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Bust Rodd posted:Have we seen any new Adept powers? I was always disappointing on how much of a crutch I used the pistol as as an adept, I would love to be able to just beat the game using only biotics and shields... I'm hoping we'll have better low level options here. A couple of new-ish powers. Annihilation Field from ME3 MP is in as a core biotic power now, and Lance is a tweaked version of Flare. Backlash might be new, might be ME3 MP's Lash, not sure. The other biotic skills: Pull Throw Charge Nova Shockwave Singularity Barrier (passive) Offensive Biotics (passive) Containment (passive)
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 02:43 |
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Waltzing Along posted:How did this not get posted already: The first part of this sentence is the only actual bad sign for this game's quality I've seen.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 02:46 |
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Mymla posted:The first part of this sentence is the only actual bad sign for this game's quality I've seen. The second part is also not true. It should be "more than anyone except Shepard"
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 02:49 |
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What if it is true, but every character except Ryder just talks at 4x speed?
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 02:53 |
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Cythereal posted:A couple of new-ish powers. Annihilation Field from ME3 MP is in as a core biotic power now, and Lance is a tweaked version of Flare. I believe backlash is the shield that reflects incoming projectiles. Honestly the best thing for adepts in this game might be the lack of a gcd.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 02:57 |
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tayvaan posted:I believe backlash is the shield that reflects incoming projectiles.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 03:10 |
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Also the Adept passive (besides biotic dodging) appears to be chain explosions. "Biotic echoes" - probably smaller ones, but still pretty sweet sounding. Sarmhan fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Feb 25, 2017 |
# ? Feb 25, 2017 03:12 |
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I'm torn between getting this for pc or for Xbone how dumb am I
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 03:15 |
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trash person posted:I'm torn between getting this for pc or for Xbone how dumb am I No more than me on the PC or PS4 Pro on a 1080p display. Though honestly I'd prefer not to install Origin again.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 03:16 |
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The PCgamer interview from a few hours ago has me looking forward to this game again if only because they brought up Mass Effect 1's atmosphere as a design goal multiple times.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 03:58 |
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FUDGESICKLE. I'm trying to read all this but half the responses are about alien loving and I GET SO BORED. I think the emotional buildup and interaction between the characters is really interesting and I'm not sure how to understand the rating of a game when 50% Of the respondents are basement trolls who have literally never had sex in real life, making up fan fiction. I just now finished ME2 for the third time. It was weirdly a bit fast and not as cool as when it came out, but I had already beat it twice in a row, as a female paragon, and then male Renagade. and when I played the second time, all the extras had come out so it had some more game-play. I just beat it today and saved 100% of people again, and I was only missing two upgraded (I think shotgun and not sure) but I honestly wasn't sure where I would get another 70k
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 04:19 |
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Mymla posted:The first part of this sentence is the only actual bad sign for this game's quality I've seen. Inquisition is seriously, stupidly huge so either they're pulling some kind of clever semantics where "zone" equals "whole planet including 5 story missions and 3 towns" or the amount of pointless emptiness will be kind of insane.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 04:21 |
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Inquisition's mount was barely quicker than running so if the Mako is actually as fast as a vehicle should be they could have larger zones. I'm still not convinced it's necessary though.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 04:24 |
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precision posted:Inquisition is seriously, stupidly huge so either they're pulling some kind of clever semantics where "zone" equals "whole planet including 5 story missions and 3 towns" or the amount of pointless emptiness will be kind of insane. In my opinion you need less density than inquisition had if you want to justify a vehicle like the nomad. If you're constantly stopping to interact with stuff having a vehicle just gets in the way. So larger areas with less content density but roughly equal/larger amount of net content sounds about right. Especially if they make good on the content being higher quality than inquisition.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 04:27 |
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DoggPickle posted:FUDGESICKLE. I'm trying to read all this but half the responses are about alien loving and I GET SO BORED. Sorry bud, Mass Effect is about alien sex.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 04:28 |
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This is the piece that comment is from - quote:A fact repeated by Bioware repeatedly is that the smallest Andromeda zone is larger than all of Dragon Age Inquisition. This is insane, obviously, but there’s an economy of scale involved: the nomad moves a lot faster than a horse, and so the game is larger to make up for it. It does offer a great sense of discovery all the same, with impressive vistas showcasing just how good EA and DICE’s Frostbite engine is, as if we needed more proof after Battlefield 1.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 04:28 |
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I would have liked Bioware to include some sort of SSX Tricky system when driving around in the Mako. Get those sick spins and poo poo.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 04:33 |
