Hey, guys!

Hey everyone! After a long time, I'm finally giving Andromeda the chance it deserves. It's been over a decade since I played the original trilogy, and just a few days ago I finished the glorious Dragon Age: Origins (also for the first time in about a decade). I've been interested in this game for ages, but I could never find a spot for it in my backlog. Until now...

I can't stop playing! I think about it day and night, which is pretty unusual for me. It hasn't happened since... I don't know, maybe God of War or Wolfenstein.

Anyway, despite all that, I'm still feeling a little lost in the universe as a whole, so I'd really appreciate some tips on the following:

1. Should I constantly be keeping an eye on my squad? During combat, I often lose track of them, and sometimes I have no idea where they even are. I mostly just worry about giving them shields and stuff like that. Is there a better way to manage them and be a proper squad leader, or should I just let them do their own thing?
2. I'm 12 hours in, still on the first planet, and I'm STRUGGLING to follow the story. Do I need to rely on the Codex to understand what's going on, or will things gradually become clearer as I play? I just did Peebee's recruitment mission to get her aboard the Tempest, and I didn't understand what the hell happened in that underground area. Should I be worried?
3. Sometimes the dialogue aboard the Tempest doesn't seem to match what's happening. For example, characters mention squadmates who aren't even part of my crew yet, as if there's some kind of continuity issue. Is this normal? Is there a way to fix it? I'm afraid to talk to people aboard the Tempest in case I accidentally trigger dialogue that doesn't belong at this point in the story.
4. Any general tips for enjoying the game at my own pace and making sense of everything that's going on would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!!

i’m so sorry that i keep posting to the sub, i just like this game a Very Normal Amount. Sara Ryder is everything to me ngl.

edit: tyvm u/DakIsStrange for creating such nice looking Ryders because good lord could i not figure out Andromeda’s CC 🙏🙏🙏

So. Started New Game+ for another Insanity run.
I just love this game and I just became aware that so far I only romanced Peebee and Suvi multiple times. Always had Kerri on the side and on the one Scott Olaythrough I had I romanced Cora. So, I decided to romance Vezra this time. No casual Snu Snu with Peebee in the Back scape Pod or with Kerri in her Apartment. And I think I have a fantastic Color combination for my Sarah.

Howcome people can create all kinds of mods and release them for free on various sites, but they can’t make a DLC? I’m sure these brilliant people are super capable. Where’s the line between mods and making DLC? Like what if these folks got together and made the Quarian ark DLC.

I’ve been more than a little obsessed with the game this past week or so and I wanted to talk about the romance with Peebee vs Suvi.

For one, I felt a bit spoiled by Androemda in general with two squadmate options and Suvi who sort of takes a similar role on the crew as Traynor and the only one who is explicitly a lesbian. WLW relationships are becoming more and more common in gaming but even so it’s rare enough to find exclusive lesbians that each time I do it’s quite memorable.

That said, I was actually disappointed by Suvi’s romance. The lack of screen time certainly did Sara x Suvi no favors but what actually irritated me was when Sara brings up that her father was out in the field and her mother was a researcher… and idk if BW intended to draw that parallel between Sara’s relationship with Suvi or if it was coincidence but it actually sucked so much lol. I have a big problem, in general, with Passive LI x LI who Does Narrative Stuff and oouf is that Suvi x Sara to a T.

Suvi just doesn’t really have an arc to speak of. She has a collection of really adorable dialogue, is fun to listen to and talk to but besides that she ends where she begins… a science nerd who is doing science. That just didn’t hook me when doing her romance, because it made her and Sara both feel more static than either one deserves. I especially didn’t want/like that her relationship with Suvi so closely mirrored that of Alec/Ellen’s. It felt very safe for a lesbian romance.

Peebee’s relationship by contrast was just very fun, and I enjoyed the chemistry her and Sara had the entire game… from the running tackle at the first meeting to both of them being adventurers at heart who sort of compete with one another to see the next cool thing first. Her Tempest banter line in the post-game being “Ryder… Ryder is my next adventure.” was such a peak culmination of their journey together that I legit felt my heart melt.

