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Looks 🔥 and excited to continue my journey after the patch. Was purposely holding out advancing the story.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda releases Patch 1.05 Thursday, details more changes for future
- Thread starter Garrett Hawke
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This is why when people say "you can't patch a bad story" I remind them that dialogue is only 50% of human conversation. Non-verbal cues, body language, expression, camera angles, music choice.... all can radically alter the mood or tone of something.
This may not make a bad scene great, but nobody would have really freaked out over it if this was what we initially got.
That's what I was thinking. The line would have still been bad, but I doubt a meme cottage industry would have jumped up because of it.
Mechanized
Member
It's insane how much the eye changes make everything about the characters look better.
Garrett Hawke
Member
sorry if you've already done this, but did you download the latest driver?
apparently there was a new nvidia one today.
DeaDPo0L84
Member
I'm not trying to be a dick but I really don't get the point of post like these. I mean... Thanks for letting us know you'll buy the game in a year I guess? Just seems like a passive way to drive by shit post but then say you'll buy it so it makes it okay.
In regards to the patch, look forward to running around and seeing how big a difference it is but those pictures and videos look awesome!
It's now 100 by default, and each upgrade increases it by 50, so the maximum inventory limit of 200.
It seems that way because it is that way.
SchrodingerC
Member
Those eye shaders are an improvement too. No more dead eyes staring at you while talking to NPCs.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Damn. First patch and already fantastic improvements.
The eyes were the biggest problem. Everything from here on in will just be icing on the cake for me.
Bravo Bioware.
The eyes were the biggest problem. Everything from here on in will just be icing on the cake for me.
Bravo Bioware.
Slackbladder
Member
So how much of this patch was already in the works at launch? A fairly substantial patch of 1.9GB (PC) in around a week from launch suggests the problems were known and being fixed. It also suggests if they had held back on launching the game a week or two a lot of the flak they got may never had happened. However maybe this new patch was done in the 5 days or so from launch. I'd be surprised if this was so mind you.
JeffG
Member
The Addison "my face is tired" scene is completely different. A lot of the dialogue has been cut and rearranged in addition to the improved animation.
Pre patch:
Post patch:
That looks way better
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
I knew a big way to improve the game was actually chaning the eyes.
Wouldnt surprise if someone at edmonton had to enter the scene to pick up the slack from the montreal artists.
Wouldnt surprise if someone at edmonton had to enter the scene to pick up the slack from the montreal artists.
Orochinagis
Member
The Addison "my face is tired" scene is completely different. A lot of the dialogue has been cut and rearranged in addition to the improved animation.
Pre patch:
Post patch:
Make up was gone, more animations, cool
Incredible.The Addison "my face is tired" scene is completely different. A lot of the dialogue has been cut and rearranged in addition to the improved animation.
Pre patch:
Post patch:
Damn you EA. Could have saved how much of a beating the game took, lost sales, unnecessary burden on employees if they just delayed it maybe one or two months. Was the game also not focus tested at all?
The game is decent, but if you haven't started yet, just hold off. You will have a much better experience in a month or two than now.
Can someone please check this because this is a huge QoL improvement if true:
Apparently now the abilities will show their finalized stat calculations when viewing the abilities?
For example if ability was 200 Damage base and has a 30% Damage increase then the stats will now show 260. Same with it showing the correct cooldown, radius, etc.
I don't know if this is affected also by other Passives though.
Apparently now the abilities will show their finalized stat calculations when viewing the abilities?
For example if ability was 200 Damage base and has a 30% Damage increase then the stats will now show 260. Same with it showing the correct cooldown, radius, etc.
I don't know if this is affected also by other Passives though.
GravityInsanity
Member
The Addison "my face is tired" scene is completely different. A lot of the dialogue has been cut and rearranged in addition to the improved animation.
Pre patch:
Post patch:
Commanche Raisin Toast
Member
Well shit, now I need to pick up the pace with P5 and start a playthrough of this soon. This will be a good contrast to Horizon and P5.
Hopefully that second patch isn't too far off either.
Hopefully that second patch isn't too far off either.
thebigmachine
Member
Why would you rush through a great game just to play a game that can only get better in the coming months?
Wasn't just the eyes, it's facial animations too; prior she was a mannequin.
