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[cripterion]

Might consider spoiler tagging that, brah.

I did it but it's been said and discussed several in this thread without spoilers.

Sorry, was upset, didn't mean to. Haven't played it yet. Didn't know that. Welp.

My bad.

 

[Gamezone]

Looks like this might be a good time to wait for Xbox Scorpio. It might solve the performance issues, while these stupid animations might get patched meanwhile. Please don't give me a Star Wars game with these animations.

 

[Caayn]

Just reached the end of the campaign in the trial version. Graphically I'm mostly bothered by the character faces.

How did the Nexus get in Andromeda? NPCs aren't afraid to talk about the Arks but no one seems to be willing to talk about how the Nexus got there.

Edit: Despite some of the major flaws I'm happy with the game and can't wait to continue. It's like ME1 where everything is a mystery again the planets, the wildlife, the planets, the KET, the Remnant which I'm extremely interested in.

Spoiler

I'm a sucker for space related things...

 

[A-V-B]

I did it but it's been said and discussed several in this thread without spoilers.

Eh. If it were me, I'd still consider keeping that kind of info spoiler tagged for a few weeks into playing. I mean it's not a detail that's revealed in the general overviews to non-players, so... feel like that should be respected.

 

[VlaudTheImpaler]

I did it but it's been said and discussed several in this thread without spoilers.

I don't care how many people didn't have any regard for others. I would have called them out on it as well if they had spoiled me. I only read peoples posts here because I see spoiler tags being used and figure that it's just common curtesy so it's safe. Yeah...

 

[FlutterPuffs]

For fucks sake accept that some people don't like how the story is presented and move along. Pathfinda this, pathfinda that.

Spoiler

Father lands on alien planet and instantly knows what to do but dies in the process giving you that stupid title that some players don't want to carry, then from there it's even more downhill as there is actually no emotional reaction to your father's passing

, everyone just pretty much gives a shit, enhanced by the bad dialogue and stupid facial animations.
I was considering a playthough with only the human characters, but I just can't stand Liam anymore with his pathfinder remarks, "it is ok cause we have pathfinda" I mean dude I'm right next to you, just fucking call me Ryder or Scott.

Spoiler about Horizon in the reply, so uh, be warned.

Spoiler

One thing I like about Aloy in HZD is she wants to be treated as normal, instead of special. Do we get that further in Mass Effect Andromeda, or at least we could choose between being a humble pathfinder or a complete arrogant asshole about it.

 

[Jblanks]

'let's just read through these impressions and.... Oh spoiled, awesome'. Thanks man, for fucks sakes.

 

[cripterion]

I don't care how many people didn't have any regard for others. I would have called them out on it as well if they had spoiled me. I only read peoples posts here because I see spoiler tags being used and figure that it's just common curtesy so it's safe. Yeah...

Fair enough.

Spoiler about Horizon in the reply, so uh, be warned.

Spoiler

One thing I like about Aloy in HZD is she wants to be treated as normal, instead of special. Do we get that further in Mass Effect Andromeda, or at least we could choose between being a humble pathfinder or a complete arrogant asshole about it.

You can be somewhat a detached asshole about it.

'let's just read through these impressions and.... Oh spoiled, awesome'. Thanks man, for fucks sakes.

I should have spoiler tagged it yes but don't act like you didn't know about it.

 

[Piggus]

Looks pretty amazing on PC, although I've been playing Zelda all month. Animations are pretty last-gen, but the environments look really nice. Feels like Mass Effect, and I like the concept story-wise. I'll probably wait until it's heavily discounted though.

 

[EatChildren]

Aaand that's basically a wrap for me. 15 minutes or so left in the trial, still stuff to do, but I'm tapping out until the full release where I fully intend to restart afresh.

Interesting experience. As a whole positive and excited to play at launch, knowing I will lose myself in the galaxy and story and likely comb over every bit of content it has to offer. Definitely a slow burn, finding myself more drawn to the premise and design towards the tail end of the trail compared to the early hours. I put this down half due to preconceptions and assumed baggage from my love and experience with the trilogy, given Andromeda shamelessly casts it all aside for what is now abundantly clear a soft reboot. It feels like Mass Effect, but a very different, new template Mass Effect. And in part due to surprising technical and production deficiencies, particularly in cutscene animation and general jank, which is not a game killer to me, but surprisingly consistent on the average-to-poor spectrum. Something clearly didn't work out there.