Anyway, I’m glad that a character like Suvi exists because the more lesbians in gaming that exist the better. I even found her relationship to faith very endearing even if my Sara didn’t share it and they had some debates over it. That was kinda the best part of their relationship, to me. If they had more opportunities to have spirited debates that ended with some juicy tension that would have gone a long way, but alas we never did get that scene with them having drinks on the Nexus.

Yeah everything sucks rn, but I was especially pissed that I had so recently started playing ME:A online and loving it, only for it to get pulled.

Then for some reason the servers go back online, and over the last couple of days it's been glorious with consistently full lobbies, including a lot of new players. It sucks that I know I won't get time to unlock all the classes I wanted before it inevitably soon goes offline forever (looking at you Turian Havoc Trooper) but the matches this weekend were all great, and felt like good closure.

Basically EA sucks, but just wanted to shout out a thank you to the small online community for being great teammates 🤙

EDIT: Well dang, it looks like I have no idea how online multiplayer works! Glad it sounds like it'll be staying online, thanks all for the quick responses - see you out there APEX

This game scratched just the right type of itch that Starfield left, and it’s going to leave avoid once I’m done. While Starfield is a bigger game and has a lot more potential, it just lacked that storyline. And I find a gameplay and combat a lot more satisfying in Mass Effect.

I sure hope the 5th installment gets picked up by somebody

EDIT. And its done. Great final mission, and I like the that there was closure after the mission, and even a couple of task followups. I respect that a lot of people replay the game but I was never into this. Hopefully, we will see another great scifi RPG in the next decade.

Hello everyone. I tried so many things but no matter what my game won’t launch. I got it from steam in 2021. It used to work fine up until this point. When I try to launch it with frosty or steam I get :”failed to launch game”When I try to launch it through its directory it says: “You do not have access to this game”. I tried:
- reinstalling EA
- reinstalling the game
- changing registry location
- getting Frosty Fix
- messing with Windows Security
- clearing the cache
- running as admin

Every other EA game works just fine for me.

EDIT: solved by buying another copy of the game through EA Play… this idea was a last resort honestly.

I’m having an issue with the Strike Team mode. Every time I try to enter it, the game crashes. The multiplayer mode doesn’t load at all. I’ve tried using both DNS and a proxy, but nothing works. Has anyone else encountered this problem? For context, I’m playing on PS5.

Soooooo…I feel evil. I’ve avoided romancing Liam for YEARS! But I recently picked the game back up and since I could t remember why I avoided him I decided to try on this play through. But then I put him and vetra in the car and I remember. Am I the only one who thinks Liam is an ASS? Sureeeeee trust the unknown (but totally sweet jaal) but critically injuring my heart by treating vetra like trash for bringing her sister along? I hate him. I tried, I tried hard. I think I’m just going to have to try again some other time and just make sure I never put him and vetra in the vehicle again.
-editing to add- be respectful. I like to think that I’m being respectful of everyone else’s choices too, because I keep saying it’s a personal choice that even I’m upset by myself for, but this is also a character, and it’s a little ridiculous and beyond creepy the amount of death threats I have gotten in the last couple hours so if it doesn’t stop I’m going to delete the entire thing.

