Good day for you! I playing the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition on Xbox Series X. In Mass Effect 3, Cerberus troops can stuck in the ground after a fall from biotic powers and from other abilities (like biotic melee). In some cases, they do not stand up after a fall at all, or just a long time after, or if they got some damage (like a melee hit). I don't know if it's a bug from the original version (I don't think so, I don't remember to this from the original) or an LE version bug, but it happens a regular basis. Here is a video about the bug (it's small, double click on the video for zoom to fullscreen): [Edit: Holger1405, merged threads, edited thread title for clarity, merged thread contained 5 "Me Too"]

What should happen: when an enemy is shot with a weapon using the Cryo Ammo power they may freeze and fall over. If they are not killed they will eventually thaw and get back up of their own accord.What happens: the enemy thaws visually but they remain stuck lying on the ground.Moving the enemy (by shooting/meleeing them or bumping into them, for example) will trigger them to get up. This can be a more serious issue in areas where all enemies must be defeated to proceed if the frozen enemy falls in an inaccessible area, such as behind cover on a ledge or on the other side of the bridge in Dossier: Archangel.This is on Xbox One.

@AlistairABME1:LE is not a bad work, I think. But the other two is just not as good quality, as the originals.Some ugly grapich bugs broke some important cutscene (the Human Reaper after death falls into a black graphics glitch, in ME3's Priority: Tuchanka mission, the Reaper's laser won't follow you, the destruction of the Quarian Fleet cutscene is broken too).In a game, with movie style cutscenes this is not a great thing. The new achievement system is broken, and the gamepay is broken too, because of this "people that don't get up" bug.No new bug fixes, no new content, no improvements in ME2-3:LE, aside from the new, great looking textures, but that is not enough, if in return they break many things what was worked before. I don't want much more improvement in ME2-3, because they are great games in the original form, I just want a properly working new console version, which is not less in any way, than the originals.I loved to play ME1:LE, but the ME2-3:LE mediocre quality is just disappointing for me. It's not what I want, and what the community deserves for a full priced game.

I noticed this in ME3 as well. Enemies affected by singularity (or blasted by a detonation) can end up prone on the ground. They freeze in place and just continuously play impact grunts.They stay there permanently until taking damage (often they end up behind cover, so you have to hunt for them just to end the encounter).This was on PC, so it's not an issue specific to Xbox.

This is just bad. It happens almost all in the fights if you play as an adept. I think after I finished the LE, I will return to the original version, if they do not fix most of the new LE bugs. Mass Effect 2-3 Legendary Edition is just too unpolished for me. ME1:LE was a very good remaster with much given care, but ME2-3:LE is feels like a real step back (aside from the new textures) with new, ugly graphic issues (here's an example, but spoiler alert) and bugs like this.Why they added to the package ME2-3 if they do not have enough resources for a proper, polished remastered? Because money. With ME2-3 included, they can sell it on higher price. I will do not buy the next Mass Effect, if this is the new quality standard for BioWare.It's need much more care, but we haven't heard anything about a coming update (community manager said a few days ago, he don't know about a coming update for now). This game need much more support, especially for the broken things in the sequels, but I don't think we will get a great support like some other publisher gave their games (like Microsoft with Halo: The Master Chief Collection, they restored the Halo: Combat Evolved original Xbox classic graphics in the recent updates. It's something like we will never see from EA, I think).I'm sad, because this classic franchise deserve more.

Having just started Legendary Edition's ME3 I can confirm that this issue is present in that game as well. It was not present in the original ME3 either.

[BUG][ME2 & ME3] Enemies knocked down by Biotic or Ammo powers don't get up.

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draconiam
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
This isn't really a problem when playing on Insanity now, it is an issue when the enemies get stuck on inaccessible places and the game requires you to slay all enemies rather than escape a place.
Ri-Go_HUN7
4 years ago
@draconiam
"This isn't really a problem when playing on Insanity now, it is an issue when the enemies get stuck on inaccessible places..."
No, it's not just a problem, because enemy can stuck in inaccessible places. This is a problem, which ruins the whole combat system, even on Insanity, because this is not how supposed to win in combat. It's a bug, not a feature...
draconiam
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Ri-Go_HUN7 Concussion Blast is suppossed to knock back enemies and put them in the ground now, if they get stuck on places that we can't to in order to finish then it is a problem.
Ri-Go_HUN7
4 years ago
The Citadel DLC's CAT6 troops are not an exception too.
https://streamable.com/16105a
Ri-Go_HUN7
4 years ago
I play now in ME2 as a soldier. This bug not occurs as much, but it's still there:
https://streamable.com/a5k06s
@EA_Mako Hi, I know you are not responsable for any of the bugs, I know you can't do about anything, I know that we bother you with these bugs all of the time, but I need to ask: any news about an upcoming update?
A bug like this, is a serious gameplay problem, and I still have a little hope (I know, I can be really naive sometimes) we will get some more support, but I do not have high hopes for it. Months since the game's release, and typically this publisher does not release too many updates after release.
draconiam
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@Ri-Go_HUN7 Sadly Bioware seems to have figured out that it is better to completly ignore players rather than addressing the issues, the problem.I have is that they aren't even bothering to take a few minutes and write a message with either a road map or saying they won't be providing any support because they know if they say the latter they will lose what little standing they got with the LE as fans who have been reporting issues on various pages (BSN, Answers HQ, Reddit, etc) will just stop being invested in them.

If it is saying that a patch will come that may ease the players a bit. I don't know the new Bioware director project background and in his LinkedIn page there is only a general page of him working on gaming projects.
eldalion
1 year ago
So I was just about to give up on Mass Effect 3 Legendary completely and go back to the original because of this immersion breaking, ridiculous bug that turns the entire game into a joke. And not the funny one but one that gets old REALLY fast. Then I found this mod:
https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/1576?tab=files
Can confirm it works. So far, I have observed the bug only ONCE in the entire play through instead of EVERY SINGLE FIGHT like before.
Once again, the players had to fix something Bioware and EA simply couldn't be bothered with. Now if only there was a way to unlock the shaders in Mass Effect 2 so I could fix the ridiculous crashed blacks and finally be able to see my Shepard's face again...
Darthvader99076
New Vanguard
1 year ago
Sometimes hitting them again with powers or fire bullets or lobbing grenades is enough to get them unstuck. This is a notorious Legacy Bug that is annoying. If not, I suggest putting them out of their misery with a bullet to the head.

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