad, not the traversing per se when not using a map. Same goes for Havarl if you go to Mithrava. I think I noticed some graphical issues with the skyboxes and landing cutscenes but it's not something I really care about. I also don't care about how guns feel. But SAM without the shut-up mod and all the numerous other fixes you can only have through mods are what I care about and really bother me. Like having Asari clones. Even with all the mods in place, I can't help but feel disappointment with certain issues that nobody can mod away. There's plenty to criticise about the game and I certainly will be pissed if the next ME has the same level of quality after being years in development and after what happened with Anthem. They can't drop the ball, again. Havarl is a pain in terms of being made to go back and forth from Havaral and the Tempest but what is the problem with the rest of the map in terms of travelling except for mithrava? Once you have scaled Mithrava once and place the FT point you don't have to do that climb again and you can FT from Mithrava by selecting Level 2 in the stack of floors. Landing cutscenes especially early on were terrible but I thought they had been fixed by the Dev's unless the MEA Fixpack MOD fixes them.
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I really disagree with a lot of what you are saying. The "Visual Distractions" "Visual Bugs" you are talking about I don't think I have experienced more than 5 times in 22 PT's and I am not even sure what you are referencing with the "Sky Box" thing as I don't ever remember seeing something like it. Skyboxes are the sky portion of the map. I am playing on Ultra textures, and at one point on Havarl I was given the "look" prompt, looked up and saw the sky literally divided into 4 quadrants, and the textures doing weird different things right next to each other was both poorly done on the texture side, and ridiculously done from the game telling you what to do side. Basically, "Hey G, look at how lazy we are lulz - we want you to see it." Black banding/flickering in cutscenes is a well-known and complained about issue with this game from day one, never fixed apparently. Doesn't affect everyone, which is the nature of PC gaming. Just because an issue doesn't exist for you doesn't mean it doesn't exist at all. This is going to be a broken record here, but FFS the facial animations in the game, after all the patches, are shit tier. Fucking terrible. This is simply not true. There are many times, even out of combat, that the save option is greyed out. Also, cannot ESC to menu to pause during cutscenes. I do want to watch some of these, and I do have things that distract me from this pursuit from time to time. Cyberpunk does this incredibly well, for an example of what I'm talking about - I can pause the game any time I want to, for any reason, and the game doesn't judge me or care. Yay! I died in combat (gasp) and respawned on the side of a mountain, putting me in a falling loop. Had to start a save from 10 minutes previous. Answered already, but this isn't always the case for me. So, I cannot agree. This is... fine? I am not telling you you should hate the game. I think the profiles are boring and definitely limit my interest in replaying for combat, which was a core of ME in previous titles for me. I wanted to be Engineer Shep. I wanted to be Infiltrator Shep. I did not want or ask for the ability to do all of these, because a jack of all trades is a master of none. My opinion. I was mad at the game, and maddened again with how carelessly they treated the IP with the lack of polish everywhere. I got over it, and am now freezing to death in the Voeld Vault, which caused me to walk away again. The environmental irritations of Hardcore/Insanity are a really cheesy way of adding difficulty. The enemy apparently all have hotsuits/are impervious to cold. I don't hate the game, I am not trying to tell people that it is bad or how they should feel. If you disagree that the title was not given anywhere near the attention to detail and polish, and that the game doesn't suffer from engine choice (animations), then we are at an impasse. This is also fine. So, rant right back at ya!
