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Post by bekkael on Mar 16, 2017 20:34:07 GMT
(Copy/pasted from another thread. Sorry to be so negative, but these are my genuine feelings and impressions.) I went with 7/10, and I feel that is generous, based on my 10 hour experience. CC is bad, I had a ton of visual bugs and a couple crashes where I got stuck on a never-ending load screen. I had to dashboard and relaunch the game twice before I decided my save must be bugged. I loaded an earlier autosave and was able to get back in the game that way. The game itself is all too similar to DAI for my taste, in that it feels like a chore instead of a pleasure to play and explore (I hate the damn scanner already), the UI is just so much stuff in your face. The tutorials were really nothing but a box of text that briefly pops up and then disappears before I had a chance to read it all, so I ended up wasting precious time trying to figure out how to do basic things.(Mom of a toddler here, so others will likely be able to give more laser focus to what is happening on screen compared to me.) The jump jets turn everything into a platformer with jump puzzles galore, which is another thing I hated that they added to DAI. I can't jump! I suck at Mario style games and it's unfortunate to see that be a requirement now for a Mass Effect game. I was never a huge fan of the Mako, but at least it had guns and was a little easier to drive than the new Nomad has been for me.... I actually rage quit the game last night when the Nomad would not go up a smooth road path. I had my son try it today, and we both think it is a buggy invisible wall there, as the character could walk there on foot, and the car would drive around that section, but not go through it. So, hooray for bugs? I also don't seem to like the rather immature player character, unfortunately. :sob: I suppose a young teen would enjoy Sara more than I have? I won't lie, I actually tried to cancel my preorder, that's how frustrated and annoyed I was by the experience. I ordered the digital edition through the Xbox store though, so I'll probably just try to play again at release since it's apparently a nightmare to try to cancel a digital order. Hopefully it will get better from here as they maybe patch things? Maybe? At any rate, I hardly feel it could be any worse as far as my tastes and preferences go. I dare say if you loved DAI this will probably be a superb game for you. I wish I loved it. I WANT to love it, I really do. It might be time for me to break up with BioWare for good. We just don't seem to want the same things or see eye to eye like we used to, #prettygoodbanging aside.
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Post by sabreracer on Mar 16, 2017 21:06:04 GMT
Don't know if this has been mentioned but Origin notifications cause stuttering and slow down. As my friends list is starting to get pretty active because of ME:A I'm getting this several times a minute in some cases.
Somebody is on-line, someone is playing Mass Effect, now they stopped and started again.
The rest of the time it's smooth and 60FPS (i5 7600k and GTX1070)
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Post by KirkyX on Mar 16, 2017 21:13:19 GMT
Hey, I'm still mainly staying off the forums at the mo - wanna play much, much more of the game before talking about it in depth - but I had a quick peek and saw this thread, so I thought I'd share my impressions, since I ended up writing some kinda by accident in response to a comment elsewhere on the Internet. Oh, and here's a couple of pics of my Ryders: Argh, I dunno how I'm gonna deal once this trial's up. Gotta wait until the 23rd.
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Post by Sarayne on Mar 16, 2017 21:14:18 GMT
Don't know if this has been mentioned but Origin notifications cause stuttering and slow down. As my friends list is starting to get pretty active because of ME:A I'm getting this several times a minute in some cases. Somebody is on-line, someone is playing Mass Effect, now they stopped and started again. The rest of the time it's smooth and 60FPS (i5 7600k and GTX1070) I have almost the same set up and I'm getting 60 fps at 1440p. I'm really happy with the performance of this game pre game ready drivers.
