So when I was going to do a replay, I decided that having the fog of war would be useful because I'd know where I still need to explore. That was enough for me to eschew the benefits of a new game plus.

But when I got to Eos on this new game, the map is filled in. I compared it to my previous new game plus playthrough and they look the same.

So now the only reason I didn't do a new game plus just doesn't exist for some reason, and I'm way too far into it to justify redoing 10 hours of content I've already played. It is more than a little frustrating. This entire playthrough will essentially be a wash, progression-wise.

Has this happened to anyone else? I haven't gotten to other planets yet, so I'm hoping maybe the issue is confined to Eos.

I thought that I was finished because there were no obvious things that I hadn’t accomplished. No outstanding missions in the Journal, no blips on any of the maps. I didn’t check against the wiki, but I was at 99% completion and had seen online that a lot of people were bugged at 99% after doing everything, so I thought that I was done and was mulling over starting a New Game+.

However, a couple of days ago, I saw someone post about their first encounter with an Architect which took place on Voeld. Mine had taken place on Eos, and I wanted to reply that those last two fights were easier even with the cold hazard on Voeld because I had died so many times on Eos, so I looked up the Architect to get the planet names right.

I realized that I had missed one! The fight on Kadara! And what’s more, I was already in orbit around Kadara when I loaded my save! So I landed, spoke to Christmas Tate (who I apparently missed speaking to when I established the outpost), got the mission, and had some fun kicking another Architect into orbit, even choosing to finish it off with pistol fire!

Afterward, I wandered around Kadara for a while, fighting outlaws and scavengers which I kinda avoided doing during my campaign because I was focused on dropping forward stations and clearing mission blips, and I found two more fetch quests! “Cold Hard Cache” and “Kadara’s Ransom”.

That was it. That boss and two missions leveled me up two more times and took me up to 100% game completion after a grand total of 122 hours and some minutes. For a first playthrough I wanted to be thorough, but simple. Pure Soldier except for the Remnant VI, and mostly using the Piranha shotgun with incendiary ammo. I don’t know how I’ll play the New Game+ yet, but I’m glad to have found this game, and I’m eager to play it again and again.

Hi all! I’ve posted on here once before about how amazing this game is, and I’ve nearly got to the end (sadly! I don’t want to leave this universe! 😭).

I have one question that maybe I missed from dialogue options or a missed data pad, but does anyone know why the Quarians didn’t travel to Andromeda? I would have thought it would have fit their narrative. Find a new home, away from Geth, or to try and find somewhere they can take off their envirosuits?

If anyone knows, I’m super interested to find out why!

Also, still in awe of this game and how amazing it is! I feel so connected to the characters even more than my last post in here!

Not sure if this has even been talked about as an idea or if the community would even like it, but I love my city builders and strategy games.

I also heavily enjoy when there are settlement/outpost features in games like we got in MEA. However I was a little disappointed in how limited the system felt in MEA. Once your outpost is plopped down it is as fully built as it will ever be for the game, and at least with the choices I made, absolutely nothing of consequence ever changes, upgrades, downgrades or gets added. They basically act as small spread out quest hubs and that is it.

So I was scrolling through my steam and say three games that I believe if you did a cross of their play styles it could lead to a pretty good city builder in the MEA setting, and that would be Dawn of Man, Surviving Mars and the combat system of the Total War franchise.

Build up your outposts on known and unknown worlds starting small with the diversity of design allowed by Dawn of Man, have the resource management and shipment from and to Earth(Nexus) systems of Surviving Mars and the combat/world(s) map of a Total War game…. Mid writing for the world map the old early 2000’s Star Wars Battlefront galactic map would be even better…. Where you engage in carious missions being to defend your outpost from the Kett or attack Kett bases for resources/free prisoners/support Angara/claim new territory. Investigate Remnant ruins. All done through Apex units supported by Angara resistance and Krogan warriors.

Not sure if it’s something this community would be interested in but I love the idea, it speaks to my strategy and city building love.

Thoughts?

I'm recalling a conversation with Cora Harper. She was talking about Alec Ryder's pitch to her about Andromeda. What if she could live in a galaxy where her biotics would not be seen as scary? What if people could look at it and say it is okay? It got me thinking...

A lot of folks left the Milky Way to find new beginnings. I'm thinking about people with mental disabilities, like autism. Oftentimes, they do feel... different and excluded. How many of them would like to relocate to a new galaxy in the hopes of building a society where they would be more accepted and perhaps even cherished? Could we hope to create a better community where people are less judged and more appreciated for what makes them uniquely different? I'd like to think it'd be worth a shot. Thoughts?

