Mass Effect Andromeda Hype Thread-GS:6! UPDATE: Improving animations, performance, etc. (Huge improvement for eyes)

a novel, as in a book you have to buy beside the game

i'm sorry but if you need an outside source to understand key points of the plot then it is badly written period

Before patch, i was getting 40-60fps at 1440p ultra.

After patch im usually 65-80 depending on location. Huge improvement.

If anyone is wondering, vsync has a huge negative impact on framerate in the game. Its like Wildlands.

Changing the vsync setting to "fast" in control panel fixes the issue.

I think I might be close to the end now having seen and finished most of the 'playable' planets and gone through most of the content including loyalty missions and I am really reluctant to continue even after 70+ hours spent in the game so far. I want to restart and try bio or tech (I went full combat, basically, and loved it) because I just don't want the game to end.

This is a 9.5 game for me, I love it. Reviewers who hated on it because that's what other reviewers were doing can get fucked, people hating on it without having played it can also get fucked, people quite frankly lying about all the game breaking bugs and glitches can also get fucked I have had a smooth ride all through the game apart from one minor side quest I couldn't finish on Kadarra. I'm not saying it doesn't have bugs but anyone even implying it is half finished or broken or in beta form or some other shit you can safely dismiss as an outright liar.

This is a truly brilliant game, IMO of course, I feel sad that some people will miss out on it because of an irresponsible witch hunt by reviewers and idiot gamers who believe everything they read and hate the game without even playing it.

@blueinheaven: +1 on that. I'm enjoying the heck out of the game. I do wish that last patch did more for performance on the PC but the game itself is fun. I don't get the hate.

Which control panel? You have an Nvidia or AMD?

EDIT: Found it. Trying this now

Me either.

I mean there are some glitches here and there, but no more than in other games.

Eyes were creepy, yes, but a lot of other games have the same eyes lol.

My biggest issue still remains though. Using throw on an enemy off a cliff or platform doesnt kill them, and so the end of combat never triggers which means a lot of reloading.............or in my case.............just stopped using throw..........my favorite power!

Other than that, easy 8.5 score for me

I see. I tried the VSync thing and still only get 45 fps average on ultra at 1440p. I have an i7 7700K and a gtx 1070. I even turned vsync off and still. At least on Kadara. Haven't tried anywhere else yet.

With a 1070, thats about right.

I have a 1080 and Kadara gets me about 65 at ultra, more when driving in open areas

Damn I knew I should have went with a 1080 lol

Ignore what I said I forgot that I had a resolution scale of 1.20 when I was messing around before the patch update. It's now at ultra on Kadara at 57 fps! I had a feeling I was doing something wrong.

@TheGrudge13: You don't need it, however, the story is covered there as well. And the NPCs talk about it constantly on how they became criminals.

With the latest patch PC, I'm so glad Bioware added Motion Blur option to turn it off and boy, Andromeda looks and plays so much better without it and why the hell Bioware didn't have Motion Blur option was beyond stupid, I'm seeing much better increase from 50fps to constant 60fps to 70fps but for some reasons, Steam takes control inputs from the controller while playing ME:A and causes many problems like windowing the game, loss of controls when rotating as it thinks my controller is a KB/M. I can close Steam and that will fix it, though I need a solution that doesn't involve closing Steam. I am using a Xbox Elite controller and no third party apps but I might check out if I need to update my windows 10 drivers later today.

That's kinda stupid... because your character can succumb to fall damage, why can't the enemy?

I'm sure the animation fixes would have given me a different experience because I always felt the ridiculous facial expressions did undermine the story the game was trying to tell....but the writing is still bad. There's no changing that. I may come back to it some day but I already traded it in after I was done with it.

You can respect for a handful of credits in the med bay on the Tempest at any time.

Just finished the game with 68 hours played, apart from a couple scan bodies and collect data pads quests, so you can't be far from the end at all. I've also got a couple of bugged quests that will not complete, which is a bit annoying but they are minor ones (I think!) One of them is the transmissions quest on Voeld, which may or may not have further parts/consequences, that meteor is very suspect..

I, personally, wouldn't call it a 9.5 but it's certainly far better than a 6, the game deservedly loses points for poor animations and bugged quests. Some of the voice acting and scripting is pretty bad as well ("my face is tired" seriously wtf?) There's are enough major bugs that should have pushed the release date back at least a couple of months. It's far from being a bad game but it could have been a great game with a little more time in the oven.

