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I want to like Vetra but I feel like she’s horribly underdeveloped, or I missed a bunch of cut scenes with her. Why is she on the ship? What’s her role in the Andromeda Initiative? She seems like a stow away. Like she hid in a cryo pod and no one officially invited her to Andromeda.[/quote]
Her position is really undefined. She’s not a member of the pathfinder team, she’s not doesn’t do anything to actually run the ship so she’s really not needed there,and she’s not a recruit like Peebee or Drack. But she seems to come with the ship as a package deal as indicated in the initial cutscene where you get the ship. Still, kind of strange.
She’s a smuggler who talked her way on board the Nexus (with her sister) as a way of escaping some folks who wanted to kill her. She is not a package deal with the ship, she just fast talked and hoped Ryder would accept her as such (she admits this a little later but talks about why she’s useful) . She doesn’t even have an official role per se, I don’t think, but she’s useful for logistics and friends with the head of that department.
Vetra is supposed to be a good broker, a person who can get anything you need. She’s explained as having get Kesh hooked up with a bunch of stuff, which basically got her into the Initiative. Would have probably been cooler if she had a bigger part to play on Kadara, like getting you in touch with the exiled leader, helping make peace, something like that.
FYI, the speculation (and the evidence) points to Vetra and her sister’s father being Saren.
Really, what is the evidence? Or maybe I just haven’t gotten far enough to pick up on that - haven’t done Vetra’s loyalty mission. Did they ever tell us Saren’s last name?
Something I’m curious about - how are you all choosing an armor set? Because I’ll be honest, I’m mostly going with what seems visually pleasing to me which at the moment is the Initiative armor. I got confused when crafting because they change the name slightly as it increases in level - for instance, the level 5 I just crafted is called Spearhead armor. But I like the blue and white color scheme and all the gadgets and pouches and stuff. Yeah, I realize how weird that sounds.
The bonuses. The Heleus armor seems like the best bet for biotics, far as I have found.
What are the bonuses on that? I haven’t paid too close attention because the bonuses generally don’t look all that attractive to me for the most part, basically incremental increases to individual stats?
Timex
1613
Huh, this could be the case I guess. I hadn’t really made that connection.
She’s got a lot of father issues though.
Damage reduction and plus percent to power damage, I think. Maybe cooldowns also. It’s not huge but on the other hand it’s something and it’s significantly more than armor gave in 2.
Also it’s probably worth pointing out that I’m playing on normal and I can get away with playing fast and loose with armor bonuses. If I replay Insanity, and I likely will, those bonuses will mean more to me.
DeepT
1616
Really? I have been using the N7 armor which seems all biotic focused. Ill have to check out that heleus armor, but I am pretty sure I looked at all the sets and the N7 was by far the best for a biotic build. It is a shame that biotic armor doesn’t drop from NPCs. It seems that every other kind does.
I like the Deep Space Explorer armor that came with pre-ordering the game. It gives me 15% experience bonus. Isn’t that the best bonus of all? :)
Also, if you want a laugh at how weird I can be, I just started using shotguns yesterday and I am just the tiniest bit bummed that the holstered shotgun doesn’t rest across the base of Ryder’s spine, like in the other games, but rather on the opposite hip from your pistol. I don’t know why, but I always liked that in the other games, loading up on weapons made you look like a walking tank. I guess you still do, just maybe 10% less awesome.
Bateau
1619
I think N7 is better for pure biotics. Heleus is great for hybrids - all of them.
The Pathfinder armor gave combat power bonuses, I thought.
Well, i just ran in to a game breaking bug.
My game no longer saves. If i try to save, it will look like it worked, but there is no save. I almost lost TONS of progress when i loaded a manual save from days ago without paying attention. I thought it was the manual save i just made before messing with new skills, but nope. Then merely talking to a few people on the ship resulted in all of my auto saves being overwritten by the old save.
Maybe this is because i had too many manual saves but what the hell do they expect when they are too incompetent to make reliable checkpoints and there is no quick save?
edit: yes, that was it. Clearing all of my saves seems to have fixed it. Very disappointing though. This game clearly was not ready for release.
rei
1622
I’d suggest holding off on Windows 10 Creators Update if you’re playing MEA since I’ve tested twice now and it seems to freeze the game (sound still plays, I can alt tab out but the process persists even after right-clicking and closing it from taskbar) intermittently.
I should note this is in Fullscreen mode. Played/idled for hours on Borderless Window without problems prior to it.
Just finished the game. And I liked it. It’s not the best in the series - still give that to ME3 despite the worst last 10 minutes of any game in history - but it’s certainly not the disaster some people make it out to be. It may not fit everyone’s tastes - I can see where some might prefer the more linear games of the original trilogy - but given the overall nature of this game (exploration), I thought it worked well. I’ll admit it did probably help that I didn’t really run into any bugs - I had a quest start marker on Eos at a terminal that, when clicked on, always showed ‘no messages’, and during the end of the ‘movie night’ series of quests, Ryder and PeeBee somehow ended up in the same spot w/ the same animations, sort of overlaying each other. It was odd. But that was it.
I’ll save other comments for the Spoiler thread just to make sure I don’t, well, spoil anything.
The new update makes a noticeable difference in the eyes and hair of most of the humans
