Mass Effect: Andromeda

polonyc2 said:
I hear it's a really long game as well with tons of (not all that great) side quests...long games are great if it's fun and enjoyable but if you're forcing yourself to play then it can be a chore...I'm waiting for a patch or 2 to hit before jumping in (luckily the new Dark Souls 3 DLC is coming out this week to occupy my gaming time)...Andromeda sounds like a decent game but not on the level of the original trilogy...sounds like some people are really enjoying it and others not so much...as per usual the internet only knows extremes of love it or hate it with nothing in between
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I hear the game picks up big time on Eos, so I'm still pushing through. Had to restart a few times to get Jennifer Lopez looking good.
I'm not happy with the performance so I may just wait until the aftermarket 1080 Ti's come out before I keep playing.

Also, unrelated, I had two display driver crashes yesterday in the span of 6 hours. After both of which, the game refuses to start until I did a full system reboot. -_-
 
Game runs fine enough with a single 1080 w/ 1440 resolution on all cranked up settings. That being said, performance is low inside of the ship of all places. But part of the reason why I have a g-sync panel is so when those dips happen I don't notice it as much.
 
M76 said:
I don't think you can blame EA for the "diversity" shit either. Everyone is either gay or an alien. Or a gay alien.
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I can't tell you how irrationally angry this is making me BTW. Every fucking female I've talked to in this game is a lesbo. I think the only one who isn't is maybe the Turian female on your crew.

I have more romance options with dudes then I do with women in this game playing as a male character, or maybe i'm doing something wrong. I think your second in command chick is an option - But this strikes me as a completely inappropriate option due to chain of command issues. Funny how they'd make the only somewhat normal female character in a position where a romance would be considered completely inappropriate in real life.
 
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This game has more female Turians than all the original 3 games combined. Although I think those games had precisely zero. Well, maybe one.
I'd assume BioWare did that because the females were so rare in those games but no I suspect it's for diversity.
 
What's crazy is no one would be giving a flying fuck about this type of shit two years ago. Now everyone needs a safe space because they're triggered by "diversity."
 
Colonel Sanders said:
What's crazy is no one would be giving a flying fuck about this type of shit two years ago. Now everyone needs a safe space because they're triggered by "diversity."
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I'm triggered by bad writing and lousy characters. Diversity is irrelevant, you choose the most suitable not the most diverse people. And choosing gay people to build a viable population in a new galaxy, is that really a good idea?
 
About 10 hours in and... it's okay. I can overlook disappointing animation and technical issues, but the characters and writing just are not compelling. I literally have to force myself to play. That's not acceptable for a Mass Effect game. When I replay any of the original three, a couple hours pass in what feels like 20 minutes. MEA is Return of the Jedi. Not bad, but should have been so much more, so much better. The only positive take-away, for me, is that I don't have to drop $700 on a new 1080 Ti. Not for this game.
 
TaintedSquirrel said:
I'm not happy with the performance so I may just wait until the aftermarket 1080 Ti's come out before I keep playing.
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If your signature is accurate then I don't get it. Game barely dips bellow 60 fps on 1440p@ultra for me. Except in cutscenes but that's irrelevant, and even there it stays above 45. Or maybe it's CPU bound for you.
 
Commander Shepard said:
About 10 hours in and... it's okay. I can overlook disappointing animation and technical issues, but the characters and writing just are not compelling. I literally have to force myself to play. That's not acceptable for a Mass Effect game. When I replay any of the original three, a couple hours pass in what feels like 20 minutes. MEA is Return of the Jedi. Not bad, but should have been so much more, so much better. The only positive take-away, for me, is that I don't have to drop $700 on a new 1080 Ti. Not for this game.
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Yeah, technically the game is pretty good. The animations are not as bad as it was made out to be. There are some glaring errors from time to time, but as I progress in the game I notice less and less animation issues. But the very soul of Mass effect were the characters. Your companions, their backstories, and their motivations. In Andromeda I'm almost 10 hours in also, and I don't give a rat's ass about anyone. If all of them died in a horrible accident on the next level, I'd not blink an eye. And I don't have any attachment to the main character either.

