What Did You Do Today in Andromeda

Add Jaal in and you've got Kett crying!

I will admit Drack is an expert at stealing kills!!!!! 

Tactical cloak is a cool power, maybe a bit over powered but fun to use.

I really didn't Melee much I just used either the sword or hammer to add extra Kinetic Coils which if in one of the slots counts towards your total damage regardless of whether you are using it in combat or not.

Maybe if I miss...

Interesting. I’ve never not beat their time so I only heard one version.

Moved on to eladren. Don’t like the planet. It looks nice but you go slow up those sandy dunes so I’m always switching gears. But 2 loyalty quests led there so I went. Got draks quest done and moved pee-bees along further. During draks I got to thinking. about how little the whole don’t take people out of cryo thing or reproduce makes sense. I mean on the surface it works but no one has a issue with krogan breeding and when the genophage is in full effect they breed at human speeds. The reduced genophage that clan was showing they bred at a lot more than humans.(how the other krogan let them leave the mw I want to know)Admittedly they have a very small base population but they are one ton killing machines. Then you have he outlaws etc all getting along fine. Why is Tann, Addison etc so against defrosting people or breeding yet. Are they hiding something?(I assume just bad writing, but you can turn bad writing into a story point in volume 2)

Either during the initial conversation with Dr. Camden or in a Codex entry it is mentioned that the original main hydroponics was destroyed during or shortly after hitting the scourge. A few lines of ambient dialogue between the armour and the arms merchant* reveal that several storage areas were also hit and either destroyed or severely irradiated.

IIRC the resulting food shortage was also one of the causes of the uprising.

*During the conversation, the arms-merchant wonders how the armour merchant got her wares out of storage when he was told that the entire area was still too dangerous for anyone to enter.

Yeah that’s the reason given. But the outlaws with a cavewoman thug for a leader swing it. Random bandits swing it. The krogan swing it. Why do Tann and Addison think they can’t make enough food when everyone else can. And yeah I’d expect a lot of food stores easily enough for a year.

I did Jaal's loyalty mission yesterday. Is it just me or is Aksuuls plan completely stupid?
Blowing up an ancient, irreplaceable, historical site that is of scientific as well as cultural importance just to make the initiative look bad?
The people sent away from there knew that only the Roekaar were sitting in the camp since about a week. It also wouldn't take much to ascertain that no other shuttles/vehicles have entered airspace in the vicinity for about the same time.

After that I went to Aya, to see a drunk Pebee. Also there the Moshae thanked me for 'not firing a shot' and no bloodshed. Should I tell her about the dozen Angara I killed while trying to defuse the bombs? And the dozen or so guarding the entrance to the Forge...

Later that day we finally went to safe the Asari ark. I'm still confused about where everything is supposed to be on these ships, considering I thought the hangar bays were the midship part, we then went to the 'lower decks' and later deck 12 on the same deck was midships where I thought the hangar was...
Anyway, the ark managed to escape in time, and Drack go to be grumpy about the 'stupid Asari hull plating; cannot even withstand a single bombardment!'

Cora was devastated that her hero Sarissa had failed her pathfinder and had to step down ( I disagree with that, but Ryder saw it that way...). Though it seems that depression did not hold for long, as I got now two reasons (pebee's artifact and Cora's garden) to go back to Eos.

Not done any of this today, more like this last week:

I ventured to Khi Tasira (way too late at night, missed some stuff in the progress), with Pebee and Vetra. For the first time, after activating both towers, the Kett and Remnant forces actually engaged each other instead of me! The Remnant Destroyer even killed the Fiend and an Anointed before finally turning on Ryder.
I wonder if Remnant ground forces will try to attack and take over the Kett ship that crashed on the station at the end of the mission.

After that I went to Eos to plant Cora's garden and fetch a piece of remtech for Pebee.
Another titbit I hadn't heard before: August Bradley had a variation of his 'Homestead with fences, so you know what's yours' line to say. This one specifically ended with him saying that he's waiting for Ark Hyperion to be moored. (Or similar)
I noticed that he and captain Dunn use the same phrase during my first playthrough. I just never before heard him specifically saying that he was waiting for someone on the Hyperion.

