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[EatChildren]

*make demo live for Australians first*
*is 5am in Australia*

EA logic.

 

[mxgt]

Yeah where are you guys finding the demo on Origin?

Store -> free games -> huge banner

UK here

 

[SparkTR]

Downloading now, let's see if it's 'hall of shame' worthy in PC-port land.

 

[Cpt.Underpants]

Downloading right now

Uk here

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

*make demo live for Australians first*
*is 5am in Australia*

EA logic.

They let Dietz decide the order.

Not in Spain, some EU contries yes others no *EA logic*

 

[Kiraly]

Around 5 hours to go till the PSN demo right?

Luckily there's some Champions League action going on in the meantime

 

[Digishine]

downloading 6 min left and it's 2,1GB big

 

[Sn4ke_911]

Australia only so far.

No. I'm from austria. We have mountains!! not fucking kangaroos!

 

[Keasar]

Seems like they have only uploaded it in specific countries across Europe, Sweden here and I got nothing.

 

[bryehn]

Not a fan of the HUD stuff (arrows for junps, etc) and the cover/combat system seems more janky than before, but I liked the Kinect integration for convos/powers. It misheard me a couple times, but still adds a lot for me.

 

[EatChildren]

Gonna go play now.

Bye.

 

[Castor Krieg]

Germany downloading. 220KB/s ffs, virtues of crap Internet.

 

[mxgt]

No 360 pad support. Was this known or just predicted?

lolbioware

 

[Complistic]

No 360 pad support. Was this known or just predicted?

lolbioware

That's a whole lot of extra work for them. I mean it's not like they already had it working on the 360 or anything.

 

[Metalmurphy]

I'm timing this download just to know for sure what speeds origin is getting, because it's most definetly isn't getting 4.1MB/s.

Spoiler

My cap is 3.5

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

*keeps refreshing Origin*

Gonna go play now.

Bye.

 

[KKRT00]

;\ [dynamic shadows = dynamiczne cienie]

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

YAY!!

Finally!!!

*Downloads*

 

[Chesskid1]

i proxyed into origin using uk vpn, it registered to my account, then i turned it off and went back to US and i'm now downloading it!! w00t.


hypeee

 

[Tacitus_]

Up in Finland... downloading at the brisk pace of 1.3 Mb/s. Now to stare at the bar for 26 mins :lol

 

[LuchaShaq]

Spoiler

Wrex

is in my squad?! All bad feelings about this game going poorly are now gone and my hype has exploded. I will probably avoid posting about the game so I don't become one of those people seeing 8/10 reviews and throwing hissy fits.

 

[Sn4ke_911]

Gonna go play now.

Bye.

I'm at 37%

 

[GrizzNKev]

Up in US now. Downloading at 13.5 MB/s.

 

[CAW]

Canada, downloading.

 

[MasterShotgun]

YES! It's up. US here.

It's gonna take me about an hour, but I can occupy myself for that long knowing the demo is downloading now.

 

[GSR]

10 MB/s here. Thank you college.

Does anyone know if you can save in the demo? I won't have time to do it all in one go if I start now.

 

[Metalmurphy]

What is this magic. Download finished in 538 seconds, and total size according to windows was 2217959222 bytes. That's 3,93MB/s which is supposedly more then my ISP cap lolol...

I thought Origin was just faking speeds, now I'm not so sure.

 

[EatChildren]

In terms of graphics tweaking, if this is representative of the final build, ME3 will rate up with the worst of PC ports. Dynamic Shadows and Antialiasing, of which I'm pretty sure is awful FXAA. Awesome.

 

[Keasar]

Ah, finally up in Sweden. Around 8 mb/s, will be done in 5 minutes.

 

[KKRT00]

Wow, graphics are awful! Seriously, this game need new hardware generation ;\

In terms of graphics tweaking, if this is representative of the final build, ME3 will rate up with the worst of PC ports. Dynamic Shadows and Antialiasing, of which I'm pretty sure is awful FXAA. Awesome.

Yes, its FXAA only.

 

[GSR]

In terms of graphics tweaking, if this is representative of the final build, ME3 will rate up with the worst of PC ports. Dynamic Shadows and Antialiasing, of which I'm pretty sure is awful FXAA. Awesome.

If I'm not mistaken, ME2 was pretty limited in terms of graphics tweaking in-game, but in the config program you had a decent amount of control.

 

[Tyrone_Biggums]

In US, dl pretty quick. I'm averaging around 3.2 mbps.

