It's completely hyperbolic, we now have a new thread on a conspiracy about ea and the development team
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Mass Effect: Andromeda - EA/Origin Access trial coming March 16th - 10 hour trial
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It's completely hyperbolic, we now have a new thread on a conspiracy about ea and the development team
wesleyshark
Banned
There's also a thread for showing off your Ryder or your Monster if you want. Some folks are sharing their exact settings manually in there as well.
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1352813
This is something I've read many times on here and other places. It seems like a lot of people are rushing to judge the game by what they experience in the first couple of hours. I'm not saying we should dismiss it (after all, first impressions are important) but this definitely appears to be one of those games that takes a while to win people over. I'll be curious to see if the professional reviewers echo this sentiment.
masterkajo
Member
Sounds good that you have a lot of choice. But do these choices matter in the end? Is there a consequence of building one outpost over the other story wise? Or at least gameplay wise?
KyleOnTheRun
Member
Story wise, it changed some conversations following my choice.
Gameplay wise, not sure. I didn't re-make the choice to see if there were different side quests that opened up.
thepenguin55
Member
So after putting some time into this game I really like. That's not to say that this game doesn't have problems cause it does have some major ones like:
- The galaxy map just flat out sucks in this game
- Beards in this game don't look great
- The captain you encounter early in the game (whose name slips my mind) is a real triple threat. She's the worst looking character I've seen, the worst written character I've encountered and she gives the worst performance I've heard so far. On top of all of that she's a dick:
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The animation stuff kind of got a bit overblown (or at least it seems that way to me). Yes that previously mentioned captain looks insane then there's that scene where the captain disappears and then later in that same scene Cora does her Vince McMahon strut but outside of that stuff a lot of what I've been seeing in threads either didn't look weird to me in context or I simply didn't encounter the same animation problems most did. Not to say that there isn't bad stuff in there but I haven't really encountered any of it.
Despite these problems I'm really enjoying it so far. While I was generally more positive on ME3 than most I always felt that game's story was sloppy so while this may be a low bar the story of Andromeda has my interest in a way that ME3 never quite grabbed me.
- The galaxy map just flat out sucks in this game
- Beards in this game don't look great
- The captain you encounter early in the game (whose name slips my mind) is a real triple threat. She's the worst looking character I've seen, the worst written character I've encountered and she gives the worst performance I've heard so far. On top of all of that she's a dick:
The animation stuff kind of got a bit overblown (or at least it seems that way to me). Yes that previously mentioned captain looks insane then there's that scene where the captain disappears and then later in that same scene Cora does her Vince McMahon strut but outside of that stuff a lot of what I've been seeing in threads either didn't look weird to me in context or I simply didn't encounter the same animation problems most did. Not to say that there isn't bad stuff in there but I haven't really encountered any of it.
Despite these problems I'm really enjoying it so far. While I was generally more positive on ME3 than most I always felt that game's story was sloppy so while this may be a low bar the story of Andromeda has my interest in a way that ME3 never quite grabbed me.
Skyr
Member
So after putting some time into this game I really like. That's not to say that this game doesn't have problems cause it does have some major ones like:
- The galaxy map just flat out sucks in this game
- Beards in this game don't look great
- The captain you encounter early in the game (whose name slips my mind) is a real triple threat. She's the worst looking character I've seen, the worst written character I've encountered and she gives the worst performance I've heard so far. On top of all of that she's a dick:
The animation stuff kind of got a bit overblown (or at least it seems that way to me). Yes that previously mentioned captain looks insane then there's that scene where the captain disappears and then later in that same scene Cora does her Vince McMahon strut but outside of that stuff a lot of what I've been seeing in threads either didn't look weird to me in context or I simply didn't encounter the same animation problems most did. Not to say that there isn't bad stuff in there but I haven't really encountered any of it.
Despite these problems I'm really enjoying it so far. While I was generally more positive on ME3 than most I always felt that game's story was sloppy so while this may be a low bar the story of Andromeda has my interest in a way that ME3 never quite grabbed me.
