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Contents

  • Architect Encounters
    • Overview
    • General Phase Flowchart
    • Eos Architect Details
    • Voeld Architect Details
    • Kadara Architect Details
    • Elaaden Architect Details
  • Changelog
    • Updates
  • Developer Interviews and Concept Art
    • John Ebenger (Cinematic Designer)
    • Jessica Hara Campbell (Level Designer)
    • Jill Harrington (Technical Animator)
    • Joanna Erbach (Technical Artist)
    • Blair Brown (Associate Producer)
    • Colin Campbell (Level Designer)
    • Jason Richardson (Gameplay Designer)
    • Alec Antrim (Chief Architect)
    • Billy Buskel (Associate Producer on MP)
    • Charles Adcock (Development Director)
    • Jos Hendriks (Level Designer)
    • Daniel Torres (Graphics Programmer)
    • Dean Andersen (Studio Creative Manager)
    • Karine Marecki (Quality Assurance Team Lead)
    • Skyler Dawson (Software Developer)
  • Inventory
    • Weapons
      • Research & Development
      • Guns Overview
      • Assault Rifles
      • Pistols
      • Shotguns
      • Sniper Rifles
      • Melee Weapons
    • Armor
      • Overview
      • Helmet
      • Chest
      • Legs
      • Arms
    • Augmentations and Resources
      • Augmentations
      • Consumables
      • Resources
  • Introduction
    • Foreword
    • Welcome to Mass Effect
    • Milky Way Species
    • Mass Effect Trilogy and Andromeda Timeline
    • Ryder Family History
    • Andromeda Initiative
    • The Squad
      • Liam Kosta
      • Lieutenant Cora Harper
      • Vetra Nyx
      • Pelessaria B’Sayle (Peebee)
      • Nakmor Drack
      • Jaal
  • Game Mechanics
    • Basics
    • Game Mechanics Glossary
      • About the Glossary
      • AVP (Andromeda Viability Points)
      • APEX & Strike Teams
      • Augmentations
      • Codex
      • Containers
      • Credits
      • Crew Info Board
      • Cryo Pod Perks (AVP Status Control)
      • Deconstruction
      • Emails
      • Forward Stations
      • Fusion Mods
      • Galaxy Map
      • Hazards (Global)
      • Hazards (Local)
      • Heleus News Service
      • Journal
      • Level (Player Level)
      • Mining
      • New Game+
      • Nexus Level
      • Nomad
      • Outposts
      • Peripheral Information (Datapads, Information Walls, Terminals)
      • Remnant Decryption Puzzles (“Remdoku”)
      • Research and Development System
      • Re-Spec Station
      • Scanner
      • Tempest Trophies
      • Uncharted World (UNC)
      • Vendors
      • Viability
    • Combat Concepts
      • About Combat
      • Armor
      • Consumables
      • Difficulty (Single-Player Setting)
      • Enemy Defenses
      • Formulas and Calculations
      • Health and Shields
      • Miscellaneous Combat Tips
      • Weapon Mods
      • Powers
      • Profiles
      • Relative Difficulty (“Enemy Level Scaling”)
      • Ryder “Builds”
      • Squadmate Orders
      • Stats (Clarification of Terms)
      • Supply Crates (Ammo, Powers, Health)
      • Targeting
      • Weapons
    • Enemies
      • Enemy Categories
      • Kett
      • Remnant
      • Outlaws
      • Wildlife
  • Multiplayer
    • Multiplayer Basics
      • Overview
      • The HUD
      • Character Selection
      • Leveling Your Character
      • Skills/Powers
      • Character Customization
      • Enemy Groups
      • Combat
      • Strike Teams
      • Waves and Objectives
      • Store
    • Multiplayer Characters
      • Overview
      • Asari Multiplayer Characters
      • Human Multiplayer Characters
      • Krogan Multiplayer Characters
      • Salarian Multiplayer Characters
      • Turian Multiplayer Characters
    • Anagara Multiplayer Characters
    • Multiplayer Atlas
      • Overview
      • Firebase Zero
      • Firebase Sandstorm
      • Firebase Icebreaker
      • Firebase Derelict
      • Firebase Magma
    • Multiplayer Enemies
      • Overview
      • Kett
      • Outlaws
      • Remnant
    • Multiplayer Weapons
      • Overview
      • MP Assault Rifles
      • MP Pistols
      • MP Shotguns
      • MP Sniper Rifles
    • Multiplayer Skills and Powers
      • Overview
      • Biotic
      • Combat
      • Tech
    • Multiplayer Challenges
      • Multiplayer Challenges
      • General
      • Weapons
      • Enemies
    • Strike Team & APEX Missions
  • Interactive Maps
    • Heleus Cluster Map
    • UNC Maps
      • EOS
      • Voeld
      • Kadara
      • Elaaden
  • Secondary Ops
    • Overview
    • A Dying Planet
    • A Lost Sister
    • A Packaged Deal
    • A People Divided
    • Aid APEX
    • Architect on Elaaden
    • Aspirations
    • Behind Enemy Lines
    • Bridge Sabotage
    • Brought to Light
    • Conflict in the Colony
    • Contagion
    • Cora Harper: A Foundation
    • Cora Harper: Asari Ark
    • Cora Harper: At Duty’s Edge
    • Cora Harper: Duty Calls
    • Counting Bodies
    • Crisis Response
    • Cross-Cultural Alliances
    • Defeating the Kett
    • Dismantled
    • Dissension in the Ranks
    • Doesn’t Add Up
    • Elaaden: A New World
    • Emergency S.O.S.
    • End of Watch
    • Excess Baggage
    • Eyes on the Ground/On the Front Lines
    • Fact or Fiction
    • First Murderer
    • First Strike
    • Forgotten History
    • Forgotten Stars
    • Frequency
    • From the Dust
    • Gil Brodie: A Game of Poker
    • Gil Brodie: The Friend
