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Post by airbornbacon on Mar 16, 2017 14:14:00 GMT
I'm enjoying my time so far!
My only feedback reiterates some mentioned before: 1. The CC is very limited. I'm reading in some places that may be added upon, but I can't tell if that's wishful thinking. 2. Not being able to save at will during "priority missions" is.. an odd choice. I don't love that. 3. Small gripe, who the heck-a-roni designed the dialog indicator images? I've been hardwired to accept any heart as 'flirting' and the Dreamcast spiral as 'confused'. Lol, j/k. But for real, weird choices.
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Post by ArmoredPsycho on Mar 16, 2017 14:36:15 GMT
Less than a hour left of my trial so here is my feedback about it
There is only one thing that bothers me with this game and it is animations.
How they walk, how they move hands/head and how they look at you.
- When you talk to other people at least some NPCs, sometimes they don't look to your characters eyes, they seems to be looking to your chest or over your shoulder and sometimes it feels like you are ghost to them and they are looking through you and that really ruins the scene cause they don't feel "alive", it kinda pulls you out of the game's world and tells your brain that how "dumb" that NPC looks. "Look up! My eyes are here!"
- Some characters feel like "statues" or like robots, they have no emotions or "life" in them. They don't move head and they just stare at you with big wide open eyes what feels uncomfortable.
- When I saw how Cora walked away it was hilarious, that hand movement... it really looks ridiculous and realizing that pulls you out of the game's world...again.
Overall I liked my trial time, it has Mass Effect feeling, graphics are beautiful, voice acting is good, exploration, mystery and everything works well together but..
Every time game reminds me of its "design errors" it pulls me out of the story and it gets harder to really put your mind to it. It gets harder to focus what is happening when your attention (Thanks to your brain) notices that something is wrong here and this is not good. When that romance scene comes I want to focus on it and not to think "Why you look that way?" "What is wrong with your eyes?" "That is not how you should walk" and then the scene will be over and you are like "Yeah... thanks, freak. *walks away* Not good.
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Post by demigod on Mar 16, 2017 14:41:33 GMT
2 hours in. LOVING EVERYTHING SO FAR EXCEPT: -The Character Creator was a letdown. -No saves during Priority MissionsOh for F sakes they are not doing this nonsense again are they? I HATED that aspect in DAI dlc. as someone who saves so generously, this is a disappointment. i mean the first mission was long but you cannot save at all! you can just manually save after you get off the first planet.
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Post by fingly on Mar 16, 2017 14:45:07 GMT
I've played a bit, and my overall impression of the game is positive, but I do have a couple of issues. First, there seems to be a lot of ambient dialogue that either isn't subtitled or triggers at the same time as other dialogue, causing the subtitles for it to be overridden. Since I have hearing issues, this causes me to miss quite a bit of dialogue, which sucks because I absolutely love all of the banter I'm hearing. Second, I REALLY wish there was an option to manually save during missions. The autosave-only system is very inconvenient, especially when playing a limited time trial; I've wasted a lot of time replaying parts of the first mission after dying.
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Post by garrus12 on Mar 16, 2017 14:57:02 GMT
So far I've played about 3 hours or so including playing around with the cc And dying like a lot in the opening sequence. It took a while to get used to the new mechanics for me.
Pros: -Combat is VERY fun and fluid. The new jet lack takes combat to a new level for the series. -I love the story so far. I'm emotionally engaged after the opening and sold on this being a continuation of Mass Effect as a series. Arriving at the nexus for the first time was chilling to me. -i am enjoying the characters so far. -exploration is back and much improved over ME1. -overall I love the score for this game. The opening music and opening menu score is fantastic. -so much customization Cons: -CC For male characters is limited and hard for me to make a good male Ryder. I thought I succeeded but when I saw his face in game for the first time, there were odd wrinkles around his eye and hairline that I'm not sure where they came from. He didn't look good in game at all. But that's fine I like default Scott. Making a female character, however, was much easier for me but I don't like being limited with skin color and no eye shape or brow shape. -Facial animations are not as bad as i thought they'd be because I just played the trilogy and man they were bad back then. However, they are still not great in this game. -music for your first scene of the archon was extremely cheesy. -not enough time in the trial for me to dive into every conversations like I want but that will change Tuesday.