They wanted average characters? Well they have it. Too bad that also predestines an average game, with an average story.

Sure you can have less interesting characters, ME1 had poor Kaidan, and ME2 had Jacob, but even he grew a pair for ME3.

But to make all characters uninteresting? And no, annoying is not interesting. Yes I'm thinking of peebee.
 
anyone else having random crashes to the desktop that acts like your alt-f4ing the game?

Happens randomly. sometimes I can play for an hour other times 10 mins.
 
Ryan5508 said:
anyone else having random crashes to the desktop that acts like your alt-f4ing the game?

Happens randomly. sometimes I can play for an hour other times 10 mins.
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See my earlier post. Back when BF1 came out I had similar issues and for me at least it was due to having an unstable CPU overclock. I pulled 200mhz from my overclock and was fine afterwards. These newer Frostbite engine games push hardware in ways that I haven't been able to replicate in stress testing or other games.
 
TaintedSquirrel said:
I hear the game picks up big time on Eos, so I'm still pushing through. Had to restart a few times to get Jennifer Lopez looking good.
I'm not happy with the performance so I may just wait until the aftermarket 1080 Ti's come out before I keep playing.

Also, unrelated, I had two display driver crashes yesterday in the span of 6 hours. After both of which, the game refuses to start until I did a full system reboot. -_-
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if I'm going to play a game that's this long I'm willing to wait a bit for the game to get a few patches...I'm most likely not going to do a 2nd playthrough for awhile so I want my first time through to be as good as it can be...I actually bought a GTX 1070 for this game (I wanted 60 fps at my current resolution of 1920 x 1200 with everything on Ultra)
 
I'm a decent ways in.. IMO the game doesn't pick up much. The core issue with the game is that the characters just aren't interesting, and the story really never develops to a point where it makes me want to keep on playing.

I'm only playing because of the graphics, and it's at least a workable game - But I would rate the game a 7/10 at best, and most of that is only due to the graphics. For comparison i'd rate Zelda 9/10, only missing 1 point from being perfect because the Switch is ultimately underpowered and the game doesn't look as good as it could have.
 
Mchart said:
I'm a decent ways in.. IMO the game doesn't pick up much. The core issue with the game is that the characters just aren't interesting, and the story really never develops to a point where it makes me want to keep on playing.

I'm only playing because of the graphics, and it's at least a workable game - But I would rate the game a 7/10 at best, and most of that is only due to the graphics. For comparison i'd rate Zelda 9/10, only missing 1 point from being perfect because the Switch is ultimately underpowered and the game doesn't look as good as it could have.
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are you focusing only on the main missions or are you doing a lot of side quests and exploring?
 
polonyc2 said:
are you focusing only on the main missions or are you doing a lot of side quests and exploring?
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Doing every sidequest available. None of them are all that particularly interesting beyond 'Go to location X on map, fight some randoms, using scanning tool, rinse, repeat'.

I just don't find much of what made the original games good to be here, and couple that with the generally uninteresting gameplay/combat mechanics and it's really just an average game with outstanding graphics. The only thing that made the original trilogy interesting was the story / characters. This game doesn't have that.
 
Mchart said:
Doing every sidequest available. None of them are all that particularly interesting beyond 'Go to location X on map, fight some randoms, using scanning tool, rinse, repeat'.

I just don't find much of what made the original games good to be here, and couple that with the generally uninteresting gameplay/combat mechanics and it's really just an average game with outstanding graphics. The only thing that made the original trilogy interesting was the story / characters. This game doesn't have that.
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it was pretty much the same with Mass Effect 1 and the Mako exploration...go to random planet, fight some people and collect some minerals...but the main story and characters were much more interesting so it made the tedious stuff bearable...with Andromeda it seems like the entire game might be a bit tedious
 
polonyc2 said:
it was pretty much the same with Mass Effect 1 and the Mako exploration...go to random planet, fight some people and collect some minerals...but the main story and characters were much more interesting so it made the tedious stuff bearable...with Andromeda it seems like the entire game might be a bit tedious
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My favorite were the character specific quest lines in ME2. For me personally those missions were the height of the series. The interesting characters and interesting story is what makes mass effect, and this game just doesn't have that.