I haven’t posted in a while, but I have made some progress in my Scott Ryder playthrough during the last couple of weeks.

Did a whole bunch of stuff on Kadara (with help from Drack and Peebee), including the activation of the Remnant vault to make the planet more livable. We also solved some murders – Reyes Vidal’s suspicions that the Roekar were involved turned out to be correct – dealt with some kett stragglers for Sloane Kelly, helped the Collective find a spy in their base, recovered Dr Nakamoto’s medical formula, and assisted Reyes in dealing with a troublesome competitor named Zia, among other things.

Eventually, Sloane Kelly wanted to meet. She’d received word that the Charlatan had wanted to settle things between the Collective and the Outcasts and requested my presence. I tried to tell her I wanted no part of their spat, but she seemed to think having me along as a neutral party would help her avoid what was a fairly obvious trap.

She was wrong, and was killed by a sniper. Not exactly an honourable duel on the part of the Charlatan, who turned out to be a new acquaintance of ours (I shouldn’t have been surprised). But I had specifically told Sloane I had little interest in helping her, she should have listened.

With Kadara under new management – someone more willing to work with the Initiative – we were able to set up an outpost on the planet.

While on Kadara we’d found some evidence that seemed to confirm the krogan’s accusations about Spender. Back on the Nexus I searched Spender’s apartment and found more, including an illegal scrambler. I asked the Comms Officer to analyze it to confirm who’d been using it (it was obvious, but I didn’t want to go throwing accusations around yet).

Captain Dunn wanted to meet, and revealed that someone with a contagious disease had been smuggled aboard the Nexus and was now free. She asked me to track her down, discreetly to avoid a panic. The individual had escaped in a shuttle, and after a wild goose chase over half the cluster the trail ended at back on Kadara.

The Roekaar had captured the sick woman and discovered that angara were immune to the disease she had. They were planning to engineer it into a weapon to be used against the Milky Way races. Sam’s analysis indicated that virus sample they had would likely be of limited use, however. I let the Roekaar leader go in order to save the woman and get her into a cryo chamber until she could be cured.

We then followed up a lead that helped us find the asari ark. It was in bad shape thanks to the Scourge and kett attacks, and their original Pathfinder had been killed. While ridding the ship of kett, Cora, Drack and I discovered that the new Pathfinder, Sarissa, had made mistakes that contributed to both the first pathfinder’s death and the ark’s current predicament. Cora was pretty upset, as Sarissa had been a hero of hers. An asari commando who’d assisted us – Vederia – took over as Pathfinder and the asari ark was finally able to rendezvous with the Nexus.

On my first run, I stumbled across a shack on the way to the Three Sabers hideout on Kadara (Life on the Frontier side quest). There were two shacks, the first had a Turian who never intended to rebel, but his brother did and he stuck with his brother. His brother got killed and the Turian got exiled with the rest of the rebels, ending up on Kadara, trying to stay alive and not picking sides between the Collective and the Outcasts.

The next shack over at first appears empty. Then you discover a secret room … and a secret as to what the "Charlatan" is really like. That pretty much settled it for me. Other than one excursion where I picked the "Charlatan" to see where things went and the consequences, I picked Sloane. Sometimes I shot the "Charlatan" in the butt, however most times, I didn't shoot him at all.

Sloane is really, really rough around the edges. But I read the book and that shades my perspective of her. Also, she does bad stuff, but the Charlatan is worse. Even if you don't find the shack, there are hints as to the seamier side of the "Charlatan" … but the shack seals the deal for me. At least if Sloane gives her word, she'll keep it. She deals in drugs and she has folks killed. But there are worse things. And worse things are what the Charlatan is up to.

The shack is not part of the side quest. Depending on which direction you approach the Three Sabers hideout, you might never stumble across the shack. I did … on the first run. I'd say I was probably 50/50 on seeing the shack on subsequent runs. It just depended on my direction of approach.

Last night I finished my limbo NG++ where I hit max level (132) just so I didn't have any more games that weren't complete. Today I just did the talk portion at the "party" and went to Ryder I, then Eos.

I had almost considered starting another game (not NG+), but I haven't really been able to think of any interesting builds that I might want to run (that I haven't really done already). Can write a much longer discussion about the power and profile system, but I won't bother getting into that.