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Post by dazk on Dec 6, 2022 0:59:18 GMT
@gaben7 "This is simply not true. There are many times, even out of combat, that the save option is greyed out. Also, cannot ESC to menu to pause during cutscenes. " I forgot that. "I died in combat (gasp) and respawned on the side of a mountain, putting me in a falling loop. Had to start a save from 10 minutes previous." I have never had that happen. "I think the profiles are boring and definitely limit my interest in replaying for combat, which was a core of ME in previous titles for me." I don't really understand this, no one is making you play all of them. I did my first 4 to 6 PT's as a soldier but using different builds weapon wise and ability wise. I then did my Insanity run as a Sentinel which I had never played as before using Tech abilities and have subsequently only ever done PT's as either of these but mostly Sentinel using different Tech and Biotic abilities. I have rarely actually changed profiles mid game so can't you still just choose to be one profile if you want? You may have the Voeld is COLD bug where you end up with the highest hazard rating ALL the time. Logging out and back in again fixes that but yes on Insanity the cold on Voeld and Heat on Elaaden can be frustrating. Elaaden is easily fixed by doing the Monoliths straight away and the vault. There is also a MOD that turns the cold environmental oof on Voeld if you want to fix it that way. It's called Environmental Hazards Begone by AerShok999 www.nexusmods.com/search/I am also not telling you to like the game, we are all different and different things appeal to each of us. I am also not trying to say the game is perfect it has many flaws but for the crap job Bioware did of it and then just dumping it after 10 patches it was a lot better (I think) than it could have been.
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Post by talyn82 on Dec 6, 2022 2:37:20 GMT
I am also not trying to say the game is perfect it has many flaws but for the crap job Bioware did of it and then just dumping it after 10 patches it was a lot better (I think) than it could have been. I agree with this. I was still high on MELE when I bought MEA on sale through Steam. Do not regret the purchase then again I did buy for it cheap and not full retail like when it first released.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2022 8:08:19 GMT
I bought MEA for $5. I got my money out of it. When I decided to give it a serious go, I found that there was a lot to like, but that overall it was like the songs of Indoctrination, no color in its tones. (forgive me for channeling rachni queen) Just now, getting frustrated at the constant freezing trying to get across the chasm in the Voeld vault, I got caught in an inescapable loop that I couldn't even ESC out of... I fell into the middle of the area surrounded by control consoles, seeing if I could explore down there since I could see a ledge. Was able to land on ledge, and on the rocks on either side. I "died" (left the game area) several times and respawned normally, and may have been able to get out... Once the chucklefucks (Cora and Jaal) decided they must follow their fearless leader and fall on top of me, they started actually dying and I kept falling... I think the loop became to fast for the engine, and the screen was just stuck on a spinning icon at the bottom right corner. No possibility of ESC to menu, I had to ALT-F4 to get out. I think that's it for this run for a couple days. I may check out that mod dazk , that would definitely alleviate what I have to see as a bug, since it makes the gameplay incredibly boring and repetitive during this section if you are just trying to figure out how to get across. Puzzles have the fun taken out of them, when you can't really see the solution and don't have time to think about it before OMG my soup is cold and my face is tired. If this is intended design, that designer needs to be coached or fired. As for not understanding my complaint about profiles, let me try to explain further - There is no level cap. This is dumb. But, it gives you a place to spend XP. XP is progression. Progression is good. More progression. More good. More = better is not a design philosophy that I agree with. I agree with you that nobody is making me play the other profiles, and guess what? I don't lol. I play the game like it has classes, and completely ignore the profile system because it is not in my canon. I also would never have an AI integrated with me, so I would never have a profile system, but in the case that I had no choice in the matter, I would assert dominance at every opportunity. If I die, my parasite dies with me. That's another rant, but I feel like Andromeda and SAM is a not-so-subtle Mac Walters FU to the fanbase that hates his sweet baby ending, Synthesis. Fuck that ending, fuck that guy, fuck. But, it is plain as the red foam nose on a clown's face, to my tinfoil hat. Anyways, yeah, now a broken savepoint. The backtrack in time will be minimal, so I guess I'll look into that mod. The thing is, I was enjoying this playthrough mostly, but the warts add up and then the game grinds to a halt because of a dumb choice in environmental systems in a non-combat zone where the solution isn't obvious.... yeah, I'm a little sore about it right now. I was having fun, and now I am definitely not because I am here ranting. Sorry. Next time, I promise to provide free popcorn ahead of time.
Popping it in now to see if it works in the vault. I only want it for this area, will disable mod afterwards.
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