Mass Effect hiatus speculation and reactions (consolidated thread)

I'm fairly certain there will be. Things are just getting blown way out of proportion.

Actually, for a lot of people, the patches have broken more than they fixed.  Half the time, you can't extract to Tempest from the Nomad, several missions auto-crash you, and Vetra randomly doesn't show up in her cutscenes during her loyalty missions.  That's on top of the glitches that haven't been fixed yet.

PC or Console?

I'm on a PC, my friend is on a console, although I can't remember which one.  Or you can check out AnswersHQ.  The Extract issue might be PC only, not sure.  The crashing issue on Kadara seems to be affecting everyone.  Vetra I'm not sure on.

Cool. I might wait for the next patch if PC is impacted to finish my PT#2. I'll give it a shot, but if things are broken, I'll do something else till they get them ironed out.

I don't get it either, but people are people, and Internet tends to amplify molehills into mountains like nothing else

Most of the criticism I've seen is pretty reasonable and factual, rather than hyperbolic. For example, yesterday, after the patch, I misjudged a target, and got killed. Instead of dying and having the option to reload, Ryder lay on the ground, jerking every so often while I sat there staring at the screen that showed a full health bar. Went on for 5 minutes until a baddy finally came up and shot her to death (again) and I could finally reload. Wish I'd gotten a video of it.

While playing on H-047c, earlier, I discovered that the T button no longer extracts to Tempest. Closed, reopened, loaded previous saves, changed key bindings, nothing worked. Finally, went and googled it and found lots of other people having the same problem.
Turns out, a user discovered that you had to drive the Nomad off a cliff to force a respawn, and then Extract will work (for a while). Really, Bioware?

Haven't encountered this yet, looking forward to it:  A certain mission region on Kadara causes the game to crash whenever you drive to it.  It's the area where the Emergency S.O.S., Contagion, and a couple other missions are.  This appears to be across all platforms.

Yeah, mountains out of molehills?  Not so much.

Grah yeah that would be pretty annoying. Though if you'd died died, I guess you'd still have to reload back to the same point. Thanks, whoever thought that disabling saves during missions was a good idea!

Well, I was disappointed with ME3 but it didn't cloud my judgement. It was still good game even with crappy ending. Not as good as it could but well nothing is perfect. 

Same with Andromeda. It's not without bugs, weird animations but in general I have fun playing it. I was very disappointed with CC though. ME3 CC was a disaster too when I remember it (and what it have done to my Shep face was a horror). 

I don't really believe it's just disapoinment... 

I agree that it's stupid idea but in defense of them I have to say that I don't really care about it because game makes a lot of autosaves during missions. 
Maybe when playing on insanity I will change my mind. 

I'd really only classify people as haters if they truly want a franchise/game/ company to fail.

I'm really disappointed in this game, wasn't expecting perfection or the best game ever but it had down grades in various areas, and it's worse when it's in areas that I brag about when it comes to bioware games. I've pretty much judged it as a mediocre game that does some things right, but also failed in others.

Andromeda to me was a step forward (open world style like ME1, addition of inventory system and crafting being added, my favo game of the franchise)compared to ME2+3 but then took two steps back by having no replay value(first bioware game ever for me) for me and me wanting the writing team completely replaced because that's how much I disliked it. Not to mention so much lore was rewritten/changed and there's things that make absolutely no sense (which the OT is guilty of as well). I however don't want the franchise to fail nor do I continually bring up articles talking about how bad the game is as I don't really believe in that approach nor do I need to be around that much negative energy.

i can also say being disappointed in something doesn't mean your judgement is clouded if you say a game is bad, ok, good, great. People could argue with me all day trying to get me to say it's not a mediocre game and I'll still see it as such.