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What *realistic* wishes do you have for Bioware fixing Mass Effect Andromeda?
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thepenguin55
Member
I wonder how much of this they'll actually do. I can see them squashing as many bugs as possible but that wont necessarily fix a lot this games animation problems (or many of the other problems it has). Also, how they didn't include an option to skip galaxy map animations is baffling.
Honestly? Don't use same team on the franchise, get talented designers, engineers and animators from all over EA. Do not let any of the same (shitty) team anywhere near the franchise, we shouldn't have to point out flaws this rudimentary. Unless it's for Multiplayer. There's no hope as long as they're involved so heavily.
EVA UNIT 01
Member
Those galaxy map animations need to go.
What a waste of time.
What a waste of time.
Diablohead
Member
They don't allow you to equip new weapons and armors on your partners and it can't be fixed easily, so that alone is going to annoy me when I play.
Fix the eyes, fix the loading issues, fix the sloppy cutscene triggers and T poses, work out why some scenes have no emotional face animations at all and fix those... honestly there is a lot I doubt they can do much about now.
Fix the eyes, fix the loading issues, fix the sloppy cutscene triggers and T poses, work out why some scenes have no emotional face animations at all and fix those... honestly there is a lot I doubt they can do much about now.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
Game is too big for them to change anything meaningful, I feel like. But, all the things in the OP are agreeable to me.
Also, this:
Also, this:
I don't know , they should have fixed it before launch, it will be worth for people who didn't get the game yet yes, but for me i don't think i will comeback to it just because they fixed animations or something else, the same way i didn't play ME3 again to see an extended cut for it, unless they do this really fast which i doubt probably by the time they finish to fix the problems i will be playing another game or just playing the MP (which is really good) ...
Mammoth Jones
Member
If I barely move the analog stick forward or backwards to move at the slowest possible amount the walking animation breaks and Ryder looks like he's just gliding across the ground super slowly.
Ugh. Hopefully something like that will get fixed.
Ugh. Hopefully something like that will get fixed.
The Strokes
Banned
Aside some animations issues aside, which clearly could've been fixed if the game was pushed by a couple months, I think the only big thing I would love to see if some sort of way to manage or companions more effectively on battle.
When they said the wheel was going to be removed I thought something else was gonna replace it, and it's just gone for no reason, and the AI is not good enough to set up combos on its own basically most of the time.
When they said the wheel was going to be removed I thought something else was gonna replace it, and it's just gone for no reason, and the AI is not good enough to set up combos on its own basically most of the time.
100% expecting this. If they were going to do the game justice or had the skills/talent/management/resources to do so in the first place, they would have done it prior to launch.
Officer.Sanchez
Member
This.
I'm a huge fan but I have no interest in the game until they patch the character creator, it's a step back from the previous trilogy, 5 years and this is all we've got, a shitty, limited CC. I expected a more complex tool, it destroyed my hype.
SmoothRunningGun
Member
I don't know if eye textures are the problem. They all look bug eyed like they need to apply a small eyelid close morph to everything.
I think the game is fine as far as gameplay goes but I will say I think all the human faces are unattractive. I don't know what's up with that. Even the Asari who were very appealing in the old games don't look great.
I think the game is fine as far as gameplay goes but I will say I think all the human faces are unattractive. I don't know what's up with that. Even the Asari who were very appealing in the old games don't look great.
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
Make it an option in the menu, then everyone wins (I love them, personally): find them relaxing.
I would love to see:
* Spoilers getting fixed in the Tempest (crew conversations before that crewmate is even there...)
* Animation fixes to an extent: just a tidy up and bug fix (they don't bother me, remind me of Gothic games lol)
* Netcode get patched for MP, localisation fixed.
* Crash fixes for HDR screenshots.
* Change the melee animation so it locks on with a soft lock.
* Eye textures get prettied up, and Addison gets a full makeover (like Vimi Vivalldi in TW3)
...more to come, can't think of any others right now.
StereoVsn
Member
Yeah, let's throw out some things beyond animation/textures/lightning and NPCs that have been mentioned. Although those and related glitches need a lot of work.
- UI is horrendous and really needs some work in PC. It is hugely disorganized and non-intuitive.
- Kill the stupid scanning animation. It's the most insane thing ever.
- Increase handheld scanning range to make finding things less annoying
- Let us enter the Tempest without lifting off from the planet ala Normandy at the Citadel.
- Equipping weapons should be allowed at any time not just at the armory stations
MAX PAYMENT
Member
The handshake had menough dying.
Man Called Aerodynamics
Member
I'm no animator but it does feel like just a small change to how flat and pure white everyone's eyes look could go a long way.
STILLethal
Member
-Treat Andromeda like God of War Ascension and Batman Arkham Origins.
-Put A-team on Mass Effect 4
-Bring Shepard back
-Use the Indoctrination Theory (ME3 ending never happened, everyone will be happy af and forget about Andromeda)
-ME4 starts with Shep waking up in the rumble and you fight the Reapers
-GOAT beginning, even overtaking ME2 beginning
-Continue from there
-Put A-team on Mass Effect 4
-Bring Shepard back
-Use the Indoctrination Theory (ME3 ending never happened, everyone will be happy af and forget about Andromeda)
-ME4 starts with Shep waking up in the rumble and you fight the Reapers
-GOAT beginning, even overtaking ME2 beginning
-Continue from there
BouncyFrag
Member
Less close ups during conversations would help.
LukasTaves
Member
From what I've seen the dialogs could use some tuning too, but since they are dubbed I dunno if it's feasible.
KyleOnTheRun
Member
Let me land at any of the Forward Operating Bases I've placed so I don't have two loading screens (landing, then fast-traveling).
