Back in E3 2016, Electronic Arts showcased a trailer that appeared to be featuring in-game footage from Mass Effect: Andromeda. And since the review codes for Mass Effect: Andromeda have already been sent, you can find below some comparison screenshots between the game’s E3 2016 build and its final version.
As we can see, there are some differences between the E3 2016 and the final builds. The eye and skin shaders have taken a hit, and the lighting in the final build feels simpler/less complex than the one used in the E3 2016 build.
To BioWare’s and Electronic Arts’ credit, the gameplay footage found in the “Official EA Play 2016” video (from which these scenes were taken) was never advertised as representative of the final build.
Still, and given the fact that Star Wars: Battlefront’s reveal trailer was just as good as its final version, we are a bit disappointed that BioWare had to lower the graphical fidelity of its title.
Enjoy the comparisons (E3 2016 build is on the left, whereas the final build is on the right).
Thanks NeoGAF
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Looks as good or better! Overall its a good looking game but the ruff spots really standout.
Still looking good and it has gorgeous vistas but I didn’t expect a downgrade since most of the titles from EA don’t do them. Or it was not obvious enough.
No yeah, this is the first major Frostbite downgrade – I think.
Unless Dragon Age: Inquisition got downgraded a little, but I don’t seem to recall any such controversy, so I’d say not.
Dragon Age: Inquisition had gameplay downgrade. Check out the video from the PAX reveal. That’s not the same game we got.
Good point. Not the same kind of downgrade as we usually get, but good point, regardless.
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That female Ryder looks gorgeous. The same could be told about the Asari, which would make complete sense considering her species…
At least the Asari seems to have some personality…
“That female Ryder looks gorgeous” yes she does, in the E3 footage not in the current build though.
I was talking about the Photoshop’d one of course 🙂
The original version really looks like the defiinition of bland. At least there is true equality: the same can be said about the male version.
Ah yes, the photoshop’d one is epic.
well not epic, I can do that in PS too, but definitely worth looking at!
PeeBee was pretty hot AF too before they Michael Cera’d her.
These are bad, but the 3rd set of images is the worst, in my opinion.
It’s always the environments that get hit the worst when the downgrades come in 🙁
4:3 monitor…. here I come 😀
The reason all Bioware females have ugly faces these days is so that when fat SJW land whales play ME:A they won’t feel inferior to their squadmates and NPCs. This is their fantasy and they are going to be the prettiest one in it. Typical liberal tactics.
Now however, they still needed the females to be fit and have nice bodies. This is to ensure the male gamers, who make up most of the revenues, will still buy the game.
No one wants to play a game where you have to see Lena Dunhams everywhere.
Sounds like Trump logic. If the women don’t look like the plastic Ms America contestants then their ugly. I would love to see the partners (if y’all have any) of you alt guys. Lol, lots of sows and heifers in the South and Midwest.
Female Ryder looks meh. Even default FemShep in ME1 looks better.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=232077535
Another random neofag post that makes it into news on this site. Also the only site that keeps repeating the downgrade cretinism after all these years. So a prerendered cinematic trailer from a year ago that was made for presentation purposes and full of filters isnt 1:1 with the actual playing game? My god, this is so extraordinary and unheard of. Let quickly post it in the news. :facepalm: Then points in the article itself that nobody ever said this is ingame footage nor advertised it as such. This site started good years ago, but my man, its a complete joke at the moment.
All its missing are the “tech interviews” where the most uninformed person alive asks programers technical questions that he read on forums and has no idea what they mean, so people can laugh about it on reddit
Don’t forget the AMD GPUs that are lacking from our PC Performance Analysis articles 😉
Someone really likes Bioware.
OH! DEAR LORD!! MY EYES!!! IT BUUURRRRNNNSSSS!!!!!!!
MY LEG!
Just a scratch.
If I wanted to see ugly characters I would use my mirror Bioware !
