BioWare has revealed the changelog for Mass Effect: Andromeda’s upcoming patch. This patch will update your game’s version to 1.05 and will improve lip-sync and facial acting during some conversations. In addition, this patch will allow players to skip the autopilot sequences in the galaxy map.
Furthermore, this upcoming patch will feature various streaming and stability improvements, will fix some issues related to saves, and will improve logic, timing, and continuity for relationships and story arcs.
Here are the release notes for Mass Effect: Andromeda’s patch 1.05:
- Improved tutorial placement
- Single player balance changes: Ammo crates, armor, weapons, nomad, profiles, attacks, and progression
- Multiplayer balance changes: Weapons, cover, and enemies
- Added option to skip autopilot sequences in the galaxy map
- Improved logic, timing, and continuity for relationships and story arcs
- Improved lip-sync and facial acting during conversations, including localized VO
- Fixed various collision issues
- Fixed bugs where music or VO wouldn’t play or wasn’t correct
- Fixed issue where global squad mate banter sometimes wasn’t firing on UNCs
- Fixed issue where player was unable to access the Remnant Console Interface after failing decryption multiple times
- Fixed issue where fast travel is sometimes disabled after recruiting Drack until the player reloads a save
- Fixed issue where Ryder can become stuck in the start of Biotic Charge Pose
- Fixes issues related to some saves
- Fixed issue where objective sometimes becomes un-interactable for players in multiplayer
- Streaming and stability improvements
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They can’t simply fix this with a patch. If they want to make it look decent they’d have to redo the entire characters aswell as their animations. Doubtful
It’s easily fixable with a patch
It’s patchable, absolutely, but is it actually worth investing the resources, into?
Hell no.
Especially not for EA, who probably stopped giving a sh*t about this entire project a long time ago, & only let it come to its semi-fruitful conclusion in order to reap in whatever they figured they could get out of it.
I think there’s some value in improving the game (at least in the short term). Given the Mass Effect 3 ending fiasco, this fiasco could definately start to effect the long term viability of the franchise. Given that they will at least solve a long of the bad blood (in the long term) from eventually patching the game up reasonably (even if it takes them 6 months or more) I think it is a reasonable thing to expect/hope for if you are just looking at the $.
I’m giving this a year or two — just playing through Mass Effect 3 actually (at 5k on my 1080) and it’s a reasonable experience out the box now 🙂
You’re assuming EA actually gives a f*ck about this IP anymore, however – which, logically, yeah, they should, but realistically; they didn’t even give it a Season Pass. I daresay that speaks volumes as to their long-term interests in Andromeda, & with it, the future of the Mass Effect IP as a whole, since it’s all riding on this one game, right now.
As for “starting to affect” – yeah, no. Mass Effect 2 “started to affect” the longevity of the franchise way back when, then Mass Effect 3 threw a few bombs onto the pile, blew it all up, & then EA tried to group everyone up around the rubble in a vain attempt to sing kumbaya together in order to…. “make everything better.”
Then the sun came up & everyone realised what a big f*cking joke the entire thing was, & they went back to destroying each other. In other words; Mass Effect has no longevity, anymore. At best, they’ve got one final entry left (“Andromeda 2”) that’ll sell semi-well before the IP dies, assuming it’s an actually mediocre game.
At worst, Andromeda sold even worse than I think it did, in which case EA will never go near Mass Effect again. Either way, ME is all but dead right now, & 6+ months of patching won’t save it any more than waiting 3 years to play Andromeda will. Besides, the problems affecting ME3 & MEA, while similar, are also considerably different, so comparing the two situations to each other is flimsy reasoning, at best.
Of course they can fix it with a patch. What do you think a patch is? It’s a series of files overwriting older ones and/or adding new ones. If they redo the animations completely, they still generate animation files that will replace the existing ones.
His point is that it’s doubtful they will properly redo all the facial animations. That’s an insane amount of work.
Well the way he phrased it made it sound like the action of patching was insufficient in replacing the animations.
Its too late ;p Cool that they are trying, however… the dmg has been done. Reputation is out of the window.
In fact, the horrible animations and bugs are the most amusing part of the game. Remove all of that and what do we get? A 6 out of 10 game. Pretty mediocre and boring. I just finished it, and i gotta say.. Dragon Age 2 was more fun, and that game sucked. Idk what they are thinking.
Fun fact, both DA2 and this have good combat systems.
I want to play the game pre-patch, its more amusing. 😛 I was talking to a ghost NPC today and i almost dying from laughing. Its a great party game too! 😀 😀 😀
I agree about their reputation, but it’s never too late to fix a game. Maybe they’ll learn from this but I wouldn’t hold my breath. I’ve not bought the game yet, if this patch gets the approval of those that have, I’ll take the plunge. Time will tell.
When has ANY publisher or dev learn from “this”?
