If there was one major thing you could change about this game, what would it be?

You know, this isn't a bad idea. An area far removed from the relay network with an emerging new alien species just setting forth to exploring space. Timeline? It can take place years after the Reaper War. Why not? Take a look at the view of the MW and star systems in ED. Space is shockingly extensively huge and deep. I never get to see that depicted in ME and so, had fallen into thinking in 2D. After a look at the galaxy map in ED, I re-think. 

The inability of the devs to understand the monster Bioware created in their games of the need for everything to be cool and empowering to the player at all times. Its childish and I wished for years that their games would dial it back, but this game goes too far in that direction for many people I suspect. Your character and this galaxy do not feel 'cool'. It feels like Disney mixed with a bit of Dan Dare and Flash Gordon. Great in its own way, but a million light years from the sleek Hard sci fi of ME1 and the Dirty Dozen anti heroics of ME2 etc.

Ryder is like a sassy, amiable Disney hero or heroine, and despite assurances of their supposed intelligence, frequently come over as airheaded, pleasantly Idiot Hero types. They're like 'all about the science and stuff, dude'. The crew are also hardly what you could call a crack team of interstellar hardcases. This kind of thing is fine by me, as I found the need for coolness and edginess very silly and overbearing anyway. But I think a wholesale change of tone was ill advised.

Change up the formula sure, but slow and steady wins the race on these things. Don't change it to something that cuts fans of the old style adrift.

Vanguard charge interrupt for every conversation!

-ahem- In all seriousness, I think the main plot would benefit from some tightening up and maybe a bit more on the kett and less flailing.

Or jazz up the conversation options. I could do with more of them. Casual/logical WORKS, but I'd like a third. It'd be nice to play a more sullen, less bright-eyed Ryder.

Add in Vehicle combat and dynamic land vehicles in general.

-would make the worlds more alive to see random friendly NPC vehicles traveling on land
-Would allow for us to protect NPC vehicles as an escort (fight from Nomad and/or on foot)
-Would introduce new enemy types to fight from Nomad and on foot (enemy vehicles have light artillery guns giving the player the freedom to engage from the Nomad or as a mini boss on foot)
-It would diversify gameplay making exploration more fun.
-would also make sense with dlc considering the MW and Angara can now flourish on the worlds, but the Kett would also come back stronger after defeating the Archon.


That's my biggest complaint/want.  The story and characters are subjective.  I personally love both where others dislike both.  No need to change something polarizing when some love it.  Any additional mechanics like being able to enter the tempest without leaving the Tempest would be nice as well.  

Remove like 30% of the "tasks" folder.

Slightly rewrite the Angaran portion of the critical path to further integrate the "settlement" and "archon/meridian" storylines, while adding a side-quest chain on each planet that further supports that connection.

Make the maps maybe 75% the size they are now, and remove the respawning enemy "bases." Have maybe 3 or 4 larger bases (besides the main one), similar to the Kett base on Eos by the southeast remenant monument, and let Initiative security forces "occupy" that base after clearing it of kett, and doing all 3 gives a good boost to viability, as well as allowing the main settlement (which should be smaller than Eos, by about half to start) to expand, showing the growth of the colonies.

I posted about this repeatedly in the oBSN Twitter Thread. I'd hoped for an isolated/temporarily lost expedition beyond the Relay Network. (The idea of a non-military protagonist was all the talk, even then.) When the setting of Andromeda was finally, officially announced, I had to choose to let it go. I like the final product, but I'll always believe that it would've been better to stay in the Milky Way.

I wasn't concerned about the exact year it took place, though a post-MET or concurrent adventure made the most sense. I also don't care if they pick a "canon ending". I can't grasp why people are so religiously devoted to the sanctity of their private game saves. It's not like your past experience is wiped away if BioWare continues the story along your a different path than your favorite. Individual saves aren't sacred and untouchable. So silly, yet BioWare was afraid to even touch that can of worms.

I'm just happy that I like MEA, I guess. A Milky Way story still would've felt better, to me.

Sideboob? It's 2017. Most girls aren't afraid to "free the nipple" anymore.  I see more at the beach, pool, instagram, and life in general. 

They got Peebee's position right.  Something about the late teens, early 20s and being on top

Actual exploration & first contact like it was hyped up to be in the Andromeda Initiative briefings. Every planet we visited has already been explored or occupied by the exiles. The "first contact" on Aya with the angarans and with the Kett weren't really first contacts since they've already encountered Nexus Exiles. In fact, move the whole "Nexus uprising" part to the beginning of the game (right after you discover what happens to Habitat 7 and people start to panic when the golden worlds didn't pan out rather than before the game even begins) or in the middle of the storyline to make it more interesting.

I agree. Make MEA a VR game a character bought on the extranet, and start again.

By my understanding of the lore, pretty much all of the Milky Way is connected up with Mass Relays. It's just that most of the matching pairs remain unknown, and the Council has rules forbidding exploring the network out of fear of running into another Rachni style threat. That said, there are no laws forbidding travel between clusters the old fashioned way, but we couldn't avoid the endings.

There are a bunch of Dwarf galaxies orbiting the MW, the closest of which is the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, about 25k light years away from the Sol system (we aren't too far from the galactic edge). There's nothing in the lore indicating these dwarfs are hooked up to the relay network and it should also be feasible lore wise for an expedition to head off to explore Canis Major. The jump through "dark space" shouldn't require a lore breaking ODSY drive (lore breaking if it leaves before the Reaper invasion as in MEA) as the fleet could stop at the galactic edge for a static discharge before heading across. It would still be a massive effort, but much less so than going all the way to Andromeda. ME3's endings wouldn't need to be dealt with for a long time if Canis Major isn't connected to the Milky Way by relay. There could a scene near the start of the game with a QEC message from Admiral Hacket showing the Reaper invasion, warning the expedition to cut off all contact with home, and hope the Reapers don't find out out about it. No longer are the expedition members just exploring and mapping possible colonisation sites. For all they know, they are the survivors of genocide needing to rebuild with limited resources and the possibility of running into natives who may well view the newcomers as invaders. It needn't be as grim as ME3, but there would be a sense of urgency for the player to do their part in creating a sustainable civilisation. No Kett this time please.

A nicer fanbase.