I'm expecting a bunch of bugs and quirks at release and the following months. That is par for course for literally every game of this scope and calibre, no matter the developers. I just hope they're not too significant. I feel, like Wild Hunt, it'll be an even better game 6 - 12 months from now with QOL patches and bug crunching, but I'm not interested in waiting. I hope the narrative and cast hold their own throughout. I don't buy the vague "It's just like Inquisition!" criticism, which rings hollow to me; exploring Eos and uncovering what happened through scanning and ambient dialogue had me intrigued and I look forward to more of that. I think ultimately much of the cast and narrative just need time to prove themselves. They've got huge shoes to fill, unfairly maybe. Getting to know and develop an entire game's worth of completely new stuff is hard to put up against characters developed over three games. But we'll see.

Multiplayer needs massive patches or at least regional filtering. It feels really good to play but it's busted as fuck in latency and audio positioning. Very disappointed there. And if Andromeda cant hold the longevity and fan legacy that ME3 had, the multiplayer will be dead pretty quickly and that'll just make me more disappointed. Big gamble there, but hoping stuff gets ironed out ASAP. Filter, BioWare. Please please please. Let met matchmake locally. Please.

My prediction is that despite the franchise legacy and huge scope of what I do feel is a good game, it'll be somewhat divisive in reviews. I'm expecting a low 80s metacritic average. Which doesn't really mean shit to me, but you know, for the sake of speculating regarding a AAA mass market game, that's where I'm going. I think fan reception will be hugely divided too. And ultimately I feel the response from across the board will have a significant impact in an Andromeda 2, much in the same way as Mass Effect transitioned to its sequel, should we ever actually see it. Worse case scenario; divisive reviews and a cynical buzz surrounding the title seriously dampen the overall sales, launching decently but having poor legs. Price gets dropped low early. EA is generally unhappy and puts the franchise on the backburner for awhile, shifting emphasis back to the next Dragon Age, a Star Wars game from BioWare, and Edmonton's Destiny.

Nevertheless; I am excited and keen to play, eager to yet again lose countless hours of myself in the franchise that just keeps abusing me. I hope it doesn't fall to pieces as the adventure goes on. I hope the multiplayer gets fixed, and is sufficiently supported. I hope patches and updates smooth out bugs and rougher content quickly. I hope the inevitable DLC is appealing and rich. And I hope EA and BioWare don't drop the series, but take lessons on storytelling, design, and technology forward to a successor.

 

[Anoxida]

I've seen a lot of people complain that the game doesnt explain the sci-fi. I find this to be completely false. Explore all the dialogue and read the codex, it does a better job than the trilogy so far imo.

 

[A-V-B]

Does Bioware have a history of QOL patches? I know there was the extended cut but it took an internet civil war to bring that about.

 

[amiablepercy]

For fucks sake accept that some people don't like how the story is presented and move along. Pathfinda this, pathfinda that.

Spoiler

Father lands on alien planet and instantly knows what to do but dies in the process giving you that stupid title that some players don't want to carry, then from there it's even more downhill as there is actually no emotional reaction to your father's passing

, everyone just pretty much gives a shit, enhanced by the bad dialogue and stupid facial animations.
I was considering a playthough with only the human characters, but I just can't stand Liam anymore with his pathfinder remarks, "it is ok cause we have pathfinda" I mean dude I'm right next to you, just fucking call me Ryder or Scott.

I'm in this for exploration of the planets and want to find out what happened to the other arks and so on, but so far the story is far from stellar.

Gameplay wise the AI is dumb as rocks and the commands suck, you can tell them where to go but it is finicky and sometimes they won't even take cover as evidenced by the fight at the second camp in Eos, had plenty of deaths there cause these two idiots just didn't stay in cover and when I didn't ordered them to stay at a spot, Cora tried to body that huge monster. (Playing on hard).
Had to cheese my way and stay in the building and let the Kett come one by one (the enemy AI is dumb too, they would shoot at me while seeing me in the building from the other side through the glass thingy which can't be broken) so just went outside led them in and blast them when they entered through the front door of the building with the squad mates. Does that sound fun?