Can someone explain the dev's excuse for breaking lore with the female krogan? In ME3, Eve is the only one left alive. So how the **** are there 9 billion female krogan running around in Andromeda? The Initiative left before ME3 events..

Preposterous. I can think of one reason, as the only logical explanation.

Well The Andromeda Initiative is successfully launched just as Mas Effect 2 starts. Krogan life spans are also much longer than humans, so they would not have had to sleep for long if at all. They used that time to make advances on the genophage. It's possible that some Krogans survived birth on the way to Andromeda.

The other thing is that Eve is not the only female Krogan alive. She was the only fertile female. This meant that if they didn't cure it with her, a cure would be impossible.

The game is still a fucking mess. I am currently experiencing this bug

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/AVP-Viability-Reset/td-p/5947839

Progress of my planets had been dropped to fucking zero. Meaning I can not unlock a ton of abilities. I have just lost 8 hours of gameplay. Anyone saying this game is fixed is f*cking lying c*nt.

And Bioware response is

This specific issue is not addressed in today's patch.

We are currently investigating and verifying a potential fix to be pushed with our next main patch.

Unfortunately, due to the nature of this issue, a retroactive fix will not be possible.

I do not have an ETA for the next patch.

As for details of how to play in a manner to avoid the issue.

1. Make manual saves on a frequent basis to minimize the potential time lost.

2. If you die and resume, check your viability (after settling Eos then talking to Addison on the Nexus, this can be checked at any time via the pause menu)

3. The main areas people have been reporting encountering this issue is during vaults and dungeons. I advise making a manual save before going into the vault/dungeon, and upon completion, check viability to ensure that it, at no point during the dungeon, was reset.

Don't believe these corportive c0ck suckers funboys here. DONT BUY. IT IS STILL BROKEN.

Finished it today. Enjoyed the overall experience, though the last boss was pure garbage, the adds were bullshit. If they go with an Andromeda 2, which seems to be indicated, hopefully we get some less glitchy gameplay.

56 hours in and finished it today. Enjoyed the overall experience, though the last boss was pure garbage, the adds were bullshit. If they go with an Andromeda 2, which seems to be indicated, hopefully we get some less glitchy gameplay.

@jhonMalcovich said:

The game is still a fucking mess. I am currently experiencing this bug

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/AVP-Viability-Reset/td-p/5947839

Progress of my planets had been dropped to fucking zero. Meaning I can not unlock a ton of abilities. I have just lost 8 hours of gameplay. Anyone saying this game is fixed is f*cking lying c*nt.

And Bioware response is

This specific issue is not addressed in today's patch.

We are currently investigating and verifying a potential fix to be pushed with our next main patch.

Unfortunately, due to the nature of this issue, a retroactive fix will not be possible.

I do not have an ETA for the next patch.

As for details of how to play in a manner to avoid the issue.

1. Make manual saves on a frequent basis to minimize the potential time lost.

2. If you die and resume, check your viability (after settling Eos then talking to Addison on the Nexus, this can be checked at any time via the pause menu)

3. The main areas people have been reporting encountering this issue is during vaults and dungeons. I advise making a manual save before going into the vault/dungeon, and upon completion, check viability to ensure that it, at no point during the dungeon, was reset.

Don't believe these corportive c0ck suckers funboys here. DONT BUY. IT IS STILL BROKEN.

Played over 80 hours and had no such glitch either you're lying or you just have a shit ton of bad luck. Game aint broken though last patch really fixed alot of issues

@jhonMalcovich: Look, the game is buggy, no doubt about that, but bugs are inherently random, they might happen to an unlucky one like you or not happen to another player, we've had ppl here who've clocked in more than 50 hours and have finished the game, I've seen players on PC who have experienced a few bugs and nothing game-breaker, i'm not saying you're lying or sth and i do expect that you understand the situation and don't blame others or call them liars.

But overall, yeah it'd be better to wait and let them iron it out.

That's a bummer, but why are you using Steam?

@jhonMalcovich: Wow... bad luck. Never got that glitch.

@Zero_epyon: i can 1000% confirm that they left after the event of ME2. They at least left after the project overlord crisis.

@lifelessablaze: The writing is only bad at the start. After getting to Aya there is are no more goofy lines.

I don't know weather to laugh or cry from this post. Because someone was not paying attention. Eve is not the last female Krogan. She is the last of the Krogan left that Malon, Mordin's student, experimented on to find a cure for the genophage.