I still think that we might see a plottwist which uncovers that some of the npc's are androids.
Maybe Geth in human form?!?!?!
Else this is inexcusable.
MosquitoSmasher
Member
Anyone else really enjoyed Habitat 7? In my first play session I went straight for the main quest but in my second I decided to explore every nook and cranny and discovered several things. Nothing big but interesting alien structures of which one was open.
Does anyone know if those other alien structures can be opened? It said offline when I scanned them.
Does anyone know if those other alien structures can be opened? It said offline when I scanned them.
Royal_Phalanx
Member
The Director is a cerberus synthetic confirmed. For all the ridiculous hyperbole out there her lines ARE terrible, I can't look past that at all, if there's an option to let her get killed I expect it to be very popular
I only watched Angry Joe stream it but I thought it looked like an awesome prologue.
I'm guessing low 8's. Good scores, but below expectations for the franchise.
Royal_Phalanx
Member
Angry Joe seems to like the game so far.
MosquitoSmasher
Member
Can you tell us how the missions in general are? In the trial we only get to scan glyphs and activate a terminal with a puzzle, shoot baddies and go to a door and it's over. Is there a good variety in the missions so far in those 40 hours?
texhnolyze
Banned
He's definitely deluded. Like all others.
He gushed over DA:I, so I'll take his opinion on it with a pinch of salt personally.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Yeah, there was some great stuff, especially on Insanity where you really felt the pressure while exploring. Wish I hadn't rushed to Alec after that big fight, but I got caught up in it.
I think we might go back there at some point, so we can finish prying open this structures.
Is this sarcasm or are people not allowed to have opinions anymore?
wesleyshark
Banned
Hopefully that's sarcasm.
MosquitoSmasher
Member
Yep, good point. Would be nice to revisit and check out new stuff there.
I sure hope it gets better after Eos when the prologue planet is already a whole lot more interesting. Would be weird for the game to go downhill that fast. That Forbes article made it sound like the writer had seen more planets and he specifically mentioned Eos several times about how that planet gives the wrong impression of the game. That makes me hopeful.
crazepharmacist
Member
I feel dumb but I'm stuck
I can't override it either because it seems I need a certain item to do so.
trying to decrypt a remnant by assigning glyph's to the grid. "No row, column, or highlighted shape can have repeats of the same glyph." Yeah, pretty sure I'm fulfilling that requirement but I'm failing every time.
wesleyshark
Banned
You can find override keys in random loot containers (found one on Habitat 7),
but the puzzle is exactly that.. You can't have a symbol repeat in a row or column. There's 4 different symbols, so each row and column has to have one of each.
crazepharmacist
Member
Ah, thank you. I figured out what I was doing wrong.
Can't believe the trial ends shortly after that point. Bummer.
Guess I'll hit up the multiplayer.
You're thinking of CDPR.
diamondstar
Member
ME history: Loved ME. Mixed feeling about ME2(hated the combat but loved the characters and their stories). Disliked ME3.
I've been very skpetical about this game because of all the tainited history, terrible marketing and GAF impressions. With that said, I played the game last night and I'm fully invested in what they are selling. I love everything thus far. The only marketing video that captures my interest was the exploration one. I love the story of being thrown right into the chaos and everything is unknown.
Amazing game for me and I will buy day one. I may be in the minority but the EA Access helped my decision to buy the game instead of hurt it.
I've been very skpetical about this game because of all the tainited history, terrible marketing and GAF impressions. With that said, I played the game last night and I'm fully invested in what they are selling. I love everything thus far. The only marketing video that captures my interest was the exploration one. I love the story of being thrown right into the chaos and everything is unknown.
Amazing game for me and I will buy day one. I may be in the minority but the EA Access helped my decision to buy the game instead of hurt it.
