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It is safe to say that Mass Effect Andromeda's launch hasn't been without its fair share of problems. Once people started getting their hands on the game last Friday, the internet was swiftly filled with comments about the poor character creation tool, along with plenty of gifs showing poor animation. While these issues won't be fixed anytime soon, Bioware is looking into options for improving these areas of the game.
Bioware's lead designer, Ian Frazier has taken to Twitter this week to address fan concerns over animation, noting that the studio is “looking at patching lots of issues and wants to strongly support the game moving forward”.
With Mass Effect being the sort of game to feature lots of dialogue and character conversations, poor animation sticks out like a sore thumb. However, not being able to get your character looking quite right within the game's character creation tool is also an issue for some people.
When it comes to this, Frazier said he “can't promise anything yet”, but the studio is looking in to adding to or fixing the character creation in Andromeda. Right now, Bioware is putting together a list of things about the game that could be better, but when it comes to something as large-scale as character animations throughout the entire game, a fix will take a long time.
KitGuru Says: Bioware hasn't committed to fixing character creation or animations but it is good to know that the studio recognises that these areas are underproduced. Hopefully we will get confirmation on a patch soon. Are any of you playing Mass Effect Andromeda already? How are you finding the game so far?
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Umm should of taken longer to make it than u would think have a good team thay need fire some people
You cannot fix animations unless they want to mocap pretty much everything again. So, not gonna happen.
I doubt that will happen. There’s speculation that this happened partly because of diversity hires
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It’s not only the animations, but the female models are just bad (alien and human). The male models are pretty good, but someone really had it in for the women. Let me guess, Anita Sarkeesian got in touch with Bioware and told them not to make sexy women in the game?
I’ve heard they hired someone as some lead animator or something of the sort, solely because of the gender instead of actual qualification, if this is true then surely they wouldn’t have done it with just one person but many more.
One unqualified person isn’t gonna do that much damage soooooo. Maybe it is over diversity highers 🙁
As long as people pay for broken games, thinks like this will keep on happening.
Don’t preorder and after release wait for reviews to hit the street and if a game is broken DON’T buy before they fix it!
Be an active consumer, not a passive who accept anything that they throw at you.
I’m fairly sure that ME:A doesn’t use mocap – otherwise the animation would be far better.
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You’re right – one of the most notable differences in this version is the lack of mocap or face modeling. I remember that the non main characters in the old games were atrocious, it was only those who were modeled after real people that looked good.
Do you know what a broken game is? It’s a game that’s unplayable because of an issue.
ME:A has a lot of bugs and issues, but it’s not broken. You can play through it smoothly.
No I did’t know I was expecting you to clarify… Nice how you miss the point here though.
It’s not only facial animations, overall animations are bad/odd looking, characters (especially male humans) looks strange with odd proportions (short legs for example), also many bugs in the game, very bad UI, almost no m/m romances compared to others and much more.. Even DAI was better at start..
Maybe not broken for you. I bought the game last night, played for 2 hours, now the game completely freaks so I can’t play it at all. After some searching, it turns out this is happening to loads of people. So yeah, broken. Fingers crossed the patch due in a few days will let me play it again.