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Post by Brannegan on Mar 16, 2017 21:14:24 GMT
I played a few more hours. Absolutely love love love the game. The banter is amazing. The planets are stunning. The writing is fun. Just major I have an old Logitech G710+ keyboard and this is the first game I've ever played that has made the light flash and all. It's minorly annoying that the lights are completely shut down during normal game play but the flashing when low health makes up for it. Oh the flashing! Whoever decided the keyboard light fun should be implemented for older models too deserves a cupcake! As for cons. The CC is still horse shit but I already went into that earlier in this thread so let's talk about something else. The game is very stuttery. My FPS seems stable but for whatever reason the game stutters and the more cinematic bits have few second freezes. And a major MAJOR gamebreaking issue I found was that you can't save. Like ever. In the prologue I got a certain point, let's call it point A, went to explore another part of the map that was an optional quest objective to explore, died after ~20 minutes and was reloaded to point A. I hadn't even bothered trying to save before that so I thought, "hey, I'mma save this time". But no. For whatever reason I couldn't save at all? So I did the exactly same ~20 minutes bit again, beat the mob I died at the first time and proceeded to get killed by something else a few minutes later. And lo and behold, once again I loaded at point A. Any chance this could get fixed by launch? Because this is just making the game unenjoyable. I like playing on a difficulty that gives me challenge, but if I have to replay same exploration bits ridiculous times that's too much. Let me save goddamnit! So to reiterate. Please. Please. For the love of Blast-ohs, let me save!
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Post by kukumburr on Mar 16, 2017 21:15:09 GMT
I just finished my 10 hour trial. Didn't get to any multiplayer, I pretty much just finished all the SP stuff an hour before the timer ran out. I'm not going to comment on graphics/performance because I was playing it on a PC that doesn't even quite meet minimum requirements so I had to turn everything down quite a bit.
I didn't play with the CC since I quite like default Sara. I wasn't sure if I would based on promo stuff but I actually really like the way she looks in game (outside of stuff that applies to everyone anyways). Facial animations are not good, although this varies from character to character. I don't find Alec's, Cora's, or Liam's facial animations to be too bad but on the other end Addison's are really bad. I think worse than that though is the dead eyes everyone has, they just look blank and sort of pasted on. Inquisition's eyes were a lot better looking so I'm not sure what changed for this game. It makes it harder to connect with characters. On the other hand the walk/run/jump animations are much better.
I like the story for the most part so far. I like the squadmates so far but don't feel particularly attached to any of them yet, but then I don't think I cared about Tali or Garrus at all until ME2 so I'm not too worried about that. I like the new dialogue wheel and the stuff in the codex that keeps track of your decisions and personality and stuff. Choices in general feel a bit more nuanced and not so obvious, which I like.
I like the journal and mission tracker. The codex is nice too but one thing that bothers me that might be a bug is that when an entry gets updated it doesn't show the "!" on the outer folders, but still shows it in the menu. So you have to hunt through all the folders to find where it is. Not a huge fan of the inventory menu, or inventory/loot in general for that matter, but it's not a big deal. I didn't do much with research or development, I've never been a big fan of crafting but I'll probably mess with it a bit.
I've enjoyed the combat so far. I just did a vanguard profile with charge, pull, and nova and it was a lot of fun. To be honest I don't feel like I really understand the profile system that well though. I was putting all my points into biotics so I only had vanguard/adept available and I'm not sure why I would put points into anything else until my vanguard stuff was maxed. I'm not sure I understand how weapons work with the profile switching either. I was only allowed 2 weapons and you can't switch them except at loadout stations so why would I switch profiles on the fly? I don't want to carry both a shotgun and sniper rifle if I had vanguard and infiltrator profiles or whatever. But maybe I just don't understand it yet. The jump pack and dash is a lot of fun, especially when combined with charge. I had a good time fighting a fiend (although he did eat me once).
The Nomad is... alright. Having to switch to 6-wheel drive feels a bit cumbersome to me and I miss being able to climb nearly sheer vertical walls with the Mako. It feels like I really have to stay on flat areas with the Nomad. Running stuff over is fun though, and I enjoyed jumping up and hitting the flying observers.