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Bust Rodd posted:What if it is true, but every character except Ryder just talks at 4x speed? Ah, the Far Cry 2 approach.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 04:36 |
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I mean...y'all remember ME1, right? The planet environments were massive. We're talking thirty or so environments that were all easily the scale of DA:I Hissing Wastes. With the caveat that, yes, most of the zones were just environments without a lot of content. If ME:A balances out the ratio of playable planets to actual planetary content, I've no problems believing that even the smallest planets are going to be colossal exploration zones.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 04:43 |
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orange juche posted:Sorry bud, Mass Effect is about alien sex. It's not. You're a silly person and you are SO BORING. SEX. GAY SEX> ALIEN SEX> 4 WAY SEX. 8-way sex. septuple alien sex. Blah. BORING. Don't care. I wanna know if the new Mass Effect is fun and exciting like ME2 or DA1? or some boring fakey instanced poo poo from some terrible makeovers. Your personal dream preference is just as interesting as anyone else telling me their dreams lol.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 04:45 |
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I hope that the Fiend enemy has something a little more threatening in its arsenal since in that gameplay trailer it kinda just slowly walked towards the player and got helplessly beat up until it died. The only reason it landed a hit at all was because the person playing forgot about it while fighting other enemies.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 04:57 |
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Dr. Abysmal posted:I hope that the Fiend enemy has something a little more threatening in its arsenal since in that gameplay trailer it kinda just slowly walked towards the player and got helplessly beat up until it died. The only reason it landed a hit at all was because the person playing forgot about it while fighting other enemies. According to the previously-reliable neogaf leaker it's very different in the actual game- Apparently mob behavior actually changes based on difficulty now.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 04:58 |
Hahahaha those system requirements. I'm not buying a new computer just for this.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 05:08 |
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*edit - first game I've played since I built my new rig 2 years ago in which the processor is at recommended. This might be wild.BrianWilly posted:I mean...y'all remember ME1, right? The planet environments were massive. We're talking thirty or so environments that were all easily the scale of DA:I Hissing Wastes. Yep. To me, ME1's planets work retroactively - no other game in the series has its sense of physical scale and environment diversity. Even the skyboxes are interesting. It's not a fun experience actually playing thru most of the planets, but they do contribute to the feeling of size and variety in the galaxy. Most of the sidequests and interiors don't, not to mention the structure of the geography. Low-stress/exploratory breaks with visual treats in between combat segments can work really well, like Uncharted does with pacing. We've come a long way with tech since ME1's terrain generator. Much of London in AC: Syndicate was made with an algorithm that pulled pre-fab assets. It looks pretty good. I haven't seen enough to get optimistic about ME:A's planets, but the idea works on a high concept level.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 05:12 |
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Bloody Pom posted:Hahahaha those system requirements. I'm not buying a new computer just for this. Why would you? If you can play ME3 or more recent AAA game you'll be totally fine.
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Drifter posted:Why would you? If you can play ME3 or more recent AAA game you'll be totally fine. CPU's below the minimum (when did they become the bottleneck again?) and GPU and RAM just make the mark. I'd rather not have to play at 30fps on Low.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 05:31 |
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Bloody Pom posted:CPU's below the minimum (when did they become the bottleneck again?) and GPU and RAM just make the mark. I'd rather not have to play at 30fps on Low. My 6-year-old i5-2500K is supposedly below the minimum for a lot of games I've recently played and seems just fine. At this point I'm convinced it's going to last me forever.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 05:37 |
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CPU improvements have been nominal when it comes to games. If you have at least a decent Sandy Bridge, you're probably fine.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 05:38 |
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Bloody Pom posted:CPU's below the minimum (when did they become the bottleneck again?) and GPU and RAM just make the mark. I'd rather not have to play at 30fps on Low. If you have something worse than an i5 then you probably should have thought about upgrading a long time ago.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 05:40 |
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I am looking at the difference in the numbers for the recommended CPU and my CPU which came out in 2012 and they are almost identical and I have never ever been CPU bottlenecked while playing games GPU and RAM are the most important things for playing video games Or just get it for console which is my plan
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 05:42 |
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Fojar38 posted:I am looking at the difference in the numbers for the recommended CPU and my CPU which came out in 2012 and they are almost identical and I have never ever been CPU bottlenecked while playing games Unless you play strategy games and building sims, where more CPU is usually far more important (esp. when it supports decent multicore scaling). It's rather easy to bring a modern CPU to its limits with a modded Cities Skylines. Or a late game big map Civ game.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 05:47 |
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I find it funny some people are thinking it's "insane" for ME:A to have zones larger than all of DA:I. Those people never played 2004's Far Cry 1. If anything games have been doing nothing but shrinking this past decade so it's good to see some reversal of the trend.
