Andromeda game mod

I generally like it when my games takes care of small things like turning a flashlight on without me needing to manually do it. Mass Effect: Andromeda could have been the game where you finally got to make a character belonging to a different species, rather than carrying the banner of humankind yet again. Instead we got the Ryders, possibly the blandest protagonists ever in both personality and looks. Modder Anobos decided to open up the possibilities, even if just aesthetically, and made this replacer that turns Scott Ryder into a Turian.

Thanks to modder Invetro you can replace their spongy complexion for something more akin to stone, just like the Turians in the original Mass Effect trilogy. This mod by Forkinator rebalances all skills and abilities by increasing damage, force, and radius in most of them.

It also affects passives in an attempt to make the different builds feel diverse and rewarding. While her personality is one of her best assets, her outfit is also incredibly bad-ass and stylish, in a roguish kind of way. Modder Skaramosh now lets us wear the same outfit on your female Ryder, giving an otherwise bland character some extra oomph. A lot of their bonuses are completely unimportant. And as enemies become more bullet-spongey, a very few stats begin to matter.

Creator Kahmu attempts to solve this by reworking all profiles to further differentiate them and to simply make them better. They disregard stuff like Power Restoration and Defense in favor of weapon proficiency, lower power cooldowns, and the like. This creates a much more aggressive but fulfilling experience. Some of my favorite mods are those that users originally make for their private play, but end up publishing due to popular demand.

And ended up making one of the most downloaded mods for MEA. As the name implies, it simply switches up the colors on many squadmate and NPC outfits to look a lot cooler, and less like hospital staff. Modder Kahmu found this too strange for comfort and made this mod that does away with that extra animation. Mass Effect: Andromeda is built upon the same groundwork and engine as Dragon Age: Inquisition, and it becomes especially noticeable in the way characters move.

The extra couple of steps whenever you stop sprinting are tell-tale, for example, and they can be quite troublesome when traversing treacherous terrain and trying to platform correctly.

This free mod by DeltaType7 solves this by readjusting all character movement, sacrificing that realistic feeling of momentum for a slightly more responsive Ryder. It comes in two versions: one to improve your hovering by doubling its duration from 2. Instead they get truckloads of HP, becoming veritable damage pillows and making encounters unnecessarily long.

This mod by Forkinator goes a long way to fix this by enhancing all weapons in the game, especially those that used to be too weak to even consider using after the mid-game. Enhanced Statistics Page by Kahmu attempts to improve that by adding a better overview of these bonuses and the like, both revitalizing the statistics screen and helping you choose your build intelligently.

He is meant to provide advanced situational awareness, problem-solving, and tactical enhancements. However, Ryder doesn't need an AI to tell them that it's cold out. The Shut Up SAM mod silences a lot of Sam's usual repetitive dialogue about "temperature, radiation, mining, and life support being restored. The Extended Hover Duration mod is a goofy one, probably best for late-game players or folks who are on a repeat playthrough.

It increases the hover duration and comes with two options: the player can double the length of the hover, or they can make it practically infinite. Unlike the others, this mod practically adds a glitch, rather than removes or repairs one.

It's fun when the player isn't taking things seriously and allows them to reach places that they couldn't otherwise. Have you ever wished that Mass Effect: Andromeda was more like Burnout? The Road Rage mod makes this dream a reality. The tagline is simply: "Makes the Nomad better in just about every way. The biggest change is that it increases the damage done to enemies when the Nomad runs over them, and the mod makes this damage scale with the player's level. As an added bonus, it also makes it easier for the Nomad to ascend steep terrain in four-wheel drive.

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The good thing for players is that one modder agreed and decided to do something about it. With this mod from user Watafuzz , some tweaks are made to the game's six-wheel powerhouse engine.

For one, the damage inflicted on enemies via running them over scales with your level ensuring that crushing them with the Nomad is always effective. Also, the vehicle's top speed, mobility, and jump boosters all get an upgrade ensuring that this thing can go anywhere at any time. With all the shops and merchants you have to visit in RPGs, it's always a nice addition when a modder comes in and simplifies all this micromanaging and traveling for the player.

For this, we have to bless our conquering hero user tabbed. In this mod, all crafting materials are now available on your main spaceship the Tempest.

This cuts a bunch of time that you would otherwise have to spend going to different planets to get the materials you want to make that special suit of armor you had your eyes on. Not only that, but the materials are all in quantities of Good luck clearing through all that in one playthrough. Show of hands, who likes having to manage their inventory in any game they ever played? While we can't see you, we're going to assume not a single person raised a hand.

If only there was a way to have unlimited inventory space and not have to worry about any of that again Oh wait, thanks to user Coockoo , we actually don't have to with this game on PC.

With this mod, the item inventory limit is spiked up to 99 With this mod, you effectively become Hermione Granger in the final Harry Potter movie with that magical bag that holds everything you ever needed. Somebody make it so. Sometimes it's the little things that make gameplay that much more enjoyable. Who would have guessed that a simple button press that makes you jolt in any direction could have added so much to the firefights in Mass Effect? Thankfully the developers did and in Andromeda , you can press the evade button which moves your character via jetpack or biotic abilities in a quick burst.

But what if you wanted to do it There's a mod from user watafuzz that allows you to do just that. This mod takes away the cooldown time from performing an evade which lets you do to your heart's content. If an enemy manages to finish you off now, then you just gotta admit that you're not good at the game my friend.

Elsewhere in this article, we talk of a mod that brings your squadmates ' power levels more up to scale with your own characters. On the other side of the spectrum if you wanted a mod that just makes you totally outclass your squad in terms of mobility even further, here we go. The Hyper Mobility mod from User Deltatype7 improved on another mod by user Wavebend to bring us something which effectively turns your character into even more of a superhero than they already were.

With this, your character's sprint speed is increased especially useful in hub worlds , and your jump height is increased. Speaking of superheroes, you might find another mod that makes you feel like a certain Avenger elsewhere on the list.