What Did You Do Today in Andromeda

So another PT of MEA done and dusted and i enjoyed as mush as all the others if not a little bit more this time around due the nostalgia of it's 6th anniversary. I hate comparing games, I have played few I disliked entirely and nearly all have had some faults.

MEA certainly at release was a mess graphically and with bugs but even my first PT I was drawn in by the wonder of exploring Andromeda, Heleus and the planets and maps all of which are beautiful. I love the combat but the number of encounters were too many and the random generated quests could be painful as well as some of the gameplay which got repetitive.

The menu's continue to be a mess and I imagine for new players they are still as confusing as I found them that very first, second and probably third PT.

The crew and other NPC's are for the most part I think great, most of the LM's are really good. The overall story I think is good, I would have liked them to introduce Scott into the game earlier either as a squad mate or in a few other quests as the protagonist rather than just have the game hijack you into playing him at the end.

There so many questions that need answering and that interaction at the end of the game with the specialist re the Quarian Ark gets me every time in terms of "where is the DLC".

So anyway to yesterday, returned to Khi Tasira, morphed into Scott saved Sara, got kidnapped by the Archon and headed to Meridian Actual. Game crashed for me 3 times at the entry into Meridian, once with Mods installed and then once with FMM still open, not sure if that was an issue even though I launched the game from the EA App. Then the fourth time I launched it from the .exe, file and with EA closed and the background Services shut down from the Task Manager.

That worked and I noticed it did the whole drama of redoing the shaders etc. so I wonder if the EA App somehow remembers all that stuff from the MODS unless you close it down. Anyway the game worked, I got to the first auto-save and shut everything down and relaunched with the MODS installed.

I love the end combat with all the banter from NPC's like Reyes, Evfra, Kalinda, the Krogan Scouts, the science team etc.. Not to mention the cinematics and combat and how pretty it all is.

Took the Archon down after killing what seemed like a million Remnant and Kett at the start. I cheesed some of the Ascendant's and their orbs by throwing Cobras at them. If you time it and hit close to the orb when it is in front of them it wipes out the shield and does damage.

Captain Dunn survived and I made The Moshae the Ambassador for the 23rd time. it was weird talking to each crew member except Drack and Gill as well as Reyes having romanced them all.

Went back to Habitat 7 for the ceremony, visited Keri and Drack on The Nexus and called it a day. I have some planet quests to clean up, If I cannot decide what to start today I may do that as I wont have a lot of time. At this stage taking my 2nd recreated Warden (Noble, Human Rogue) from DAO to DA2 is the prime candidate.

To all that read and liked my PT thanks, I know the game is old news now and I just wish the game had been better released and thus better received at launch. It for me really is a really fun and enjoyable game.

Pic's

Eos from the big rock bridge and Liam's romance mission



Captain Dunn and Scott



The battle for Meridian and Meridian



The Archon, talks the talk but couldn't walk the walk



Sara pic's, this maybe my new favourite Sara, my first Insanity run Sara was my favourite she was cute and fitted the Sara casual emotional role well. This Sara I thought was really beautiful but in a kind of understated way and suited the mostly casual/emotional and also logical mould really well.