Facial animations and hair concerns

Yeah DA2 is the best game Bioware has done in the hairstyles dept shame they never followed up on that yes the rest of the game is a bit lackluster compared to the others in the series but it's still a positive and one that in my opinion had I been working at Bioware I'd have taken advantage of. Let's hope that everything is good in this new game. It certainly looks good to me so far and everything I've been seeing so far has just made me want it more atm. I just hope that trend continues. Hopefully there is a couple of longer options beyond just the ponytail though.

Fair enough personally I prefer shorter hair for men but longer for women but that's just me.

Ditto'd! I'm hoping to make something at least in the ballpark of this guy for my Ryder:


... But we'll see what they actually give us to work with. I'd be ecstatic if facial hair beyond stubble didn't look like latexed faux fur plastered all over my guy's face. 


This would also be nice; I like having a variety of options for either gender, both long and short. I'd also like to see more variety of hair textures (wavy, kinky, etc) and styles for them than we have in the past, but as long as it's at least more variety than the military cuts of ME1-3, I'll be content.

Also, looks like Gamespot has reported about the animation concerns, though most of this is probably rehashing stuff we already know. Of particular note and relevance to the current topic, though:

Ok then, BW is aware of the concerns - I guess that's good enough for me.

True - we already got 3 major BW games that got cut down due to time constrains...

Admittedly, the disarm was on the slow side compared to say, this:



Though I'm not sure if that's due more to animation fail or because Ryder isn't a highly trained military operative. Maybe a mix of both. It does seem too slow a diarm for the turian to not reflexively shoot, though.

But then you return to find that the world went into a chaotic death spiral after a man appeared out of a temporal vortex and killed Hitler, and Sony and Microsoft only make machines to run the life support system for our fallout shelters. 

hahaha!!!! having played previous bioware games i know this might be true!!!
Still am i the only one that found the animations good and was not bothered by lip syncing??
Deus ex MD had  lip sync a la bad kung fu movie and i got over it pretty fast! andromeda seems miles better in my eyes!

Exactly!!!!!!!!!!! this is an rpg! lets compare it to rpgs not games like uncharted! ofcourse uncharted is better and its always going to be better. Uncharted focuses on different things than Mass effect. Why on tyou all compare any bioware game to ANY bethesda game??
Ive never seen any complaints about skyrim or TES or fallout games.. and they always have been terrble at animations and facial expressions.
On a final note:
Andromeda is one step ahead from Inquisition whch in turn was one step ahead of previous games.
Bioware is constantly omproving.
Stop complaining please!

yeah I agree it definitely looks like improvements have been made given Sara's hairstyle and the fact her ponytail looked like it was moving as she was running as well so it looks like we have at least swome basic hair physics in there at the very least. Which is good as we do need to get away a little bit from hair thast looks like a helmet than proper hair. Other companies are starting to make better looking hair even some of EA's other studios have and in fact some already have done this in a lot of their games on the last gen systems as well it's about time Bioware tried to catch up. Based on what I've seen of MEA I'd say it looks like that they're trying at least which is encouraging

As long as there is an option for those that have older less powerful computers I guess it's fine though and most of these games do. I don't have any issues with that as I can run TR without really anjy problems at all but the PC I have atm I bought at the same time as the PS4/XB1 released as I bought it with those consoles in mind as I wanted a machine capable of playing these sorts of games. But yeay the hairworks system is good as is the Tress FX system that AMD uses on it's cards