That's a general idea of how I feel so far.
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Post by SofaJockey on Mar 16, 2017 14:58:03 GMT
Why I'm abandoning my trial after 5 hours- I've played through the Prologue, first Mission,
- Complete the first Mission,
- run around on the Nexus and
- taken the Nomad out for a brief spin.
And I simply can't continue. The time limit on the trial means I can't enjoy reading logs and gently exploring as much as I'd like, I just have to stop and start again on launch day. But a few niggles aside, I'm enjoying this so much. In any case, my daughter wants a go, so I'm going to let her go evens with me. Specific comment about how the Tempest runs. - The audio of the Tempest engines is gorgeous, and
- BioWare absolutely guessed people were going to do this >>>
The disdain in Cora's voice is priceless. Nicely done.
Trivial 'easter egg type spoiler' don't watch to be 100% unspoiled.
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Post by garrus12 on Mar 16, 2017 15:01:26 GMT
Why I'm abandoning my trial after 5 hours- I've played through the Prologue, first Mission,
- Complete the first Mission,
- run around on the Nexus and
- taken the Nomad out for a brief spin.
And I simply can't continue. The time limit on the trial means I can't enjoy reading logs and gently exploring as much as I'd like, I just have to stop and start again on launch day. But a few niggles aside, I'm enjoying this so much. In any case, my daughter wants a go, so I'm going to let her go evens with me. Specific comment about how the Tempest runs. - The audio of the Tempest engines is gorgeous, and
- BioWare absolutely guessed people were going to do this >>>
The disdain in Cora's voice is priceless. Nicely done.
Trivial 'easter egg type spoiler' don't watch to be 100% unspoiled.
I agree I am skipping over a lot of dialogue because I don't want to run put of time. I'll be starting a new game when the full game arrives just to go back and finish those conversations and dig into the lore more. Loving the game so far though.
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Post by scouserant23 on Mar 16, 2017 15:09:35 GMT
Story has kept me engaged, loved talking to everyone so far and there is so much background chatter with NPCS it is extremely good at helping immersion well done to the writing team.
Banter is off the charts so far though i am on critical path so i will say this, the squad will talk to each other, and you, ALOT when on critical path missions. If i get even half as much dialogue when roaming around you've done better than DAI which was an improvement itself in this regard. Keep that trend going it really fleshes characters personalities out without always having to do it in full blown conversations with cinematics.
Aesthetics - Top notch extremely pleasant on the eyes.
Animations - I got use to the faces pretty quickly they are not as bad when your actually involved in playing the game, vetra has a really weird walk when the Initiate director salarian asks her to come to his office to me it felt like she had an aliens animations (only scene i've seen her do it).
Combat is great though i am playing as a cover shooter(no melee/upclose skills) seems to play the same way as older ME games in this regard though the boost from the jetpack makes moving cover much better.
Multiplayer is solid will be playing this. Initially thought i wouldn't bother but the focus on teamplay instead of PVP has won me over its a lot of fun (ive got BF1 for my pvp needs).
If the lack of facial structure options in CC is a technical limitation(well lack of time available to do it not lack of skill) one thing i will say is if you had added a few different complexions it would have helped ease the pain as complexions can alter the look of a character dramatically without actually morphing the head.
I've had a few issues when reaching a ledge with my jetpack, the animation for climbing starts my character climbs up then just falls back down though if i hold CTRL when approaching the ledge with the jetpack i will climb up just fine maybe a bug? Also it hasn't happened in multiplayer.
So far so good itching for more.
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Post by patriciachr34 on Mar 16, 2017 15:47:41 GMT
I have an issue with cut scenes and I think it might be a settings thing. I upped my settings to ultra and the game play is stunning; no stutter , smooth as a baby's bum. However, when I was on the Hyperion the cut scenes were a bit choppy. I tried adjusting my settings a bit to fix this, but I could not. I am not sure what settings I need to adjust to make the Hyperion scenes play smoothly. I also did not seem to have any problems with cut scenes planet side. Please let me know what you think I should do to adjust for this. FYI, my rig has the recommended CPU, 32GB ram and an AMD R9 390 video card with 8GB vram. I play the game from an SSD. No issues with the hardware.
