What Did You Do Today in Andromeda

Oct 20, 2019 10:33:04 GMT sandwichtern said:

Oh, Out of Gas, how you annoyed me as quest.

The first time I ran into that quest, I thought my Nomad (and hence the game) was broken. Until I noticed that Ryder was actually commenting about the Nomad acting weird.

I think I left the guy be once, but killed him every other time. The planet is hazardous enough without some other asshole sabotaging and killing people for their stuff.

I love all the additional dialogue you get if you turn down his offer to help and stay in the nomad for awhile before striking out on foot.

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What Did You Do Today in Andromeda Oct 20, 2019 21:07:57 GMT Element Zero, melbella, and 2 more like this

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Oct 20, 2019 16:16:05 GMT @upagain said:

The first time I ran into that quest, I thought my Nomad (and hence the game) was broken. Until I noticed that Ryder was actually commenting about the Nomad acting weird.

I think I left the guy be once, but killed him every other time. The planet is hazardous enough without some other asshole sabotaging and killing people for their stuff.

I love all the additional dialogue you get if you turn down his offer to help and stay in the nomad for awhile before striking out on foot.

Damn have never taken that option but dithered for a few seconds this time, OH well next time.

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What Did You Do Today in Andromeda Oct 20, 2019 21:56:07 GMT melbella, dazk, and 2 more like this

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Post by LadyofNemesis on Oct 20, 2019 21:56:07 GMT

Been doing more quests left and right, solved problems, explored some places...got a lot less done then I'd hoped but hey, Soleil got herself a date :wub:

I loved doing Reyes' quests on Kadara, they seem so...I dunno, natural? Even though I've already been slightly spoiled with who Reyes actually is, I like him

Reyes: *making promises left and right*

Soleil: <_<

I do hope you're going to keep some of them

Reyes: welll...*holds up bottle of whiskey* share a drink? ^_^

Soleil: :blush:

sure

I like the head canon that Reyes learned from Umi (the bartender at Kralla's Song) that whiskey is Sol's favorite beverage

(after all, whiskey is the drink Ryder orders from her when they ask her for a drink)

the mission was very sweet imo. especially the ending

Soleil: why'd you come to Andromeda Reyes?

Reyes: to be someone...

Soleil: ...you are someone to me :blush:

Reyes: *cups her face* I'm starting to think that kiss wasn't just a distraction

me: daww :wub:

a few screenshots from the date

storage room distraction kiss :wub:

Tomorrow I'm going to finish up a few quests on Kadara and then (finally) head over to Voeld to search for the Asari ark

I've also been given leads on the Turian ark, and some other companion quests as well...so much left to do :lol:

I already have the trail to find the Archon's ship, but I'm going to wait with that a bit and thin out quests in my journal first

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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Oct 20, 2019 23:12:40 GMT

I was not a fan of that scene with Reyes. Not just because of him, but because it is yet another scene that forced me to have my character be someone who drinks alcohol. And unlike some where it is possible to skip (even though you’re punished for it and/or seem like a jerk) this one was mandatory is you wanted to colonize Kadara.

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What Did You Do Today in Andromeda Oct 21, 2019 0:00:51 GMT melbella, Unicephalon 40-D, and 2 more like this

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Post by dazk on Oct 21, 2019 0:00:51 GMT

Oct 20, 2019 21:56:07 GMT LadyofNemesis said:

Been doing more quests left and right, solved problems, explored some places...got a lot less done then I'd hoped but hey, Soleil got herself a date :wub:

I loved doing Reyes' quests on Kadara, they seem so...I dunno, natural? Even though I've already been slightly spoiled with who Reyes actually is, I like him

Reyes: *making promises left and right*

Soleil: <_<

I do hope you're going to keep some of them

Reyes: welll...*holds up bottle of whiskey* share a drink? ^_^

Soleil: :blush:

sure

I like the head canon that Reyes learned from Umi (the bartender at Kralla's Song) that whiskey is Sol's favorite beverage

(after all, whiskey is the drink Ryder orders from her when they ask her for a drink)

the mission was very sweet imo. especially the ending

Soleil: why'd you come to Andromeda Reyes?

Reyes: to be someone...

Soleil: ...you are someone to me :blush:

Reyes: *cups her face* I'm starting to think that kiss wasn't just a distraction

me: daww :wub:

a few screenshots from the date
Tomorrow I'm going to finish up a few quests on Kadara and then (finally) head over to Voeld to search for the Asari ark

I've also been given leads on the Turian ark, and some other companion quests as well...so much left to do :lol:

I already have the trail to find the Archon's ship, but I'm going to wait with that a bit and thin out quests in my journal first

It's best to do everything you can (I think) before doing the Archon's ship, once you do that the momentum really builds towards the ending. I literally clear the journal before heading to the Archon's ship as once you do it I just want to get on with finishing the game.

FYI when you do the first trip to Meridian (Khi Tisara) there is a hidden room with a DA easter egg in it and another Easter Egg in the system when you leave there that Suvi will prompt you with an "anomaly detected" warning. You can't go back and do it so I thought I'd warn you.