Still doesn't help that the voice actor sounds like they are reading in front of a primary school class for the first time. So emotionless. It makes me wonder, a lot (not all) of the VA sounds like that; it's like they've been purposely told to inhibit their emotions on either end of a spectrum and it comes off as amateur.
DeaDPo0L84
Member
Glad I'm not assuming things.
Stiler
Member
They actually changed the lines too. The weird as heck "What happened with Pathfinder" line is gone with just calling him Alec now instead, which is much more natural and fitting.
Before it felt like they were using a "First take" from the voice actress instead of a final take with everything tweaked and done right.
MrTroubleMaker
Gold Member
Still have random crashes on PC. The exe wasn't updated 
also the new drivers still have issues
http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/381.65/381.65-win10-win8-win7-desktop-release-notes.pdf
[GeForce GTX 1080 Ti][Mass Effect: Andromeda]: Random memory errors may occur
when playing the game. [1887520]
also the new drivers still have issueshttp://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/381.65/381.65-win10-win8-win7-desktop-release-notes.pdf
[GeForce GTX 1080 Ti][Mass Effect: Andromeda]: Random memory errors may occur
when playing the game. [1887520]
TangoAlphaLima
Member
The Addison "my face is tired" scene is completely different. A lot of the dialogue has been cut and rearranged in addition to the improved animation.
Pre patch:
Post patch:
The hand wipe over face looks lousy, but everything else is massively improved.
BlondeTuna
Member
The Addison "my face is tired" scene is completely different. A lot of the dialogue has been cut and rearranged in addition to the improved animation.
Pre patch:
Post patch:
Big difference. I'm glad they are sorting this out. I wasn't a day 1 purchaser, and lost interest after all the backlash against the game, but if they continue to make these improvements I will definitely play the game.
Ovek
7Member7
True didn't realise they had altered her dialog so much at first. The tone difference is quite amazing really.
Nice to see such good improvement from even the first patch. Makes me really disappointed this was forced out in the state it was in. It sucks that meeting some fiscal deadline is more important to EA than putting out a complete and polished game. The bad reviews and lost sales could have been avoided.
Ovek
7Member7
I'm sure some guy in a shitty fitting suit sat at a long meeting table said "good enough" at some point prior to release.
thechristoph
Sir!
It's kinda wild how much change can come so quickly. I almost wonder if they released an incorrect version of the game.
For the people wondering about squad banter, Michael Gamble just confirmed it is working correctly now.
https://twitter.com/GambleMike/status/850065126141054976
So banter occurs mostly while in the nomad unless it's scripted while on foot.
https://twitter.com/GambleMike/status/850065126141054976
So banter occurs mostly while in the nomad unless it's scripted while on foot.
Im pretty sure thats a pre-rendered vid.
I didn't noticed that tho. Actually I think the performance is pretty much the same.
SchrodingerC
Member
Not sure about the numbers included in the dialogue wheel, makes the UI a tad crowded.
Played a little bit multiplayer and there is still that glitch with no sound at all. Don't know what's the cause of it. Only restart of the game helps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M81gIDMWAEQ Happens at 47:40 min for me in this video.
Overall multiplayer experience is great after 1.5 now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M81gIDMWAEQ Happens at 47:40 min for me in this video.
Overall multiplayer experience is great after 1.5 now.
Commanche Raisin Toast
Member
Not rush, but rather put more time into it daily than I currently am. I've been spending too much time after work doing chores and such.
Folding laundry can wait though. I wanna find out what's going on with Ann! D:
Spartancarver
Member
Wow that is night and day.
This to me is proof that the game was simply unfinished when it was released. The comparison of this scene between pre and post patch is literally a placeholder model with minimal animation vs finalized product.
This gives me hope that the game will be in a complete state by the end of this patch roadmap and will be a worthy purchase by then.
Garrett Hawke
Member
I still don't get the "my face is tired" line at all, like I have no idea what that is supposed to mean or why anyone would say that in that context, but it really is a lot better.
Darkstorne
Member
These are some seriously impressive improvements given how quickly they've been released. Did the team not sleep? With this level of commitment the Andromeda team deserve their own batch of fan-funded cupcakes, for very different reasons.
The Addison "my face is tired" scene is completely different. A lot of the dialogue has been cut and rearranged in addition to the improved animation.
Pre patch:
Post patch:
She rested her face alright. Looks great. I'll be heading back in tonight.