What I want in the next patch/DLC

A prevention of overlapping conversations, especially with subtitles 

From daveliam in different forum:

DLC PREDICTIONS/WISHLIST (SPOILERS)

I suspect we'll get a bunch of MEAMP DLCs (new missions, new characters, new enemies, new gear, etc.).

I also suspect we'll have 2-3 large, story-driven DLCs.  Here's what I'm hoping to see:

1.)  Settling one more habitat planet - I don't believe that we've actually seen all of the 7 "golden worlds", right?  So I could see a DLC where we get another full planet to explore and settle.  Not sure what the story would be for it, but it just seems like it's an easy no-brainer DLC.

2.)  Rescuing the Quarian Ark - This is the most obvious DLC.  They set it up clearly in the post-Meridian game.  They are under attack or caught in the Scourge, so we are clearly going to be sent out to assist.  Here's my dream for this mission -- You don't actually use your squad for it.  Instead, you go with the other Pathfinders.  You always have at least two Pathfinders, to round out a full squad (Raeka or Hayjer and Sarissa or Vederia), with the possibility of also having Avitus as well.  I could see it being a case where you have to go back and forth between Meridian, Nexus, and Aya locating the ark, then, once it's located, you travel there and meet the other Pathfinders.  If you only have two Pathfinders, then they are your squadmates.  If you have three, then you select one via dialogue to cover your escape route and the other two are you squadmates.  Then, partway through the mission, you meet up with the Quarian Pathfinder, who tags along as an NPC.  Completing the mission adds quarians, hanar, elcor, volus, etc. NPCs to the maps, particularly Meridian and the Nexus (mostly just background NPCs, but a few that you can interact with).  Also, this would allow the Pathfinders to get fleshed out a bit more as well.  And the Quarian Pathfinder (I'm hoping that it's the original Pathfinder and not a "oops, s/he died so here's his/her replacement" again) is added to Pathfinder Headquarters.

3.)  Tracking down the Benefactor - This also seems pretty obvious.  Unless that's going to be a major plot point in a sequel, it's totally unresolved.  I'd like to see us continue tracking down this character.  They are in Andromeda, so I see this as almost a "Leviathan" style mission where you have to utilize clues found across existing maps to track this person down and confront them.  It would also include a section where you need information that only Alec would have, so it leads you to thaw out "Elizabeth Reilly" and she helps provide some missing information, adding her as an NPC who you can visit on Meridian in Alec's quarters. It would allow us to have the lesser-content LI's have a stronger role, as well.  Keri helps locate sources through her network.  Avela acts as your contact for the Aya portion, Reyes (or Sloane, if she's alive) plays an NPC combat role on the portion that takes place on Kadara.  Gil helps MacGyver a tracking device and acts as your guide to the different locations.  Suvi helps tracking them down via geologic composition of evidence.  This way, they are all fleshed out a bit more.  The other LI's would have a little content added as well, but not as much in order to try to even out the options a bit more (with additional romance sequences for the five that I just mentioned).

DLC -- A mission for Pathfinders only.  

Multiplayer -- Bronze should be playable for narrative and casual players. Not all of us want to be expert shooters who live for barely surviving on insanity mode. 

Romance:

** Reyes romance dance while NOT in armor. 

** More Reyes outside of Kadara, it's a nice romance why isn't it continued on the Tempus in the Pathfinders cabin?

** Dragon Age Inquisition type touches with established romances -- Getting a kiss from Cullen, spending time with Dorian are examples. Which meets the need of filling that hole when you talk to your romance option and end up with nothing new. 

** Let the guys show some skin (Gil and Reyes). We know you can do a great job, ie. Dorian

** Romanceable Bane Massani, ahahahaaha!

** More Vetra sooner. More conversation options, more flirting, just more. 

Other:

** Facial hair... yikes. How about a nice soul patch? And can I get default Scott clean shaven? 

** Hair -- Please back the bangs up on that one hairstyle for Sara so her eye isn't covered. Great style except for hiding the eye. 

** Two words: Tank tops 

And thank you for not putting the Ryders in that awful outfit of Gils!

@Halek35 I expected way more too. It's like they crammed everything into the docking area. The shopkeeps and cultural center make sense, but everything else makes no sense. Like hydroponics just crammed into a corner, and everyone and their mothers apartments being in there too... Why?

