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Mass Effect: Andromeda |OT| Ryders on the Storm
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"Jeremy, Ron Jeremy...all my friends call me Ryder though....Ryder Strong"
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
No idea how the aliens look so good and the humans so booty, I could stare into Jaal's eyes for eternity.
Fata1moose
Banned
I got this as well, that EA polish.
UncleMeat
Member
Perfect! lol!
RedlineRonin
Member
I kinda love my sleazy stache Rider, even if his head is way too big for his body:
Looks like Kenny Powers
Trickster
Member
I just meet Jaal, and while I think he looks fine, I'm pretty dissapointed with the race as a whole so far, the females look super weird, and their animations add to that.
I kinda love my sleazy stache Rider, even if his head is way too big for his body:
Man, those two boxes with X's in them are Godlike. Buying now.
EDIT: Much better lol.
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_/¯Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I wish females looked almost identical to their male counterparts, they nailed Angarans imo. Just the right kind of weird.
LlamaJohnson
Member
This might be my favorite post in this thread. I too am absolutely loving this game. It's what I was hoping for in game play, and I am digging the story. But those animations and bugs... Damn.
cleveridea
Member
So you have it plugged into an HDR television?
KyleOnTheRun
Member
I feel the exact same way. So much eye-rolling and disappointment at the dismal quality control re: glitches and design flaws, but I'm having a blast after dozens of hours and still loving the story, characters, combat and "Mass Effect vibe."
Admiral Woofington
Member
Also, this game stealth has the first female salarians right? Unless there was a minor npc in the previous game I'm not remembering.
I'm actually really liking the game so far. Got Eos to about 80% viable, and have only run into two issues so far (some weird screen colouring thing during a cut scene, and two enemies hovering in the air). But yeah, it feels like Mass Effect to me. The combat is very nice, and as I am playing as a pure biotic (I've always played as Vanguard in the previous games), I feel like a bad ass Jedi just wrecking people.
The game is essentially what I've wanted since Mass Effect. Give me more exploration and not less of it. Give more customisation, and don't just take it away (one issue I'll touch on later). Your crew doesn't have that same bond I felt with the crew in the first or second games, but it's early so I can't really gauge that yet.
Speaking of customisation, the lack of full crew customisation is dumb. Inquisition brought it back for the Dragon Age series, so I was hoping Andromeda would have it as well. Because otherwise, you have a ridiculous situation where you're on a hazardous planet (weather temperatures below -50C) and Peebee is running around in a jacket and pants that don't even cover her legs. All the while you can see frost all over her body. Who the hell played through the game and went, "yeah she should be frozen and dead, but hey we've got a style of look to maintain"? If I have to give the game a knock, that would be it right there.
I know I'm having fun with a game when I look at the clock and it's already 1am, and I'm bewildered as to where all the time flew away to. Oh and, does anyone know how fast travel works? It keep saying "fast travel disabled" for me.
The game is essentially what I've wanted since Mass Effect. Give me more exploration and not less of it. Give more customisation, and don't just take it away (one issue I'll touch on later). Your crew doesn't have that same bond I felt with the crew in the first or second games, but it's early so I can't really gauge that yet.
Speaking of customisation, the lack of full crew customisation is dumb. Inquisition brought it back for the Dragon Age series, so I was hoping Andromeda would have it as well. Because otherwise, you have a ridiculous situation where you're on a hazardous planet (weather temperatures below -50C) and Peebee is running around in a jacket and pants that don't even cover her legs. All the while you can see frost all over her body. Who the hell played through the game and went, "yeah she should be frozen and dead, but hey we've got a style of look to maintain"? If I have to give the game a knock, that would be it right there.
I know I'm having fun with a game when I look at the clock and it's already 1am, and I'm bewildered as to where all the time flew away to. Oh and, does anyone know how fast travel works? It keep saying "fast travel disabled" for me.
Trickster
Member
Yeah I think so. I'm actually pretty okay with how they look,
I don't think every races needs to have a clear physical difference between gender, though maybe some tiny difference would be nice
You pay extra for it. Here in Canada it's a $10 difference.
Admiral Woofington
Member
yeah it's fairly clunky.
So many times I want to go to the map but pressing pause and A on my controller takes me to the character point menu for some reason.
Can someone tell me what is the point of limiting you to 3 powers because of no global cooldowns, only for when you want to switch to another favorite set you have to wait an initial period for the powers to recharge?
If the whole point is to be able to switch on the fly depending on the situation, that's dumb. If I'm fighting an enemy with armor I want to switch to flamethrower which is in a different set of mine, but all 3 of those powers are now in a global cooldown before I can use them and at that point I might as well kill them with weapons.
Probably an accident.
