Mass Effect: Andromeda (PC/Mac/PS4/XB1)

[Anoat]

For those who have been wondering how SP and MP are integrated...in the SP campaign, Ryder can coordinate strike team missions to collect resources and gear. You can either send an AI squad that will take a few hours to complete with a % chance to succeed or fail, or you can attempt the mission in MP yourself. (You won't play as Ryder, rather you'll choose among your MP characters) This can obviously get the job done faster but you might lose if you and your team suck.

Overall it seems like a neat system but my one major gripe about it is that you can seamlessly jump from SP to the MP lobby, but not vice versa. After finishing MP you have to exit all the way back to the main menu and load your save file again.

[Seravi Edalborez]

I'm a little confused by that if it's a one-way thing; I think I remember seeing that you can get those SP rewards from just doing MP anyways so it feels like it's just a SP->MP transition and nothing else, and that there wouldn't be a downside to just sending the AI squad and then also playing multiplayer. Is that incorrect?

[Prothescar]

[Andalusian girls]

they may not have made a great game but they've made an outstanding meme machine

[Prothescar]

Potential intrigue

[Tarage]

Potential intrigue

Still looks like shit.

[Krandor]

EA is pulling back the embargo on streamers only being limited to the first few hours. Obvious damage control in response to the trial, but I guess if you're still on the fence can take a look since most previews claim the beginning of the game is the worst part.

[Rulke]

Potential intrigue

Still doesn't look like the model they used to create her.

[Anoat]

For people who wondered if characters from previous games will make an appearance; this is what I've seen from the trial at least:

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Garrus shows up in the Codex entry for Turians. He is not mentioned by name but it is clearly him.
Liara appears as voicemails to your father. The files originated in 2182, before Liara met Shepard.
Shepard was not mentioned specifically during my time with the trial, but the character creator does specifically ask you if Shepard was male or female.

[Krazy]

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the lead animator for Mass Effect Andromeda:

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[Ezek]

[Anoat]

Okay, using the Spaceballs theme was a genius move.

[Krandor]

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the lead animator for Mass Effect Andromeda:

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She's not tho. By all accounts she appears to be some rando cosplayer who used to work for EA who for some reason decided to put that she was lead animator for this game in her social media bios. According to Bioware she has never held such position.

She quite literally asked to be harassed by putting that stuff on social media when it was patently false.

[Krazy]

It was posted on Twitter, it has to be true. It would make sense at least. lol

[Krandor]

Bioware put out a statement about it like 30 minutes ago.



Following the statement there's been a few recaps about what's going on on reddit. The source of her being targeted as lead animator is by all accounts herself, in spite of statements now being made by Bioware.

[Krazy]

Spoilsport.

[NynJa]

When animations in 2007 are better than the ones in 2017, there is a problem, and the people do have reason to complain.

If she's going to say she's the "lead facial animation designer" when she isnt...well thats a problem in itself. And to the people who are saying "its not fair to blame everything on one person, they're a team"...thats what being the leader is: you're responsible for the team, and if the team is putting out hot garbage, thats on the leader for approving the hot garbage.

And if BioWare is going to say "were not patching this", they're approving of the hot garbage as an entire team.

[Tarage]

I don't care who was in charge of the animation. All I know is the entire team should be ashamed.

Not going to give Bioware any money.

[Krandor]

Bioware would have zero say in whether they would fix the animations at this point. Making changes would be far more involved then simply patching it, it would be a massive undertaking to overhaul alot of the animations at a basic rigging level.

None of the higher ups at EA would consider the amount of work required (and thus having to pay people to fix it) worth it to please a bunch of whiny internet nerds who probably weren't even going to buy the game anyways.

[Obsidian]

How the fuck do people expect them to patch all these animations in the first place? That's like asking them to change Ryder's voice. It's just totally infeasible. You're not just changing a value, you have to re-rig every model and re-animate every sequence. It's an obscene amount of work and the patch itself would be massive.