Mass Effect Andromeda’s Craziest Bug Has Been Fixed, Bioware Thanks Fans For Critique And Praise

Mass Effect Andromeda is, sadly, a rather buggy game. To Bioware's credits, it is hunting down all of these bugs and trying to bring the game back up to its usual standard of polish that it is known for.

[corroios]

in other words, if you want the game just buy it 6 to 12 months later after all the bugs are out.

[InKnight7s]

Yeah its become base thing in EA and Ubisoft games. You must wait half a year to got playable downgraded game, or a year with all DLCs.

[NovusTerminus]

Because we all know how great GTA and Bethesda games run at launch.

I went through entire cutscenes in GTAV with characters not it showing up on screen.

But those companies get a free pass, right?

[bloop]

Novus, I've been sitting here for the last 5 minutes trying to think of all the bugs I've come across in the GTA games and I honestly cannot think of one.

[KillZallthebeast]

I'm with bloop on this I played the launch ps3 and launch ps4 versions and I honestly don't recall any glitches I came across in gta5. I am sure they were there but I personally didn't see them.

[thekhurg]

I've got 20 hours in it and have been having fun. So in other words, if you like Mass Effect just go ahead and buy it because it's still a ME game with that same ME feel. If you play the Internet instead of games then don't buy it cause you'll be disappointed.

[TankCrossing]

People that 'play the internet' don't get disappointed. They get angry.

[Allsystemgamer]

Im a mass effect fan and I didn't have fun. It LOOKS like mass effect. It FEELS like a cheap indie knock off.

[Retard]

does make me wonder how the QA staff wrote their statements.

[yeahokwhatever]

They're called "defects" not statements. Also, I'm 100% sure every single bug encountered by players was already reported. There's likely thousands of bugs just sitting in the DB waiting to be prioritized by the product team. How to they prioritize them you ask? A mix of customer complaint numbers, severity, and frequency of occurrence. You'd be SHOCKED to see how many bugs(defects) get "waved" for the release. There's simply too many advertising dollars at stake to postpone things sometimes.

[Soc5]

Yup! They should create a thing, instead of pre-orders, we can call it post-orders. You get the game delivered 6 months after it's release.

[Ristul]

Maybe they can release Mass Effect Andromeda "The glitch free edition" in a year or so.

[Gatsu]

Like they did with Bethesda and Ubisoft games.

[yeahokwhatever]

Agree. It upsets me how often Bethesda gets a free pass. Remember when moving an object broke the game for PS3 users for Skyrim?

[mogwaii]

It'll still be a shadow of its former self.

[mogwaii]

I wonder if they'll ever make another mass effect and if they will learn from this mistake.

[thekhurg]

What mistake? Having animation glitches? No game has ever released bug free...

[OldGuyStillGaming]

Nintendo games are damn near flawless when they launch

[Goldby]

@thekurg.

i hopefully hope they are talking about the algorithms used to make the animations, it would be better if they went back to the basics, looked over Mass Effect and actual notice what was so great about that game. the Voice over work is better at times than others, and they need to actually make the dialogue options represent what the character will actually say.

[LamerTamer]

But it is getting worse and worse. The internet has now become a crutch to release before ready and fix later. It is like they don't even try anymore. In the past they used to at least make an attempt to release a complete working game. There were a few bugs and would maybe get a small patch or two. Now you basically download the entire game again, even if you buy a physical copy. It is getting to the point where everything is download only with the disc being a pre-release demo, whether you like it or not.

[yeahokwhatever]

This was my first Mass Effect experience. I will not be buying a Mass Effect title ever again. Its completely full of bugs, bad dialogue(not the animations, the dialogue itself was written by children), nonsensical story elements, bad characters, bad planets. Its like No Mans Sky, without any of the fun.

[mogwaii]

lol

[_-EDMIX-_]

Lol

I'm not sure you realize this or not but the game is still selling fantastically, it was number one on the UK charts.

When the original Mass Effect team takes over I'm sure it's not going to be the same situation.

[PlayableGamez-]

I guess I am still narrowed-minded for not paying 60 dollars for a buggy game? Right? lmao

[_-EDMIX-_]

@Play- ? huh?

Where did I say that?

Buddy...I'm not saying you are narrow-minded for not spending your own money, that is your money friend.

Why did you reply here on something that was stated a day ago?

"People shouldn't either" That is what my issue was. You can spend your money where you feel just, more power to you, not knocking that even in the slightest.

My issues is you saying "People shouldn't either" based on YOUR VIEW.

So when you say

"Yeah nobody dictates what I play... " Your are 100% correct, I agree with you all the way, but this "People shouldn't either" is uncalled for.

You don't like someone trying to dictate what you play or where you spend your money? Why did you in that same post just try to dictate what folks should or shouldn't do with theirs?

http://n4g.com/news/2039407...

My post was not calling you narrow-minded for not paying for this game, it was based on saying "People shouldn't either".

I respect your view for not buying it, its up to you, I only ask that you respect those that choose to buy it. I don't understand a person that is upset about someone trying to dictate what they buy and then advise others one what they should do with their money in the same post.

btw. I don't even own Mass Effect Andromeda.

[yeahright2]

That's true, but situations like this don't always have their biggest impact at launch, but rather, post launch. Once word spreads of how bad the game is with bugs and glitches, sales drop as people decide to wait for patches, sales and GOTY editions. And at that point, a $60 purchase with the potential of dlc purchases down the line becomes a $40ish purchase, or a GOTY purchase with all dlc included.

[Gatsu]

No one complained like this of all the other games having similar issues. Why?