This is kind of what i want to know too lol ;p
Again, the game will be more boring if they patch it up. Trust me, you want it broken or not at all. Its a waste of time, from the story to everything else. Does a 6/10 game sound fun to you? Everyone gives it that score, heck, i even give it lower score cuz its ME and Bioware. They can do better but they did not.
You didn’t mention that the patch will start to roll out this Thursday (6th of April).
Where is the AMD Crossfire fix in the new 1.05 Update? Why are you guys so incompetent?
Why would they do that? The hilarious memes and gifs are the only thing of value to come from this game. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/984e1080032f8a7030a244853dd4e7dd36eb386bf1f59a38623e81ec6e4d64ae.jpg
Even 5 more years of patching won’t fix this mess, sure there will be less glitches and bugs but these are just a fraction of the problems that this game have.
And what are those problems ? if you don’t mind me asking. Last I checked this game a day or two ago it only had bad lip sync and emotionless faces with some bad voice acting, everything else is working fine, at least on my end.
The gameplay is fine?
The story is fine?
The bland, dull, moronic world is fine?
The missions are fine?
“Everything else” is fine?
Most likely you guys are overreacting like “every time”. Probably haven’t even invested like 10 – 15 hours in the game ? it gets interesting after a while. The game play is fine yes, combat is good as far as my “first hand experience” goes, better than previous games with the inclusion of jet pack.
Didn’t find anything that will justify “Bland”, “Dull” and “Moronic” words for the world, on the contrary the world is done pretty good and exploration makes it even more interesting.
The missions are perfectly fine.
Unfortunately and no offense but most of you probably didn’t even bought the game for trying before coining those terms to bash it. I was also thinking the same before it’s release and what internet is doing against it but it changed after trying it.
Sure it has bad things too like average companions, facial animation, dialog delivery but that doesn’t make it a disaster that internet is trying to prove.
Bad story, Bad writing, Dumbed down shooting mechanics, unlikable character, Terrible horde-mode multiplayer with microtransactions and awful game design. these can not be fixed. not even that, those awful animations won’t get fixed at all, like ever. Bad animations and bad lip syncing was just funny part of it’s problems, it’s another offline MMO.
Story is fine, writing is average, shooting is not dumbed down from any angle (first hand experience), you don’t have to stick with default character, create your own and character creation is getting a patch too. No need to play multiplayer if you don’t like, micro transactions are present in almost every game these days but you don’t have to use them if you don’t like, animations are fine except facial and lips which are bad yes. It’s not an MMO, like I said don’t play multiplayer if you don’t like. Just stick with single player.
No, Story is bad. Writing is bad, shooting and combat is dumbed down and you can’t even control your team, unlikable characters doesn’t mean bad character creation it means unlikable heros/villains and other characters. Multiplayer is a part of the game, when it’s s**t it’s s**t, play it or not won’t change the fact that it’s s**t. microtransactions are equally s**t in every game, you don’t have to pay but waste tons of more hours to get them because they design the reward system around that. animations are bad and facial animations are terrible and patch won’t fix it. it’s an MMO, an offline MMO design wise. go to this map kill x many enemies or collect x many stuff is an MMO busy work.
No if i don’t like something i voice my opinion and single player is also s**t.
Since the Denuvo protection for the game has been already broken will they even remove it in some further patch? may this let us gain some more fps?
I’m waiting for the first official EA discount to buy it 🙂
Doubt it.
If anything, they’ll most likely just leave it on out of pure spite.
After all, it’s EA we’re talking about, here.
They will probably upgrade it so they have to crack it again
Game has to be recracked for any patches, so doubt they will remove it. If anything they will probably upgrade to the newer version.
Thank god that the animation in the Mass Effect 1,2 and 3 were so good, we couldn’t tell
there is no such thing as “improving” ME:A facial animations. You rebuild them.
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It is patchable, but not easily, They will just manually tweak current mocap and call it a day. That will probably cause more problems, and not entirely fix BAD mocap data. They fukced it up. IMO For the best results
theysomeone with actual knowledge should rebuild entire MOCAP from scratch…But, is it worth investing money & resources into this : NOPEFacial animations must have been another form of anti-piracy. Seeing as they will patch this after the game was cracked for those who actually bought the game.
No, sounds like you just want to defend something you like or bought and call all of those reasons hate.
You can NOT control your team, telling them go there or re group is not controlling them, in past ME games you could pause the combat, issue a specific command to each (to use which ability on whom) and un-pause or just take their roll. it’s not there anymore.
Characters being boring is a disaster because it was so good in the past games and it’s a AAA game ffs not just some random game made by some indie devs. Multiplayer is a part of the game, wft are you saying ?
Recent patch fixed some (if we can even call them fix) meme animation glitches and that’s that.
Combat is dumbed down, they took the minor strategy part of it and turned it to a mediocre mindless shooter.
Yes, the world looks good, graphics are nice in some places but sorry quests are just boring MMO style busy work. i have my reasons too, i don’t care if internet loves or hate something, i voice my opinion no matter what.