rei
1705
no ISR for the Nomad is just bugged for everyone.
Speaking of the Nomad, go back to ME1 and drive the Mako again, you will cry for help while running back to the Nomad.
I cannot find a thing on this Tempest.
After about 100 Hours later I am through. 97 % completion. Just some tasks outstanding. Loved it. My favourite Mass Effect since 1. They made a great sequel to the first game improving on some of things that where the most fun to me. Exploring, travelling through the galaxy, driving around alien worlds. Shooting things. I had so much fun I will head straight into Game+. This hasn’t happened since ME1 for me. No other game made me want to replay it immediately. Most I never even finish. Guess I am much more bug and weirdness tolerant then many others.
JoshoB
1709
I actually played a bit of ME1 while waiting for Andromeda to be released. First time I took out the Nomad, I felt like it was glued to the ground! It was fantastic, and makes it quite hard to return to ME1. (And so, inspired by this thread and discussion of ME2 and ME3, I’m also replaying ME2 and finding I like it a lot more than I remembered.)
Considering going back to the original trilogy while waiting for more patches and/or DLC.
Hard to do a 100% play through when tasks can’t be completed.
I’m about halfway through ME3 doing my original trilogy run. Then I’ll probably do 3 again, because I’m weird. Then I’ll probably do Andromeda again. Then I might stop :)
So, yeah. The Nomad shield task is impossible to complete. I still thought I had seen reports of some being able to 100% it, so again, I wonder if somehow some settings are being kept after starting a new game and screwing things up.
Anyway, much as I’m enjoying the game, I’m done until they fix it. Have to see if I start again, or just pick up most of the way through finishing Voeld. At least this time, I have a save right before trying to complete this stupid quest.
Soma
1713
I’ve finally seen the BroRyder and Cora romance option first hand. It is like a Ken doll kissing a Barbie doll, the animations are all kinds of wrong. Did they not bother with mocap?
I volunteered to mocap with Natalie Dormer, but my call was not returned.
rei
1716
Figured out why this Nomad Shield Crafting is bugged. Started a completely new game and while I didn’t buy the Improved Shield upgrade when it was offered by the Nexus vehicle merchant, it still appeared in my R&D when I checked immediately afterwards. Also confirmed by going to Voeld after and picking up quest for first time. Crafting it immediately after without having bought the upgrade still resulted in broken quest.
Can’t replay Andromeda until at least this and the bugged Angaran badge quest are fixed for me.
Finished my original trilogy playthrough. It’s kind of hard for me to compare them to ME:A, though, especially since that’s my 3rd OT go-round.
Will have to see the next 2 ME games and then I will form an opinion. :)
There’s a great game in here. Mixed in with a less good game, but still.
Grifman
1719
I am really loving this game but it is by far the buggiest Bioware game I’ve ever played. I’ve played all three of the previous ME games and I don’t really remember any significant bugs, but this one is full of them. I’ve got several broken quests, and now while trying to rescue a certain ark I have a bugged enemy embedded in the wall and I can’t kill him so I can’t progress the quest (which requires me to kill all the enemy). So I have to go back to the next autosave.
That said, the game is a lot of fun. You get to play diplomat, explorer, soldier, scientist, all roles on the new Andromeda frontier. I sort of feel like I’m the local marshal :)
Timex
1720
I totally lost interest in this game… to the degree that I may not even bother finishing it now.
My last update was that I was finally in the Kett Base. Since then I almost finished it twice and had several other bad attempts. But those two times I was almost done with the whole thing. You can’t save at all during this whole thing, and when you die, start over from the beginning.
I can kind of respect this. It reminds me of one of the longer Goldeneye/Perfect Dark missions where you have to do the whole thing from beginning to end or start over from the beginning. But boy, it really brings the pace of the game to a halt in a way.
That is a cool comparison. Marshal on the frontier works well.
I just realised that your personality profile might affect more then is immediately obvious. It seems it also shapes what Ryder says in cutscenes where you do not directly choose answers. Can’t confirm 100% but I am positive Ryder said different things during cutscenes in my second play through where I choose different personality then in my first play through.
Does checkpointing change depending on the difficulty? I’ve never lost much progress from dying and even a couple of times when the game froze up and I restarted the game completely, I’m usually pretty much right where I stopped. This is on normal, by the way.
I suspect the checkpoints are the same, but you die less, so you need the checkpoints less often. In which case, you probably won’t notice if certain checkpoints are really far apart.