Honestly the combat felt good in the first planet, even the exploration too. But if the latter game is more like Eos this game will be ripped to shreds and justifiably so.

I Have accepted it bro. I was defending an opinion I stated. You haven't moved on from stating your opinions, you've repeated them a lot throughout this thread because you stand by them, I respect that but I stand by mine too. Why don't you accept people feel different than you do and... move on yourself? I don't care either way because you are entitled to say what you want. Jeeze. I love the double standead.

 

[b0uncyfr0]

Can someone please tell me why the game is quitting to desktop every time i try to load - i just got to PeeBee.

Im at 3 hours too - is that the limit for single player gameplay?

 

[cripterion]

I Have accepted it bro. I was defending an opinion I stated. You haven't moved on from stating your opinions, you've repeated them a lot throughout this thread because you stand by them, I respect that but I stand by mine too. Why don't you accept people feel different than you do and... move on yourself? I don't care either way because you are entitled to say what you want. Jeeze. I love the double standead.

I'm not the one calling out people for giving their impressions of the game. Positive or negative.

It really vexes me. These people hate the new game vehemently which is marginally better than the original trilogy they claim to love, not much better but slightly better, and shares a numerous amount of similarities to the stuff they loved before.It makes no sense. It's selective memory gone rampant on various forums.

Like Pewdiepie's video (which I didn't seek out but was linked to me) he reems the game with reckless abandon, making crap unfunny jokes, all while cherry picking the worst shots and stutters all while claiming that Mass Effect is one of his favorite series. It is so disingenuous.

 

[amiablepercy]

For fucks sake accept that some people don't like how the story is presented and move along. Pathfinda this, pathfinda that.

Spoiler

Father lands on alien planet and instantly knows what to do but dies in the process giving you that stupid title that some players don't want to carry, then from there it's even more downhill as there is actually no emotional reaction to your father's passing

, everyone just pretty much gives a shit, enhanced by the bad dialogue and stupid facial animations.
I was considering a playthough with only the human characters, but I just can't stand Liam anymore with his pathfinder remarks, "it is ok cause we have pathfinda" I mean dude I'm right next to you, just fucking call me Ryder or Scott.

I'm in this for exploration of the planets and want to find out what happened to the other arks and so on, but so far the story is far from stellar.

Gameplay wise the AI is dumb as rocks and the commands suck, you can tell them where to go but it is finicky and sometimes they won't even take cover as evidenced by the fight at the second camp in Eos, had plenty of deaths there cause these two idiots just didn't stay in cover and when I didn't ordered them to stay at a spot, Cora tried to body that huge monster. (Playing on hard).
Had to cheese my way and stay in the building and let the Kett come one by one (the enemy AI is dumb too, they would shoot at me while seeing me in the building from the other side through the glass thingy which can't be broken) so just went outside led them in and blast them when they entered through the front door of the building with the squad mates. Does that sound fun?

Honestly the combat felt good in the first planet, even the exploration too. But if the latter game is more like Eos this game will be ripped to shreds and justifiably so.

Aaand that's basically a wrap for me. 15 minutes or so left in the trial, still stuff to do, but I'm tapping out until the full release where I fully intend to restart afresh.

Interesting experience. As a whole positive and excited to play at launch, knowing I will lose myself in the galaxy and story and likely comb over every bit of content it has to offer. Definitely a slow burn, finding myself more drawn to the premise and design towards the tail end of the trail compared to the early hours. I put this down half due to preconceptions and assumed baggage from my love and experience with the trilogy, given Andromeda shamelessly casts it all aside for what is now abundantly clear a soft reboot. It feels like Mass Effect, but a very different, new template Mass Effect. And in part due to surprising technical and production deficiencies, particularly in cutscene animation and general jank, which is not a game killer to me, but surprisingly consistent on the average-to-poor spectrum. Something clearly didn't work out there.

