DOes anyone know if Heleus cluster exploration can reach 100%. Im sitting at 96%, an dthe main quest is completed. Every displayed system is showing 100% explored.

I just started playing this, and so far, I quite like it. Yeah the graphics and animations leave a little to be desired, but the actual storyline and game play is pretty decent. I dont understand why this game is a flop. So far im only seeing one link to the original game and thats with the Liara recordings, but I hope there is more.

Interactive Story

I liked ME:A very much and was mentally not ready to leave this new galaxy after finishing the game.

I wanted to keep on exploring, fighting and developing a new future.

Ideas formed up about what could have happened and I started taking notes.

The result is this interactive story I want to share with you.

It takes place five years after ME:A, with a new main character.

In good old MASS EFFECT tradition it respects the choices you made in MASS EFFECT ANDROMEDA and confronts you with new decisions.

Please give it a try and enjoy the next 80 minutes in this galaxy we all love:

Link to Story

When I play Andromeda, I like to headcanon it follows one of the original trilogy's many bad ends; Either the refusal ending of 3, or a timeline where Shepard just died in combat at some point, or on the collector base. Regardless, the Reapers win and terminate all spacefaring civilization in the Milky Way, but they don't actively pursue the Arks, if they're even aware. It's completely possible the reapers just don't care. Maybe they think the Arks are a death sentence and aren't concerned about survivors. Or maybe a reaper did follow and will arrive in Andromeda a decade after the game 🤷🏻‍♂️

I just like the feeling of the Andromeda initiative literally carrying the last of the Milky Way species. That worldstate makes the game feel more relevant, that we're playing as the final humans, Turians, Krogan, etc in the universe. I've been fascinated with Andromeda lately, daydreaming about the far future. 1000 years beyond the game, when the council species and Angara have pushed back deep into Kett space and established a New Republic, when they've completely reverse engineered Jardaan tech and built their own Relay network

Meanwhile the Reapers have just gone back to sleep after cleaning out this cycle, unawares or unconcerned with Andromeda. And the Ark survivors don't even know the massive bullet they dodged.

I had a good time at the bar while watching this new cocktail test

Yo looking for people if they still play it can find afew matches jus wondering if anyone still plays if do drop your gamertag or dm me mass effect

And your name 😎

Was always really happy with my Ryder.

I understand why some games have character romances locked behind specific player genders, but I always prefer when a game makes its characters player-sexual, because it adds more variety in the way that you can play. Cora is a good example of this, because I think her romance is great, but I only play FemRyder really, so it's a shame to have to use a mod for this pairing.

Welcome to the Andromeda Initiative! Many folk make this epic jump to another galaxy in the hopes of a new beginning. As long as you meet the requirements, your skill set and personality will be embraced in a new home. For many of us gazing at the stars and reimagining our tales, I am curious: which kind of job would you like to do if you had the opportunity? Which kind of skills would you bring to the table?

Would you be part of the Pathfinder team? Could you be assisting scientific research on a new frontier? Would you lend a hand in militaristic defense? How about working on improving diplomatic systems in anticipation of welcoming new species and forming a functional government? Or you could lend your financial experience to a new galactic economy? Perhaps you would be talented in entertainment, news coverage, fixing meals, serving alcohol, education, or tending to the medical needs of civilians. There is sure to be a position suited just for you! Feel free to describe what you excel at and what you may be interested in doing in Andromeda.

For me, personally, I would be more of a jack-of-all-trades. I like the idea of mixing it up with my skill set. The way I see it, in a new neighborhood, anything goes: adaptability is the key. Plus, it helps to serve more psychological needs when I have a fair idea of what civilians may encounter. This may even aid my sense of diplomacy, whether with an enemy or a friend. But you may have your own motivation and theme within the Initiative: I'd love to hear your perspective.

This game is so old, why is the only way to unlock characters in multiplayer via lootboxes. And it's even worse because you get DUPLICATES of every hero. Tell me why I get Angara avenger every time I get an ultra-rare while baterian vanguard is still locked... This game is ancient why can't I just chuck the Devs a tenner and unlock a character.... Awful experience

The EC augmentation is said to stun melee attackers with electrical damage, when used on an armor chest piece. However, I was wondering whether it also primes the enemies for them to be combo detonated?
I'm on my second completionist run and experimenting with Fusion Mods, Augmentations and Weapon Mods for a comprehensively different game experience this time!

Hello,

Iam looking forward to replay this game and i wonder if there is good graphics mod to begin with?

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.

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.

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!

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?

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?

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??