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Mass Effect: Andromeda PAX Livestream
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CottonWolf
Member
I'm confused. I thought only dad Ryder was set in stone and the twins were fully customizable (visually).
You can create custom characters, but you can't tweak the defaults supplied by Bioware.
So, in essence, you can replace the twins but then no one will call them by their first name as opposed to staying with default characters but being unable to change ANYTHING (not even their hairs?) with the only comfort that they'll be using their first names once in a while.
If that's the case then personally I find that utterly lame.
No, they're still Scott and Sara Ryder unless you rename them.
Neat! I knew this would be the case with the default presets, just wasn't sure if this would also be the case with custom characters.
Thanks, everyone!
It's just like it was with Sheploo in the original trilogy, except that if you keep their default names, you'll occasionally be addressed with them.
Same situation if you make a custom character with the default names.
Jampsuliini
Member
A little off-topic since I want to to in fresh, but do you guys happen to know how Origin Access works on this title? The page says you can play for 10 hours and that it's limited to the first planet. So are those all the limitations? I can dick around the first (Hinterlands 
) planet for 10 hours as I was playing the full game? No other artificial barriers for example?
) planet for 10 hours as I was playing the full game? No other artificial barriers for example?It was the same in the trilogy, actually. No changing of Vanderloo allowed.
I suspect the reasons for why we can't are of the technical and boring variety. It would be nice though, as in the trilogy I found myself often wishing I could keep the default but change something small on them.
Luckily this time I think I'm mostly fine with Sara's hairdo, which is something that used to be a big problem.
A little off-topic since I want to to in fresh, but do you guys happen to know how Origin Access works on this title? The page says you can play for 10 hours and that it's limited to the first planet. So are those all the limitations? I can dick around the first (Hinterlands
It cuts off the story after a while.
Well then. Maybe it's just about preserving the (imagined) integrity of Bioware's own creations then. That would be silly.
Jampsuliini
Member
Thanks! A bit of a bummer, but I think I'll bite anyway.
Durrzerker
Banned
It has some nice other benefits. I got it for Mass effect and was pleasantly surprised to find it comes with Mirror's Edge Catalyst, which I'd been meaning to grab.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
It's nice, isn't it, to always have "You are a sexist" card in your pocket to throw at whenever you see someone criticizing her face.
Her face looked weird, her face animated weird, but apparently that is not something exclusive to her only in this game, it's just that she's one of the leading mains so the effect is much more pronounced.
prag16
Banned
But I mean that doesn't appear to be what he was doing. I actually in general don't recall anyone trying to make that argument.
And reading what he ACTUALLY said, he's not exactly wrong..
The game will be available for a limited 10 hour trial Thursday via Origin Access on PC and EA Access on Xbox One. The is cost $5 per month or $30 per year. You will essentially be paying $5 for a 10 hour trial of the game, if you decide to purchase the game you will receive 10% off the full game as as EA/Origin Access member.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
It's tiresome to see that when we criticize Sara's look it's always assumed that we do it because we want her to be prettier and dolled up.
More and more videos came up and it became increasingly obvious that the jarring animation/look is not limited only to her, which is unfortunate.
You can try Origin Access for free for 7 days, actually. That's what I'm planning on doing.
I do have a question regarding the Origin trial, though: it says that your progress during the trial carries over to the full game. Does that only apply if you buy the full version digitally through Origin or also if you buy a physical copy?
You should be fine. I think the retail version only contains a Origin game code.
prag16
Banned
Are you sure? Or does this perhaps vary by region? The 7 day free offer on the website disappeared at some point last week. (U.S. here.)
Likewise the constant shitting on her has also become tiresome.
Tragic. Horrible. Ugly. Disaster. Scary. Garbage. All those and more have been used on gaf to describe her face. At what point does it become unreasonable?
Reizo Ryuu
Member
retail copy also runs through origin obviously.
Origin does have this weird quirk where you can have multiple copies of the same game, which you can individually install, but they all share the same dlc and savegames.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
I'll make sure not to criticize her looks or anything about her in the future if you are present, then.
prag16
Banned
light hearted tone for the win!
I'm really hoping the cheezy light hearted stuff eases up as the game progresses and (presumably) things become more serious and more is at stake
I'm in Germany and it's still there so it may well vary by region (though it does say "limited time only" so who knows for how long it'll still be up here).
Yeah, that's what I suspected. Thanks
!I think it becomes unreasonable when we are all a hive mind with the same tastes.
cripterion
Member
Was checking the Andromeda initiative briefing videos to get more info on the game (and get myself immersed prior to launch). It's really well done and explains quite a few things about the voyage, how it is possible, etc..
Reading the codex will be a pleasure in the game cause they seem to have put effort into the background and well they do still have a pre-established lore to back them up. On the other hand some things still look poor like character models, I mean these are supposed to be important NPC's : they are the Nexus leadership and look at them
Director of Colonial Affairs: Foster Addison
Nexus Security: Sloane Kelly
Are these placeholders or they'll actually be the actual NPC's we have to deal with?
I really hope the game will be in some ways moddable on pc cause some of these things are really dragging down the game for me.
Reading the codex will be a pleasure in the game cause they seem to have put effort into the background and well they do still have a pre-established lore to back them up. On the other hand some things still look poor like character models, I mean these are supposed to be important NPC's : they are the Nexus leadership and look at them
Director of Colonial Affairs: Foster Addison
Nexus Security: Sloane Kelly
Are these placeholders or they'll actually be the actual NPC's we have to deal with?
I really hope the game will be in some ways moddable on pc cause some of these things are really dragging down the game for me.
Was checking the Andromeda initiative briefing videos to get more info on the game (and get myself immersed prior to launch). It's really well done and explains quite a few things about the voyage, how it is possible, etc..
Reading the codex will be a pleasure in the game cause they seem to have put effort into the background and well they do still have a pre-established lore to back them up. On the other hand some things still look poor like character models, I mean these are supposed to be important NPC's : they are the Nexus leadership and look at them
Director of Colonial Affairs: Foster Addison
Nexus Security: Sloane Kelly
Are these placeholders or they'll actually be the actual NPC's we have to deal with?
I really hope the game will be in some ways moddable on pc cause some of these things are really dragging down the game for me.
Wait... Is that from Andromeda?
Yeah
martino
Member
Was checking the Andromeda initiative briefing videos to get more info on the game (and get myself immersed prior to launch). It's really well done and explains quite a few things about the voyage, how it is possible, etc..
Reading the codex will be a pleasure in the game cause they seem to have put effort into the background and well they do still have a pre-established lore to back them up. On the other hand some things still look poor like character models, I mean these are supposed to be important NPC's : they are the Nexus leadership and look at them
Director of Colonial Affairs: Foster Addison
Nexus Security: Sloane Kelly
Are these placeholders or they'll actually be the actual NPC's we have to deal with?
I really hope the game will be in some ways moddable on pc cause some of these things are really dragging down the game for me.
Android confirmed ? (same model with different custiomization ?)
I feel like I'm looking at images from a mobile game. Both npcs look identical just with a palette swap. Ugh.Director of Colonial Affairs: Foster Addison
Nexus Security: Sloane Kelly
Are these placeholders or they'll actually be the actual NPC's we have to deal with?
I really hope the game will be in some ways moddable on pc cause some of these things are really dragging down the game for me.
I hope this doesnt turn out to be one of things where we look back in retrospect and realize that the fact that they didn't really start putting out substantial info/gameplay until a month before release as a sign of obvious subpar quality.
alexanderftw
Banned
Was checking the Andromeda initiative briefing videos to get more info on the game (and get myself immersed prior to launch). It's really well done and explains quite a few things about the voyage, how it is possible, etc..
Reading the codex will be a pleasure in the game cause they seem to have put effort into the background and well they do still have a pre-established lore to back them up. On the other hand some things still look poor like character models, I mean these are supposed to be important NPC's : they are the Nexus leadership and look at them
Director of Colonial Affairs: Foster Addison
Nexus Security: Sloane Kelly
Are these placeholders or they'll actually be the actual NPC's we have to deal with?
I really hope the game will be in some ways moddable on pc cause some of these things are really dragging down the game for me.
Thats uhm...pretty bad if you put it together with all the dead looking npcs and statue like animations we've seen in some of the videos. Seems like they didnt put much effort in presentation and their focus, hopefully, was the story.
cripterion
Member
These are from the Andromeda Initiative briefing vids. You have info points at times and these were there along with the female Krogan (who looks well... like a Krogan lol).
But these stand out as incredibly generic, like a lot of the people we have seen from the crew, generic looking characters that look clones, just like you would find in Fifa or NBA 2K for non face scanned players.
Like I don't want to harp on the game about this all the time but it's pretty much in every footage they've shown, for all the good points the game has, this does drag down the game.
I know they can't facescan every people and such but I would expect more variation in the faces and even face scanned people look worse than what you would find in FIFA.
This is done on the same engine. (I know it's a football, not open world bla bla).
Is face scanning expensive, time consuming to do? I mean my avatar was done in 2K16 and I think it looks better than the npc's in Andromeda. I'd take face scans of the Bioware team over these generics anyday.
Heckler456
Banned
They're bad screenshots. We already know what that Sloan character looks like from the first gameplay video, as she's the person Ryder was talking to, and she looks perfectly fine in that one.
But please, don't let me be the one to stop you from the circlejerk.
Well, I don't make video games for a living, but logic dictates that if it were easy or even feasible for whatever pipeline they're working with, then they would be doing it. What I'm wondering at the moment, how do those faces animate?
But please, don't let me be the one to stop you from the circlejerk.
Well, I don't make video games for a living, but logic dictates that if it were easy or even feasible for whatever pipeline they're working with, then they would be doing it. What I'm wondering at the moment, how do those faces animate?
cripterion
Member
They're bad screenshots. We already know what that Sloan character looks like from the first gameplay video, as she's the person Ryder was talking to, and she looks perfectly fine in that one.
But please, don't let me be the one to stop you from the circlejerk.
Well, I don't make video games for a living, but logic dictates that if it were easy or even feasible for whatever pipeline they're working with, then they would be doing it.
I didn't take the screenshots, it's from their own website. I agree with you that they are of poor quality and I'm not disputing that, merely the faces of the human crew members that look generic.
None of them seem memorable to me at first glance, might change once I play and see their mug constantly though.
Heckler456
Banned
You've just shown me 4 pretty distinct looking human faces, so I don't really see what your point is here. Which characteristic makes these faces look "generic" to you, exactly?
Third one looks kind of okay? But, in my opinion, from an aesthetic standpoint, I think the original trilogy faces were more believable. Not necessarily more appealing (some of the original trilogy faces were pretty jank) but more believable in their environment.