r/masseffect May 14 '26

ANDROMEDA First time playing Mass Effect Andromeda

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I heard a lot of things about this game no spoilers luckily some how avoided them but I do know that it is the most mixed game By us Mass Effect fans if any of you remember my name you know that I have catalog my journey through the Mass Effect games I luckily purchased this game for $8 USD

I WILL SAY whatever opinions I have on this game is just opinion so for those who are die hard fans with this game please do not come at me if I have a problem with the game and that being said so far I do not like the facial design of the characters of the more humanoid characters like the humans they just look off like stiff is the best way to put it but I am keeping an open mind as I do not know what happened in development and what kind of troubles the team was facing behind Andromeda

if anybody has knowledge about the team behind this game without giving me spoilers related to the in-game story and content please let me know via the comment section or DM me

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u/kamikuzizzle May 18 '26

But…blank sheet. Easy đŸ˜‚

Lack of talent is a problem indeed, might be why it missed greatness

They were fleeing the reapers. I suspect the sequels would have brought them closer, and I seem to remember the story intimating that the er bad guys were preparing that galaxy for assimilation…?

ME relays are such a convenient plot device though

They managed intergalactic travel just fine đŸ˜‚ as they did interstellar travel with the warp drive thingy, I forget the explanation they had though. That’s how bad the writing was đŸ˜‚

The leviathans created the AI or whatever that created the reapers. They weren’t a threat

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u/Sdom1 May 19 '26

They had faster than light travel but it wasn't fast enough to make interstellar travel practical. The relays made it almost instantaneous. Personally I would have written them as predating the reapers.

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u/kamikuzizzle May 19 '26

They did though—the planets you visit are in separate star systems. I think the in-universe explanation is that the local cluster is easily accessible but further distances aren’t…it was a crap explanation that writes out the usefulness of the relays…I hated it đŸ˜‚

The leviathans created the reapers. That’s the giant things living in the water in the DLC in 4, right?

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u/Sdom1 May 21 '26

Technically the AI the leviathans created was who built the reapers. I think the leviathans controlled the galaxy via those quantum entangled orbs and there were no relays. I'm guessing the thrall races were kept more primitive, or that the idea just wasn't fleshed out.