Dandy Lyin
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Yeah, I remember those streams as well. Mike Laidlaw showed off some of the advanced classes, a bit of the Hinterlands, and the "tactical" camera.
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Yeah, I remember those streams as well. Mike Laidlaw showed off some of the advanced classes, a bit of the Hinterlands, and the "tactical" camera.
I'd like it too but I'm guessing that series happened because Laidlaw himself enjoys streaming.
Royal_Phalanx
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From the YT video I posted the vast majority of animations are good. Making a mountain out of a molehill like usual.
Son Of Sparda
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Honestly, beside a few weird face expressions here and there, I didn't notice anything wrong about the animations until I saw those gifs. Which I can understand how people might be frustrated/disappointed about, but they just mostly crack me up. Especially the FemRyder one from the beginning of that 17 minutes gameplay lol
I have my worries about the game but animations is not really one of them. After that 17min gameplay, I'm mostly concerned about the quality of writing and quest design. But of course no one actually likes to talk about those (which ironically should be more important) and people just continue spamming the same old gifs.
At this point, for me, Bioware threads are just
This is still my biggest concern.
I hope it pans out great, but there's been quite a bit of very late-game things that have given me pause lately. I don't doubt it'll be GOOD, but I'm not confident yet that it's necessarily ready for prime-time without some expansive patches first.
My wife shares my sentiments. We've had the game lingering in our Amazon cart for a month now, but neither of us have yet pulled the trigger.
AWizardDidIt
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With a 5 day early access period, at least it gives everyone an ample chance to see if it's going to be one of those games that comes in hot with a lot of release day bugs or not.
I guess the one thing that gives me confidence it'll be alright in terms of polish is that with the early access, it's not like it seems EA is trying to hide the state of the game on day 1. Everyone who watches this stuff will know day -5 if it needed more time in the oven or not and delay their purchase accordingly.
Aside: The animation complaints are silly. Horizon is getting critical acclaim and has the same issues. No one gives a shit if some facial animations are a little awkard or jerky.
I guess the one thing that gives me confidence it'll be alright in terms of polish is that with the early access, it's not like it seems EA is trying to hide the state of the game on day 1. Everyone who watches this stuff will know day -5 if it needed more time in the oven or not and delay their purchase accordingly.
Aside: The animation complaints are silly. Horizon is getting critical acclaim and has the same issues. No one gives a shit if some facial animations are a little awkard or jerky.
DeadlyParasite
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According to twitter PS4 North American preloads are up on the 14th and on the 21st for EU.
Xbox version is already available for pre-load. (XB1 filesize without the day-one patch is 42 GB)
EDIT: PC pre-load is March 17th apparently. A bit strange considering the Origin Access trial starts on the 16th.
Xbox version is already available for pre-load. (XB1 filesize without the day-one patch is 42 GB)
EDIT: PC pre-load is March 17th apparently. A bit strange considering the Origin Access trial starts on the 16th.
Heckler456
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Regarding EA Access, did anyone who is usually extremely fussy about being subjected to too many spoilers partake in the EA Access trial of Dragon Age Inquisition? And if you did, did it negatively impact your eventual enjoyment of the actual game once it released?
DeadlyParasite
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Easier said than done when you've got the first Mass Effect game in 5 years at your fingertips but I personally recommend saving the trial for the last couple of days before launch. That way you can play (depending on how much free time you have) in 3-5 hour spurts and just seamlessly continue once midnight launch happens.
I wouldn't say it hurt my feelings for Inquisition but it did drive me mad that I couldn't binge-play the hell out of it. Also the notification that spams the screen saying you have so-and-so time left is a bit annoying but again...small sacrifices to play a new Mass Effect game early.
And if you're a huge stickler for spoilers I would bail the fuck out of this forum and most of the internet when that trial hits. All sorts of details are gonna leak from datamining, reviews, and early copies from the guidebook.
Son Of Sparda
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I think that might be wrong. PS4 pre-loads almost always go up two days before launch.
Foxhound286
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It says the 14th when I check it on my ps4, so it's probably the 14th.
DeadlyParasite
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Son Of Sparda
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Oh wow. Well then, that's a first. And a nice surprise.BioWare employee said it, i'm just relaying his words. ¯\_(ツ_/¯
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Ivory Samoan
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I wish they would delay it to be honest, way to close to Zelda and Horizon, not gonna help the game at all IMO.
Also, polish and performance will be key to success with people gunning for the game since ME3.
Also, polish and performance will be key to success with people gunning for the game since ME3.
DeadlyParasite
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I mean, I've got my own gripes with some of the stuff shown but nothing has indicated an extreme lack of polish or huge performance issues.
The game has gone gold and it's already up for preload. If it somehow is a buggy mess the only thing saving it at this point is a barrage of pre-launch patches.