[_-EDMIX-_]

Well people love the Mass Effect IP. If it was always a trash series you wouldn't see this type of vocal reaction. They expect better and they don't like their favorite IP being subpar.

Can't really blame them.

I'd say clearly other folks have complained about games with lots of issues sure, but I can't really argue about "like this" as I don't know to what degree this really is in terms of complaining.

I mean.....its pretty high though, like an article is talking about it like everyday.

[Taero]

As long as they fix the banter bug, only thing I've had so far in about 6 hours.

[jonivtec]

Is it possible fixing the weird animation via update??Or i should just pass on this one?

[thekhurg]

If a 100% random and temporary animation glitch is going to stop you from enjoying a game then don't buy it.

[Allsystemgamer]

Sure khurgies. Leave out the terrible script. Bad acting. Boring predictable plot. Bland characters.

Yawn. Your apologetics are getting boring. The games a flop.

[dyret2000]

The bad animations are not glitches.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Thats what I want to know too.

@thekhurg- I mean...I agree. I'm still likely getting it when I done with my other RPGs.

Almost done with Horizon and Yakuza Zero, but haven't started Nier or Persona 5.

[CrimsonWing69]

How about instead of thanking us for doing your Quality Assurance job the next time you guys do it yourself, yea?

[TankCrossing]

Or just make a smaller, less ambitious game. A nice linear Mass Effect with a fraction of the interactions and dialogue. Problem solved, yea?

Careful what you wish for :|

[CrimsonWing69]

Naww I still want devs to actually do their job And test their games for quality that way we don't get these messes, yea?

A smaller budgeted linear Mass Effect is definitely not the answer.

[TankCrossing]

No it isn't the answer we want, but it is the answer we're more likely to get from EA :(

[LamerTamer]

So the only choice is incomplete/broken or linear now? Publishers really have you trained well.

How about they just TEST and make a working complete game and not announce it too soon (to keep the brats from bitching about a delay). There used to be a such thing in studios called alpha and beta test builds, now they are called releases.

[TankCrossing]

@lamertamer yeah pretty much. That's why the vast vast majority of games are smaller and less ambitious than mass effect. Or hadn't you noticed?

"I want everything!" is the default position for stupid people. Reality tends to get in the way.

[Vkviz]

Great news. Now if they can just rebuild the entire game from the ground up so it can live up to the expectations set by the previous trilogy, that would be nice

[Jon_Targaryen]

I didnt have any expectation from the original trilogy. Im actually impressed people had expectations after the mess that was ME3's ending.

[CorndogBurglar]

Mass Effect 3's ending wasn't a performance issue. It was a story issue. People are complaining most about the performance of MEA. Two different things.

[Vkviz]

Mass effect 3's ending was disappointing but the other 99% of the game leading up to it was phenomenal

[PlayableGamez-]

Day One owners paid 60 dollars for unpolished buggy mess...
I am going to pay 20 dollars for a more polished and fixed game...
But I guess in the 'Real World' gamers are suppose to buy buggy games day one right? So I guess I am not in the real world.

[AnubisG]

No, you are a real world gamer but you aren't hardcore enough. Hardcore people just take anything as soon as they can get it.

PS: I was joking obviously.

[Goldby]

well screw you both, ima spend me my entire life savings and then some and go to andromeda myself. in my own pathfinder...

its a 2012, 18 inch rims, a kick as subwoofer.

[showtimefolks]

Gold 😁

Race u there and see you there in few million years 😉

Let's meet up at a coffee shop

[Goldby]

winner gets pink slips?

[quent]

In his day and age where we have so many option in what games are available to us, I have to say, why preorder anymore?, the benefits are almost completely zero in comparison to waiting and getting something down the line when its working as intended and also at a discounted price point.

in any kind of business you have to gain trust from you're customers through quality and value through the product their trying to sell, so why preorder, why puts so much faith and trust into these repeated lies in what we see in trailers and what we read in media press releases that's full of lies misdirection and pandering.

These companies do nothing to improve what their peddling because they can predict profits through pre-ordering without any downside except for backlash from people who have already handed over their money

Then they start their BS media campaign for the next cycle with their tools of misdirection through media, vertical slices that never make it into the finished product and empty promises that come with it.

They only understand and care about profits, nothing else and thats the only way to get at them to change in how they conduct their business mentality

[Miss_Weeboo]

Don't support laziness. greedy cheapness. You Foul it up EA/Bioware

[philm87]

Animation isn't as bad as Deus Ex.

[JeffGUNZ]

I am 44 hours with 31% completion and not very far in the main story. I have yet to run into any real groundbreaking bugs, just minor issues that do not influence the game whatsoever. It's jam packed with content and the story is well done (takes a little bit to really develop past ***SPOILER*** going to vaults to fix planets. If you truly explore planets and do all possible side quests/tasks, the additional story lines are fantastic. Is it perfect, no, is it an awesome addition to the ME universe? Yep. I feel like a lot of people trashing this game as a buggy mess are people who never played it. If you like ME, you'll love this game.

[Ashunderfire86]

The writing and dialogue still sucks that can't be fix so Persona 5 is out! And Star Citizen will rip this a new one. You can't polish a turd to get game of the year.

[RedPill86]

Still dozens more to go.

[Sam Fisher]

I guess 30$ it is

[aaronaton]

So have they got rid of most of their staff? That was my biggest bug i had with the game.._ ha who am i trying to kid, as i was ever gunna consider this game. Im too busy stealing hearts to care.

[Kyizen]

Gaming was better when they couldnt patch there bugs out

[christocolus]

Nice. I'm a few hours in and i'm enjoying the game. Hopefully Bioware keeps improving upon what they've built..

[Brohan]

Mass effect andromeda needs more work.