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Post by Solas on Mar 16, 2017 15:51:09 GMT
I like it and I'm enjoying it. But Bad things: - not being able to manually save when I want to is frustrating and unhelpful - some facial animations are really off, like straight-up wonky, for humans. Robotic/fake, dead/glassy-eyed.. my Ryder just looks really strange whenever she's emoting. It's pretty distracting - CC is terrible, I'm sorry to say It's not all bad, some things are improved (hair moves somewhat, more color options for hair and eyes, you can finally make a decent, convincing-looking East Asian character, etc), but overall it's incredibly lacking, limited and a step back from ME 1 in some regards. Genderlocked hairstyles, limited hairstyles for people of different races, limited hairstyles in general, lack of a really pale skintone, lack of ability to edit the defaults, hair colors other than dark hair looking too bright/uniform/uni-toned and so forth.. I could live with those things though and without DA:I's 2-axis slider system, if only I could pick between different eye, eyebrow, mouth and nose shapes. Not being able to do that is a bummer and makes CC feel very basic. Pls improve it
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Post by GannayevOfDreams on Mar 16, 2017 15:56:16 GMT
I played the SP about 4 hours up until the gating point, with just a smidge of exploration. My most standout piece of feedback is that it left me wanting more. Which, no matter what other criticisms I have, and I do have some, definitely tells me the pre-order was worth it. I'm going to love this game, I'm quite confident of that.
One of the best parts of the game is the level design. Every environment I found myself in, whether it was the Hyperion, Nexus, Tempest, Habitat 7, or Eos looked amazing. All the Alliance built places, like the ships and colony buildings, strike an excellent balance between form and function. The Tempest is snug but the flow is excellent and it looks like a place where people would actually live and work. The two planets I saw were excellent. Good balance between alien and familiar. A lot of people expect them to look radically different... you know really alien, but that doesn't make much sense to me. Any planet capable of supporting us is inherently going to be similar in composition to places we're familiar with. If they were alien in every regard we likely wouldn't be able to live there. I saw one reviewer compare Eos to Arizona in certain shots... but you know what could look like Arizona in some images? Mars... imagine that. Again, for my money, I think they have just the right amount of alien in em.
Combat and movement are great. You certainly don't have to play like a hyper chipmunk, dashing and darting all over the battlefield. Personally I use that enhanced mobility mostly as an "oh shit" button to get myself out of bad positioning quickly. I rely on cover more often, and the automatic cover system is pretty intuitive. Gunplay feels more solid than I was expecting. I actually think they sound and feel just fine.
Didn't have much trouble with the companions dying, though I was playing on Normal. I think Liam got downed once but that was it. They are quite talkative but it never felt repetitive to me, I liked how vocal they were.
Some of the criticisms I have are the face animations, like other people, they look "off" quite often. Especially the eyes. Not so much in their appearance or "deadness" but in their line of sight. A lot of the time it seemed like they weren't actually looking at what they were supposed to be looking at in cutscenes and conversations.
Some of the lines could be a bit cringey, but not nearly as much as some of the reviewers said. I think they vastly overstated the issue.
Only other criticism is perhaps how narrowly you can "define" your Ryder. Choosing tones is basically just managing their emotional level, but their personality varies barely at all based on one choice over the other. The auto-dialogue is the heaviest I've ever seen in a BioWare game... 2 or 3 lines could be said with no input from me at all. Sometimes it feels you're watching the conversation more than dictating it. Wasn't a dealbreaker for me, but I know that'll bother some people.
I've seen some people compare Liam to Kaidan, but I don't see it at all. Liam's great, but some of the things he says and does in the early part of the game are not at all stuff Kaidan would have ever done.
Overall the game felt good to play and to look at. So much so that the little hiccups are easily overlooked, by me anyway. I can't wait to play more.
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Post by adasirin on Mar 16, 2017 16:22:01 GMT
The CC is severely lacking a good preset for a caucasian female. I can't comment on the male presets myself, but I've heard others say similar things about them. This is a preset from the ME:A Multiplayer: i.imgur.com/WbrSbCZ.pngWhy is this not an available preset in the single player game?! Finally, an appealing ME:A preset with a pale complexion and neutral, feminine features and you for some crazy reason leave it out of the SP game? And no, you can't achieve anything even close to this by adjusting any of the existing SP presets. Please, please, PLEASE add this as an available preset!
