Mass Effect Andromeda Dev Confirms Early Players Are Playing With Day One Patch; Rules Out Fixes

ThisGenGaming says "Unfortunately a developer working on Mass Effect Andromeda has confirmed that what you're seeing now is with the day one patch also. The dev has ruled out many fixes coming at launch too. Many feel that this could be cause many people to cancel their pre-order and buy when fixed or not buy the game whatsoever."

[lazyboyblue]

MESS EFFECT.

[Relientk77]

Lol well done

[bouzebbal]

ROFL..
MyASS EFFECT

[Anthotis]

Indeed.

Foul SJWs have a lot to answer. They've slowly but surely turned a fantastic gaming franchise into a joke.

More to come as well if devs keep pandering to these bags of sick

[MecheSlays]

lmfao. MASS DEFECT.

[morganfell]

So I guess the full title is MESS DEFECT AnDRAMA

[Perjoss]

MESS DEFECT anDOHmeda

[MRMagoo123]

I said it looked like crap and played like crap in this article http://n4g.com/news/2032474...

and got disagreed to death.......now all of a sudden it's the "thing" to say 😂 wtf happened. Also where is starchild defender of mass effect to tell every one they are wrong in here ?

[Summons75]

Ouch, really not good. Maybe this time Bioware will learn that being all talk isn't smart. 4 disappointments in a row.

[lxtrxi]

This is all I needed to hear to know that I'm not buying the game at launch. Quality control is needed in gaming more.

[yeahright2]

Yeah, these patches are lovely to fix unforeseen issues with games, but now they're being used as a crutch. "it's fine if we ship it half broken, we'll just patch it later."

[QuarkZ]

Yeah, I can unfortunately say that I won't be buying this game. I was so looking forward to it, like many, and I really do hope that this time people won't fall for it and send a clear message to those gaming companies who have been abusing gamers for way too long.

[tdogchristy90]

I'm not up to date on bioware but the curiosity kills me.

What are the four disappointments? Thanks.

[Summons75]

Well you have Dragon Age 2 which was pure trash, then you have Mass Effect 3 which showed how much Bioware cares for their fans and was a disaster (not just the ending either), then we have Dragon Agre Inquisition which repeated all the lies and broken promises as ME3 and was also terrible (but people only said it was good because admittedly it is better than DA2 but not by much). Now we have this trainwreck of a game making 4 games.

[yeahright2]

Inquisition was a good game to me, but still falls under disappointment, as from all their talk, I was expecting a great game.

[Pintheshadows]

I actually quite liked some of ME3 Summons, it has its moments. Cerberus invading the citadel was probably a highlight. It just all collapsed into meaninglessness in the last 30 minutes.

[dkp23]

Dragon age inq couldnt even finish it was so trashy.

[yomfweeee]

Boohoo. Mass Effect 3 and Inquisition were good games. Both winning multiple game of the year awards. Stop being a hater.

[joab777]

Both were very good! And I am sure this game will be good too. It's just sad that they didn't recognize from early previews that animations were gonna sink the ship and probably cost them some sales.

But 100 hr rpg? I am sure it is pretty good overall! Tough competition these days, sandwiched b/W Horizon and P5!

[InTheLab]

Goty from what sites? EA Times? Bioware Daily?

[MAULxx]

Both were disappointments to many, no matter the awards. It's not about hate.

[yomfweeee]

Both games 89 on Metacritic so don't act like only some no name sites thought it was good.

Who cares if some didn't like it. Some also don't like the new Zelda or HZD. Don't mean shit really.

[showtimefolks]

Dragon age inquisition was filled with fetch quests and that is the worst thing about it

[annoyedgamer]

Multiple GOTY awards at a convention hosted by EA.

[XanderZane]

Yes, I actually liked Mass Effect 3 and DA: Inquisition. I'll agree that Dragon Age 2 wasn't great though. I wish Bioware would give us another KoToR 3 game. That was some of their best work. This new Mess Effect game needs to be delayed. I thought lot of gamers are going to cancel their preorders.

