Mass Effect: Andromeda

degrassinoel · 22-03-2017 10:08am

it's not that bad.

https://www.polygon.com/mass-effect-andromeda-guide-walkthrough/2017/3/21/15010066/11-things-you-should-know-first-hours-buggy-skills-dialogue-crew-planets-side-missions

NinjaKirby · 22-03-2017 10:30am

Kirby wrote: »

That Manveer Heir guy may be racist....he may not be. I don't know. But the colour slider has absolutely nothing to do with him.

People attributing the shade of colour on your character to racism...... are at best ignorant and at worst willfully sh*t stirring and its exactly the kind of thing I've come to expect from the facebook generation.

He is racist. I can understand anonymous trolls posting racist stuff online but it's kind of incredible that he posts these things under his own name.

Anyway, yeah the claims of racism regarding the colour slider are silly and pointless. Just like the complaining about diversity in the Witcher 3 or the constant bleating that Link should be a female in The Legend of Zelda.

That's the problem though, isn't it? People now have a platform to make these "criticisms" of games and so you are going to see more people making a fuss because the game isn't white enough or has too many whites or is appropriating someones culture.

http://www.polygon.com/2017/3/3/14809342/horizon-zero-dawn-native-criticisms-response

dinnybyrne · 22-03-2017 10:47am

Kirby wrote:

People attributing the shade of colour on your character to racism...... are at best ignorant and at worst willfully sh*t stirring and its exactly the kind of thing I've come to expect from the facebook generation.

Kirby wrote:

Basically the idea being that hundreds of years into the future, we will all be a shade of brown. The barriers that seperated parts of the world are gone, and through generations we end up looking like that. Some lighter, some darker, but Caucasian as we know it now wont exist. Personally I think it will take a lot longer than that to happen but from an evolutionary stand point, it makes sense.

Kirby wrote:

Have you actually played Mass Effect 1, 2 or 3? There are no "white" people in them either. Go back and look at all the human characters in the game. None of them are white. It's a design choice and goes back to Drew Karpyshyn's vision of the future. Where was the outrage then?

Kirby wrote:

That Manveer Heir guy may be racist....he may not be. I don't know. But the colour slider has absolutely nothing to do with him.

Kirby wrote:

People attributing the shade of colour on your character to racism...... are at best ignorant and at worst willfully sh*t stirring and its exactly the kind of thing I've come to expect from the facebook generation.

Racist lover

YouSavedMyLife · 22-03-2017 11:46am

Kirby wrote: »

What was the setting that was causing it in the end?

AO. I had it set to Full HBAO but pulled it back to Standard HBAO. Although I had a massive fight on the first planet with a big monster and about 12 enemy NPCS and I was getting dips. I may have to lower shadows or lighting quality to bring it back up. These 3 settings are the real killers...

DeadlyByDesign · 22-03-2017 11:50am

Has anyone decided not to take a visit to the Mass Effect section of the PS Store tonight based on the reviews?

fixXxer · 22-03-2017 11:54am

DeadlyByDesign wrote: »

Has anyone decided not to take a visit to the Mass Effect section of the PS Store tonight based on the reviews?

Here. I was all set to dive in to this but the reviews, bugs and the fact I'm so into Overwatch and Zelda at the moment mean I'll probably get it seconds hand from somewhere.

DeadlyByDesign · 22-03-2017 12:00pm

fixxxer wrote: »

Here. I was all set to dive in to this but the reviews, bugs and the fact I'm so into Overwatch and Zelda at the moment mean I'll probably get it seconds hand from somewhere.

I'm still trying to make my mind up between MEA, Horizon +BF1 DLC

fixXxer · 22-03-2017 12:06pm

DeadlyByDesign wrote: »

I'm still trying to make my mind up between MEA, Horizon +BF1 DLC

Would Horizon take long to finish? Given your choices, I'd be inclined to get that, finish it and then trade it in for ME:A.

Maximus Alexander · 22-03-2017 12:08pm

DeadlyByDesign wrote: »

I'm still trying to make my mind up between MEA, Horizon +BF1 DLC

If it helps, the BF1 DLC is not great. The new game mode is decent and it's nice to have a bit more variety, but the new maps are mostly a bit meh.

