Mass Effect Andromeda Skepticism thread

Can't find a parking spot for it so I'll just leave it here. Found it while watching AJ's game review.

>British accent

I don't know, sounds off for an Asari.

Not sure if you've used it at all, but Nvidia shadowplay is an absurdly lightweight recording software, since it actually uses the GPU itself to record frames as they are being rendered. The performance hit from using shadowplay is usually less than 5%, so basically if you can play the game at around 60fps, you can record it at 60fps with pretty high bitrates. As for "lower-end systems", realistically a lower end system should not be able to play a game of this graphical fidelity at all.


Was it? I may have a skewed perspective because I purchased a new video card pretty much specifically for inquisition (a GTX 970), but I thought that the game ran fairly well for how it looked. Looking back at the minimum system requirements at the time, I think that bioware certainly set them a bit low, but they pretty much just took the system reqs from BF4 at the time. If you look at the performance for inquisition vs Battlefield 4 at launch, they post nearly identical numbers with the same settings and video card.

I won't say that inquisition was the most optimized game ever released, but nor would I describe it as "Horribly optimized".


If a game actually does not run at all on your system, realistically 1 of 2 things is happening, either your PC doesn't meet the minimum spec, or you are having issues specific to your hardware configuration (such as driver problems, or isolated bugs). While bad optimization can contribute to those two issues, a well optimized game might still run into them regardless.


There is literally always reason to fear that a game might have optimization issues at launch. Even a game that seemed to run well for a press demo could turn out to have been optimized specifically for that demo, and be awful everywhere else. That said, I don't really feel that Bioware has given us any more reason to expect subpar optimization that any other game developer.

They should've hired experts of animation and motion capture but instead they'll use and rehash the same formula from DA:I. All those 5 years of progress wasted.

"Just sound like your character from Game of Thrones."

Take care, and hopefully the story on release will pleasantly surprise you

Hell, DA:O still has some PC issues. With less than 4 GB RAM on a post-XP OS, it has a distressing tendency to forget to do stuff, or do stuff in the wrong order.

The best part of saying something like this is how you don't seem to get that this a skepticism thread. Bioware doesn't need a some knight to save itself from fans that are critical of what they have seen so far. 

Get used to it buddy. 

If you don't large address aware ME1 it'll crash to buggery and back.

Yeah, but that's not the only issue. 

I have some minor, but annoying sound issues and none of the fixes I found online worked for me. 

The worst however are black and blocky textures in certain areas because I have a newer generation AMD CPU. There is a fix for that (FPS Counter), but when I run ME with that I'm unable to save the game -.- 

Those are issues I have because I'm running the game on a newer system though, which can always lead to problems. 

Back then I remember out of sync Audio in Cutscenes, Loading issues with Textures/Meshes, an Elevator that would consistently crash my game if I entered it with weapons drawn and the Benezia fight which is a buggy shitfest (on one playthrough I had to restart that fight four times due to bugs! FOUR TIMES!)