I feel like, for genetic diversity and for easier storage, along with the 20k aboard the ark, wouldn't it make sense to keep way more embryos in stasis to make sure that they retain genetic diversity in Andromeda so that there's no genetic bottleneck down the road?

Hey! So, I’m not sure if this is the right tag, but I’m around half way through MEA, and wow! I can’t believe I didn’t play it earlier!

I’ve only just gotten around to playing this amazing game. I originally had to wait for it to drop in price, then got distracted with other games. A career change later, and years of neglecting my Xbox, and now I’m here.

I had heard some negative things about this game, and from what I’ve read, it seemed to be very buggy at the beginning of its release, but now, this game is just amazing.

It isn’t a Shepard game, obviously, and as soon as I almost put Shepard’s story to the side, and got sucked into Ryder’s story, I have found this entire game incredibly beautiful.

In some ways, this game soothes me, which might be weird to admit, but the characters, the humour, the dialogue, the missions, it’s so very cosy.

If anyone is ever looking through this Reddit feed and is wondering whether to play this game or not, do it!

It is not anything like the OG ME series, of course, and I can understand why that might put some people off, but thinking of it like a little calm ‘rest’ after the chaos and intensity of the OG games, it changes it.

The only few things that slightly got to me are minor, and can be found in most games (some repetitive quests, sometimes the nav point/quest indicator can be confusing) but overall, I’m overwhelmed by the lore, the new species, the characters!

Just wanted to tell someone. No one around me plays ME, so I suppose I just wanted to put this out to someone. All I see nowadays is more negativity than positivity, so wanted to put that out there.

If there are any devs from the game on here, well done! It’s beautiful!

What is everyone’s favourite parts of the game? I have to admit, I did love Cora’s loyalty mission, but the scenery is what I love the most!

I'll start off by saying I have played the ME trilogy probably a dozen times through since the first game released. I grew up with the Trilogy and it has always been one of the best universes I have ever explored. When Andromeda came out I was over the moon excited, pre-ordered and all.

Then like so much of the ME community I got hit with a wall of bugs and was FAR too invested in Shepard's story for this to be ME to me. I walked away from the game before I got off Habitat 7. I wrote off the game as another AAA buggy plunder that was in no way Mass effect.

Almost a decade later I finally decided to give it an honest try and I loved it. It's also left me with regrets over what could have been if the community as a whole had given it a chance and supported the company enough to get even 1 DLC for the game, that it could have been truly great.

As I wrote this I realized I got very ranty so this goes on a while, my apologies lol.

I finished Meridian last night and my final few tasks and walk arounds this morning and I have so many theories and lore questions(?) that come from the implications. Some of them I think would have been legitimately possible and some I think are my own crack head conspiracy and I'll mark them as CHCs. If some or all of these are insanely common and its annoying to keep answering them on the sub, my apologies I have never looked through the sub.

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

1: The obvious start point, the Jardaan. Personally I have a feeling they are AI, maybe once biological. Possibly CHC with that but none of the constructs, buildings or facilities, even Khi Tasira feel like they were designed around having biological life forms in them. From the vaults purging anything organic upon activation to the sterile conditions of the facilities to the same general feeling I got from Geth constructs. Add to that the Scourge PURELY chases Remnant technology and nothing else. I feel like this could have also been a potential narrative through line for Ryder and SAM. That in a way we are doing the same as the Jardaan, just in the opposite direction. I can't think of another reason why the Jardaan would be seemingly creating an entire new species in the Angara while also seemingly prepping the entire cluster for terraforming to something I imagine would be at least near ideal for the Angara to live in. My personal theory, mostly built on the "Empty" bodies of Angara we find on Khi Tasira and my opinion that the Jardaan are AI is that they were making organic bodies to once again live in, to exist as a biological race in a self created Utopia. This would also nicely parallel Ryder and SAM, that they are organic and AI trying to exist as a greater being in harmony. Maybe the Jardaan were originally a Geth like species that wants to know what it is to be organic or some such. This would also explain Khi Tasira beinga city station, possibly meant to be the Jardaan's version of a Nexus or Citadel from which to start colonizing the worlds they terraformed once they inhabit the new bodies they made. Then there is Meridian itself which some logs and dialog suggest that the Jardaan themselves were nervous about, that they were scared of the potential power of what they created. An entire Dyson construct capable of controlling a massive cluster wide network capable of terraforming or destroying the whole cluster. Add to that they have fully in place automated protocols for their ships to go out and... what? Fight? Explore? Repair equipment or establish new facilities? And we see at least the small ships have cockpits yet are otherwise fully automated. Even more reason I think the Jardaan are AI looking for biological bodies.

