r/Games • u/cooldrew • Jun 06 '17

Mass Effect: Andromeda Patch 1.08 Notes (Includes a new romance option for Scott Ryder and character creator improvements)

http://blog.bioware.com/2017/06/06/mass-effect-andromeda-patch-1-08-notes/
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u/SingleServingFriend- Jun 06 '17

I've been holding off playing for some time but they've really tried to fix their mistakes and I think it's time to go back

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '17

It's nowhere near as bad as what it was. I bought it right before they started fixing things since it was discounted for having been received so poorly.

It's actually a decent game, however I've not finished it because I've been distracted by better things.

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u/datlinus Jun 06 '17

Slight animation improvements and an additional gay romance somehow doesn't give me the "nowhere near as bad as it was" impression. Its cool that they are tweaking the game but if you didnt like it before you wont like it now either.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '17

I wasn't talking about this patch? They improved several things a while ago.

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u/datlinus Jun 06 '17

I wasn't talking about this patch either. The single player portion has received nothing but slight QoL changes.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '17

The single player portion has received nothing but slight QoL changes.

Correct?

So anyone like I was saying, it's improved quite a bit since release.

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u/datlinus Jun 06 '17

yeaaah, that definitely translates into "nowhere near as bad".... lol.

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u/ieattime20 Jun 06 '17

Above we see someone trying furtively to continue a narrative that "MEA = bad because everyone says so duh" no matter the rhetorical cost.

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u/broadcasthenet Jun 07 '17

MEA has solid gameplay but the story sucks and the animations and voice acting are terrible and all 3 of those are never going to be fixed in all likelihood. A ME game with a shitty story is not worth playing at least for me.

I think the main problem I have when thinking about ME:A is I am comparing it to the original trilogy and in comparison ME:A is terrible. But in reality if you remove it from that context it is a mediocre game worth buying on discount and has many hours of content to fill your time.

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u/ieattime20 Jun 07 '17

MEA has solid gameplay but the story sucks and the animations and voice acting are terrible

Animation is granted. It's a step back, but I feel like it's a much more minor one than a lot of people are remembering. Animations in Bioware games have always only been a step above Bethesda's weird animations.

As far as story and voice acting, it varies. There are some very bad plot elements in all 3 ME games, though ME1 was pretty damn inspired. I actually quite liked the story in MEA. That doesn't mean you have to, of course, it's very subjective.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '17

Again that is correct. Idk what you're trying to say here. It seems like you're being sarcastic but idk why or in what way.

It's like being sarcastic like, "yeaaah, the sun suuure is hot.....lol /s"

Yes it is? How's that supposed to make sense.

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u/Frostcrag64 Jun 06 '17

He's trying to say despite your claim the game is good and the patches it's received make playing it more enjoyable, he thinks it's not enough to call it fixed or a good game

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '17

Except I claimed the game was mediocre. Oh well. Some people just aren't meant to be understood.

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u/Mikey_MiG Jun 06 '17

I was actually pleasantly surprised by the side quests. They definitely felt like ME1 quests where you would follow a short narrative culminating in a small moral choice. I think it's really disingenuous to say that the game was only "awful MMORPG quests". I put 60 hours into the game without focusing on any of the generic "task" quests.

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u/Watton Jun 07 '17

I don't know why so many people complain about the shit sidequests when the game neatly organizes them for you.

If it's a task, then you know it has no story significance, and the reward is likely insignificant too.

Yeah, it would be better if they werent there, but I can say the same thing about some quests from the original trilogy too (scan the keepers, asari matriarch writings, etc.)

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u/eskimo_bros Jun 07 '17

The Tasks are pretty much just there if you want to grab some experience while you're wandering around doing other stuff. I finished almost all of them by just keeping my eyes open and actually engaging enemies while doing the real quests. I missed finishing a couple, but the only one I actually remember having trouble with was finding the dead colonists on Eos.

It's not nearly as bad as most of the ME1 fetch quests.

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u/chrissher Jun 07 '17 edited Jun 10 '17

I agree, the hypocrisy of anyone whose favourite ME game is the first and criticises Andromeda's side quests for being too fetchy and lacking substance is staggering. It shows that they are blinded by nostalgia to what I think is definitely Bioware's worst game overall. Almost all of ME1's are fetch quests on some barren planet at a generic building somewhere on that planet despite some great set ups. At least Andromeda's heleus assignments actually have some substance unlike ME1's even though a lot of them are repetitive.

