What Did You Do Today in Andromeda

Whom was I fooling? I played some HZD, but came right back to MEA. It's the game I want to play, it's just that things are feeling a bit stale. I need to mix up my cosmetic and gameplay elements. With that goal, I dud some more R&D and testing. I'm pleased with the results.

Armor: Heleus Icon (Shield Oscillator of course; Shield Accelerator x4; FMoA)

There's no surprises here. It's a good Soldier armor, with weapon damage and damage resistance. I wish Power Damage bonuses increased thinfs like Turbocharge and Tactical Cloak. Sadly, it seems to only boost immediate-resolution powers, not powers with durations. Still, switching to this made no significant dip in performance from my customized Pathfinder kit that I usually use.

For visual variance, I altered my Ai color palette a bit. I went with a medium grey base, near-white secondary, blue patter (#2). This looks really badass. I even think the helmet works, since its purple visor is downplayed. It goes without saying that Sara wears this way better than Scott. 😆

Weapon: M-25 Hornet (Automatic Fire; Beam Emitter; Mod Extension; Mods -- Barrel, Melee Optimizer, Heavy Clip)

This weapon has always been very similar in feel and performance to the Valkyrie. It stood to reason that the above build would be good. It has done advantages over the Valkyrie that are worth considering, which I'll discuss momentarily. The two are so similar that it's nearly impossible to call one better than the other. If the Hornet had the two additional augmentation slots that the Valkyrie has, it would be king.

The first obvious advantage of the Hotnet is that it has a crazy RoF (925 base). With the Beam Emitter and Autofire, this jumps up to 1475! That's crazy. While its base damage is about 40% lower then the Valkyrie (I forgot to get exact numbers, and this is dependent upon character build, mods and augmentations), its RoF is more than double. This should mean that it does slightly more DPS. The trade-off is that it depletes a clip, and sips your hp, a bit more quickly.

To keep the hp from being as big an issue, I chose to use a Mod Extension Augmentation on this gun instead of a Kinetic Coil. The 3% damage boost sacrificed allows us to double our clip size with a Heavy Clip mod. Using this setup, I had zero issues with hp. It was very similar to using a similarly built Valkyrie.

The other advantages are cosmetic. This gun looks badass. It's a pistol, so it folds up small and holsters on the leg. I think that's cool. It also has a grey body with this setup, and it complements my armor. Very cool. Lastly, I use this with a Soldier build. When a Soldier holsters his weapon, it's usually flashing blue or red with the Profile's damage booster. This lighting effect is really cool on the leg holstered pistol. This game has great lighting, and those lights flashing over moving legs are like gaming-tech eye-candy. It's a cool look.

I think I'll use this as my sole weapon on a Soldier (Invasion/Tactical Cloak/Turbocharge). Melting Fiends and Destroyers with a tiny ass SMG is pretty satisfying. It reminds me of that tiny gun in MiB. Judge it not by its size! 😉

If it were easier to share pics from my PS4Pro, I'd share some of these. Alas, it's a PITA.

So yesterday kicked off a new MEA PT NG++++++++++ Made a Sara that I am happy with and have decided because of how she looks she is the love child of Alec and Captain Dunn

So after the adrenaline rush of Habitat 7, got to the Nexus and got the Tempest but haven't explored it or taken it out for a test run yet.

Habitat 7 was a rush cause I chose Leadership training (I think) and that gave me Annihilation and two biotic powers that I had no idea what they were from their symbols but one may have been "Pull" and one that shot two biotic orbs at enemies that did damage. Also playing on hard core and using crappy weapons made it more of a challenge but I decided on a tactic of run and gun to the point I was getting ahead of Alec

So on the Nexus did the rounds of the Lack of Leadership team and spoke to Nilken's wife and Nilken.

Next to EOS via whatever the other system/s are.

Some pic's:

I really like the start of the game.









Sara number 4:

I think I need to either change her eyes to brown or tone down the blue, it's a bit full on.



Captain Dunn



Alec

Going to have to start calling you The Guru or pay you as my own personal games tutor.  Will keep at it for the moment but I am pretty sure at some stage I will die and blame it on the powers and revert to type LOL.  OK off to play, why does MEA always get me so excited to play??????. 

LOL don't we all!!!! 

