10 Essential Tips For Actually Enjoying Mass Effect Andromeda

4. Put Research Points Into Mining So You Never Have To Do It Yourself

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The best weapons and armour in Mass Effect Andromeda can always be accessed early if you engage with the game's comprehensive crafting system. But that's easier said than done, because the crafting system is one of the most counter-intuitive mechanics that you'll come across in the whole game.

By scanning items in the world you can unlock three flavours of Research Points, which you use to buy blueprints for items that you then craft with resources that you collect while out exploring different planets.

Problem is, spending time mining for resources in Andromeda is something you never want to be doing manually.

Instead, you should be spending your upgrade points early on so the game does this for you, regularly sending you a steady income of minerals and materials so you never have to look for them yourself.

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