My feedback on Andromeda, what would I change.

Here's a few things I have concerns about:

- SAM, or any other messages can interrupt banters and dialogs. Really bugs me out and breaks the immersion. Also missing some nice banters because of it.
- Not being able to skip travel cinematics in space. It's really beautiful, but on your third playthrough sometimes I just want to get there fast.
- No quicksave button, or possibility to save during a mission. Been playing on Insanity and after my character died found out that I need to start over, almost from the beginning of the mission.
- Small subtitles font.

- No stash on your ship, I like to gather useless weapons and armor, but don't have enough space in my inventory.

- After you completed romance with someone, noone reacts to it, even you LI, maybe only Peebee says something. I want more interactions!

- Make the music louder, I can barely hear it, seriously.

- Make some patrols, guards in the worlds with outposts (more if it's millitary), lower the enemies spawn

- Same as the previous, but after you clear big base of Kett, lower their spawn rate, it's just strange that they keep spawning just the same.

- Want my choices to mean something in the game, not only on game news, but also physically, like change something in the world.

- More diversity in in-game models, seeing several asari with the same face was really weird.

- Also wish ruins exploration would give you something nice too, something unique. Because now you are going to a point of interest and find a stash with resources and some weapon of your level that you diassemble. Want to feel it more rewarded, engaging.

- To the previous point, crafted stuff is awesome, but I hardly found any useful loot.

- Wish there were less cliffhangers by the end of the story ☹️ can't wait for DLCs

- The same wildlife creatures on different planets

- Glitching through walls with charge and pathfinder's dash

more coming soon...

P.S. If you have something to add, please do!

13 Replies

Anonymous
9 years ago
-I dont like when you start talking to someone you can hear a convo louder between 2 others, ive missed what the person said
-Id like more inventory space of the Andromina too
-Guns on the Nomad is a must have, why wouldn't you, pretty sure the first mass affect had guns on the vehicle....
-Better upgrades on the Nomad-i literally fully upgraded the Nomad in one go, from one planet

@op Are you really on your third play through ?, 15 hours in im still only on my second planet
Anonymous
9 years ago
@W0lfeUKFirst walkthrough took about 55 hours, then quick second to see what will change if I don't do anything, or choose something else. Now I'm going for 100% Insanity walkthrough, but decided to actually wait for more patches.
mckrackin5324
9 years ago
Are you making all the same choices in all your games?

I'm on my third game as well and I have had different people live or die in the final missions. Based on early conversations.

Some choices even made the final mission way harder because of different species I allowed to be exalted or rescued. When given a choice to rescue or not,ask yourself what kind of kett would this species make.
Anonymous
9 years ago
@mckrackin5324 yeah, some choices lead to someone's death. Yes it's getting harder in the end. But the only big change I noticed is that

Spoiler
Captain Dann died, because I had not so cool Asari Pathfinder and I still could finish the mission, your squad loyality didn't matter at all, I tried to barely talk to half of my squad and they still were there in final battle.

Plus what I meant is more global choices, planetwise, like I explained in the post, more guards, less enemy presense and so on.
Anonymous
9 years ago
-shooting gallery of some kind so I can test out weapons like in ME3

-HD texture pack to remove the PS1 level colour pallet and restore some "Mass Effect" to ME:A. ME1-3 had far better textured armour, weapons, clothes (why is everyone in bright, non-textured clothing? I thought we got past that after ME1), and species (why in the hell are the Turians Albino?)

-Remodel the Asari. They are a serious downgrade from previous titles, just compare Liara or Shiala to Peebee or all the asari clones (because for some reason Peebee is the only one with a unique face that I've encountered in 50 hours playtime) they were supposed to be the most beautiful race in the Milky Way but now the Krogan are better looking.

-Include the Quarians. The game teases them and it is VERY clear they've been removed for DLC which I don't understand outside of squeezing as much money out of fans as possible. Quarians are hugely popular so not to include one of the few races who have a real reason to be on the project (looking for a new home world and all) is a massive oversight. Or a greedy one.

-expand love interest interaction. Outside of actually talking to them you wouldn't think anything is happening at all.

-improved character customization. It's less advanced than ME3's and way below anything currently available in other titles like Fallout 4 for example. The scars are a joke, look at Zaeed's scars or the scars in ME1 then look at ME:A's answer. Photoshop lines with a red colour. Skin colour doesn't allow for really pale or really dark, no face texture options, tattoos are very lacking, beards are just a texture so you can't have a long beard or anything that isn't stubble, no eyebrow choices, no facial deformation so you could have a permanent scowl or something, it's all very hollow.

-more outfit and armour choices with an option for patchworking like the concept designs for Mass Effect 3 depicted. I would love to have a mixture of Quarian, Turian, and Geth looking pieces for my armour.

-accessories. In ME2 and 3 you could have visors and similar items but I've yet to come across anything like that. I want Jaarl's scouter.

-proper sword/melee application. In the ME3 multiplayer when you tapped the button you could do a sword combo but in ME:A you only get a strong attack.

-loot boxes in the multiplayer. It was one of the most common complaints of an otherwise solid addition to ME3 and it's sad to see them return un-altered. I understand why that system is used but if I knew I had a better or guaranteed chance of getting something that isn't an consumable I'd have more interest in getting them. Doing several matches only to get a crate filled with first aid and ammo replenishment is off-putting to say the least.

I know my criticisms may seem harsh at times but I'm passionate about the series and I want ME:A to be a solid addition to the series I enjoy so much and it is my strongest hope that some of these will be addressed.
Anonymous
9 years ago
-Bioware to sign with a different publisher. Giving the team enough time and resources to finish the game would help.

-EA majority shareholders to catch "The Aids"

-The doctors to come out of retirement.

-A Mass Effect game worth the price tag.

-Love to fill the giant gaping hole in my soul.
SaintHedgehog
9 years ago
Make less homonsexual relationship so, Female Ryder has a chance (maybe couple of them be bi-sexual)
Linkenski
9 years ago
I agree.

It seems BioWare has become overconcentrated on the things that its fans deemed them "succesful" for. Yes, companions are super important and so is dialogue, story, exploraiton and combat but to throw in banter or ambient dialogue EVERYWHERE is a complete overkill. Sometimes less is more. Learn from it.
onemadvagabond
9 years ago
I would add depth and character to the crew and the story. It's really very empty and non-existent. One of the main reasons people play the Mass Effect games and they left out the depth.
koreolis
9 years ago
Not really a concern... but something I would love to do was to name some of the planets. When exploring the galaxy there are a lot of Letter+number planets without any proper names, it would really be cool to be able to name some of them. Like, you pathfound it you name it.

Also, it would be nice if the spent AVP points somehow showed up in game. Like meeting the research team that gives you 100 Milky Way research in the science lab at the Nexus or some traders in an outpost. Doesn't need much besides some characters and perhaps a shoutout like "hey thanks for bringing us out of cryo" or "we're working really hard to get you some credits".

Lastly I would like to have a better summary of all my current active bonuses somewhere. It's hard to remember all the bonuses from gear, profiles and skills and what effects what and how and when. One page that summarises and adds everything up would be awesome.

Oh, one more thing. I sometimes feel like all the tdifferent categories of enemies (like kett, remnant and outlaws/roekar) all feel kind of samey. Like, both outlaws and remnant have a huge * robot as one of their heaviest hitters, there's the cloaking dog that both kett and outlaws use and so on. One or more, a bit more unique, enemy units for every enemy category would be really nice. There's a lot of combat (I really like the combat) so more variation to the enemies would make it even greater.