magnuskn wrote:I'm not sure I like the new Turian model. They seem much more gangly than the ones from the trilogy. I liked the more "solid" version.
HellBovine wrote:Don't see why they couldn't have shared assets with Inquisition to get the human faces. Other than the sweaty look of the skin, human faces looked significantly better.
Someone With Mass wrote:As long as I don't regret my custom face because I couldn't see it from a certain angle or in certain lighting and flaws became apparent immediately when I was handed the controls and I'm forced to sit through a long-ass intro again to remake the face (looking at you, ME2), then I'm good.
NCLanceman wrote:
I'm going to nitpick for a second here. Bioware didn't "remove" anything from Mass Effect character creator, for the good and simple reason that in the switch from Unreal Engine to Frostbite they had to rebuild everything from the ground up. It's a bit like saying that a building that didn't get rebuilt after the great 1909 Chicago fire was removed by city planners. Having some idea of the work involved here, that bit is slightly unfair.
That being said, overall it sounds like my rampant impatience in preordering might pay off after all!
Croatsky wrote:I don't see why couldn't they add those hair and facial hair styles back. I mean, some NPC's have them. Why not give it to Ryder?
magnuskn wrote:Pre-order items overview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Xrzj-kdGI
Seems the weapons were worth the investment.
Spartanburger wrote:I didn't think the EGM added any new actual cinematics, just superfluous stuff to the Normandy and more galaxy map locations (and fetch quests)...
But holy shit. I just got Tali. After inviting her up for the conversation after you get her and rekindling the romance, the mod adds the ability to call your love interest up, and they will hang around the cabin, and you can interact with them for a short new cinematic. For those curious, here's the cinematics for Tali:
First time, Tali is standing next to the fishtank, looking into it with her hands behind her back. Interacting has Shepard stand next to her and she rests her head on Shep's shoulder Fade to black, and Shepard then gets up from the bed. Of course.
Second time, Tali is on the chair next to the bed. Interacting with her has the two of you sit on the couch and watch Fleet and Flotilla. If you hired a chef (I forgot to mention that EGM lets you hire a chef), their style of food will be on the table, too.
Third time is just like the couch one in ME2, where you just kinda sit and stare at each other. Only this time the cinematic ends with you getting up from the bed after a fade to black. Of course.
There's no dialog in any scene, but it's still nice to know that modding has managed to add things like this to the game.
Spartanburger wrote:Sorry, I'm gonna rave about the EGM again:
One of the interesting things that the game lets you do is reinforce your ship with additional crew and equipment. You can choose a squadmate to be your XO (I chose Garrus), for example, which changes certain email stories and some scanning missions. You can also choose different senior officers, like a Marine Officer (Vega) and a chief engineer (take a wild guess). Although medical officer (default Chakwas) and supply officer (default Cortez) are there as well, you cannot choose who they are. A number of junior officer positions are present as well, but those cannot be changed.
Each of these options gives you some fan-written extended background and service history for each person.
The mod also lets you choose a ship marine detachment. As you progress throughout the story, you unlock options for larger detachments, from minimal and up. This doesn't change anything storywise or gameplay wise, but it does add a number of NPCs around the ship, including guards on certain locations (airlock, the cabin), as well as just hanging around the ship. It helps make the ship feel a bit less empty and more crowded.
There are some options that change your gameplay, too.
You can choose a medical team, which really is just one NPC, but the selection will give extremely minor bonuses to things like weapon damage, cooldown, and health. You get to choose between two humans, an asari, and a Salarian. Just like with the other NPCs the mod adds, they can be seen actually doing things. Sometimes just waiting outside the med lab on the crew deck, sometimes attending someone on one of the medical tables. But they're there, in addition to Chakwas.