@blueinheaven: For me it's 7.5-7.7. Not a bad plot but held back by alot of issues.

I have to disagree with that. The writing was bad through and through. The Archon, for example seemed interesting when he had little to say but towards the end when he had a lot of dialog, it exposed the terrible writing. His appearance was polarizing everytime it showed him but at the end, he transformed into a cartoon character villain with cliched motives you've seen a million times before in cartoon villains.

I felt the Gameplay for the most was solid and the story was compelling enough to keep me on board the Tempest for another adventure. In the end it got a little repetitive like most open world games these days.

I'm starting to see a pattern with the latest games like GR: Wildlands and Horizon Zero Dawn (I picked both up and they are each good in their own way) However, they are so similar on the open world objectives and side missions ie: Go here, find this, scan this, loot that, etc.

Hopefully, soon we will see something fresh *COUGH* Red Dead 2 *COUGH*. Only time will tell.

@lifelessablaze: I did not say the archon was a great villain. Other then that nothing after Aya is badly written.

Agreed, haven't played the new Zelda but it seems to have a different approach and hopefully RDR2 will introduce sth fresh

Is it me or does Sara completely wipe the floor with Scott? Once again, the female VA beats her male counterpart in a Bioware game.

Archon is not even the only villain. This game has multiple threatening independent villains.

@texasgoldrush: 1. I like scoot better.

2. Dude the Archon is the only main villian. He may not be the only threat but but he is the only villian. Everyone else is just fodder.

@dreman999: Nothing, to what extent? Are you talking about the main story, characters, side missions, etc?

Akksul, Knight, Strux, Exiles of H-047c, Spender, Primus, Calot, even Sloane Kelley. This game has an excellent villain cast, while the main antagonist isn't as strong, villains like Akksul make up for it.

Sara's VA simply put, has more emotional range and Scott's VA sometimes seems he is reading from a card than acting. I think the gap is wider than Jennifer Hale to Mark Meer.

@worknow222 said:

@jhonMalcovich said:

The game is still a fucking mess. I am currently experiencing this bug

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/AVP-Viability-Reset/td-p/5947839

Progress of my planets had been dropped to fucking zero. Meaning I can not unlock a ton of abilities. I have just lost 8 hours of gameplay. Anyone saying this game is fixed is f*cking lying c*nt.

And Bioware response is

This specific issue is not addressed in today's patch.

We are currently investigating and verifying a potential fix to be pushed with our next main patch.

Unfortunately, due to the nature of this issue, a retroactive fix will not be possible.

I do not have an ETA for the next patch.

As for details of how to play in a manner to avoid the issue.

1. Make manual saves on a frequent basis to minimize the potential time lost.

2. If you die and resume, check your viability (after settling Eos then talking to Addison on the Nexus, this can be checked at any time via the pause menu)

3. The main areas people have been reporting encountering this issue is during vaults and dungeons. I advise making a manual save before going into the vault/dungeon, and upon completion, check viability to ensure that it, at no point during the dungeon, was reset.

Don't believe these corportive c0ck suckers funboys here. DONT BUY. IT IS STILL BROKEN.

Played over 80 hours and had no such glitch either you're lying or you just have a shit ton of bad luck. Game aint broken though last patch really fixed alot of issues

Just because you don't get the bug, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

I'll probably wait a few months after a few more patches is released and makes this a bit more complete for me to play. Still waiting on Final Fantasy XV...lol

Same here! lol

I really cant wait to see it running on PC at max settings, 60fps

@texasgoldrush: None of those people are a real threat or even be called a Main villain. I could say in me2 Shepard main villains were not the collectors and start listing every person he/she fought.

@lifelessablaze: What else is there? The Arhcon is Cory 2.0. He's badly developed. But after then there is no story, plot point or character that has that issue after Aya. The closest one would Be Peebee.

Wrong.

Akksul and the Roekkar are dangerous threats to the Initiative and seek to exterminate the Milky way species. They also attack Prodromos.

Knight plants bombs on the Nexus that could have crippled the Initiative if she wasn't stopped.

Many Exiles seek to attack the Initiative,

Spender's corruption leads to conflict with the Krogan.

The Scourge itself is a bigger threat than the Archon.

And here is the deal about ME2, its not the narrative web Andromeda is. ME2's minor villains are not as threatening as Andromeda's.