Sioul
Member
Vic_Viper
Member
Ok that's what I thought. They rang me up for the regular version but gave me the deluxe!
BouncyFrag
Member
Random question. Can you shave default male Ryder?
I hear you fellow pathfinders, I am loving the game too but like you said the bugs (although personally I haven't found many) and the bad animations can take away the appeal of the game, especially for non fans of the series. I can't say I'm a hardcore fan but I really had to push hard with the original ME to get through all the jank and stiff combat to get to the good stuff, I guess I build up some sort of resilience that makes it easier for me to get past these type of issues with a Mass Effect game because I know that at it's core there is a fantastic game, characters and story inside.
Nowadays people don't have much tolerance to get past the jank, especially with the overall amazing games that have come out recently. It's a shame EA/Bioware did not invest more time and resources into the animations and fixing the bugs, it's even worse that they actually thought it was a good idea to release a trial since not only brings out the animations and bugs but also gives you a piece of the game that doesn't really opens up until much later down the road, the trial does not sell you on what the game really is, it only harm the release of the game.
Hopefully we can have a "definitive edition" someday that solves all these issues but I doubt that will be the case.
Trickster
Member
Are we limited to picking one outpost per planet, or is it possible to have more than one?
I don't think so no, pretty sure that what you see in the character creator is what you get stuck with for the entirety of the game.
I don't think so no, pretty sure that what you see in the character creator is what you get stuck with for the entirety of the game.
HalfBakedProphet
Member
I need someone to explain to me how you can complete a multiplayer match, extract, see the end game results screen and THEN be told you've lost connection and receive zero experience or credits. Again, again and again. More than half of my matches have resulted in zero progress and I've played a lot of matches today.
I was ready to dump a ton of hours into this but I'm ready to just shelve it until they fix their shit.
I was ready to dump a ton of hours into this but I'm ready to just shelve it until they fix their shit.
Does anyone know of a way to get all cutscenes in the game to play at 21:9? Right now some do, and some some don't. Sometimes it switches during the same cutscene, which can be a little jarring. I'm going to check later, but I honestly don't recall if does that anytime you talk to people and the camera goes into that more personal, up close perspective.
Admiral Woofington
Member
if by task quests you mean 'oh hey, go do/scan x amount of boring bullshit around the map' I'm going out of my way to avoid them and just leave the planet. I think they're largely for EXP so unless you absolutely need to level up I wouldn't do them. It doesn't seem like they learned anything with sidequests.
Yes, there is an option for no facial hair.
plasmawave
Banned
Don't like how the omni tool looks in this game. Looks like a glitchy mess.
Royal_Phalanx
Member
Watched
romance scene on youtube, it's pretty lame. Fade to black.
Vetra's
yankeehater
Member
Man that really sucks. I have gotten my Assari Adept up to level 12 and also leveled a few other classes up to like 4 and I havent lost any experience at the end of matches.
MosquitoSmasher
Member
Probably a noob question but I am on the Nexus and the controller vibrates each time I walk past a certain section here. I scan around but don't see anything yet it keeps doing that. What am I missing?
Clauss
Member
I've only gotten to play about two hours so I haven't formed any concrete opinions yet. Although, it's really encouraging to see lots of people in here having a good time with it despite the bugs/jank. I'm usually not the type to get worked up over that sort of stuff; I just like to play games lol
Can't wait to get home
Can't wait to get home
How spoiler-y is the multiplayer? I was reading this guide at Polygon and they mentioned this:
Is it that drastic? I was hoping to wait a few weeks for some more patches to come in before I jumped into the campaign.
http://www.polygon.com/mass-effect-...-loot-boxes-skills-strike-teams-apex-missions
Is it that drastic? I was hoping to wait a few weeks for some more patches to come in before I jumped into the campaign.
http://www.polygon.com/mass-effect-...-loot-boxes-skills-strike-teams-apex-missions
Lister
Banned
Given that HDR monitors are just starting to come out, I'd guess yes he does.
I won't start playing until tonight but I thought I saw in the Giantbomb clip some quest where filed as task. It looked liked each quest was filed into different categories.
KyleOnTheRun
Member
I constantly confused him for Nathan Drake. It was crazy lol.
You're most likely missing something -- it could be very small. I remember a couple of those where it didn't seem like there was anything to scan but I just had to keep looking.
TheWorthyEdge
Member
Question, are there cities in this like Illium?
Your controller should vibrate around quest related items/npcs etc.
Captain_Wreckus
Member
On my break and after looking at the threads currently on page 1, I think this will be the only ME:A thread I will participate in. The other ME:A threads seem to be too negative or toxic.
Thanks for those who are sharing cool things or tips if the game. Will do the same when I'm able to play more.
Thanks for those who are sharing cool things or tips if the game. Will do the same when I'm able to play more.