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Post by derrame on Mar 16, 2017 16:25:25 GMT
The Multiplayer is not COOperative!
there are only players/characters running and shooting, like an idiotic generic "shoot 'em up"
where is cooperation!?
in ME3MP we had lots of skills and powes to share, and interact and cooperate with teammates, like the map hack/ reveal enemies behind walls, the juggernaut shield, the N7 engineer's backpack-turrent to recharge shields or deploy ammo, the recharging shield volus, the N7 sentinel's shield the geth engineer's turret to attack enemies or recharge shields ,the quarian turret,
the asari justicar's biotic bubble, etc, all of them useful to protect fallen teammates until revive or protect teammates when activating/deactivating devices,
where is all of that or similar in MEAMP!?
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Post by krazyguy on Mar 16, 2017 16:34:58 GMT
I played 6 hours(well 5 cause I had to start again cause of Character Creator)
The story so far is very engaging, I think it's great. The human companions are great, Cora and Liam... for once I like humans rofl. Cora is making it difficult for me to choose a romance later on lol. The music and visuals are fantastic and the gameplay is engaging as hell, I've had so much fun, its more active than sitting in one spot. I'm getting used to the medigel not being available at moments notice and only by crates.
The Negatives however focus more on the fact that the animations are ROUGH.. the body animations are awesome(except turian feet) but the faces... its just so rough and "alpha". It's not breaking my immersion, I usually just giggle at odd animation like Inquisition where the player character who is an elf folds her arms only to have her hands in her arms... but these faces. Character creator is another problem, I first chose head 1 for both Scott and Sara but head one for male, no matter what you change, his eyelids would clip, it was not good to watch that and found it annoying. I ended up going default, the character creator as it stands is a no go for me. I like some of the hair and hair colour options though.
Oh and the manuel save, sometimes I would like to save manually if i don't like a choice I made, accidentally or otherwise and also would like to take breaks and checkpoints ruins that. Sure other games have that but Mass Effect never did... anyway so far, so good. Can't wait for release.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 16, 2017 16:46:31 GMT
I had to rip myself away from the game after the prologue mission. It's literally painful to not continue. That's how good the game is overall.
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Post by Croatsky on Mar 16, 2017 16:49:18 GMT
Because silly me wrote this in wrong thread, here's copy/paste. I did not finished trial fully yet, as content I need is still being downloaded. But I got everything done until you get to Tempest.
While I have a lot to positive to say, I have to do these negatives impressions first:
1. Character Creator is much more limited then in ME trilogy. While there are new things I greatly appreciate, there were a lot more things lost in CC we had before like other hair, facial hair and eyebrows selections.
2. No manual saving during Priority Missions is just unnerving. I needed to re-do many side things because more then once as I died constantly. Combat takes quite a bit to get used to, removing manual saves is just pointlessly punishing for prologue alone. Let alone future emissions.
3. No quick save option. Why? It really is annoying I need to constantly manual save as I'm always paranoid if my game crashing.
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Post by velvetstraitjacket on Mar 16, 2017 17:10:51 GMT
The CC is severely lacking a good preset for a caucasian female. I can't comment on the male presets myself, but I've heard others say similar things about them. This is a preset from the ME:A Multiplayer: i.imgur.com/WbrSbCZ.pngWhy is this not an available preset in the single player game?! Finally, an appealing ME:A preset with a pale complexion and neutral, feminine features and you for some crazy reason leave it out of the SP game? And no, you can't achieve anything even close to this by adjusting any of the existing SP presets. Please, please, PLEASE add this as an available preset! Yeah, that one should have been available. It wouldn't fix the lack of options in terms of facial features, but it would be a better base. And this guy should have been a preset option for the males. He's a random, minor NPC, but he looks so much better than the Caucasian options in CC.
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Post by Ajna on Mar 16, 2017 17:12:15 GMT
Posted this in the other thread, but I kinda need Ian to see this... I've had some problems and I'm tearing my hair out, I got onto the Tempest finally, spoke to Kallo, explored found no one else aboard besides Suvi who had nothing to say, mission log says "go to your ship", well yeah.. I just did! I also can't seem to to move around in the galaxy map...