I'm expecting a bunch of bugs and quirks at release and the following months. That is par for course for literally every game of this scope and calibre, no matter the developers. I just hope they're not too significant. I feel, like Wild Hunt, it'll be an even better game 6 - 12 months from now with QOL patches and bug crunching, but I'm not interested in waiting. I hope the narrative and cast hold their own throughout. I don't buy the vague "It's just like Inquisition!" criticism, which rings hollow to me; exploring Eos and uncovering what happened through scanning and ambient dialogue had me intrigued and I look forward to more of that. I think ultimately much of the cast and narrative just need time to prove themselves. They've got huge shoes to fill, unfairly maybe. Getting to know and develop an entire game's worth of completely new stuff is hard to put up against characters developed over three games. But we'll see.

Multiplayer needs massive patches or at least regional filtering. It feels really good to play but it's busted as fuck in latency and audio positioning. Very disappointed there. And if Andromeda cant hold the longevity and fan legacy that ME3 had, the multiplayer will be dead pretty quickly and that'll just make me more disappointed. Big gamble there, but hoping stuff gets ironed out ASAP. Filter, BioWare. Please please please. Let met matchmake locally. Please.

My prediction is that despite the franchise legacy and huge scope of what I do feel is a good game, it'll be somewhat divisive in reviews. I'm expecting a low 80s metacritic average. Which doesn't really mean shit to me, but you know, for the sake of speculating regarding a AAA mass market game, that's where I'm going. I think fan reception will be hugely divided too. And ultimately I feel the response from across the board will have a significant impact in an Andromeda 2, much in the same way as Mass Effect transitioned to its sequel, should we ever actually see it. Worse case scenario; divisive reviews and a cynical buzz surrounding the title seriously dampen the overall sales, launching decently but having poor legs. Price gets dropped low early. EA is generally unhappy and puts the franchise on the backburner for awhile, shifting emphasis back to the next Dragon Age, a Star Wars game from BioWare, and Edmonton's Destiny.

Nevertheless; I am excited and keen to play, eager to yet again lose countless hours of myself in the franchise that just keeps abusing me. I hope it doesn't fall to pieces as the adventure goes on. I hope the multiplayer gets fixed, and is sufficiently supported. I hope patches and updates smooth out bugs and rougher content quickly. I hope the inevitable DLC is appealing and rich. And I hope EA and BioWare don't drop the series, but take lessons on storytelling, design, and technology forward to a successor.

Great shots buddy. Looks beautiful to me. I feel a lot of what you felt. Well put.

 

[cripterion]

Can someone please tell me why the game is quitting to desktop every time i try to load - i just got to PeeBee.

Im at 3 hours too - is that the limit for single player gameplay?

Perhaps you could verify your game in Origin. Halfway through the trial and I still didn't have the day one patch for some reason and it fixed an issue that was preventing me from progressing through the story.

 

[amiablepercy]

I'm not the one calling out people for giving their impressions of the game. Positive or negative.

Didn't call anyone out man. Raised a fairly harmless question. The only thing I can cop to pointing towards or calling out was PewDiePie. I can be honest and say I loathe the guy, I don't think he is talented, I think he takes advantage of his audience, and I think, from working in media, that his model/type is harmful to multiple industries.

His Mass Effect reaction video was a distillation of his mediocrity but yeah he has a huge audience. I've felt that way a long time though. If that was calling someone out than I'm sorry it bothered you. Felix can make fun of people like me who don't like him all the way to the bank. Jon Tron too and the rest of those cult of personality cockroaches.

 

[VlaudTheImpaler]

This shot in particular is absolutely fantastic. Just beautiful. Like, it makes me want to get the game solely just to see more stuff like this. Dang man. It has now become my hope that somehow, someway this ship becomes available in VR. At least that lounge. In something like Alt Space it would be incredible as a social environment to chill in.

 

[FlutterPuffs]

I feel, like Wild Hunt, it'll be an even better game 6 - 12 months from now with QOL patches and bug crunching, but I'm not interested in waiting. I hope the narrative and cast hold their own throughout.

I feel the same way too. The franchise is too big to fail, and the animation problems, bugs can be fixed.

Nevertheless for me, Id choose to wait this time. Will get it when most of the niggling problems patched. I didnt care much about Mass Effect 3's multiplayer, so that works out well for me too.

