Going forward

I completely disagree with 1. I loved how petite she was. Made it more amusing when slaughtering baddies. Also I don't see her body slamming krogan.... 99% of everything she kills is with powers or weaponry.

On a side note she might be shorter then Shepard but comparing bodies to me it looks like Ryder had a little more meat on her bones. (Which I like)

Very good points I agree with all of them

i add: a lot less repetitive boring fetch quests, if there are side quests, they should be way better, more contnt, more characters, fights, more cutscens, good ones, more action, less walking or driving nomad, less scanning, less travel to other systems or planets just to talk two sentences or scan on rock or corpse or one data pad,

smaller maps wit more quality content

more cutscenes and cnmatics, a lot more

new enemy faction, a good one, dangerous, relentless, fierce, menacing,
the kett are too similar to reapers, (kett don't preserve organic life by hervesting it, i know that)

I think a huge part of the Ryder stuff for me was how they walked and stood. I don't know how they messed up walking so much, but really, get that right. And posture. This would help for the female Ryder too who is kind of slouchy or walks really weird at times. Maybe they were trying to come up with a walk that could fit both males and females?

For the squadmates, after playing ME1 for a while yesterday, I realized a huge part of what turns me off of them is that there is no unifying motivation to be there. While it is great to have people have their own motivation and preferences, it is not good to have a pathfinder with a ship full of people who can't even seem to agree on what the main priority is. In all of the MET that was clear in each game what they priority was. Stop Saren. Stop Collectors. Stop Reapers. Everyone knew the mission and agreed on it. In ME2 they were paid in some way for it. Even if someone like Jack wasn't really focused on the mission (because she has so much going on with all her other somewhat serious issues related to the group you allied yourself with), they all knew the mission and agreed upon it. In MEA, there is almost no agreement across the whole squad about what is really important. PB seems to only care about her remtech. I would kick her off my ship asap if I had a choice. Drack doesn't really care about making planets viable so nexus people can settle. Vetra seems meh about everything but her sister. She cares kind of, but it's sort of a peripheral thing. In ME1, everyone is 'stop saren'. They get it. And they all have some personal motivator that plays into that (wrex dealt with him before and knows he is bad, garrus wants to stop him, tali wants to help but is also motivated by the fact that the geth are part of it which is more implied that stated outright, liara wants to stop him and find out what happened with her mother). They are all in. Contrast that to the utter lack of focus of the Pathfinder crew and it's kind of shocking they got it done. You see how bad it is when you are discussing the next mission for the archon in the conference area and everyone deviates off topic to their own personal issue. Ideally that should have been all on board and then pitched their own issues privately in 'come talk to me' mails as they had been. That lack of cohesion on how important it was to make planets viable and stop the archon feels like it goes to just how bad the writing was. Going forward I hope they clean that up and get a crew that knows the mission and really is on board with it.

If they had made the Kett into some kind of cult, which was hinted at, but not fleshed out, they might have been more interesting.  A theocratic enemy would be new, maybe too controversial these days though.

i think if Liam were more of a Dirty Harry style cop, or Rambo-esque people would feel like he contributes more.  Even if his skills remained the same.

side missions would not be nearly so bad if they were all on the same planet.  It is the leave planet (loadscreen), new system (loadscreen), new planet (loadscreen), fast ftravel (loadscreen, retrieve maguffin, repeat x4 that wears on you.  That doesnt add PLAYING time, just time.  

Ditching Ryders and making a new relateble protagonist would be a good start...

From what I can recall, some animation throughout the game seems to be reused from Inquisition and Mass Effect 3 and possibly 2 as well.

Ok, maybe I am alone on this one...maybe I can hope for a "buffness" slider in the CC at some point....

To me Cora looks more buff than Ryder. Its not gamebreaking or anything, just she could use a bit more upper body. (Not talking about boobs)

Agreed i know some don't see it but the Ryders are a brillant pair. I love my Ryders and it's only because they are compared to Shepard who is a huge part of ME that they don't shine so well.

Hard to get used to a new lot for ME but i do love the twins.

Jaal mentions that he admires Cora's body because she is obviously the most fit member of the team. 

There are references to the kett are an intergalactic empire with a senate and various factions vying for power. It's also stated that the Archon is not the leader of all the kett, in fact what he MIGHT be is a rouge general or exiled political leader or something. IIRC the Primus states that whatever he's up to he's doing for his own goals and not the kett empire.

I think macho Liam would be just as annoying as he is now. Liam's problem is he's badly written for about 80% of the game and that only stops when he grows up and stops acting like an angry spoiled little shit crying that nobody wants to play him because he's always acting like a stupid jackass, and that finally comes is so long after his loyalty mission, but by then I would rather not use him (unless the story demands that I have to use him) and I would rather focus on characters that don't annoy me like Peebee, Vetra, Drack, and Cora.

I think the side quests work in-game because they are about trying to find out how the Nexus colonists are going to live in Andromeda. So yeah I think scanning a plant, mineral, animal, alien tech, and so on to see if people can live there, eat, how it works, and so on is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.  

Texas Hold'em mini game with the crew like Kotor with Pazak.