You definitely want to find the arks before doing the Archon's ship.

Location of Secret Room if you want to know it in spoiler:

You need to look down for a ledge to jump on to

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What Did You Do Today in Andromeda Oct 21, 2019 0:19:57 GMT melbella, Unicephalon 40-D, and 1 more like this

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Post by dazk on Oct 21, 2019 0:19:57 GMT

So yesterday more roaming, driving, shooting and killing with a little bit of puzzling on Elaaden.

Finished the random quest to blow up the shuttle and its explosives, think I may have had a glitch with little mouse as I got enough data pads but then I got another one that SAM gave his first message about finding more rather than telling me a NAV point. Scanned some diseased bodies and got the NAV point, found all the medical supplies, found the unmarked vault in the south and got me a Data Core and activated the vault to finish and that finished the data core quest. After such long time that vault was quite confusing.

Scanned some edible plants and rocks, told Isabelle to stay if she wanted to, found an artefact for Avelja, found POC and completed the shutting down the Data Core mission. Also took down Barrett's base but didn't give him the supplies.

Next think I'll do the Flophouse mission and then The Krogan Colony stuff.

Pic's

Got what I think are the two funniest PB and Drack conversations about PB's smudge on her face and her parents

Used some Cobras on shuttle drops of troops today to speed stuff up, If you fire at the shuttle and hit it before the troops jump out it kills them all!!!! :devil:

I like The Elaaden Vault

Secret Room in The Vault with the data core, so much data!!!!

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What Did You Do Today in Andromeda Oct 21, 2019 1:39:32 GMT melbella, dazk, and 3 more like this

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Post by Buckeldemon on Oct 21, 2019 1:39:32 GMT

Drizzt is a legend, have read every Forgotten Realms book and Drizzt was my favourite character for a long time. Was so awesome when you accidentally discover him wandering in one of the earlier games eith BG or IWD can't remember.

Scanned and killed me some spit bugs yesterday, was bizarre they wre hanging with a Kaerkan and were non-hostile till Drack attacked them!!!!! :lol:

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Drizzt pops up in BG as far as I recall.

And BG:SoA has a party of over-powered goons that teleport in and demand his stuff back if you managed to kill and loot him in the first game.

Also, how did you manage to scan them with a melee party member?

When I had Cora around, she always splatter'd the critters before I could get close. :facepalm:

Oct 20, 2019 9:32:01 GMT sandwichtern said:

Nice to see this thread lively!

Re: Alec's appearance: More accurately, when you play as Sara the game gives you the choice between picking the default Alec or inheriting a default male preset that corresponds the default female preset you chose to use as the base for your Sara. So default female 5 preset gives you default male 5. To this male preset the game then adds a wrinkled person's skin texture and eyes that are same colour as your Sara's. I wasn't particularly impressed by the default presets and wished the game would have just acted like it did with Scott: Alec could have inherited Scott's looks but added Alec's hairdo and wrinkled skin texture like he did when you played Scott.

Good that the scene is working as intended with you. As for me, the ship makes me think of an axolotl head without the outer gills so the ominous effect is somewhat downcut.

I had the same problem with batarians in the original trilogy. During Garrus's recruitment mission I remember vividly meeting sergeant Cathka and thinking "oh my god, that's a guinea pig wearing an american football helmet." :yas:

I've got one of those with the volus. They remind me of moles. :lol:

Oct 20, 2019 3:21:53 GMT dazk said:

People who sabotage my sweet ride get shot:

Oh, Out of Gas, how you annoyed me as quest. I had to look up its triggering point in a map from a Youtube video and it proved the adage that while a desert is a place of untold wonders never witnessed by human eyes, so is a trash heap and sometimes their contents get mixed. On the other hand, during that gaming session I also found those high crests of sand dunes on top of some game designer had spent time to meticulously place a string of lootable minerals. It was like Hansel and Gretel and breadcrumbs.

The first time I ran into that quest, I thought my Nomad (and hence the game) was broken. Until I noticed that Ryder was actually commenting about the Nomad acting weird.

I think I left the guy be once, but killed him every other time. The planet is hazardous enough without some other asshole sabotaging and killing people for their stuff.

The first time the Nomad broke down for me the worm was rather close, so I thought it was casting the EMP. I sensed a "emerge from below" insta-kill ala ME1 Thresher Maws, so I panicked and did a fast travel far, far away. :lol:

Only by stumbling over it on the wiki I noticed that it was just a feisty little scavenger.

Oct 20, 2019 11:39:48 GMT Unicephalon 40-D said:

Oct 20, 2019 11:13:24 GMT sjsharp2010 said:

TBH I kind of think of Lanc e as Warp from the trilogy really and pretty much jus ttreat it the same. I tdoes kind of work if yo udo that. Just as Pull is the same as lift it's just a different name now.

Warp = Debuffing, Damage over Time, Initial damage, Tracking.
Lance = Instashot damage, Straight line to target.