 

[cripterion]

Didn't call anyone out man. Raised a fairly harmless question. The only thing I can cop to pointing towards or calling out was PewDiePie. I can be honest and say I loathe the guy, I don't think he is talented, I think he takes advantage of his audience, and I think, from working in media, that his model/type is harmful to multiple industries.

His Mass Effect reaction video was a distillation of his mediocrity but yeah he has a huge audience. I've felt that way a long time though. If that was calling someone out than I'm sorry it bothered you. Felix can make fun of people like me who don't like him all the way to the bank. Jon Tron too and the rest of those cult of personality cockroaches.

I don't like the guy either and don't watch his videos.
But it seems you tried to pull out the "true fan" card like some posters have done previously in the thread. I wouldn't call myself a Mass Effect fan, I like the series, yes, enough to play it. Doesn't matter to me if the game gets trounced or praised, I can still discuss about it and try to get my point across. My impressions while playing Andromeda have varied and I'm sure they'll change again once I delve further into the game.
Iif you feel like the game is being piled on a bit too much maybe it's becasue it is doing something to deserve that backlash... (of course there are driveby posts from people who haven't played it and just comment on the gifs).

 

[amiablepercy]

This shot in particular is absolutely fantastic. Just beautiful. Like, it makes me want to get the game solely just to see more stuff like this. Dang man. It has now become my hope that somehow, someway this ship becomes available in VR. At least that lounge. In something like Alt Space it would be incredible as a social environment to chill in.

This has the vibe of Sunshine and a ton of Blade runner (I've seen C-Beams...) and the music along side of it, channeling Vangelis, makes for intense and beautiful experiences.

 

[Darkstorne]

Nevertheless; I am excited and keen to play, eager to yet again lose countless hours of myself in the franchise that just keeps abusing me. I hope it doesn't fall to pieces as the adventure goes on. I hope the multiplayer gets fixed, and is sufficiently supported. I hope patches and updates smooth out bugs and rougher content quickly. I hope the inevitable DLC is appealing and rich. And I hope EA and BioWare don't drop the series, but take lessons on storytelling, design, and technology forward to a successor.

Yeah, great summary. I feel exactly the same way, but have a couple more hours to play this weekend before my trial is up. Your points about QOL changes are important, but I don't think Bioware have the same view of released games that CDPR do. The Witcher 3 received a complete UI overhaul, which Andromeda (or let's be honest, every Bioware game ever made) desperately needs, but I just don't see Bioware giving a damn about that.

I can very much see this being another Fallout 4 - a game I'll enjoy immensely for what it is, but that will receive far more than its fair share of abuse online from people expecting it to reach the same lofty heights its predecessors did. I feel like Mass Effect 1 was such a great game because it looked at RPGs as a whole and tried to elevate the genre and push it forwards (hence action combat in an RPG now being a common thing, and the dialogue wheel impacting the entire industry). Conversely, Andromeda is only looking at the Mass Effect series instead of the genre as a whole, and only trying to be another Mass Effect game rather than something that introduces brand new mechanics to the action RPG genre. I don't think this game will be setting any new bars for quality, nor is it trying to. And that's a shame imo.

 

[amiablepercy]

I don't like the guy either and don't watch his videos.
But it seems you tried to pull out the "true fan" card like some posters have done previously in the thread. I wouldn't call myself a Mass Effect fan, I like the series, yes, enough to play it. Doesn't matter to me if the game gets trounced or praised, I can still discuss about it and try to get my point across. My impressions while playing Andromeda have varied and I'm sure they'll change again once I delve further into the game.
Iif you feel like the game is being piled on a bit too much maybe it's becasue it is doing something to deserve that backlash... (of course there are driveby posts from people who haven't played it and just comment on the gifs).

Yeah man we've been fairly diplomatic. I'm sorry if I'm coming off priggish. Some other threads are like Oy. I just hate things that aren't constructive. I see your points though and have agreed with some of your criticism. Maybe I just need to step away from social media for the night.

