Not having to take off in the Tempest to collect periodic AVP rewards would be great

An excellent quality of life suggestion, and I agree totally.

I initially imagined that the rewards would simply stack, accumulating until they were collected - but no. In order to get the full benefits of the rewards (particularly those hard-to-get Milky Way research points) It's necessary to return to the Tempest every 40+ minutes, go through the rigmarole of taking off, watch the animation, visit the console, claim the reward, then go back to the flight deck, re-land, watch the animation blah blah.....

Crap like this is why im glad i play on a PC as i have options to bypass BS like this.

I play on a PC too, but have not yet found any method of bypassing this system. Can you elaborate on what you mean by 'options to bypass'?

Yeah, I was disappointed by this, too.. When I first landed on Eos and was able to look out the windows at the planet I'd just landed on, I thought that if I wanted to return to the ship, then I'd just be returning to the ship...but no, the only options are to leave the planet/return to orbit or cancel/stay. I guess it kind of makes sense.. maybe if they let you look out the window, then the framerate would be annihilated in some locations.

But anyway, I agree that a compromise of letting us check AVP rewards, etc. at forward stations would be great. Or at the very least, at an established settlement.

Can we not use "having to" in this context? Nothing's forcing you to head back to the war table, except maybe gamer's OCD.

Yeah I really liked the idea of being able to freely go back and forth from the ship to the ground without actually having to take off. 

You can't he was poorly attempting a pc vs console debate. I guess he's assuming mods will fix that but not likely as Frosbite is notoriously hard to mod.

Nearly every function that requires returning to the Tempest should have been available via the Omni-Tool.

We have pocket-sized devices that can perform a multitude of functions NOW. Why is ME tech so backwards? 😂

Instead of adding it to the pause menu, just do like MGS5 did it and make it automatic; throw in an alert from SAM and then just run through all of the crap we just got and call it a day.

Haha yeah, the omni-tool (It's kind of in the name) does just about everything: we've seen it play audio, video, it can make interstellar phone calls, it can scan stuff, it can repair things, change its display and completely change its shape, become a sword, summon sentry turrets, blast jets of flame and flaming orbs of death...all this, but we can't check our email on it or "collect" our AVP rewards from it.

I don't understand why we can't just board the Tempest without leaving orbit. And yes, I know people keep bringing up the fact that the Tempest has those windows and yadda yadda, but that shouldn't be that big of an issue to work around. They could easily just make it so that the view from the windows are "closed" or they're shaded so that you can't see out of them when on land, or... something, anything. Just let me be able to go back on my ship without taking off so I don't have to sit through the same cutscene every time I wanna just talk to a crew member or something real quick.

Oops.. so I just started a second playthrough and got to Eos again, and I guess I must have been dreaming that you could look outside the Windows there once you've landed. I must've either dreamed that, or I was thinking of the landing sequence cutscene before you actually land...and then automatically step outside. So, disregard what I posted in this thread earlier, and also, apologies for the necro thread.