I like warp more, lov it in MP which has it. Using "MP powers in SP" -mod on PC, one can get and see how useful Warp really is compared to some other skills. I dunno why it didnt came into SP... (maybe a deadline issue or such). Now, take Invasion, Snap freeze from MP and combine those with Warp; you'll have massive debuff + stopping ability and can juggernaut towards fast. :devil:

So the resistance debuff from MP Warp and Invasion stacks? *Mwahaha!* My original thought was that they removed Warp from SP for that very reason. Wait, can someone confirm if Warp and Overload debuffs stack in ME1? I always wondered about that.

Oct 20, 2019 11:40:23 GMT LadyofNemesis said:

Oct 20, 2019 3:10:43 GMT Buckeldemon said:

Ah, thanks. That makes sense. I like that it is more reactive then, let's say DA2. If one takes the iconic/default female Hawke, you got three different eye colours (Carver/Leandra/Gamlen with darker blue-grey, Bethany with brown and [Marian] with ice blue). And that's not even getting into having green-eyed red head.

For the darker-skinned Hawke presets it does not matter as much (everyone gets brown), but most of the fitting Bethanys/Leandras have a strange combination of odd make-up choices. :hithead:

Who is that? I'm not particularly knowlegdeable about fantasy. The only other rangers I know are Aragorn and Sylvanas Windrunner (Shindu fallah nah!). I heard of a guy with the un-pronounceable name Drizzt Do'Urden.

Thanks.

I actually think about giving that face to one of my "canon" Shepards. The first (Infiltrator) always had some asian or hispanic vibes with green eyes, but she did not carry over well into 2 and 3, while biotic rifle girl used the ME default female face, as I liked it back in the day.

You did have that Trevelyan become a Necromancer, didn't you?

I only ever created one Trevelyan to explore dual-wielding a bit, so it did not went far. Kathrina Trevelyan, aptly named for Katherine "Kathrina" Morgan Steiner-Davion of BattleTech. Don't ask about the name background. It would take a rundown of two noble families to expalin that. :lol:

As for her character: "I don't want him neutral, I want him dead. I want you to destroy my brother and everyone that follows him. Then I want you to round up everyone that supports him and make an example of them, too!" *Mwahahaha!*

Sorry for spoiling the bag.

Spit bugs

do as their name implies. Six legs and a large round back with hair-things sticking out. In DA, I gladly fireball spiders and roll them on their backs, legs in the air, but I kinda like the Spit bugs. Don't ask me why. :unsure:

I had no idea in the beginning, besides the impression that MEA biotics appeared to be focused more on a Vanguard playstyle instead of Adept, so I started out with Throw/Lift combo since I thought that it would be more useful in here than for MET (too many protected enemies around which just shrug telekinetics off) and messing around with Singularity as of now. I cannot get the hang of Lance. I know it is supposed to be awesome, but 1) I don't want to go for "shield-powered"-style abilites to be able to spam it and 2) I'm apparently too dumb to hit someone with it. :facepalm:

It does not seem to "track".

I can only comment on Infiltrator, due to "see-through-cover", but I'm single-minded, so just don't listen to me...

Two words: Either "Oh, crap!"or "Well, shit!".

Try explaining a blond Hawke in a family of raven haired siblings :lol:

Well, Leandra and Gamlen are grey and Malcolm is never seen in person, so it could be from either, possibly ignoring real-life rules about genetics.

But DA genetics are weird/"magic" anyway, else we would not have the mess called elf-bloodedness. It is one of the things I would want to get retconned or amended within universe ("If mages need more magic to pass on their traits, what happens when Solas removes his veil?" :devil:

). I don't necessarily want half-races, but I think a quota of 70% chance of child being fully human vs. 30% chance of fully elven would have been less damning but still pretty dramatic compare to the 100% human vs. 0% elf quota. This way, Alistair's unique background would have still been possible, but there would be less reason to force elves to isolate, else face eventual extinction. And then the Chantry (or Chantry fans) complaining about elves being isolationist. :facepalm:

/endrant

as for the ranger, ever played Neverwinter Nights 2? link the ranger in question is called Bishop

though my own ranger was nothing like him in terms of personality, Bishop is Chaotic Evil (douche-bag with a teeny tiny bit of chivalry (he does offer to fight a duel for you after all), my own character was more Chaotic Good (help everyone and hope for the best, plus try not to piss of Morrigan to much with my choices kind of guy)

I did not play it yet. Have to get to finish Kotor first. :lol:

I just heard of the rather "infamous" Bishop. A CE ranger... I guess NWN does not follow D&D rules. :lol:

On the other hand, I like Velanna and if people are not dimissing her as an insane serial killer outright, she also gets dumped into CE territory.

I never finished my Trevelyan, but I'm dubbing between a Lavellan or Trevelyan as my canon inquisitor, so I might make both eventually ^_^

Humans usually never make into canon in DA for me (Hawke doesn't count). :devil:

Though I have two worldstates for DAO, with the only options set in stone are that one of them is male, non-andrastian and romances Morrigan and the other one is a grumpy female elf mage - which does not mean she cannot be Dalish.

