 Hello, hello, hello! Once again, I'm Philip Magnus, and currently I'm trying to find out how to mine with my nice little thingamajigie here. I'm pressing R to launch this venerable mining drone, but unfortunately, apparently nothing is happening. Which might just be my absolute inability to understand game mechanics. But who knows. Anyway, I am going to continue my main quest. I'm currently on Ears, and oh my. Have they now? The question is, what am I going to do about that? Alright. I think some of that is really nice. Maybe lower the volume down a little bit so I can hear my actual thinking. A nice little cleanup, I would say. What's the dart? Scourge energy pocket. La la la, energy cluster caution advised. What? A cluster of dark energy, similar to the scourge, but on a smaller scale? Will disrupt electronic systems like shields and damage organic lifeforms? That's fair. And this is a chalyrian, a savage quadruped predator that camouflages itself to sneak up to its prey. That explains the ridiculous colouring. Anything else? Oh, Element Zero containers and many other goodies as well. Remnant polymer, sure, I'll take that. Probably can use it for crafting, if not, I can always sell it. Anything else? Element Zero note? Well, I'm going to go ahead and say nothing more to do here. So I can, in fact, easily inlaid circuitry, moderate value. Excellent. I love getting junk, so I, now, time to go and find my place among the stars. The stars in this case being these gigantic, non-starry obelisks of metal, very scary. Quite unpleasant, probably. But hey, I never judge. Oh, fantastic, another ship of annoying aliens. Well, seems like I will be taking them. Hmm. Oi! This might be bloody painful, but not for me. Not as much as for the next guy, no? Alright, see you don't. Oh, wow, that was actually pretty damn painful. Let's... hmm. Alright. It's about time I started using my bloody abilities and then I got flagged and died. Idiotcy. I'm still not completely used to the combat system and the edge shows. No matter, let's make up for it, shall we? Wonder if the game ought to save just before this, or if it will return me to when I last saved. We shall find out soon. Soon as it loads. Which, by the way, is one of the problems of this game. Some reason. Very long loading times. Guess I'll be getting this in post. Never mind. How about you? How have you been? Doing something interesting with your life? Perhaps you'd like to leave a comment about it down below. Or maybe not. Who knows? But if you do, perhaps we could make some sort of a discussion about how ridiculous this long loading time in 2017 games is. Hmm. No ideas. Any reasons why? Nope. Debris, more objects and even explosive canisters can become daily projectiles with pull and throw. Fascinating stuff. Really. Yorn. You know, I am pretty sure that by the time my 10 hours are over, I have spent at least 45 minutes of those in menus. Which really, not pleasant. Not at all. I think I'm starting to question my purposes in life. Yes, I said purposes. I've got a few or had before being stuck in purgatory with this abysmal 60 frame rate menu. Hey, at least it's in 60 frame rates per second. That helps. Alright. Go back and do this madness all over again. Why didn't I? I press F. Nothing happens. Or did I press F and V at once? Whoops. In any case, my fault. Alright, scan everything there is to scan and then let's go back, shall we? Interesting to see, however, that last time... Did I just now scan my Nomad? Anything on you, lads? Nothing? That's fine. I don't need anything from you. Where? Well, thank you. That was amazing. Your skill of seeing what's not there is... ...recisioners, Anna Carroll. Who knows, it starts perhaps a little bit too early to get out of my Nomad. The Golden Waste's new location discovers my absolute inability to do anything as I'm supposed to. Has managed to get me into an interesting new battle for my life. Hey, I'm killing observers now. But hey, I actually kind of like the change of pace. Alright, anyone else? Excellent. That was exciting, now, wasn't it? The value items? Lovely. Let's scan... Oh, alright, I overdid the thing. Dick, I will. Just a few moments. Oh, somebody to him. Lovely. Ooh, what's that? I can't scan it. Dammit. How strange. You do? Where? Ooh, what on earth is that? Uh oh. That's bad. Doesn't work like that, I'm afraid. I will be back for you, data part unfortunate hazards. Yes, please. Excellent. Forward stations can reveal mining zones in your map. Well, no longer. Let's make sure I get some ammo. Oh, forward station protocol initiated, probably. So this is the episode, which I suck tremendously. How exactly can I? And how do I do that exactly? No material was detected. Curious. Perhaps here. Nope, here we got it. You can view the state of the mining zone on your map. The zone is the marked rich, good or fair, based on the amount of resources available. Right, so what do I do now? Alright, so I finally managed to find my bloody way. This has been an unfortunately unpleasant journey. Let's