Mass Effect: Andromeda - EA/Origin Access trial coming March 16th - 10 hour trial
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MosquitoSmasher
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And it seems we will be doing a lot of that, which is a shame. Would be fucking bullshit if we're going to be doing that on every planet. Will definitely look out for that in reviews.
You reminded me of another really annoying thing. On PC, press M to go the map, but you can't press M to immediately return to the game, you have to press esc twice. Small, but super annoying every time.
JamesHolden
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The 4.5 hours I've played in MP did not actually happen, because the game is nonfunctional. The 2 days of MP livestreams that have been on twitch and periscope the last 2 days also do not exist.
Oh sweet Jesus...no...not like this
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The guy should really know what version of the game is out there...
SRTtoZ
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This game lacks polish :/
Green Yoshi
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Assassin's Creed Unity.
So after starting male and quickly restarting after his annoying voice, can I kill him at some point? I want to choke him every time he talks.
Game is alright. Combat feels a bit too repetitive so I'll probably drop it after the trial until I buy and beat Nier, Horizon and Persona 5.
The dumb jank is just making me laugh. When I play the full thing I'm getting beers for it. Just some of the blank stares, awkward pauses and weird animations catch me out of nowhere and I just can't help it. There's one on the Nexus where I threatened someone and I missed the conversation from laughing.
I also love how you can pick out some non main characters by how terrible their models are. All the aliens are fine, but man, some of those human extras. Looks like someone hit random on the character creation.
Quest tracking is really pissing me off though. I should be able to track multiple things without having to press 5 things in a menus, discover I can't do that where I am, then back out a couple of steps because objectives are in weird folders, so go into the next one and find nothing there, then the one after finally has a side quest I can do.
Game is alright. Combat feels a bit too repetitive so I'll probably drop it after the trial until I buy and beat Nier, Horizon and Persona 5.
The dumb jank is just making me laugh. When I play the full thing I'm getting beers for it. Just some of the blank stares, awkward pauses and weird animations catch me out of nowhere and I just can't help it. There's one on the Nexus where I threatened someone and I missed the conversation from laughing.
I also love how you can pick out some non main characters by how terrible their models are. All the aliens are fine, but man, some of those human extras. Looks like someone hit random on the character creation.
Quest tracking is really pissing me off though. I should be able to track multiple things without having to press 5 things in a menus, discover I can't do that where I am, then back out a couple of steps because objectives are in weird folders, so go into the next one and find nothing there, then the one after finally has a side quest I can do.
Oh man, turn on the toggle run if you want to laugh. It keeps you running forever until you jump or press a menu. It's so weird.
Oh I'm playing on PC as well I know, had to switch to Xbox one controller or I'd go crazy and the map is still so dumb you have to press the hamburger button and then A. And no minimap option? Or even a quick button for the map...?
Yeah... The auto cover is garbage. What's even worse is there an unused buttons on the controller !
No Man's Sky, IIRC.
Correct answer.
Alpha Phoenix
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Haven't played it, but it seems you can't crouch. It was the same in ME2 and 3 (but you could crouch in the first game).
You should be able to click in the right stick.
BouncyFrag
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Patrolling Gaf Mass Effect threads makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
Ah, mouse and keyboarding it, but how I know it's possible I'll start pushing stuff until it happens. Ta!
Trogdor1123
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Oh man... I'm wondering if I should just cancel my pd4 preorder... The response has been so negative. I don't care about the animations much but the rest sounds rough... Decisions my preorder is pretty cheap
Disaster is a bit much...
I had fun with the trial (PC) and the only issues I ran into were a few lock ups during a cutscene. Really looking forward to the full game. Yeah, the characters aren't the most gorgeous things out there, but the characters have grown on me and my character ended up alright.
Nier + ME = fun times!
yankeehater
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Played 3 matches of the MP. My god it is so good. I really didn't think that they could improve on it over me3 but this version is so much better. Can't wait to unlock some better classes and weapons.
MosquitoSmasher
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You guys weren't kidding about the character creator. There seems to be a lot missing but what is especially bad is how all of the presets just looked fucked up as hell. I could be wrong but this was much better in DAI. Jesus.
ME2 was more "corridorey" so i guess it worked better. since the maps are a lot bigger in this, I found myself trying to take cover many times and just end up standing there getting hit, pretty frustrating
Human Resources
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It's Alt I believe.
I would expect it ten-fold in the review thread, whichever way the scores go.
HarryDemeanor
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Just finished my 10 hour trial.
I like the game. It is very Mass Effect and that's all I needed out of this. Not thrilled about the faces and animations but it's not something that will stop me from playing this. I'm sticking with default Sara Ryder for my first playthrough. Second go around will be with a custom Scott Ryder.
