Guide for Mass Effect: Andromeda

Priority Ops – A Trail of Hope

With a new story mission initiated, return to the Tempest when you are ready to continue.

TEMPEST

• Go to the Onaon System

AYA

• Follow Paaran Shie
• Enter the Angaran Resistance Headquarters

CHAPTER 4: AYA

NOTE: For those playing as Scott, Avela Kjar is a potential Romance partner and will be standing near the exit.

Speaking to Avela will initiate AYA - Recovering the Past. This is Avela's romance mission arc, so it is really only necessary for those who both, are playing as Scott and want to romance her.

Avela Kjar (Scott only) – “To meet people like you.”

Priority Ops – A Trail of Hope

• Return to the Tempest

Use the nearby Docking Access Controls to return to the Tempest.

TEMPEST

Returning to the Tempest will make Jaal's addition to the crew official (Squad Member 6/6).

Jaal Ama Darav (either) – in the Tech Lab – "You're... Interesting"

NOTE: Jaal's relationship will start off by developing a friendship. Instead of a large heart icon, the option will be an image of two people joined at the shoulder. Eventually, later options will appear as the heart, like the rest of the flirt dialogue choices.

Speak to Liam a few times until you receive a mission, Armor Diplomacy.

NOTE: This task will be your brief introduction to R&D. For a more information and related achievements on the topic, be sure to check out the General Hints and Tips page.

Liam Kosta: Armor Diplomacy

• Build Liam’s research project

Use the Research Center terminal to develop Liam’s Armor Requisition. If you do not have enough material to accomplish this, you might be able to purchase what is required from the ship’s Buy/Sell Kiosk. Otherwise, you can complete this later on, once you found/bought enough materials.

• Talk to Liam in his room on the Tempest

Peebee: Secret Project

• Check your email from Peebee

Acknowledge Peebee's message, "Rem-Tech" to initiate her Loyalty mission arc.

Priority Ops – A Trail of Hope

• Go to either Havarl or Voeld

VOELD - Meet the Resistance – RECOMMENDED for Walkthrough efficiency

OR

HAVARL - Helping Havarl’s Scientists

The choice doesn’t really matter, as the other mission will become a Heleus Assignment instead of a Priority Ops mission. However, for efficiency’s sake, Voeld should be your next destination.

REMINDER: You should work to complete most of the combat achievements as you explore the next two planets. Please refer to the General Hints & Tips page for details regarding the required skills and how to unlock each achievement. Exploration of both planets will provide ample opportunities to work towards these combat related achievement.

VOELD

Priority Ops - Meet the Resistance

• Travel to Voeld

NOTE: Voeld is a frozen world. The planet's surface suffers from freezing levels of cold which slowly drain health for both personnel and vehicles.

• Speak to Commander Do Xeel
• Speak to the lookouts

Priority Ops – On the Frontlines

NOTE: If you went to Havarl first, then this mission will be called Eyes on the Ground, and it will be a Heleus Assignment.

• Go to Hjara
• Speak to Skeat

After completing this mission and before moving on with the next, be sure to check out the Hidden Vault to the north.

Hidden Vault: This hidden structure lies directly north, a ways, from the Forward Station located just outside of Hjara. This location is called out while working on the last leg of Task: Subjugation, but that is a very time consuming task and is not required to access the vault. Inside the structure is a locked puzzle container at the south end of the underground facility. You will need to scan the two glyphs in the immediate area surrounding the chest, then solve the decryption puzzle. (3/20 Cryptographer)

Return to the planet's surface to continue.

Priority Ops –Stage a Rescue

• Reach kett holding site
• Rescue Niilj and other captured angara
• Clear remaining Kett
• Speak to Niilj

At this point, Jaal will notify you that Evfra is ready to talk. Respond with:

• “I’ll talk to Evfra now.” – Automatically fast travel to the Tempest
• “I’ll go to Technix first.” – Remain on Voeld and continue to explore (RECOMMENDED)

Progressing the story can wait. Since you are here, you might as well work towards reaching 100% viability.