As someone who's only played ME1 (and enjoyed the story), how is ME:A looking? I believe I heard that it's not necessary to play the entire trilogy before ME:A but I'm sure it would help me recognize nostalgic references and improve the enjoyment I get out of it. Can anyone who's played the early access give me their thoughts from this perspective?
Combat is pretty great (although enemies after damage sponges on higher difficulties and cover is flaky). The charged melee attack is gone, but there are more melee skill/stat modifiers and a jumping ground slam replaces the running charged melee attack of ME3.
In the demo, there's very little combat. Probably 70% walking/driving/flying/menus, 20% conversations, and 10% combat (mostly in the prologue planet).
There are effectively no story ties to the original trilogy, but the background of the various alien species and humanity definitely comes into play. Beyond that there are a few voice logs from Liara (regarding discoveries in general) and collectable models of some ships from the original series. Some weapons/names/concepts carry over as well.
If you played only the first you're good.
Within the access, there's no mention of progress made from Shepard's adventures.
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
Some of the lip syncing in HZD is so bad, it totally takes me out of the adventure. Aloy is done really, really well....but they must have put 95% of the effort into her, and the other 5% got shared about the HZD NPCs...some of them are very bad.
At least the lip sync is on point in Andromeda, that's a definite plus: I actually care more about that than expressive facial tones anyway, so I guess I'm lucky in that respect.
The Dark Shape
Neo Member
I just made sure before work: there is no option on PS4 Pro to choose between smoother 1080p performance and 4K checkerboard rendering. I manually set the Pro to 1080p, but it didn't make any performance improvements to my eyes.
I am getting really tired of this argument I keep seeing that everyone bashing the game wanted to hate it from the get go and are just looking for excuses.
I really love Mass Effect. ME2 is one of my favorite games of all time. Since its announcement I've been cautiously optimistic about Andromeda.
I've played about an hour of the ME:A trial and I'm pretty sure I'm at the end of the intro mission and I can honestly say I'm disappointed.
Everyone has talked about the animations but it's more than that. The dialogue sounds unnatural and stilted. The story so far has been insanely predictable and generic - is it really so shocking that another alien species colonized a planet within 600 years? The justifications they come up with for murdering an unknown alien species feel so forced that it would've been better if they just didn't bring it up.
The combat is mostly pretty solid. I really like the new mobility stuff. But the guns feel like pea shooters, which is frustrating. I wish the weapons felt like they had any real impact to them.
I know Bioware games generally don't have the best intros (ME1 comes to mind) so I'll at least play to the second planet but first impressions are important, and ME:A's first impression isn't great.
I'm not looking for an excuse to hate the game. I want to enjoy it. But I don't. If you're enjoying it, then cool! Good for you. If you play ME for the combat then there's a lot to like. But I was really holding out for the story and atmosphere and I'm not sold on either yet.
I really love Mass Effect. ME2 is one of my favorite games of all time. Since its announcement I've been cautiously optimistic about Andromeda.
I've played about an hour of the ME:A trial and I'm pretty sure I'm at the end of the intro mission and I can honestly say I'm disappointed.
Everyone has talked about the animations but it's more than that. The dialogue sounds unnatural and stilted. The story so far has been insanely predictable and generic - is it really so shocking that another alien species colonized a planet within 600 years? The justifications they come up with for murdering an unknown alien species feel so forced that it would've been better if they just didn't bring it up.
The combat is mostly pretty solid. I really like the new mobility stuff. But the guns feel like pea shooters, which is frustrating. I wish the weapons felt like they had any real impact to them.
I know Bioware games generally don't have the best intros (ME1 comes to mind) so I'll at least play to the second planet but first impressions are important, and ME:A's first impression isn't great.
I'm not looking for an excuse to hate the game. I want to enjoy it. But I don't. If you're enjoying it, then cool! Good for you. If you play ME for the combat then there's a lot to like. But I was really holding out for the story and atmosphere and I'm not sold on either yet.
wesleyshark
Banned
Yes. This. Lip sync is huge for me.
