***Mass Effect Andromeda SPOILER Thread***

[TheodoricFriede]

Heh. So Sloane, apparently is attractive to every turian man she's ever met, as evidenced by how she notices they show aroused behavior whenever she starts acting bossy around them.

With the sole exception being the turian Pathfinder.

Thats really stupid.

[Vol]

Oh that's not the stupid part. She thinks of it because Kandros does this flange thing riiiiight before they and a security squad open fire on a 10 man group of people trying to flee the Nexus.

In their defense, the rebels have hostages in the ship they're trying to steal, but they don't actually try to talk them down, they start slinging singularities and shooting.

[TheodoricFriede]

Oh that's not the stupid part. She thinks of it because Kandros does this flange thing riiiiight before they and a security squad open fire on a 10 man group of people trying to flee the Nexus.

In their defense, the rebels have hostages in the ship they're trying to steal, but they don't actually try to talk them down, they start slinging singularities and shooting.

Im going to just go ahead and assume shes an arrogant bitch.

Seriously, is she supposed to be "likable"?

[Vol]

I was just wondering that.

I can't tell if she's meant to be likable, like how the authors think a male gruff security chief would be, but they're not doing it right, or if we're meant to see how she's a bad person trying to be good.

[TheodoricFriede]

Im so glad her story ends with her getting shot in the back by a sniper.

[Someone With Mass]

That novel sounds like it's really close to Mass Effect: Deception levels of sucky fanfiction.

[TTTX]

That novel sounds like it's really close to Mass Effect: Deception levels of sucky fanfiction.

ME: Deception will always be the worst simply because it doesn't only have story problems it also have over 100 lore breaking mistakes.

[TTTX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-D0-T0lZUw&index=11&list=WL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQxcJj1Yz6E&index=11&list=WL

[TTTX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agn8g4P5uug&index=11&list=WL

[Mazder]

See now I have seen a bunch of people praising the novel on expanding Sloane's character.
Like apparently she's just trapped in a bad situation at first and is lumbered in with the other lot because of shite bureaucracy starting to rear it's head again, which is her reason for leaving the Milky Way,
At least in the start.

I dunno I've barely gotten past the prologue as of yet. It's honestly not really catching my interest yet, even when done audibly...

[Alienmorph]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQxcJj1Yz6E&index=11&list=WL

A quarian Pathfinder would be a very cool thing to see. Especially if it's a competent one :p

I'm not so sure we're gonna get enough content to have all the minor races showing up in the DlC, unless EA DID indeed have them cut from the core game and thei're already done. But ME:A had enough problems that I don't think that's the case. My guess would probably be that there's gonna be one-two new characters and some new enemy faction (also for multiplayer's sake) and that we're gonna have to wait for the sequel, to get any significant quarian, hanar, drell and so forth presence in ME:A. Assuming the quarian ark stuff IS DlC-bait and not straight up sequel bait already.

[Someone With Mass]

I think it's stupid that the quarians weren't in the game from the very start since, you know, without them, there wouldn't have been an Andromeda Initiative. Almost half the tech that made the whole thing possible came from them.

Not to mention that the game is constantly rubbing it in my face by having references to the quarians left and right.

[Alienmorph]

To be fair, the game is constantly rubbing in the player's face every possible reference to past characters, races and lore as much as it can. So it's not just the quarians.

The fact we couldn't even have something like a quarian engineer on the Nexus or some deep space explorer helping out the turians, or things like that... now that is kinda suspect. Makes me think there was a point in which we weren't supposed to get back any quarian, or anyone from the minor species, at all, or that they DID indeed take them out of the core game to sell them through DlCs.

[Vol]

Read a couple more pages. During the fight in the hangar against the 10 people trying to flee on a shuttle (To _where_? Literally only the Nexus has arrived so far, it's heavily damaged, they're barely staying alive, and they don't have any sensors telling them what's going on beyond the hull, where the fuck where they planning on going?), Sloane, in full armor, gets the shit beaten out of her by a "bruiser of a woman," an apparent 7-year dock worker who's strong enough to grab Sloane by the collar and fling her around like a ragdoll.

So if we ballpark Sloane as a fairly strong, fit woman of average height, she's probably at least 140 pounds. Plus armor, which I'm guessing is at least 20 pounds+, plus her weapon, which, clearly have substantial weight in this setting. So rough estimate, 175 pounds, which is about my weight, as a rather tall, semi-fit adult male. A head weighs about 10 pounds. So this dock worker gripped Sloane's armor's collar, got a solid hold, and then flung 165 pounds of unbalanced, uncooperative mass into a wall.