 

[amiablepercy]

Yeah man we've been fairly diplomatic. I'm sorry if I'm coming off priggish. Some other threads are like Oy. I just hate things that aren't constructive. I see your points though and have agreed with some of your criticism. Maybe I just need to step away from social media for the night.

Edit: I've been away from GAF for many years too and the demographics have gotten broader and much different. That could be it too.

 

[The Strokes]

I've been spending a lot of time on the Nexus, and although it doesn't feel like an actual living breathing place like the Citadel (understandable, considering what's happening) I do feel myself engaged with what's going on.

This is the core of the ME experience for me, just roaming around finding out what's going on with the world and helping out people for extra EXP and whatnot. Reeaaally digging it so far.

I still need more time with the combat to get a full sense of the whole revamp they made, but it looks promising in some aspects and really dull in some others.

Also, guys, a new ME was always gonna get divisie reviews, people, for some dumb reason, are not over 3's vanilla ending and they hold a massive grudge.

 

[cripterion]

Yeah man we've been fairly diplomatic. I'm sorry if I'm coming off priggish. Some other threads are like Oy. I just hate things that aren't constructive. I see your points though and have agreed with some of your criticism. Maybe I just need to step away from social media for the night.

It's all good. The game is coming hot and there's a lot of noise about it. Strange that there's no spoiler thread yet cause it's a bit hard to discuss some parts of it without revealing a few things...

I honestly feel like the combat is alright, it's not comparable but as an rpg for example it's more engaging to me than the Witcher 3 for example. But they need a few things to get it rolling smoothly, I'm not sure I'm a fan of auto-cover, I prefer the manual shoulder changing (it's auto in Wildlands and pisses me off) but yeah, on Eos and the AI doesn't feel right, when I felt like it was somewhat competent in the tutorial planet.
Dialog wise, I've chosen things that I think make the more sense in the context of the story, so I don't really have gripes with my Ryder, but Liam Costa man...

Would be nice also to not have the loot box take up the whole screen and pause the game when you're picking something.

 

[Alter_Fridge]

It looks like a hot mess in the nicest way possible

For every janky animation there's a beautiful scene

 

[StrongBlackVine]

I think there is a STRONG possibility that Bioware shut down their forums because they knew this was coming.

 

[nOoblet16]

I hate the title of pathfinder being used to actually refer to the player. It sounds so stupid when characters from your own team call you in your presence and greet you as "Pathfinder" instead of Ryder. It isn't a real military title and as such it sound really stupid compared to using ranks like Commander, Captain, Lieutenant to refer to people.


I find it really odd that someone like a Pathfinder will have so much pull over matters not pertaining to his/her actual job. And while we are at it why do they keep saying "find us a new home" when they've already short listed a few planets and are in that system that has those few planets. Doesn't seem like there is much to pathfind atleast until and unless all the candidate planets turn out shit.

 

[Spidy]

Just finished the first intro mission. Slow start, but by the end I'm really digging it. Animations are a bit janky, but hasn't detracted from my enjoyment. Excited to continue.

 

[nubbe]

I hate the title of pathfinder being used to actually refer to the player. It sounds so stupid when characters from your own team call you in your presence and greet you as "Pathfinder" instead of Ryder. It isn't a real military title and as such it sound really stupid compared to using ranks like Commander, Captain, Lieutenant to refer to people.


I find it really odd that someone like a Pathfinder will have so much pull over matters not pertaining to his/her actual job. And while we are at it why do they keep saying "find us a new home" when they've already short listed a few planets and are in that system that has those few planets. Doesn't seem like there is much to pathfind atleast until and unless all the candidate planets turn out shit.

not anyone can go into space and look for stuff on a map

 

[The Strokes]

I hate the title of pathfinder being used to actually refer to the player. It sounds so stupid when characters from your own team call you in your presence and greet you as "Pathfinder" instead of Ryder. It isn't a real military title and as such it sound really stupid compared to using ranks like Commander, Captain, Lieutenant to refer to people.


I find it really odd that someone like a Pathfinder will have so much pull over matters not pertaining to his/her actual job. And while we are at it why do they keep saying "find us a new home" when they've already short listed a few planets and are in that system that has those few planets. Doesn't seem like there is much to pathfind atleast until and unless all the candidate planets turn out shit.