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Post by RhiannoN7 on Mar 16, 2017 17:13:32 GMT
Loving the game so far! I love both Liam and Cora and the voice acting is amazing. Only played 2 hours just got to the Nexus but these are what bothered me:
Major Concerns - Lack of Manual save function before nexus (I don't trust autosaves)
- Alec Ryder looked nothing like my custom Sara (would like an option to keep his default)
Minor Concerns - Character creater (would like options to edit eye size, eyebrows etc)
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 16, 2017 17:19:44 GMT
K I'll give some more useful feedback
Pros:
- Prologue's narrative pacing is great. There's a sense of urgency but you feel that you can explore (and you should).
- Exploration is reminiscent of Dragon Age Inquisition, but there are far more concentrated landmarks. I explored a few locations that were off the trail that had a lot of interesting content. I suspect his is how most exploration will be like, although I suppose there will be the inevitable beer bottles somewhere down the line.
- Actions are referenced frequently. What you do really does matter here, not just what you say.
- Dialogue choices are HEAVILY referenced down the line. I said something at the beginning and it carried over. Ryder developed a personality based on what selections I made that felt really consistent. This is similar to DA2's approach, but less restrictive.
- Casual/Emotional combination makes for a hilarious and friendly Ryder. I didn't try professional/logical much but there is a definite difference in tone.
- Dialogue is well delivered. I did notice some dialogue concatenation at times though.
- I spent 30 minutes staring at the skills tab when I leveled up. SO MANY CHOICES. I ended up going with Pull and Overload. Concussive Shot was hilarious to use with Pull. Detonations are a real blast (pun intended).
- Combat is pretty much like ME3. I love it.
- Scanning is fluid and natural. You get a warning when something is nearby. It's better than DAIs which required you to ping. I am concerned about the open world though.
- Insanity is insane. You really need to make use of cover and combos. Speaking of, cover is really well done.
- Scenery is gorgeous. Abilities are pretty. Aahhh
- Lots of science.
Cons:
- Oh boy usually the recommended specs are overestimated but in this case I think they're underestimated lol.. if you are running a machine that's supposedly just right for it, I strongly suggest optimizing your PC before the 21st.
- Saving is a bit awkward during priority missions, but this is like ME3 where you autosave before and after big battles. It's a little more annoying here because there's more exploration involved, but I suspect it'll be different on world maps.
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Hopefully this keeps up. I was honestly overwhelmed by it all. I haven't felt this way in years.
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Post by scintilla on Mar 16, 2017 17:26:39 GMT
Loving most of the game! Characters and exploration are both really great!
I only have two issues right now:
1) The lack of manual save during plot quests. Not being able to control when and where I save is pretty frustrating. Especially in longer gameplay segments where I may need to stop for some reason. Auto-saves aren't a terrible option but waiting for the game to save or losing progress shouldn't be my only options.
2) The lack of options in the character creator. A lesser concern but the CC is incredibly limited right now.
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Lebanese Dude
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 16, 2017 17:30:19 GMT
Well they're discussing a CC patch right now so there's that.
I liked default Scott but I think I'm going to try to make my own. Some of the presets are good.
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Forsythia
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Games: Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquistion, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire, Mass Effect Andromeda
Origin: Forsythia
XBL Gamertag: Forsythia
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Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquistion, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire, Mass Effect Andromeda
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Post by Forsythia on Mar 16, 2017 17:32:10 GMT
The best thing about Andromeda is that it has that great classic sci-fi feel ME2 and ME3 missed. At least so far. Story, characters, combat, visuals... almost everything is great!
I do not like the character creator, but that has been beaten to death already so I'm sure BioWare is aware. And Sara's facial expression does not change much at all, she always has that derpy smile. Even in very inappropriate situations. She looks like Ernie.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 16, 2017 17:38:20 GMT
The best thing about Andromeda is that it has that great classic sci-fi feel ME2 and ME3 missed. At least so far. Story, characters, combat, visuals... almost everything is great! I do not like the character creator, but that has been beaten to death already so I'm sure BioWare is aware. And Sara's facial expression does not change much at all, she always has that derpy smile. Even in very inappropriate situations. She looks like Ernie. Are you using default Sara? She has a wide mouth so it makes some of the animations and expressions look odd. Scott felt fine to me in comparison.
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