So yeah I figured Annihilation out and discarded it almost immediately , it wasn't annihilation I was using initially it was like a bronze coloured lightning bolt that zapped enemies. I swapped it for concussive shot and changed Pull for singularity and am using Lance but it seems a bit doughy (if that's Oz slang it means a bit meh)!!! Concussive shot is great at detonating singularity. I might swap lance out for Pull cause that was fun to use. Running as a sentinel atm.
Yeah I thought the same thing re the scan at the start it's just OMG really!!!! 

Sara got a serious makeover today.

When we first arrived at the Nexus, seeing her side by side with Addison was annoying. She was a younger, prettier, better groomed Addison. Ugh. I immediately gave her the long ponytail. I didn’t like the hair color from the beginning, though. Adding more hair only exacerbated it. The #0 texture is nice, but the eyebrow color is limiting. I finally switched to texture #1, made the hair dark brown, and updated the makeup for the new face. She looks great, but like a completely different person. Screenshots will be funny to review.

I also tweaked some shades and hues on the armor. I still like its look, with grey+white+blue. I think it’s Grey/White/Blue/White Pattern #2. The grey is just dark enough to disguise the pearly/oily shader.

I am happy with the hair style I chose for Sara this time round, I haven't used it before but it suits her face shape and as I said before I planned her as Alec/Cpt Dunn's love child. 

I have made so many Sara's where I have had to change the hair it isn't funny and it nearly always ended up going back to the pony tail.

I tried the camo looking pattern but I couldn't get it light enough to still see rather than being too dark and standing out too much.

Blue and white looks wuite good with the Heleus armor and its lights, although mines lights are modded blue.

I enjoy Eos quite a bit. The stuff many complain about seems to entertain me pretty well. It’s a pretty world (yeah, I like deserts) with lots of quests, Remnant stuff and varied combat. Today we met the Angara, recruited Jaal, and promptly returned to Eos, bringing it to 100%. I saved on the Nexus after losing to my buddy Gil in poker. Tomorrow, Havarl. The grey Heleus armor with its built-in light show ought to look cool in the dimly lit jungles and caverns.

The Hornet-FABE is still fun. I’m not sure if the playstyle will hold my attention through the rest of the game, but it’s been cool so far. Watching an Architect get melted in seconds by an SMG was pretty entertaining. It was expected, but nonetheless entertaining. I wonder what they might’ve done to rein in the autofire augmentation had support lasted? It’s definitely OP and renders obsolete those weapons that are autofire by default. Oh, well. Very sleepy here. Time to log off before I start rambling.

Yeah I always like the feel to, when you first land on EOS, you really do feel like an alien even though the landscape looks familiar.

Yeah EOS is good for combat, Remnant Bots, Kett, animals its a nice mix up and the scenarios are different enough in most encounters to make it not too repetitive.

So you are using The Hornet with auto-fire and Beam Emitter, what's the "F" or is that just Full Auto-fire?

I have designations for everything I build/use. I can look at something and know which augmentations are built into it at a glance. "FA" is full-auto  as you assumed. I think it looks better than "AF" or "Af", and I use hyphens to sepsrate up the item name and designations. That means Hornet-A-F-BE would be a no-go. (It looks terrible.)

I like Heleus on Sara. I think it's too tight on Scott. I don't like that the suit and hardware are on the same color slider. It's limiting, and it goes against the default scheme that has a purple suit with white hardware. It's still possible to make it look good, but it would've been easier with a different color-split.

I still think Pathfinder is the best looking of all, but I'm going for variety. I wish Scott's Pathfinder didn't clip so obviously. I use white Pathfinder armor with white and blue underarmor, black pattern. The clipping piece is very obvious when the chest piece is white. One more thing that should've been caught before release or fixed after.

D: I was just admiring Kadara fashion a few days ago! Don't mind Reese's freaky look, but I do want to toss the whole group out of the airlock.

Did play Ollie this morning and petted the Destroyer on Havarl with her, using Falcon (punch!) and a bit of Mattock. Surprisingly easy time with him, prioritized on his posse while Liam and Peebs kept him distracted. Peebs then lasted while taking two turrets down, Liam only for one. Destroyer also got stripped off his shields and the armor was easy to crack.
Wrapped up the rest of the Vault and delivered some gloves to him there angara man. Then had to be off.

Then a teeny tiny bit of Silvia tonight as she fixed the Eos vault. Mostly to check how good her lipstick looked while sober. A bit too thick, but not the worst. Could also be that the lighting was bad, since it looked nice during the pretty map bit. Then back to weird in the sun light.
Either way, she's a few steps closer to Drack and at the moment I feel like her and him and Liam will be the go to team.