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A Compilation of Hilarious Animations in Mass Effect Andromeda
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Okay this is insane. They had textures and animations down pat in 2016 and a year later they release a game that looks like the 2015 version before it got polished??
I have zero knowledge on how game development works but does this mean there is a possibility they can patch the game to "revert" back to these visuals?
Lmao
CassidyIzABeast
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I'm gonna chalk most of that comparison up to textures not loading due to it being a glitched cutscene. No way that's the intended level of detail.
The plume was probably super taxing on hardware so it getting chopped makes sense but man, the dip in facial animation is a real bummer.
The plume was probably super taxing on hardware so it getting chopped makes sense but man, the dip in facial animation is a real bummer.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
The lighting difference is just....geez. Probably causing some framerate issues, but just look at the guy's skin on the final release.
The Krogan armor is also much more pronounced in the early footage.
Of course! Just like Ubisoft patched the old lightning into Watch Dogs after everyone complained at the downgrade.
... More seriously tho, it's likely that the visuals in that leaked footage had to be downgraded for performance reasons just like it happened to games like XenobladeX or how Syndicate is not as good looking as Unity.
SRTtoZ
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The facial animation when he starts to choke is fantastic. What the hell happened to this game??? Unless that leaked portion was just a vertical slice made to look good.
Sounds like they ran into performance (memory?) issues. Everything got turned down. Look at the flatter hair and eye shaders.
Soltype
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That looks awful! Had to take a still image to post. May be a bit blurry from being a still, but the lighting, the colors, what happened?!
Looks almost like a different version of the game.
CarbonFire
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They probably aimed too high for current gen consoles and didn't have the expertise (or time) to optimize Frostbite to make it work. Which is probably why they didn't want to release any footage of this game until late in the project.
SRTtoZ
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Tenacious-D
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Look at this.
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[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/GHeXpfO.png[/IMG]What happened to the faces? Everything in the leaked clip looks fine, even the eyes.
Whut?
Another theory.
Already doing so since yesterday. Having a lot of fun. Gonna do an entire re-run of the original trilogy and pick this game up later when it's cheaper and patched out.
Angelus Errare
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Jesus, they need to call this game Mass Recall
PeakPointMatrix
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This is seriously Sonic Boom levels of downgrade and jank. Some serious irreparable change must have occurred at some point.
akidnamededdy
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Hey at least someone's gonna be playing a good Mass Effect game this week.
BuckRobotron
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I had paused an extended umpteenth replay of ME2 (PC, whereas games prior on 360) and now ready to pick up where I left off. Right after picking up Tali iirc.
PeakPointMatrix
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Is this a one-off bugged version of the cutscene or the way it plays on every retail copy? Is there a version out there without this crazy glitching?
akidnamededdy
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They know what they did.
Tenacious-D
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But they don't lack talent. The facial animations looked fine in that leaked vid. Even every other BioWare game since ME1 has also had better facial animation than ME;A.
Something went seriously wrong with the project that must have had a domino effect to cause this. I highly doubt that anyone is happy with this.
lastplayed
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Romulan Ale looks nothing like that...
Actually Romulan Ale looks different depending on the version of Trek we are talking about ;P
Romulan Ale should be illegal.
LordKasual
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dat wine
good jesus
akidnamededdy
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dat wine
"Shit, sorry - that was my pudding flask."
In one cutscène I had two characters following the exact same path and doing the exact same animations, like the game had only place for one teammember to put there and decided: what the heck, let's just mix up both.
Don't have a movie or a gif as I didn't think of saving it as a movie, but I do have the abomination in screenshot:
Don't have a movie or a gif as I didn't think of saving it as a movie, but I do have the abomination in screenshot:
I don't work their... but I would imagine they know the quality of the animation. They would still be hurt reading this. There's also more to the story that they can't talk about. If there was trouble developing or something had to get downgraded because it wasn't running.
TransTrender
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PeakPointMatrix
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I mean from that leaked beta footage, it's clear they know their shit. The expressions and movement seemed on-point. Somewhere along the line, they had to brutally reduce the footprint for optimization or pipeline purposes and their established work took a massive hit as a result. I believe the theory that facial bones were excised from the rig for example; it explains the wooden, incomplete faces in that particular scene.
lastplayed
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Officer.Sanchez
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In one cutscène I had two characters following the exact same path and doing the exact same animations, like the game had only place for one teammember to put there and decided: what the heck, let's just mix up both.
Don't have a movie or a gif as I didn't think of saving it as a movie, but I do have the abomination in screenshot:
From Doctor Strange
That's what happens when those of little faith try to perform miracles.
lastplayed
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In one cutscène I had two characters following the exact same path and doing the exact same animations, like the game had only place for one teammember to put there and decided: what the heck, let's just mix up both.
Don't have a movie or a gif as I didn't think of saving it as a movie, but I do have the abomination in screenshot:
Batgirl Cora?
SRTtoZ
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They probably saw this coming. Something happened in development that made this game go to shit and they probably know the answer to that so I would assume they were prepared for this shitstorm.
lol jesus
Every bit I've seen of this game looks awful. How does it have 75 on metacritic?
Dictator93
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Soul of the Beast
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I want to die.
This is is some pre-alpha stuff. It can't be the final game.
lmao she even hits the same note as the music for a second
So I feel like this is an unfair comparison since this is glitch gameplay where almost the entirety of the footage the facial animations were gone - none of the mouths move while speaking. Is there any real footage?
broncobuster
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AlexFlame116
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Good gracious!
Kain-Nosgoth
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how many of us do you intend to take with you?? You madman!
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