VOELD – 100% VIABILITY

There is much to do on your path to 100% viability. The quickest way to reach 100% will be to activate the Forward Stations, restart the vault, and establish an outpost. These 3 items will put you over 75%, when paired with the various loyalty mission requirements or side missions called out in the text below, this will get you fairly close to 100%. You will still need to complete a few of the available side missions to put you over the 100% threshold, those will be up to you as there are too many to outline in the guide.

Peebee: Secret Project

• Recover the rem-tech from the Remnant site on Voeld

Find and scan the one glyph at the site, then solve the puzzle. (Cryptographer 4/20)

VOELD VAULT

Approach any of the three monoliths in the south-central section of the map to initiate the planet's vault mission. At each site, scan the glyphs and solve the puzzle to activate the monolith.

Restoring a World

• Activate monoliths [3/3]

Northern Monolith – (Cryptographer 5/20)

Eastern Monolith – (Cryptographer 6/20)

Western Monolith – (Cryptographer 7/20)

• Investigate vault entrance

NOTE: Inside the vault, the cold hazard is still present. You will need to travel between the safe zones to regenerate your shield and health.

• Activate emergency power

Once you make it to the main area inside, use the available consoles to activate pillars so you can reach the area to the North. One the other side of the door is a Remnant Destroyer and a locked console in the back of the room, which provides +2 skill points when decrypted (Cryptographer 8/20).

• Lift the vault lockdown
• Escape the purification field and exit the vault

NOTE: Once the Purification Console is activated, the environmental hazard is removed from the immediate area, and is significantly reduced on the planet's surface.

VOELD OUTPOST

Settling Voeld

• Find an outpost site
• Reach 40% viability on Voeld
• Create the outpost

With the Vault restarted, you now have the minimum viability needed to establish an Outpost. Reach the site location and activate the Outpost Beacon.

NOTE: Viable planets will offer several additional missions once the outpost has been established, including an Architect mission that awards 10% viability upon completion. This, like any of the other side missions, is completely optional. Therefore, you will need to decide which missions you want to complete in order to make up the remaining viability needed to reach the 100% threshold. I will not go into detail on the mission, but will include an outline of the mission objectives within the spoilers text to give you the option; simply for sake of viability earnings.

VOELD ARCHITECT – Optional

Missing Science Crew - This is automatically started once the outpost is established.

NOTE: You will be returning to Voeld a few times throughout the rest of your playthrough, so you don't necessarily have to reach 100% now, but it is strongly recommended to do so. Due to future mission requirements, be sure you reach at least 88% viability before leaving for the Tempest, which will guarantee you hit 100% later on.

While working towards, or even after, reaching 100% viability, I strongly recommend that you continue pursuing available tasks and missions. This will allow you to work on combat related achievements and the XP gains. Kett drop ships continue to bring in groups of enemies to sites all over the planet surface, until you complete Task: Clearing the Air. This provides ample opportunity to work towards these achievements; please reference the General Hints and Tips page for a specifics on those achievements.

Once you do reach 100% viability, you will only have four more planets to go. (All Clear 1/5)

With all the outlined tasks completed thus far, return to the Tempest when you are ready to continue.

TEMPEST

Cora Harper: Asari Ark

• Read email from Cora
• Speak to Cora on the Tempest

Priority Ops - A Trial of Hope

• Call Evfra from the Tempest’s meeting room

Jaal Ama Darav: Friend or Foe?

• Speak to Jaal on the Tempest

Gil Brodie Relationship -Speak to Gil, in Engineering. An email afterwards should initiate Gil Brodie: A Game of Poker, inviting you to a game at the Vortex; on Nexus. If you don’t get an email, you can show up anyway and still progress the mission.