The Morrigan lover is the one I tend to use for DAI, because of the content about Morrigan and her son. If - if - I ever get to play a faithful Inq (I honestly cannot play faithful andrastian or believers close to real-world religions in general), it will probably be "secondary canon" and a Trevelyan.

for Soleil I went with Overload, Lance and Annihilation as active skills, overload for shields followed by lance to trigger a static field that sometimes catches nearby enemies to pick off with the sniper rifle. For anyone getting to close there's the annihilation field followed with lance for a biotic combo

to bad you can only have 3 skills active at all times...should've at least given four (pokémon reference :hue:

)

Does the Overload primer last for some time? I never pulled off those Overload/Electrical combos in the MET. I guess I was too slow or should have used party member abilites for that.

*Ryder activates Annihilation Field*

*Challyrion used pounce*

*A-Field lifted Challyrion into the air*

*Ryder used Throw and caused boom*

*This is very effective*

*Challyrion fainted*

Depends on what those four moves are. :whistle:

As a child, I often had things like Bubble, Watergun, Hydropump, Surf on a single 'mon. When replaying Gen. I/II a few years ago, it was more like Icebeam, Thunderbolt, Surf, Confusion Ray on a Lanturn. :lol:

#Stromfisch #SparkFish

my "well shit" reaction came during the mission to save the Moshae when you find out about Exaltation, the Archon ship first time around made me go "well, that's a lot of people that need killing, where's my bug spray?"
Loved Kallo's reaction when they get through the Scourge, made me think of Joker's reaction during the Suicide mission when he takes out the Collector vessel (Joker: how do you like that you sons of b*tches!!

)

Record of the Invictor: *examines how a turian's dermal armor can be removed*

Vetra, paraphrased: "Ok. I'm gonna kill this guy!"

Well we know that in modern day somrtimes people do change their hair colour but how to make that possible in a medieval setting seemsa bit strange but I guess the only way is magic.

Don't know if "colours" derived from plants could do that. But then, we still have Fenris. I got two pet theories: 1) Danarius preferred white hair, because it is spooky unnatural, so he just went *ding* and Fenris turned grey. Second theory about is far more mundane: People can have their hair turn grey quickly in real life as well due to physical or emotional stress and Fenris had plenty of both.

In one "The World of Thedas" books it is also mentioned that for some mages, they show their first traces by spontaneouly switching eye colour, so I guess hair is possible as well. Unlike what Chantry and Templars want us to believe, not all mages start out by blowing stuff up.

I think they made a smart move limiting it to 3 powers though because we did get tactical pause sacrificed for a more action focused system but if they'er giong t omake it more action focused the ydid the right thing by limiting the number of actibve powers. Presonally I think I prefer the more tactical approach the trilogy had but either works. But I think if you're going to have a more action focus style of combat like Andromeda does then you need to limit the amount of active powers to compensate otherwise it just gets too complicated control wise. Thankfully I think for the most part the choice to limit us to 3 active powers at once did work I think for the purposes of the game. Must admit I'm looking forward to starting ME up again soon as I haven' tgo tmuc hleft in m ycurren tDAI run as I jus tstarted Trespasser last night so hopefully will finish DAI today. Still got to play the last season of my latest playthrough of Fifa's Journey which should only take 3 or 4 days but once I'm done there I'll be starting a new run of ME myself starting at the beginning with ME1 though working through the trilogy and finishing with MEA.

Yeah, I can definitely see that point. On the other hand, I would have preferred one or two more slots, perhaps especially for these "sustained" abilites like Remnant VI or the Assault turret. Perhaps also for the ammo/energy cell based combat abilites. Right now, they feel like "use the ammo, then switch to seomething else". Besides... my impression was that these are not too popular anyway.

Oct 20, 2019 23:12:40 GMT Hanako Ikezawa said:

I was not a fan of that scene with Reyes. Not just because of him, but because it is yet another scene that forced me to have my character be someone who drinks alcohol. And unlike some where it is possible to skip (even though you’re punished for it and/or seem like a jerk) this one was mandatory is you wanted to colonize Kadara.

Being forced to side with one gang annoyed me more in the overall scheme of things (Who wants to live on MEA's Mos Eisley?), but I can see your point. Drinking scenes haven been a bit... infaltionary in the lastest BW games. I don't know your reasoning, but I got harrassed quite a bit for not taking the next best (or any, actually) opportunity to get drunk back in school days. I never found anything alcoholic that I like, so *shrugs shoulders*. I don't care about booze at best and despise what drunkyards can get away with at times. And if it is something I cannot comprehend, I have a hard(er) time immersing myself - for me this also applies to certain religious ways. I cannot, for the hate of the Maker, play andrastians realistically. Or possibly abrahamitic worshippers as well.

Now... now I want some character who never drinks standard beverages but prefers something non-alcoholic that everybody else hates, like a herbal mixture or something made form a very special fruit, non-fermented. :lol:

Could imagine Vorn to go this way, after what he did with that... fruit.