My point being, this woman is clearly abusing steroids, test, and HGH and the Nexus officials should add a narcotics charge on top of mutiny.

Edit: Oh and Sloane gets mad at Tann for wanting to put on a public trial of the surviving mutineers, whom she wants to execute, because misplaced anger is a mark of heroism.

[TheodoricFriede]

So this is a thing now.



$40.

[Vol]

Drack and Vetra are the next 2 in line, to note.

[TheodoricFriede]

Drack and Vetra are the next 2 in line, to note.

Yeah? When are those coming?

[TheodoricFriede]

Sigh...

I bought the Jaal Lithograph...

[Alienmorph]

Not sure it's worth 40 dollars, but it IS a pretty awesome illustration.

[TheodoricFriede]

Not sure it's worth 40 dollars, but it IS a pretty awesome illustration.

Jaal is reasonably popular, and the Garrus lithograph (which i still regret not buying) goes for about 300 dollars now on ebay if you can find it at all. Even lesser characters like Thane are 100+.

[Vol]

$40? Easily worth it, though I'm not into Jaal enough. I'll get the Vetra one, maybe Drack. My Tali one, framed and all, appears to have been stolen.

[TheodoricFriede]

My Tali one, framed and all, appears to have been stolen.

Well thats horseshit.

[Vol]

Left it in my closet down South, went to visit, everything else was there or accounted for, sans that. Nobody fessed to it. Assume it was fenced by them for booze or something.

So if anyone has the Tali litho, I accept donations!

[Alienmorph]

I have the mini-lithos set, although for various reasons I've never got to frame and display them

[TheodoricFriede]

Nice to know they know who the favorites are.

Man, that Vetra one is awesome.

[Vol]

There it is. As I said, maybe Drack, but Vetra I'll really try for. She's a cutie, competent, charming, helpful, and fun as hell. Gotta reward good character writing when it also gives me something to appreciate.

[TTTX]

There it is. As I said, maybe Drack, but Vetra I'll really try for. She's a cutie, competent, charming, helpful, and fun as hell. Gotta reward good character writing when it also gives me something to appreciate.

you forgot she also has a cute sister, which adds to it.

[UNiT]

Today's gold apex mission +200% headshot modifier makes every gun useful.

[Vol]

@TX: Yes, Sid is precious, and we must protect her smile. I like that Vetra has that dynamic, a vitally important family member we constantly see and interact with. It's a human touch.

@UNiT: It's uncanny how some APEX mission modifiers make some guns feel perfect. Which I suppose is a good way to figure out balance without pushing out half-cocked patches.

[TheodoricFriede]

@TX: Yes, Sid is precious, and we must protect her smile. I like that Vetra has that dynamic, a vitally important family member we constantly see and interact with. It's a human touch.

Id like to point out that we have more interaction with Sid than pretty much anyone in the Ryder Family.

[Someone With Mass]

@TX: Yes, Sid is precious, and we must protect her smile. I like that Vetra has that dynamic, a vitally important family member we constantly see and interact with. It's a human touch.

Id like to point out that we have more interaction with Sid than pretty much anyone in the Ryder Family.

Which is even sadder, considering that the interaction with Sid is not that long.

Speaking of the interaction with the Ryder sibling, I think that it was nothing but exposition. Kept talking about what they used to do back home, but nothing about them as a person. Talked to Sara about a lot of stuff, yet I still know just about as much about her as I did at the start of the game.

[UNiT]

@TX: Yes, Sid is precious, and we must protect her smile. I like that Vetra has that dynamic, a vitally important family member we constantly see and interact with. It's a human touch.

Indeed. Sid is a very important part of Vetra. Made her character way more better. There will be nowhere to hide in Andromeda to someone that harms Sid in anyway in sequel or DLC.

[Vol]

@Theo: That's...actually about right. Huh. Though to be fair, there's an implied relationship with family, so you don't *need* to have them talk as much to establish it.

@UNiT: It also helps that Sid is basically the first proper youth character we've ever had in the series. I think it worked out that she's around 17-19, and she's so pleasant to play off of Vetra with. I really hope we get more of that.

Also: Next patch is confirmed as coming Soon.

Edit: From today's stream - https://www.reddit.com/r/MECoOp/comment ... _may_2017/

[TheodoricFriede]

Hopefully it also fixes some single player problems.