    • Gone with the Wind
    • Gray Matter
    • H-047C: A New World
    • Hard Luck
    • Healing Kadara’s Heart/The Outlaw Monolith
    • Helping Havarl’s Scientists
    • High Noon
    • Intercepted
    • Investigate the Remnant Derelict
    • Jaal Ama Darav: Angaran Affection
    • Jaal Ama Darav: Friend or Foe?
    • Jaal Ama Darav: Runs in the Family
    • Jaal Ama Darav: Flesh and Blood
    • Kett’s Bane
    • Know Your Enemy
    • Lexi T’Perro: Bottom of a Bottle
    • Liam Kosta: All In
    • Liam Kosta: Armor Diplomacy
    • Liam Kosta: Community
    • Liam Kosta: Day Out on Aya
    • Liam Kosta: Outpost Worlds
    • Liam Kosta: Something for Us
    • Life on the Frontier
    • Making an Impression
    • Medical Caches
    • Meet the Family
    • Meet the Resistance
    • Mind Games
    • Missing Arks
    • Missing Science Crew
    • Mixed Messages
    • Modern Medicine
    • Movie Night: Better Snacks
    • Movie Night: Getting Started
    • Movie Night: Raise a Glass
    • Movie Night: Snacks
    • Movie Night: The Final Piece
    • Movie Night: The Right Setup
    • Murder in Kadara Port
    • Nakmor Drack: A Future for Our People
    • Nakmor Drack: Clutch Moment
    • Nakmor Drack: Firebreathing Thresher Maws
    • Nakmor Drack: How to Act Tough
    • Nakmor Drack: Knock ’Em Down
    • Nakmor Drack: Krogan Betrayal
    • Night on the Town
    • Old Skinner
    • Out of Gas
    • Out of the Frying Pan
    • Overgrown
    • Parlay with the Krogan
    • Peebee: A Mysterious Remnant Signal
    • Peebee: Reclaiming Poc
    • Peebee: Spirits
    • Peebee: The Museum Trip
    • Peebee’s Remnant Scanner
    • Peebee’s Secret Project
    • Precious Cargo
    • Recovering the Past
    • Reformation
    • Remove the Heart
    • Resistance Trap
    • Restoring a World
    • Rising Tensions
    • Ryder Family Secrets
    • Search for the Stolen Remnant Drive Core
    • Settling Elaaden
    • Settling Kadara
    • Settling Voeld
    • Shock Treatment
    • Sleeping Dragons
    • Something in the Water
    • Something Personnel
    • Stage a Rescue
    • Station Sabotage
    • Suvi Anwar: New Discoveries
    • Taming a Desert/Making This Dust Bowl Livable
    • Task: A Flower for Kesh
    • Task: An Exile Raid
    • Task: Beer Run
    • Task: Better Crafting
    • Task: Boosting the Signal
    • Task: Broken Family
    • Task: Broken Wires
    • Task: Cache Flow
    • Task: Catch and Release
    • Task: Clearing the Air
    • Task: Cold Hard Cache
    • Task: Comparatively Alien
    • Task: Cultivation
    • Task: Data Trail
    • Task: Drone Recovery
    • Task: Getting to Know the Nexus
    • Task: Gone Dark
    • Task: Herbal Entrepreneurs
    • Task: Hitting Rocks for Science
    • Task: Infection
    • Task: Investigating Embezzlement
    • Task: Kadara’s Ransom
    • Task: Laws and Customs
    • Task: Little Mouse
    • Task: Local Cuisine
    • Task: Lost Brother
    • Task: Messages to the Nexus
    • Task: Missing Scientists
    • Task: Naming the Dead
    • Task: Nomad Shield Crafting
    • Task: Outlaw Weapon Crafting
    • Task: Outpost Supplies on Elaaden
    • Task: Outpost Supplies on Eos
    • Task: Outpost Supplies on Kadara
    • Task: Outpost Supplies on Voeld
    • Task: Past, Present, and Future
    • Task: Path of a Hero
    • Task: Pathfinder Armor Crafting
    • Task: Programming a Pathfinder
    • Task: Remnant Data Cores
    • Task: Research Center Development
    • Task: Roekaar Manifestos
    • Task: Running a Fever
    • Task: Save Dr. Okeer’s Krogan Research
    • Task: Safe Journeys
    • Task: Searching for Morga
    • Task: Subjugation
    • Task: Supply Loss and Recovery
    • Task: Test Subject
    • Task: The Angaran Initiative
    • Task: The Ghost of Promise
    • Task: The Model of the Spheres
    • Task: The Nexus Exchange
    • Task: The Witnesses
    • Task: Traitor or Victim?
    • Task: Turian Salvage
    • Task: Unearthed
    • Task: Volatile
    • Task: Waking Up to the Future
    • Task: Watchers
    • Task: What He Would Have Wanted
    • The Baryte Rush
    • The Charlatan’s Charlatan
    • The Collective Base
    • The Firefighters
    • The Flophouse
    • The Little Things That Matter
    • The Lost Scout
    • The Lost Song
    • The Mind of an Exile
    • The Rebel
    • The Remnant Tiller
    • The Search for Ljeta
    • The Secret Project
    • The Vanished
    • The Vesaal
    • The Visitor
    • Trading Favors
    • Truth and Trespass
    • Turian Ark: Lost But Not Forgotten
    • Turian Ark: Not Dead Yet
    • Uncovering the Past
    • Vetra Nyx: A Moment Planetside
    • Vetra Nyx: Means and Ends
    • Water Supply
    • White Death
  • Achievements
    • Achievements and Trophies
  • Relationship Guide
    • Romance Options
    • Cora Harper
    • Peebee
    • Vetra
    • Liam
    • Jaal
    • Gil
    • Suvi
    • Avela
    • Reyes Vidal
    • Keri
  • Priority Ops
    • Starting the Game
    • Prologue: Hyperion
    • Mission 1: Planetside
    • Mission 2: A Better Beginning
    • Mission 3: A Trail of Hope
    • Mission 4: Hunting the Archon
    • Mission 5: The Journey to Meridian
    • Mission 6: Meridian–The Way Home
    • Summary of Key Choices
  • Exploring the Heleus Cluster
    • The Heleus Cluster
    • Heleus Cluster Navigation Tables
    • UNC Maps
      • Eos
      • Voeld
      • Kadara
      • Elaaden