I liked the remnant puzzly stuff and the side quests weren't bad. They were definitely better than DA:I's at least. One thing I'm not sure I like is the whole hazard system. I'm not sure if you clear this stuff up somehow when you make the planet viable or what but even in hazard level 1 I got annoyed in a spot because I got out to kill some remnant and my life support had drained by the time I got done and I didn't have time to loot and scan the stuff in the area so I just went and sat in the Nomad and had to wait for it to recharge a bit. And then I found some hazard 3 area that drained even the Nomad's bar almost instantly (although it doesn't seem to die?) so I assume that's a "come back here later" sign. But again I'm not sure how you're able to deal with that. Is it just upgrades or can you lower it somehow?
The galaxy map is nice looking but it's really tedious to have to sit through the animation to go to EVERY planet. Especially when some planets don't have anything interesting going on with them. The planet scanning system this time around seems much more lackluster than ME2. It's just not interesting to do at all. I do like the planet/star appearing outside the window of the Tempest though. And the Tempest itself is quite nice.
Two things I ran into that I think might be bugs were that I can't change the color of my outfit/armor. I can change it in the wardrobe menu but it refuses to actually apply once I've exited the menu. And the other thing is that I heard banter both on the Tempest and out on Eos that referenced character stuff that I had no idea about yet, or weren't present on the Tempest.
Overall I enjoyed it and I'm definitely going to keep playing it when it comes out. The facial animations and eyes are the worst part of the game so far to me, the poor expressions make the characters seem kind of stale and emotionless. I'm not SUPER drawn to the characters or story yet but there's definitely enough there that I want to keep going and learn more and it feels like it's still early in the game so I assume that'll get better as it goes on. The remnant stuff in particular seems interesting to me.
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Post by kaind on Mar 16, 2017 21:18:35 GMT
Positives:
+Game atmosphere, visuals and music are amazing. +Combat is super entertaining. +Exploration is fun and collecting resources doesn't feel like too much of a chore. +There are a lot of lore details that can be found which enriches the universe. +Characters have a rich story. +Plot is more or less engaging.
Negatives:
-CC is horrible. -Roleplay is kept to bare minimum, even thought there are SOME choices, about 70% of what the character says they say without the player selecting a line and when we do select a line it's mostly the same response just with a different emotion attached to it. -Face animations are still kinda weird, but they have actually improved from the first videos, it's not super bad, but you cringe just a little from time to time. -Squadmates are almost meaningless in combat, 90% of the work is always done by the player. You have almost no influence over them and they deal almost no damage. -Multi-classing is NOT an option even though the game was advertised as if it is. If a player doesn't want to seriously gimp themselves practically it just doesn't work because of the way all the passive skills are set and how much influence they have over the active skills. -Unskipable travel scenes drive me nuts.
That's about it I guess, nothing else comes to mind right now.
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Post by Pokemario on Mar 16, 2017 21:27:59 GMT
Only played 3 hours but so far: -The CC is not really what I expected (in a negative way): there are a lot of features that were in past BioWare games missing. Also, Alec's skin colour only changes depending on the preset you picked, which sucks, especially since you can't headcanon that the twins were adopted as Alec always has the same eye colour you have. My Scott also ended up looking older during certain facial animations (wish I could have customized the standard model instead). -While MP matches are fun, I feel like its overall design is far less intuitive than ME3MP's. -While I loved some of the twists and felt intrigued by the start of the story, the first mission was too slow IMHO and kind of depressing.
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Post by shaqfu on Mar 16, 2017 21:41:16 GMT
Played a bit more earlier. Not sure if bug or just due to limited faces. But alot of the asari seem to have the exact same face as Lexi. Just with different markings(yes yes I know you humans are all racist!Lol)
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Post by Space Cowboy on Mar 16, 2017 21:51:06 GMT
Just some quick thoughts.