Beat the game yesterday and while I enjoyed it, the game is far from the first 3 in quality. I kinda was expecting it. Since ME 1 the 2 owners left, the game director, lead writer, plus others. This is not the same Bioware.

The maps may be more open and larger but the world actually feels much smaller. They basically copied Dragons Age Inquisition but did a worse job. Even DA: I had some interesting things to see when walking around the maps. In ME: A it is kinda boring. It is not fun exploring even though that is the point of the Pathfinder. All that will happen is you will run into a small enemy camp which normally is some mobs standing around a truck and boxes or if there is a building it is just one room. They will be the same as the one you just passed and that one before that and so on. There is also 3 remnant towers on each map and they all look the same and one vault each and again it all feels the same.

The Nexus is this games Citadel but even Mass Effect 1 had a bigger hub. I understand Nexus is just starting off but it could have been much larger. The cryo chamber is just a hallway yet there is supposed to be 10s of thousands still in cryo. The hydroponic food is been grown in the middle of a main walkway in front of the bar. The nexus in all parts feels very minimal. Yet when you see the Nexus it is huge.

The 2 new aliens were boring and bland. It is clear not much was put into the design or the history of the races. The original aliens were clearly more well thought out. They all had history behind them. The angara instead they really have no history because they were created. Hell the Geth were created also and have a far more interesting history. Instead of the dumb storyline they used with the Angara they could have given them a better history. Have the Kett, Angara and maybe some race killed off by the Kett long ago been battling it out for 100s of years. That could have also helped when exploring. You could see the worlds have history from old battles, to architecture, datepads talking about things that happened 100s of years ago. Then again when you fight Akksul in what is supposed to be some religious place it looks like just any other place. So maybe it is just lazy devs. Also the Angara looked poorly done, especially the females.

I know this has already been talked about a lot but the character models do look bad, especially the asari.

Please bring back the battle wheel and squad commands, I'm begging. You are stuck with only 3 powers unless you pause the game in the middle of a fight and change hotkeys for spells.

I could go on a lot more but in the end the game is fun but nothing epic. If it was not attached to the first 3 Mass Effect games and was its own project I doubt anyone would care if there was a sequel.

@CanYouDiglt: However, with quest design, it wipes the floor with DAI as quests connect to the narrative of the game instead of just being random tasks.

The Nexus changes over time, the Citadel in ME1 doesn't. And you do not visit the entire Cryo Bay, only the one that's been mostly opened.

Once again, the angarians are used to mirror the Milky Way species. And as much as they have less lore, the narrative web of MEA is far better than the trilogy, which could only do one story at a time.

You can only use three powers at a time because of balance, because powers cool individually.

First off I can not believe you would crap on other Bioware games you have spent countless hours defending just to defend ME:A. I am a gigantic fan of the first 3 ME games and would rather this one live up to the old ones. Your whole response is this game is better then the other games and that is just 100% wrong. Are you a fan of the games or just an apologist for the most current Bioware game?

1- I was not trying to compare the two games ME-A and DA-I as a whole, even though in many ways ME: A does feel like DA: I but not as well. The ME team clearly took cues from the DA team when it comes to maps but did not do as well. I am not saying DA:I was amazing map wise but it was far better. There was areas that was really cool to look at but I never thought that in ME:A. In ME it is the same basic stuff done over and over and over. At least in DA:I I can walk by some crazy huge statue or some great looking water fall or whatever. To make it worse 3/5 the planets you can not even walk around on ME:A LMAO. Not that there is any reason since stuff it to spread apart to do it unlike DA:I. In ME:A it is not only boring but deadly. That is until you go to one of the vaults which all look alike, even then it takes time for for the vault effect to have effect so you will not die walking around.

Also OMG almost all of the ME:A side quests do actually feel meaningless. So great maybe it was a quest that brought it a little closer to 100% for that planet which does nothing. Oh wait you can maybe then open a cryo pod which gives you some reward but changes nothing in general. Oh wait if you get 100% on all places you get some 1 minute quest after the game where you do not even leave the ship at all.

An example how quests mean nothing, I choose the salarian pathfinder over the krogan scouts. I thought I might lose a crew mate over this either way and NOPE nothing at all. I said sorry to Drake and next conversation which I did right away, it was all good. I then went to Nexus right after that mission and Kesh even talked about how much I have done for the krogans. So literally zero impact at all and that is a main quest.