[cleft5]

The problem is that the characters look terrible in general. None of the characters are really sexy (I am including the men in that statement) and then you have these characters that have hair styles that would never fly. I get this is primarily a civilian ran operation, but why is the security guy hair that crazy. Why are so many people walking around with dyed hair like they are a "gamer girl" or something. It's weird and it doesn't fit. It reeks of listening to a bunch of SJW idiots tell you how to make a good character. Unsurprisingly real people hate it. It's a shame really, but the story seems to be really interesting so far.

[jaycptza]

if you need to jack off, then just watch porn. No need to get ME:A for that

[OMGitzThatGuy]

Yeah, they keep fuckin up. I had the game preordered until i found out the embargo ends the day before the game releases and amazon ships days in advance.

[AngelicIceDiamond]

What are the last 4 disappointment games from them again?

[FunkyGoron]

Mass Defect Pandromeda

[guyjean]

Yeah. Cancelled my pre-order. This game is going to be much more enjoyable after a few patches.

[Critic4l_Strik3]

and even better when it gets cheaper ;) !

[Nightmar3Demom]

Well that's...............Disap pointing.

[RAM0N]

Yeah I'll pass

[Darkwatchman]

This will be the first pre-order in my entire life I have ever cancelled

[2pacalypsenow]

Another EA series dead, RIP

[MasterCornholio]

So did they fix the Pingu effect?

https://assets.change.org/p...

[QuarkZ]

At his point, the only thing you could hope for (on PC anyway) is higher resolution textures (to at least fix the faces and eyes), I can't imagine that they will ever fix the animations as this would probably require too much work for them.

[Rachel_Alucard]

The rumor is that the animations are terrible due to the staff working on it. It's filled with fresh out of college amateurs and lead by people who aren't experienced in developing games of this magnitude.

[Pintheshadows]

So much for a day one patch to fix the myriad issues this game has. Oh dear Bioware. Oh dear EA. You may be killing one of your most popular franchises.

[hollabox]

After watching 30 minutes of bad animation and performance videos I cancelled my pre-order this morning. I'm tired of the Batman AK/Mafia 3/Witcher 3/Home Front Rev titles taking three months or more to fix performance before you can play it. I have the PS4 Pro as well, but I've always purchased Mass Effect titles on the PC. I don't think it's fair to shell out $48-60 for a game shipped broken and wait months before they can fix it. Most of the games listed eventually turned out to be good games, but I purchased Witcher 3 in May of 2015, I couldn't play it until Winter before finally beating it in March of 2016. Same with Batman AK, good game after performance fixes, and Mafia three performance has almost doubled on my 290 after months of waiting.

[LucasRuinedChildhood]

The team that worked on this game previously worked on the Army Of Two games (The 40th Day being the only above-average entry). It's a new Bioware studio (used to be EA Montreal). The Bioware we know is actually working on a new IP. This explains a lot.

[QuarkZ]

I guess they were thinking "Oh well, it's called Mass Effect, it will sell no matter what", I do hope gamers prove them wrong

[morganfell]

Apparently they hired the same marketing advisory firm that is used by Ubisoft...

[fenome]

That does explain a lot, I didn't know that. I was wondering how their animations have actually gotten worse on a 4th installment.

[warriorcase]

Mac Walters is the Director who was lead writer of the last mass effect trilogy took over from Casey Hudson when he left. He's always been there which gives me a little hope but im approaching thos one as cautiously optimistic.

[Chaosdreams]

*Jaw slowly descends*

Oh...Oh boy... I am going to do my best and go into this experience with an open mind. I believe in trying something out before I bash with criticism. That said, it will be truly disappointing if the dialogue, characters and overall gameplay, is of the same quality as the glimpses of animations we have seen.

There is no excuse for a professional team of developers, inexperienced or not, to overlook something like a character holding a gun, backwards... Do they not test their games properly? It's saddening.