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What Did You Do Today in Andromeda Oct 21, 2019 3:11:50 GMT melbella, KrrKs, and 3 more like this

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Post by dazk on Oct 21, 2019 3:11:50 GMT

Drizzt is a legend, have read every Forgotten Realms book and Drizzt was my favourite character for a long time. Was so awesome when you accidentally discover him wandering in one of the earlier games eith BG or IWD can't remember.

Scanned and killed me some spit bugs yesterday, was bizarre they wre hanging with a Kaerkan and were non-hostile till Drack attacked them!!!!! :lol:

:

Drizzt pops up in BG as far as I recall.

And BG:SoA has a party of over-powered goons that teleport in and demand his stuff back if you managed to kill and loot him in the first game.

Also, how did you manage to scan them with a melee party member?

When I had Cora around, she always splatter'd the critters before I could get close. :facepalm:

Oct 20, 2019 9:32:01 GMT sandwichtern said:

Now... now I want some character who never drinks standard beverages but prefers something non-alcoholic that everybody else hates, like a herbal mixture or something made form a very special fruit, non-fermented. :lol:

Could imagine Vorn to go this way, after what he did with that... fruit.

They were non-hostile despite the red health bar, it has happened to me quite a bit on Elaaden where the Aadhi etc don't attack you but this is the first time I had a Spit Bug or Karkyn do it!!!! :blink:

If you want there are plenty of disgusting concoctions you can discover in MEA but not that you have to imbibe.

On Kadara at the place near Dr. Nakamoto there are cannisters of soup you can scan on the shelves that are fermented Drall pincers or something like that, in one of the bases in the quest where you have to find Big Taron or someone and there is Bootleg Alcohol, I can't remember the ingredients but SAM advises against drinking it when you scan it!!!

Ducks off to see if I can find the images. :whistle:

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Non-Hostile Aadhi

Gotta be careful what you drink in MEA or you can end up being so incapacitated you drink like this:

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What Did You Do Today in Andromeda Oct 21, 2019 12:31:24 GMT dazk, Unicephalon 40-D, and 2 more like this

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Post by sandwichtern on Oct 21, 2019 12:31:24 GMT

Scanned and killed me some spit bugs yesterday, was bizarre they wre hanging with a Kaerkan and were non-hostile till Drack attacked them!!!!!

Also, how did you manage to scan them with a melee party member?

When I had Cora around, she always splatter'd the critters before I could get close. :facepalm:

I also had trouble scanning those things, but if everything else fails, you should be able to do it during Vetra's loyalty mission: it offers a chance to scan Adhis, Arknids, Charyllions, an Eiroch, and Spitbugs, but makes it easier than trying it in the wild. I managed to nab my spitbug scan and complete the scan Andromeda wildlife task during it.

Now... now I want some character who never drinks standard beverages but prefers something non-alcoholic that everybody else hates, like a herbal mixture or something made form a very special fruit, non-fermented. :lol:

Could imagine Vorn to go this way, after what he did with that... fruit.

As yet another non-drinker I wouldn't be averse to having our next obligatory Bioware drinking scene have us drink something plainly weird or disgusting(ly healthy) instead of alcohol - though we did have Dutch's concoctions and I very much enjoyed Dutch and Anan's questline. I don't need my characters to share all my dietary preferences and restrictions because if so, my characters couldn't for example enjoy hot cocoa! If I'm willing to eat meat seasoned using beer or wine and cakes moistened with liquer, my character having a glass or two for social reasons can be forgiven, that said I'll probably never make character who is big on drinking.

Re: very special fruit: that would probably end like Suvi and licking Andromeda rocks, a visit to doctor Lexi.

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Oct 21, 2019 3:11:50 GMT dazk said:

They were non-hostile despite the red health bar, it has happened to me quite a bit on Elaaden where the Aadhi etc don't attack you but this is the first time I had a Spit Bug or Karkyn do it!!!! :blink:

If you want there are plenty of disgusting concoctions you can discover in MEA but not that you have to imbibe.

On Kadara at the place near Dr. Nakamoto there are cannisters of soup you can scan on the shelves that are fermented Drall pincers or something like that, in one of the bases in the quest where you have to find Big Taron or someone and there is Bootleg Alcohol, I can't remember the ingredients but SAM advises against drinking it when you scan it!!!

Ducks off to see if I can find the images. :whistle:

I know that, depending on who you side with on Kadara, that faction's members will become non-hostile. I've also had some playthroughs where much of the wild life has been non-hostile and keep hoping that it was something that was supposed to be tied to how many I avoided rather than shot during the early going of the game (when I actually needed their chitin and scales for crafting). If that is a trigger, then it's probably bugged since my data are, so far, too inconsistent for an actual conclusion to be reached on that.

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Oct 21, 2019 12:31:24 GMT sandwichtern said:

Also, how did you manage to scan them with a melee party member?

When I had Cora around, she always splatter'd the critters before I could get close. :facepalm:

I also had trouble scanning those things, but if everything else fails, you should be able to do it during Vetra's loyalty mission: it offers a chance to scan Adhis, Arknids, Charyllions, an Eiroch, and Spitbugs, but makes it easier than trying it in the wild. I managed to nab my spitbug scan and complete the scan Andromeda wildlife task during it.