Keep in mind that I don't need a solid story to stay interested in a game. I continue to play the shit out of Zelda which may as well not have story, but it's gameplay is so damn good that I just want to keep coming back.

This game has no draw. Gameplay/combat mechanics are generally dull and couple that with no story hook and I feel most people are going to be disappointed with this game once they get over how good it looks.
 
If you want to use a more light-weight version of the Origin client (it also fixed my clock issues with "Maximum Performance" mode), right click Origin.exe and change it to Windows XP SP3 compatibility. After starting the client, it will download a few patches to downgrade itself to XP mode.

You lose a lot of social media stuff and the client looks less pretty but it drastically reduces CPU overhead. My game no longer jumps to 100% CPU load at launch for no reason.

Also, whatever complications it was having with 3D Acceleration are also gone, so I suspect the client itself will be more stable. Heavily recommend doing it, but that's just my experience.

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Andromeda: PC vs PS4/Xbox One Graphics Comparison

A full breakdown of PC's main advantages over console editions of Mass Effect Andromeda. ..higher quality texture maps, superior effects, and sharper shadows give PC a big visual edge over PS4 and Xbox One...

 
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Thanks for the real talk everyone. Looks like I will avoid this one entirely. Bland characters, bland story, repetitive combat and missions, topped off with animation bugs and a heavy SJW militant-gay-feminist vibe.... no thanks.

While I was really looking forward to this, I'm not all that upset. 50 hours into Witcher 3 and I feel I have barely scratched the surface... now I can really take my time with this quality title instead.

CD Projekt Red does it right, it seems Bioware has sold out. How sad!
 
polonyc2 said:
Andromeda: PC vs PS4/Xbox One Graphics Comparison

A full breakdown of PC's main advantages over console editions of Mass Effect Andromeda. ..higher quality texture maps, superior effects, and sharper shadows give PC a big visual edge over PS4 and Xbox One...

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The PS4 version runs at sub-30 FPS in the multiplayer. It's unbearable.
 
Man just got Voueld and Eos at 100%. Man those worm things are a pretty good fight.

4 more planets to go. Story really is picking up for me. But I want to try to complete each planet before moving on.
 
Commander Shepard said:
but the characters and writing just are not compelling. I literally have to force myself to play. That's not acceptable for a Mass Effect game.
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Mchart said:
The core issue with the game is that the characters just aren't interesting, and the story really never develops to a point where it makes me want to keep on playing.
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These two comments have just saved me from buying this.

The one thing the originals gave, technical issues aside, was a compelling plot and ridiculously good character(s) development.
 
Brackle said:
Man just got Voueld and Eos at 100%. Man those worm things are a pretty good fight.

4 more planets to go. Story really is picking up for me. But I want to try to complete each planet before moving on.
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How do you complete EOS, I can't even explore it, because if I go to the other side of the mountain I loose life support in 10 seconds.
 
Loving this game. This was the Mass Effect I was waiting for. The exploration of planets, the thrill of seeing something new. Tasting the unknowns - something that ME1 tried to accomplish and which was totally forgotten in ME2/3. Meeting new races, which does not speak your language, starting from scratch and building the civilisation. I'm grateful that I'm not story locked like in ME2.

Yes. It has flaws, the fuzzy animations and such, but terrain and space are gorgeous. Story is decent and I like the characters.

It has also heavy requirements. 1440p all ultra gives about 57-62 FPS on OCed 1080 Ti. But it's worth it.

Not regretting buying it.
 