If it's an occasional "LOL" moment from poor quality, alright, I can deal with that... But if the game is riddled with lack of polish, then I can't overlook that, and it will unfortunately keep me away from supporting a future title until shown that they have learned, and moreover, have made up for this potential disappointment.

I'm not holding my breath. There's probably a good game here overall, but that's the thing, it could've been great.

[bacrec1]

There's a reason it's coming out so early....

[Pintheshadows]

I was thinking that. What an odd time to release it. Honestly, it would of been massively beneficial to push it back to October. The game needs more time. Sadly though, it is too late.

[CorndogBurglar]

There are those who might even say it would have been...Massively....Effective? ???

[Pintheshadows]

Eyyyyyyoooooooooooooooooooooo.

[corroios]

Why didnt they delayed the game?

[annoyedgamer]

Wouldn't have down any good. Bioware has no talent and it was in development for 5 years. EA would have wasted alot of money for little improvement. Hopefully the game under performs and EA is forced to get a new development team, but I am not holding up hopes, alot of people will buy the game without knowing its broken.

[corroios]

Didnt know it was 5 years in the making.... This gen...

[butchertroll]

LOL. Game is already broken even before release and with day 1 patch.

Anyway, performance on Xbone are bad, even with sub 900p res :

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[yeahright2]

I remember when they said the release date and everyone was "There's no way, it'll get delayed for sure." But EA stuck with it and now we're getting an apparently broken game that should have been delayed to fix the issues.

2 issues EA, 1) Announce your release dates both when you're sure you can make them, and also make said date gives your development team time to iron out the wrinkles.
2) If you need to delay a game, do so.

[CorndogBurglar]

I don't disagree with you, but there's more to it than that.

This game was in development for 5 years. There comes a point where the longer you delay a game, you considerably hurt your profit to a point where eventually it won't even be worth it to do so. It becomes a balancing act because if it takes too long, all the sales in the world won't matter, your profit will be nothing. As a company, deadlines have to be placed and released, or just scrap the game earlier. But again, there's a point of no return. A point where they've spent too much money to just scrap the project, but its also gone one for too long to keep delaying.

Thats why its so important to have a talented developer making the game.

[yeahright2]

I was going to reply, but your last line sums up my entire rebuttal. Bravo.

[fluxmulder]

This game is not ready to ship. They should have delayed it.

[Fishy Fingers]

Reviews should be entertaining.

[strangerthings1995]

So the facial animations are horrible..so what??Everyone still loved Horizon despite having the same isuue to the same degree.These big AAA games are held on a pedestal so people will naturally find things to bitch about.People complained about Witcher 3 downgrades to no end yet it's still one of the most critically acclaimed games ever.

[FPS_D3TH]

Exactly, all aboard the hate bandwagon. I've learned most internet outrage is almost entirely blown out of proportion. I'm sure the game will be fun to play if anything a good awkward laugh thrown in with the funny animations. Also implying mass effect ever had great animation in the first place.

[DevilishSix]

Horizon has no where near the dead face effect on offer in Andromeda, if you can't see that then you sound like an apologist for EA or shoddy development. Hell you may be on the development team for all I know and really I don't care it's your money and/or time not mine.

[QuarkZ]

You clearly need glasses. HZD's weren't amazing, but it's light-years away from this. The textures were fantastic and they were still trying to convey some emotion. Plus, ME is an established IP vs HZD that's new, and they clearly did better. This is ridiculous to even try to defend the result we got in ME.

[LucasRuinedChildhood]

To top things off cutscenes in Horizon that weren't dynamic (no choices) were also perfect and had zero problems (near-Uncharted level presentation). There's huge problems with the voice acting, the animation and the way the cutscenes are clipped together in Andromeda. I mean, just look at the eyes. They literally wobble.

[RegorL]

A lot of ME scenes are dynamic and have to render in real time, all those with your customized players.

I do not know how this is done in Horizon, real time rendering could be used to save disk space but otherwise they could be use pre-rendered cut scenes.

There is even a possibility to mix live-actor film with rendered objects, like in NFS 2015/2016. So my assertion would be that no other game has reached NFS level on consoles...