I know that it's likely too much to ask, but I want a way to fire crew/squadmates and replace them. It would have been cool to have the ability to have Ai people reassigned to Tempest or even wake people up out of Cyro. I would gladly dump all the romance stuff to have more crew options in general.

The Loyalty missions could have been 2 parts First to determine if the crew member was remaining on the crew and later for the bonding part  (current version)

Agreed! Beards and hair look odd. That texturing it's like from games made 15 years ago. We are in 2017 lol. Standard Ryder is pretty good though, but customization is....kinda ugly. Those faces and eyes in the custom.......not even in real world u don't see those faces XD. Use some Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Naomi Campbell type of faces. There's plenty of better faces out there, can't figure how in-game faces were designed... i mean really.

Besides that, I dont really like how Asari look in Andromeda. They're just odd.  ME 1/2/3 had waaaay better looking Asari faces.

Also, it doesn't look like they used Motion Capture for all dialogues. I know some races have odd legs, but........ And I'm sure they rigged them well, except they were hand animated apparently. It's noticeable in the Angara and Turian's hips and walkcycles. Very weird looking. If you remember back to Garrus and Shepard, they had such awesome body expressions/language in dialogues. Would be cool to see those animations in Andromeda as well. Just try reuse them if costs too much to motion capture. I know circumstances are different  but ME had better animation, just saying.( but obviously some ME Shepard animations were applied to Ryder, i noticed that a few times 🙂)

More casual outfits would be cool, shorts, tankers, thongs hahahaha, but whatever. It doesn't really bother me they way it is now.

Option to repeat dialogues with partners would be cool, or add a bar to pick a date and be able to return as you please. Option to keep your date over a crew member if you don't like any of your crew. Option to break relationship if u change your mind. Drama!!! lol

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@JamieK81 wrote:

I would personally love it if they would, at the very least add in waypoints for ALL the tasks in the game, i mean there are tasks that have zero waypoints and are totally ignored since finding all, if not one of them is pure luck.

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Yeeeaaahhhh tasks are broken, no question. Not even in a good way, where it's a bug and there's plausible deniability - they designed them to be vague. I can see on some level the idea that 'you're an EXPLORER, go EXPLORE'. But that principle is not in the same realm as wandering random hotspots on a planet for four hours hoping to get this damn quest out of your journal.

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@PretzleMe wrote:

Someone said to allow us to equip our squadmates but I disagree with this from a roleplay and lazy perspective.  I don't dress my friends.  They're grown, like my squadmates.  I prefer they be responsible for themselves in that way... but I wouldn't be opposed to this feature being added long as I am not forced to do it or punished for not doing it.

 

More casual outfits -  Namely Liam and Cora's.  Also, there's an outfit I only saw at the end of the game that looked like my armor just with all the armor bits stripped away.  I'd like that as an option as a casual outfit.

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Having to equip your companions in an RPG is the most annoying thing in the world for me. Remember Dragon Age, when you had to juggle all of the competitive upgrades and items for all of your 8-ish+ companions, constantly? I don't miss that at all.

What I DO miss, however, is the neat little outfits system ME3 had, allowing you to change a companion's look if you really, really hate it. No one will ever convince me that playing Barbie's Dress-Up Adventure with my crew of misfits is not an integral part of the RPG experience.

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@PretzleMe wrote:

Pre-defined colors in addition to the option to access the color wheel and or... if no pre-defined colors, the ability to store 4 custom colors.  Makes it easier to match things.

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I didn't realize this was a thing I wanted back until you mentioned it. The color wheel is nice, but sometimes unintuitive to the artfully-deficient among us (like me) when you just want to select brown.

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@Walayimuna wrote:

A better mining system, I mean, seriously?

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 Agreed. Sort of. I just generally want more bang for my buck in mining, and a clearer system for informing me where mineral deposits are. Even an indicator that points you in the direction of the largest deposit when you get within a certain distance is better than guessing.

And as for a totally unrealistic expectation, I want some kind of reward for scanning every. Single. Planet. Fleshing out lore is cool, but after the fifteenth system where it's 'here's some copper....and nothing else!' it feels like a waste of time. At least give us a sweet XP or mineral reward for getting 100% in a solar system.

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@Sirenapples wrote:

Patches:

• No cooldown when switching profiles.  The game comes across as intending you to switch profiles, like your dad did on Habitat 7,  but then they actively discourage you from doing so by hiding it behind a secondary menu when you hit the quickmenu / radial wheel,  and then putting everything on cooldown.    

