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Around 120 hrs first playthrough, shorter for the others, completed most of my crucial stuff except the really crappy unmarked quest without map markers. Took a lot of time scanning planets and at that time before the patch you cannot skip the animation thus took a long time, should be shorter now. Approx level 60 upon completion.
I'm not big on side quests so my first playthrough was 57 hours and after they're shorter.
There is a point to it though because at some point I will do the side quests and then I'll have content I've never done before 🙂
Still, most RPGs I've played in recent years don't even get close to that many hours for me in a playthrough so that by itself was a nice surprise.
- EA_David9 years ago
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I had about 55 hours on my first playthrough, with about half of the optional content done. I pretty much skipped most of Elaaden and H047, but I was pretty thorough for Eos to Kadara.
I'd estimate the critical main-story-only path to be 25-30 hours, with 40-60 hours of additional content, going by how I usually play.
However of course the difficulty and your personal playstyle is going to have a huge impact. If you play on Casual and with a focused style you'll tear through the combat encounters like a freight train. On the other hand a max-difficulty run with certain builds would take much longer.Some people will want every detail of every random NPC's story, others will spam past spoken content while skimming the subtitles.
- Anonymous9 years ago
I'm one of those David is talking about regarding every detail. 100% on all planets for Viability, side quests, hidden caches, etc. All ship models. Level 70. All crew loyalty missions. Everything and everyone saved. So forth. I have 3 tasks that are bugged, but outside of that, I don't think there is anything else. Took a little over 100 hours.
- Anonymous9 years agoNo stones unturned for me, random tasks included i completed to 99% (one quest bugged out) . 140 hours for me, but i crafted a LOT of gear because.... reasons lol
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