Finding cheats is what game optimizations is about, what kind of cheats you can use depends on the environment you set up for the game.

[Aenea]

@RegorL

All the scenes in HZD are dynamic as well, the character can change gear which includes clothes and armour...

In any case in HZD the only thing that bothers me is the lip-sync, I don't know why they couldn't get that better, but the way the faces look, the eyes, etc. that's actually good, the facial expressions are great as well, not stiff or anything, there are no dead eyes or fake eyes...

But I will wait with my judgement once I've played ME: A myself...

[Aenea]

I'm sure for those videos they've used parts that are particularly bad and that not everything is that bad, but to say Horizon has the same quality as the ME: A videos we've seen is nonsense!

Only thing not okay with Horizon is the lip-sync, the faces, the eyes and expressions are way better than what we've seen in those silly ME videos!

[TC731]

CDPR kept working hard after launch to make The Witcher 3 one of the greatest games ever. They had no excuses, just solutions to any complaints.

[FPS_D3TH]

So many haters. The games fine. I beg to question if you can enjoy any game with the amount of scruitiny and complaining this games getting over what? Funny looking animations. Boo hop.

[AnubisG]

Boo hop? That's a new one.😂

[FPS_D3TH]

it's an old meme now about when some chick replied to another on Facebook saying boo hop instead of boo hoo.

[CorndogBurglar]

Its a song. By the famous band of 3 blonde haired brothers. I think they were called Manson.

[InTheLab]

Wasn't there an article about few days ago that said the author played tell firth few hours of the game and it want good. The comments defended the game for the most part until the flood goes opened. Well done initial doom article.

Not buying this game until it's $9.99

[MAULxx]

This is Bioware. I don't expect anything great from them at all anymore.

[RememberThe357]

We knew this was coming when EA bought them. Once they shut down Pandemic you knew it was only a matter of time before Bioware fell victim to EAs incessant corporate culture.

[MAULxx]

I'm no expert or insider but maybe the blame doesn't rest fully on EA. Surely, some of it if not more is on Bioware.
Maybe they're just not as good as people give them credit?

[RememberThe357]

My opinion is based on the news that was coming out when EA bought Pandemic and Bioware. Fans were worried that EA would water down their favorite studios and there was a sizable exit of talent during that tradition. Some fans fears came to fruition when Mercenaries 2 failed to impress and Pandemic was shuttered. The Mass Effect and to a lesser extent Dragon Age alleviated most of those concerns from BioWare fans. But with the recent disappointed of DA and now maybe of ME those fears are resurging.

Personally I don't hate EA, I love BF and liked some of the more niche games they put out last gen. But even those niche games (some selling over 1m) didn't make them money enough to continue to support Indies in the same way.

[Artemidorus]

What a mess, these guys knew this too

[mysterious_warrior]

Exactly thats why they got the review embargo up until the day before it comes out

[trooper_]

There's o excuse for those terrible animations.

[Hugodastrevas]

Mass Deffect!

[Tzuno]

Yeah use people as lab rats to test your game and then release patches, sadomasochists love this and they pay 60$ for that too.

[MadMax]

This is what happens when game developers are more focused on race and sex in a game, than actual gameplay. Keep your political views to yourself man! The producer of mass effect is a huge liberal activist with an agenda I'm afraid. It's too bad, because it's mass effecting the game!

[MorpheusX]

@MadMax

Its True what you say about the Publisher but its even more complex than just that.

He is the Puppet and hence will be the Scapegoat. But he's not the source, that would be the $$$$ men or groups, the political forces behind the scenes that have elevated , placed him in this position.

Its a common tactic of Big Business/Politics,....its about not leaving a paper trail that leads back to the source, them. If things don't go the way the $$people and political forces are hoping, they will simply instruct the media outlets to make him the center of the Problem, thereby neutralizing or dissipating the public uproar.