 

[Metalmurphy]

In terms of graphics tweaking, if this is representative of the final build, ME3 will rate up with the worst of PC ports. Dynamic Shadows and Antialiasing, of which I'm pretty sure is awful FXAA. Awesome.

ME games have always been like that haven't they? The real settings were on a separate launcher. Previous ones didn't even have AA option.


*edit* Yep, MassEffect3DemoConfig.exe in the Binaries folder.

 

[mxgt]

In terms of graphics tweaking, if this is representative of the final build, ME3 will rate up with the worst of PC ports. Dynamic Shadows and Antialiasing, of which I'm pretty sure is awful FXAA. Awesome.

The config file in the install folder isn't much better.

I was hoping this would be better done for PC than ME2, sigh.

 

[Amibguous Cad]

On the 360 version, I keep getting an "you have not unlocked the online features" whenever I try to play multiplayer. I can't find anything in the demo that would let me unlock it. Is anyone else having similar trouble, and does anyone else know how I can fix it?

 

[Darklord]

In terms of graphics tweaking, if this is representative of the final build, ME3 will rate up with the worst of PC ports. Dynamic Shadows and Antialiasing, of which I'm pretty sure is awful FXAA. Awesome.

What?! ME1 and 2 were great on PC. No way...

 

[thetrin]

Wow, graphics are awful! Seriously, this game need new hardware generation ;\



Yes, its FXAA only.

God dammit. It's like they want me to get the 360 version.

On the 360 version, I keep getting an "you have not unlocked the online features" whenever I try to play multiplayer. I can't find anything in the demo that would let me unlock it. Is anyone else having similar trouble, and does anyone else know how I can fix it?

It's not up until the 17th unless you have BF3.

 

[GSR]

On the 360 version, I keep getting an "you have not unlocked the online features" whenever I try to play multiplayer. I can't find anything in the demo that would let me unlock it. Is anyone else having similar trouble, and does anyone else know how I can fix it?

Multiplayer's locked for anyone who didn't preorder (or was it just buy?) Battlefield 3 until Friday.

 

[Enduin]

In terms of graphics tweaking, if this is representative of the final build, ME3 will rate up with the worst of PC ports. Dynamic Shadows and Antialiasing, of which I'm pretty sure is awful FXAA. Awesome.

Does it come with a Config exe or is this all ingame? Cause most BioWare games don't offer much ingame in terms of graphics options.

 

[Darklord]

God dammit. It's like they want me to get the 360 version.

Mass Effects runs like arse on 360.

 

[Sn4ke_911]

Mass Effect 2

Maybe it's just the demo.

 

[Bisnic]

About people complaining for PC graphics, if its the same as in ME2, i wont care much(Well other than low res textures on cloth, which we can't really do anything anyway).

 

[EatChildren]

What?! ME1 and 2 were great on PC. No way...

ME2 was fine. Initial impressions of this was two options. That...isn't good.

*edit* Yep, MassEffect3DemoConfig.exe in the Binaries folder.

Oh thank fuck. Time to reset and look at this.

 

[Metalmurphy]

At least theres a borderless window mode. Thank god for that.

Is FXAA known for screwing up fonts or is that just MLAA? Cause this AA is screwing up fonts.

 

[Sn4ke_911]

ME games have always been like that haven't they? The real settings were on a separate launcher. Previous ones didn't even have AA option.


*edit* Yep, MassEffect3DemoConfig.exe in the Binaries folder.

nice find, thanks!

 

[SparkTR]

Mass Effect 2



Maybe it's just the demo.

The PC ports of ME games have been getting worse and worse with each iteration, who's Bioware to break tradition?

Edit; Just saw the config, looks good.

 

[FStop7]

The PC ports of ME games have been getting worse and worse with each iteration, who's Bioware to break tradition?

Edit; Just saw the config, looks good.

wat

the PC port of ME1 was broken and atrocious. Missing lava textures, choppy audio, etc.

I had zero issues with ME2 PC.

 

[GJS]

Can I use my Shepard in the demo?

You can use custom faces, so if you have the code for your Shephard's face you can input that.

 

[Zyzyxxz]

US Demo is up! Downloading at 800KB/s see ya later suckers!

 

[Bisnic]

wat

the PC port of ME1 was broken and atrocious. Missing lava textures, choppy audio, etc.

I had zero issues with ME2 PC.

ME1 had mouse wheel support and keyboard shortcuts for menus. ME2 had neither.

Don't remember having any sound issues on ME1 to be honest, and i played the game last week.