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Suvi romance didn't happen AT ALL?

I've just finished the main mission, the epilogue and the few things left. I have no more tasks left.

I wanted to romance Suvi but I only got one or two times to flirt with her. I did everytime and talk to her after every mission. Still, I didn't get the kiss scene while having tea or the romance scene or ANYTHING.

I didn't locked in with anyone and just flirted BY ACCIDENT with Jaal once.

There are no missions or tasks left in the game for me to think that after doing that I may get a new dialogue with Suvi...

I just don't understand what happened, I'm so frustrated. I knew this romance had little scene time since she's not a squad member and still wanted to go for it.

I didn't get ANY romantic scene whatsoever in +110 hours of gameplay. I don't even know from where I should even go back to try to get the romance.

What did I do wrong? What did I miss?

I'm pissed!

5 Comments
2024/11/02
04:13 UTC

14

2 minutes after the daily challenges change…

This lot joins my lobby. It was Bronze/Magma waves…nothings but PAW’s lol

4 Comments
2024/10/30
11:50 UTC

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What's your favorite power combo?

Did a similar post for guns so I wanted to ask.

First time playing this game. I went biotic and then combat after I filled up as much of the biotic as I needed.

I find my combos are different long range or short range. Either annihilation - charge - talon shot or melee - shockwave for short range, or singularity - lance - throw from behind cover firing away for long range.

Curious what other combos you guys liked!

11 Comments
2024/10/30
03:37 UTC

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What were your favorite guns?

I'm playing for the first time, getting close to the end. I ended up going mostly biotic at first but now that I'm level 50 I've been going for extra guns.

Afrer experimenting I found myself with a talon for close quarters, a sweeper mainly for use with incendiary ammo for armor, and 2 Ushior, one for long range and one with plasma charge and heat sink for mid range.

Curious what builds and guns you ended up using.

39 Comments
2024/10/29
23:50 UTC

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I wish I had a video, but my first and funny glitch I found in-game was a hyper long-range charge that teleported me across a mountain xD

5 Comments
2024/10/27
18:38 UTC

5

Platinum

Do I need to play online for the plat of this game in ps4??

3 Comments
2024/10/27
16:19 UTC

7

Angaran Relic on Voeld

Does anyone know how to disable the shield wall around the entrance to the cave, i've been searching for ages but cannot find it ?

5 Comments
2024/10/27
15:53 UTC

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For the Matchmaker achiev., can a lock on my romance with Cora and do the flings with Keri&Avelan later?

Or I need to do those flings first to later lock on Cora?

3 Comments
2024/10/27
13:44 UTC

12

How to scan things on the Nexus?

I just started playing, enjoying it so far. I just got to the nexus and got the Station Sabotage mission, where I have to scan some panels. But, uh, how do I scan on the Nexus? I can easily find the panels, but I can't scan them. When I was on the tutorial planet, I just pressed X to scan things, but its like I'm not wearing my scanner on the Nexus. How the heck do I scan things?

9 Comments
2024/10/27
03:28 UTC

7

Invisible Guns

Does anyone know a quick and easy way to regain my guns whilst playing, they were there yesterday and now today they're gone so its rather difficult to continue... ?

3 Comments
2024/10/26
20:36 UTC

6

Strike Team achievements

Is there a trick for them to count? In theory I already completed the achievements of:

Level 20 Team 6 Strike teams Conpleted 25 missions

Everyrhing in-game and not in the app, and until now I didn't receive the achievements >.<

9 Comments
2024/10/26
13:05 UTC

105

Real reason why Peebee isn't allowed to drive

2 Comments
2024/10/25
12:45 UTC

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How are y’all keeping your gear up to tier?

As said I’m having trouble keeping my gear up to tier. Between the lack of credits or the crafting/research system feeling like Mount Everest by the time I get my ideal or hell just one gun, it’s already out of date. Any tricks or am I just missing something in the gameplay loop.

