GlamFM
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Casting and VO does not take long at all in the grand scheme of things.
There is probably layout VO from devs throughout the game right now that just has to be replaced.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda - Some small updates (voice casting has started, combat, etc)
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Casting and VO does not take long at all in the grand scheme of things.
There is probably layout VO from devs throughout the game right now that just has to be replaced.
mumbles365
Banned
I guess I was one of the lucky few in Witcher then ... I dont remember any broken quests, I didnt mind the controls, though I prefer the new alt movement more ... I didnt experience the horrid frame drops and when frames did drop, it didnt really bother me because it was still more or less playable.
Witcher 3 was a great release for me.
Indeed it would, not to mention it's N7 day in roughly 9 days.
I'm less certain.
Keighley's The Game Awards are streamed only, correct?
ME3 was unveiled when the VGAs still existed, and those were on Spike, so you had a (purported) national TV audience.
But we'll see.
GlamFM
Banned
In the nation of America. Rest of the world doesn´t have Spike. Don´t think it matters that much.
Streaming is kinda huge these days..
You vastly underestimate how much they care about getting national TV coverage in the US.
Witness the sharp drop in the prestige of titles unveiled on the VGA's/The Game Awards between when it was on Spike vs. when it was streamed.
When it was on Spike it got Mass Effect and Dark Souls.
When it was streamed it got Telltales.
It started 2 months (3 months?) ago.
When this thread was originally made.
Also: Bioware doesn't do the full actor mo-cap stuff that other studios do. Adding VA can be done fairly late in the process.
There is nothing in this that says the current announced release window is in doubt.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
E3 this year was the first trailer. Though a new Mass Effect had been discussed back to at least November 7 2014.
We could see something at PSX, if just because EA seems cosy with Sony at the moment. I'm still banking on something for N7 day.
Yeah, my guess is some concept art and maybe another CG trailer on N7 day, but we don't see anything really substantial until E3.
nocturnalis
Member
They need to make Annihilation Field an Adept power.
Rap2thaMoon
Member
For some reason Microsoft has a lock on Western RPG (Marketing), so i doubt Sony has partnered with EA.
It's entirely possible that Adept is no longer a class.
If I were Bioware, I'd probably go all the way back to the drawing board for this one, throw out all the old classes and start over with new ones.
Especially since the playerbase was so biased towards certain classes.
You mean how +60% of the players used the Soldier class? Yeah, that kinda sucks. Not sure how Bioware can change this... "laziness" from the players of simply choosing the default class.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Biotics are in for sure. I'm pretty sure one of the devs said they couldn't talk about what they're doing with the combat system yet, or classes, but that he enjoyed biotic charging around the maps.
But yeah, I hope the skill and class system gets a bit of an overhaul.
But yeah, I hope the skill and class system gets a bit of an overhaul.
Though I'll go with whatever is closest to an infiltrator anyway.
TC McQueen
Member
I think a lot of the problem came from people playing soldier first to get used to the combat mechanics, then most of those people either didn't play again, stuck to soldier, or checked out one of the hybrid classes.
I know I didn't bother with stuff like the Adept or Engineer until the ME3 multiplayer beta, and I used a lot more classes when I was super into ME3 multiplayer.
I wouldn't have a default class.
I'd have default nearly everything except two things: Gender and Class.
I don't think it's too burdensome asking the player if they want to play a man or a woman, and forcing them to actively select a class will likely lead to people at least looking at the other classes.
I'm not contesting that there will be Biotics, just saying the way classes were structured may be totally different and there may be no class named "Adept", for instance.
magwizsorc
Member
I think one problem is that all the classes felt inferior to the soldier in pretty much every mass effect game. Every other class hit points where their powers were useless, but the soldier is really good at firing bullets, which are useful against everything.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Soldier was easiest to play, but I don't know if I'd say other classes felt inferior. Once you learned how to play something like an infiltrator the game was broken heavily in your favour.
Really? By the end of Mass Effect 2 and 3 I was barely using my gun because it was so much more inefficient than my powers. Certain powers worked better than others, but I'd drop a sentry turret, throw out a Drone firing rockets, and then mop shit up with Overload for shields and Incinerate for everything else.
I had my cooldown such that I could use an ability roughly every second.
I couldnt stand playing soldier class in ME. It was the most boring experience imo, it made the game feel like just a regular thrid person shooting game.
I loved Vanguard and Infiltrator classes.
Phat Michael
Banned
The day this comes out I'm gonna go straight To MP. ME3 MP was the best MP game of last generation. I can't wait to see how they build on this.
What are bullets? - Vanguard on Insanity
magwizsorc
Member
When finishing the game for my sister who played as a soldier it was pretty insane how much easier it was,except in 3 where carried only one weapon and had no cooldown. But I do agree that it is the least interesting.
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
This is what I took from the teases too, and I also agree that this is good.
Bionic charge all day, every day.
Are you sure that you were using powers effectively?
Regardless, Soldier doesn't do more damage with guns. They have ammo powers, yes, but those are easily duplicated by your squad.
Im_So_Pringles
Member
Honestly, pretty much every class in the game became OP if you really know how to use them. Throughout all my playthroughs with all the different classes on insanity, once I learned the strats I would never have any trouble. It would just be constant steam rolling. The only class I ever had trouble with was soldier.
Snacks the sober sea lion
Member
Engineer is really good in ME2 and absurd in ME3. Chain Overload makes a joke out of any enemy that doesn't have armor.
The guns are secondary to the powers on Adept, Vanguard, and Engineer. They're really only there so you have something to do during your cooldowns, or to do some extra shield damage.
Probably the weakest class has always been Soldier. You can get some good assault rifles, but Vanguard makes better use of ME1's shotguns. ME2 Soldier is okay and actually probably the easiest class on Insanity if you have the Mattock. ME3's weight system kind of screwed Soldier because the whole point was that it can carry lots of weapons, but now you can't really do that if you want to make effective use of Adrenaline Rush. Plus the ridiculously buffed tech powers on other classes mean you barely even have to bother aiming for the same/ better results.