Peebee: Secret Project

• Speak with Peebee in the Tempest escape pod

Avoid the story for now, instead go to the Nexus to progress a few ally/relationship missions.

NEXUS

Peebee: Secret Project

• Meet with Peebee in her Nexus apartment

Unlocks the Remnant VI skill.

Remnant VI: This Tech Skill allows you to summon a friendly Remnant Observer, which is similar to the Assault Turret skill. This skill is required for earning the Friendly Fire achievement, and will contribute towards the Mastermind achievement; saving you from having to invest in Assault Turret if you haven’t already. Refer to the General Hints and Tips page for specifics.

Gil Brodie Relationship - Gil Brodie: A Game of Poker (even if you don’t have this mission, as long as you talked about poker you can show up at the location to find Gil)

• Meet Gil at the Vortex

Task: Path of a Hero

• Meet Keri
• Speak with Keri about events on Eos.

With the above missions complete, return to the Tempest and travel to Havarl.

HAVARL

NOTE: Unlike most other planets, this one does not have an environmental hazard. However, you are not able to use the Nomad while exploring.

If you choose Havarl first, instead of Voeld, then the following mission with be a Priority Ops mission instead of a Heleus Assignments mission.

Helping Havarl's Scientists

• Travel to Havarl
• Make contact with the scientists at Pelaav
• Help the researchers who are trapped at the monolith

Scan the glyphs at the south Monolith and complete the decryption (Cryptographer 9/20).

• Return to Kirran Dals

NOTE: If this was the Priority Ops mission, completion of this objective is when Jaal will inform you Evfra is ready to talk. You would want to immediately return to the Tempest and speak to Evfra, as some of the following missions outlined below are not be available until returning to the planet after receiving his approval.

HAVARL VIABILITY

A Dying Planet

• Talk to Kiiran Dals about Havarl’s problems

NOTE: Havarl is unique in that two of the three monoliths are already activated, but the location of the third has been lost.

Jaal Ama Darav: Friend or Foe?

• Find Thaldyr on Havarl then
• Defeat the kett
• Enter Thaldyr’s home
• Speak to Thaldyr

Avela Kjar Relationship: AYA - Recovering the Past -

• Locate the ancient crash site on Havarl
• Investigate the crash site

A Dying Planet

• Find the entrance to Mithrava, the sanctuary
• Reach the top of Mithrava

NOTE: Be sure to activate the Forward Station nearby, so you can fast travel back for side missions.

• Go to the location Esmus mentioned
• Locate Zorai’s heirloom

Enter the Remnant structure and descend into the Remnant Abyss to track down the item.

REMINDER: This area contains most of the Remnant needed for the Friendly Fire achievement; all except the Architect. Once activated, tap the assigned button to “tag” an enemy for the construct to attack. Tag each Remnant subtype: Breacher, Assembler, Observer, Nullifier, and Destroyer. This will leave you with just the Architect to be marked. You will also need to allow your construct to kill 100 enemies for the Mastermind achievement, so here is your reminder to use the skill frequently.

• Go to Taavos’ Roekaar camp
• Defeat the Roekaar at their camp
• Find Taavos

• Meet Taavos at the entrance to the lost monolith
• Accompany Taavos to the monolith
• Examine the remains
• Continue with Taavos to the monolith
• Activate Havarl’s third monolith
• Find and activate Havarl’s vault

Reach the waypoint in the southern section of the Ancient Courtyard, and enter the vault.

HAVARL VAULT

• Turn on emergency power
• Lift the lockdown on the vault

NOTE: Activate the consoles according to the number of lights that pop up around them, 1, 2, 3, then 4.

Cryptographer Device - Once inside the main chamber, DO NOT activate the marked console. Instead, continue to the other side of the room to find another Remnant Console. This one is locked with a decryption puzzle, no glyphs need to be scanned. (Cryptographer 10/20)

Now you can activate the marked Purification Console on the other side.