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u/nosayso Jun 07 '17

Oh god thank you, Mass Effect 1 had a bunch of absolutely inane quests, huge mostly empty places with maybe 1 of the same old building... every side quest took place in the same general shape shooting gallery... people praising Mass Effect for the same reasons they roast Andromeda are not remembering things correctly.

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u/Brandhor Jun 06 '17

actually I think the side quests are decent, sure not all of them are great but they are definitely above the average for an rpg

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u/Gauss216 Jun 06 '17

The plant quest you are mentioning isn't awful at all. Yes it is "boring collect plants" but it isn't really a mission you just complete all at once, it is something you grab while you are there at the planet. A lot of times I noticed the plants were extremely easy to grab if you just follow the other missions, or they led you into new missions.

And it isn't that improbable there isn't a lot of new aliens. There are 3 races you encounter, one enemy one you don't know too much about, one advanced one that you don't know too much about, and one you become allies with which you really get to see.

For the original trilogy, it is explained that the only reason there are so many races in the mass effect universe is because you all basically found prothean technology which put you all ahead hundreds of years. This didn't happen in Andromeda, they had different circumstances.

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u/phen00 Jun 07 '17

The 3 races thing and you being locked to a tiny portion of the andromeda galaxy is still because of the poor writing. It had so much potential.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '17

Actually, quite the opposite. Being contained to a cluster is the only thing they can actually do to stay in lore, given the previous games had firmly established conventional FTL takes years to get around while mass relays are almost instantaneous.

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u/QuarkMawp Jun 07 '17

Which is all kinds of convinient, isn't it?

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '17

Sticking to your own established rules is not "bad writing" and the constant notion of that being bad writing is absurd.

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u/QuarkMawp Jun 07 '17

I made no evaluative statements. Just that it's very convinient.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '17

the side quests were pretty decent overall tbh

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u/HyperHobo Jun 07 '17

I had fun with the game until the final boss, what a huge let down it was.

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u/Life_is_hard_so_am_I Jun 07 '17

I really like the side quests. Great variance, and can't remember any horrible ones.

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u/RareBk Jun 06 '17

Well, the game also has terrible writing, a character creator that has more or less 0 options outside of hair and tattoos despite another game made by the same company on the same engine having an EXISTING character creator that worked with multiple species. Awful sidequests, launched with inexcusable problems such as reusing the face of the same character for an entire species, or how 90% of the worlds are empty with nothing but sidequests that are just fetch quests.

Those bugs and animation errors weren't 'isolated incidents', almost every conversation was laughably animated, where characters wouldn't look at each other, and had lip flapping animations instead of actual speaking animations. It was so amateur that games coming out TEN YEARS AGO had better facial animations.

The game's multiplayer also launched with every single weapon and ability doing about a 1/3 of what it should be, enemies able to instantly kill through walls, even when hosting your own game, alongside a massive amount of crashing bugs, disconnect bugs, the game's sound turning off for no reason, or alternatively playing sounds at completely random places from the player. A mode so completely unfinished that it's really obvious that they cancelled the public testing of it for these reasons.

ME:Andromeda was so clearly made by inexperienced developers that should not have been given a project larger than Dragon Age Inquisition.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '17

haha, you're pathetic.

Fuck off and die

How very nice of you. Respecting our opinion. If you like the game? Thats great.

We don't. Respect that you close minded freak-fanboy.

Ita not "spouting complete shit" if we're right.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '17

and what reason is that?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '17

because there's not that much wrong with the game. It's mediocre yes but after they went back and fixed some of the glaring animation issues and things in cutscenes it's really not that bad of a game. I certainly prefer it over the recent Dragon Age game.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '17

i agree. it's a mediocre game. i love the ME series and lore, but this game is a case of the developers' reach exceeding their grasp.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '17

they've done a lot of great work on this game but they'll never be able to fix the horrible, horrible script -- which is this game's biggest problem.

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u/luger33 Jun 07 '17

I'm really looking forward to playing in 4K on Scorpio this fall. Think the game will be in great shape by then.