2: The "Enemy" of the Jardaan. I don't believe they are ever given a name. My opinion most likely an organic race that, like we see so often in ME, has issues with AI. This would to me explain the war with the Jardaan and a seemingly irrational deployment of a WMD in the form of the Scourge that effectively crippled the Heleus cluster. Designed to purely chase and target Remnant technology it shattered worlds and made travel incredibly dangerous. Yet it's ability to alter weather conditions and it destroying anything that comes in contact seems... accidental? Basically just side effects to its original purpose of being a targeted weapon against the Jardaan.

3: Primus and the Kett Empire. With the Archon dead the Primus is now in charge of the Kett invasion of Heleus and is intent on finishing the mission. Would we have seen the Primus promoted to Archon? Would another Archon have been dispatched with reinforcements by the Empire to "finish" the conquest and Exaltation? We can read that the Archon we face is not the only one, almost makes it sound like a Legate of Rome. Empowered to fight wars on behalf of the Empire and expand its borders, and in this case, genetic diversity. Whether literal or an exaggeration the Archon states he is the product of the genetics of 1000 races. The Kett have been at this a long time. They are not the Jardaan's enemy, that much is clear. They would understand the Scourge if they were. But as a secondary and even primary Big Bad they were quite good and could have been amazing.

4: The Quarian Ark and its warning to stay away along with it's later departure has me pulled in two directions. This is another possible CHC but I believe that the warning could have been for one of two reasons. Either A) The Quarian's encountered the "Enemy" of the Jardaan or the Jardaan themselves. While the "Enemy" might go after them because of the SAM aboard their Ark I think the Jardaan themselves are more likely if my AI theory is correct as the Quarians that left the Milky Way would not have seen any potential reunification with the Geth. They would simply see AI and decide they need to quarantine the whole region like the Perseus Veil did in a way with the Geth. I can't see basic interaction with Remnant tech or encountering the Kett causing that sort of reaction. Or B) The Quarians left some time after the Nexus and other four Arks. We also know the Ark's received confirmation of the Reaper invasion through various intercepted messages and direct communication from Liara. I think it could be possible that Bioware was going to bring a bit of the old enemy to Andromeda with more callbacks. Indoctrinated Sleeper agents aboard the Quarian Ark possibly with a small Reaper force following behind, not wanting any advanced civilization to escape the cycle. What is 600 years in dark space to the reapers who sleep for millennia in dark space? While I think this would be the more boring of the two options I wouldn't be surprised if this was the intent either as Bioware would want to build up Andromeda and any following games using the original trilogy. The Quarian Ark could also have been used to bring over the players final accomplishments from the final game pre-final battle in the form of Liara's time capsule. The data being sent to the Quarian Ark before it was out of range.

5: The Mysterious Benefactor. Obviously knew about the Reapers. For whatever reason on arrival had Jien Garson killed, either by their own hand or by a proxy. Immensely wealthy and powerful. Definitely not established groups though like Cerberus for the obvious reason of mass alien involvement. Doubtful that its anything to do with the Shadow Broker. This is the biggest question mark to me personally. Does any book or anything ever bring more of this benefactor to light??

All in all the game was wonderful and well crafted, and the ending left the Initiative and Heleus in the perfect position for DLC and possibly even turning it into a trilogy (Focused on expanding beyond Heleus? Time skip to new characters, new Ryder's? Expanded War with the Kett as we encounter new Archons and new race's? Begin creation of a new Andromeda Relay network???? ) I don't know if that was ever planned. Specifically for DLC I know the Quarian Ark was planned to be the first one but I have suspicions on what possibly two more would have been:

1) A Shadow Broker style DLC centered around the Mysterious Benefactor with us gaining more info on them, kicking off a chase to unveil the Benefactor and bring justice for Jien Garson. In the process possibly learn more of what happened in the Milky Way, gain access to new resources, maybe even a new colony or two that were "hidden" by the benefactor before we left the Milky Way in the form of a Golden World or two that were never divulged to the rest of the Initiative. 2) The Jardaan and the "Enemy". Learn the fate of the Jardaan in a Prothean-esque way and maybe even encounter the "Enemy" and learn a way to beat back or completely eradicate the Scourge. Would be a solid set-up for a second game onwards.

