Mass Effect: Andromeda

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Good game albeit the strange facial animation. Just reached EoS and on insanity difficulty. Took a few steps outside the radiation zone and died. lol.

The scope of crafting(mats gathering...) and research(scan everything for research points...) might wear some people down.

Tried a few hours of silver strike mission apex multiplayer, got some loot boxes and subsequently some character unlocks. Apparently you can download Apex HQ App on your mobile and manage your strike teams too.
 

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Good game albeit the strange facial animation. Just reached EoS and on insanity difficulty. Took a few steps outside the radiation zone and died. lol.

The scope of crafting(mats gathering...) and research(scan everything for research points...) might wear some people down.

Tried a few hours of silver strike mission apex multiplayer, got some loot boxes and subsequently some character unlocks. Apparently you can download Apex HQ App on your mobile and manage your strike teams too.

multiplayer versus me3 how? can fit right in? or need retraining.......
 

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multiplayer versus me3 how? can fit right in? or need retraining.......

Some classes are kinda OP. It's better than ME3. Only thing is you need to get use to the vertical movement, jumping and hovering for attacks and evade.
 

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Manage to got a key.. Tried with my good old 980 SLI.. fps is like 80-90 on starting area at resolution 1920x1080p. Have not try on eos planet as they say it is a fps eater. What is all your fps?
 

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hows the loading of ps4?

no idea why the space travel animation is so long and unskippable... zzZ
 

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Leveling for ME:A multiplayer works similar to Dragon Age Inquisition's multiplayer co-op. But for those not familiar I will attempt to explain below.
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Each MP character has 5 skill trees and max level of 20.
After level 20, your MP character can continue to play as well as respec their skills and at the same time earning points towards the account wide bonus stats.

Players cannot unlock all skill trees. Only a maximum of 85 skill points.
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Back to the 5 skill trees, there are 6 tiers with each tier unlock costing (progressively increasing) skill points. To completely unlock an entire skill tree, players must invest 1+2+3+4+5+6 = 21 skill points.

And each player has only max level of 20, with each level rewarding 3 skill points for a total of 60 skill points earned via leveling.

That means there are 25 skill points 'remaining'. Where do players get those 'remaining' skill points? Via store Supply Packs (using mission points and alot of RNG spinning) to obtain random Character Cards.
Each (even-numbered) Character Card unlocked, will also reward 5 skill points. For a total of 25 skill points.

So please wisely plan your skills trees. Combos include: 6/6/6/6/1 or 6/6/6/5/3 (with 1 skill point not used)

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My Supply Pack strategy (suggested only):
Initially focus on Basic Supplies. This will help in unlocking Common characters cards (increasing chance of characters to get more skill points or hitting their max skill points), unlocking Common weapon / mod cards (which helps to improve weapon and mods) and adding a small amount of consumables (Revives / Health / Ammo packs etc).
This method will hopefully gain level faster (overall) in my first common character (which I plan to focus on leveling to 20), which in turn will also help unlock the Bonus stats for all characters.

Once I hit 20, I can choose between continuing to play with my lvl 20 Character or start a new Character class. Because different Bonus Stats are only unlocked using different Character classes.

Occasionally buy an Advanced or higher Supply pack to unlock Uncommon or higher character cards / weapons / mods.

Once satisfied with Common characters and weapons being unlocked, then I can focus on higher tier Supply Packs.

The devs claimed that once we unlocked Character / Weapon / Mod cards of 10, we will not receive those again. So no repeatables once a Character / Weapon / Mod is fully unlocked, but since there is so many to unlock, it will still take us a while.

Plus there are other distractions like time-limited rewards via Mission Funds etc.
 

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"The devs claimed that once we unlocked Character / Weapon / Mod cards of 10, we will not receive those again. "

i already had a few repeats but i guess those are from preorder bonus which they did not factor in...
 

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What do you do with the Resources? :s11:

And do you all encounter short freezes on cutscenes?
 

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Leveling for ME:A multiplayer works similar to Dragon Age Inquisition's multiplayer co-op. But for those not familiar I will attempt to explain below.
---------
Each MP character has 5 skill trees and max level of 20.
After level 20, your MP character can continue to play as well as respec their skills and at the same time earning points towards the account wide bonus stats.

Players cannot unlock all skill trees. Only a maximum of 85 skill points.
---------
Back to the 5 skill trees, there are 6 tiers with each tier unlock costing (progressively increasing) skill points. To completely unlock an entire skill tree, players must invest 1+2+3+4+5+6 = 21 skill points.

And each player has only max level of 20, with each level rewarding 3 skill points for a total of 60 skill points earned via leveling.

That means there are 25 skill points 'remaining'. Where do players get those 'remaining' skill points? Via store Supply Packs (using mission points and alot of RNG spinning) to obtain random Character Cards.
Each (even-numbered) Character Card unlocked, will also reward 5 skill points. For a total of 25 skill points.

So please wisely plan your skills trees. Combos include: 6/6/6/6/1 or 6/6/6/5/3 (with 1 skill point not used)

-----------
My Supply Pack strategy (suggested only):
Initially focus on Basic Supplies. This will help in unlocking Common characters cards (increasing chance of characters to get more skill points or hitting their max skill points), unlocking Common weapon / mod cards (which helps to improve weapon and mods) and adding a small amount of consumables (Revives / Health / Ammo packs etc).
This method will hopefully gain level faster (overall) in my first common character (which I plan to focus on leveling to 20), which in turn will also help unlock the Bonus stats for all characters.

Once I hit 20, I can choose between continuing to play with my lvl 20 Character or start a new Character class. Because different Bonus Stats are only unlocked using different Character classes.

Occasionally buy an Advanced or higher Supply pack to unlock Uncommon or higher character cards / weapons / mods.

Once satisfied with Common characters and weapons being unlocked, then I can focus on higher tier Supply Packs.

The devs claimed that once we unlocked Character / Weapon / Mod cards of 10, we will not receive those again. So no repeatables once a Character / Weapon / Mod is fully unlocked, but since there is so many to unlock, it will still take us a while.

Plus there are other distractions like time-limited rewards via Mission Funds etc.

Wow... I need to re-learn everything on the multiplayer gameplay again. :eek::(
 

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join us

eugenesys

Seriously need to relearn
This plays moe like titanfall instead of ME3
 

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Sounds like a timesink..
Not enough time to invest in this leh, darn it.
 

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tempted but dunno wanna wait until i can play reegar and tali again......
 

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OK. I have played this game for two days and I find that the adventure-cum-mystery-themed story is quite interesting. Minus the facial expression issue though. I ensured that my team has the helmets on when it is out on the field. :s13:

On Eos, I could not complete the side mission where you need to locate and scan all the dead colonists. How many corpses did you need to scan in order to complete the side-quest? I have scanned 3 dead bodies so far.

Furthermore, I encountered a problem when the resource scanner always gave me a good read on an area where I have already mined earlier on. And the scanner showed no sign of any resource left. Anyone encounter this?

Which weapon do you all craft? It seems that the important resources are hard to get by.

For those who have older PC configurations, you need to install the latest nVidia driver in order to minimize the graphical freeze during the campaign gameplay.
 
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