You know what this game needs?

What the game really needs? Korean model with boob physics and jiggly bumbum.
I mean, if devs can blatantly disregard the game lore, why should fans care about it? At least I don't think Korean models, had they been introduced into AMP, would hurt the franchise more than the 3-colored weapon variants, or the game itself.

Ah, yes, the Kotaku article... Jason Schreier seems to be somewhat of an oracle these days, don't you think? The problem is, however, we have no way of knowing if there's an ounce of truth to his article and neither do we know if his sources are (ex-)Bioware devs nor if he has any sources at all. I am aware that reputable newspapers around the world keep their sources covered all the time but then, Kotaku isn't a reputable newspaper in the sense that they adhere to any journalistic accountability standards, as far as I know. Moreover, this wasn't exactly what I meant to ask.

The poster before me casually names Frostbite being 'a known problematic' engine as one of the issues with MEA, something which I've seen uttered by other people on the webs as well. When I surf around for articles, however, most of them seem to agree that Frostbite is more than a decent engine. Apart from Battlefield 1, just as you say, I couldn't find articles with any big problems for other games. And not all of these games were made by DICE.

With reference the Kotaku article oracle, if Frostbite doesn't have an animation rig, than it didn't have that for other games either, yet only MEA had big animation problems. So that's more on Bioware, I think. There's already a nice thread about this here on BSN, btw:

bsn.boards.net/thread/6699/frostbite-engine-mistake

Lot of people there say the same thing: it isn't Frostbite that effed up in the animation department, it's Bioware. Buuut, I have only played Frostbite with DAI, Battlefront and Andromeda hence my question as to how other people think Frostbite is known to be problematic...

Looking good is important, but more important is performance.

On PC, with Frostbite, in MP, Biower has blown it with both DAIMP and MEAMP compared to ME3MP and it's Unreal engine.

Both DAI and MEA look really good at times, but damm, compare movement. Among a host of other things.

Maybe Frostbite has a steep learning curve. But years?

Sheesh.

I did go a bit heavy on Frostbite 3. Unless the tool is inherently broken (which Frostbite is not), it comes down to how the user wields said tool. And Bioware's proven they're not great with Frostbite. That was a mistake of wording on my part. You asked what was problematic with Frostbite, and I laid out what was said in the article with a bit of my own knowledge thrown in as well. My apologies that I did not separate the two more clearly. I will try to do better in the future.

I must say though, I do love you use the "fake news" angle and then link a BSN thread to justify your position. I linked an article from a videogame news website, which admittedly has the accountability of Breitbart's retarded-ginger-step-cousin. You call that out, but a BSN thread has the accountability of 4chan's retarded-ginger-step-cousin. One is a "news outlet" that hires people to write for them and holds them to some sort of loose journalistic standard (maybe), the other one openly allows anyone and their dog to write almost whatever they want and holds them to no journalistic standard. It's admittedly the difference between a wet pile of shit on tile and a wet pile of shit on carpet, but it's a difference.

I'll keep my eyes out for anything that debunks Schreier's story, but until that point it's my best source of information on what happened with Andromeda, and how Frostbite and Bioware's inability to use it contributed to the game's problems.