Any word on when the next patch is due out?

Tell me then, If the game is truely so great then why was it subject to universial critsism from both the fanbase and dedicated reviewers?

the criticism has been hardly universal.

read my.post before getting worked up. I was referencing one specific instance. And its accurate. What is the most common complaint about Andromeda? The facial animations. In other words graphics. Things that i don't care about. Things I've been told that gamers don't and shouldn't care about. Yet everyone lost their minds and were like 'look At how horrible this game is' so bw was forced to go and focus on stuff that don't matter instead of the bugs that do because the gaming community would rather have Addison look good instead of fixing the real bugs.

That's because they don't know how to communicate anymore. EA's PR is just f***ing brilliant. It's cost-efficient because it doesn't really exist except on investor spreadsheets.

which is sad. Alright ridiculous the facial animations weren't that bad to begin with.

Playing HZD right now and to be honest it's not much better than MEA when it comes to facial animations.  It's better but not Uncharted 4 level people was demanding from MEA.

EA'S PR is f***ing brilliant. Absolutely the best.

again blame the community.

If I didn't enjoy the game and see value in it, I wouldn't be here discussing it or bothering with another PT. I hope Andromeda and whatever follows, succeeds. However,  Andromeda was the last Pre-Order with EA I'll ever make. Why spend money and wait for something to be fixed, when I can just sit back and wait for free and purchase at a lower price when I know it's been fixed or at least know the problems?

I and others have never mentioned animation nor are we fixated with it. YOU seem focused on it because it's apparently more visible to you. Animation is not the most common complaint, it was just the most visible on YouTube when Andromeda was initially released and not a big deal. Since then, there's been a lot of in depth reviews both with praise and criticism for Andromeda. There are other problems; perhaps you've not encountered them or you've overlooked them or they're just not an issue for you - whatever. One of my (early) problems is that I can't use Strike Teams - I talked to EA support and they closed the ticket as solved because they couldn't fix it and told me to put in a bug report. I did and it's still sitting there - Unanswered, unfixed as are a few others.

Go check out EA Answers for Andromeda and see what others are showing as 'common' complaints - still unsolved. #SOON - maybe - maybe not.

I'd be far less concerned if EA embraced modding like BioWare did before EA bought them - where the devs helped people mod the game. A lot of minor issues and complaints and often major problems were fixed by the community. Now users are stuck waiting, knowing that fixing Andromeda is not an EA/BioWare priority. Potential buyers are still waiting for the price to drop even more...

Welcome to the club.

This is the first BW game I have pre-ordered since ME2.  I thought MEA was a good chance to give BW a clean slate and see if they could win back my trust as an automatic pre-order developer (of which I have very few these days).  Guess I just needed to learn my lesson all over again.   I'd even have been okay with it if they had showed some amount of caring in trying to get the game patched but, well they haven't.

I'll definitely go back to waiting till all the DLC's are out and its on sale for future games.