Re: When is Mass Effect Andromeda getting single player DLC?
We'll see multiplayer dlc long before we see anything with single player.
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@Arsenic_Touch wrote:
We'll see multiplayer dlc long before we see anything with single player.
Yea if they want to increase the Mass Effect fan's animosity towards them they will... 😬
Btw didn't they already mention something about free content coming in the near future? I seem to remember reading that somewhere 🤔
I hope there will be no stupid DLC but we'll see ME5 instead.
But yeah, I'm the minority who loves games and can't care less about DLC.
@Arsenic_Touch wrote:
We'll see multiplayer dlc long before we see anything with single player.
"The micro transactions are strong with this one" 👿
Also we might not hear anything about single player DLC until after E3.
@erivas742 you stole words from my mouth! :D
Well, partially, as I forgot to write that in my previous post.
@erivas742 wrote:
i think that instead focusing in a dlc they should fix all bugs that does not let you cojmplete the game a 100% and fix the ng+
Yeah, before they start thinking that a DLC is required to finish an intended vanilla version?
@Arsenic_Touch wrote:We'll see multiplayer dlc long before we see anything with single player.
why do you think that?
@sblantipodi wrote:
@Arsenic_Touch wrote:We'll see multiplayer dlc long before we see anything with single player.
why do you think that?
Because it's clear where their focus is when they give elaborate multiplayer notes and leave players to datamine or guess and what changed in single player.
Majority of their discussions on social media accounts have been about multiplayer.
And they've already had numerous multiplayer updates, new guns, maps, items, and the only update to single player was some items promised with the deluxe edition.
The writing is on the wall.
@Arsenic_Touch wrote:
@sblantipodi wrote:
@Arsenic_Touch wrote:We'll see multiplayer dlc long before we see anything with single player.
why do you think that?
Because it's clear where their focus is when they give elaborate multiplayer notes and leave players to datamine or guess and what changed in single player.
Majority of their discussions on social media accounts have been about multiplayer.
And they've already had numerous multiplayer updates, new guns, maps, items, and the only update to single player was some items promised with the deluxe edition.
The writing is on the wall.
I really don't understand the sense of multiplayer on a mass effect. isn't this a story based RPG?
yes it has a very good shooting gameplay, but why multiplayer?There is two camps, multiplayer and single player. I enjoy both, so don't find myself feeling frustrated when nothing new happens for single player. What I would have liked to see would have been a crossover between your single player and some skirmish battles where you can take your single player character and play in a longer running battle alongside several other players.
Another fantastic idea that hasn't been realised is something i used to love in a space mmo called Tabula Rasa, and that is base attacks. So we've settled X amount of worlds and built bases there.. great. But What if they would do random attacks by large amounts of forces of Kett or Outlaws, or to some extent some remnant .. and then have the npc's alongside you actually performing a role as well as your natural team. Would be far far better than just have them dishing out missions or shouting ryder as you run past. A huge base attack every so often would be great.
Sadly though, end game currently means end-game as when you've finished the campaign, you are rather left in this void with squat to do... hence why you then find you either click onto multiplayer a lot or play through the whole game again.. and its no short game with all them dialogues as you know.
Whilst i'm happy with the 7 wave idea of multiplayer, eventually even that will run its course.
I have no idea what to expect DLC wise for this game, i'll be glad of any improvements and more importantly long overdue fixes for long running issues.
I dunno, stuff is being released already for MP. Don't get me wrong, I think it's fair MP gets some love and extra maps and all that. But I do wonder if they are going to make a proper DLC for it if they keep releasing new maps and gear regularly.
So I'm still thinking that an actual paid DLC is going to be SP, but who know? EA Play this coming weekend will be interesting.
SOON! ©
E3 is nearly over and not a damn word has been said about DLC for Andromeda.
Anyone else thinking about boycotting Anthem out of spite?
@The13Inquisitor wrote:E3 is nearly over and not a damn word has been said about DLC for Andromeda.
Anyone else thinking about boycotting Anthem out of spite?
As much as I wish there had been some news about DLC for Andromeda, I'm not going to lower myself to that level. Besides, Anthem doesn't come out for at least another year or more. That's a long time to hold such a non-productive grudge.