ATP I’m open to anything.

Edit: thanks for the tips I honestly didn’t realize that you could breakdown gear.

To be more specific though for those coming in or back. My issue wasn’t with the research points because I had plenty of those. It was a strange lack of weapon and salvage drops between levels 10-20 making credits scarce and the lack of node specific materials. Also the Talon was my biggest weakness from it felt like a whimper when I hit the tier thresholds. The loot drops kinda fixed them selves and the cache upgrades made gear easy to find in a pinch.

15 Comments
2024/10/24
03:40 UTC

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I'm a little lost on mp

So my problem is that every time I've tried to do the booster challenge from the tutorial challenges no booster I have put on has contributed to the challenge at all I've used power boosters progression boosters and weapon boosters and it hasn't done anything, anyone have any ideas what's happening here?

4 Comments
2024/10/23
16:01 UTC

116

Does anyone else use lower tier armour parts just because you like the look better? I'm a big fan of the tier IV armors.

31 Comments
2024/10/23
08:28 UTC

35

Who should I romance?

Hey there. I'm looking to play through some of Andromeda to burn some time before Veilguard comes out, but the one thing I'm stuck on is who I should romance. I'm usually quick to decide, but I've kind of gotten stuck when it comes to Andromeda.

Alistair/Zevran, Fenris, and Cullen from DA were all easy choices for me, and I was head over heels for Garrus the second I met him. Honestly though, I'm kind of stuck when it comes to the cast of Andromeda and who my Ryder should hop into bed with.

The only ones who really appeal to me are Reyes, Jaal and oddly enough Vetra. I'm not normally into women but something about Turians... Anyway, I was sort of leaning towards Reyes but I heard he has significantly less content than the other romances. Is this true? I just am struggling like nobody's business to decide which of these 3 to Ryde-r off into the sunset with. Any advice would be appreciated.

edit: I just gave up and installed the poly patch so I could see both of the romances content. I guess Jaal and Reyes will be making a Ryder sandwich. Definitely loving Reyes though, it's a shame they gave him so little content.

46 Comments
2024/10/22
23:33 UTC

16

Why did I teleport back to starting postion once the evade animation finished

6 Comments
2024/10/22
22:07 UTC

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If you guys have been following Exodus at all...

Lot of sources have been commenting on how Exodus (i.e. the Matthew McConaughey space game) is a Mass Effect spiritual successor. But watching the trailers, I'm inclined to take that a step further--I think Exodus is what Andromeda was supposed to be before they took it from the original team and gave it to Bioware Montreal.

I mean, the central premise is that the settlers fled from a dying earth long ago for unknown reasons. There are arks full of cryogenically frozen colonists, and "Travelers" tasked with finding and terraforming viable planets. That's Andromeda! There's a hinted plotline, too, where the captain of one of the arks may have deliberately infected the men under his command to get them to mutate--that squares with some ideas that have been suggested about where Andromeda would have eventually gone.

If this is close as its looking, then I'd say that the original idea for ME:A came from Karpyshan and co, and then they were denied any input on it when it was handed off to Montreal. So now they're having a chance to do it themselves--and do it properly.

22 Comments
2024/10/21
22:14 UTC

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It’s incredible all the things we end up doing that are not related to the job of pathfinder.

Don’t you guys think?

22 Comments
2024/10/21
21:33 UTC

181

Just finished my first playthrough, my thoughts

I’ve started and stopped this game probably a dozen times over the years but this is the first time I actually played through the entire game.

Here’s the thing, the game is rough in quite a few areas, but all in all it’s a great game. I understand that fans were upset that it was a deviation from the Shepard story lines (people want the same things over and over) but to me it was a continuation of the mass effect universe as a whole, and I think it did a decent job.

Sometimes companion interactions left a bit to be desired, and it did take me a while to warm up to these faces, but eventually I did.