DeadlyByDesign · 22-03-2017 12:10pm

fixxxer wrote: »

Would Horizon take long to finish? Given your choices, I'd be inclined to get that, finish it and then trade it in for ME:A.

I would imagine its a 40+ hours game? Good idea though.

Generic Dreadhead · 22-03-2017 12:37pm

DeadlyByDesign wrote: »

I'm still trying to make my mind up between MEA, Horizon +BF1 DLC

As someone who really, really, enjoyed ME2 and 3, if I had to pick, I'd pick Horizon. I've heard NOTHING but great -> amazing -> excellent things

Zero-Cool · 22-03-2017 1:21pm

After the reviews came out, I went and preordered on PSN. Helped that I had 50 PSN credit but I heard all I had to from the reviews 'It's Mass Effect'. Bugs & glitches very rarely bother me. I can't wait to give it a lash tonight. Some of the whining online seems very over the top to me and some reviews backed this up. 'Sure it has it's problems but a great game lies underneath'.

degrassinoel · 22-03-2017 3:58pm

http://blog.bioware.com/2017/03/21/mass-effect-andromeda-patch-1-04-early-access-patch-notes/2/

patch notes - should be of interest to those playing tonight. Also these apparently went live in the trial version too so you should notice some minor changes for the better.

General

Overall performance improvements
Fixed an issue with the title only accepting input from the last controller synced when two controllers are assigned to the same profile
Fixed various collision issues
Fixed a few rare audio issues

Singleplayer

Improvements to many cinematics, conversations, and other character interactions
Improved quest rewards
Fixed an issue whereby a door could become jammed in mission 5
Fixed issues with objective markers not appearing correctly
Minor performance improvements after some Tempest transitions
Fixed an issue whereby the combat music was not functioning as designed
Fixed some minor quest-related issues
Fixed a small cinematic issue during the Drack loyalty quest
Minor balancing change to the “Remove the Heart” quest
Improvements to quest tracking and waypoints

Multiplayer

Improvements to Strike Teams UI screens
Additional multiplayer tutorials implemented
Balance changes to guns, reward packs, and objectives scoring
Improved appearance of character portraits
Added new artwork for MP characters, armor, and challenges in menus and codex entries

Zero-Cool · 22-03-2017 4:05pm

Must check later if the new PS feature is live where you can pre-download the patch and it will install when it goes live. I read that has happened with a new release game recently. Will make a difference for midnight launch if the patch is a couple of GB's.

wyrn · 22-03-2017 4:06pm

Yeah I've the trail version installed and yesterday it started updating. I thought the game was unlocking early but sadly no, it was the update above, which I suppose is a good thing.

K.O.Kiki · 22-03-2017 6:40pm

DeadlyByDesign wrote: »

I'm still trying to make my mind up between MEA, Horizon +BF1 DLC

Horizon is getting great reviews, I'd say take the chance on that (especially as it's a new fresh IP) unless you REALLY miss the ME universe.

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I have decided to roleplay my FemRyder to want to bone everybody (male & female, human & non-human); she's had a 600yr dry spell.

Some of the dialogue has been cringey but it made me laugh - felt just as awkward as it should :pac:

YouSavedMyLife · 22-03-2017 7:08pm

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Horizon is getting great reviews, I'd say take the chance on that (especially as it's a new fresh IP) unless you REALLY miss the ME universe.

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I have decided to roleplay my FemRyder to want to bone everybody (male & female, human & non-human); she's had a 600yr dry spell.

Some of the dialogue has been cringey but it made me laugh - felt just as awkward as it should :pac:

There ain't a whole lot of roleplaying going on in this game to tell you the truth. In most situations so far i have had only 2 choices in how i could reply to someone.

Zero-Cool · 22-03-2017 8:06pm

Multiplayer guide here suggests not roughing the mode til your about 10 hours into single player to avoid spoilers. Handy tips on the mode as well.

http://www.polygon.com/mass-effect-andromeda-guide-walkthrough/2017/3/21/15006218/multiplayer-loadouts-leveling-loot-boxes-skills-strike-teams-apex-missions

DrWu · 22-03-2017 8:25pm

Kirby wrote: »

That Manveer Heir guy may be racist....he may not be. I don't know. But the colour slider has absolutely nothing to do with him.