@EgoMania wrote:
@The13Inquisitor wrote:E3 is nearly over and not a damn word has been said about DLC for Andromeda.
Anyone else thinking about boycotting Anthem out of spite?
As much as I wish there had been some news about DLC for Andromeda, I'm not going to lower myself to that level. Besides, Anthem doesn't come out for at least another year or more. That's a long time to hold such a non-productive grudge.
Worthwhile though. After Andromeda apparently getting shafted by EA I am done. Why would I bother trusting them after this?What should have been a fun year of Mass Effect with dlcs etc has been totally ditched by them. So not investing in another EA game only to have my hopes dashed yet again because they only care about getting the best profits, not about making their customers happy or taking time to release a non buggy game in the first place.
@Nykara360 wrote:
Worthwhile though. After Andromeda apparently getting shafted by EA I am done. Why would I bother trusting them after this?What should have been a fun year of Mass Effect with dlcs etc has been totally ditched by them. So not investing in another EA game only to have my hopes dashed yet again because they only care about getting the best profits, not about making their customers happy or taking time to release a non buggy game in the first place.
What I meant really is that to me it's not about getting even or back at them but to look at them as a company and decide if I still want to put any money into the company called BioWare.
That's where the question lies for me. The messed up DA2 and DA:I was not a fantastic game for me either. It's the first BioWare game I own I refuse to buy DLC for. ME2 was good and I like ME3 a lot also. So that was a better situation but in the meantime they destroyed SWTOR with their arrogance really.
So now ME:A got the short end of the stick and I just really desperately want them to take the fans that do buy the game and play it more seriously. I'm looking at ME:A not as a disappointment but as the game where I will see whether or not BioWare can win me back as a customer.
I've stopped spending any money on them. It's up to them now. If they do well for us on ME:A, I will consider Anthem on its own merits. If they don't I don't consider myself a BioWare customer anymore. I've done it with Perfect World. Let's hope BioWare are not the next but there is a point where it becomes a matter of principle and after SWTOR and how they handled the development of ME:A, they no longer get the benefit of the doubt.
Chances are they don't care about me. That's ok, I just need to do what's right for me.
@EgoMania wrote:
@Nykara360 wrote:
Worthwhile though. After Andromeda apparently getting shafted by EA I am done. Why would I bother trusting them after this?What should have been a fun year of Mass Effect with dlcs etc has been totally ditched by them. So not investing in another EA game only to have my hopes dashed yet again because they only care about getting the best profits, not about making their customers happy or taking time to release a non buggy game in the first place.
What I meant really is that to me it's not about getting even or back at them but to look at them as a company and decide if I still want to put any money into the company called BioWare.
That's where the question lies for me. The messed up DA2 and DA:I was not a fantastic game for me either. It's the first BioWare game I own I refuse to buy DLC for. ME2 was good and I like ME3 a lot also. So that was a better situation but in the meantime they destroyed SWTOR with their arrogance really.
So now ME:A got the short end of the stick and I just really desperately want them to take the fans that do buy the game and play it more seriously. I'm looking at ME:A not as a disappointment but as the game where I will see whether or not BioWare can win me back as a customer.
I've stopped spending any money on them. It's up to them now. If they do well for us on ME:A, I will consider Anthem on its own merits. If they don't I don't consider myself a BioWare customer anymore. I've done it with Perfect World. Let's hope BioWare are not the next but there is a point where it becomes a matter of principle and after SWTOR and how they handled the development of ME:A, they no longer get the benefit of the doubt.
Chances are they don't care about me. That's ok, I just need to do what's right for me.
Its not Bioware who messed up, its EA and this is what EA does. They buy out other gaming companies, sap their money from their popular games for a while a ditch them.It's very clear MEA was pushed forward before it was properly completed. 6 more months with a full team would have seen a far more polished game. Instead they pushed it out and pulled all but a few of the team off the game and put them on Anthem. Even if they didn't want to stall the release date - they should have left the entire team on the game for longer, we would have gotten patches sooner and far better patches then we have seen so far. Andromeda on the whole is a decent game but the character aesthetics let it down emensly, as does the half assed cinematics. Although some are more polished, they are still half assed compaired to what we know the team can do.