Hi everyone! I want to share a large-scale perspective on Mass Effect lore that connects into a single monolith the original Drew Karpyshyn concept of Dark Energy and stellar aging, the mystery of the Jardaan, the Scourge explosion, the origin of the Kett and Angara, as well as the reason why Remnant technology only yielded to Ryder. If you look at Andromeda from this angle, it stops being the poor relation of the trilogy and reveals itself as an incredibly deep philosophical and technological alternative. All advanced civilizations sooner or later face the same physical catastrophe: the widespread use of space warping destabilizes matter, and the accumulation of Dark Energy forces stars to age and explode hundreds of times faster (remember Tali's mission on Haeststrom). Ancient races in both galaxies realized this threat, but chose radically opposite paths. In the Milky Way, Artificial Intelligence (the Catalyst) calculated that civilizations burn through stars in roughly 50,000 years, leading to the concept of the Harvests — a cyclical genocide of species every 50,000 years followed by millennia of silence while the stars stabilize. The Jardaan in the Andromeda galaxy did not create bloody cycles. They took a completely different path: they abandoned the toxic Mass Effect and created an alternative — giant Vaults and Monoliths that act as planetary system stabilizers, restoring the biosphere and disposing of radiation chaos. I do not claim that the Jardaan completely discarded biological bodies and became pure digital entities. It is far more likely that they found an ideal quantum symbiosis between the biological brain and AI. Look at the facts: the Kett banged their heads against the wall for centuries, and their Archon conducted hundreds of experiments, dissections, and tortures, yet for years they could not decipher the operating principles of Jardaan consoles or force the Vaults to work. Ryder's arrival changes everything instantly: as soon as our heroes arrive in Heleus, Ryder almost immediately deciphers and activates the Jardaan Vaults with SAM's help. Why? Because SAM and Ryder are that exact direct symbiosis of organics and artificial intelligence for which the Jardaan coded their technology! The consoles remained silent for the Kett because they tried to breach them through purely biological force without the necessary digital interface. Even while possessing symbiosis technologies, the Jardaan experimented with creating new forms of life. The Kett were their first, degraded experiment: the Jardaan tried to cultivate a race capable of self-improvement through DNA consumption, but the experiment spiraled out of control. Having lost the capacity for natural reproduction, the Kett degraded into biological fascism, presented their Creators with an ultimatum, and launched a rebellion. The Angara are the second, refined creation of the Jardaan with high bio-electrical sensitivity and emotionality. They were created as harmonious inhabitants of terraformed planets and, perhaps, as potential vessels for the future evolution of the Jardaan species itself. The accumulation of Dark Energy in the Universe was never erased, and the Jardaan Vaults kept it under control, gradually neutralizing it. However, during the war with the rebellious Kett, the detonation of Meridian occurred, the central stabilization hub. This triggered a colossal, unplanned discharge of accumulated Dark Energy, which detonated and transformed into the Scourge, an unstable anomalous web that poisoned the Heleus sector. After this catastrophe, the Jardaan were forced to evacuate beyond Heleus. In my opinion, the war between the Jardaan and the Kett Empire could still be ongoing somewhere outside Heleus. We simply couldn't be shown this in the lore right away because the sector was isolated by the Scourge, but the lore explicitly mentions that the Kett arrived from beyond the Scourge, and a whole empire of theirs exists out there. This concept makes the plot twists of the game completely logical: in the finale, the Archon captured Ryder's twin because by tapping into their neural link with SAM, he finally obtained that exact symbiotic key and instantly seized control of Meridian. And by capturing Asari DNA, a biological compressor capable of combining traits from various species, the Kett saw in it a genetic Grail capable of halting their mutational extinction. If you put all these elements together, Mass Effect Andromeda reveals itself not as an unfortunate ugly duckling, but as a grand drama about an alternative path of evolution: a path where an ancient race rejected the genocide of the Reapers, created biospheric stabilizers, and entrusted their technology to the symbiosis of biological mind and AI. What do you think about this lore interpretation? Let's discuss in the comments!

The person also made a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOWrTNazZxM

Mass Effect Andromeda multiplayer is up and running on PC and XBOX console yayyy

*Slow clap* Way to go, guys. The baby got thrown out with the bathwater. No hate to this community (I've come to peace with Mass Effect's death a loooong time ago), but DANG IT, PEOPLE! In my opinion, thanks to the unrelenting and unfair hatred for Andromeda, Mass Effect was set on a path that ultimately put the series in limbo (and now cancelled).

Andromeda was obviously flawed, but was the start of something new and promising. While not a carbon copy continuation of the OT, it was still an amazing game IMHO and still had the same spirit of comradery, sci-fi mystery, exploration, and player agency that defined the originals. But nooooo...not good enough for everyone, so now we have nothing ever again!