[Vol]

It should, they said they had to delay MP fixes in part because console certification meant waiting until SP stuff was done too.

[Someone With Mass]

While I agree that the Mattock shouldn't be the best gun in the game, there's absolutely no reason whatsoever to pick semi-auto rifles over full auto rifles in their current state. They have low damage (pretty much all of my pistols can do more damage), they don't have that much spare ammo and the latency issues don't make them feel reliable.

I also always use shotguns outside of cover, since that's pretty much the only way to get within face-blasting distance. Really hope they'll buff the Ruzad so that it's not a poor man's Disciple. Considering the low the rater of fire, long reload speed, mediocre accuracy and not that much spare ammo, it should blow away the average mook with one mag. Otherwise, there's absolutely no point in picking it.

The Wankuisher is just sucking the fun out of the game. So many Infiltrators doing Firebase Zero and Outlaws while camping in that corner on the other side of the wall to the point where I leave the lobby the second I see that combination, because I know they'll just sit there the entire game and do absolutely nothing beyond the bare necessities and that's so tediously boring to watch or be a part of.

One thing they should do is make it so that the kett burst-fire rifle doesn't need to be charged to do full damage, because it just doesn't feel right to shoot. That and it already has enough of a downside with the low traveling speed. Not to mention that it should make up for the lack of the Vindicator, which was one of my favorite rifles in the trilogy.

[UNiT]

ME:A MP Combo Damage Scaling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLKhxjfG03A

[Someone With Mass]

ME:A MP Combo Damage Scaling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLKhxjfG03A

Okay, that's just stupid.

This is why we have beta tests, kids.

[UNiT]

I don't think the game ever had any proper tests before being shipped. Easier to have your consumer base to test it for you for free.

[TTTX]

I don't think the game ever had any proper tests before being shipped. Easier to have your consumer base to test it for you for free.

Close to everyone (even people who love the game) will admit that ME:A deserved more polish before being released.

[UNiT]

I don't think the game ever had any proper tests before being shipped. Easier to have your consumer base to test it for you for free.

Close everyone everyone (even people who love the game) will admit that ME:A deserved more polish before being released.

Of course. I do like the game very much so and I would have even liked it more if it was shipped half a year later. Would have solved all the current and any future issues that happened with early release and avoid all this negativity.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehriGKFh9_w

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXzkSJmNdIY

[Dragaros]

"I recently found cinematic tools for ME:A and the results are, in my opinion, amazing"

https://imgur.com/gallery/QAJzu

https://bsn.boards.net/thread/6725/best ... lTo=623347

[Dragaros]

"Mass Effect Andromea - Something to fight for: Very early on on the Mass Effect Andromeda. We had a week called Mass Effect Week. Which gave each of us an opportunity to come up with any cool idea for the game. This was the proposal I came up with... Since the Mass Effect one, fans have been fascinated by the universe, and created many fan art, most of which were of the Kids. As a generation Ark going to Andromeda to start a new life. There are bound to have kids of every race aboard for the mission. Krogan running around with kids on his back, Salarian teaching their young on data analysis, Asari teaching the class a lesson on the Milkyway and so on. This would have been a great opportunity to have more life on the Ark. Give the players what they have been asking for. Put more at the stake, giving the player a much more important reason to fight for." --Ben Lo, Concept Artist at Bioware

[Alienmorph]

Yes, that would have been a nice idea. No wonder it got canned.

[TheodoricFriede]

Yes, that would have been a nice idea. No wonder it got canned.

Dude, com on, focus on the positive.

OH MY FUCKING GOD KROGAN KIDS ARE SO GODDAMN CUTE!!!

[Someone With Mass]

Well, it would have helped with the sensation of time progression in the game if kids started to pop up here and there. Maybe that'll be something for the sequel.

That said, I still think that kids in video games are rarely a success.

[Alienmorph]

Dude, com on, focus on the positive.

OH MY FUCKING GOD KROGAN KIDS ARE SO GODDAMN CUTE!!!

You know what? You're absolutely right!

[magnuskn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXzkSJmNdIY

Oh, man, the desperate try in that shot to make the Spazzryder look fierce and intimidating, when he is the contrary of all of that. He looks more constipated than anything else.

Also, in regards to those really good drawings... they look way better than the actual graphics in the game.

And another things, we've never seen Asari, Turian, Krogan, Quarian kids in any of the games. What are they like as children compared to human children? I'm especially interested in Asari in this regard, given that their age of maturity is about 100 years. How long until they reach physical maturity?