Now... now I want some character who never drinks standard beverages but prefers something non-alcoholic that everybody else hates, like a herbal mixture or something made form a very special fruit, non-fermented. :lol:

Could imagine Vorn to go this way, after what he did with that... fruit.

As yet another non-drinker I wouldn't be averse to having our next obligatory Bioware drinking scene have us drink something plainly weird or disgusting(ly healthy) instead of alcohol - though we did have Dutch's concoctions and I very much enjoyed Dutch and Anan's questline. I don't need my characters to share all my dietary preferences and restrictions because if so, my characters couldn't for example enjoy hot cocoa! If I'm willing to eat meat seasoned using beer or wine and cakes moistened with liquer, my character having a glass or two for social reasons can be forgiven, that said I'll probably never make character who is big on drinking.

Re: very special fruit: that would probably end like Suvi and licking Andromeda rocks, a visit to doctor Lexi.

That tweaks a question about Vetra's mission... Have you ever been able to actually scan the Hydra using the surveillance camera (in order to be able to get a choice to sabotage it in some way? Whenever I do this mission, I can't get a scan on the hydra and I'm wondering if it's because I've already scanned a hydra somewhere else or if it's a particular and persistent bug in my games with that quest.

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Oct 20, 2019 23:12:40 GMT Hanako Ikezawa said:

I was not a fan of that scene with Reyes. Not just because of him, but because it is yet another scene that forced me to have my character be someone who drinks alcohol. And unlike some where it is possible to skip (even though you’re punished for it and/or seem like a jerk) this one was mandatory is you wanted to colonize Kadara.

I'm not a fan of the being forced to do something myself either, so I see your point

for example, irl. I don't drink alcohol (don't like the taste) and I'm not religious

most -if not all- characters in a Bioware game seem to drink at least one mandatory glass of alcohol in a game (though the DA protagonists seem to luck out on that)

and most of them are religious in one way or another, sure you can role-play them as not being religious, both Shepard and Ryder can confirm or deny they are religious to Ashley and Suvi respectively

most DA characters are Andrastian ('specially if they're human), only the Inquisitor can say they don't believe or believe otherwise, and even then they throw around the infamous "by the Maker" line every now and then

so yeah, I can see your point about forcing certain aspects on player characters

However, I do like Reyes as a character, sure he's not a saint like most characters I romance...(actually scratch that, most of them have blood on their hands in more ways then one :rollseyes:

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but I like him, though chances are the next time I play I'll romance someone else...I still have my sights set on either a Vetra or Jaal romance...we'll see if I accomplish that

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Oct 21, 2019 13:00:29 GMT @upagain said:

Oct 21, 2019 12:31:24 GMT sandwichtern said:

I also had trouble scanning those things, but if everything else fails, you should be able to do it during Vetra's loyalty mission: it offers a chance to scan Adhis, Arknids, Charyllions, an Eiroch, and Spitbugs, but makes it easier than trying it in the wild. I managed to nab my spitbug scan and complete the scan Andromeda wildlife task during it.

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That tweaks a question about Vetra's mission... Have you ever been able to actually scan the Hydra using the surveillance camera (in order to be able to get a choice to sabotage it in some way? Whenever I do this mission, I can't get a scan on the hydra and I'm wondering if it's because I've already scanned a hydra somewhere else or if it's a particular and persistent bug in my games with that quest.

Sorry, can't help you with that. I've only played through that mission once, and my only surviving video clip of it was of the Menagerie fight part. My second playthrough and Sara haven't gotten that far yet.

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Oct 21, 2019 15:44:42 GMT sandwichtern said:

Oct 21, 2019 13:00:29 GMT @upagain said:

That tweaks a question about Vetra's mission... Have you ever been able to actually scan the Hydra using the surveillance camera (in order to be able to get a choice to sabotage it in some way? Whenever I do this mission, I can't get a scan on the hydra and I'm wondering if it's because I've already scanned a hydra somewhere else or if it's a particular and persistent bug in my games with that quest.

Sorry, can't help you with that. I've only played through that mission once, and my only surviving video clip of it was of the Menagerie fight part. My second playthrough and Sara haven't gotten that far yet.

No worries. I'll just say it's an open question to anyone here then.

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Drizzt is a legend, have read every Forgotten Realms book and Drizzt was my favourite character for a long time. Was so awesome when you accidentally discover him wandering in one of the earlier games eith BG or IWD can't remember.

Scanned and killed me some spit bugs yesterday, was bizarre they wre hanging with a Kaerkan and were non-hostile till Drack attacked them!!!!! :lol:

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Drizzt pops up in BG as far as I recall.

And BG:SoA has a party of over-powered goons that teleport in and demand his stuff back if you managed to kill and loot him in the first game.

Also, how did you manage to scan them with a melee party member?

When I had Cora around, she always splatter'd the critters before I could get close. :facepalm:

Oct 20, 2019 9:32:01 GMT sandwichtern said:

Nice to see this thread lively!