As I mentioned in my previous post, you get to choose a chef. Only two are unlocked for me right now: a barman named Eli LeJeune who serves cajun food, been and "good times" and a chef named Keiko Hamada, who serves "high quality japanese food and a clean ship." Neither of these change the gameplay much, but the main bonus of a chef is that they feed your fish for you, and act as a complete replacement for the fish auto-feeder thing, which has been completely removed from the game. Like everyone else, they can actually be seen cooking and interacting with other NPCs, though as with all that the mod adds, there's no voice or interaction options. Who you choose also changes the models for the food that you see on the kitchen table, and on the table in the Cabin if you call your love interest up.
Once you get past Rannoch, you get two engineering crew slots. You get to choose two of six options: three Geth and three Quarians. These individuals have a greater effect on the Galaxy map gameplay loop, increasing the scanrange of the normandy's scanner, decreasing the rate at which you are detected, moving faster in system and in FTL, among other things. One of the NPCs is even familiar: Kenn'Raedor, the Quarian merchant on Omega.
You can add additional squadmembers, too. Assuming they survived, and there isn't a story reason for them to not be there, they can be added to a "standby" list which adds them to the squad list, and you can actually take them down on missions. Though, story missions may lock some of them from selection. For example, at least one "vanilla" squadmate is required when you do the bomb mission on Tuchanka, and once you finish the Tuchanka story arc, you loose access to Wrex. I presume all non-regular squadmates you can take with you in the Armax simulator from the Citadel DLC can be chosen at some point.
Additional equipment is neat, too.
Although your primary vehicle is locked, (the kodiak), you can choose a secondary vehicle that is also visible in the cargo bay towards the end, like a Mako for the dull, or a Hammerhead for the interesting. Different types of the same thing are available, too. Like anew IFV Mako, flying modern alliance colors. An option for the hydrolic flooring in the bay is added near Cortez's station that lowers or raises the flooring surrounding the vehicle.
You get a mechbay, too, allowing you to choose two types of mechs that are in the bay as well, like a YMIR mech and a Cat-6 Atlas. You can climb up a ladder to access a menu that can raise or lower them onto the ground, though they cannot be piloted. Just there for looks.
There's a Javelin missile battery as well, which takes up a lot of space but is still neat.
Oh, and perhaps the most impressive part: A fully functional shooting range, like on the Citadel Spectre offices. Complete with customizable targets, and the option for it to be casual (weapons but no armor) or formal (full gear).
All weapons that you unlock throughout the game are placed on a retractable and energy-shield protected weapons locker that can be slid out of the wall with a button press.
Speaking of the weapons, it adds every multiplayer DLC weapon and mod to the game.
There's an option to choose a Guard dog, though I haven't unlocked anyone other than Kei-9 right now.
Down in engineering, there's an engineering store menu that lets you access additional ship upgrades, like from ME2, that improve certain galaxy map gameplay elements, like the engineers. Faster speed, longer scanrange, and lesser detection from Reapers.
Oh and you can buy dextro chocolate for Tali, which shows up on the table in the cabin when you invite her up.
There's still a lot more that this mod enables, and I still haven't fully experienced it, but it is impressively integrated into the game. Sometimes I don't even realize it's something from the mod.
Edit: It also adds another appearance outfit for Tali. Though I don't like the colors, I do like the Hood-Down option, and it's nonetheless impressive that it's been implemented into the game. For those wondering, the back of the head isn't actually modeled by default, and the modder hacked geometry from the Human helmets back there in order to make it work.
Su37 wrote:I'm still not sure if I want to go ahead and take the plunge and purchase Andromeda. I really want more Mass Effect, but from what I've seen and heard, I'm incredibly wary.
TheodoricFriede wrote:Mass Effect 3 doesn't get seriously infuriating until the Cerberus/endgame stuff starts in earnest.
I was having the same "You know its not as bad as I remember" until I reached that point. Then I was literally shouting at my TV how terrible the game is.
Vol wrote:TLDR; Fans are now devs, they refuse to admit the original ending was bad, they know fans are passionate
Alienmorph wrote:Also yes... you need developers that can make a good game, more than you need a token woman, LGBT or black guy on your team. You want to promote equality? Great, then just pick people based on their merits in the work they're gonna be haired for, and not because they belong to a particular minority.
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