Delaying the game 18 days out would be unprecedented and would only fuel the concern more than it would stop.
Looks cool! I really liked that old ARKCON logo. Do whatever you think is best, but yeah I think the way you're thinking about going about it would work just fine. Especially since the ME:A OT won't be going up until later, but at that point it can just be added to it if people are interested in playing and roles/permissions/text channels based on whatever system.
John Petrucci
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Yea, the lack of polish is going to really hurt the reviews and fuel the haters. They'll be all over every single janky facial animation, etc...Remember we've only seen the the ones Bioware has been ok with us seeing, and that's already been a shitstorm.
Going to be a messy launch I think.
Still will be absolute joy for me to play. This wait hurts me. I can hear Harbinger mocking me.
There is no good time this year to release it lol, unless they wanna risk the summer-autumn drought.
EatChildren
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No gameplay series update this week?
prag16
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There's not much to indicate any extreme lack of polish. There's the usual Bioware jank plus minor performance issues noted by a small percentage of previewers. There's nothing to indicate the launch will be a "mess" as was said a few posts above this.
And come on. A delay two weeks out would be FAR more disastrous for the sentiment around the game than anything else that has transpired thus far.
VenomousCoffee
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I just realized that I'm off work the week this releases!
Also, calling for a delay at this point is really just inane--doubly so if the people calling for the delay haven't had hands on and don't know what's already been fixed from the preview builds.
Also, calling for a delay at this point is really just inane--doubly so if the people calling for the delay haven't had hands on and don't know what's already been fixed from the preview builds.
DevilDog
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That is wrong. The last 6 months can make so much difference it's insane. Polish happens in the last 2-3 months usually.
ME1 has the moon upside down because there wasn't enough time to polish. Same for the Checkpoints in Noveria and the inventory system. Just think about how easy they were to fix, but they couldn't because gamebreaking issues had to be handled first.
AWizardDidIt
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There's nothing to indicate the game's got a lack of polish. And again with early access 5 days before, that seems to indicate EA is confident it'll perform well enough.
That could of course all being wrong, but we don't know and I think the indicators are strong enough there's not really any reason to be worried.
That could of course all being wrong, but we don't know and I think the indicators are strong enough there's not really any reason to be worried.
The game was originally planned to release at the end of 2016 no? So we already got our "polish delay".
The discord stuff is going to be in the OT too, but since it won't be up until 24 hours until release I'll be posting it here. Just deciding between using the black/white/orange Pathfinder Initiative icon vs the blue/white Andromeda Initiative one. Plus figuring out how I want the channels and moderation to work.
DevilDog
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That's not how it works and I don't understand how it ties back to your original comment about 6 months not being enough time to polish a game.
Whatever, if BioWare wants to delay it, EA showed that they are willing. They don't so they must think it's ready.
It just seems silly that anyone would bring up the idea of a delay. The game is coming out.
Yeah definitely, totally understandable. I'm sure whatever you do it'll be good (if you need any help, let me know though I'm sure you're just fine lol).
Yeah definitely, totally understandable. I'm sure whatever you do it'll be good (if you need any help, let me know though I'm sure you're just fine lol).
Heckler456
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Thanks for the reply. And yeah, I'm planning on bailing out of the general internet on the 16th at the latest
I should have specified, but if I were to actually jump into Origin Access with this game, I'd be doing it on PC, and buying the game on PS4 afterwards, so I'd be replaying whatever 10 hours I'd be playing regardless.
That being said, I just noticed that I can subscribe for 7 days for free, so I might just try anyway. Remains to be seen if the trial has any restrictions when it comes to trying out this ME:A demo though.
exploration trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts9WLMSAYVE&sf53005922=1
This sounds really good
So as we thought the nexus upgrade is basically Inquisition perks @Shinobi?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts9WLMSAYVE&sf53005922=1
This sounds really good
So as we thought the nexus upgrade is basically Inquisition perks @Shinobi?
Heckler456
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Aaah, there it is, base building Love that shit.
Love that shit.Dandy Lyin
Member
That was excellent!
Heckler456
Banned
Hmm, might be time to bail a bit sooner! Unless we want to make this thread spoiler free in that people tag their spoilers?
therealminime
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Really like that they are doing this.
Cool trailer! Really hyped. No mention of another coming... so... last one until launch trailer?
Retrofluxed
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Fucking awesome.
DeadlyParasite
Member
Probably no better time than now to determine what the spoiler policy on Andromeda story is in this thread. If we're allowing complete free reign of unmarked story spoilers (non-trilogy) I might just have to give up this thread for the next month.
shinobi602
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Let's keep story spoilers out of this thread guys.
There will no doubt be a spoiler thread once it launches.
There will no doubt be a spoiler thread once it launches.
Yeah imo we should tag all andromeda story spoilers from now on until atleast release
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