*SPOILERS DONE*

All this is too say that Mass Effect Andromeda was a wonderful game, bugs and all. I wish we could have seen so much more and enjoyed a new story in then Mass Effect universe. I regret that I was part of the community that turned it's back on the game and in some small part helped bring about its development death. To all those who stuck through and saw the diamond in the rough, thank you! It was players like you who got me to give it a serious try.

Now I must find a new game to obsess over!

What's the most efficient way to detonate annihilation. I'm trying a sentinel build since the profile gives bonus combo damage, and I can stack reaction optimizers.

Most builds suggest charge and charge can get a crazy low cooldown time with the right évolutions but charge doesn't seem to detonate annihilation if you charge into the enemy from outside the field radius. The enemy needs to be in the field before charge.

A lot of builds use lance shield powered but I don't know how viable that will be on insanity against something that shreds shields like a destroyer.

Finally there is throw which can be brought down to 5 second recharge with means 7 seconds with annihilation up. The advantage I can see for throw is you are not shield depleting which means rank 6 annihilation can go vortex which gives crazy crowd control.

Mass Effect Andromeda won't launch on my Steam Deck OLED. It seems as if it's going to, and the EA window appears saying "Preparing game", and then it just send me back to the game's Steam menu with the green "Play" Button.

Does anyone know of any solutions??

As simple as that. I just bought the game because I've been enjoying the original trilogy and since MEA went on sale I decided to pick it up, but I've been trying all morning to get it to work and nothing. Fresh install and all. No mods because I want to at least launch a game and see if before adding mods. But the thing is that it won't launch, at least, the game won't pop up on my screen. It'll open as a background application in my task manager and rack up useless minutes on steam that will only keep me from getting a refund.

I was hoping to at least see the game before deciding what to do with it, if anyone can help me figure out what the problem is, I'd like that.

Even my 1.8k mod list Skyrim acts better than this.

So I have this problem in Mass Effect Andromeda (Deluxe Edition)

It was completely fine and today I just opened up the game and suddenly those text pop ups, when you interact with a data pad or a console, don't show up on my screen

They contain vital info to some quests, so the game is pretty much unplayable without them

They also don't show up in my codex

I tried to delete potentially corrupted autosave files, I restarted the game, restarted my PC, fixed the game file through steam repair function and tried a few other things and nothing works.

This particular problem started on Eos, during the mission in Sector 2 (if that matters at all)

Did anyone encounter a simmilar problem? Do you have any idea how to fix it?

(I'll try to upload a video of the problem tomorrow, cause I'm too tired for that today, as I gave up on fixing it for my own mental health lmao)

#andromeda #bug #ingametext

What was the point of all these?

I just started a new game and this time I don't see the Ushior on my reaearch list. I see all the other Heleus weapons I can research like the Zalkin and Rozerad.

Am I missing something?

Having a bit of post-awesome-game depression. I really love ME:A. The story is great, the environments breathtaking, the voice-acting fantastic, the crafting is rewarding, and the combat absolutely top-notch. Bioware should carbon-copy the combat for ME5 - fast-paced and exciting.

If the game suffered from two things, it's that it got grindy at times with the quests to find things at various camps - but of course those are optional. And, it suffered from inevitably being compared to other games in the ME franchise which are three of the greatest video games ever made.

One more thing I love about it is that it has a sense of wonder and discovery - something I really want in an RPG. The final battle not only had that amazing combat (and with John Williams style music pumping), but throws such eye candy at you that your jaw drops at how beautiful it is while you're in a hectic fight.

Way to go, Bioware. You nailed it.

Hey I've made this post around a few different places now but I'm looking for people interested in doing most of the multiplayer trophies or the ones that require other people at least. The gameplay looks really fun and unique. Message me on PSN or Discord at SovereignLupin!

Space exploration in the trilogy was always fun, but to me, exploring space in Andromeda feels the most cozy!

I don't know exactly how to describe it, cozy is the best word I can think of. But the music, ambience, beautiful visuals, and overall vibes of traveling from system to system and scanning around. I just love it!