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DancingShade posted:I find it funny some people are thinking it's "insane" for ME:A to have zones larger than all of DA:I.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 06:02 |
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Decius posted:Unless you play strategy games and building sims, where more CPU is usually far more important (esp. when it supports decent multicore scaling). It's rather easy to bring a modern CPU to its limits with a modded Cities Skylines. Or a late game big map Civ game. That's...almost a special case, but yes, if you're running an i5 2x-- or something then that outlier would result in making things take a scoonch longer or some chugging if you're runnign a city the size of texas, but for a game like ME3 or Doom or Deus Ex MD or Witcher 3 or Modern Warfare it's pretty much a GPU issue. MEA will fall on the side of needing a better GPU than it will for needing a better CPU.But this is strictly a conversation about MEA. IF the dude wanted info about Endless LEgend or City Skylines then that would be a different answer for a different thread. Doctor Spaceman posted:DA:I had decent size zones but a lack of interesting content, so people are naturally wary of even bigger zones. Yeah, and "Having content" doesn't just mean that there's lots of poo poo to collect like Skyrim or DAInq. Interesting content like Witcher 3. Of course, maybe MEA will be like Dirt 3 or something as we drive between outpost hubs and missions. Drifter fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Feb 25, 2017 |
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I'm one of those people that really did not like the ending of ME3, but I cannot wait to play MEA. It looks like a ton of goddamn fun. Do we have any information on what race/class combos will be available in multiplayer? I haven't found any yet. I'm not sure about the story of MEA's single player, but the fact that I can biotic charge, drop a turret, and then smash everything with my hammer has me pretty stoked no matter what. I'm a diehard vanguard player- my challenge run in ME3 was to fight exclusively with biotic charge and shotguns on hard unless dealing with an instant kill fucker or turrets. In multiplayer, Krogan Vanguard and Krogan Warlord were my go tos. I'd love to make a sort of fusion of the two for single player.
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 07:54 |
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Rinkles posted:
Perfect tackle against someone who is 6+ inches taller then her Not leading with the crown of her head. Would fit in todays modern NFL as a free safety
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 08:10 |
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Medlar posted:The current-year hair/makeup-style and personality for the characters I've seen thus far feel a little jarring for a futuristic game. Does Rastaman really need them dreads? I see that crossfit games-haircut the blond sports at the gym all the time and it's already losing its luster for me. I'm surprised one of the male characters isn't rocking a manbun. Are you really going down the "black guy shouldn't be wearing locs" route here because lol
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 08:57 |
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Hey guys, I have early access to the game and I wanted to share some screenshots of the romance I picked in my playthrough, hope you like but don't look if you don't want to be spoiled!!!! I would give it GOTY right now if it werent for the fact that Breath of the Wild lets you gently caress a goron (screenshots of that coming shortly)
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# ? Feb 25, 2017 09:07 |
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Hedrigall posted:Hey guys, I have early access to the game and I wanted to share some screenshots of the romance I picked in my playthrough, hope you like but don't look if you don't want to be spoiled!!!!
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Drifter posted:Yeah, and "Having content" doesn't just mean that there's lots of poo poo to collect like Skyrim or DAInq. Interesting content like Witcher 3. Witcher 3 was a great game, but lets not forget that half of the explorable markers in the game was nothing more than chests filled with useless loot because crafting the set gear was all you needed to do, equipment wise.
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