Multiplayer is just so much fun though. Finished 3-4 matches and I can see myself being hooked for a while. Anyone know how the multiplayer content integrates with the single-player game? (for example the War Effort stuff in ME3)
I like the game. It is very Mass Effect and that's all I needed out of this. Not thrilled about the faces and animations but it's not something that will stop me from playing this. I'm sticking with default Sara Ryder for my first playthrough. Second go around will be with a custom Scott Ryder.
Multiplayer is just so much fun though. Finished 3-4 matches and I can see myself being hooked for a while. Anyone know how the multiplayer content integrates with the single-player game? (for example the War Effort stuff in ME3)
Agent_ShortBus
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My friend had to undo his OC on his graphics cards for it to launch. Kept getting black screened at launch.
lastplayed
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It was. I miss the broken nose slider.
Ryzaki009
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Yeah I just tag that save as complete in the save game editor now if I import a ME1 save. Screw thaaaat.
xZoneHunter
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Anybody able to fill their 10 hours with shit to do in the SP. And i'm not talking about exploring Eos (i'll do that next week when i play on my PS4 save), like actual side missies or other content? Feel like i've seen everything in ~5 hours. Tried scanning other planets, but not much there other than the occasional mineral deposit. Now i know, it's only the very beginning of the game. But i was expecting to actually fill my 10 hours of gameplay easily. I don't really want to explore and stock up on items since i won't be playing on PC.
MP doesn't work at all, i keep getting disconnected from matches.
MP doesn't work at all, i keep getting disconnected from matches.
I thought about Redboxing it but it's going to be waaay too long.
I play on PC but yeah I don't want to pay full price for this game it is a 7/10 at best so far. Really only worth it if you are invested in the franchise like myself and now I'm even questioning that lol
It's not just you, it's goddamn awful. I feel like I'd be a bit more positive if the menus weren't the absolute worst.
That sucks man, uninstalling CUE did fix it right away for me though. I did see a post on the Corsair forum saying they were working on a fix.
Just played some MP, game swapped hosts like 3 times then it locked up, I'll have another go over the weekend.
Ennosuke
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I didn't play far and I really don't feel like I can judge about the game, but the character creation was no fun and to be honest extremely disappointing for a game in 2017. The male Ryder is the best looking, but I wanted to customize my character, so I created like a blond asian guy, who looks like a kpop star. Kind of crazy and quite the opposite of the sheppard I was playing, but why not?
Talking about faces and looks of it. I really think human characters look bad and disappointing. I guess I will get used to it.
The whole start of the game, on the station was not very good presented, it felt cheap.
Talking about faces and looks of it. I really think human characters look bad and disappointing. I guess I will get used to it.
The whole start of the game, on the station was not very good presented, it felt cheap.
Mr. Phellps
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It will go like:
Good scores: "EA bought the reviews/honeymoon period/biased/untrustworthy"
Bad scores: "lmao expected/super trustworthy/more animation gifs/more shitting on the game"
That's what I'd expect to. It's why I almost never post in the OTs or review thread. This site is too predictable.
The presets are absolutely awful. The choices they give you to make your own are very, very slim. No idea why they skimped on an essential part of the game for so many players.
They used an actual model likeness for the default Ryder, why couldn't they do the same for the presets and allow us to tweak from there.
I'm expecting one of the bigger ranges with scores all over the place. It does some things well and some things badly and its going to be on the individual reviewers tastes for see how that balances out. How the overall score pans out is probably going to depend on how those outlets that use the full scale of scores see it.
Just expected a much more polished product.
Game is a mess, by modern standards. Loads of graphical problems, game crashes every third MP game for me, people liked to joke about ME1 menu system being horrible but holy shit this game takes the cake and lets throw inh load time between menus because why not, no dedicated servers and obviously no system in place to ensure that the people chosen for host have stable connections enough for the three other people, no rejoin option when the game invariably crashes, audiomix is fucked. EDIT: And how could I forget that I had to uninstall my mouse driver to even get the game to launch, nice.
So it gets a solid meh/10 for now. Maybe I'll give EA my money when they get their shit together.
Game is a mess, by modern standards. Loads of graphical problems, game crashes every third MP game for me, people liked to joke about ME1 menu system being horrible but holy shit this game takes the cake and lets throw inh load time between menus because why not, no dedicated servers and obviously no system in place to ensure that the people chosen for host have stable connections enough for the three other people, no rejoin option when the game invariably crashes, audiomix is fucked. EDIT: And how could I forget that I had to uninstall my mouse driver to even get the game to launch, nice.
So it gets a solid meh/10 for now. Maybe I'll give EA my money when they get their shit together.
It's crazy I know, but it worked for me. My corsair k+m lights up and seems to work fine without it.
But I can't believe I had to uninstall a utility to get this game to work...
jakonovski
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I found the best Sara
Tomb Ryder?