FronzelNeekburm posted:

Just tried my first round of multiplayer and lagged so badly I could barely move. Here's hoping that improves at some point.

Not a huge fan of KB+M aiming like a controller, either.

Frustrated posted:

Bioware and EA cheaped out again by having players host the multiplayer games instead of having a server that actually hosts the map. This gives you random games you can't connect to, super lag when playing with a host on a bad connection, and whenever the host leaves everyone gets thrown out to a loading screen and has to wait for a new host starting the whole loving round over again.

For such an expensive game with a fuckton of DLC they are some cheap shits which is really disappointing.

Frustrated posted:

Bioware and EA cheaped out again by having players host the multiplayer games instead of having a server that actually hosts the map. This gives you random games you can't connect to, super lag when playing with a host on a bad connection, and whenever the host leaves everyone gets thrown out to a loading screen and has to wait for a new host starting the whole loving round over again.

For such an expensive game with a fuckton of micro-transactions they are some cheap shits which is really disappointing.

Digirat posted:

What's the DLC? There's no season pass.

black.lion posted:

Hey guy or gal who keeps getting a black box when they launch - uninstall Corsair Utility Extension, reboot, try again

Random rear end in a top hat posted:

I guess we get to find out on Monday the lowest review score each publication is comfortable giving a AAA title from a major studio. My prediction: 82-86 on Metacritic.

EA made a huge mistake letting people play this early, DA2 reviewers got away with it because it wasn't apparent until a couple days after launch what a mess it was. In Andromeda's case way too many people know about it's problems for major reviewers to just give it a 95 and hope nobody notices.

8-bit Miniboss posted:

Biotic Charge and yes. You can even use it in midair!

Qmass posted:

Is there a way to turn off the motion blur ?

Verviticus posted:

goty

thank you

Rookersh posted:

Bioware doesn't exist anymore.

DA:O was a surprise success that took 6ish years to make and almost everyone working at Bioware to put out the door. EA had no faith in it, and suddenly it was one of their top selling franchises. So they did what EA does to highly successful franchises, and asked Bioware to make another one. Except for this new one, they wanted it started and finished in under a year, as they had a dream of an annual RPG franchise. Mind you that's hard enough to pull off for FPS games which are relatively simple to make with multiple teams. Bioware was expected to put together a full length AAA RPG in 6-7 months while also putting out the last of the DA:O DLC.

This killed the company. Huge swathes of people up and quit. They couldn't handle the stress. They couldn't handle what they were expected to do. Every single major program director and creative lead left the company during this year period where they were developing DA2. Go look at LinkedIn profiles for the major people that worked on DA:O, and more then half of them suddenly leave Bioware in 2010. The combat director quit and wasn't replaced for months, so they had no real lead directing what the combat should have been during that period. Major story beats and combat ideas got forced into the game in the final months of 2010 not because they were good, but because the game needed to ship in a few months and it needed to get out the door. To help the DA team actually finish DA2 in a somewhat annual fashion, they drew most of the ME2 team off ME, throwing them into this grinder as well.

By the time DA2 launched, around half if not more of the original "Bioware" was gone. Go through the credits of DA:O, ME1, or ME2 and start LinkedIning people, none of them work for Bioware anymore. Most left between 2010 and 2012.

It's been a pretty steady drain since then. Compare the credits list of Inquisition to the credits list of DA:O or DA2. It's almost an entirely new team, and it's a team that Bioware specifically hired to replace the losses from DA2. It's why so many styles have changed since then, why the gameplay changed so steadily, and why they chose to try so many new things. Because Inquisition wasn't made by the DA:O team trying their hand at open world game design. It was maybe 1/6th of the guys that even touched DA:O/DA2 suddenly getting an influx of new blood, most of it Bioware fans finally getting a chance to work for the company they loved, that had great new ideas for what they wanted out of future Bioware games.

It's the same for the ME team. The brain drain has been bad, and the development of Andromeda has apparently picked off massive chunks of the team. The lead writer of the group was the lead writer for Halo 4, and he apparently clashed with a lot of the senior writers/main writers of previous ME games. A whole bunch of goon favorite ME writers have quit the company, and on various development forums have mentioned it was due to creative differences with the former lead writer. Gameplay leads have been leaving the ME/Bioware teams at a pretty steady pace since the game was developed as well. The story had to be picked up mid completion as the lead writer got forced out/quit and replaced, which likely doesn't mean great things for the narrative ( which we are also seeing here. ). Andromeda has currently had the great slow drip of Bioware talent since the dark days of 2010 when DA2 "killed" the company. They've been forced to cycle talent multiple times during the development of Andromeda, not just in management ( which has seen multiple complete turnovers ), but also among the rank and file people working on the game.

This isn't to say Andromeda can't be great, or that it won't live up to the hype. I'm personally hoping it does because I need something to play right now. But if it's good, it'll be good on it's own merits and it's own merits alone, rather then because "it's a Bioware game, I like Bioware!". Because Bioware doesn't exist anymore, it's a completely new entity and needs to be treated as such. People really need to be viewing this as "EA'S NEW ACQUISITION, BIOWARE VICTORY'S FIRST RPG. HOPE IT'S GOOD." rather then "Bioware always makes quality. I know what I'll get here.". As it is right now, EA is propping up Bioware's corpse with a new studio and hoping people don't notice while they keep using it as their RPG house.

Verviticus posted:

goty

thank you

Mister Macys posted:

Post this every page until release. Bioware is dead, and this game is the one that'll make EA put the bullet through the studio's head, like every other good studio to come before it.

Mister Macys posted:

Post this every page until release. Bioware is dead, and this game is the one that'll make EA put the bullet through the studio's head, like every other good studio to come before it.

RatHat posted:

If they knew the game was this bad why the gently caress did they let people play it before release? Or did they really not see a problem with it?

RatHat posted:

If they knew the game was this bad why the gently caress did they let people play it before release? Or did they really not see a problem with it?

Kavak posted:

Cancelling the multiplayer beta sent up a bunch of warning flags, cancelling the demo would have been Alert: Condition poo poo.

I also think Bioware might've wanted even more time but EA threw up their hands and ordered them to ship this quarter.

Night Blade posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bWGANKbYrI

This poo poo is unbelievable.

Clawtopsy posted:

Mister Macys posted:

I still carry a torch for Bullfrog. Theme Hospital is the only Sim game I ever beat.

BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:

AH YES THE HUMAN EMOTION KNOWN AS "YAWNING" I SHALL PERFORM IT NOW

Fojar38 posted:

This thread got 2k posts in a day. Did something happen?

Kavak posted:

Previews footage and streams are growing in number and the reactions are...mixed.

Fojar38 posted:

Mixed how?

Kavak posted:

Previews footage and streams are growing in number and the reactions are...mixed.

No Mods No Masters posted:

It doesn't look like how a good game should look

Fojar38 posted:

What

Synthbuttrange posted:

https://webmshare.com/Dm0Nz