EARLY ACCESS PLAYERS: We'd love to hear your (spoiler-free!) feedback [Thread now closed]

I'll give you a piece of my mind when the 10 hours are up. Some early feedback is that your CC is a downgrade from DAI. An overall net negative as far as I'm concerned.

Im in it!! The game looks good, better than expected, combat gameplay feels like a mass effect game to me.

Like a lot people I think the CC is lacking but they said they will try to patch it so it will be good.

Still waiting for my download to... download so the only thing I can properly give feedback on is the CC.

Mainly being that if it's possible, to make all or at least a majority of the hairstyles available to both Ryders,
for example - the 2 natural hairstyles available for black male Ryders should be available to female Ryders too.

Just a suggestion to the mods. If [BIO]Tiberius (Ian Frazier) wants, maybe we can have a variety of threads pinned at the top for various types of feedback, post launch. For example, if he wants ideas on how to improve the character creator for a future patch, pin a thread up top and make that the designated feedback thread.

It's all about community. The devs don't have time to read everything, but if we pin up threads that have our main feedback on MEA, I think that would go a long way. It can help with post-launch patches, future DLC, or even future games. Bioware has always been about community feedback, and while we can never have an absolutely perfect game, I think we owe it to the devs to try and explain certain feedback here on the forums in ways that can't be done on Twitter.

It can help both the community and the devs in the long run, and I think that's a situation we can all welcome with open arms.

Thanks to [BIO]Tiberius for setting this thread up! I hope we get more opportunities like this to send feedback directly to the devs. I know they can't implement all our wishes, but I know it's surely not from a lack of heart or trying, and they are listening 

Spoiler free feedback: MP is lovely, and I love that you gave us loyalty packs for having DAI and ME3 saves.

I'm consistently impressed with the fact that we see BioWare devs take all of this passionate bunch into account. I'll definitely make a considerate write-up of this and give thoughtful opinions back when I'm done.

I'll chime back in a day or two

Here, have a sticky to the top of the forum.

You know I was going to create an account just to comment here, and in the process I discovered I already had one I created when BSN Prime closed. Anywho, on to the actual post:

With the greatest respect Mr. Ian sir, this seems like exactly the sort of thing that companies have "official" forums for.

Okay, so...

What a start. I was giggling like a little girl when the "Mass Effect Andromeda" appeared in the screen. I picked quick Scott Ryder startup, cause I wanted to jump right in without wasting any time. And then later I realized I didn't choose Shepard's gender, so I have been wondering what was the default option for the quick startup since then, and if anyone cares in answering... maybe Tiberius...?

The whole intro felt very like Mass Effect 1, the soundtrack, talking to people, and then heading into the unknown from mine and Ryder's perspective. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time during the crash.

Ryder and Liam met again, and boy, what a hilarious banter they have. They're literally two young lost bros in a wild space. The visuals and presentation was off the charts throughout the level, so beautiful. Great job here.

The first contact with the Kett was surprisingly well done, props for making the moment with the player's control, I was eating my nails as the Kett talked shizzle at me, I wasn't sure what to do, I didn't want to mess things up. Really invested here.

And the combat... it's so smooth, like - really smooth. I didn't know the cover would work that well, at least so far. It makes me eager to have another gunfight. It's holly balls of amazing.

The performance in this level, Habitat 7, was consistent most of the time, didn't notice any major frame drops. Xbox One here, overall - solid performance. Hoping for that Scorpio patch... right?

Fast forward spoilers, (epic scene by the way), The Nexus... what a hub, so vibrant and full of life. That view... very Mass Effecty. Need to open this thing up.

Side quests, so far, have been really interesting, lots of dialogue and lots of player's input, feels meaningful and I get to learn more about this world and what's happening in it.

Just got The Tempest. And by the goddess, what a lovely ship. It feels like a place I want to spend 100 hours in it. The only thing that bothered me a little was the strong outside lighting and how some textures looked rather off because of it. I think Ryder's facial textures weren't fully loaded until a certain point. But it was hard to know because of the light.


Really dig the UI, so fast and effective. Not the nightmare that was vanilla TW3.


If that's the Andromeda theme during the Tempest's take off, it's perfection.


Anyways, I'm taking a break because got to wake up early tomorrow, but I can't wait to visit Eos, and the Nomad! Story's been shaping up to be something special, I already love Sam and the mystery behind the Ryder family. So much to discover!

Also, Bae Cora :3

That's my impressions so far. Really enjoying it. Five years of waiting, and it was worth it.

Now, someone fill me in regarding the canon Shepard for each quick startup or I will die of angst before the game tells me and I have to restart again...

Edit : Forgot to add, I already am enjoying Scott Ryder more than Shepard, he feels like an actual person instead of the player's avatar, as seen in ME1 and ME2, he reacts to stuff, the animations being an important factor, and sure - they aren't perfect by any means, there's room for improvements, but they don't take me away from the immersion. I love Scotty :3

His walking animations, though... fingergasm. I hope I just made that word up...

Quick reaction is that it feels ME but at the same time it also feels very, very DAI. An hr in and one thing that keeps bugging me is that I'm not making a connection with Ryder yet. 'could be based on the CC missing customization, but also that the dialogue is a bit... lacking... even though there is a ton of it.

I do have to say that visually it's a great looking game.