The Nexus is small as shit. The Nexus does not change much at all. Also even at the biggest change it is still dwarfed by the 10 year old ME1 and even more so the ME 2 and ME 3. My point was not just the cryo chamber alone but nothing feels grand about it. Heck the militia for the Nexus is some turian standing next to a apex stand. Their jail is 2 connected cells and that is even shared with other things. Shop owners can not even get their own shop. The shop owners have to share and even then all they get is a counter. Going back to the cryo chamber though instead of a small hallway they could have shown in the background a huge effect of how many chambers there were. At least then it would give the impression there actually are 10s of thousands there instead of maybe 30.

There is nothing better about the Angara then any of the races of the original and it is just crazy to say otherwise. Nothing about the angara mirrors the other races because there is nothing there to mirror. They are the most bland race of the series. I know far more about the volus then the angara and one is a minor race and one was a huge race in a game. I am only talking about what I learned in ME1 about the volus also. So each being only one game I learned more about a race I rarely see then one that has a person on my team. It is clear from the races appearance and history that there was FAR more thought put into the original races then the angara.

Combat is worse and that should not even be up for debate. The fact you are making excuses why it is better to have less is crazy. The great thing about the first 3 was how you can choose a playstyle on the battlefield and be a commander. In the first 3 I could wreck shit no matter what came. In ME:A though you have no say on your companions at all except attack that guy and you have far less powers. Flame does less to armor now and shock abilities does less to shields also. They also took away abilities to add short range abilities to a open world, WTF!

Here is something I did not mention before but-

You can not even touch the main badguy you hunt the entire game. The end boss fight is you fighting enemies you have fought a thousand times over. The boss fight is the big remnant worm and smaller remnant. So I already killed 4 of these big worms that summon other remnant for 4/5 planets and now the main boss is I fight a worm that has other remnant summoned. So ya the boss fight is something I already did 4 times. Wait so no Archon fight at all??? Nope! At least the main storyline fight before that you fight the Archon lackey.

The sister and brother thing is pointless and a waste of time. I wish I knew from the start how pointless it was. I always though that Sara would end up on my team or at least a bigger role. Nope. She has a 5 minute mission and then talks to me in the final mission the same as Sam has done the entire game.

It's wall of text day.

@CanYouDiglt: Lets go over some things now shall we.

1. Choosing the salarians over the krogan actually DOES have an impact. It impacts the enemy encounter design in the final two missions where there are more Behemoths to fight if you choose the salarians. And whoever you choose helps on the final mission. You see Andromeda has more subtle consequences than its predecessors. Its the same with Jaal's loyalty mission.

And I am going to say this about DAI vs MEA when it comes to map design as I said about FO3 vs New Vegas, the writing of the world is more important than its aesthetics and MEA's worlds are better written than DAI's as so is the quest writing. In DAI, I am doing random crap for random people to where it has nothing to do with the themes of the map. This is not the case in MEA where the writing and the quests are consistent with the story and the themes of the map.

2. The Nexus DOES change over time, as it gets more and more visitors, it gets more and more NPCs and quests, and the Docking Bay expands and things open up. Its the same with Aya. As more events are done through the game, not only does things open up, the conversations change to reflect what is going on in the game. It is Bioware's most reactive game actually.

3. Combat is not worse, they just have to balance it where you cannot use 8 powers at once. Is a far more balanced affair. And really, you are supposed to build 4 playstyles and change them when the situation needs it. And really, overall, its less limiting than ME3.

"Nothing about the angara mirrors the other races because there is nothing there to mirror. They are the most bland race of the series. I know far more about the volus then the angara and one is a minor race and one was a huge race in a game."

You keep trying to bring up lore when I am bringing up theme, because thematically, they mirror the Milky Way species. Theme is more important than lore for the sake of lore anyway.

And as for the first three games, they are far from flawless masterpieces, and really, Andromeda does many things better than the trilogy. You just do not want to recognize this. For example, it does loyalty quests much better than ME2 and ties them into the central narrative, unlike ME2.

I'm finally at a point where doing the side stuff is simply not fun anymore. Time to roll the main story.

@texasgoldrush: Well I disagree with all of the things you said and you would probably disagree with my responses. You obviously think the game was better then I did. We will just have to disagree on the game.

I have to say I do not understand why you trash other Bioware games to defend ME:A when you have spent so much time defending those same games.

Shitposters gonna shitpost. Texasgoldrush would strangle a puppy to death if it meant he could continue to shill. It shouldn't surprise you to know that he's done this for every game Bioware has put out, including Dragon Age 2.