Please BioWare, do NOT overreact to criticism regarding gameplay mechanics (like you did with ME2 af

If only BW would actually read this contructive, useful criticism. BW can be as bad as the trolls on here with their knee-jerk, sledgehammer reactions

Nah, we don't. That one planet, I can't name due to spoilers, without nomad driving was just fine. Better than another desert with repetitive spawn points, that's for sure.

It's good for it's purpose, but the purpose is to skip empty areas faster, which we don't need to begin with.

We actually do. It gets annoying after fifth time.
See what I we are doing here? Good thing BW doesn't bother with reading this forum at the moment.

Why does everything have to be all or nothing? Why does a game have to either be a huge open world or a claustrophobic corridor? I personally would rather have something in between.

Agreed the UI could use an upgrade

The nomad can take a hike, give me a shuttle instead. Since I started the series with ME2 I never finished ME1 because of that stupid Mako
Also regretted buying the DLC in ME2 that included that Mako and reinstalled ME2 and never added that DLC

I liked ME2 give me corridors all day

Prefer the Mass Relay scenes to what we have now as someone said earlier after the fifth time it gets a little redundant

Yes the mining could use a boost in rewards, however if they do that expect the crafting material requirement to increase the same %

And yes Im one of those that added the Mother of all mods to ME 2 and ME3 because I dont want to scan planets period

I'm not ignoring them. The fact that they are scattered all around the place doesn't make areas between them any more meaningful. The part where quest giver and quest objective are 1km apart doesn't give me any thrill either.

I don't, now what? Who you are to decide on people's behalf?

I won't argue the open spots in between points as in the end there's could be better, even then people can choose to do them or not, they're more so if a bonus anyways.

the last thing you quoted me on you're just choosing to put words in my mouth. Not once did I say everyone wants open world. I said many, which is true. I've said I want it, the op said he wants it, and you can very easily look in other threads to see others do as well. I'm not going to play a minority/majority game either. You either like open world or not, I said what I said cuz you said no one wanted open world. if you dont go around bolding "we" and then making your points, and then saying I'm trying to speak for others lol. Please....

Haha, this is very true

I have no idea why so many people seem to having trouble with the crafting interface. The only thing I don't like is that you have to use the mouse to switch between tech bases.

Thank you OP. I feel exactly like you.
BW you built a great game and solid foundations for the next game. Keep what you have done and improve on the top of it.

It's convoluted or complex. Complexity is fine if done correctly but this game makes it a chore instead of making things easier. One example being if I have a carnifex 5, why give me the option to make ones that are lesser? People aren't going to make lesser versions. If you scrap/delete everything below you it cleans the UI a bit and means you have less to scroll through. 

Its not just the crafting ui that sucks either, your iwn inventory can be a mess as well if you don't keep up with it. Why do minerals take up space? Why can't weapons be sorted out better? Andromeda has an awful UI in general, the worst one since ME1

ME2 was not brown or claustrophobic. Far from it. Take its worlds or maps.. ME2 levels and hubs they were extremely atmospheric, often colourful, you really feel in some of those unknown planets and places in the far reaches of the galaxy, or inside an alien ship or even a normal outpost. The universe feels much more large, exspansive and alive, lived in as a result.

I mean Illium, Omega, ME2's Citedel, the collector ship, the quarian floatilla, the geth dreadnought, Kasumi's Stolen Memory/Beckenstein, The Layer of the Shadowbroker etc... not huge open worlds, but lot of ambience, depth, context, meaningful details and still big enough to fight there, run, cover, use powers, and decisions, recruitng Garrus on Mega in ME2 for example, you can decide how to protect and attack.

The suicide mission also for example, still filled with content, not so big a level, but big enough, you choose who attacks, who protects, who escapes, etc, every detail matters, meaninguful decisions and the perfect ambience and environment, or the streets of omega with sick people, the batarian preacher, no open worlds but small-normal maps dripping in atmosphere, compact with lotsa detail. You dont need the game to be open world for it to be great. Mass Effect 2 is testament to that. And the problem with huge open worlds is that more often than not they are just not interesting to begin with. The bigger something gets often the emptyier it becomes and as a result of this to combat it devs just put a ton of copy paste, shallow crap in to fill it out(as its easier, quicker and cheaper) etc.. You loose the detail and intricacy in going for this huge scope. Its very, very rare that you can go big & open and retain the atmosphere and detail of a small dense map. Bioware dont have the talent to do that imo. So continueing with these huge worlds is not a good thing for Mass Effect.


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I feel like The Nomad really has no place in Mass Effect. Allow me to elaborate... For one thing its 2685 and beyond.. why are we still using obselete car based technology from 600 years in the past?, When a shuttle is by far the superior means of transportation/weapons platform and makes far more sense from a lore pov and much more logical from a within the mass effect universe pov. Plus a shuttle would be much more fun and immersive imo. Like the shuttle(ie the Kodiak) in my vision would be fully controlled by the player and be used how the Nomad is currently, (and hell you could even have seemless planet/upper atmosphere to surface(and vice versa) travel with a shuttle. How cool would that be to pilot through that to and from the main ship , instead of it being a cutscene or fade to black etc. Little details like that would add so much to the game, the immersion and the space faring. You'd have a lot of possibilities. What about somethling aerial/orbital combat, dogfighting or air to ground combat as well etc etc. But something like the nomad strikes me as much more 1 dimension and restrictive. Infact it does get old really quick tbh. Its dull). Yet there's so much you could do with the concept of a shuttle more so than a dune buggy. Its only there because the maps are so big and barren. Get rid of that, get Bioware back to playing to their strengths and it becomes obselete. The possibilities of a shuttle are so much greater.

There's irony in this thread.

The OP is warning Bioware of an overreaction, by overreacting him/herself?

Ie. jumping straight from horrible UI to completely removing entire systems from the game?