The game looks great. Combat is fun. Limited saves is dumb. I've had to replay sections simply because I wanted to turn off the game for a while. (or crashed) Why no quick save? CC options. People are asking for eyebrow shape and COLOUR to be changeable. People dont want eyebrows that dont match their hair colour. (ie blond with black eyebrows) Nomad is not fun with keyboard controls. I may need to get used to it. Animations are robotic, just to add to the pile. I've seen comparisons with a MEA NPC and Ashley Wiliams from ME1. ME1 is better, a much older game. The UI is not great. Specifically crafting, skill management. Hard and confusing to navigate It's annoying that when I look at the map, I need to hit ESC twice to return to the game.
Still have a few hours left. I'll add more if I come across anything else
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Post by fialka on Mar 16, 2017 21:57:08 GMT
I'm only five hours in, but am loving it so far! Overall, it feels like Mass Effect, but with a little Inquisition thrown in. The best parts. Or DAI had it been done right. Here's a breakdown by category: Character creator:As many have likely already said, it's far too limiting. At the very minimum more control over the individual features with additional sliders would be great - eye and brow rotation, nose tilt, over/underbite, upper/lower lip thickness, and so on. I'm also disappointed we can't choose different complexions, and that the skin shades come in such a narrow spectrum for each preset. Also, I would prefer it if the hairstyles weren't gender gated, and if we could alter the defaults. Graphic settings:It seems, unless I'm missing something, our only options are to choose high/ultra/etc or auto-detect? Everything's grayed out for me and I can't click on it. I'd really prefer to tweak things like shadow detail and such on my own. (Someone was kind enough to point out how I missed this, so never mind!) Also, I hate radial blur, but can't figure out how to turn it off. Animations:People are criticizing them as if they're the worst thing ever. They're really not. There's some weirdness, yes, but overall they're not too bad. I think they just stand out because the cutscenes are so well done otherwise. I did notice some funky stuff with the camera zoom in some of the out-of-cutscene dialogue. Fallout 4 used to have this issue too, where the character you're talking to is cut out of the shot depending on where you're standing. On the other hand I like that we're not 20 feet away like we were in Inquisition during those convos, so I guess I can accept the trade-off. On a positive note: I love how Sara moves! No manly ape walk, but it's not sexualized at all. So thank you! Squad attire:I understand wanting iconic outfits for the crew, but at least one alternate appearance for each character would be nice. Performance:I'm surprised at how well the game runs and looks. On high settings the game is beautiful, and runs (mostly) smoothly, despite my processor being below the recommended minimum and having just the 8 gigs of RAM (I have an AMD 8GB RX480 which is probably running my whole damn game, haha!). The characters and dialogue:I love them all, and I love that they have so much to say. Liam won't shut up, and it's fantastic! Cora and Vetra are really cool, and Kallo is adorable. Some really great moments here so far thanks to them. They feel like real people reacting to the world and with each other. I also love the reactivity - how I have a dialogue with one character referenced later in another, and how a scene can change depending on my actions. I can see why some might not like the 'lighter' tone, but I'm enjoying it. The combat:It usually takes me a long to time for me to get the hang of combat mechanics, but it feels really intuitive here. It's a lot like ME3, but with better environments to fight in. And I LOVE the jetpack! Haven't messed around with the profiles yet however so I can't speak to that. I wish I could control the squad more, but it's not a deal breaker. The AI can get funny at times but for the most part the squadmates seem smarter than in the Trilogy. In that they actually seem to use powers on their own at the right times, and don't stand out in the open getting shot at. Also, I'm on PC, playing with KB+M, and combat doesn't feel clunky like Inquisition's did. Exploration:I actually really like using the scanner to find info. I know some might find it tedious, but, far as I can tell it's optional? I like that SAM and Sara and the other characters comment on the things I find, and the lore nerd in me loves finding out about alien plants and such! Also, the environments are gorgeous with all the detail put into them. The galaxy map is beautiful as well. Pacing:People have been critiquing this a lot but I don't see the issue? I like the slower start where I can get my bearings, watch the story unfold, and not be overwhelmed by a ton of new game mechanics all at once. Personally I hated how rushed ME3 felt in the beginning so this ME1-style intro to the game is nice. Sara:She might well be my favorite Bioware protagonist so far! I typically dislike auto-dialogue, but I think you guys did a good job of keeping it somewhat neutral so it can 'fit' whatever personality we end up choosing. And she seems to be a nice middle ground between Shepard with her established personality, and the Inquisitor's 'blank slate.' And Fryda's great!
