What Did You Do Today in Andromeda

So after a bit of a break from gaming due to illness and then getting hooked into reading The Expanse novels, jumped back into MEA today for a little while.

Finished what I had to do on Havarl which was to talk to Evfra on The Tempest, talk to Addison from Havarl, visited Thaldyr, found the Fusion Mod o Adrenaline, scanned some large animals for the scientists and gave them a copy of The Roekaar data.

Then headed back to The Nexus and was confronted by some protesters wanting their families out of stasis. Consulted with the leaders and told the protesters no go. Popped in The vortex to drop off some Hops and it looked like the Karaoke tried to work but the protesters were outside when I went in and their dialogue seemed to be interfering with it!!!

Spoke to Kerri, got a copy of the movie library and then headed to Voeld. Picked up several missions after talking to Commander Do Xeel and headed off. Got hit by the Voeld is Cold glitch and struggled to kill the Kett you meet driving down the mountain in time, so logged off for the day and hopefully that will disappear tomorrow.

Some pic's

Flying is fun


Landing on Voeld


Stupid Cold glitch

Hey sandwichtern nice recount of MEA. Khi Tisara can be a nightmare especially on the higher difficulty settings and I love your parking skills.    That is my favourite Nomad paint job by the way. 

What is a nightmare run? Is there a mod, personal ground rules?

Are you playing on Insanity? That is a tough gig, I found the easiest way to do it was using the soldier profile and using Cloak, Turbocharge and Flak Cannon. Also I am currently using Infiltrator and using Incinerate/Energy Drain/Overload which I think will be a good Insantiy combination. Just need to change the difficulty. I also carried two modded Valkyries to try and avoid running out of bullets. They are both modded for auto-fire and with a dual mod slot augmentation and then as many Kinetic Coils as I can fit. FYI if you haven't equipped the Asari Sword or Krogan hammer you should and you can load those with Kinetic Coils that also contribute to your overall damage.
Call Out: all this info was previously provided to me by Element Zero who can probably offer better suggestions in regards to build. 

I tend to swap the paint jobs depending on planet. EOS gets the Midas paint. Voeld gets Jex or the snow one, Kadara gets Nebula, H-047c gets Hex and Elaaden gets Bloodpack. 

Khi Tasira gets easier the more you do it, I rarely have any mishaps there now unless I am too busy sightseeing. 

Yeah Insanity for me just makes the game take longer and like you I play DAI on normal cause I suck in general at fantasy game combat. 

I found my squadmates much more effective when I directed them (collective direction, not as individuals) at applicable weak spots on the architect. While it meant a constant redirection, it also meant they would focus on the leg I was working on and made things seem to go a lot faster. Of course, once we were left with the head, it was a no-brainer (ba dumm, tssss).

I think they might have provided the last shot a time or two (I vaguely recall something like that happening on Eos), but I wouldn't bet money on it. I found Drack and Cora the most effective in controlling the mobs. Other squadmates just didn't seem to be as effective.

I started a MEA PT this evening. I decided on a Scott PT as Sentinel (Lance/Annihilation/Energy Drain). I’m honestly not too invested, so we’ll see if it lasts.

Thanks for the info. I need to try Flak Cannon. I had Turbocharge unlocked in my Felix run, but I ended up never using it: I started the game with Tactical Cloak, Overload, and Incinerate and finished it using Tactical Cloak, Zap and Incinerate. I've read people saying Valkyries are very good guns, but I think I tried them and didn't like their two-bullet firing rate. Looks like I need to look into how to mod them to have auto-fire.   I guess it never occurred to me. Strike team missions always got me more guns than I knew what to do with, so I rarely bothered with crafting them. I digress now, but are there more than three pictures for the strike teams? I got the 'one human and two Turians' one, the 'Asari, Turian, and Salarian' one, and the one with three humans. I'm just curious whether or not I just got extremely unlucky with their avatar pictures since I ended up with FOUR teams with the same 'a human and  two Turians' image.


So back to the matter at hand, Sara decided to head to Voeld from Aya and I spent the day driving around with Liam and Jaal, deploying forward stations, mining for Nomad upgrades, and just trying to gain more levels and money. The Nomad's map icon sure is handy, because even without a snow camouflage I sometimes can't find the car among the snow.

The day's highlights: 
1. I had never explored what's behind the Tempest and found three iridium nodes on an icy ledge. 
2. During the Medical caches quest I had a chat with Yeda, a wounded escort for Angaran scientists. I think I did the quest in wrong order on my Felix run, because she never told him anything but that she'd get back safely on her own.
3. Unlike my more cautious Felix, Sara also sent the Scourge Gem back to Nexus. I didn't know you'd get an email for doing it! 
4. I unlocked bunch of Biotic skills: Shockwave, Annihilation, Singularity and Lance. With Felix I never bothered with them, I dumped just enough points into them to unlock Barrier. After reorganising my favourites I tried Lance out with Cloak, Energy Drain and Charge and quite enjoyed myself.
5. Sara and team rescued Niilj and his cohorts. After dying a bunch of times I figured the right order of freeing prisoners. The fight also forced me to start using Disruptor Ammo which I'd been frugal with due to my limited funds. The "You've gotten the Vanguard Surprise trophy" notice also popped out during the fight. 

Once again I’ve been doing more playing than posting over the last few weeks, to the extent that I’ve finished the main story, including all the companion missions. (The only thing left in my journal is the Architect on Elaaden and a bunch of the miscellaneous tasks / collection quests – not sure if I’ll go back and do those or not).

I’ll likely play again at least once, with a Sara Ryder this time, to try out the biotic abilities (I played Scott using the Engineer profile the entire game). I’m not sure how quickly I’ll get to it, though, as I want to do another Shepard trilogy playthrough first. Plus, I’m considering reading the Andromeda novels before I play again – the Sloane vs Reyes debate that one of my posts earlier in the thread seemed to instigate was interesting to read, and I’m more curious about what happened in the books as a result.

Until then, I’ll be here reading everyone’s updates – it’ll be nice now that I don’t have to try and avoid spoilers

Krrks is right in that they get brokenly overpowered. On my one and only soldier run I had a autofire bioconverter Valkyrie and I don’t think it took me 10 seconds to drop the remnant tiller destroyer++ on insanity. It usually is a fight for my life and takes minutes. That being said you can have a lot of non broken fun with weapon mod/crafting. Sidewinder pistol I like screwing with, the piranha is powerful but I’ve never made it brokenly so, the dhan can get broken but you can also just make it really good. Any of the guns that are already autofire are kind of hard to break imo. Make better sure but not make so good they break the game. I have a talent for making guns worse though. What’s cool in my head frequently ends up terrible in game. So a good thing to do is save before you hit the weapon table. Make/mod the gun go down to a planet and try it out a bit. If it sucks load and try again. Late game it’s not a huge deal but early game materials are a bitch to come by.

Just wasted a lot of time on what I thought was a bug I'd never seen before. I placed the charges for Uncovering the Past, but they never went off. It turns out that they won't detonate unless you go to a particular spot, even though the mission text says just to clear the blast radius. Since I wasn't using quest markers, I never got to that spot and they never detonated. Grr....

I'm pretty much a nonfan of Voeld's design in general. All those camps scattered around, with bunches of missions that require you to hit several of them until you've collected a bunch of randomly dropping stuff. It's a cheap way to do OW design, but it really calls attention to how dopey the area design itself is. I don't think this sort of thing works well in areas with long sightlines. It's particularly bad when groups that are hostile to each other are nevertheless sitting within sight of each other, such as the yevara poachers and the nearby kett camps.