What we had:

• Andromeda's story established a brilliant premise for the OT to continue while respecting your ME3 ending choice (unlike apparently ME Universe).
• The gameplay dumbed down the squad tactics big time, but instead gave us actual good gunplay, new powers, and insane mobility.
• Open world done tastefully with a beautiful world to explore
• Graphics annihilate the old games (fact, not an opinion). Not the best by 2017 standards, but, uh...have you actually played the OT?
• Hey, I liked the companions
• Etc, etc. I personally loved it.

Even despite it being revealed that the dev team were forced to switch to the unfamiliar Frostbite engine partway through development and start over, still no slack from fans. No vision of how the next game could build up from their mistakes.

Instead, fans dogpiled mountains of hate on this game, the sequel to Andromeda got relegated to a book, and the developers had to scrap all of their work and start all the way over to try and figure out what fans want for the next game, because it seems like everyone hated ALL aspects of Andromeda (since there is no nuance or tactful criticism from gaming communities).

9 years later, it'll be interesting to see where Bioware ended up with ME Universe. Trailer is amazing, but would it have just ended up like Andromeda? Seems like the scum at EA really thought so.

R.I.P.

(Also, go back and play Andromeda. I know you haven't actually given it a fair shot)

(Also, I did my part and bought 3 copies of Andromeda and the art book and player's guide with the backpack, all of the books, and a shirt and other merch. Whoever said buying more will help guarantee a sequel was wrong!)

This was a fun game. Not on the same level of the first three titles but I loved it. SCREW YOU EA!

Apparently someone at BioWare leaked this trailer for what was supposed to be Mass Effect 5, or Mass Effect: Universe as the project was called. Jason Schreier and IGN have verified it's legitimacy.

I wonder if and how the Andromeda story and characters would have fit into this.

Dear EA

The recent news of EA's decision to shut down bioware and the early development of mass effect has destroyed many. Although I may just be one person I hope EA reads this and sees how much this universe has meant to me, and many others.

I am a a 16 year old neurodivergent, diagnosed with Autism level 2 and a possibility of being ADHD. Mass Effect for me was everything, it was my hyperfixation, my comfort, what has kept me going everyday when the world threatens to break me. To others, it's simply just a game, a non real made up world. But to me... It was like having a safety blanket, a world I could escape to and simply just be myself, Ryder, or Shepard. With the absolute soul crushing news I've just heard about with Bioware shutting down, it broke me more than any other game I played. To know that the thing you relied on is all the sudden... Dead... Even though the games are still playable... The possibility of the next game has gone down. Practically zero at this point. I honestly have no idea what Im going to do now. The games I loved suddenly being cancelled... At this point Im Greifing this like a close person Ive lost. I think a lot of us knew this was coming with the unsuccessful launch of Dragon Age Veilguard... But there wasn't even a chance for the next 'Mass Effect Will Return' game to even see light. Now, I am a Mass Effect Andromeda fan, despite what others thinks of it. It was a great story, and left on a cliffhanger. And now, with no end, just void.

I really really do hope that EA reconsiders this decision. And even though I do agree that Bioware has been dead for years... To still continue on with the franchise would mean everything to not only me, but thousands of other eager and loyal fans. Even if it also means selling it to another studio. People like me, like us, are not left in the dark. Us humans have something to still look forward to. I urge EA reconsiders this not only just for money... For the actual people who games were made for.

- A heart broken person.

It was in the main Mass effect subreddit!! https://c.org/ZqqnF94nS8

…is gonna be bleak this year.

Wow ima miss this game thats so messed up

Well I guess its back to the mass effect 3 grind...be nice if I can get some people to play with message me here if need to😎

Im on Xbox

from yesterday i cannot connect to anything online inside andromeda even tho the ps4 i use it on has no such issue, does anyone know how to fix this?

I think I skipped this game in the beginning due to negative press, and then forgot about it. I started playing a few months ago and I am absolutely hooked. Probably 80h in and it just keeps going.