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Post by fatherjerusalem on Mar 16, 2017 22:03:49 GMT
Honest to shit, what it boils down to for me is this: Today is the first day of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. One of the TRULY GREAT days in all of sports. And every year, I make sure that no matter what I'm doing, I have at least one game on in the background somewhere.
Today, I was so invested in playing Andromeda, that I forgot entirely about the tournament until just now.
Every complaint about animations or the CC or "lame dialogue" means nothing to me if the game manages to capture and hold my interest THAT much.
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Post by Bacus on Mar 16, 2017 22:07:38 GMT
Ok, in the end managed to get it to work. After reinstalling all of the required extra programs, I restarted the download, and finally worked.
regarding the game, managed to play 6 hours, reached the "buy the game" point:
Pros: -Holy shit it looks gorgeous! -navigation is very smooth and i haven't had any weird bugs -stable game (besides my instalation problems, but that, I would guess, was mainly because I tried playing before everything was downloaded.) -Real nice voice actors. The voices of all of the toons are great. -really cool and interesting "hacking" mini game -The remnants have piqued my interest -Love the first "map" how many paths you had -like the extra mobility
Cons: -Animations; good LORD they are horrid. -the galaxy map, while super pretty, must get boring after a while -I just hate being able to be every class in one. Lore-wise i'm not buying it either -Sara (playing default Sara) just makes most of the talking by herself. Not good, i know it's mostly banter but still... -I have no clue as to what to do with the HUMONGOUS amount of stuff in my inventory, and don't even get me started with crafting. -Related to the above, the UI is not very intuitive. (playing with PC, the game really feels like a bad port instead of a PC game). -The kett seem overly generic (but I don't want to gripe about this, because, maybe, there is a reason why they are like this.) -ATM only played one multyplayer map. Had massive ping dunno how the connection is made -Lip-sync is weird on various characters -some textures don't really seem to be on par with some others -still not used to the non-sticky-cover combat.
Im not getting the Mass Effect vibe, at least not yet.
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Post by Ark on Mar 16, 2017 22:14:35 GMT
About 4 hours in, I'm pretty optimistic that I'll enjoy the full game, it's kind of a weird game to have a timed trial in, since I want to explore but I also want to see more of the story before my times up. I have to mention my #1 letdown though, which is the already very discussed and disappointing CC options. I'm sure there were reasons why it was so restrictive? I dunno, I've never used a default face in Bioware's games before, but I almost certainly will in this case, which I'm disappointed in. One issue I heard about before playing and certainly experienced was your actively tracked quest being overridden when acquiring a new quest. Hopefully that can be fixed soon in a patch. Most of the other minor issues I'm having will be resolved with just playing more of the game and getting familiar with the controls (and cover, I'm having a terrible time trying to use cover).
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Post by Link"Guess"ski on Mar 16, 2017 22:16:16 GMT
Spent half the day without internet so I couldn't play beyond the opening hour but I have a few immediate technical tidbits to request (playing on PC here): - Fix the scrolling. I was reading a 5-paragraph Codex entry and I had to scroll for 30 seconds to get it to the bottom because every scroll only took the text down one line or so. When entries get long the ratio, or system (whatever you call it) you have made for scrolling with a mouse gets in the way. - The Journal is confusing to use. instead of automatically going to the latest objective I would rather like if it went to the main screen with the folders, because you're like "whah?" the first time you open and then press back. - I'm very disappointed that the dialogue wheel no longer controls like a dial with the mouse and we have to click on responses like in Dragon Age. I would be happy with a patch for this. - I'm cool with the character creator, especially since the hair finally feels more like hair, even if I really miss being able to select nose, eye and mouth types. I have a feeling it has been designed this way though, because Daddy ryder is only combinable via the presets and then exterior tweaks. Even so, what is stopping you guys from allowing us to select different complexions, angling the eyes, tweaking ears and stuff?