make our way. What's wrong with these people? It's like they're trying to kill me. Or like they're not people at all. Oh, that does not even reach him. Thank you for your... They are? Well, isn't that just unpleasant? Did one of them just fall down now? I wish. Let's wait until our shields get back to full and then do something fun. Oh, generator A. Let's see what will happen. What? Not now. More of them. This is truly an unfortunate event. Oh, that is most unpleasant. Alright, you hit, I'm hit, all of us are hit. Let's see. So I'm gonna go ahead and guess that there are more generators that I should stop. Probably. Get core encryption take. What, where did that come from? Liam, you've been there for so long I've gotten all about your body. Unfortunate, very unfortunate for you, dear lot. He just got an epileptic seizure and it did not look pleasant. He blew his head up as if it was melon. So, overall, I'll give a dot. Container take. Alright, so I am going to guess that this is the last generator. Get generator capable of powering a multitude of systems. The strongest will disable its dependent devices and discontinue power flow to the systems it serves. Not this kinetic barrier. More kinetic barriers, eh? That's fair. Oh, a container. Let's see what's inside of it. I don't know. Well, I've certainly found far more useful items. But hey, let's not judge, shall we? This works. But I suppose I'll find out soon enough. There are tasks that require more of my attention for now. Let's recharge. Nexus issued scanner. Where exactly can I get up from? Not this way. Not from here either, I'm afraid. Hmm, let's see. Yep, all this goes. Clear the cat. Am I missing any cats right now? I'm... I can hear something very unpleasant. So, I was supposed to find this bloody creature, this bloody invisible creature. Anymore, find and disable the generator powering the shields to access the monolith. Gee, thanks. So, off to fighting, finding. More generating as it is. Not too difficult to task. Let's get to it before there's any more cat. Wonder. Hello, Shrogan. Unexpected, seeing one of your kind here. Are you a badass? Andromeda initiative. We're not here to cause trouble. So you say. Oh boy, you're one of those. I'm the Pathfinder. Indeed, I am. Now. My name's Sarah Ryder. Just trust a stranger from the Nexus. They haven't exactly treated us, Shrogan, well. What do you do? So, I've heard. Exploring, basically. Checking out these monoliths. The cats seem pretty interested in this one. Looks like you cleared it out for us, though. You said I didn't save any for you. Nexus know the shit about the cat. They think they're safe. They need to die out there in space. They're quite steep on a couple of planets for a while now. Taking out cat bases. Fighting ground troops. And taking trophies. Not pretty. You're one creepy Krogan. Use the Krogan like you spoiled. Thank you. I'll take that as well. None taken. Good, cause I'm getting bored on the cat of getting stronger. Seemed particularly interested in this alien tech. Some amazing reason, I'm sure. From the writing of this game. What else could it possibly be? Alright, future companion. What a charming man. I suppose. Scan for glyphs. Doesn't know glyph. Indeed he does. Fun as a grey bun. Let's see. Runes, runes. Perhaps here. Remnant console. Let's interface with it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got it. Use the scanner, find the glyphs. My powers of observation are... awful lately. Perhaps I'm too tired. That's probably it. How do I get... there? Alright. I can see how I will go there. Right, right, right. Oh well. I did many things, dear girl. What's this? Waypoint. No, I meant this. Okay. So it doesn't really show legend. Maybe that will help. Let's see. Remnant area. Right then. Ooh. What the hell is that? Not that great. Yay, got me some more points. Let's scan that as well. Ooh. And what is this? A deceased human. Alright. Torturing humans. I've seen worse. Better. Much better. Let's see then. We've got... Pathfinder. This area can be mined for resources. Thank you, Sam. By your mining interface. Really, you don't need to speak that much all the time. Perfectly certain that I can deal without you. And just by looking the... far from perfect UI. Yeah, let's move a bit faster, shall we? One more to go. I'm impatient with being done with it. Let's see then. I'm guessing that I should go this way. Yes, yes. I'm ready. I was born ready. And now I'm in a cave. What? Interesting. Well, that is certainly interesting. I somehow managed to get sidetracked. A lot. I actually kind of lost where I'm supposed to go. With gold as we found an outpost site. That's important. Let's see if I can... get up here. Yeah, I'm not going to be able to get up from this point onward. Well, excellent. I at least managed to... get close enough to deploy the forward station. Which doesn't really do me any good. Cool. Okay, so maybe it does me some good. Yay! I'm using these drones as if they're cankerchiefs. I wonder how much they cost the