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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 31, 2017 16:26:58 GMT
1.31GB on Xbox One
What on earth is in here...
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 30, 2017 18:14:08 GMT
I do wonder whether the rise and apparent fall of the Season Pass model is why we haven't seen NDAs talked about as much for a while.
Like, when a game releases with a Season Pass detailing various additional content you'll recieve further down the line, that content is announced right off the bat and we know it's definitely coming and the devs can at least somewhat talk about it, because it's all factored into the game's current and projected earnings.
But with no future content announced for MEA, they can't just casually talk about it until said announcement is formally made one way or the other. Hell, I bet Mike Laidlaw's comment about not being done with DAI DLC was made when it was clear internally that Trespasser would definitely release and there was no chance his tease would come back to bite them.
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 30, 2017 16:46:18 GMT
I'd assume they're just covering themselves for every possible eventuality - the game (or it's MP mode) still making them enough money to continue way beyond the game's expected lifespan, a sequel being rushed into development that'll use many of the same concepts, systems and potentially ideas that were never realised for the previous game, or simply protecting the brand against insider knowledge of it being used to create a rival game?
ME3 may have 'ended' in 2013 when the Citadel DLC released, but in the meantime there's been a pretty steady stream of merch and such - they don't want the value of that stuff (or the company's shares) being affected by any insider info coming to light, regardless of how benign it might seem. At the end of the day, such a long NDA doesn't hurt them in the slightest and protects them from pretty much everything, even outlandish improbable scenarios.
They're just video games to us, but to EA it's business and their very livelihoods, and you can't really blame them for wanting to protect their assets and IPs, both those that are released to the public and those that are known to only the devs.
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 30, 2017 15:32:02 GMT
Makes sense MP is the only thing they can hint at - they as good as confirmed more MP kits were already on the way during the last MP livestream, so confirming they exist isn't revealing anything new. Didn't the remaining MP kits from the last update get datamined? Another batarian and two humans? Why would they add more human kits? There's already plenty to choose from. Do you have a link to this? HereTurns out it was another batarian and four humans - 2 female, 2 male
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 30, 2017 15:20:01 GMT
Makes sense MP is the only thing they can hint at - they as good as confirmed more MP kits were already on the way during the last MP livestream, so confirming they exist isn't revealing anything new.
Didn't the remaining MP kits from the last update get datamined? Another batarian and two humans?
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 29, 2017 1:18:20 GMT
Having followed the development of every BioWare game since ME1, it's still amazing to me how the end of a game's development always feels like the company is imploding and hemorrhaging staff, even when it's completely normal.
Even if someone joined BioWare and only worked on MEA, that's potentially 5 years of their life. And just look at Aaryn Flynn - 17 years with the company. As consumers we get distracted by all the other games that come out in the meantime, but working on just the one game/franchise for so long must make one eager to try something different, so I can't begrudge them moving on.
Still, very strange seeing names we've become so familiar with leaving. Going to miss Billy in the MEAMP streams, but at least he's streaming MEA in his own time now so he can still offer some insight even if he's no longer actively developing it with the team.
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 23, 2017 3:10:00 GMT
A 5-month delay would have had the game release in at least a Patch 1.09 state, and almost certainly better than that as the whole team would have still been working on it, so big yes from me.
I adore MEA and I hate the way it got mauled by the internet, and it just makes me even more sad because I honestly feel all it needed was that one last coat of polish. I know some people have issues with the core story and such, but so much of the backlash and memes and mockery came from basic presentation; animation, character appearances, etc. - all things those extra 5 months could have ironed out.
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 19, 2017 18:47:45 GMT
Not to be a downer, but I'm 99% sure the 5 'arks' in the Sara lithograph are just Alliance-style fighters, as seen in the Hyperion's hanger bay :/
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 16, 2017 13:23:46 GMT
I assumed OP was referring to a patch for Xbox One X enhancements. There definitely won't be a new 'version' for the console - MS have made it very clear they aren't doing that.
My guess is it'd simply boost the resolution to 4K or at least 1080p (MEA runs at 900p on standard Xbox One), and/or maybe enable the enhanced depth of field effects from the PC version (actual bokeh rather than a generic blurring effect)
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 16, 2017 5:18:24 GMT
Honestly right now my theory is that - regardless of whether we're getting DLC or not - BioWare/EA simply feels the game is now in a much more presentable state than it was at launch, and that hopefully by offering a free trial, a decent number of people will give the game a look (either out of genuine interest, or to see how 'bad' it is after all the backlash at launch) and hopefully purchase it.