* or read Bioware bios >:)
*mirror, Bioware, or read Bioware’s bios. (Sinister face emoji)
The devil is in the detail… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9301385e3e77a965036eaf6ee469c100f34d2403c3cdb9e6ee66e153054a34fe.gif
We can airbend in this game? Holy sh*t take my money.
That’s why it’s called Mass Effect: Airbender! Don’t you know? 😛
Too bad we can’t bend all that air in those Bioware Amateurs’ heads.
yeah punch that sack of s*t of a man, it’d be better if he was white though
In the future there are no more white males, except for a couple ones in cryostasis.
They went all the way in making it “cinematic”.
Looking at this in slow motion makes this even more ridiculous.^^
At least we know it’s sh*t prior to release. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/94eeb753cd7f1855f96043f4e21b104eca06e6e0e4d63e2044fc5f2be72d01fd.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d3143ac5bd09b2d484b5a21b75feae2bc1cd8d79962fa48ca98ba66d4b2c6885.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3ca5cfa105d999d5221b0a48a41e6e24fb5a2af545ee38d8263b7ca200a7c39f.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4def536d0b31ed7e8874a78270440d4431ced2ad01e29ed6c98f6b66828a4070.jpg
Wow…Bioware are masters at making faces look like plastic dolls. Same as in DA:I.
I played the Mass Effect trilogy some months ago and I loved it, even the dialogue parts were pretty damn good and were the bests bits of the series in my opinion. (combat was not so good neither that bad…story is what made this game stand out)
But saw some gameplay from Mass Effect: Andromeda and it seems they went back in the animations department. AI’s movement, animations from the faces and reactions (the eyes mostly) and dialogues are terrible like written by a 12 year old. (the only “good” animations are the ones from your character, but the AI’s look really weird)
> Their 3d modelers really are on a par with the prideful old woman
> (Cecilia Gimenez) who trashed a century-old Spanish painting because she
> thought she was God’s gift to painting when she actually had the skills
> of a toddler.
Had to look that up and, Oh Lawdy…
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/400d5a936cee5268aa3761487fb8f82835519005808b01f72beef102959e496a.jpg
now to complete those models, add little bit of hair to chest and legs, maybe thicker eyebrows and wider faces overall and then we’re good to go
Although still ugly the characters from final version do look a tad better IMO than the trailer version. Especially female Ryder.
Also I saw the character customisation gameplay and TBH the default female Ryder looks much better than the custom character creation ones. And I thought this uglisness could be fixed with custom character creation.
Put on some protective latex gloves and head on over to Rock Paper Shotgun, they just sh*t all over this game, hahahahaha…
And as expected it looks like the story-telling is terrible.
When your hiring policy only relies on politics instead of talent you just end up with bland characters and dialogues.
that looks super duper ugly.. im not gonna support bioware in pleasing the SJW…fff bioware
wthhh bioware.. my gf looks 1000 times more hawter than this shiiit
My ex girlfriend also looks 1000 hotter than these girls too!
God, those faces… I only recently learned that this Asari wasn’t male…
Given that (lore-wise) there are no male Asari, that’s saying something.
one s*x only race lol
One Master Race?
:O
BioWare! Shame on you!
*shines his tinfoil hat*
Guys…. What’s going on? Did EA slashed half budget or something???
The post-processing on the E3 SS, lol.
Not post-processing, post-production.
You can create default female character and kill yourself over and over and over again.
it’s official. the ugliest game in the 50 years of gaming history. even Styix goblin is more likeable than these garbage characters
What’s ugly will remain ugly, no matter upgrade or downgrade.
ho9w did they manage to make it look worse? it was subpar to begin with…..
this new mass effect feels like the ugly teen version of mass effect. I hate , hate, hate that asari with her stupid face paint, oh god i will so ignore her ingame, hope i can
Good lord, they are ugly on purpose!
EXPECTED…everygame has been downgraded so no surprise this one would follow the same path
This goes beyond downgrading. E3 reveal was blatant false advertising
Why they michael cera’d PeeBee is beyond me. Then again there’s the story that they purposely made everyone uglier before release.