Re: Alec's appearance: More accurately, when you play as Sara the game gives you the choice between picking the default Alec or inheriting a default male preset that corresponds the default female preset you chose to use as the base for your Sara. So default female 5 preset gives you default male 5. To this male preset the game then adds a wrinkled person's skin texture and eyes that are same colour as your Sara's. I wasn't particularly impressed by the default presets and wished the game would have just acted like it did with Scott: Alec could have inherited Scott's looks but added Alec's hairdo and wrinkled skin texture like he did when you played Scott.

Good that the scene is working as intended with you. As for me, the ship makes me think of an axolotl head without the outer gills so the ominous effect is somewhat downcut.

I had the same problem with batarians in the original trilogy. During Garrus's recruitment mission I remember vividly meeting sergeant Cathka and thinking "oh my god, that's a guinea pig wearing an american football helmet." :yas:

I've got one of those with the volus. They remind me of moles. :lol:

Oh, Out of Gas, how you annoyed me as quest. I had to look up its triggering point in a map from a Youtube video and it proved the adage that while a desert is a place of untold wonders never witnessed by human eyes, so is a trash heap and sometimes their contents get mixed. On the other hand, during that gaming session I also found those high crests of sand dunes on top of some game designer had spent time to meticulously place a string of lootable minerals. It was like Hansel and Gretel and breadcrumbs.

The first time I ran into that quest, I thought my Nomad (and hence the game) was broken. Until I noticed that Ryder was actually commenting about the Nomad acting weird.

I think I left the guy be once, but killed him every other time. The planet is hazardous enough without some other asshole sabotaging and killing people for their stuff.

The first time the Nomad broke down for me the worm was rather close, so I thought it was casting the EMP. I sensed a "emerge from below" insta-kill ala ME1 Thresher Maws, so I panicked and did a fast travel far, far away. :lol:

Only by stumbling over it on the wiki I noticed that it was just a feisty little scavenger.

Oct 20, 2019 11:39:48 GMT Unicephalon 40-D said:

Warp = Debuffing, Damage over Time, Initial damage, Tracking.
Lance = Instashot damage, Straight line to target.

I like warp more, lov it in MP which has it. Using "MP powers in SP" -mod on PC, one can get and see how useful Warp really is compared to some other skills. I dunno why it didnt came into SP... (maybe a deadline issue or such). Now, take Invasion, Snap freeze from MP and combine those with Warp; you'll have massive debuff + stopping ability and can juggernaut towards fast. :devil:

So the resistance debuff from MP Warp and Invasion stacks? *Mwahaha!* My original thought was that they removed Warp from SP for that very reason. Wait, can someone confirm if Warp and Overload debuffs stack in ME1? I always wondered about that.

Oct 20, 2019 11:40:23 GMT LadyofNemesis said:

Try explaining a blond Hawke in a family of raven haired siblings :lol:

Well, Leandra and Gamlen are grey and Malcolm is never seen in person, so it could be from either, possibly ignoring real-life rules about genetics.

But DA genetics are weird/"magic" anyway, else we would not have the mess called elf-bloodedness. It is one of the things I would want to get retconned or amended within universe ("If mages need more magic to pass on their traits, what happens when Solas removes his veil?" :devil:

). I don't necessarily want half-races, but I think a quota of 70% chance of child being fully human vs. 30% chance of fully elven would have been less damning but still pretty dramatic compare to the 100% human vs. 0% elf quota. This way, Alistair's unique background would have still been possible, but there would be less reason to force elves to isolate, else face eventual extinction. And then the Chantry (or Chantry fans) complaining about elves being isolationist. :facepalm:

/endrant

as for the ranger, ever played Neverwinter Nights 2? link the ranger in question is called Bishop

though my own ranger was nothing like him in terms of personality, Bishop is Chaotic Evil (douche-bag with a teeny tiny bit of chivalry (he does offer to fight a duel for you after all), my own character was more Chaotic Good (help everyone and hope for the best, plus try not to piss of Morrigan to much with my choices kind of guy)

I did not play it yet. Have to get to finish Kotor first. :lol:

I just heard of the rather "infamous" Bishop. A CE ranger... I guess NWN does not follow D&D rules. :lol:

On the other hand, I like Velanna and if people are not dimissing her as an insane serial killer outright, she also gets dumped into CE territory.

I never finished my Trevelyan, but I'm dubbing between a Lavellan or Trevelyan as my canon inquisitor, so I might make both eventually ^_^

Humans usually never make into canon in DA for me (Hawke doesn't count). :devil:

Though I have two worldstates for DAO, with the only options set in stone are that one of them is male, non-andrastian and romances Morrigan and the other one is a grumpy female elf mage - which does not mean she cannot be Dalish.

The Morrigan lover is the one I tend to use for DAI, because of the content about Morrigan and her son. If - if - I ever get to play a faithful Inq (I honestly cannot play faithful andrastian or believers close to real-world religions in general), it will probably be "secondary canon" and a Trevelyan.

for Soleil I went with Overload, Lance and Annihilation as active skills, overload for shields followed by lance to trigger a static field that sometimes catches nearby enemies to pick off with the sniper rifle. For anyone getting to close there's the annihilation field followed with lance for a biotic combo

to bad you can only have 3 skills active at all times...should've at least given four (pokémon reference :hue:

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Does the Overload primer last for some time? I never pulled off those Overload/Electrical combos in the MET. I guess I was too slow or should have used party member abilites for that.