• Profiles should be seen on the main radial menu itself.

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Again, things I didn't know I wanted until they were mentioned. I never swap profiles for this exact reason. Well, among others. Profiles also need a much quicker hotkey than the back button screen. I'm thinking D-pad on console, arrow keys/WASD (depending on whether you're a southpaw) on PC. Just a quick button tap to maximize your quickness and efficacy in combat.

In regards to AVP, this was the part I hated about DAI's war room. I am not going to sit around and twiddle my thumbs for hours waiting for your timers to run down. I'm busy. Just GIVE us the AVP rewards directly every time the clock runs down, but only when we're actually in-game. Whether my Research Data is finally in is NOT the foremost thing on my mind when Remnant are shooting at me.

More/expanded romance options patched in or in the DLCs, please. I see it echoed a lot and that's because it's kind of a big deal. Give us more romance-specific banter! More organic tender moments! More substance to romances outside your crew!

Apparently Bioware is feeling the heat from only 1 Scott-only male romance option. Well here's an idea for you - give us Avitus. That guy needs a hug, ASAP. Even better, jump the boundaries and make it an entirely nonsexual romance path, like Jack's. We could use some relationship diversity like that with all the T&A flying at our faces.

Let's talk about game balance for a second. We get it. It's hard. But it's also the same. Just about every game on the market today feels like it has the same expectations of difficulty, which is almost nothing. Here's how it shakes out:

Normal: Normal.

Hard: More health, more damage on enemies.

Harder: More health, more damage on enemies.

Hardest: More health, more damage on enemies.

Masochist: More health, more damage on enemies.

That's not difficulty, that's a chore. If 'harder' enemies just have buckets of health and nothing else, it doesn't mean the encounters are harder, it means every random fight takes a half-hour, which is not fun. It also takes a lot of the intensity out of boss fights when an Ascendant is just as hard/easy to take down as a pod of normal kett. If my choices are 'x difficulty' and 'x difficulty but the fights just TAKE longer', I'm gonna go be bored to tears on casual because at least then I get the story faster.

Game difficulty should reward higher tiers of player skill and require a solid knowledge of mechanics, tactics, and actions on the spot. Giving Anointed 5000+ shields (this is not hyperbole, I did the math and it hurt my soul) isn't that.

Credit where credit is due. Andromeda does this better than most games because the enemy AI improves beyond 'shoot ineffectually from behind the same cover until you die or I do'. They maneuver, they push, they suppress. That's awesome! I should be surprised by my enemies on Insanity, they should make me adapt!

So here's the deal. Restructure the health and damage system. Make Ryder the baseline instead of the lame duck. Our powers don't do enough damage, our health pool is too low (seriously guys, my level 55 Sentinel should not have the best armor, augs, and maxxed out toughness passives and then end up with LESS THAN HALF the health and shields of any of my companions.)

Full stop. Pause.

Really though.

The main character should not be less effective than the NPCs.

Ahem. Our powers don't do enough damage, our health pool is too low, and our best feature of versatility is neutered by the way switching profiles works right now. Let our companions be a force amplifier instead of their own force, tone the health and damage of enemies way the hell down (especially on higher difficulties) and focus on numbers, AI improvements, and twists in the game to carry the rest. I shouldn't need to describe combat as a 'slog'. That's not fun by definition. Moreover, a player should be able to choose whether their battles are slow and methodical, high-risk assault pushes, or tense firefights by their playstyle.

This is a longshot, but consider throwing in additional power sets of amplifiers to enemies based on character level and difficulty. Even the best models get boring once you know all their tricks. But if I hit level 40 and all of a sudden raiders are throwing Incinerate at me? It changes the game. It forces me to adapt, learn new tricks, keeps the combat fresh.

To a lesser extent, this is much my same gripe with multiplayer. Remember ME3? Bronze play was fast-paced, relatively easy, pick-up-and-get-started fun. It was the gatekeeper to introduce you, let you get the hang of the system, and graduate to silver and gold. Now it starts out punishing. You're too weak, everything else is too strong, and the rewards are...eeeeeccch. Everyone from narrative to insanity players should be able to jump right into bronze and check out the modes. Hell, if you have to make a 'mud' difficulty where everything is hilariously easy. Something so that ANYONE can go in and see if it's their bag, then work their way up organically.

