Mass Effect Andromeda - Tips and Tricks for professionals and beginners
In order to get a good start on Mass Effect Andromeda , we have collected some tips for you. In the later game, these hints will not help you much, which is why we have collected more in-depth tips for beginners as well as fans of the series. There are some changes and not everything is as we are used to from the predecessor.
For example, you can still scan planets for materials , but it has become much easier. With the Nomad you can also operate mining and using outposts you can use the fast trip. For these and many other topics, we will give you some tips below . First of all we want to help the beginners and further down we focus on more tips that will help you in the later game.
5 tips for getting started
The following tips for Mass Effect Andromeda refer to little things that might be confusing in the beginning. So at the beginning it is not necessarily clear which doors you can go through and which ones you can not. But this can be easily recognized: In the middle of the door you can see a circle that turns. These doors open automatically, though sometimes it takes a little longer. Other doors can be opened again with the displayed key. If there is neither a circle nor an action button in the middle, then the doors are simply not passable. These tips are intended to explain and simplify such situations.
Profiles and Skills: Do not stiffen your education too much. It is possible for you to unlock other skills and you should do that too. In the beginning, you can focus on shooting and different types of weapons, but quickly try out the possibilities that Biotics and Tech provide you. If you are dissatisfied, then you can also reset the skills. You can find out how to do it if you follow the link to our guide with tips on the skills follows. Later in the game, you will then be able to choose between different profiles and you should use this chance. You will end up in situations that require different approaches and through the profiles you can get bonuses that you did not know how helpful they are.
Call options: The icons that show you your call options are not very intuitive. But here, too, we can provide you with tips to help you memorize which answers are the right ones. On the left side you will find the emotional answer options. Above compassionate and loving, down informal and also a little naughty. On the right are the rational answer options. Logical up and down professional. If you see two people side by side as an answer option, it is the answer that strengthens your friendship. A heart stands for flirting and the initiation of great love affairs. Remember that you have to make friends with some characters before you can work on the love relationship.
Sell and dismantle: You will find a lot of equipment on the way, but also salvage. It is important that you pay attention to what you sell and what you should disassemble. weapons and you should definitely disassemble armor, because they provide you early in the game important materials that you would otherwise find later. This allows you to make new equipment fairly quickly. With a simple keystroke you can simply sell the entire salvage from the dealer. This actually serves only this one purpose. At the bottom of the screen, the corresponding button lights up, which you must press. If it does not flash, then you simply have no salvage in the inventory. Some items can not be disassembled, but only destroy. These include, for example, mods. Sell them instead of destroying them. So you get at least credits for it. In principle you should keep all minerals and materials. After all, you need them for your research and development.
Scan planets:Once you're on Tempest, you can travel through the Galaxy Map to other planets. There are three levels here: the cluster view (all Heleus), the system view (quite Andromeda) and the orbit view. Here you can see the planets and the ships (including wrecks) that are in the selected orbit. Once you're in orbit view and the info hears "Anomaly Detected", turn on the scanner and follow the arrow. Travel every planet and every anomaly in orbit to scan them all. You can not land anywhere, but once you discover anomalies, new materials, research data or experience points will beckons to you. You need these items to make the best weapons and armor. So follow the arrow to the location of the anomaly and then send a probe there - now you just have to pick up your rewards. The bar at the top shows you what percentage of an orbit you have already scanned. One of the simple tips is: Get yourself the 100%.
Side Missions:As usual in a role-playing game, you will be overwhelmed with numerous side missions. You do not have to do some of these, others open the doors to other, potentially important missions. It is simply overwhelming to try to complete all side missions from the logbook. Some of them are simply not feasible because, for example, you have to move forward in the main mission first. But we also have tips for dealing with the missions. It helped us a lot to just complete the missions depicted on the map of the area. They are displayed, whether you are following them or not. To follow them, just click on the icon on the map. Work your way through the unlocked areas and you will complete all missions and side missions. Sometimes you have to return to completely cleaned areas because you can complete new quests there again. In any case, you should not ignore the secondary tasks completely, because they bring you experience points and ALP. In addition, they are often important for friendships.
Tips for the fight
By now, have you leveled up your combat fitness to permanently increase your maximum health and shields? Very good, because that's an important point in the fight. You can do this differently. A mix of forces and firearms we liked the most. You unlock different profiles and improve them while you use them. The profiles give you extra bonuses to help you fight. One of the tips that helped us: Just have a look at the bonuses that are listed at the bottom of the profiles . Sometimes your skills are improved to almost new techniques.
The most important of the tips for the fight is the cover ! At the latest when your shields are down, you need to get to safety. The game is designed so that you are virtually forced to act out of cover, otherwise you would use far too many Shield Regenerative consumables . Since the amount is limited anyway and your health can be regenerated only by the boxes on the battlefield (in addition to the slow automatic health regeneration), there is simply no way out - use the cover options and the shoulder change !
The next is the Dodge . At the beginning of the game, it is not necessary to avoid anyone at all. One almost forgets that this possibility exists at all. But that's a mistake, because in the later stages of Mass Effect Andromeda, you will fall into trouble, without using the Dodge. For the fight it is actually one of the most important tips.
Forces and air combat
Some of the forces you can use in battle will arrive at the target automatically . But there are others where you have to aim very carefully (eg Biotic Lance). Look closely at the description, because everything will tell you. In addition, you will learn that some of the attacks can be made with a short or a long press of a button . The effect is different. By the way: If you want to know if your attacks are recharged, then look at your target cross . Here you also see the loading bar and do not have to avert your gaze from the fighting to look in the lower right corner of the screen.
If you use your jetpack to hover, then you can also make attacks. This allows you to attack targets that are in cover. Most of the time, you can still wound these enemies by targeting the body parts that peek out from the cover. In many cases they are the heads and often they are the weak spots of enemies. When you launch a melee attack from the air , you trigger a small shock wave when you touch the ground again. You can also dodge in the air. Since you will have no cover while floating, this is a good way to escape the damage nevertheless.
Shields and armor
Some opponents have shields (the blue bars), others have armor (yellow bar). There are weapons and abilities that are particularly good against this type of protection. For example, armor can be well dismantled using single-shot weapons . Also flame-based attacks help. If you want to destroy shields, then try "overloading" or "energy deprivation" . Radiation and plasma ammunition are also useful.
I hope these Mass Effect Andromeda Tips and Tricks have come in handy for you.