The non-cinematic dialogues: - Now this one strikes me as odd. You re-introduce the non-cinematic camera from DA:I but you've taken away it's so-called purpose: you can't exit in the middle of a conversation. The camera is strictly there to allow for "cheaper" dialogues but you're locked into them and on PC I now have to click and drag the mouse to change the view, which feels rather annoying (DA:I just had normal camera control). I'd prefer an option to just always make the camera follow the mouse. Also, I often get into a convo from the wrong angle, making all the characters obscured. This is when the lack of being able to exit the conversation on the fly becomes annoying, because I cannot re-adjust what the camera is focused on and then re-enter like I could in Inquisition. This is really a hit-and-miss solution. Also you should decrease FOV whenever we enter these because Ryder's face looks stretched in the edge of the screen and the cinematic focus is off because of the way it stretches when it zooms in.
Regarding the animation: - Still very wonky animation and I'm pretty sure it has up until patch 1.03. Mass Effect may be an RPG but you can't confuse it with the likes of Fallout or Bethesda RPGs. Cinematicness was always one of the fundamental pillars of this series, combining linear with non-linear and emphasizing the "digital acting". I have no idea if you allow more work on animation post-launch day, but it really deserves an extra pass. Go CDPR route and work on an enhanced edition that gives everything a little facelift for later in 2017, maybe? Even the makers of Life Is Strange finished all 5 episodes (took them a year) and upon releasing the final one, they released a free patch that completely overhauled the lip-sync animations. What Andromeda specifically needs that is not good enough right now, is the eye-expressions. The characters too often seem to get the wrong cue across that doesn't match with their voices. It's very, very distracting for a game that emphasizes interactive narrative to the extent a BioWare game does.
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Post by Space Whale on Mar 16, 2017 22:21:30 GMT
After 3h of the game (not counting CC) Pros? - great dialogue, Sara's really funny, Liam's just hilarious while Cora's like "dragons?" "dragons." yup. I love it - hair looks better than I expected? at least what I have. tho I'd say every light and/or brightly colored hair I've seen (blue/red/even blonde on npc) look really bad - map looks fun to explore, there's a lot of stuff to discover and I thought it would be overwhelming but it was actually really fun to just look into every nook and cranny for things - jetpack. oh man. jetpack- great voice actors overall Cons: - sometimes drops of framerate, usually not in the gameplay tho. Getting into Habitat 7 was horrendous, framerate going 60-15-0, lots of freezing - of course cc but everyone already talked about that so I'm not going into details and animations. My Ryder is from 1st preset and I think overall her facial animations are actually pretty good? but there's something wrong with her mouth tho, it's like she never has them completely closed. I think it would help a great deal if we could see our Ryder talk a bit in character customization to know if we have to tweak lips a bit or not - not having the ability to save whenever you want in prologue and 1st mission (at least outside the combat) is just bad. I thought we were past this. - in some cutscenes there's terrible drop of quality on foreground characters. Sometimes you can almost count all pixels they have, they're HUGE. also our scanner in cutscenes looks like it was in 144p while the rest of the game is in 1080p it's just wrong - another thing about the scanner which I think it's a bug? Sometimes you can't use it at all. Sara tries to pull it out but she just puts it off constantly and can't scan anything. I've seen it twice already and the only thing that works is just exiting the game and turning it on again. Gif of what's happening in spoilers Edit: After 10h of trial More bugs! - characters and Nomad entering slow motion in random places on Eos, the same thing that's been happening with scanner happening to menu, and when it happens to menu the only solution is just quitting with task manager I'm having troubles with driving Nomad but I've been told that it's the same as in OT so I just have to remember "the old ways". For me, mouse based driving would be definitely more intuitive and faster but that's something I can get used to I think. After 1h of driving tho it still feels weird and wrong and that's not good.
