MULTI Mass Effect: Andromeda lands this March

[CerebralTiger]

An hour into the game, and my face is already tired after dealing with....this broken cover system. Doesn't go into cover when you want it to, and does so when you don't want it to. *facepalm*

Character movement is also wonky, and the aerial thrust is annoying af.

Looks like I'll have to go with @Chandoo's route and play this on Easy, just to experience the space opera comedy and story (hoping there is one lol).

 

[Chandoo]

Ok even I can point out one hole in that video

you need to have the gun ready to go into auto cover, as soon as you pulled the gun out, the character went into cover ASAP.

 

[CerebralTiger]

Ok even I can point out one hole in that video

you need to have the gun ready to go into auto cover, as soon as you pulled the gun out, the character went into cover ASAP.

lol I know that, but why is it even the case? There are enemies blasting away at me, and the first thing I'd want to do is go into cover before actually pulling the gun out

 

[BumperJumper]

How Bioware developed Mass Effect Andromeda

 

[Chandoo]

Restarted as Scott, terrible choice of facial features aside his model and emoting looks way better than Sarah. Not sure what went wrong with the female model there.

Just for shits and giggles, here's how Pro compares to Necro's maxed out PC in the beginning areas.

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[BumperJumper]

The last screenshot is definitely not 1:1. The lighting difference shouldn't exist.

An hour into the game, and my face is already tired after dealing with....this broken cover system. Doesn't go into cover when you want it to, and does so when you don't want it to. *facepalm*

Character movement is also wonky, and the aerial thrust is annoying af.

Looks like I'll have to go with @Chandoo's route and play this on Easy, just to experience the space opera comedy and story (hoping there is one lol).

I have played Ghost Recon and Mass Effect Andromeda and the former has a dynamic cover system that shits on ME: Andromeda. Not sure what went wrong there, it just feels wonky to me.

 

[Chandoo]

Well.. yeah .. I was just taking those snapshots by approximation I didn't have necrokiller's snapshot open to compare ..

The machines pulsate blue on and off and necro is standing farther back in the corridor, I'm standing farther ahead so you can't see those 2 engineers on the left, also I think he took his later in the game, I took my picture just after the game starts. The station is suffering a power surge at that point.

The key point though is how well the Pro stands, visually, against a maxed out PC.

 

[NaNoW]

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How did this made past QA ? This is absolutely horrible.

 

[Chandoo]

More shits and giggles.

Before necro says it, the PS4 version does have DoF if it looks like it's not there in the first screen these screens aren't 1 : 1 but it does seem Pro version has the bokeh DoF dialed down a bit in comparison.



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[Chandoo]

[MENTION=24078]DarkLordMalik[/MENTION] here you go


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[Necrokiller]

More shits and giggles.

Before necro says it, the PS4 version does have DoF if it looks like it's not there in the first screen these screens aren't 1 : 1 but it does seem Pro version has the bokeh DoF dialed down a bit in comparison.



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Wow, terrain quality and rock textures took a huge hit in those screenshots. DoF is barely present in the first screenshot. Fire is also missing the background for some reason. Hows it performing though?

here are a few more for shits and giggles before I resume my playthrough



some close ups...


Also wana point out that the "Ultra" preset by default sets the AO quality to HBAO, which can be manually turned up a notch to HBAO Full, so it wasn't active in my screenshots. And it won't be as I value a stable 60fps more

 

[NaNoW]

More shits and giggles.

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Infamous second son is that you?

 

[Chandoo]

Wow, terrain quality and rock textures took a huge hit in those screenshots. DoF is barely present in the first screenshot. Fire is also missing the background for some reason. Hows it performing though?

here are a few more for shits and giggles before I resume my playthrough

Also wana point out that the "Ultra" preset by default sets the AO quality to HBAO, which can be manually turned up a notch to HBAO Full, so it wasn't active in my screenshots. And it won't be as I value a stable 60fps more

Only the rock textures are only off in the first screenshot with the 3 dudes rest are practically identical. They used a new engine but the console version still has the same idiosyncrasies as the PS3/360 gen. Texture popin is sometimes very rampant in your face during cut-scenes where there are quick cuts in scenes.

Performance is okey at best. No notable drops but a general sense of unevenness in the frame rate, so it's probably either bad frame pacing or micro stuttering between 26, 28, 30 FPS in quick succession.

 

[Chandoo]

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan !!! WTF ...

The game has blocked snapshot access as soon as I landed in the nexus. The view from the main deck is GORGEOUS but I can't take a picture :-/ I can't believe companies are blocking snapshots in 2017 ..

 

[Necrokiller]

Only the rock textures are only off in the first screenshot with the 3 dudes rest are practically identical.

Nah...massive difference

 

[Chandoo]

^ that is most definitely because of the lower resolution DoF. The textures anywhere in the game aren't that low rez unless its a cut-scene where DoF is applied. Everything is super crisp otherwise.

Other then that, everything looks identical at least in the in-game shots. PC at true 4K will probably look much sharper than Pro at it's 4K.

There we go, screenshots were just blocked until the first set of story events finished.

First muslim name sounding character gets accused of planting bombs.

How fucking cliche can it get

 

[Fir3d3mon]

Also wana point out that the "Ultra" preset by default sets the AO quality to HBAO, which can be manually turned up a notch to HBAO Full, so it wasn't active in my screenshots. And it won't be as I value a stable 60fps more

HBAO Full shouldnt have a big impact on performance and does look better. What i did was lower Mesh to medium and maxed everything else out. Easy 60 on 1440p

 

[Fir3d3mon]

about 11hrs into the campaign, the writing is so silly that it actually feels fun and good. Juvenile jokes and everything. If you keep in mind that this is different take on the ME universe and everyone here is really young, in their 20s young, unlike the veterans of the trilogy

 

[Chandoo]

about 11hrs into the campaign, the writing is so silly that it actually feels fun and good. Juvenile jokes and everything. If you keep in mind that this is different take on the ME universe and everyone here is really young, in their 20s young, unlike the veterans of the trilogy

The jamaican guy, in the prologue mission .. "I think that guy is pissed off at me *long pause* ... because i shot his face full of bullets"

JEESE.

 

[Fir3d3mon]

The jamaican guy, in the prologue mission .. "I think that guy is pissed off at me *long pause* ... because i shot his face full of bullets"

JEESE.

yeah man it feels like B-grade space opera thingy which is why i think it is so good whether it was intentional or they just had writers who took stuff from tumblr or something