Mass Effect: Andromeda guide and walkthrough

Welcome to Mass Effect: Andromeda. You’ve been in cryosleep for 600 years, and it’s time to go claim your new home in the Heleus cluster. Certainly, everything is going to go exactly according to plan, and nothing could possibly go wrong.

In Polygon’s Mass Effect: Andromeda guide, we’ll teach you everything you need to know to understand BioWare’s sci-fi role-playing game with tips, mission walkthroughs and more.

Mass Effect: Andromeda basics

• Squad-building guide: How to decide who to take with you
• The lore of Mass Effect: A complete guide
• Mass Effect: Andromeda: 11 things you should know
• Mass Effect: Andromeda beginner’s guide
• Mass Effect: Andromeda romance guide
• Mass Effect: Andromeda multiplayer guide
• How to manage missions, read the map and work the tram
• How to solve remnant decryption puzzles
• Mass Effect: Andromeda's characters have a lot more to say — and it’s easy to miss
• What about the other races and the quarian ark?
• How about the Illusive Man?
• Minerals and where to find them

Understanding Mass Effect: Andromeda’s side missions

• What you need to know about Mass Effect: Andromeda’s overwhelming side missions
• Switching priorities and exploring side missions
• Finding side missions (and reading email)

Armor, weapons, vehicles, consumables and upgrades

• How to change your armor
• How to get the N7 armor (and why you might not care)
• How to re-spec your character in Mass Effect: Andromeda
• How to use consumables in Mass Effect: Andromeda
• Understanding Mass Effect: Andromeda’s armor, gear and vehicle upgrades

Controlling Mass Effect: Andromeda

• How to use the tram controls
• Classes, profiles and skill trees

Building the strongest team for Mass: Effect Andromeda’s final battle

• How to build the strongest team for the final battle
• Know your Enemy
• Dissension in the Ranks
• Truth and Trespass
• High Noon
• Turian Ark: Lost But Not Forgotten
• Uncovering the Past

Main missions and task mission walkthroughs

• Planetside
• A Better Beginning
• A Trail of Hope
• Hunting the Archon
• The Journey to Meridian priority op
• Meridian: The Way Home
• How to build the strongest team for the final battle
• Mass Effect: Andromeda endings

Heleus assignment walkthroughs

• Station Sabotage
• Turian Salvage
• Forgotten Stars
• A Dying Planet
• Contagion
• Restoring a World
• Taming a Desert
• Healing Kadara’s Heart
• Movie Night Heleus assignment
• From the Dust
• The Remnant Tiller
• Meet the Family
• Remove the Heart
• Uncovering the Past
• Life on the Frontier
• Murder in Kadara Port
• A People Divided
• Precious Cargo
• Modern Medicine
• Behind Enemy Lines
• Night on the Town
• High Noon
• Modern Medicine
• Making an Impression
• Missing Science Crew
• Old Skinner
• Architect on Elaaden
• Overgrown
• Safe Journeys

Additional task walkthroughs

• Getting to know the Nexus
• Lost Brother
• Frequency
• Ghost of Promise
• Little Mouse
• The Lost Scout
• The Lost Song
• Unearthed

Allies and relationship mission walkthroughs

• Turian Ark: Not Dead Yet
• Turian Ark: Lost But Not Forgotten
• Peebee’s loyalty missions
• Cora’s loyalty missions
• Drack’s loyalty missions
• Vetra’s loyalty mission
• Jaal’s loyalty missions
• Liam’s loyalty missions
• Dissension in the Ranks
• Truth and Trespass