I'd agree the opening hour or 2 feels stilted and underwhelming in ways but I still liked it. Once the game gets to the Nexus and you do side quests talking to everyone, reading details, and explore the planet it really started to feel like Mass Effect. Definitely should keep going to the end of the trial and it might turn around for you. I'm itching for the release date because I can't wait for unhindered exploration and to really play around with all of the abilities. Also because my trial ended :/
How has load times been for people entering and exiting the game, and loading different game modes?
I've only booted up the trial three times and the the different load times have been wildly different. First time boot after download took like 5 minutes to get to the main menu, then another 3 minutes to get to character creation. Next day loaded up in less then 1 minute to get to the main menu and about 30 seconds to load my save. Tried again yesterday to just jump in to get screen shots of my ryder for the ryder family thread and it took soo long that once it loaded in i just closed the game.
Seems inconsistent on my end, maybe related to some kind of server ping it has to hit before reaching the menus?
I've only booted up the trial three times and the the different load times have been wildly different. First time boot after download took like 5 minutes to get to the main menu, then another 3 minutes to get to character creation. Next day loaded up in less then 1 minute to get to the main menu and about 30 seconds to load my save. Tried again yesterday to just jump in to get screen shots of my ryder for the ryder family thread and it took soo long that once it loaded in i just closed the game.
Seems inconsistent on my end, maybe related to some kind of server ping it has to hit before reaching the menus?
Mechanized
Member
Aside from some questionable animations, this game is goddamn great! Gonna buy it tomorrow.
Also I would like to recommend everyone playing Fem Ryder to use custom appearance head one. The asian one. Make the lip size a bit smaller. Blonde ponytail for radness. She looks a million times better than the default.
Also I would like to recommend everyone playing Fem Ryder to use custom appearance head one. The asian one. Make the lip size a bit smaller. Blonde ponytail for radness. She looks a million times better than the default.
yankeehater
Member
The multiplayer is fantastic the game should review great based on that alone.
cripterion
Member
This is just not true.
Some npc's look better and are as detailed as Aloy if not more, c'mon.
Oh hell no, shit looks like they're voiced ventriloquist dummies. With lip syncing of an old dubbed Japanese Godzilla movies.
Dre_G_Writer
Member
HOLY SHIT!!! That multiplayer is something FIERCE! I blew my entire ten hours on multiplayer alone and im hooked. I couldnt get enough of that shit, so much, that I think I may start another origin account, buy another origin access and play some more, even knowing that none of that progress will carry over since it's on another account.
Shit is that good to me. The game runs like butter at the smoothest frames and never dropping below 60 on my high end rig. Got a GTX 1080 with a i7 processor, so ultra everything.
I can't fucking wait till the game is released on tuesday.
Shit is that good to me. The game runs like butter at the smoothest frames and never dropping below 60 on my high end rig. Got a GTX 1080 with a i7 processor, so ultra everything.
I can't fucking wait till the game is released on tuesday.
Lan Dong Mik
And why would I want them?
I disagree completely. HZD has some of the best looking and animated NPCs I've ever seen in a game.
I'm having fun with Andromeda though. I mean, facial animations aside, this game looks very nice and the gameplay has been awesome, so far. I'm like 2-3 hours in.
GasProblem
Member
I just hope the frame rate doesn't get too bad on later planets on the OG PS4. That's my only worry, performance. I know I'll enjoy the game itself. I can deal with 25 fps during intense battles but I saw it drop to 20 fps on the Xbox One during a fight in the desert. What is it going to drop to during a fight in say the jungle planet?
Still really looking forward to this. Going get 100% viability on every planet. And mess around in multiplayer.
Still really looking forward to this. Going get 100% viability on every planet. And mess around in multiplayer.
cripterion
Member
Once again re-read what I said, he claimed 95% went into Aloy, the MC. I know the lipsync is off in Horizon, I've said it too.