"Story Chapter 7: Sigma Fulcrum You finally made contact with the remains of the UCH - at least with some secret organisation named Galactic Liberation and Defense (GLaD), founded by your girlfiend Commander Alex Lamarr, Captain Jennifer Zerogen and others from the remains of the UCH fleet that did not want to join Vice Admiral Perez just sitting on their hands and waiting for the things to happen. Thanks to your information, the GLaD was able to carve out the outlines of a big picture about what was and what is happening in Andromeda - but there are still a few blind spots that need to be filled soon. In the meantime, the GLaD needs your help with some other problems.."
So, I finally hit this questline today, and I was terribly disappointed to find out that Alex... is female. (edit: it may have been revealed in the previous chapter, and I picked the wrong one to respond to... either way, this impacts the whole questline) "Alex" is an androgynous name (it's used for both males and females). Until this point, I happily imagined Alex as a male. Why? Because I am female, and I really don't like being forced into questlines where I'm in love with... another female, because the industry "assumes" everyone who plays is male. Hi there! Yes, I play survival games (on hard mode). No, I'm not a guy, and no, I'm not gay either, and no, I don't like questlines where I'm forced to hook up with another chick! (We do exist!) Immediate loss of interest for me for anything else to do with Alex in the questline, and a major immersion bubble break. Is it possible to do one of the following: 1. Programmatically alter any pronouns/references for Alex to be the opposite gender that the player has selected for their character? or 2. Never give Alex a gender (keep Alex ambiguous, as it was for the first chapters), so the person playing can assume Alex is whatever gender THEY would like? (this would be great for anyone who is homosexual as well). Unless you are planning to do something completely cheesy later in the questline (like get Alex pregnant), there's no reason Alex can't be a guy and the player a female, (like the way this started out...) and it would make your female gamers happier. Thanks for listening!
More feedback: Going in to destroy the core. The Zirax and the Assault Cyborgs are WAY TOO OVERPOWERED, unless the expectation is that you are in epic heavy armor and full epic weapons. Considering you no longer get epic heavy armor completing previous quests (I didn't), this is an unreasonable expectation. Note: I'm playing hard enemies and fast deterioration. This has never been an issue for me doing quests before. I'm wearing heavy armor with 3 armor packs and a mobility pack. They are one-shotting me almost every single time... or if not killing me, my health is so low with one hit, that if they aren't dead before their next trigger shot, I will be dead on the second shot. I have to get in multiple sniper rifle headshots or pulse rifle shots to kill them (T2 weapons). The Cyborgs in particular are impossible to kill solo. (the Zirax, you pretty much have to get lucky and get the drop on them and shoot them in the back of the head fast). They require either multiple headshots, or multiple clips unloaded into them, which just won't happen when one shot from them and you are DEAD. For the first time EVER, I am going to ragequit and use cheats to advance this quest, because it is simply impossible to do in single player. This would be GREAT for playing MP, but solo, it's pretty much impossible to complete.
Another woman checking in, disappointed that Alex is a chick, too. I've posted my other feedback about the rest (faction issues/ difficulty) elsewhere, so I won't rehash it here.
So... we're forced to have a girlfriend? I would prefer no romantic entanglements unless I initiate them.
I am afraid the game is not that flexible to include the players char choice with the story elements.
Well, actually I wrote the lore and the backstory (and even some mission setups) with a possible "choice" in mind. But what sounds so easy to add is quite difficult to achieve - I hope those of you having the same request won't mind too much, until we possibly arrive at that point
Hi, I have no sigma fulcrum station in my game. < That's the feedback. No waypoint for it at all. The sector consist only 10 or so wreckages and 3 asteroids, nothing else I have been radar pinging it left and right for a half day now... BTW in the mission logs/descriptions for ALL of these missions are too vague. I had problem even find the sigma zero system at first. Mission description should have the Real name of the system (not just the nickname) to be searchable. And Coordinates (everywhere) would be helpful too. I have a feeling that station is out there somewhere but outside the 24000km range form every other objects.
Hi, The forum doesn't allow me to upload it. It claims the file is too large (35MB Zipped). I need to find another way. Any suggestion? Edit: I uploaded it to dropbox. Here is the link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j3780v0next2ulm/Garies 1_0.4-210306-1547.zip?dl=0 Let me know if I can help anything more.
I just played this Mission and generally it was good. The difficulty was a bit high and i had Epic Heavy Armor and Epic Weapons at this time. My Problem with the difficulty of Empyrions Combat is that the Enemies hit you every time (at least it feels that way) and you can not Dodge (no crouch) or use Cover. The Moment the Enemy has a clear line of visibility to you, you receive a guaranteed hit. I would like to see a chance to miss for the enemies. Also i die pretty fast to nearly everything, i would like to be able to take more hits in such Missions. I used Epic Heavy Armor which has double the Armor Value of a normal Heavy Armor with some Multiboosts, but i still die fast to the Enemies in this Mission. Also i killed about 4 Civilians and Guards by accident that were not Hostile, because they were in my way or looked similar to the enemies, but this doesn't changed my Reputation with anyone so it was ok. I still wish it would be easier to spot the Enemies. A Question regarding the Factions: After starting Chapter 6 and playing i received at least 2 Messages of New Factions that i discovered, but none new Factions are on the PDA visible. I still only have Zirax, Talon, Polaris and the Pirates. Is that normal? There are 10 Unknown Factions listed in my PDA, is there somewhere a Overview what Factions are currerently in the Game?
Pach - if you haven't figured it out yet, here's a couple of non-spoiler tips ... 1. Don't use the internal routes to get into the central area - up and around the outside of the asteroid is much safer and easier. 2. Before trying to use those walkways in the central area, stop in a safe position on the rim of the crater and look up at the tower blocks - look carefully and use a sniper rifle.
A small error in initial missions such as HV repair that once repaired, restart again again and again.-