*Ryder activates Annihilation Field*

*Challyrion used pounce*

*A-Field lifted Challyrion into the air*

*Ryder used Throw and caused boom*

*This is very effective*

*Challyrion fainted*

Depends on what those four moves are. :whistle:

As a child, I often had things like Bubble, Watergun, Hydropump, Surf on a single 'mon. When replaying Gen. I/II a few years ago, it was more like Icebeam, Thunderbolt, Surf, Confusion Ray on a Lanturn. :lol:

#Stromfisch #SparkFish

my "well shit" reaction came during the mission to save the Moshae when you find out about Exaltation, the Archon ship first time around made me go "well, that's a lot of people that need killing, where's my bug spray?"
Loved Kallo's reaction when they get through the Scourge, made me think of Joker's reaction during the Suicide mission when he takes out the Collector vessel (Joker: how do you like that you sons of b*tches!!

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Record of the Invictor: *examines how a turian's dermal armor can be removed*

Vetra, paraphrased: "Ok. I'm gonna kill this guy!"

Well we know that in modern day somrtimes people do change their hair colour but how to make that possible in a medieval setting seemsa bit strange but I guess the only way is magic.

Don't know if "colours" derived from plants could do that. But then, we still have Fenris. I got two pet theories: 1) Danarius preferred white hair, because it is spooky unnatural, so he just went *ding* and Fenris turned grey. Second theory about is far more mundane: People can have their hair turn grey quickly in real life as well due to physical or emotional stress and Fenris had plenty of both.

In one "The World of Thedas" books it is also mentioned that for some mages, they show their first traces by spontaneouly switching eye colour, so I guess hair is possible as well. Unlike what Chantry and Templars want us to believe, not all mages start out by blowing stuff up.

I think they made a smart move limiting it to 3 powers though because we did get tactical pause sacrificed for a more action focused system but if they'er giong t omake it more action focused the ydid the right thing by limiting the number of actibve powers. Presonally I think I prefer the more tactical approach the trilogy had but either works. But I think if you're going to have a more action focus style of combat like Andromeda does then you need to limit the amount of active powers to compensate otherwise it just gets too complicated control wise. Thankfully I think for the most part the choice to limit us to 3 active powers at once did work I think for the purposes of the game. Must admit I'm looking forward to starting ME up again soon as I haven' tgo tmuc hleft in m ycurren tDAI run as I jus tstarted Trespasser last night so hopefully will finish DAI today. Still got to play the last season of my latest playthrough of Fifa's Journey which should only take 3 or 4 days but once I'm done there I'll be starting a new run of ME myself starting at the beginning with ME1 though working through the trilogy and finishing with MEA.

Yeah, I can definitely see that point. On the other hand, I would have preferred one or two more slots, perhaps especially for these "sustained" abilites like Remnant VI or the Assault turret. Perhaps also for the ammo/energy cell based combat abilites. Right now, they feel like "use the ammo, then switch to seomething else". Besides... my impression was that these are not too popular anyway.

Oct 20, 2019 23:12:40 GMT Hanako Ikezawa said:

I was not a fan of that scene with Reyes. Not just because of him, but because it is yet another scene that forced me to have my character be someone who drinks alcohol. And unlike some where it is possible to skip (even though you’re punished for it and/or seem like a jerk) this one was mandatory is you wanted to colonize Kadara.

Being forced to side with one gang annoyed me more in the overall scheme of things (Who wants to live on MEA's Mos Eisley?), but I can see your point. Drinking scenes haven been a bit... infaltionary in the lastest BW games. I don't know your reasoning, but I got harrassed quite a bit for not taking the next best (or any, actually) opportunity to get drunk back in school days. I never found anything alcoholic that I like, so *shrugs shoulders*. I don't care about booze at best and despise what drunkyards can get away with at times. And if it is something I cannot comprehend, I have a hard(er) time immersing myself - for me this also applies to certain religious ways. I cannot, for the hate of the Maker, play andrastians realistically. Or possibly abrahamitic worshippers as well.

Now... now I want some character who never drinks standard beverages but prefers something non-alcoholic that everybody else hates, like a herbal mixture or something made form a very special fruit, non-fermented. :lol:

Could imagine Vorn to go this way, after what he did with that... fruit.

Hi swhite hair could habve been caused by whatever treatment Danarius put him through t o give him wis white markings after all Fenris even said he doesn't know how he got those markings he only knows that Danarius forced them on him.

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Well we know that in modern day somrtimes people do change their hair colour but how to make that possible in a medieval setting seemsa bit strange but I guess the only way is magic.

No need for magic. Hair dye has been a thing since ancient times so the people of Thedas could do it.

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Oct 21, 2019 17:00:06 GMT Hanako Ikezawa said: