[PC Game] Mass Effect 4 - Andromeda : My Face is Tired but the MP isn't

Dei

Dei

Ravenpoe said:
I've come to a new conclusion. I no longer think the animations or the dialogue are what is going on here. I think Sara Ryder is just autistic. In fact, I think everyone on the crew is autistic. I think the Andromeda Initiative was just an evil plot to shoot all of Earth's autistic people into space.
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Shooting all of the people with high functioning autism into space maybe, but not every single autistic person. :p
 
Jay

Jay

lol, just finished a storyline bit and basically "Ryder, come here and look at this."

...and I'm looking at my Windows desktop.

I just LOLed. Fortunately the save wasn't far off and the problem didn't repeat.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

So, I managed to work past the bugs and got it to stop crashing. I've even been able to look past how atrocious everyone looks and how badly animated everything is to get to the meat of the game.


I'm bored.
 
Dei

Dei

I have 46 hours in the game and I'm still interested enough to keep going. As a counter perspective. ;)

Though part of that is just to find out what outrageous animation glitches I can find next. :p
 
Frank

Frank

Just played through the opening.

Some early observations.

- How the hell does Milky Way technology interface so easily with Andromeda stuff? I get how stuff somehow works in the MW because everything's based on Reaper stuff. This may possibly be explained, but based on the AAAAAATROCIOUS dialog so far, I doubt it.

- Yay, Clancy Brown. BOOOOOO!! CLANCY BROWN!

- The bad guys look like the inbetween of Prothians and Collectors. Lame and lazy.

- It feels like the automated facial animations were designed for male faces and they look more natural on males. Unfortunately, so far 90% of the cast is female so everyone looks fucked up. (Note, not unfortunate that the cast is female, unfortunate they didn't bother to adapt it to female faces)

- Whoever did the eye textures deserves to be fired. They look worse than Oblivion eyes. That game is like 200 years old at this point.

- The character creator is wooooeful.

- Did I mention the dialog? I thought it was a joke, but hooooooooly shit. "He wanted to go out somewhere in the stars no one had been." Fuuuuucking fiiiiiiiire Maaaaac Waaaaaalters.
 
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Frank

Frank

Did some Nexus stuff. Turians. Look. Like. Crap. What the hell is going on with their colour?

Also, did someone shoot chief Addison in the face with Homer Simpson's makeup gun?

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All the turians look like Garus in Mass Effect 1 on PC where he had a low resolution glitch.


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THEY SHOULDN'T LOOK AS BAD AS MASS EFFECT 1 LOW RES GLITCH GARRUS!
 
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Dei

Dei

There are 2 things in this game that made me ragey. One is that you can't hear someone talking if they are behind you, so you NEED to have subtitles on. The other is the incessant amount of chatter when you go in and out of "hazard zones"
 
Frank

Frank

My buddy is fixing my headset for me right now or I would have joined in on multiplayer already. Not really feeling non communicative MP.

If I can't shit talk my own team mates and the enemy AI constantly, I'm not happy.
 
Frank

Frank

This game is so fucking frustrating.

I can see the great game underneath all the problems. Every time something great begins to emerge, the animation breaks, my allies start flying, SOMEONE OPENS THEIR MOUTH AND DIALOG HAPPENS.

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGHHH
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Frank said:
This game is so fucking frustrating.

I can see the great game underneath all the problems. Every time something great begins to emerge, the animation breaks, my allies start flying, SOMEONE OPENS THEIR MOUTH AND DIALOG HAPPENS.

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGHHH
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Imagine how much better this game would be with a silent protagonist.

And a silent antagonist.

And if everyone else was silent too.

This game has really bad writing, is what I'm getting at.
 
Frank

Frank

So, about scanning for minerals with the Nomad. I feel like the poor decision for that went like this:

Dev 1: So, what were people's least favorite parts of Mass Effect 1 and 2?

Dev 2: Well, for sure it would be the driving parts of Mass Effect 1 and the most negative feedback we had for 2 was the boring mineral scanning.

Executive: So what you're saying is those are parts people would remember?

Dev 1: Technically yes, but not in a posit..

Executive: PERFECT, FUCKING COMBINE THEM, WHO GIVES A FUCK? LETS FUCKING DO THIS! I LOVE COCAINE AND MAKING TERRIBLE DECISIONS! I WORK FOR FUCKING EA! BUGS AND DLC FUCKERS! FACIAL ANIMATIONS THAT ARE POOR ARE THE ONLY WAY I CAN CUUUUUUMMMMM!!!!!!
 
Jay

Jay

Frank said:
So, about scanning for minerals with the Nomad. I feel like the poor decision for that went like this:

Dev 1: So, what were people's least favorite parts of Mass Effect 1 and 2?

Dev 2: Well, for sure it would be the driving parts of Mass Effect 1 and the most negative feedback we had for 2 was the boring mineral scanning.

Executive: So what you're saying is those are parts people would remember?

Dev 1: Technically yes, but not in a posit..

Executive: PERFECT, FUCKING COMBINE THEM, WHO GIVES A FUCK? LETS FUCKING DO THIS! I LOVE COCAINE AND MAKING TERRIBLE DECISIONS! I WORK FOR FUCKING EA! BUGS AND DLC FUCKERS! FACIAL ANIMATIONS THAT ARE POOR ARE THE ONLY WAY I CAN CUUUUUUMMMMM!!!!!!
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I don't mind the Nomad, I really don't but I'm my 2nd visit to EOS and I'll be honest, there's shit here for the sake of being here. The Inquisition of sorts that can be avoided.
The first past was OK but now there's literally another half a planet to explore and it's mostly fluff.

The worst decision however is making all this shit and having a NOMAD that can go up shit.

NO, I do not want to go on 6 wheel drive to go up this little hill. Why am I going slow as fuck? Oh, 6 wheel drive is on.

Who thought this was a good idea?

By far what I hate the most in this game though? Literally loot every fucking where. Rocks/Minerals/containers.... like how the fuck are there so many fucking containers and why didn't anyone loot them at any given point or time. This is especially true at the Angaran home world.

Oh and whoever designed these menus for PC should die of consolitis.[DOUBLEPOST=1491164255,1491164053][/DOUBLEPOST]
GasBandit said:
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The Allison part and Shep at the end made me laugh.

The rest, meh.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Jay said:
I don't mind the Nomad, I really don't but I'm my 2nd visit to EOS and I'll be honest, there's shit here for the sake of being here. The Inquisition of sorts that can be avoided.
The first past was OK but now there's literally another half a planet to explore and it's mostly fluff.

The worst decision however is making all this shit and having a NOMAD that can go up shit.

NO, I do not want to go on 6 wheel drive to go up this little hill. Why am I going slow as fuck? Oh, 6 wheel drive is on.

Who thought this was a good idea?

By far what I hate the most in this game though? Literally loot every fucking where. Rocks/Minerals/containers.... like how the fuck are there so many fucking containers and why didn't anyone loot them at any given point or time. This is especially true at the Angaran home world.

Oh and whoever designed these menus for PC should die of consolitis.[DOUBLEPOST=1491164255,1491164053][/DOUBLEPOST]

The Allison part and Shep at the end made me laugh.

The rest, meh.
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Thank goodness that all these new and foreign worlds you have to explore are littered with milky-way ammo around every turn.
 
Sara_2814

Sara_2814

Jay said:
The worst decision however is making all this shit and having a NOMAD that can go up shit.

NO, I do not want to go on 6 wheel drive to go up this little hill. Why am I going slow as fuck? Oh, 6 wheel drive is on.

Who thought this was a good idea?
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They figured out how to put people into cryo storage and travel 2.5 million light years to another galaxy, but nobody can figure out traction control!
 
Frank

Frank

Why the fuck is there a God damn unbelievably lengthy transition that is completely unskippable every time I click on a new location in the star map, but when I founded a new settlement, it literally faded to black and there's suddenly a new God damn city around me? Wouldn't a neat little animation of building pods touching down or transports arriving have been a good touch? Nope. Black screen. New town. Addison and her makeup shotgun face is here.

WHY?

I WANT TO LIKE YOU ANDROMEDA! STOP IT!
 
Frank

Frank

https://www.masseffect.com/news/the-journey-ahead?sf53509845=1

Basically, they're going to finish the game over the next couple of months aka, thanks for the Early Access beta money fuckfaces.[DOUBLEPOST=1491323254,1491323158][/DOUBLEPOST]Patch notes for 1.05

Patch 1.05 Notes

Improved tutorial placement

Single player balance changes: Ammo crates, armor, weapons, nomad, profiles, attacks, and progression

Multiplayer balance changes: Weapons, cover, and enemies (check back for detailed notes on balance changes)

Added option to skip autopilot sequences in the galaxy map

Improved logic, timing, and continuity for relationships and story arcs

Improved lip-sync and facial acting during conversations, including localized VO

Fixed various collision issues

Fixed bugs where music or VO wouldn’t play or wasn’t correct

Fixed issue where global squad mate banter sometimes wasn’t firing on UNCs

Fixed issue where player was unable to access the Remnant Console Interface after failing decryption multiple times

Fixed issue where fast travel is sometimes disabled after recruiting Drack until the player reloads a save

Fixed issue where Ryder can become stuck in the start of Biotic Charge Pose

Fixes issues related to some saves

Fixed issue where objective sometimes becomes un-interactable for players in multiplayer

Streaming and stability improvements
 
Dei

Dei

Don't see anything about my two big ragey things, but maybe it's included in one of those very broad categories.
 
Frank

Frank

Patch note missing

- Removed the makeup gun from Addison's quarters. She no longer looks like a clown.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Frank said:
Patch note missing

- Removed the makeup gun from Addison's quarters. She no longer looks like a clown.
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Look, you know Bioware is in the dating sim business, and they try to cater to every group. The clown fetishist demographic needed a little courting this time around, we can't all be hot for alien lesbians.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Null said:
Improved lip-sync and facial acting during conversations, including localized VO

Maybe?
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That just means their faces might actually move during conversation. But even when not conversing, everyone in the game suffers from a massive case of derpface.
 
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