I’m now here in post game, listening to a quarian ark distress call and I’m heartbroken that the fans killed future installments of this story before they could even start.

I don’t imagine we will ever venture back out to andromeda in any future games, but I for one enjoyed my time there.

Photo unrelated, just my Ryder staring at his Zap floating around in space.

54 Comments
2024/10/20
22:43 UTC

108

I don't think we're seeing the Ryders again

66 Comments
2024/10/19
18:22 UTC

61

Kett Base on Eos

While I was clearing out the kett base on Eos this exchange happened:

Ryder: "I wonder how long the kett have been here."

Cora: "Probably before Site 1. It takes a long time to build something like this."

Mf lmfao what? Why would they put Site 1 so close to what clearly looks like some kind of alien stronghold? You've got a whole ass planet. I wouldn't put a research base on the same continent as an alien base, let alone a few miles away. It even bothers me how close Podromos is to the base. It's basically right next to it!

Look man, I like this game for what it is. But there's some real half-baked ideas here. I'm probably just nitpicking.

Also, how are dudes like Drak and Bain just able to travel around killing kett before the atmosphere processors are turned on? I die in like 10 minutes.

44 Comments
2024/10/19
18:17 UTC

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Question - Combat Fitness Heavy Lifting Power Cells

Simple question. When I pick Heavy Lifting as the passive for Combat Fitness Rank 5, I don’t see my combat skills tool tips upgrading to show the extra power cell. Omni grenade still shows only one power cell at rank 1 and then only 2 at rank 2. Shouldn’t it be 2 then 3 so that by rank 5 Omni grenade you have 5 power cells not just 4? Is this a known bug where the passive doesn’t really work that way? Or is it something where you really do have the extra power cell but the tool tip is just showing it wrong? Or is this a fixable glitch that requires some workaround?

If it’s a known bug that the passive doesn’t give the extra cell then I will switch to Extra Holster to carry a grenade launcher as the two rank 5 skills are 50/50 for me. This would break the tie. TIA.

0 Comments
2024/10/19
16:33 UTC

11

What's the trick to actually using consumables on PS5?

So I'm trying to do the Voeld vault, and I need to use my backup life support consumable, which I've never needed to use before.

I know I should be able to open the weapon wheel, select the consumable, and press the X button (displayed on the screen as "use") but... nothing happens.

I've tried every variation on this - press and hold X, close the weapon wheel while I'm holding X, select the consumable then release the weapon wheel, use the D-pad to select the consumable, while Ryder is standing in a cold or a safe environment, with weapon drawn or holstered, in or out of combat, moving or standing still, swapping around the consumables at loadout, unequipping and re-equipping the consumables, swapping them around, leaving a consumables slot empty, leaving a weapons slot empty, and not ONE of those had a single result.

So please tell me what the secret is so I can stop feeling like an idiot who can't figure out a basic game function and get past this quest.

7 Comments
2024/10/19
01:01 UTC

9

Multiplayer

Anyone down to run some missions?

3 Comments
2024/10/18
18:30 UTC

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Any good theories out there on what the remnants are?

Since we’re probably never getting proper canon answers, I look to the community. A very loose, not well thought out part of me feels like the remnants are “defective” reapers that made the angara as a love letter/apology to organic life. Never really understood the criticism of Andromeda being too far removed from the trilogy considering the whole reason the Initiative exists is because someone got tipped off about imminent reapers, and there are a TON of references and Easter eggs to the trilogy throughout the game. I genuinely think bioware was setting it up to be even more tied in but we’ve unfortunately lost that chance.

Anyway, I’m curious if there are any popular theories to read up on. Tia!

33 Comments
2024/10/18
15:17 UTC

67

Looking for a new game. Should I try Andromeda?

Was huge fan of original games and played andromeda for a bit when it came out but life got in the way. Was thinking of trying it again but all the reviews online are really demoralizing. Thoughts?

88 Comments
2024/10/17
13:49 UTC

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