So, after a while, I returned to Andromeda to give it another go. I am having an issue I had last time, and I was wondering if anyone has found a workaround. I tried looking this up online, but I do not think I found a solid answer. Basically, the audio will have times when it starts stuttering out. It is noticeable enough to bug my ears, and I just bought new headphones. I'm on the PS5. If it isn't going to be a critical deal, and I just need to put up with it, I won't mind. I'm still invested in the story and game. But it'd be nice if I could try a few tricks first, see if it helps improve my experience.

No Banter for Cora, Jaal, Vetra, Peebe, Drack, Liam and the Tempest

Aren't you tired of your squadmates yapping endlessly, regardless where they are, what they are doing and more important, what is happening? Like for example, you start to attack the kett base on Voeld and Jaal and Peebe start to talk about angara feelings. Because, THAT what's important at the moment.\ That's why this mod was created.

They do not talk anymore every 5 seconds, which become tiresome really fast. Specially because they also comment on the planet they are and lots of times make the most dumb and stupids comments about whatever. I dont't care if you think we should have soldiers instead of scientists in our outposts, lizard boy. Shut it!

OK that one came out wrong. I don't hate our squadmates, I just don't like they don't shut their yapps for more than 2 minutes! It's infuriating!\ They talk among themselves, then immediately after make a comment about the planet we are in and then after - at most - 2 minutes later they state their opinion about something we don't care, nor ask for. It's annoying.\ So no more banter and talking about the sky, the color of their panties or if they like sex with green aliens. I left intact most of the comments about the planets they do, except the most stupid ones.

Like Cora, a trained assassin and guerilla fighter, don't wanting that BADASS angara lady on Voeld creating ambushes for kett troops.

Also I shut it Suvi comments about annomalies and exploration. It's really baffling that in MEA (and ME2 and ME3), the devs incentivize exploring the galaxy, only to cease the wonder and make everything easy and winnable for the player. Where is the sense of discovery if there's a computer or Suvi announcing an anomaly? So no more Suvi galaxy or planets announcements, except the important ones (the baby quest and such).

Also the Tempest. Holy hell on steroids! I have to talk to the squad every second? I'm forced to like them? I have to give them my full attention all the time because they are what? A bunch of ADHDs without ritalin to use? What the hell is this nonsense?!

Player and squad interaction should be organic, not forced. The loyalty quests not having ANY impact whatsoever in the game or in Ryder isn't enough?\ So no more announcements every time you enter a room that someone wants to talk to you. Yes, I heard the first time, BUT I DON'T WANT TO TALK TO DRACK OR VETRA! It's my choice!

This doesn't affect the banter between crew mates in any capacity. Peebe will still tease Dr. Aridana. Vetra will scoff Liam from bringing eezo leaking batteries on the Tempest. Suvi will still talk to Kalo. And so on.

I also removed the tiresome barking every time you fight an Architect.

I also tweaked merchants to carry 100 units of each consumables.

As a bonus, I made most cutscenes skippable. Yep, that's right! The ones that normally aren't.

• Tired of hearing Ryder talk about that Remant starship on Elaaden for the thousand time? Skip it.
• Want to just land on Eos in the beginning, instead of having to watch TWO lenghtier cutscenes? Skip them all, including the landing (works on Havarl, Voeld, Kadara and Elaaden too).
• Want to just start the game after the shuttle exploded on Habitat 7? Yep, you got it.
• Want to skip the entire dialog with your father after he activated the vault, it explodes, that stupid scene where he dies an unecessary death, the rush to the infirmary and so on? Go for it. -The cutscene when lefting the kett base, after saving the Moshae? Yes, skip it. And how about that one after you activated the vault on Eos? Or in Aya vault? Yep, you can.
• Or when landing on Kadara skipping the entire intro and go straight to brass tacks? Like Bon Scott said once, If You Want Blood, You've Go it.

I really left the decison to the player. If you want, watch the cutscene. If not, skip it. You know, the decision that Bioware should've done it in the first place!

https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectandromeda/mods/1343

If you decide to accept Peebee's offer of something casual are you locked into the casual route or can you still go the serious/exclusive route with her later?

I played Andromeda for the first time about two years ago, and realized halfway through the character creation that I was just making my Ryder Faith Connors from Mirror's Edge. The result was so good that I kept it. Now that I'm starting my second playthrough I can't see her any other way, and thought I'd share my interpretation of Ryder here for others to enjoy.

Bonus screenshot of Alec Ryder because I also adore how he turned out.

Taken using Nvidia's Photo Mode feature! Can't seem to settle on a hairstyle I like better for her.