Having done all the other games on Insanity, and knowing what this game is like so far, I'd wager that the health and shield bonuses will far outstrip the other benefits provided by other armors. Frankly, I've never really cared that much about armor bonuses in these games anyway. I've been able to clear them all wearing whatever gear I thought looked the coolest at the time. Weapon, skill and companion choices made far more difference than anything I ever did with armor.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda
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Having done all the other games on Insanity, and knowing what this game is like so far, I'd wager that the health and shield bonuses will far outstrip the other benefits provided by other armors. Frankly, I've never really cared that much about armor bonuses in these games anyway. I've been able to clear them all wearing whatever gear I thought looked the coolest at the time. Weapon, skill and companion choices made far more difference than anything I ever did with armor.
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Well, the patch goes live today- so I'll start a second male Ryder on the next difficulty level and see what happens with armor etc.
I think I used the Helius armor throughout- it made sense, but I'll try to focus on biotics this time and see what I come up with.
I think I used the Helius armor throughout- it made sense, but I'll try to focus on biotics this time and see what I come up with.
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I completely agree. Other than the Omega DLC so far I have had a lot of fun with the DLC especially the Citadel one.
some have complained about losing NPC control and also the loadouts. Frankly I think that is one of the best things they have done. The game is not so hard that you really need NPC control, and the NPC loadouts has always been a clusterfuck of a mess in bioware games. I mean you have to continually take shit and evaluate what you have against what they are using and repeat with their old gear on the others. That was just a monumental time waster. Not missed.
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I haven't really solidified my thoughts on this- in the first three games, you took control at least of your NPC teammates because you needed them to use their abilities on certain enemies in certain orders. However, you also used cover exclusively, and had the ability to pause and set stuff up.
MEA is different here because you no longer have that pause ability, and it seems that your teammates are intelligent enough to use their abilities when they make sense. I imagine that this wasn't very hard to set up, and so far I can't find fault with the system.
I'll see if it gets better or worse as I turn up the difficulty.
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Polygon is best ignored.
EDT, not EST. All US states and territories observe daylight savings time at present. EDT would be GMT-4.
welp, multiplayer is broken,
edit: NVM, appears to work
I think this happens when people were online playing during the update who have outdated game clients. I've encountered this numerous times in Mass Effect 3.
May have had maintenance.
Early impressions: I feel like my performance has improved slightly... courtesy keyboard numbers on dialog choices...certain graphical glitches fixed... I could be kidding myself but I feel like my overall PQ is a smidge sharper.... some eyes look more natural and better shaders...saw a press Tab option to skip certain flying animations... going to test to see if banter is restored and some other things.
Eos Podromos terminal with exclamation point now has missing side quest/task.
Hearing an uptick on banter...
Early impressions: I feel like my performance has improved slightly... courtesy keyboard numbers on dialog choices...certain graphical glitches fixed... I could be kidding myself but I feel like my overall PQ is a smidge sharper.... some eyes look more natural and better shaders...saw a press Tab option to skip certain flying animations... going to test to see if banter is restored and some other things.
Eos Podromos terminal with exclamation point now has missing side quest/task.
Hearing an uptick on banter...
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I never had the banter bug as far as I know. Then again, it may have only been a problem with certain companion combinations. It seems to me that if there were issues they might center around Cora and certain combinations with her. As far as I know she's just quiet and no one wants to talk to her. Any other combinations I've had seemed to generate quite a lot of dialog. Some combinations seemed more chatty than others. Vetra and Drak seemed to be quite verbose as is Jaal and virtually anyone. PeeBee rarely shuts up etc.
I'm on my second playthrough and I'm early on in the game. I haven't had much time to play but I specifically avoided doing any exploration of the galaxy and only went to specific worlds with missions on them waiting for the ability to skip the animations. I didn't know anything about keyboard numbers being on the dialog wheel. If so that's fantastic. BioWare did that on it's Star Wars the Old Republic MMO and no where else. It seemed pretty damned stupid not to do it. It's especially painful in ME3 where the HUD doesn't do any scaling. At all. I watched my frame rates quite carefully since getting the game. I'll be interested in seeing if they have improved at all. I have seen a fair amount of graphical glitches which can sometimes be fixed by alt-tabbing out and back into the game. Flickering textures can generally be fixed that way. I've also seen the occasional rocks here and there with no textures on them at all. The biggest glitch I saw was with the destroyed craft at the main Kett base on Voeld. Instead of smoke, I got flickering fire and black polygons going ape shit. It's literally the only place in the game I've seen a glitch like that. At first I thought it was my graphics cards artifacting but its the only place there.
I had that glitch. In a Kett base on Voeld. Near the top, you get into this situation and then if you faced in a certain direction in that one room it was this flickering and disturbing white outish effect. I would have thought it was my GPU had it not been specific and controlled.
