What Did You Do Today in Andromeda

Playing with default Sara. Mostly causal/emotional. Sometimes professional when dealing with angara. Don't want to piss them off.
Started taking Peebee on more missions. She's growing on me.
Gold nomad acts as great camouflage in desert environments. Apart from being, y'know, shiny and all...
Crafted a Lvl 4 Revenant with Grenade Launcher mod. Doesn't do great damage but MUCH FIRE!!!

Gonna put this in spoilers since it concerns Liam, Cora and Jaal loyalty missions, and the Krogan colony:


Funny who you meet in Andromeda...

Suspect I'm gonna spend a lot of time shooting Kett

Thanks I doubt mine will run quite that cool since even the original trilogy runs in the mid-60s, but I'll try it and see what sort of improvement I can get.

I've played 40 hours so far and I still haven't set up my second outpost.

There are some really, really good parts and some really, really  bad parts. 

The awesome parts I played today: Cora's and Jaal's loyalty missions. Excellent missions.

The bad: the world-building and introduction of the angara is conceptually botched. Too many human/Milky-Way customs, structures, and objects being used by a species which is literally from a whole other galaxy. In the original trilogy, the human objects and mannerisms (everything from bars, to tables, to computer-like consoles, to the clothes) could be excused as some by-product of shared cultures a galactic community in citadel space (and we could kind of headcanon that human objects and styles were just really, really popular, in spite of their status and youth). Unfortunately that doesn't fly with the angara.

The basic lore of the angara would've been more profound had they been in a relatively different stage of development - say, 20th or 21st-century tech, and hadn't achieved interstellar travel yet. The themes of xenophobia and their borrowing technology from old remnant artifacts still could've applied, but it would've been much more interesting and believable. As it is, everyone in Andromeda has the same guns, tech, merchants, clothes, and structures as the species of the original trilogy's Milky Way, with just a different coat of paint. How can we say Angarans even have merchants as we understand it? How can they just have an open bar like that?

This intellectual weakness is unnecessary. Tweaking those things would've lent Andromeda the edge it requires.

However, the gameplay has been incredibly smooth and a blast. I finally learned strafing and dashing.... I didn't know about it until 20 hours in. It makes combat much easier and far more fun, and I've been dying less! I also have to say they should've had more variety in the enemies. Too many Chosen and Annointed. 

Didn't have much time. Basically just finished the towers on Eos and stopped before the vault.

But I also tried to mine the survey spots on my Nomad. Um... is it possible to fully mine a spot? I'm trying to complete one, and roaming EVERYWHERE around it, but it is always at 'Fair' still..

I've ran into the necessity to drive Nomad yesterday on Eos and then life took over. I thought Nomad was just a speeder, but it handles with all the ease and grace of Mako. I need to take a look at the control keybinds, but so far getting around in it was a pain. I hope that after I get to whatever tower that shuts of the Environmental Hazard on Eos I can just walk. Also, I like minimaps more than the strip on top, I don't really have any sense of direction, so compass points do absolutely nothing for me.

I am not sure. I probably don't understand something, but unlike the other mounts/speeders, and the PC, making Nomad go left or right is just not happening easily. It keeps barreling straight or backwards. Maybe it is like Mako and is not responsive to AD and needs the mouse pointed in the direction you want to go or whatnot. I did manage Mako after a while to the point it went where I want it to go, but Nomad is Mako all over again. I started with getting it stuck between a rock and a tree right out of the hangar, and then we sort of limped in circles till we got to the Memory Spot. That's as far as I got yesterday, but maybe today will be a better day.

I just noticed an announcement on the Nexus. Sth about some Initiative member dying and them keeping back the details until the next of kin in the Milky Way were notified (must have been a krogan or an asari or something, seeing as a human's next of kin would have died centuries ago). So they are able to contact the Milky Way? Wouldn't that mean that they'd know about the events of ME3? So weird.

I noticed that message, but it also says the beacon has gone unanswered. So I guess they could find out what happened, except the lines of communication are broken.

Reached level 30. Not sure if I'm even halfway through the game. I've been running, jumping, jetpacking my way around every corner.



player poker with Gil. He won
bought a plant for Suvi

One thing I miss, when it comes to combat, is the power wheel. I like having to tell a squadmate to use this power on that enemy and then have the other squadmate use whatever power on this enemy

So far I've used Vetra and Cora the most. Both hold their own very well. Its fun watching Cora charge through the enemies. My next playthrough, a new game plus, will be as a biotic. Currently playing as a soldier

Well, it wasn't a bug bug, but definitely an annoying game mechanic. Apparently after I went inside a cave, enemies showed up *outside the cave* which somehow put me into combat mode, thus rendering an NPC non-clickable.

I'm giving up for the first time on a side quest - The Lost Scout. I can't figure out how to turn the power back on to open a door. This is kind of a stupid quest anyway because

In other news, got my second outpost up and running.

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