M76 said:
How do you complete EOS, I can't even explore it, because if I go to the other side of the mountain I loose life support in 10 seconds.
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You have to move on to Voeld and do some of the main quest line. You will get a comment or radio call from Suvi(?) about wanting to talk about EOS, the next time you go to the Tempest there will be conversation between you, the pilot and Suvi, about them wanting to go back to Eos because the radiation is subsiding.
 
The galaxy map is a travesty. It looks so nice but constantly waiting on the flight animation is so boring. Wish we could fly the ships outselves, even if it was just point-to-point like ME3.
 
I'm playing on Insanity, about halfway through Eos now, and I've realized that even though the Biotic tree is incredibly fun it has one serious problem: None of the attacks can damage shielded enemies AT ALL, and there's also no bonus armor attacks. Meanwhile the Tech tree has abilities that damage all three (Unarmored, armored, and shields) in various flavors. Shielded Kett enemies ("Anointed"?) are the bane of my existance in pretty much every fight. Anti-shield attacks are really necessary.

So I'm not seeing the benefit of the biotic tree aside from the physical act of throwing enemies around. It's useful to get enemies out of cover but can sometimes knock them down behind cover, which makes things worse. The biotic profile bonus is also worthless as far as I can tell, it just makes you Jump/Dash with the biotic ability and not the jetpack. Why?

Does it make more sense to just dump all of my skill points into the Tech trees and maybe some into Combat? It just seems like a waste to pump up any biotic skills.

Found similar thoughts on Reddit.

Standard Overload, Incinerate, and Energy drain. Makes even insanity super easy. All 3 both prime and detonate combos, you can deal with shields, armour and health without issues. Both overload and incinerate can CC multiple mobs and once and all are usable at long range. Energy drain of course helps keep your shields up.

Compliment this with a Cryo fist to deal with wraiths and such(and another combo primer if you want).
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TaintedSquirrel said:
I'm playing on Insanity, about halfway through Eos now, and I've realized that even though the Biotic tree is incredibly fun it has one serious problem: None of the attacks can damage shielded enemies AT ALL, and there's also no bonus armor attacks.
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This is all the more reason why it is annoying that we cannot control the teammate powers. We could always have good old Garrus drop an Overload on demand. Of all the gripes people have with this game, that one stands out for me.
 
Ryan7968 said:
This is all the more reason why it is annoying that we cannot control the teammate powers. We could always have good old Garrus drop an Overload on demand. Of all the gripes people have with this game, that one stands out for me.
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I just started thinking about that 12 hours in, guess because the game is so easy. i didn't even miss squad powers until now.
 
M76 said:
It's not just inside the nomad. I've lost numerous saves to this bug. But the autosaves always seem to load, only the manual ones get this.
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Definitely true, just got out of the car and hit a manual save. Died about 30 seconds later... Endless load screen.
This may be the first game I've ever played where the punishment for death means you have to reload the whole game.

It's been out nearly a week and this hasn't been fixed. Now I'm constantly worried about losing progress because I CAN'T SAVE. Also the EA Servers have been offline for the last hour, can't go online either.

Ryan7968 said:
This is all the more reason why it is annoying that we cannot control the teammate powers. We could always have good old Garrus drop an Overload on demand. Of all the gripes people have with this game, that one stands out for me.
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There's a load screen tip that says something like "Choose your squad wisely to compliment Ryder's abilities" and I'm like, what, Primers/Detonators? What else is there? The AI is totally retarded and I have no control over it except where they stand.
 
Yeah - Another downgrade with this game. You have no real control over your squad members.
 
Mchart said:
Yeah - Another downgrade with this game. You have no real control over your squad members.
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About the only use you get from them is that they draw enemy fire.

Just settled Voels, it turned out to be 100% viable, and I wasn't even trying to be a completionist. I don'T know about these remnant, but they seen too much lost, and they must be obsessed with sudoku.
 
Some of the weapon augs are stupid OP, especially the ones that modify your bolts.
The homing plasma allows you to shoot enemies behind cover.

About the only use you get from them is that they draw enemy fire.
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Peebee is useful. She pulls enemies into the air for you and also throws the debuff out. A nice support class.
 
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