We should have not only gotten more complete patches, finished a good couple of months ago, but also our first dlc by now.
No, I do not wish to invest in EA any longer. Not until they do something about Andromeda and no I won't be looking at Anthem. I've played SWTOR long enough to see how they handle MMOs, as well as MEA MP. Grinds are not fun, they are 20 years ago back in the days of MMOs like Everquest. Fun gameplay is what people want, not boring grinds.
Even though SWTOR is still one of the top grossing MMOs currently on the market it is being poorly handled with subpar updates. Anthem will see this same fate in time so I refuse to invest in it when they can't even do right by the games they already have runnning. They have done nothing to proove to me otherwise. All they care about is pushing new games forward, sucking money from them and moving onto the next one. Nope. Until they can prove to me they can do right by their current games and the customers of said games, I am done.
@EgoMania wrote:
@The13Inquisitor wrote:E3 is nearly over and not a damn word has been said about DLC for Andromeda.
Anyone else thinking about boycotting Anthem out of spite?
As much as I wish there had been some news about DLC for Andromeda, I'm not going to lower myself to that level. Besides, Anthem doesn't come out for at least another year or more. That's a long time to hold such a non-productive grudge.
Yeah, i don't think they are ready for DLC yet either. They've been releasing patches at approx. 1 month intervals so far.
While patches is mostly scripting and some retouches, DLC is way more work >story>call in voice actors to record>character animation> facial animation and syncing, blah blah ...
I don't think they worked on patches *plus* DLC in parallel, *plus* Anthem at the same time, AND they said they moved a lot of crew to other studios to work on Star Wars or whatever game... i don't recall exactly.
But you never know.... they said they have reduced a lot of their crew after ME:A release, yet they have enough people to work on Anthem ? LOL 😕
Saw the teaser for Anthem. Surprised the sound didn't cut out half way through. Another game on my list along side battlefront 2 that i will be not pre-ordering.. nor will i buy until i've seen what the response is like from the people that did buy it first.
I've learned a lesson from this game.. and while i do love ME:A, some of the issues i've seen people having are beyond the level that should be getting experienced now after the patches thus far. There needs to be a far better critical patch mechanism for faults that overall cause game play issues or stop people progressing. Balance changes etc, new guns, new character classes, yes monthly for those by all means. If you get a ton of people however screaming ME TOO on a forum for a fault that is either stopping game play or making the game bad to play.. then some effort towards fixing those should get some priority.
Not something i expect to see any time soon, so for now, i'll just keep an eye on these new products and keep my money back until i'm convinced its released in a good state.
Yep, i do the same as well lately. Read reviews, watch gameplay on youtube before i buy. I didn't do it for ME:A just 'cause its Mass Effect, and it's my favorite game, so i had no hesitation at all in pre-ordering it 🙂
Yet, seeing you mention progression, balance etc, reminded me about how i got burned with Star Citizen. I know its in development but OMG it has a terrible game progression, balance, 50 thousand keybindings. I have never encountered such difficult game-play in my life ... ever. Only watched some youtube game play without reading forums... the environment-design is really cool but playing is unbearable.... ☹️ my fault, lesson learned.
To be fair, they wouldn't need the full team to make some DLC within the game. Of course, with a smaller team than expected and more bug fixes needed it may take longer.
I mean, I don't know what the plan is and that's because they're not talking. Maybe there will be DLC, maybe not. We're just guessing here, either way and it'd just be nice if they let us know something.
Honestly I hope there is no dlc, they don't deserve any more money (well definitely not mine, I have vowed). 😬
And it seems all the multiplayer "dlc" is already built into the game, as the new maps are simply being occasionally unlocked with Apex missions.
I will never understand so much hate to this game.
Andromeda is still the best 2017 game right now so don't know what you want.
@sblantipodi wrote:I will never understand so much hate to this game.
Andromeda is still the best 2017 game right now so don't know what you want.Gleefully hate for the flimsiest of reasons even.