I could be kidding myself again here but I feel like my videocard's fans aren't having to work *quite* as hard as they were before.
I could be kidding myself again here but I feel like my videocard's fans aren't having to work *quite* as hard as they were before.
It's possible. Some games seem to heat up GPU's more than others. Star Wars the Old Republic is notoriously bad for this and used to overwhelm some GPU coolers for unknown reasons. The visuals in that game never should have caused any modern GPU of the day or since that level of stress.
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What's the word on the update? Improvements? Also, I haven't posted this before but I remember not being able to play Andromeda fullscreen. I basically had to play the entire thing as a borderless window which is fine but it's strange that I had to do that. Fullscreen would just launch the game as a black screen. After I beat Andromeda I loaded up Mirror's Edge Catalyst and it was the same story. Is it just Origin games? Mass Effect 3 doesn't have this issue and that's from Origin too.
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From what I've read so far it looks like multiplayer balance is even more fucked up now. They added a new class (Salarian Architect), though!
Andromeda will run full screen. You need to set it up for full screen in the options menu. If it's already set, change it to windowed mode and then change it back. It worked for me.
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Unlimited Lance build doesn't work anymore. *sigh*
Guess I have to switch to bio converter.
Guess I have to switch to bio converter.
they nerfed the melee classes a lot it seems like.
As I understand it many of those builds were overpowered anyway.
Big improvement.
What I told to myself after Dragon Age: Inquisition (which I enjoyed) was that I'd give the next Bioware title at least a month's worth of post-launch patches before diving in. I'll give it a little more time but things are looking good for waiting.
What I told to myself after Dragon Age: Inquisition (which I enjoyed) was that I'd give the next Bioware title at least a month's worth of post-launch patches before diving in. I'll give it a little more time but things are looking good for waiting.
You could always buy them. They used to be 3600 credits though and for much of the game that's quite expensive.
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Thanks bioware. At least until now I could play. Now I can stare at a blank screen if I put the game into full screen mode.
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I just looked up the solutions online. There is a list with pictures of every solution and just kept that bookmarked on my phone for whenever I ran across one. I hate Sudoku and that's the last thing I want to be doing when playing a game.
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This is fucked. Tried repairing didn't help, says up to date.
I can only run it in windowed borderless but it looks terrible and I get mouse lag I didn't get before. HDR is disabled everything looks too bright, and plasticy.
Plus who was the idiot that put those texts to conversations ? NUM1, NUM2, etc? It's goddamn distracting, and ugly, and doesn't go away even if I unbind all.
does anyone do soduku? I don't find the puzzles to be that hard. Just the characters are strange. The main thing is that the characters have to be unique on x, y, and per block. You typically have to look where 3 different characters cross onto a square and then choose the missing one. Alternately you can look at each character and see if they are represented per x, y and block. That method is often easier.
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I do the puzzles, at least so far. I've done the first 3 planets without problems. They are getting a bit tedious, so I'll likely start skipping them at some point.
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After resetting the game to default settings by deleting the settings files from the save directory I was able to unbind all of them and they're gone. Hopefully permanently this time.
Deleting the settings files also fixed my full screen issue, because by default the game starts fullscreen for the first run. It still showed a blank screen at first, but after waiting about 20 seconds the normal picture did show up. So now I'm able to play with normal graphics again.
The lag seems smaller in fullscreen as well, but not compltely gone. Strangely if I disable motion blur in graphics the lag gets much larger.
Mass Effect: Andromeda patch makes eyes less terrifying
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-04-06-mass-effect-andromeda-patch-makes-eyes-less-terrifying
looks like patch 1 is a success...if they can keep hitting the mark and hit all the items on their checklist then in 2 months time this game should be really good...right now it's more like a diamond in the rough
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-04-06-mass-effect-andromeda-patch-makes-eyes-less-terrifying
looks like patch 1 is a success...if they can keep hitting the mark and hit all the items on their checklist then in 2 months time this game should be really good...right now it's more like a diamond in the rough
I don't get this shit. In Star Wars The Old Republic, you can just hit a number. The number is marked but that's it. You don't have "NUM1" etc. hanging out next to the option. It isn't as though the company can't fucking do it right. I prefer hitting a number to clicking on options with the mouse but that's me. Eitehr way, it's total amateur hour up there at BioWare.
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Open your keybinds, reset to default, then scroll down and you can either unbind all the dialog options to get it the way it was pre-patch or you can change the keybinds to whatever you want.
Good deal. I'm glad the choices are there for people to dial that in the way they want.
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1.05 also removed the Prime skill perk in Throw, it can't be a primer+detonator anymore.