I feel that within the context of what's happening it makes senses for them to call her that, and also, despite probing some worlds, clearly the game makes a remark that some of the intel is outdated, thus the need for the Pathfinder to... find paths.

I wasn't expecting it, but nice to see characters from the previous trilogy being referenced!

 

[texhnolyze]

Been playing for about 4 hours on PS4 pro. Liking the game so far but god the frame rate is horrendous. Hope the patch fixes it. Constantly below 30 for sure. I thought it ran good on the PS4 pro from what I heard but that's not the case for me. Will continue.

Shiiiet.. And here I am staring at my PS4 Peasant pre-order.

My new PC won't be ready until April, but I really can't wait for Andromeda even for two additional weeks.

 

[Iceternal]

Isn't there an animation bug during normal conversations with minor NPCs ?

When the camera zooms in, you can see the NPC standing still and not budging a single muscle and every 30 seconds or so, you can see them twitch in a glitchy manner.

Damn ... this game ...

 

[CmdrShepard]

Having now played a full 8 hours I now feel good about my pre-order. I am a massive ME fan but I admit I was really nervous about how andromeda would pan out leading up till now with every passing preview of trailer either being unexciting or adding to a feeling of dread that bioware was going down the wrong path.

Now from what I played was not perfect - the decision to remove the power wheel is my main grievance so far. I want the ability to get my bearings and go set up power combos with my squad. I feel that this is the biggest change to combat for the series and while I am still enjoying my experience with the combat I feel this has taken away from the combat rather then add to it.

The other bug bear is the changes to the cover system. It felt very finicky at first since there is no indicator as to what is and not is viable cover. I am getting used to it now but I much prefer the old cover system where there were indicators to determine if something was viable cover and you had to press a button to enter/exit cover.

The intro did not grab me but since the intro mission, I have taken more and more to the story and I feel more and more engaged. I agree that the characters look a bit bland but I still feel engaged in the story and the dialogue for the most part gets better once you pass the intro mission.

I am really enjoying the multiplayer - I am from Australia and have played about 10 games so far with no drop outs and only once did I experience latency/rubber banding. The MP seems good and if they support it as frequent as they did ME3 it should do well providing they patch latency issues for others that are experiencing issues.

I look forward to playing on release and while I don't think it will be my favourite ME, I think I will enjoy it for what it is and I am willing to give it a whirl since I just finished horizon zero dawn

 

[Phamit]

I hate the title of pathfinder being used to actually refer to the player. It sounds so stupid when characters from your own team call you in your presence and greet you as "Pathfinder" instead of Ryder. It isn't a real military title and as such it sound really stupid compared to using ranks like Commander, Captain, Lieutenant to refer to people.
.

It's still a title, not military but I would put it in the same vein as Professor. Also his team don't know him very well yet.

I find it really odd that someone like a Pathfinder will have so much pull over matters not pertaining to his/her actual job. And while we are at it why do they keep saying "find us a new home" when they've already short listed a few planets and are in that system that has those few planets. Doesn't seem like there is much to pathfind atleast until and unless all the candidate planets turn out shit

This kinda happened, but I get yout point because they also said when they saw the first planet.

I can only speculate on this one, but when the first choice don't turn out to be as expected the arch would go to the nexus and the Pathfinder would check out the other planets with his team. He kinda only becomes a Pathfinder if all planets are in a bad condition.

 

[Taggen86]

anyone playing this on a 4K HDR set with Dolby Vision (better version of HDR10)??...I'm curious how it looks as this is the first game to support Dolby Vision

The game do not support DV in the current build even though they said it would...

 

[Gamezone]

Do I have to upload my character to the cloud when I`m done creating it? The stupid game tells me that I`m offline, and therefor won`t be able to upload it when I`m actually online. I won`t be running into any problems with my character when the next game releases?

 

[Turin Turambar]

Pathfinder sounds like a madeup, cheesy title, yeah. But then again ME has always been a bit cheesy...

 

[TitusTroy]

The game do not support DV in the current build even though they said it would...

so it will only be supported later with a patch?...that sucks...they made a big deal about Dolby Vision when the game was first announced...was really looking forward to seeing it in action...why do all the cool features like Doom's Vulkan always get patched in later!!