Also, rewards. Leveling up in multi is far too slow. Even bronze should give you double the XP at the end of the match as it does now. At least. Again, in ME3 your first ten levels passed in a flash, which was great for player investment and game balance because it meant you were able to upgrade and learn your abilities much faster. Now, if you get your soldier to level 10 and find out that it's just not to your liking, you've just wasted about 20 matches, if not more.

Also, please. Please please please. Let us purchase characters and weapons and upgrades directly, with credits, instead of using boxes. Charge triple the credit cost, making it infeasible unless you really just want the one thing! 100,000 credits for an uncommon! Hell, allow Andromeda Point transfers for individual buys, to keep Pimp Daddy EA happy. Just something to alleviate the RNG rage before it gets too bad. I can't be the only one who remembers farming for boxes, begging for a Black Widow X, only to keep getting repeats of Vorcha Engineer or worse, the Spitfire. Ugh.

Couple more points before I go.

Fix Invasion. Invasion is the worst. Powers that are straight debuffs with no real damage effect are bad enough because there's no real way to tell if it's working or not. It takes up a slot that you could have used for Backlash. Or Overload. Or Backlash. Or Remnant VI. Or, like, Backlash. At the very least, give it an upgrade that allows it to set up a combo. Boom. You can see it doing something.

A couple of others have talked about removing the profile swapping entirely for more powers. I like the IDEA of profiles, but the pause menu in the other games worked a lot better. I think a balance of the two could work, opening more slots per profile while keeping profiles relatively intact. Sans forced cooldown, obviously. But bring back holding down a button to pause AND see your full power list. That utility was too great to give up.

Can't help with anything else but about the final mission outfit I found the solution here https://zenhax.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3971&p=22248#p22248

It took me a couple of hours and I havent figured how to customize the colours, but otherwise is fine... I really hated the casual outfits given... Good luck.

I put this in a similar thread to this one, however that one vanished and this one is still around so..

My wish is for a Squad Mates / Crew Members / LI DLC

Where each one is given another mission like the loyalty missions that digs futher i to the characters and their personality. I feel a lot of that is lacking to an extent from this game.

I would like said missions to also include romance content before / after / during for the romanced characters.

Even Gil, Suvi, Reyes and Kallo could have missions,  no reason they couldn’t be a temporary sqaud memeber for the mission, or a third edition.

I would also like to see the Ryders need the crews help on a mission.

I would say an appartment somewhere but really not needed, Ryder has awesome quarters on the Tempest use them for the LI content!

For all of this to fit -during the main story- of the game, rather then necessarily being set 'after' because the romances really needed more during content (at least most of them did!)

And please, give those that didn't get a proper romance sex scene one.

Let's see... next patch:

SAM needs a STFU option.

Nomad needs a weapon.

DLC...

Derelict Reaper (they lived in Dark Space... who's to say one didn't wander over)... or maybe a Leviathon planet

Geth Expidition (just so you can add them to multiplayer)

AVP rewards stackable or collectable at a forward station. Or I should be able to enter the Tempest without leaving the planet at the very least.

Information on how to leave the destroyed turian homeworld... I had to google how to leave after finishing Vetra's loyalty mission.

The romances felt like Fallout romances without the bonus rewards. Meaning, the romance ended the minute you entered a romance with the character. 

If I save the salarian pathfinder I want to be able to ask about the benefactor. She can say "It is none of your business, go to hell...' whatever you want but I should be able to ask or there is no point to saving her.

I want to know more about Advent before deciding if I give them not only water but a natural gas source. If you mine for water, they get neither. If you mine for natural gas, you are not only giving people that could go to war with you a water source but a power source along with short changing your own colony on water supply. Not only that, Advent takes over every planet after you colonize it. They swarm all over Kadara and Elaaden as soon as you establish a colony. So far, they only seem to have human members.

Option to turn off SAM's warnings. I am okay with 'Pathfinder, seek shelter now or you die' but the endless reminders make the game less enjoyable. Mining, temperature, email, strike team, AVP, when these warnings keep you from hearing party banter it makes them really annoying or at least let Ryder tell SAM "I know SAM. I am not stupid.' Or better yet 'Shut up SAM or I'm going to find a way to remove you from my head."

I would like to have the ability to load more than 3 powers. DA:I let us have 6. The favorites are not as easy to use and if you die, you get reset to your last selected favorite even if you selected knew skills and a profile then made a manual save. 

Can we leave Liam on Podromos and convince Kandros to join our crew?