Who knows, maybe DLC is already on the way and they want to grow the player base before it drops; maybe DLC is a possibility but will only be greenlit if x number of copies are sold during the trial period, or maybe there really is no DLC but EA has enough sense to see how much the game has been improved and decided it was worth advertising to potential new players, however many there will actually be.
It just makes me so sad to see how much better MEA is now after the patches and how much the dev team (however much is left of it) have managed to improve in a relatively short space of time, knowing the game could have launched like this. And yes I know that releasing now in the middle of July wouldn't have made any sense financially and that it had to be March, but it still stings to think of what the game's reputation will forever be, in no small part because it simply lacked a layer of polish (that now exists) and the internet had a field day with it.
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 16, 2017 4:55:04 GMT
Given the new free trial runs until November 1st, meaning MEA will still be considered 'active' until at least then, and the Xbox One X releases on November 7th (incidentally, N7 Day), I'd say it's definitely not beyond the realms of possibility.
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 13, 2017 19:21:33 GMT
I can only guess they're hoping people will try the game now, maybe lots of them to 'see what all the fuss was about', and be pleasantly surprised now it's been massively patched.
And to be fair, we do see pretty much daily posts on places like here and the ME subreddit from people saying they've just got the game and don't understand what all the complaints were about, so there could be some merit in that plan.
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 13, 2017 17:14:25 GMT
Definitely feels like they're happy with the state of the game now and they're trying to soft 'relaunch' it. Either way, they clearly haven't just given up on MEA.
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 12, 2017 21:34:58 GMT
Before launch, I always pictured a 3 story DLC plan...
1) Quarian Ark DLC - Tracking down and saving the quarian ark. Likely geth involvement. Quarians (and other races like drell, hanar, etc.) appear as NPCs on the Nexus after completion with a handful of side missions. Quarians, geth & other usable races added to MP shortly after release. Main mission takes place on smaller planet locations (think PeeBee's loyalty mission) before we find the Ark itself, which could either look the same as the others, or has the same general shape but a more thrown together look like the established quarian ships.
2) Kett DLC - Battling the Primus or those still following the Archon's plans. Plot could highlight how angara and Milky Way species have integrated by this point. Further exposition regarding where the Kett originally came from and perhaps one or two new Kett enemies added (which too could end up in MP afterwards). Main mission would feature a new open world planet to explore where the bulk of the content takes place.
3) Remnant DLC - Further discoveries related to the Jardaan. Importantly would NOT answer all questions regarding them but instead tease their involvement in the next full game. Best place to feature a return to Habitat 7; likely rounding out the game with a memory/flashback appearance from Alec Ryder. Main mission could take place on Elaaden with some newly accessible areas inside the Remnant ship (and a fight with the Abyssal perhaps?) before we head off to Habitat 7.
Given how things have actually turned out, while I'm still hopeful for DLC, I feel like if we do get one it'll be the Quarian Ark and that'll be it :/
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 12, 2017 20:07:39 GMT
Both the official accounts and the BioWare devs seem far more chipper about the game now than they have lately. Lots of retweeting fanart and screenshots and such from the devs, and the official accounts are definitely way more active and tweeting the sorts of things they were back during launch week.
Having followed countless official social media accounts for various movies and games, it's almost always the case that posts will fizzle and die altogether after a period of time (with perhaps a temporary resurgance for home video release for movies) - that the MEA accounts have become more active lately is definitely an oddity and I can't believe it's just happening for no reason.
If there is literally nothing planned for the game, one would expect the posts to become less and less frequent, not pick up again nearly 4 months post-release.
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 8, 2017 20:27:27 GMT
Given we've had no fevered tweeting from anyone attending the panel, nor a post from the official ME account on the hour, I'm guessing we are indeed not getting anything today :/
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 8, 2017 14:41:04 GMT
Yeah, there is no question that DA4 is being developed, it's just matter of time when will EA and BioWare officially announce it. Although it is quite curious they are gearing up for DA4 as Anthem is already announced with release date. If DA4 gets announced before Anthem release, it's marketing will be very limited until after Anthem's launch. 2018 is definitely Anthem's year, that's for sure. Honestly I wouldn't expect DA4 until late 2019 at the absolute earliest (being very generous because of familiarity with Frostbite and however much development has already been done before production ramping up), but realistically I can't really see it hitting before 2020.
