ME:A Bugs and Troubleshooting.

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visual bug when firing certain beam weapons and entering or exiting cover. Leaving the area crashes the game so it might be something to do with the beam animation/weapon rate of fire and memory?


some things i've found to help mitigate the infinite beam bug (SP)


-Save and load game before leaving vicinity of beams=surefire no crash. (obviously won't work on priority missions or in MP)

-Crafting a weapon with the Beam Emitter mod in conjuction with auto, single or burst fire systems=no bug. (except with zalkin)

-Have two unique weapons with beam mod in inventory? (superstition, haven't been able to verify)

-Don't equip cool laser weapons


none of these are really fixes, it used to happen exclusively with the P.A.W then after i crafted a beam Zalkin it switched to exclusivley only glitching on the Zalkin.


makes for some cool impromptu dance parties though.

Have done two runs without subtitles in SP ... that seems to fix a lot of the volume issues with dialog ...

In some cases with subtitles on, off camera voices are too quiet, in other cases SAM or Ryder speak, but we hear none of the words, only see the subtitles ...

With subtitles off, the off camera voices are lower, but you can hear them ... more importantly, understand them, plus both Ryder and Sam dialog plays as it is supposed to.

It doesn't fix the "sound bug" (all sound cuts out until the game is rebooted), which is mostly a MP issue, but on rare occasion hits SP too.

Getting rid of subtitles might even improve some of the facial animations just a bit ... nothing's perfect, but some of the goofier stuff that didn't get fixed seems to be a little less goofy. Foster Addison still walks like a dork ... probably nothing will ever be found to fix that (lighten up Foster, that's a joke).

Noticed moments on Eos, when the squad would react to nearby hostiles, they'll remain that way indefinitely, no matter how far away you travel, and the game will continue to say you're still in combat. This makes it impossible to interact with NPCs.

I got that occasionally, but if you use the Infiltrator profile and look through a sniper scope at the geometry around you, you can usually spot an enemy stuck in the terrain. If your sniper rifle has a piercing receiver, you can shoot through such cover and take care of them.

Something I just came across in my current playthrough (on PC, using a controller).

The APEX rewards were full, so I pushed the button to retrieve all of them. I got a message saying my inventory was overfull, and I would need to get rid of some items. The message wanted me to press A (on the controller) to acknowledge it, so I did - multiple times - but it remained frozen in place. I tried a lot of other keypresses to no avail - I was stuck on that screen, with that message. So I finally alt-tabbed out of the game, killed it, and restarted.

After restart, the goodies from running all of those APEX missions (research, materials, items) were of course gone from the server, but did not get added to my inventory.

I guess the lesson here is not to use the button to claim all APEX rewards at once, at least not if it will overfill Ryder's inventory.

I love modders.  They fix a lot of bugs in a lot of games that devs never bother with.

Yes.  I heavily modify Fallout (NV, 3 and 4) and Elder Scrolls (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim).  In fact, when I originally had Oblivion on console, I was pissed that I couldn't mod it and ended up buying it again on PC.

Oblivion was one of my favorite games, because I had it modded to the max...I still listen to the soundtrack when working out and it makes me want to play it again. 

Good to know, thanks.

I tend to let the stock of goodies from APEX missions pile up. I'm always thinking ahead, and believe it helps get a new file/character off to a good start when I start out with a lot of APEX goodies to claim.

I came across a bug I never encountered but it’s likely cause it’s a mission I never encountered before. Strange Beacon on Voeld. I was about to die from the cold and had to fast travel. It broke the mission.

Can anyone help with 2 issues I've been having with the graphics? The shadows are weird no matter what setting I have them on, there is a lot of banding on distant objects even on Ultra, also I can be travelling on Elaaden and big shadows will be covering the distant landscape but rapidly disappear when I move the camera. Similarly when Shadows are set to Ultra or High spiky shadows appear on close terrain as I move the camera, and during the landing sequence on Eos.

Then an even more annoying thing happens when traversing the open world, the floor textures start turning into very obvious squares with lots of seams, and the longer I keep going the worse it gets until eventually I start also getting big black shadows and/or very glass like, reflective looks to them. When I stop moving it's still there. But if I save and reload they're gone until I start travelling again, eventually it starts reoccurring

I can fix the spiky shadows by turning them to Medium, but that makes the weird blanket like distant shadows fade in/out even worse. As for the terrain, it seems less noticeable when I turned textures, terrain and meshes to Low, didn't fix it but it didn't seem as bad. However I can't see what setting is causing the actually problem.

I have a GTX 1080, i7 8700k, 16BG of RAM at 2666mhz, the same is on a Samsung SSD, power supply is 1050w.