 

[Corpekata]

I think there is a STRONG possibility that Bioware shut down their forums because they knew this was coming.

Forums would probably help contain things. Now it's just going to be out on social media that much more general users browse and cluttering up hashtags. If anything they are probably regretting shutting them down.

 

[Captain_Fujisawa]

I'm really enjoying it despite the jank, which is a shame. It does seem somewhat unfinished, such as how the Khet appear to be invincible just before jumping off their ships. In Halo you could 100% hit the Covenant, this I'm not so sure.

The game gives me the Dragon Age Inquisition vibes, nice big areas but with less mmo quests.

I'm enjoying the story and the exploration of somewhere unknown again. The end of the first mission

Spoiler

really gave me the feels. I had expected him to die, but I had assumed that the main bad guy would murder him. For him to die for his child really did give me the feels, and for it give me that attachment so early was pretty well done. Shame no one seems to care and that lady on the nexus with the bad facial animation was such a cow bag.

I've got a few hours left and will go see what turning on some beacons does on Eos. I'm really looking forward to next Thursday and getting lost in more of the Mass Effect mild jank we all know and love.

 

[Lucifon]

They need to fix the performance / aiming on Xbox. I find it even more noticeable in multiplayer.

 

[ISee]

I'm very torn here.
It is definitely a beautiful game and it runs surprisingly well at 1440p/60 on my machine (i7/1070). Exploring, running around fighting enemies is also fun but I don't feel the game and the characters. Played with male ryder and he feels like a generic dude bro and the same goes for his crew. The dialogues and facial animations also don't help.
That said I still had some fun but ME:A doesn't charm me like DA:O, ME 1 or Kotor back in the days. Bioware games feel different after Muzyka and Zeschuk left the company.

 

[Zemm]

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.

Sorry, but you're crazy if you think the lip synching in Andromeda is 'on point'. It's terrible in almost every scene. I've had conversations finish and the lips are still moving lol

 

[b0uncyfr0]

Perhaps you could verify your game in Origin. Halfway through the trial and I still didn't have the day one patch for some reason and it fixed an issue that was preventing me from progressing through the story.

I've verified - reinstalled it twice. Still crashing for me. Only thing that happened last night was an update for Win 10 but i don't see anyone talking about this.

 

[nOoblet16]

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.

Erm lip syncing in Horizon is sometimes off but even the worst of it is better than or atleast on par with Andromeda overall. When it comes to facial expressions themselves Horizon has absolutely zero problems there (no one has said anything negative about the expressions themselves for Horizon i.e. movement of eyes, eyebrows, head etc) on the other hand facial expressions in Andromeda either don't exist or are very awkward looking. Take that Ashley gif comparison for example, she is moving her head, eyebrows while talking it rarely happens in Andromeda. If you pay attention you'll see even the blinking of eyes feel artificial as they are too far spaced out and too slow.

I simply cannot see how anyone can think lip syncing of all the things is "on point" in Andromeda.

 

[EventHorizon]

Forums would probably help contain things. Now it's just going to be out on social media that much more general users browse and cluttering up hashtags. If anything they are probably regretting shutting them down.

General users are the ones who would end up looking at the official forums the most. After all that's where Google will send a casual user who wants more info about a game. They also tend to make their own weather so to speak because that is where you typically get the most in depth dev responses. Those create and concentrate an audience larger than would ordinarily happen. Without an official forum, a popular game will develop an unofficial "official" forum, but that will have less visibility and consist of the more die hard players, not the casuals. If you are trying to bury bad news about a game, shutting down the official forums is a good place to start.

As for the side channel discussions, I think their participation is largely independent of the existence of an official forum. After all they are by definition formed around a social context larger than any one game. People discuss games there because they want to within that context. They want to share their thoughts with their Facebook friends. They want to take sides and engage in fanboy wars on NeoGaf, and so on.

 

[Grassy]

I think there is a STRONG possibility that Bioware shut down their forums because they knew this was coming.

Nah, more like the forums were so toxic that not even their own devs wanted to post there. It was a waste of space outside a few helpful modding tutorials.