initiative. Anymore? Anything? I suppose not. Actually, there's both metal. Sorry, both iron and graphite. Excellent. What a happy ending. Again, I stopped far too far away from my actual target. Whatever. Let's prepare for a fight, shall we? Whatever happened to you guys? I love me my handgun. That was a ridiculous shot. He literally shot me as he died. As he fell backwards. First colonists, send audio logs about these regions back to the nexus. Little bit of hope? It is calm, though. What is that? I suppose it is. Another thing I hate about this game is the fact that some speak serve at my conversations with my... companions. My companions? Well, if there's anything that I am hopeful about, it is the fact that maybe. Maybe. Just maybe. Some of my companions are a tiny, teeny, tiny bit. Interesting. But how am I supposed to find out? When you... You lot are speaking over them, Sam. Let's kill this one really, really quickly. Whoa! Let's use his own powers against him. Or rather, his own weapons. I really like the gun. It feels really awesome. Burn, baby, burn! That wasn't necessary. I could show some... And why exactly am I doing this? Name collection. Kind of... Kind of creepy, if you ask me. Scan for glyphs. I know this won't work now. Remnant decryption. Decryption impossible due to missing leaf information scanned nearby surroundings for glyphs. That's interesting. So there's decryption in this game as well. Interfacing. Sam allows you to interface directly with Remnant consoles to turn various devices on, turn them off, make them work to your advantage. Glowing power lines indicate active devices. Faded power lines indicate inactive devices. So how do I make... Any of this work for me, exactly. So let's go ahead and interface this as well. This is interesting. I have no idea what I'm doing, but it's interesting. Data parts. Alright. Might as well do something more useful than this. Alright! So that's how one does this particular puzzle. Well, it's a puzzle for idiots, really. Lucky for its... I am occasionally an idiot. Especially at 3 in the morning. What's this? Unknown resonant device. And based components... 45%. 55% unknown structural relation. I love it. So where do I go from now? That way. So much fun. Finally. That's a bit done with this, shall we? Browse glyphs. Is this Sudoku? Here's a relevant decryption key to override this console. The crypt-dereminant code by assigning glyphs to the grid. No row, column, or highlighted shape. Can include repeats. What a same glyph. It is Sudoku, isn't it? So I guess... It's going to be this one. And then we've got this one. This is kind of a strange minigame. Let's see. We need the E-like... Nope, not the E-like one. Which means I've... Yeah, this is the one. This should be the one. And here we've got... Hmm. This one. Now we've got... E. Submit solution. I did it. That would be the master switch we're looking for. I'll meet you there. Don't do anything without me. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's a lot of firepower. Well, that was close. Let's charge shields up. Then let's go and do some of that. Change weapon, I think. Yeah. Get some earth-shattering revelations for these aliens. Did I do it? Anyone else? Nice, headshot. Curious how that works, eh? Hmm. Me too, by the way. And let me tell you, I'm not happy about thinking the same thing with NPCs. Never ever happy about that. But hey. Thank you, Sam. So useful you are. Let's get over this tough terrain. And on to the lake. Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun. So much riding on you. I have to admit, this is far. Whoops. So it doesn't go in water. Got it. That's a bit it, though. I was hoping that it would. Oh, there's a Sam memory. Where is the Sam memory? Oh, it's on the other side of this here island. Oh, fantastic. What the hell is going on? No, that ain't worrisome at all. No, that's not what I want to do. Can I go to journal? And go with the missing arcs? Nope. How about escape and priority ops? Yeah, how about them apples? Well, I like how she's walking. Amazing. Amazing. You were walking in the air, lady. In the bloody air. That's not national, that's not normal, and I don't care what anyone says. What the hell is that? BB, what? What the hell? Explain to me what this is, please. Oh, don't. Sure, let's just go ahead and do this. Thanks for playing. You enjoyed the trial to continue our adventure. In Andromeda, purchase the full game and your progress will be automatically carried over. Otherwise, you can continue exploring the world until your trial ends. Well, that's a fantastic way to end the game. So I guess I will see you after release back here. Until then, I shall explore the universe. Thanks for watching. Seriously, how suck is that? You build this whole monolith item up and then you literally put it behind a pay-doh. I don't want to appreciate it. Annoying. Very annoying. Ah! Well, I'm dying, but it's not like I can do anything. Maybe hide in here for a moment. Anyway, thank you for watching. This was so exciting, I could die.