Let me fast travel to points on Kadara while inside the port city.
Let me choose which area of the Nexus I'd like to disembark at.
Let me favorite / pin quests to keep them at the top of the list or outside of the folders.
Larger font size in menus (especially the Codex and Crafting menus).
Pin crafting recipes as a reminder of materials needed.
Make research a bit cheaper. It's pretty punitive -- research data doesn't seem nearly plentiful enough when you have to research every subsequent tier of the weapon you want and
Let me fast travel to points on Kadara while inside the port city.
Let me choose which area of the Nexus I'd like to disembark at.
Let me favorite / pin quests to keep them at the top of the list or outside of the folders.
Larger font size in menus (especially the Codex and Crafting menus).
Pin crafting recipes as a reminder of materials needed.
Make research a bit cheaper. It's pretty punitive -- research data doesn't seem nearly plentiful enough when you have to research every subsequent tier of the weapon you want and
there are even five hidden tiers, VI - X, unlocked for each item later.
No. Leave Shepard alone. It's over. I have zero faith that anything they made now would be better than ME3.
StereoVsn
Member
We all wish that it would have been handled by the B-team (DAI). No, this is the C-team.
CosmicQueso
Member
Evil Monkey DTT
Banned
It's beyond what they could do for me sadly. Writing is my biggest problem and the amount of animation work they would have to do would be asking too much.
MegaSackman
Member
I'm only three hours in but my main complain so far is how bad some dialogues are...
Fixing the script it's impossible so here's my idea:
Add the option to answer "..." in every conversation, every time I have to choose I don't know what to do because how stupid or cringy every option is.
Fixing the script it's impossible so here's my idea:
Add the option to answer "..." in every conversation, every time I have to choose I don't know what to do because how stupid or cringy every option is.
I'm not sure how realistic it is, but I think facial animation should be a top priority for them. You can have better looking created characters, but what good are they if the facial animations are still dead and/or awkward. I would work on the lighting, facial animations, and redo the eyes on the humans. I think that would go a long way in improving the presentation.
I like the galaxy map animations. The only thing I would change about them is the zoom out after you fly to your destination. It should just take you to the scanning view immediately when you fly to it.
I like the galaxy map animations. The only thing I would change about them is the zoom out after you fly to your destination. It should just take you to the scanning view immediately when you fly to it.
This would be ideal, but it's not happening
StereoVsn
Member
No, flying to individual planet inside each system is not ok. It should let you scan/land without traveling to each damn planet inside a stellar system.
The_Hitcher89
Member
Press button to cover - In the first mission, finding the soft-cover horrible
Swap touchpad and Options button functions - Radial menu should be on touchpad, always. Maybe hold touchpad for map.
Auto-holster weapon when outside of combat
Swap touchpad and Options button functions - Radial menu should be on touchpad, always. Maybe hold touchpad for map.
Auto-holster weapon when outside of combat
I totally get why people hate them. Make it a setting. Let me keep them. Let you remove them.
RubberJohnny
Banned
Yes the problem with game that bends over backwards to pander to nostalgia at the expense of doing new stuff is it wasn't nostalgic enough.
Get lost.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
I've never thought much about it but I'd play the crap outta that! That's pretty much what my Shepard spent all his time doing, or aimlessly hoping for more to do on the citadel.
formasymphonic
Member
These. As much as i hated Mass Effect 3's endings, its better to just let Shep go and start fresh. The franchise's best option is to have a clean break like they did for Andromeda so they can have wider creative freedom.
This right here is the real issue with ME:A
Realistic wishes?
Fixed character creator.
Ability for players to use the character creator to fix any human NPC in the game including party members
UI Tweak - there has to be a better way
Ability to mix and match Audio from multiple language versions to different characters (Wont happen but doesnt seem that hard to impliment)
General Bug Fixes. All points required to load missions should load ect
Fixed character creator.
Ability for players to use the character creator to fix any human NPC in the game including party members
UI Tweak - there has to be a better way
Ability to mix and match Audio from multiple language versions to different characters (Wont happen but doesnt seem that hard to impliment)
General Bug Fixes. All points required to load missions should load ect
If there is any life left in the Mass Effect name after Andromeda this would certainly kill it, LOL. That part of the universe is dead. It is over and is never coming back, they made sure of it.
As for "realistic expectations", I don't know that I personally have any. I hope they make it better for the people who bought it.
As for what I expect to happen next? A bunch of bug fixing patches and small content additions, but not to the extent the game needs. A lot of PR speak about listening to feedback and learning from it, yadayada. A couple of pieces of SP DLC (on top of the MP DLC), that is probably much narrower in focus than they first wanted, and the inevitable wait for a sequel. If that happens, they will straight up cut chunks of this game in a bid to put more emphasis on multiplayer and polishing the more visible problems (animations, performance, menus, presentation in general) while probably learning very little of other underlying issues, like how they missed their chance for a fresh start in a brand new galaxy that is not just retreading all these familiar elements.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
The bugs, some animations, and omission of the Tempest travel sequence.
Bolded - this issue isn't getting enough attention because of the uproar about facial animation. Not being able to save is affecting the game more than some crappy animations. BioWare needs to remove the restriction on when you can save. Nothing more annoying than losing 15 minutes of progress because the last baddie in a wave got you.
For a game that's about exploration, having to re-explore a section of a vault because the game restricted your ability to save and sent you back 15 minutes just sucks. Also, if you loot something cool and die before receiving another random autosave - it's gone, and the box will pull different items from the loot table when you get back to it. Hope you didn't like what you looted!