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 8, 2017 13:43:32 GMT
DA4 has been an open secret pretty much since Trespasser released, and even though it's still not officially confirmed, the way devs like Mark Darrah and Mike Laidlaw have been giving many a twinkly-eyed "I have no idea what you're talking about" replies regarding the game's existence has been a lot of fun. Having followed BioWare for so long now, it's always so nice seeing the devs excited about what they're working on.
As for today, I do wonder how we'll get confirmation of what's discussed at the panel. I imagine the first source will just be tweets from those in the audience?
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 6, 2017 23:16:51 GMT
Having played a fair bit now since the patch installed, I definitely think the facial animations have had a 'general' improvement, in addition to specific cutscene fixes. Even in simple Tempest convos, Ryder's facial movements seem far more controlled and subtle, rather than the duck lips we had at launch.
Who knows, maybe I'm seeing things, but to me the game just looks, put simply, better.
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 6, 2017 21:43:32 GMT
Are there any videos on how patch 1.09 improves animations? Not yet, as far as I can tell. Given pretty much every patch has improved animations in some shape or form, I'm surprised at how few and far between comparison videos have been. I remember one of the earlier patches resulting in a few videos where people just stuck early game cutscenes next to each other even though they clearly weren't cutscenes that had been improved. When I made that Tempest cutscene comparison video for 1.08, I was genuinely surprised no one else had already done it :/
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 4, 2017 18:00:20 GMT
If there's one thing giving me a glimmer of hope right now, it's that literally every official post BioWare makes is being flooded with calls for single-player DLC. It makes a nice change from the memes and mockery, but I worry it's too late to change their minds on this stuff :/
God I hope we get some good news from that panel at the weekend.
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 4, 2017 17:37:53 GMT
Folks (especially those trying to find a reason to complain) are missing a key detail: We currently don't know if it is indeed "batarian s", because everything stated thus far is "batarian". I suspect this (singular) batarian's story will be leading up to the appearance of (plural) batarians in time. And just like that I'm hoping again D:
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 4, 2017 17:18:51 GMT
Fernando mentioned we'd find out the lore behind the batarians being involved when the 'update' is released, sooooo I'm guessing the whole thing is going to be explained in a blog post and that's the only story context we'll get :/ Fernando Melo DiscoBabalooLore secrets (until the update) Fernando Melo DiscoBabalooThis update / Batarian is MP only, so no Ryder high fives :/
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 4, 2017 16:59:57 GMT
I guess worst case scenario, they're using assets that were created towards the end of development in preperation for story DLC and figured they might as well use them for new MP content?
I really dig the improved batarian look (minus the obvious kett armour) but this just has me so worried everything that was already created for now-cancelled SP DLC is just going to be dumped into MP :/
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Post by OrbitalWings on Jul 1, 2017 16:34:45 GMT
I think there will be probably be at least one DLC for this game, since DLC gets made for flawed/medicore but reasonably profitable games and this a title in a major series. But it also seems the backlash against MEA was unusually and dedicatedly loud. I really do wonder how the internet response + the MC reviews have affected sales over time. There aren't any figures, right? It seems that how things operate is changing and social media response is having a more pronounced effect on pretty much everything. So it sounds like the game did okay out of the gate, but how much did sales drop or slow after the trolls were done thrashing it to a bloody pulp in all regions of the internet? And how will those numbers determine whether an EA DLC is finished or abandoned? Social media definitely played a big part in how MEA launched, that's for sure. I'm pretty certain that had the sales figures and reviews been exactly the same, but there hadn't been any of the memes and mockery online, things wouldn't seem so gloomy right now. In Mike Laidlaw's recent podcast interview, when discussing the chances of a Jade Empire 2, he talked about how they basically have people who in very simple terms monitor 'buzz' about games and how people discuss them online - I think that sort of thing is playing a huge part in what's going on with MEA right now. During the first month after launch, pretty much every single post from the official BioWare and Mass Effect twitter accounts was just bombarded with mockery, gifs of glitches and memes - that won't have gone unnoticed and I'm pretty sure right now they're more concerned with the franchise's prestige and standing in the eyes of gamers, rather than actual sales figures (which despite what certain youtubers like to claim, weren't abysmal) That said, now pretty much every tweet from the official BioWare and Mass Effect accounts is bombarded with single-player DLC questions, so who knows?
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