Heres an example: Microsoft, they are great @ this....1st you had that guy Maddock, the public was in an uproar @ that things MS was trying to introduce into gaming initially with the Xbone, the Media makes Maddocks the focus of the Issue, and then create they Illusion that maybe things will change with a new guy in Phil Spencer.

Phil Spencer is a great speaker isn't he? Have things really changed under his leadership? I rest my case.

Wash Rinse Repeat.. Standard operating procedure in Business and Politics.

[xPhearR3dx]

"Phil Spencer is a great speaker isn't he? Have things really changed under his leadership? I rest my case."

Ummm yes, they have actually. I don't own an Xbone (And never will since I own a gaming PC), but they're in a much better position now then they previously was under that other asshat who ran the show. They still need to work on their 1st party support and obtaining more studios, but they certainly improved on a lot with Phil in charge.

[starforge71]

given how SWTOR was also a very disappointing game by bioware/EA pre order canceled ill wait for a good few patch's to make it playable to some point maybe

[MadMax]

I just watched an interview with the producer of this game, and he talks about wanting to eliminate racism and sexism lol.Then jokes about how he wants to bang an alien. He seems off his rocker.

[dyret2000]

He is the racist, you should see his twitter, he hates white people, not buying a Bioware game again until he is fired.

[Tankbusta40]

Give Manveer Heir a break, he desperately wishes he was white!

[MadMax]

I believe it. These guys have ruined a once great franchise with their politically correctness. He's a cocky sonofabitch too. He says there is nothing wrong with the game and people need to get over it? Animations are fine and the game is already patched? He's a real jerk! I'm definately staying clear of it and will boycott anything that jerk does again.

[cfc83]

It's a problem. Emotion is part of the mass effect i.p. Those faces don't project emotions well at all. I can absolutely understand people cancelling pre- orders. Can the animations be fixed ?

[Tankbusta40]

For those who have played it on EA access is it really that bad?

[Twinblade]

Bioware sucks.

[SegaGamer]

Do you not what would be great ? if we could get AAA games released in a condition where they don't need Day 1 patches and more patches down the line......you know, just like it was in the past.

[Miacosa]

It seems that early reports are saying it's a trash fire for the first few hours not sure if it gets better though. Definitely wait on reviews for this one hopefully it will pan out for the fans of the first 3 games.

[Despair666]

Mass disappointment but totally expected one

[cyx]

Already picked up my copy. Hopefully they dont take too long to patch the animations and polish things a bit more but its not enough for me to start riding the bandwagon hate train thats been going around at full speed. Alot of people wouldnt have lasted back then when games were mere pixels and bits and bleeps , if they are going this hard about these animations.

[TheColbertinator]

Well I doubt the graphics patches will fix this regardless.

[Profchaos]

How about a day 2 patch to make the frame rate playable.
Ea access xbox one while sprinting or using the jet pack the frames drop into the teens or lower it's disjointed I'd sacrifice some graphical fidelity for better playability.

[jer1122]

What's plenty of people don't understand they did the animation and the characters on purpose because sjw is and they didn't want the females look attractive or as I would normal. Look at the male characters they look bad but not nearly as bad as female characters

. They really screwed themselves. They had the one crazy feminist lady I forget her name. Anti or something. I just don't understand how it made it past testing and that he ate a triple a company would approve this. Ppl have had enough of this shit. We just want video games that look normal without political BS.

I'm glad people are finally sticking up saying this is ridiculous that you guys screwed up so bad there's a video comparing the animation 2007 Mass Effect 1 and it's better.

[Yetter]

what a bunch of babies. The animations overall aren't even that bad.

[Last_Boss]

Dragon Age is fine to me.

[No Way]

I canceled my pre-order. Shame - was really looking forward to it. Will pick it up later at a discounted price, however.

[jlove4life]

Ass effect animationdrama toy story edition

[Jon_Targaryen]

So I guess we're downloading this pirated then? Not wasting my money on a half baked turd.

[Haki1112]

After playing the game I can say I like it only bug i seen beside the cracked up facial expressions was someone head turning all the way around lol