Video Game Romance

I guess I'm a unicorn by saying that I absolutely love The Technomancer. I can't get my mind off of it and the romance with Andrew. It's one of a few games that has done this to me and I care so much for.
I'd be totally biased in saying you should definitely give it another chance!!!
I played through the game on normal as a warrior with some of the Techomancer tree as well. The staff has great range and can hurt multiple enemies at once as well as stun them and knock them down.
My advice? Learn to dodge, don't be afraid to use your items, use the pause wheel if needed to plan your moves, and work on crafting and upgrading your weapons and equipment as well as those of your companions.
You get more than enough serum in the game to buy more health items and components for crafting. Crafting in this game is much simpler (and better) than what BioWare does.
Using traps when you are outnumbered CAN save your life and prevents a lot of frustration. Don't be afraid to use them. I must've had a million stockpiled by the end of the game, and they were VERY generous woth that stuff in boxes at the end.
With enough practice, you will be able to master the combat system and it can be very fun.
Also....Andrew is totally amazing!
He won't dethrone Jaal, but I think you will like him.
Davrin's boobs Just in case you need some tips as well.

@lukensen Your Zach is very handsome!

As person that prefer to play as woman (when there's no romance involved) since I was a little kid (Lara Croft is my goddess, Leon? fuck you, I have Claire, Ryu? nop I have Chun-Li, etc) because I've never identified myself with the male characters, I think it's fair to give Spiders -which is a small company- some slack in this matter only for the m/m romance, it tells a lot about this company that they are not thinking mainly about dudebros, we all know how difficult it is having m/m in a videogame in this awful industry. It sucks? Yes, I think I said something like this in this thread, but I dont know... If this game would have been produced by an AAA company I would be pissed, but being a small company and thinking about m/m players too only gives me good vibes about the company. With Greedfall letting you be male or female character I'm expecting great things! I'm even more confindent that I'm with Bioware at this point, I hope they wont prove me wrong.

Andrew Mancer thank you! I'll keep these tips when I play the game in september or so  I have so many games to play XD My sister bought Life is Strange and The Last of Us months ago, and I havent played those yet!

Thanks for sharing this.  I was afraid I was the only noob that just didn't get how to win at this game.  Honestly for me I felt like I was forever getting shot by people that were not even on the screen cause of the shit camera angles I didn't even know those shooters existed.  sigh...so I was just like "How do I dodge what I don't know exists? " 

Look I get it, Spiders is showing some good signs. But telling me I should give them slack for deciding women are a 'nice to have' and buy their game anyway, is like telling someone to suck it up a buy MEA for the Gil romance, cos even though it's a bit rubbish at least it is there and Bioware is one of the few devs to do gay romance, so you have to support them.

Spiders have shown they are completely onboard with m/m romance which is fantastic but they also said women are an optional extra in their game, somthing that can be easily cut out for budget reasons. So even though Greedfall currently has both male & female protagonists, from their comments about Technomancer they could decide to cut that out again if the run into delays or start to go over budget. 

And look, I'm not trying to ruining anyones enjoyment of the game, as I have said multiple times, it is fantastic that there is a m/m romance and I love reading all of you discuss how much you like it. It just stings a bit to be told I should buy a game from devs who seem to consider a female protag an easily cut extra just because they are a small dev and they did think about adding one, so that is almost as good as adding one and they need the money. 

Greedfall looks good and if they keep both male & female protagonists, they'll get my money but I'm not going to buy a game I'm already disappointed in just for the hope that Greedfall will continue to have a male & female protagonist.

That is different. Those games were designed to have a set character of set gender.  Crystal Dynamics never said 'oh we wanted to give a gender option but we ran out of money' They said 'this is Tomb Raider, Lara Croft is the protag'

Dontnod wanted to make a game about teenage girl so they did, now they are making on about a male Vampire. Fans of Dontnod can of course express their disappointment that after 2 female led games, they are now doing a male led one, challenge their thinking on it and highlight how few female led games there still are, but regardless of their logic behind doing so, their original idea for the game was to have a male led. 

Spiders wanted to have both genders, they even began to design the game with two genders (potentially the reason why there is m/m romances is because they had begun to design romances for both & then once the cut happened it was just as easy to leave all the romance options in, rather than cut out the male ones too) and then cut out that option, like it was unimportant.  And that is their decision, they only have so much budget and they have to design what to put in and what to cut out but that doesn't mean I should be happy with the fact that they thought of it and buy the game so they have a bigger budget for Greedfall. 

Believe you me, I am the first person to complain when a new game gets released and it's protag is just another generic brown hair guy, even if that was the vision for the game but it is different when a company actively decides against having a female protag, not because of the story or the vision of the game, but because of budget or 'risk'.

I mean if they only had budget for one protag, why cut the female one and not the male one? As far as I can see from comments about the game, there would be no difference to it if Zachariah were a woman. The fact that they did that indicates they think of male as the default gender for a protagonist, which is a big problem in the game industry (in media in general really) that I don't feel like rewarding.

I'm not telling to do anything, I'm just stating that for me is not all black and white and Spiders is a small company so it's not like Bioware/EA, and with Greedfall in the horizon they have shown that they care when they have the money. It's true that the could have chosen a female main character instead of a male character, but with the m/m romance included, they have proven me that they care not only for dudebros, just that. It's like Prey, the female Morgan another set protagonist has a s/s LI, I'd rather be happy for that instead of be sad and mad about how male Morgan is another cis-het hero (I'm debating to put the game on my list to buy for fem!Morgan, but I hate FPS with passion ). I dont know, I think it's unfair putting Spiders in the same bag as Bioware that they have proven with DAI that they can do it better than MEA, but Spiders is slowly growing, and I hope Greedfall is super great!

God I hope so! I hope they can keep that promise, I dont know if I would buy the game if they ditch the female protagonist even if there were m/m LIs after promising that... I'm super nervous because I'm hoping that Spiders surpass Bioware with lgbtq content lol .... I'm naive I know   that's hard though, because Bioware has a record already, but not all is great... I think it's the thought of Spiders being an independent french company that makes me think this.

I didn't follow Technomancer's development. Did they originally announce it would have both female and male PC and then they changed it, or was it never publicized as having an option, and only after release they explain that they had to cut female PC during development? Because if the latter, then it's probably a good chance they can't scale back Greedfall and remove a female PC after having already advertised that as a feature. People would justifiably be very upset and it would be bad publicity if they remove female PC option after everyone thinks it will be in the game.

I just wish Technomancer had a narrative mode. Anywho, I will try it again soon. I have a feeling if I find a build that works for me (even if it's one that doesn't seem great to everyone else) it will make the game easier.