• Escape the purification field and exit the vault
• Return to Kiiran Dals

HAVARL OUTPOST

There is nothing really directing on what to do next, but once A Dying Planet is completed, you will need to return to the Tempest. Once on board, check your email and acknowledge “Havarl: Science Team Deployment” which initiates Cross-Cultural Alliances. Return to Havarl.

Cross-Cultural Alliances

• Contact Director Addison from Havarl

Hidden Cryptographer Device: Now that the vault is restarted and the Initiative has arrived, you can access a previously unobtainable Cryptographer device. There is a cave located along the southern edge of map, between the Forward Stations in Pelaav Research Station and Central Wilds. The tiny cave contains is a single Roekaar and a Remnant Console. Activating this console will extend ledges along a tower, to the east. Use these platforms to jump to the top and activate another console. Follow the beam to the next tower (west), and ascend to reach a Gravity Well. This will transport you across to another tower that holds the locked console, no glyphs required. (Cryptographer 10/20)

All that is left to do is be sure to reach 100% viability, before you return to Voeld to continue the main story. (All Clear 2/5)

VOELD

Priority Ops - A Trail of Hope

• Meet the Resistance on Voeld in the Nol System

Locate Commander Heckt at the West side of the Angaran Resistance Base, and speak with the Resistance Pilot next to him to travel to the new location.

CHAPTER 5: MOSHAE

KETT FACILITY

NOTE: This area is independent of the planet surface. When you are done here, there is no coming back.

This area is fairly linear so you shouldn’t have any trouble figuring out where to go.

• Infiltrate the Kett facility
• Enter facility through the vent
• Talk to the Resistance squad
• Search for the Moshae
• Find out where the pods go
• Scan for the Moshae’s pod
• Interface with a nearby console
• Locate the Moshae’s pod
• Talk to Jaal
• Chase the Kett Cardinal
• Defeat the Kett Cardinal

NOTE: The Cardinal is a boss variant of the kett Ascendant. These enemies are shielded from damage until you destroy the Orb.

• Talk to the Moshae

NOTE: This conversation will give you a choice between two options. The choice is rather irrelevant, as there are only minor dialogue differences with Jaal and Moshae depending on the outcome.

• Escort the Moshae to the edge of the roof
• Hold out for the shuttle extraction
• Reach the shuttle

TEMPEST

You will automatically be back on the Tempest following the events at the Kett Facility.

Relationships/Flirting - It is common once the chapter advances, or after you return from embarking on a Priority Ops Mission, that crew members will have something to say about the events that transpired on mission. This usually provides you with an additional opportunity to flirt during any dialogue exchanges. Be sure to follow up with any of your potential romantic partners to further develop that relationship.

Peebee: The Museum Trip

• Read email from Peebee

Acknowledge the email "Ay-Ay-Aya" from Peebee.

Liam Kosta - Speak to Liam until you receive the missionLiam Kosta: Day out on Aya(Armor Diplomacy must be complete for this to begin).

If playing as Sara:

On the bridge, Suvi and Kallo will inform you that the Eos is thriving, since radiation levels have decreased. This opens up the rest of the planet’s surface for exploration, which we will do later on. For now, your next stop should be Ayato progress the story.

AYA

Priority Ops – A Trail of Hope

• Return with the Moshae to Aya
• Take the shuttle to the Aya vault

Liam Kosta: Day out on Aya

• Talk to Liam at the Tavetaan on Aya
• Scan the hostile vendor’s goods
• Talk to Liam at the Tavetaan

Avela Kjar Relationship - AYA - Recovering the Past

• Return the relic to Avela on Aya

Peebee: The Museum Trip

• Talk with Peebee at the museum on Aya

NOTE: Peebee will be here, regardless of acknowledging the email, as long as you met at her apartment on Nexus during

Priority Ops – A Trail of Hope

• Meet Evfra at the Resistance HQ

Once the conversation ends, the mission is complete.

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