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Post by cameronlfc on Mar 16, 2017 22:36:06 GMT
Yeah, I agree with a lot of people in this thread, the galaxy map is pretty tedious, It's pretty nice at first, but it takes way longer to do stuff than it should do. I actually ended up skipping looking at all the other planets on the map because of how long it would take to enter and exit them all. Of course, that could just be because i'm conscious of the 10 hour clock
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Post by Parachroma on Mar 16, 2017 22:38:21 GMT
Still playing and I'm not ready to jump to any conclusions just yet, but 1 thing:
Why can't I save anytime, anywhere? This is driving me insane! PLEASE add quick/manual (both) save functionality. Thank you and carry on...
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Post by jjdxb on Mar 16, 2017 22:43:10 GMT
OK, so apparently I had 14 days of Origin Access left despite never paying for it after my 7 day trial, but heyho.
So, after 3ish hours of play:
PROS: -I love the jetpack -Combat is a lot more fluid than before -VA is great -Crew interactions are there and very interesting
CONS: -Face animations. Though, strangely, I haven't noticed the eyes, probably because for the time being I have to run it on low since my laptop has for knack of overheating. -The customisation menus, esp for weapons is a little difficult to navigate. Maybe colour the main buttons white/blue so they stand out? -The pacing of the prologue was a little weird and the emotions were a little off.
I'll continue to share my thoughts once I get a little further along. Right now, ME:As probably around an 8/10 for me
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Post by Cypher on Mar 16, 2017 22:57:29 GMT
The mouse pointer detection for scrolling is way too wide. If you want to read more of the entries while scrolling, your mouse has to be way to the right of the screen in order to avoid scrolling through the list of articles instead.
I don't know if it was just me, but hitting M on the keyboard to bring up the map never let me immediately drop back into the game by hitting M again. I had to use esc to get back to the main menu to get back into the game. The hotkeys for specific menu options should drop you back into the game with a consecutive press.
Everybody already said everything else.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Mar 16, 2017 23:30:27 GMT
Finished my trial now
PROS: - Combat and movement in general, it's just really really good. Better than any of the trilogy - The jetpack. I was dreading having to do so much platforming but it's fine, easy to use and it is really useful in combat once u get used to it. - Not much in the way of bugs if you don't count like graphical bugs and glitches, no crashes, nothing that broke or crashed anything not for me anyway. - Seemed to perform great at 4k with my 1080. - The sound. Soundtrack, music and voice acting is all perfect. Also I almost always have to turn dialogue volume to max and music volume down to like 80% or lower in games so I can hear it all but I didn't have to change a thing for this one. It was all set perfectly - The squad mates have A LOT to say about everything. - The nomad/ exploration was pretty good from what I saw
CONS: - Character creation. We all know it's terrible but like even the few options we have are bad. My Ryder looks good most of the time but sometimes when he smiles he gets all these lines on his face like some middle aged man only really fake looking. Some cut scenes this doesn't happen in but occasionally it does and I've tried a different preset. His hair also clips into the back of his own neck sometimes so I'll have to change that too. - Facial animations. Most are acceptable but still not great but then the rest are just awful. Seems like SisRyder and that woman on the Nexus are the worst cases but they aren't the only bad ones. There are also tons of minor graphical glitches and mistakes that are just annoying. This game wouyld have been received better if it had been polished up a lot more than it has been, probably too late now. - The premise/ some of the plot. While some of it is compelling the premise of this game is silly. So many characters saying stuff like they went to Andromeda on a whim just leaving their families behind forever. Why wasn't this like an escape from the reapers right before the end of ME3? Like it could still have been in the works forever and the reapers just made them leave early causing all these problems. - The dialogue is quite cheesy and the pacing isn't that good either but this is just the start so it could easily get better. - So far the side quests are not massively interesting, nowhere near as bad as Inquisition but I hope we get at least some good ones. - the tutorial is a bit bare bones - the scanner, it's hard to tell what is scannable so u end up scanning everything which is tedious.
