What Did You Do Today in Andromeda

I like that mission, but it was such a pain on my first Black Widow focused Ryder. So much cover for those things to move behind and so many of them going for you at once. Even later, when I knew what was coming and tried to prepare, I still couldn't prevent a good number of enemies getting to the shuttle. As last stands go, this is a pretty good one.

A small update of whats been going on, mostly by pictures as I've forgot to update otherwise *sigh*. The game just sucked me in and I've hardly put it down since I started playing it, mainly moving to MP from APEX console

Before the icy planet adventure, wow..


Finding the first settlement on Voeld


This place looks very familiar


We got her back


Outpost!


Beautiful isnt it?


Next time, Aya, some more space and Havarl pics!

Yep. I have now taken 150+ pictures already. I may have spent way too much time lining up some shots

LOL I was taking a screenshot yesterday and thought what are you doing????? I already have over 6,000 MEA screenshots!!!!!!   

Thanks for the tips concerning screenshots. Unicephalon's "old school" method (+ some graphics editor) does the trick nicely.


Do you know about invisible bonuses? I tried to make a plasma charge spam weapon and as the charge mechanic prevents full-auto firing, I tried to use shotguns, but it was not that great due to damage and ammo penalties. And then I remembered that ugly little Cerberus shotgun pistol... researched it just for this one purpose. It apparently does not suffer from the ammo penalty, but I'm not sure about damage.


Once made an Isharay with beam emitter to see if the beam would turn green (it did not ) and it only did scratch damage, besides being single shot. I guess the game calculates damage for beam emitters from some DPS value, which is probably too low on single shot/high damage weapons.

Did a small test run with level III Dhans on my lvl 13 Ryder with no weapon training and no mods on the weapons. The Beam Dhan managed to knock between 10 and 20% health off an Eiroch with one three-shot magazine, while the burst-fire Dhan took around 40-50%. I guess the main reason for using a beam emitter is improving range and accuracy. I would probably use seeking plasma instead, as this gets rid of the range limits and improves accuracy, while the drop in projectile speed appears minor. I guess the burst Dhan is meant to be discharged quickly into somebody's face, then switch to another weapon to finish it off.



Yes, crafting is fun and some stuff is really amusing, even if not über or even effective. I tend to have a bounce-grenade shotgun around, for example. Always remembers me of the Golam Arms FC-1 Flechette launcher from Jedi Knight/Academy. In its primary fire mode, the FC-1 is basically the game's shotgun, with flechettes bouncing of walls and then burning holes into the floor with a very distinctive hiss. Secondary mode fires red-hot balls of boom thermal detonators that bounce around.





Should not Infiltrator profile + penetration/receiver mods also do the trick? I'm using infiltrator all the time on Havarl, even on my second Ryder (caster biotic). Damn trees and hiding sniper cats Roekaar.
Ok, the abilty gives more damage as well. I might be just biased because I'm not good with powerful but short-lived self buffs. Never use Turbocharge, play ME2/3 soldiers or Tempest rogues in DAI. I prefer innates/passives like ME2/3 Infiltrator's time slowdown.

So yesterday tidied up a lot of stuff on The Nexus. Exiled Nilkin, cleared some protesters without giving into their demands, heard a Turian read some poetry, told Spender I was on to him after chatting with Dell and Kesh, hooked Gil up with some weirdo at the docks, got beaten at Poker, gave Umi some Hops, replayed some of dad's memories and spoke with Professor Herik.

Then headed to Voeld with Liam and Jaal and went off and rescued The Moshae. Next completing some tasks on Voeld but won't have much time, left a couple of the random generated quests on EOS incomplete and depending on how they pop on Voeld may do the same thing. Have completed the puzzle in The Voeld vault for the extra data core, hope I can remember it this time otherwise my just skip that too.

Pic's

Time to put the warm gear on:



Putting Jaal in his place:



Rescuing The Moshae



Blowing stuff up is always fun:



Sister Sara is one of my old PT creations, I made her to look like Ellen Ryder:

The beam emitter actually only multiplies the weapons damage with its rate of fire, scaled as DPS value. For shotguns (e.g., not the Talon) the number of pellets fired is multiplied with that.

The game displays the damage per (uncharged) hit (multiplied by the number of pellets) for all weapons.
A fully charged vanilla Lanat shot does 2 times the damage of an uncharged shot.

Today clearing out Flophouse... game bugged after the enemies had been dealt with, and I heard multiple "ghost" scavs talking about different things, like I'd walk through the place in peace with them.
Is there a state where I can go there in peace in the game or did I trigger a remnant of old mission?

I have had the ghost voices there too, strangely after many PT's but yeah it's just a glitch.