That is the WHO code phrase for quarantine.

Just started playing this again, on the first planet. Patch seems to have helped facial animation and way characters walk.

God knows. Really am enjoying it now though. There are some great little missions I wish were more. Had a cannibal mission earlier today that was over far too quickly.

Dinostar77 wrote:

Game has improved on my second planet (ice one). That's been fun The

Spoiler:

attack on the kett base was great

. I have so many side missions on the go its ridiculous. The interface for keeping track of them all isn't the best. Also having a certain AI teammate (who goes through AI enemies like a knife through butter), does make it alittle too easy.

Haha,who is that? The combat is far too easy,need to look and see if I you can up the difficulty at any point. I try to do everything on a planet before leaving and carrying on the main storyline. I carry around 4 different assault rifles that are slightly different as I prefer them to everything else.

Dinostar77 wrote:

Drack. Just as i finish my stretches and warm up the assault rifle, he's murdered everyone.

Not used him yet! Not gonna now though as they're MY KILLS!

@raiziel its a good game, just not a great one in comparison to it the earlier triology. I don't know if they have an internal policy at EA which is "bigger is better" and "must have multiplayer" cause they made similar mistakes with Dead Space 3. Stripped down to the essentials there's a great game trying to get out of a straight jacket of bad design choices.

For me ME has been (other than the shooting,) about the storyline, characters and just a giant space opera. Alien cities, and adventures with Shepherd/Ryder. It wasn't broken so why try to find it? Also I miss the iconic Mass Effect music. Even the galaxy map isn't as amazing as the other trilogy ones.

Remnant architect, what an awesome fight.

Was perilously close to getting this yesterday, but then I heard they ditched the Quarians. They did what now?

Does the fact that you can no longer directly control your team mates, upgrade their weaponry, or have half-decent convo's with them make you more reluctant to do specific mate team mate missions then?

Glad you're enjoying it like but the fact that you like cleaning up all the side missions suggests that you're not adverse to a bit of Ubisoft-style map icon hoovering.  Nowt wrong with that of course, but it's sheer ubiquity now in modern games is mind numbing.  It's not as if it's a game mechanic that somehow struck gold, but it's a safe, non-demanding, feature that so many titles now gravitate to. And none seem enhanced by its inclusion.

What has piqued my interest in this is the scale of the maps. Are they genuinely open world then?  How do they compare to other games of this ilk?

It's a white game, save your dolla

Blocks100 wrote:

Does the fact that you can no longer directly control your team mates, upgrade their weaponry, or have half-decent convo's with them make you more reluctant to do specific mate team mate missions then?

Glad you're enjoying it like but the fact that you like cleaning up all the side missions suggests that you're not adverse to a bit of Ubisoft-style map icon hoovering.  Nowt wrong with that of course, but it's sheer ubiquity now in modern games is mind numbing.  It's not as if it's a game mechanic that somehow struck gold, but it's a safe, non-demanding, feature that so many titles now gravitate to. And none seem enhanced by its inclusion.

What has piqued my interest in this is the scale of the maps. Are they genuinely open world then?  How do they compare to other games of this ilk?

1.You can control your teammates, in real time only, can't pause and pick where you want them to go.
2. You can upgrade their abilities but not their weapons.
3. Conversations are the same as previous Mass Effect games.
4. The stuff to do on the planet(s) map is either core to making it suitable for the species from the Milkly Way OR side missions. It's nowhere near as bad as a ubisoft game.
5. On a side note, there are enemy dropships which add more soldiers to fortifications and other locations but some of these aren't even missions and it's your own choice if you engage or ignore.
6. The size of maps for the planets requires a vehicle to traverse due to size and oxygen requirements. This has meant there are only a half dozen planets with maps that require said vehicles.
7. Combat is very good if a little too easy. Want a challenge? Up the difficulty and don't use Drack as a AI companion.

Its a good game, if you get past your initial disappointment that's its not the ME:Andromeda you imagined it would be, there's an addictive game in there.

There are a few downsides but I'll save them for my review of when I've completed the game.

Question for @vere whos played it more than me

Verecocha wrote:

@Dinostar

Spoiler:

I've come across a few so far but they've been mission specific, nothing I've just come across, yet. Most have been during partner missions which have so far been the best part of the game for me. Where abouts are you in the story?

And done...what a ride. Loved it. Will post more in depth thoughts later. 67 hours, think I'll maybe go back and finish off some of the additional quests.

Childintime wrote:

Nice. I really wasn't a fan of the final boss fight but the leadup was fun.

Also, who did you bang?

Cora and Peebee, Peebee and Ryder were just a casual thing though, Cora was the lurve!

Yeah I can see why you wouldn't enjoy the final boss, I didn't mind it as it was just shooting but even I grew a little tiresome of having to clear every wave before it moved on to the next nav point.

The Dyson Sphere plus Remnant was also ridiculously Halo too.

It's a good game about a 6/7 out of ten. Not near the original trilogy. It has peaks of ups and downs. Some planets are better than others. I'm halfway through, so that's my score of it so far.