Mass Effect: Andromeda Collector's Edition Guide › Multiplayer › Multiplayer Basics

Store

The store is your hub for unlocking weapons, weapon mods, consumables, characters, equipment, and boosters. Open packs to receive randomly awarded items, or buy equipment from the Item Store.

Currency

There are three types of currency in Mass Effect: Andromeda Multiplayer.

MP Credits: These are earned when you complete challenges and missions. You receive more credits for performing well on a mission.

Andromeda Points: This is the premium currency that can be purchased with real money and exchanged for advanced or higher packs. Note that anything available for purchase with Andromeda points can also be purchased with an alternate form of game currency.

Mission Funds: Strike team missions completed by a group of players award mission funds that can be used to upgrade and unlock additional strike teams. Mission funds can also be used in the Item Store to purchase equipment.

Card Packs

Cards for weapons, characters, consumables, boosters, and weapon mods are all acquired from packs. Six types of purchasable packs provide different chances of containing rarer cards, some guaranteeing at least one card of a certain rarity. All packs can be purchased with currency earned during gameplay, and some packs allow purchase through the use of Andromeda points, which can be bought with real money.

Supply Pack: Includes the Cobra RPG, First Aid Pack, Ammo Pack, and Revive Pack, as well as a random booster.

Basic Pack: Includes five random items or characters, with a small chance for an uncommon class.

Advanced Pack: Includes five random items or characters, with at least one uncommon class and a small chance for a rare class.

Expert Pack: Includes five random items or characters, with at least one rare class and a small chance for an ultra-rare class.

Premium Pack: Includes five random items or characters, with at least two rare classes and a greater chance for at least one ultra-rare class.

Free Reward Packs: Some are granted after finishing challenges.

Card Rarity

Each item acquired from card packs, with the exception of consumables, has a specific rarity rating that determines the likelihood of acquiring the card. Cards use a system of colors and diamonds. Each card displays a color and diamond count associated with the rarity. Booster rarity is determined by number and coin color.

Blue, no diamond—consumables and boosters
Bronze, one diamond—common
Silver, two diamonds—uncommon
Gold, three diamond—rare
N7 (white with red stripe), four diamonds—ultra-rare

Item Store

Looking to up your game with some equipment? The Item Store is the place for you! The Item Store is the only place where you can get equipment. Each piece of equipment switches every week.

Mission funds, acquired from playing strike team missions, are the only currency accepted here. Save up to buy a piece of equipment suited for your play style. For example, if you prefer biotic powers, save up for the Adaptive War Amp, which increases damage dealt by biotic powers.

Consumables can be purchased one at a time in the Item Store, although it’s recommended that you buy consumable packs to conserve your mission funds.

You can also purchase a Character Re-Spec in the Item Store, which allows you to reset your skill purchases for a specific character. You can then refocus their combat powers and skills in different ways.

Rewards

Reward packs earned from completing challenges are available in the Rewards tab.

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