I still enjoyed it and have not cancelled my pre order but in my opinion it needs polish and could have done with more thought going into the writing.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2017 23:39:50 GMT
I've just discovered that to make your selection stick on the wardrobe screen, you have to press space with your option highlighted. Hopefully that helps a few people out.
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Post by tziwen on Mar 16, 2017 23:42:47 GMT
Hello! Please allow me to give my 2 cents about my 10 hours experience with Mass Effect: Andromeda
I'ld put my general feedback here and i'ld go more in depth ( and in a light spoiler territory) in an other part of this forum.
What i liked:
-The tutorial itself. Clever writting is clever. Metaphors are too. Thanks for this great moment
-The general use of Frostbite. Inquisition has the edge on character models but here you kicked Mike Laidlaw's ass (btw i do love his twitch channel) regarding landscape and carnation.
-Human looking and sounding actually human: You're sweaty when you run, you pants etc etc. Feeling organic and alive.
-The writting's holding up good for the most part. It is Mass Effect with a Dargon Age twist: Crew members being more shiny than your main protagonist. Even so i never felt like my Ryder was bland or anything.
-Both the macro and medium loops are great. You have scale through story but through gameplay either. Your character has an infinite potential and there are numerous things to accomplish.
-Your multiplayer model will replace ME3's and i guess it will have its longevity too.
What i disliked:
-Too many technical issues: Bugs, missing textures, etc...
-Your micro gaming loop is... Meh... From a fight to an other you apply the same formula. I feel all the profiles possibilities are being wasted here.
-Too many loading screen with one of them being 7 minutes long.
-Pointless narration is pointless: Your great cinematic iintroduction would have been better having no narration at all.
-No lip sync effort in the french version.
-Cora's having the same voice actor than Liara in ME2 Shadowbreaker in french. Big nono.
-ME3 type of writting. Which isn't bad but defenetly not as breath taking as ME2's. Even if sometimes ME2 was forcing me to feel things in a clumsy way...
Conclusion:
Good maybe great game. I'm looking forward spending ton of hours playing it. That being said, to the medium itself it brings nothing new. This is just a mashup of ME 1-2-3 and Inquisition... ME1 dominant tho.
Thanks for reading me.
7 minute loading screen: Black screen with music playing and the loading logo turning around. Happening right after the cinematic displayed when you get your ship. I am on: (your platform/spec)" PC. I7-6700 (3.40), 16gb of ram, GTX980 displayed in 1080 P. The exact thing I was doing when it happened was: Just watching the cinematic.
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Post by Space Cowboy on Mar 16, 2017 23:54:20 GMT
One more annoyance
Holding 'E' to activate things. I can see this being fine in some cases, like to mimic unlocking a door, but things like opening an unlocked door, talking to someone, looting, tram usage.. its' just frustrating. These should require nothing more than a tap on the key.
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Post by exo on Mar 16, 2017 23:57:34 GMT
This is not my final "review" but after playing some hours I'm really angry that I can't roleplay like I want. I want to be relentless, stubborn bitch like my good old Shepard and I can't, I just don't have the choice. EVERY scene were I had the "Mass Effect OT sense" of having the choice to be an ass or just cold left me furiously searching for the answer I want. This probably annoys me even more than the CC. If someone questions my competence I want to either say something like fuck off or seize them by the collar whispering in their ears that I'm gonna eat their mother and NOT "Oh I'm sorry", "Yes madam" or "Whoop Dee Doo, I'm casually saying yes". This problem is of course non existent for paragon players but I feel pressured into the role of a young, liberal child with no self esteem, no balls, no authority and no character. PLEASE anybody tell me that this changes soon (I'm on the Tempest now for the first time) although I doubt it Two answers mostly, which effect the same thing is not an improvement over the three choices for "nice","indifferent", "unfriendly" PLUS"asshole" and "angel" which we had in the OT.
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