Hair in Andromeda

now those are what I call next gen graphics.

At least spoiler your porn! Oh god!

I'm not really looking for good quality of textures either, I don't mind if the hair doesn't move at all. But I just hope Bioware finally has some good styles. DAI was so bad, it's like the one designing them didn't have clue what kind of hairstyles people have - and apparently didn't have google either- sorry if this is insulting a dev, but I don't think there was even one really good one. Some oks, most plain awful. And it's not like ME trilogy was better than DAI, it always had too few hairstyles and didn't eve that good one's either.

For comparison:

DAI



Saint Row 3:



FO4

I completely agree. BioWare's hair choices feel...out of time. And not in a good way. I always felt Shepard had very old styled hairstyles. Only the predef (and not usable to customized characters) was a little more interesting in my opinion.
Plus, you can find new hairstyles in game in Fallout 4, basically inviting the player to go and change the appearance of their characters with more modern/strange hairstyles.
I'm leaving this hair comparison with this video about Dragon's Dogma.

Not that I think Bioware can't improve, but Uncharted-type of games focus a lot more on cinematics and don't have the same aumont of other content rpgs have.
Uncharted is also a single platform game that benefits from this. But yes, consoles can handle hair physics. TW3 had it on consoles as well.

Ughh I wish my Ryder could have Nadine-like hair in game, that kind of hairstyle is exactly what I'm imagining for her.

My problem is not that MEA have hair not on par with Uncharted 4... but that we have hair not on par with Fallout 4 either. Or even Dragon's Dogma (old game, PS3 era. 60 hairstyles, and most have some phisics). At least for what I have seen for now.

img.pandawhale.com/post-56469-iimgurcom-t72I.gif

*touches screen*

Wasn't there one scene in the trailer where Cora's hair moved a bit? I thought I remembered noticing that...

I see a lot of folks comparing Mass Effect Andromeda to other games, such as Uncharted 4, The Witcher 3, Rise of the Tomb Raider, etc. For one, this is an apples to oranges comparison in all cases. It doesn't matter how long it took to develop any of these games because they are built by different studios with different priorities and run on entirely different engines.

Speaking of engines, therein lies the problem. I do not believe Frostbite 3 is built to simulate realistic hair physics. As many should know, Frostbite 3 is largely an FPS engine built for DICE's Battlefield franchise. This is the second game BioWare has built on the engine and the first time bringing Mass Effect to Frostbite 3.

CDPR worked closely with Nvidia for years to implement PhysX as well as GameWorks into TW3. The only relationship Nvidia seems to have with BioWare on MEA is supporting Ansel as well as HDR. Thus, I wouldn't really expect any headway on hair physics as it's simply not being tackled. It's not simply as easy as turning on a switch and having physics. Mass Effect Andromeda is clearly a massive game that has a lot of features many of these other games simply do not have, such as choice-driven dialogue or online multiplayer.

It's a shame, but BioWare only has so much money and time to do so many things. Hair physics, while immersive, is not going to kill my experience. Honestly, we'll be wearing helmets on hazardous planets more often than not anyway.

Hmm nice! Unfortunately that still leaves Sara. As you can see in the gif if you scroll up the page they are still having cases in cutscenes where the hair is completely still. Hopefully it's just an incomplete scene and they'll incorporate the physics in the final product.