Mass Effect: Andromeda Pre-Release Thread

[Tytus]

Not in Mass Effect

The Vorcha Soldier had the Flamer in Me3 multiplayer. Nothing new here.

Vorcha Soldiers had flame throwers in ME2 even before ME3 multiplayer.

 

[abnaxus]

Looks worse than Precursors.

 

[santino27]

God I hate that female protagonist default face.

 

[J1M]

God I hate that female protagonist default face.

This is bioware's attempt to bring fem ryder representation up to 50%. Make the female lead so hard on the eyes that you are compelled to play as her to customize it.

 

[TheChickenKing]

This is bioware's attempt to bring fem ryder representation up to 50%. Make the female lead so hard on the eyes that you are compelled to play as her to customize it.

Remember the good old days of a few years ago when they tried to increase the female lead's visibility by making femShep a reasonably attractive redhead for ME3? I don't normally obsess over default character looks for RPGs, but holy hell they dropped the ball here.

 

[Kem0sabe]

There should be more space udmurts... Its a disgrace.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Holy shit there are 36 separate skills (2:24) some of which need to be discovered/unlocked. Dare I say incline of Bioware?

 

[Durian Eater]

Dare I say incline of Bioware?

It's a skill-tree shooter. With 3 onscreen skills.

 

[J1M]

Dare I say incline of Bioware?

It's a skill-tree shooter. With 3 onscreen skills.

Start a poll. Let's see if people prefer passive or active skill unlocks.

EDIT: The end of the video suggests you'll be able to swap between 4 sets of three pretty quickly, so maybe you can have 12 skills. (If the PC interface receives more care than they usually put into it.)

 

[oldmanpaco]

Dare I say incline of Bioware?

It's a skill-tree shooter. With 3 onscreen skills.

Yes I understand there are only 3 categories and no non-combat ones but compared to the last two ME's this seems like an improvement.

 

[Xbalanque]

Dare I say incline of Bioware?

It's a skill-tree shooter. With 3 onscreen skills.

Yes I understand there are only 3 categories and no non-combat ones but compared to the last two ME's this seems like an improvement.

Hopefully the team skills will future some non-combat abilities

 

[Rev]

The game will probably be shit and BioWare is not to be trusted after their last three games, but it would be nice if the game was somehow decent enough. Not gonna happen, but still I can't really think of any other sci-fi/space opera RPG in the making: almost everyone is just releasing hordes of fantasy games, aside from the occasional cyberpunk and post-apoc.

 

[RangerBoo]

To be honest, I'm just hate watching this game right now. I just want to see how big of a hole Bioware will dig themselves into. With EA, their scumbag SJW devs, SJW politics that we know they are going to shove down our throats and them seemly going out of their way to please Tumblr fangirls, the hole they are going to dig will reach fucking China.
Also, anyone else noticed that a lot of these reaction and discussion videos on Mass Effect: Andromeda are mostly from girls? Come on ladies. There are better games out there. Guess they really want to fantasize about riding that Krogan.

 

[Freddie]

From the combat video, few things that came to mind regarding MP.

They have lot of weapons from ME3 and some new ones. I wonder if assault rifles are still gimped. In other hand there are new beam weapons, it remains to be seen how well they work.

What comes to skills, it looks like they improved the combo system, not sure about that though. It would however very important considering they have shielded enemies (mech in video) which just slow the pace of combat down unless there are ways to remove those shields fast.

FOV appears to be quite narrow which is silly, it can be disorienting and it just takes fun of the game to be constantly peeking around. Latter can be helped a bit by map design and where enemies spawn points are located.

The big questions is how they balanced grinding / player skill and 'monetisation'.
In ME3 MP good players could top the score board at least on Silver with even level 1 character and some really lousy weapons. It was pure player skill. However, this really wasn't possible on Gold. Basically game forced players to either grind or buy those BW packs to unlock and improve weapons.

Now it looks like there are lot of weapons and skills that require unlocking. If they made it a grind-fest to build stong incentive for player to buy whatever it was how the system unlocks stuff, it may be pretty much DoA. There are just too many other MP games, including free to play titles to choose from.

I'm not going to buy this and I would advice anyone who is interested MP aspect of this to perhaps give it a bit of time to see if MP has staying power.

 

[Keye_]

Interesting that in the combat video they only show one clip longer than 10 seconds. The video is just a compilation of flashy moves, but no actual complete fight is shown.
Tactics are obviously non-existent. Another shiny puddle with no depth.

 

[Raghar]

Any news about minimum requirements?

 

[Kem0sabe]

Any news about minimum requirements?

This being frostbyte, it will likely run well on any half decent computer, like inquisition and battlefield do. Unless Bioware fucks the optimization up.

 

[Raghar]

Well my relative has 2 core CPU and he's paying for university of his daughter so... I was wondering if it's dual core capable or not.

 

[Tytus]

Any news about minimum requirements?

Yes, actually.

Minimum requirements are:

- Lack of good taste.
- Sadomasochism
- Lack of self-awareness
- Insufficient understanding what cringe is
- Inadequacy during intercourse
- Inferiority complex
- Crippling anxiety during social events
- Addiction to masturbation to digital characters
- Emotional age of 10-13
- Attraction to popamoles
- Self-loathing
- Detestation of turn-based combat
- Egdy shitposting

 

[vortex]

Tytus, please do share what are recommended requirements then.

 

[J1M]

Any news about minimum requirements?

This being frostbyte, it will likely run well on any half decent computer, like inquisition and battlefield do. Unless Bioware fucks the optimization up.

Or decides to lock cutscenes to 30 fps again.

 

[J1M]

Well my relative has 2 core CPU and he's paying for university of his daughter so... I was wondering if it's dual core capable or not.

That's not how CPUs work. # of cores is one of the least important factors for gaming.

 

[Soulcucker]

Any news about minimum requirements?

Yes, actually.

Minimum requirements are:

- Lack of good taste.
- Sadomasochism
- Lack of self-awareness
- Insufficient understanding what cringe is
- Inadequacy during intercourse
- Inferiority complex
- Crippling anxiety during social events
- Addiction to masturbation to digital characters
- Emotional age of 10-13
- Attraction to popamoles
- Self-loathing
- Detestation of turn-based combat
- Egdy shitposting

 

[Tytus]

Tytus, please do share what are recommended requirements then.

Sure.

There are only two recommended requirements:

- Suicidal tendencies
- Courage to follow through

 

[Reinhardt]

Addiction to masturbation to digital characters

Thanks, but no.