Have you actually played Mass Effect 1, 2 or 3? There are no "white" people in them either. Go back and look at all the human characters in the game. None of them are white. It's a design choice and goes back to Drew Karpyshyn's vision of the future. Where was the outrage then?

Basically the idea being that hundreds of years into the future, we will all be a shade of brown. The barriers that seperated parts of the world are gone, and through generations we end up looking like that. Some lighter, some darker, but Caucasian as we know it now wont exist. Personally I think it will take a lot longer than that to happen but from an evolutionary stand point, it makes sense.

People attributing the shade of colour on your character to racism...... are at best ignorant and at worst willfully sh*t stirring and its exactly the kind of thing I've come to expect from the facebook generation.

You were doing so well until the last paragraph. Actually I'm 43 (hardly the FB generation) and knew nothing of this Manveer chap until the other day. Given some of his outrageous comments I don't think it is in any way sh*t stirring to raise this issue. Which is all i did. Do try to play the ball and not the man :-)

Dcully · 22-03-2017 9:10pm

Very tempted to grab this mainly for MP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOvg--BNXyQ

Skerries · 22-03-2017 9:25pm

YouSavedMyLife · 22-03-2017 9:41pm

Skerries wrote: »

-Porngif-

Porn isn't allowed on boards

Zero-Cool · 22-03-2017 9:48pm

Skerries wrote: »

I wanna know what's going on there so bad :pac:

ItsHoggie · 22-03-2017 9:50pm

So mine is pre-loaded and ready to go, roll on 12!

Does anyone know if the day one patch is including in the pre-load? I'd hate for that to pop up at midnight :pac:

Joshua J · 22-03-2017 10:32pm

ItsHoggie wrote: »

So mine is pre-loaded and ready to go, roll on 12!

Does anyone know if the day one patch is including in the pre-load? I'd hate for that to pop up at midnight :pac:

11 bro.

Edit: Maybe 12 for console?. idno.

Gbear · 22-03-2017 10:45pm

Dcully wrote: »

Very tempted to grab this mainly for MP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOvg--BNXyQ

Waiting for extraction in the extraction zone. Rookie error.

Looks great.

Smooth, which was my biggest fear.

Dashing out of cover and out of the map, falling into stairs, disconnects, host migrations.

That's the killer with this. It was good to see it isn't totally endemic and you can have a game without annoying bull****.

Good steady progression with the mutators and all that. It seems to be more content rich than ME3 multiplayer (bar maybe number of maps and weapons) and it'll probably get solid support for a long time.

Probably get it now when I've time to play it next week.

ItsHoggie · 22-03-2017 11:14pm

Joshua J wrote: »

11 bro.

Edit: Maybe 12 for console?. idno.

12 on PS4, just hoping I don't have to download a patch then as well!

Icyseanfitz · 23-03-2017 5:23am

Played a good chunk tonight and you know what, I like it, its more mass effect goodness in my opinion. Bit slow to start but it gets interesting

Grahamer666 · 23-03-2017 8:46am

56.99 in Argos if anyone is wondering.

degrassinoel · 23-03-2017 10:30am

RopeDrink wrote: »

So, waited most of the night to get started (11pm) while everyone and their mother elsewhere got it early. Replayed from start (ditched trial save) and glad I did - seems I missed tonnes of side-missions and other things before even leaving for Eos (first real mission).

Doing some planet scanning but... You know... I'd have no problem with it if there wasn't a LONG ASS, UNSKIPPABLE TRAVEL SEQUENCE FOR EACH AND EVERY SPACE-STEP. Scanning 50 planets for a Q now seems a lot more tiresome than it really should be. Outside of that (and other minor quibbles), enjoyable. The facial stuff is still apparent, but not as in your face.

I did the same, abandoning the trial save and i was glad i did because my thoughts on the trial were fairly average. The patch actually did some good, surprisingly.

That scan 50 planets thing, personally i'm taking that as a long term goal, scan when i feel like it, not all at once.

Mass Effect: Andromeda

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